Maximum Ride is property of James Patterson. Kisha Reaper, Deveann, and Lash are property of ME! Kumali is property of Jwan!

Alright, Sndsly, I don't get it. You said Fang, Deveann, and Iggy all had the same problem, what is the problem? I mean, they all have wings but that's kinda "Duh." Do you mean that their hair is all over the place cuz that's all I can come up with. Welp! This is the chapter that either leads up to the chapter that ends all chapters or it is the chapter that ends all chapters. Haven't written it yet, so I don't gotta clue. All I know is that you're gonna be like, "Dang, Maria, why'd you do that, she never did anything to you."

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Fang's POV

Gross. I opened up the door to our hotel room. Max was in her bed, waiting anxiously for me to tell her what was happening. I crawled back into my own. I heard Kumali's door creak open and then shut. I dismissed it. "Erasers." I told Max.

"What? Why are you acting like that's not a big deal?!"

"At this point, it really isn't. Kisha beheaded most of 'em. We're all safe. They were only after her from what I could see. What concerns me is Deveann." I sighed, rolling over so she couldn't see my face.

"Deveann? How so?"

"He's an Eraser."

"What?! Is he still out there? He could kill Kisha or-"

"He's back to normal now. He and Kisha were making out on their apparently really comfy silk sheets." I suppressed laughter. Kisha sounded so high when she said that.

"I don't get it."

"Go to sleep, Kisha will no doubt explain it all to you in the morning." She didn't fail me. Kumali was uncharacteristically happy that morning. She would giggle occasionally and Kisha would just smile and smile at her, like she was proud of Kumali, like an accomplishment was made. Whatever happened with Kisha and Deveann after I left their room was a bit of a concern but Kisha had much more self-control than most of us so I suppose it's safe to say that they had an awkward conversation about Deveann becoming an Eraser, spontaneously.

"Ding ding ding!" Angel chirped as she ran past me to jump into Max's arms. "And Fang is a winner!" She giggled. At first I didn't understand.

"Angel, you really shouldn't read my thoughts about last night-" I began.

"What's a hickey?" She asked Max. Max raised an eyebrow at me.

"When did that word pop into your mind?"

"Deveann and Kisha." I mumbled sitting down. Once everyone was situated in the downstairs restaurant, Kisha stood and spoke to us.

"Something's terribly wrong." She moaned. "Deveann, hasn't been feeling good lately and last night... he..." She paused.

"He gave you a hickey?" Angel ventured. Everyone laughed.

"Where did you hear that?" A blush making it's way onto her face.

"Well Fang said something about you and Deveann but I'm not exactly sure what it meant."

"That's probably for the best." She shot me a death glare. "No, Deveann turned into an Eraser last night. Now, I know why he has fangs. It's not because of the fact that he is a fighter but because he was injected with Eraser DNA."

"Why didn't he turn into one before?" Kumali asked. Deveann twiddled his thumbs.

"Well, you all remember when we were stabbed through with a spear?" We nodded.

"Omigosh." Nudge gasped. "You mean that your Changelum blood mixed with his blood and now he's a Changelum, too?!" A very short sentence from Nudge. A far fetched idea if you were to ask me.

"Nudge, let her finish." Iggy instructed.

"Um, actually... gold star, Nudge." Kisha smiled awkwardly. "Nudge, Gazzy, congrats on being a little bit more normal than the rest of us, some of which aren't even human."

Max's jaw dropped. "Well, well what are we going to do about this?!"

"Deveann's Eraser DNA was triggered somehow last night so that he lost control and was only acting on instinct." Kisha shrugged.

"Instinct, huh?' Kumali muttered. "So then why would he attack you?"

"I told you he was acting on Eraser instinct." Kisha groaned.

"What she means is, Deveann loves you, why wouldn't the hormones kick in before the 'must kill' adrenaline rush?" Gazzy asked.

"I don't know!" Kisha screamed. Everyone shrunk back.

"Hey, Kisha." Lash piped up. "Where will I be going... if I can't stay with you guys?"

We looked around the room at one another. "There's always Dr.Washington. He's a specialist in Kishology." Max smirked. "He studies Kisha because she is the first Changelum to be operated upon. He doesn't work with the School but he does use their technology. He's sort of like a spy when you really think about it but his office is no where near the School. He's a very close ally of ours and a good friend of Kisha's Mom. It would be a good place for you to stay."

"We need to know why the School chose you, first. It might help us to uncover a bit more on how we got this way." Kumali pitched in. Five minutes later we were out he door and headed to the library.

"Why's it so freezing? It was never this cold in Florida. I wish we were back in Florida. When I grow up I'm gonna move to Florida and I'm gonna be a model and everyone will-" Nudge rambled.

"Yeah, you'll be a model up until they figure out about our deformations." Gazzy spat. Nudge's heart sunk. Kumali led us to some computers where we began looking up various things on Lash. As far as I could tell she was just a regular rich girl.

"Hey!" We all rushed over to Kumali's computer.

Dr. Ter Borcht's college splits. It read.

