Chapter 3: Nice To Meet You, Hostage
"Don't let go, ok?" My hand desperately held onto the small delicate hand in mine.
"Don't worry, we'll get somewhere safe," I replied frantically, trying to remember to flap my wings. Then she screamed and I looked down at her, almost forgetting to flap.
Almost.
"Something just tried to grab my leg! Fly higher!" she yelled, terror in her eyes as she looked at me. It was hard enough to fly for the first time in my whole entire miserable existence without having to carry her weight AND be criticized about my flying.
"This is as high as I can go!" I screamed back, my mind racing. Suddenly, I was tackled from above. I let go of her hand and heard her scream as she plummeted down to the ground. "MELODY!" I called after her.
My sister.
I felt something hit me in the back of my head, and before I realized it, I had fallen right into darkness.
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I began to wake up to a weird sensation.
OK, sensation, no.
More like an annoying pain on my forehead.
"Is she awake yet?" I heard a voice say.
"Don't think so" said another voice.
"Maybe we should dump water on her or something" said another.
I groaned slightly so that they would stop contemplating. I opened eyes slowly, trying to remember what had happened, and saw six faces staring at me.
"She's awake" said the boy nearest me, the one with the short spiky blond hair.
"Who are you?" asked a girl, her skin just a bit darker than mine. Instead of answering her question, I looked at my surroundings and analyzed them a bit. My hands were tied behind my back, the knife that I always carry around with me in my back pocket was gone, and I was still in the forest that I ran into that tree . . .
Oh yeah, I bet the girl that can mind read is still here . . . I thought to myself as I closed my mind. The girl with the slightly curled blond hair frowned a bit and looked in my direction.
That's her . . . so she must be Angel . . . I thought.
"Where's my bag?" I asked.
"Over there," said the boy with the black hair.
"We raided your stuff. Thanks for the free food. Hope you don't mind" said another boy with a smirk. He looked blind, but the way his ears pricked up ever so slightly when he heard something told me that he could identify more things than I could see.
"Oh, of course not. Feel free to take all of my food" I said sarcastically. He frowned slightly, I guess feeling a bit guilty, and chewed a piece of the granola bar that he was eating.
"Why are you here?" asked the dark-haired one, who glanced at me. I looked toward the lake. The block of ice was still there and the sun wasn't as high as it was the last time that I was conscience. It still looked like early afternoon.
"Are you guys taking me back to the School?" I asked as I looked at them again. The blind kid, the black girl, the blond-haired kid, and Angel cringed, the black-haired guy balled his hand into a fist, and even the dog sat up and looked at me with fear in his dark brown eyes.
Just as I thought; these kids are runaways from the School. There's no way they would be working with the whitecoats, I thought to myself. I brought my tied hands from behind my back and stood up.
"Well then, now that that's settled, I'm just gonna take my bag, grab some fish, and be on my merry way" I said as I walked toward my bag. I opened it just to see if they took anything of importance, but had some difficulty because of my hands. I looked back at them with a gleam in my eyes when I noticed that something was really missing. "Where's my laptop?" I asked calmly.
"Oh, this one? The one you most presumably stole?" said the dark-haired kid with a smirk.
"Yes, that one. Can I have it back, please?" I said, still keeping my calm.
"No. It might be useful to us" said the boy. He was really starting to tick me off.
"How can you use it when you can't even get the password?" I asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Nudge" he said as he tossed it to the black girl. She caught it but almost dropped it in the process, which almost gave me a heart attack. That was the laptop that I stole directly from the School grounds. It had info about Itex and all the other things that I could possibly need. But I almost got captured again when I went back to the School to get in the first place. I don't think I would have the guts to go back and get another one.
The black girl; Nudge is her name I guess, turned the computer on. Everyone gathered around her. I leaned against a tree trunk and smirked, allowing them to try.
I could've taken my laptop back at that moment. I really could. But why have an audience if you weren't going to entertain them? I heard Nudge put her fingers on the keyboard and started to type away. Soon after, I heard the wonderful sound of the system locking her out.
"Nudge, why couldn't you crack it this time?" I heard the blond-haired kid ask.
"I don't know, Gazzy. She must have changed the passwords or something, because these are all wrong" said Nudge. Everyone looked at the black-haired kid, who was looking at me, who was looking back at them with a smirk on my face.
"Told ya' so" I said. "Now if you would be so kind as to . . . "
"No" replied the boy. He stood in front of the laptop.
Really, really, REALLY starting to piss me off.
"You saw it for yourself, you can't use it, now GIVE IT BACK!" I said, my voice rising.
"No" he replied simply, crossing his arms over his chest.
As if that would stop me.
I got into his face, not even the least bit intimidated by him because I was almost as tall as he was.
"Give . . . it . . . back . . . now . . . " I said, emphasizing every word. He was lucky my hands were tied or I would've strangle him.
I mean, I could strangle him now but it wouldn't be as effective . . . I thought to myself, my fists clenching and unclenching. The boy lowered his eyes into a slight glare.
"Make me" he said in a voice that I guess was supposed to scare me. I was just about to strike him across the head when an idea came to me.
"Fine, since you can't work the laptop, and it IS mine, I won't leave until I get it back" I said, grabbing my bag. I would just haveto wait until the girl . . . Nudge, finally gave up and brought it to me. I felt a slight wind blow and I made it sharp enough to cut through the rope holding my hands together. I heard a "Woah" and someone whistle behind me as I slung my bag over my shoulder.
"Hey!" I heard someone call. I turned around just in time to see the small dog run up to me. "Since you're staying for a while, could you bring me some fish? These people don't feed me enough" said the dog. I noticed everyone's eyes role and I couldn't help but smirk.
"A talking dog. Now I've seen everything" I mumbled. "I'll see what I can do" I walked toward the lake, my mind slowly tinkering.
My days have gotten a bit interesting, I thought to myself with a small smirk.
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