Hi, fanfiction people, roughdiamond5 here. This is my very, very first fanfic, so please don't be too hard on me. I'm still getting used to the fact that I am a member here! But during my short membership, I've already made friends! So I just wanna thank QuEeNoFwHiNiNg and I'll have some stupid cliché for encouraging me to write the story and helping me submit it. And to all the peeps whose stories I have read and reviewed to, love ya! Hope you'll do the same to me.
And let me guess, you don't wanna hear the author talk about herself, you just clicked on this because you wanted to see what the title and summary were about. Well, I'll tell you now, I'm bad with titles and summaries, but I think my actual writing is better than my naming skills. So just read my story and tell me if you like it or hate it. Thanks to you all who clicked my story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride. The guy who does, James Patterson, is just a superior idol, just like J.K Rowling and Max herself. I just own the plot and the person who pops up later in the chapter.
And now, without further interruption, I give you Our Genie, Rina!
Chapter One: Ipod "Improvement"
"Ig……Igster……IGGY!"
"Huh? Whadaya want, Gazzy?"
"I'm bored. Wanna blow that tree up?" I think he was gesturing to one of the many trees in the forest that surrounded our makeshift camp.
"Yeah, sure."
"But what do we use to blow it up with? I'm all out of powder."
"Me too. Hold on, let me think for a second."
Thinking. Yeah, that's going to happen. I can't think about anything besides that dream I was having last night. Gazzy had to yell my name just to get me out of my weird trance! It just comes back to haunt me all the time, especially when I'm asleep. But duh. It's a dream. I mean, I loose my train of thought for one minute, and then I'm back in that forest. I smell salt, so either I'm near an ocean or a cracker factory just exploded. I'll go with the first one. But I can't hear anything. And then I realize that I'm listening to the iPod. And it's stuck on this one song called I'd Do Anything, and it's about this girl who left, and the guy who is singing it really misses her and wants to tell her that he'd do anything to see her again. Dude, that guy needs to get a life. I don't think Fang is even that obsessed with Max. Just pretty close. But anyways, I take off the ear buds as soon as I find myself humming it, and then I realize that it's night. Great. I'm walking in a forest near an ocean at night. And then, out of nowhere, I hear giggling. That's right, some girl is giggling. And I can't even hear her footsteps.
And then behind me, the same girl giggles again. What, am I walking in my underwear? I lightly brush my legs just to feel the denim. Okay, what does this girl find so funny?
Great. More giggling. But now that I'm used to it, I kinda like it. I don't know why, there's just something about it that makes me want to laugh too. But where is she?
"I'm over here!" I heard about ten steps away on my right. Good, now I can go up, say hi, and ask what's so funny.
"Nothing. Just your thoughts." Huh? Now she's about five steps behind my left side. No fair!
"Hey, wait up! Why do you keep changing positions?" I called out. And then I stopped. And I didn't hear her. No breathing, no footsteps suddenly stopping. So now I'm all alone, just me and the iPod in my pocket.
Hey, wait, the iPod? Of course! The iPod!
"Earth to Iggy, are you there, Iggy? This is Gasman Space Station asking are you there?"
"Jeez, Gazzy, I was just thinking about what we could use to blow up that tree!"
"And have you thought of anything yet?"
"Yeah, let's use some of the pieces from the iPod."
"The iPod? Max will kill us if we dismantle the iPod for a bomb!"
"Gazzy, Gazzy, Gazzy, when will you learn? We're not dismantling it, we're improving it."
Suddenly Gazzy understood. "Oh, improving! Yeah, I can do that! Let's improve it!"
Sorry to all you troublemakers out there, but I'm not going to tell you how we made the bomb. I'm not going to have Max murder me for teaching people everywhere how to make bombs out of iPods. So suck it up and keep reading.
Later I asked Gazzy how the iPod looked.
"Like a robot that threw up," he responded. "Max won't like this at all."
"Gazzy, if Max asks, we're telling her that the dismantled look is in, and we're just keeping up with the trends. Got it?"
"Yeah."
"Good. Now let's blow up a tree!"
Five seconds later I heard a BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM! And Gazzy laughing like a maniac. Or maybe it was me. Who could tell with that amazing boom?
"How did it look?" I asked.
"It was incredible! Fire and flying wood and-" And then hands were on our shoulders. We turned around to see (well, I heard) Max yelling at us.
