A/N Yay this is this story's first mile stone, the 10th chapter, I'm not sure how many weeks it's been since I started this story but it's wonderful that we've came this far, thank you for the support up until now and the next mile stone is 25 I guess, since I'm not sure how many chapters I'm planning. Sorry this is a little late, I had one busy week. Hope you enjoy this, and unfortunately I only got one suggestion for costumes, and it was that everyone should dress up as food, so let's see where I go with that idea, or where I don't, so enjoy this chapter. And here are a little words of wisdom from a Chihuahua, 'I may be small but I fight for something bigger, bigger than me, bigger than all of us.' Pappy from Beverly Hill's Chihuahua, yeah I so totally want to have my own talking dog.

"Fang'll be pissed if we leave him here alone."

"No he won't, he's a big boy, besides Loewy will kill us if we drag Fang away today."

"Shannon also said he hates Halloween, he always sulks around on holidays."

"Yeah he probably wants to be alone, that's how emo people are."

"Trick, Fang is not emo, he's more Goth like."

"I think he's a vampire."

"Anne there's no way Fang is a vampire!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Anne, Phoenix, Trick! Shut the hell up! You're gonna wake Fang!" I heard Shannon yell over the other voices.

I closed my eyes again, they sure are noisy, I thought, as if I can't hear you and haven't trained myself to pick up on even the smallest sounds, and wait, did they call me EMO?

"What are you babbling on about out here?" I yelled once I got the new crutches Loewy bought on, I was standing at the door to Trick's room, the one I've been forced to stay in since we got back yesterday, with no chance of getting out in the next hundred years 'till I heal up.

"Now look what you did Phoenix! You woke Fang up with that high-pitched girl voice of yours!" Anne commented and I knew I was in for a girl fight again.

"Oh, my voice is girly hey? You haven't even hit puberty yet!" Phoenix said confirming what I thought was going to happen.

"Fang, Loewy said you should stay in bed today, he thinks you're a danger to yourself." Shannon came up to me and laid her hand on my shoulder, trying to coax me back into the room and to the dreaded bed.

"I'm not a danger to myself, and I'm old enough to decide for myself whether or not I'm okay." I replied trying to push past everyone. Shannon didn't move and the others were too caught up in Anne and Phoenix's battle of insults.

"You are going back to bed right now, or I'll go and get Loewy to bandage you to that bed." Shannon ordered and one look at her face told me she wasn't bluffing.

"Whatever, but I'm doing my house arrest in the TV room on the couch." Okay, yeah I gave up to quickly but Loewy is a big guy and when he had to give me local anesthetic to stitch up my leg he had to sit on me to keep me still, so I know how big he is and how forceful.

I pushed past the last of the kids inconveniently placed in front of Trick's room and made my way to the TV room. When I got there I found Zouy, Echo, Will and Tyler sitting and watching some sitcom, they said 'hi' and I found my place on the couch.

"Shouldn't you be in Trick's room resting up?" Will asked during a commercial break.

"Not my boss." I answered, I really don't want to talk to Will the wonder kid.

"Okay whatever then."

We watched TV till about 10 the morning when Harry came up from the shop and got everyone together to organize teams to go buy Halloween costumes, I was forced to stay home and help carve pumpkins with the white coat, Loewy, Kat and Will.

Kat stayed because she wanted to carve pumpkins and hates going out, self-conscious and all, and Will took it on himself to protect me and Kat from whatever, isn't he sweet?

"They're going to come and save me you know, eventually and then you'll all be taken back." The White coat threatened again, he was boredly hollowing out a pumpkin in the back of Loewy's store, being closely watched by me and Kat. Will and Loewy helped me down stairs since I was threatening to do it by myself.

"Sure they are." Kat absentmindedly agreed while hollowing out her pumpkin.

"Why should I even help you carve these stupid pumpkins?" The white coat continued.

