Fang POV

It was starting to get dark; I had to decide whether to fly on through the night of set up some kind of camp. Weighing through the pros and cons I was conscious that both options had a chance that I would be ambushed but if I were in the air I would have a better chance to escape or fight, if I set up camp I could easily be surrounded. I came to the conclusion that flying was probably the safest idea.

I quickly typed a text message to Max's phone "B there in bout 6 hours." I turned off my phone and continued flying.

About 4 hours into the flight I became aware that I was being followed, I quickly took a detour and landed in a small clearing in the forest, turning around to see 5 pairs of glowing red eyes landing behind me. "Are you guys some kind of elite stalker force?" I said a slight smirk on my face. I heard a growl coming from one of them, and the one closest to me made a lung for a face. I dodged, noticing the claws, which had grown out of his hand. I counterattacked with a jab punch to the stomach, winding him and forcing him to keel over in pain, I then slammed my elbow into him back making him fall to the ground howling in pain.

"Aww poor doggy wanna treat?" I said in a jeering tone, looking down at the fallen eraser. Suddenly 3 more lunged at me, I jumped into the air and unfurled my wings evading the attackers, I flapped my wings hard propelling me through the air towards one of the erasers clipping him in the nose and landing on top of him but the other two erasers slashed at me from both sides, one managing to cut into my shoulder and damage my right wing. I staggered back trying to keep my balance. Grabbing the heads of the two erasers, despite the pain coming from my right shoulder, I slammed them together knocking them out and they both fell to the ground unconscious. The last one made a grab for a weapon in his belt and pointed it at me; it took me a split second to recognize the gun, but a split second too late as he had already pulled the trigger. I felt the impact in my chest just below my shoulder, which hung unmovable after the two injuries. I felt a warm liquid oozing out of the bullet hole. I charged the last eraser punching him hard in the face with my left arm and stepping on his windpipe after he fell to the ground.

"Who sent you after me!" I shouted an uncontrollable rage swelling within me. He was struggling for breath, I pushed down harder with my foot.

"Please.. Don't" but even as he said this I noticed a white foam building in his mouth.

"Cyanide" I muttered to myself before releasing my grip on his neck. As the adrenalin rush wore off my vision began to blur, I was loosing a lot of blood. With my left hand I tried to grab my phone but lost my grip, it fell to the floor. I kneeled down to grab it.

"Damn thing" I said under my breath holding down the red power button. "Turn on!" As the screen came to life I noticed I only had one bar of signal. I grunted and pressed the recall button. As it started ringing I pressed the loudspeaker button, not having the strength to put it to my ear.

"C'mon pick up the damn phone"

"Fang?" came Max's voice on the other end

"Max don't talk, listen, I was ambushed and… and…" suddenly I couldn't remember what to say, my mind was beginning to shut down my eyes closed.

"Fang? Are you ok?"

"Please help…" Is all I could say before I blacked out.

Max POV

She looked down at the vibrating phone and read the text that Fang had sent her "B there in bout 6 hours" I sighed and put the phone away. She knew she still had feelings for Fang but at the same time she was still mad at him for leaving. She knew Fang was with Max II or "Maya" and that he probably didn't feel the same way about her. Mayas dead Max angel sent the thought into my head. Surprised I turned to look at her, she had a weak smile on her face and I could tell she was listening to everything I was thinking. How do you know? I deliberately thought hoping she would pick it up. Because Fang told me, its one of the reasons that he is coming back, he was betrayed by his gang and Maya was killed.

"Ohh…" I said out loud. Gazzy turned towards me.

"Is there something I'm missing here" He said rubbing his temples

"Don't worry Gaz just talking to Angel" I replied

"Well when your done could you go and get some firewood, if we're going to set up camp before nightfall we need to hurry."

"And I'm expecting dinner too!" Nudge interrupted

"Ok, I'll go get the firewood" I said sighing

About four hours in we had a camp set up and a nice fire burning. Nudge and Iggy were flirting with each other, Angel was trying to clean Celeste and Gazzy was tending to the fire. My phone started to vibrate in my pocket and I flicked it out. I had made a contact for Fang's number and my heart rose as I saw his name illuminated on the screen. I quickly pressed the green button and put the phone to my ear, not wanting to disturb the others.

"Fang? –" I was cut off by his voice

""Max don't talk, listen, I was ambushed and… and…" he said with urgency and pain in his voice, I started to tremble as I could tell that something was wrong.

"Fang? Are you ok?" I said with genuine care in my voice

"Please help.." Then there was silence.

"Fang?... Fang!" I shouted down the line but still no reply. By now the rest of the flock had turned towards me, noticing that I was trembling.

"What happened?" Nudge asked, breaking the silence

"Fang's in…." I was lost for words

"Fangs in trouble and he needs our help" Angel said reading my mind. The flock turned from me to Angel, then back to me. I nodded grimly.

"What are we waiting for?" Iggy said encouragingly " He said he was coming up from the south." He pointed towards the forest on our left. "lets go find him!"

"Yea.. lets" I said trying to smile but only getting half way.