"Why did you two do that? You could have told the Flyboys where we were with that fire! And now we have to put out the fire from those burning pieces of wood that you set on fire with that explosion! And the sound probably attracted the entire town in here to see us and a former tree! What did you two use for that bomb anyways? I took all your gun powder. Or did I? Explain!"
Gazzy was the first to recover from the shock. "Well, Max, you did take all our powder, but we improvised."
"With what?"
Gazzy didn't speak, but he didn't need to. Max already saw the iPod and freaked. She launched into more screaming and yelling at us. I just went back to thinking about the dream, but I snapped out of it just as Max was saying that now we needed to go into town to get a new iPod.
"But Max, we made it new! The dismantled look is in, and we're just helping with the trends. And since we had leftover pieces, we made a bomb!"
"Yes, but now the iPod doesn't work, Iggy! I swear, you guys are such idiots when it comes to….."
And we just listened to that for a while until Max finally calmed down and took us to the nearest Radio Shack.
We all looked at models of iPods, slender, pink, red, blue, green, black, old, new. I didn't really care about color, just something with a lot of memory so we could all have our favorite songs on it. But no, Nudge and Angel were debating colors with Max and Fang, and Gazzy was looking at the stuff on sale, so that left me to either join the argument or feel the merchandise with Gazzy. It really shouldn't take you that long to figure out what I did, I mean, I'm freaking BLIND.
"Find anything good?"
"Yeah, I found this white iPod that's got a major deal. Wanna hold it?"
"Sure." He put it in my hand and I felt the slender hunk of metal in my palm. "Not bad. I like it. Besides, white is gender neutral, and it's slender, so there's nothing to fight about."
"Yeah, plus it's got enough memory to hold all our favorite songs plus a few more."
"Perfect."
We walked over to where the rest of the flock was, showed them the iPod, and bought it. I swear, it was like we just brought world peace in the form of an iPod, the way everyone just stopped fighting and looked at it in awe.
Later, in a different part of the forest, Fang had just finished downloading all the songs onto it, and everyone was once again fighting over who got to use it first.
"I call it because I haven't listened to the constipation song in FOREVER!" Gazzy said.
"Yeah, and we want to listen to you singing the constipation song! I should get it because I didn't blow the last one up!" Nudge argued.
"Hold it, blind guy here! If anyone, I should be the one to listen to it!" The only reason I wanted it was so I don't have to listen to Nudge singing along with Avril Lavigne.
"I agree with Iggy. He's blind, so he can test the quality of the new headphones." Wow, was Angel actually sticking up for me? I owe her.
"Good point, sweetie. Even if he did blow the other one up, he has the best hearing of us." Wow, Max too? I bet Angel used her mind to make her agree. But why?
And then I felt Fang handing me the iPod. It was good to feel the cool metal. I put in the ear buds and turned it on.
POV Angel
"I agree with Iggy. He's blind, so he can test the quality of the new headphones." And then I read Iggy's mind to see his reaction. He was surprised that I was helping him. But he deserved it. I mean, Gazzy was the one who put him up to blowing up the tree, and even if Iggy was the one who suggested using the iPod, he could still test our new one.
"Good point, sweetie. Even if he did blow the other one up, he has the best hearing of us." Wow, Max agrees? And I didn't even have to ask her in my mind!
So Fang handed Iggy the iPod, and with a look of glee Iggy turned it on.
But then the weirdest thing happened. Instead of showing the menu to Iggy, smoke surrounded us, and suddenly strobe lights were shining all over the place. They came to rest on a spot in the sky, where in a poof, a girl appeared. She was about 13, she wore a dark blue t-shirt, tennis shoes, and white capris, and she had thick, wavy brown hair with red highlights. Her eyes snapped open to show an amazing blue, and she smiled at us as she just kinda hovered above us.
"Okay, who turned on my iPod?"
Iggy slowly raised his hand. "
"Oh, hi, how's it going? Wow, I never thought I'd meet Maximum Ride and her flock! Well, actually I did, but I don't look into the future a lot, so I didn't know it would happen today."
We all stared at her, a look of shock and surprise on our faces.
"Oh, I'm sorry, forgot my manners. I'm Sabrina, but call me Rina. You so don't want to know what happens when you don't. So anyways, I'm Rina and I'll be your genie until you use your wishes!"
Come again?
So there you are, chapter one of Our Genie, Rina. Title makes sense now, doesn't it? If you would be so nice as to give me two reviews, I'll tell you all about Rina in the next chapter. Greedy, aren't I?
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