Assassination Of Memories
Chapter III – All We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself
Neofreak: Akiko doesn't own Maximum Ride or Pretender, even though she really wants too, and remember we have vampires, werewolves and demons in this fanfic
Whit Wing: Great Neofreak has taken over saying the declaimer from this point on. And no this fanfiction has nothing to do with Twilight people
Jake: Has anyone seen Akiko recently?
Behold, I'm back!
Logan: Speak of the devil…
White Wing: Oh wonderful, Akiko's God again *groans*
Watch it girl, I want you to behave yourself for the sequel
White Wing: I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter
*Tank almost falls on White Wing*
White Wing: And if you don't drop stuff on me!
Logan: They love to hate each other, what can I say?
Neofreak: I'd stay quite if I were you Logan
Logan: Ya, well you not me
Tristen: Thanks to Dygen Entreri, DarkAngelDeams13, randomFANGluvr and firessflareon for reviewing/faving, even if Akiko doesn't say it she loves getting reviews and faves from you
White Wing: Wait a minute, who the hell is this?
This is Tristen, I picked him up at the PNE*he was a cosplayer that was there^.^
Logan: You just met this guy on the street and put him in your head, what kind of person are you!?
*Tank falls on Logan*
White Wing: How pathetic
Logan: (from under tank) Shudup!
Tristen: Okay on with the chapter before anyone else get's killed, also the story might get slightly confusing since it goes back and forth between the POVs of Max and Shadows
Ya, sorry about that! And I'm so sorry that it took so long to put this chapter up!!!!
*PNE-Pacific National Exhibition
Shadows POV
For once I was thankful that Tranq can make a fast exit. He jogged away from the new neighbour's house, carrying me along. "Why did you transform, we could have just gone when the ball was kicked over to you." Tranq said looking down at me.
"I got their smell that way. They smelled liked they've lived with birds." I said pondering what was up with the new kids. My voice in this form was a sharp purr, sounding slightly deadly despite having the body of a house cat. I jumped down from Tranq's arms into a bush changing back to my human form. "You have my bag right?" I asked my voice back to its usual sound. Out of nowhere Tranq produced my messenger bag; one of his abilities was to make things out of thin air, though he had a limit. Trust me after I busted my Vectrix he tried to make a car, nothing happened even when he tried to make a new Vectrix. "So how am I going to be with you during school?" Tranq asked while we walked. I gave him a look wondering how stupid Tranq actually was.
"Jared gave you a note." Tranq said. I nodded noticing that there were more people out now. "So, could we walk there? I'd rather not─" "We're taking the bus." I answered plainly walking to where it stopped, a bunch of kids waiting there. Tranq slowed down his walk as we neared the other kids. The talking became quiet and hushed when we entered the group, everyone wearily glancing at me. Though no snide remarks, no one asking why I had a kid with me. No one challenged Amberlynn; everyone was pretty much terrified of me, except for a select few boys who kept flirting with me.
Tranq held his arms keeping his head down not looking at anyone. The bus came up looking really full. The door opened and Tranq and I stepped on, any kids in the way moved and all the kids sitting on the far back bench quickly moved when we got close. Tranq, keeping his eyes at his feet, sat down playing with his hands. "You get to sit where you want, huh?" he muttered more to himself than anything. I didn't even nod, sitting down with my back against the side of the bus, with my feet on the bench and my arms resting on my knees like I always do. Tranq was sitting quite close to me even though we had the whole bench for ourselves; one girl glanced over her shoulder looking at Tranq, her eyes widening in fear. Tranq looked up at her through his bangs and she looked away quickly shaking slightly. My friend's hands balled into fists at his sides, his eyes glared at the ground. "I hate it when people do that." Tranq hissed, "Why do I have to be the one with the fears tagging along like lost puppy dogs?"
