HEYYYY! I know I said I probably wouldn't be updating until about another week, but I just couldn't help it! I left ya'll on an aweful chapter, so I want to make it up to you! I think this one may be my favorite! What about you?

Okay guys I have a confession to make about last chapter's the random thought of the day.

Random thought of the day: Why did I lie about being a genius?

I'm not really a genius. In fact, I just found out that all last week in school, I'd been writing that this was the month of March in the year of 2012! Am I an idiot? Don't answer that. Last week was supposed to be April in the year of 2013! It's official guys, I'm losing it...

So, anyway... All Max's POV this chapter! Humor and some Faxness awaits you, so go ahead! Read! :)


Max POV

Almost home. Almost peaceful, until the entire horizon was dotted with creepy Erasers.

Why couldn't my life be normal?

"Heads up guys!" I called out. "Two hundred Erasers up ahead!"

My stomach was turning sick and inside out. Two hundred Erasers? I thought those things were supposed to be long gone. And that was way too many for us to handle with just the three of us. Heck, it'd even be a really big challenge for the entire flock. We were so close to home. Maybe the rest of the flock could help fight. Plus, possibly Wake and Dylan could bring us away from the 'impossible' range and into the more familiar zone of 'insane'.

"What!" Nudge gasped. "I just got my nails back into perfect condition! If one of the beasts mess up my new manicure, I'm going to be furious!"

"Not now, Nudge!" Angel exclaimed. She got a determined face on and then... she dropped from the sky. In the next moment, I heard the train sound, and I'm pretty sure I was falling too.

"Angel! Max!" Nudge screamed. She tucked her wings in aiming for Angel, my baby. And then it was suddenly reversed, and I felt Nudge grabbing me under my arms. Under my arms. Like, my own body. Angel and I had swapped while flying. It all happened quick, just like before.

"I'm fine, Nudge." I said, still feeling like I had a sudden case of sea sickness. "We switched. Check on Angel." I pointed to where she was flapping unevenly.

Nudge let go and I heard Angel laughing. "I'm great!" She exclaimed. "I'm calling the flock with my mind. Now let's go take down some Erasers, shall we?"

Nudge grinned, then frowned. "These Erasers are so going to pay for this. I had a date with Wake!"

"YOU WHAT!?" I shrieked.

Nudge smiled. "Now, Max," She said with her hands up and slowly banking away from me, "go take that anger out on those unfortunate Erasers and kill me some other time." She sounded kind of scared, and she should have been. She was too young.

"Gladly." I said, shooting her a look, and then putting on speed until I was in hyper drive. I came up to the first wolf still in super speed, aiming for his throat. That easily knocked him into a good five of his buddies, and they fell. Five down, one hundred ninety-five to go. Wow, I was on a roll!

Angel came up next to me and just started pointing at random Erasers shouting, "Fall!" while pointing to another, "Fall! Fall! Fall!" And they just kept dropping. That's my girl!

Nudge had levitated a street lamp up and was swinging it like a nut-job, using her crazy metal powers. Since when did she get so strong?

"Max?" Nudge said hastily, and her voice wavered dangerously. "They're healing, and like, really fast."

I whipped my head around to see the Erasers lick their wounds like animals and heal within seconds. What the Hell? Just then, a claw lashed out at me, catching my arm. I screamed while spinning around with a fist raised, and sent the stupid thing falling. God, this is the reason I will never have a dog. Well, one that doesn't speak like a gentleman anyway. But either way you look at it, there all so annoying!

Angel was now controlling the Erasers, making them attack each other. "Max!" She called excitedly. "If they hurt each other, their wounds don't heal!" I watched as one wolfman cut another open and the other tried desperately to heal itself. She was right! Our chances of winning this fight just sky rocketed to 'we're all gonna die'. If Angel was the only one that could do any real damage... there was no possibility we could win. And by now, my arm was locking up and it was burning like fire where that one Erasers had gotten a lucky swipe at me. I realized with a sickening dread that it was probably poison, because this didn't feel like any normal Eraser scratch.

"Don't let them scratch you!" I screamed.

"Well, duh!" Nudge said, starting to get out of breath with her overexertion of her metal powers.

"They have poison!" I reasoned. "And don't back sass me!" I spun around and slapped a wolf across the muzzle. It growled and when I growled back, it kind of took it off guard. I kicked it's chin and it's head snapped back with a crack. I hissed in alarm. I tried to never ever kill anything, just hurt it enough to where it ran off screaming. But killing seamed to be the only way to save my family this time. As the wolf fell with it's broken neck, I was smashed with a flash back. Ari, in that sewer tunnel. That had been my first kill. I had broken his neck. My brother. I forgot to flap for a moment as the memory seemed to burn more than the poison spreading through me.

