Trust Me
I do not own maximum ride :P
CHAPTER 1
Max=16
Fang=16
Iggy=16
Nudge=15
Gazzy=8
Angel=6
I remember now…
After all these years…
The children with their mouths sewn shut and their eyes dull and grey, void of emotion.
I remember the cages and the days with no light, the endless screams, and the cries for help.
I was there when skin was torn open and mere children were experimented on.
I never spoke, never cried. No sound would ever brush past my lips while I was there. My mouth was one of the only ones not sewn shut, but still I did not speak. I was not afraid, I was not speaking as to give them the satisfaction of beating me.
I was unbreakable.
Fearless.
The darkness did not hurt me, it was a comfort because in the darkness I was free. The freedom only lasted so long before it was ripped away by the scientists.
I sat there staring at nothing but taking in my surroundings and surveying every inch of the room for possible signs of danger, or…ways to escape. I still did not move a muscle or change the emotion I was portraying against my face. My eyes landed on the metal syringes and needles that I knew were about to tear through my skin. Before I realized it I was carried to a cold grey table and dropped onto it and strapped in. I faintly heard a scream but it soon turns into no more than a whisper and darkness swallows me whole becoming my best friend and my worst enemy, because in darkness, there is no escape.
2 Years Later
Empty.
That would have been one word to describe me back then.
I was nothing.
A mere toy, a mistake in the bigger picture, pure annoyance itself.
But now I'm different.
Stronger.
Faster.
Smarter.
And now I know.
How to escape, all I have to do is wait.
But in the end, waiting is always the hardest thing.
In a world so full of grey. So many calls for help, yells of anger, and an endless mix of confusion and hatred.
Nothing more could be said.
I would escape.
{While physical cars heal, the emotional ones are there to be forgotten but can't be. –Unknown}
I jumped down out of my cage after all of these years.
All the other experiments were asleep, or at least that's what I thought until I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
I turned around abruptly to see a pair of black obsidian eyes staring at me through the rusty metal bars of their cage. There was so much hidden in those eyes but somehow we were able to speak without even moving our mouths.
This was not time to think I had to move if I wanted to be free by daybreak.
I ran to their cage and quickly undid the complicated password code lock on the outside of the cage.
I don't know why but I found myself unlocking a couple other cages too, if I was going to escape, I would need some help. We didn't have time to talk as soon as I unlocked the last cage I ran out the door, turning around briefly to check if they followed me. They did.
So far so good, they were almost our and no alarms have gone off yet, but I didn't let my guard down, anything could happen.
As soon as we ran out of the building alarms sounded and made me nearly deaf. We ran straight to the woods and didn't stop, for the fear of being captured outweighed how tired or hungry we were.
We finally stopped running as the sun peaked over the horizon, bring on a new day. I watched it come up atop the cliff we stopped at. I couldn't remember the last time I saw the sunrise, or even the sun for that matter. I was so deep in thought I didn't hear the slow footsteps behind me until a hand came and rested on my shoulder. I turned and saw that pair of black obsidian eyes staring at me. E nodded in the direction of the other kids and we started walking back to where they were resting for the moment.
"Okay," I said as I walked up to them, the guy from before standing next to me, "so I know we don't have any real names but were going to make some up now, just so we can stop calling each other hey you. So I'll go first, you can call me Max, Maximum Ride. Yeah I like that okay your turn." I said looking at the guy next to me.
"Fang." Was all he said…okay so not much of a talker.
I nodded at a little blond girl and she sat up and looked all of us in the eye before saying "You can call me Angel."
We all blinked and looked at each other. She didn't move her mouth, nothing was said out loud. She spoke to us through our minds.
"Alright You can go now, we can talk about our abilities later." I said giving the little boy next to her a smile.
"I wanna be called Gazzy, if that's ok…" He said trailing off at the end.
"That's fine."I said and we all turned to the last two people to say their names.
"Im Iggy." The boy said and we all looked at the girl expectantly.
She fidgeted under our gazes until she sighed heavily.
"Well I don't know what I want to be called. It's just such a hard decision. You have to hear that name for the rest of your life and I really want my name do be unique because I hate it when you think someone calls your name but really they're calling someone on like the other side of the room and you wave to them like a loser because you're really confused and then you think thy're just trying to be mean to you when the whole thing is just one big misunderstanding and you then have that opinion of that person for like a year until you finally realize that you were wring and then you feel really bad because they're actually a really nice person and since you just decidedto-mngrphnm-mnhm-mnhgmrn…"
Everyone stared at her in shock and at me in relief since I was the one to finally put my hand over her mouth and nudge her in the side to tell her to stop talking and take a breath.
