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Max's Journal

December 10, 2010

Nothing has ever scared me as much as Dragon Guy telling me Fang was headed for death. My heart stopped beating, my breath caught in my throat, I froze, just like the rest of the world. Everything happened in a flash, a blur. But Dragon Guy was on the ground, uncoscious, Angel slowly waking up, and flying for the Canadian border.

Wait - How would he know what subway Fang was headed for - or any subway at all? Fang has wings, he could fly faster than any subway. An hour wasn't enough time to fly from Arizona to Canada, not even on a jet. How could I have not realized he was tricking me?

"Angel, let's turn around," I said, ajusting my grip on Ella's arm. Goodness - she gets heavy after a while. Why couldn't she have wings?

Angel looked at me like I had twenty heads. "What are you talking about? Do you want Fang to die?"

"He tricked us! Fang couldn't have gotten to Canada in an hour."

She swallowed, and slowly came to a stop.

And tricking us to go for the Canadian border let him escape.

We had already been flying for ten minutes. Twenty minutes after we took off, we arrived back in the woods behind Mom's house. Sure enough, there was no Dragon Guy in sight. We searched the woods through and through, and didn't find a trace of him.

"Why did he take me and scare us to death just to run off?" Angel said, putting her hands on her hips and shaking her head.

"He wouldn't have," I answered. "They're like Erasers, they show up for a purpose." Even though the Erasers only wanted to murder us. "He would have left before the bombs exploded. We ... we... maybe we caught him in the middle of something, or ..."

Ella felt her hair. "I don't know about you guys, but I have soot caking my hair. I just want to reast and get a warm bath."

I nodded. "Okay. Let's go back to the hospital where Iggy, Nudge, and Gazzy are." Angel and I grabbed Ella's elbows and jumped to the sky.

I would have to get in touch with Fang somehow. But there's only one cell phone - and I have it. I can't just call a public phone and hope he's by it - he's probably not even in Canada yet. There's no way I can reach him - and when I don't show up, he'll think something has happened to all of us.

Gazzy had been placed in the same room as the rest of the flock. Angel and I sat in recliners while Ella was taking her warm bath.

"...Max?" someone asked. My head popped up. Iggy was trying to sit up, clutching his shoulder. His voice was low and raspy. I ran to his bedside. "Where - where's Fang? And Ella?"

"Ella's in the shower, and -" My voice caught in my throat. I'd have to tell him about Mom. "Fang's in Canada. We - we found the next location bombing."

"Ella wanted to come back to get all of the soot out of her h -" I sent her a warning look. Her face turned red as Iggy's cold blind eyes turned to me, or the top of my head.

He fowned. "Soot?"

I took a deep breath. "Yeah, Iggy. Soot. Mesa was destroyed by bombs. And ... Mom was killed. She's how we know where the next bombs are scheduled to go off. Ella overheard her phone call and found a piece of paper she wrote to those men. Fang went to Canada to try and stop them."

"He'll get killed!"

"I know." I stared at the floor. "But there's no way to contact him."

"Go on to Canada and find him," Iggy said. I raised my head. "I'll keep charge while your gone."

I nodded. "Thank you, Iggy."

So, I went out and stole another iPhone, leaving one with Iggy and taking the other with me so we could get in touch with each other. The next morning I packed my backpack and went towards Canada. Poor Fang woun't be -

I just realized I left a blind guy in charge of five kids, two of whom are injured?

Oh, goodness, what have I done?

-Maximum