"Max! Snap out of it!" Angel called, looking at me with tears in her eyes. We need you to fight. She thought at me.

Iggy screamed out of nowhere and flung himself into the fight. "The Rainbow Crusaders!" He yelled, while clotheslining an unsuspecting wolf. "Wow. These uglies look just as bad as I remembered." He swung at an exceptionally large brown one. "Oh, and by the way guys. We should all drop right... NOW!"

The flock plummeted towards the ground, flapping backward to land softly, while Gazzy screamed "RAINBOW POWER!" and threw a bomb into the mix of Erasers quite accurately. It released a sickening green gas, and then exploded twice as big as I'd ever seen one of his homemade bombs get.

"Jeez, guys." Nudge gasped. What'd you load that thing up with?"

Iggy grinned and pointed at his rear end.

"GROSS!" Nudge squealed in disgust. "You used your fart!?"

Gazzy cackled with glee and nodded his head.

"Focus, guys!" I said, bringing their attention back to at least the hundred and fifty or so left. These things were like the Grimlins! Before you could kill another, the one before was already healed. "You wouldn't happen to have anymore of those bombs, would you?"

Iggy cursed, and I thumped him in the head. "I mean, Ma'am, No, Ma'am!" He saluted, and I flicked his ear again. "Would you stop flicking me, Angel?" He asked while shoving me.

"I'm Max now." I said while shoving him back. "You and Gaz are the only ones that haven't switched back yet."

His face paled and he bowed down mockingly. "All hail Max and all her awesomeness. Please don't kill me."

"Incoming!" Nudge yelled, and a swarm of kitchen forks flew out of the window behimd us, meeting up with the flaming wolves in seconds.

"Fight my beauties! Fight!" Iggy screamed gleefully in Nudge's voice.

"Shut up." I said, jumping back into the crowd of Erasers. "You guys coming?" I started taking out one of the brutes that had decided to take the fight to the ground. Thank God that we were just behind the apartment and not right in the middle of the street. Erasers dropping on the hoods of peoples cars would not have been good.

Without hesitation, the rest of the flock was in the group of our enemies ducking away from Nudge's flying forks. "Dude! I swear I just saw Mr. Forky Porky!" Iggy joked in my voice. "No! Come back! I love you!"

"Iggy!" I called, laughing despite the mess we were in. At least my Flock could joke while we were facing certain death, yet again.

And then something registered. "Where is Fang?" I shouted, asking everyone at once. "And Wake and Dylan?"

"Don't know." Angel called. She looked at me with worried eyes. She turned back in time to see an Eraser charge at her before she was tackled to the ground, screaming.

I took off after her, my vision turning red with rage. "Angel!" I shrieked. I was one lunge away from the stupid thing when a huge black Eraser rammed into the other one, throwing it off. I stood back in awe. "That was brilliant, Angel!" I said, stumbling back. My baby girl had just controlled the biggest Eraser I'd ever seen into helping her out. Sadly, it was time to get rid of it.

I nailed a hard blow to it's shoulder, and it whipped around to face me, it's eyes blazing with fire. Then, it's eyes widened the same time mine did, and I was looking into Fang's eyes. The same Eraser from my dream. It was just a dream. I told myself. Their just playing with your mind. Snap out of it and kill him!

I lunged at it's throat, but it skittered away with a complete agility that I'd never seen an Eraser use before. "Max, it's me!" It hissed, but I was too focussed on trying to get over the fact that I'd missed the lunge to catch what It'd said. I ran after it again, angry, but it ran from me, tearing into other wolves with it's claws.

I stopped mid-chase. At least Angel was doing twice as much damage with this Eraser than she was before. Might as well let it go until the end.

"Keep it up, Ange!" I said excitedly as I watched another five go down that certainly wouldn't be getting back up. We might actually survive this raid with this freakishly big monster fighting for us.

"Nudge! Watch it!" Iggy yelled as he ducked under a swarm of kitchen knives. He wouldn't have ducked in time if Nudge hadn't been getting extremely tired and slowing down.

"Sorry!" She gasped, all of the inaniment objects tumbling to the ground. "I can't hold them up anymore." She wiped off sweat and I took out an Eraser that was coming up behind her.

Sadly, no one was there to stop the one behind me. I was jumped on and pinned to the ground, while an Eraser growled in my ear. "Bye-bye, pretty bird." It's drool dropped next to my face as two others came up on either side of me. They reached for my wings, but I pulled them in tight, but they still managed to get a hold. They gripped each one and started pulling.

