AN: Yellow! What's up peoples? I'm so ticked! My mom is making me wear a skirt and a pink shirt to this dinner thing we have to go to. For anyone who doesn't know me, I'm a tomboy! Which means I hate skirts with a fiery, unwavering passion! Urgh! Anyways, here's the chapter and I don't own MR…and I really hate skirts.

(Max's POV)

We landed on the roof of a half-destroyed School. I carefully looked around. I didn't see any Shadows, but that didn't mean anything. I motioned for the others to stay where they were and dropped through a huge hole next to where we'd landed. I landed in a crouch and carefully looked around the room. Seeing it was all clear, I motioned for the others to come down.

I led them through a series of hallways, carefully checking each and making sure Angel couldn't read anyone's thoughts. We made it to the control room, and I walked over. Nudge sat down in the chair of the main computer.

"Alright, Nudge, work your magic." I told her. She nodded and touched the keyboard of the computer. She closed her eyes, concentrating, and then she started typing. One hacked password later, and we were in. Nudge went through all the files that we'd need, looking up things like "The Institute", or "School Branches". We only found information on The Institute, but it was enough.

It was called The Institute of Higher Living. It trained genetic scientists, with the labs being in the basement. The rest of it was classrooms. There should be an entrance from the subway into the sewer. Of course, that wasn't the only entrance, but it was the only one we could us if we didn't want to be caught. Apparently, it was abandoned when the sewer was built there.

"So, I'm guessing we're going to New York and busting into this place?" Nudge said.

I nodded slowly. "Max?" Fang asked worriedly. I winced and rubbed my temples. "I'm fine." I murmured. "Just a headache."

We got back out of the School and into the air. We flew through the day, and eventually camped out in the woods.

"Great." Iggy muttered as it started pouring. The rain hit us hard. So hard that it stung. I could see Angel flinch every now and then, and moved so that most of the rain hit me instead of her. She smiled up at me gratefully and I gave her a small smile in return.

"Maybe we should find so shelter." Fang said. I nodded, but as I started to get up, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I whirled around and searched the darkness surrounding us. Shadows emerged from out of freaking nowhere.

I backed up until I was beside Fang. "U and A. We've got to get the kids to a safe spot. On three." I murmured to him. He knew that it meant on one. "One!" I yelled, and he and the kids took off. Before I could join them, a Shadow pounced at me. I barely dodged his claws and punched it in the face.

"Max!" the flock yelled down at me worriedly.

"Go! I'll meet up with you later!" I yelled.

"But Max–"

I cut Fang off. "Just shut up and listen for once!" I yelled at him. "Get the hell out of here!" And with that, I round house kicked a Shadow and ran off into the woods. I turned briefly enough to see the Shadows following me. Good, I thought as I poured on the speed.

(Fang's POV)

I swore and started looking for Max, but the rain was blurring everything. "Fang, we gotta get the kids out of this storm. They're going to get sick." Iggy said. I looked over at our shiver flock. Even me and Iggy were shivering from the cold.

"What about Max?" I asked, my voice strained.

Iggy looked solemn for once. Sad. It didn't look right on him. He looked away, then met my eyes again. "We'll just have to hope she knows what she's doing." he said.

I gritted my teeth, but followed Max's orders. Luckily, we found an old vacation home, used for the skiers around here. It was stocked with food and plenty of blankets. We all had some dinner and then the others went to sleep. But I couldn't. Not until I knew if Max was okay or not.

An hour later, a lightning storm started, and Max still wasn't back. It just kept getting worse and worse. After a few hours, the flock decided to stay up with me and wait for Max. I was really starting to get worried. I'd turned all of the lights in the house on, hoping she'd get the hint and come looking for us here.

Angel sat up suddenly. "I can hear Max's thoughts!" she said. She frowned. "But they're faint. I'm going to have to lead her to us." Angel closed her eyes, and the rest of us stayed silent as she concentrated.

A few minutes later, a freezing Max came in through the door. I instantly went over to her and wrapped a blanket around her. She had three scratches on her cheek, nothing that wouldn't heal. "Are you hurt anywhere else?" I asked her.

She shook her head and wrapped the blanket around herself more. "Sorry about that guys. I just knew that it would be easier to get rid of them if I was by myself. After all, it's much easier to lose one person than it is a group. And, you guys were already in the air, so there wasn't any point of putting yourselves in danger when I could easily lose them." she told us.

"Yeah, looks like it was real easy." I said sarcastically, lightly touching one of her cuts. She flinched slightly, but didn't show much more pain than that. "That's nothing. She said, rolling her eyes. "Just a scratch that'll be gone by tomorrow. Won't even leave a scar. One of the idiots caught me by surprise when I was running past it." She allowed Iggy to put some antiseptic on the cut, even though the smell freaked all of us out. It reminded us of the School. But, after that, she ushered all of us to bed. We argued about who would get first watch. I insisted that she needed the rest. Eventually, she must've decided that it wasn't worth the fight, because she let me take first watch.

AN: Sorry if it's kind of short, or not really good. I'm kind of tired though. So, thanks for reading and review! (-.-)