Redneck
Flair's P.O.V.
I woke up to Jester's scream. We all jerked out of bed and smashed into each other in the attempt to find him. 24 suddenly had the place aglow, and we stared petrified at the seven year old. His face was pale, and he jittered like he'd seen a ghost.
"What now?" Ice whined as he rubbed his eyes.
"There was a…a girl outside!" Jes squeaked.
"A girl? Are you afraid of girls?" I questioned.
"That's probably Redneck!" Sparks chirped as she raced to the entrance.
"Redneck?" Storm asked.
"She's a neighbor, long story," Selene hurried.
We heard a goat bawl and we all looked at each other quizzically.
"Shut up, Marigold!" A voice snapped from the cave entrance.
Jes hid behind Ebony as we all inched our way to the "front door". There stood a girl, tan as a gingerbread, with her little orange goat nibbling at the hem of her shirt.
"Hey!" The girl screamed as she looked to Jes, "I saw you and you ran! That's not nice."
Jes looked to us for help.
"Anyway…my name is Redneck and this is my partner in crime, Marigold," the girl patted the goat on the top of the head.
"And I'm Dylan," of coarse he was the first to introduce himself.
"You got wings?" Redneck was chewing on a wad of bubblegum. Dylan looked stunned...we all were.
"What?" Ice asked.
"I know about you mutants," Redneck smiled as she pushed Marigold off her side.
I glanced to Selene. "She found out, don't worry guys. She's cool," Selene explained.
"We all do," Kale answered as he spread his wings.
"Knew it! More of 'em angels. Momma always says I have a guardian angel watching over me. Yup, I've got 'bout two dozen!" Redneck's country twang interested me. Kale had it too, but it was mostly covered up.
There was something strange about Redneck. She had big brown eyes and a ginormous personality, but she had no hair. A baseball cap took its place.
"Now, are y'all gonna invite me to breakfast or what?" She seemed a bit irritated.
"Yah, there's Maximum Ride's group in the cabin, so it's not really ours anymore," 24 sounded bummed, "so that means we're stuck eating campfire food."
"Nope, I bet Iggy is fixing breakfast now…" I interrupted. Redneck and Sparks looked to me.
"What are we waiting for?!" Redneck screamed at us as she turned to run to the house. We all glanced at each other, wearing confused/shocked faces.
"So this Iggy is a good cook, huh?" Selene asked as she jogged beside me.
"The best I've ever had," I shrugged.
"I'm gonna beat you!" Jes taunted Ice.
"No way, twerp!" Ice growled as he raced past Jester.
"Oh no you don't! Throw me Kale!" Jes ordered.
"Like my superman throw?" Kale asked.
"Yes! Hurry! I has to beat him!" Jester yelled. Kale picked Jester up and chucked him. Jes was soon flying across the sky, passing Ice and the rest of us.
"Whoa! Mr. Hulk over here," Redneck laughed.
Third Person P.O.V.
Iggy was making breakfast, hurrying through the eggs and toast. He flipped the last piece of bacon and set out the biscuits before leaving the kitchen.
"BREAKFAST IS READY AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN HERE IN 5 IM EATING IT!" Iggy shouted throughout the home.
Nudge jerked up straight in her bed. She rubbed her eyes and stretched.
"Nudge! Get up!" Gazzy peeked his head in her room.
"I am up! I just have to…to brush my hair and find my new slippers. You know, the ones with the cute bunny on them? They kinda match this shirt…'cause it has a fuzzy kitten on it," Nudge blabbered.
"I'm eating your pancakes," Angel's muffled voice came from the hall.
"Fine!" Nudge threw herself to her feet and rushed out to the rest of them.
"That was the best sleep I've had in a while," Ella mused.
"I think that was because we didn't have a bunch of winged children playing pranks," Dr. M smiled.
"Are you all coming or what?!" Iggy stomped up the steps, arms crossed.
"Calm down…sheesh, Igs. It's like you've never fixed breakfast before," Max rolled her eyes.
"I got a new frying pan! This one is actually usable!" Iggy grinned.
"Whoo!" Fang said flatly.
"I smell it," Max said, feeling uneasy.
As the group made their way downstairs chattering they heard a loud commotion. They quickly scrambled to the kitchen to see The Migration, and a few new friends, sat around the table wolfing down the food.
"What in Sam's dickens?!" Iggy blurted, racing in. The Flock jumped at the sound of a goat bleat.
