I LOVE SUMMER! (Well, except for the weather… *sniff* I MISS SNOW!) BUT I LOVE SUMMER! It has distracted me greatly from updating… That and Netflix and Diablo 3…
Anywho…
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It took barely time at all for the Flock to reach the motel that Phoebe had talked about. It was dingy and run down with holes in the ceiling and most of the wooden stairs were missing. Fang gave Max a look that said this is either really good or really bad…
Max straightened up and tightened her jacket around her arms, because of the cold. The snow was almost a foot deep, and all of the kids were soaking wet and turning blue. As the leader, Max took it upon herself to go up to the door first and knock. The door creaked open in a totally non-cliched manner, and she stepped inside into the warmth of the building. She waved everyone else inside, deeming it safe. The room was sparsely furnished, with only a couple worn out chairs and a wooden counter. Two figures pulled away from the shadows and positioned themselves behind the desk. One was a boy and the other a girl, about twenty years old, with very different coloring. The boy looked a lot like Nudge, but much bigger and taller and with more muscles. He wore a simple T-Shirt and jeans. The girl's eyes were covered with her hair, as black as a raven's feathers, and layered around her face. Her skin was a dark tan, but still pale in comparison to the boy.
"Hello, how may we help you?" asked the girl in a rasping voice.
"Phoebe and Karac sent us…?" Maximum said nervously.
The girl's face turned up in a smile. "Ah, yes, Phoebe told us you'd be arriving shortly. My name is Hyacinth, and this is Rochester, he'll take you to your rooms."
Rochester nodded and made his way to a rickety set of stairs. Everyone but Angel followed him. She was staring intently at Hyacinth. With the others looking away, Hyacinth's smile faded and was replaced by an animalistic snarl. Angel noticed her hands were covered in black gloves that matched her all black clothing. Unnerved, Angel retreated to the stairs, grasping Max's hand.
When they were isolated in their room they were to share with Nudge, Angel whispered "I don't trust them. We should leave. Now."
Max trusted Angel's instinct, and she was getting a similar feeling so she replied. "Alright sweetie, I'll go get the boys."
She knocked on the shared wall to indicate they should leave. There was a window that as big enough for them to climb through, so they did. The Flock reunited twenty feet away from the hotel, and ran off into the night.
TWO MINUTES LATER…
"Are they gone?" Hyacinth asked Rochester, who nodded in reply. "Good."
She shook her hair out of her face, revealing solid yellow eyes with small black slits, like a snake. When she removed her gloves, she flexed her fingers, stretching out her long black claws she had in place of fingernails. The skin on her fingers was scaly and had a slight greenish tinge. Hyacinth hopped up onto the counter and removed her heavy boots, letting her irregular feet out of their confinement. When she hopped down, she only stepped on the fronts of her feet, letting her backward facing toe off the ground. She only had four toes in all, and they were scaly and green, tipped with black claws similar to her fingers.
"How long until Phoebe gets here?"
Rochester held up one finger to signal she'd be there very soon.
"A minute, hmph. I could run after them in that amount of time." Hyacinth crossed her arms. "At this pace we'll never meet the deadline."
Rochester shrugged in reply, and crossed over to the front door, opening it for Phoebe, who stepped in confidently, shaking off the snow from her coat.
"Kraken is in position." Phoebe told them. "Roc, take to the air, Hydra, run as fast as you can, get ahead of them."
"What are you going to do, Phoenix?" Hydras asked.
"I'm going to have a little conversation with the 'leader' of the Flock."
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I know I promised this chapter would be longer, but my rainbow of Imagination has run dry. Must watch "The Idiot Box" episode of SpongeBob to renew sense of purpose…