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After about an hour more of flying, it started to get dark. We flew down into a tree and each took a branch to sleep on for the night.

"Fang?" the little eight-ish boy asked. "Yeah Gazzy?"

"Well, I was wondering, where are they?" Gazzy asked.

"Who?"

"Your, other flock. Are they at the School or the Institute?"

"Their in the school, kiddo. I'm sorry that we have to go back."

Gazzy nodded and settled into his tree branch and started to fall asleep along with everyone else. Fang turned to me. "You should get some sleep. I'll take watch. Don't worry."

I smiled to him and fell asleep.

Hayley's POV

Everyone was talking about the shots when two erasers came in. They immediately got silent and backed to the corners of their cages. The erasers gave devilish grinned that almost promised death, or worse. "We're here for subject 21. That's you," the eraser said and started towards Caroline. She backed further into her cage, but it was no use. The eraser opened the cage door and grabbed the neck of her shirt, dragging her out. "I don't know why, but you've been chosen for special testing. Come on."

The erasers each grabbed Caroline's shoulders and brought her out of the room. As she was leaving, she turned her head and Hayley saw one last glimpse of her face before she left the room. The look in her eyes, pure fear.

Max's POV

When I woke up Fang as the only other one up. "Did you stay up the whole night?" I asked him.

He shook his head. "Nope. Ig and I switched off with watch."

I nodded back and started to wake the others. "Come on guys. Up and at 'em. We've got a rescue mission."

After I successfully got everyone up and we ate some of what was in our backpacks, we hit the sky. To the School, we go.

Caroline's POV

The erasers took Caroline up a flight of stairs and to a lab room. They strapped her to a metal table and cleaned her arm, prepping it for another injection. Two whitecoats came in, discussing some kind of science. It took Caroline only a few seconds to determine that the 'science' that they were discussing was her. "I'm telling you, doctor. Injecting subject 21 with another string of DNA could have catastrophic results!"

The other whitecoat just waved his assistant away. "Don't worry, Riley. The lupine DNA is stable enough to not upset the subject's structural balance."

"But sir! The tests-,"

"I said not to worry, Riley! I know what I'm doing! Now go back to the office."

Riley scurried out of the room, leaving the other whitecoat in the room. He took a syringe from his pocket and prepped it. "Now," he said. "Hold still and it won't hurt as much."

The whitecoat plunged the needle into Caroline's arm and she let out a bloodcurdling scream.

Matt's POV

About five or ten minutes after Caroline left, Matt heard a terrible scream. He immediately slammed against the metal bars of his cage. "Let me out!" he yelled.

"Matt! Settle down! They'll come in here!" Jake warned.

"Good! Because I need to be out there!"

"Matt, listen-"

"No Jake, you listen. I know you understand! What if it was Hayley out there, huh? Would you be so calm?" Matt snapped. Jake immediately shut up and looked at Hayley.

"I'm sorry. We'll find a way to help her, I promise."