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Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride or Harry Potter

Max's POV

Ahh, the open air. It's great. It would be even better if Nudge would stop complaining!

"Max! I'm hungry! Can we please find a McDonalds somewhere? I know we're flying over England and all, but what country doesn't have a McDonalds? I just need something to eat before I collapse! Oh please Max! Please, please, pl-" and Iggy put his hand over her mouth. Thank goodness.

"Nudge! We can eat when we get to our safe house!" I snapped. I'm having a sour mood for several reasons.

1.) I'm freaking starving!

2.) We're flying in the middle of nowhere.

3.) We're supposed to be going to a "safe house" so we can easily hide and prepare for our next airshow.

4.) Our wings, as usual. Hm, you surprised? That would mean YOU DIDN'T READ THE BOOKS!

5.) Fang.

6.) Fang.

7.) Fang.

Max, you know he likes you, too, Angel spoke into my mind. Whoops. I keep forgetting not to have personal thoughts when I'm a few feet from a mind reader. I'll have to tattoo it to my hand. Angel frowned and looked down.

Max, I hear thoughts down there, but I can't see anything, Angel spoke again into my thoughts. Um, okay. That's weird.

You're not thinking about going down there, are you, I thought back. To answer my question, she took off heading down.

"Angel! Get back here!" I yelled and started to fly down after her. The rest of the flock followed after us. When will that child learn to listen to common sense! I started to fly super speed, only I can do that, and I passed Angel, I stopped directly in front of her when my foot hit some kind of barrier. I looked down, but I didn't see anything.

"Huh? That's weird." I said out loud.

"Max, try holding our hands and do the sonic speed you can do and try to fly through it. I can tell there are people under there. Weird people, judging by their thoughts." Angel said frowning. I sighed. I did want to know what the barrier was hiding, and where there's people there's food.

"Okay, Angel. Guys, fly up until I say stop." I said and we all flew up a few thousand feet. "Stop! Now everyone hold someone's hand. Iggy, can you hold on to Total?"

"Why? We're not a married couple!" Iggy said. I couldn't help but giggle. I heard Total mutter "Life of the flying, talking dog." Angel and the Gasman (don't ask) took my hand, Fang took Gazzy's hand, then Iggy took Fang's. Nudge took Angel's other hand.

"Okay, on the count of three fly as fast as you can and hold on to each other tight. 1, 2,3!" Then I took off flying like only I could. Dive bombing helped, too. After a few seconds I felt an enormous amount of pressure around me, and then we were through.

Good news, we're through the barrier. Bad news, the pressure hurt my wing so I can't fly.

"AHH!" I yelled and tucked in my wings. "Can any of you fly?" I was answered by the rest of them screaming. I closed my eyes, waiting for impact with the ground. The thing about time flying before your eyes before you die is actually true. Very true. I saw my mom, my Flock, Ella, Total, and everyone else I somewhat cared about. Suddenly, I hit something on impact. Not ground, but water. We crashed into a lake! We're alive! But we all sank to the bottom. Angel had no problem. She had gills, but the rest of us didn't. She grabbed Total from Iggy and Gazzy and helped them get up to the surface. I grabbed Iggy and Nudge and brought them up to the surface.

I'll tell ya now; swimming on deathly cold water ain't fun. Especially dragging 2 bird kids by your side. We finally surfaced when I noticed Fang didn't swim up. I gasped in horror.

"Fang!" I yelled and dived back under. I'm not going to let my best friend/love of my life/Bane of my Existence drown in freezing cold water at the bottom of a lake protected by a barrier!

Yep, that's me! Melodramatic Max.

I was only half way when I noticed I was running out of breath. Great. I was going to die a horrible, watery death! Once again, in less than 5 minutes apart, my life flashed before my eyes. I was going to die without telling anyone goodbye. The thought gave a tear to my eye. Which seems impossible, considering I was underwater. I wasn't even going to die in my element! It would've made more sense if I was killed in hand-to-hand combat with an Eraser-which has happened to me many times. I wasn't even going to save Fang. I am the worst flock leader ever. Drowning when I wanted to save the love of my life. Goodbye world.

Okay, that's a little too cheesy for me. Wow, that actually kind of sounded like something Total would say!

After sitting there for a minute, I realized something. Why wasn't I drowning? Then I noticed air bubbles coming out the side of my neck. I had developed gills like Angel! I sighed in relief and did what Angel demonstrated to us. Kind of like swallow the water and breathe it out. Man, how cool is that? Suddenly, I saw a figure dressed in black clothing swim toward me. I was so relieved to see he had gills too. We grinned at each other and swam to the surface. Halfway, we saw Angel with an I-told-you-solook on her face. I sighed. She's been trying to get us into the water to see if we had developed gills more times than I can count on my fingers.

I resurfaced with Fang and the looks of relief took over the faces of worry from my flock.

"Max! Fang! OMG, I thought you 2 died! That would've been horrible! I don't know what we would've done without you 2!" Nudge said and hugged us. I smiled.

"Let's get out of this watery death trap before something else happen." I said smiling. We all swam to the edge of the lake. We all put on our coats to conceal our wings. We walked away from the lake, and what we saw surprised us.

"OMG." Nudge said, her answer unusually short. OMG is right, I thought looking at the HUGE castle.