Assassination of Memories

Chapter XV- Something Bad Is Going To Happen

I'm not joking I keep hating having to say I don't own Maximum Ride and Pretender, but I don't hate saying you've got to check out Blazes Wings, Shadows is in it, and the third chapter blends into the chapter with Blaze in the Flashback of AOM (I think it was chapter 12 or 13)! Thanks pyroman-15-! I do not own Blaze at all!

Shadows' POV

"Something bad's going to happen." I said. I was sitting in the living room; the TV was on while Jared listened to the international new report. I had this feeling, and I was creeping Tranq out by repeating it over and over again. "Like, how is something bad going to happen?" Tranq asked. Hunter, Neo and Bronze were watching TV too but Hunter seemed distracted by me, Neo was huffing in irritation. "We left Ride at the caves, Iggy was introduced to the pathetic fairies... something bad's going to happen." I said fiddling with the hem of my shirt. The mood drastically changed twice, once to that unavoidable peril that was quickly changed by Bronze who toned down on the doom. Jared muted the TV making Neo huff again.

"What do you mean something bad is going to happen Shadows?" "Something bad's going to happen." I repeated not listening to him. Something was! But I didn't know what. It was driving me insane, not knowing what bad was going to happen but something bad was to unfold. "Why is it bad for her to be saying something bad is going to happen?"Hunter asked. "Could you say bad a few more times?" Neo muttered. Hunter shot the Dead-one a glare. "Cuz Shadows can see the future, if something bad is going to happen then something bad will happen. She's never wrong with those things." Bronze answered. "And how bad is this bad?" Hunter asked. My head was starting to hurt with the overused word. "Since she's it over and over again I say something very, very terrible." Tranq replied. Thank you for not say— "At least he didn't say bad." Neo muttered this time both Hunter and I shot him a glare; mine more deadly than the first stage lyc.

I stood wordlessly leaving the room with Hunter at my heals. "Shadows, hey Shadows wait up. At least tell us what's going to happen!" Hunter said as I passed the stables. The horses shrieked when we passed though stopped when we kept going. "Shadows—" "The reason I'm not saying what's going to happen is because I don't know what's going to happen. I just know that something really dreadful is coming up." I snapped stopping far from the house. Hunter backed off a bit looking a little grim. "Sorry it's just, I don't know what it is about you but I feel I should make sure your okay." Hunter said. You never doubt a feeling like that in a Lycan. They could be very... protective of ones they thought like the pack. "Whatever." I said turning away from Hunter. "Shadows, is there more to the reason why you left?" Hunter asked. "More than that book of yours?" I stood there in silence wondering if I could tell him. "I didn't... I didn't want to become insane. Blaze showed me what would happen if I stayed to long." I said.

"Blaze, that was the new guy right? The one that went against Artemis' order?" Hunter asked, I nodded. "He almost killed me. Like it when he scared me." Hunter muttered. "He was bloodthirsty; I didn't want to become what he was..."

"I would be there by now, damn I don't get why Father wouldn't let me fly there with you in a car. It's just going to draw attention." Blaze muttered arms crossed over his chest as I drove the sleek two-seater car silently up a road to the house of our target. I didn't look at him staying quiet. An MR 6 now, Blaze could very well tell me to stop the car and let him out. Why the hell he didn't he just order me to stop the car? "A couple pointers. Stay silent and hidden, you let anything see or hear you just eliminate the target and get out of there. Don't leave any traces unlike your first mission," I whipped my head in Blaze's direction as he bluntly explained he had seen FBI records of the scene I left after my last mission.

"Just listen, watch and stay hidden. Stop here, you can't just tell you target your there by parking in their driveway." Blaze ordered. I pulled over off the road cutting the engine waiting for Blaze to get out first. He shot off so fast, I stayed glued to him as the small house appeared. We got up to the front drive where Blaze stopped in the bushes, glancing over the house. No one was inside they had left just awhile ago by smell, figuring that Blaze slunk over to the house looking it over for an entrance point. Idiot, carefully glancing through an open window I first checked for cameras before I slipped through it.

Blaze knocked me on the side of the head hard when he got in with a small growl. I looked around, peering closer at some images in frames. Most was of this one young male with bleach blond hair and red eyes next to an older male with dark blond hair. Blaze huffed taking my shirt and dragging me to the second floor. I elbowed him in the face making him let me go Blaze glared at me growling again.

