Disclaimer: I do not own the Maximum Ride series or any other James Patterson series.
Chapter One
Fire. There was fire everywhere. She could feel the flames lick against her body, sending tingling sensation everywhere but never burning her. No, they would never burn her. They were a part of her. The fire was growing, growing to the point where nothing could stop it and everything in its way burned to the ground. Everything she loved. It burned brighter and brighter, consuming everything around it, until finally, the fire-
"No!" she gasped, as she startled awake, almost falling out of the tree she had been sleeping in. It was like this every night. She would find some shelter and try to get some rest, only to have the same nightmare over and over again, stopping it right when the fire got too bright. Fire. She shuddered at the word. Fire was why she was all alone. It was why she had no home. It was how the Lab burned down. And everyone in it.
Everyone except me, she thought bitterly. She was the only one that she knew of that had survived. All of her friends: Nina, Suki, Chase, Xavier, gone. All of them gone. She felt tears prick the back of her eyes and pushed them back.
You have to stay strong, she told herself. It's what they would have wanted.
She stretched and blinked the remaining sleep from her eyes, careful not to fall off the branch she was sitting in. She gracefully jumped to the floor, making sure not to make a sound as she padded across the forest floor. She wasn't sure where she was, or where she was going, but she would keep on moving, travelling city to city until she found her purpose. Because she was Mackenzie Oakley, and she always found a way to survive.