Maxmum Ride Fan Fiction Chapter 1
Alone, I walked down the street light by the the seting sun. It had been another day filled with fighting for my life and just managing to get myself out of trouble. I carried my right arm close to my side. Blood trickled from it and despite my efforts, I could NOT get it to move. As if that wasn't enough, my left wing had been tourn open, so it had been a long, hard trip from statin island.My long dark brown, almost black hair was blood stained from my wing. Now I was on the outsckirts of New Yourk City.
I had been told that I could find help here. Help from others like me. I didn't even know that there were others like me. When the whitecoat, Jeb, I belive his name was, told me about the flock, I felt like mabey there was some hope for me. I looked at the scares on my left wrist. Being in the school had drove me crazy. I had wanted to die so many times when I was there. I tried to cut my wrists to end it all. They just sat there and let me bleed until I was almost dead, then they took away my hopes of escaping by fixing me up. But then Jeb had let me out. He gave me an address and told me that I would find a group of six kids who would help me.
Finnaly the house came into veiw. I could easily hear chattering coming from inside. Along with the set of wings, I also have enhanced hearing and night vision. I can also talk to animals which has come in handy more times then I can count. I looked back at my blood soaked wind braker. Then at my bloody, lifless arm. Some impression I was going to make. Hesitently I knocked on the door. Imeditly, the talking from inside the house stoped. I heardsomeone whisper directions to get ready to run, then foot steps. I looked down at my worn out sneakers and heard the door open. Standing there was a boy who looked about my age. He also had a windbraker over his wings, at least I was going to assume he had wings. He had unmatained black hair and the most beautiful brown eyes I had ever seen. "Yeah" he said. He looked down at my arm and a look of confusion clouded his face.
"Um, I'm looking for Maximum Ride." I said quietly.
"Wait here." the kid said. I could feel my stoamch knoting up. I hadn't been this nurvos sence I left the school and tauht myself how to fly. A moment later, the kid returened with a girl at his side.
"Who are you?" the girl said in a confadent tone.
"Uh, Im Isabellea. I-I was wondering if you could help me out. I'm from the..." it was terifing to even say it out loud, "the school." The boy pointed down to my arm and the girl followed with her eyes. They looked at eachouther and the boy nodded. Did they read minds or somthing? That could be scary.
"Come on in. I'm Max and this is Fange." the girl said.
"So, your arm?" Fange asked. He was a real chatter box.
"Oh, I was flying and Erasers shot me. I fell into the river and I think they think I drowned." I said. For those of you who don't know, Erasers are ferice creatures that are half human half wolf. Kind of like me. Only instead of half wolf, Im half avian. There was alot more to my story, but I didn't know these kids well and I wasn't about to give them my biogrophy.
"I'll go get the first aid stuff." Fang said to Max. She nodded and steped aside so I could come in. I looked around. This place was a real fixer upper, but better then living in a dog crate. There were four other kids sitting on an old plad soffa. There was also a litte scotish tierrier. He was cute.
"So, Isabelle, this is the gang. Angel is the littel one, shes six nd reads minds so be carfull about what you think around her. That's her brother the Gasman," she said pionting to a tall slim boy, "his name pretty much sums it up. We call him Gazzy. Thats Nudge, she likes to talk, she can also see people when she touches things-" Max got cut off by Nudge.
"I went to the Vietname Mamorial wall in DC once, let me tell you, not going back! All the pain and suffering those people went through!" Nudge said.
"Anyways," Max said contiuing her intro, "Thats Iggy. Hes blind and makes mean scrambled eggs. If you don't wacth him and Gazzy though, they'll blow somthing up." Iggy and Gazzy both got big smiles across their faces. kind of like the grin you give your parnts hen youve broken their favriot vace or somthing. "And youve already meat Fang."
Right on que, Fang strode into the room and set down a rather large bag. Now that he had taken his windbraker off, I could see his wings were black like mine. I took of my cought and heard Angle and Nudge gasp. "What happened to your wing??" they asked in unison.
"I rather not talk about it" I said looking at the floor. I couldn't even stand to think about it.
"Here, have a seat." Fang said pulling a chair to the left of his. I cautisly sat down. He pulled out a pair of twesers and looked at my arm. "The bulets till in there. I'm going to pull it out" the most I had heard him say yet. In the backround, I heard Iggy asking Angel what I looked like.
"She could be Fangs sister." I heard her reply. Fang seemed to hear them too, for he looked up from my arm and looked at my face. He gave a little half simle. I smiled back.
"One, two, three" Fang counted and pulled the bullet out. It took everything I had to not sceram. I was normaly very good with pain. But to be honest, that hurt like hell. Next came that stuff that comes in the brown bottle. You know what Im talking about right? It's used in almost every experiment ever. When Fang dabbed it on me, it made my skin crawl. Once I was all bandaged up, everyone was quiet, not sure of what to do next.
