Chapter 21:
Fangs POV

"What do you mean 'Max is ready'?"

My eyes snapped open as I heard Ed say that. I knew that Ed didn't think
anyone could hear him. Ed was wrong. I happened to have better hearing than
a normal human being. That was probably because I wasn't a normal human
being.

I listened a bit longer but apparently the line went dead, because Ed
didn't say anything else before he hung up. Not that it mattered. I had to
go back to the school and save Max. No matter what she was ready for. I
didn't even want to think about all the stuff they could do to her.

I jumped out of bed, ignoring the pains in my torso. Some things were more
important. Ed's head snapped up. "What do you think you are doing?" he
asked me but I barely heard him. "You're not fully healed yet!" he
hissed, attempting not to wake the others up. The others. I looked down at
them, but I couldn't take them with me. This was all my fault. I vaguely
remembered Ed saying something about Max when I first "met" him, but I
couldn't really remember what it was…

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It still didn't matter. I had to save her. I jumped out the window and
flew toward the School.

I flew as fast as I could, but I could only reach 30 knots (A/N: about 37
m/h) with my injuries. I cursed a lot.

Suddenly, without my even noticing them I was surrounded by about five
erasers, and they were being led by… I felt the blood drain from my face.

"What have here, Ari?" asked Max, who now apparently had wings!

"Why, Max, I do believe we have an intruder," Ari answered this new Max,
smiling his head off. Max flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder like
he'd seen her do a million times before.

"Max," I pleaded desperately with her, "it's Fang! Remember?"
Max's brow furrowed as she tried to concentrate, and I had hope… until Ari
attacked me.

I let out an "oof" as all the air in my lungs left me, and I punched Ari
hard in the side of his face. He let go of me and fell back, but I was only
attacked by another Eraser. "I-will-kill-you-for-what-you-did-to-Max!" I
said between punches. Then I felt another fist smash into my back. I whirled
around to face them, and saw Max, hovering two feet away from me with a
determined expression on her face. "Max," I started, but another Eraser
launched at me from the side, and I tumbled down with him.

After I managed to kick that Eraser off of me and regain altitude, Max was
nowhere to be found. Until I felt someone's foot connect with my side. I
turned and there was Max again, with the same determined expression.
"Max," I started saying stuff to trigger her memory. "Remember I went
to you're school, and we were in gym together, and I sat behind you in
second period biology! We went to the dance at the beach together!" I
would have continued, but at that moment Max did something. I wasn't sure
what she did, but at that moment a large rock flew in my face. Max didn't
throw it, but she made it move! When I ducked more rocks came at me, and I
was doing my best just to avoid them.

No more Erasers were coming at me now. They were all standing around me,
watching Max send her missiles at me, and cheering when one of them hit. It
was all I could do to keep dodging the things. Max hadn't been an accurate
thrower, but now she was directing the rocks with her mind. Needless to say,
I was impressed.

Suddenly, and Eraser fell. He just fell. Nothing hit him; no one kicked him
or anything. He just stopped flapping his wings. I smiled. I knew what that
meant: Angel. And Angel meant the rest of them.

As if on cue, another Eraser exploded. Go Iggy! Or the Gasman, whichever
one planted that. Then another one exploded, and I could tell that that one
was Iggy's handiwork. It was a bit bigger than necessary. Nudge zipped
past another Eraser with her fawn colored wings, and then punched him in the
nose, and zipped behind him. As I watched, she grabbed his wings and pulled
them together. The Eraser cried out in pain and fell to the ground like one
of the stones Max had been throwing a moment ago. Now all that was left was a
distracted Max, and a furious Ari, who I launched myself at the moment the
move was possible.

I kicked and punched Ari. He kicked and punched me. I don't really
remember the details. I stopped really thinking and just obeyed one word
commands that came from somewhere in my subconscious. Kick. Duck. Punch.
Duck. Fall. Rise. Turn. Kick. I found myself winning, and Ari eventually
dropped like the rest of his team. Except for Max, who was watching us with a
puzzled expression on her face and about twenty or thirty stones whirling
around her like electrons around a nucleus. Angel, I thought as hard as I
could, don't hurt her. She doesn't remember us. Just make her go to
sleep. Angel nodded once. She turned to Max.

"Sleep now," she said in that sweetly scary voice of hers. Max's
eyelids fluttered a bit before they closed, and I dived and caught her as she
fell.

"Now what?" Iggy asked.

"We need to go some where safe," I told him, but I was looking at Max.
"Some where we can plan our next move without worrying about intrusions from
Itex." Angel was the first to pick up on what I was saying.

"Dr. Martinez's house," she said, and I nodded.

"Yup," I said, and flew in the direction of Arizona. I didn't look
behind me to see if the flock was following. I really look in front of me
either. Mostly I just looked at Max. "If there is a God," I whispered,
"please let him help Max remember me. Please."

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