Disclaimer- I do not own anyone in this story--sadly. I would love to, but I don't. haha.

Summary:
 The flock has finally decided to settle down into a home, and leave behind Itex; but one of the flock disappears. Fang is missing, and now where to be found. Now, two years have passed and someone pays an unexpected visit. Fang. And the one person who's missed him the most-Max-is thrown into a world of confusion, betrayal, hatred, and even love.

Okay, first thing is first people. I'm starting my fanfic on what happens after the 3rd book. So I suggest if you haven't read all three books--which if you didn't, than I don't know why you'd be bothering to read this--than you don't read this. Cause it might have some spoilers and you might not be happy with that. So yeah, just thought I'd inform you of this.

Oh yeah, and another thing--I'm keeping this is Max's point of view, got it? Okay! Now on to the story people!

Oh, and one more thing--I'm adding romance between Fang and Max--I mean, duh! Who wouldn't want some romance between them? Haha.

Chapter 1: A New Beginning…Hopefully.

I grimaced, my face scrunching up in a twist of pure confusion. I didn't understand it, I just didn't get it. Everything on Itex was wiped out, but why, and how did they do it so fast? It had only been a week since we'd escaped the main Itex head quarters. It had only been a week since I had found out that Dr. Martinez was my real mother-and Jeb my real father. Only a week since Ari's death.

I stared at the laptop we had 'borrowed' in complete confusion. "Nudge, you sure you got the right-"

"Yes," Nudge cut me off before I could even finish my sentence. "I've searched all the links and everything, its gone-all of it is gone."

I shook my head, I just didn't believe it. "But how'd they get it to just, be wiped out so easily and quickly?" I looked up, and over at Fang as I asked my question. He gave me a slightly shrug. I sighed, my anger slowly starting to build up a little. I leaned back, against the wall of the cave we had been staying in for the past two days, and closed my eyes. I was tired, we were all tired. Tired and hungry. At times like this I'd wondered if it was just a better idea to stay at Dr. Marti- My mom's house and just let my ex-mom continue with her crazy plan to kill half the population on the planet.

I sighed again, keeping my eyes closed. "We need food…" I said, my voice fading with every word. I opened my eyes and met 4-no, make that five very hungry faces. We were a flock of five flying avian hybrid humans. Five children-Me, also known as Max, and the leader. I was 14, the oldest out of all of use. Then there was Fang, he was 14 as well, but still younger than me. Next came Iggy, he was also 14, but younger than both of us, and blind. Iggy was completely blind-and yet, he could see better than any of us. Than came Nudge, a hyper active non able to stop talking girl the age of 11. She was able to hack into almost any type of computer, and also tell us about people and the things they did just by touching something. Next was our very own little 8 year old gas tank- The Gasman. He really lived up to his name, just let him eat enough and you'd find out what I mean. Gazzy could mimic anybody perfectly, no matter who they were. Than came the youngest of our group-Angel. Angle was only 6 years old, she was Gazzy's little sister and had the most wicked powers out of us all. She could read peoples minds, talk to fish, and manipulate people into doing things or seeing things.

So yup, there you have it. The little family of fre- Wait, That's right, I forgot to mention the talking dog, Total. Cause, ya know every avian hybrid flock of 5 kids has to have a talking pet dog.

So now you have it, the family of 6 freaks. 6 freaks who were out on a mission to save the world. Or so we thought. Lately things had been going a-wire, our thoughts on changing the world were slowly slipping away--yup, that even includes my thoughts. The one person who was so very obsessed with it earlier on.

I know what your all thinking-I'm an idiot, annoying, I put my flock in so much danger before and now after all that I just want to throw away this mission like its nothing.

But once you've walked-excuse me-flown with my wings, and lived my life, you'd understand why we didn't want to deal with this non sense anymore. I had a family-a real mother, a real father, and half sister, and now a half brother who's life had expired.

That's right, expired, as in died.

And I, let alone the rest of my flock, didn't want to deal with this type of stuff anymore. We had already split the flock up once because of this mission, and I sure as hell knew I didn't want it to happen again.

"Max?" My thoughts were broken by the faint sound of Fang's voice. "I'll go and get some food…" he said it as if he was unsure this is what he wanted to do.

Lately, we've all be afraid to leave our secluded cave. Why? Well that's easy enough-Erasers, now known as Flyboys. We weren't sure if they'd all been killed in our last battle at Itex. And for the past week we hadn't been found, we hadn't heard one thing from a Flyboy. It was, well, can you say a freaking miracle?

I stood to my feet, a groaning sound escaping my mouth. "I'll come with you," I said. I quickly averted my gaze to Iggy, walked up to him and tapped the back of his hand twice. He knew what that meant-he was on watch till me and Fang got back with food.

