A/N: What's this an UPDATE you say? Well look at that it is. Sorry for the serious delay a lot has been on my plate one of those things being laziness, but hey it's finally here, and it isn't totally shrimpy like previous chapter but it still is short. ENJOY!

Disclaimer: yea same as usual I don't own blah blah blah James Patterson does

Chapter 5- Search

Fang's POV

"If I may ask, where exactly did you come from anyway?" The curiosity was driving me mad I needed some answers from this chick, for all I knew she could be a spy for those stupid scientists back at the school. We were in a way heading into their neck of the woods.

"How do I know I can trust you, and you're not just going to bring me back?"

"Well I do suppose you don't have a reason to trust me, other than the fact they would probably take me prisoner as well. Not exactly in my best interests"

"If you say so, there's a cave over there we can go there and discuss this if you so wish to."

"Sounds like a plan."

Max's POV

He has to be around here somewhere. I don't understand why he would just fly off like that. Was what Fang was going to tell me that private?

"Knowing Fang, probably."

"Angel! What have I told you about mind peeking?"

"Sorry, just giving my two sense is all."

"Well if you're going to mind peek, can you here Fang's mind nearby?" Well that sounded awfully weird to say, but if Angel could might as well ask right?

"Almost, I think, it's fuzzy, it probably means he's close just not close enough to read."

"So in other words we're on the right track?"

"Yes you could say that, or we're heading in the completely wrong direction there's no way to tell for sure."

Iggy's POV

"It's getting late, maybe we should go look for them."

"Max said to stay here, Ig. Best not get her mad at you as well guessing that she is furious with Fang right now for ditching."

"But what if they got lost and can't find their way back?" I asked in almost a panic stricken voice.

What if Max never came back? What if she was in love with Fang and the decided to run off together? What the hell was I thinking Max would never just leave the Flock even for Fang, right?

"When did you become such the worrier?"

"Uhh… I don't know. I guess it's just because I'm never separated from all of them like this. It's weird."

"Well Iggy, tell you this if you are so worried about everyone else go look for them. I'm sure they can't be far. I'll just stay here in case anyone comes back and tell them where you went."

Well what do we have here was Total actually being caring or was he just being lazy as usual? Call me crazy but I'm more or less counting on the second option.

So off I went into the night, trying to find everyone else, while flying solo and blind, not the easiest thing.

Till you here "IGGY!" shouted at the top of Gazzy's lungs makes things a bit easier.

"Dude what are you doing out here? Didn't Max tell you to stay in the cave, like a good little boy?" Gazzy said I'm guessing he couldn't even keep a straight face while saying it because he was laughing his ass off by the end of it, as was Nudge.

"Yea well Gazzy when was the last time I acted like a 'good little boy'" I asked with a smirk

"Very good point my friend"

"We should find Max and Angel, it's getting late we can find Fang tomorrow. He's probably still in the area." Nudge piped up.

"Yea let's go they can't be too far." I said being all leader-like. "I think I hear them over there." Pointing to where I thought them to be, and we were off.

Max's POV

"Is that Gazzy, Nudge, and… oh you've got to be kidding me Iggy."

"Yup Max it is them, I can hear their thoughts crystal clear." Angel said with a bright smile on her face "You know what Iggy's thinking?" She added with a small giggle.

"What?" I asked ever so curious

"'Max is soooo gonna kill me for this', so Max I think that permission to at least rough him up a bit." She answered with a laugh.

When I knew they were in ear shot, I yelled at Iggy for what an idiot he was being.

"Iggy what the HELL do you think you're doing?-"

"I uhh…"

" -Flying ALONE to find us what a BRILLIANT plan you've got there! Now explain!"

"It was getting late and I was getting worried about everyone, in case you guys forgot it's harder for me to be separated from everyone when I don't know my surroundings."

Oh so he's just going to smooth talk his way out of this, stupid sexist pig. Too bad it actually worked. My dignity has faltered.

"I uh- Sorry Ig, I didn't realize…"

"It's ok Max, you thought the best plan to find Fang as quick as possible was to make sure I couldn't get myself lost, but it's weird without you guys around. It's hard to explain."

"You don't have to explain Ig, tell you this since it is getting late why don't Gazzy, Nudge and Angel head back to the cave. Then Iggy and I will look for Fang for maybe another hour or so depending how fast it gets really dark and then we'll go back to the cave whether we have found Fang or not. Sound like a plan?"

"Sounds good" Everyone except Angel agreed.

"Something wrong Angel?" She was oddly staring at Iggy in what looked to be deep concentration.

"Oh yeah, that's fine." Putting on what was obviously a fake smile, something was up that she wasn't going to tell me.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed now please review! I hope to get the next chapter up soon-ish now that its summer and I'm actually in the mood to write