Chapter 2
We were flying for hours on end, and those dumb erasers hadn't followed us in a while, we were looping and doing tricks in mid-air. Nudge was flashing everyone her white smile, her dark skin didn't look much like her tawny russet wings that I loved. Our wings (with acceptation to Angel and Gazzy, who were the only blood siblings in our "family") weren't the same, their wings were pure white. They couldn't quite catch the sun like Fang's could, his were midnight black with a little hint of a deep purple, they matched his hair and eyes perfectly. Iggy's were a peachy color, they didn't match his strawberry blonde hair very well. My wings matched my hair and eyes like Fangs. Mine are brown and tan with little white speckles that reminded of paint splatters. Like I said, we were looping around and doing tricks when I felt something fly past my face at light speed it made a hissing sound, like a fire work when it first flies into the night sky, a bullet? I heard a loud noise behind me, a gunshot? I felt a sudden pain in my shoulder blade, I started falling out of the sky, and Angels all to familiar shriek rang through my head, a shriek I'd heard to many times, as soon as I heard it thoughts went through my head. Was she okay? Was she shot? Where was my flock as I plummeted getting closer and closer to the cold hard earth, and possibly death? My thoughts were picked up by Angel, my little mind reader, she sent a static message into my head "Max your okay, you were shot—" Shot I thought "yes Max shot but here come Iggy and Fang." I felt the hot red liquid seeping from my back, sticky. A pair of arms lifted me, but as I looked up I saw Fang and Iggy, 20 feet away, shocked looks on their faces. I became even more scared, Fang never expressed his emotions but, he truly was scared this time. I looked up to find Ari, my half brother, an eraser, holding me up. He had new wings which no other erasers had, and were grafted into him. I hated him, with everything I had, but he had saved me, so right now I didn't care. Next thing on my list find out who that assassin who tried to kill me was and everything went black—I was unconscious.