The next chapter is now started. Please don't kill me for the event at the beginning. It's just way too hard to write with eleven people. After about four more chapters there will be even more! SanraitaFang, if you take your long-range bazooka, I'll come after you with my machine-gun. Everyone else, these aren't actual weapons, so don't call the cops on us. I just realized I have made several mistakes in my story so far. So:
1. in chapter 4, paragraph #11, I said that I could change an objects structure at will, and that Natalca could move stuff with her mind. Forget I said that.
2. In Chapter 5, when Natalca is telling how she got kidnapped by the whitecoats, she said that "The labman had a tranquilizer gun with him, and he shot the polar bear, and took me to the School." Ignore that, because the whitecoat shot the lion not the polar bear. I'm not sure what was going through my head.
3. In chapter unknown, I said that Shanyn had been kidnapped by whitecoats after she was in a car crash. Forget I said that, because she was in the amusement park ride crash with Syarrah.
4. The weight of the Shifters has changed around a bit. The weight will be 900 lbs. This isn't that much, considering a polar bear can weigh up to 1,500 lbs. The other reason is because my friend, who thinks Shifters are the awesomest things on the planet, wanted them to weigh a lot, and to be bigger than a grizzly bear. As it is, a Shifter would be quite huge. Its shoulder would come up to the middle of Max's shoulder blade. There heads are about the same height as their shoulders.
4. If anyone finds any other mistakes, please tell. I won't be correcting spelling/grammar mistakes. You can figure out what I mean there on your own.
Max POV (I always seem to start with her point of view)
After it had gotten dark yesterday we stopped to rest for the night. We had made it to northern India, and were going to continue on to the Himalayas in the morning. This morning, I had to call a very important flock meeting. "Everyone come here," I called out, "Flock meeting."
Almost everyone was within ten yards, so it didn't take long for them to get here. "The flock is getting pretty big you guys," I began, "We're already up to eleven people, and there will only be more when we rescue Syarrah. We're gonna have to split up."
"But Max!" Nudge told me, "The last time we split up, we got kidnapped and Fang and Iggy and Gazzy had to save us. What if we split up again and we're farther apart? What will happen then?"
I already hated to do this, did she have to make me feel worse? "I don't know Nudge," I told her, "But this group is way too big. We're going to start attracting attention after we rescue Syarrah. And what if Syarrah has other people with her as well? We meant to just save Taelyr, but she and Wyll came as a package deal. What if Syarrah has a friend like Taelyr did? Then we'll have thirteen people! You guys honestly think that's not too much?"
There were mutterings of agreement. "I'm thinking that we should make the groups like this," I said, preparing to launch my plan, "Me, Fang, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, and Iggy will make up one group. Shanyn, Madysen, Natalca, Taelyr, and Wyll will make up the other. Are those groups all right with everyone?"
I expected the groups to be fine. Everyone was grouped with the people they got along best with. "I'd like to make one change," Iggy told me, "I think I'm gonna go in Shanyn's group."
I couldn't help it. I stared. Just for a second though. Or maybe two. "Okay," I agreed, "That's fine. We should probably go soon."
"If we're split up into different groups, who's going to go where?" asked Wyll.
"I think that Group Number Two will go to the Himalayas to rescue Syarrah, since she'll probably recognize Shanyn."
"Joy," Shanyn muttered quietly.
"Is she that bad?" Natalca asked her.
Shanyn answered without a second of hesitation, "Yes, she's that bad. If the whitecoats turned her into some prehistoric, scaly creature, it would suit her personality perfectly."
"She's pretty bad," Madysen agreed.
"Why have you guys stopped calling them labmen?" Iggy asked them.
"Habit, I guess," Shanyn told him, "You guys call them whitecoats all the time, so I guess we've adopted the word."
"Weird," I told them, "We should probably leave now."
"Where are you going to go?" Taelyr asked me.
"We're gonna go destroy some Schools in South America," I said, picking a random continent out of my head.
"Okay," Taelyr agreed.
