4. Abilities.
Max.
It was pretty awesome having the other bird-kids around; but the red haired girl, Arrow, made me uncomfortable.
Anyway, we were headed for Beerwah Queensland's east coast,Australia, North of Brisbane. Fluffy clouds floated lazily by, the sun casting a creamy glow on their backs. Did I actually just think that?
Total was zipped into my jacket, and couldn't shut up.
"This is awesome! I love flying! Can we do a vertical stack? Don't Drop me! Iggy did and it wasn't fun! Where are we going?"
"Shut up! Can't you be quiet for five seconds! I would happily un-zip my jacket right now!" was my response. That shut him up; Peace and quiet.
I felt like I had just stepped out of a blaringly noisy disco. Angel's friend, Robin came over.
"I still can't believe that your dog actually talks!" she said. I winced when she said 'dog'.
Nooo, don't spoil the peace! Total opened his muzzle, here we go…
"Dog? Oh yeah, the dog. The dog here is normal and stupid, and doesn't know how to talk!" he said outraged. I looked over at Robin.
"Dive-bomb?" I asked. She nodded, so, we tucked in our wings, and dropped.
"Noooo not again!" Total screamed. Then he realized he was still in my jacket.
We landed in Australia after about three more hours of flying.
"Is this were Steve Irwin lives? The guy who fights alligators and says 'G'day mate'?" Gazzy imitated.
"Lived. He was stung by a sting ray and died. He hunted crocodiles not alligators" I corrected.
"Oh, anyway, do you guys have any gifts?" Gazzy asked the other flock.
"Yeah, I can create mirages. Bullet never misses his target. Indigo has telekinesis. Koko has thermal vision, so she can see living things though walls. Raven has an extremely large amount of life energy, which gives him various abilities. He is disease resistant and difficult to kill. Plus, he can channel his energy into electrical objects and boost them for a little bit. Robin can make her voice go ultrasonic. What about you guys?" Arrow answered.
"Whoa." Fang said.
"I have super speed. Fang can go invisible. Iggy has hyper senses and can see when there's a white background. Nudge can move or stick to metal objects when she wants to, and draw information from anything she touches. Gazzy can imitate voices really well and you won't want to know or find out what his other ability is. Angel can read and/or control minds, shape-shift, and talk to fish. We can all breath underwater." I said.
"Those would be useful in a fight," Fang said to Arrow.
"Speaking for fights, how about on now? Or are you to afraid?" A voice said behind them.
"Kai?" Arrow said.
Seemingly out of nowhere, fifty Erasers appeared.
"Arrow, nice to see you. Again." Kai said.
Robin opened her mouth and let out a high-pitched sound that got higher and higher until I couldn't hear it anymore; but the Erasers' and Total dropped to the floor and writhed in pain. Angel leant down and coved Total's ears.
"Thanks, that was painful," he said. The flock was already picking their way among the Erasers knocking them out and the like.
"We have to do this quickly, Robin still has to breathe!" Arrow shouted.
A cage suddenly appeared around the Erasers. This must be one of Arrow's mirages, I realized. Robin took a deep breath and started again.
I walked over to Arrow.
"Who's Kai?" I asked.
"When The School was retiring all the Erasers, he escaped. He asked if he could join us. I said no, because he was trying to kill us all the time. Then the program machine that programmed the Robot Erasers crashed and the white coats couldn't fix it. So they started using real Erasers again. Kai joined them, probably to get his own back on us for turning him down. They assigned him the leader of the Eraser front. Now, he's always tracking us." She explained. "Sorry to bring more trouble to you."
"It's fine. We haven't had any excitement for a while," I said.
Angel and Robin were chatting away, so were Gazzy and Raven, Iggy and Indigo, Koko and Nudge, and Fang and Arrow and Bullet. I was the only one left out, but I didn't want to show that was I miserable.
Fang walked up to me.
"You ok?" Fang asked.
"I'm fine," I lied.
"Is this about Arrow having red hair?" he said, seeing right though my lie. I flushed.
"Well, that's stupid. Some people are just born with it, it's their personality that counts," he said.
I smiled.
"I guess… So anyway, shall we fly? Because walking is just wasting our time," I said.
"Ok." He looked relieved.
"Up and away guys!" I called to both flocks, and we all took to the sky.