I completely messed up the chapters and their orders, so I'm sooo sorry. I had to remove them and put them back. I hope you still enjoy!
Chapter One
"Maaaax…." Nudge groaned, yet again, behind me. "I'm gonna starve!"
"Would someone please shut her up?!" I yelled behind me, in a desperate attempt to subdue her. I knew it wouldn't work.
"I'm hungry, too." Total mumbled, barely audible over the wind in my ears. I glanced back and saw him struggle in Angel's arms. She gave a strained face, and held tighter.
"Yeah, well, deal." I said, letting him know I heard. "Iggy, will you grab the dog, please?" Angel looked at me with a determined face, so I quickly added, "Sweetie, he's way too big. You'll get him back, soon. I promise." I just didn't clarify how long "soon" was. I silently patted myself on the back when her expression softened, but then when her face twisted with anger, I cursed myself about how stupid I was. I had forgot she read minds.
"Angel?" Iggy was ready for the mid-air trade-off. I was relieved when she handed Total over, after thinking silently for a few seconds. After, she still glared at me, so I looked away.
Fang's eyes and mine met, and I saw he understood everything that had just occurred and was laughing at me in his head. He wouldn't dare laugh out loud, partly because I would go kick his butt, and partly because it wasn't his thing. So I just focused my vision on the course ahead, preoccupied with my thoughts.
I was so preoccupied with my thoughts, in fact, that I didn't notice the dark shape hurtling towards us. It was 8 or 9 o'clock at night, in the late fall, near the great New York City, so it was pretty dang dark. I didn't notice it until it was around 100 feet away, and when I did see it, I had barely enough time to warn the flock, before it seemed to swerve away to avoid us.
"Flyboy?" I guessed, which led to an immediate pursue of the "thing".
Fang took the lead right away, but even he wasn't fast enough to catch it. So I had to belt on the speed, whooshing past all the others to catch the mysterious object. I could see its desperate attempts to gain speed when it saw me coming, but to no avail. So I left it no choice. When I was 50 feet away, it spun around, as I'm guessing, to attack, and I was so shocked that I tried to stop the speed I had going for me. Unfortunately, the laws of inertia don't work like that, so I collided full tilt into the shockingly similar figure, with a painful 'thud'.
I hardly noticed the pain over the panic of falling, because I had learned many times before that if you collided with something, (or someone,) in mid-air, it would get messy. Especially if that other figure had wings.