We all said our goodbyes, promising that we would each pick up cell phones next time we were in a city. I also handed Madysen the MaxRide card. "You'll need it more than us," I told her, "You guys can keep destroying Schools in the Eastern hemisphere. I've already taken out a couple hundred dollars cash, so you have free rule over this."
She nodded, and tucked the MaxRide card in her deepest pocket. "I can guess that I'll have it lost by the day after tomorrow," she told me.
"Give it here," Shanyn sighed, accepting the card and putting it in her own pocket, "The last thing we need is to have you put this down and forget to pick it back up."
"I can't help it!" Madysen told Shanyn, "My mind is easily amusedand easily distracted!"
"That's because there isn't much in there to amuse or distract," Shanyn teased.
Madysen whacked Shanyn on the head, then quickly dodged a roundhouse kick from Shanyn. "Will you guys save your fighting for the Shifters?" Wyll asked them.
They stopped fighting with each other at the thought of Shifters. "So, I guess we'll see you guys later," I said, "Pick up the cell-phones as soon as you can, and we'll-AAAGH!!"
A deep, stinging, burning, words-can-hardly-describe pain ran through my entire body. And I mean entire. My toenails hurt! You don't even have nerve endings in your toenails as far as I know. Out of the corner of my blotchy vision, I saw everyone drop to the ground. I must have done the same, because they suddenly disappeared and were replaced by the grassy, sandy ground. I couldn't feel the ground hit my body over the pain. My hands and feet felt like they were being run over by a semi-truck. My head hurt worse than the headaches the Voice had given me. My throat felt like I had tried to swallow one of those medieval flail thingies. My stomach felt like it was trying to digest itself. My bones felt like they were being ground into a fine powder. Needless to say, it hurt. A lot. Just as suddenly as the pain came, it left. "What the hell was that?" I shouted once I could think again.
"I don't know," Natalca said, "But could you guys please shut up for a minute so I can think."
"No one's talking, Natalca," Shanyn told her.
"Shanyn, you need either your hearing or your brain checked," Natalca assured her, "Everyone's talking."
"No, Natalca," Iggy told her, "Nobody's saying a word except for us arguing."
An idea came to me. "What is everyone saying, Natalca?" I asked her.
"Honestly, can you guys not hear yourselves? Everybody's muttering to themselves trying to figure out what happened. Madysen and Shanyn keep on saying I'm crazy, which I already know is not true. And Angel's telling me I can read minds."
"Angel's right, you idiot," Shanyn informed Natalca, "None of us have said those things out loud. We thought them in our head!"
A very frightening smile crossed Natalca's face. "Oh this will be fun," she said.
"Great, now I've got even less privacy than I did before. CURSES!!!" Madysen said loudly.
I gave her a ???? look at her interesting choice of word. "She says it all the time," Shanyn explained to me, "Along with 'Curses on you pants' and 'Supreme curses of the Universe'. Her mind is mystery."
"But not anymore!" Natalca teased.
"You are going to get so annoying," Madysen informed her.
"That's what everyone is thinking," Natalca told us, "I would know."
"Hey," Shanyn said as a look of inspiration crossed her face, "I wonder if there's some sort of weird connection between Natalca and Angel's brains, since they can both read minds…"
"Not as far as we can tell," Angel told her, "I hear Natalca's mind the same way I hear everyone else's."
"Darn," I said, "But good idea Shanyn."
"We still don't know what that was a few minutes ago," Fang said.
"Yeah, we should probably figure that out," I agreed, "Anybody have any ideas?"
"Madysen does," Natalca informed me, "And it's a pretty good idea, too."
Madysen sighed. "I don't think it's a coincidence that we all feel like we're getting run over by a monster truck, and then right after, Natalca adopts the ability to read minds. What if we all swapped powers or something?"
"That is a good idea. Only one way to find out. Let's pick a random person," I said, closing my eyes and turning around in circles with my finger pointed out. When I opened my eyes, my finger was pointed at Gazzy, who, on afterthought, had probably ran in front of my finger as I turned in circles, "Gazzy mimics voices, so I'll say something, and then everyone else will try to copy it. Una cosa muy extraña ocurrió justo."(Which means: A very strange thing just occurred.)
