Mutants in Australia

I'm flying. Again. My wings are stretched out and catching the wind to carry me across the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah. Over the Atlantic Ocean. My two annoying little brothers are flapping behind me, both trying to catch up. We're about a mile apart, thanks to my little gift of fast flying, I always fly faster than them to aggravate. They're technically not my little brothers. When humans say little brothers they mean boys born about a year or less than them. Me and my brothers are about a few seconds apart. We're triplets. I'm the oldest.

"Raven! Slow down!" cried Ash, the middle born. His tan brown wings flapping like crazy to keep up. I rolled my eyes.

"Not a chance in a month of Sundays!" I cried back then flew faster. The wind rushed through my dark tresses and hit my face hard, watering my dark eyes. I take after my dad. I'm olive skinned, so are my brothers, and with dark hair and eyes. My wings are fifteen feet long and pure black. My family say I'm a natural leader, like mom.

My brothers are more like mom. Ash has blonde-brown hair and light brown eyes. His wings are fifteen feet long and, like I said, brown tan and had white streaks freckly spots. The baby triplet, Cole, was his exact copy. They like the same things and look the same. You can barley tell them apart, unless you've lived with them since you were born. Sometimes mom and dad both mix them up.

I dropped back a few meters, just in front of Mom. My mom, Maximum Ride, and dad, Fang, are off to Madagascar to sort out some problem with monkeys, like the ones of the film Madagascar. Me and my brothers are off to Australia to hang out and help save a rare breed of Kangaroos. Although they've only been discovered for about, three days, they're already endangered. You might have seen a ginger kangaroo or a red kangaroo. Maybe a grey one? But have you ever seen a pure white kangaroo? Not a bit of white and grey. All white. Like Angel's wings? Very rare. About three hundred in the wild. Two in captivity. God knows how many have been stolen illegally. The CSM are out there keeping an eye on them until we get there. Of course, the monkeys in Madagascar are having bad tantrums, attacking tourists and attempting to swim across the ocean. Even ones in zoos all over the globe. Banging on glass windows in zoo's, attacking visitors and running away. Bigger than a new breed of kangaroo. Madagascar is the home to that breed of monkey and they're the worst. So mom and dad are going to Madagascar and me and my brothers are off to Aussie. Lovely.

"Can we stop? I'm getting tired." companied Cole. I sighed.

"We're in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Cole. When you see a pancake house, call me." Mom said. I laughed. Nobody has a cooler mom than me. My mom has wings, broke out of school, lead the first flock and saved the world. No mom is cooler.

"But I'm hungry!" Cole moaned. I rolled my eyes. In my pocket I had about three protein bars to keep me going and a banana in my other pocket. I was wearing black leather boots, black jeans, black ripped shirt, blame the erasers, and my favourite black leather jacket. On my back was a black rucksack with hot pink hearts. I had my two charm bracelets on, both made by Freeman. To get everybody one there, I needed two bracelets.

One the first bracelet, I had a pale tan feather with a white streak going down the middle small, freckly spots and the tip (Mom), two exactly alike but barker and the spots are bigger (Ash and Cole), a pure black feather (Dad), a brown cookie (Grandma), an pink umbrella (Ella. She wasn't happy with that.), a test tube (Granddad), and black dog bone (Total), a white dog bone (Alika) and a black paw print (Ari). Mom cried when she found out the paw print was Ari. Mom never cries. Even though he tried to kill my mom and dad and everybody else, he was seven and it must have been angry when they left him behind. That was one bracelet. A pure white feather (Angel), a white and black feather (Iggy), a feather with different shades of brown (Nudge), a golden brown feather with a white tip (Gazzy), a brown feather with a grey streak and one black spot on the tip (Dylan), a red and black feather (Song), a grey feather with a black tip (Twitch), a white feather with a grey tip (Evie) a light brown feather with a dark tip (Freeman) and a grey feather (Silver).

You don't know who Silver is? He's my cousin. Iggy and Ella finally got together seven years ago and they had a kid about two years later. Ella wanted to keep the gender a surprise until it was born and they named him Silver because his wings were a silver at the time but they went darker as he grew older. He's about five, tall, with strawberry blonde hair and brown eyes. My only cousin. So far.