"WHAT IS THAT THING?!" Gazzy cowered behind Fang as Marigold jumped up on the table.
"A goat, duh!" Redneck rolled her eyes.
"Who's that?!" Gazzy clutched tighter to Fang.
"My name is Redneck...or Claire Symbrog...but call me Redneck! This is my goat Marigold," Marigold, at the sound of her name, bawled again.
"Get that nasty thing out of here!" Iggy commanded. Marigold charged at the blind boy and head butted his knee. Iggy yelped and sook shelter behind Fang.
"Demon goat!" He spat.
"I think it's cute!" Nudge squealed.
"You all ate all the food?!" Ella yelled.
"Well, it's not like we have a kitchen or anything in a friggin CAVE!" Dylan growled.
"Stop complaining! You're lucky you're not out on the street!" Fang shot back.
"Excuse you?!" Flair screamed. Fang folded his arms across his chest.
Max felt sick. Was it the smell of the bacon, or the eggs? She didn't know, she just felt queasy.
"Max? What's wrong? You look more uncomfortable than a 7-year-old boy around Michael Jackson," Kale noticed. Gwen glanced up from her plate.
"Fang, your wife is about to toss her cookies..." Gwen interrupted the boys' bicker. They looked over at Max.
"I'm fine…" Max coughed as she put a hand to her forehead.
"Fang…" Gwen started again.
"She said she's fine," Fang dismissed as he looked back to Dylan. Max propped herself up on the counter.
"Fang, she's gonna have morning sickness all over the place. It's the smell of the meat," Gwen tried again.
"What would you know?!" Fang was angry at Dylan, but he was taking it out on Gwen instead.
"I'm just saying. Between Carl and Sylvia I learned a lot…" she shrugged.
"I never had morning sickness with Ella," Dr. M added.
"Yah, well I always heard we Orksmiths are hard to hold..." Gwen smiled.
"She's fine! Stop acting like you know everything!" Fang sneered.
Then Max upchucked and everyone gagged and dropped their forks.
"Tried to warn you," Gwen shoveled another mouthful of eggs into her mouth.
"Whoa! She's like...physic!" Jes cheered.
"Or maybe she has common sense?" 24 giggled.
"Max, Hun, are you ok?" Fang rubbed Max's back and whispered quietly.
"Take her outside. This place has got to air out before she comes back in," Gwen explained. Fang actually listened.
"Maybe you should listen to your little sister more?" Iggy mumbled. Fang and Max sat outside for the rest of breakfast. Iggy finally got the courage to make his way back into the kitchen to "show the big mean goat who's boss".
"Where's my pan?" Iggy asked, about to scream.
"Oh, I accidentally burned a pancake to it, sorry Igs," Jace said as he tried to scrape the burned pancake off with a spatula. Iggy bolted forward and snatched the utensil from Jace and smacked him over the head with it. Iggy proceeded to recover the frying pan and remove the burned pancake. It was quite a show. Jace retreated to Alex and hid in his seat.
"Dude, how are you all still eating?" Ryan asked Gwen and Kale. The two looked up to notice that the others were to grossed out to eat.
"How long has it been since you all were in the School? The food there tasted worse than vomit," Gwen rolled her eyes and took a bite of biscuit.
"Guys…do you ever think we're canables 'cause we eat eggs and we're like 2% bird?" Nudge asked as she slid into an open seat.
"12%," Gwen said. Everyone looked over at her. "We're 12%…12% bird." Gwen gestured between her and Kale.
"Big difference," Ice rolled his eyes.
"Why are you 12% and we're only 2%?" Alex questioned.
"Oh, because from where I had "excess fat" they decided to up it 10 percent to get my metabolism higher faster. It worked so they decided to try it on Kale and Dylan. It was perfect until they found complications…" Gwen began.
"But we can do this!" Kale smiled as he literally chirped like a bird. The room fell silent.
"Whoa…" Sparks breathed.
"Does that mean I can do that?" Dylan questioned.
"Yah! Just think of what you want to say and then just…chirp," Gwen explained. Dylan followed the steps and soon he was singing like a canary.
"Are you saying a poem?" Kale asked.
"How…?" Dylan began.
"We can understand...bird language," Gwen stated.
"That's awesome!" Dylan almost screamed.