I know what your thinking-leave the flock alone with a blind avian hybrid, right? Like, what the hell is wrong with me? That's where your thoughts are probably fluttering about right now. But honestly, Iggy could see better than any of us-believe it or not. His hearing was excellent, it was like-super sonic hearing. And because he had 'super sonic' hearing he knew where everyone was, he could hear everyone's foot steps-yeah, so on and so forth.

Iggy gave me a small nod, his eyes staring straight at mine as if he was able to actually see me. I smiled in response, than mentally slapped my forehead, remembering that poor Iggy was blind. "We'll be back as soon as we find some food, got it guys?" I was facing the whole flock now, my family, my life. Even now, leaving for only about an hour or so just to find food scared me. I was afraid to lose half my flock once more, just luck before. Afraid that Fang, Iggy, and Gazzy were going to-once again- split up from me. I inhaled deeply, trying to get a hold of myself before I finally turned and faced Fang, who was now waiting patiently for me at the mouth of the cave.

I waved quickly to everybody before I ran quickly past Fang and jumped right out of the cave, falling head first at 230 miles per hour towards nothing but rock. The exhilaration, joy, and excitement all built up inside of me once I forced my wings to open, catching the air current and being sent up high above the mountains we had be hiding in. I loved to fly, flying was the best joy life could bring me.

I scanned the sky quickly, catching a glimpse of a black figure coming towards me. Fang. I automatically knew this when seeing his massive black, almost purplish wings shining in the sunlight. He slowly made his way next to me, brushing the very tips of his feathers with the tips of mine.

I shuddered. Normally this wouldn't cause such a reaction-but something with me and Fang had definitely changed. I mean, the guy had kissed me for Gods sake. We hadn't brought that up though, not in a while.

"Lets stop real fast," Fang's voice broke through my thoughts, once again. I turned my head to see him looking intently at me.

"Why?" I asked, my face showing confusion.

"Lets just stop, okay?"

I went to go and argue back, to tell him we had to find food for the little ones, that if we didn't get back in time something bad could happen to them. But before I had gotten the chance to say any of this, Fang folded his wings behind him and started to drop down like a bullet. I grumbled to myself, now completely annoyed, and followed suit right behind him; wings tucked in behind me, shooting down towards the floor like a bullet.

200 feet from the floor, me and Fang reopened our wings, catching the littlest bit of wind, and landing down on the floor with a light thud. Dust slowly rose up and around us as our feet met with the ground. We were standing on what seemed to be a ledge protruding from the side of a mountain. I looked at Fang, still confused to why we had stopped.

"Can you hear that?" he asked me, his eyes slowly averting to look at my face.

I listened closely. I blinked a few times trying to hear what he was talking about. I couldn't hear anything except Fang's shallow breathing. "Here wha-" and before I could finish my question I could hear what Fang was talking about.

Water, cars, people.

Than it hit me; Fang made me drop down out of the sky just so I could hear all of this. "Look behind you," Fang said quietly, but loud enough for me to hear. With a swift movement, I turned around. My mouth instinctively dropped open. How had I not seen all of this from the sky? How could I have been so blind as to not see the small, yet big enough for our flock, house that seemed to be hidden from view if you were on the ground. The house was dipped down into that of the security of many tall mountains. You wouldn't be able to see it if you were on the ground, only if you were up high-flying, or like me and Fang were doing-standing on a smell rocky ledge.

"Its been abandoned for almost 30 years now," Fang said, his voice still low and quiet. "We can finally settle down, Max. We can stop going on this wild goose chase. We cou-"

"Not this rubbish again!" I shouted, my anger building up. I turned to face Fang, to let him hear all the anger I was building up. To just yell and scream at him. But when I turned, I had immediately prayed I hadn't. Fang's face was only inches away from mine; and way I say inches, I literally mean inches. I blinked twice, trying to make sure he was this close. Oh God he was; he was about 3 inches away from my face. Our eyes met and I could tell he was begging me, begging me with his eyes.

"Please Max…" He said, his voice was soft-way to soft to be Fang, but at the same time I knew it was him. "The rest of the flocks wants to settle down, I can tell. Plus…if we were to split up again…me and you, I don't know what I would do. Max, when we split up I felt like I was missing half of my body…"

I breathed in deeply. Was Fang actually admitting all of this to me? Was he actually expressing his feelings. I couldn't believe it, and at the same time-I didn't want to. I was afraid to. Why? I have no idea.

That was when he leaned closer, I could feel his breathe on my lips. "Fang…"

Okay people! End of chapter one! Boring, I know. But I promise-no I swear to you that chapter two is going to be so much better!! How do I know this? Because I already have it written! Haha.

Anyways, I can't beg for you people to R/R.

But It would be truly nice if you could. Thanks a bundle-people!