Chapter 6

(Fang's POV)

Lately I've been sick. I just came down from the washroom. I was about to tell Max that when I was upstairs it was getting worse, vomiting and headaches are starting up along with the sleepiness. I didn't want her to worry but she needed to know. After all, I'd never been sick before in my life.

My stomach muscles cramped and I cringed. I opened my mouth to tell her about being sick when Sorrow and Nudge ran into the room screaming about flyboys coming.

I internally groaned and externally sighed. I'd tell have to tell her after.

We ran out to fight and my mind was in a haze. I was so confused and I just wanted the spinning to stop. The world was spinning and whirling and I felt dizzy. I willed myself not to hurl again. I took off and the spinning slowed slightly. I fought, but I couldn't even think and I felt like I was still going to throw up.

I was fighting one flyboy and he was winning. He pulled out a needle and pretty much stabbed my cramping stomach with it. I gasped and groaned as it emptied the contents into me and my eyes rolled back.

I felt his grasp on my hand loosen until it let go and I just fell. I didn't even try to stop it.

(Shadow's POV)

We had all been sitting peacefully in the kitchen when Nudge and Sorrow ran in screaming about Flyboys coming. We all jumped up and ran outside. We hadn't seen flyboys in ages and I was shocked that they were here. Iggy grasped my hand and I smiled at him, "Don't worry, I'm fine. It's just the return of the metallic flying retards." I whispered and we all started into the air to fight.

We were fighting for a good ten minutes before I saw Fang. I almost let out a scream. He moved to punch a flyboy but the flyboy caught his arm in its grasp and plunged something into his stomach. He let out a gasp as I realized it was a needle. The flyboy emptied the contents into Fang and Fang's eyes rolled back and the flyboy let go of him. Fang fell like a rock towards the earth.

I dove after him quickly. I grabbed his arm and tried to pull up but it was no use. We both collided with the ground and he let out an earsplitting scream and my eyes flew wide and I looked at the sky. The Flyboys were leaving and Iggy landed and said, "Fang, did you break anything?"

He shook his head, but he curled into a ball and held his stomach. "What did they do?" Max asked in horror.

"They injected him with something from what I saw," I said. I took Fang's hand as he gasped; his eyes wide with pain.

"Pain," he moaned, "Make it stop! Please, make it stop!" He screamed in agony. He gripped my hand tighter.

(Fang's POV)

My stomach was on fire in pain and I curled in a ball. I heard people talking but I couldn't focus. I gasped and Shadow took my hand and I held it tightly.

"Pain," I moaned, unable to think, only speak, "Make it stop! Please, make it stop!" I screamed in agony as the pain increased. I gripped my sister's hand tighter.

I'm trying! Pain yelled in my head, I'm taking as much pain away as I can but it more keeps coming!

I whimpered as the pain started to lessen, but only slightly.

Okay Fang, I'm going to do something… it'll be really weird… I've warned Emotion about what I'm about to do… so don't worry, but this is going to hurt like nothing you've ever felt before…. Pain warned before my whole body erupted in agony.

I screamed and thrashed on the ground and I could hear Sorrow whispering in my ear, trying to calm me, but I couldn't make sense of the words.

After a few minutes of the pain it abruptly faded and the world went numb. I literally couldn't feel a thing. Sorrow looked at me in shock; I probably scared him with the fact that I just stop screaming.

"Fang?" he asked.

I was still breathing hard, "Ya?"

"Are you okay?"

"I-I can't feel anything…" I said, not the breeze of the wind, anything. I could see Shadow was still gripping my hand, but I couldn't feel her hand. I started to freak out; I was beginning to hyperventilate when I heard Pain's voice.

Fang? Pain asked in my mind.

What's going on!?

Relax Fang, you're fine, it worked, but now I've got to basically restart you… sounds weird, but you're going to black out and when you wake up you should be better… if I've done this right….

If? I didn't like that if.

Just relax would you. You're going to black out and I have to try to figure out what's wrong with you… what they injected and all of that… don't worry. You won't lose memory or anything… hopefully.

Hopefully!? Pain! No, this is a bad idea!

Too late! You'll be fine!