"No!" I wailed. They were going to dislocate them. I felt them spread them open, and I fought it the whole way, straining against the inevitable. Oh, God! I was freaking out and actually hyperventallating. I gathered the little bit of breath I could through my short gasps and choked out the first word that came to mind. "FANG!" I screamed. "FANG!"

Just as I felt my left wing pop, all three Erasers were thrown off of me by a black blur. The black wolf. It was turned, facing off with all three Erasers at once plus an extra four that saw him as the biggest threat. The big wolf easily took them all down within a minute.

I hadn't been aware of the silence that was everywhere else. And I had not even noticed that I hadn't gotten up until the black wolf turned back to me. I felt my tears of pain make it down the tip of my nose from where I was still laying face down on my stomach. "Max?" It asked. I backed up sliding away painfully. The poison burned and my dislocated wing hurt like Hell.

But none of it hurt as bad as the voice that came from the wolf. The school must've gone to great lengths to match this wolf up with Fang.

Because this couldn't be Fang.

Because it was my literal worst nightmare.

"Angel! Kill it!" I said, my voice shaking violently. "Kill it, Angel!" My voice cracked as the thing stepped closer.

Instead, Angel walked forward from my peripheral vision reaching out a hesitant hand.

"Angel!" I snapped, but her eyes didn't leave the wolf.

"Fang?" She asked. It nodded and laid down. "Oh, God. He did this to you?" I stared, horror struck as Angel had a mental conversation with it, petting it's head crying. "Never, Fang." She turned to me and nodded at him. "It's him. Dylan and the school did this to him."

I shook my head. It wasn't true. It couldn't be. "Prove it." I broke. "I don't believe it."

He thought, and then leaned toward me. "I choose you, Max."

I stared into his eyes and watched the way they blinked, seeing my reflection, scared and small. A quiet surrounded us as everyone waited to see what I'd say. Realization dawned on me and made me laugh with hysteria. "Nudge, I guess guess this is about as close to Twilight as we get. Except, I'm falling for the werewolf." I let out another semi-insane string of laughter, before wincing and forcing myself to a sitting position. "Come here Dog-Boy. Come on! Roll over!" I patted the ground. The Flock laughed, and Fang's grin was huge. I held out my hand and he pushed his muzzle up to it. He closed his eyes as my hand brushed between his eyelids. "God, Fang, you about gave me a heart attack. How about you switch back now? It's kind of creeping me out, and your clothes fit really weird."

"Can't." He replied.

My hand stopped and he opened his eyes. "What do you mean you can't?"

He shrugged, well, as much as a wolf with wings can shrug. "I don't know how."

"Well, no kissy's for you, mister." Iggy said mimicking me.

Fang's face turned to the dopiest look I'd ever seen, probably mirroring my own facial expression. The flock laughed aloud at this while Gazzy just said, "Ew!"

His eyes blinked sadly, and suddenly, I found myself wrapping him in a a bear hug. "We'll figure it out." I whispered. Fang stiff muscles relaxed under my grip. He leaned against me and rested his chin on my shoulder. Soon, I felt him change beneath my arms.

He pulled back grinning. "Nice job, Fairy Godmother. You granted my wish."

"Shut up, Dog-breath. That kiss?"

"You-" And I shushed him with my mouth before he could say anything else. His shock was easy to feel at first, but slowly, his arms came up, tightening around my waist and pulling me closer. I helped by grabbing a fist of his hair.

"Awe, gross!" Iggy said. "Get a room! I'd rather be blind than have to see this!"

I felt Fang smile beneath my lips as he playfully pushed Ig away. He laid back, and I laughed lightly before kissing him again. His hands slid up and just barely brushed one of my wings. I practically screamed in pain, jumping back and whimpering pathetically.

Fangs eyes were wide as saucers. "I'm sorry, Max! What'd I do?"

"Who apologizes before they know what their apologizing for?" Gazzy asked curiously.

I was hissing and cursing under my breath. I never got one stupid moment to share with Fang before a microwave blew up, someone got mortally wounded, or a random voice in my head wanted to let me know the world was ending. In this case, it was my own freaking injury. "My wing." I said with a sudden temper. "One of the Erasers dislocated it." I lifted my one good wing while the left one laid on the ground uselessly. Why do I always get put in the worst possible situations? I mean, a bird-kid with a broken wing? Is some eternal force against me? Never-mind forget I asked that last part.

"And your arm." He noted, pointing to the scratches that barely broke my skin, but still burned like crap.

"Yah." I said with a fake smile. "That too."

His brow furrowed while he sat in thought for a moment. He leaned forward and licked his thumb. "I don't know if this will work," he said, "but I want to try." I held still as he pressed his thumb against the scratches. They sealed up before my very eyes, just like the other Erasers had been doing, and I felt the burn slowly disappear. I sighed with relief.

