Assassination of Memories
Chapter XIV- Best Non-seeing Listener

Declaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride or Pretender... sheesh I'm starting to get sick of saying this...
I'd like to give a special shout out to pyroman-15-, thank you for using Shadows in Blazes Wings, I appreciate it a lot. And I appreciate all of you reading and reviewing AOM, love ya guys!

Shadows' POV

I was surprised that everyone was asleep when I went back to the Caves, well not everyone. Iggy was up; he even glanced in my direction when I walked into the tavern. I could see his outline shape, even the shape of his face, his lips, nose and cheeks I could make out from the darkness. "Hey." He whispered. He seemed different than the other Rides, a little more laid back. I grunted sitting down on a rock by his bed. "So what happened?" he asked. "One of your friends isn't telling you something. Fang was shooting at us on the way here." I said, I could see Iggy frown. "How did you find that out about our names?" Iggy asked. "Why aren't you asleep?" I inquired. "You didn't answer my question." Iggy pointed out. I became silent sealing my lips. Iggy shook his head sighing. "I can't sleep, bad memories." He finally said. I didn't ask, though he continued. "Have you ever lost someone Amberlynn? Someone close to you?" Iggy asked glancing in my direction. Why did he keep doing that? He couldn't see. I didn't answer again.

"You've got a bad past too don't you? By the way you sit in that hard silence I'm guessing you've gone through a lot." Iggy guessed. I snorted, "You don't know the half of it." I found myself saying, Blaze's smirk sliding on my face. "I'm a good listener care on telling me?" No way buddy, I had become silent again. Iggy shrugged saying it was just a suggestion. "Can you walk?" I asked. "Ah, not sure..." Iggy said, "Why?" Mutely I came over putting my left arm across Iggy's back to support him. He stiffened making me frown, his back felt a little odd. I helped him onto my back, he tried to resist though hissed in pain. "What are you doing!?" he said through clenched teeth a quickly started to walk to the exit.

"Stop it my rib is broken!" Iggy's whisper was a screech for my sensitive ears, ignoring him I hissed angrily going faster. "Scream and I will drop you." I threatened, shutting Iggy up before he did anything stupid. "Where are you taking me?" Iggy grumbled defiantly pissed. "Something no one pays attention to." I answered back coldly continuing on. Up to a little part of the forest I flared my nostrils. Come on where was that dusty sme— I sneezed. "Bless you." Iggy said through clenched teeth. Looking around I saw the ring of mushrooms, sitting Iggy down, propped up against a tree like a doll. "What are we doing here?" Iggy asked to which I shushed him. I waited listening. They weren't coming out, Iggy made them skittish. Opening my mouth a Howling song poured from it like a crystal waterfall, sounding like the language itself. I couldn't translate word for word yet I knew what it said and its meaning, Iggy stared at me with blind eyes. I heard the little tinkling bells carrying on with the song as the soft lights appeared. A little giggle made me abruptly stop I got a little voice whispering in my ear. "Is he your boyfriend?" It giggled. "No!" I almost barked. Iggy raised an eyebrow as another giggle backed with a fluttering echoed in my ear. "He's cute anyway." I rolled my eyes. "Stupid fairies."

"Fairies?" Iggy repeated as if I was crazy.

Iggy's POV

This girl was insane! Fairies, how old is she!? Sure I heard an odd wing-like flutter but most bugs sound like that. Amberlynn sighed, "Like everyone else your mind tells you these things don't exist. Hey Ci Ci could you tell this oversized jerk your here?" I glared in Amberlynn's direction. Oversized jerk, okay so I was tall, doesn't mean she has to say anything about it. I felt something land on my good shoulder, I felt the wings brush against some of my hair, "Are you really not her boyfriend?" a small voice said. I jumped then cringed in pain. Holy shit was I going insane, Amberlynn chucked. "Hi I'm Ci Ci." "He can't see you, you little bugger."

