"How did you find us?" Max asked, narrowing her eyes.
The girl, who Fang still held from behind, answered her, "Fang's Blog was useful. Also, how many
kids sleep in trees?"
Max glanced at Fang. "If she tracked us down so easily, who else can find us? Fang do NOT give away
our location, EVER, don't even give the county we are in away."
Fang shook his head slightly. "I don't."
I looked over at Arrow, her pale skin almost glowing in the moonlight. She was so dang beautiful... I
remembered the time when she created her first mirage. It was when she was six. We were all running
around outside.
She stopped running and sat down breathless. "I really wish I had a twin," she said. She kept going
on about it for days. One day I found her staring at a chair across from her. All of a sudden, there
was a second Arrow in the chair. We jumped. Arrow stopped staring at the chair, and the other
Arrow dissolved. I stopped thinking about the past, and brought myself back to the present.
"Why did you attack us?" Arrow interrogated.
The girl sighed. "I thought you might be erasers. Since you were not with the rest of you guys, I
didn't recognize you."
"You thought we looked like teenage models? Please." Arrow scoffed.
The teen shrugged. "It's easy to make a mistake with you guys. Don't the scientists program
experiments to be almost flawless?"
"I guess..." Arrow said.
I broke in. "Do you work for them? The white coats?"
"Nah. I was just trying to find some people like me."
Max looked at Fang and gave a little nod. Fang let go of whoever-she-is.
"Thank you," she said. She stuck out her hand, when no-one shook it, she let it fall back at her
side. "My name is Forest, or Experiment 56746." She pulled a twig out of her hair and snapped it
between her fingers.
"Ok, I'll introduce you to the others that you don't know." Max said. "This is Arrow, Bullet, Indigo,
Koko, Raven, and Robin, they're other flock."
Arrow brushed a stand of hair off her forehead. "We joined Max because we had to destroy Itex
together." She looked at Forest with her deep blue eyes calculating whether she was able to trust.
Max simply looked at Angel, who gave a little smile and a nod.
"Fine. You can stay, but you find your own food, okay?" Max said.
Forest nodded. "I wouldn't want to be a burden anyway."
I yawned. "Well, I gonna get some sleep."
"I think we should all go back to bed anyway," Max said.
"It can be my turn on watch duty, I want to check my blog, anyway so I don't mind," Fang said.
Max nodded, and we all flew up into our different trees, one for each flock.
Forest's POV
I gave myself a pat on the back as they didn't realize that Fang's blog wasn't the source of my arrival. Just like I said to Arrow, it was destiny. My mind was always clouded with uncertainty and loneliness, but Fang's blog gave me a bit of hope that there were others like me. However, I couldn't sense the mistrust that everyone was sending me.
I played with my necklace that a long lost friend gave me. He was an Eraser and stabbed me in the back, but I could never forget nice feeling of having a friend. I stared as the groups flew into different trees to show that their relationship wasn't deep. They were companions, not friends. I sighed as I realized that I will have to sleep by myself in a tree.
I re-experienced the situation when I was captured by Fang and screamed about her boyfriends. It was strange since they didn't seem close. Even the guy that I met before, didn't seem to express as much emotion. Then again, what would I know about relationships, when I can't even keep a friend? Why did I explode like that? I was usually in control of myself.
I went towards Fang and explained, "I'm going to get a midnight snack before I go to sleep." He nodded, but other than that he showed no interest. Weird, you would think that a potential enemy would have to be watched to be assured that she wouldn't give away their location. I shrugged and traveled to one of my favourite supermarket.
I stood to the back of the supermarket and gently hiss to signal my only partners in my travel. A whole cluster of snakes come forward and started to wrap themselves around my body. I didn't have any money, so I had to rely on stealing. I couldn't find another way unless I was near a good farm or a nice harvesting season. Laying them in the floor, I hissed their directions and waited for the screams to emerged from the inside of the building. Soon, screams and stomps were booming from the inside of the store. I sent one snake to be a decoy and terrify the bystanders while the others broke the cameras and carried the food.
The snakes came back with packets of chips, nuts, and candy. I delivered them a bag of dead rats I had been collecting in the forest for them (A/N: As Max would say: For those sissies in the back screaming, 'Ewww.' Or 'Total ewww.' The snakes wouldn't trust her if she didn't reward them afterwards.). That was when I encountered Arrow and that other guy. The snakes hissed and slithered back to the home. I wanted them to stay with me a little longer, but I knew it was impossible. Quickly, I ate my snack and stored the bag for more rats/toads/mice. I went back to the centre base and stareed at the sky. I don't think I will be sleeping tonight because of what was ahead is a true mystery.
I climbed onto a tree and spied through the shifting leaves to see the bright stars. Slowly, I closed my eyes to hear the rapid typing on the computer and the whisper of hisses coming from the forest. I smiled at the odd lullaby that was playing and zoned out for the rest of the night. One of my most important questions was:
Where were we going next?
A/N: DUN DUN DUNNNNNN. Ha ha. You will be wondering 'What in the world is going on?' Or 'Maybe I should review this story, so that the Author and Co-Author don't get bored of this story and decide to ditch it.' (Hint, hint.)
