Chapter 1: Beauty and the Freak
A/N: hey! So, I'm going to write for the Maximum Ride fandom. And there is something I want to know, are you guys fans of Fax? or Miggy? review of PM me and let me know! okay, so this is my first story, beauty and the freak, it's my own twist on the fairy tale beauty and the beast. If you don't get it right away, you will. It's not like there are any princesses or anything, it's more the moral of the fairy tale than the actual storyline. Here it is! let me know what you guys think. Oh yea! it stars the Gasman.
Gazzy's POV
It's been years since me, Fang, Ig, Max, Nudge, and Angel (no, I won't forget Total) have been a flock. We always hang out, get together on holidays, but we no longer all live together or go out to save the world.
Everyone has somebody else now. Max and Fang are married with a baby girl. She has Max's brown eyes and Fang's black hair and wings (reality-how awesome is that, okay, fiction again) Iggy's fiancé is a doctor who helped replace his damaged corneas, so now he can see. Nudge and Angel both have boyfriends. I, at age 21, am the only one that's lonely.
I haven't dated in three years. Every single girl has bailed once I showed her my wings. Disaster. So I just gave up for awhile. I wanted to find a girl who liked me for me, wings and all, but there don't seem to be many of those.
Right now I'm up in the air, back to where I'm comfortable, just clearing my head. I hear the noise of an engine, and my raptor vision shows me that it's one of those helicopters that they use for sky diving. That's always fun to watch, so I go a safe distance to see without being seen.
Lena's POV
"Dad", I groaned, "remind me why we're doing this?"
"Because when you were five you made a list of things you were going to do when you're eighteen. This was on that list."
"So, I was five!"
"So, I want to give you everything I can, since I couldn't give you a mother."
"I didn't want to talk about her right now, so I shut up. I realized that my dad was trying to make this a special father/daughter moment for us.
The pilot of the helicopter yelled back to us "you can jump anytime you'd like now."
Dad and I gathered up our parachutes and looked out the open door. I backed slowly from the edge.
He looks over at me with a smile. "You'll do fine kiddo. We've practiced it a hundred times in the wind tunnel. Now, would you like to go first, or should I?"
"I'll do it", I really wanted to get it over with, "But jump right after me, I want to be close, okay?"
I took a deep breath and jumped out. Apparently my dad, true to his word, followed closely behind, because I could hear him yelling after about twenty seconds. "get ready honey!"
Do I found the string with my hand, but I didn't pull yet. I was never good with the timing of the parachute, so my dad always told me when. "okay?", he yelled, and I prepared myself for the pull.
"Now!"
I heard the words.
I pulled the string.
Nothing happened.
Black swam before my eyes and I passed out in fear.
Father's POV
I saw her pull it, and I saw her continue to plummet thousands of feet towards the earth.
I had to save her. But she couldn't know about me. It would give her a heart attack and then she'd die anyway. Knowing that her father is a . . . mutant. I cringe as I think about it. I hate that word.
I didn't know what to do, and all the while my daughter was falling faster. That's when I spotted something. . . or someone, flying towards us. Too big for a bird, too small for a plane, and then I knew. So I slipped out of my parachute, released my wings, and flew over to him.
Gazzy's POV
It was fun to watch. Normal people jumping out of airplanes, plummeting safely to the earth, almost flying. Almost like me.
Then something was wrong. Very wrong. The man's parachute opened, but the girl's didn't. I saw her body go limp, so I started flying over. Then the most surprising thing happened. The man took his parachute off, and a giant pair of wings flipped out.
He was flying towards me.
He talked fast. He had to, his daughter as falling to the ground as we hovered.
"My daughter, she's not like me . . . she can't know that I. . . please save her."
I looked at him hard in the eyes for one second, swa the pain there, and nodded. Then I folded my wings tightly to my back, and fell.
And the dad was gone.
A/N: so what do you think so far? please review! opinions = :)