Alright I'm back with a second chapter.
From the title, you're probably thinking, "ZOMGZ! FANG IS GOING TO CONFESS HIS LOVE FOR MAX?" Sorry Fax fans, but that's not it. (booing from crowd).
But that will happen later in the chapters.. just maybe. You'll have to see what Fang has to confess in this chapter.
Oh and guess what? I found a chocolate chip cookie on the ground of a restaraunt the other day. So it went like this..
"Mom. Can I have that cookie?"
"Umm hon.. it's on the ground."
"So?"
"You'll get sick if you eat it."
"Yeah, but I'll get sick from the cookie if it's dirty. Restaraunts are supposed be clean."
"..Oh hell. I have to go pay the bill."
You gotta love your mommas.
Quote of the day: "Would you stop saying that joke? It's old." "So is your mom, and you still listen to her."
Enjoy the chapter. (:
Everything was a huge blur. Only five seconds into the brawl (isn't it funny how I use brawl and not fight in this cruddy situation?) we all realize that we lost our superhuman strength.
Usually when we kick or punch, we can break a rib in one blow. But now our blows are weak and we might just have been punching in slow motion.
I headed for the lead Eraser and dove for his legs, but before I could even start to grab him, he hammered at my head with his hairy fist. I thought I heard a crack, so I fell right there, between his legs.
"Give him a blowjob, Max!" Iggy ducked another Eraser's punches, and I barely saw him pull something from his sleeve. Iggy, you're going to be sorry that you ever said that.
Gazzy and Angel ganged up on an Eraser, but he smashed their heads together. Ouch.
I instantly sprung to my feet and did a spinning kick to knock an Eraser's jaw. I manged to also wipe down some vases from a shelf, and CLANK! An Eraser that was already on the floor received the blow.
Fang swung Nudge around in circles, wiping out a ton of Erasers, but that didn't do much damage. They still got back up.
Iggy slapped an Eraser on the back, and went for the hallway. "OUT!" I screamed, struggling to get to my feet. I picked up Angel who was still lying on the floor and grabbed Gazzy's arm and dragged them out of the hallway. (They were still unconscious, those damn Erasers.) I could hear the tick-ticking of Iggy's time bomb already, and Nudge and Fang are still in the room. "Fang!" I shouted to him, desperate for him to hear me. I could see he was unconscious as well, and Nudge is still fending for her life against three burly Erasers. Oh god.
"Iggy, get Gazzy and Angel out of here. I'll meet you outside." I dropped them in his arms and went back in the room. Oh Fang..
The time bomb was ticking faster, and the Eraser that was occupying it was swatting at it and yelping like a girl. I was almost laughing, but Fang is STILL unconscious. I sprinted to him and knelt by his side and took his shoulders. "FANG. YOU. GOTTA. WAKE. UP!" Fang's eyes finally fluttered open and he muttered something I couldn't quite understand. What, should I shove a picture of Megan Fox in his face to wake him up?
Fang shakily rose to his feet as if it was his first time to walk. "Fang, what's with you? C'mon!" I swooped across the room to Nudge and brutally kicked the Erasers aside. Nudge was cowering in the corner, her arms protecting her head. "C'mon, sweetie. The rest are waiting outside." The ticking was unbearably fast. Good, so the Erasers would die a very painful death when their guts are spewed everywhere. Isn't that a pleasent vision?
Carrying Nudge on my back was easier than I thought, because she was so thin and she didn't have wings anymore. I raced out of there and out of the building when suddenly..
BBBBOOOOOOOOMMMM.
I freaking swear; I thought I just saw a head fly out of the building.
The place reeked of charred bodies and smoke, so the Flock and I fled.
"So I thought of getting those Eraser parts and fry them and sell them to the common people," Iggy said. Only Gazzy laughed, and we just continued to run to nowhere.
Once, Angel leaped into the air and attempted to flap her 'invisible' wings, but she fell right back down. I was about to do the same thing she did.
Angel curled up into a ball and cried her tiny heart out, while the Gasman comforted her. The sight nearly broke my heart, and we decided to camp out for the night in the forest right next to us.