Iggy stepped up and jabbed a finger at him. "Me next, Lassie. I need some magic dog slobber." Fang turned to him, flipping the bird.

"Fang! This is great!" Nudge said excitedly. "You can heal us now!"

He shook his head. "Only surface wounds. I can't help Max's dislocation or any broken bones." He winced when I cried out from Angel popping it back in for me.

"I never thought you being an Eraser would be so helpful." I smiled and laughed. "Of course, I never really pictured you as an Eraser. But still."

Nudge cleared her throat, and leaned forward hesitantly. "Fang? Is... is Wake gone too?" She seemed like she was near tears. "Was he a part of... what happened to you?"

Fang was suddenly up with wild eyes. "Dammit!" He said. "Nudge, stay here." He took off running into the woods. Of course, all of us followed him. We came up to an unconscious dark-skinned kid surrounded by a very scary amount of blood.

The quiet, heart-sickening hitch of some someone's breath catching made it's way into my stunned senses. I saw Nudge fall to her knees begging, "No, no, no, no,no!" She crawled forward and grabbed his limp hand as Fang went to work, sealing his wounds, cursing the entire time.

My throat was tight. "You - you didn't do this did you?" Angel asked. "I mean, by accident or anything?"

Fang shook his head. "The kid barely even knew me and he saved my life. I was gonna let Dylan kill me. I didn't trust myself, but Wake jumped in the way of his knife." He closed and healed the last scratch. "I hope this works. He lost a lot of blood."

"What about this!?" Nudge wailed. She spread out his wing. The thin velvety skin of his right wing was torn straight through from just under the top bone all the way out of the middle, splitting it in two. "He can't fly like this! Fix him!"

Fang shook his head. "Nudge, I can't. I already-"

"Try again!" She snapped aggressively. The pain in her eyes as she stared, horrified, at the ruined wing,' brought Fang back down by Wake's side. When it didn't work again, Nudge hit the ground. "Try harder!" We sat there for half an hour, watching him try again and again to seal the pieces back together, but only managing to seal them separately. Nudge had given up her threats at Fang and was just sitting there staring off into space as if she'd rather be in her own little world rather than in reality.

Wake suddenly wheezed and coughed awake. He breathed in a ragged breath before Nudge was crushing him in a hug. "Am I dead?" He asked. "I think I'm looking at an angel."

"No." She grinned.

"Oh, then... Hey, beautiful." He said, giving her a proper greeting and only having enough energy to pat her arm. "So I guess that date's off, huh?"

She laughed with relief, her tears sparkling against her smiling cheeks. "You are unbelievable!"

Seeing this scene made me want to sigh 'awe' like they do in TV shows, while beat the kid and tell him to back off my baby girl. Seeing that Wake was already in a bad enough condition, I decided to go with the 'awe'.

"Nudge." He said sighing.

"Hmm?" She asked, squishing him tighter.

His hand dropped from her arm. "Can't... breathe."

"Oh! Sorry!" She yelped, letting him go. He fell back, unable to really keep himself up.

"Ow." He laughed.

"Sorry! Sorry!" Nudge said, and the Flock laughed as we watched Nudge stutter and lose her ability to speak.

Iggy stepped up smiling, and nudged Wake with his shoe. "Maybe we'll keep you around. You seem to be the only one that can put the NudgeChannel on hold."

"Iggy!" She protested while throwing a pinecone at him.

He ducked and skipped away. "Why is it always pinecones!" He wondered aloud.

"Because you're not invisible." I said. He grinned, remembering the first time we found out Fang had invisibility and I'd chucked pinecones at him.

Wake squirmed and then reached up like a baby wanting to be picked up. "Now, Darling, would you mind carrying me to our castle? The unicorns and pegasus-things are awaiting us!" Wake joked.

Nudge giggled, and picked him up. "You'll be resting upon the royal throne we call the couch, while feasting on the royal meal we call Doritos."

"Sounds great, my love. Off into the sunset we ride! Onward soldiers!" He said while pointing to us.

Great. So now we have a kid like this to deal with and tend to while he rests up. Yippee.

This was going to be one fun job.


So... whatchya'll think!? Much better than the last chapter or two, in my opinion. Sorry, but I had to lead up to it! It had to get bad before I could make it get better!

Yay for the Faxness! Yay for Wake and Nudge (I don't like coming up with couple names, so ya'll can do that for me)! But poor Wake! Will he ever fly again? (giggles) You guys have no idea what's in store for him! Hahaha!

Anyway, thanks for continuing to read through that disturbing mess!

And... REVIEWS?! Pwease?