My first fanfic! Read, enjoy (I hope) and review. Look forward to hearing what you think.

Disclaimer - I don't own Maximum Ride characters

Chapter one

Her feet pounded the dirty concrete alley way as she tried to shake off her pursuers. She skidded around a corner and came face to face with a tall dark figure. Vampire, she thought irrationally as she fell to her knees gasping for breath. It's over; I've come so far for this. Tears filled her eyes and spilled over, making white trails across her dirt stained face. Then two cool hands gripped her upper arms and pulled her to her feet. The vampire, why not she was being chased by werewolves after all, took her hands and put them round his neck; she fastened her hands together as he gripped her waist. "hold on!" he said in a quiet voice, then he leapt into the air unfurling a pair of jet black wings, not the thin membrane wings of a bat but the glossy feathered wings, more like a raven. Screaming she let go and started plummeting towards the waiting wolf men. The vampire dived but before he could do anything, she spread her own set of butterscotch wings, beating them fast she broke her fall and rose, swiftly followed by the vampire who checked his own fall by spreading his wings. Together they flew away from the wolves that growled and slowly shrunk back into human forms.

When Fang deemed they had gone far enough he shouted to the strange girl. "Hey" she spun round to face him, gasped and her wings went limp. Fang dived and caught her round the waist, looking down he realised she was no longer conscious. He flew on towards where the others were, this would go down well, he went out for food and he's bringing back a strange winged girl. When did he get impulsive? Fang remembered the time Max had gone to save Ella, she'd been shot that time, she'd also met her Mom for the first time. He shook his head

"FANG!!!" he heard Max's shout before she appeared below him two bags hanging from her hands. "Great food, what are you planning to do with that"

"Her! And I don't know, but she's like us, and heavy, can't hold her much longer"

"Right! You can explain later" she sped off towards the camp.

"Oh great help," he muttered

"Someone say help!"

"Iggy your supposed to be protecting the others"

"I'm patrolling, besides they have a physic with them"

"She's six" he said under his breath, "whatever, will you move under me I need you to carry this girl"

"Girl? Anyone I know" Iggy said moving under Fang.

"No"

"Is she cute?"

"Just catch, one...two...three" on three he dropped her. Waking up she had time to scream before she was caught by Iggy who cradled her too his chest, she grabbed his shirt and hid her head. "It's okay, I gotchya" Iggy turned and followed Fang back to the camp.

"Why the hell would a blind guy go on patrol?" Max was furious "And why the hell do we have an unconscious stranger with us. She could be a spy"

"Because I was bored! And as for the girl, didn't Fang say she was running away from the Erasers!" Iggy returned in a loud voice that bordered on shouting. Fang and Iggy had landed by the camp to be confronted by a Max who didn't look happy. They had laid the again unconscious girl down by a tree. They'd eaten is silence the food being split seven ways instead of the usual six. After the meal Max exploded and had demanded the whole story, which Fang had recited in a calm manner, in the process dropping Iggy right into it. Now he was defending himself and the stranger, seemingly on his own. He really thought that Fang should be helping but he stood silently watching the proceedings.

"Which makes a very cunning plot, jeeze Iggy, come on, it's not hard to work out"

"Oh right, like you've never taken risks before, what about Ar-"

"Shut it!" Iggy shut his mouth quickly knowing he'd gone too far. The silence stretched on until finally little Angel looked up

"Max?"

"Yeah sweetie"

"She's scared. She's like us she escaped from a place like the School, she's all alone, Max, and she doesn't have a family or a flock. Shouldn't we help our own kind" Max smiled

"Of course we should"

Iggy huffed "Oh right, so she asks and Max instantly wants to look after the girl"

"Bite me" was Max's answer.

Sound was the first thing that came to her, muffled voices which became clearer as she woke up. "the Erasers are close we should probably move on as soon as we can" The voice belonged to a girl she knew, which was odd, she didn't remember a girl. She remembered the dark vampirish boy and a vague impression of a paler boy. She opened her eyes a crack and saw a group of people sitting just by her. There were six, the dark and pale boys and another boy who was only a kid, he didn't look older than ten. There was three girls as well, the oldest looked fierce and was probably the one who'd spoken. The other two were also kids; one was dark haired and dark skinned, while the other was very pale and very blond, she looked a bit like the youngest boy. Gently not wanting to alert these people, she rolled over, leafs rustled under her but not loud enough to hear or so she thought. The pale boy looked at her, well not at her somewhere just above her, which was disconcerting. "Hey" he said grinning, alerting the others to the fact she was awake. They all looked at her and she did the only thing she knew. She ran.

The three eldest jumped up to grab her, they were quicker. The dark boy and the girl catching her while the pale boy went sprawling as he tripped over a root. He landed in a heap in front of her. "Crap."

"We did tell you it was there, didn't we Max" the youngest boy giggled ducking the arm that the newly righted boy had thrown at him.

"Iggy, Gazzy. Please" the girl, Max, next to her sounded exasperated. Max looked at her then, but she was had a gentle almost mothering tone of voice when she spoke. "It's alright, your safe, with us. We're just like you, Fang here" she pointed to the dark boy "he rescued you from the Erasers"

"E...Erasers, you mean the werewolf things"

"There not werewolves, although I guess they kinda fit the bill, they're genetic experiments like us and we thought they were extinct, guess not. Anyway, you don't have to be scared of us, we saved you some food, come eat."

The flock watched the stranger eat her food, she ate carefully, but quickly as if it might disappear. They all introduced themselves while she ate. When she finished Gazzy asked "what's your name?" the girl looked surprised and slightly scared when everyone looked at her. "Umm, I dunno, I'm not sure I have one" she looked down. "Well the scientist must have called you something" Iggy said brightly

"Subject five"

"Oh" Iggy frowned "sorry, shouldn't have said that" he apologised, although he was blissfully unaware of the glares both Max and Fang had shot at him.

"the guards called me flygirl"

"Thats it!" the Gasman jumped up excitedly

"Gazzy we are not calling her that" Max grabbed his hand and forced him to sit down

"I didn't mean that, I meant we could call her Fly"

"I like that" said Angel. Max looked at the girl.

"Do you want to be called Fly?" the girl paused for a bit then shrugged.

"So?" Iggy asked, Fly nodded at him. There was a pause while they waited for her to speak then Max said "she nodded Ig" Fly looked between Iggy and Max, Max caught on. "Oh yeah, Iggy's blind by the way, probably should have mentioned that before." Fly looked curiously at Iggy, she knew that blindness meant you couldn't see, but the notion was odd to her, she waved her hand just in front of his face. Iggy's own hand shot out a grabbed her wrist. Fly swung her free hand round and before she even realised that Iggy's hold was gentle she had slapped him hard across the face.

Hope you liked it, please review, there is more to come.