Aj: PandaswithBazookas, do you honestly think I don't have an endless supply of minions? I have trillions of horror movie icon clones at my disposal, the minions from despicable me, and Mary and Gary Stus. And I also have all of Anika's HM/MC, JB, Jonas Brothers, HSM, and educational cd's and movies. Nemesis, goddess of revenge and Hades god of death (My favorite besides Eris and Nemesis.) and every one on the dark side on my side along with Chuck e' cheese! Beat that! Plus, I'm eviler!
Anika: Now that her rant is done let's get on with the chapter.
All of the emotions from Fang ditching the flock started flowing back to me as soon as the door closed behind me. Iggy also looked affected, but Fang and Angel looked perfectly fine. I walked ahead of Fang with my arms crossed and a scowl clearly planted on my face. Fang looked confused for a moment, but then grabbed my shoulder causing me to face him. My hatred flared out of control and I could tell that he saw it in my eyes.
"What is wrong?" He asked slowly.
"I don't know. I'm forced to let you help us when any second you could ditch us or betray us. We're just supposed to forgive you? I'll never be able to trust you ever again Fang." I seethed. Angel put her hand in mine trying to calm me down, but I pulled away from it.
"I thought we were passed this Max." He said cautiously. He knew that I could take him down in an instant. He knew that I knew that he knew that I knew it too.
"Well you thought wrong. If you want to cry about it go run to mommy…oh wait, your mom was a sixteen year old slut who sold you to the school." I knew that I went way too far on that one. His eyes showed it too. Instead of getting the strong, wring her neck vibes, I got even stronger, murder her and burn the remains, vibes. Some part in me just couldn't apologize. It was like every bit of anger I had ever had was mixed into one and put inside me now.
Fang's fists were clenched, but he didn't punch me. He simply walked down the hallway away from me.
"Going to ditch us again, are we?" Iggy mockingly asked.
"Fang, no!" Angel ordered. He stopped dead in his tracks, not that he had a choice when dealing with Angel.
"It's not them saying this. I mean it is them, but it's not them?" Angel tried in vain to explain. His eyebrow raised half an inch urging her to explain.
"Remember how I told you guys that Grey was capable with messing with our minds? He has this big machine on the roof that can mess with our emotions, personal thoughts, what we see, and more." She explained.
"Sorry to disappoint you Angel, but I can't see. I'm just the useless groupie who you guys carry around on a leash like a dog out of pity." Iggy scowled at the general direction of the seven year old.
"I'm sorry Iggy." Angel squeaked out, eyes starting to tear up.
"Oh you're sorry. Sorry doesn't cut it. I'm never going to see again and there's nothing you can do about it ever. Not even your unfair amount of powers can bring it back. And the only good thing in my life was killed because Max was too much of a pathetic wimp who lies to us all of the time and couldn't save Ella." Iggy yelled at Angel and me. I slugged him in the jaw.
"Iggy you act as if you are the only good one around here. You just mope around and feel sorry for yourself and blame all of us because you don't have enough guts or brains to realize that you can't go around blaming the people who care about you!" I yelled at him.
"How do we snap them out of it?" Fang asked Angel.
"So far, all I've got is that we remind them of things they like so that the anger goes away. If that doesn't work then we just drag them to the next floor and see what Grey throws at us." Angel answered unsure.
"How come we aren't affected?" He asked.
"Well you're so good at hiding emotions that I guess it doesn't affect you. For me I'm guessing because I can block it out with all of my powers." Angel stumbled. Iggy was trying to hit me, but I wasn't going easy on him. Angel put herself between Iggy and me and then she looked at him as if she was concentrating. His eyes glazed over so I guess she was showing him a mental image of something. His scowl broke out into a grin.
"Beach bunnies," He mumbled dreamily. "Thanks Ange. Sorry about you know." She smiled and I glared at him.
"Beach bunnies? How much of a sexist pig can you get?" I yelled at him.
"So I guess she's still angry at everything." He announced obviously. I gave him a no duh look, but it was wasted on him.
Fang grabbed my elbow and turned me to face him. I scowled, but then he did the surprising. He kissed me. My eyes popped like dinner plates and I struggled as the anger was flowing through me, but then it started flowing out. Really weird if you ask me. I let him kiss me, but then remembered what I said about his mom. That was way too far, even for our fights. That could have caused a fight as big as the one about Ari, yet he was kissing me. Am I the only one confused here because if you are too please let me know.
I pulled away and got ready to say the 's' word.
"Fang, I'm really sorry about your mom and what I said. I honestly didn't mean it." I apologized. Wow, that was the third time in my life I had ever apologized. It honestly felt like I was going to get a new record.
"It's okay." He told me. Iggy snickered and quietly hummed the sitting I a tree song. I spun around and scowled at him and he knew it somehow and shut up. Smart boy.
"Let's get to the second floor. We don't want it to start up again." I suggested. They nodded and we walked all along the floor until we saw a staircase with about a hundred steps. We all ran up them and within a minute we were on the second floor. I didn't see a hallway though. Instead, I was in a dog crate at the school. I looked down at myself and saw that I was in the old stiff white shirt and pants that felt like they had been bathed in starch.
I started panicking trying to get out of the dog crate I was in, but to no avail. I heard the screams from the rest of the flock being tortured while I just sat here alone in agony hoping that they all came back alive. Tears were streaking down my cheeks from the mental pain of their pain. Why couldn't it have been me who they took? They had just had an advanced technology shipment arrive which meant even more painful gruesome ways to physically and mentally torture each and every one of us.