An hour after we got settled, we were all sitting around the fire, miserable and bloodied. We all looked like we came out of a meat grinder.
"How did we end up there in the first place?" Gazzy asked, poking the fire with a stick. Good question, Gazz. The world may never know
"I have a feeling that they drugged us in our sleep and put us there to rape us." Iggy was sitting with his back to us, head in his hands. "I hope they were hot Russian girls."
"More like ugly French looking Erasers," I muttered, my eyes closing shut and opening again. They were all staring at me like I had two heads. Hey, I'm TIRED, alright? I didn't think that druggy slumber was really 'sleep'.
Fang got up silently and walked to a tree with a bed of leaves under it. "I had no idea why that happened and why our backs are.. how did Max put it..naked?" I blushed when he said that, but he moved on. "If we want to decide on what to do next, we all should at least rest and have a clear mind tomorrow. There's probably still some drug in our minds."
"And what does THAT mean, Captain Sherlock?" Iggy snorted, climbing over a tree branch and slinging himself across it like a modeler. Iggy can be such a pig sometimes.
"It means shut your ass, Liutenent Sarcasm," Fang said from his leaf bed.
I tried hard not to laugh at Iggy; especially the expression on his face. It said, 'You're just jealous that sexy ladies don't visit your dreams like they do in mine'.
I tucked Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel in (with what? Leaves? Actually.. yes.)
When I was tucking in Angel she looked at me with those huge blue eyes. Her blonde curls stuck to her forehead, where she was sweating. It wasn't even that hot tonight. "Max.. Are they going to get us?"
Max the Incredible. Max the Inpenetrable. Max the Mom. None of those Maxes had an answer. "I'm not sure, sweetie." And with that, I left everyone else to go sleep in a tree, occupied by no one but me. I have a lot of thinking to do. And no, not about chocolate chip cookies, but about how we would survive without our wings.
"RIIISEE AND SHINE! IT'S A BEAUUUTIFULL DAY!" Augh, Gazzy! Keep the lovely singing for those who actually appreciate it. I opened my eyes just a tiny bit, and the sun was so bright it immediately pierced my eyes. Mmm, fried eyeballs anyone? They're BROWN!
In fact, the ray of sun was so powerful and stunning, it knocked me off my tree branch. I fell with my arms flailing, wanting to catch hold of anything. Then I landed on someone,
"OW. Max, you weigh a freaking ton." Fang. I opened my eyes all the way and found I was laying on Fang's chest, our faces inches from eachothers. I remember when he said the exact same thing centuries ago, when I had my brain-splitting headache. I dropped out of the sky like a rock, and Fang caught me.
Uhh...
Awkward...
I am so darn glad that Iggy couldn't see this.
"Max.." Fang started, half closing his eyes, but I already rolled off of him and sprung up on my feet. What was that about? It looked like he wanted to.. to..
"Hey Max, wanna hot dog?" Nudge held one out for me with a sweet smile plastered across his face. Deep inside, I was glad for Nudge and her perkiness. Otherwise Fang would've said something else. I took a close look at the Flock and noticed they were all clean. They were still wearing the same clothes from yesterday, and there were giant holes in their backs where bandages should be. Hold on a freakin' minute..
I grabbed Nudge and turned her around gently. Half of me was scared to hell of what her bare back might look like. What if there were white stubs where her wings would be? What if there were permenant scars? What if..?
By now, the whole flock was inspecting one another's backs. "Max-" Angel started, but I said, "Shh. Angel I want to see for myself."
Nudge's back was completely bare. Completely. No sign of wings that were ever there before. Two paler patches of Nudge's skins were replaced. I turned around to look at my own back, but it was still bandaged. Oh right, I have to wash up.
"I'll be back, everyone," I said, shoving the hot dog in my mouth and following a path that led into the woods.
"I'll come with you." Fang came up behind me silently, as usual. Holy crud. Please, please, PLEASE, be kidding.
Suddenly I pictured Fang and me at a hot springs, wearing nothing but the skins on our backs. Oh crap.
