A/N: This is my second Maximum Ride fic, but this time it's not a one-shot. I'll try to make it a long term story, but I don't really know if that's possible for me. Anyways, here's the first chap, and I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride. All the characters belong to James Patterson.
"Go away! I hate you!"
"You're lucky that that I haven't killed you yet, demon child!" A door in the small apartment complex slammed shut. A small, petite girl stormed out, all dressed in black. She adjusted her leather gloves, her most prized possession. Buttoning up her coat, she shivered, not from the cold winter air, but from something else.
"Blood. Seems tonight's going to be pretty interesting," she mumbled to herself, smiling a little. She continued on, sweeping aside her auburn curls.
"Meiling, get back here! Come back this instant!" Her mother's voice screamed.
"You know that she won't let you in anymore. This is the tenth time you've disobeyed her orders and left the house." A voice whispered softly in her ear.
"Yes, well that 'boyfriend' of hers got what he deserved. He tried to rape me, and I just can't let that happen now, can I? Besides, there's no blood. All there is are fingerprints, and they're on his hands, not any place like his neck or anything. It'd take the cops forever to try and find out what caused him to die. So what's she going to tell them? If she tells them the truth, they'll take her to a mental asylum. Then again, that might be a good thing." She replied, turning to her one and only companion, a small, keychain-sized black cat with clear blue eyes.
"Where are we going to go, Meiling?" He asked her.
"I don't know. Wherever we can, I guess." She shrugged.
A sudden noise stopped the conversation. She looked up and her pale lavender eyes narrowed. She walked into the alley, hands shoved in her pockets.
"S-stop it! Please, stop it!" She heard a voice plead. It was a girl's voice to be exact. Meiling continued walking, this time quickening her pace. Soon she found a small group of guys surrounding a girl. The guys looked about twenty, and the girl sixteen. The guys were holding the girl down and one guy sat atop the girl, tearing at her clothes.
"What the hell's going on here? Is it a party?" The group turned and Meiling didn't miss the smirks or lustful glances.
"Well, well, well, it seems today is our lucky day, boys," the leader of the gang said. The leader was also the guy in process of raping the girl.
"I suggest you leave her alone. I'm in a foul mood right now, and I don't want to have to kill you." 'How clichéd,' she thought to herself.
The group laughed. "Oh, so this girl thinks she's tough, does she?" He stood up and brushed himself off. He swaggered over, his tall form dominating Meiling's. Meiling stood there, unafraid, and removed her gloves. She carefully put them in her coat pocket and crossed her arms. The man made the first move. He made to punch her, but Meiling quickly dodged, grasping his wrist. He crumbled to the ground. She looked down at his shocked face with her own emotionless one. Her eyes swiftly moved to the others.
"As I suggested before, leave or else you'll end up dead like your leader." Two others stupidly charged at her. She touched their hands and they, too, fell to the floor.
"Do you believe me now?" The last two looked t their fallen comrades and fled, stumbling over their own feet. Meiling swerved around towards the girl. "Are you alright?" The girl nodded wordlessly, desperately trying to cover herself. "Here." Meiling threw her coat at the girl. "You're older than me, but you're skinny enough to fit in my clothes."
"What about you?" She asked softly, slipping the coat.
"I'm always cold, so it's fine," Meiling shrugged. "Be more careful though, okay? Take some self-defense lessons or something." She turned around and began walking.
"Thank you!" The girl called after her. Meiling lifter her hand in reply.
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"Max, I'm hungry," Nudge whined, flying up beside her.
Max sighed in response. "Fine, we'll stop on top of that building and have dinner."
"Yah," Nudge cheered.
They soon reached the building and settled down. Fang took off his back pack and pulled out cans of ravioli, bunches of bananas, granola bars, and two giant bags of chips. They finished the food and relaxed for the next hour.
"Okay, it's getting dark, and we need to find a place to crash."
Max unfurled her wings and ran, jumping off the building. Angel, Gazzy, Iggy, Nudge and Fang followed after. For the next half hour they flew, reaching another city. By now it was completely dark. Max looked down out of habit.
"Hey, some guys are attacking a girl." She looked at the rest of the flock.
"No, Max. The last time you did that, we lost too much time on a rescue mission. So much as one minute could alter the difference between us being free and being found by erasers or taken back to the school." Fang reasoned.
Max scowled and replied, "I don't care…well I do, but that girl's in trouble and there's no one there to help her. If you're upset with that, then come back me up." She flew down through the clouds.
