CHAPTER 1
I Have a Problem or Two
My name is Maximum Ride and I am 18 years old. I have dirty blonde hair that's slightly wavy and reaches down to my lower back, I have melted chocolate brown colored eyes, I'm skinny and I am 6ft. I am an Avian-American Hybrid or bird-kid, which pretty much means I'm 2% bird. That means I have wings and with those wings comes powers. My powers are: Reading/Controlling minds, the four elements; Fire, water, earth and air, flying/running up to 800 MPH, my five senses are about 8x better than human senses and I have pretty much any other kind of power you can think of.
With those wings and powers comes crazy scientists- Trying to do "good" for the world (sarcasm) and a Flock. The Flock has five kids and one talking dog that has wings. The five other kids are like me, bird-kids.
Oldest to youngest in the Flock;
Fang
Height: 6ft 1in.
Age: 18, younger than me though.
Description: Black/Raven colored hair, really dark brown eyes (looks black), where's all black, hardly talks.
Powers: Turn invisible and controls shadows.
Iggy
Height: 6ft 1in.
Age: 18, younger then Fang though.
Description: strawberry blonde hair, white milky blue eyes, tall and lanky, specializes in bombs and picking locks, blind and pale.
Powers: Heals anything (larger wounds, like stab wounds take longer and more energy), can feel colors, super hearing and controls light.
Nudge
Height: 5ft 7in.
Age: 15.
Description: mocha skin, brown eyes, skinny, dark/ really curly hair that goes down to the bottom of her shoulder blades, very talkative and very girly.
Powers: Talks very, very fast, magnetic and can touch something or stand in a spot and see who or what was there and what they were doing.
Gazzy
Height: 5ft 5in.
Age: 13.
Powers: Atomic fart, mimicry and can see all of somebody's memories.
Description: Blond hair, blue eyes, tall, gassy, specializes in bombs and picking locks (any kind) (better than Iggy) and Angel's older brother.
Angel
Height: 4ft 6in.
Age: 6.
Description: Blond hair down to her mid back, blue eyes, sweet and innocent but can be evil when she wants to be and is Gazzy's younger sister.
Powers: Control/ read minds, breath under water and can kill with a specific kind of scream.
Now that we know who the Flock is lets dive into my life right now. Here we go.
LINE
Right now we are in Scio, Oregon. It's a very small town with only 838 people. We are in a McDonalds and just finished ordering.
"That's going to take about a half hour to prepare." She said.
"All right, we will wait. Thanks." I reply.
"OK, that will be $108.56." The casher said dumbfound.
I gave her the Max card and told Angel, Gazzy and Nudge to go pick a booth while us older three waited for the food.
While we were waiting I asked Fang and Iggy where they wanted to go next.
"Arizona, visit your mom." Fang says.
"Ya we should, when we get there we need to have a meeting, not a Flock meeting." Iggy says distracted.
"What for?" I asked concerned.
"Stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
"I can't tell you yet." He said.
"Okkkkay."
"Your orders ready, miss." The casher interrupted are conversation.
"Thanks." We took the food to our table, sat down and passed out the food.
~Time Skip~
After we ate we headed to go see my mom. I'm not going to bore you with the details. All that happened was the usual. Angel and Total talked with Nudge (Nudge was doing most of the talking), Iggy and Gazzy made another plan for another bomb, Fang stayed quite the whole time and I enjoyed the flight, like always.
"Going down guys!" I yelled. By the time we actually landed it was 9 pm.
We started to head to the door. When we got there I knocked. It was a couple of seconds before the door open and it was Ella who opened it.
"MAX!" Ella yelled.
"ELLA!" I yelled just as loud.
"Ella, what's wrong?" I heard mom say. When she came around the corner and saw me she froze.
"Max?" She whispered.
"Hi mom!"
"Oh, Max, I missed you so much!" She said as she ran and hugged me. Ella joined us and they both cried while I just hugged them.
I should explain. We haven't seen my mom and Ella for a while. The reason was is that ITEX was throwing everything they had at us trying to get us back. Well me back. I am there most powerful experiment.
Mom stepped back and said in a thick voice. "Well come on in. I just finished cooking cookies."
"What kind?" I asked excited.
She smiled a knowing smile. "Chocolate chip cookie."
Before she could finish saying 'cookie' I shot into the kitchen grabbed one and stuffed it in my mouth.
"Max be carefully they just came out of the oven!" My mom warned coming into the kitchen with everyone else following.
I swallow them. "Your right they did," I say getting a drink of water. "But there good." I continued and she and Ella laughed at me.