Iggy was trying to make a good pancake. When he finished he held it on the spatula and offered it around. Marigold trotted up and ever so stealthy snatched it. Iggy threw a fit.
"Wow…do all of you have wings?" Redneck asked, just on que. Max and Fang came in. All the color drained from their faces.
"How does she know?!" Max lipped.
"Yup! Well, except Ella and Dr. M. They're like you, human," Kale answered.
"Kale!" Max hissed.
"She knows, it's fine," Selene calmed.
"How?! Won't she tell?!" Maximum freaked.
"Tried once, Ma thought I was bonkers. Now if I mention it she gets mad as a wet hen!" Redneck fed the goat her piece of toast.
"Oh-k," Nudge was trying to decipher the country phrase.
Ryan mumbled something to Gwen. Kale groaned and looked disgusted. Gwen glared at him and...chirped. Kale's jaw dropped, Dylan's eyes widened, and the rest of the group looked confused. Then Kale chirped back. Then it was on and the two began fighting between chirps.
Dylan whistled. "Dang, Kale. I'd shut up and admit defeat if I were you!"
"Aw shut up Dylan!" Kale snapped. Dylan jumped to his feet, the other two copying. Then it was an all out war of chirps. Arms flailed, fingers pointed, glares were sent.
Finally Gwen spoke English, "Redneck, Jester, and Angel cover your ears!" The littler ones did.
"Dylan, why don't you just sit your a** down! Kale find a freaking brain and f*** off!" Gwen cried as she stormed out.
"Oh, it's gonna be like that, huh?!" Kale shouted back.
"YES!" Gwen hollered.
"What's going on?" Max asked quietly.
"They have a bird language," Gazzy shrugged.
"Oh," Fang nodded. Dylan growled and sat back in his chair, wearing a grim frown.
"What were they talking about?" Ella questioned Dylan.
"You don't want it translated…" Dylan grumbled.
"Well, it was bad enough to make Gwen cuss," Ice observed.
"It was...nothing..." Dylan sighed.
"Maybe we should go check on them?" Nudge tried.
"I suggest not," Dylan mumbled.
"Well, back to my question, are we canables for eating eggs?" Nudge pressed on.
"Yes," Sparks nodded, "but I really don't care."
"What are y'all gonna do today?" Redneck asked.
"Hmm…" Alex thought hard.
"We're going to…go hiking through the mountains?" Jace tried.
"Yay!" Ice said sarcastically.
"Sounds cool! Lets do it!" Ebony nodded.
"Hiking? Really Winters?" Storm looked over at Jace with a frown.
"Oh! YESSSS! Can we Dylan?! Please!" Jester cried.
"Seriously guys?" Dylan crossed his arms at the idea.
"We can learn survival strategies," Ryan stated.
"Oh, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!" Jes begged.
"Fine! We can go hiking," Dylan grumbled.
"Yay! Lets go! Come on peoples! Hurry!" Jester called as he ran out the door.
"This should be interesting," Melee mumbled. The Migration wandered outside.
"Have fun hiking," Fang teased Dylan. Dylan's hands balled into fists.
"We will," Ryan nodded, pushing Dylan out the door. The group closed the door behind them. There in the yard stood Gwen, arms crossed lips pursed, and Kale, mouth yammering and arms flailing.
"Would you two chill?" Flair called.
"Truce?" Gwen held out her hand.
"Truce," Kale nodded and shook Gwen's hand.
"So…where are we going?" Gwen asked.
"Hiking," Ebony answered.
Marigold frolicked around, jumping and bleating. Redneck followed.
"Is Redneck…" Kale began.
"Redneck has cancer. The doctors decided to let her enjoy what she has left of life. Sparks met her about 5 months ago. The girl's a fighter and the one human I've ever met that is trustable. She's taught us a lot, we're gonna miss her when she goes," Selene explained.
"Where is she going?" Kale questioned.
Selene looked to him, sadness in her eyes. Kale froze.
"No…"
Ok, Im so glad you're here reading this! I'm so sorry for not updating. I'm on vacation and my family is distracting (they're about to kill each other over a game of Monopoly)
I got y'all's historize requests :) it may take a while for me to write them.
I hope you all caught the hint dropped on Redneck.
The bird kid's lives are going to be pretty simple and fun for a while.
Max has 2 months before the Epic is here.
Feel free to make suggestions :D
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songs: Gwen: Who Am I Living For by Katy Perry {submitted by GagaBear18}
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