I blinked feeling two spots of pressure I presumed Ci Ci stood up unless both me and Amberlynn were going crazy. Fairies don't exist, what the hell is happening!? "That's too bad, hey your cute you know that?" The little voice said again. I felt my cheeks heat up Amberlynn chuckled louder. "Don't you think he's cute?" Amberlynn didn't answer. "I forgot, you don't get close to anyone." Ci Ci sighed. There was tons of fluttering around us, what was going on? "Why did you bring me here?" I asked. "Not every day you can find a quick healing source." Amberlynn said, I could picture she was smiling, or smirking by what I heard of her through Max. "What? Wait, how do you know about these things and other people don't?" "Other people do, they just think it's not possible. Ci Ci I need some healing for him before Max kills me."

"Coming right up! Hey guys we've got a job!" Ci Ci called the fluttering stood still other than flying around. Then it filled my ears, along with other little voices; Ci Ci told me to relax. I felt heat in my shoulder, next my knee and lastly my ribs. At first the soothing heat, until I couldn't feel those parts at all. What were they doing to me... Wait Amberlynn said something about healing. The fluttering left my ears buzzing as all of it darted away, Ci Ci said goodbye to Amberlynn before I heard the little thing zip off. Nothing hurt anymore, cautiously I stood up. "Holy shit." I breathed. "That's what I said the first time I saw them. If you want tell Max, she'll be questioning why you're healed this quickly." Amberlynn said, leaves crunched as she stood up. Her steps sounded familiar as she lead me back to the caves that we had been in earlier. "Hey why don't you like Max?" I wondered though thought maybe I shouldn't have asked. "Don't make me put you back into a cast." Amberlynn snarled coldly. I had taken the bandages off, oddly the ones around my ribs had been put over my clothes, my wings felt a little better as I unwrapped it. I wanted to fly for a bit, my wings were really cramped from Max's persistence in lying low being suspicious of Amberlynn. This girl was odd beyond belief, didn't just a minute ago was she laughing when I jumped? That's when it hit me. That chuckle, I hadn't realized it before but it was like an Eraser's, the way she hissed and snarled... God that's why Max hated her. Amberlynn practically shared an Eraser's personality.

Amberlynn stopped I could feel a really pissed vibe coming from her. Whoops I put her in a bad mood! "What do you want Neo?" Amberlynn asked ice in her voice. "Your one to talk, I was wondering why you made me watch over the Ride house." A melodic voice said making me shudder. A lot of the Erasers had sounded like that for the longest time. "Go back and watch the house." Amberlynn snarled again, sounding so much like a dog I stared in her direction. Who was she talking to? I didn't hear anyone coming, so how did Amberlynn? And why was this person watch our house, I opened my mouth but Amberlynn had becoming buried in the hard silence stalking off. I followed after her footsteps a little creeped that the person she was talking to could very well have the lightest footsteps I couldn't hear him. "Who was that?" I hesitantly asked. "Neo the Brat." Amberlynn hissed still stomping on. We got back to the caves when I grabbed Amberlynn's arm to ask her a question. Bad idea. With her other hand gripping my grabbing arm she jerked it at a painful level that I let go and she slammed me into the wall. "Don't do that unless you have a dearth wish." She snarled in my ear acid dripping off her voice. Then she ran off, so fast that her footsteps disappeared I heard her screech for Dune. Footsteps ran up and past me, a little heavy suggesting Dune was still kind of asleep.

I shook my head turning ramming right into someone. "Whoops didn't notice you were blind there." The one Amberlynn called Neo said. It was really hard to sneak up on me, when did he get there!? "Just telling you that you saying anything about the guys that healed you I'll personally rip you apart. We don't need to blab to the whole world that these things exist." Then his voice was gone. Though I couldn't tell if Neo was gone as well. Carefully I chugged back down into the caves to maybe get some sleep.

God I just noticed most the chapters I have been posting are a little pointless, I am so sorry! And the fairy things, blame my sister and my parents who made me watch Tinkerbell, I had fairies on the brain for awhile and this story does enlighten you that these things exist, you might think it's weird that they suddenly realize these things but it's because the human mind tries to come up with a logical explanation for these seemingly impossible things. Anywho enough of my kina scientific blabbering, it's probably making you fall asleep. I promise the story will get better, hopefully, I was kinda drabbling in Writer's Block at a few scenes *screams*