"Max, you just spoke Spanish," Madysen informed me.
Whadya know? I guess I did. "I got Madysen's power," I said, just to establish the fact, "But let's see who can mimic what I just said!"
The flock gave me hateful looks. "Un coza mee etranax occuro josta?" Nudge stuttered out, with a very not-Spanish accent
"Nope," Madysen said, "Next."
"Una cause mi extrona occurio josto," Shanyn attempted, again with a very American accent.
I shook my head at her. "Una cosa me extrania ocurro justa." Iggy said with an unspanish accent, but in my voice.
"Congrats Ig," I told him, "You can now mimic voices. Use your talent wisely. Which means as soon as you can, get back at Gazzy for all those years he made us suffer.""Oh definitely, revenge is sweet. Anyways, shall we have a flying race to see who got Max's power?" Madysen asked.
"Sure," I said, "Let's all go to that ravine over there and back here."
We all flew into the air, and as soon as I shouted 'go', everyone took off, flying as fast as we could to the distant ravine. After a few seconds, my turbo-drive kicked in, and I easily passed everyone. I did a quick shoulder check, and saw that Madysen was less than twenty feet behind me, straining her muscles to keep up. She had obviously gotten my speediness. I reached the ravine and turned around. Doing another shoulder check, I saw Madysen do a very well manoeuvred flip in the air and turn around, gaining a few feet on me. Unfortunately, bird wings are meant for speed, while bat wings are meant for fancy tricks and whatnot.
Just before I passed everyone else on the way back, I saw Natalca drop suddenly towards the ground. I quickly altered my course so that I streamlined downwards to her. We were flying at our normal altitude, so I caught her before she could drop too far. I took one look at her face and instantly recognized the blank expression. She was having a vision. Joy. Her visions were always so happy.
"Is she having a vision?" Madysen asked from somewhere a few feet above me.
"Yup." I answered her as I drifted down towards the ground.
Everyone else came to land by me and Madysen. "Vision," Madysen informed them.
Natalca's eyes fluttered open. She still looked slightly out of it, but not near as messed up as she had been the first time she'd had a vision of something. "That's still weird," she said, shaking her head.
"What'd you see?" Nudge asked.
"Me, Shanyn, Iggy, some weird girl, and two other guys attacking a Shifter. Only the Shifter was weird-looking. She had wavy hair and her skin wasn't really all that tan."
"What about her eyes?" Madysen questioned.
"Ice blue," Natalca informed us.
"What did the three strangers look like?" Shanyn asked.
"The girl was tan, she had wavy hair, very thick. Her hair and eyes were brown. The two guys looked related. They both had blondie-brown hair, and I didn't see their eye colour."
"Was I in the vision? Madysen asked.
"Yeah, you were telling us to stop attacking the Shifter," Natalca accused her.
"What?" Madysen said in shock, "That's crazy! I'm always one of the first ones to attack a Shifter. There is no way I would tell anyone to stop attacking a Shifter. They're evil!"
"I'm not saying you would do that," Natalca said, "I'm just saying that's what I saw."
"It doesn't matter. Let's keep figuring out who has what powers. Iggy mimics voices, Madysen got super speed, and Natalca reads minds, which means she can probably also control minds. We don't need you to try, Natalca," I said, seeing the diabolical look cross her face.
Natalca POV
Oh, whose mind should I control? I don't suppose Shanyn would mind too much. Now, how do I do this? Angel had described it as just asking someone with your mind.
Hey Shanyn. Can you please do random dance moves while singing 'On top of Spaghetti'?
No.
What? You can't say no to mind control! That's not fair!
Well, you asked me a question, and I answered it. I didn't realize there was any mind control involved in this.
Well in that case…I order you to do random dance moves while singing 'On top of Spaghetti'!
