Thanks fanficlover. The story… kinds goes like that. Haha. Uhmm…. Here's the story.

Fang POV

I was waiting at the bottom of the porch for Max. There was no screaming coming from the house, so I figured everything was going good.

Ha ha. How wrong.

I saw Max walking toward me. She must have flown down from the back of the porch because I didn't see her until she was walking to me. I smiled at her. She put her hands in her pocket and walked towards me.

"Hey. Everyone is doing well. They want to see you." Max twirled a strand of hair and looked at me… literally like a dumb blonde. "Please." She said making a pout face. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. Max never talked and acted like that. Ever. Something was wrong. Max stepped toward me and I stepped back.

"You know I can't see them, Max." I said slowly.

"Too bad." She said with an evil grin on her face. She leapt at me and tackled me to the ground. I tried to punch her in the face, but missed. She just laughed. "Nice try, big boy." She punched me in the face and wrapped her fingers around my neck. Slowly, Max's face started to twist. She was turning into Dylan before my eyes. "You're dead." He punched my nose. I felt warm blood dripping down onto my shirt. Great. My face was going to look like a hot mess after this.

Dylan stood up and picked me up by my neck. He turned my head in the direction of the woods. A whitecoat was standing there, holding Max in his hands bridal-style.

"Let her go." I spit blood in Dylan's face. His face twisted in anger and he threw me to the ground. He kicked me in the stomach, and then the head. Pissed was an understatement for what I was feeling towards Dylan. I was even madder at myself when I groaned in pain. His foot came down to my forehead. He put more and more pressure on his foot.

He was trying to crush my skull.

Both of my hands shot up. I wrapped my bloody fingers around his ankle. "Get…" I took a deep breath. Slowly, I used all of my might and slid his foot off of my head. "the fuck out." I stood up and pushed him to the ground. I kicked him in the face. I small smile crept on my lips as blood started to gush out of his nose. He grabbed my ankle with one hand and punched my shin with the other. I didn't even flinch. He looked up into my eyes and smiled. His fist flew up.

Let me tell you this: being punched in the balls will even get a mutant bird-kid to fall to the ground. I groaned as Dylan stood up and kicked me in the gut. His finger flew down and poked me in the forehead. My eyes rolled into the back of my head. I was unconscious, but I felt, heard, and saw everything. Dylan picked me up and tied me to one of the beams holding up the porch. He pinned together my wings. It's more painful than it looks.

"Guess what, freak." Dylan looked me straight in the eye. "I'm after your little owl flock next. You're just getting everyone killed." My heart fell like it flew into my throat. I couldn't do anything. Nothing.

The worst part was the fact that my eyes were open the whole time I was unconscious. So lucky me, I got to watch Dylan pick up Max and throw her into the back of a van.

I don't know how long I was tied to the pole. If felt like a millennium. My flock was being taken away by this stupid shit. When we got to the house, it was dawn. A couple of minutes ago the sun just set. I was tied to this pole for twelve hours.

Itex can do a lot of damage to bird-kids in twelve hours. A lot of damage.

Max POV

I was the last one to wake up from my unconsciousness. Nudge was hovering over me the whole time I was out. Her eyes widened when she woke up.

"Max!" She yelled. The next moment I was in giant hug. "You weren't even moving! We thought you were dead. I would have cried so much if you were dead! My heart would stop. Everyone would cry. We would have to go on this whole mission to find Fang and tell him what happened to you. It would be—" Nudge was cut off.

"Shut up." Iggy said through clenched teeth.

Nudge rolled her eyes. Gazzy and Angel were being so quiet that I almost forgot that they were here. "M—Max." Angel said quietly.

I sat up and looked at her, "What's wrong, Angel?" I slid over to her; my legs were still numb.

Angel was beat up. I think she was the only one who saw Dylan's attack coming so she was able to put up a fight before he knocked her out. "I don't want to go back to Itex. They are going to kill us there. I read Dylan's mind before he attacked me. There are six flocks of bird kids, including us. Itex thought that we were going to go search for the other flocks and try to shut down Itex… for good." Angel's voice cracked. "Dylan had been moving from flock to flock. Capturing every single one, then he handed them over to Itex. I never got an unusual reading from him before… so I never suspected a thing."

