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"Hi-yaah!" Sammy jumped off a shelf and brandished his foam sword at me. "You will never pass!"

"We'll see about that!" I yelled, swinging a jump rope like a nunchuk.

Ben suddenly jumped out from behind a display of lawn chairs, pretending to shoot a toy laser gun.

I hit the ground as it emitted loud beeping sounds.

"Return fire!" Rose commanded, skidding across the store in a shopping cart.

Annie threw an armful of beach balls at Sammy, who was trying to sneak closer.

"Retreat! Regroup in the Camping Department!" I screamed over my shoulder, as I shoved a Wal-Mart employee out of the way and sprinted down the greeting card aisle.

"Sammy, take out Diana at all costs!" Ben ordered as Rose wrestled his gun away from him.

I dove into a tent display and zipped up the door as fast as I could.

Someone grabbed me from behind and put a hand over my mouth. "Don't freak out."

"I'm not freaking out," I informed them. "I am being held hostage by some random person in a tent at Wal-Mart. They could possibly be a monster in disguise that wants to kill me. Why should I freak out?"

My kidnapper laughed and let me go.

I twisted around and held my knife to his throat.

My first thought was that he looked like Nico. My second thought was that he was pretty cute. My third thought was that he looked amused rather than scared.

I ignored the first two thoughts and focused on the third.

"I'm holding a knife to your throat. You could at least pretend to be scared."

"Why should I be scared? Some random girl burst into my tent and is now threatening me with a weapon. Nope. Not scared at all."

"Haha," I snapped. "Now tell me what you're doing here."

"Same as you. Wreaking havoc in Wal-Mart, except doing it more… subtly. My friends and I were playing hide-and-seek tag."

"Oh. Well, I have to get back to my cousins. We were having a full-on battle."

"I know." He smirked. "I could hear you guys."

I tried to remember if I had said anything stupid. Or anything more stupid than usual.

"Diana?" Annie unzipped the tent and climbed inside, pulling Rose behind her. "We ran a few laps around the store, and I think we've lost Ben and Sammy for now, but- Who's that?"

I looked at Mr. Nico-look-alike. "Um, what was your name again?"

"Tsk, tsk. Such horrible manners." He noticed my Thalia death glare and got all serious. "My name's Dylan, but most people call me Fang."

"Right, well Fang, nice to meet you. We must be going now." I stood up to leave, tripped, and fell on my face.

Annie laughed, but sobered up as soon as I fixed her with another Thalia death glare. Death glaring should be a sport or something. I would be pretty good at it. Of course, it was probably only because I'd been doing it a lot lately.

"Earth to Diana." Annie waved a hand in front of my face.

"Sorry, ADHD."

"As I was saying, Fang offered to get his friends to join our battle. What do you think?"

"I think that we're going to give security the worst day of their lives. But that's what security is for."

So in case you were wondering, Fang is the Maximum Ride obsessed person. I wanted to just call him Fang, but who in their right mind names their kid Fang? So it's just a nickname.

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