I am so sorry that I've taken so long. I just sort of lost track of this story. If anyone has any suggestions for future events are just something they want to happen, please leave a comment. They are very appreciated.
So... Yeah. New Power. 🚩 Woop🚩 ok that's enough of that. Obviously, after the whole eraser Fiasco we were back on the air.
We are actually low on food. We'll have to stop eventually.
'What happened when you passed out?' I hear in my head. I jump but then I realise it's jump sparrow. Wait a minute.
'How long has the Mind Link been open?' I ask back, getting suspicious.
'...um...'
Oh my god. It's been open the whole freaking time. Ever since we left the institute. Oh Jesus.
'You've been listening the while time?' I ask. I'm surprised that I'm not really angry, actually. It just feels like I'm surprised. Maybe I used up all my anger when I got the new power.
'You should probably get that looked at.'
...stupid freaking mind link.
'You never answered my question' he said, or... Thought.. I guess..
I thought about refusing but.. It's been bothering me, and I need to tell someone. So I let the memories resurface. The murders, the torture.
The Darkness.
The Nightmare.
I waited for a comment.
But he didn't say anything. 'Hello?' I asked, trying to get some response.
I glanced beside me to where Sparrow was flying. He was just staring at me. What the heck.
'Is this thing on?' I thought. Still nothing. Weird. Maybe I scared him off or something. Hm.
I looked at him again. He looked... Worried. This is really strange.
"Kam, I'm hungry." Krys tells me, dragging me out of my confusion. Ok. Good. Taking charge and being a leader is something I can do.
I motioned for everyone to land.
As soon as I hit the ground I was basically tackled. Except it wasn't an attack. It was a /hug/.
Me, being my ever so social self, just stood there. Frozen.
Give me a couple erasers and I'm perfectly at home, but give me a pretty boy hugging me and I don't have the slightest idea of what to do.
Brilliant.
"Um... S-Sparrow?" I ask, very confused.
He pulled back slightly and looked me in the eyes.
"Like I said before.. I'll never leave." Oh. That's what this is about. Why does he have to say stuff like like that. Jesus I'm freaking blushing again. Not cool.
I've got to stop all this girly junk. It sucks. I've never been like this before. I don't really want to start either.
It was at that moment when Krys decided to join the hug-fest. Then ash, then izzy. And then, although grudgingly, Lily. So I was right in the middle of a big ol' bird-kid sammich.
Again: Brilliant.
"Ok, that's enough physical contact." I said, easing my way out of the group. I Stretched for a minute then opened up the duffel with the remaining food.
"Come on. Time to eat." Oh look. I'm suddenly surrounded by kids with wings. Wonderful. We sat in more or less silence, with the occasional little argument about something, and ate.
Well. Might as well tell them.
"We're out of food." I said, kinda hoping they wouldn't hear me. But, of course, they did.
And they immediately broke out in yelling.
"What do you /mean/ there's no food?!"
"Oh no I'm going to starve!"
"Why would you do this to me!"
"/cruel world!/"
"Good job."
I sighed and shook my head. Natural reaction. Of course.
"Guys!" I yelled, shutting them up. "Look. In response to all of your comments; ash, I mean we ate all of it. Krys, you won't starve. Izzy, we all ate the food. So technically we all did it. Lily, the world isn't cruel just because we ran out of food. It's curled for other reasons. And as for the ever so helpful Sparrow, Yes thank you for your help and Support, you big kitten." I took a deep breath. Geez. These kids and their food.
"Ok look. We have two options. Hunting or looking for another store to steal from. Which would you prefer?" I asked, looking around.
Krys looked horrified with the idea of eating food we hunt down, and I know why. We would have to make a fire. Gosh, this fear thing is really a lot more restricting then you'd think.
"I didn't see any sort of civilisation for miles. We could always wait to get food, but I'd prefer we went while we aren't starving to death. So.. Who is still hungry." Naturally, everyone raised their hands. -_-
"Ok.. Well.. Until we find a town or something we are going to have to hunt. I'll go. Anyone want to come?"
Sparrow agreed. But the others decided they /didn't/ want to slaughter animals for sustenance. Hm. Wonder why.
"We'll be back in a little while, ok? Till then, don't kill anyone." With that said, Sparrow and me set off into the forest.
