Hello, oh brilliant reviewing ones! Thanks for reviewing the last chapter! It was a bit of a cliffy, but it will no longer be after this chapter!

Emerald: No crap, Sherlock…

Me: Shut up Emerald, I'm busy.

Emerald: I thought you wanted me to do the disclaimers?

Me: I do but…

Emerald: Well then I think you should let me becau-

Me: For God's sake, just get on with it!

Emerald: IwriteUread does not own the flock. James Patterson does.

Me: The claimer, the claimer!

Emerald: Oh right, yeah! She does however, own the plot and, unfortunately, me.

Me: Lovely! Now for chapter 8!

"WAHHH!!!" I screamed as Nudge and I flew downwards.

"OH MY GOD NUDGE YOU BLOODY IDIOT YOU'VE JUST SINGLE HANDEDLY MURDERED ME WHAT WERE YOU THINKING YOU ASSHOLE?!"

"I was actually thinking we could extend our wings right about now!" Nudge yelled back.

"WHY SHOULD I DO ANYTHING YOU SAY?!" I screamed.

For anyone who wants to know, this is what Nudge sounds like when she loses it.

"BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, I'LL SLAP YOU SILLY, BUT YOU WON'T FEEL IT BECAUSE YOU WILL BE DEAD!!!"

"Okay, calm yourself." I muttered, and Nudge gave me the evil eye. So I extended my wings before she really did slap me.

Fourteen foot across, and a deep, emerald green. That's what my wings look like. They're were I got my name from. I'm pretty sure it's Bird of Paradise DNA, and I think I'm the first and only avian American who doesn't have hawk DNA. Aren't I special? Not really, but still.

I closed my eyes, bracing myself for the splat. But it didn't come.

I opened my eyes. Instead of getting bigger, the trees were shrinking, becoming one big mass of green. The wind was whipping my shoulder length dark brown hair around my face. I reached one hand over my shoulder and felt the edge of one of my wings. Up, down, up, down.

Oh. My. God. I was flying, just like I had dreamed for everyday of my life since I was two, and looked out of the lab window at the endless blue sky. Only this wasn't a dream. I was flying through the sky, miles and miles away from the place I had lived in for the last eleven years of my life. Finally, after eleven years, I was free.

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"WAHHH!" I heard someone scream. I spun around in the air, ready to dive after whoever had just fallen out of the sky. But it was just Dreamer, screaming and belting every inch of Fang she could reach.

"Who the Hell are you?!" She screamed, clawing at him with her abnormally long, sharp nails, "Put me back on the ground right now, or I swear to God I will rip your spleen out through your nose!"

"Jesus, someone control her!" Fang yelled, trying to hold her while avoiding getting kicked in the face. Chase and I flew over to them.

"Dreamer, calm down." Chase said, and I stroked her hair and said, "It's us, Emerald and Chase."

"Oh." Dreamer said, then she spotted Chase's tawny wings and my wings, "OH!" Then she spotted the flock, who were watching her with mild interest, "OH!"

"Yes, kid, oh. We get it." The tall, blonde boy said, eyebrows raised, "Anything else?"

"We escaped!" Dreamer said happily, her green eyes shining.

"She's a smart one." A small boy with ruffled blonde hair and blue eyes said, "What an observation. 'We escaped'. Like, Duh."

"Speaking of smarts, what were you and Iggy thinking, blowing a hole in the school's wall?" Max said, flying closer to the boy who had spoken. I guessed this was Gazzy.

"Max, the cave's coming up!" the youngest girl said over fro where she was flying with Nudge.

"Okay, thanks Angel!" Max said, swerving left, "By the way, this discussion isn't over Iggy, Gazzy."

I looked upwards, wanting to see the sun. I had heard the whitecoats discussing it, and I wanted to see this big "fireball".

Uh, I wouldn't do that. A voice in my head said.

Angel? I thought.

Hi Emerald. Angel thought at me.

Why can't I look at the sun? I asked.

Well, unless you want to go blind, like Iggy…

Iggy's blind? I asked, shocked.

Yep.

But Nudge said that he makes explosives! I thought.

Yeah, he does.

But he's blind!

So…?

I left it at that, wondering if this could get any weirder. The voice in my head seemed to giggle.

Wait 'till you see me turn into a bird.

There you go!!! Another chapter! Quite long this time!!! Read and Review and vote for next story!

Emerald: She doesn't ask for much, does she?

Me: See ya!

IwriteUread.