The scene changed and I was at the beach. The wind was blowing through my hair and I almost felt partly relaxed at the feel of the sand underneath my toes, but this was not at all a happy scene. Blood was mixed in with the sand and Fang was lying there with the blood coming from him. This was right after Ari had mauled him. The jogger had just seen him and was calling 911. He was dying and there was nothing I could do to help him.
The scene changed and I was at the vacation house watching Fang Gazzy and Iggy's specks fly away from us possibly forever. I looked at Nudge, Angel, and Ari trying to assure them that everything would be okay. I knew though, that nothing would be okay. I recognized this as when the flock split up before Angel, Nudge, Ari, and I went to Germany. I absolutely had no idea of what to do then, without Fang it felt like a piece of my sense was missing.
The scene changed to when I was walking down a hall at the school in Virginia. I was about to talk to Fang about what I learned about Ter Borcht, but the Red Haired Wonder was pressing up against him. I had thought she was an eraser and was attacking him, but in truth she was kissing him. My blood boiled and I walked out with my cheeks red and rushed to the bathroom. I couldn't think straight and was having trouble processing what I just saw.
The scene changed and I was looking down at a cold lifeless corpse. Fang's lifeless corpse to be particular. The machine next to him was flat lining and I kept denying the inevitable. Fang was gone, forever. He was killed and I couldn't stop it. Flashes of memory were going through my head trying to remember times when Fang wasn't dead. A battle was raging on oblivious to Fang and me. I just stood there in shock, not exactly processing that Angel's prophecy was right. Fang was gone. He didn't have my back this time and he wouldn't ever again. I spun around and grabbed a needle full of adrenaline. I saw this in a movie once. Then I plunged the needle into his heart making a life or death decision that I really hoped wasn't death.
The scene changed and I was looking at Fang's stupid note that he had left after he had ditched us. How could he have done this? He promised that he wouldn't leave ever again, yet he broke that promise. I had thought that this was all over after he had come back to life courtesy of moi, but now he was gone. He was alive, but he ditched us. He left me with Dylan trying to make a move every five minutes for crying out loud. He left me crying and I hardly ever cry! And if I do only for about five minutes, but this time I was crying for hours. It was horrible!
I really hated this! I didn't want a trip down bad memory lane! I was going to have to get out of this myself! Before I could switch on to another bad memory I struggled to see reality again. I pictured the hallways and the icky antiseptic smell and forced my memories out of my head. It was like crawling through an airtight tunnel that fit to our body size, very uncomfortable. I opened my eyes fearing the worst, but saw that I was in the hallway and the remaining flock members were like frozen statues. Their eyes were unseeing and they didn't even twitch. I could see that they were breathing though so that was good. I waved my hand in front of Fang's face, but he didn't blink. This must've been what I was like. I knew that there was one solution. I would have to pull them out with Angel's mind reading power even though I hated it.
I decided to go into Fang's mind first and saw him and Nudge in the hawk's cave. When I was at Ella and my mom's I felt a slight pang as I though about Ella. She couldn't be gone. She couldn't be dead. The world would've felt different somehow. He kept repeating in his head. Before I could tell him to snap out of it the scene changed and I saw that he was looking through the window at Sam and me kissing after my date with him. Why that wiener? What does she see in him anyways? She deserves better. If he hurts her…why do you care anyways? She's like your sister! He mumbled in his mind. The scene changed and I saw me flying away after he had kissed me. He slammed his fist into a rock and there was almost instant swelling as blood trickled down it.
The scene changed, yet again and I saw Dylan and Fang fighting while the fire was going on. This was my chance. Fang! Snap out of it you bozo! I ordered him as sweetly as I could because you know that's my sole purpose. Max? How are you in my head? He asked. I really didn't feel like going into that right now. Not important. Get out of your head before I kick you out of there! I mentally yelled. How? He asked. Just picture the building and try to get out. I explained. I drew out of his head and before I knew it he blinked. He looked around at everyone and started shaking Iggy awake. He then slapped him to try and wake him up. No use. Fang tried one last time by kicking him in the bad place and Iggy popped up awake. I wish I had thought of that. He shot me a smug look and I gave him the bird.
I walked over to Angel and shook my baby up while also mentally telling her how to get out of there and she started blinking really quickly. She then threw her arms around me as if if she let go of me then I would drop dead right in front of her.
"I saw when I pointed the gun at you and when I was going to slit Iggy's throat and stab you, but ended up stabbing Dylan. That wasn't too bad though." She told me while smirking at the last part. I smiled at her and hugged her.
"Let's get to the next floor. We wasted five minutes." I told them. They nodded and we bolted up the steps wondering what the next terror would be when we saw them. Nudge and Gazzy glaring at us like Angel did when we she was under Grey's control.
Anika: That was a special treat because we're so close to 100 reviews. I'm so happy!
Aj: You're not the one going to Florida after Christmas to our cousin's house.
Anika: Another reason why I'm happy!
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What annoys/bothers you the most?
Anika: Aj.
Aj: Hurtful. Oh and I'm not telling because then it would be a weakness and someone could use it against me.
Where's Total in this story?
Both: Total was originally taken to Grey with Angel, but now that she's turned good again and Total isn't human with 2 percent bird, but instead canine with 2 percent bird Grey is planning on killing the dramatic little pooch.
What's the best way to sedate Aj to prevent her from killing me?
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