Laborkio: Chapter Two

I did not expect America to be this large.

I mean, I've seen a map of America. once. I never realized just how big it was. Of course it wasn't as big as some countries but still, it was a lot of area to cover. So we stared up at the council room map.

Januari and I stood there scratching our heads as the little girl who had introduced herself as Angel was pointing to a couple of spots. She must have had a really good sense of direction because it only took her a few minutes to pinpoint where she had been and where we should go to find her "flock".

Januari was from America so I looked to her to find a solution, she had only had a month between being freed from her cage and being sent here but she still had an advantage over me. No bite, she was staring just as intensely at the map as I was.

We caught a bit of luck when Angel drastically changed pins to across the Atlantic and pointed to Germany.

"If Max is looking for me she would follow the trail to Itex, maybe we can intercept her."

"But Fang is in California! That's in the opposite direction." Added Gazzy.

"I think we need to join Max" Angel argued and her brother gave in with a worried look up at me.

"To Germany we go, there's no way we will make it in time to get to Max if we fly so we are going to have to call in and ask for a ride." Ah, the advantages of getting looked after by the rich. When we needed something, we knew who to ask. But given the time frame this held, we needed someone to fly us fast and the nearest flyer was… dammit.

"Januari, the one person who can get here fast enough with a plane is Rizton."

"Ooooh no No NO!" She shook her head and backed up.

"He is insane! I'm not getting into a plane with him!"

"Shh, you'll scare the children, and he is not that bad! Sure he almost got Fawn killed but he didn't, did he? One small ride and we can fly bac-"

"I am NOT getting on a plane with that crazy alien dog man thing!"

"What?" Asked Gazzy innocently.

"She has a phobia of things she shouldn't worry about." I said mysteriously and waved my hands around.

"What he means kids is that he's going to get us all killed"

"WHAT!?" But I had already raced off to find the only phone we had here. The land line which probably costed more than the entire village because of just how long the cord had to be to reach us. Januari raced after me and nearly caught me as I dived out the window. I cackled as I maneuvered around the tall spires and down into the barely flyable streets to the Message shop.

Birds fluttered out of my way as I landed on the balcony and walked into the tiny shop embedded into the side of a spire. Bird posts lined one wall, letter boxes filled the other, a table piled high with blank papers and new envelopes stood next to the door. A reception desk cluttered with writing tools and a huge log book opened wide lined the back wall. Fawn, our mail man, was fast asleep.

"FAWN!" He jumped up and assaulted me with a ruler. Crazy eyes and crazier hair as he jumped over the desk and tackled me.

"FOR NARNIA!" Oh boy, he's been dreaming again. Fawn had recently been rescued from a lab that had been buried deep in the amazon rainforest. We think that he was accidentally turned part parrot. There was no way someone sat in a lab and said to themselves "You know what? I'm going to make a black parrot man today!" but you never know with insane people. We all called him Fawn because of his unhealthy obsession with the mythical creature, the Fawn. Hence, FOR NARNIA. The first book that he had read for fun compared to the other books he had been forced to read as an experiment.

"Oh crap! Sorry Laborkio… I was…"

"Working on your entertaining skills, obviously. Now, can I use that phone of yours?"

"Yes! Of course! Sorry…" He said, pushing back his long multi colored hair which spiked back up into a foot tall head dress.

"No no no, entertainment is something you can never take too seriously" I said as I swayed around the desk and he went back to sheepishly going over the huge log book. It tracked all records of incoming and outgoing messages, including phone calls. Not that any of us really called or messaged anyone, just the kids who were trying to keep in touch with kids they had been raised with who had been sent to the other villages meant for them. Like kids with fishy additions lived on an island out in the pacific, kids with cat or dog-like additions or basically a ground creature would go to forest village out in South America's darkest regions. Just like we stayed in Himalayas.

To each his own. I picked up the phone and rung for the craziest pilot this side of the universe.

"PUT THE MAMMOTH DOWN, Hi, you have reached the residence of one Rizton Obsidian, how may I help you?"

"Heyyyyy"

"Hiiii La-La"

"Hi Rizton, I require your services to return a lost package to Germany, what do you say?" I said, twisting my long hair in my fingers like a girl phoning for a date. Rizton had a few kids of his own to worry about, the league had lots of kids in it from all around the world, some were to dangerous to let run around so another system was set for them. They were more... Top notch? Crazy? Way to powerful? We never received news about them and the little bits we saw of them were, chilling.

"Eh, I'm in the neighborhood and Germany is around, sure, tomorrow morning? No, SToP TRYING To EAT YoUR BRoTHER!"

"Sounds good. See you at the airstrip," I hung up quickly and walked away as Fawn shook his head and muttered to himself.

"Crazy people…" before falling asleep again.