Kayla: I'm better!
Me: Whop-dee-doo for you.
Kayla: You're almost better.
Me: Operative word being almost.
Kayla: You're being negative.
Me: That's cause my life sucks.
Kayla: If I sing, will you feel better?
Me: Not at all.
( Kayla sings off key )
Me: You're horrible.
Kayla: Sue me.
Me: I think I will.
Kayla: I'm imaginary.
Me: I'll get an imaginary restraining order.
Kayla: Restraining orders are the cause of your life sucking.
Me: * sighs dramatically * I know.
Kayla: So let's get this story going!
Me: Why?
Kayla: You'll feel better?
Me: Onwards!
Jason POV
It's about 10 at night when I heard the swooshing of wings. I looked up and saw 4 bird flying above, I looked closer and I knew these birds weren't regular birds. Regular birds don't nose-dive when they see a kid sitting on a rock with wings, and normal birds don't wear converse. I looked back at the lurking shadows of owls behind the trees. Wait. Converse? I looked up to see a girl with wings going top speed right at me. She slowed as I got up and checked the fire -- tapping everyone lightly on the way -- I turned around, and made my way back to the rock, wings out. The girl landed, I could tell she was suddenly indecisive. Freaky power of mine. I looked at her enough to drive any teenage boy crazy, but strangely, she didn't phase me.
" Looks like we have company, good call J." Alex steeped up from her spot that was behind me, anger and astonishment apparent on her voice. Maybe not her voice, but it was easy for me to pick up. I wonder if some people find emotions hard to read.
The rest of the girl's flock landed behind her, a boy that was suspicious stepped forward, obviously the leader with the strong attitude apparent on his face. I wonder if Alex thinks that. She's a bit weary still, but curiosity is covering her aura. Yes, I just said aura. I'm not going to call it her 'personal bubble'. It's hard to come up with a word that describes the area around a person. Alex stepped forward even more when Kyle and Ari joined us, flanking me. Did I mention that I'm her second in command? The two leaders eyes met and I saw the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my short Avian-American life. A golden glowing string-like wire went into their chests, right where their hearts should be. I looked closer, and saw that the two strings tied in the space between the two flocks. Can you picture that? A golden stringwas coming out of Alex's chest and was tied in the middle of the flocks, that string went straight into the boy's chest. I took a breath and was amazed to felt no astonishment in anyone's aura. Curious, I walked forward, to where the string-things met. " J? Jason? What are you doing? Jason!" Came from Kyle and Alex, Ari just watched curiously. I reached out to where the knot was and my fingers went through it.
" Can you see that? That string?"
" What string?" The leader of the other flock asked. Apparently, they couldn't feel it either.
" Nevermind, no sleep for 48 hours, must be hallucinating." Even though I clearly wasn't. I pretended to sleepily stumble back to my place, behind Alex and in front of Ari and Kyle.
I looked back at the string, seemingly invisible to everyone else. Then a thought struck me, ' Maybe your crazy.'No, I can't be crazy, maybe it's just a new power. No, I know it's not that. Maybe it's an emotional bond? Yeah, that's way more likely. Even though they just met. I kept pondering over this as Alex switched her attention back to the other flock. And started the interrogation.
" Who are you? Where are you going? Did the School send you? Why are you here?" Alex is always the paranoid one.
" I'm Payne, this is my twin brother Robert or Rob, little Elizabeth or Lizzy or Liz or Beth, and Ember who just nose-dived down 'cause she saw that one with his wings out. I'm the leader. We were going to Canada 'cause Ember has a 'funny feeling' and the School didn't send us, 'cause we just broke out. Who are you? Where are you going? Did the School send you?"
" I'm Alexandria or Alex, Jason or J, Ariana or Ari, and Kyle. We're going to Maximum Ride. We also just broke out of the School. I think that's what Ember's ' funny feeling ' may be. I'm leader."
" Okay, well, since we're both going to the same place, might as well stick together right?" Ember said, fiddling around in her pack. She looked at Payne expectantly, she was excited on the inside. I wonder why.
" If it's okay with Alexandria." Said Payne as a notebook fell out of Ember's backpack. Rob picked it up and carefully put it in his back pack. Ember scowled, her emotion was furious.
