My timing must've gone down a bit while I'd been at Hogwarts, because right when I turned around to face the music –or, in my case, the evil group of bloodlusting Erasers- I had to dive to the side to avoid a kick to the neck. Without a second thought, I threw myself up into the air. I shrugged off my Hogwarts robes and spread my fifteen foot wings. Catching a few Erasers by surprise, I swung my leg around, slamming it into a few heads. By then half the Erasers were down and only about five were left standing. All five of them lunged at me, teeth bared, claws extended. I dodged easily, but when I landed something in my foot pulsed. It wasn't a good feeling. I gasped, sinking to the ground for a few seconds before balancing on my other foot. I used all my strength to throw myself into the air once more. It wasn't enough. I crashed to the ground, hearing cackles and giddy screeches. Looking up, I put a snarl on my face. I kept it on as the biggest Eraser walked out of the group and smirked, standing over me. He raised a claw and-

-Was thrown to the side by a lithe, black blur.

My eyes could barely make out what the blur was, but when I did, I wanted to laugh. I wanted to giggle hysterically and think well, who would've thought. But, as it turns out, when you're being attacked by bloodthirsty Erasers, you don't have time to do that. Without hesitation, I jumped up, balancing, and tried to throw myself into the air again. And again, I failed. My bad leg hit the floor first, making all of my weight collapse onto it. I cursed loudly. I decided I'd help my savior, who was fighting off all five Erasers at once.

"Fang! Roundhouse kick behind you! Fast!" I ordered. He obeyed without hesitation and caught the Eraser harshly, making him scream. Fang jumped up on one's back and grabbed his ears, twisting until his eardrums popped. He screamed and Fang jumped off stealthily. I gave multiple commands and Fang followed breezily, defeating the horde in less than ten minutes. Not bad.

Afterwords, Fang and I were lying on the grass, breathing heavily. I was only so wiped out because of my foot. I still didn't know what had happened to it.

"Are you okay, Max?" Fang asked, sitting up and scooting over by my foot. He pressed gently and I gasped, glaring. He chortled, quiet and distant.

"Oh, shut up you..." I turned my head to the side sharply, but was frowning. How had he known there were Erasers? He might've seen them while walking by a window... But if that was the case, then couldn't other students have seen, too? Maybe someone saw my wings? And where in the world was Dumbledore? James had gone to get him, hadn't he? Nothing made sense.

"So they know where we are, then." I murmured, mostly to myself. Fang stared at me, listeneing thoughtfully. "How? I didn't give anything away..."

"Actually," Fang looked up at the clouds. There weren't many. "That might not be true."

"What are you talking about? I've been extremely careful. What about you? You, Iggy, and Nudge might've given something away." I retorted. I would not be blamed for this. I had been more careful than ever! "I mean, all I know about you guys is that after kicking me out, you were alone. I have no idea what you did in the time between kicking me out and joining Hogwarts. Come to think of it, you probably are the one who made our location known, you idiot."

"You're completely forgetting what happened right before we... seperated." I narrowed my eyes when he said the last part. Coward, I thought, not even able to admit he treated me like shit. Pfft.

"Alright," I shrugged, crossing my arms over my chest and sitting up, "then what happened? Hm, Fang?"

"You really don't remember..." It wasn't a question. As you can imagine, that made me extremely suspicious.

"God damnit, Fang!" I growled. "If I don't remember, and it might be what ticked our location off to the enemy, then what happened?! I can't solve this stupid problem if you don't tell me, moron!"

"Calm down," the look in Fang's eyes shut me up immediately. It was a no-buisness kind of thing. "Here, since you obviously can't remember-" I seriously wanted to punch him. "-I'll explain. Right before we kicked you out, we were taken by the school. Don't you remember? We were tested on, and you were given a... something. I don't even know. You've been given something that tracked you. Not a chip, but they gave you something. I don't know what it is, yet. That's the real reason we kicked you out. But it took us about an hour to realize we were wrong. We couldn't find you, though. But once we did, we enrolled here to make sure you were okay. We really didn't mean to hurt you like we did, Max."

One thing that stood out to me was that he didn't apologize, not even once. I wasn't angry about that. Apologies, he knew, meant nothing to me.

"Oh, God..." I stared at him in horror. "I don't remember that...!" How could I not remember something as big as getting tracked? Was the whole flocked getting their movement's traced, too? No! That couldn't happen! I'd worked so hard to get out of all of this, so why did it seem like doing just that was impossible?

"It's alright..." Fang looked hesitant for a single second before he looked into my eyes solemnly. "Only Angel and I do."

"W... what!?"

"Angel didn't remember until hearing me thinking about it. She told me none of the rest of the flock remembers. She thinks they did something to make them forget, but my mind was immune to it. But, Max... you're the only one who has a tracer. The only one of us with it in your system."

"And you knew that... so you kicked me out... to prevent the rest of the flock from getting hurt." I was so confused, and angry, and –God help me- even touched. Fang only nodded. "... And none of the other flock members remember it? Positively?"

"You, me, and Angel are the only ones who remember."

I took in a deep, painful breath. What -exactly- had happened at the School!?