Chapter 8

The flock

A/N: just incase anyone's wondering, here's whats goin on with the flock.

Disclaimer:still dont own it.

Max looked around the small cave, there was no sign of Fang. Max panicked for a minute and almost began a frantic search, until she caught a glimpse of a dark silhouette just outside the cave. He was watching the sun rise, he always did.

She made her way over to him and set herself down beside him. He shuffled closer to her, she felt his wings brush against her own. Max tried desperately to push strange thoughts out of her mind.

" Do you think we'll find them? Any of them?" Max asked. Fang didn't look at her, he carried on gazing at the sunset.

"I don't know, those erasers split us up pretty efficiently, I don't know where any of them could be" He replied dryly. Max stared at her feet, she tired to snap herself out of this, it was Fang! She shouldn't feel this way, he was a friend. She felt a lump at the bottom of her throat at the thought of never seeing Angle again, never ruffling her hair or comforting her when she had a nightmare. She could be alone now, lost.

Max snapped herself out of it, she raised her eyes to find Fang's own looking into them. He looked into her eyes and she saw emotions on his face he had never shown before.

"I haven't forgotten ya know?" Fang said, drawing his face back to its usual blank form. He stood up and walked back to the cave. She raised herself up, not quite sure what had just happened.

Wait Max, the answers will come

Ah, there was the voice again, she hadn't heard from it in a while.

Yeh, maybe I will, but I don't want to wait

"Come on, if we're gonna find them, we better start looking, let's head for the Institute" Max announced, taking up her usual role of leader.

The pair ran straight off the cliff edge, wings flapping and they gracefully took off. Max didn't feel right, she put herself closer to Fang as glided along, taking advantage of every change in the wind. He was showing off and they both knew it.

Suddenly Max felt a searing pain across her forehead, she clutched at her head and tried desperately to keep her wing beats regular. It was no use.

Max dropped like a stone out of the sky.

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Angel wandered through the trees, clutching Total close to her. She knew she'd been bad, but Mr Jeb had told her to trust him, so she did. She sent out signals to erasers, she didn't think it would be that bad. And now here she was all alone, lost in a forest. It was getting dark and the trees leaned in on her, everyone looming in on her made her feel more and more guilty. It was her fault this had happened.

She found a tall tree and, with all the strength in her little wings, she threw herself and Totalup to a sturdy branch and tried to sleep.

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"Gazzy! Wait up!" cried Nudge, Gazzy was frantic with worry about his sister. So was Nudge but she couldn't go much faster with a broken arm. It almost seemed to be weighing her down. The little boy turned to her, "You okay Nudge" She nodded although she felt faint. Nudge followed Gazzy's horrified gaze to her arm. It was bleeding again.

Nudge couldn't stand up, she tried desperately to steady herself but in the end she had to sit down.

"Just for a minute Gazz" Nudge whispered.

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