All righty that was 3 reviews, so here's another chapter.
SadDesire15 looks at her keys with bored expression time to make this up as I go…hope it's good.
"Humor me." I said. Iggy fumbled for words, his face getting redder every second. I smiled.
"It's ok. I'll just ask Angel." I pushed.
"No, no, no. I was thinking…" he mumbled the end. I leaned closer.
"What was that, Iggy?" I questioned further. He looked down at the ground, as if he could actually see it.
"I said I was…thinking…about…g…" The last part was still mumbled. I sighed impatiently.
"Angel honey!" I called. She looked in my direction.
"Girls!" Iggy shouted low enough for me to hear. I waved Angel away.
"What about girls?" I asked. I didn't know it was possible, but his face actually became redder.
"Max, please." He begged. I laughed. I guess that was enough torture.
For him.
"Fang!" I called. He yawned and looked at me.
"Come on, spill it." I demanded my hands on my hips.
"I'm not saying jack, and neither is Angel." He assured. Well, we'll see about that. I turned to Angel.
"What was he thinking, Angel?" I asked. She shook her head. I wasn't expecting that. Stupid Fang always got his privacy.
"Hey max," Nudge said before I could probe Fang any further. Oh great.
"Yes?" I asked looking at her.
"I'm still hungry. Can we please, please, please, please, please…"
"Nudge get on with it." I urged. She looked at me apologetically.
"Can we get something else to eat?" She asked. Of course she'd still be hungry. She was the only one refusing to eat any fish, so she had to eat some wild berries we found.
I sighed. Fang got away this time.
"Ok, let's go. Guys stay here. Me, Angel and Nudge are going out to find some more food for Nudge." I looked at all of them. Iggy's head was still down, Fang was still calmly resting, and Gazzy was browsing through his bag.
Which reminded me.
"And absolutely NO bombs." I said. Gazzy and Iggy groaned. I took one last look at Fang's smug face, and flew off, with Nudge following closely behind. I motioned for Angel to follow, and she did so, without complaining.
"So I was thinking. Maybe we could find a nice little town, and sleep in a nice little hotel. I mean, your credit card never runs out, right? So that'd be perfect. But if never runs out, why didn't we…" Nudge started her nudge channel. I looked over at Angel, who was holding Celeste. She still had that thing?
"Nudge, I agree. Ok. We will…once we get back to the cave to get the guys. Now what do you want?" I asked. She was quiet for a moment. Shocker.
"Can I have a salad?" She asked to my relief. She didn't go on and on about the pros and cons of salad. I nodded and we continued to fly. I looked out to see if I could spot a town.
"Max?" Angel asked innocently. I sighed. What now?
"Yes?" I answered carefully. I hope she didn't find something she wanted. I wasn't trying to go on an adventure to please everybody.
"Who or what is that?" She pointed out to the horizon. I squinted and zoned in on a dot. A large bird, it seemed, was flying our way.
Oh boy. What if that was an eraser? Some more wonderful flying erasers.
"I don't know, but be prepared." I told the both of them. Boy did I wish Fang was here.
The figure got closer, and I was able to see that it was not a bird. Or an eraser. It was another flying Avian hybrid. Angel and Nudge flew in closer to me.
"Max, I'm scared." Nudge admitted. Actually I was too. But I wasn't going to tell them that. I didn't know what to do. Should I talk to it? Should I fight it? Run from it?
Don't you trust your instincts, Max? The voice asked. AH.
Long time no thought. I said sarcastically. Could the voice laugh? It sounded like it did.
Listen Max, I can't tell you whether she's good or not, but I can say give her a chance. There are six of you, after all. The voice suggested.
"So it's a her?" I accidentally said out loud.
"Actually, yeah." Said Nudge. To trust the voice, or not, that is the question. Well we never got into any bad situations when I listened to it. And it was right; there were six of us.
"Angel, are you getting anything?" I asked her before the flying girl got any closer. Angel concentrated.
"She's just thinking about surviving, something. Her thoughts are quick and all over the place." She said. I nodded.
"Don't say anything to her about our powers." I said. Better safe than sorry. She didn't need to know any of our weaknesses and strengths.
When she reached us, she looked just as shocked to see us as we were to see her. Her face looked familiar to me though. But where? Where did I see her?
There was an awkward silence as we hovered in the air, staring at each other in both fear and shock. Suddenly, she lunged at me, throwing a punch; So much for listening to the voice.
I moved just in the nick of time.
"Who are you?" She demanded. I looked at Angel. Her teeth were gritted as she stared angrily at the girl. Nudge's hands were clutched into fists.
"Excuse me, but who are you?" I asked. She lunged again and I moved, grabbing the tip of her wings, which were light brown.
"Get off." She said squirming in the air. We had to land. I was tired of trying to fly in one place. I started descending out of the air, landing in a clearing in the middle of some woods.
Nudge and Angel landed right beside me.
I threw the girl to the ground, and she landed on her hands and knees.
"I don't know exactly who you are, but you better cooperate or else." I told her. She stood up straight and brushed dirt off of her pants.
"Or what?" She challenged. Well I knew one thing: She didn't know us very well.
"Or I'll make you do something that I know you don't want to do." Angel threatened. The girl laughed.
"How exactly?" She said between giggles. Angel frowned. I guess she didn't like being laughed at. And I guess this mysterious chick didn't know that. Then I suddenly remembered what I told Angel.
Don't say anything. I thought, knowing she was probably listening. Angel nodded still looking furious.
"Wait a minute. I know where I've seen you before." She suddenly said, looking happier than before to see us. Me, Angel and Nudge turned and looked at each other.
"But there were more of you. Remember, you helped a bunch of mutants escape from the school, in New York sewers? I was one of them!" She exclaimed. Oh…well, that explains the reason why I thought I'd seen her before.
"Oh yeah, I remember now." Angel smiled.
"So where are the others?" She asked.
"Umm…In a spot, where we took cover." I answered reluctantly. Angel seemed ok with her, but I still couldn't be too sure.
"Max, I am still really hungry." Nudge complained. I sighed. What do I do now?
"Well…nice to see you're still alive. We have to go, as you can see, she's pretty hungry." I said. I started walking away, hoping that that'll solve my problem. Maybe she'd just go on her way, and I wouldn't be pressured into keeping her with us.
"Wait!" She said. Oh no, oh no, oh no. I didn't want this…I didn't need this.
"I have no where to go. I don't even know what to do. I'm alone. All the others either left me, or died a young age." She said. Great.
"She can stay with us, can't she Max?" Nudge suggested. Thank you Nudge. I gave myself a mental note to glare at her later.
"Yeah sure." I said.
"Can we eat now?" Nudge begged. I loved her, but I was going to snap if she asked me that one more time.
We found a little town with a nice little store and a hotel. We decided to get Nudge's salad, and go back to the cave to tell the boys the great news about the hotel.
My next problem was going to be Fang's reaction to an outsider staying with us.
We got back to the cave to find Iggy and Gazzy in a corner, and Fang on his laptop.
"Iggy Gazzy, what did I say?" I said, startling them.
"We were just preparing one." Gazzy defended. I sighed. Boys.
"Max, who is she?" Fang asked calmly. I looked at him, and could tell he was a little irritated.
"Guys, this is…" God, why didn't I get a name?
"Anna. But I prefer to be called firefly."
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