I closed my eyes leaning my head back. Bad idea, the jocks a few rows up smelt like they haven't had a bath for weeks. My nose winkled in disgust, I just plugged my nose though that didn't help. The only reason why I didn't take the bus, all the people confined in a small space made everyone sweat which makes everyone smell –sorry, makes everyone reek. If I could I would have brought a gas mask but Jared was all against that idea. I opened my eyes to see that Tranq was really starting to freak out, he had beads of sweat on his forehead and he couldn't stop fidgeting.
Feeling my eyes on him Tranq answered a question I didn't even have to ask. "There's too many people, in addition to that there's only one exit route. Since it's so hot and the windows aren't open means their stuck. Even if they weren't stuck there's someone in the way of all of them slowing down a quick esc─" "Dune, you're hyperventilating." I said calmly. We were use to having to call each other by our fake names, well except Jared, he just changes his last name when he goes places. Tranq took a deep breath nodding, trying to be as calm as me. "Behind you," Tranq looked over his shoulder staring at the weird shape that was on the wall, "escape exit. Pull the red handle." I informed him. Tranq swallowed, bobbing his head to tell me he understood.
Another kid swivelled his head away from our direction, Tranq clenched his jaw. I dug into my pocket throwing the bracelet on Tranq's lap. The beads were a metallic black with a metal feather charm hanging from it, the bracelet fixing itself so it fit Tranq's wrist. Those who were looking at us widened their eyes whilst I plopped my hand on Tranq's head and ruffled his hair smirking. For them, it was a huge leap in showing that I actually could touch someone without hurting them. One of the basketball players, big man Demarco Bradshaw found that out the hard way when he picked a fight with me. He just got out of the hospital a few weeks ago. He was the strongest of the school before I came in, so naturally everyone backed off when the strongest was brought down. The bigger they are the harder they fall is what I always say, humans or Copies alike.
"What is up with this girl?" a cheerleader said two rows in front of us. "She's like, never done something like that before." "What's up with the kid with her too, he's looking at everyone like their the Grim Reaper." Another girl said beside her. I stood up walking over to them without even a stumble from the bumps and pot holes that bounced the bus like a basketball. "Does it really matter who is or isn't with me?" The two girls froze not turning to look at me when I spoke, one of them squeaked. "Keep to your nose in your own business instead of others." I warned them. With that said I went back to my seat recreating my sitting position. That was one of my pet peeves, people who had to know about every little detail in how I did things, like being different was wrong. I didn't understand humans that well, emotions got in the way of everything, and the fact that girls talk about boys and boys talk about girls didn't make sense to me. Jared said it was natural and he kept saying there would be one day that I'd come in and gush over a boy I saw. No one seemed appealing to me, love got in the way. I've seen enough cases that someone did something they didn't want to do because their love one's life was on the line. Not a soul could do that to me because I didn't attach to anyone, because I was being smart.
I grabbed Tranq's arm and started to make my way to the front of the bus as it neared the school. I had to wait slightly before the doors opened; I looked in the review mirror and quickly pulled Tranq off the bus before anyone else could see the creature in the reflection. The creature was chalk white with sharp features, quite short, looking like a young boy that had been starved with hollow eyes and leathery wings on it's back, replacing Tranq in the mirror. I kept pulling him along towards the doors of the school with Tranq staring at the ground sadly both hands clenched in fists. He wasn't anything close to human, and with the help of the bracelet and a reflection people could see through his disguise. What I was tugging behind me was a demon of fear, or god depending on which viewpoint you were looking from. Though a mortal demon, on that could be hurt and scarred; one that the Organization got a hold of. Tranq wasn't like the other fear demons though; unlike the rest of them he hadn't killed anyone unless it was to protect himself. Fear demons look like starving children to draw humans in, then scared their victim half to death with a very real delusion and killed the human for pleasure or food afterward.
Getting into the school was a living nightmare for Tranq though I had to do it. A couple girls that got close enough ran off screaming, making Tranq clench his jaw to stop from yelling after them. He had taken off with the bracelet after seeing his reflection but it then tortured him with people staring at him in horror. For math and gym we were okay, and after putting the bracelet back on Tranq came to play some dodge ball with us. Then it was time for lunch, but I couldn't find the little timid demon anywhere. He wasn't in the gym and when I went towards the boys change room they told me they hadn't seen him without me even having to ask them anything. Damn, he must have run off when he got called out. Ethan was going to kill me.
