Okay, this is my new story(:
I'm still writing LAtW, but IYA was too tempting to write, too.
So the story is, this is set seven years after MAX.
Max, Fang, Iggy: 21.
Ella: 19.
Nudge: 18.
Gazzy: 15.
Angel: 14.
Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride.
So, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Maximum Ride. I'm part of an experiment, one that was conducted by completely idiots, I might add, so when I wasn't even born I had some avian DNA grafted in to my blood. Now, I'm 98% human and 2% bird. If that's not weird enough, I live with five others that I call my flock. Got that? Good.
Seven years ago, Angel, the youngest of my flock, was kidnapped by things we call Erasers, part human part wolf, and she was taken back to the School, the place who made us into what we are. While rescuing her, Jeb, who I later found out was my father, told me a little story called 'My Destiny.'
He started off by telling me the crazy white coats didn't create me for fun. Then he went on to say, "Max, that reason, that purpose is: You are supposed to save the world."
I was fourteen then. And look how well I did. Two years ago, I completed my destiny, destroyed Itex, the Director, Roland ter Bortch, and Mr. Chu. All of them. Who helped? My flock. Duh. Did I kill them? Yes. Yes, I did. Did I want to? No, I did not. I'm no killer. Did I have a choice? No. I didn't. Well, in a way I did.
Option one, kill them and live.
Option two, don't kill them and die.
Option three, don't kill them and be tortured until I'm on my knees begging for them to kill me.
Option four, don't kill them and watch them kill the planet, including me and my flock, probably saving me for last, making me suffer while watching them destroy the others, first with Nudge, Iggy, and Gazzy, and then Angel, my baby, and finally Fang, my freaking world. I would probably die watching them hurt him anyways… But I didn't choose that option, did I?
Nope. I chose number one.
Am I happy I committed three murders? No.
Do I regret it? No.
Now, it was two years later and I was twenty-one. Fang was also twenty-one, and Iggy, too. Nudge was eighteen, Gazzy was fifteen, and Angel was now either thirteen or fourteen. We never knew because while rescuing my mom while she was being held hostage Angel claimed to be a year older. So, we base her age off of that and that makes her fourteen.
Fang and I had gotten together when we were fourteen years old, a few months after I found out I had to save the world. Seven years later we were still going out, except, 'going out' isn't the right term anymore.
Fang took me to a place that looked so familiar and so much like home I couldn't stop myself from nearly breaking down into tears. We stood on the spot our E-house once stood, where the flock started our real life together. Now Fang had other plans for that spot.
I bent over, picking up a pile of dirt that lay over the charcoal ruminants of our home. But then Fang wrapped his arms around my waist and turned me to face him. "I love you," he smiled at me, and I immediately smiled back.
"Love you, too," I grinned and stood on my tippy toes to kiss him. It lasted about a minute, then he pulled away.
"Do you?" He asked, brushing hair from my face and tucking it behind my ear. I smacked him.
"Of course!" How could he ask that? "If I didn't do you think I'd still be with you?" I looked at him confused. Then it cleared up.
Fang smiled, and I started getting taller. No, Fang started kneeling. Ohhhhhhhhhh… So that's why he was being an idiot. "Then how about we finally do this thing?" He smiled, pulling out a ring with three parts. Two of the parts were two metal bands around the outside, and the third was a band of black diamonds in the middle. Yeah, yeah, I didn't explain it very well. Hey, give me credit. I was in shock, here.
He looked at me while he was on one knee and grinned wider. "Maximum Ride, I love you, and you say you love me. So, will you marry me?" I froze. My mind was screaming yes, but my throat felt dry, and I couldn't speak. So I nodded. And that was enough for him. He was full out smiling now, and he slid the ring onto my ring finger, hugging me.
Finally, I gained control of my mind, again. I hugged him back, hugging as tightly as I could and then, like in all those movies, he picked me up, I bent my knees in the air, and he spun me around like the little kids we are.
I thought I was crying, but I couldn't be sure, that was, until Fang looked at me and wiped a tear off my face. I smiled, embarrassed, and rubbed my face with my sleeve. Wait to go, Max…
But then we were flying, about a half an hour later. We were flying back to the house we shared with my mom(Doctor Martinez), and the flock. Oh, and my half-sister, Ella.
It was late when we got back, around one in the morning, but sure enough, a light was on and the door opened for us. It was my mom. She looked at me, then Fang, and then my left hand. She nearly died when she realized that I was now wearing a piece of jewelry, and the jewelry was an engagement ring. She shoved the screen door opened and threw her arms out in front of herself to hug me. I felt something wet on the shoulder her head was leaned on and realized she was crying. A lot.
We finally got inside when I heard footsteps pounding down the stairs and I looked up to see Angel and Nudge running towards me. Nudge was making a high-pitched noise behind… Was that duct-tape covering her mouth? Huh, guess I was the only one who didn't know this was happening.
The girls nearly tackled me, Ella coming last, having just been woken up by two overly hyper bird-kids, but she was soon awake. Gazzy and Iggy were next, Gazzy rubbing his eyes from lack of sleep. He gave me a short hug and congratulated us before going to stand over by his sister. Iggy smiled and gave me a big bear hug, lasting a few moments, then high-fived Fang. I laughed then Fang hugged me. That was the most important hug, now. Well, always is the most important.
Iggy retreated to Nudge, wrapping his arm around her shoulders. Did I forget to mention those two had been dating for four years? Oops. My bad.
No one got sleep that night. We all stayed up and ate ice cream until we were shivering, and at 5:09 am, I went up to mine and Fang's room. I thought.
When I opened the door everything was gone, replaced by emptiness. Wait to pull a prank on the newly-engaged. That's when Fang came up behind me, holding a key in front of my face.
We were now the proud owners of apartment number 304, two blocks away from this house.
So, this is just the prologue, so... Yeah. (:
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