Title:Not What it Seems
Summery: The Flock meets a new girl, Moon, she has wigs like the Flock's. She's nice, smart, and seems to be trusted by everyone, that is except for Max. Max thinks that Moon is hiding something from her flock. But with emotions running wild, can it be truth or is it just Max's jealousy towards Moon? And why does it feel like whenever the flock is attacked Angel is on the erasers side? And why am I asking you all these questions?! Just read the story! Rated T just to be safe. MY FIRST FANFIC!
Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride or such, but I do own Moon and Snowy and Icy .
"Blah" Person talking
'Blah' Person thinking
Name Name of the person's POV
'Blah' Moon's Voice
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Chapter One
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It was morning and everyone, except Max, was sound asleep. The Flock had traveled to Illinois a few weeks after they had meet the other Max. They had decided to settle in a town up north for a while. There was a slight sheet of snow covering the ground and trees, and it was really cold. There were a few birds chirping and the wind was howling, caring along some snow and placing it on top of the sleeping flock members.
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Max
Well I'm back! Wow, I didn't know how tired the flock actually was. We flew for about five hours straight, no rest. I didn't know how tired they were, I mean they didn't complain or anything. Well, it's already noon and they're all still asleep. Even Fang! Well being the nice person or mutant-freak (your choice) I am, I had gone to the store and had broth them some chow. We were staying at a park, no one seemed to go there so it was perfect for us. Well it wasn't exactly a park, it was more of an abandoned park with no jungle gyms, but with a lot, and I mean a LOT of trees and a little pond. Well not that little it was more of a big little pond, you get what I'm saying?
For anybody who's new at this journey, I just have to tell them: Where have you been! My name is Max and me, along with another 5 people, got experimented upon by some sick scientists. We're only 98 human and 2 avian. We're avian-hybrids. We have wings, just like birds, well actually bigger, much much bigger and some special powers. There's also the Erasers, they are human-lupine hybrids, or wolves if you like that better, with wings. Erasers are blood thirsty and they don't care who they harm or kill. We, me (Max), Fang, Iggy, Angel, Nudge, Gazzy, and Total (the mutant talking dog), have been running away to try to save our lives. But it's not that easy when you have to take care of six others, and with the constant Eraser attacks, the voice inside my head that keeps telling me that I need to save the world. Yes I have a voice inside my head, well another one besides my own. We have been running away for about 5 years now, or maybe even more, I lost track. I'm 15, Fang 15, Iggy 14 (he'll be 15 in a month) and blind, Nudge 11, Gasman (Gazzy) 8, and Angel 6. I'm not sure how old the dog, Total, is so I didn't write it down, but I'll say he's about 1 year old (in human years).
I didn't know how cold it could be up here north. I mean it's barely October and it's already snowing, plus it's as cold as hell! (If that's possible). Well anyways, we had decided to settle down here for a while. The flock seemed to like it up here so, me being the leader and all, had chosen to give them a little break. The erasers didn't seem to have followed us here, and I do have to admit, it's pretty nice here. It is cold, but the whole flock is happy, even Fang. 'Fang…' I turned around to see him sleeping. 'He looks so handsome when he's asleep. What are you thinking Maximum!' I don't know what I really feel for him, he's like my brother, yet so much more. I know I love him, but I'm not sure if it's brother-sister kind of love, or if it's real love. When he looks at me, I feel myself blush and those dark eyes of his keep me from turning away. I just cant stop staring at him.
I think he felt my gaze on him, even though he was asleep, because he started to wake up. He sat down and looked around, when he became aware where we were, he looked at me. Those dark and mysterious eyes captured me completely. I must have looked like a drooling idiot because he raised his eyebrow. I don't know why, but when he did this I started to blush like crazy. I finally broke my gaze from him, and turned around so that he wouldn't see me blushing. I wonder what he's thinking.
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Fang
How long was I asleep? God, my head hurts like hell. And why is Max just staring at me? I woke up and she was staring at me, she looked like if she was thinking real hard. I raised my eyebrow and she just turned around, blushing. I was about to ask her something when Iggy woke up. Right away he asked what we were going to eat. I had never heard him ask that question so eager. Yes, we didn't eat sometimes and he must have been starving, I know I was, but it's just not like him to ask like that. I was looking at Max, and she seemed kind of surprised too. Max just stared at me and smiled. Did I do something? She took out some muffins and threw one at me and Iggy, hitting him on his face. I swallowed hard, so I wouldn't laugh. I mean, something must have been wrong with Max. She knows that Iggy is blind and can't see when people throw things at him in mid-air.
