Hey! If you've gotten this far, you probably already know what I'm gonna say, so I'll save you the trouble and go straight to the chapter. Hope you enjoy!
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Darkness blanketed the Ventura Festival decorated with the gleaming stars of the night sky and the clamorous fireworks that exploded with great force. It was both beautiful and terrifying at the same time as the screams and cries of the evacuating citizens tried to escape to their cars before the wolf creatures of our world landed and began ripping them to shreds, decorating the dirty streets with blood and human body pieces.
"You guys! U and A! Now, now, now!" I yelled, trying to keep my flock under control as much as I could without losing my cool. It's been a while since we've seen Ari and his gang of Erasers, so my heart and mind were both starting to go on high alert and lose control.
"Fight and flight, guys! Let's kick some Eraser ass!" Miles ordered, his voice filled with courage and anticipation while he whipped his wings open and took flight faster than a rocket blasting off.
"Finally! Some action!" Kat cried as she also took flight behind Miles, the rest of their flock following behind.
"Let me at 'em! Let me at 'em! I'm ready to bite some ankles and piss on legs!" Total cried, growling fiercely and showing his penetrating fangs until I set Talus right next to him.
"Sorry, pal. I need you to look after Talus and make sure he doesn't get hurt."
Total gave me a look as if I were seriously joking. "You mean you're making me the kitty-sitter?" he asked.
I shrugged my shoulders and quickly turned towards my flock, motioning for them to take flight in the air and get ready for battle. With so many people preoccupied with trying to get the hell out of here in one piece, I'm pretty sure no one would realize a couple of kids whipping out their wings and taking flight right in the air to have another fierce, bloody battle we haven't had in forever. My only fear right now was getting out in piece and making sure my flock and Miles' and his flock were to do the same.
"Where do you think you're going, Max?"
I didn't need to turn around to know who this was. "Long time no ass-whoop, Ari," I said, my back facing the bloodthirsty Eraser that was once just an innocent, little kid.
As if reading his thoughts, I quickly turned around and grabbed the hairy fist Ari was throwing at me. The face he was making was scrunched and angered. He knew I was going to catch his attack and was pissed that I did. Hey, he should be use to this kind of thing by now, but what I wasn't use to, was that Ari did something unexpected, and that was thinking fast and spinning to break free from my grip and whip me hard with his mighty wolf tail.
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"You're going to turn around really quick," Angel told the Eraser standing in front of them. The Eraser looked at the two girls quizzically and felt himself lose control of his body. He turned both his head and body around so that his back was facing Angel and Mini, only to see Gasman and Dash awarding him with a devilish smirk and then sending their fist right into his face. The Eraser howled loudly in a whimpered bark and totally lost consciousness, which made his wings stop flapping and made him fall straight to the asphalt ground with a loud 'splat'.
"Alright!" Mini complimented, giving Angel a victorious high five.
"Hey, Mini!" Kat cried, dodging for her life as a big, snarling Eraser that was twice her size threw as many punches and slashes at her as it could. "A little help here!"
Mini smiled, raising her right hand up and watched as it started glowing a beautiful violet color. Just then, the Eraser that was trying to turn Kat into a sliced up cucumber was trapped inside a violet force field, which was now growing smaller and smaller the more Mini closed her glowing palm.
The Eraser squealed and cried for mercy, its eyes pleading for Mini to stop. Mini couldn't help but feel a little bit guilty for the Eraser and completely let the force field go with a snap of her fingers.
"What are you doing?" Dash asked, looking at his cousin in bewilderment.
Mini sighed. "He just looked so innocent in the force field, Dash," she told him.
Just then, an Eraser that seemed to teleport right behind her grabbed Mini with his strong Eraser arms and began squeezing the life out of her.
"Hey!" Dash yelled, flying at warp speed towards the Eraser and socking him right in the face multiple times. "Let! Go! Of! My! Little! Cousin!" he yelled, feeling his knuckles hit against something hard and get splattered with blood and broken bits of teeth. He then figured the hard stuff he was hitting were the Erasers' skull and decided to stop once he stopped flapping his deformed wings and plummeted to the ground.
