Fang:Now you've done it! Me, Puking?! (growlz)
B.A.P.D.E: (scared) What are you gonna do to us Fang?
Fang: Technically I can't do anything, cuz JP owns me.
B D-D R: Yes he does
Max POV
It really killed me to do that to Fang, to just leave him there. But right now, I wasn't sure if I really wanted to know what was going on. I'd have to face it sometime, but this just didn't seem the right place, or time. Right now, I had to focus on getting Angel calm enough to tell me what happened.
She must have heard me thinking because she let out a small whimper.
"Angel, we need to know what you heard Fang thinking. I know it might be scary, but we need to know to be able to help him."
"He…he wanted to hurt us," she whispered, "He wanted to see us die, and then take our bodies away and…I don't know. But I saw a lot of blood. He was covered in it and he looked like he was enjoying it."
My mouth hung open for a long time before I thought to close it. Fang wouldn't, couldn't, could he? I didn't know.
"Max, I…" It was Fang. He'd followed us. I turned to face him. My thoughts were flying through my head faster than me using super-speed. I came to all kinds of frightening conclusions. In the end, I thought it would just be easier to push him away.
"Have you ever had that feeling where you're not sure you can trust the one person who's always stuck by you? "I asked "You don't know how much it sucks."
He stared at me speechless. Why was I being so harsh on him?
"It's time to go." I turned to leave.
"Go where?" Fang's voice had lost its usual certainty.
I shook my head. "We're going to get help. For you. And try to work out what's wrong with you on the way.
"Nudge!" I scream out.
She emerged from the tree she slept on last night.
"Yeah Max?"
"We're leaving, now. Have you seen Gazzy and Iggy yet?" She shrugged her shoulders in response.
"GAZ, IGGY!"
"Sheesh Max, you don't have to yell." I spun round to find them walking up behind us. Whoa, how'd they sneak up on me? Next thing you know they're going to turn into Fangs. Not that that was a very good thing to happen right now.
"We're leaving, go get your stuff."
I glanced over at Fang. He was more pale than usual. The wind whipped past all of us as we flew in a V-formation. Fang was by my side instead of at the back for once, I needed to keep an eye on him.
"Max, I'm hungry," Nudge interrupted my train of thought. She was always hungry, but then so were the rest of us.
"Fang?" I questioned. No matter what happens he will always be my right hand man. Maybe I was a little too cold towards him. After all, he didn't do anything wrong, and whatever it was, was probably the result of another experiment. Wonderful.
The only sign he showed that he had heard me was a slight nod of his head in my direction. It was enough.
"As soon as you guys find a clearing, land in it. We'll follow close behind." On their way down to the clearing they'd spotted, I flew past Iggy and tapped the back of his hand twice. He nodded and flew down to the clearing. I followed.
"O.K guys, we have 6 energy bars left.1 for each of us."
"Us! Does us not include me and Akila! We need food too you know. Oh, you want us to take pity on you because you're the mutants and you've been on the run? Well guess what? I've got wings too now and I actually do take care of myself, and it's tiring! So…"
I couldn't stand to listen to Total's chatter anymore. I broke off half my bar and tossed it to him. I'd survive, so long as he shut up. Oh yeah, did I mention he's got wings now? It's only inflated his ego and made him ten times more obnoxious than before.
"That half is for you and Akila, alright? And don't bother arguing because you know we need to get 3,000 calories a day."
Before Total could get to the half bar I threw him, Fang picked it up, and broke it in half again. He threw 1 of the halves to Total again and the other to me. He then broke a quarter of his bar off and gave it to Akila.
This goes to prove that even when he wants to kill us (technically it was in his dream but still), Fang is still Fang.
He seemed reluctant to eat his Nutri-Bar, and when he did it almost seemed as if he were forcing the food down his throat. The rest of the flock and I had already finished ours by the time he was half-way through.
"Fang, eat," I ordered, "We've got a long fly ahead of us, you need the energy."
"Where are we going?" questioned Fang, obviously trying to distract me.
I walked over to him and took the bar from his hand. He looked relieved for a second, until I stuffed it into his mouth.
Ask Jeb
"We have to ask Jeb for help, he is the only one who will know what's going on." I snuck in a concerned look at Fang. He was removing the bar from his mouth after downing a big gulp of it.
"What?!" The rest of the flock asked.
"Max, I thought you hated Jeb! You're always going on about how you don't trust him and how you can't forgive him and how we shouldn't either. And now you're like, best friends or something? Whoa, do hormones really do that to you? I'm scared now…" she trailed off.
First of all, who the hell told Nudge about hormones? And secondly, we're not best friends.
"The voice told me, and it hasn't been wrong so far."
Nudge made an overexaggerrated oh movement with her mouth. I grinned. Being on the run didn't stop her from having a sense of humour.
"O.K guys, you ready to go?"
They all nodded. I took one last look at the clear, green meadow before I got up and made a running take off. Everyone followed except Fang.
"Fang, up and away, NOW!"
He made a weak running start and as soon as his feet left the ground, he puked up the contents of his stomach.