Max POV
I thought about what Josie had said when I first met her. She said that the School was gone, and it wasn't. It was back. Yet another surprise that could kill us.
I opened my eyes.
"Fang?" I asked drowsily.
No response.
I jolted up, looking for him. No Fang.
"Fang?" I said, more alarmed. "Come out, Fang."
Nothing moved except for the grass below me.
"Ah!" I squealed. "Everyone, wake up!"
I shook them all up, until everyone was awake.
"This better be good, Max." Iggy said.
"It is." I said. "Fang's missing."
Fang POV
My eyes fluttered open. The room, or maybe I was outside, I couldn't tell, was pure black.
"Max?"
I listened intently for her, just to get no reply. Then I remembered.
I looked around, hoping to see someone or something.
"Hello, Fang."
Lights flickered on to reveal a plain white room. Small tables lined the edges with dog crates on them. A boy a walked in, but he wasn't a Whitecoat.
"What do you want?" I asked bitterly. "Who are you?"
"I am Daniel, I'm another bird kid. This isn't the School, incase you're wondering."
"What do you want?" I asked again. "And why did you take only me?"
He laughed. "Because, Fang. You are important to me. I was going through some of files from the School." He flipped through a packet of papers attached to his clipboard. "You were stronger than the others. I am not going to let them kill you. The rest don't matter to me. Only you."
"That doesn't completely answer my question."
"Yes, yes. Well, I was going to clone you. Make an army of Fangs to take control of this world. It's called Operation Fang, if you haven't guessed."
Max POV
We searched everything within a ten-mile radius.
No Fang.
All we found were footprints leading to a clearing, and something being dragged beside the person who captured him.
"You don't think they killed them, do you?" Aaron asked
I looked at him suspiciously. "You know what, I think you sold him over to the School"
"No, no, no. I swear I didn't."
"So, it was just coincidence that the night you come Fang goes missing?"
"Yes, it is. I told you, he has a chip in his am that they used!"
"Stay away from me, and stay away from the flock." I said, and I called everyone else to attention. "Let's blow this joint." I called, and took off.