This is my second Fanfic! So... Enjoy!

It was a cloudy day. The flock and I had gone to the beach. Fang and his flock decided to join us too.

"Max! Check this out!" Nudge said, running towards me. I was sitting on a towel under a beach umbrella. She held out her hand and in it was a shell.

"Pretty." I said sarcastically.

"Remember that one time when you tried to kill yourself with that seashell and then Fang had to stop you?" Nudge asked cheerfully. I stared at her, remembering the painful memories. "Um, sorry." She said and ran back to the ocean.

Both, Fang and I's flocks' agreed to take a little while off the whole Doomsday-Save-The-World stuff and my mom invited us all to the beach. I don't know why Fang agreed to come, but I guess it was good for our flocks' to be bonding.

"Yo." Fang said, creeping up behind me. He put his arms around me. "Why are you just sitting here? We're at the beach, have some fun." He said, smiling. I turned towards him, loosening his grip.

"You remember that time at the beach. A while back, the seashell, you know." I said to him. He closed his eyes and sighed. He sat down next to me.

"I remember. But, that was a while ago. Things have changed." He said and took my hand.

"What has changed? We're still having to save the world." I said and stared at our hands.

"What has changed? There was an 'us', I have a flock, there is a Dylan, you have a sister, mom, and dad, and so much more, Maximum." He said and touched my chin. He turned it to him.

"Could there still be an 'us'?" I asked him. "I know that we fought in the 7th book, but I kind of liked the 'Us' thing we had." I said, feeling really stupid and mushy-gushy. I hit myself in the head really hard. I wasn't a mushy-gushy person.

"Max, hey," Fang laughed. "Don't try and kill yourself," He laughed, but I looked at him in a serious way. "Um, sorry. And about your question-"

"Don't- Just don't, you don't need to answer that." I said and laughed nervously.

"But, I want to answer it." He leaned over and kissed me on the lips. Someone cleared their throat and we backed off. Guess who it was. Dylan.

"Do I need to come back? Leave you two to some privacy?" Dylan asked, looking a bit hurt.

"No, just quickly tell me what's up." I said to him.

"Gazzy said he saw a pirate ship." He announced. I stood up.

"A pirate ship? Where is he?" I asked.

"Over there, with Holden and Iggy. By the ocean." He pointed in the distance.

"I'll go see what Gazzy says about this pirate ship." I said and walked off.

"Oh, and Maya wanted to see you, Fang." Dylan told Fang. I started to turn around but Dylan came and pushed me forward. "Gazzy said he saw it over there." He led me to the edge of the beach. Gazzy, Holden and Iggy were splashing water at each other.

"Gazzy, Iggy, Holden! Get over here!" I called out to the boys. They scurried over to us.

"What's up Max?" The Gasman said.

"You saw a pirate ship?"

"Oh yeah! It's over there!" He pointed to the ocean. Sure enough, there was a ship.

"Gazzy, Holden, grab Iggy, and get the flocks away from the beach. Go!" I shouted at them. They ran.

"Max, do you still like Fang?" Dylan suddenly asked.

"Why would you ask that here and now?" I stared back at the ship that was getting closer.

"Well, we kissed that one time and then you and Fang kissed just now." He said, staring down at his hands.

"Dylan, I am not having this conversation with you now. We're about to have a pirate invasion." The ship stopped a few feet from the edge of the beach.

"Look, someone's coming from the boat." Dylan said.

"Oh really? I think it's pretty obvious." I said to him sarcastically. A man with dreadlocks and a captain hat walked through the waves. He was wearing pirate-ish clothes.

"Excuse me, mates, but may I ask where is here?" The pirate said.

"Here is the beach." Dylan informed him.

"Who is he?" The pirate asked me.

"Who is you?" I asked back.

"I am Captain Jack Sparrow. Who is you?"

"Well, I'm Dylan and she's Maximum Ride." Dylan said happily.

"Well, Dylan and Maximum, do you know where I could find some rum?" Jack asked.

"Rum?" Dylan asked.

"Yeah, an alcohol beverage. Nope, sorry." I said to Jack.

"You're lying. I can tell." Jack said to me. "I have a gun. Point me to the rum."

"No." I said. The Jack guy pulled out his gun. And I unfolded my wings.

"Well, hello, my furry winged mates." Jack said, examining my wings.

"Why don't you go back to your ship, hm?" I said to him.

"I stopped here for some rum. I ran out on me ship." He looked around the beach. Suddenly, someone touched my hand. Fang.

"Who's this?" He asked.

"This is Jack Spar-" I started.

"There should be a captain in there. Captain Jack Sparrow." He introduced.

"Look, Mr. Sparrow. You seem nice and all but my buddy, Fang and my girlfriend, Max-" Dylan started until I smacked him in the face.

"Did you deserve that?" Jack asked laughing.

"No, but you deserved this!" Dylan started kicking Jack's butt for no apparent reason. Soon, Fang and I were fighting with Jack and Dylan too. The fighting lasted about five minutes.

"Well, it seems you don't have anything I want." Jack said.

"Well, no. We told you that in the first place." I muttered.

"What's that? A car!" Jack said and ran towards someone's red convertible. Nice taste. Along the way, he grabbed Angel. "If you come after me, I'll shoot the little mate." He ended up taking Angel with him.

"Well, I suppose we'll have to go after him?" Fang asked.

"Of course." I sighed.

On the way towards the flock, to follow the crazy pirate, Dylan said, "Now how come Angel always gets kidnapped?" And then I slapped him in the face, again.