Powerful
Chapter Five
Max's POV:
Angel was staring at the Erasers in shock. "Ange? Sweetie, what is it?"
"I can hear their thoughts and they seem to be… werewolves. Or shape-shifters or something. At least that's what that wolf said," she pointed to a black wolf.
"Sweetie, tell me exactly what you heard."
"Well, on of them, the gray one said something like 'man I hate being a werewolf.' And the, the black one, he's just like 'Leah, we are shape-shifters.' They said something about…leashes. Or leeches. Or something."
"We better go down and check it out," I said grimly.
We landed in the small clearing, all six of us with our impressive wings. All five heads swiveled towards us. For a minute their wolfy expressions were blank, then shock. Then horror. Then shock again.
The wolves turned to each other and seemed to talk. One of them nodded and a black wolf raced into the woods. Minutes later, he returned with five more wolves. The russet wolf and the black wolf raced into the trees and a minute later, two men walked into the clearing. Both were handsome, with dark skin, long-ish black hair, and dark eyes. Both were shirtless, and they had even more muscle than Fang.
"Who are you, why can you fly, and why do you have wings?" one of them asked.
"Who are you, why do you have eight gigantic wolves behind you, why did I see five men phase into wolves, and why do you want to know who I am?"
The one who had talked grinned. "Impressive. Okay, I'm Jacob, I am a shape-shifter, and four of these wolves are my pack. You saw us phase because we re shape-shifters. Simple. Your turn."
"Ok then, Jacob. I'm Max. This is my flock. We have wings and can fly. We were genetically enhanced. In other words, we're not human."
"Yeah, cuz that's so new around here," Jacob muttered. "If you aren't human, what are you?"
"We have bird genes in us, which gave us wings. When we were little, the hospital gave us to the whitecoats to experiment on us."
"Fair enough. I'm Sam, and the other four wolves that aren't his, are mine."
I nodded, acknowledging him stiffly.
Angel? Do that mind thing so they can't remember that we came, please.
"We're going to go now," Angel said in a hypnotic, sweet, little girl voice. "You won't remember we came. Don't think about us. Don't talk about us."
All ten of the shape-shifters nodded. And we took off into the skies.
*****
We settled down into a hotel, the three of us girls in one room, the three guys in another. They filed into our room so we could talk before bed.
"So, we have a new…well, species, huh?" I asked, munching on some popcorn from the bowl in the middle of the bed.
"I don't think they are a species…not like the Erasers. They are more like a myth. Like, umm, like…well, I don't know what like, but they aren't mutants like us. I don't think they are a threat. They weren't thinking all 'kill Max and the Flock' like Erasers." Angel informed us.
"Thanks Angel, but I think we should do some research on them, anyways. Though in such a small town, I doubt we'll find a library with any info on them at all." I told her. I thought. "Wonder why the Voice wanted us to come here," I mused.
Max, you need to rent a car and drive around Forks. See the sights, the Voice said.
"Why?" I asked. Oops, I said that out loud. I held up a finger to the Flock's questioning expressions. We could just fly. I replied.
Just do it. Trust me. I know what I'm doing. Well, what you're doing, anyways, the Voice said to me.
Fine. Tomorrow morning. Ok? Have it your way.
"Guys, tomorrow morning we're renting a car and seeing the 'sights'. What sights, I have no idea, but we're following the Voice's instructions," I told them. We stacked fists and the guys headed into their room. "Night, Angel. Night, Nudge."