We positioned ourselves; Blaze was a little pissed I decided to stand right by the wall by the stairs like a statue. Blaze was in the master bed room of the target, finding a place to stay out of sight. It didn't take long, I played with a knife I had flipping it one way then the other, catching the blade then the handle, the blade then the handle. I heard the car first, I smelled it second. I listened as it stopped in front of the house, the engine stopped, doors opened then closed. The two males I smelled in the house weren't there, the older female and male of the house got out of the car though. I waited, listening as they talked downstairs. They were talking about something called a theatre, and something called the Pantry. I didn't understand them very much, though they were speaking English. "I'm going upstairs." The female said. I heard her come up the stairs, a piercing floral smell overloaded my nose making it wrinkle; she walked right past me the smell intensifying. I followed behind her really closely as she walked to the bed room though a little too closely, I stepped on her heal. I darted behind a bookcase pressing myself closely to the wall looking in the direction of the female yet not leaning over to see her. She stood there, breathing fast as I had defiantly startled her.

When she turned around and opened the door to the bedroom Blaze was in I darted in after her, hiding in the corner behind a table as she turned a lamp on that stood on the bedside table. I couldn't see Blaze, I smelled his scent all over the room, and his breathing seemed to come from everywhere. Holy hell where was he! The male came in just a little after; I notice the door didn't go all the way to the wall. Blaze was behind it, from the crack where the door separated from the frame I saw his dark brown red eyes lock onto mine.

Be quiet they said before looking away from me. "Hey so how about tonight?" the male asked. The female smiled when Blaze revealed himself, pushing the door away from him. The female screamed, just as the male turned the screech of metal against metal stung my ears and he went down already a bloody pool forming around him. 'Wait a couple seconds; I want to at least taste their fear.' Blaze had told me. He smirked and I stood pulling Zephyr's trigger.

"Hungry for fear, I didn't want to be that." I said shuttering from the memory. Hunter nodded looking me straight in the eyes, "What happened to him?" I shrugged, I don't know what happened but Blaze disappeared after my first month. The Copies said Father took him to another location of the Organization where Blaze would be of more use.

By two weeks after the mission with Blaze I was promoted to Noble Master after a couple of missions with him. Five days after he disappeared I was promoted to Royal then past it, Father called the new rank Killer of Shadow. I was the highest ranked assassin ever in the Organization; Father told me Blaze was two ranks lower than me. He could have been lying though I had no doubt that Blaze would be Royal Master at some point, I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to Royal by know, even Killer of Shadow.

I took a step forward (away from Hunter in this case) just to stop. I looked down flaring my nostrils. It couldn't be... I crouched down taking a sniff. "Hunter come here." I said. He came up crouching down beside me, frowning when he smelled it to. It was Fang's scent, minus the Blood Stone. Hunter had asked me before I left for work if Fang was the Stone Host. Hell ya, but it was gone from his scent here. "The smell of the Blood Stone doesn't come off the Stone Host. It smells faint instead, how could he get rid of it?" Hunter said probably recalling what Cain had taught him. "There is no way to get it off. This way." We ran off following after Fang's scent, Hunter had turned into a dark amber wolf at my side. He was in my 'imaginary' world, why? I stopped knowing very well far away from the house it was Fang's scent, sighing I confessed to Hunter we should keep our eyes on Fang. Hunter nodded and started to turn when he suddenly blinked turning back. He whimpered, then whined and lastly howled. I clamped his muzzle shut hissing at him like a cat.

Little Angel peeked through the window from what looked like the kitchen, her eyes sweeping the area. "What is it?" I heard Fang say from inside. Angel shook her head, "I don't know, a dog maybe." She said. Hunter jerked back from me crying a mournful howl. I jumped on him, knocking the large wolf to the ground sticking his face in the ground. "Shut up." I snarled. Something was upsetting Hunter, something aro— No not around, something in the house!