"Iggy, can you make somthing to eat?" Gazzy asked. Why the blind guy was the best cook? I'm still trying to figure it out.
"Sure. What dose everyone want?" Iggy asked.
"I want hot dogs!" Angle said.
"I want pizza!" Nudge said.
"Hey guys, why don't we let our guest decied?" Max said.
"Oh, uh, ok. How about just some burgers?" I said hoping everyone was okay with prossed cow. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Okay, I'll get to it." Iggy said. He got up from the sofa and exited the small room. Once again, everyone feel silent. It was the most akward silince that anyone had ever sat through, at least, for me. The little black dog got up and padded over to me.
"So, whats your story?" he asked. I was used to hearing animals talking, but what I didn't realize was that the others could hear him too.
"Total, give her time to settle in before you pester her with qustions. I mean, if I was just meeting six strangers, I would feel uncofmterable too. Then to just find out that the Flock dog talks? I would look just as shoocked as Isa- oh, you don't look shoocked at all. Do you know other talking dogs? Mabey Total has brothers and sisters! Do you know a talking dog Isabellea?" Nudge said, and I swaer she didn't take a breth in the whole three seconds she was talking.
"Uh, I, well..." I wasn't really sure what the others would think if I told them that I talked to animals. That would be a litte more shocking then Total talking if you ask me. "All of the dogs I know talk." I said simply. Max and Fang looked at eachother, confusion shadowed their faces. I wondered if they were dating or somthing. They seemed really bonded. Angel also looked confused for a moment. Then her face lit up with understanding. Right. A mind reader. Go ahead and tell them I thought looking at Angel.
"Issy can talk to animals." Angel said. "I can too, well kinda'. I talk to fish."
"Issy? Her name is Isabellea. Even I knew that" Gazzy said to Angel.
"I know that, but she prefers to be called Issy." Angel said calmly. She was a pretty cute kid.
"So, Issy has the gift of gab" Fang said.
"Ya. Ever sence I can rember." I said. "I don't know how many times It's saved my life."
"Foods ready!" Iggy called.
"Hey, Issy and Iggy!" Nudge said. Angel and Gazzy giggled with her, Max let out a little smile and Fang, well, he was kind of weird. He just sat there and kind of stared at me. Now that I thought about it, we did look alot alike. I had a older brother once, but he was dead now. He had just disaphered at the school about five years ago. I hadn't seen him sence. Tears sprang to my eyes that the thought. Most of the flock had already gone into the kicthen for dinner. But Angel and I were still in the living room.
"Issy, Im sorry about your brother." she said walking up to me.
"Thanks. Fang looks a little like him." I said. Angel grabed my hand and lead me twords the kichten. It was packed. Have you ever been inside of a small camper trailer? It was about that size. Good thing I wasn't clauseterphobic. In this room, there was no such thing as personal space.
"So, in a while, were going to this place called the instatute, to try to track down more info on our familys." Max said to me as she put katsup and mustard on her burger. Iggys face became stiff and uncofterable. I gussed that he had found his parents, and it didn't go well. Thats another thing that I could do. I was good at reading peoples emotions and picking up on what they were feeling. Like for example, Total was not happy about his burger going to me. Oh well. Thats the life of a dog for you. The Instatute. I had been there before. Jeb brought me there and 'lost' me.
"Oh. I just came from there" I said casualy.Once everyone looked at me. Did they do that often, or was I just that intersting?
"I thought you came from the school?" Iggy said.
"I did. But this whitecoat brought me to the instaute and let me go. He told me to come here."
"Name?" Fang asked.
"Mine?"
"No, the whitecoats" Max said.
"Jeb somthing" I said. Max squeezed her burer bun so hard that it feel to crumbs. The three younger kids looked at eachother in shoock. Iggys face went back into that 'set in stone' expresion and Fangs face didn't seem to change at all. Mabey he didn't hear me. The dog chuckeled to himself.
"Small world, eh?" he said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Angel, why don't you take Total and go play." Max said. Her eyes lookes as if she was in another place and time. I could feel waves of pain coming off of her in quntites unimaginable. Somehow, Jeb did somthing horrible to theses kids. But it couldn't be. Jeb had saved me. He took me away from all of my pain and touter. He was my hero. I wanted to help others the way he had helped me. "Issy, do you know what Jeb did to use. Did he ever tell you who we are?" Max asked in a no nonsence tone.
