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Chaper 11: Join

I'm not sure what I felt, but I was big. It was a surge of of power from Deadgate, and screams of terror. I ran down to the others and spoke to them. "Guys! It's him!" No further explanation needed. Dan and Tasha started the grid while I explained the Deadgate to the others. We landed in Long Island California. "When did we mark this location?" "We didn't." "Where is he?!" There were tons of little buildings down there, all of them were on fire. There were people running around, fighting these creatures with all sorts of medieval weapons. There was even a giant metal dragon!

"Who do we help!?" "Leave them! Find Gate!" I watched as a giant black helicopter started flying off and I could feel gate in it. "There!! I'll go after him! Max, come on!" I leapt into flight, I'd been practicing. Max followed and I slammed into the copter as a wave of heat fwooshed out of it. I ripped out my blades and sliced through the door and saw a bunch of teenagers on the floor. One was crying, one was trying to attack Gate and some doctor and ones was on fire. "I pick the crying one!" I heard Gate shout and Max gasp. "Max!?" "That's, that's-" The doctor spoke up. "Aahh, Maxine~ I wondered where you were. I expected you to come after us since we killed you're flock." Gate looked up and I saw his eyes. "No! No no no no! You're dead!" He smirked. "Not yet. See you at the compound Doc!" He grabbed the crying one and disappeared in a red mist. I shouted in rage and shot a blast of orange lightning in the spot he was standing. "Well that's interesting~ Alas, you are to be left alone. But I get to kill the others!! Happy day! When we get back, drinks on me!" I shot a blast of lightning and a guy with sea blue eyes cuffs and pulled him out just as the copter disappeared into a red mist.

I grabbed Max and we floated to the ground. "Who was that guy?" Max looked scared. "That's doctor Salmes. He headed the 'hybrid' program. He's our creator, and our torturer." The blue eyes guy looked at me. "She dead." "The blonde girl. I'm sorry, but this is how my world is." The others ran up to us with darkened expressions. "What's wrong? Even if Deadgates back, we can defeat him." "They're all dead. Every one of them. He killed them all." I didn't feel sad. Or surprised, I felt angry. I would make him pay.

Deadgates POV

I walked into Salmes's "operating theater". In reality it was a butcher house where he dissected his specimens and turned them into new creatures. Four of the new batch were tied down, already sedated. I had my one locked away and the two we lost were not imprtant. "How's her rehabilitation going?" Salmes was a interesting human. "I haven't started yet. Why do you have such a fascination with Angels?" "My secrets are mine~" I shrugged and walked away to my room. Inside was the girl, Piper. She was chained up and sobbing. I unlocked her chains and helped her up. "What are you doing?" I'd been causing nightmares to flood into her mind for a few hours now, and she was almost mine.

"Would you like to know why I picked you?" "P-please. Let me go..." I snarled. "SHUT UP!!" I almost threw her against the wall, but I contained myself. She cringed in fear. "I'm-Im sorry. Are you okay?" I softened my voice and folded my wings. "I'm f-fine. Why did you pick me?" I smiled and piano music started playing as I set one of my minions to work. I did a slow dance with her as I spoke. "Because you're like me. The second born, the replacement." I could see it was working. "But why?" "Because I know you. You're thought to be the weakest. But you have hidden power." She almost started believing me, but she caught herself. "NO! You're evil! You killed him!" She started sobbing and I held her in a hug. She tried breaking out but my strength is, unnatural. "I am evil, and I did kill him. And I'm not sorry."

"But can you blame me? You've seen my power. It's impossible not to use it." She didn't react, just went limp. I sighed and sent a volt of raw power through her body. It didn't hurt her, just gave her a taste. She woke up and looked at me with fire in her eyes, and I got shoved away. "Feisty~" She tried to run out of the door and escape but I caught her. "You're not leaving. May as well get comfy~" She was all mine. "Why would I want to leave you?"

, just we're all royally boned. Enjoy you're day.