(I'm so sorry that this wasn't up when I said it was!! I really thought I put up the right thing, but then my mom pointed it out and I was like, "OH CRAP! PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE ANGRY WITH ME!" So I fixed it! Hey, better late then never!)
(NOTE I've been working on this all night, sorry if it sucks, I had to re-write the entire thing!)
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Chapter 22
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Fang suddenly didn't understand why he had believed that Max was gone. The world still felt the same to him, so he knew that she was still in it...alive. Just because Angel couldn't read her thoughts anymore, didn't mean that she was dead. He could almost hear he heart beat...It was just a few short room away from him...Only a few walls away...
Fang, she is gone. I can't even feel her presence. Angel thought to him in her matter-o-factly way that Max used to do all the time. Fang still didn't believe her, even though he sort of felt like a stubborn five year old, he just wouldn't believe that Max was gone. There had to be something wrong with Angel's mind reading, or Max just decided to block her out.
Fang believe me, please, Max is gone. Angel thought, just as stubbornly. She didn't know what she was talking about...well...thinking.
Then a scientist came through the door with five Flyboys behind him. He nodded and the Flyboys picked them all up and dragged them into another room. Great, more experimentation, when was this going to end? The Flyboys that where holding Fang pushed him into a separate room with a window. it looked like a room where they would examine him, or his fighting skills. Six white coats came over to the window and the Flyboys dragged the flock over to the window.
Two other Flyboys came into the room with her, they had his Max. The Flyboys shoved her forward, took out a remote control, and pressed a button. She cried out and fur started to move over her body.
Then Fang was staring in the face of his worst enemy...and the love of his life.
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Chapter 23
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My body shook and I stared forward at Fang. He was looking at me with a mixture of shock, worry, relief, and fear. I just wondered which one was the most dominate.
"Max...?" Fang breathed
"MAX! MAX!" I heard my flock scream excitedly. I looked over and the window and saw my flock staring at me excited and surprised...All except Total who was jumping up and down trying to see what was going on.
Kill him. One of the scientists commanded me. No, oh god, no! Not like this! Why did it have to end like this? I knew for a fact the I couldn't kill him, even if one of the scientists commanded me. I stood there for a minute, happy that I was resisting so well; and then, just as I anticipated, I got a mind blowing electric shock and lunged myself at Fang. He looked at me surprised as I punched him in the stomach.
"They're controlling me!" I told him, punching his nose. He didn't fight back, he didn't even make the slightest attempt to block my punches. Why wasn't he fighting back?
I threw another punch to his spine and he took it, still not protecting himself.
"Fight me!" I commanded kicking his spine again.
"No." He answered, out of breath, "I'm not going to hurt you."
I took a few steps back. He wouldn't hurt me? He promised that if I ended up becoming a threat to the flock he would take care of me so that everyone would be safe! Why was he backing down on his promise now? Just to get me angry? Just so that I would kick his butt harder? If that was what he was aiming for, then it was working.
"Fight me!" I shrieked.
"No!" He yelled back. God why did he have to be so stubborn when it came down to this? Oh yeah, because he's Fang
I threw another rib-shattering punch at his side and yelled, "KILL ME!"
"NO!" He bellowed back.
I let out a cry of frustration and punched him in the face again, blood starting to fall from his face. I then decided to take a somewhat softer approach, even thought I knew it would work.
"Please Fang, kill me." I asked as softly as I could.
He still didn't make any effort to protect himself.
"Please...this is the only thing I want from you." I whispered.
My fist started to lead me to his throat and I thought this was the end for him, but then, unexpectedly, Fang grabbed my fist and twisted it backward. I smiled, finally he was fighting back.
Fang stood up and punched my stomach. I smiled, even though I was in a lot of pain. I knew I had gotten to him...and I also knew that if he did kill me then he would never forgive himself. Well, that makes two of us.
I did a roun house kick and managed to hit Fang in the ribs. He kicked me and sent me flying across the room somehow, I had no idea that he had so much force in him. My head hit the back of the wall and I winced.
Kill him! The scientist thought furiously to me. I got up and lunged myself at him again, feeling more empowered than before...Feeling more of an urge to kill him, an urge for blood to be spilled. I knocked him to the ground and punched his face repeatedly, sending blood spewing everywhere. He kicked me off of him and my head hit the wall again. I slid down to the floor, holding my head.
Fang pushed me over and punched my face. Then he finally stepped down on my neck...And I heard it snap.
"I'm sorry." He whispered with tears in his eyes.
"No...Thank you." I breathed.
And then Fang's face slowly dissolved from my sight, and my world went black.
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Chapter 25
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Fang stared down at Max's crumpled up, lifeless body. Oh my God. He thought, What have I done? He looked up at the flock and saw them staring at him wide eyed; with an exception of Total, who was still jumping up and down trying to see what was happening.
Nudge burst through the door, somehow managing to get past the scientists and Flyboys. She must have had more strength in her then he thought.
"No! Max!" Nudge screamed slapping Max's face, "Wake up! WAKE-UP!" The rest of the flock had made their way over to Max by then and where staring at her body. Fang couldn't do anything, he could hardly breath. He killed her. He took her out of the world. It was all his fault.
Flyboys started pouring in the room and the Gassman grabbed a few bombs from his pockets and threw them a the wall, leaving an escape for the flock. The Flyboys started shooting at them.
"FANG!" Angel called, "COME ON!"
Fang looked up, she was already in the air, along with the rest of the flock. He thought about staying there and letting the Flyboys shoot him, but Angel's calling got louder and more desperate as the minutes ticked by. He raised out the opening that the Gassman had made and shot up into the air.
"WAIT!" Fang called, "I'm not leaving without her!"
"Fang, are you crazy, you're going to get killed!" Angel shrieked in a very Max-like tone.
"I'll be right back!" Fang called.
Angel zoomed down to him, grabbed his arm, and started pulling. "No! Fang! Come with us! You won't make it!" Angel screamed.
Fang stared down at her body and tears filled his eyes. He knew he had to leave her, to was the only way to keep the flock safe. Fang nodded and they all zoomed off.
Fang looked back at her body, and watched the love of his life get pulled deeper into the school, dead.