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Jack chuckled as Riley patted his neck. "Hi Ril." he answered, and then friendly nudged her with his big horse-ish muzzle. He then walked towards others, and layed down on the cold snow. He was still wet, and shivering a bit from the cold water he was in, but he was happy to escape nonetheless. Then suddenly he stood up. "Will be back soon." he said to others as he jumped into the water again, this time whole his body was underwater. After around 20 minutes of splashing others could see, he swam out of the lake with some fish in his mouth. His mouth wasn't suitable for hunting, so the fish was still alive, but he was proud nonetheless.

Angelica felt herself up in the air. Riley was carrying her, even though she was a little bit taller than her. She looked down to see the world beneath her feet. She smiled a little, for no actual reason, and after they flew across she noticed they're getting closer to the ground. She felt her feet touch the ground and landed rather well, however, she noticed Riley didn't land as well as she did. She walked up to her, "Are you alright?" It was so strange that she was concerned about someone not popular. She felt so strange now. She had a crush on Xander, a loner, and was beginning to make friends with Riley, an emo. What was going on?
She noticed Riley get back to her feet. She smiled, realizing she's probably well. She noticed her talk with Jack, now a horse.
She suddenly saw Jack dive back in the water and coming back with fish in his mouth. She just smiled and then looked around. Some of them were still cold from the icy water, but some of them seemed to feel pretty well again. Angelica just sighed, and her gaze went straight to Arthur. She wanted to see if he's okay. Angelica actually hoped he would be tired and cold, so he wouldn't be as unpredictable... Why was she thinking about Arthur so much anyway? Was she scared of him, or something?
Angelica didn't even realize how she subconsciously shook her head. She sat on the cold snow, silent.

"I'm fine, Xander. Why do you ask?" Angelica asked him, hiding any sort of previous feelings she felt. She still felt her eyes watch Arthur's every move carefully. "I'm being paranoid..." She thought, as she looked at Xander again, then looked at the snow. "I'm so weird. I don't fear John, the man who wanted to torture me, yet I flinch everytime someone that's not as dangerous as John is even moves. What's wrong with me?" She thought, but she still couldn't help but watch Arthur out of the corner of her eye.

"Well, you're looking at Arthur like he's gonna come kill you..." Xander said gently.

I saw Jack come out of the water with a few fish in his mouth and I smiled a little. Fish was good, it would keep us substained for a good while. Angelica's eyes kept moving over to Arthur, who was shivering desprately and seemed to be in some sort of tranz. I don't know why that annoyed me, but it did. She attcked him first, he was only defending himself. I stretched my shoulders, which caused my wngs to move, and sat next to Arthur by the tree "You look...really cold" I said, a half laugh on my lips, I felt awkard sitting next to him, feeling his semi-cold body next to mine, it felt...Unreal.

"I'am?" Angelica looked over at Xander. Her whole life she had never been hit strongly by another human. Sure, she was teased a little bit as a kid sometimes by some boys, but they never hit her or bully her. The scientists? They never actually hit her or kick her. The only pain she felt was because of the injections and changes inside her. Sure, they did defend themselves from her when she wanted to strangle one of them, grabbing them on the neck, but it was... just somehow different. Angelica looked at Arthur, yet again. "Forgive him, you started it. He was defending himself from you," She thought but her mind didn't want to give in. After the fight her mind constantly reminded her of it. As much as she tried to shook those kind of thoughts off, she still thought he was dangerous. "Stop it, Angelica. Don't think about it. Think about Xander instead, a person you trust." She thought as she looked at Xander and tried smiling at him, but her smile looked very fake.

