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Chapter Eleven

(Max Pov)

The entire flock had shown up. They all had been hanging out in my hospital room, until a bewildered nurse came in and told me I could leave today instead of next week since my injuries had already healed. I don't think I had felt so relieved in a long time.

"Max?" Angel asked as we got on the elevator.

"Hmm?"

"Are you really going to die?"

I was shocked, for a little while I had completely forgotten the war and my role in it.

"I suppose" I said

"So there's a chance you might live?" Gazzy asked hopefully, it broke my heart.

"No, there's no chance that I will survive, it's been written and soon it will happen." I responded, trying to hide the fear in my voice. The last thing I wanted was for them to know that I was terrified of the war.

Their faces dropped, no one could say anything else because the elevator door opened and I walked ahead of them, going home.

(Fang Pov)
As soon as we had gotten back to the apartment Max stormed into her room. The rest of us sat on the couches in silence. I had been hoping somewhere deep down that she wasn't serious about dying, that she was just being melodramatic, but after seeing the look of pain and fear on her face in the elevator I knew she was serious.

"Fang?" Gazzy asked

I looked at him.

"What are we going to do now?"
"We're staying" I said without a moment's hesitation.

They all nodded, no one disagreed with my statement.

"Does this mean we get to fight in a war?" Gazzy asked excitedly

I didn't answer, I wasn't sure if I'd let them fight, at least not Gazzy and Angel, they were too young, Nudge, Iggy, and I could handle it, but I was not putting the younger kids in danger.

No one said anything for a while until Nudge announced she was going to sleep, everyone else followed suit, except me. I had decided to update my blog. I didn't realize it but it had been almost an hour. I heard a door open down the hall, which reminded me I hadn't seen any of Max's friends since the battle yesterday. A black clad figure shuffled down the hall, it was Max, black didn't use to be her color, but she wore it pretty often now. She walked past me and out the door. I wondered where she was going, in a split second I decided to follow her.

She walked down the stairs and out of the building. She continued to walk for a few blocks until there was a noise; she stopped, and looked around her. Apparently the sound came from on top of the building because the next thing I knew she was flying towards the top. Once again, I followed, hiding behind some abandoned crates on the roof.

"What are you doing here?" a familiar voice asked, I looked up from my hiding spot to see Cain, holding what looked like a real sword.

"You were working with her the entire time, weren't you?" Max demanded

"I don't know what you're talking about." Cain said his tone forced.

"This whole time, you were the one in charge, not Jonathon, you lied to us, just like Vanessa."
"What can I say?" Cain said sounding proud of himself "I lied to you, I got Vanessa on my side, and I'm going to wind up killing you one of these days." He was smiling now.

"You obviously don't know what I do to traitors" Max growled.

He smiled "I'm not as weak as Vanessa was; I'm much more powerful than you"

Max glared at him "So this is it? This is what you've been blocking me from in your mind? I must admit I'm not surprised, you never were reliable, and you always show up just after the fight"

Cain said nothing. He raised the sword over his head and charged at Max. She extended her hand he stopped, paralyzed, but then he began to laugh "Is that all you've got?" he demanded

Max twitched her finger and there was a blaze of fire, I could no longer see Cain but I could hear his laughter.

"You're weak Ride!" he shouted

Max extended both hands and shouted "you have betrayed your own kind, you are damned!"

"Isn't that what you did Maximum?" He taunted.

She looked furious, her hands began to glow and light shot from her hands like bullets from a gun.

"I. AM. NOT. LIKE. YOU!" She shouted between blasts.

Cain looked a bit scared now; he had been knocked to the ground. He got up and ran to the ledge; he looked like he might jump. Then I realized it was a distraction. I saw Jonathon silently walking towards Max with another sword in his hand, I don't know where he came from, but by the looks of it he was going to try to kill Max. He was three feet away from her now and he had the sword raised. I jumped from my hiding spot, making several boxes fall to the ground with a loud bang. I landed directly on top of Jonathon and repeatedly punched him in the face until he was unconscious. Max was at my side in a heartbeat, trying to pull me off of him, finally I let her. I stood up fuming, then I looked around and noticed Cain was gone.

"Where'd he go?" I demanded

Max didn't answer my question "What are you doing here?" She demanded

"I followed you." I answered

She didn't say anything, but she looked slightly annoyed. She turned to Jonathon, who was still unconscious.

"All this time I thought he was the mastermind; I can't believe I was so wrong."

"No one could have guessed that Cain was on their side, it's not your fault." I said, taking her hand.

"Don't you get it?" she demanded "They will do anything in their power to hurt me, they're going to come for you if you stay here, you need to leave."

"No" I said firmly "We need to go back and tell everyone what happened, we're safer here then we are away from you."

"I don't want them to get you guys too" she said

"They won't, I promise"

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