Very much to my amusement, Shanyn actually started doing the moves to Madysen's Happy Dance, while singing 'On top of Spaghetti' at the top of her lungs. (I love to embarrass people. Anyone who doesn't know the moves to Madysen's Happy Dance, it has a bunch of really weird dance moves which are danced to the tune of 'Get Ready for This' by 2 Unlimited. I'm sure you all know the song. Look it up on Youtube if you think you don't. Shanyn probably wouldn't dance my happy dance unless she was held at gunpoint or was in the middle of having her mind controlled. Like right now for instance. The dance is just too embarrassing for anyone with a higher sense of pride than me.) Needless to say, the entire flock started laughing. It was funny. After she was done Madysen's short Happy Dance, I started projecting dance moves into her head. Some of them she looked very odd doing. Ballet would be one of those. As well as grabbing Iggy and doing the tango with him. Eventually she finished singing her song, and I ran out of dance moves to make her do. She snapped out of her trance with a very confused look on her face. "Why is everyone staring at me," she asked, looking around at the smiling faces that surrounded her.
"I controlled your mind Shanyn," I explained to her.
"Oh, God. What did you make me do?" She said, a look of greatest dismay on her face. Hmmm, I wonder why that could be?
"Dance and sing 'On top of Spaghetti'."
"I really hate you."
"I hate you too," I told her.
"I will get you back," she vowed.
"I look forward to it," I replied, smiling at her angelically.
"I've figured out a way to see who got Nudge's power," Max said, interrupting our little chat, "Well, her magnetism one. I guess we'll figure out who has her sixth sense thing at another time. That one I don't know how to do."
"How will we figure out my magnetism one?" asked Nudge.
"I'll throw a quarter up in the air," Max explained, "And everyone will try to catch it. Without using their hands."
"Okay," Madysen said, "Throw it up."
After digging around in her pocket for a spare quarter, she threw the coin into the air. Before it had even started to fall, it zoomed down. Straight into the waiting hand of Nudge. "Oops," she said, seeing the exasperated look on Max's face, "Was I not supposed to catch it?"
"No."
"I won't this time," Nudge promised, an innocent smile on her face.
Max threw the coin into the air again, and this time, a second after it started to fall, it flew into Shanyn's hand. Shanyn looked at the coin. She tossed it back into the air and made it zoom towards my ear. "Ow!" I said as it hit my ear, "What was that for?"
"For making me do random dance moves while singing 'On top of Spaghetti'," she answered, "And there will be more revenge coming."
I still didn't regret it.
"Enough," Max said, "Or do you want me to host a funeral for all the sanity around here?"
"Sanity? Funeral? A funeral for sanity?" Shanyn asked, "Please do."
Madysen nodded frantically. "Die sanity!" she shouted.
"How will we kill sanity?" Taelyr asked.
"Let's see," Shanyn said, a malicious smile on her face, "Who's the sanest person here?"
"Fang," Madysen answered immediately, "Due to the fact that he never talks, the only things he bothers to say make perfect sense."
"Well then," Shanyn responded, "Fang, who is sanity personified, shall now have a formal death ceremony!"
In the ultimate show of formalness, she flew tackle-style at Fang, who instantly dodged in a cool side-matrix-type thingy. While Fang was distracted by Shanyn, I flew at him from behind, succeeding in tackling him to the ground. As he hit the ground, he went totally limp. I paused in confusion. I hadn't tackled him any harder than the Shifters. I hadn't even thrown all my weight on him. Maybe 70 lbs of weight? Not even. The Shifters had thrown their full 900+ on us.
While I was having my little huh? moment, Fang did a semi-Chinese-get-up, throwing me off of him and onto the ground. Mr. Sanity had tricked me into thinking he was injured so that he could escape. "That was so not cool, Fang," I told him, as he got up the rest of the way.
He shrugged and did an up-and-away, escaping from where me, Shanyn, Wyll, Taelyr, and Madysen were circled around him. HE tried to fly towards the ravine we had raced by earlier. Shanyn gave an evil laugh, "He forgot our secret weapon," she said.
"Who's the secret weapon?" asked Madysen.
