I do not own maximum ride and I'm glad about it.

A Little Thing Called Destiny

Chapter 1: The Fallen Angels

I ran for miles just to get away, I couldn't take it any more, I had to get away. I have three words for you. Screw the world. Screw all the bullshit it throws you. Screw all of those who act like they actually care. Screw all of those who cause pain to the weak. Screw all of the people who manipulate people for their own personal gain. And most importantly screw the rest of the flock.

(Fang Pov)

"Don't you dare try and find me Fang," Nudge read with a tear in her eye voice almost inaudible at the word 'Fang.'

"Come on guys pack your things," I said taking on my new role as leader.

"Why," Iggy asked ", If she doesn't want to be found, why try and find her."

"I'm not letting her bail on us without speaking to us in person," I said ", Nudge read the letter over and tell me where she planned to go again."

"It doesn't say, here let me read it over again," Nudge said.

Dear fang and the flock,

I'm sorry for leaving without telling you or without a reason, but knowing I did this for your own good is reason enough. Fang please keep watch over the flock and your in charge, no angel you would not make a better leader. Iggy and Gazzy make sure you keep the bomb making to a minimum but if you do make one I hope it's for a good purpose. Nudge I want you to go up to my room I left some clothes you might really like. And angel please do not use your 'powers' on the flock, they have enough to deal with right now. One last thing, don't you dare try and find me Fang.

Love and Hope,

Maximum Ride

Nudge, Angel, and even Gazzy broke out in tears, again. I've never been able to cry and I believe that is a good thing because, as Max would say, someone must be strong. I walked up stairs and couldn't believe it had come to this. I grabbed my backpack and gave directions to the others as to what to bring. I on the other hand had my own agenda. Besides finding Max strange things have been attacking me lately, stranger than usual. I won't go into detail but simply put I have a small storage of weapons now that I have 'obtained' *coughstolencough*. I never thought to tell anybody, I'm not like that. So I went around the room and gathered the weapons that consisted of knives, a single sword, and few small fire arms. I put some clothes on top of that and add in a few things extra we would need.

By three AM the next morning we were ready to go the only issue being as Iggy so gladly pointed out ",We don't even know where to go."

"I'm thinking. What is the number one place Max would go if, well, you get the idea," I said.

"The number one place is Dr. M's house and we're already here," Nudge said.

"I think that would be the only place she would go," Angel said.

"I disagree, I've gotten to know her better and I think I know," I said.

We all took off with me leading the flock. I had a very good idea where she would go. Nobody else in the flock actually knew this but we had found a small uncharted island in the 'Ring of fire' as they call it. I believe that is where she went, although I've never actually seen the island. I've only heard her talk about it, which doesn't help much except that I made sure to make a map.

The flying took forever but we reach the small chain of islands and discovered it was actually a good five or six islands that are covered with trees. It looked like an undiscovered civilization out here. We landed on a beach in one of the middle islands and looked up and down.

"I think we may need to separate," I said as I stared to open my backpack ", Angel, Gazzy and Nudge will go one way and Iggy and I the other. We'll stay in touch through telepathy."
I grabbed two machetes out of my stash of weapons ", Don't ask why or where, just use."

"What," Iggy asked.

"Machetes," Gazzy said in awe.

We started heading off in two different directions but I had this subconscious feeling that something strange was going to happen. I discovered the machete was useless because a path was already there. It wasn't paved or anything but it seemed recent. Even stranger is the fact that I saw tire marks. We walked a bit until we got attack by an animal. I'd tell you what animal if I could even describe it, but it wasn't anything I had ever seen before. The best way to describe it is an over sized ferret with two saber tooth tiger teeth and claws larger than normal. Oh one other strange thing is who told me to duck.

"Fang duck over sized ferret," Yelled Iggy, the blind guy. I wasn't going to say I wasn't happy but that was just strange. As the Ferres, I don't know the name just came to me, tried to attack me again I spun under it and made contact with my blade. The thing stopped moving and I looked around to see five or six more of the little buggers.

"Iggy can you like see now," I asked as we stood back to back.

"No but it's like I see shapes in the blackness, and they are colored. Like you are white but the creatures are red and they have a definite outline," He said.

"Okay well here take a sword," I said as I handed him a sword taking out two small daggers.

"Come 'ere you f****rs," I said as three lunged at me. I spun underneath one and got slashed by the other two before I could do anything. I was back up even though I felt blood seeping through the scars in my skin. I tried to go on the offensive and lunged at one of the little beasts but it was too fast and jumped out of the way. I than felt a sharp pain in my left arm than the arm went limp and the dagger fell. I officially had no control of my left arm and I realized why, one of the Ferres had gotten its teeth into my arm. I continued to defend myself until Iggy finished off his creatures and helped me.

