Note-Set after the third book, but with the abilities from the first part of the fourth book.
Disclaimer- I do not own Maximum Ride.
Soo, this is my first story. Read and review?
IPOV
The problem with national parks is that they don't have much of a point if you can't see.
I'm not saying that they're bad, 'cause you gotta admit they make great places to lay low for a while. But they suck when you're blind, and on vacation.
Why? Let's see…
1) You can only hear the geysers when the rest of the Flock goes to see them once all the tourists leave
2) It's really easy to nearly get boiled by Ol' Faithful while flying a tad too low
3) Yellowstone has way too many trees. We can fly vertically to go through them, yes, but that's harder than say, flying in the sky, and it's embarrassing to have to be guided around them. More embarrassing when you hit one while avoiding another tree
4) While Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy are all grateful that we were designed to have eyes like, well, hawks, you sit bored and bitter by Fang, who's sitting invisibly on lookout. Heck, the grizzly's plenty far away enough that you can't hear it, and although it's cool to feel colors, that might be sorta dangerous
Pretty much chalks it up.
Speaking of our newly-found abilities, I'm still getting used to color. Well, obviously before my vision was "enhanced" I could see colors, but I guess I got…un-used to them. For pretty much the whole last week, I've been touching random things (that sounded…weird) just to know what color they are. Max is wearing a blue-gray sweatshirt with mud on it. Angel's wings are white. Fang is wearing (you guessed it) black.
We were currently flying through one of the forest-y parts of Yellowstone. I was tailing Max. She kept muttering to herself, and doing head-counts, which I thought was hilarious. The only reason I didn't say anything because she was still mad at me and Gazzy for melting her last good pair of shoes. (They'd been off-white.)
In my defense, I never knew they would react like that. At least she didn't know about the t-shirt we used as a fuse yet-
Max stopped in mid-flight, and I nearly ran into her. For one scary moment I thought that Angel had told her what I was thinking.
"UFO!" she whispered loudly, instantly catching the Flock's attention. (She didn't mean aliens. UFO stands for…nevermind.) I assumed they all saw what she did, because Fang shot straight up, presumably to check the rest of the sky and our surroundings, and I heard Gazzy and Angel do 360's. Max (and me, too,) landed in the closest pine tree. Listening carefully, I heard Nudge, holding Total, follow suit somewhere close to Max…and there! A slight whispery wing-flap was all I needed to pinpoint our target.
Oh, and the branch I clung to? It was dark brown.
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