Oh my frickin' gosh I have 19 reviews! I am really HAPPY! Anyway some of the reviews have commented on how fast I'm getting these up. I'd just like to let you know that it's not because I'm a fast writer, it's more of I've been working on this for a while and I've only recently got onto fanfiction and up loaded the damn thing, BUT I am now motivated to write as much as possible in my free time. So stick with me, it's not over yet!

I'd like to give thanks to Mayu Jun, Jisa, Akemi Tsuki Hikari, crimson angel3579 and Phantom Thief Angel who have given me reviews so far. The rest of you WHY HAVEN'T YOU REVIEWED!! Heres chapter 10. Enjoy peeps.

Parked not to far from a large, old cobbled wall was a common like van. What made it uncommon was that it was completely black and had the best surveillance system installed in the back. At the wheel was the driver, who was wearing a police uniform and waiting patiently for orders from the young commander in the back.

Satoshi was observing the compound through the television screens that took up one side of the van and tapping a button now and again to switch to another camera. The gardens which cameras had been strategically placed around, was silent and empty; apart from the police officers that were patrolling the grounds. At least four cameras were focused on the statue in the centre.

The statue was of the great Greek God Poseidon, dressed in a simple robe and had his hand raised in the air with his triton within his grasp. The triton was made out of metal which was painted gold and silver. On the triton blade, just below the middle fork was a dark blue jewel which is rumoured to be made of sapphire. Carved into the jewel surface was a spiral like pattern which is said to glow on nights when the moon is full. This is the artefact that Dark warned he would obtain, called 'The Eye of the Sea.'

Satoshi checked his watch, noting there was 10 minutes to go before the appointed time.

'You seem tense' said a voice from the shadows.

Satoshi smirked and turned to address the speaker.

'After countless failed attempts to capture Dark and having my father down my neck each time, you would be too'

'Hmmm'

Fang moved forward from his dark corner and became illuminated by the monitor screens.

'But if you've had so many failed attempts to catch him then why don't you put the treasure in a highly guarded safe or something'

'Dark would find ways to break into that, believe me, we've tried. We've even tried switching the target with a fake but he managed to find and steal the real one. Also some of these treasures are immovable, like this one.'

'If it's immovable then how the heck is Dark going to get it?'

'Most likely he'll take the whole trident by breaking off the arm, unlike us; he has no worry of damaging private property.'

'Sounds reckless'

'His middle name is reckless'

Meanwhile…

'Achooooo!'

'Dark! Be quiet you'll give us away!'

'It's not my fault someone's talking about me'

Already breeching the security undetected, Dark was crouched inside the building attached to the Gardens and couldn't wait to announce his presence and steal the artifact under Creepy boy Commander's nose…again.

'Are you sure this is the right room? Check the blueprints again'

'I'm sure this is the right room Daisuke' said Dark irritated 'Ah ha! What did I tell you?' Dark kicked away the expensive looking rug carelessly and uncovered the square shaped trapdoor beneath. Dark grinned mischievously; this will be one of the most fun thefts yet and it's even more special as their new winged friends are watching just outside the gates.

Just outside, there were calls and yells of excitement. Dark smiled.

'Looks like With is doing his part, now it's time to do mine,' and with that, he flipped the trapdoor open and jumped in.

As soon as Dark had been spotted, Satoshi shouted some commands and turned to exit the vehicle.

'Stay here' he said to Fang and unlocked the steel doors and ran to his position, unwisely leaving one of them wide open.

Fang sighed and watched the commotion outside from the several screens occupying the van's side. Bored he tapped one of the buttons Satoshi was using earlier to change cameras. After viewing several viewpoints his finger froze over the button. The screen was displaying a downwards view of the temple like building that was there for authentic purposes. At the edge of the screen, Fang could see the columns that held the roof up, but that was not what Fang was focused on. Narrowing his eyes, he watched as one of the slabs of stone in the floor slowly lift itself from place and slid to the side. Suddenly a dark figure jumped up from the hole and landed cat-like on the floor. As he rose to stand Fang could clearly see the smug smirk on the figure's face and Fang took a moment to drink in the young males features.

