Chapter 1: Torment and Torture
"If you want to see him alive again, then you'll heed my instructions and go to the address."
Max's eyes widened in horror as she looked into the bright screen of the laptop. Before her eyes was a picture of an unconscious Dylan laying in a pool of blood, bruised and beat up.
"Oh my God," Max heard Nudge whisper softly. 'Oh my God' was right. He looked tortured and broken. The picture screamed a thousand things that they could've done to him. A video popped up, and Max hesitantly clicked on it. She needed to see what these monsters had done. Dylan looked like he was sedated, but he was mumbling something.
"M-Max… P-please." His head had bald spots, his eyes were swollen shut, and his arms were covered in burn marks. Angel started to cry softly, which made Iggy shift uncomfortably.
"I-is it really that bad?" Iggy asked in a small voice.
"It probably gets worse," Max replied, while stroking Angels golden curls. It was tough on all of them, especially since they all thought he had been dead.
"Just then, Dylan's piercing scream howled through the speakers, and to her horror, it was another clip showing Dylan being dunked in water and electrocuted. It was as if the mad scientists made a compilation of different clips showing different ways to torture a bird-kid who has only been around for about three years.
"Just kill me already!" Dylan screamed. The last clip made me really want to barf up my guts because these monsters couldn't just torture Dylan. They had to take away what made us special. The monsters were trying to saw off Dylan's wings.