That moment Jack had no idea what to do with the fish, but he soon thought of something. He walked away a bit from them, and started to dig the snow with his hooves. He dug a little hole out, and then placed the fish there, then quickly grabbed a stick and pierced the fish with it. Fish were dead now. He then brought the fish closer to them, making sure that they were in his sight everytime and that no wild animal from the forest could steal it. He then layed down again. "I'm starting to become a genius." he said and chuckled. He then looked at Riley as she sat next to Arthur, and lowered his head, sighing. Yes, he didn't expect anything from her, but he thought he could at least warm up to her, but no. She obviously didn't care. Arthur was still all she cared about.

"I know, but I can't... I can't help it. I feel horrible for fearing him... " She said out loud, as she lowered her head and stared into the snow. She then looked at Jack, who killed the fish. She just smiled slightly at his words and then looked back at Xander. "Let's not talk about this anymore, okay? I'll probably forget about all of this by the next day..." She said, and sighed. "I hope."

"Okay, we can stop talking about it." he replied, then looked over at Jack and rolled his eyes.

When Riley sat down beside Arthur Brook shot her a glare, but was interrupted by a sneeze of her's. Brooklyn sighed hoping she'd stop being cold. Then Brooklyn had an idea. She rose from the stop beside Alfred and walked over to where some sticks her scattered all over the cold snow. One by one she picked them up until she had ten in her hands and walked back over to the group. "Here," Brooklyn said dropping the sticks, "We'll need to back a fire to keep warm and also we better get to sleep..." She said already yawning. "I'll stand on guard to see if anyone comes while your all asleep, but first who ever knows how to make a fire out of sticks, please step up... cause I'm freezing," Brooklyn said crossing her arms and looking at everyone.

Arthur nodded slowly, with a sigh.
"I don't like water." He grumbled, then hearing what Xander said about Angie staring at him, he peered over to her. He blinked, electric green eyes flashing from Xan to her. He then looked over to Riley, who petted Jack. I wish i had my horse here.. He thought sadly, remembering how much fun it was to ride his horse, Jo. She had been the best pet ever, until she fell sick, and ended up going mad, nearly killing Arthur. He shivered att he memory of Jo stomping onto his ribs, then his dad coming out and shooting her. The brit snapped out of his thoughts when Riley approached.
"Y-yeah..I'm okay." He replied, but he was looking at Alfred. Alfred patted Riley's shoulder when she sat beside Arthur, and Arthur sighed.
"Thats a good idea Brooke," Alfred said, nodding towards the sticks. Arthur shivered again, and felt something feathery on his back. He realized Riley had wrapped her wing around him, and he sighed.
Arthur's attention drifted back to Angel and Xander talking about the possibility of him attacking her again. He looked at his hand, begining to bleed again, the same with his arm. Alfred glanced over and scoffed.
"She attacked you first.." He whispered to Arthur, who chuckled.
"Yeah but i was in a pi**y mood." He remarked with a smirk.

I sighed when Arthur hardly responded to me and got up, Jack looked pretty defeated from what I did. I frowned and looked at the sticks, I didn't know how to make a fire, I only knew how to hunt. I reached my arms infront of me, the blackness covering my eyes. I bumbed into a solid figure and stumbled back "Oh, s-sorry Jack..." I muttered, realizing the solid figure was Jack. It'd be awkward if I just curled up next to Jack, and Arthur clearly didn't want me around. I felt alone agian, but then I remembered that I didn't care. The chill of night rested agianst the thin skin on my wings and I shivered. Brooklyn's glare beat down on me, again and again. I brought my knee's to my chest and blinked at the snow infront of me, I was tired and cold. Maybe I shouldn't have moved away from Arthur, but then agian, he didn't want me anyways.

Angelica noticed Arthur looking at her. She didn't even realize how she jumped a bit, she then turned to Brooklyn. She did use to try make fire out of sticks when she was a kid, but she never actually succeeded. "I just know how to make fire with a certain type of stone," She thought to herself, sighing. They won't find any sort of stone now, the snow was covering the ground. She then noticed Alfred scoff, and Angie lowered her head, as if apologizing to Arthur, the British guy she had bitten.