'So this is my infamous look-a-like' Fang thought. He had to agree that their appearances are similar, but there is no way Fang would be seen dead with that hair cut. Just how much gel had that guy used to get his hair like that? Fang grimaced. Well no doubt the guy is smarter than he looks, if this is the real one then that one flying must be a decoy. Fang wondered if Satoshi was aware of this and wondered if he should go out and tell him. Wanting to escape from this giant sardine can and deciding he needed some fresh air anyway, he was just about to turn from the screens when something had him entirely hooked to one of the screens. Making sure he wasn't seeing things, he zoomed in to enlarge it. With absolute certainty Fang bolted from his seat and out the van, completely forgetting about the drug that will shortly cause him to collapse, he raced around the wall, ignoring the shouts from the driver and heading to the front gates, to freedom…to Max.

Dark strolled his way towards the statue, with With keeping the police and creepy boy occupied there was no one to stop him from claiming his prize. Although Dark was a little disappointed at the lack of resistance, he could only blame himself for coming up with the stealthy plan.

'You should be glad that there's no one around, we've had enough close calls to last me a life time' Daisuke complained.

'Humph, I've been around for several lifetimes and I never tire of it' Dark retorted.

Before Daisuke could reply, Dark whipped out a feather and summoned his magic causing the feather to glow an eerie blue. He cast the spell that would restrain the magic within the jewel so that it wouldn't react when he broke it free. When the light from the feather faded, he walked towards the stone figure and placed the feather on the fist holding the triton. It glowed brightly then suddenly the fist unclenched and let go of the triton. Dark caught it and brought it close to his face to examine the jewel. It glittered subtly, showing the wild magic trapped within. Dark turned to the statue which now had his hand open in a frozen wave or salute.

'Poseidon will no longer summon storms with of the 'Eye of the Sea,' and a good thing too. The last time it caused one, it flooded and I got sick of how much Daisuke complained when Emiko made him bucket the water out the basement.'

Dark turned to where lights were searching the skies for his little partner.

'Well it's time to go home. With!'

At his calling, With suddenly appeared as a black blur and attached himself to Dark's back and lifted him into the air with one beat of his wings.

Satoshi waited until Dark's decoy finally disappeared. That meant that Dark has the 'Eye of the Sea' and was making his get away.

'You're going to be in soooooo much trouble my little Toshi-chan, you let Dark get away on purpose didn't you?' Krad said spitefully.

'And what if I did?' Satoshi mentally replied.

'This means that not only are you going to get it from your father, but you will also have me to deal with, if I had known you were simply going to sit idly by I would have taken control and dealt with Dark myself. You're really going to get it for making me miss my chance.'

Satoshi ignored him and proceeded to return to the van. As he got there, the driver was in a bit of a panic and when he saw the commander, he ran up to him and announced that Fang was gone. Satoshi was shocked, he didn't think that Fang would betray his trust like that, but he had no time to worry about that as Krad was fighting furiously to get out. And Satoshi knew the root of his anger.

'Krad! Stop it! I'll find him!' Satoshi pleaded desperately.

'You had your chance Satoshi. I'll find him and when I do, I'm going to take ALL my anger out on him. How does that sound?'

Satoshi couldn't reply as he was painfully ripped from his consciousness and thrown to the darkness that awaited him.

'That's it? This is what we came to freeze our butts off for?' whined an unhappy Gassy.

'I got to admit, I was not impressed,' I commented.

Ok, so it was fast yes, I will praise him for that. But the fact is, when you're standing on the sidelines, you can't see squat. Dark said we'd see something good. Well apart from him flying above our heads, there was nothing spectacular about it.

'He's not really that good at flying is he?' said Angel beside me.

No, he wasn't. His flying is just a mess! We fly much better than that and we can fly synchronized too.

'Can we go now?' asked Iggy. This probably was a waste of time for him.

'Sure,'

We turned our backs to the gardens and we only took a few steps when Iggy froze and whizzed around again.

'Iggy what's up?' I said seriously. Are we being attacked by fly boys again? But then I heard it too.

'Max'

I turned around and couldn't believe my eyes. Fang was 30 meters away and looked as though he had run a marathon in a dead sprint.

'Fang!' I called and I ran to him, with the rest of the flock hot on my heels.

He didn't make any attempt to run to us and suddenly collapsed to his knees, breathing heavy. This made me run faster. When I reached him, I grabbed his shoulders and forced him into my arms, never wanting to let go.

'Oh Fang, I was so scared that something had happened to you. What happened?'

I finally released him and gave him room to breathe. He was still breathing heavily and was relying on me to keep him upright from our kneeling position.