Hunters POV

I didn't like it; there was something in that house that should be feared, instead of listening Shadows kept trying to shut me up. I whimpered begging her in my mind to let me go. Where was the other werewolf? That werewolf would be able to hear my yelling, why didn't she come? Cain, he'd hear me. However Shadows had other ideas keeping me pinned down. "Hey Fang." I heard the seven-year-old say turning away from the window, "Shouldn't we be out with Ella, Nudge, Gazzy and Max's mom looking for Max and Iggy?"

"We'll stay here in case they come back." The fifteen-year-old I got the journal from answered back. So he was Fang, Fang who somehow got rid of the Blood Stone scent. "Stay down." Shadows hissed in my ear sounding too loud with my wolf ears. I whimpered again trying to get Shadows off of me. She was lying on top of me, holding me down. I'm a werewolf, and she was holding me down! My front legs were pinned by her left arm, my back legs with her left leg. I was lying on my side while she looked at the house, her eyes flashing. "Come on damnit." She barked jumping up running to the house pressing to the side. I followed quickly after her; Shadows pointed her gun at me to stop me from howling. I whimpered again glancing nervously around. Then I heard the sound of a chopper, and couldn't help but howl. Erasers filled that chopper the blades shot their foul scent at my poor nose. "Fang!" the girl screamed. "Come on Angel," Fang said and they ran off through the house. "No wait Celeste!" the girl yelled running back to the living room. Shadows jumped through the window and Angel screamed, I followed after the assassin watching as she dragged Angel out the front door. "Let go of me! Amberlynn what are you doing?" Angel shrieked.

I whimpered again, Shadows glared at me dragging Angel out the door barking at me in Howling to keep Fang at bay. I couldn't go against it, I turned to Fang launching with jaws wide open. The windows smashed opened as Fang battered me to the side, I slammed into the wall barking at the Erasers that jumped in through the windows. No, no, no! I thought taking off after Shadows with Erasers snarling after me as Fang sped after my tail. Ha get, after my— oh never mind! Shadows had thrown the girl over a shoulder, literally ripping any Erasers apart that got in her way. Angel continued to scream pummelling Shadows back with angry fists, while Fang was behind me at all times eyes wide and rapidly blinking like he had something in his eyes. "You filthy BASTARDS!" Shadows screeched with rage as an Eraser feel down bloody and screaming in agony. I caught up to her looking at Shadows in concern; she almost blew my head off with her gun. "Let go of me!" was shriek from Angel in the mix, in one of her hands was a battered bear with wings. Fang, looking silent and deadly followed after us until some Erasers ran into him driving the boy into the forest. "NICK! Let me go, Amberlynn we have to save Nick!" Angel screamed still banging her fists on Shadows' back. Shadows took off through the forest, I barked telling her to watch it. Jumping to the side Shadows evaded Max who practically yelled after the assassin I barked an Eraser snapping at my heels.

Shadows! Darn I wish you could hear me I thought Angel screamed for Max. Shadows' Howling was an angry viper, I clamped down on the Eraser's arm ripping it off. He shrieked (like I needed anymore of that) collapsing to the ground before I ran off after Shadows again with Max now on my tail. "Let her go!" Max roared lunging towards me as if Shadows would stop if I was taken captive. Fat chance I thought, though I pushed forward with my back legs so she couldn't grab onto me. Wait what was I thinking! She's a human (even though she reeks of bird like Shadows), she can't pin me down.

Right?

"MMAAXX!" my ears folded against my head, I almost brought my paws up to cover my ears mid-run. "Shadows!" I barked just to mentally slap myself. Shadows couldn't understand me like this and there was no way I was changing in front of Max and Angel. An Eraser jumped at Shadows, fully wolf-ified snarling. Shadows halted making the Eraser stop short crouching a few feet away. Shadows raised an eyebrow cocking her head, the Eraser snarled and jumped at her. Shadows dropped Angel grabbing the Eraser by the neck. Holy macaroni she was strong. The Eraser clawed at her arm, I had stopped a ways back trying to figure why this scene looked familiar. Shadows brought the Eraser closer growling in its face Max stood just behind me eyes wide. "How ya doing Aden, miss me?" Shadows snarled with a sinister smile. The Eraser's eyes filled with fear, he clawed more furiously. Shadows face became deadly blank again looking right in the Eraser's fearful eyes. "Where's Blaze?" she hissed. "What?! The psycho hasn't been seen for months!" I coward at the familiar hoarse voice of the Eraser's. That was Aden, my commander. Oh great this wasn't going to turn out well. Then I remembered he was in the clutches of Shadows and kinda felt sorry for my ex-commander. "Where. Is. Blaze? Answer the question." Shadows snarled.