"Raven! Can I borrow one of your protein bars?" Cole asked. I groaned silently.

"I don't have any." I lied.

"There's one in your pocket, Raven." Cole said. I mentally kicked myself. Cole has an ability of seeing through one layer of clothing and metal. He and Ash and talk to each other telepathically but no more. Ash's abilities include breathing any gas and can identify any animal by looking at it, even if he hasn't heard of it before. Me? I can fly super fast and I can tell the time without looking at the sun or at a watch or clock or anything. Also, I have a Voice, who seems to be on holiday at the moment. I got them from mom.

"So can I have a protein bar? Or even the banana?" Cole asked.

"Why the hell do you have to be bloody hungry all the time?" I asked sarcastically. Mom shot me a look that kind of said 'Mind your language.' and 'Don't be nasty to your brother' at the same time. I rolled my eyes and dropped back to them. I gave Cole a protein bar then flew ahead for a mile.

Okay. A lot has happened in fourteen years. When I was two years old, Mom saved the world. Then, the flock split. Not for any bad reasons. They left because they had started their own lives. Mom and Dad stayed in America, at the E house and Iggy married Ella when she got pregnant. Mom and Dad got married when she was pregnant. She went in labour two weeks later. Nudge and Twitch went to France to fulfil one of Nudge's dreams. Being a fashion designer. She made designed fashionable bird clothes for us, large slits on the back for the wings, and about twelve human labels. Twitch became a maths teacher in a close school for people who speak English. They left when they turned fifteen. Gazzy and Evie went China. Gazzy works in a factory while Evie works in a translating company where they turn Chinese writing and stuff into English or different languages. They left when they where fifteen. Angel and Freeman went to the Carrabin, Hawaii and now Fiji. They like holiday places and travelling a lot. Dylan and Song are in Britain, watching their own flock grow up and set out on their own. I haven't met their flock yet. Maybe one day. Also, after Mom kicked Mr. Chu's butt, the School came back along with flyboys. We've been captured about three times but made it out okay. The map Song and Dylan had years ago has gone old and there might be new schools hiding somewhere different.

I spotted series of shadowy bumps in the distance. Land. I did a 180 degree arch then flew up to mom. I did another arch then flew between Mom and Dad. "Can you see the land?" I asked. Mom squinted her eyes a bit then nodded. Dad did the same. I have heard about Mom and Dad's time in Chad, Africa. We were to meet grandma in Sydney tomorrow, Australia then we'd go to some secret headquarters for the CSM. That was Plan A. If anything went wrong, we'd go to Plan B. Mom has a little rule book we learned when we were kids.

Rule 1: Always be on guard

Rule 2: Don't give in. Keep fighting and if there is no hope, fly like the wind.

That's all. Those are the two we must ALWAYS do. No matter what. We flew faster and reached Africa in about, thirty minutes. I landed gently on the sandy beach and tucked in my wings. Mom and Dad joined my side then Ash and Cole landed in front of me. I pushed through them and looked straight ahead.

"So are we going to camp at the nearest place, yeah?" Cole said.

Mom nodded. "That's the plan." she said. We swung our rucksacks off our shoulders and sat on the soft sand. I ate my banana and two of my protein bars. Mom bought some Twinkies back before we left America and stored five pasties in her bag for tomorrow. According to her and Dad, the food is terrible. Ash and Cole had about five Twinkies and two big gulps of Dad's water. I finished first. I pulled my laptop out of my bag and turned it on.

"You off on your blog?" Ash asked. I nodded. Me and Dad both have blogs. I started typing.

Raven's Blog

Date: Sometime in July, right?

You are visitor: My counter thing overloaded. Your about one hundred million times by five million. Whatever that is. I have low education.

ON A BEACH

Hello peps!

Me and my family are sitting on a beach on the edge of Africa. We're having a break after flying the ocean. We're off to Sydney tomorrow to meet grandma. Well, me and my brothers. Mom and Dad are off to Madagascar to help deal with those monkeys. I don't see how they can help. Maybe they'll shut up once they see them or something. Does anybody have any ideas where any Schools are?

