I do not own Maximum Ride or any of the original characters. I do, however, own Adalia, Nyx, and the plot. Read on.

"You must find Maximum Ride and her 'flock.' Once you find them, be sure to bring them here. All of them."

Those were Adalia's orders, and that was exactly what she would do. Maximum Ride was a monster, truly evil, and an abomination to the School's experiments. That was what she was led to believe, in any case.

The School had told many stories of Maximum Ride and her friends, and not one of them said anything nice about them.

Adalia's only memories are of the School. She remembered waking up in a small, hospital-like room four years prior.

She was 11, had no idea who she was, what had happened, or what those wings were doing on her back. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remember anything about herself before she was 11 years old.

From the entire time she was at the School, she was told how horrible this "flock" was, and how they need to be exterminated to prevent them from doing any further wrong doing. That became her entire life. Get stronger, beat Maximum Ride.

The scientists had told Adalia of Max's great strength, about the two older boys, Fang and Iggy, who acted as her body guards; and how not one person as of late could bring her down for good. Well, that was all going to change. People as wicked as them did not deserve life in freedom.

She had been told that they go around torturing the innocent, forcing them to bend to their will. Enslaving children, robbing banks; there were all sorts of stories. Some of them were pretty far fetched, but if she ever questioned the scientists, they would lock her in a cage as punishment.

Adalia herself was a frightening 15 year old girl. She had blood red eyes and slightly crooked, jet black wings that matched her dark hair. Aside from the red eyes, her most painfully obvious feature were the three diagonal scars on the left side of her face. One starting right above the eyebrow, making a trail across the eye and all the way down to her chin. The second one started from the ear and was a short line to her jaw. The third started just under her eye, and made a jagged line to her upper lip.

The scars were a result of being slashed from one of the wolf-men, an Eraser.

She was 12, and this particular Eraser was named Ari. He was supposed to be practicing fighting techniques with Adalia, but he snapped for no apparent reason and slashed her face. He muttered in a low, eerie voice. "You remind me of her. She stole my dad from me."

She had never seen so much hate and jealousy in one person before. Who "her" was, she couldn't exactly say. All she could say was that she must be a monster, looking into the pained face of Ari. There was so much power behind that one blow, her face felt as if it was on fire, but she didn't show any indication of pain. The scientists trained her to never show weakness, no matter how much pain you were in.

That was the first time she saw Nyx, the boy with beautiful butterfly wings attached to his back. They were so unlike her own wings, yet so similar at the same time. His looked gentle, graceful even, yet still powerful. Black outlining white in a stunning pattern, with three small blue spots on the bottom. She never saw anything like them before, and she found herself mesmerized by those wings.

He just stood across the enclosed area, with his brown hair falling into his emerald green eyes, watching the blood run down her face.

Just days after that incident, Ari disappeared. Nobody ever saw him again.

Nyx seemed to almost disappear too, seeing as the only times she ever saw him were passing him in the School hallways between training sessions. He never trained with Adalia, and that confused her. He always looked beat up and worn out, as if his very life was being drained out of him.

Since day one, Nyx had been assigned to this mission. The original plan was to have Nyx carry out the mission on his own when he was old enough, but when they found a girl just one year younger than him that proved to have great potential, plans changed to include the both of them.

They had to track down the flock and bring them back to the school. So off they went, on a wild goose chase after the flock.

A/N This is only the prologue. I don't like it very much, but I just wanted to introduce the beginning of the plot and the main characters. The next chapter will be longer, better, and more exciting. But only if people are interested in reading this. So please review. :]

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