"Like I said no one knows where he went! All I know is he became a Royal at some point! And someone said something about he might have gone past it!" Aden cried, red spotting his claws. Had he gotten to the bone yet? There was a vicious SNAP and Aden went limp, Shadows dropped the lifeless body on the ground with a look of disgust on her face bright crimson blood covered her hand. Angel trembled behind Shadows the little girl's eyes widening in horror. With a blank face Shadows' grabbed Angel's arm forcefully pulling the girl to her feet turning to take the girl away. "Let go of me!" Angel screamed struggling against Shadows. "Let. Her. GO!" Max roared launching for Shadows again. Spinning around Shadows' foot collided with Max's face sending the Ride to the ground. "No, let me go!" Angel tugged on her arm trying to get out of Shadows' grip. Shadows barked at me in Howling again, I bounded towards her and Max slammed into me. She punched me hard in the gut; I desperately tried to get a bite on her to no avail. "Shadows!" I yelled knowing that it would come out as a desperate bark for help. Max was kicked off of me Shadows held Angel up by an arm. The little girl looked like she was trying to make it seem like she wasn't in pain while Shadows glared at Max. "Don't touch him." Shadows hissed as I scampered to my feet. "Let go of Ariel." Max snarled back.

"Don't you mean Angel?" Shadows dangerously asked giving Angel a shake. Angel bit her lip to stop from screaming. I whimpered to tell Shadows what she was doing was wrong, she snapped at me in Howling to shut my muzzle. Max glanced at Shadows to Angel to Shadows again mouth slack. I whined again, the smell of Shadows' blood was making my stomach sick. Shadows barked again, this time just a dog bark. I jump back now Max's head was bouncing back and forth from me to Shadows. Where are the Copies? Shadows asked in Howling I shook my head doing my best to shrug my shoulders. Shadows dropped Angel who ran back to Max hugging the order girl tightly. "It's not over yet." Shadows muttered not even turning when Fang broke through the trees looking tired and now smelling a lot more like the Blood Stone. I stared at him in awe, breathing deeply through my nose to get that wonderful smell of the Stone. 'The Stone Host will seem like the most amazing person in the world to you, if you're lucky it'll be a girl for you to hook up with.' Giles' words echoed through my mind making me slightly disappointed. "Their after you, Neo get over here now damnit!" Shadows snapped I barked defensively as the leech appeared making my gut twist with anger. Neo's eyes locked right into Fang's, with this admiration that made me sick. The Blood Stone was wanted by all vampires, they smelt it they craved it. "Snap out of it before I snap your neck." Shadows hissed making Neo glare at her. "The Copies are after him for the Stone. Take him home." Shadows ordered Neo smiled stepping forward when Max jumped in front of Fang, Angel protectively behind her. "He's not going anywhere. What the heck is happening here?" Max snapped clearly ticked. "Neo." The leech moved so quickly Max didn't have enough time to spin the ones she was protecting before Neo had killed all five Erasers trying to sneak up on Max. "Filthy dogs, just like you mutt." Neo spat in my direction, I growled in response. "You don't want those things catching Kiba (A/N: little side note you say it key-ba) unless you want him completely drained of all fluids." If I could I would have made a face to Shadows' remark, Neo took down another Eraser that tried jumping down on top of her.

"These things are idiots. Where is the brains Father, or did you forget to put any in?" Neo muttered. "What do you mean, what do they want with F— Nick?" Max asked. Shadows didn't answer pointing for me to take the Eraser coming on her left side. It was a little more brutal than Neo's job but hey, I hated these things. Suddenly Fang was struggling against Neo's gentle hold behind Shadows. Max's eyes bulged before she attacked, with a quick swift movement that seemed as if Neo didn't even move he pushed her back into a tree where she crimpled in a pile. Fang kicked, punched, trying everything to get away from Neo before the vampire shot off, Fang's scream of pain echoed through the forest as Neo almost ripped Fang's arm off.

