AN~ My first Maximum Ride fan fiction, sorry for any mistakes. This idea came to me right in the middle of a math test so read it, review it, and if I get an F in math I blame my imagination!
We where flying way up high. Probably forty thousand feet, higher than any plane, or bird and as far up as we could fly. Angel, Iggy, Nudge, Fang, and Total where flying next to me, our winds beating together. Angel flashed me her big blue eyes.
"There's someone above us." she said. I looked at her funny, nothing could be flying higher than us, well except a rocket but they don't count. I looked up, just to be sure: I saw nothing.
"Nothing can be higher than us right now Ange." Fang said, tilting some of his feathers to glide closer to us.
"What are you talking about Angel?" Gazzy asked looking over at Angel.
"Someone is above us." she said again, "And she's like us, she has wings. But hers are like bat wings, no feathers. Her name is Moon. And she escaped from the school. And she's 14, like you, Fang, and Iggy." she said, smiling innocently at me. I looked up again, saw nothing and looked back at Angel.
"Is she evil? A new batch of Erasers? If anything that you pick up on it is bad, we scatter. Got it you guys?" I asked looking at each of them. All of them nodded.
"She's coming down to see what we are." Angel informed. I did a quick 360 and saw a puff of clouds and then a girl with huge wings, bigger than Fang's, came down, and went under us. She swooped and twirled like she had been in prison for eight years and this was her first breath of freedom. Angel was right, her wings had no feathers, they where black. They had, what looked like, little v's on them that where lighter than the rest of them. She was wearing black skin-tight pants, white combat boots that came up to her knees, and a black midriff and arm reveling shirt. She also had a back-pack that went over one shoulder.
"Isn't she cold?" Nudge asked. We where all wearing long, thick pants, a jacket, and an over large hoodie and we where still a little cold.
"Aren't you warm?" a distant voice asked. It was Moon.
Moon
It was always cold in my crate, and in the room I was held in at the school. It felt good to finally stretch my wings, I am a different recombinant life-form than the flock, their human-avian hybrids, I'm human Vespertilionidae [1] hybrid. They only made one of me. I escaped from the school only fifty hours ago, and I am loving every minute of it! Jeb had promised that he would come back and get me out of there, after he got the flock out, the flock I had never seen. He had come back, but he helped the white cotes experiment on me. But right now some of the tests are paying off, like enhanced sight and hearing, I could see the flock long before they saw me.
My wings aren't like theirs, mine don't fold neatly, they barely fold at all, and their lighter, and bigger than the flocks'. I was designed to be aerodynamic so I'm thinner than them but still as tall, if not taller. My blood was different then theirs too, it was stronger than an average human, or hybrids', mine was stronger so it didn't drop oxygen at my joints [2]. instead of lungs and air sacks I have dubble the lung capacity and the same with my air sacks. That's what lets me fly as high as the Thermosphere [3]. My body temperature is also different, it's higher so I can fly up as high as I can without freezing.
I looked around, all I saw was the flock, and distance city lights below. So why not go down outside of town? I was beat anyway.
"See you guys!" I yelled, taking off and starting my decent.
Max
"Come on guys, let's go down too." I said, looking at all of them, they all looked so tiered. Gazzy taped Iggy's hand once and they began going in giant arks down to the ground. Nudge was next, then Fang, and last was me. We all landed about where Moon had landed. What we saw was a cave, big enough for all of us, and in that cave was an already started fire, and Moon. Her bag was open and she was getting something out of it. She looked up to see all six of us a the entrance of the cave. Moon motioned for us to come in.
"You guys hungry?" she asked. Nudge, Gazzy, Iggy, and Angel nodded. Moon smiled and pulled out some Chinese take out food.
"Ware did you get that?" Angel asked, eye's wide and innocent.
"Before I left I did a little pick-pocketing, and I got this from the refrigerator ware the white cotes eat from. I also got apples oranges, water, and I think KFC." she looked up from her bag and smiled. "Help yourselves." she finished setting out the food and we practically fell on it. "I also got one of these." she waved a credit card around before putting it back into her bag.
With closer examination I noticed that she had long, shaggy black hair, almost down to he lower back; and bright olive green eyes. She had thin lips and a small nose. She was taller than me, and (if possible) paler than Iggy. She was thinner than us as well.
"Why do you wear cloths that don't keep you worm up in the air? Why don't your wings have feathers? Can you wings fold like ours? And how long have you been out of the school? An why did you choose Moon as your name?" Nudge asked, flashing her brown eyes and batting her eyelashes a little.
"Ummmmm, well my body temperature is higher, so I'm warmer; instead of being part avian I'm part Vespertilionidae," Nudge gave her a questioning look. " Part bat; my wings don't fold all the way, but they can be hidden with a baggy jacket. I have one in my bag; I've been out of the school for about fifty hours; and since my lounges are bigger and more efficient I can fly up to about the Thermosphere," another questioning look from Nudge. "About fifty miles up, I feel like I'm next to the Moon."
"Oh, ok." Nudge finished, and then fell on the Chinese noodles in her hands. I cautiously picked up an apple,took a bite, didn't die, and took another bite.
"By the way, thats Nudge, Iggy, Fang, Angel, The Gasman, and I'm Max."i said pointing to each of us as I said their name.
After we had gotten our fill, and the Flock and me had done our nighttime ritual, we all (including Moon) practically passed out by the fire. I, on the other wing, was still up. Fang was up with me.
"What do you think we should do?" Fang asked, I knew what he was talking about. He was talking about Moon.
"We can't just leave her." I reasoned.
"How do we know we can trust her?" Fang asked.
"Well, maybe Angel can do a sweep of her mind tomorrow?" I guessed.
"How long do you think she'll be with us?" Fang asked.
Moon
I was listening to them, Max and Fang, they where talking about what to do with me. I was pretending to be asleep, planning to take off soon. I heard Fang, and Max lay down by the fire. I waited what seemed like an hour.
Cautiously, and silently I sat up. I reached into my bag and got a piece of paper and a pen and wrote:
Dear Max and others,
I can't trust a lot of people and so I'm not going to be here, don't wait for me and don't look for me either. I'm not a spy for the school, and why would I? But if you don't believe me too bad, you'll just have to accept it. Don't expect to see me again.
Sincerely~Moon
at that I got up from my sitting position, walked silently out of the cave, spread my wings, and jumped off the cliff. I felt wind under my bat-like wings and I soured up. With every wing beat, ever muscle that moved I went higher. When it started to get too cold, even for me, I got my jacket out of my bag. Very fast, and awkwardly I pulled my jacket over my huge wings. I forced them threw the slits in the back. And I kept flying.
1: Bat
2: if you have weak red blood cells then Oxygen drop's at your joints. That's how you can pop your knuckles
3: Second to last layer of earths atmosphere
AN~ If you want me to keep going review, and tell me what you think.