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Chapter 10: Overpowered and Helpless
"You might as well knock her out and use a turkey baster to get her pregnant." Dr. Martinez fumed. "It would save you all of this trouble.
"Yes, I thought about that, but with all of the recent publicity, the press is bound to find out about it. It would be considered a scandal! The world would boycott the park in protest! I'd be ruined! This way is 'the natural way'. That would be more appealing to the public." Jeb replied smoothly in a businesslike manner, like this was a simple subject.
Oh, but it was quite the opposite of simple. The world as everyone knew it would come crashing down in a matter of minutes.
"Ari," Jeb said, making sure that his beefy son and his thugs were in position. The thugs behind the Examination room door were ready too.
Currently, Jeb, Dr. Martinez, Ari, and two of Ari's goons were in the Examination room; with the wall separating the Aviatory from the Examination room retracted completely into the ceiling.
"Dr. Martinez, if you would do the honors." Jeb said quietly.
Dr. Martinez's hand was shaking as she took the little silver whistle from around her neck and raised it up to her mouth. She really didn't want to do this. Max would never trust her again. And what little trust Fang had in her would be completely gone, forever.
"Did you forget how to blow the whistle?" Jeb asked. Dr. Martinez scowled and wanted to say a few choice words to him about what exactly she could do with that whistle, but kept her mouth shut.
She firmly put the whistle in her mouth and blew in it a few times. It meant 'Come'.
Dr. Martinez was a tough woman. It took a lot to make her cry; but she was tearing up as she heard the flapping of their huge wings and the birdlike twittering of Max and Fang's speech that only bird-humans could understand. She was betraying them, and leading Max into a mess that would ruin her life.
Max and Fang walked into the Examining room, Max's mouth quirked up in a smirk and Fang was as stoic as ever. Then they saw the group of people waiting for them. Max stepped backward and turned to run and Fang was in a fighting stance, challenging anyone to take him on. He wouldn't let anyone near Max.
Then, Max saw Fang, and got into fighting stance too. Fang chirped at Max sharply. Max twittered back with a shadow of determination in her voice.
Fang had said, "No, go. I'll cover for you, and you take off and get into the air. I'll follow."
"I can handle myself! We'll both fight, and take off when it's clear." Max retorted. Fang was emotionless, but Max could tell that he wasn't happy. He wanted to make sure that she was safe.
"Hey," Max barked at him. His head snapped to her attention. His long shaggy black bangs swished over his obsidian eyes.
"I'll be fine. Besides, I had a great teacher." Max said in a softer tone. Fang gave her one of those half-smiles of his that made her world a little bit brighter.
A loud snap penetrated through the moment. Jeb had loudly snapped his fingers and Ari grinned wolfishly as he cracked his knuckles and lumbered toward Max and Fang. His two goons followed. Ari reached into his pocket and pulled something that Max and Fang couldn't see. It had to be really small.
The guards walked closer and closer, finally, one good lunged toward Fang. Fang sidestepped and Max swiped his offending arm away with a swift kick. Another good tried to swipe Fang's feet and knock him over, but Fang jumped up and kicked the guy in the chest, then used the impact as a springboard and twirled backwards in an aerial flip before landing on his feet and smirking.
The guy that Fang had kicked was sprawled out on the floor, gasping for breath, but moaning about the ribs that Fang had broken.
Both Ari and the other guard charged at Fang, the nameless guard diving to take out Fang's feel and Ari spread his beefy arms out at neck level so to grab Fang in a death grip.
Max noticed that the guards weren't attacking her at all. They wanted Fang. Max was too busy deciding which guy to tackle before they harmed Fang to notice that the goon on the ground.
The stooge on the ground had silently flicked out a switchblade and in a flash of stainless steel; he sliced a cut into Max's right calf. Max yelped in surprise in pain. The cut wasn't too deep, but would require a stitch or two.
Max's cry of pain made Fang involuntarily look over at her to make sure that she was alright. That was all that Ari needed. Ari seized Fang and pinned his arms to his sides. Fang violently struggled, but Ari tightened his grip like a python every time Fang moved. The other guy who lunged at Fang's feet stood up, grinning devilishly as He grabbed on to Fang's legs. Fang couldn't stay standing with the weight of two huge burly men clinging on to him.
Fang tilted and crashed on to the ground, smacking his head on to the hard cement floor. Fang had double vision. The room was spinning and there was a blinding pain on the back of his head where he had crashed on it against the floor. Fang struggled as much as he could, despite the pain in his head. Ari had moved aside so now only the other hefty guard was keeping him pinned to the floor. What was Ari about to do?
Fang knew one thing, if he so much as touched Max, he was going to wish that he was never born. Fang looked over at Max. The cut on her leg was dripping blood, but other than that, she was fine. Well, except for the fact that the guard that Fang had knocked over was now making sure that Max didn't get any closer to Fang.
The guard was only acting defensively and wasn't attacking Max. Then, it hit Fang like a train. They didn't want Max, they wanted him. And that was fine by him, as long as Max didn't get hurt in the process.
"Max," Fang managed. "Go, leave! They don't want you, they want me! Go!"
"No!" Max growled. "I'm not leaving you!" Max made a frantic swipe at the guard that was blocking her from reaching Fang, but he only blocked her blow.
"You have to, I can handle myself!" Fang said, mimicking her words from before. "I'll catch up later, just go!" Fang shouted.
