No one said anything so I decided to tell Iggy exactly what happened; "Plane just blew up" I said intelligently. By now, everyone had recovered from the shock and had re-gained their ability to talk. Gazzy flew over and started describing the explosion in full detail to Iggy while the rest of them were shouting questions at me, not waiting for an answer.
"What was that?"
"I—"
"How did you know that was gonna happen?"
"And then Max opened the door and BOOM…"
"We almost died! Can you believe it?"
"Hey, can I talk—"
"Oh my god, Max you… you… how did you do that?"
"Max, explain…"
"SHUT UP" I shouted, this seemed to do the trick since everyone stopped talking and just stared at me with questioning looks. "I had a dream on the plane." I told them "It was more realistic than normal. I was just dreaming of us on the plane, you guys were sleeping, I was talking to Fang…" I looked around at the flocks faces, they looked confused, heck so was I! What was up with this dream thing? "..then all of a sudden there was a loud explosion and—"
"Then what?! Then what?!" Nudge interrupted, unable to contain her excitement.
"I woke up." I replied, smiling "But the weirdest thing is, everything I saw started becoming real, you were all sleeping in the same positions, Fang said the same words to me, even the view outside was the same."
"So you figured the explosion would happen too… you saved us Max!" Angel finished. She tried to hug me but since we were in the air it didn't quite work and we fell a few feet.
"So does this mean you have a new power?" Total asked when we joined them again, his wings were now fully grown and he was learning how to fly quite fast.
"I guess so" I shrugged "but who knows, maybe it was just a one shot and won't happen again"
"Oh my god! You're like a fortune teller!" Nudge exclaimed "What's gonna happen to me?"
"I don't think it works like that Nudge" I laughed "but if I dream about you, you'll be the first one to know."
She nodded excitedly.
"So where to now?" Fang surprised me from behind.
"Ok, we need to find a place to land" I said to the flock and they nodded, starting to fly off in search of someplace we could sleep, explosions really take it out of ya. I thanked my lucky stars that we crash landed in England and not the middle of the ocean.
Just as I started to fly off to join them, something stopped me and I looked down at the mess below. There were hundreds ambulances and fire trucks, lights flashing, sirens wailing. I felt guilt seep through my veins as I thought of all the people that had died, not just the ones that were in the plane but the ones that were innocently walking on the streets below. Someone placed a hand on my shoulder, Fang.
"It wasn't your fault" He whispered, reading my mind "that bomb would have gone off anyway, if you managed to save us or not. If it wasn't for you, there would be seven more casualties down there"
I nodded, silently, and followed him back to the others. If it wasn't for us, of course, there wouldn't have been a bomb on that plane in the first place. I put it out of my mind and tried to keep a fake smile on my face for the kids' sake.
We flew in silence for a while, and then Angel spotted a large park we could land in. It was the middle of the night so no one saw us or our wings, and soon enough we found a nice, big, secluded tree to sleep in. We stacked fists and everyone went off to find a comfortable branch.
I couldn't sleep. No matter how hard I tried, my brain was refusing to shut down and let me get some peace. I sat up on my branch and looked out at the sky through the leaves above me. It was starting to get light and for a while I just sat there, enjoying the silence.
All of a sudden Fang shimmered into view beside me and I almost fell out of the tree.
"What the hell Fang!" I whispered, irritated, not wanting to wake the others up "Some kind of warning would have been nice."
His mouth pulled up at one corner making my stomach do somersaults. Stop it Max! He's part of your family! But did I still think of him that way? Things had changed lately…
"What are you thinking about?" He asked quietly, his face framed by the golden sunrise.
"The flock" I answered, thinking quickly. Well I wasn't lying exactly, Fang was part of the flock. He looked over at Nudge who was sleeping on the closest branch to us, one arm hanging lazily off the side.
"They'll be fine" Fang whispered, turning back to me "they're used to being on the run."
I frowned "That's exactly what they shouldn't be used to, they're only kids."
He shuffled up the branch so our arms were touching but didn't say anything. Ok Max, breathe. In, out, in, out. I don't know how long we sat like that for but just as I started to feel slightly dizzy, Gazzy jumped down onto the branch below us "What's for breakfast?" He asked cheerily. I smiled down at him as the others started waking up.
"Ok, listen up!" I clapped my hands once and all six heads turned to face me "Once we find some chow, we're going straight after what's left of ITEX, no stopping anywhere we don't need to, got it?"
I could see Nudge's face fall, along with the Gasman's and Angel's. They looked up at me with the cutest puppy dog eyes you can imagine and I nearly gave in. Nearly. Instead, I turned away and jumped out of the tree, landing expertly on my feet. The others followed one by one with Fang last. Fang. I needed to talk to him, next time we were alone, I would.
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A/N- Just for anyone who was confused or still is after this chapter, Max did get a new power, she can tell the future! Ohh ahh! Sorry if I didn't make that clear, I sometimes forget that people can't see into my head… Review and you will get… a… um, smile! :) And the rain will turn into chocolate buttons.