'Are you Ok Fang' said Angel timidly. Her eyes were wide as saucers and watery with happy tears.

Fang got partially his breath back as he started to speak.

'You're…not…cryin'…over…me…are you?' he said breathlessly.

I couldn't help but smile, that's our Fang.

'Still acting the tough guy, eh Fnick?' smirked Iggy.

Fang rolled his eyes as he continued panting. His warm breath tickled my skin and hair, reassuring me that he is real and here with me and the flock.

'We'd best get you to our safe house'

Suddenly Fang tensed and absolute panic was written all over is face.

'Fang, what's wrong?!'

'Go. Go now!'

'What are you talking about!'

'Leave me. You have to go, run, fly anything just get out of here!'

'I'm not leaving here without you!'

'You needn't worry about that'

I looked up to see a tall intimidating figure standing not to far from where we were kneeling. A shiver ran down my spine at the cruel glee dancing in those evil golden orbs. His teeth were bared in a malicious grin and I swear his canines were longer than normal or that could just be me. He had incredibly long golden hair tied in a high ponytail that almost reached the ground and oddly enough he had one long strand of hair amongst his fringe which separated his face down the middle. He was dressed in pure white but his presence and intentions spoke otherwise.

'You can just come with him'

Fang abruptly stood and placed himself in front of me as if to shield me. I saw a trickle of sweat run down Fangs neck and immediately knew that this guy was very dangerous. The man in white threw his head back and laughed wickedly.

'My my, you continue to amuse me Fang. To be honest I was very upset when I found that you had run away. It made me start to think that you didn't like me'

'I don't' Fang growled through his teeth.

'But that doesn't matter now, because now I get to meet the rest of your freakish little family and by the looks of things, they're just as pathetic as you'

I was shaking in anger. No one and I mean NO ONE speaks about my family like that…this guy…this guy is seriously ticking me off!

'You can't win against me Fang. What make you think they can stand a chance?'

'First off,' I barge in and step around Fang 'you can shut your trap about my family, secondly, we've been through hell and back and we always pull through, thirdly, we're at our strongest when we are all together and if my maths serves me right, you're heavily out numbered.'

The man chuckled, 'Please don't tell me you included those hatchlings.'

'Your first mistake is underestimating us. Your second is that you've pissed me off,'

'Max. Don't' Fang hissed.

Cackling laughter filled the air and echoed among the buildings and alleys, our super hearing could pick up the fading sound waves on the other side of the town. He eventually stopped and he smirked at me.

'You're such a feisty little wench aren't you? And you've got such beautiful fierce eyes. You've got quite a catch there' he said addressing Fang. 'Enough talk, I haven't got all night and I've got a cute little tamer who needs punishing'

He then reached into his jacket and drew out three white feathers, which left me quite confused. Suddenly Fang shouted.

'UP AND AWAY!! DON'T GET CLOSE TO HIM!'

We didn't need telling twice. 100ft above the ground I looked back to see the guy smiling, and that put me on edge a lot more than I already was. I was suddenly in shock when two white wings suddenly appeared. Holy mother of Jesus, he can fly! What's next Wendy, John and Michael come to play?

'Watch out Iggs! The woman-wanna-be has wings!' I called.

'Just for that, you're going down first!' the woman-wanna-be cried.

Several yellow glowing missiles come streaking towards me…very fast.

'Max!' I hear Fang cry.

I beat my wings down once, hard and fly up into sky at 200mph avoiding all yellow glowing UFOs and feeling smug at the gob smacked expression on the woman-wanna-be's face. But it was short lived as he suddenly broke into a smirk, he turned in midair not even beating his wings and faced off against Angel. Oh no! He was just trying to get me away from her! Stupid Max you should have seen it coming.

'So you're the little telepath,' he said to her. She had a look of complete concentration on her face when it suddenly changed to horror. She just tried controlling his mind.

'That little trick won't work on someone who is already in control of their mind!' He grinned and whipped out another feather which glowed brightly. Angel screamed, clutching her head and started falling.

'ANGEL!' I screamed.

The white angel was just about to grab her from the air when suddenly a dark blur caught her and swept her away from his reach.

'Yo Krad, long time no see,'

'Dark,' Krad growled.

'Hold this for me would ya Iggy?' said Dark, passing Angel into Iggy's arms.

'If you're looking for a fight Krad, then you should pick on someone your own size, like me' he said cocking his thumb at himself.