I exited the gym to see a girl run past me screaming 'TOFU!!'at the top of her lungs in horror killing my over sensitive ears. Sure enough I found Tranq in the clutches of –well lookie here– Demarco Bradshaw. "Okay kid what's your problem, huh? Making my girl run off like that, you luck I'm in a good mood cuz I'm going─" "Have you met Amberlynn before?" Tranq cut the bully off. "What, of course I have! That bitch put me in the hospital." Demarco growled. "Well she's right behind you." Tranq said trying to stop smiling and failing miserably. Demarco turned with a snarl on his face thinking Tranq was pulling his leg but terror filled his face when he saw me. Man, he was right on the dot with that one, if you got down to it, I was a bitch. But not in the way you might think.
"Girlfriend scared of tofu." I said perplexedly. Demarco didn't say anything quickly retreating. I turned to Tranq my eyes narrowing; he looked at his feet biting his lip. "Go home." I told him walking away. "Say wha… just like that you're going to let me leave?" Tranq said tailing after me. I turned to him giving the demon boy a death glare. "You can't handle it. Go home." I repeated continuing to walk towards the cafeteria. "Of course I can handle it, s'not my fault the girl ran off. And who the he-heck is afraid of tofu?" Tranq asked as we got into line. Of course he hadn't noticed yet that he was now surrounded by people, he was still attempting to figure out how someone could be afraid of tofu, of all things. That's when the familiar and strange smell of the new kids wavered over to me. I looked over to see they were looking around for a table. The oldest girl, the blind one and the one that was as energetic as a bunch of bunnies on Red Bull (A/N: Thanks Mr. Walsh!) were standing with their trays piled with a mountain of food. I could smell the other three slightly ahead of us in the line, that human/bird smell like they have been living with a bunch of birds. In some ways the smell was almost disgusting, they didn't smell washed either. Tranq looked up at me, "Shade you okay?" he asked.
I nodded though the look on my face didn't make Tranq fully sure. The blind boy's eyes uselessly looked around as if he was trying to pin point something. Though something stood out to me, he looked familiar, I didn't quite grasp why however. Tranq looked over where my eyes were the corner of his mouth quirking into a smile. "And you said you'd never do boy watching." Tranq sneered. "We get home, your getting a bullet in the head." I promised looking away from the new kids.
Max's POV
Okay, we were in school, half way through the day in a really crowded cafeteria. There were only three exits: the set of double doors across from each other on the east and west walls and the sky light roof that let the sun pour in above us. Iggy, Nudge and I were vulturing for a table while the rest of the Flock were getting their food. Angel had been reluctant to leave Total behind though Mom told her that he'd be there when we got out of school.
While I was looking around I spotted the boy from before, Dune, standing next to a girl paler than Iggy if that was even possible. He seemed amused and she said something to him with a blank face, behind her aviator sunglasses I could see her eyes glare at Dune for a second before she looked away. Or was it a girl? The bulky clothing was all boys that's for sure, but the face looked like a girl. Dune seemed to notice something and he became, well like us when we're surrounded. His hands held his arms and his eyes darted around, I saw him eye the two doors. He saw me watching him, and he quickly looked away. His friend turned to him and saying something with a death glare. He stuttered something back and I caught, 'it's to crowded' over the noise of the cafeteria.
"Max, oh Max there's a table being emptied to your right!" Nudge said pointing to a table where a couple of kids were leaving. Quickly moving with Iggy's finger in my belt loop we sat down at the table when I finally noticed a big empty one, just out of the way. "Don't sit down yet, there's one over there." I said standing up again, but Dune got there first, looking over to his friend in line. The kid mouthed 'stay there' though Dune didn't look happy to be by himself. A girl around his age came up to him but ran away screaming about clowns, making me slightly suspicious.
