" I'm done. I'm done with this fucking bullshit. "

When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by white, white and white. With a side of a one viewing window. I was lying on the cold, hard floor.

My bag, boots and contacts were gone. But I still had the ring and necklace on, thank God.

I had just started to get up when the door opened. The breath caught in my throat and I stiffened, watched as Ari and Tayte strode into the room. My eyes narrowed, and I knew something very, very bad was going to happen.

"We thought we'd pay a visit." Tayte said.

"I don't need your company." I hissed, backing into the wall. All I could think about was them talking about me in that van. I was freaking petrified.

"Smart mouth." Ari commented, moving to corner me. "Wonder what it tastes like."

I flinched as he ran a hand down my face and tried to slap it away, but he caught my wrist and pulled me against him. The breath came out of my lungs in a hiss and I slammed my knee between his legs. He grunted and fell against the wall, swearing under his breath.

Moving to the other side of the room, I watched as Tayte leaned against the wall, studying me. My eyes flickered over to Ari who was already recomposing himself. Silence filled the room as Ari made his way over to me. I skidded past him again, but forgot all about Tayte as I backed into him. My breath came out in a shallow rush and I couldn't move.

My eyes stayed locked with Ari's, and I found a smirk forming on his face. I flinched again as Tayte's hand ran down my arm, locking around my wrist. He found my other wrist in less then a second, and held them behind my back.

Hot tears fell down my face as I felt Tayte's breath on the back of my neck and Ari's lips on mine. I rammed my knee in between Ari's knee's again and yanked my hands from Tayte's, tripping over something as I tried to get away.

Ari yanked me off the floor and smashed his fist across my face, kneeing my stomach in the process. I almost lost conciousness, but a voice stopped me.

"Ari, Tayte. Stop."

I fell to the floor and pushed myself away from them and into the corner of the room. Blood was gushing from a cut on my lip and my world was spinning. I laid back against the wall and studied the man in front of me. He had blue eyes, lighter then Iggy's, and hair that was jet black. He looked young. He motioned to the viewing window and I peered through it.

My breath came out in a shallow rush, because there, staring right at me, was the group. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel. Nudge and Angel were clutching each other and Nudge's hand was taken in Gazzy's. Fang and Iggy were outright glaring at Ari and Tayte.

"We meet at last." His voice was deep, almost deeper then Fang's. "You've been very difficult to capture, you know."

"What do you want from us?" I asked, my voice shaky and hard to hear. Like always, I cut straight to the point.

"Maximum Ride," he said, staring down at me. He crouched so he was at my level, and spoke loud enough for me to hear over my pained gasps. "My name is the Creator. You answer when spoken too, you do what we tell you to do. If you obey, you live peacefully. If you don't, you're life will be harder then you've ever imagine possible. We need you to help us accomplish-"

He didn't get another word in though before I leaped up, clutching my stomach and grimacing. I had to be strong, even though I know my pain showed.

"No. You fucking listen to me. You fucking killed my ex-boyfriend, you burned my school down, you kidnapped my family! What else are you planning to accomplish? Kill the rest of man kind, and demand us to lead the future people? Who put what in your fucking drink?

"And then you get these animals in here to what? Feel me up and rape me? In front of my boyfriend and my brother and my best friends? What kind of person does that?" I spat at his feet with a demented laugh before falling back into the wall. "Don't ask me for anything. I'm done. I'm done with this fucking bullshit."

Before I knew what was happening, Ari had launched forward and pulled me off the wall. He slammed his fist into my jaw, knocking me down. There was a voice in the back of my head, telling me to get up. Telling me to stay strong.

I picked my self up shakily, wiping the blood from my mouth with the back of my hand. I smiled sickly at the look in Ari's eyes. "You're going to have to try a lot harder to keep me down, boy."

Ari growled, ready to just about take my head off, when the 'Creator' put a hand on his shoulder. "You're no longer needed, brother. You're dismissed."

I cackled and whispered to Ari, "Obey your master."

"Bitch!" He hissed, wrapping a strong hand around my throat. He slammed me into the closest wall, knocking the breath from my lungs. The Creator yelled out Ari's name, but that seemed to have no effect on him. And then Ari's lips were at my ear, his heavy breathing all I could hear for a second. "I could easily snap your neck in half. Don't give me a reason to."

I growled, and using a strength I didn't know I had, I laid my hands on Ari's shoulders and shoved him off me. He stumbled back as I dropped to the ground, my body already forming a stance.

"Try me."

"Enough!" The Creator hollered. Ari flinched, but I stood strong. "Tayte, bring the others in."

In the next minute, while the Creator kept a brooding Ari at bay, my family entered through the door. Nudge and Angel wrapped their skinny arms around my body. Gazzy and Iggy gave me separate hugs, and then I launched myself at Fang. My lips slammed into his, and then I was hugging him and trying to keep the tears back. My Fang, breathing under my hands. Alive. I pulled the others in for a group hug and smiled slowly. We were stronger when we were together.

The Creator cleared his throat. "Well then. Now that you've all caught up, I might as well tell you what's going to happen for the next couple of days-"

"Piss off," Iggy growled.

"Why do you think we chose you?" The 'Creator' said, cutting straight to the chase. My eyes met his. Ari and Tayte were no where to be seen.

"I don't know," I muttered sarcastically. "To test how far you can push a teenager?"

"Why do you think Anne and Paul adopted you? Why do you think you are athletic? It's always been planned from the start. The school. The animals. Samuel being shot. Everyone in your group has been adopted into a family for a particular reason."

I stared blankly at the man in front of me. Anne and Paul... they knew this was going to happen? They knew Sam was going to be killed? And they did nothing?

"The money came from me. The idea came from me. This whole plan, orchestrated by me. Because I am the Creator. And I know you're the one. You were brought up a specific way. You acted the way you were supposed to. Because you are the one that will change everything. Which is why tomorrow, you will each individually go into surgery. Say goodbye to the world you once new... and accept your fate with open wings."