Yay! First update to Snowfall! Yes it's earlier than usual, I typed this yesterday and all I have to do is comment and stuff. This is the Maximum Ride mash-up with YOUR OCs! Everyone will be used in the story, and the pack/ flock is all filled up, but I need more ANTAGONISTS! If you have an idea, tell me! Okay, thanks! And as I promised…
Disclaimer: Vanessa Winters belongs to Aquamarine427, Violet Snow and Jake Merciful belong to Dreams of the Darkness, Landon Reese belongs to… me I guess, Jet Williams and Candice Knox belong to WingedHero540, and Lee Shannon belongs to CheersToTheFreakinWeekend. I also don't own Max, Fang, Iggy, the Gasman, Ella, Angel, Nudge, or Dr. Martinez.
Note: Candice is not stated as having a name, but is described in it. Sorry if I tweaked your person a bit, maybe it was to make them unique. I didn't do it to everyone's, only specific people. Don't get angry! Please.
Chapter 1: Acquaintances
Max POV
Max… the Voice said irritably. Max!
"What?" I mumbled into my pillow.
Wake up. Iggy and the Gasman are preparing an attack to wake you. I bolted upright and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. I heard footsteps heading up the stairs. I laid down silently in my bed, acting asleep. I cracked my eyes open and saw Iggy carrying a huge bucket filled with water, probably ice.
"Heehee," Gazzy giggled. Iggy shushed him and began to tilt the bucket downwards, Gazzy helping as well.
"Rah!" I sat up and screamed, simultaneously pushing the bucket the other way, sending it crashing and spilling on Iggy and Gazzy. They fell to the carpet looking guilty. I downright died of laughter at their expressions. I wiped the tears out of my eyes and didn't bother to help them up as I left my room for breakfast.
"Mornin'," I said cheerfully, passing Nudge and my mom.
"Didn't Gazzy and Iggy go up there?"
"Hm? Really? I didn't see them," I said, lying through my teeth. Angel, eating a piece of toast, easily found out what happened and grinned at me as I poured a huge glass full of orange juice. Iggy came tromping down the stairs, clothes soaking wet. I snorted and Nudge gave him a surprised look, before reading her magazine again. He stomped into his room and slammed the door.
"No door slamming!" my mom yelled. My mom was Dr. Martinez and in case you didn't know, I'm staying at my mom's house with the flock and Ella. Ella was off playing soccer with her guy friends and Iggy had been irritable ever since he found out she had male friends that could see. I rolled my eyes before Gazzy came down as well, his clothes also wet.
"What the heck happened up there? Did you fall in the bathtub?" my mom exclaimed. He shook his head and also sulked in his room. Fang came in the sliding glass door, carrying the newspaper.
"Hey Fang," Angel said cheerfully. He rubbed her head before sitting on the couch and watching TV. He had been such a couch potato recently. Ella actually had a 'male friend' over, and Fang and Scott, that was his name, had a huge Super Bowl fight, debating over who should've won last year. The argument went on for ten minutes! Then, it was silenced by Dr. Martinez' famous chip dip. It was a strange, new side to Fang.
"Hey Max?" he said warily.
"Yeah?" I replied, eating a leftover scrambled egg.
"I think you're going to want to see this." I sighed and grabbed my bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios and sat down next to him.
"What?" I asked, spooning in a bit.
"This," he said, pointing at the screen and turning up the volume.
"Turn it down Fang, before you go deaf," my mom scolded. He turned it down a bit before I actually concentrated on what the reporter was saying.
"Rumors around the U.S. report that there are strange people with unlikely powers hiding somewhere in the United States," the reporter said. I was nervous that the reporter got footage of us, but I was very wrong. A girl in a beanie and a few other people, two other girls and three guys, stood around a PacSun in a mall and someone filmed them with a shaky camera. A black-haired girl walked towards them with determination and they all turned and ran. A handsome teenage boy ran faster than the others as the girl who walked towards them leaped into the air and practically glued her hands and feet to the wall. She then proceeded to run superbly fast along the wall and then the ceiling. The girl dropped from the ceiling and tackled a tall girl with blonde hair with black and purple streaks. The girl struggled before suddenly, the girl who could stick to walls was fighting an identical twin. I stared at the TV in awe as the rest of the flock nearby watched intently. The girl with the beanie who was shoving her friends out the door ran back to help her other friend. She raised her hand and an icicle shot out of her hand, making a sort of sword as she stabbed the girl on top's shoulder. The girl howled in pain and the girl who morphed into another person was suddenly back to her regular self and snarled something at Beanie Girl who proceeded to give her an icy glare before the icicle disappeared and she was out the front door. Then, the footage shut off. The reporter said something but I wasn't listening. I gaped at the television before looking at the flock. Angel didn't appear to be moving and Fang still had his finger pointed at the television.
"Well," I said, breaking the silence.
"What was that?" Nudge exclaimed. "They're superhuman! Like us! Experiments of Itex!"
