Gaiaphage

        On the way to the mineshaft, Drake and Jack have a fall out. Jack has super strength and Drake has a tentacle for an arm (yes, a tentacle), so this won’t be good.  Jack tries to kill Drake because he has tried to kill everyone around them at one point or another. Jack throws Drake 300 feet away, but the toss doesn't kill him (sadly, for everyone that he has tried to kill). Drake, because he knows he can't take Jack, turns his anger on Diana.  He has always wanted to kill her because she always makes him angry and he was on a rampage.  When Drake goes after Diana, her boyfriend, Caine, the most powerful person in all of the FAYZ, tries to come to her aide.  Unfortunately, he is carrying a ginormous radioactive tube that if it broke all the FAYZ would die.  He drops tube and uses his power of telekinesis to throw Drake backwards. But before Caine can stop him, Drake throws Diana back onto a sharp rock and almost kills her. 

        This battle is the most significant thing that has happened in the past chapter of the book, Hunger by Michael Grant. Diana is down for the count and Drake has gotten thrown around quite a bit. Caine, Duck and Sam (who is severely injured) all travel into the depths of the collapsed mineshaft to find Lana (the healer) to save Diana. The worst part was that she was trapped down there and being controlled by the "gaiaphage". Michael Grant describes the "gaiaphage" as "...more lump than any define shape. A seething hive of rushing, twisting, greenish  crystals"(Grant 94%). By describing it as a lump and a hive, it gives the gaiaphage a grueling thought in our mind. When I think about hives, I think of thousands of unpleasant nasty creepy crawlies. Lumps aren't much better either.