"MAX!" Fang sat bolt upright, breathing hard, covered in sweat. It was just a dream, Max was safe in her room, just like Nudge, and Gazzy and Angel and Iggy. They were all ok. Weren't they? Fang quietly got out of his bed, praying his dream hadn't come true, that everyone was still asleep in their beds. First Fang went to the room closest to his, Angel's.
One glance into the room showed Fang all he needed, Angel's blond curls lay around her cheeks making her look well, angelic. He heard her breathing softly and steadily, and he knew that she was fine. Fang moved onto Gazzy's room, slowly opening the door, and he saw that Gazzy was also breathing deeply, clearly asleep. Fang found the same with Iggy and Nudge, but when he slowly began to creep down the hallway once more, Nudge materialized behind him, "Fang?" she asked sleepily, "What're you doing up?"
"Nothing, everything's fine," Fang answered, "Just go back to sleep." Nudge slowly turned and shuffled back into her own room.
Fang stood in the doorway of the last room, blending in with the shadows. He looked over at the bed and saw Max, her hair thrown across her face, as if she had been thrashing violently in her sleep again. Max's chest was rising and falling, indicating that she was breathing deeply- definitely alive. Fang crept over to her, and making sure that she was completely asleep, he did what he was longing to do, and crawled into bed next to her, brushing her hair off of her face, and resting his head on her shoulder.
Fang spent a moment next to her, just breathing in the scent that could only be described as Max. Just sitting next to her calmed him greatly, and so after a few minutes he slowly got up, so as not to move the bed and disturb her and crept down the hallway back into his own room.
Shortly after Fang had drifted off however, he began to once again have the same dream. Angel was falling, unable to fly, Erasers swarming around her. Then she was gone. Iggy was now falling, Erasers attacking him, causing him to plummet to earth. Nudge was also dropping like a stone, Erasers clawing at her face. Now Gazzy was sinking down through the air, Erasers swarming around him as well. And then there was Max. Max was in a dog crate, and she too fell like the rest of them. All Fang could do was watch, unable to scream, unable to move, just suspended in midair.
Fang woke with a jolt once again. Bathed in a cold sweat, and slightly shaking he once more got up to check on everyone. He couldn't just not do anything after that dream. It was so realistic, as if he was actually there, and everyone had actually fallen to their deaths.
Fang walked down the hall, treading carefully and opened Angel's door. He glanced at her bed, and one look told him that she had been taken by force. Fang ran down the hall, bursting into Gazzy's room. No Gazzy. Fang checked Iggy and Nudge's rooms and found that they too were gone. He ran into Max's room, and saw that she had vanished. Fang's hands clenched into fists and he dropped to his knees. "No. No. No! This is all wrong. Any second now I'll wake up from this nightmare." Fang screwed his eyes shut and opened them again, finding that he was still crouched on the floor in Max's room. "It's all just a dream. I'll wake up any second now… any second now…"