"We could have left you tied up in a closet upstairs if we wanted to." Kat replied again, she smiled sweetly at him and I wanted to laugh, the white coat's face got as pale as a sheet's.

"So Will's up front with Loewy?" I didn't look at Kat as I asked it, I kept my face expressionless and focused on the pumpkin I was carving.

"Jip, he's helping Loewy in the store, everyone wants to buy pumpkins for tonight so business is good, but you don't really like Will do you?" How does she do it, what happened to 'business is good'?

"Um, ha-ha what do you mean, I'm supposed to 'like' you all, I'm helping you aren't I?" I vigorously started carving out the pumpkin's eye into a scowl.

"I may not have Isabel's ability to read minds but even l know you don't believe what you just said." She answered.

"I don't even think I understood what you just said?" Yeah sure, act the dumbass.

"FANG? Really? I don't know whether it's this whole animal thing of me or that I'm just a girl, but my intuition is like a lie detector, don't act stupid, even Echo realizes you have a problem with Will." I think it's a combination of both. . .

"Where's Whatley?" I finally asked, this whole time I've been carving my pumpkin, not looking up, somewhere in the lecture and me avoiding it the white coat disappeared.

"Wait, what?" Kat yelled and jumped up, the pumpkin she'd been carving fell to the ground and smashed.

"Get your hat, we're going out." I ordered and got the crutches, I quickly got up and went to the door that lead into the store.

Kat followed me through the small store to the cash register where Will was busy ringing up a woman's pumpkin and apples. Loewy was outside the shop talking to a guy in a suit, laughing so loud I was sure people in Japan could hear him.

I scanned the shop before telling Will what was up, frankly I didn't want to tell him about it. Kat was right, I don't like Will, there's just something I don't like about him, it's not like I don't trust him, it's because I can trust him that I don't like him I guess. Whatley the white coat was nowhere in sight too, unfortunately.

I swallowed my pride and went up to Will, "Will, I have to talk to you."

"Sure thing, Kat can you take over the register for a while?" Will said all too nicely and moved out from behind the counter so that Kat could replace him.

"Sure, why not, I just love working with people." I heard Kat breath before she plastered a smile on her face and stepped behind the register.

I led Will upstairs hoping I'll see the white coat just sitting there in a seat in front of the TV before I had to tell will about my slip up, but he wasn't there and I could feel a head ache coming on.

"Will, we've got a problem, Whatley took off." I finally came out and said it.

"He what?" Will's face went from relaxed to shock to disbelief in a matter of seconds.

"He escaped somehow. We weren't looking and he left." I said calmly but inside I was yelling to the heavens for my stupidity, now I was asking for help from the reason we lost the white coat in the first place.

"Oh man this is bad, we have to tell Loewy." Will's face was now pulled in an expression you only see on, let's say, the groom who has to change the destination for the honeymoon on the day of his wedding after a tsunami took out the first place after a volcano erupted on the island. I could practically see how he was thinking over every possibility, and the scary thing was, that he seemed more of a leader than I was.

"No, we don't tell Loewy about it, if he knows he'll stress and think we can't handle things like this, just follow my lead." I said and I know I sounded like I had some plan daring and courageous plan but really I didn't, I was just planning on winging it.

"Okay, um hope your plan'll work then." He said halfheartedly and followed me down.

We reached the bottom of the stairs and found Kat standing nervously at the register, Loewy was coming in and Kat was looking at us for support.

"Yo Loewy, the shop's quiet now, can we go out and buy some candy for the trick-or-theaters tonight?" I said getting between Kat and Loewy. I tried a smile to show I felt better, but really if you know me a smile'll tell you I'm planning something and you'd better watch out or you'll die or get seriously injured.

"Yeah, we already locked Whatley up in Trick's room." Will added, catching on to my plan perfectly.

"And I'll make sure Fang doesn't get himself trampled by Halloween goers." Kat continued nervously, hopefully Loewy wouldn't think she's trying something, coz if she used that voice asking me for something I would have definitely known she was up to something. Loewy seemed not to notice her up-to-something voice.

