Okay so this is just an average day as a flock member… Please review my first fanfic
FYI: I do not own Maximum Ride, that would be JP's job, but I do often wish I came up with this very popular book series… anyways please enjoy the first chapter of Ready, Set, Fly!
Aaaaiiiiiihhhh! I screamed as loud as I could. When an eraser took my leg and snapped it. The next thing I knew Fang had rushed up to my side after knocking out an eraser. He looked at how my leg was at a strange angle. He said something under his breath then looked at me. I caught his glace, no emotion escaping from his dark eyes. He put his arms around me and my head rested on his strong wide shoulders. "Don't move." Fang said. I looked at him my face white and my eyes filled with fear and hurt, I nodded. The next thing I remember was Fang yelling "up and away." He took a running start jumped up and snapped out his beautiful, strong, black wings. Flying up higher and higher, I could hear his heart betting faster and faster, as he carried me.
He looked at me, his face blue and purple from the fight. He said "You are going to be fine."
I said "thanks" I know, very lame.
A heart stopping grin grew across his face and I just looked up at him smirking. We were all flying… well they were flying I was in Fangs arms as he carried me carefully. The flock grew closer, their eyes big and mouths wide opened.
Gazzy said "what the heck happened?" closing his mouth so he would not catch flies.
Nudge said "that can't be good." As she closely examining my broken leg.
Fang gave her a "no freaking duh" look. She looked away, and then hung her head down releasing a long "sigh"
"Guys, guys let's not do this right now!" I said watching Fang and Nudge with great interest.
Fang said "your right." I gave him a look that said, "I am always right."
Iggy said "Maybe we should land so I can get a better look at your leg."
"Thanks Ig." I said
By the way in case you're not up to date with all of us. I was not kidding about the wings, flying, or erasers. Yeah well let me get you caught up a bit. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, and I (Max) are all 98% human and 2% bird. I'm the flock leader I'm also the oldest. The erasers are human/wolf. They are big, mean, scary, and are basically stocking us… their prey. We can really fly and we have some other cool powers too. Just keep reading you will get it.
"Ouch!" I yelled in Iggy's ear. After we had landed Fang put me down and started a fire out on the beach… the kids love the beach.
"Sorry! Just trying to see." he said trying to hold back a snicker on the last part.
"I'm rolling my eyes Iggy" I said wishing I could hit him upside the head. Did I mention that Iggy is blind? Fang was looking at my sprained wrist, and Nudge was looking at my swollen black eye and bloody lip. My hair was stained with blood and wet as Angel tried to get most of the stuff out of my hair. I really don't know what Gazzy was doing but I am guessing he was building a bomb. I looked at them remembering we were just a bunch of mutant kids on the run. Fang, Iggy, and I are 15 (I'm the oldest, next Fang and lastly Iggy.), Nudge is 12, Gazzy is 9, and Angel is still only 7. Even though we are a flock, the only ones that are really related are Gazzy and Angel. With explains why we don't look anything alike. I have light brown hair and brown eyes; Fang has dark, dark black hair and dark black eyes. Iggy has strawberry blond hair and very light blue eyes, Nudge is our little talker she is African American with dark brown curly cue hair with beautiful brown eyes. Gazzy and Angel look almost like twins besides the age different. Gazzy has spiky blond hair and pretty blue eyes. Angel has blond curly hair that falls perfectly around her face, not as curly as Nudge's hair but curlier than mine. She also has blue eyes like her brother; in simple words she looks angelic they both do. But don't let her looks fool you she can be a little devil as for her brother he is mostly angelic… I call him my little trooper. Ever here the saying don't judge a book by its cover, yeah words to the wise with Angel… even her name is misleading. Anyways basically we were created by some stupid scientists who apparently have fun graphing poor little kid DNA with stupid animal DNA.
"OUCH!" I screamed. Iggy had just bent my leg to one side. That snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Hey not in my ears." Iggy said as he dropped my leg to plug his ears, we all have better hearing then people who are 100% human… but Iggy being blind, his is even better than the rest of ours. Ouch that hurt, I thought that to myself so I did not complain too much.
"Sorry Ig." I said. Now looking at my swollen wrist, Fang must have seen my concern because he gave me a funny look. He was wrapping it with a piece of his black shirt (I only say what color it is because that is what he always wears… yeah try and get him to wear something else.) to try and protect it from further injury.
Fang said. "It's ok Max, Ig will fix you up"
I just looked at him trying to act like it did not hurt. Even though it hurt like heck.
Its ok Max Iggy knows what he's doing. Angle broke into my thoughts. Angel can read minds, control minds and put thoughts into your head. I know creepy, right.
I know sweetie I have a lot of faith in him. I thought back
Max I can read your mind I know for a fact that you don't have "a lot of faith in him." Angel thought back.
Then I gave her a look that meant "don't read peoples thoughts." So she proceeded to wash my hair.