"All right it's late, off to bed." I say to the kids, because it was 9:30 pm.
For once they went quietly, and that kind of scared me because they have flew longer than that, but I brushed it off. Fang and Iggy where still here. Staring at me.
"Hey do you need something?"
"Umm... Can Fang and I talk to you for a sec?"
"Ya, what's up?"
"Not in here, outside." He said quietly.
"Ok."
I walked outside with them following me. I started to get an uneasy feeling about this talk. Fang started.
"Max you need to leave the Flock." That's why.
"Is this a joke?" I said tense, but even before I finished I knew it wasn't.
"No." Fang said simply.
A million thoughts where running through my mind and only one word came out; "Why?"
"Because, the kids want to settle down," Iggy said sadly. "And you want to keep on the go all the time, they want to have a normal childhood and so do we." He finished the last four words so a normal human wouldn't be able to hear them, but I did.
"Ok, I will-" I started but was cut off by someone. When I turned around I found it was Angel.
"Fang and Iggy I already told you I want to stay with Max."
"Ange, you were out voted."
"I don't care, I'm going with-"
"No you are going to go with Fang and the others, not-"
"Max your my mom, I am going - don't interrupt - I am going with you. I love you too much to leave you." She said firmly.
"...Fine...okay, you can come with me." I say. "Ok, time to go to bed. Fang, Iggy we'll leave tomorrow."
"Max can I sleep with you?" Angel asks me tiredly.
"Yah. Let's go." I sigh.
As I lay in my room that I share with Ella with Angel in my arms I start thinking, I have to stay strong for myself and for Angel especially. We will leave in the morning before everyone wakes up. I'll write a letter for mom and Ella and another one for the Flock.
Time Skip
Its 4 am in the morning, everyone is still sleeping, and I just finished the letter to the Flock and the one to Ella and my mom and I have already finished packing. Now it's time to get Angel up.
Angel get up, come on we're going to leave before everyone gets up. I thought to her.
She woke up. I put the letters I wrote and the letters Angel wrote - she wrote them last night before she went to bed - in their rightful places, and we left. Just. Like. That.
Time Skip
We were headed to Jeb, I had called earlier to make sure we could stay with him he said yes but there where conditions to living with him. We had to move to Forks, Washington, go to school and act normal around other people. After I fought with him about the second one for a ½ hour I finally agreed to go, as long as he agreed that whenever Angel didn't have school she came to school with me and that are names would be Maximum Ride and Angel Ride. He agreed because he knew it was the only way to get me to go.
4 hours later we were driving into the drive way of are new home.
"Ok girls we are now here. Max your room is up stars next to the bathroom. It's purple, blue, black and white. Angel yours is across from Max's room and is purple and pink."
I grunt in response and Angel jumps out of the car pulling me with her. I grab are stuff. Which consist of my back pack and her backpack.
"Hey, I'm here to you know!" Oh ya, Totals with us. Angel wouldn't leave him and it makes Angel happier to have him with us.
"Ya, ya I'm coming. Let's go." I walk into the house and decide it's a good house for three people and a talking dog.
It' a two story house. I walk through the front door and there's a hallway/ mud room. I continue walking and I find the hallway splits in two. One door leads to the kitchen which is just a normal kitchen with a table that seats four. The second door leads to the living room which has a three seated couch, two rocking chairs, and a plasma screen T.V.
When you walk about a foot past the couch you hit another doorway that leads to the kitchens, but a stair case is going up to the second floor.
Up stars is a hallway with four doors. Two of are closed, two open. The two open are Angel's room and the bathroom.
Angel's room has pink and purple walls, a bed that had purple sheets and a pink comforter with a see through white curtain, the bed its self was covered in different kinds of pillows and stuffed animals. She had a purple dresser, a pink desk and a pink and purple mirror/ desk covered in makeup, with a box of dress up close next to it. Over in the corner was one of the only thing that was not pink or purple but red, was a closet. Angel was standing by it with wide eyes and the doors open. When I went to give her, her bag, I saw that it was a small walk – in closet.
I handed her, her bag and walk across the hall to my room.
In the far corner my bed is a queen sized bed just like Angel's bed. My sheets are purple and blue tie – dye, with a black comforter. My bed also has a white see through curtain. Next to the bed is a night stand that's black. Across from my bed is my blue closet and next to that is my dark purple desk.
I decided to leave my backpack packed just in case I have to get a quick getaway. I go over to the closet to see if it was full of close like Angel's is. It is. But thankfully it wasn't really girly like Angel's. I let out a sigh, it was full of black T – shirts, lots of different colored skinny jeans (some had rips in them), some baggy sweat shirts, and some black and white converses.
