A/N- I'm BACK!!!!!!!!!! I finally got word on my computer, and I've been typing ever since. I'll still only be able to update about once a week cause I have school, but I'll try really hard to update more. Promise!!!

BTW- This chapter is a little creepy, but just a tiny bit. I did warn you.

Disclaimer- Crap, we have to go through this again?! I DON'T OWN MAX!!!!!!! Or the flock. Or anyone else that JP owns. Got it?

I do own the anti… never mind. Read to find out.

"Goodnight, Max!" Angel wrapped her skinny arms around my neck. I hugged her back and kissed her forehead.

"Night, Ange." We stacked fists and I turned to Gazzy's bed. "Gaz, don't stay up too late. I know Mythbusters (A/N- That's like, my brother's favorite show) is funny, but I don't want you up past eleven."

Gazzy nodded absently, his eyes fixed on the TV screen. "Right, got it. Night."

I walked out of the room, but just as I was about to leave Total barked at me. "What, I don't get a goodnight? I think I deserve one."

I laughed. "Sleep well, Total." I turned off the lights and, closing the door tightly behind me, walked next door to Iggy and Fang's room. I knocked, and Iggy answered.

"Who is it?" He asked, his sightless eyes roving the hallway.

"It's me, Iggy. Just saying goodnight."

He stood back and let me in, the door slamming shut behind me. Fang was lying on a bed, watching TV. I jumped on the bed and poked his shoulder. "What're you doing?"

Fang looked at me, and his eyes widened very slightly when he saw my pajamas. I was wearing a pair of baggy white pants, with blue clouds on them and a blue tube-top. He raised his eyebrows at me quizzically. I just smiled.

Sighing happily, I laid down next to him, resting my head on his chest. He wrapped an arm around me and pulled me closer.

Iggy sat down on the other bed and sighed. "What's Nudge doing?"

I laughed. "She's still in the shower." Nudge had been in the shower for an hour and a half, and still showed no signs of getting out. "Why do you ask?"

Iggy blushed. "No reason."

Fang and I shared a knowing glance, and turned back to the TV.

I yawned after a few minutes. "I guess I'm goin' to sleep. Night Fang, Iggy. See ya in the morning."

Fang kissed my forehead and Iggy nodded. The three of us stacked fists. I left their room and went across the hall to me and Nudge's room. Opening the door with my room key, I heard Nudge singing.

"Nudge? You done in the shower yet?"

"Hey there Delilah, I've got so much left to say…"

"Nudge?"

"If every simple song I wrote to you would take your breath away…"

"Nudge! Get out of the shower!"

"I'd write it all, even more in love with me you'd fall, we'd have it all…"

"Okay, stay in the shower and keep singing while Abbey introduces herself to Iggy!"

The shower turned off abruptly and I heard the shower curtain fly open. Nudge stuck her head out the door. "Hey Max, I'm done in the shower. Have you seen Iggy?"

I laughed. "Yeah, he's next door listening to the TV."

Nudge smiled and came out of the bathroom, a towel wrapped around her body. She walked over to one of her shopping bags and pulled out some pajamas, getting dressed while I watched TV.

"So, Max, what're we doing tomorrow? Are we going to leave? I hope not, cause I really like it here. We could shop some more tomorrow, or go see a movie or something! Wouldn't that be soooooo much fun?!"

I nodded tiredly. "Yeah, Nudge, that'd be a ton of fun. But we can't stay forever, 'kay?"

Nudge rolled her eyes. "Okay, whatever."

She laid down on her bed and stared at the ceiling for a second. "Well, goodnight."

We stacked fists and I turned off the lights with a clap of my hands. "'Night, Nudge."

Within a few minutes I fell fast asleep.

All of a sudden I was on a huge icy field, and there was a huge bonfire on the other side. I whimpered suddenly, and sprinted, against my better judgment, towards the fire.

How did someone light a fire on snow?

As I got closer I slowed down, a feeling of dread filling me. There was something in the fire, and I had a feeling that I didn't want to see what it was. But I had to find out what it was.

As I finally got right in front of it, I peered into the fire. There were seven large logs lying in the center if the fire. But then I smelled it. It smelled like burning flesh…but there was no one in the fire…right? As I looked even closer, I felt vomit rise in my throat. Oh God…

The logs weren't logs…they were bodies. Six humans and a dog. I screamed until I cupped a hand over my mouth. I squinted through the smoke, looking at the bodies closer. I screamed again. Tears dripped down my face as I looked at the scene before me.

It was the flock. But something was wrong.

There was Angel, but she had a buzz cut…and her eyelashes were a lot shorter. Total's fur was white instead of black. Gazzy had beautiful, untangled, clean hair that went to his waist, and he was wearing a skirt. Nudge didn't have any hair, and she was wearing all black, something Nudge wouldn't be caught dead in. There was a tattoo on her arm that said "I love girls" WHAT!? and she was really…flat. You know what I mean?

Fang and Iggy had long hair too, but it was knotted and in ponytails that passed their shoulders. Fang had a ton of pink stuff on his lips…LIPSTICK!? And there was one other problem…THEY WERE GIRLS!!!! You should probably know how I knew. Then there was one other person. It was me, but I was a guy.

I looked around, looking for anyone else. Suddenly my flock was around me, staring at the flames. I breathed a sigh of relief. Then they all turned to look at me at the same time.

They all opened their mouths, but instead of their voices I heard The Voice…I mean, Jeb.

You can save them, Maximum. Save them.

My possessed flock made a circle around me, and I spun in a circle as Jeb talked through them.

Find them, Maximum. Save them. Save yourself. Save the flock. They need you.

My breath was coming in short pants. Voice? Jeb? Dad?! What do you mean? Who do I save? How?

As one, the flock's fingers raised to point at the figures in the fire.

Go to New York and look for someone familiar.

Who? I know a lot of people!

New York, Maximum.

Wait!

But everything was fading, and Jeb's voice was gone. Suddenly my flock had replaced the flock in the fire, and they were burning while the strangers had just laid there. I screamed, and the fire snuffed out, and everything went black.

And I was falling.

"Max, what is it?"

But Max was still asleep, tossing and turning and muttering things to herself.

Nudge got up and walked over to Max's bed, shaking her shoulder. "Max, wake up, it's just a dream! Max!"

Max just screamed again, and started muttering to herself somemore.

Nudge grabbed a key and ran out of the room, across the hall to Iggy and Fang's room. She pounded on the door frantically. "Iggy! Fang! Open up! It's me, Nudge! Something's wrong!"

Fang and Iggy snapped awake when they heard Nudge pounding on the door. Iggy jumped out of his bed, while Fang checked the clock. He groaned when he saw that it was only 2:00 AM.

Iggy opened the door. "What is it, Nudge?" He yawned. "This'd better be important."

Nudge was frantic. "It's Max!"

Fang ran up behind Iggy. "What?!"

"Something's wrong with Max!"

Iggy and Fang followed Nudge across the hall and waited impatiently while Nudge opened the door. When the door finally opened Max was muttering wildly to herself, tossing around. Fang ran over to her and pulled her onto his lap, stroking her hair away from her face. He looked up at Nudge anxiously.

"What happened?!"

Nudge ran a hand through her hair. "I don't know! I was asleep, then all of a sudden she was screaming and I woke up!"

Iggy put his arms around her, and pulled her into his chest. "Nudge, it's okay. You aren't breathing. Breathe."

Fang shook Max gently. "Max, wake up! It's just a dream! Max!"

Suddenly Max screamed and snapped awake, looking around wildly.

"Where's the snow?"

A/N- So, what did you think? I liked, personally. So review, and tell me what you think! Thanks!