'Fine, if that's the way you want to play this, I'll just take you out first and then I'll deal with them,' Krad hissed.

Judging from the convo, these two knew each other and don't seem to be on the friendliest of terms. That was an understatement, this Krad guy looked absolutely livid. I quickly got the message round to get back to the ground; I had a feeling that things were just about to get ugly. No sooner than we were on solid ground there was a clash of crackling sound and a firework display of…I supposed was magic and the two angels were twisting and weaving through the attacks like an air born dance. I counted heads and realized that Fang was missing, again.

'Where's Fang?! Fang!'

'He's over here!' I heard Iggy shout and I rushed over to them.

Fang was on his side in the safety position that Iggy had put him in and Iggy's hands we're examining him. Fang was shaking violently and his wings were twitching like crazy. His breathing was no more but in short gasps, like he was winded.

'What wrong with him!' I asked hysterically.

'I don't know! I can't find anything physically wrong with him!' cried Iggy.

'Is he having a fit?' said a stricken Nudge.

'This isn't a fit' replied Iggy.

Suddenly the air above us became silent and I looked up to see Krad clutching his head in agony with his eyes clamped shut and teeth clenched. Dark was hovering cautiously close by and seemed reluctant to attack. Krad soon reopened his eyes to glare at him then he looked down towards us and utter fury crossed his face. More feathers appeared in his hand and he threw some towards Dark and then turned to us.

'Guys! Scatter!' I shouted.

More feathers rained down on us, hitting the ground violently and causing explosions to kick grit and dust into the air. I saw Fang tossed to the side and he still wasn't moving. Before I could get to him, a white streak shot down and grabbed Fang under one arm. His other held a feather which began to shine so brightly that I had to cover my eyes or risk blindness. When the light finally faded, Fang and Krad were no where to be seen.

We eventually got back to the house, even though it was absolutely freezing, none of us were that eager to embrace that cozy warmth that awaited us. Angel was still unconscious in my arms and I held her firmly against me as though afraid she would disappear like Fang did.

'Fang' I uttered silently.

There was no doubt about it now, Fang was being held captive by some powerful people and after seeing what we've seen tonight, were we strong enough to tackle this head on? This Krad guy is nothing like we've ever faced before. Heck I didn't even know magic existed until recently. Speaking of which, perhaps Dark could show us how to counter this magic.

Getting inside, we were confronted by a hysterical Emiko, who immediately dragged us into the living room and told me to lay Angel onto the futon covered sofa. I sat next to her unconscious form and stroked her beautiful golden locks that would make any Barbie doll jealous.

'What happened?!' Emiko questioned.

I couldn't find the voice to speak, so I let the rest of the guys do that for me. They retold what happened and I just drowned out the words and gave all my attention to my little Angel. 'Please wake up' I sent to her mentally. Her eyelids flicked and then just as quickly stilled. I cupped her small childlike face in my hand and stroked her cheek with my thumb, while my other hand grasped onto her slightly smaller one.

'Angel? Can you hear me sweetheart?' I said aloud and I got no response. I tried again mentally and her eyes flickered again.

'Mom! Can you give Angel a check over!?'

'What's wrong Max?' Dr Martinez asked worriedly.

'Angel can hear the thoughts I send her but she can't hear me out loud, and she's not sending any thoughts back' I said hysterically.

'That's impossible! How do you know she can hear your thoughts?' she asked, suddenly going into serious Doctor mode.

'Her eyes were fluttering,'

Dr Martinez must have sent a message to test it, because Angel's eyes flickered again.

'That is really strange, if she is conscious then she should hear us talking but she's making no response. Tell me, what exactly did Krad do to her?'

'He sealed her mind'

We all turned to Dark who was leaning against the wall, looking at Angel with a scrutinizing gaze.

'What?! What does that mean?!'

Dark pushed himself away from the wall and sat himself on the sofa opposite to Angel.

'It means that we have a tricky situation on our hands.' He said seriously. 'Krad has sealed Angel's mind so that she has no control over her body or her senses, a better description would be that he has turned her into an empty shell.'

'Oh my God' said Gassy, stricken.

'Poor Angel' cried Nudge.

'Is there anyway to help her? Can we do anything?' asked Dr Martinez.

Dark sighed and ran a hand through his crazy locks. I didn't take this as a good sign, and I could feel my heart beat race with dread and I kept swallowing the tears that threatened to flow, despite how much it hurt.