It's pretty cold here, but still I like it. A few minutes after Iggy and I woke up, the rest of the flock started to wake up. We started eating the muffins Max had given us, and I have to admit, they were pretty darn good. She was still acting really strange, I mean she always acts strange, but this was stranger than strange. She kept looking at me, and when I asked her what was wrong she just said nothing, but I know her better that that and I know that something's going on in her head. I'm beginning to worry about her, but I couldn't let her, or the others, know. They would think I was over reacting or something, and that's just not who I am to them. To them I'm like an emotionless mutant 15 and a month year old kid who doesn't talk much, or cares about other things, or is rather rude and mean. Well, they're wrong. I do care about things and people; I do have feelings even though I don't express them or whatever; and I'm not a heartless jerk. I just don't know how to let them know that.
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Angel
Something is going on with Fang and Max. I read their minds and they were thinking about each other. Well not like that, but still. I have no clue what's going on between them two. Maybe they're together now! I would really love to see them together. I now that Max really loves Fang. And I mean love love, not just brotherly love. I don't know if Fang loves her back like she loves him, but then I really don't know much about how Fang feels. And if they end up together, I can kill two birds with one shot. (you get it? Two birds- never mind.)
I just love the snow! Nudge, Gazzy and I built a snowman. Iggy was building one by himself, and it was so cool. It was not a snowman with three balls of snow, but it looked just like Nudge. I wonder how he made it being blind and all. I know that he has feelings for her, and she does too. Well for him not for herself. I wish some random eraser broke them apart. I still remember what they did to me when they kidnapped me (The erasers). It was horrible, but I liked it.
Max took us to buy some clothes. She used the card she found in New York. She brought a two shirt and jeans for each one of us. Plus a jacket and a sweater, for the winter, and a new backpack . After that, we went to McDonalds, people stared at us there. But hey, we are hungry and homeless! It was pretty cold when we got out. Fang was back to his "normal" self, but not Max. I still wonder what's with them. Maybe they're mad at each other and will tear each other apart, limb by limb. That would be a good thing on my book…
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The flock made their way back to the park. Angel and Gazzy were playing I Spy, and Nudge was telling Iggy how everything looked, and Total was on Iggy's hands. Total was scared of the snow, he didn't like the cold.
"Hey guys," Max said. "Today we're going to sleep at the park, but tomorrow we're going to rent a room or something."
"Fine," was all Fang said. It had been all he had said to Max for the entire day.
"But Max, it's cold!" Nudge said. "And I mean, we cant get sick or anything, because then we would have to go to the hospital or something and they could find our wings and turn us in to the white coats and they would make our lives miserable again. And I don't think that anybody want to go back to the School because of what they did to us there. If I ever meet anybody who wants to go back to a place like the School than I would-"
"Quiet," Iggy said, telling the others to listen. It was dark now and the only noise was the wind howling. The streets we're quiet and it seemed like there was no living soul outside. But since the flock has better hearing than the regular human, they could hear a girl screaming up on the sky. The others heard this and began to look were the noise was coming from. The first one to spot the girl was Fang. He saw her and flew towards her without thinking. He knew that she was in trouble. When he got close to her he saw that she was being attacked by Ari. Not a real attack though. When Ari got hold of her, he began to try to kiss her. She kicked him, but couldn't get out of his hold.
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Fang
I heard a scream, and immediately knew that something was wrong. Apparently Iggy heard it as well because he told Nudge to shut up, well in a nice way. I was the first one to spot the girl. She was flying up in the sky. I immediately started running and took off flying. I made my way to where the girl was and I found that she was being attacked by Ari. Well attacked isn't he right word, he was actually trying to…uh… kiss her. She was kicking him and trying to get away from him but he's much stronger that she is. I immediately attacked Ari. I caught him off guard and I sent him back a couple of feet away and made him drop at least 10 feet. The girl tried to fly away from both of us but she fainted, in mid-air! Her wings folded and she began to fall like a rock towards the grown. I went after her and caught her before she became a pancake. I saw that Max and the others were attacking Ari all at once, and I kind of felt sorry for him. Who a I kidding, I was happy! I hope they kill him!
I carried the girl, bridal style, and I landed where we were staying. She was completely covered by blood, so I started to clean her up as much as I could, without invading her personal…uh…things, and bandage her up. She has wings just like mine. Fourteen feet across and they're mainly black and different shades of brown. They look like a wild hawks wings. Her feathers are soft, yet rough. But there was something different about her. I just cant put my finger on it…..oh I know, her ears. She has cat ears on the top of her head.