LINE
As I walk down the stairs I think of what I want to eat. By the time I got to the kitchen I decided I didn't care as long as I got a lot of it. Looking at the table I see there are ten boxes of pizza; 3 cheese, 3 peperoni, 4 sausage.
I look to see Angel is finishing her first pizza moving on to her second one and Total and Jeb are half way through their first ones.
I grab one of each kind and sit down next to Angel. As I'm shoveling them down my throat Jeb starts talking.
"Ok, since it is Sunday you will be going to school tomorrow. Remember the reason you came here. Your parents got divorced and your dad got custody of you. Got it?" We nodded and he continued. "Angel you will be going to the local elementary school here. Max you are going to the local high school. In the morning I have to leave and I will be gone for about a month."
"Where are you going? And what are you doing?" I asked.
"I am going to New York to finish some business." I didn't prod any more.
"K, can I go flying, leave Angel with you?" When he nodded I went to my room to change. I put on black ripped skinny jeans, a blood red tank top, a black leather jacket and some black and white converses.
There's two reasons I wanted to go flying.
1. I need to stretch my wings
2. I need to think
There was one major reason I left the Flock so easily. They want to have a childhood and I wanted to give them that. On the other hand we could have worked it out. We could have compromised and they didn't give me the chance.
Hello, maximum.
Hey voice long time, no hear. So do you want to get some sushi, talk, catch up?
Drop the sarcasm, Max. I need to tell you something.
Alright what is it?
You are going to see someone you used to know, and find a long lost love.
I think I actually know what you mean! That's a first.
Ha, ha, ha very funny.
Thank you I try.
I have to go they are coming!
Who's coming?
…
Voice?
…
Of course, no answer. Because of this conversation I didn't realize the flyboys that where coming. I realized too late. One came up and grabbed me from behind while another one came into my view, he had a knife. Before I could get out of the flyboy's grip four more came to help him. I was too panicked to use my powers so I knew I had to take the knife. Hopefully it isn't to fatal.
I stopped struggling and went limp. The flyboy came and stabbed me right in the abdomen. I had to close my eyes and bite my tong to keep from screaming. I knew after I kill them I won't be able to heal myself, but I can't let them get to Angel.
I did the killing scream - as I put it. The name says what it is. When I started to scream they all looked at each other terrified. They couldn't even try to escape, it killed them that quick.
I hadn't gotten very far, I have lost too much blood and it hurts too much to fly so when I saw a white house and a yard only one person could decorate I knew right away who lived there.
My wings gave out right then and there. Now when you are 1,500 feet in the air and you start falling and gaining speed going faster and faster, when you can't do anything to slow you down? It kind of scares the crap out of you.
Luckily I've fallen from higher. I landed on my feet but I had to tuck and role in order not to break anything. When I stood up I hissed from the pain. I stumbled to the door, my vision started to go black.
I knocked on the door, looking as normal as possible hiding the scent of my blood as best as I can, with my hand over the wound.
Ok so, I know the Cullen's from a few years ago; Jasper, Edward, and Emmet are like my brothers; Alice and Rosalie my sisters; but all my best friends; Esme and Carlisle are like my mother and father.
Although there is one problem. I took all of their memories of me away. Well except for Carlisle and Esme, they still remember me.
When the door opened Edward was standing there.
"Can I help you?" When he said this everyone came to see. Oh no, oh no, this is bad, this is bad, this is really bad. I'm about to faint and there is a flaw in my 'taking away memories' power. If I faint next to someone whose memories I took away they regain them. I locked eyes with Carlisle and then Esme.
"Max?" They say at the same time.
"I don't have much time. I'm about to faint and you know the flaw. They WILL get there memories back, I have no control over it, I'm sorry. Back to the fainting part." When I said the last part I moved my hand away from my stab wound. My shirt was covered in blood. They all gasped.
"How long ago?" Carlisle asked going into doctor mode.
"About… 40 minutes ago."
"You should be dead then." Rosalie said.
"I'm only going to say this because as soon as I'm finished I will faint. So, I know Rose," When I said 'Rose' I heard Edward, Emmet, Alice, Jasper, and Rosalie gasp. "Carlisle call Angel. You'll find the number in my front right pocket. You will find out right now kids." As I predicted I collapsed as soon as I finished. I felt someone catch me. Before I fell to the constant pushing of the darkness that surrounded me, I heard everyone whisper.
"Max?"