AUTHOR'S NOTE- hey people! yup got chapter 2 for ya! I want to thankyou for reviewing my story, thank you so much, and i am glad you like it. Personally i am not really THAT happy with it, i reread it and i thought i could do a little better, but i hope it's good enough to get some good reviews! i LOVE to read reviews good or bad so please review for me;) and i also want to say, that if any fan wants something to happen, like Pryice do something or max do something just tell me by email or in here and i will be sure to add it in for you, so the story can be ur way. thanks SOOOOOOOOO much!

PS- i didn't do spell check so PLEASE bare with me, i didn't have time!

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NAT

~~~~****CARPE DIEM****~~~~

Max swallowed the big lump in his throat as he looked to his left then his right. He then carefully moved to the cold floor, taking Liz with him as quietly as he could.

"Max, what's going on?" Liz asked her voice started shaking from fear as the two squatted down underneath the booth table.

Max glared at the man as he watched him walk into the middle of the room, looking at everything, like he was looking for something.... or someone. Finally Pyirce turned his back to them, looking at the order board.

"Ok, get out of here now." Max said pushing her out.

"Max, no. I'm not leaving you here." she answered clutching onto his arm.

"Liz, you have too, please, do what I am asking you. When you get out, get as far away from me as you can, do you hear me?" Max said seriously.

Liz started crying and fell into his arms.

"Max, I don't want to, please don't make me do this. Please." she whisphered to him.

Max rubbed her back soothingly.

"Liz, you have to please."Max said then pushed her out from under the table.

Liz fell on her butt, but then quickly got up once she realized that she was drawing attention to herself. Liz walked behind the bar and quickly went into the back room. Max kept his eyes glued on Pyirce as he slowly stood up.

Isabell spun around, startled by the noise of someone pounding on the door and running through and people running towards her.

"What's going on?" Isabell asked startled.

"Pyirce is out there!" Michael said breathlessly.

"WHAT!" Isabell screamed then started running towards the door.

"No Isabell!" Michael shouted catching her by the waist and holding her back from going outside.

"No! Let me go Michael! MY BROTHER IS OUT THERE!" she screamed loudly, as tears flowed from her eyes.

Max scooted closer to the door as Pyirce looked at the back door, hearing a woman scream from inside. Max, taking the advantage stepped back and was about ready to bolt out the door, when suddenly a cup smashed to the ground.

"Taylor! Look what you've done!" her mother said in dismay.

Responding to the crash, Pyirce turned around and soon the 17 year old boy caught his eyes and he smiled. Max looked at the pieces of glass and the water on the floor, then turned his eyes back to Pryirce who was staring at him. Max froze, as his breathing quickened.

"Max Evans, is that right?" Pyrice asked him.

Max swallowed hardly.

"Yes sir." he answered truthfully.

"I need to talk to you Mr. Evans." Pyirce said walking towards him.

Max backed up.

"Um, but sir I'm.... j....just leaving." Max stuttered as he contiuned to back up.

Pyirce then lunged at him, pushing him through the doors and back. Pyirce jumped behind him and wrapped his arm around Max's neck as he dragged Max back farther from the Crash Down. The man looked down and saw max beginning to out stretch his hand, planning to use his powers.

"Don't. Don't you even Max." he hissed into his right ear as he violently tightening his grip around the boy's throat.

"You want all these people to know that you're....non-human?" Pyirce added.

Max reached up and grabbed his enemies bicep, trying to pull it away. He did have a point, what was he going to do? No way was he going back to the white room, but how could he get away from this guy.

"Max!?" voice screamed in suprise.

Max whipped his head to the left and saw Tess walking up from the street, her bookbag over her left shoulder. Her blonde curly hair in pigtales.

"Ah, and who's this, your future wife i think?" Pyirce asked him.

"Tess, run! Stay back!" Max shouted at her.

Then suddenly Tess stopped dead in her tracks. Max got a bad feeling in his stomach, because he didn't think she was stopping that suddenly because he told her too, she never listens to him. He then heard something bang against Pyirce's skull then felt the man's grip loosen and saw him drop unconcious to the ground. Max grabbed his throbbing throat, thankful he was out.

"Hi there." a voice said.

Max spun around to come face to face with a 15- year old looking boy who wore jeans a navy blue shirt with red stirps across it and his hair spiked up. "Nicholas." he said breathlessly, half from fear, half from the lack of oxygen that Pyrice allowed him to get. Tess ran up to Max, clutching his arm.

"Max! Are you ok!?" Tess shrieked.

"Yeah" Max lied.

"We need to chat." Nicholas added.

"I mean no I'm not." Max corrected himself.

Nicholas raised his hand straight, his hand in a fist.

"Oh man, things just ARE NOT going my way today!" Max yelled then Nicholas revealed his palm.

A tremendous force pushed Max and tess back, smacking into the Crashdown window, shattering it instantly. People in the cafe screamed and some jumped up and ran away. Max and Tess landed hard on the ground inside the restaurant, little pieces of glass all over them and all over the floor. Max fought to get up but the pain kept him down.