The rest of the Flock came around; Nudge kept looking at Dune with a thinking face. "Max do you think he's lonely?" she asked turning to me. Angel looked over to him too nodding. "Maybe, but I don't think─" "I'm going to go give him some company!" Nudge declared without letting me finish. I didn't think that was a good idea. Dune jumped when Nudge came up to him smiling her head off, he shied away from her immediately making himself smaller. It didn't last long, Nudge eventually ran back saying Dune had rats crawling all over him. Thing is no rats were near him at all.
"I didn't see any rats." The Gasman said. "Me neither!" Iggy said with a grin, Fang rolled his eyes. Dune was accompanied by his friend who had their trays. We were close enough to hear what they were saying though Dune's friend was as silent as Fang, sometimes not even acknowledging what Dune said. "Why doesn't Jared understand that me and crowds don't get along? He knows what happened in New York." Dune shivered. "Disaster that's what, w-what if it happens here!? Shade what will we─" his friend whacked him upside the head taking a bite out of an apple. "Sorry, I guess I am over reacting aren't I? I just hate that that happens, why does everyone have to look at me and be scared? I mean, it's like you said, 'fear is only in our heads'; if we could control our fears then we'd be better off. Your not afraid of anything of course, you're the great Shade nothing scares you!" Dune said proudly smiling at his friend.
"You're wrong." I kept my head down getting in defence mode. The voice was deep but at the same time sweet and cat-like, defiantly a girl however it sounded like a voice of a predator reminding me of the Erasers although it wasn't the same musical voice. "Even I, am scared of something."
"You scared. Of what?" Dune asked. "Myself." She answered. Dune blinked defiantly as confused as me. I glanced over to Fang, I knew he was listening too, even Iggy. "I have nightmares about the time before Jared took us in, all the innocent people that died." I was trying to process this all. What was she talking about? Innocent people that died, I looked at her taking her in. She wore mostly dark clothes except for her shirt, her short, spiky and jagged hair-do was slightly startling and then her eyes, I couldn't see the colour but I could see them moving. What was she hiding? "That wasn't your fault…" "Then who was on the other side, the person's eyes I'm looking through?!" she snapped keeping her voice low. "All of that was my doing, neither you nor Jared are going to change that by saying 'it wasn't your fault'. I was in control of my actions but I let him manipulate me." She hissed angrily.
"That's the most I've heard you say in a month." Dune muttered under his breath earning him another smack upside the head. "We go out in the woods and only I come back." She said in a deadly tone getting up. "Stay here." She ordered going over to another table with a bunch of kids whispering. She hissed something at them receiving her terrified looks and a couple of people that looked like they wet their pants. She had a revolted look on her face slightly while she kept snapping at the kids. Dune looked around wildly clutching his arms, I didn't understand it. He was…acting like us when we're in crowded areas. Though we had learned to control it unless it was in a hospital because of the smell.
Nudge screamed jumping onto the table. "Rats!" She shrieked and I could see them crawling from under the table. Other kids jumped away from our table, Iggy even jumped up when one scurried across his lap. "That felt way too wrong." He said shuddering. Now you know something is wrong when big humongous plants start growing from the ground, ones that eat meat and were chasing kids around. "Spiders!" Gazzy cried, panicky brushing a bunch off and going towards Iggy. What the heck was going on?! Angel screamed, I had just enough time to see another Max lashing out at her with a knife when a snake slithered up my leg. "Oh GOD!" I cried leapt away ripping the snake off.
"Stop it damn it! Tranq!!"
I looked up to see the girl back at Dune who had huddled into a petrified ball. "Stop it before this get's out of hand!" she roared. Let's say that the cafeteria turned into a freak show with nightmares running after kids, anything possible, clowns, needles, movie horrors, graves, even a bunch a huge live steaks chasing after a group of vegetarians to name a few out of millions. Iggy put his hands to his ears looking in pain, his jaw clenching. More snakes slithered their way up me and I was starting to have troubles getting them off. They were coming from everywhere; there was no end to the snakes. On the ground Fang struggled trying to get out of his cage, kicking at the bars desperately. The girl also had problems; a complete double of herself was coming after her, shooting at her. "You were never supposed to exist! You've over shadowed me, and I'll get rid of you to have what's rightfully mine!" the double growled still firing at the original. "SHADOWS!" Dune shrieked. My eyes widened the sight, I almost couldn't believe it.
