No one's P.O.V
I looked around the dark room I was captured in; the collar remained around my neck. I tried breathing but it was insufficient, I looked around for something to use to break out of the cage I was in. An idea ruptured my mind, "It's worth a try." I thought. I half morphed into my Eraser form, taking my long claws I tried to pick lock the cage lock. The collar shocked me again but I had grown accustom to its pain, I was able to unlock the cage. Climbing out I hid in the shadows of the room, I was alone but just in case someone came in I didn't want to be seen. I inched towards the door; I looked out the small window. I saw that the hall was clear; I quietly opened the door and snuck down the white hall. I didn't remember what room the Flock was in, I peeked through each of the windows. Then I saw Ari, he was emerging from one of the rooms. As soon as he did a swarm of white coats appeared and flooded the room, Ari disappeared as the men came out.
I gasped at what I saw, the others, the Flock, was being dragged out of the room unconscious. I followed with my eyes as they went out some double doors, when they disappeared I followed. Sneaking out the doors I hid in the bushes by the front of the building, listening closely and observing what was happening. My gaze widened as I realized Angel was missing; she wasn't in the large cage with the others. I scowled as I saw a bald, ugly, green eyed man approach the cage as the others came too.
"It is time vor you to die." The bald man inquired.
"No one is dying on my watch!" Max protested.
"Where's Angel?!" Nudge shouted.
"De little vne is being spared, the five of you are at your end." He replied.
White coats with guns approached the cage, each of them aimed at the Flock. I fully morphed into an Eraser, "No one's killing my friends!" I shouted in my thoughts. I charged out of the bushes after releasing a blood curdling snarl, people in white lab coats fled and screamed as I appeared. Some of them aimed their guns at me but I dodged their bullets, I tackled each of the gunmen to the ground. I stood again and ran towards the cage; I tried slashing it with my claws. The bars didn't break; I latched my teeth onto the steel bars trying to get it open. I was being shocked but I ignored the pain, the shock became more and more painful causing me to cry out.
"Amaya! You're alive!" The others, except Fang, Shouted.
"I'll bust you guys out, just hold on!" I announced.
"Behind you!" Gazzy shouted.
I spun around only to have a bullet nearly hit me, I pounced onto the shooter. Then suddenly out of nowhere I was struck in the back of the head, I stumbled but maintained my balance. I spun around and searched for my attacker, I saw five other white coats appear. I put up a good fight but was thrown into the cage with the others, my back slammed against the bars as everyone moved to avoid me hitting them. I was shocked again by the collar, this time it being on death shock. I refused to scream, I refused to show pain. I grinded my teeth as the pain subsided, I propped myself on my elbow and took a ridged gasping breath. I looked up as the cage was surrounded by people with guns; I snarled and tried to attack them from inside the cage. The guns clicked and the white coats prepared to fire, then a loud bang sounded.
"Angel!" Max shouted. Angel stood on top of the cage with a bar in her hand; she was trying to bang a hole in the top of the cage to get us out. I realized that she wasn't alone, there I saw Ari fully morphed into an Eraser attacking the white coats. He was keeping them away from the cage while Angel tried busting us out; I jumped up and down pounding against the ceiling of the cage to help break it. Once it was broken we all jumped into the air, Angel followed us while Max was watching the scattering people below. When we got about one hundred feet off the ground I was shocked again, this time more painfully than ever before. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed. After a minute of being shocked I lost altitude and plummeted to the ground, "Catch her!" Angel called. I felt myself fall into someone's arms; I couldn't see anything because everything had gone black.
/\/\ax's P.O.V
"Ari catch her!" I shouted as Amaya fell. Ari was right below her otherwise I would have flown down and grabbed her; Ari caught her which made me sigh in relief. Ari flew up to meet us; he held Amaya out so one of us could take her. I grabbed her but found that she was really heavy, Fang flew closer to me and grabbed her. Iggy helped him since he was having problems too, since her wings were out it made her heavier. The rest of the flock moved to fly off, Ari remained behind. I felt so bad for him; he was only seven years old.
"Ari wait." I said before he left.
"What is it Max?" He asked in a sad voice.
"You don't have anywhere else to go, so come with us." I answered.
"What?!" Everyone, save Angel and Amaya, shouted.
"Ah-ah!" Amaya shouted as she was shocked again.
"We have to get this thing off her, if not it'll fry her!" Gazzy exclaimed.
"Get her away from the school, the transmitter won't be able to connect with the collar." Ari said.
"Flock let's go!" I called flying east.
We flew for a while then landed in some mountains; as soon as we did touch down Amaya fell to the ground. She wasn't breathing or moving, we all surrounded her trying to get the collar off of her neck. No matter how hard we pried at the green and black collar, it wouldn't budge. Ari put his hand on my shoulder; Fang suddenly shot up and smashed Ari against a tree.
"Keep your hands off her!" He shouted.
"Fang calm down he didn't do anything wrong!" I shouted.
