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CHAPTER 9:

Mac used his left hand to try and cover the stub that was left of his right arm. Blood seeped through his fingers and dripped to the ground.

Vlad slowly stood up. He reached a hand out to Mac to help him cover the arm.

"Why did you do that?" He asked, "I could've dodged him!"

Mac looked over at him, his bloodshot eyes filled with tears. "Finish Scrape for me okay?" he said weakly.

Danny quickly flew over. "Mac? Mac are you alright?"

Vlad glared at him. "Does it LOOK like he is OKAY?" He asked rudely.

"Sorry. Standard question. What do we do now?" Danny asked, looking over at Scrape, who still had the arm in his teeth. He was starting to get up.

"HURRY!" Mac screamed, "FINISH HIM"

Vlad and Danny looked at each other. They knew that neither one of them could do it themselves.

"As much as it pains me," Vlad said, taking his bloody glove off of Mac's stub, "I think we are going to have to work together to finish this guy."

"Yeah," Danny said, "but don't get in my way Plasmius!"

"Whatever. Lets go!"

They both flew over to Scrape, ready to sock him across the head, but Scrape caught them without even looking up.

Both of them were speechless. Scrape looked at them with his dark eye sockets. He laughed evilly.

"You don't think I'm out, do you?" He asked, and threw them against another tree.

Suddenly, he was rammed hard by someone's head.

It was Mac.

"You don't think that I'M out do you?" he asked, imitating Scrape. His stub was still gushing blood. He looked weak.

Mac flew over to Vlad and Danny. "C'mon! Lets all finish him!" He said, helping them up.

"Mac you can't! You'll get hurt!" Danny said.

"I've saved the world too many times too many," Mac said, twitching his eye, "but if I can do it just one more time, it all will have been worth it!"

Danny and Vlad nodded.

Scrape laughed from above. "Aww look at the little babies!" He laughed agin, his arms folded.

Mac grabbed the air again and a red ball appeared in his hand. He held it over his head. "Alright guys," he said to Danny and Vlad, "When I say 'go', shoot this ball with all you have! Then shoot Scrape, okay?"

They nodded.

Finally the ball was huge! Mac looked like he was struggling. "NOW!" he screamed. Vlad and Danny shot the ball. You could almost see the energy coming from it.

"HERE GOES EVERYTHING!" he yelled, "RED RIPPER!" A gush of blood squirted from his stub.

He threw the ball at Scrape, who was hit hard. He screamed in pain, and Vlad and Danny shot them with all they had.

Scrape was completely gone. Dead. Whichever you want to call it, but he evaporated into thin air.

All three of them huffed and puffed, then passed out into the darkness.

Vlad's POV

Vlad woke up in a hospital bed. He had no shirt on and his chest was covered in bandages. He tried to sit up in bed, but his side hurt to much.

He looked around the room. It was a big room. Enough to fit two people. He looked over to the other side of the room. Maddie had fallen asleep on a chair in the middle of the room.

How'd she get here? He thought.

"Maddie?" he said out loud, but weakly.

She woke up and looked at him. "Thank god you're okay!" She said, running over to give him a huge hug.

"Yes, I know you're happy to see me, but you don't have to choke me to prove it!" he said, clutching her arms around his neck.

"Oh right."

Vlad tried again to sit up, but Maddie told him to stay down or he'll hurt himself more. He smiled at her. She smiled back.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Well," Maddie said, "after a while, I got a little worried about you guys! So I came back to where you were before, and I found you all on the ground, Mac armless! So I ran back to the mansion and called for help!"

Vlad's eyes opened wide. He forgot about Mac! "Where is Mac? Is he okay? What are they doing to him? What..."

Maddie covered his mouth. "Shh... Mac should be fine. They are giving him an automail arm as we speak!"

...yes like full metal alchemist...

Vlad sighed, "Where's Danny?" He asked.

"He fell asleep. He's in the bed over there," Maddie replied, pointing to the bed on the other side of the room. Sure enough, Danny was there, a cast on his arm.

Vlad looked up at Maddie. "Let me ask you something," he said.

Maddie sighed. "Alright, shoot," she said.

"Did anyone... you know... see us in our..."

"No, they didn't. You were changed back when I got there."

"Good."

"Well, you better get some sleep!"

"Right. Well, goodnight then Maddie."

"G'night!"

Vlad fell asleep in the hospital bed.

In the operating room----

"Get this kid some air! We're losing him!" Cried the doctor. A nurse quickly cam over with an air bottle and placed the oxygen tube over Mac's mouth.

"C'mon kid! Hold on a little longer!" the nurse said. People all in the room were panicking.

All of the sudden, the heart meter stopped.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, it screeched.

"God dammit!" The doctor said, very quietly, taking off his gloves.

Yet again... another cliffy! Review please!