I do not own Maximum Ride - one, two, three, or soon to be four.
A/N: Yay for the sequel! Go Ava! Go Max! Sorry, I'm excited that I've started posting the second story. As usual, folks, this story is pre-written. But if you want to give me some friendly advice on my writing style for when I write my next story, go ahead. And thank you to all the Ava fans!
Chapter 1
Ava flapped her wings harder, putting on another burst of speed and altitude. She looked back – the Erasers were still following. She flew on.
MAX P.O.V.
The Flock and I were flying out of Florida, away from the nightmare that called itself Itex. Right now were over/in (which word do you use when you're flying?!) Mississippi. It was a quiet flight, if you don't count Nudge talking nonstop and saying she was hungry every five minutes. After a few hours, we flew over the Mississippi River. Nudge immediately changed the topic.
"Oh, cool! Max, can we, like, go swimming? Cause it's really big, and we could swim in it if we really wanted to..."
I was about to say no anyway, when Fang decided to contribute his morbid piece of information for the day.
"There are bull sharks in the Mississippi River." Thank you for that lovely fact, Mr. Logic.
Nudge said, "Oh." Short. And then she announced she was really hungry. This time Angel and Gazzy admitted to their hunger pains too. So I started looking for a place to eat across the River, and spotted a Dairy Queen. Hey, food AND ice cream. So we went there. After an unbelievably uneventful lunch, we left and took off. I mean, it was suspiciously quiet. Maybe 'cuz I'm used to Erasers bursting in on us halfway through our burgers.
Around 4:00, we were flying over some northeastern town in Louisiana. I mention this seemingly insignificant event because something happened there. We were just flying along, minding our own business, when something rammed into me. I dropped a few feet from the collision and looked around wildly for what had hit me. Get this – there was nothing there. The rest of the Flock had noticed and looked as bewildered as I did. Right around then the Voice decided to help me out (hurray).
To your right. Now left. Straight ahead. Grab.
And my hand closed around something. The something started twisting around, until the weirdest thing happened. This girl just materialized out of nowhere, her ankle in my hand. She had red-brown hair and blue eyes, and red-brown wings. From that position (being held by her ankle) she was trying as hard as she could to stay in the air. Because it's kind of hard to fly when you're being held like that. Angel was looking at the girl, so I guessed she was reading Invisible Girl's mind.
But not a lot of progress was made in the way of introductions, as Fang pointed at some flying Erasers coming towards us. We got ready to fight.