"Right, then just be back at 2, capish?" He said and smiled. He moved to the side of the walkway giving me space to move past, I took this opening and made my way out, Will and Kat followed.

A few blocks away we spoke up for the first time. "Wow, so now that the easy part is over with, what're we going to do now to find him?" Will said, walking out in front of us.

"I'd say we go around to every back alley and shop and just look for the blond guy in a dirty, stinky white coat." I said and we went down the first alley.

After one hour and 45 minutes we were no closer to finding him, buying the supposed candy we set out to buy, or to Loewy's shop, and since it was an hour and 15 minute's walk back and we only had half an hour until we were supposed to be back, we turned around.

On our way back we stopped at a little candy shop place and got the standard Halloween candy; suckers, little candy bars and gum.

"No sorry sir, we can't let the public use our phone, there's a pay phone just up the street." We heard the lady behind the cash register say, she was talking to a strange blond guy in a dirty white coat. And yes, in the front of the shop standing in front of her was Joshua Whatley.

"I'm telling you I have to use your phone, I've had the worst few days of my life, I've been kidnapped by a bunch of kids, locked up in small spaces, forced to work for a big Italian produce stand person and being fed scraps of food. A man can't live like that." He pleaded and told her his story, and listening to it like this, made me realize just how unbelievable everything he's been through sounded, and he didn't even add the part where he's been working for dogs and that the kids who kidnapped him had wings.

"Sir, you're holding up the line, and if you don't leave now I'll be forced to call security." The woman replied calmly.

"B-but you have to believe me!" He continued.

Kat, Will and me watched the events unfold, not wanting to ruin it we hid behind a few shelves while we looked on as the security guard came to take Whatley out, he pleaded all the way out as they dragged him out onto the sidewalk and dumped him there.

We left Kat to go and pay for the candy and went out after Whatley before he could get up and move on to the next shop.

We walked up to Whatley and he was too preoccupied with getting the garbage bags off of him and brushing some dirt off, that he didn't notice us standing in front of him.

"We have come for you Joshua." Will said channeling his inner creeper, I could hear how Will was trying to hold back his laugh, I had to admit I had to focus on not laughing too.

Whatley slowly looked up as if he was being faced with a monster and by moving he would bring on his death quicker, but I could see it was beginning to dawn on him that he was caught.

He swiftly jumped up and caught us by surprise and ran off down the street.

"After him!" I yelled the order to Will but before I could finish I saw Will was already running after him. I truly hoped he remembered not to use his full speed, teenagers aren't known to run the same speed as Cheetahs.

Kat came out of the shop with her two bags of sweets and saw Will running and she clicked before I had to tell her what was up. She handed the two bags over to me, and by that I mean totally surprising me and throwing them at me leaving me standing on one leg in front of a New York candy store. Kat ran into the other direction, probably planning on cutting Whatley off somewhere.

I placed the bags over the hand holds of the crutches and quickly followed Kat at full speed.

I was surprisingly fast with the crutches and heavy bags, and luckily people on the streets stayed out of my way.

Well that's until I rounded a corner and ran straight into someone.

I hit the person with enough force to knockdown Chuck Norris and landed on the ground with the person on top of me. Don't ask me how that happened.

"Watch where you run, dumbass!" The girl yelled, her eyes were closed and she was rubbing her head.

Her shining light brown hair was standing wild on her head and she had a scowl on her face, even without her eyes open I knew her eyes where the same color as barfed up chocolate. And in her bag I knew was chocolate chip cookies she just bought from the bakery she came out from. The smell of it hung in the air around us.

This girl on top of me was beyond the shadow of a doubt, Maximum Ride.

I quickly pulled my hoody over my head and tried to get my things and stand up as fast as possible, which was hard to do with a girl on top of you while you have a hurt leg and trying to hide your identity from her.