"Hello Max. Earth to Max." Fang was waving a hand in front of my face. I shook my head out a little and saw everyone staring at me, minus Angel.
"Sorry I was deep in thought" I muttered staring at Angel. Fang seemed to be the only one who got what I meant.
"Any ways did you see how cool it looked when that eraser snapped your leg?" Gazzy said excitedly.
"Why on earth would you find that to be so cool?" Nudge said to Gazzy.
"Well I don't really know maybe because after he broke it Fang tore him to shreds." Gazzy said with a confused look on his face. By now we were all staring at him trying to figure out what was going through his head. Well Angel knew what was going on but she decided not to tell anyone probably because I just told her not to read people's minds.
Nudge said "Well I know that I will never get the sound of Max's leg breaking out of my head. You know we should go back and…." That is how far she got before Iggy clapped a hand over her mouth.
"Thank you!" Fang said. I looked at him then at Nudge then back again. I was confused of why they were fighting. Right when I was going to ask, Nudge had escaped from Iggy's grasp, jumped over me and had landed on Fangs back. She had one of his arms behind his head trying to pop it out of its socket. By then we were trying to pull Nudge off Fang and get them far, far away from each other.
"Hey get her off!" Fang yelled as Nudge bent his arm further back. He did not fight back because if he did Nudge would be a pancake…
"Nudge chill, you need to get off of him." Iggy said as calmly as possible. He was trying to undo Nudge's hands from Fang's arm which was getting pretty close to popping.
"What is wrong with you guys?" I said trying to keep my cool. (This was not really working out…) I had my arms wrapped around Nudge's waist and I pulled with an all of my might. This was not a lot since I have a broken leg and sprained wrist… yeah try ripping a girl away from a guy with that.
"Stop fighting" Angel Cried.
"Ok Gazzy you get Fang when I and Iggy pry Nudge off of him got it?" I said trying to be heard over the yells and screams.
"Yeah ok I think I can do that." Gazzy said as he reached for Fangs free arm. Gazzy grabbed Fang's hand with both of his hands and tried to get a good grip.
"On the count of 3." I said looking at Iggy then Gazzy. This meant on the count of 1.
"1" I yelled as loud as possible and then me and Iggy pulled hard. We flew back (Not literally.) as soon as we had freed Fang. This was really not good on my broken leg and sprained wrist. Gazzy pulled Fang up as we tried to keep Nudge from going back to attack.
Fang and Gazzy ran to one side of our camp as me and Iggy carried Nudge to the other side. She was kicking and screaming the entire way. Nudge also managed to kick Iggy where it counted. (If you get what I mean.) Iggy went down into a ball, great just what I needed now I have to hold down Nudge by myself. I had to get on top of her because I could not limp any farther without Iggy's help.
"Nudge I need you to calm down." I said in a quiet voice.
"I can't take it anymore! Fang is always bugging me and I just cracked!" Nudge screamed at me. I had never seen her so angry.
"Honey what you mean he is bugging you?" I said wondering if Fang was the one I should be holding down.
"He always talks to me like I'm a baby and like I don't know anything! Iggy does it too, but it was Fang that I kind of exploded on." Nudge said in a semi calm voice.
"Ok sweetie if I get off of you will you promise me that you will stay seated and not attack anyone?"
"Yes I promise." She said sounding a little tired, mad and irritated
"Everyone come over here. Come on, Nudge won't bite." I said now looking at Nudge as to tell her not to bite. She gave me a look then showed me her teeth. I gave her a small smirk then watched as the rest of the group came over to where we were.
"Where is Ig? Angel asked as she sat in my lap.
"Umm, he had a little accident." I told them as I eyed Nudge.
"No I really don't think that was an accident!" Iggy said looking at Nudge's general area.
"Sorry! I was angry." She said eyeing Fang who tried to sit as far away from her as possible. He rubbed his bad arm so I am guessing Nudge did some damage…
"Stop fighting!" Angel screamed at us. She looked like she was going to cry.
"Why don't you like it when we fight?" Gazzy asked. With that question Angel started to cry.
She then said "We are family, not one of us has parents that care about us and so when we fight and hurt each other. It is really hurting the only family we have." That would not have been so touching if she had said all of that when she was not crying.
"Angel, sweetie I'm sorry that us fighting upsets you but sometimes we do get on each other's nerves. That does not mean we jump on some ones back and try to pop their arm out of there socket." I said looking at Nudge then Fang then back again.
"Well then you should figure out how to not fight!" Angel stood and yelled at me. I proceeded to stand so I would be towering over her.
"Well we would if we could but everyone fights. Would you like to give any ideas." She opened her mouth to say something. "Never mind don't answer that." I said
"Can we just get on with this meeting?" Gazzy said impatiently
"Yes we can just everyone sit down." Iggy chimed in.
"Ok so apparently we have some issues we need to…" I never got to finish because a load of erasers dropped from the sky. Great they always seem to arrive at the best time!