A sudden clang jerked me awake. I looked around. Lucy was awake and crying, but the others were asleep. "C'mere, Lucy." She huddled to the bars of her cage, and I reached through and rubbed her golden-yellow wings and hair. She snuffled and wiped her nose. Her dark blue eyes were filled with tears. She really was such a baby at times, but she really didn't look it most of the time. I mean, seriously, no 9-year-old has muscles like her, nor are they that slim.
"Shush, Lucy, what's the matter?" I rubbed between her wing joints, and she relaxed a bit.
"I saw another one like us," she snuffled.
"Older, or younger than me." I could have said us, because me and the others are all about the same age, hovering around 16, 17 years. Lucy is the exception
"Younger. She had brownish wings, and was freeing some others."
My heart nearly stopped, I was so shocked. Really? That girl was a legend. "Max," I breathed, then rose into a crouch and screamed, "Max! Hey, Maximum Ride!"
The others were awake now, and Ryder was the first one to say something. He stretched his dark wings, then reached out and tapped my black ones. "Night, what is going on?" His brown eyes were quizzical, and he was already running fingers through his dark brown hair. I swear, that kid is so narcissistic.
"Yeah, what is going on?" That was Aeon, staring at me with wide eyes, black eyes with a hint of predatory violet. Between the four of us, me and her were the only two that looked even remotely alike. Actually, more than remotely. We both had angled faces, blackish/violet eyes, black wings, though hers were more brown/black than blue/black, and black hair.
"Max is here," I whispered.
Those three words sent them into a full-out frenzy, screaming and hollering and yelping. The noise stopped abruptly when a figure, tall, slim, and muscular, knelt before my cage and started tinkering with the lock. She opened the cage, then moved on to the others. I stood to my full height, and stretched my wings. It felt so good. We had only ever, in our entire lives, been allowed to fly once.
Soon the rest were out of the cage, and Max paced before us. "Okay, you really have to run. Do you guys know how to fly?" We all nodded. "How to fight?" Another nod. "Do you have powers?"
We all started chiming out our powers. I had telekinesis, Aeon had telepathy, Ryder could control electricity, and Lucy, little Lucy, had pyrokinesis.
Max nodded slowly. "And now, the all important question. You know what to keep away from, right?"
"Erasers," I hissed. Her eyes darted to me, and I could see her mind working, figuring out that I was leader.
"Alright," she said. She led us to a door, then opened it and pushed us through, into the clear, cold air. Pure bliss was the wind on our wings. She flashed us a smirk as an alarm went off.
"Time to fly."
Authors Note: I will post the second chapter once I know what people think of the first, so post reviews if you like this and want the stroy to continue.