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Max
I saw Fang take off, and the rest of us fallowed him immediately. When I cached up to him I saw that he had kicked Ari, but then he fell fast towards something or someone, I really didn't see what. The rest of the flock and I kicked Ari's butt good. He fled fast, he's such a coward. I remembered that Fang had gone after something and immediately began looking for him. I spotted him in the place where we were staying, he seemed to be bandaging somebody. I headed towards him and the rest of the flock followed. Well except Angel, she was still were she had been and she had something on her hands. Nudge called her to come, and she followed. When we got to where Fang was, we saw that he was putting a girl in his sleeping bag.
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"Fang are you okay?" Nudge asked right away.
"Yeah," he responded. He was putting the girl he had rescued in his sleeping bag. "Nudge can you put the bandages away?"
"Sure Fang," Nudge said. She opened her mouth to say more but she was cut off by Max.
"Who's she?" Max said sounding mad.
"Calm down, it's not like she's Fang's girlfriend or something like that, Max." Total said, making Angel and Gazzy giggle some.
"I have no clue, Ari was attacking her." Fang answered in his calm voice, ignoring what Total had just said. His face was emotionless but inside his heart was racing at one hundred miles per hour. 'Why did I bring her here! I'm such an idiot. Max is going to kill me.'
Total jumped away form Iggy's hands and went towards the girl. When he saw her, he began to growl. He was about to take a bite out of her bandaged arm, but when he opened his mouth Fang put a stick across it telling him to back off. Total spit the stick out and growled both at Fang, and the girl.
Fang turned around to see the sleeping girl, and that's when he noticed something familiar about her. 'Oh my God! She looks like Iggy!'
"Max!" Angel said trying to act surprised. "She looks just like Iggy!" Iggy turned towards Angel and looked at her confused. "Iggy, she could be your sister. She has the same nose and mouth shape that you do, and the pale colored skin and strawberry blond hair. I wonder if she has the same birth mark as you do."
"What?" Max said, and took a look at the girl. She gasped when she saw her. Angel was right, this girl could be Iggy's twin sister. "Fang, turn her over and Nudge you check if she has the birth mark."
"Okay Max." Nudge said. Fang slowly turned the girl face down, and then he backed away to let Nudge check her. Nudge pulled the left side of the girl's shirt up, and she saw it: the small red birthmark on her left side towards the back. The birthmark looked exactly like the one Iggy had.
"Oh, Max!" Nudge said and showed the leader what she had seen. "Iggy, she has the same birthmark you do. Although hers is a little more towards the back."
"Fang, wake her up. We have to ask her some questions." Max ordered the second in command boy. Fang just turned toward his leader, not saying anything. Nudge pulled the girl's shirt back in place.
"No," Fang said at last. He looked at Max straight in the eye, and she became aware that he really meant it.
"Wake her up!" Max ordered once more. The boy just shook his head no again.
"No, Max." Fang said. "She needs to rest. We'll question her later."
"No, now. We have to know who she is, what's her name, what is she doing here, and why was she being attacked by Ari. Look at her Fang! She has wings like ours!" Max said impatient at the boy.
"I said no. The girl needs to rest. She lost to much blood and I don't think you want to take her to the hospital to donate your blood to a mire stranger." Fang said, his dark eyes never losing Max's gaze.
"Fang's right, Max. we'll ask questions later. Um…why did Total growl at her?" Iggy asked, he hated that he couldn't see, he wanted to know how the girl looked exactly. He wanted to see if this girl could actually be his sister.
"Oh, because she has cat ears at the top of her head." Nudge said, making Iggy confused. "But other than that, she looks like you."
"I found something that might help you with those questions, Max." Angel said holding out a piece of paper.
"What's this, Angel?" Max said taking the paper. "Where did you get this from?" Max asked, she unfolded the paper and waited for Angel to answer.
"I took it away form Ari. I saw it and thought it could be something of use to us. I began reading it and I think that they are orders. I only read some part of it." Angel answered. The others were facing Max, waiting for her to read the paper. Since Max didn't do anything, Nudge began talking.
"Read it Max." Nudge said. "I mean it could be something important. Like what they're planning against us. Or where they're hiding or something. Come on! Don't keep us in suspense, we want to know what it says!"
"Okay fine Nudge. It says:
"Ari, you have your orders. You have to locate were the flock has gone too. We have changed target. You have to get Fang now, not Max. Plus you have to find Moon. She escaped from the School, and we cant go on with our studies without her back here. Remember that she's as strong as Max, maybe stronger, so it will be hard. You have to get her and Fang. You can do whatever you want to the rest of the flock, just make sure that Moon and Fang get captured, alive. They have to come back to the School, we need them back and quick. Anne wants them both, so don't screw this up! This is your last chance. -Jeb."
