"Up and away!" I yelled. The flock were i the air in seconds. A dozen or so flyboys circled us. Fang charged the big one in
the middle. Nudge the two on the far left. Angel was dodging one on the right, while Gazzy and Iggy were both pulling
bombs out of thin air and dropping them in shirts of some. Angel stared into the eyes of one, stopping them in their tracks
then suddenly, the eraser began spitllling down. This seems to becoming a favorite tactic of hers. I cried out as an flyboy
slammed into me. I caught a draft with my wings and flew, feet first into him, then kicking straight up into his chin, knocking
him back a few feet.A quick 360 let me know the flock were still holding their own. Fang had two flyboys on him now,
holding and punching him several times. Then Rags appeared in front of Fang. I lunged toward him only to be grabbed by
two more from behind. Rags glared at me for a moment. "I'll be right with you sweetie" he said in a voice that made me
shudder. Then he turned back to Fang. "I'm going to enjoy this." he snarled. "Oh yeah, I didn't realize flyturds liked being
whipped" Fang retorted, pulling uselessly to get free. Rags began an assault of punches to Fang's face and stomach.
"Fang!" I yelled in fear. Please God, don't let them hurt him. Please, not my Fang. I ssquirmed to get free and help but that
only made the flyboys holding me angry. They punched me in the ribs twice. A third flew up , kicking me over and over in the
still sore ribcage. Then the one on the right let out three powerful backhands across my face, busting my lip followed by
two hard rights to the temple cutting my head open. Rags turned to face us then. "This could have been so much easier on
you if you only would give up and join me Max. The director will not be pleased to se you damaged. It will only add tto the wait for the experiment to take place. "
Experiment? Me? and what does Rags have to do with it? Whose the director? I wondered, trying to catch my breath.I
glared at Rags."Go to hell" I said.Rags pulled back and gave me a hard punch to the head, followed by some moe
abdominal kicks. I couldn't help but scream in pain on the third kick. Then he raised his claws and came sown across my
shoulder, shredding both my shirt and me. This guy was strong. And evil.
"Max!" Angel yelled. Then FAng looked over at me, fury rising on his face. He suddenly got the strength to pull his arms
together, slamming the flyboys holding him into one another hard. Then FAng grabbed them by the hair, , cutting a flip over
his head, landing kicks to each of them at once. The force of the kick sent them reeling backward. Then Fang was on Rags
back, pulling at his eyes and face. "Leave. Her. Alone." FAng hissed as he landed an elbow to Rags' neck. Fang grabbed
Rags around the throat, squeezing his windpipe. Rags tried to reach over his shoulder to grab Fang but without air his
moves were all but useless. Fang began to spin. I mean really spin, fast. Hyperspeed fast. He slung Rags and Rags flew
backward til completely out of sight. The remaining flyboys took off after their leader. I fell to the ground as the two holing
onto me let go. Fang caught me before I hit the ground. The flock landing beside us. I was fighting to stay conciuos.
"Max. It's alright Max. You'll be okay." I heard Nudge trying to convince herself as much as me. I tried to smile at her.
"Of course I will." I mumbled. Fang layed me out on the ground by the cave, lifting my shirt to examine the damage. I raised
an arm, wiping blood from my lip.
"Iggy, come here" Fang said. Iggy knelt down. "Where Max?" Iggy asked.
"My ribs, I think are the worse." I said, inhaling sharply at the sudden stab of pain.Iggy gently ran his hands across my
ribcage. "Two cracked, maybe three. Two broken. They'll need to be wrapped." I heard Iggy say.
"Here, press on this" FAng said as he pulled Iggy's hand up onto my shoulder where Fang had already balled part of my
shredded shirt up to make a compress to stop the bleeding. Fang then rmoved his shirt and began to rip it into strips. "This
will have to do til we can move her. Nudge , go get some water and heat it. That looks good Ig. Go brew some ossipea
broth for Max. Gazzy, help Ig find what he needs for the broth." Fang ordered, and they all took off. Angel stood at my side,
her face full of fear and worry for me. "Max? Be ok, please Max." her sweet voice said.
"Umm.. I am sweetie. I am ok. It is just a couple of bones, like when you broke your arm and ankle , remember? I will be fine."
"But your shoulder, and face. They are bleeding."
"She'e gonna be fine, Angel. I promise." Fang said as he began to wrap the first strip around me. He lifted my shirt further
and took a deep braeth at the sight of my already puffy, swollen balck and purple sides. "oww..." I mumbled raising to give
Fang more room to work. Fang's eyes flashed up to mine, he let his fingertips gently graze my skin, causing another
sensation to shoot thru me. He held my eyes with his for a moment. The look in them told me he was remembering
touching me in a very dirfferent way only hours ago. Ifelt my face flush and turned my head. The pain grew as Fang
wrapped my ribs. I tried to stifle a cry of pain, uselessly. Fang's eyes shot to mine again, apologetically. "I am sorry. I'm
almost done." he said. "They have to be tight to prevent the cracks from breaking or pucturing a lung Max" Iggy said as he
walked back up, feeling around for myhand. I reached out to him. He took my hand and placed a cup in it. "Drink this. It will
help with the pain, and if there is any chance of internal bleeding, it will help clot the blood so you don't bleed out" he said.
"Eww... smells awful." I complained
"Just drink it" Fang growled as he tied off the last of the make shift bandage. I winced in pain again as I raised up more to
drin. "Iggy, take the flock over by the trees to rest. It was a hard fight for everyone." Fang said and the flock all got up and
walked off. Fang rubbed his fingers lightly over the top of my bandage, looked around then placed a very light kiss at the
top of it, just under my bra bans."Better?" he said.
"MMMmmm..."
"I would make you feel lots better if they weren't so close by." he whispered, leaning in to gently kiss my busted lip.
"But they are. And we have to be careful." I said."We need to move. They will be back." and I tried to get up, only to have pain shoot thru me like a bullet.
"You need to rest."
"No. They know I am hurt. They will regroup and attack again. We must move." I said in my leader voice. Fang sighed.
"Fine, I will tell the flock to get packed. But we pnly go as far as it takes to find a safe place for you to rest and heal."