Dr. Alfred Church, a close friend of Dr. Roland Ter Borcht, leaves in the middle of multi-million dollar experimentation's. He claims that the so called "revolutionary" research is cruel and inhumane. He broke the partnership with Ter Borcht leaving behind half of his money and moving to Tallahassee, Florida and the United States. When asked for an interview with-

"That's my Dad!" Lash cried pointing to a picture of Dr. Alfred Church. We scrolled down.

The next volunteer to be experimented upon, It read, was Natalie Lauren Rebecca Church, Dr. Alfred Church's only living daughter. His other daughters has all been miscarriages and Mrs. Church-

"Natalie Lauren Rebecca Church..." We all read as one.

"Agh!" Lash cried out in pain. She crumpled to the floor.

"Natalie!" Angel tried helping her up.

"Kill me! Kill me now! It hurts!" She screamed. I recognized it as a brain attack. The same kind Max had had before getting the voice. Was Lash getting a voice, too? I picked her up. "Put me down!" She struggled.

"Lash, it's me, Fang." I said trying to calm her down.

"Let me go! Drop me I want to die! Why are you burning me?!" She hollered. People began to stare at us. She must have looked like she was having a seizure. Max made the executive decision for us to the get the heck out of there. I carried Lash out into the snowy sidewalks.

"Kisha-" Kumali began, looking to her leader for comfort.

"I don't know what's going on. Max?" Because in the end everything's always on Max's shoulders.

"She... she looks like she's having one of my brain attacks. I don't understand, though. It should have ended by now. She should have passed out."

"PUT ME DOWN!"

"Max, you need to run." Angel said suddenly.

"What?"

"LET GO OF ME, FANG! YOU'RE HURTING ME!"

"Angel what's going on? Is Lash getting a voice like Max did? Why did Lash suddenly start freaking out? She's not having a seizure is she? I wouldn't know because I've never seen-"

"Nudge,shut up." Iggy and Gazzy spat in unison. Deveann's skin began to look a little hairy and I contemplated setting Lash down and getting the flock behind me in case he went Eraser but he pushed Kisha behind him protectively.

"AHEIRGH" Supposedly the only thing that could describe Lash's pain in that split second. That split second before she went completely blood thirsty and Eraser and nearly ripped my arms off trying to get out of my grip. Nudge shrieked and Angel grabbed her and Gazzy's hands as she ran off towards the hotel.

"This is nothing like last time!" She screeched to Max. Max's eyes locked with mine just moments before she went crashing into a car. Lash was on her in an instant.

"MAX!" I screamed. Lash was tearing through her. I tackled her but was flung off with ease. Kumali helped me up. Kisha let her nails extend but when she went to rip right through Lash like the Eraser butter she was her nails broke. "Goodness..." I managed. Lash sensed the disturbance and turned around. She grabbed Kisha by the throat and flung her into the closest building. Deveann jumped on her and ripped at her face, he was an Eraser now but I suppose that he was on our side this time. Max lay a torn wreck in what used to be an SUV. I heard the echo of sirens and I limped to her side. Deveann was thrown off of Lash. She went after me. The sirens became louder as ambulances approached. Then it hit me. Sirens. I grabbed a hold of Lash's shoulders just before she could get to me. "Natalie." I said calmly. "You don't want to hurt me." She blinked at me, becoming a little less blood thirsty. "You aren't this... this thing." I struggled for words.

"Fang? I.. what's..." She murmured, collapsing into my arms, but her eyes were still red, glaring dazedly at Max. She wanted to kill Max, with every fiber of her being. The feeling practically leaked out of her

"Natalie, don't make this harder than it is." I tried to do what I'd done at the mall the other day but I just didn't feel that way about Lash.

"Fang, I'm scared. I can't see anything...' Tears streamed down her furry cheeks. Angel and Nudge hopped out of one of the ambulances and to Max's side.

"Fang?" Iggy said, warningly.

"What's wrong with me, I can't move." She sobbed, her full weight now upon me.

"Hush." I murmured.

"What's going to happen to me, Fang?" She wept.

"I don't know." I said firmly. Just like that, she was back to normal. Her soft skin caressed my cheek.

"What was, he saying. I don't understand?" Gazzy hopped out of an incoming fire truck. I could no longer feel Lash's heartbeat on my chest.

"Deveann, Deveann, are you okay?" Kisha said frantically, shaking Deveann's limp figure.

"He's fine, Kisha, don't worry about him." Kumali's eyes were fixated upon me.

"I'm so sorry." I whispered to Lash.

Max's POV

I looked at Fang as she lay in his hands, completely limp. "How could you-" My eyes welled up with tears that burnt my skin as they ran down my face.

"I had to do it, Max. It was her or you. I"m so sorry." He dropped her and fell to his knees, fighting back tears of his own. He'd become as attached to her as I had.

"How horrible." Nudge whispered. That day had turned out to be a nightmare. TO top it all off. That night we had a discussion about what to do with that body.

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Yes, that was really sad. It was hard to write to be completely honest. I nearly cried writing, "Fang, I'm scared. I can't see anything..." That was sad. You know, I hadn't originally planned to kill Lash. I had planned for her to live a happy live as Dr.Washington's adoptive daughter and then I just sorta... yeah. I'm not all too used to killing people yet so... yeah. Kisses. Please Review.