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Max

"The results of yesterday's test are as followed. The fifteens came in first, followed by the fourteens, which sadly means that the twelves are exterminated. Enjoy your day off."

I look over at Nudge, and shake my head. The sad part is I knew that the twelves wouldn't make it to the end. Nudge looks at me with a sad face and walks into the bedrooms to wake up the rest of the group and share the news. I had woken up early because I could barley sleep. Nudge was awake so I talked to her about what we need to do to stop Itexicon. The only thing we could come up with that would work would be to send them the secret to human/animal hybrid. But that's not an option.

I walk into the kitchen to find some food to eat. I grab out some leftover pizza and heat it up. While that's heating, I decide to go get dressed. I throw on a pair of jeans and a over sized sweatshirt. I throw on a pair of combat boots and walk back to the kitchen to get my pizza. Then I walk down to the library that they have here. We're allowed to use it to research and read books. They have computers but they blocked every site that has a way of messaging people. I get on one of the computers and start researching Itexicon.

Itexicon is a company that creates a lot of the items you may see on a regular basis. Itexicon, or Itex for short, is one of the worlds best largest growing companies in the world.

I read for about an hour, learning all I can. Apparently Itex has been around for a long time. I couldn't find a single website that could tell me where it's located. I did find that Itex wants to find the secret to life. A way to extend a person's life. I think that if we can come up with a way to do so, then these games may stop.

When I finally get tired of researching, I go to the shelves and check out a book about animal life. I figure that there has to be a reason why human/animal hybrids live longer. So there needs to be a reason related to animals. So what better way then to learn about animals.

I walk back to the room with the book in hand and my now empty plate. When I get back, I walk over to Nudge and pull her to the side. "Nudge, I've been researching about Itex and trying to find out a way that we could stop them from blowing us up. Their main goal is to find the secret to life. Since we know that human/animal hybrids have a longer life span, I figured we need to start with researching animals and their habits and stuff."

"Sounds good, I updated the gang on whose left and what you overheard." I nod and walk into the living room to join everyone else. I update them on the new info.

"So all we need to do is find out a way to extend life and no more kaboom?" Gazzy asks.

"Pretty much," I reply.

"Well that's a great plan and all but how the freak are we supposed to do that?"

"That's the part where I need your guy's help. Are you in?" Everyone looks around and nods their head.

"Then it's settled. We'll start our research."

A/N So I don't know what to say. A lot has happened in my life. I've been really thinking through whether or not I should keep updating. I really want to finish this story but I'm not sure how long it'll take me. I'm a senior this year so I have a lot of responsibilities with that. This semester I'm in an AP course plus my Spanish 3 course. Next semester I have another AP course. So I'll try my best to finish but it might take me a little while. I also got a job so that takes up a lot of my time. I'll try to update as often as I can. I can honestly say that this is definitely almost over. We 4 maybe 5 more chapters left. Again, I'm really sorry I left you guys hanging so long.