We split up to cover more ground. After about forty minutes I had caught and killed three rats and a Chicken that May or may not have been someone's pet/egg producer thingy. Whatever. Now it's food.
I was about to head back when I heard it. It was faint, but I managed to hear it. A yell. Like someone was surprised but not in any mortal danger. I know that yell. What has he gotten himself into now.
I couldn't help but laugh at the scene before me. After I heard the scream thing, I had gathered my 'spoils' and made my way back to the camp. And what I saw was amazing.
It appears that some interesting things went down in my absence that resulted in ash and Krys handcuffed together, izzy in a tree, and Lily covered in dirt, hanging upside down from a different tree. This should be an interesting story.
By now, Sparrow is back too. He's got a bunch of dead animals. Great. More food. Now it's time too see what went down to cause this.. Scene.
S POV
"Ok. Spill." Kam said. She seemed to be just as interested in this story as I am. Well, you can't really blame her actually. This is one of the weirdest things I've seen in a while.
The four young bird kids looked at each other, then at me and Kam. We were sitting next to each other on the ground with the other four sitting straight across from us.
Krys spoke up first.
"Things escalated quickly…" she said looking from her hand, which was still connected to Ash by the way, to lily, where she sat covered in dirt.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - NO POV
The four avians watched as the two eldest of their group went off to find some food for them. The twins were about to launch into yet another mental conversation but Krys stopped them.
"Hey. Stop talking- or… thinking, I guess- to him and talk to me would you." Krys said quickly. Those two could argue for ages. She couldn't take it. She needed to have a full conversation with someone.
Lily sighed, but none the less walked with Krys to go sit beneath a tree. Izzy went and sat Indian style on a fallen log. She wondered idly what had happened to cause the tree to fall, but she decided not to dwell and pulled out her book. Sure, she had had plenty of time on the Internet at the Institute, but she never really read any big books on the Internet.
Not that she didn't want too. She just figured that it would be better to just avoid it, rather than being stuck with some cliff hanger because the phone or whatever died. Especially with not knowing when Kam would manage to grab another iphone.
Although now she kinda wishes she did. These 'Harry, Ron, and Hermione' characters were really starting to grow on her.
Anyway, everyone was off doing their own thing so that left Ash to muck around with him own ideas. Probably not a good thing in hindsight. He went off to play around with this theory he had about a new way to start a grease fire without involving any grease. This would be great. But he's not an idiot, he knows that his inventions scare Krys.
He was always careful to test an appropriate length away from her. Besides, Kam would spaz out on him if he re-traumatised her. Heh.
This is getting off topic again. Back to Krys and Lily. They where conversing about some knew show they watched called Agents of Shield or something when Krys randomly changed the topic.
"So, do you ship Kam and Sparrow or what, because seriously, those two are, like, adorable together. /Sam all the way./" Krys was always fangirling over some ship or another. But, honestly, Lily wasn't really a 'romance' kind of person.
"Who cares? They're weird and /old/." There were only a few pairings that Lily actually shipped, so she doesn't really share Krys's adoration for love. Or whatever it is Krys likes so much.
Krys is just staring at Lily with her mouth open like she had grown another head. Actually, that probably wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen to them. Whatever.
"How could you say that?" She spouted, throwing her hands up. "Don't you see how adorable and perfect and adorable they are? I mean seriously, sparrow is always all like 'If you hurt her I will murder you with an axe.' Whenever she's in danger or something, but then when they're not, and they're just, like, together 'n stuff he's all awkward and strange. And then Kam's always all confused and she, like, loves him but doesn't know it and she's always so conflicted about it and stuff.
Seriously. How can you not find that adorable." She finally finished her rant. Although she might've only stopped because she was suffocating from a lack of oxygen.
Lily took a minute to just sort of stare at her. She was missing the point. Sure all that stuff might be true, but..
"They're /old/."
Krys stared at her. Then she yanked her head back and slammed the back of her head against the tree. Really hard. She just stayed like that with her head against the tree and her eyes closed.
Lily took this as an oppertunity to come up with something that would make Krys spaz out as a result. This is one of her favourite activities. Cue internal evil laugh.
'Ash come here. We have something we want to show you.' She thought to him. Gotta keep it low profile. No need to alert the wildlife.