My eyes were wide. They weren't just trying to experiment with us anymore. They wanted to kill us.

I wrapped my arms around Angel, "Don't worry, hunny. It's going to be okay."

Gazzy shot up from the corner, "No, Max! No! It's not going to be okay! We are going to die for real this time! I will never be able to grow up and do all of the stuff you do! I won't ever be one of the older kids! No! I am going to die at nine years old!" Tears were forming in his eyes. Gazzy never did this. I let go of Angel and walked over and hugged him. He tried to shrug out of it, but I grabbed him into the hug again.

"No, Gazzy. I won't let them kill you. I would die to get you out of Itex." I kissed the top of his head. "I promise." Gazzy nodded and dug his head into my shoulder. He started crying more.

Iggy sat by the door of the van. His jaw was clenched, so were his fists. He didn't say anything. We sat there in silence for a few moments, but then Iggy's face lightened up. Almost as if a light bulb went off over his head, he reached into his pocket. Iggy pulled out a small, round object.

This is one of the moments I praise the lord that Iggy loves bombs.

"I just saved our skins." Iggy said, holding up the grenade.

Everyone looked at Iggy. He and the Gasman high-fived. The door to the van suddenly flew open and Iggy shoved the grenade into his pocket. Dylan stood there, a smug look on his face.

"Look what the cat dragged in." I said.

He glared at me, "Look what mutant freak flew into the back of my van."

I smiled and flipped him the bird. Dylan rolled his eyes as five whitecoats walked into the van and handcuffed us all. We were escorted out of the van to the Itex building. I got ready to snap open my wings and tell everyone to go up and away, but when I tried to move my wings, pain shot up them. My wings were clipped together. Again.

"Well, I'm going to get the owl-kids." Dylan said to the whitecoats. "Wish me luck. Psh. Like I need it." You don't know how much I wanted to slap him.

It was the all the same; we walked in, saw the poor experiments, and were thrown into a giant room. The room had no windows. The door was on the ceiling, so we would have to fly to get to the door. That stinks, because out wings were clipped together.

"What are we going to do?" Nudge asked.

I smiled, "I have a plan." Of course I didn't. I was just trying to sound more leader-like.

Hawk POV

My whole flock just landed in the cave. I was too far away to read Fang's thoughts and see if they were safe or not. All I could do is wish. But a wish is just the substitution of reality… It was just about midnight. We took our sweet time getting home. It wasn't smart coming back to the cave. Itex could have tracked Fang and Max back to here, but I had to wait for them to come back. Xavier plopped down onto his bed. So did Janie and Josh. A chill went down my spine when Josh almost went into her bed with her. Nope. No. Way. In. Hell.

I sat at the mouth of the cave while my flock slept. My wings were fully extended. I lie down and fell asleep right at the opening of the cave. When I woke up it felt like I only slept for a couple of minutes, but my watch told me it was actually three hours. I stared out at the moon and saw something miles away. It was a person.

The person got closer and closer. I took a sigh of relief as Fang landed inside the cave. "Hawk!" I stood up as he yelled my name.

"Hey… where's your flock?" I asked him. They weren't even in the sky.

Fang's face went tense, "They didn't want to come with me. So I left them there."

"Oh." Fang would never leave his flock while someone who wanted to hurt them was with them. Never. I tried to read his mind, but I got nothing. Fang noticed that I didn't believe him so he took a step forward. I was caught off guard. Dude, you will never believe what he did. It was weird.

Fang pushed me against the cave wall and kissed me. I pushed him away, but he pulled me back to him. I kicked him in the shin. He staggered back and then came at me. I realized what he was doing too late. He poked my head and I crumpled to the ground.

I caught a glimpse of Fang shifting into the blonde haired-blue eyed guy again. The guy shifted into me and then walked into the section of the cave that my flock was sitting in. That wasn't Fang. I fell into a trap that easily.

Even worse: he was going to take us to Itex.