The Streets are our Home

by AkitaNeruVocaloid

Max, Iggy, Gazzy and Angel all live on the streets. They are considered homeless, though they have homes to go back to. Fang and Nudge were adopted by Dr. Valencia Martinez. One day, Max gets shot and saved by a mystery person. What will happen when they meet again?

1. Chapter 1: Max

Okay, I know I should be working on one of my many other stories but I have a plot that won't leave me alone until it's down on paper. Or screen. Anyways, the narrator of the chapter is the name of the chapter. This one is Max's POV.

I swung down from the fire escape. Being a gangly teen was an advantage when it came to getting around the streets. It was kind of hard for Angel, she was tall for her age but still a little short for some of the stunts. Iggy and I are seventeen. I'll be eighteen in about a month. I've been on the streets since I was nine, so for eight, almost nine, years. I'm here because my mom always favored my sister Lissa to me. I mean, let's face it, Lissa was perfect for society. Me, I'm perfect for the streets.

Iggy joined me when he was ten. His parents died in a car accident and he didn't want to go into foster care. He ran away when he was about to meet his foster parents, has been living on the streets with me since then. Gazzy and Angel were actually related, their parents were abusive. So, when Angel was four, and Gazzy six, they ran away. They found Iggy and I and they joined our little unit. We try to avoid the major gangs around the city and then we also try to avoid trouble with gangs.

We were perceptive, we saw everything. We would use a pole that was sturdy for swinging down onto the ground or to a lower place from high places. If it wasn't sturdy or it was just on the ground, it was a weapon. A lethal one too.

Back to the story. I was swinging down from a fire escape, right? Okay, well, I had two of the local high school kids after me. They were Sam and Dylan. I know their names because I caught their names while they were talking. They had a gun and I was trying to make sure that I didn't get shot and that I didn't fall and break a bone. I was spinning around the corner and out into another nearby alley. I sprinted and heard a bang. I felt pain in my shoulder, but pain was nothing new so I kept going for awhile. Eventually though, I had lost to much blood. I couldn't keep standing, much less running. As my world went black, I felt someone grab me.

Fax or Miggy? And who can guess who grabbed Max as she collapsed?