"Well, I guess this is Moon." Max said pointing at the sleeping girl. "You're right Fang. We'll let her rest for now, but when she wakes up we'll have to ask her a few questions."
"Can we go to the pond?" Angel asked. "Not to go swim, just to look at it. Please, it will only be a little while. As soon as you want to leave, we'll leave and come back here." Gazzy and Nudge looked at Max, ready to do Bambi eyes if necessary.
"uh…but the girl." Max said. 'we cant just leave her here alone. What if she wakes up and leaves leaving us with more questions than answers?"
"Max, you guys go ahead, I'll stay here with the girl." Fang said, reading Max's mind without having mind reading powers like Angel.
"Okay, but it'll only be a while." Max said. Gazzy and Angel screamed yes, and ran towards the pond. Total didn't follow them, instead he walked towards Fang.
"I'll stay with you. Uh…can we play something?" Total said. Nudge and Iggy walked slowly towards the pond, Nudge telling Iggy a story. Max took a look at the girl once more, then she fallowed the others.
When they came back two and a half hours later, they found that the girl was still asleep. Fang was throwing a stick up in the sky, about 40 feet in the air, and Total jumped for it getting it with no problem. It was about 10 pm, so it was time for that younger kids to go to sleep.
"I'll take the first watch." Iggy said, going over to a tree. He sat down and rested his back on the tree.
"I'll take the second watch , and Fang can take the third watch." Max said and Fang nodded. "Now, everybody go to sleep." She said, everybody taped their left fists with each other. The younger kids immediately feel asleep and so did Max. Fang was just sitting down next to the girl. 'If she wakes up before anybody else does, she'll fly away. I cant let that happen. I'm sure she knows why They want us back in the School.' Fang took out some hencoops and tied one of the girl's hand to one of his. 'There now if she tried to fly away, I'll know. Just hope that if Max sees the handcuffs she won't ask too much questions.' Fang thought to himself, he fell asleep sitting down, his back against a tree on the opposite side of Iggy.
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Moon
I woke up like at… I don't know, but I saw that it was still dark. The sun hadn't come up yet, but I knew it would soon. I turned my head around, trying to figure out were I was, and I saw that I was with six other people and a dog. I freaked out immediately, but when I tried to stand up I saw that I was tied to this guy's hand. I couldn't really tell how he looked, but he kinda looked super handsomely hot and sexy! He looked at me and smiled.
"Glad your awake." He said. I freaked out even more. "don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you."
I remember this guy. He was the one that had saved me from Ari. 'Ugh, Ari, how could he possibly think I wanted to be his. Sicko! The plan was to get me close to the flock, not to try and kiss me in the middle of his "attack".' I returned the smile and sat down besides him. 'This must be Fang, the oldest guy from the flock. The one I have to give to the whitecoats.'
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Fang
Ha! I was right. I was on watch duty thing when she woke up, and the minute she saw where she was, she tried to stand up to fly away. But what she didn't count on, was her being tied to me! She woke up and got all freaked out, but I think I calmed her down, I think.
"So what's your name?" I asked lamely, already knowing that it was Moon. 'Why did you ask that stupid question!?'
"I'm Moon. Who are you?" She asked me. She seemed curious, and I knew that she was forcing her wings to stay tightly hidden on her back. I mean, I would, if I just woke up and I was tied to someone I didn't know.
"I'm Fang. I know you have wings so there's no need to hide them." I said letting her see my fourteen-feet long dark wings.
"Oh my God! You were in the School too?" She asked surprised and freaked out. "Were you all in the School?" She asked motioning to the rest of the flock. She seemed worried. She took out her wings, and they sort off matched mine.
"yeah, we were all in the School. Don't worry, we're not erasers." I said. That seemed to calm her down a bit. "What was Ari trying to do to you?"
"You know Ari?" She asked. Well I guess she's not that bright. I mean, if I told her I, I mean we, were in the School, then she could have guessed that we knew Ari, right? okay maybe not.
"Yeah," I said, trying to get the hencoops off. "You don't happen to spot a key do you?" I said when I realized that I didn't remember where I had left the key. Great going Fang!'
