A/N;
Hey everyone! This is my very first FanFiction, so I am trying really hard to make it work. This has been written at... *checks clock* 11:30 at night! Woo! I hope you all like it and enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! I will try to get the next chapter posted soon. Please leave comments! I would love to hear what you think.
DoctorEleven; Thanks for responding! I have redone the first chapter and I hope you like it! :3
DISCLAIMER! I do not own the amazing Maximum Ride... It belongs to Mr. James Patterson.
Anyways... On to the first chapter!
Chapter 1; Starting Life
The doors burst open in the lab room, making everyone look up from the map they had been studying. A man, tall with brown hair and the basic white lab coat, strut in like he owned the place.
He looked down at the men and women sitting around the table through his glasses. He narrowed his eyes disapprovingly.
"What in hell are you doing!" He yelled, furious as he snatched the map off the table.
One of the men leapt to his feet. "I-, uhh…we-" He stuttered before the man with the brown hair cut him off.
"No! Don't even start with me. You are not suppose to be studying a map, wasting time. You should be down on the first floor readying the troops for the attack!" He fumed, slapping the man across the face with the map. His usual cool vibe was thrown off by his anger.
"Yessir!" They all said together and hurried to get away from the angry scientist.
As they left the room, he walked over and closed the door behind them. He leaned back against it and sighed, rubbing his temple. He rocked off his heels back into a standing position, walked across the room to a white curtain handing from the ceiling, concealing one corner.
No one ever questioned why it was there, or even bothered to look behind it. He was the only one who knew what was behind it.
It was the Seventh.
Sitting alone behind the curtain was a girl. She shivered slightly, freezing from sitting on the cold metal of the bottom of the cage. She had been listening to the hushed voices of the people talking in the room. She could never tell what they were saying, but it comforted her too hear other voices besides the same one she heard all the time; Her kidnapper's.
She sighed internally and shifted herself until she was lying on her back, staring up at the featureless ceiling.
Someday. Someday I'll be free. Free of all of this… She thought.
Suddenly she heard yelling from the room that was hidden from her sight by the grayish-white curtain. She recognized one voice as the voice of her captor. She could not tell the exact words coming out of his mouth, but she was sure they were directed at the people she had heard talking earlier. Quickly, she sat up and grabbed the bars of her cage. She pressed her ear closely to try and make sense of the words she heard.
Suddenly, as if someone had hit mute, the yelling stopped and she heard a door close. The girl rolled back onto her butt, waiting for the person she knew was still out there, waiting for the coast to be clear.
The curtains were pulled quickly aside and she saw the face of the man who held her here.
"Hey Rily, you hungry?" He asked, puling a bundle out of his white lab coat.
"Heck yes!" Rily said, reaching through the bars eagerly, for she knew what was in the bundle. As the man with the glasses and brown hair reached out to give her the package, she ripped it from his hand with inhumanly speed.
Ripping into the bundle, Rily found exactly what she wanted.
Two double cheese burgers.
Sinking her teeth into the first one was like getting a small bite of heaven. She made a small noise of joy as she chewed the burger, happy as she had been in days.
"I have a special surprise for you today." The man said happily.
"Wha's it, Jeb?" Rily said though the last bite of her burger, while reaching for the second.
"I'm going to let you out into the courtyard for some exercise…" He started as Rily interrupted.
"I'm not going out on that retarded leash of yours so you can watch me while I'm out there and only let me go so far." She said, her good mood starting to have a downside.
She jammed the last bite of burger in her mouth as Jeb said the next thing.
"…Without the leash." At that, Rily spit the last bit of her burger out.
"WHAT!" She yelled, overjoyed. This could be my chance! She thought happily. Leaping up, she forgot she had grown a bit and hit her head on the metal top of the cage.
"Crap…" She muttered as she stepped out of the gap in the bars Jeb had just created by opening the door. Ducking her head, she stepped out, reached above her head and stretched. Being locked in a cage all day had a whole list of downsides, stiffness being a major one.
Rily then rolled her eyes as Jeb tied her wrists together to walk her down the hall to the tall glass door that led to the outdoor courtyard. She looked around, thinking that this could possibly be the last time she saw the blank white walls with door after door of rooms that she could care less about what was behind them. All she knew was she needed to get as far from here as she could.
As they had reached the door, a familiar lady came out of a room, a boy towing on a leash behind her.
Dr. Martinez… Rily thought. This was the only other person she knew in the whole world, well besides the boy she had with her.
The boy was Rily's age, about 15, with short dirty blond hair that needed to be cut again, for it hung over his ears. He had a flashing smile and beautiful eyes that went from brown on the inside, near the pupil, to deep blue on the outer edges. He was taller than Rily, maybe about six foot two with a slightly muscular build, but still thin.
Rily on the other hand had straight dark blonde hair and dark brown eyes and a round face. She was five foot seven, thin, and pretty flat-chested. She was built like a runner, slim with rock hard legs. She was about a month younger than the boy.
Oh, and another major thing.
They had wings.
Rily smiled at the boy as he shrugged his shoulders and his dark brown wings ruffled a bit, smiling at Rily the whole time.
"Hey Rily!" He said cheerfully, taking a few steps toward her.
"'Sup Daniel!" Rily said, nodding to him.
"Dr. Martinez, would you join us? I was going out to give Rily some exercise. I bet Daniel could use it too. I believe they are trustworthy enough to be off the leash today." Jeb said to Dr. M.
"Sounds great!" She said, walking over to him. "Lets go guys!" She said, pushing open the glass doors to the courtyard. While both scientists had their backs turned, Daniel smiled to Rily and she nodded.
It was time.
The sun felt wonderful as it's rays hit Rily and Daniel, warming them after so many days spent inside, in cages. They had to squint at first, for the sun was pretty dang bright.
Rily felt the ties on her wrists loosening and she looked at Jeb and smiled. "Thanks."
"No prob." She said in return as Daniel came to stand in front of her, rubbing one of his wrists.
"You ready for some fun?" He asked, spreading his near 14 and a half foot wingspan.
"Heck to the yes!" Said Rily and her lighter brown wings with lighter streaks stretched out to their full 12 and a half foot wingspan. Daniel looked at her and winked.
"It's go time." He whispered as they both brought down their wings and took off into the air.
After about ten down strokes, they were a good fifty feet in the air. "You ready to blow this popsicle stand?" Rily asked, pulling a small, sharp rock from her pocket.
"Let's do this thing!" Daniel said as he too pulled out a sharp rock.
At the same time they dug the rocks into their skin in the back of their hand, drawing blood. Rily sucked in her breath, but cut a bit deeper. She hit metal and stopped. She threw down the rock and grabbed the small tracking devise and crushed it in her hand, letting the pieces fall back down to Earth. She saw Daniel doing the same.
They both then turned in mid air, ignoring the shouts from below and took off NorthEast, headed for the only place they knew they could go.
To the Flock.