"What's your problem idiot?" She yelled when I didn't give a response.

She reached over me for her bag, her hair was inches from my face, wait did it get longer?

She reached her bag and got off of me, I took this opportunity and jumped up before she could see my face.

"Sorry, didn't look." I said masking my voice, I reluctantly hobbled away even though I really wanted to stay and be with her.

"Okay, whatever." She got up and left into the other direction.

What is she doing here? Is the Flock here with her? Did she notice anything? Is something going to happen here? Does she know I'm here? Did Dyl-

"Great I found you Fang! Will found Whatley!" Kat yelled when she suddenly appeared in front of me, she was smiling widely and almost jumping up and down.

I looked around and saw Max standing still, she was about to turn around, she probably heard Kat yell.

I pushed Kat behind a wall and jumped against the wall too.

"What's up with you?" Kat asked innocently and then her face turned red when we both realized how close we were.

"Nothing, um just thought I saw an Eraser or something, probably just an extremely large dog or an ugly hobo." I lied nervously.

"Oh, okay that's what I thought, there's no way you, and I and here and um yeah let's go find um, Will and Whatley. I think they're waiting. . ." She blushed even redder which made me sort of blush.

Before we left the safety of the wall I checked the last place I saw her and when it was clear, we walked.

"What took you guys?" Will asked jokingly as we met him and a very pissed white coat.

"Um, nothing, we just well um . . ." Kat began and blushed for the third time when she couldn't think of a good excuse.

"You know, we don't really have time for this here, tell me later 'kay?" Will said saving me and Kat from an embarrassing explanation. But he was right, we had to move it.

Later that afternoon we made it back about 45 minutes late, Loewy gave us an angry sideways scowl but said nothing. We managed to get Whatley into Trick's room without Loewy's knowing and did it before the others came back.

The first group to be back and show us their costumes was Shannon's group consisting of herself, Isabel, Aria, Phoenix and Echo. Shannon dressed up as a pirate, Phoenix as a witch, Echo as a little dragon, Aria as a vampire and Isabel as a very Gothic vampire slayer. Echo looked too cute, I had to admit. After they got their costumes on, they helped us carve pumpkins upstairs this time.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm looking forward to getting candy from strangers tonight!" Isabel said fixing her plastic crossbow securely to her arm, she smiled an up-to-something smile which I chose to ignore.

"Yeah! Maybe we'll get lucky and a creepy kidnap van pulls up and a bunch of werewolf wannabes tried to snag one of us!" Aria commented sarcastically.

"Good thing we're not too old for this." Shannon added just as sarcastically. They all laughed and talked about what they were going to do and what lines they were going to use to get candy.

During the course of the afternoon the others came back and showed us their costumes. Harry dressed up as a murder victim, lots of fake blood and a knife going thru his head. Tempest dressed up as a vampire too, much to Aria's annoyance, but it was really cool that both white haired bird kid's dressed the same, they didn't like the but after Kat explained that it meant they were like sisters or something, they liked the idea. Maddie dressed up as a Gothic fairy while Zouy went with a super hero costume.

Anne dressed up as a ninja and Trick went with a grim reaper outfit complete with plastic scythe. Ty lost a bet with Harry and ended up wearing a banana suite.

After we finished with the last of the pumpkins, the kids broke up into groups again for the night's trick-or-treating. Harry was leader of the first group with, against our better judgment, Anne, Phoenix, Trick, Echo and Tyler. Shannon took Isabel, Aria, Tempest, Zouy and Maddie. They had a little compotition on about who could get the most candy. Kat, Will and me stayed home to hand out candy to anyone who came to Loewy's shop.

We also decided since we didn't have costumes we could dress up as mutants, Kat could be a cat person, Will and me could be angels, we also decided to wear masks for added effect. The masks were my idea, if Max and the others decided to pop by for trick-or-treating, which Gazzy and Iggy would most probably persuade her to do, I wasn't going to get caught unprepared.

