A/N- Hey! Thanks for reviewing, and here's ch. 10!!! It's really long. At least by my standards.

Disclaimer- Don't you get the idea by now?

3rd person point of view

Iggy heard Max and Fang approaching, and he unwillingly pulled away from Nudge.

Nudge rested her forehead on Iggy's and smiled. "What is it?"

Iggy sighed. "Max and Fang'll be here soon. I can hear them."

And sure enough, Nudge distantly heard Fang and Max talking about something.

She sighed and climbed off of Iggy's lap. Sitting down next to him, she realized how tired she was and leaned her head on Iggy's shoulder. Iggy put an arm around her, and they waited for Max and Fang to come.

After Fang and I got out of that stupid ravine we walked through the woods. We would have flown, but flying in the rain stinks. So we walked.

After a couple minutes we were completely lost. All the stupid trees looked the same, and it was hard to see through the rain, anyways.

"I think it's this way." I pointed off in some random direction.

Fang shook his head wearily. "Nope. We just came from that direction." He pointed in the opposite direction. "I think it's that way."

I peered through the trees. "You sure?"

Fang shrugged. "No. But it's worth a shot."

"Okaayyy…"

We walked in that direction, and sure enough, I saw Iggy and Nudge sitting under a tree. Nudge looked like she was asleep, and Iggy had an arm around her shoulder.

I slipped through the trees and into the clearing. Iggy stiffened and turned his head to face me.

"It's just us, Ig." I said, and Fang came up behind me. "We need to go find Gazzy and Angel."

Fang looked at Nudge closely. "Is she asleep?"

Iggy shrugged. "No idea." He put one hand under her head and the other under her knees, and picked her up. "But let's not wake her up. She needs rest."

He was about to take off, when I remembered that it was raining. "Uh…Ig?" He turned to the sound of my voice. "It's raining. We're gonna have to walk."

He rolled his eyes and pulled his wings in. "It doesn't feel like it's raining."

"Well, we are under some trees, and it's only drizzling."

"Then we better start walking." Iggy turned to the trees, then back to me and Fang. "Uhh…where are we going?"

I turned to look at Fang, and Fang looked back at me. "No idea."

Fang sighed. "Let's go."

He walked into the woods; I followed, and Iggy, after adjusting Nudge, followed me.

Angel lay on her stomach and watched Gazzy light the fire. They had gotten one lit a while ago, but then it started drizzling and it went out. So Gazzy had to start a new one.

Total trotted up to her and hopped on her back. "What time is it?"

Angel thought for a second. "No idea. Bet Gazzy knows!" She called to Gazzy. "Gazzy? What time is it?"

Gazzy looked up from the newly sparking fire. "I don't know." He glanced around the tree-covered clearing. "How long have we been here?"

Angel shrugged. "Wish I knew." She rolled on her back and grabbed Total. "Total? Do you know?"

Total shook his head. "Nope. But Max said to wait for two hours, and it's been longer than that." He scratched his head with a paw. "I think."

Angel looked at Gazzy, and Gazzy stared back. Angel voiced their thoughts.

"Two hours. It wouldn't take this long for the four of them to finish off twenty erasers, would it?"

Gazzy stood up and walked over to Angel. He sat down by her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.

"Maybe they just got lost."

Angel didn't even have to read his mind to know that he wasn't sure.

Have I ever told you how much I hate walking? Flying is so much faster, and you don't have to worry about getting your feet all nasty and muddy.

After fifteen minutes of our obnoxious trekking through the woods, Nudge woke up.

We were just walking, with Fang and I up front and Iggy (with Nudge) behind us, following the sound of our crunching feet.

All of a sudden I heard Nudge's voice. "No more monkeys!"

Fang and I spun around, just in time to see Nudge flailing around. Iggy almost dropped her, and she woke up.

"Oh, hi Iggy!" She looked around. "Where are we?"

I sighed. "I wish we knew, Nudge. I wish we knew."

Nudge looked up at Iggy and smiled. Too bad Iggy couldn't see it. Nudge blinked, like she was remembering that Iggy was blind, and corrected herself.

"Iggy, I'm smiling."

Iggy nodded a thank you.

"You can put me down now." Nudge said, leaning her head against Iggy's chest.

Iggy had a faraway look on his face, and he was starting to smile.

Nudge put her hand on his shoulder and repeated herself.

Iggy blinked and nodded. "Oh. Right."

He carefully placed Nudge on the ground, and we resumed walking.

A few minutes later Nudge broke the tired silence that hovered over our group.

"Hey Max? Where are we going? Oh, I've got a better question. Where are we? Are we looking for Gazzy and Angel? What about Total?"

I could hear Iggy quietly laughing. He sped up to walk next to Fang, and I could have sworn that I heard him whisper to Fang. "So, I guess she's okay?"

I slowed down to talk to Nudge. "We are going to look for the others. That's what we're doing right now. I've got no idea where we are. We're lost."