" Call me Alex. It's fine with me as long as one of yours stays up for watch, if Jason stays up any longer, I think he might go crazy." If I'm not already. I added mentally, staring at the visible knot in the clearing. Meanwhile, Ember was giving Rob a death glare and Rob himself had the most amused grin on his face, I almost cracked up.
Everyone went off in different directions, except for Ember and Rob. As I followed Alex, watching as the string got shorter because Rob was practically walking with her. I could faintly hear Ember saying, " I'll set everything you own on fire." Did she mean that litterly?
" You wouldn't dare." Apparently, guess it's a power.
" And why is that?"
"Because everything I own is right underneath your precious sketch book."
" I'll. . . I'll. . . I'll-"
" Or you could let me get it back for you." I said, coming up behind Ember, I could feel a sisterly bond connecting me to her. Might as well make the best of it.
" And why would I let you do that?"
" 'Cause you can't do anything else." She humphed at my logic.
Rob stepped up to the plate. " And what are you going to do about it?"
" Ari." I replied shortly. He felt curious. " Ari." This time I called her name.
" Yes?" She was at my side in a moment, overly bouncy. She was always like that when we make new friends, which was hardly ever.
" Get that notebook and hand it to Ember, if you know what I mean." No you perverted readers. That was not innuendo. It was trying to get Ari to do what I want with out making Rob suspicious of the involvement with powers. I had no idea what he could do.
She nodded. And slowly lifted up her hand, the notebook followed her hand movement, she moved her index finger slightly and it zoomed towards her. Last second, she moved her index finger back in place, and moved her hand left, to where Ember was, and slowly lowered the book down from where it was above her head. She failed miserably. Rob's eyes flashed and the book litterly froze, as in, it was encased in a block of ice.
" Oh, Robby now why do you have to go and do that? Now I'llhave a little supernatural fun." Her eyes flashed, and Rob's right shoe caught on fire, he started hopping around on one foot, he looked like a pogo-stick. Her hazel eyes were dangerously tinted red and Rob's other shoe caught of fire. Ari was on the floor laughing. I was chuckling, finding it hard to full-out laugh with pain, murderous anger, and revenge in the air. All the time, Ember's notebook stayed suspended in a block of ice over her head. Elizabeth came over to see what everyone was laughing about, and a tinkling laugh came out of her mouth, sounding weirdly like wind chimes. Strange.
Kyle came over, probably wondering what was taking Elizabeth so long when he saw all of us. Me staring at the notebook chuckling, Ari having a laughing fit on the forest floor, Ember staring at Rob -- her eyes were blazing with red now --, Elizabeth gazing at Rob and giving more wind-chime laughs, and Rob looking like his feet were on fir- wait, they are. And broke out in his own deep chuckle, also watching Rob, who now looked like he was imitating a frazzled rabbit.
Alex and Payne came over. I took a deep breath. Alex was astonished, not quite to the angry stage yet. Payne supprised me, he was expectant and amused. I looked over at him and saw that he was watching his brother, his gaze turned to Ember and was not the least bit worried, then to the notebook above her head, he turned curious. His gaze became exhilarated, and the notebook started to slowly melt. Alex looked astonished and Ari stopped laughing, whiping tears off of her face. Only Elizabeth, Rob, and Ember stayed in the same state. Apparently, Payne did this often.
That ended when it was thawed out and it fell on Ember's head, knocking her concentration, making her take her eyes off of Rob's feet, and catch it before it landed in a mud puddle. I looked back at Rob's feet, which were now exposed since the fire had burned through his shoes, it didn't even look that bad. I suddenly realised that he was also staring at his feet, he was probably using his power to freeze things the whole time, but he still had at least first-degree burns. " Lizzy." Payne said, not even glancing at his brother, as his emotions went to love. Huh. What a teddy bear.
Elizabeth went to Rob and trailed her hand over his right foot. I was astonished again -- the others emotions added to it -- when the red marks disappeared. She trailed her hand over his left foot and the same thing happened. Wow. She could heal. I bet the first thing out of Alex's mouth is gonna be--
" Can you heal Eraser wounds?" Yep, I knew it. See, Alex has an Eraser wound on her side, she says she just smart mouthed so much that he took a little Swipe & Laugh on her torso. Did I mention that the golden string thingy was there the whole time?
" It's very hard, but I might be able to." She said going over and standing right in front of Alex. " Where is it?" Alex lifted her shirt up and the other flock gasped.