Max's number one mission, protect everything that has ever mattered to her. Aka Iggy and Angel her only family she has ever known since she escaped from the dreaded school. A terrible place that experimented on her leaving her not human nor well let's just say the other percent changed her life forever. But what happens when on a normal day on the run she meets a group of 3 teens who are just like her? Read along as Max is put up against the most difficult decisions she will ever have to make. Watch as she falls in love, gets heartbroken, and deals with death.

Max:17

Fang:18

Iggy:17

Nudge:16

Angel:13

Gassy:14

My feet pounded on the ground, my legs feeling like led beneath me as I ran faster. My lungs were screaming in protest, begging me to stop and rest. But no matter how much pain I was in, it would be nothing compared to what I would feel if I stopped and let the erasers get me. Yes eraser's half men, half wolf, all predator, to them I was nothing but a chew toy, but I would never give up.

I was Maximum Ride I would never lose, and I would never back down.

I made the mistake of looking back, and saw that the eraser's were gaining on me. I gasped and was about to really kick it into gear, when suddenly my legs were caught in the root of a tree. I was sent spiraling towards the ground my breath left me with an oof, at the impact, I quickly tried to stand but winced when I saw that I had a huge gash in my left calf; where a rock had pierced it.

"Awh is poor little Maxi poo hurt?" said an all too familiar voice in a mocking tone.

"Shut up Ari" I growled, at the use of my nickname. No girl likes being name after something you attach to your underwear.

"Why don't you do us all a favor, put the gun under your chin and pull the trigger?" Charming wasn't I? Note the sarcasm people.

"Oh max trust me ill pull the trigger alright, but I won't be using it on me." Ari said a dark glint in those beady red eyes.

He pointed the gun at me, I felt a lump gather in my throat and looked down at my t-shirt to see a red dot appear on my flannel.

Ari chuckled menacingly and pulled the trigger the sound of the bullet so deafening-

"Max, Maaaaxxx, MAX! WAKE THE HELL UP" screamed Iggy into my ear.

I groaned and rolled over on the hotel bed we were currently staying at. Hoping that against all odds, Iggy would leave me alone. I heard Iggys soft silent steps shuffling away and smiled in triumph that he had left.

But spoke all too soon, when Iggy walked right back in with a bucket of freezing cold water and dumped it right on me.

My body went rigid and my skin screamed in protest at the sudden icy water. My eyes snapped open and I jumped right out of bed screaming colorful words at my least favorite bird boy.

"IGGY I AM GOING TO KILL YOU"I screeched while looking at him.

He smirked and rolled his sightless blue eyes.

"Sure go ahead and threaten the blind kid why don't you?" he said while chuckling.

I rolled my eyes and clenched my teeth while breathing furiously.

"Is there a reason why you felt the need to wake me up so harshly?" I said.

"Angel's hungry, and since you're our only source of money I came in to wake you up, but you didn't get your lazy ass up. So I did what I knew had to be done. A nice cold bucket of water. And Let me say I wish I could see the look on your face I bet you look like a drowned Barbie" he said.

I shrieked and threw myself tackling him to the ground, being careful of his wings but also putting enough force to let him know, not to EVER do it again. We landed on the ground and rolled around trying to get a good grip on one another before finally I had him in a headlock give him a nuggy.

"OKAY UNCLE! UNCLE I SURRENDER IM SORRY" he yelped, while thrashing at my hands.

I smiled and let him go, jumping onto my feet holding out my hand to help him up. He sighed and took it. Now I'm sure you're wondering how the heck did the blind guy know I held my hand out? Well trust me, I still wonder the same thing to this day.

"Jerk" he muttered.

"But I'm your jerk Iggy" I said while ruffling his spiked up strawberry blonde hair. He batted my hand away and walked to the door.

"I'm giving you 15 minutes Maximum, before Angel and I leave your sorry butt" he said while slamming the door.

Iggy was never a fan of the fact that I could beat him in wrestling, hand to hand combat. Whatever, you name it. I was better than him.

I grabbed my black bag off the floor and headed to the bathroom, I stripped down and stepped into the steaming hot water and almost moaned at how amazing it felt. Being on the run had its ups and downs, mainly downs though. Like the fact that we never had running water. Most of the time we would wash off in a nearby lake or creek; So this right here was heaven, I turned around and allowed the water to run down my bareback and wings.

