YAY another chapter. For those angry at my beautiful cliffie I love writing cliffies. But I hate reading them.
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Disclaimer: See pevious 3 chapters.
"Fang, where's Anna?" I asked quickly. Fang looked up at me and quickly scanned the room. He gave me that I-Told-You-So look, and stood up.
"Anna!" He called calmly. God, how could he ALWAYS be so calm?
I opened the bathroom door, only to find a nice shower and toilet, but no Anna.
"Firefly?" Fang asked, sounding confused as he spoke the name. I closed the bathroom door behind me and peeked in the miniature closet. Still no Firefly. I swallowed as I realized the possibilities of where she could be.
I opened the door to our room to see if the rest of the flock knew where she was. Of course, because my life hasn't been very lucky since the day I was born, I couldn't get to the flocks rooms. Why you ask? Because they were already out of their rooms. Standing in the hallway. With Anna.
Oh yeah, and Flyboys.
I heard Fang swear behind me as he looked at them all. There had to be at least ten flyboys, crammed conveniently in the hallway.
Yes I said conveniently. There were six of us, well now seven, hopefully, and about ten Flyboys. Had they lost their minds? They should know us by now to know we could get rid of ten flyboys, even if it was just the six of us.
And let's just say little Miss "Firefly" was on the flyboy's side. I could still kick her butt anytime.
So we won this fight before we even started.
"Max!" Gazzy called from the other end of the hall. I gapped. There were ten more on that end too. Still, we could win.
I suddenly heard Fang let out a strange "oof" from behind me. Why was he hurt if he was still, technically, in the room?
I turned and swore.
"Shit." I said. There were ten more in the room with us. I backed out into the hall with the rest of the flock as Fang punched one really hard in the face. And to my surprise, it actually fell.
"You can not win." They started chanting, yet again. They always said that, and we ended back up in this situation. Fang slowly walked into the hallway with the rest of us. I looked at Firefly, and saw her standing casually against a wall, her eyes closed peacefully, as if she had no clue of the danger around her.
Unless…
That little traitor.
The flyboys started lunging at us, and I started giving the nearest flyboy's my infamous round house kick, slowly making my way to who I really wanted. Firefly.
"Told you so, Max." Fang spoke, grabbing an emergency fire extinguisher and hitting a flyboy in the head with it. I rolled my eyes as I snapped my own flyboy in half with another kick.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm on it." I replied, pushing a flyboy's head into a wall. I walked over to Anna and grabbed her by the shirt. Her eyes flew open in shock and fear as she saw the anger in my eyes.
"You betrayed me." I said between gritted teeth. I saw tears swell up in her eyes.
"Max, I didn't betray you. I'm trying to help you." She said. Did she think I was stupid?
"How, by getting your little flyboy friends to attack us?" I said. She sniffed and reached up to wipe away a tear, but I smacked her hand away. She wasn't going to be moving any body parts.
"No! I was concentrating." She said. Concentrating? What the heck?
"EVERYONE! MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!" Gazzy called. I dropped Firefly and ran with the rest of the flock, not giving a crap about her. We ran into Angel and Nudge's room, and Iggy kicked the window open. We flew out as quickly as possible, Flyboy's and Firefly right behind us.
To my dismay, Firefly made it out. Not that I wanted her to DIE per say…just to not have made it out of the explosion Iggy and Gazzy set off.
"I know what it looks like…" Firefly began.
"Save it." Said Fang coldly.
"We want you gone, now." Said Nudge, shaking her head.
"You guys," Said Angel and Iggy at once. I looked at them. Iggy spoke first.
"Maybe we should give her a chance to explain." Iggy said. Oh so now he had a soft spot for her.
"Or maybe we should save our butts now and get rid of her." I suggested. She winced at my cruelty, but I didn't care.
"Iggy's right. Her explanation will probably surprise you." Angel said. I frowned. Not Angel too.
"Ok, I didn't know about those things just like you guys. I went to go and talk to Iggy, when I saw them in the hallway. Coincidentally, all of them had come out of the room. Well at least Iggy and Gazzy did. And then the flyboys came. I heard you and Fang calling for me, but I didn't want to give off your location. And then Angel and Nudge ran out suddenly. We were stuck in place, and I had an idea. I was going to blow up the flyboys. So I stood against a wall, and concentrated. And then you came out, and got angry. And you broke my concentration." She explained.
"You were going to talk to Iggy? You were planning on making them blow up?" I asked, astonished. How ironic. She was going to go talk to the bomb expert himself, and then planned on blowing some flyboys up by…thinking?
"I can use elements to my advantage. All I need is a bit of concentration. For example, by combining the carbon in the air with the…"
"Umm, that's ok. I'm sure Iggy can explain that later." I said.
"Iggy, why did you leave the room with Gazzy?" Fang asked.
"We were…kind of…looking for bomb material." He explained. I took a deep breath. I knew how Nudge and Angel had known to come.
"So her story checks out?" I asked. Iggy thought for a moment.
"Actually, yes it does." Gazzy supplied. I took another deep breath and looked at Fang. He sighed and jerked his head in a random direction. I followed his gaze to a cliff.
"Let's talk over there." He said. We all flew in a tight formation and made our way to the cliff.
"Listen, I don't like you much, but I'm willing to give you a chance, if Angel and Max trust you." Fang said to Firefly once we landed. I saw a hurt look on Firefly's face as she nodded.
"You guys, we have to get out of this state." I said.
"Why don't we just leave the country?" Iggy suggested, frowning.
"Yeah, everywhere we go, there's erasers, flying erasers, now flyboys. Like when we were in New York, and when we went to…"
"Nudge." Fang interrupted. She smiled sheepishly, and stopped talking.
"You guys, we can't just up and leave the country. Do you know how much water is in between us and say…oh England?" I said. I know they were tired of being attacked, but how ridiculous could you get?
"Unlimited credit card, equals unlimited plane tickets, which also happen to equal endless choices of locations, and possibly even no more flyboy attacks." Iggy levied. I frowned.
"Ig, when we were over in Europe, there were flyboys, and about fifty thousand clones of all of us. I doubt that'll change just because we're in Japan or Mexico." I explained. He sighed.
"I know. I just wish it would end."
"We all do." Nudge said sadly. My poor flock. They were so worn. We never got to relax these days. I sucked in a breath and spoke.
"Ok, we're going to…Japan." I said. That was the first place that came to mind. Everyone smiled at me, even Fang looked a little happy.
"Really Max? Oh, I heard Japan has really good noodles. Can we try sushi when we get there? Oh and wear Kimono's and…" Nudge started. Gazzy cut her off. Bless his little heart.
"Max, how are we getting there?" He asked
"I guess we're taking a plane. I don't want to fly past some military base, and they try to shoot us down." I said. We may be extra strong and resilient, but we certainly weren't bullet proof.
"Yes!" Angel shouted. Her smile almost bought tears to my eyes. So sweet and tiny. Firefly was quiet the whole time.
"So, can I come?" She asked quietly.
"Of course!" Iggy said before I replied. I glared at him, knowing that he couldn't see it.
"So, we're going to Japan?" Fang stated.
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