"You idiot," Shanyn said in exasperation, "You're the secret weapon! You will sneak over to the ravine using your super speed, and then you shall wait in the bushes for him to come. He will not notice you because we will be chasing him from behind. He will try to hide in the bushes, where you will attack him. We will arrive seconds later, and host the formal death ceremony for Sir Sanity."
"Good plan!" Madysen congratulated Shanyn. She then flew off, keeping as low to the ground as possible. After maybe two seconds, her turbo-drive kicked in. Max gave us a look, but otherwise didn't comment on us practicing our fighting skills on her boyfriend. Since she didn't comment, we took it as permission to continue. Not that we wouldn't have continued anyways. Shanyn, me, Taelyr, Wyll, and Iggy took off after Fang, trying to distract him from Madysen with a bit of evil mob-like violence and taunting shouts. Taelyr started the taunting shouts.
"You can't run from us Mr. Sanity," Taelyr shouted.
"Yes I can," he shouted back, "As a matter of fact, I am!"
"Well you can't hide," Shanyn shouted at him.
In response, he swooped down in a dive towards the ravine. Mwah hah hah.
Madysen POV
As I waited for Fang to come to his death ceremony, I amused myself by playing with a freakishly large leaf. No, I am not crazy. This leaf was at least a couple feet long. It was taller than me! And I'm pretty tall. I had fun with this leaf. Eventually I had to stop, due to the fact that I tried to use it as a parachute and it ripped. Oops.
A few seconds after I broke my leaf (sob), I heard the sound of Fang's wings flapping. Since I have really great hearing, do to the fact I have bat DNA and all that, I knew I still had to wait a few more seconds. As in thirty or so. I quickly ran to a good hiding place near where he would hopefully land and dropped my backpack there. A few seconds after I crouched down into my hiding spot, Fang appeared in the sky above me, and then swooped down and landed on the ground right in front of me, back facing me. Oh, this attack could not happen better. I football-tackled him from behind, and could tell by his reaction (falling instantly to the ground) that he had not anticipated me tackling him. I kept him pinned to the ground until everyone else came. The whole time he had been squirming and trying to buck me off of him. "We're here!" Shanyn called to me.
"You're kidding!" I exclaimed in mock surprise, "I thought you were in the middle of you're voyage to Jupiter!"
"We made it back in time for the death ceremony," Taelyr explained, "We didn't want to miss it."
"Help Madysen hold Fang down," Wyll instructed, "Then we can tickle him to death. He is very ticklish."
"You said you wouldn't tell!" Fang accused Wyll.
Wyll shrugged, "I'm not very trustworthy."
As everyone approached Fang, he started bucking and squirming even harder. As he writhed on the ground, his head hit me in the face. It hurt, but not badly. It just made my nose feel funny for a second. As he continued squirming, I saw a red droplet fall onto the back of his head. I stuck two fingers to my nose, and then pulled them away to find that they had blood on them. Wonderful. A nosebleed. "Tibe-out," I said, climbing off of Fang with my nose pinched between two fingers.
"Madysen?" Taelyr asked, "You okay?"
"Nose-beed," I said, my plugged nose making my speech sound weird.
"Sorry," Fang apologized.
"Dote be," I told him, "I get dem all de tibe."
I walked over to where I had left my bag. I was pretty sure I had put some Kleenex in the outside pocket. Sure enough, there was the little travel box of Kleenex. I took out two or three sheets and pressed them against my nose. Turning around, I saw that everyone was still staring at me. "I'b fine," I told them.
"Can I borrow a Kleenex?" Fang asked.
"Sure," I said, somewhat puzzled by the strange request. Nevertheless, I handed him the Kleenex.
Fang took the Kleenex and wiped up the drops of blood on the back of his head. "Sorry aboud dat," I told him, feeling a tad guilty.
Fang shook his head at me. "I make you bleed," he said, "And the only thing you're worried about is the fact that you bled on me?"
"I ged nose-beeds all the tibe," I told him again, "Dey're no big deal."