"My, my, what a display. Nicely done." Someone said my gut coiled once again at the smell of vampire. I brought all my courage together in a snarl spinning to the vampire in the try behind me. I knew this one, it was Holden. "Ah Hunter nice to see you again. How's your sister? Oh I'm sorry I forgot she was dead." Holden said with a smile. I almost leapt forward before Shadows stopped me glaring at the new arrival. "Is that the Blood Stone I smell? Oh you two down there smell delicious." Holden licked his lips. "What the hell do you want?" Shadows said looking bored. "How about those two to go?" "Leave unless you want me to make your eternity a living Hell." Shadows snarled. "I spotted a large, sorry huge pack of savage Lycs heading into the area, a few hundred maybe. Now my payment will be those two." Holden said not taking his eyes off of Max and Angel. Shadows stepped in front of them making Holden frown. "Get rid of the pack, divert them." Shadows ordered. "Damn you haven't paid me for the last three things I've done for you. My payment is those two, maybe the Blood Stone if you keep acting like a stupid brat." Holden spat. Wait Shadows has deals with this jerk!? I gave her a look of pure hopelessness. "Smug corpse." Shadows hissed. "Filthy bitch." Holden snarled back. Suddenly Shadows moved, though not quick enough to stop Holden from clamping his jaw down on Angel's shoulder. Shadows slammed into Holden ripping him off the girl that collapsed to the ground with a high pitched shriek. Holden licked the blood off his lips smiling and disappeared. "That was a Pureblood!" I cried; Shadows seemed to understand that by Angel's ongoing shrill. "Angel! What's happening to her?" Max looked horrified and panicked; the blood at Angel's wound was turning silver. I writhed in pain as Angel's shriek passed the pitch human ears could hear, Shadows was sent down on her knees holding her ears. I thought my ears were bleeding before the range of pitch passed my hearing, in pain Shadows threw the still silently screaming Angel on my back screeching at me to get to the house. My ears hurt, every jerk from my running sent a shock of pain through my body but I ran.

We didn't need a newborn six-year-old vampire on our hands.

Max's POV

"Tell me before I kill you." I yelled after Amberlynn now that we were running away from Erasers, again. Angel had screamed when the guy bit her, a huge wolf had taken her to the same place Fang had been dragged off to right now and Amberlynn could out run an Eraser. Does anyone see anything wrong here or am I going crazy?! 'Angel is hurt Max, follow Amber.' The Voice told me. Why would I do that!? We're going in the opposite direction the wolf went! I thought horrified about what was happening to Angel. The chopper had become mysteriously quiet for a bit after I ran after Amberlynn after seeing her tear Erasers apart, the terrifying sound of its blades chopping the air followed above us bombarding Amberlynn and I with Erasers. This girl was strong, much stronger than any regular person and she had kidnapped Angel and Fang! Amberlynn wasn't tell me what was happening to Angel, she didn't answer a single question until she pulled me to a tree shoving me into a hole bellow the roots. I slid down a dirt tunnel landing in a pile at the end of the tunnel that was now two feet above me; Amberlynn flew over top of me rolling into a standing position. "She was attacked by a Dead-one. If we don't get her to Jared no one will be able to see her again for a couple hundred years except Neo." Amberlynn said pointedly turning to me. Her glasses still haven't fallen off yet, did she glue them to her ears?! "She won't live that long are you stupid! People only live for around a hundred years." I said knowing very well that I possibly couldn't even make it close to that age. I was still wondering if I'd get past twenty. Amberlynn's mouth became a white line, showing me she clearly wasn't going to talk to me.

Where ever we were could do well if it was only me and a Flock of three on the run, a bunch of army cots were spread over the place, the ceiling wasn't caving thanks to the steel plates with metal beams keeping them up. There was a small rectangle shaped opening in the corner which is where Amberlynn went bringing out eight cans of sealed ravioli. She threw four over to me, using a small can opener to get to her food throwing the can opener to me to open my can. I let her dig in first though the cans looked relatively sealed so I stuck my own fork she gave me in it devouring my ravioli. Ever so often we'd stop to hold our breaths as heavy footsteps rang down the small tunnel we had come through, waiting for whoever was there to go away. We didn't talk; sitting in a silence I swear was going to make me go insane. No words exchanged, not even hateful ones left mine or Amberlynn's mouth. We sat there, long after we finished our ravioli, while Amberlynn constantly glanced at the entrance tunnel. It must have been around 10:53pm that Amberlynn led me out through another tunnel, disappearing so quickly that I had no idea where she went. "This way Ride." I spun around as she walked away, hands in pockets. She walked quickly in the direction of her house, greeted by the wolf that had taken Angel away. "How is she?" Amberlynn asked. The wolf tried to shake and nod its head at the same time. "And Kiba?" Why did she keep calling Fang that? The wolf seemed to shrug. Sighing Amberlynn gestured me to follow walking in through the back door of the house. "What is she doing here?" The young boy that looked around Angel's age spat when I walked in the door glaring at me. I saw Dune look up then back to who he was bandaging up.