He was strapped to a metal table with people in white lab coats surrounding him gabbing at him with needles and cutting at him with sharp operation tools.
Shadows' POV
I lunged at my double pinning her to the ground hearing Tranq scream my name. Though pinning down the double didn't stop her from shooting my shoulder. Something flashed before my eyes, Artemis through the smoke shooting at a girl before the searing pain exploded in my right shoulder, a pained noise coming from my mouth. I jump off of her ducking behind a table as Double Shadows shot at me the bullet grazing my left leg. It stung a bit but me being me I ignored it making a break for Tranq. My right shoulder felt like it was burning.
When all the Whitecoats were out for the count I ripped the straps off of Tranq taking him of the table. He had cuts all over him already, blood was staining my hands. "Tranq stop it right now." I told him. He was shaking, tears streaking down his face. "I can't!" he wailed dropping to his knees. Another bullet took a dime sized chunk off my right arm that made more unbearably burning but I ignored it, like always; I pushed of the ground with the balls of my feet nearly missing Double Shadows' attack. Every bullet was hitting me, I never missed while shooting, the bullet always hit the body whether it pierced or grazed. Crap, Tranq couldn't stop this; I needed to resolve these people's fears. My arm burned, blood was slowly running down from my shoulder which I couldn't now feel and my leg felt like I got a major scrape; Double Shadows wasn't going to stop until I was dead whether or not I became Swiss Cheese before that happened.
A girl near the turned over table I was hiding behind screamed her elbows pressed to her sides with rats crawling all over her. Double Shadows was right now busy with…Artemis?! My old acquaintance was shouting insults at Double Shadows taking over the nightmare's attention from me, I saw Artemis give me a wink. I ran over to the girl, who was in fact one of the new neighbours. She was African American with bouncy short brown hair, around maybe twelve or eleven years old and was defiantly terrified of rats. Her eyes shot open when I grabbed her shoulders, her screaming finally stopped. "None of this is real; if you don't fear it it'll all go away." I told her calmly. It didn't help that a rat crawled from one of her shoulders to the other. She squealed hunching over; it wasn't until I brushed a bunch off that she stood fully straight, gripping onto my arm coming closer to me. The rest of the rats disappeared, their stink thankfully going away too. "Thanks I just hate rats and the came out of like, nowhere! What's happening here anyway, does this happen usually? I guess it doesn't, cuz that's just not po─" "Will you shut you mouth?" I growled angrily trying to keep the un-needed rage under control. The girl shut her mouth waiting for me to say something. "Try to get rid of other people's fear, that's the only way this will stop." I ordered going for a large man-eating plant that was trying to chew on some seventh graders a rooting greenery smell coming from the plant. This thing was as big as an elephant; it was going to be a bit difficult to get rid of this without looking like some kind of super being.
I jumped for a little ways up from the root feeling a little dizzy while I climbed with more grace and skill that I allowed while at gym (A/N: I know that made no sense at all). It took some time but I finally got to the top of the plant feeling really light headed. Crap I've lost too much blood! I thought putting my hand on my head. It doesn't help that the man-eating plant figured out that it had a visitor and decided to get me off. I looped my arm around the stem desperately holding on for my life as the plant shook its head like a feeding shark, my legs whipped around painfully while I pulled my knife out of my pocket. Feverishly I hacked at the plant with the knife hoping it wasn't too thick with a sticky greenish sap leaking out of the wounds that was getting on my hands. Damn plant die! I never can keep a garden alive; it should be the same way with you. I though starting to saw the stem. The plant gave a Jurassic-Park-Tyrannosaur Rex shriek shaking more vigorously to get me off. "Damn with it all." I muttered taking Zephyr out and blowing a hole in the plant's over-sized head.