I pulled the Kleenex away from my nose to see if it had stopped bleeding yet. Nope. Not that I was expecting it to. I grabbed another couple of Kleenexes and chucked the old ones in the bush. No, I did not litter. Blood is nutrient-rich and Kleenex is biodegradable. The trees will love me. "You know," Shanyn reminded me, "There is a quicker way to fix it."
Before I could put the new Kleenexes to my dripping nose, Shanyn healed it and the dripping stopped. "Oh yeah," I said, amazed at my forgetfulness, "I forgot about that. Oops."
"Idiot," Shanyn muttered.
I heard a flap of wings from above us. "Here comes everyone else," I said.
Sure enough, in a few more seconds Max, Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy appeared over the edge of the ravine and flew down to land beside us. "What happened to you?" Max asked as soon as she saw me.
"What? Oh, I had a nosebleed," I said. I had forgotten about the dried up blood around my nose. Grabbing another Kleenex, I wiped away the blood.
"My fault," Fang said.
"If you don't quit saying that," I warned him, "Then you might be the one with the nosebleed."
Fang just shook his head at me. "What happened?" Nudge asked, "Why does Fang think it's his fault."
"I tackled him. Everyone threatened to tickle him, he squirmed, his head hit my nose, I got a nosebleed, Shanyn stopped it, end of story. Oh, I also bled in his hair. He now has red streaks." I teased.
"No big deal," Shanyn added, "She gets nosebleeds way too easily."
"Okay then. Well, assuming the death ceremony's cancelled, Nudge figured out a way to test everyone for her other power," Max said, pulling a small scrap of fabric from her pocket, "This is a sock. No one knows whose it is, since it is a plain white sock with no recognizable distinguishing features. I don't even know whose it is. Only Nudge does. I will pass around the sock, and people will try to figure out whose it is."
Max tossed the sock to Fang, who caught it one handed. He shrugged and tossed it to Angel. It fell a meter or so short of her and she walked over to pick it up. "Ummm, Gazzy?" she guessed.
"Nope," Nudge smiled, like knowing who the sock belonged to was the greatest thing in the world.
Angel handed the sock to me, since I was right beside her. No sudden realization of who the sock belonged to came to me. "Not a clue," I said, handing the sock to Taelyr.
"This is my sock! It has the little hole by the pinkie toe," she said, sticking her finger through the hole.
Max sighed. "I have a back-up sock," she said, tossing the back-up to Taelyr.
"I don't know who's this one is," Taelyr said, examining the sock like it might have some microscopic clue. When she couldn't find any, she tossed it to Shanyn.
"This one's Taelyr's too," Shanyn said, "You didn't recognize your own sock. Nice."
Taelyr looked at Max with a 'Huh?' expression on her face. "Did you raid my sock pocket in my bag or something?" she asked.
"Maybe, maybe not. Only me, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel will know."
"You got it right," Nudge said, "Do you think you have my power, or was it just a totally random guess?"
"No, I just sorta knew who the sock belonged to," Shanyn said.
"Awesome! Now you have both of my powers! I wonder if I got yours," she said to herself.
"We'll figure that out when the time comes," Max said, "Unless someone wants to do a dive-bomb towards the ground and forget to put their wings out. Which I don't think anyone wants to do. Just one of those crazy little thoughts of mine."
"Just a sec," Shanyn said, "Random idea. Does anyone have a pen and paper?"
"I have a doodle-book in my bag" I said, walking over to my backpack. I pulled out the sketchpad and handed it to Shanyn.
Shanyn took my sketchpad and the pen once I got it out. (I've only done two author's notes this whole chapter! Three if you count this one. I better get caught up on the A/N's) She started drawing something on the pad. Once she finished, she showed it to us:
Odd little group of Flock
random mutant animals
Shanyn---------------------------Nudge
Madysen------------------------Max
Iggy-----------------------------Gazzy
Taelyr---------------------------?
?---------------------------------Fang
Natalca-------------------------Angel
Wyll----------------------------?
"Writing Gibberish," I said, shaking my head in dismay, "One of the first signs of craziness."