Yes you read correctly, wings. We all have wings me, Iggy, and Angel. You'll find out later how we got them.

I sighed and regretfully stepped out knowing all too well Iggy was not joking about 15 minutes. I wrapped a towel around myself and shook any excess water off my wings. I rubbed away the fog from the mirror and looked at my reflection.

My brown blonde streak hair hung around me like a curtain of delicate tendrils, another down about being on the run. Not being able to get haircuts so my hair was extremely long and stopped just above my butt. My skin was a creamy ivory and very muscular from all the years of hard work, training and fighting; my chocolate brown eyes, shown back at me through my thick long lashes that framed them. My nose and cheek bones were sprinkled with freckles if you looked close enough. I had full plump pink lips and a row and straight white teeth.

I stuck my tongue out and ran it along my top and bottom lip. Before sighing and looked away. Wondering why I had just spent valuable time looking at myself in the mirror.

I slipped on a pair of my favorite skinny blue jeans, and a button up flannel. I slid my feet into my brown combat boots and slung on my leather jacket. I adjusted my wings and flattened them tightly onto my back.

I stepped out of the bathroom, and saw Iggy and Angel sitting on the couch watching TV. Angel looked up at me with her bright blue eyes and smiled lovingly.

"Hi max" she said, her blue eyes twinkling.

I leaned down kissing her forehead gently.

"Morning sweetie, did you already do what I told you to do" I asked.

"Yup already went down and told the clerk guy to forget he ever saw us, and told him to delete the log and video camera footage." She said smiling innocently.

I held back the tremble that threatened to run up my spine, it was still difficult to get used to a 13 year old mind reader and mind controlling kid. I knew it came in handy, but I'm only human… wait never mind scratch that.

Angel winked at me and went back to watching TV.

"Alright well since that's said and done let's get the flock outta here and get something to eat" said Iggy while rubbing his hands together.

I nodded and walked towards the balcony stepping out into the cool winter air.

"Ready" I asked.

"Yup" said Angel.

"Yes sir" said Iggy while saluting me.

I rolled my eyes and jumped off the balcony snapping out my 17 feet wide eagle wings. Yes I'm part eagle, Angel was part dove, and Iggy was part albatross.

I flew higher into the sky, my powerful wings lifting me up I already knew Angel was flanking my left and Iggy on my right. We flew for about 30 minutes heading northwest where I knew a McDonalds was, thank you inner compass.

I looked down and saw the town coming into view, and spotted the McDonalds.

"Iggy, Angel start descending at 9 o'clock in about 30 seconds got it?" I screamed over the rush of the window. They both nodded and started titling their wings.

I banked on my left heading downwards at about 250 miles per hour while tucking my wings in. I snapped them out and landed in a clearing just behind the McDonalds. Iggy and Angel right behind me. I pulled my wings in through the slits of my flannel tucking them in very tightly.

"Alright lets head on in guys" I said. I took Angel and Iggys hand and headed into the McDonalds the annoying bell ringing as we walked in. I looked around and took in the place counting how many people were here and all the exits.

Safety first ladies and gentlemen, or just being overly paranoid but I mean can never be too cautious folks.

I had a bad feeling about this, but ignored it as the intoxicating aroma of fatty high calorie food indulged and overwhelmed my senses. Iggys stomach grumbled loudly and Angel snickered beside me. We ordered our large amount of food and Iggy snapped at the lady when she asked us if we could pay for all of it. Another down, we had the highest metabolism ever were suppose to eat at least 5 times more than the average human the constant flying burned calories like none other.

We took the food and sat in a booth in the very far corner. I started snarling my food down along with the others as soon as we sat down. The only sound for a couple minutes the continuous munching and slurping of are eating. After we quenched our hunger we slumped back each one of us to contempt and happy to talk, we were finally full which was a rare occasion.

"Max someone's coming" said Angel frightfully.

"Max there heartbeats are too fast to be normal, erasers maybe?" said Iggy quietly.

My eyes snapped to the door just in time to see 3 people walk in. The first one being an African American girl, She had mocha colored skin, medium length curly brown hair and brown eyes. She skipped in smiling a row of perfect white teeth. She sure was gorgeous. Her body was very curvy and she was tall just like me and Iggy.