The night went okay, I got complaints from a kid's mom coz I wasn't nice and growled at the kid, but other than that it went by okay. Kat enjoyed handing out candy to kids, she likes kids by the way. Will on the other hand looked edgy the whole time.

Me and Kat waited up until everyone came back and Will used a stupid excuse that he was tired and went to bed early.

Everyone came back in one piece and laughed all the way to bed, each one had their own story and pranks they pulled, Isabel 'accidently' TP'ed a cop car and had to run away fast.

After I acted as if everything was funny I used Will's excuse and went to bed too.

Lying in bed I couldn't shake Max's face from my thoughts and I couldn't get over the question of what she was doing here in New York?

After about an hour of thinking I must have dozed off. . .

I dreamed again I was on the mountain again, everything under me was white and everything above me blue.

I was wearing a loose fitting black outfit. I looked around me and there was no one, nothing but me and the mountain.

'Hello? Someone out there?' I yelled out, knowing someone will be coming along, that's how dreams like these work, don't they?

'Yo, you enjoyed seeing her today didn't you?' The person said, slowly I turned around and was face to face with myself.

'Oh, you again, were's Max?' I asked, remembering every time I had these dreams Max would be the first person I'd see.

'She's in New York, you saw her there yourself didn't ya?' The other me replied.

'Cut the crap, what do you want?'

'Nothin', or at least nothin' this time, but you got a visitor. . .' He said and just like that, the other me disappeared into thin air, like he was smoke and the wind blew him away.

I turned around into the direction the other me pointed and there, walking toward me was Will.

'Hey Fang.' He greeted.

'What are you doing here? Did you see him?' I asked gesturing behind me to where the other Fang stood a few moments ago.

'Fang I'm sorry I have to tell you this, here of all places. . .' Will began and paused taking a long breath, 'but I have to say good bye to you and the others, there's something I have to do.'

'Wait, what do you mean, this is just a dream?' I was dumbfounded.

'I mean I have to go, in these last few days I've seen what you can do, you're a great leader and you can take care of everyone, I can't really say why I'm going but there's someone I have to find. And how I'm doing this, it's my power, I can 'enter' dreams, no one in the army knows about it. I'm sorry I'm doing this to you, please tell the others good bye for me, and look after them, tell them I'm sorry, please, and don't try and find me.' He said and I could swear I saw tears in his eyes.

'What do you mean?'

'I can't tell you now, but good luck, there are big things coming and Max'll need you at your best. . .' and as he said the last line everything around me started to fade and become less solid.

'Wait, how do you know about Max?' I yelled out to Will but he was fading too.

Suddenly I felt myself fall into nothingness. Everything around me was gone.

I woke up on the ground next to my bed with Tyler and Harry looking at me strangely.

"Are you alright?" Harry asked in a whisper, in my peripheral vision I could see Will's sleeping bag in the corner where he usually slept, there was a person shaped lump in the sleeping bag and I knew Will was gone and didn't want anyone to realize it.

"Yeah, bad dream." I lied and awkwardly climbed back into the bed.

Tyler whipped at his face, yawned and went back to sleep. Harry looked at me a bit longer and then went back to sleep himself. I looked over at where Trick slept and saw his place was empty, he was probably on guard duty tonight.

This time lying awake in bed I had more questions, Max showing up in New York and Will ditching us all in one day just didn't add up.

I passed out again after a few hours of thinking about everything, we didn't even have a next move yet.

Fang out.

A/N Thank you for waiting patiently for this chapter, had troubles with my laptop and lost the first chapter 10, so I had to do half of it over again. What was Max doing in New York? How does Will know about Max, why did he leave? Will Fang figure everything out? When will Whatley try and escape again? Why does Fang keep having these dreams? Is there romance in the air? And what will Loewy cook up next? The answers to these and other questions will be answered in the next action packed installments of LEXISRUSH's non AWARD WINNING story, FANG'S ARMY!