A few seconds after I posted that, I had five replies.

xoxoGGxox: The School a few miles away from London is abandoned. Some deep stuff happened there. I think it BLEW up! Serves those idiotic scientists right! I hope any of the experiments didn't get hurt!

England

Ace-Amelia: The castle in Germany is abandoned. We went there for a school trip last Tuesday. My mom was one of the kids throwing stones at it back when Itex was there. We totally follow you.

Germany

Bird-Kid Wannabe: Nope. I live in Sydney! If you guys want to pop in, go ahead!

Australia

Proud Aussie: You're coming to Australia! COOL!

Australia

Popular Nerd: No idea about any Schools. I'm off on a felid trip tomorrow in the mountains. I'll keep an eye out for any suspicious buildings. You guys are great. Do you have a boy friend?

England

I sighed. I've always been asked that question.

I typed:

I'm single but I'm married to my wings and protecting the world. I'm not really looking for love. I get all the love I need from my family.

It's one of those weird but true answers like on Ask Jeeves when you ask him if he's married. Dare you to try it. I posted it the Popular Nerd and smirked at the reply.

Popular Nerd: Oh. It don't matter. I already have two. One here and one in America over Face book.

England

I was so tempted to write back 'Yeah. Sure' but I didn't. I don't want to hurt his feelings.

"Fans sticking to your every word?" Cole asked with a teasing smirk and playful dance in his eye.

"Yeah. As if they'd stick to yours." I replied. His smirk vanished and he jerked his head the other way. Oh yeah. I rule. "So where are we staying?" I asked.

"The nearest place." Dad answered.

"OMG! Dad spoke!" I shrieked. Mom and Dad smirked and the boys laughed. Dad still barely speaks, when he does, we make a BIG deal of it. I logged off and hid my laptop in my bag. Mom stood up and brushed sand off her butt.

"Are we going to make a move?" she asked. I stood up and wiped sand off of my butt. Ash and Cole followed. Dad stuffed the last of his banana in his mouth and copied our actions. Mom snapped out her wings, fluttering them slightly to let them breath a little. I brought out my wings and repeatedly beating them to warm them up. Ash and Cole instantly took to the air, pushing down hard and defying gravity. Dad followed.

Mom sighed. "They never warm up, do they?" she asked sarcastically. I shook my head. I did a run and jump up in the air. I pushed my wings down hard, pushing me up a few feet then I arched and headed towards the boys.

Mom joined my side. "It'll be his fault if they pull a muscle in their wings!" I said. Mom laughed.

"True." she said. We speeded up and it nudged the boys' by swatting them with my wings.

"Hey!" Ash cried then tried to knock me off course but I flapped hard, going up about a few feet then I shot forward, way too fast for them to catch up to me. I laughed evilly then grinned at them. They rolled their eyes. I rolled mine back. We had about a few more miles to go. Yey! Not.

Two hours later.

Oh my God! Why does nobody live near the beach in Africa? It's almost dark and I don't want to night light again. I'm struggling to keep my god-damn eyes open!

It's okay, Raven. You're almost there.

Hello voice! How was your holiday? And please tell me what you mean by there? From what I can see, you could have said Africa was inhabited by humans!

Your almost at the nearest village. Just ten more minutes.

Hate to break it to you, voice. I can see where I'll be in ten minutes and all I see are trees! No reply. I mentally rolled my eyes.

"Mom? How the hell can you cope with a Voice?" I asked.

"Well. Everybody has a voice, Raven." answered Ash.

"I wasn't asking you, human-brain!" I said. Saying bird-brain to a bird-kid would be saying 'you're a tart' to Katie Price. True.

"It's like why girls go through pregnancies and periods. It's got to happen to someone but back when boys had them, they couldn't cope and so many went mad and committed suicide, they had to stop it for boys. That's why only we girls, me, you and Angel, have voices. Human girls would go mad if they heard a voice but we Avian-American can cope." Mom explained. Yes, it was sexist, but so, so true. I could have sworn I heard Dad mutter 'charming'. I giggled.

