Chapter 41

Shadow POV

Silent and I were on our feet within seconds. There were at least 516 of them. This was going to be a bit harder than I expected. Between the 8 of us, we could take them, if we were careful.

"Take to the air!" I called out, "Were faster than they are! Move! Move! Move!" I snapped out my wings and soared into the air, my flock not far behind me. Upon a closer look at our enemy they weren't erasers. These were a newer robotic version of them. They were flyboys.

"Its not erasers!" Silent yelled slamming into one of them hard. "Its flyboys!" Our fight began.

I launched my fist out connecting hard to the flyboys jaw sending him flying back. Turning i launched my foot out and hit another. But looking around I noticed something. It wasn't just flyboys. It was something else, no someone else. Four someone's.

"What's the matter Shadow?" I turned towards the mocking voice in time to get a fist to the face. I was pushed back and grabbed from behind. Normally I could have twisted away but I was still weak from being injured.

In front of me stood a guy with red and black hair and blue eyes. He wore all black and stared me down with a stone cold glare. Behind him was two more guys both with black hair, one with a blue stripe the other with a purple one. Both had green eyes.

"Who are you?" I snapped. The only girl laughed dryly. Her piercing red eyes stared back at me, partially covered by her brown hair.

"Don't you know me? I'm sure Silent had talked a lot about me" She said smirking. Suddenly I could place who they were. It was the exact enemies we had been planning on facing. It was Memory, Terra, Ventus, and Raymond.

"Let go of me!" I said struggling hard. The eraser punched me hard in the back causing me to bite back a scream of pain.

"Hurts don't it?" Raymond asked laughing; "Now you know the torture we endured for years" his fist launched out and hit me hard in the jaw. I hissed in pain and started thrashing. The flyboy held its grip on me.

"Give her to us, you and he rest of them get moving on the attack. No one to badly injured. They still need to follow her" I was shoved forward and grabbed hard by Raymond and Ventus. Both gripped my upper arms tightly.

"Silent!" I screamed as they started to move me away from the fight. "Silent!" His head turned in my direction only to have a flyboy kick him hard in the side. He dropped a few feet but turned back on the attack.

"Shut up pest!" Terra raised his hand up and hit me hard in the temple knocking me out cold.

Silent POV

"Daddy?" Zack's scared voice came from above me. I pried my eyes open and looked up at him squinting in the light. My head was killing me and I could feel that my nose was broken.

"Silent? You alright?" I felt a hand on my shoulder helping me sit up. I nodded my head getting to my feet shakily.

"Everyone alright?" I called out. We weren't too bad; I had a bloody nose, black eye, a few cracked ribs, and good amount of scrapes and bruises. Talia and Zack both had minor bruises, Bright's left eye was starting to swell shut and her arm was bleeding badly. Both the twins and Sound were covered in bruises and blood.

"Were all ok" Bright's voice shook as she spoke, "But they got her. They took Shadow" my hands clenched into fists at my side and my teeth clenched.

"We'll get her back" I managed to say threw grit teeth, "No matter what" unclenching my hands I picked up Zack and all of us headed inside.

"My God, Are you all ok?" My mom asked as we entered. My parents and sister had raced inside when the flyboys showed up. Since they really couldn't help us.

"Were ok mom, grab me the first aid kit" I set Zack in one of the dining room chairs to see how badly he was hurt. Leo was checking out Bright's arm and Ian was checking to see if Talia's wrist was broken.

When my mom returning with a first aid kit I grabbed a could bandages and put them over Zack's scrapes. Then something occurred to me, he had stitches in his back. Were they still intact?

"Alright Bud, Let me see your back I want to make sure your stitches are still in" He made a face but turned around in his chair. Pulling up the back of his shirt I was right to wonder. The stitches had ripped during the fight and he now had a gaping wound in his back, right between his wings.

"Bloody hell" I muttered, "Leo hand me a needle and thread" I held my hand out behind me without looking away from Zack's back. Leo set the items in my hand and tapped my wrist. Pulling my arm back I stringed up the needle.

"I hate having stitches" Zack mumbled closing his eyes. Sighing I slowly stitched him up, making sure they were tighter than the ones he had before.

"No one else is badly injured" Leo told me as I tied off the thread, "I stitched up Bright, and Talia's wrist is intact. We could go after Shadow now if you want" I sighed and set the needle on the table along with the thread.

"In the morning we'll go. It's getting dark and all of us are injured" As much as I wanted to race out there right now and trek the skies at night to find her. I can't. My left wing was killing me and so was my nose; which had stopped bleeding but still hurt.

"For now everyone get some rest, we'll mobilize in the morning." Everyone looked at me and slowly nodded heading up for the guest bedrooms. Everyone except Zack, I knew he was thinking about his mother.

"We'll get her back right?" I leaned over and ruffled his hair lightly.

"Of course we will I won't let them keep her." He frowned but nodded his head and made his way upstairs. "I'll be up to tuck you in a minute" Without nodding or acknowledging that he heard me he rounded the corner upstairs.

I put my head in my hands then ran them threw my hair. I couldn't believe I had let this happen. They had taken her away to god knows where. Everyone here was counting on me to make sure she came home. The only thing that was worse is that she counted on me to save her. She yelled for me, but I couldn't save her.

I had let them take her.