A New Start
Disclaimer: I don't own anything! James Patterson owns Maximum Ride, and as sad as
that makes me, it is very true.
Chapter 1
We finally got out alive. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever happen, but here it is: freedom. Complete, this time. No school chasing us, no psychos trying to use us as test material, but best of all, just me and my best friend in the world, and my family, soaring through the skies forever. Not even a fear of expiration anymore. Just total, complete, freedom. For all of us. And yes, that includes Total and Akila. Turns out that Jeb had ended up saving a few vials or avian DNA, and he injected it into Akila (with Total's permission, of course), and just like that, she's a winged mutant too now. Total is so pleased.
Now for the rest of the flock. Angel is 10 now; my little backstabber is all grown-up. She even has a new friend that she thinks I don't know about. He's another winged mutant from the School, that we rescued back in D.C. I think his name is Tyler.
Nudge: Not much has changed. Everyone's favorite blabbermouth is a saucy 15, and just as talkative as she was before.
Gazzy is 11. He still has his little, erm, problem, or as he would call it, talent. And, if anything it's gotten worse. Iggy thinks it's hilarious.
And about Iggy, he's still blind, and he's still a great cook. He's 18 now, like me and Fang. He hooked up with Ella a while back, which made my mom go crazy. She loves mutants.
I'm pretty much the same, just older, and more experienced. We got into fights until last year, when the government deleted Itex. Seriously. They went and hacked into their files, then programmed a worm to eat the files. It was pretty cool, and Nudge got to help. So that's about it for me, but I'm loving the new freedom.
It feels like I'm forgetting someone. Oh, yeah, just the most important thing to me next to my wings. Fang. He's tall, dark, and handsome now. When we go places, he's the mediator, the one who drives off the paparazzi. He's perfection. He got a new ability too: He can feel and control your emotions. Kinda creepy, but this is Fang. He won't do anything bad. Other than manipulating you so you feel so completely in love with him that you scream embarrassing things on public tv. Ah, well, it could be worse. It could be Gazzy who got that skill.
So, pretty much, the flock is good. We fly all day, going to nice places, then we retreat to our private island to eat a huge meal, and sleep in goose down beds, which is all funded by the government, who insist that we're their "back-up plan" They developed bullet proof armor that's light enough for us to fly with, so, basically, if we needed, we could each take out our own armies. We look really scary in the proper lighting.
Well, after all this paradise, wo could expect that we'd go back to horror-land so soon? No one, that's who. But the government decided that we would go to a public school for a year. We didn't have any real schooling( other than my disasterous attempt at homeschool), so they were making us all start at 8th grade. Even Angel. And me. So we would all be with humans in a clsed school, with normal teachers. This is gonna be bad. Little did I know just how bad it would be.