"You have it around you neck. Here let me take it off for you." She said. She got awfully close to me, I began to breath quickly. She smelled like the sweet sent of freshly cut apples, and her hair was so soft. She got the key out of the black string and she gave it to me. She was just inches away from my face, I swear I was sweating by now. I didn't know what to do, and she just smelled so nice. I was not acting very Fang-like. I managed to pull away from her before I tried to kiss her. If I hadn't backed away, I would have kissed her. I mean, she was just so inviting. Her soft hair, her sweet smell, the warmness in her. Wait say what now? I took off the hencoops and she smiled at me. "Wait your Fang?"
"Yup," I said. 'does she know me from somewhere? Do I know her from somewhere?'
"Oh my God! Your in trouble, the erasers are going to try to get you back into the school. You have to be careful. Ari has millions of erasers looking for you and me. God! If it hadn't been for me, Ari would have never found you. Now he knows where you are, and he's going to try to get you back to the School! I'm sorry, I think I should leave. Thanks for rescuing me, but I have to go now. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
"Wow you talk as much as Nudge does." She looked at me with confusion then she started running away. I chased her and manage to grabbed her hand before she took off. 'Man does she run fast. And I mean Fast!' But I got her off balance and made her fall on top. And you know what, my little chase made Max and Iggy wake up.
"Get away from him!" Max yelled out. 'she thinks I'm being attacked?' but it was too late to stop her. She had launched herself at Moon and tackled her. Moon screamed in pain, not able to do anything because she was week from battling Ari. I swear I hear something crack, and I don't think it was a stick.
"Max, no stop!" I yelled out and pulled Max away form Moon. Moon was on the ground, her nose bleeding. I went to were Moon was and I helped her up. She couldn't really stand on her own two feet, so she had to lean on me. I felt something warm on my cheeks. I'm blushing?!?! What the fuck!!!???
"Why were you on op of Fang!" Max screamed at Moon. Was it me or was Max jealous? Yeah, that'll be the day, when Max is jealous. But she really seemed jealous, can it be that she was? 'Max doesn't get jealous, Fang. Your thinking wrong today. And your not acting like Fang.'
"I made her fall on top of me, it's not her fault. You didn't have to beat the crap out of her just so that she could get off of me."
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Max
'Oh man , did I do it bad. I think I just got carried away because I like Fang. I mean, because I want to protect him. Can it be that you actually have feelings for him? Now you want to talk. Can it be another time. Wait, what do you know about this Moon girl? Let's just say that Moon and Fang have a lot of things in common.what is that supposed to mean. Well you can trust her if you actually trust Angel. I said what is that supposed to mean!' It had been like a month since I had heard the voice, and when it decides to come back, all it tells me is that I should trust this girl if I really trust my little Angel. Of course I trusted her, but how do I know that the voice isn't just playing a trick on me. I mean, the voice has helped me in a lot of things, but what if now it turned evil or something? What if I listened to the voice and went ahead and trusted this girl, and then she kills all of us? 'Max pull yourself together! I cant let anybody see me like this. I'm the invincible Max for God's sake. I cant trust this girl, and I wont.'
"I'm sorry. I thought you were attacking Fang." I said lamely. How lamer could I have sounded! Fang was looking at me strange.
"So you thought that I couldn't handle her?" Fang finally said. How stupid could I have been. I mean, Fang is a big boy, he could have handled her in a sap, I think. He can handle Erasers, can't he?
"No, I just… I mean…" 'What am I going to say now! Great going Max!'
"Can somebody tell me what just happened!" Iggy said. God I forgot that he was with me.
"I made Moon fall on top of me by accident, and Max attacked her thinking that Moon was attacking me." Fang told him. Iggy seemed confused, I don't think he remembered that there was another girl with us. The girl, Moon, was just staring at him with her big blue eyes. 'wow, she must be Iggy's sister, she has the same eyes too. But hers actually work.'
"Oh my God!" She screamed scaring Fang, and making me sake. Wait…Fang got scared? Then she ran over to Iggy and gave him a big bear hug. I'm surprise Iggy actually returned the hug. Moon's eyes were shining with tears while Iggy's were full of confusion. Fang was just standing there, smiling. Wait! Fang…smiling? Fang was smiling! How can this be? I mean he never actually smiles, and now he's smiling? And I know it wasn't a grin or something. He saw me looking at him smile and he stopped smiling.
"Are you okay Moon?" Fang asked the girl. Moon was now in tears, she backed up a bit and looked at Iggy.
"I finally found you. I have been looking for you since I escaped the School. I cant believe this, I finally found you, Iggy. I finally found you, brother." brother?!?!
Hey ya'll! this is ma first FANFIC so go easy on me! um... i know it suck and all but i tried! LEAVE SOME REVIEWS!
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