"Are you okay?" Nudge asked, flying towards Mini to make sure she was alright after defeating an Eraser she was battling.
Dash crossed his arms, giving Mini a stern, fatherly look. "Still think these Erasers are innocent?" he asked, hearing the Eraser that began a mere victim of Mini's force field roar its mighty roar and dash at full speed towards them.
Mini looked at the Eraser with a look that showed no emotion, but still the slightest bit of anger as she raised her right arm and focused all her power into it as she closed it into a fist. "Not at all," she spoke as she quickly opened up her palm and watched the Eraser grow as big as a blimp and then explode right in its place.
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"This is getting completely ridiculous now," Iggy said, throwing a bomb at a nearby Eraser while Conner punched the lights out of an Eraser that was just fighting him not too long ago.
Tell me about it, Conner thought as he delivered the final blow to his opponent and watched it drop to the ground with the other Erasers that were losing badly to him and the rest of the flock.
"Ah, come on, guys," Miles said, kicking an Eraser right in the stomach which sent it flying between where Iggy and Conner were standing. "I mean, what would you rather be doing? This, or just sitting around doing absolutely nothing like you've been doing for the past two days?"
"Hey, we have been doing nothing per say," Iggy told him, throwing another bomb at a nearby Eraser, hearing it explode like the musical kaboom that came from the fireworks that were still active in the sky. He had to stay close to Conner so he wouldn't get hit and get blown away into a million pieces like the Erasers.
"Per say, my ass," Miles said, giving Iggy a smirk.
Another explosion was heard as he turned and just caught a glimpse of Fang pushing an Eraser into a firework that just activated and exploded him into a million Eraser chunks that were now raining upon the Ventura Festival.
He turned to look at them. "Um, word of advice; if you guys don't want to get your asses kicked, I'd suggest you get your head in the game and fight!" he yelled, flying towards a group of Erasers that were going after the younger kids and smashed their heads together with his bare hands.
Conner's mouth dropped to the ground as he stopped in place and quickly told what he just saw to Iggy.
"That pretty much says Fang's in a pissed off mood," Iggy told him, wishing he had eyesight so he could see the sight Conner and Miles just witnessed. Conner made Fang bashing Eraser heads together sound so freakin' awesome. "Wonder who got him so pissed."
"Ah, who cares. He's just acting like his usually bastard self," Miles said, watching an Eraser come his way about to slash him, but Miles quickly grabbed hold of its head and ram it into his knee, making the skull crack and blood seep through open wounds that revealed as soon as Miles kneed the head.
"Ouch. I don't need eyesight to probably guess what Miles just did to that Eraser," Iggy said while Conner grabbed Iggy's palm and started doing hand signs on it.
Trust me, you're better off being blind, he told him.
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The wind got knocked out of me once Ari crammed his hairy fist right in my face, making my nose explode in a gush of blood that sailed through the air. I staggered a little backwards but managed to steady myself, only to get creamed with another couple of punches Ari was throwing at me along with a quick windmill kick.
"Come on, Max! It's no fun when you're not fighting back," Ari growled, his jagged fangs showing in a pompous smirk.
"Well excuse me for interfering with your fun," I told him, wiping away the blood that was trickling out of my mouth before I charged towards Ari in a swift attack, sending a hard punch his way but watched dumbstruck as he thought ahead of me and grabbed it. I gasped with shock which receded to uber amounts of pain as he shot my arm upward and cracked it, making me howl in agony and anguish.
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Talus meowed in a horrified cry while Total kept himself from wincing at the sudden sight before him.
"Why isn't anyone trying to help her?" he asked himself frightfully.
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One punch, two punches, three, four, five. Fang wasn't satisfied enough. His fist kept on knocking again and again and again into the Eraser's face, stomach, and chest but it just wasn't enough to fill the furious void that was welding up more and more inside the pit of his stomach. He wished it was Miles he was fighting right now. He pictured Miles as the Eraser that he was colliding his fists into; his blood smearing all over his white knuckles. The traitorous howls and cries escaping from his lips as he begged for Fang to stop.
"Stop it! Fang, stop! No more! Please! Stop! Stop! Stop!"
"Dude! Quit it!"
