Can Change Be Good?

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Chapter 29: Protector

MAX POV:

What's going on? Where am I? Who am I? All these thoughts and many more were running through my head the minute I woke up on a very dirty wooden floor. I groggily rubbed my head and tried to remember something about myself, but all that would come up is nothing. Just darkness. That helps me so much...I thought while standing up and looking at my surroundings. I saw what looked like a corny high school dance set up and if I had to guess I was in a high school gym. Mostly because there were basketball hoops and bleachers with just cheap tables around them. Then there were 3 very large dogs, a boy with wings, and a girl passed on the floor having it out on the dance floor area. Now I knew I was either dreaming or else this was a very bad party...

"MAX!" The boy with wings screamed interrupting my thoughts. Why did that name sound familiar? At the sudden tingle in my brain, I decided to cautiously step closer and see what was happening. When I got closer I could see a brown dog with a pink streak standing over the drunk girl and glowing a bright gold while another dog thing that was also brown was standing by a large door laughing or cackling, I don't know it was just a really annoying sound. Then a third black dog thing was being slammed against a wall by the boy with wings, while the boy with wings was looking with such pain and misery at the passed out girl that you would think she was dead. I'm starting to feel that this isn't a party...

"MAX!" The boy with wings repeated even louder. Man he must really love her...I thought feeling slightly sorry for the guy.

"She's gone, Fang! Don't worry though soon you will join her too with the rest of your pathetic kind." The dog with the pink streak laughed. The boy with wings or Fang let out a harsh laugh and growled,

"You'll never be able to kill me."

"But I already have." I felt my heart skip a beat when I saw the Fang guy look at the dead chick one more time before lunging at pink streak causing me just to become more confused. I mean how could I have feelings for a guy I don't even know? Why does this not surprise me though? I silently asked myself. I risked getting a little closer, but instead I felt more drawn to go look at the dead girl since Fang and pink streak were locked in a pretty intense fight. So I slowly got on my hands and knees and cautiously crawled over to the girl. When I got there I looked at the girl and saw that she had the same outfit as me on except her neck was twisted at on odd angle and her once brown eye's were now glazed over in a thick haze.I noticed that her cloak was slightly torn at the ends and I slowly looked at mine and I saw I had the same problem. Is that me? I thought wearily. After a few moments I realized that the dead girl was me, so does that mean I'm dead?

"Oh my god." I muttered, standing up and looking at dead me, "How did this happen?"

"By trying to save us." A voice replied. I felt someone place a hand on my shoulder and I slowly spun around and saw a beautiful woman in a long black dress with a long gold staff in her hands. Her hair was a dark brown matching her bright eye's and she had a soft smile gracing her sharp features. I slowly walked out of her grasp and after a few moments I asked,

"Who are you?"

"All you need to know is that I'm a friend." The woman replied looking around the gym and I bet accessing the scene.

"My, my the Liko's sure have gone off the deep end this time." The woman tsked glancing towards the fight brewing. I glanced over too and saw the Fang boy getting knocked against some tables by a giant gold ball erupting from the pink streaked dogs hand's. I let out a gasp and asked,

"How did that thing do that?"

"By stealing your powers." The woman answered pitifully.

"M-m-y-y po-wers." Super powers don't even exist. So how could I have been able to do something like that!? This lady is crazy, this whole situation is crazy! This has to be a dream, this has to be dream. I am not dead! I am not some crazy super hero.

"Yes. You're a protector my child meaning that you protect earth and all its creatures from monsters like them." The woman interrupted while gesturing towards the three giant dogs.

"That's impossible. That kind of stuff doesn't exist." I exclaimed.

"Nothing is impossible." The woman said. I shook my head in disbelieve and decided that I have had enough of this dream! I lifted up my arm and start pinching it as hard as I could waiting for everything just to fade out and for I to wake up in some sort of bed forgetting that this ever happened. But when I saw that nothing was fading and that my arm was just turning red, I stared at the lady in shock and asked,

"This is real isn't it?"

"Sadly, yes."

"Does that mean I'm dead?" I asked, looking at my body that was staring yet not seeing.

"No. Not yet anyway. There is a way to save you."

"How?" I turned towards the woman eagerly. But before she could answer a loud thump followed by a cry interrupted us and we turned towards the sound. I saw the Fang boy being held up by chains and hanging from a basketball hoop with his black wings drooping slightly and blood gushing from multiple holes from his shirt. But I could tell he was hurt beyond what we could see because his eye's were drooping and his struggling was slow and sluggish now. It was like all the fight had left him and now the dog with the pink streak was laughing forming a very large ball of light and looking at him in victory.

"Any last words?" The dog laughed, but Fang simply lifted his head and looked at her evenly before turning towards dead me and whispering,

"Wake up...please wake up." But when I didn't respond, he jgrew angry and started thrashing around before screaming,

"WAKE UP! YOU ARE NOT DEAD! YOU ARE NOT DEAD! GOD DAMMNIT MAX, WAKE UP! PLEASE! DON'T LEAVE ME! I LOVE YOU!" I gasped at his words while I watched him struggle determinedly. He loved me? He LOVED me and he chose now to say this! Idiot...But,I couldn't let this end like this. Not for him or for me. Even if this is a really cliché moment.

"We need to do something!" I yelled frantically after another moment.

"Not 'we', you." The woman clarified.

"How? According to you snoopy over there stole my powers!"

"By giving you new ones. You sacrificed yourself for your duty. Which means we were wrong about humans and for that I am sorry." The woman said sincerely, "But now we must make haste if you're going to live again. So stand over your body and do not move." I quickly moved over my body and the woman aimed her staff at me before it started to glow. She's not going to shoot! She's not going to shoot you. Don't move, Max. Don't move. I chanted in my head until I felt a familiar tingle erupt from somewhere deep inside of me and a feeling of strength start branching off from it. A flash of light blinded my eye's and disappeared in matter of seconds before it was just the woman and I again.

"Did it work?" I asked.

"See for yourself." The woman beamed and with a wave of her hand a mirror appeared in front of me and I saw a girl with brown hair and brown eye's looking back at me. The girl had a sparkly black sleeveless dress that wrapped around her neck with ruffles cascading below the chest to mid-thigh with a hood attached to the back. Then a pair of fingerless leather gloves covered her hands with a pair of black legging's under the dress and a pair of black sneakers at the end of them. I let out a gasp and the girl gasped to meaning that this girl had to be me...

"Whoa." I muttered at last.

"Yes, 'whoa' indeed." The woman beamed before adding, "I thought you would prefer sneakers over boots."

"Thanks." I mumbled before remembering Fang and how he was endangered.

"You need to go." The woman said frantically gesturing to my body and I silently knew I probably had to jump in it. I gave her one last smile and said,

"Thank you."

"Just don't let me down." She smiled before fading slowly away.

"Well here goes nothing." I mumbled before with a running start jumping into my body and feeling my memories and powers starting to seep in.

Time to save the world, Maximum. Time to save the world.

Alright, yay Max lives! Hey! Now time for some reviews and I can either write the next chapter by Monday or if I get 20 reviews I can get it in my Friday morning. So that is up to you my people! I love your reviews remember, so REVIEW! I'm eager to write!

Question of the chapter: What should happen to Iggy?

A) He dies

B)He turns human

C) He runs away and becomes a merchant in India and no one ever see's him again.

D) What is actually going to happen.