Maximum Ride: ENEMIES AND FRIENDS

Paranoia of the Eyes and Mind

This was beginning to become too much, but each time I tried to stop, she wouldn't let me. This was it. I had feel for her trap, and my twin had won. Inside me, I could feel her laughing as I split open a mutant with insect wings, they're insides dripping out before the rest of its body.

My stomach curtled as another mutant was mutilated by my own hands. It was not the fear of killing, but the fear that if I let so much of shadows out, I may not be able to keep the Flock away from my wrath.

I had to do something. Something so that my shadows and my twin would not win. Clenching my fists, my shadows slowed just that easy, only slapping an Eraser to the ground instead of ripping its eyes out.

Breathing hard, I slowly am able to call my shadows back inside me. It looks like I am going to have to fight my battle with fists, feet, and my wings. Swooping to the ground, I crouch low as an Eraser charges for me. I beckon for the hairy man to come towards me. Just as I am about to dropkick the hairy beast, my shadows leap out and throw explode the Eraser's face before I can even control it. My eyes grow wide. I didn't command my shadows to do anything.

What the heck?

  That's when I feel someone wrap their arms around me. Out of instinct, I almost punch the person before I realize that it's Jacob.

My eyes grow wide and I don't know whether I should scream, kill him, or collapse and cry in his embrace.

"What the hell?" I say so quietly , not expecting to hear me but her did.

"Hi, Jesse." he smiles that all too cute smile.

  All I can do is stand still as he comes towards me, holding his arms out to me. I don't want to fight him but I still feel the rage. He lied to me. He lied to us all, and now here he is. I thought he was in love with me. I thought he was the only one I had left, but that was an all a lie. He is my enemy now and I am almost tempted to just quickly off him with my shadows, but I don't.

He is so close to me that he could have kissed me if he lowered his head. I don't know why I dont just lift my fist and punch him, but I don't. All I can do is stand like I am stuck in tar pit.

"Don't you love me, babe? You don't have to do this. Don't let your shadows out on your real friends. Let them out on your fake friends. The Flock doesn't care about you. Do you think Max would give two fucks about you if you didnt have such a great power? You think Fang would have fucked  you back in those woods?" Jacob sneers, and I can see the envy in his eyes.

"How did you know about that? You were dead." I spit. It looks so much like him, but I know it isn't him.

"Or, you could just kill the Flock and everyone else. Even you. The world is better off with you. Nobody is going to love you for you, only for tour power." he sneers, getting closer in my face.

  Before he can say another word, I push him to the ground and straddle him, getting close in his face this time. "You know what? It was a good fuck. And, you know why? Because it was someone that was not you!" And them I bring my hands down on his neck until all the air in his body has gone. perhaps I will never know if that really was Jacob, but I have a great feeling that it wasn't .

But he's right. You should kill everyone. This world needs to be cleansed. There is so much evil. These humans don't care about Mother Earth! They live like roaches, multiplying and multiplying! There are too many. Make them gone, including yourself. I hear my twin whisper.

Growling, I clench my fist, hoping that she would go away but I knew there was no escaping her. "GO AWAAAAYYYY!" I scream out loud.

In response, my shadows fly out behind my control, hitting whatever that was unfortunately in it's path. At this point , I knew that my shadows were no longer in my control.