Hey folks! I just adopted this story from the wonderful author Dragoniesha on . You should go check her out! And now for the disclaimer thingy! I don't own Maximum Ride or The Inheritance Cycle, James Patterson and Christopher Paolini do respectively. Neither am I making any sort of profit off of this work.
Max opened her eyes to darkness. Not the soft almost-darkness-but-not-quite of the city, but pitch, velvet-like darkness. Where am I? she thought. She turned her head and saw Fang spread eagled across the sandy ground, looking for all the world as if he was taking a short nap. As she leapt up and surveyed the area around her she saw the rest of the flock similarly unconscious and laid out in a circular pattern. All except Iggy who was wandering around aimlessly among the sand dunes.
"Do you know where we are?" she asked as she reached out and grabbed his arm.
"Shit!" he screeched as he fell backwards…. Directly onto Nudges unconscious body. Being startled so suddenly Nudge did the very thing she had been trained to do: attack. Releasing a fearsome bellow she swung at Iggys face; barely missing him, and in the process waking the rest of the flock, who lept up on high alert only to see Nudge glaring fiercely at a very confused Iggy.
"Alright now that we've got that outta the way…" Max commented dryly. "Does anybody know where we are?"
At this the flock started to take notice of their surroundings, noting the too-dark sky and sandy, dry wasteland all around them. To their great consternation, nobody knew where they were or how they had gotten there. Seeing the worry on their faces as the confirmed her own fears, Max quickly stepped up to the metaphorical plate of leadership.
"Heres what we're going to do then….."