'We have two options,' he eventually said 'The first is very dangerous, there's a risk that we could permanently damage Angel's mental capacity. In the minor case, she could have memory loss. In the worse case…she could become brain dead.'

There was a shocked silence and the air suddenly became so heavy that I couldn't breathe. Dr Martinez broke the silence.

'How high is this risk?'

'60 percent,'

I drew a shaky breath; my baby could…could…could…

'And what's the other option?'

All eyes were on Dark, if the first option had a high risk then surely this one was better? Wasn't it?

'The second option is guarantied to bring her back,' there was a huge sigh of relief before the 'but' came in, 'but, we are on borrowed time, somehow we need to get one of Krad's feathers and that is the difficult task. Also, we would need to get it soon, because sooner or later her body's going to realize its mindless and start shutting down'

'That bastard!' I screamed, 'That heartless cowardly jackass! She's just a baby and yet he…' I was absolutely fuming; my dread had burned away and was replaced with deadly determination. I took a few calming breaths, weary of my flocks concern.

'Which option would you recommend Dark?' I asked calmly.

I was surprised when Dark was observing me with a smirk on his face.

'Well, my feisty friend, I think you've already made your decision, haven't you?'

I glared at him but didn't deny it.

'We go after Krad. And beat the shit out of him. Get the feather, get Fang and revive Angel. If worst comes to worst and Angel starts showing signs of deteriorating before we get it, we'll go with the first option and take the risk.'

'Spoken like a true leader' Dark smirked.

'You better believe it punk, and if you're with us then you better get used to it.'

'Get used to it?' That wiped the smirk off his face.

'Welcome to the Maximum Ride gang, Dark' smirked Iggy

Fang grit his teeth so he didn't bite his tongue as the whip came lashing down and cutting his back open. Rivulets of blood flowed freely down his unclothed back, some making it around his sides and onto the steel table while the rest was soaked up by the black feathers of his wings. It was the same cross shaped table they have strapped him to each night, except this time he was face down and the table was tilted so it was almost upright. And this time they wanted blood. Another lash joined the red crisscross pattern forming on his back, but not once did he cry out or respond.

'That should be enough Krad,' Kei said calmly.

'No, it's not, my anger is far from being satisfied and I was so CLOSE!' Krad frustratingly jerked the whip again at Fang, and became more irritated by the lack of response.

'If you continue to do that, he'll fall unconscious and won't be able to have further punishment,' Kei continued calmly.

Krad threw one last hard lash with the bloody whip, and then threw it aside.

'If Dark hadn't stepped in I would have succeeded in catching those brats, even with Satoshi trying to screw everything up again.' Krad sneered through his teeth.

'It would seem that Dark is acquainted with them. That does make our goal a bit more difficult,' said Kei, resting his chin on his hand.

Fang eventually opened his tightly shut eyes, relieved that the pain was now constant and ignorable and not stabbing and random. His sight was blurry by the tears of pain he hadn't let spill, and as he blinked the liquid away, he became aware of a calculating gaze that no doubt belonged to Kei. Fang could almost hear the gears turning in his evil head.

'I will think over this, but I believe I already have an idea that will get Dark out the picture. Permanently.'

'And how, prey tell, are we going to do that?' Krad asked curiously.

'Patience, I need to examine it to make sure it's a solid plan. You have your fun while I sort it out.'

Kei turned to Fang and came up to him to whisper in his ear.

'I hope you plan to behave in future, because right now one of your little friends is dying and because she wasn't brought here immediately, her chance of surviving will decrease day by day. Only we can treat her Fang, so if you want to save her and prevent the same misfortune from happening again, I suggest you obey me from now on.'

Kei turned away and left the now blood scented room. Fang was in an emotional turmoil, one of the flock is dying? NO! That can't be true! Kei was lying, he had to be. He said her, so it was one of the girls, I hope it wasn't Max…WHAT AM I THINKING! I don't want it to be any of them!

While Fang was mentally arguing with himself, Krad, now in a better mood walked purposely towards Fang with feather in hand. Fang wasn't even aware of his presence or the glowing feather in front of his face before he was thrown into the depths of his mind once again.

Phew, this chapter has a lot in it. I'm working on the next one so as long as I get plenty of reviews and creativity I should get the next one up asap. REVIEW!!