Max looked over and saw the kid casually step through the broken window, glass crunching and craking underneath his boots with each step he took.

"What was that noise?" Michael asked.

"I dunno, it sounded like an explosion." Isabell said jumpy, clamer than before though.

"An explosion!?" Michael repeated astonished.

Two men then walked in, skin hanging off their faces. One grabbed the back of Max's shirt and yanked him off his feet. The other did the same to Tess who looked at her enemy with disgust.

"Gross." she said watching the skin peel by the layers.

The thing just growled at her and forced her to look at Nicholas, both of them. "Well... isn't your majesty himself." Nicholas answered.

Max groaned.

"Defenatly not my day." he told himself.

Nicholas jolted his head to the left, telling his man behind Max to move and release him. Max looked uneasily at him.

"You know what the fun part is?" Nicholas asked holding his arm out and his palm in front of him.

A force and a pain sent Max back and to the ground on his side.

"Is that the only good reason why you're on this pathetic planet is that I am 1,000, 2,000, heck 1 million times stronger than you." Nicholas added.

Max flinched and tried to push himself up, he got up halfway, as if he were doing push ups, but his body failed him and he fell to the ground again, unable to get up.

"This, is going to make up for the butt kicking you gave me in our world, on your planet, when we attacked you." Nicholas said.

"You probably deserved it." Max managed to say, gritting his teeth in pain and anger.

Nicholas yet again held out his palm, this ent Max flying into the wall. Max let out a groan of pain but tried to push it away. Nicholas raised his eyebrow as he watched Max, with the help of the wall, stand up, but barely.

"hum." Nicholas let out, taking a step closer to him.

"Odd, even on earth, you're unusually strong. Most people....aliens would be out cold by now. But sorry Max, you can only keep it up for so long." Nicholas said smiling.

"Stop it! Leave him alone!" Tess screamed at him.

"MAX!" Isabell screamed, running out of the back room.

Nicholas stretched out his palm again, sending Max's side up against the wall. Max then went unconsious, falling limply to the ground. Isabeel ran up to him and caught him before his head ricochaed off the concrete.

"Max!" Liz screamed running up to Isabell.

Michael stepped out in front of Isabell, Max and Liz.

"Oh my gosh, Max, speak to me!" Isabell shouted at him, his head and neck on her lap. Liz hit her knees beside Isabell touching his face.

"WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO PISS ME OFF TODAY!" Michael shouted angrily.

Nicholas rolled his eyes and sent him back, his head bouncing off a table and he fell to the ground, out like a light.

"Michael!" Isabell screamed looking back at him.

Nicholas took another step towards them. Isabell glared at him through strands of hair fallen from her ponytail.

"What the hell do you want. Get away from us. Now!" Isabell warned. Nicholas laughed and shook his head no.

Isabell laid Max on the ground and stood up.

"Liz, take Michael and get away." Isabell ordered.

"What, no way, i'm not leaving you and Max here for Nicholas to-"

"PLEASE, just go." Isabell inturrupted.

Liz sighed and picked Michael's arms up and pulled him away.

"If you think that, that will cause me to run after her and Max's stupid second in command to give you a chance to get away with him, forget about it. I could care less about those two...Velondra." he said taking more steps closer to her.

"No!" she told him holding out her palm.

"Stay back! Stay away from him, stay away from me!" Isabell ordered, her shortness of breath noticable.

"What's wrong Velondra? Scared? Protecting your brother? Why I remember when you signed his dead wish for us. But now.......now your protecting him, that's certinaly a change." Nichlas shared.

"Shut up! I'm not killing Max, I NEVER killed Max! I'm gonna kill you!" she screamed at him.

"Please." Nicholas said sarcasticly then pointed at her.

Isabell shrieked then fell to the ground, unconcious.

"Pathetic." he admitted then snapped his fingers.

The man holding Max earlier walked up to Max and grabbed his right arm and wrapped it around his neck, holding him up. Tess shivered as she saw his head down, chin touching his chin, symoblizing he was still knocked out. Nicholas picked Isabell up in his arms.

"AHH! YOUR EVIL! Let us go! GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD! This is NOT our world, what happened, happened! Max kicked your butt, we got killed, GET OVER IT!!!" Tess screamed at him struggling violetnly against the person who held her.

Nicholas laughed.

"Wow, your still a fyiesty little thing huh? Ya know, to this day i have no clue how the king tammed you. Breaking all the laws, mouthing off the king and other royals and just being a pest, just like us. That's how we liked you, and obviously that's how the king liked you too. You fell in love with him and he turned you into a real lady, that's when our image of you fell." Nicholas explained.

"I'm not a skin." tess snapped at him.

"No, your not, but you liked like us, before you fell in love with him." Nicholas said looking at Max.

"I loved him." she said softly.

"Obviously, I remember killing your kid too." Nickolas said grinning then walked out of the door with Isabell.

Tess looked back at Max then up at Isabell, both out.

"MAX! MAX! You HAVE to wake up! Please! Michael! LIZ! SOMEONE! You HAVE to wake up!" Tess cried out as the man started dragging her out of the restaurant.