Maximum Ride is property of James Patterson. Kisha, Deveann, Saber, Jamie, and Lash are property of Me! Kumali is property of Jwan! Backlash is property of Dad!

I'm glad to see some of you have malice towards Backlash. You don't, I don't, nobody really knows where this is going but I can assure you that it's going to be violent. Saber is ticked at me because I wrote, "I wuvvles Saber Flaire," on my pants and put eighty multicolored hearts around it. Eighty, Maria. You put eighty. I still don't understand how exactly that's a problem. I have a pic of Edward Cullen on my profile! Yay! I like it, and drew it but it's not exactly what I pictured he'd look like. It was as close as I could get. Anyhoo, on with the chapter!

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Fang's POV

She looked so scared. She was just staring at me, shaking. I moved closer to see if she'd flinch. She didn't, she threw herself at me and buried her head in my jacket. "Max, are you okay?" I whispered into her hair.
"I still love you, Fang." Good. She can still read my mind.

"I'm so sorry for what I put you through this morning. I really just don't think when something involves you. You're so precious to me." I hugged her close. "I couldn't just watch while Kisha took care of you. I wanted to be the one you clung to." She giggled softly in my ear. A shiver ran up my spine.

"Jealously does not look good on you." She whispered. I turned my head and kissed her softly on the lips. She pulled away, looking mortified.

"What?" My heart fell.

"My mouth still tastes like puke!" She murmured. I chuckled. That's just like her. I got up and went to the door.

"Where are you going?!" She cried. I stifled a laugh.

"I'm getting you some water and a mint." Then she giggled.

"You're doing that just so you can kiss me?" She laughed. I turned so she wouldn't see me blush.

"Yeah." I left. I nearly walked straight into Backlash. I stepped back, my back was pressed against the door.

"What are you doing in Max's room?" She asked sweetly.

"This isn't-" I began to tell her is was the guest room.

"Max is in there." She said, more firmly.

"Max is sick and-"

"She doesn't need anyone, as she has boasted so many times before, why do you bother?" She huffed.

"She doesn't boast." I defended, getting angry.

"Why do you care about her? You love me!" She stabbed the middle of my chest with a finger. "Ouch." I hissed, reaching up to touch where she'd jabbed me. I was wondering why she was such a push over. I liked my girls strong, it doesn't get much stronger than Max. I don't have to worry about breaking her. I liked them independent and sassy, yes, I said sassy. The reason why when I felt that jab, the "ouch" was sorrowful, not angry. If Lash was my "perfect girl," she is not as sweet as she seems and she won't stop until Max is dead. Did I mention I thought being stubborn was cute? Backlash certainly didn't pull all these traits off the way Max does.

"I love Max." I snarled, bending her hand back. My perfect girl could never kill me.

"I'm dead, Fang. Feelings are beyond me, I'm just a shadow, your mind is not a happy place." She sneered before strutting away. I discarded the encounter. I needed to tell Kisha, but Kisha was still mad at me. Deveann was mad at me. Kumali is probably mad at me now. Iggy is with Kumali. Gazzy and Angel can't do anything and Nudge will blow the whole thing out of proportion. I shook my head and stalked straight back into Max's room. She rose an eyebrow at me.

"What's up?" She motioned at my empty hands.

I shrugged. "No mints." I said.

"And no water?" She scoffed. I shrugged again. I sat down on the bed next to her and held her close feeling an bubbling in my stomach.

"Max." I said quietly. She looked up at me. "I'm so scared of losing you." I shook my head, not knowing how she'd react to this. "Promise me that you'll stay as far as you can away from Backlash." I said softly. She looked at me, her eyes full of bewilderment.

"Fang, do you think I can't take that little girl on all by myself?" I didn't want to tell her the truth.

"I just want you to be careful, Max. I'd like it if you were to go to sleep and actually have a nice dream this time." I kissed her forehead. "Be kind to my, Max." I whispered to the voice. Max laughed under her breath. I pulled the covers over her and tucked her in before shutting off the lights and leaving. I locked the door to be safe but knew that that would do nothing if Backlash were to want to get in. I had no choice. If it wasn't bad enough to have already killed Lash and Max (only in her sleep but it's still horrible) I now had to kill Backlash. I knocked on Deveann and my door.

"What do you want, pretty boy?" I suppressed a comeback and just knocked again. I heard stomps on the hard wood floor before he opened the door a crack. "What is it?"

"You hate me." Somehow this seemed to be at the front of my mind.

"Yes, I do. What is it?" I sighed at his approval of my statement.

"Backlash-" The door slammed in my face. "No! Deveann, I need you for-" I heard a loud bang and knew it was a warning fire of his gun. "Fine! Jerk!" I hollered. I tapped on Iggy's door, surely, dead or not, blowing up a zombie would work. "Ig-" The door opened with a "whoosh." To my surprise, Kumali was behind it, not Iggy. She glared at me.

"Iggy doesn't want to see you right now." She said calmly. "Frankly, neither do I." I opened my mouth to ask why when she answered me. "You hurt Kisha, and Deveann. They were just trying to help Max."