Thirty tiring minutes later.

Flap, flap. Snore. Flap, flap. Snore.

That's all I can hear from Cole. Jesus, where is the bloody village! Wait? Hallelujah! LIGHTS!

"LIGHTS! THANK GOD!" I screamed. Cole jerked awake, looking around as if he had slept through a tornado and all around his was a tip. The lights turned out to be headlights. To a jeep. A big, black jeep. Get this, with guns.

"UP!" Mom ordered. I shot up like an eight-five angle, hurting my back. We circled tightly, catching the sight of erasers. Great. My old little nemesis is back. I call him Ralphy. He's the cutest eraser I have ever met! He's as tall as the erasers and as strong and as stupid but the way he says 'I'm going to kill you' make him look like a sweet little puppy. Okay, a sweet, hairy, evil, little puppy.

"Kids! Get out of here! Me and your dad and do this!" Mom said. I'm not being funny but a dead tree could crush the erasers. There was about ten of them, small for erasers. Including the driver. Mom and Dad dived. I shot a look at Ash. We siblings dived at the same time, all of us thinking the same thing. As if we're going!

I severed straight and turn up and swung my leg out an eraser. I hit its jaw and it gasped out. Its hairy claw gripped and my ankle and it tossed me around. I snapped out my wings and pushed up hard, lifting it up off the floor then I paused flying to make it hit the floor, then flap up again. It clawed at my foot and I gave one powerful kick to hit it on the forehead. Its grip loosened and I dived down and gave it a few powerful punches of my own. The eraser howled out and punched me on my shoulder. Ouch! I swung my leg around and jabbed it in the ribs then punched its head back. I grabbed its right shoulder with my right and I swung around and went in the position as if you're about to have a piggy-bank ride. I slapped my hands over its ears, the eraser cried out in pain and when I heard a pop! I let go and it dropped to the floor like a sack of potatoes. I flew up and helped Ash. He kicked his eraser in the bowel and it doubled over. I jumped on its back and suffocated its ears.

Ash took on another eraser while I found Ralphy. Sweet, little, dysfunctional Ralphy. He grinned evilly when he saw me. He threw down his gun and dived at me. I pushed my wings down but I was too slow; Ralphy hit me in my upper legs and I doubled over his shoulder. I kicked like no tomorrow. and thumped my fist between the wings, right where its sensitive. Poor Ralph yellowed out and dumped me on the floor and kicked my stomach. I screamed out and bit my lip.

"GET AWAY FROM MY SISTER, YOU OVER-GROWN HAIRBALL!" yelled Cole and he head-locked Ralph and yanked up. Ralph gasped then gripped Coles arm and dug his rotting nails into Cole's smooth olive skin. I got up and kicked Ralph in the groin and punched his head back. Cole let go of Ralph and flew up, then spiral-kicked him in the gut. I looked around. About five out of ten erasers are down. Oh, make that six, Dad just finished one off. I flew up, joined by Ash, Cole, Dad and Mom. The erasers were leaving. They scurried back into their jeep and drove off. Jeez, they give up so easily!

"AND DON'T COME BACK, YOU BUNCH OF HAIRY MUTANTS! GO CHASE A CAT!" Ash yelled back to them.

"Report?" Mom said as we started moving back into the evening.

"Fine." Dad mumbled.

"I'm alright." said Ash, wiping the blood from his nose, dark patches forming on the side of his jaw.

"Okay." Cole replied, rubbing his shoulder.

"Cool as cucumber." I said. My ribs ached like hell, but ,hey, that's life as a Avian-American mutant for you.

YIPEY! My first chappie for my second MAXIMUM RIDE fanfic! Hehehe. The plan seems a little boring, I know but it's got more action planned than the last one. When I said Fang had been gone for a week, back in Fang's Return, I meant about two months. One week seems a bit too tiny for him to find a new flock in Britain (Thank You to Lux for pointing that out!) I tried to see if I could re-edit that bit but forgive me. I'm dumb and I'm new to FFN. Jeez, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A STORY OR REVIEW ALERT MEANS! Help me out a bit, please...*disappears*