Here is another chapter up and ready to read. I've made the decision to go back and completely change chapter 4. It's really stupid and cliché. It might be awhile before I change it though. I go back to school tomorrow. But here is chapter 8. And Fang will be mostly happy he might get hurt a little more...maybe a lot more, I don't know yet. But at least he has found a new companion. =]

Fang's P.O.V

The warmth of the autumn sun reassures me, that I am finally free. The falcons around me are resting and caring for their chicks. I have flown for many hours since my escape, and decided to come here. I feel the most at home here, and I have no where else to go. I stretch out my wings letting the sun warm up the aching muscles. They aren't as magnificent as they use to be.

I stand up and look around me; I feel many pairs of golden, yellow eyes watching me.

"Let's go flying!" I jump of the cliff with my wings folded and I turn around to see a dozen falcons diving right after me, screeching in happiness.

I unfurl my wings before we reach the bottom and glide back up towards the yellow sky.

A falcon flies up beside me and cries. It sounds like he's saying, "Welcome home."

Max's P.O.V

'I'm glad that we are finally allowed to rest and have peace." I shake Jeb's hand.

"So am I Max." He smiles at me.

"Well it is time to go guys." I look around and see everyone ready to go.

I unfurl my wings and shake them out letting the sun warm up my cramped muscles. I run and then jump into the air, using the momentum to propel myself into the air. I turn around and see everyone smiling behind me. Including Alek.

"Let's camp here tonight." I see an opening in the forest beside a lake.

We dive down towards the little area, and begin unpacking, our things.

"Tomorrow I think we should decide where we won't to go, to begin to settle down. So we can find jobs and maybe a place to live." I sit down against a tree.

"Really?" Nudge and Angel scream happily.

I nod my head. "Yeah, we need to lead somewhat normal lives now, and we have all agreed we want this right?" I look around the group.

"Yeah, but it was Fang's idea in the first place." Iggy says coldly. "You never really wanted to settle down."

I bow my head knowing that it's true. "Yes, that is true but he is no longer here, and he is right we need to settle down as a family. As our new family." I stare at him sternly.

He sighs and walks off.

I look around and everyone still seemed to be in their happy mood.

After everyone was settled down and sleeping, or at least pretending to sleep I walked over a little ways to where Alek was at.

"Hey sweetie." He looks up at me with his cool blue eyes.

"Hey." I lay by his side. He wraps his arms around me, and I cuddle close to his chest.

"Am I doing the right thing?" I ask him.

He nods his head, "Yes I believe you are doing a great job. You are a great woman Max..." He brings his lips to mine, and I kiss him back roughly.

Neither of us was aware of a pair of unseeing eyes on us.

Fang's P.O.V

I am jostled awake by loud shrieking noises. I quickly get to my feet.

"Who's there?" I ask sternly to the darkness.

I hear a shuffling noise and I grab a large stick from the ground.

"Who goes there?" I ask again angrier than before.

"I…I'm no harm to you." An unfamiliar female voice whispers from the dark.

"I'll determine that when I see you."

A slender figure walks out from the shadows. She has tan skin, from what I can see in the dark. She has auburn hair that goes to the middle of her back I think. Her eyes were a green, hazel, and soft and afraid looking. She was wearing torn up, and worn out jeans, and a ripped up long sleeve shirt.

"I…I said I'm no threat to you. Put that damn thing down." She whispers.

'How am I suppose to know you aren't going to kill me?" I shout out at her.

"Why would I kill an avian hybrid like yourself?"

"How…how did you know?" I asked bewildered.

She looks down, "Because, I…I use to be…like you." She sits down on the floor.

"Like I believe that. You are probably some weird science experiment that they sent after me to kill me or bring me back to the School for more torture." I shout.

"You can believe what you want and you can hate me, or distrust me, but I'm going to sleep here tonight." She gets up and walks further back in the cave and lays down. "I'll probably be gone before you even wake up in the morning." She lays down and that was the end of discussion.

I remain awake for a few more hours and watch her, making sure she isn't trying to trick me. I watch her roll over and my eyes narrow on her back.

There are two scars on her back, in the shaped of an upside down V.

Well there you guys go. Please comment and review. And remember about to change chapter 4 when I have the time.