"Um, Fang, I'm just going to wash up.." I said, turning away. Inside, I was thinking Fang, this better be good. Or else I would think it's an excuse to see me naked. Pervert.
Fang reached out his hand just as Iggy was walking by, and tapped the back of his hand. (For those of you who don't know, it means that Iggy's in charge until we get back.) "Max, this is important. I don't want the kids to hear and worry."
"But Iggy's not-" I exclaimed, but Fang grabbed my shoulders and just started marching me into the woods. Birds were calling eachother and I could hear frogs croaking. I wouldn't be suprised if a monkey sprung out of nowhere and into Fang's hair.
Fang led me into a clearing where there was a HUGE hot springs. There were huge rocks the size of Gazzy's heads that bordered around the perimeter of the pool of water. Steam rose out from the water, and the sound of bubbles could be heard.
I rose my eyebrows at Fang. "Do you mind?" I asked, trying to keep a straight face. Both of us then exploded with laughter. It's time like these when I'm very close to Fang, I thought.
After Fang has his back to me, behind a tree, and I'm in the water with nothing but the skin on my back, I told him to tell me what he thought was important.
"Well," Fang began in a distant voice. (How the heck am I supposed to hear when all I could hear was bubbles and frogs croaking?)
"EH? SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER?" Yeah, call me Gran-Gran. I don't have the best hearing, so cut me some slack. I splashed the water a little for emphasis.
"I SAID," Fang replied maybe 2% louder? Gee thanks. "WELL!"
"OKAY!" I smirked, beginning to scrub off suspicious stains on my legs. Hey, when freak-o scientists drug you and your strapped to a table, in a dark room, not knowing where you are, you may get some suspicious liquid. And I'm not talking about Gazzy's piss.
Speaking of where we are..
"Fang," I said suddenly, sitting up straighter. "Uhm.. are we still in Arizona?"
I remembered where we were before the whole holy-hell-I'm-in-a-dark-room-strapped-to-a-table- scene. We were in my Mom's house, asleep in our rooms. I remember that I couldn't sleep, thinking (No, not about chocolate chip cookies or a naked Robert Pattinson. I was thinking about saving the whole world.) about the situatioin I'm currently in. The last thing I felt were the feathers pressed up against my back.
I could barely hear Fang sigh, and he pointed to a sign directly next to me. It read, 'Arizona Springs'.
Smart ass.
"Anyway," Fang replied, his voice lowering just a fraction of an inch. "I wanted to tell you that Jeb betrayed us. Again."
Silence.
Silence.
(chocolate chip cookies)
Silence.
"What do you mean?" I asked in a small voice, sinking into the steamy water as I talked. No. No.
"The other day," Fang began, "it was somewhere around nine o'clock at night when I walked into the kitchen to get a drink. Nudge's room is just just around the bend from the kitchen, and I passed her room. Well, her door was open. I looked to see if Nudge was asleep, and found Jeb instead, inserting suspicious liquid (I laughed silently at this) into Nudge with a syringe. I barged into the room and was threw a flying kick at Jeb, but he was too fast and he inserted the syringe into me, too." Fang laughed bitterly, a laugh that said I-was-too-freaking-careless. "I should have waited for awhile, but seeing Jeb do that, after all those months of bonding with him and Mom.. I couldn't take it. I was worried if you were already injected, and that was my last thought before I went out cold."
"Fang," I whispered, sinking even lower into the water. I wanted to say something more, to soothe Fang to not worry about me.
"Fang-"
"WOOHOO! CANNONBALL, SUCKERRS!" And in came Nudge herself, jumping high (she would have jumped higher with wings, but she doesn't have them anymore. Poor child. Poor us."
After Nudge made a huge water bomb, Gazzy and Angel followed suit. Iggy made the biggest water bomb. You would kind of expect that from the guy that makes bombs all the time.
Then I realized that I'm still naked.
"EVERYBODY OUT!" I screamed from the top of my lungs.
I guess me and Fang have a lot of talking to do later on.
Well?
I hope that's okay for a second chapter.
Should I continue with the story?
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- Lucy