He only grumbled then backed off; Ari came back over and knelt next to Amaya. He went half Eraser and slashed the collar; the electronic shocking devise fell from her neck. All around her neck where the collar had burnt patches of skin, some of the skin was cut and bloody. "Get something we can use as bandages." I told Angel who was next to me. After we got Amaya's neck tended to Fang dragged me away from the others, an enraged look on his face.
"Why the hell is he with us?" He demanded.
"He has nowhere to go Fang; if he doesn't come with us then he'll die alone." I replied.
"Let him, he tried to kill us over a million times!" Fang shouted throwing his arms in the air.
"He's seven years old you jerk!" I snapped. "He's going to die soon, let him at least let him enjoy his last few days."
Fang's face get even madder, "Chose, me or him." He scowled.
"Fang don't even bring up that." I growled.
"No I want you to choose, either he goes or I go." He snarled.
"You jerk don't you even have a heart, he helped Angel break us out, he helped us save Amaya from become bird kid alamode, he filled me in on some stuff at the school, heck he even saved your butt from being shot to bits!"
"Oh so you don't remember the beach, when he nearly killed me? Even after I protected you you're still going to side with that killer?!"
"We let Amaya stay with us didn't we she's an Eraser too, do you want to accuse her of murder too?!"
"Don't try and change the subject, right now there is now Amaya. There's no Iggy, Angel, Nudge, or Gasman. There's only Me, you and Ari now pick which of us is staying!"
I slapped him across the face, he didn't even seem fazed. He only got madder. He shoved past me and snapped out his black wings, shooting into the sky he flew off. I ignored him or tried to at least, I looked over at the others still kind of crowed around Amaya's unconscious body. "Max, Amaya's waking up!" Nudge called. I ran over and saw her eyes open; she started coughing and held her bandaged throat. "What happened?" She asked holding her head. Then she saw Ari next to her, she screamed and backed away from him.
"What the hell are you doing here?" She demanded.
"Amaya calm down, he's with us." I told her.
She glared at Ari for a while; she glanced at me then stood up. She winced from the pain in her neck and walked off; she went and sat next to Iggy not taking her eyes off Ari.
"Where's Fang?" She asked noticing he wasn't here.
"Don't know, went for a solo fly I guess." I answered not wanting to talk about him.
"Has he been gone long?" She wondered.
"Ten maybe fifteen minutes, why?" I replied.
"Something's nearby, I can sense five objects moving towards us." She responded looking around.
"Get ready to leave guys, Amaya you go and try to find Fang, Angel you go with her." I ordered.
"On it." Amaya said stepping forward then leaping into the air.
She had gotten so strong since we first met her, I was rubbing off on her I guess. Angel followed behind her as she circled then flew off, she flew in the direction Fang had gone in. I rallied the others together and we leaped into the air, keeping an eye out for Amaya's sensed danger.
"Angel, tell Amaya to meet us at the front of the city after she finds Fang." I thought, hoping Angel would hear it.
"Okay Max, Max…something's wrong with Amaya." She responded.
"Why would you say that sweetie?" I wondered.
"Her thoughts, She doesn't like the fact that Ari is with us. But since you said he was with us then everything would be alright, that you wouldn't let him hurt any of us."
"Angel…its fine. Ari and Amaya didn't exactly get along, you heard what she said when she that he abused her."
"I guess so, I think we just found Fang!"
"Alright, I want the three of you back here safe and sound."
"Okay Max."
No one's P.O.V
Angel and I spotted Fang in a tree about seven miles from our previous location, We landed at the base of the tree. "Fang come on, we're leaving!" I called from below. He didn't respond to us, after even Angel tried calling him down I made a decision. "Angel stay down here, I'm gonna go knock some sense into him." I told her. She nodded and went to sit on a rock, I leaped into the air and landed on the branch he was sitting on. His back was pressed against the tree, his arms were crossed over his chest and he glared at me.
"We're leaving, Max sent us to come get you." I told him.
"Let her go, I'm not following." He growled.
"Oh yes you are, and if you don't I'll gladly drag you there!" I snapped.
"Tsk…I'd love to see you try." He muttered.
I scowled at him, I grabbed him by the wrist and yanked him out of the tree. I had a death grip on his wrist so he wasn't going anywhere, unless he wanted to have a broken wrist. He didn't move from his spot on the tree, I kicked him in the shin then jumped into the air. "Angel, let's go!" I called from above. She jumped off of her rock and unfurled her white wings, she flew alongside me as I continued to drag Fang along. He had his wings out and was flapping above me, seeing as how I was still holding his wrist.
"Max said to meet her at the front of the city right?" Angel asked.
"That's right." I replied.
"Are you going to let go of me?" Fang grumbled.
"Not until we get back to Max and everyone else." I answered.
"There they are!" Angel called pointing to a group of people below.