"We will call you nudge."I stated.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because I had to nudge you twelve times and put my hand over your mouth to get you to finally stop talking and just decide on a name." I said with a smile.
She just laughed and said. "I like it."
Wow I don't think I've smiled this much in my entire life.
We all sat down and started talking about random things like how bright it was or how it was more comfortable to sit up in the trees rather in the grass and on the rocks.
We were sitting in the trees talking and I was about to fall asleep when I felt a breath on my neck. I stood up and jumped back only to lose my footing and fall off the tree. I fell for about 0.2 seconds before I spread my 15ft white and brown speckled wings out to catch me. I flew back up to my branch and saw fang staring at me in shock.
"What?" I asked.
"You have them too…" He said before trailing off.
I was about to ask him what he was talking about when he spread his jet black wings out to their full extent of 15ft. I gasped softly. And looked and the rest of the kids I slowly saw feather come from their backs and spread to their full extent. They were all different colors and sizes. The only person's wings that came close to mine and fangs were Iggys. Except his were a few inches shorter than mine. We all looked at each other in wonder and awe. We probably stood there for about 5 minutes before we were snapped back into reality and started to talk again. It was midday by now but we were all still tired from sprinting all night. We could probably spend the night in the trees and worry about food tomorrow she thought to herself.
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Fang P.O.V
Whimpering.
That's what awoke me from my dreamless slumber.
Was someone hurt?
I opened my eyes and looked around. Everyone was asleep although, I heard it again, followed by a soft pant and a need for more air. Where was it coming from? I heard a loud gasp and looked at the tree branch below me and saw…Max was her name I think. I flew down to her branch to see a grimace on her face and her knuckles white from holding on to the branch so tightly. She gasped and sat up, breathing hard and staring at nothing, trying to get her breathing back to normal. She looked around and her eyes finally locked with mine. I tried to read her face but the cover of darkness from the trees stopped me.
"I'm sorry, did I wake you?" She whispered trying to see who I was through the branches.
"No." I told her coming closer to sit on the branch next to her.
"Couldn't sleep?"
"Yeah."
"Man of few words I see?"
I chuckled as quietly as I could as to not wake he others.
"We should move before the sun rises, I want to be as far away from that place as I can I get."
I nodded at her and we sat there in a comfortable silence, relaxing in the soft sound of the night. I was almost asleep when I felt a bump on my shoulder. I looked over to see waves of dirty blond hair, and a sleeping Max. I smiled and closed my eyes again leaning my head on the tree behind me, and falling into yet another dreamless sleep.
Max P.O.V
Images flashed behind my eyes and my head throbbed. I saw words and people but couldn't make out their faces, different types of technology, buildings underground, and a small syringe filed with a dark blue liquid. Four black letters showed up upon a city background and vanished as quickly as they came.
~105~
I blinked the sun out of my eyes and snuggled closer to a comfort I couldn't put my finger on. I was cold one side and unbelievably warm on the other. I sighed and relaxed into the warmth.
"Max, are you awake?" A soft voice whispered into my ear.
"No..im'a..sill…ti…a..tiredd…."I muttered into a soft cloth underneath my left cheek.
"We have to wake the others up and the sun is already out, come on Max, time to get up." That same voice whispered in my ear again.
"Unghh…" I groaned out as I opened my eyes and sat up, stretching my stiff muscles. Well at least the tree was better than sleeping on the ground.
I stood up and turned to see what make my sleep so comfortable and I saw…Fang? Oh yeah…I had a nightmare and then woke up with him looking at me, and we talked and then I guess fell asleep next to each other. My face turned red at the thought of us sleeping next to each other all night.
"You okay?" Fang asked standing up, obviously sensing my weird mood change.
"Yeah…" I sais but it wasn't very convincing because he made me turn to him and put his hands on my face.
"Are you sure? Your face is red…you might have a fever or something." He said peering at my face, making me turn an even darker shade of red. Why did he even care? We haven't even known each other for an entire day yet.
"Of course I'm fine." I said laughing a little to make him stop worrying. I put my hands on his face like he had on mine expect I squeezed his face and then burst out laughing.
"Oh…haha…my god, you…looked like a…freaking…hahaha…duck…hahahaha." I said laughing hard and clutching my sides and gasping for air. I stepped back and lost my footing on the branch, I waved my hands widely trying to regain my balance when I felt a strong arm wrap around me and pull me back on the branch. I looked up and saw…
Oooh it's a cliffy! Haha I'll try posting my next chapter tomorrow and thanks sooo much for reading! R&R please! :P
~Maximum Flight