1Fang. That was my first thought as I lifted my head and looked around. I saw that the fire was out and Fangs arm was around my waist, he was still asleep. Gently moving his arm onto the ground I go up and lit the campfire again. Just for fun I turned it a bright simple sky blue. The opposite of what I was feeling. I walked to the mouth of the cave and started thinking about last nights events- or early morning whenever they were!

I couldn't believe I let my guard down like that! What was wrong with me?! I'd never let my anger explode like that before and it scared me! I would never say that out loud though. My thoughts turned again this time to Fang... Ugh how could I still love him? He told me himself he didn't love me, he practicaly threw me into the school and now he just seems to thinks he can come walking back in like nothing is wrong! How can he expect me to forget fours years of torture and let him walk back in all fine and dandy just to do it again?! Oh look at that tears are already spilling over. I angrily wiped them away. I don't need this I don't need tears and emotions.

No. Thats it the end. He's not getting to me. No more heartbreak, no more tears as soon as they wake up I'm leaving. No looking back ever. I'll go live my life my way. Maybe I'll go to college and get a job. Higher education and all that. Live an actual life instead of running and fighting. I don't know if I really want that maybe I do. But in my heart I know it's never going to happen.

The sun started coming up. It was pretty. All that time I spent outside when we were homeless and all those watches i've taken that ended at dawn and yet I've never really looked at a sun rise. They really are beautiful the oranges, reds and yellows all mingling together like a dance only they could understand. (Very poetic very nice!) Woe I'm going a little deep there.

A couple of long agonizing hours later the Flock woke up. They rubbed their eyes and looked around. Angel rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Nudge feeling what a wreck her hair was pulled it back into a ponytail. Gazzy was helping Iggy up and they were both looking at the blue fire. Fang seeing that I wasn't in his arms started looking around worriedly I wondered what they were thinking speculating over if I was still here or if everything that had happened had just been a dream. All eyes fully awake soon settled on me and I swear I saw some tension leave their shoulders and worry leave there eyes.

"MAX YOU STAYED!" Nudge squealed, "I'm hungry!"I bet she was happy because she thought I was staying.

" What do you want me to do about it?" I questioned squashing all hopes of hers that I was staying.

"Max aren't you staying?" Angel asked.

"Nope." There short and simple always the best. "Max why? We need you!" Said more then one bird kid. "No you don't. You have gotten on perfectley well since you kicked me out."

Fang spoke for the first time, "Max it was four years ago. We were stupid and scared."

I shook my head, "Nope i'm pretty sure it happened yesterday." I ignoring the rest of the statement I whistled for Lucky and he came bouncing up to me like yesterday.

I turned around and started running to the end of the cave and jumped off the edge. For a few brief moments I was free again. Not chained to the earth like everybody else. Then something hit me from the side again! My dream ended and I came crashing back to Earth. Looking up I saw Flyboys every where. Loads of them maybe 700 all together. One had just run into me as I came out of the cave. The flock was torn from the cave and thrown onto the ground beside me. They looked at me with scared eyes. Everybody.

Snarling I stood up. One of the Flyboys held out his hand in a stop gesture. "Stop. Lay back down. If you cooperate we will not hurt you." he said this in a monotone voice that the scientists should have already fixed..

My head shook slowly from side to side and my voice was quiet as it came out, "No. No I will not be put back in hell." my voice was rising, "No more tests. Neither will they. Never again will you torture us!" at the end of that I was yelling. I heard the Flock stand up and realized that they intended to fight. I wouldn't let them get hurt.

Quickly I threw my shield over them. They could not get out and the Flyboys couldn't get in. Everybody started hitting my shield. Flyboys, the flock, their powers, flyboys bullets. It wasn't hurting, but it was distracting.. "Max let us out!" Came somebodies yell, but I pretended I couldn't hear them.

Giving the war cry I attacked. My fist were shimmering with the fire around them. It all happened so quickly. I aimed for their temples. They would drop like bags of sand. Jumping up I put my feet on either side of a flyboys neck then quickly flipped so his head was seperated from his body immediatly stopping him. Hit, kick, punch it was almost to easy. I could feel every hit on my shield it was draining my strength making me weaker with every hit. The Flock was hitting it to get out and help not knowing that they were just making matters worse and the Flyboys hitting it to get to the flock.

Suddenly I had an idea. I'd done it once but it very nearly killed me. I hesitated but decided it didn't matter now. Flames shot from the ground making a circle around me. One thing about the Flyboys was that they were wary of fire so my power was pretty damn useful right now. Putting my hands over each other I focused on a flame making it expand and swirl putting more fire into while keeping it in a ball with only 10 inches in length for it to roam. The pressure became too strong. But I held up. Releasing the fire I pushed down the outer ring of fire and let the ball of fire in my hands explode.

The explosion was huge catching all of the flyboys the flames from the explosion going at least fifty feet in the air. The flames swarmed catchingt all of the Flyboys while trying to make sure it didn't hurt me. It tried to enter the shield that was still protecting the flock. I was quickly loseing concoisness. The Flames dissapeard leaving behind nothing but drifting ashes,

My body was still, floating as if it were asleep but aware of every thing around me I could hear everything that was happening my eyes were closed. The shield colapsed on account of me not being able to keep it up and more the purple walls seemed to shrink up it turned into a little sphere of purple light and swarmed over to me hover over me it looked as if it dssapeared into me I didn't know at the time but it was slowly helping me heal.

Lucky bounded over to me in his wolf shape which was brown with white paws almost fox looking but bigger. The flock was right behind him. As they tried to approach he growled at them to go away. I wished I could open my eyes all I see is darkness I can hear every thing but all I see is the dark. I heard footsteps try to get near me coming from my left. Lucky was still standing over me licking my face trying to wake me. Lucky's growl was so fierce it scared me and I was the person who could scare Flyboys. The person or should I say mutant bird kid stopped when they go close to me thats when Lucky bit them. By the intake of breath I could tell it was fang he would never scream.

My body was in so much pain that when the enveloping blackness came I welcomed it with open arms.