I groan at impact wobbly walking away from the crater where the man-eating plant had been, the dust clearing away to reveal three saucer-eyed eighth graders. "What are you looking at?!" I snarled making them run away. "Agh!" I dropped to my knees a bullet buried itself into my left side, blood covering my hand while I uselessly tried to stop the bleeding. Out of the corner of my slightly fuzzy vision I saw Artemis tackling Double Shadows kicking the double's gun away. Okay Shadows get up. Stand.I thought to myself getting up onto my feet for less than a second before dropping back to my knees. "Ohmygod are you okay?" Miss Talkative and Annoying gasped rushing over to me. "Ohmygod you've been shot, we have to call an ambulance or something! Wait, where's Max?" the girl chattered looking around. "Never mind, here I'll help you stand up. Ah…that's a lot of blood…" she gently took my elbow helping me to my feet. The familiar smell of blood filled my nose forcing me to use my hearing and sight to tell where everything was. "Can you stand? Cuz if you can I'll go help some people, but that doesn't mean I won't stay with you if you─" "I fine." I snarled jerking my arm away from her which hurt my right shoulder. Thankfully I stayed up and with a glare at the girl she left.
"Angel!" someone shouted towards another person somewhere on my left. About sixteen feet away a little girl with big blue eyes and curly blond hair blocked her face with her arms as a fifteen year old girl with shoulder length dirty blond hair and brown eyes around at least five foot eight slashed at her with a Swiss army knife. The same fifteen year old girl was standing just five feet away covered with slithering snakes so the one attacking the little girl must be a fear. Completely ignoring my weakness I pounced on the attacking fear using my left arm to rap around the fear's neck, the other hand held Zephyr up to her head. "Pick on someone your own size." I hissed in the fear's ear before pulling the trigger. The fear vanished but what it left behind didn't. The girl was huddled in a ball with cuts, gashes and scrapes, tear tracks streaked down her face. It reminded me of the Zelasko Mission; their daughter was huddled in the corner after my attack on her parents; I clearly remembered the terror on her face as I came up to her and pulled the trigger. My stomach lurched, I swallowed down the anger inside of me taking a deep breath. So many innocent people I could have left alive but instead I decided to kill them, you might be asking yourselves how I could live with myself after that, how I could get a peaceful sleep after murdering so many people. The truth was I always hated myself and sleeping came hard when memories of people's bodies and faces resurfaced to haunt me. God was in it for us sinners, never going to make my life easier until I died.
Which could be today.
I felt like I was going to be sick, either from the hatred or the lost of blood. But I had to stop more fears so Tranq would be able to get under control, so I and many other people wouldn't get any more injured. That's when I spotted another one of the neighbours. He was around fifteen also, tall with olive skin and black hair that he had done up into a pony tail that went down to his waist and dark eyes that were desperately trying to find a way out. His outfit was many shades of black, sort of what I use to wear while I had been at the Organization. Of course that wasn't what had made me stare. He was in a cage. Tranq was scared of being in small spaces because he had been in a cage for his whole life; now I doubt any normal kid would have their worst fear of being in a cage unless they too had lived in a cage and I'm sceptical that parents would go to those kinds of lengths in child abuse but there was a three percent chance I was wrong. I quickly went over to the cage towering over the boy. He looked up, saw the look on my face plus the gun in my hand and pressed himself to the back of the cage in silent communication that he understood I was helping him. I shot the lock and he jumped out of the cage going over to the little girl. I heard a hiss by the older girl from one of the snakes; with no hesitation I swung the gun around in her direction pulling the trigger. She froze but the bullet hit my target, the snake that was trying to bite her neck. It disappeared along with the rest of the snakes though the teen kept staring at me in horror. The next person closet was the boy with the spiders crawling all over him. He was like the little girl who looked around seven or six, with big blue eyes and blond hair that looked like it had once been spiked, however the African American girl went to help him first. My other option was the last neighbour, the one that looked familiar to me. Doesn't help that Artemis accidentally attacked me instead of the double.