And with that, I blacked out.

(Sorrow's POV)

Emotion what do I do!? I cried in my head, I had never felt so helpless. Fang just screamed and screamed on the ground.

Try to calm him down, Pain is going to try and do something that's really dangerous….

I immediately knelt next to Fang's ear. "Fang," I whispered softly, "Please relax. Emotion says you'll be fine. Please, you're scaring us and I can't be like you. I can't protect the flock and I can't constantly keep a stiff upper lip and everything you do. If you die, or something, I won't be able to handle the pain. I can't live without you. Please, please don't make me have to be strong. I need you to be okay, more than anything, just please. Please," I whispered, tears at the edges of my eyes, no one could hear me and I was thankful. "Please, just… please." I felt a single tear drop from my eyes and it hit his cheek as I pulled away from him.

He immediately stopped screaming. I looked at him in shock; he had scared the crap out of me with that, "Fang?" I asked breathlessly.

He was breathing hard, "Ya?"

"Are you okay?"

"I-I can't feel anything…" he said, and I was suddenly very afraid.

What had just happened, he started to freak out and was beginning to hyperventilate.

His eyes went distant and I knew he was talking to Pain. After a minute he just blacked out.

I was terrified now, "Fang?" I asked worry and fear ringing in my voice. I gripped his shouldered, "Fang!?" I screamed at him.

I was shaking now, I was going to lose it, and I was going to lose it so bad that I would not be able to function.

Sorrow, relax, Fang is fine. It worked, and everything's perfect. Pain's working on fixing Fang now. Emotion said quickly and I nodded even though I didn't know if she could see it.

Okay, Sorrow, you have to make sure Fang's body is not disturbed. It has to be warm and in the exact conduction it is in right now or things could get messy. So move him upstairs to your bedroom.

I swallowed, "We need to move him upstairs. Emotion says that he has to stay in this exact condition he's in now… or something bad could happen." I said trying to stay strong.

We carried him upstairs and I went downstairs after, I realized that we never made it to school today and chuckled slightly. I loved it when that happened, sometimes we just forgot.

Nudge ran over to me and hugged me. I held her in my arms and she sniffled slightly, "Do you think he'll be okay?"

I was so not the person to be asked this, "Uh, ya, I think so… I guess."

She smiled at me, "Don't worry, I'm sure he'll be fine," she said, but I could see the doubt in her eyes.

She reached up and kissed me suddenly and I smiled at her, "What was that for?"

She shrugged, "You're my boyfriend. I wanted to kiss you, it's a pretty simple concept." I laughed and kissed her back before we went into the living room to watch TV.

(Max's POV)

I had called my mom to tell her about the whole thing with Fang and now I was sitting in his room. I lay down next to him and rested my head on his chest. I soon fell asleep, I was awoken when my mom shook me awake and I groaned.

"Max, I just wanted to ask you where Fang was injected. I could take a sample and see if I can identify the stuff. I also wanted to know if there was anything… weird about Fang lately." Mom asked me.

I shook my head slowly, "I don't think there was. Shadow said that they got him in the stomach." I said and froze, I looked at mom in shock and she stared at me in confusion. "Can sleepiness be a symptom?" I said cautiously.

"Yes," Mom said nodding slowly.

I took a deep breath and was afraid, "Fang's been abnormally tired for the last couple days…."

Mom stared at me for a second before she pulled up Fang's shirt and took a sample to his blood from his stomach area and right arm. I had to look away, I hated needles. She was about to leave before she looked back at Fang, thinking about something, and surprised me by ripping out a few of his hairs. "I'll be back later," she said and ran off.

I lay down on Fang's chest again and tried to relax. Please, if there is a God, please don't let him die or anything, I begged.

(A/N: I will seriously dedicate the next chapter to whoever can guess what's wrong with Fang. (Though I admit it's probably a hard POISONING to find.)

It's a sneaky one though… good luck! If no one finds it I'll dedicate it to everybody who tried.

Happy Guessing lol

(And you can find it… I just did, not even using the name of the poison… but if you need another hint I could post sometime on my profile so just ask. (check that I haven't posted it already before you ask lol because someone else might have already.))