When we touched down I released Fang, he rubbed his wrist and scowled at me. I scowled back at him then looked at the others, Ari was in the back watching some birds fly. He looked so innocent and kind, appose from being bloodthirsty and ravenous. I shook my head and went to stand with the others, away from both Ari and Fang. I could feel the tension between them, mainly radiating from Fang. I wondered where we were headed off to, then I remembered Terrance. "Wait, we still haven't found Terrance yet!" I announced. Everyone looked at me, including Ari.
"Who's Terrance?" He asked.
"My brother…we were separated but he's appeared in my dreams lately. In the last dream I had he said he was in L.A. in some institute." I explained.
"Amaya." Max said stepping forward and putting her hand on my shoulder. "Right now we have to get to somewhere safe, the white coats will track us down if we stay."
"We have to find him Max, he's my brother!" I shouted smacking her hand away.
"Amaya I know but-" She tried to say.
"No you don't know!" I cut her off. "What if it was your brother hidden away somewhere, what if it was your brother who might die if we don't save him?! We came here to find him, and I won't leave until I do…he might be the only family I have left."
"Amaya listen, right now we have to go. I promise we'll come back when it's safe, we will find your brother." She assured.
"Fine, whatever." I growled walking away.
"Where are we going?" Gazzy asked.
"Right now let's just focus on getting away from here, maybe find a cave or something to lay low in." She replied.
"I'm going ahead." I said shooting into the air.
I flapped my grey wings, I was totally pissed and broken. My soul mission was to come here and find my brother, now we're just supposed to up and leave? I landed and decided to take a breath, I tucked my wings in and paced the ground. I tried getting my head cleared but I was still boiling inside, I punched a tree and watched it fall. I widened my eyes in shock, I looked down at my hand…not even a scratch. "What the hell did I just do?" I asked aloud. I looked back at the fallen tree and shook my head, I jumped back into the air and rammed into something. I looked up and saw Gazzy, he had nearly fallen to the ground but I grabbed him before he could.
"Gazzy what's wrong?" I asked seeing the shock on his face.
"Ari and Fang are fighting, Max tried to break them up but she can't! We need your help!" He informed me.
"Let's go, they'll kill each other." I said flying after him.
We flew at nearly a hundred miles an hour, I soon spotted the group below. Ari and Fang were in a brawl, though I could clearly see Ari wasn't fighting back. I landed and smashed a small hole into the ground, everyone stopped and looked at me.
"What the hell is going on?!" I demanded at Ari and Fang.
"I thought you flew off?" Fang sneered.
"I did, why are you picking a fight with someone who isn't fighting back?" I answered his question with a question.
"None of your business." He said going back to attacking Ari.
Fang pinned him down and started choking him, Max went in to stop Fang but he pushed her off.
"Knock the hell off!" I shouted pulling Fang off.
He slid back about a foot away from us, Ari sat up and started coughing.
"What the hell is your problem?!" I demanded.
"He is-" Fang tried to answer.
"No you know what, everything is your problem! You're being an asshole and picking a fight, I saw it from up above. Ari wasn't even fighting you off, you're being an ass for two reasons. (1) For fighting him." I paused and pointed at Max, who was now standing. "(2) Because you treated someone clearly important to you like garbage, when she was trying to help you!"
"Why are you defending him?!" Fang shouted.
"Yeah, why are you?" Ari asked from behind me.
I looked down back at him, he was looming over behind me. I was surprised and jumped away from him; I stayed strong not showing any fear. I turned to walk off but I looked back at him, "I'm not defending you, I'm preventing you from getting pounded in the face." I answered.
"Where are we going?" I asked Max.
"We'll head east, and look for somewhere to lay low for a while." She replied.
"I'm going ahead." I sighed jumping into the air.
"Amaya wait!" Max called flying after me.
"What!" I snapped.
"What's wrong with you, you haven't been your usual self lately?" She asked.
"I don't know, I've got so much going through my head and…not being able to find Terrance…" My voice trailed off.
"Amaya I know you're upset, I promise we'll find your brother. But right now we need to focus on keeping everyone safe, I need you to be on my side on this one." Max explained.
"I am on your side Max, it's just…Terrance is all I have as a real family." I chocked on my tears.
"Let's go back to everyone else, we'll all get some down time and get things straightened out tomorrow." She suggested putting her arm around my shoulder comfortably.
"Alright." I agreed flying back to the others.
Once everyone was back together we flew to this cabin resort that was closed, meaning no one was occupying the cabins. Once we got some food in our stomachs Max asked who was taking first watch, Ari offered. Max glanced at Fang, who didn't glance back. Then she gazed at me, I shrugged. "I'll stay up too, keep an eye on him." I said with my eyes. Max nodded then everyone slept in the living room, I sat on the window sill looking outside. Ari was watching the others, a sad look on his face. I was really starting to question whether he was really evil, or if he had really changed? I turned my gaze back to the black outside world, not having a clue what to think. What the hell is going on? Morning came with some surprising news, "I'm going my own way, anyone wanting to tag along is welcome." Fang announced. We all looked at him in shock, all except for Max, who looked at the ground. We were all outside the cabin, everyone was silent not moving.
Just what the hell is going on here?