"Well ya. You guys are all I ever heard about." I answered. "He told me how he worked on all of you and gave you all wings. He told me how your his daughter-"
"Exusse me, I must have heard you wrong. Lets try that again. Im Jebs what?" Max asked. She looked like she wanted to knock my lights out, and for a moment, I thought she would. Surely she must have knowen that Jeb was her father? How could a man the fnatastic be your faher without even relizing it? I looked around at the others in the room. Angel and Total had already left, but I could feel her nurvos in the next room, listing, just as eager to hear my answer as everyone elas. Maxs narowed eyes were glued to me. They were cold and unforgiving. Fang looked t me, unblinking. How could he keep his eyes open for that long? Wouldn't his eyes dry up. Gazzy and Nudge just looked at the floor. Iggys face hadn't shifted an inch.
"Y-Your father. Didn't you know?" I asked wide eyed. "What could be bad about having Jeb as a father anyway. He taught me how to fight and read and wright. That adopted son of his was pretty nice to. Ari. Do you know him too?" I said. Fang droped his head into his hands. Max picked up a knife and threw it acoos the room. My eyes grew wide. What was wrong with theses people?
"NICE??!! ARI??!! Do you know how many times he's almost killed us? He put Fang in the hospitial! He's a frikin Eraser and you think he's nice??!! And as for Jeb, he is not, is NOT, my father! Mabey once, but not anymore! And he cirtenitly is not my BLOOD father!!" Max screamed at me. She raised her hand to punch a wall, but Fang moved faster and grabed her arm.
"Don't take it out on her. It's not her fault" Fang said. Max nodded.
"We're not going anywhere tonight" Max said. She turned on her heel and stormed out of the room. Nudge, Iggy and Gazzy followed her.
"Don't worry about her. She'll cool down" Fang said.
"I hope so. I haven't even been her an hour and I think she already hates me." I said. It was tragic. You know when you drive by a dead animal on the highway? You know you shouldn't look because its so sad, but you do anyway. Well, just give me a sgin that says "road kill, drive on by." I looked at Fang with worried eyes. He gave me a reasuring tap on the shoulder and went to find Max. I could feel waves of concern coming off of him. I gussed he was worried about Max. "Hey Fang" I said. Fang tuned around to face me without saying a word. "What did Jeb do to you guys?" I asked.
"It's a long story, but when it comes right down to it, he betrayed us. Treated us like he treated you, then stabed us in the back and thats all there is to it." Fang explained. I nodded and he continued on his way. I sat down in an old wooden chair that felt like it could brake any minuet. I couldn't belive that Ari was an Erraser. For so many years he would come see me and talk to me. I had a cruch on him for the longest time too. On the other hand, the fact that he was an Erasser explained alot. Like why he looked like Wolverine form the X-men. Or why I always saw him eating meat. Why hadn't I seen it before. Once again I looked down at my wrists. The memories came rushing back and it was almost more then I could handel.
I walked into the living room. Everyone had gone upstairs. I grabbed my jacet and headed for the door. Oh well. I gusse it really was too good to be true. As I walked twoard the door, I considered my options. There was this other brid kid at the instatuit. He looked about the same age as me. I had felt so bad for him. The crate he was in had been way to small. He wasn't that hard on the eyes either. His curly blond hair had just gone past his eyes. I hadn't even noticed if he had seen me. As far as I could see, he had been the only one there. I knew what I would do. I would go back to the Instatute and save him.
As I reached for the door and pulled it open. Sudddenly, someone pushed it close and I jumped. "Where are you going?" Iggy asked.
"How did you know I was leaving?" I asked. The fact that the blind kid seemed to see every little detail was a very crepy. Weren't blind kids spuosed to have dogs, or be dependent on other people or somthing?
"I could hear the door opening." he said calmly. "Don't worry about Max. She'll come around. It's not your fault. Your just the messenger."
"But, I don't get how Jeb knew where you were, or why he sent me here. What if he's using me to set you guys up? Besides, I have to go help this other kid. He's stuck in the Instatute and he didn't look grate last time I saw him." I explained. Wow. That was the most I had said in forever. Besides, you know, to animals.
"We'll go with you" a third voice said. It was Max. Her and all of the others were standing at the top of the stairs. "No kid should have to die in a cage. Besides, you shouldn't go anywhere alone with the way your wing and arm are. It would be to dangerous." I nodded. I hadn't knowen Max for more then an hour, but I could tell that she wasn't the tipe of person to take no for an answer. So just like that, Max storde down the staris and out the door. Without qustion, the rest of the flock followed her. It was obvious who the leader of the group was. I went out last. The way the flock woked reminded me of a wolf pack that I had once stayed with. Max, the alpha female was in charege. Fang was obvisly her alpha male. The three younger kids were like their pups. That left Iggy and me. Iggy had been in the pack longer, so I was at the bottom of th totum pole, if I was even on the totam pole. Right before I closed the door, the dog ran out. Right. I had forgoten about him.