Ha-ha, in case you haven't noticed this is the re-post of my old story, Three. So uh, enjoy.

Sorry for the OOCness. Hermione would be different if she went to the school though…. And Max will probably be back to her ass-kicking sarcastic self in the next chapter of so…

Anyways, this takes place in the UK.

Disclaimer: There's a reason this is called FAN-fiction. I don't own Harry Potter of Maximum Ride.

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Max POV

I loved Europe, especially in the summer. At the moment the sky was a perfect blue and there was a cool breeze. It was amazing. It was like nothing could ever go wrong. Boy was I wrong.

After flying several hours, I finally decided to land. Even I had a limit, that and the flock looked like they were going to fall out of the sky. I located a cave and slowly stepped into it. I gave the flock the okay and they practically collapsed while I unpacked.

"So, what's the next step?" Fang asked from behind me.

"Seriously, stop doing that. I almost had a heart attack, again. Anyway, give me time to think. We just got here." I crawled closer to the fire Iggy started.

"Well, I have an idea." Fang looked around and I saw the flock beckoning him to continue. "I-We think you should leave the flock."

He opened his mouth to continue, but I held my hand to stop him. "Save it, I don't care to know WHY you guys are doing this. Just know, that if I ever see you again I'll send you all to the hospital." I got up, grabbed my limited belongings and checked my pocket for the Max Card, and flew out the mouth of the cave. I hadn't even noticed that I had begun to cry.

Hermione POV

I internally winced as the Flyboys practically threw Aquamarine into her cage. She was soaking wet and looked more tired than I had ever seen her. But, she was Aquamarine and within minutes she was back to her perky self.

I'm Hermione and my life is a medium sized Dog Crate. As far as I knew Aqua and I were both 16 and had only seen the sky a handful of times. That was going to change soon, very soon.

I looked over at Aqua and saw that she was giving me the signal (wiggling ears.) I gripped the lock and pulled, effectively ripping it off. We had spent weeks pulling, yanking on it, anything to weaken it. I pushed open the door and slowly crawled across the cold tile floor to help Aqua's wet self out.

We took off running and as I expected, the alarms blared and the flyboys were almost immediately on our tails. We knock over empty crates to slow the down.

"I miss the Erasers, don't you?" I smiled, glad that Aqua was back to her normal self. I routinely ignored her as she started rambling.

"There! We did it! I almost screamed as we came to the exit. "You know the meeting place."

"Yeppers," Aqua nodded and she took off for the nearby lake. I ran into the dense forest, smiling as my Cheetah legs kicked into hyper-drive. I loved running,. I guess you could say (for me) that it was my equivalent to a bird flying, or Aqua swimming. I felt so alive. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Aqua flicking her Aquamarine tail.

"Show off," I muttered. Soon, I found myself smiling despite the dire circumstances as I saw the clearing (aka, our meeting place.) Suddenly, out of nowhere and large figure with wings fell from the sky, right on top of me.

"Oh my God! I am so sorry!" The figure (which I concluded was a girl) said. Her eyes were a puffy red as if she had been crying, which she probably was.

"No sweat." I replied. "Oh, I wouldn't recommend going that way." I continued, pointing. "Unless you want to go to the school"

"You saw my…" She started.

"Yeah, but they're NOTHING compared to my cheetah speed." I smiled and so did the mystery girl.

"Hermione! Is that you?" Aqua yelled. She was dripping wet and running towards us. "I can't believe we did it! I'm so proud of us!" She sat down with her back against a tree. "Who's this?" She asked, wringing the water out of her hair.

"Gosh, scream a little louder?" I scolded. "We just ESCAPED the school. And I don't know about you, but I don't want to go back." I looked at the mystery girl.

"I'm the one and only Maximum Ride. But, you can call me Max." Max said.

"Hey, YOU'RE the Maximum Ride? You and your friends were the first to ever escape the school, and with the help of a white coat." Aqua gushed. "Hey, wait. Where's the flock?" Max took a ragged breath, like she was gonna cry again. "Is that a touchy subject? Sorry."

"No prob. I'll have to get over it sooner or later.

"Anyway, I was gonna ask you if you wanted to join us. You seem like you have a lot of experience, and it's always good to travel in numbers…" I asked.

It seemed like forever until Max replied. "Yeah, I could use some friends.

"Super flying tackle pounce!" Aqua yelled and she enveloped Max in a big hug.

"Tomorrow after we get food, we can introduce ourselves and get some new clothes." I announced.

"I would recommend sleeping in a tree, especially in the leaves. No one will be able to see you." Max told us.

I took a deep breath, located the shortest one I could find, and took a long, much needed sleep.

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Yay! I've finished it! If you read my other story, (three) you'll know I promised 2 new chapters. I'll probably have them up sometime tomorrow…

Peace,

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p.s. If you read three, do you think that I should make Aqua Nudge's older sister?