Max turned around to flee, which she hated, but Fang wouldn't take no for an answer. No one tried to stop her as she ran to the woods in the Aviatory. She looked back at Fang to see Ari jab something into Fang's struggling arm. Fang struggled for a moment more, and then went slack.
She was about to run back to get Fang, but the wall separating the Aviatory from the Examination room was rapidly closing. Max sprinted to the Examination room, but it was too late. The wall slammed shut.
She beat against the wall, furious with herself. How could she have just left him? She should have stayed and tried to free him! She felt like she had betrayed him. She would never forgive herself if anything went wrong.
Then, a thought crossed her mind. Maybe it was just a check-up. Dr. Martinez had to knock her out to do some examinations. Maybe that's what they were doing to Fang now. Max could only wait to see if Fang would emerge.
Max took off and flew to the waterfall, a place where they both enjoyed. It was the first place that they had really talked to one another. It was the first place where had they kissed.
She would wait for Fang there.
Meanwhile, back in the Examination room, Fang was truly unconscious.
"That was enough tranquilizer to put an elephant to sleep for an hour. That should keep him quiet and stop him from interfering for a few hours at least." Jeb said gloatingly. Sure, like he'd done anything. Dr. Martinez is the one who prepared the tranquilizer dart. It was a tiny dart, yes, but it would keep Fang asleep for at least four hours. That was more than enough time for Dylan to come in and destroy Max's life.
Ari and his two beat up guards stood up. Ari kicked Fang brutally in the ribs when he thought that no one was looking.
"Now, tell the guards out in the hall that they can bring him in." Jeb said quickly to Ari. Ari marched out the door. In a moment, he returned with two different guards hot on his tail, hauling Dylan behind them. Dylan was struggling, but watched with cold, calculating eyes as the wall retracted into the ceiling and he could see out into the Aviatory. Dylan merely glanced at Fang's dark, unconscious form before looking at the Aviatory once more.
The guards let Dylan loose and without a second thought, Dylan sprinted out the door. He already knew where Max was. It was like he could sense her presence. He just knew that she was by the waterfall.
"I think that you can handle matters from here, Dr. Martinez. Ari and the rest of the guards will be in the lounge and I will be in my office. Just watch him to see if he stirs. If he does, which won't happen; just give him another shot of tranquilizer." Jeb said.
"Yeah, that would be wonderful. If I did that, he might never wake up! This is elephant tranquilizer! I didn't even want to use this stuff. Besides, let him wake up. Maybe he'll help Max." Dr. Martinez murmured, out of Jeb's range of hearing.
Without another word, Jeb strode out of the room with his muscular posy of guards following him close behind; Ari included.
Dr. Martinez watched Fang, feeling worse than she had in a long time.
Fang's eyes darted restlessly and occasionally, he's twitter something and for the millionth time, Dr. Martinez wished that she understood his language.
Meanwhile, in the Aviatory, Dylan had found the waterfall and saw Max, staring at the waterfall crashing into the pool below it.
"Nice view, isn't it?" Dylan said to Max, striding into the open. Max's head whipped around. Her blond streaks shone into the afternoon sun.
"Who are you?" Max asked in a voice harsher than she'd intended.
"I'm Dylan." He replied, now standing right in front of her. He was wearing a blue shirt that fit him tightly and showed off his flawless muscles. He wore loose fitting blue jeans. He too was also barefooted. Max forced herself not to stare or to let her jaw drop in amazement.
This Dylan guy was gorgeous. His sandy blond hair was perfectly shaggy and not overly unkempt. It looked like he messed it up on purpose, and it looked amazing. He had faultless bronze skin and his Caribbean blue eyes were open and perfectly readable, unlike Fang's emotionless, dark eyes.
"I… uh, why can I understand you?" Max said, feeling stupid for stuttering like that. Her cheeks turned the lightest shade of pink.
"I don't know. Maybe because of this." Dylan said. He rolled his shoulders back and two massive, broad white wings came into view. He had wings.
"Could… could you turn around?" Max asked faintly. She was so mixed up with her emotions that she couldn't even think straight.
Dylan turned around slowly. Max saw that the gigantic white wings were definitely attached to his back. He was a real bird-teen. Fang wasn't the only one like her after all. But the real question was; what was Dylan doing here?
"Why are you here?" Max asked him, melting into his beautiful blue eyes. She liked how he wasn't hiding anything from her. He was like an open book. It was a nice change from what she was used to. "Are you a new addition to the show?"
"Well," Dylan started as he sat down on the same boulder that Max was currently seated on. "I'm here for you."
Before Max could even process that statement, Dylan was on top of her.
"Hey!" Max protested as she struggled. She couldn't wriggle free. Yes, she was amazingly strong, but he wasn't a human. He was an avian-human too; and he was a lot stronger than she was. He was built for brawn, and she was built for flight. She fought as hard as she could but Dylan had her arms pinned to the grassy ground, and he kept her legs still.
"What do you think you're doing? Let me go!" Max shouted. Dylan smiled, flashing his unflawed white teeth in a sneer. It was horrible. "No. You're mine. All mine." Dylan whispered. He started to un do the button on her shorts as he forced his mouth on to hers. She rammed her head on to his and He growled curses at her, but stopped kissing her.
That's when Max screamed.
I'm sorry. I would've written more, but I'm really tired. I'm falling asleep as I type this. I'll update ASAP. Please, I'll update again if you guys review.