She shoved my back at least ten feet and we rolled for a bit until I kneed her in the gut. "Wrong one idiot." I hissed as Artemis rolled off of me and onto her feet. "Sorry about that buddy." She apologized helping me up.
Max's POV
Dune's friend was friends with Artemis!? I remembered her quite well the day she captured Angel and it almost made sense. Dune's friend had no hesitation when getting rid of the other me that was attacking Angel; she also shot at me again, even if it was to get rid of the snakes. Though she helped us, so why...? I was somewhat surprised when the mysterious girl punch Artemis in the face making Artemis stumble back a little. "I'm not your buddy." Dune's friend snarled. "Okay calm down, I know I did a lot of stuff back at home but it doesn't mean that you have to punch me." Artemis said. "Hey, who's the one helping out with Miss I-Want-What's-Rightfully-Mine, huh? You can at least show me some gratitude."
I looked over to the double that was looking around on the ground for her misplaced gun. Okay this was confusing me, if Artemis wasn't the mysterious girl's companion why was Artemis helping Dune's friend? None of this made sense, how the heck had all these fears started running around, and why was Dune's friend dealing with all of it like it was normal? So many questions and no answers! Everyone in the Flock had been helped except Iggy which is probably the next person the girl was going to before Artemis had tackled her. "You do recall the mission you-know-who gave to you before you left, right?" Artemis asked the girl who didn't answer. "Are you going to complete it?" Artemis enquired, the blank face of the mysterious girl changed into a 'why would I want to?' sort of look. Mission? "Okay that's a first from you. What has happened to you since the last time I saw you?" Artemis said quite befuddled. "A lot." The other girl answered just when Dune screamed again. Though this time it wasn't in pain or fight, it was anger. All the people in lab coats who once again surrounded him were down in an instant with Dune in the center of the ring of unconscious people before they disappeared. He was covered with many gashes that were bleeding which were staining his clothes. Artemis whistled, "Wow he's gotten pretty tough, not the coward I met before that's for sure. Oh great, now he saw me, your own your own pal." With that Artemis high-tailed it out of the cafeteria. The other girl snarled after Artemis, the kind of snarl not people but Erasers could accomplish. Dune ran over to his friend his eyes wide, "Shade why haven't you gone home yet!? You're over pushing yourself again!" he cried. She glared at him and he looked around. "Oh ya…sorry?" he said. For the third time today Dune got smacked up-side the head, though hard enough it sent him face down in the ground. Suddenly I felt really light headed, my vision going black around the edges. What the heck was happening? The earth fell out from underneath me and I hit the ground with a painful thud.
The last thing I saw was Dune helping his friend to the exit and all the nightmares and fears disappearing.
It's the first time I've ever felt this lonely,
Wish someone cure this pain
It's funny when you think it's gonna work out
Till you chose weed over me you're so lame
I thought you were cool until the point,
Up until the point you didn't call me when you said you would
Finally figured out you're all the same,
Always coming up with some kind of story
Every time I try to make you smile,
You're always feeling sorry for yourself
Every time I try to make you laugh,
You can't your too tough
You think you're loveless
Is that too much that I'm askin for?
Thought you'd come around when I ignored you,
Sorta thought you'd have the decency to change
But babe I guess you didn't take that warning,
'Cause I'm not about to look at your face again!
Can't you see that you lie to yourself?
You can't see the world through a mirror
It won't be too late when the smoke clears
'Cause I, I am still here
But every time I try to make you smile,
You'd always grow up feeling sorry for yourself
Every time I try to make you laugh,
You stand like a stone,
Alone in your zone
Yeah, yeah
Can't find where I am, lying here alone in fear,
Afraid of the dark, no one to claim alone again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Can't you see that you lie to yourself?
You can't see the world through a mirror,
It won't be too late when the smoke clears
'Cause I, I am still here
Every time I try to make you smile,
You're always feeling sorry for yourself
Every time I try to make you laugh,
You can't your too tough
You think you're loveless
It was too much that I asked him for
Avril Lavigne
Too Much to Ask