"But I need to-" Again the door was slammed in my face. I sighed and decided to go ask one of the younger ones for help. I opened the door to the kids' room.

"You big meanie! You hurt Max, you hurt Kisha who was helping Max and, you hurt Deveann who was helping Kisha and Max!" Angel hollered in my face. "I'm not going to help you with anything! None of us are! I have to wonder when Max became so forgiving!" Nudge slammed the door for her and I heard Gazzy say, "Nice one, 'lil sis." Then the slapping of hands. I turned around and I nearly had a heart attack.

"Having trouble are we?" Jamie giggled. I just stood there with my mouth hanging open. She giggled again. "You need to kill Backlash. She's much too powerful to enslave." I blinked in response. "You're wondering how to kill her? Hmm... you're a Siren, right?" I nodded. "Eat her."

"WHAT?!" I cried.

"Go away!" Nudge's voice thundered from behind me, making me jump.

"Come on, Fang. I'll explain." She led me up to the library. She opened up a book. She ran her fingers over the pages. "Aha! Here it is." Her index finger traced under a sentence. "It says here that Sirens eat their victims."

"Always?" I choked out. She shrugged.

"I suppose that the Sirens are born to hunt unlike you, born to eat what's been hunted and preferably already cooked." I nodded slowly. She shrugged. "I'm sorry hon, you gotta eat her. If it makes you feel better to cook her, light her on fire and pour in the barbecue sauce. She's already dead."

"But she can still move..." I mumbled.
"Sorry, hon. That's your problem." She closed the book and began to walk away.

"Oh, come on! You can't pretend you'd bee okay with eating something while it's squirming!" I hollered at her. She smiled sweetly back at me. "Maybe someday I'll tell you about my days when I was Kisha's age." She said then left.

"What?" I muttered to myself. I went into my room and began to make plans for grilling Backlash.

Tie her to a pole and light her on fire? What is this, the medieval times?! Nope. Um, get flamethrower- We don't have a flamethrower. Nope. Pour gasoline in mouth and- You're kidding, right?

I sighed in defeat as I threw yet another piece of crumpled paper into the waste basket. "I'm just going to have to eat her raw." I moaned.

"Eat who raw?" Kisha opened the office door. I screamed and fell out of the chair. She laughed at my misfortune but went to help me up.

"You're... not mad?" I said, stunned.

"No, should I be?" She looked at me funny.

"Everyone else is. I mean, I hurt you, and Deveann, and Max!" I cried.

She giggled at me. "You're not helping your case. Fang, you shot me in the leg before I even knew you. You and Deveann fight all the time. Max forgave you so I don't see the reason in being angry with you." She shrugged half-heartedly.

"Deveann's mad at me." I explained.

"Understandably so, he doesn't think the way I do. Now then, who are you going to eat?" She smirked. I looked down at the tan carpet.

"Backlash. She's going to kill Max. She's more powerful than she led on and the only way to kill her is to-" I gulped, "eat her." Kisha gave me a warning look.

"Promise me you aren't pulling my leg." She hissed.

"I would never kid about something like this."

"I'll be back!" She screamed, dashing out the door. I smiled, it was ironic that the one person that hated me most was the only one I could go to about something as serious as this. I laughed a little at the thought and laughed more in relief. It felt good to get this off of my chest. I found myself laughing at the very sound of my voice.

"What's so funny?" A high pitched girly voice came from behind me.

"Ah!" I screamed turning to face Backlash. I looked back at the door. Closed and locked. "Lash... what are you doing in-" She pushed me up against the nearest wall.

"Settling what should have been settled before I died." She hissed. Her mouth came closer to my own. The smell of almonds overwhelmed me. Just as soon as our lips had met a warm liquid came flooding out of her mouth into my own. I couldn't imagine she thought swapping spit was really swapping spit. I felt slightly dizzy as my eyes closed and I sighed against her mouth.

Max's POV

Kisha pulled me down the hallway. She had said something about Backlash but it was so fast I nearly missed it. I has Kumali hot at my heals and I didn't know why she'd needed us to come so quickly. I heard a loud "thud" and Kisha stopped abruptly. "Oh no!" She cried. "Hurry!" She began to run again, nearly double the speed she'd been at just before hand. She came to a screeching halt in front of the office's open door. "No!" Kisha bawled. I shoved past her. Inside the room stood Backlash and Fang. To tell the truth, Fang wasn't standing. He lay on the floor, his skin slightly red. Backlash sent me an innocent smile. "You murderer!" Kisha screamed.

"Oh well, I try." She shrugged and flipped her hair like a super model.

Fang's dead...?

"Potassium Cyanide." Kisha said in time with my Voice.

Potassium what?

It's a rapidly acting poison that uses cell diffusion to take the oxygen out of cells. Soon he will go into a coma. He will die within two hours if he isn't dead already.

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Okay! I'm evil! I admit it! I just killed Fang. Please don't kill me! Please!!! I'm begging you! You will seriously love what's coming up! Except there will be a really gory part in the next chapter that some of you might not like. Just understand that I killed him for a good cause... and because I'm evil and killing people is kinda fun. Anyway, please review! I still love you and I hope you still love me! Kisses!