"It's only Gibberish because you aren't smart enough to figure it out. Allow me to explain," she said pointing, "I have Nudge's power, and she might have gotten mine. You got Max's power, and she got yours. Iggy and Gazzy swapped, which sort of sucks for Gazzy, since all Iggy can do is see white back when he was blind, and feel colours. Could come in handy if you're in a jail cell, blindfolded, and have to find which of the colour coded keys opens the cell. Anyways, Taelyr hasn't gotten anyone's power yet, and neither has Fang, so they probably switched. Natalca got Angel's mind powers, and we have to wait to see if Angel gets visions. Wyll either doesn't get powers because there aren't enough people, or he might get some of Angel's spare powers, seeing as she has so many."
"Shanyn," Natalca said slowly, as if forcing her to understand some complex equation, "This is why we call you a super computer."
"I still have the quarter," Shanyn warned, "And I bet I can throw it a lot harder."
"Less fight, more figuring out powers," said Max firmly, "Wyll, try to change how you look."
"What?"
"Make your hair go curly."
Wyll gave her a doubtful look, but made his straight, silky hair go curlier than Nudge's. This was a highly odd look on his dark blonde hair. "That feels creepy," he said, patting his curls.
So of course he had to experiment with his new power. He made his hair get black streaks, grow until it reached his shoulders, and then disappear altogether. After that, he made his height differ by a few inches at a time. He couldn't get changes over about 6" to work though. After he was done playing with his height, he made his eyes change colour. He made them go moss-green, blue, brown, and then started to try Shifter eyes. He could only do yellow eyes, but it was still creepy. "How come he's so much better than me?" Angel said, looking disappointed.
"Maybe you just have too many powers to control. This is the only one I have so far," Wyll suggested.
"Well, that means my theory about Wyll getting Angel's other power is true. Let's see if Taelyr got Fang's power. Stand completely still, Taelyr," Shanyn instructed.
Taelyr stood still, and after ten seconds or so, disappeared. "Cool," said Taelyr's disembodied voice, "You can't see me!"
"Stick your tongue out," I challenged.
So of course Taelyr sticks her tongue out and appears again. "You tricked me," Taelyr accused me.
"What power do I get from Taelyr?" asked Fang.
"Teleporting," Taelyr said, "But it's not very good. Any distance outside of about three meters is impossible. And I have to be able to see where I'm going, and it's very tiring. But I can still do it."
"And how come no one knows you do this?" asked Iggy.
"I just figured out I got it a day or two after you guys rescued me from the School. I didn't get around to telling anyone yet," Taelyr explained.
"Can I see you teleport?" Gazzy asked.
"I guess so. Madysen, you stand over there," she said, pointing to a spot about two and a half meters away.
"Okay, um, why?" I asked, slightly confused.
"It's really tiring, and I'm usually off balance when I land, so I generally fall down from a combination of exhaustion and lack of balance."
I walked over to the spot she had indicated. Taelyr stared at the ground right in front of me, with a look of intense concentration on her face. After a few seconds, she disappeared from where she was standing and almost instantly landed in front of me, swaying as she tried to regain her balance. I caught her by the arm and steadied her. "Good job," I told her, "You just need to practice."
"Thanks," she said, sounding more than slightly out of breath.
"Well," said Max, "Now that we know who has what powers, I guess we should leave."
"Yeah, we'll buy a cell phone soon so that we can stay in touch," Shanyn agreed.
"How will we know each other's numbers?" Fang said.
"We'll all phone my mom's house and leave our numbers, then she'll relay the other groups number back to us," Max explained, "Her number is 390-555-3057."
"Okay. Bye."
And since this chapter is long enough already, and I don't feel like writing a big long 'goodbye' scene, the end! Now, this chapter has 5550 words total. I could have cut it in half and turned it into two chapters. But I didn't. Be happy about that. Show your appreciation using the little button down by the bottom of the screen that says "Review This Chapter". I don't care if you say it was the crappiest story you've ever seen, just REVIEW IT!