Fang gave an almost inaudible sigh and said, "We better follow before she gets herself killed." They followed. As they descended onto the building where Max stood, Fang told them, "I'll go with Max, and the rest of you stay here."
"Fine," they grumbled.
"Be careful," Nudge added worriedly. Fang nodded.
"Yeah, those guys have some very evil and disgusting thoughts running through their heads," Angel told them.
Max and Fang made their way to the edge of the building. However, they stopped. A girl had walked into the alley. With their acute hearing, they found out that the girl was going to kill the guys if they didn't leave. They stood on alert, watching as she simply touched them and they fell to the floor. The last two ran away. Max and Fang watched attentively as she talked to the victim girl. Quietly they returned to the flock.
"Angel, what can you pick up from her?"
"She's not evil, but while she was fighting those guys, she didn't really feel sad. She was just kind of…there."
"If she's not evil, then I want to meet her. She doesn't seem like such a bad person," Gazzy said suddenly. He ran to the edge of the building and jumped down.
"Gazzy!" Everyone ran after him and jumped, landing silently. The girl stood, the Gasman in her arms. She quickly let him go.
Suddenly her face became livid and she spat, "You fool! What is wrong with you?!" She then noticed Max and the rest of the flock. "Is this child with you? You should watch him better." She dusted herself off and narrowed her dark red eyes.
"Zephyr, come here." Max beckoned hastily. They didn't know anything about this girl, and they weren't going to take chances, however small she may be. She could be a professional killer or something for all they knew. Slowly her eyes became a pale lavender.
She ran a hand through her curls and heaved a sigh. "You guys aren't worth my time. I have bigger fish to fry." She walked through the group, but then stopped. "You're the bird freaks the School created, right?" She turned around and smirked, demonic-looking as the full moon shined behind her. Everyone instantly tensed at the mention of the School and their wings. Max, Fang, and Iggy moved to the front, pushing the younger members behind them. She laughed.
"Don't freak. We're alike." To show this, she extended a pair of pure black wings with streaks of white and brown here and there. "However, unlike you, I don't care who finds out. I'd rather die than live. So if you'll kindly excuse me, I'm going to find someone to kill me." She turned back around and continued walking, wings fully extended.
"Wait," Angel called. The girl turned around.
"Hm?"
"Why—why do you want to die so badly?" Angel whispered, clutching Celeste tightly.
She looked at Angel amusedly. "You mean you can't read my mind? Then again, Jeb always said I was designed to be the best. However, I can never be better than the great and invincible Maximum Ride now, can I?" She sneered and shook her head, her lavender eyes now tinted with a hint of red. "I'm getting off track. It's because I have nothing to live for. If you didn't have your flock, would you continue living?" She chuckled coldly. "And don't give me any crap about how people are always wishing to live, and here I am, wanting to throw my life away. Then again, if my first reason wasn't good enough, then about this? Have you ever been called a 'demon child' before? Or almost been raped by strange men who supposedly love your mother? I have…because of my mother if you can believe that." She shook her head and suddenly began laughing uncontrollably. "I don't know why I'm still here." She turned and began walking off again. "I think it's better if you forget about your parents. If you're lucky, they were killed by the School." She ran and jumped, flying away.
Nudge, Angel, and the Gasman pushed past the older kids and followed after the girl.
"Angel, Nudge, Gazzy, where are you going?"
"We were talking and we want her to join our flock." Nudge informed as she flew after Angel and the Gasman.
Max gave a frustrated huff and muttered, "We better follow." She picked up Total and quickly flew after them.
"You've been rather quiet, Iggy," Max commented as they closed the distance between them and the rest of their flock.
"Just haven't had much to say." Iggy replied as they caught up. Currently, Nudge, Angel, and the Gasman were conversing with the girl.
"And why would I want to join your group?"
"You'll have a reason to live. You'll have us. We'll be your family."
She laughed and said, "If I got close to any of you, or if the school and erasers got any wind of our connections, it'd just be more ammo for them. Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather die alone, then die hurt." She made to fly away again. Unexpectedly, and in a flash, Iggy moved behind her and hit her back in a vital spot. She instantly became unconscious, but not before muttering, "Stupid." She slumped in his arms, her wings immediately retracting.
"She's rather small. Rather short for our standards and a human's. She's our age, isn't she?" Iggy commented, weighing and assessing her.
"Yeah, I guess. Her gloves are on right? Apparently it's important that the gloves stay on." Nudge nodded yes. "'Kay, let's get this day over with and find some place to sleep."
A/N: I hope it's okay so far. I also hope the characters aren't too OOC. I want lots of people to review, even if you put my story on alert and everything. Thanks a lot!