Lily pulled off her pack and searched for something she could use in her plan. Right as Ash got over to them she found them. Perfect. Ash opened his mouth to ask what they wanted, but he couldn't get a word out before Lily grabbed his wrist and pulled him down.
She pulled the handcuffs out of her pack and clipped one on his wrist, and one on krys's. Welp. That should do it. More internal evil laughing. Always so entertaining.
Krys's eyes obviously snapped immediately when she heard noise but nothing could've helped her avoid her current situation, really. It was like lily had done that handcuffing thing a million times. Its kinda worrying.
Krys just sort of alternated between blankly staring at her wrist, to Ash, to Lily then back again before she finally proccessed what happened. Then she snapped. She jumped up- well, tried to. What really happened was she stood up but ended up pulling Ash along with her so it kinda ruined the image.
"Lily If you do not take this off of me /right now/ I swear-"
"Too late. No key." Lily grinned evilly. She laughed then ran off to avoid krys. This is fun.
Lily darted through the clearing, Krys not far behind. Ash was sort of being dragged along. He's still a bit confused of what just happened.
Lily was cackling like a mad woman and she pulled a water balloon out of who knows where. She blindly chucked it behind her, aiming the hit Krys.
Instead, the balloon flew past Krys and ash and hit Izzy, who had been so intently reading her book she wasn't paying attention.
The water, however, not only brought Izzy out of her haze, but also interrupted the best part of the book so far. And soaked the book.
Izzy yelled and stood up, dropping the book. She sought out the source of this interruption and saw lily throwing another balloon at Krys and ash.
Not even caring about the hand cuffs or Krys, she bent down, grabbed a huge handful of mud from the mudpuddle beside her, and launched it at lily.
Lily Shrieked as she was randomly splattered in mud but didn't stop running. This was the most fun she's had in her life. She spotted a massive watery mud puddle. Perfect. She launched herself at it. She literally jumped face first into the mud.
It was only a inch deep puddle, but lily rolled onto her back and jumped up. Perfect. She looked up to find Krys and ash at the edge of the puddle, Krys now looking more horrified than angry. An evil grin suddenly spread across lily's face. Krys's eyes widened. She turned and ran.
Lily followed closely, completely mud covered. Lily's eyes widened as she now noticed the angered Izzy. Oh no. She shot into the air, hoping to escape, but she was suddenly tackled from behind.
Lily, who was now covered in dirt rather than mud, and Izzy lost altitude, tumbling a short distance into the trees below. Izzy was attempting to get whole of lily's neck, but the younger managed to jump away from her and onto a different tree, landing in, what she though, was a very ninjas like way. That is, until she lost balance and fell backwards. She would've fallen out of the tree completely, had her feet not caught on a branch onto way down.
They all froze when they heard a rustling in the bushes a small ways away from them. Kam emerged from them, carrying dead animals and looking deep in thought.
When she finally looked up and noticed them, instead of getting angry like they all expected.. She didn't seem angry at all. She laughed.
—S POV—-
I honestly don't know what to say first.
How about
1. Was there really no Key?
2. Why is this the kind of thing lily finds 'fun'
3. Why was he not surprised about it
4. Izzy will probably need a new book
5. Me and Kam are not /old/
6. I'm pretty sure ash still doesn't know what's going on
7. What the heck, why is there a ship name for me and my best friend
8. I do /not/ act like that.
Right?
Ok, yeah, back to the present. Kam is processing their story, when she suddenly shakes her head and smiles widely, laughing.
Like, full on laughing.
…..
What the heck?
"Kam? You ok?" I ask suspiciously, poking her in the side.
She looks at me, the grin still painted on her face.
"I should really be upset or angry about that story because of so many reasons. But I'm not."
...what?
Ok, now I'm getting confused. This is getting a bit weird. Is this like some thing about the nightmares or what?
Oh god, those nightmares. No one should ever have to imagine things like that. Just thinking about those images was enough to make you shudder.
I wonder what we're going to do now, actually...
It's not like we can fly around forever. Maybe we'll be able to live somewhere stable... At least for a little while. I really like the idea of that, considering I've been In that god awful place for 14 years.
I'll discuss it with Kam later. For now we need to deal with these handcuffs. And Lily in general.