Fang blinked twice before he felt someone's hand blanket his right shoulder and then yank his body away forcefully. Before he knew it, he was staring into Miles' dark, serious eyes, his lightly tanned-skin face scrunched up with anger.
"Enough, okay! It's dead already! You won! There's nothing more you can do to it!" he yelled, his fingers digging into his shoulders as if he didn't want to let him go.
Fang turned around and saw the Eraser he was so viciously attacking, his dark eyes growing slightly wide. By the looks of it, Fang couldn't even tell if it was an Eraser anymore. Pieces of fur were missing from its banged up face with a bunch of teeth knocked out and both eyeballs welded shut and the snout smashed into its face. And with that painted into Fang's entire mind, the Eraser began to fall freely towards the ground, its dead weight slicing through the night air until it collided with the hard asphalt.
"What the hell's the matter with you, Fang?" Miles asked, letting him go. "I mean, sure these dudes deserve to be tortured and have the living shit beaten out of them, but that doesn't mean we have to keep on beating them and beating them until their dead and even still keep on pummeling them. That's where we should draw the line."
"What the hell does it matter to you, Miles?" Fang spat, shooting his former friend with one of his penetrating death glares as he began to fly closer towards him. "Let that be a warning to you. If you ever try anything further with Max, that's going to be you."
Miles looked at Fang as if he just got slapped. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"You know what I'm talking about. Ever since you and your stupid flock came into our lives you've been trying to get with Max just to make me jealous," he told him furiously.
"So what if I am?" Miles asked pompously, folding his arms across his chest. "What are you going to do about it?" he asked, rewarding Fang with a good shove.
Fang wasn't going to take the blow that easily. He glared at Miles viciously before he moved towards him and shoved him just as hard. This only got Miles mad as he glared at Fang just as hard and was about to send a swift punch his way until a penetrating screams filled their eyes.
Both boys looked towards their right to see Max beginning to sail down towards the ground but managed to pick herself up with a flap of her wings, her breath growing more and more ragged until Ari sent another punch her way.
"Max!" Fang and Miles screamed, ignoring that fact that they both said it in unison. They were both too preoccupied at the fact that Max was actually losing a battle with Ari. That she was getting pummeled and punched and kicked and God knows what else Ari was doing to her, making her lose a large amount of blood and almost her ability to keep herself up with her wings faintly beating in the air.
The two boys glanced at each other, their dark eyes filled with both fear and apprehension before they rewarded themselves with the same glares they were giving each other not that long ago.
Suddenly, Miles glare began to loosen slightly until the features on his face slowly turned to intense worry. "Alright, dude, you go help Max and I'll get all the kids together. If this battle keeps up, Max is going to get seriously hurt and so might the rest of our flocks. We'll all fly off in different directions and the meet up at the nearby church in Oxnard, okay?"
"Whatever," Fang grumbled, looking down towards Max before he beat his powerful wings and then forced his body forwards towards her while Miles floated in his place, watching as Fang raced after the girl that held his heart. At first, he was going to fly towards the rest of his flock and Max's flock, but something inside of him was keeping him back. Something that was making him stare down to make sure Fang made his way safely towards Max without having to deal with any close-by Erasers flying his way.
He could feel his heart pounding forcefully in his chest before he placed his hand against it to calm it down. He shut his dark brown eyes and turned away, flapping his wings enough to keep himself in the air before his back now faced Fang, Max, and Ari, his knuckles popping from having his palms close in a tight shut.
"Be careful, Fang," he whispered, moving his body forwards towards the younger kids, fighting back any large amounts of intense fear that were now beginning to take the form of petrified tears.
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Alrighty, there you have it. Sorry I haven't posted in FOREVER! I've been grounded for the past … while, so I apologize for that. And to think, I thought I was going to breeze right through Chemistry since it has a little bit of math in it, but, if I haven't mentioned this before already, anything that has to do with science completely and totally hates me. (Sigh) Anyway, just in case you guys were thinking it, I will never abandon this story. The only times I take mega long to update is because I either have writers block or I'm grounded. I'll never stop updating until I'm completely done with this story. But that won't be for another couple of chapters. Okay, see ya!