"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."

Bring Me to Life

1

The funny thing about living is that sometimes it doesn't matter if you're doing so or not. Sometimes I think, "Is life worth living?" and in the end, nothing adds up.

But then again, I'm bad at math.

Anyway, I live in a "family" of 6 kids. There's Angel, our freaky little mind-reader, but we love her anyway, you have Iggy, our resident sightless-wonder, Nudge, the chatterbox, and computer wiz, though it seems like an odd combo, the Gasman, who… Well, you can get the point, Total, our talking dog, Max, the leader of our group, and the one with as much attitude as you can get in this lifetime, and me, Fang.

They may be completely not related by blood, but we're family, no matter what happens in this world, we'll survive, and we aren't ready to die yet.

A sterile, white room was my first memory, viewing the world from a cage, like looking at a picture-book- Like, a hostile, horrific picture book.

The whitecoats were the hostile, horrific keepers of this place just packed full of those eggshell-ish rooms called The School.

You're just gonna hate the danger of this story, but trust me, you need to know. The world could lie in your hands.

But no pressure.

2

It was just me and Max.

Trust me, next time you're sitting in the middle of some god-forsaken forest just plain chock-full of those good old' half wolves who are trying to kill you, you might not wanna be alone.

Max wouldn't admit it, but she felt the same way. I have a way of reading people's emotions, that even little 6-year-old Angel doesn't have. Of course, people can't read my expression. Well, except for Max, but even she can't see past the steel features that make me who I am, sometimes.

Anyhow, we were keeping watch, I was watching west side, and Max seized the east.

I flipped open my laptop, which had a paper folded on the inside- A map. We were in the Black Forest. There was a line of black from California, all the way to Germany, our destination. Of course, the line was curvy, with twists and turns every which way, and it reminded me of one of those creepy plants that we had seen many times… Mostly around fences. A shiver crawled down my spine just thinking about them-They killed whole forests at a time. Of course, we were gonna put Itex's lights out all in out own time! Of course we could do it.

I looked at Max, my raptor vision made out her simply standing up stick-straight, and watching around cautiously, with her own keen eyes.

That was when we heard the awful screech.

3

Okay, so we were hiding away behind the Itex headquarters, and we had absolutely not plan at the moment, but when an earsplitting alarm comes on after a few hours of sitting completely still, it surprised even me, but only for the tiniest millisecond. Max snapped out of her own lookout mode, and grabbed Angel and Nudge. She tapped the back of Iggy's hand once, and he woke up. She shot me a look, and I grabbed the Gasman, and we all soared toward the cloudy smudges in the sky. I let out a breath I hadn't realized that I had been holding and saw that there was the slightest rustle in the forest down below. "Kids" Angel whispered. She looked odd, very concentrated, yet puzzled.

"You're going to die!" yelled a voice from above, but not towards us- Towards the bush below.

"They need help"