"We would think so," Fang replied.
"What do we do?" Angel asked. I stood up, leaving my bowl of cereal behind.
"We go find them," I said dismissively. The prank-gone-bad that had occurred this morning seemed so far away now.
Vanessa POV
"I just think you could've let me handle it, Winters," Violet growled at me, ungrateful, as usual.
"I saved your life. Tiger-woman would've shredded you," I said defensively.
"Did you see her claws, Jet? They rival yours! And you too Landon," Lee added. Jet pulled off his gloves and rubbed his sharp nails. Landon shrugged.
"It's okay. Jet's claws are sharpened everyday, whereas I prefer not to wear gloves."
"They're comfy," Jet protested.
"Dude! That chick was hot!" Jake exclaimed. I rolled my eyes. The pain of my pack, Jake Merciful spoke up. He was 1 percent falcon and 1 percent snake.
"She tried to kill us, nimrod," Violet snarled, flipping her blonde with black and purple streaked hair behind her shoulder, her violet eye twisting as she zoomed in and out to get focus. Yeah, you heard me. Violet probably had the best powers of us, a form of shape shifting, and her special eye that had the ability to zoom out. I took off my beanie and laid it on the table, letting my ears puff out. I shook the snow off of my jacket and opened the fridge.
"Anyone hungry?" I asked.
"Hungry for revenge. You honestly think Tiger-woman will leave us alone? How did she even know we were there?" Jet asked, always asking the questions we would never wish to voice out loud. I sighed and closed the fridge.
"Guys, we need to concentrate on how we stay hidden at this point because it's possible she could find us here. Landon, check security cameras position A and F. Jet, make sure that the alarms are set. Jake…" I trailed off, looking at Jake napping on the couch. "Um, nevermind. Lee, quickly sweep the perimeter. And Violet…" she glared at me with a burning hatred I never understood. Her right eye focused in and out to see me better, "find food for us."
"Why me? What's wrong with Jake?" she said. Then, she added, "besides the obvious."
"He's asleep now, and it'll take him a day to get back with groceries. You have the best memory of all of us," I said. I was not flattering her, but it came across that way.
"If you think that I can memorize stuff better than you, listen up, fox ears," she snapped. I rubbed my fuzzy ears instinctively.
"First of all… you can go…"
"Okay! Fine! I'll go get groceries! Goodness gracious, Violet! It's just buying stuff! I'd give you the money, geez!" I stomped to the counter and swiped some money from the small cash register we have.
"Landon, you're in charge!" I yelled, my voice echoing across the house.
I understand you're new, so I'll explain some things. My name is Vanessa Winters and I'm 18 years old. My DNA was mixed with an arctic fox's and now I'm 2 percent arctic fox. I have white fluffy ears, which I cover up with a beanie and I have super hearing. I also can climb and jump easily, and survive in cold temperatures, but in heat, I pass out, so that's why I built this high-tech house where me and my pack live in near the Rocky Mountains, where it snows here in Colorado. The house was this old piece of rubble a few months ago, but it's refurnished and has security cameras, Internet, satellites, and alarms because ever since we escaped the facility where we were kept like rats, the people have been trying to find us, kill us, or kidnap us at once. Tiring work, don't you see? I'm also the leader of my pack, consisting of Jake Merciful, who is the blonde, thick-headed sixteen-year old who is also one percent falcon, and one percent snake; Landon Reese, who is practically my savior in the nutcase factory because he's calm and orderly and knows exactly what to say at the correct time, also, he's 2 percent cheetah, with super speed, camouflage, a tail, and retractable claws, and he's a carnivore, can't eat fruit or anything besides meat; Violet Snow, who I swear will be the very death of me, the stubborn, ignorant, rude girl who can shapeshift and has one green eye and one violet eye, which as I explained to you, can zoom in and out and see behind her; Lee Shannon, the prankster and saves us from becoming solitary bores, who is 2 percent eagle, with tawny wings with a wingspan of fifteen feet; and Jet Williams, who is my third in command and best friend to Landon and myself, and he is 2 percent mountain lion and stalks to the best of them. And of course, me. I am partially unlucky, however, when they mixed my DNA, I became 5 percent arctic fox, instead of originally 2. No side effects yet, but I don't trust myself.
Anyway, back to where I was. I was heading to the grocery store because Violet can't seem to do anything. She seems to only trust Landon and no one else. Little did I know, the grocery store would be a pretty interesting trip.
This will be updated on Wednesdays and maybe Saturdays. I don't do a whole lot then, so I might as well try. I hope you like it so far! I've got tons of twists thrown in at every chapter, so never feel like you know what's going to happen! Also, after Chapter 3, all chapter titles will be named after an appropriate movie or song title. If you know the song, listen to it to feel the mood of the chapter! Did you know that German Chocolate has coconut in it? I didn't. I'm done blabbering now. Have a good day and me, Katatonic will see you next Wednesday or this Saturday, or me, Kat, I'll see you on Friday!
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