We all stood there for a minute, smiling at each other.
I could see Nudge off to the side, squirming with her attempt to be silent. I laughed.
"Nudge, please say something before you spontaneously combust." She blushed while the rest of the flock made some sign of amusement, from Angel's giggles to Fang's lifted eyebrow. I walked over and hugged her so that she'd know I was kidding.
She hugged me back gratefully.
"So umm... Max? What are we going to do now?" Wow. It was amazing that she managed to say only two sentences.
"I don't exactly know sweetie, run away or fight back I guess." I glanced over at Fang, who seemed to be pretending no one but him existed.
"What do you think Fang?" I grinned inwardly at his startled expression before he composed himself immediately. This boy was co-leader now, so he better start acting like one.
"Well...I think we should hide for awhile and gain more information so that we can be prepared and attack them..." He broke off grimacing, obviously feeling uncomfortable about the huge amount of words he had just uttered.
"Good plan." It made a lot of sense, since we were being chased by Itex we really did need to hide, and it was our job to stop them from whatever they were doing.
"Do you guys agree with Fang's plan?" I looked around at my Flock, it was interesting to see their serious faces, especially Gazzy's and Angel's while they thought.
They all nodded.
"Okay, so let's start preparing to hide-out!"
"But first Max we have to go buy food and everyone needs new clothes and stuff so let's go shopping! Please Max, please please please!!!" Nudge wasn't even gasping when she finished, I was thinking about entering her in one of those free-diving competitions, where the people swim down into the ocean as fast and far as they can and have to hold their breaths for long amounts of time. I had already thought about putting Angel in that, since she can breathe underwater, but Nudge would definitely be awesome too.
"Please Max?" Uh-oh. I could feel it coming. Angel made her puppy eyes at me. "Fine!" I blurted out.
I couldn't see Fang's smirk but I could tell he was smirking. I sighed.
"Okay troops! Here's the plan! We'll split up into two groups, guys and girls as we go clothes shopping. After that, we'll meet up to eat and get groceries. Sounds good?"
I looked at Fang who rolled his eyes and smiled, causing my stupid heart to stutter. I quickly looked away to the rest of the flock, they were all nodding.
"Good then! Onwards!" They each gave me a mock salute and we jumped into the sky.
"Yippee!!!!" Nudge yelled. I noticed a weird shape in Angel's backpack from above her. "Angel honey, what's in your backpack?" She reached behind her and pulled out Total, our dog.
"Finally! I'd been in there awhile!!!" I groaned, Total was almost as loud (and long winded) as Nudge.
"Carry me Max." He was also extremely demanding.
"Angel, he is your dog, you need to carry him."
"But Maaaax, he's so heavy, and he doesn't want me to carry him." Angel was whining now, and she sounded amazingly like a mosquito. Weird.
That is mean Max!
I'm kidding Angel, find I'll carry the dumb dog.
Sighing, I wrapped Total up in my sweatshirt so that he was comfortable.
"Zoooom zooom!!!" I had at least an hour of this to go. Attempting to ignore the dog that was now adding action sounds to my flight, I watched the people far down below me and tried to relax in the wind, just letting it carry me with it.
I'd always love flying more than anything else. Besides the Flock.
And Fang. Stupid Voice. But I could feel it already leaving my mind.
I smiled, and muttered it to myself. And Fang.
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