The next was a young looking boy with blonde hair, blue eyes and a dimpled smile. He reminded me so much of Angel. The resemblance was crazy I would have pondered it further, if it weren't for the boy who walked in right behind them.

I felt my eyes widen as I took him in, he was tall, taller than me. He was extremely tanned, but not that gross orange color. Like a vibrant glowing crimson. His hair was black and shaggy his bangs flopping in his obsidian eyes, even from here I could see the faint traces of gold in them. He had eyelashes that were extremely black giving his eyes a more mysterious dangerous look. He wore all black and his leather jacket made him look all the more daring.

He gave a whole new meaning to the saying Tall, Dark, and Handsome.

"Max th-"Angel started.

I shushed her and watched the group order there food, the lady came back with 4 trays of food stacked on them and handed it to them. There was no way that food was for them all.

"Max they-"

I shushed her once again, wondering why she wouldn't stay quiet.

The group of kids stuffed all the food down the throats as if there life depended on it. I shouldn't be judging knowing I looked like them not to long ago. Angel tugged on my sleeve and I looked down at her with an annoyed expression.

"What?" I said.

"maxthegyhavwngs" she breathed out quietly.

"Angel speak up" said Iggy.

"THEY HAVE WINGS" she screamed her eyes wide.

I felt my orange soda slip out of my hand as hers words registered into my brain. The slapping of the soda and Angels scream caused the Dark haired boy to look directly at us. His dark eyes met my chocolate ones and narrowed suspiciously.

"syug pu dna tuo hguorht eht tixe dinheb su in 15" I said in our language. Both Angel and Iggy carried on as if I said nothing, my little troopers.

(the secret language is just the words backwards)

15 seconds later Iggy was grabbing angels hand and leaping over the booth out the exit. I jumped up from my seat and took one last look at the dark haired one to see him getting up from his chair with the rest, making their way towards us. I ran through the door and saw Angel and Iggy preparing for takeoff.

"GUYS NO THERE FOLLOWING THROUGH THE WOODS NOW" I screamed while running towards them knowing we were inhumanly fast, we could lose them.

My mind raced thinking maybe they were a new batch of eraser, or maybe they did have wings…could that be possible were there more like us?

I zipped through the trees propelling my feet forward and deeper in. But I could hear the sounds of crunching feet behind me getting closer and closer. My legs screamed in protest, my stomach feeling uneasy.

DEJAVU MUCH?

I turned to see the dark haired boy not even 2 feet away from me, what was with this boy! I looked back and was about to really kick it in to gear when my foot got caught in the root of a tree and I was sent spiraling forwards. My head snapped forward and slammed into the ground slicing a cut into my check. I hissed through my teeth at the pain and tried to get up when what felt like the force of a truck slammed into my back.

I coughed trying to wheeze in air but only managed in breathing in dirt which made me cough even more. I felt my captor turn me over onto my back and held my arms down with his knees and sat right on my lower stomach.

I looked up into the face of Mr. Tall, dark, and handsome. Just great, just my freaking luck.

"Jeez you way a freaking ton man what have you been eating rocks?" I growled.

"Why is your head missing some?" he said with a deep velvet masculine voice.

Like really how was that even possible?

I rolled my eyes and bucked at him trying to get him off but blushed a deep red when I realized how inappropriate that was. He smirked as if knowing what I was thinking. I took this moment of distraction and wrapped my legs around his torso leaning forward and slamming him into the ground so now I was on top.

"Who are you? Who sent you? And what do you want" I said menacingly with my signature death glare.

"I was just about to ask you the same thing" his eyes burning like a black flame.

"MAX!" screamed Angel.

My head snapped upward and I looked up to see the African American girl have Iggy in a headlock, and the blonde haired boy have Angel in a chokehold. I looked at both of them and quickly reached into my back pocket pulling out my switchblade and pressing it into the boys neck.

"Tell them to let go of my friends, and we can talk" I said quietly pressing the blade in deeper for emphasis.

"Let them go" he said quietly, his black golden eyes still burning with intensity.

The young boy and girl let them go slowly stepping back. I flipped my blade closing it and shoved it into my pocket stepping off the boy towards Angel and Iggy. Angel barreled into my arms hugging my tightly with her skinny arms. Iggy took hold of my hand squeezing it tightly.

"Alright they let them go, so let's talk." said Mr. Emotionless.

"yes lets" I said glaring at him.

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