Fang.

"Neo you almost ripped his arm off." Dune said not pleased with the other boy. "Hey the other guy was coming, didn't like the feel of him. Don't understand why you're making deals with him." Neo narrowed his eyes at Amberlynn. "There's a pack coming in fast, we don't do something you'll be torn to bits and this guy will be taken for food." Amberlynn jerked her head in Fang's direction as I rushed over to him touching his head. "He's out cold," Dune said to me, "and if someone was being a little gentler..." he trailed off glaring over his shoulder at Neo. "Damn with the pack, make the other one do it." "Left after I refused to give Ride and Angel to him for payment." Amberlynn answered Neo blankly. "God why do you make me do the messy stuff?" Neo huffed pushing himself off the couch and to the back door, glaring at the boy that had come from the cave area Amberlynn went to as he went past. The boy glared after Neo, the boy almost looking like he was going to growl. Suddenly someone came up from a door looking at Amberlynn. "Where's Neo?" the man asked. "The stinking brat just left." The boy said just for the door to open and Neo look in. "What is it Ethan?" Neo asked looking a little unhappy. "We need you." At the man's words Amberlynn stepped in his line of sight staring at him. "There must be another way." She said dangerously. "What if I don't stop?!" Neo looked scared. "If we keep discussing this she'll be a Dead-one in minutes. Neo get down there and do what Jared says." Ethan's voice dipped down into something I didn't understand, without complaint Neo went to the door gliding down the stairs. Ethan went after him shutting the door. The boy glared in Amberlynn's direction, "Why did you let that happen, the filthy leech won't stop when he gets a taste!? He'll go into a feeding frenzy. He'll kill that girl!" Amberlynn didn't look at the boy instead looked at me in this 'I'm sorry in advance' way. Sorry for what? What was the boy talking about, feeding frenzy?

The shriek blasted my ears with horror, the boy was sent down on all fours. "Angel!" I screamed running to the door giving it a vigorous tug. "What is he doing!? Make him stop!" I screamed trying to throw the door open. Dune came over pulling me away from the door as I kicked and screamed with Angel. Amberlynn was trying her best to stay on her feet; it wasn't long until she was on her knees. My scream kept rising until it hit a certain note when something odd happened.

I wasn't too sure if Iggy decided to drop a bomb in the living room when suddenly everything went a bright white, Dune was ripped off of me. Amberlynn and the boy slammed against the far walls, the boy slid across the island in the kitchen knocking plates over to smash on the floor. A chair barely missed Amberlynn smashing into pieces five feet away from her on the wall. The couch Dune slammed into flipped over which he was now stuck under, I collapsed to the ground adrenaline pumping furiously in my blood. What the heck just happened? So quickly I almost didn't notice it happen Neo fled from the door to the stairs to the second floor not taking notice to what had happen. However Ethan's eyes bulged at the scene, the boy moaned standing up picking pieces of plate out of his hair. Dune wiggled out from under the couch staring at me then looking to Amberlynn out cold sagging against the wall. Fang's eyes blinked open, nothing had happened to him thankfully. "What happen?" Ethan demanded. "It was like she exploded or something." Dune said. A little out of balance I stood up noticing that nothing was within four feet of me. The coffee table, a couch, even a rug had pushed back at least four or five feet away leaving a clear circle around me. What had just gone on my head was throbbing painfully from it. Angel wasn't screaming anymore, Amberlynn aroused glaring at me. "You're lucky I don't send you flying all the way to Alaska." She dangerously hissed swiftly standing up, Fang was up in seconds getting in front of me, his jaw setting in pain. "Move it Kiba." Amberlynn growled Fang narrowed his eyes in response.