"Thanks I said," I said and sat down ", I'm really dizzy."

The rest of the flock swooped in, and I realized they must've heard our thoughts about fighting. I looked around seeing a lot of orange blood, must've been the Ferres, and to accompany it was a decent amount of my blood.

"Fang, we'll figure something out," said Nudge franticly. Than in that exact moment the bushes rustled and we all got ready for another animal attack but what came out startled us. It was another human, female and around the age of thirty. She was wearing something you would wear on a tropical island. She saw me and motioned for us to follow her. I didn't have time to tell them 'no' because just than I fainted.

I woke up in a small room but the scent smelled like, well, a tropical island. It didn't go together, the look of a hospital but the fell of the tropical jungle, minus the humid air.

"So you're finally up," Iggy said from across the room, which wasn't far. I sat up slowly and examined my bandages and came to the conclusion that I looked like shit.

"A few things have happened in the three days you were sleeping. One thing is we discovered this island isn't so 'deserted' in fact they have places like this on two of the other two islands too. This place is run by an underground organization started by," Iggy said as someone came in and interrupted him.

"Yours truly," said a girl who I recognized immediately. It was the girl we had freed from the institute back in New York ", well kinda anyway. I only helped form it, really the original founder was Echo. He is like us with the whole wings thing but he has a few other abilities. I'm not at liberty to discuss them but let's just say you don't want to get on his bad side, which is really really easy to do."

"Anyway, we discovered this chain of islands and the rare creatures here too. We're worried they may have been created by the school. The organization's name is Fallen Angels, but the leaders and yours truly are known as Archangels. Echo is generally called 'The Phoenix,'" she continued saying.

"And 'The Phoenix' wants to see us correct," Iggy said.

"Yes but only you two he has already talked with the other three," She said.

"Talked?" I questioned as I threw on the new shirt for me which now that I realized it everybody was wearing the same shirt in different colors. It was a short sleeve shirt with a white hawk on it. Mine was a dark deep purple.

"Okay questioned," she said as she got all steely and I and Iggy moved for the windows. We were stopped by two large men around the age of twenty five that came out of nowhere. We were then forcibly escorted to a large conference room and in one chair across the way was Echo who couldn't be older than nineteen. A nineteen year old was in charge of this entire organization. I felt something go past my face and I felt a small cut form in my cheek and I realized he had drawn a knife like object and thrown it with perfect precision fast than the speed of sound.

"They call me 'Echo' for a reason you know. Oh and you don't have to call me 'The Phoenix' I believe us to all be friends here," Echo said as he dismissed the guards. I realized he didn't even need them.

"I know why you're here," he said ", I can in fact tell you what you are thinking right now. I'm not a mind reader, no, I've just seen billions of faces and I can read them all."

"You Iggy, I know that your true desire lies in gaining the love of someone else. I believe it is someone who has never really taken a second look at you, they always thought of you as a friend. Angel's true desire was to be able to be like the rest of you without here abilities. Gazzy wanted Angel to be happy and to not be looked down on. Nudge always wonders what it would be like to be human. Fang you're here for Max and max only, but I can tell your hearts true desire. Oh yes I know exactly what you want and I can give it to you."

"Two words Echo: Screw and You," I said not really that afraid. Echo than proceed to cross the room in seconds and pushed both of us up against a wall by our necks. He gave a very evil grin that told me this guy had absolutely no heart.

"I'm going to help you, plain and simple. Why you may ask and my answer would be that I owe you two a lot even if you don't know it. For one I'm going to let you live and I'm also going to provide you with information about the creatures on this island but finding max is not something I'm going to help with. I know somebody who is just perfect for the job though," he said as he dropped us and let our a whistle. In seconds another two people came in and stood army still with a salute.

"At ease," Echo said and the three of them broke out in laughter like three old friends.

"Hey Fang my names Ryan King but everybody just calls me 'Tech' because that's what I'm good with," said the older of the two, he looked to be about eighteen and had very blonde hair.

"I'm Zypher but everybody just calls me Zync (AN: sounds like sync)," the younger one said with a two finger salute ", I'm known for my abilities. They are very unique in the fact that…"

He stopped talking and decided to show us. He flicked his wrists and two small daggers appeared out of nowhere.

"I'm a master of knives, daggers, and swords," He said as I realized he looked to be about seventeen years old and had long black hair.

"They are my best soldiers and friends. They know ways to kill somebody than you can count on five thousand hands. Ryan can transform into a wolf, like full wolf not one of those stupid erasers. Zync has a knack for teleportation, he can do it rapid fire and make it look like he's walking on air," Echo said ", Know let's talk about why Max is here."

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