I know what you're thinking. Max, invincible Maximum Ride, is admitting that she's lost. Well, I was exhausted, even though it was only about 11:00 o'clock. Too exhausted to pretend to know where we were.

Nudge looked surprised. "Oh, so that's what we're doing. Why didn't you say so?" She bent down and picked up some dirt. Closing her eyes, she concentrated.

"Iggy! Fang! Wait!" I called. "Nudge is on to something!"

Fang and Iggy turned around and came back to where I was standing. Fang and I watched Nudge, and Iggy had this big smile on his face.

Suddenly Nudge snapped her eyes open and started yelling.

And let me tell ya, that girl can scream.

Fang and I winced and covered our ears.

It wasn't half as bad as us as it was for Iggy, though. With his super-sensitive hearing, the sound was like, five times louder.

He sunk to the ground, squeezing his hands over his ears.

But, the weird thing was, he looked like he was more worried about Nudge than himself.

Maybe I was just imagining things.

Anyways, eventually Nudge's random screaming turned into words.

"ANGEL!! GAZZY!!!! TOTAL!!!"

Finally she stopped. She turned to us and said calmly, "They're nearby."

Then she took in what she was seeing.

Fang and I were on our knees, covering our ears with our hands. Iggy was curled in a ball, clutching his head.

Nudge ran up to Iggy and kneeled beside him. "OHMIGOD!!! Iggy? Are you okay?"

Iggy sat up, and I saw he was laughing. "Whoa! Nudge! Have you been practicing or something? That's the loudest noise I've ever heard!"

Nudge smiled and held his hand up to her mouth so he knew.

"I had a good reason."

By now Fang and I were back on our feet. We walked over to Nudge and congratulated her.

"Wow, great screaming Nudge." I managed to sound a little supportive, despite the fact that I might be going deaf.

"Nudge, that was good screaming an' all, but what was the point?" Fang cut straight to the point.

Nudge smiled innocently at us. "You'll see."

And, sure enough, Angel contacted us.

Hey Max! Where are you guys?

I felt so relieved. They were okay!

Angel, can you tell us how to get to…wherever you are?

Sure!

Ten minutes later we were all sitting around the fire Gazzy had made.

We were exhausted, hungry, wet, and cold. It was raining, so we couldn't fly.

I wasn't in a good mood.

We were all so tired, and it wasn't even afternoon yet.

Nudge was the only one who wasn't half asleep. Iggy lay flat on his back and watched her run around in circles. Angel was using Total as a pillow, and Gazzy was hanging upside-down from a tree. Don't ask me why, cause I seriously don't know.

I couldn't keep my head off of Fang's shoulder. Every time I picked it up, it plopped back down. I think Fang was kinda enjoying it.

Eventually it started thundering. It wasn't raining very hard, but it was loud thunder. I met Fang's eyes and realized that thunder meant lighting. And lighting usually meant falling trees. And, you know, it wasn't like we were surrounded by retarded trees or anything! No, not even our luck could be that bad.

I wish.

Fang and I leapt up, awakened by adrenaline. I ran over to Angel and picked her off of the ground. She was still clutching Total, and mumbling quietly in her sleep.

Fang pulled Gazzy down from the tree, and ran to meet me.

Iggy had jumped up sleepily when he heard us running around, and Nudge was standing next to him, watching us silently.

I turned to her. "Nudge, lead Iggy. We need to get out of these woods."

Luckily, Nudge didn't question my orders and grabbed Iggy's hand. Fang and I led the way out of the clearing.

We sprinted through the woods, dodging trees and bushes.

After what felt like forever we reached the end of the forest and stopped just outside the tree line.

I put Angel down and rolled my arms. Fang did the same, and Gazzy and Angel curled up like puppies.

I turned to Nudge, who was carefully putting Iggy on the ground. Iggy was telling her that he wasn't tired, that he didn't need to rest, but she was ignoring him.

Then she turned to us. "Where are we going? It's too stormy to stay outside. And we're all tired. Except for me. But I took a nap earlier. Do you think we'll get struck by lightning? At least it's only drizzling. If it were pouring, that would really stink."

Of course, the minute she said that it started to pour. Within seconds we were all drenched.

I turned to Nudge. "Okay, Nudge." I said tiredly. "Since you've gone through the most drama today, you get to choose where we're going."

Nudge's mouth hung open, and I could feel Fang's questioning gaze on my back. I gave him a "We'll talk about this later" look, and he nodded.

Nudge smiled. "Let's go to a hotel. A really nice one. With an indoor pool and plenty of rooms and beds, and room service, and a Continental Breakfast, and we can get a suite! Or maybe three suites!"

I smiled. "Okay, Nudge. A hotel it is."

And off we went to find a hotel. And a city. But that doesn't matter right now.

A/N-Thnks for reading, I hope you liked it, blah blah blah. Review, some constructive criticism, thanks. God I'm tired.