"You're in no condition to pick a fight boy now move before I shove my foot up your ass." Amberlynn snarled more fiercely. "Amberlynn if you touch one of them I will deal with you." Jared said in a deadly tone narrowing his eyes accusingly at Amberlynn from behind Ethan. "You're lucky I haven't punished you for taking Jeff out of the hospital." How exactly would he punish a girl who could kill an Eraser with one bare hand? Did Jared know Amberlynn could do that? He seemed to figure that out by the blood on her hand. "You explain what happened, you a fifteen seconds." Jared barked his face changing drastically as he looked at the girl opposing Fang. Those caring dark eyes became deadly, dark shadows falling under his eyes and check bones. It looked as if Jared suddenly became a demon; Amberlynn regarded him calmly. "The Copies attacked Angel and Fang, we ran off, Max tried to stop me, I kill one Copy, Neo brought Fang here, Angel was bitten by a Pureblood leech." Amberlynn spat over her shoulder after the last word looking disgusted. "Angel, Fang? Shade I think you're a little confused." Jared said. He had changed again, looking like he usually did. "They all lied." Amberlynn said bluntly.

Jared glanced at Fang and I then back at Amberlynn. She sighed and thanked him for saving Angel. "If that little girl turned I'd hafta kill her." Amberlynn said going past Jared down the stairs. Jared didn't look happy with her remark, I pushed past him not caring, clomping down the stairs. I halted at the bottom at the smell of anaesthetic Fang supportively put a hand on my shoulder nodding. I took a deep breath rounding the corner.

There was a wall with a large window, where I saw Angel lying on a hospital bed right by the window with a bandaged wrapped around her neck. Her face was a creamy-white pale, dark spots under her eyes. Amberlynn stood looking at Angel with her arms crossed over her chest muttering something about Angel looking like crap. There was a door on the wall that I quickly walked over; my hand just grasped the handle when Amberlynn perked up. "It's locked." She said frankly I gave a tug anyway. Amberlynn was right about the door being locked though uncharacteristically she didn't smirk when I failed to open it. She was staring at Angel through the window, a distant look in her eyes behind those glasses she always wore. "Stupid to let my guard down actually. Shoulda know he'd bite her." Amberlynn sighed, "'Course wouldn't have happened if I kept up with payment. My bad." She said looking at me. Though it was like when Iggy was trying to look at my face he couldn't see, Amberlynn looked at me the same way. Did Amberlynn care for Angel? It didn't make sense. Then again never did any of my life. "We kinda got off on the wrong foot kiddo, even though you tried to be nice despite how Max looked at me." Amberlynn said looking back towards Angel. "Can you forgive me?"

Jared walked up behind me looking at Amberlynn. "She's gone insane." Fang murmured. "Shade are you okay?" Jared asked. All these people were bipolar or something, just a minute ago Jared had gone deadly on Amberlynn now he was worried about her. "Save the world, and all those Godforsaken people in that world. What you do not know is which world to save. You only know one but there are many more worlds than the one we live in. But why save any world? No one has done anything for you to deserve to have you save a world." She turned back to me her words striking me hard. "The world does not want you, do you not see. Why save a world that does not want you? Why save those souls that destroyed your friends' lives and even your own? Why do anything for anyone when all they give you in return is pain and cruelty? What if you showed the world you had no intention in saving it? They would go after you just because you did not want to save the world when in fact it is their own faults for underestimating you. They do not deserve to be saved when they deny you because of what you and you're friends are. They're the freaks." Amberlynn became dark.

"Amberlynn what are you going on about?" Jared asked stepping forward. The boy that seemed to despise Neo had come down the stairs and was staring at Amberlynn in concern as she continued. "Blow all the specks away, all the ones that have harmed you. A scream is all you need; you have the power to destroy those who are traders!" Amberlynn cried pointing a finger at me. "Shade stop, this isn't like you." The boy said jumping in front of her shaking Amberlynn's shoulders. She backhanded him in the face knocking him over. He fell to the ground shock written all over his face gazing up at the fearful girl.

"Destroy Father." Amberlynn said to me and shrieked collapsing to the ground.