Chapter II

Brittany walked inside the school. It wasn't so scary since she had been here a few times with her sister before. They went over the teachers some time, none of them being Brianna's sixth grade teachers back when she was in, and the map to figure out where she would turn and where she would go. Still, it was nerve racking.

"Brittany! Over here!" someone shouted. Brittany turned to see her cousins standing in their own little group and waving to her. The girl ran over to say hello.

"I haven't seen you guys since Tallahassee!" she said. "How've you guys been?"

"Tired, hungry," Andre answered.

"And totally bummed!" William finished.

"We've had no fun for a week! When is there going to be another Decepticon punk around here?" Cody complained. Cari patted her brother's shoulder.

"It's okay, bubba, you'll beat someone up later," she teased. She looked back to her cousin. "So, Brittany, you scared?"

"A little…"

"Hey! Let's see if we have any classes together!" All of them checked to see their schedules and were surprised at who had classes with which person. Lie how Cody, William, and Andre were all in math together, so they could help each other out, and it was no surprise that Brittany and Cari were placed in Drama together.

"Oh my God! Is it really you?!" a girl shouted from another direction. All of them looked out to see a girl dressed nearly completely in purple run up to them. "I saw you guys on TV! You're the Maximals!"

"Not so loud!" Andre hushed. Too late. Half the heads in the building turned to see them and started murmuring. "See? Now they'll never leave us alone!"

"Sorry." She looked at Cody. "Aren't you the second-in-command wolf boy?"

"Wha'? Me?" he said, pointing to himself.

"Yeah! You're Nightfang! I saw the way you tore the arm off that skinny little back robot. That was so cool!"

William leaned over to the Maximal cats. "Looks like we've got ourselves a number one fan," he whispered. The girls giggled to each other. There was no doubt he could've been right. The Maximals had been around a lot of fans, but this chick was crazy!

"And you're Tigress!" she continued, pointing to Brittany. "Love the way you used those fireballs to confuse them."

"Um, thanks, I guess," Brittany murmured. She whispered to her cousin, "She's loco, man!"

"Oh! Wait, I'm being so rude! My name's Fawn. Fawn Doe!" She took out her hand, letting Andre be the first to shake it.

"Andre Jones."

No one else wanted to shake hands with her, but the wolf thought it was a polite gesture, so he did so as well.

"Cody Harris; Nightfang."

Fawn seemed to shrink down a bit and sighed. "Oh, that is so cool… Honestly I think wolves are the best. No lie!"

Cody chuckled. "Well, I believe you!" All right, she's a nut.

"Do you think…we have any classes together?" she said with a cute smile on her face. Cody seemed to blush as well but took out his schedule for her to compare classes; math, science, language arts. That was it. "Yay! We have three classes!"

Cody didn't dare to say anything. He knew that she would be on their tail for quite some time before she ever got tired of them. Heck, by the way this girl acted, she'd never get tired of having her favorite techno-organic dog walking around the same school.

"See you in first period!" she called, skipping away to another group. The Maximals looked at each other. William motioned his finger going backwards around his ear and Brittany pretending she was drinking a beer and moved around lazily after the fake sip.

*

Brianna came home two hours before Brittany (because she was on a shorter schedule than her sister and school started earlier) and placed her bag on the couch.

"Holy crap, that was killer!" she groaned, plopping her butt on the sofa. "Should've taken a left here, should've kept going on this end; that was torture! Studying that map is like having to study for a final exam!"

Brianna's dog, Shadow, came running up to her, after hearing her voice. His face nearly came up to her stomach, looking like he sniffing her. Brianna held her arms out for him to inspect.

"Am I clear, officer?" she joked. Shadow was done sniffing and walked back to the other end of the house. "Yeah, well, screw you, too! Men…" She reached into her backpack to look at all the syllabus' she received from her classes. Dang, how much stuff did a school even need?! She was interrupted by her mom coming in the living room with her pajamas on. Obviously she had to work tonight and slept the day away.

"Hey, Brianna," she moaned.

"Hey, Mom. Got some fun papers for you to sign."

"Great!" she said sarcastically. "Wait until I get my coffee, all right?" Parents always (and this was a rule) had to have their coffee first before anything. "How was school?"

"Uh, two friends, both sophomores."

"See? They're in honors class! I didn't stick you with the idiots!"

"Yay, mama! Anyway, the guy was pretty helpful. He--"

"Wait, a guy? How old is he?"

Brianna sighed. "First I wanna say I've seen enough crap on TV to know better and he's fifteen years old. His name's Abraxas."

"Abracadabra?"

"No! Abraxas! It's an African name! I think I might look it up, it's even cooler when you see what he looks like. He's kind of like one of those Jamaican guys with the long braids and skin as dark as Akon. It's so cool!"

"Just be careful around him. I heard that--"

"Yeah, yeah, my bio teach told me too." She gave an impression of her biology teacher. "'To the upper class boys, you girls are not freshman, you're fresh meat. Boys are bad, remember that.' Happy?"

"Not sure…When did your bus get here?"

"Eh, about two fifteen. Two hours without Brittany every weekday, woo hoo!"

"Woo…" her mom said unenthusiastically. She took a couple of sips of her coffee while Brianna went to go find her laptop. She checked the email only to find a bunch of crap from FaceBook and not much from FanFiction. The weird about FaceBook was that some of the people from her last school seemed to remember her while she didn't think they knew she existed. Again, strange…

Someone knocked at the door and Brianna jumped up to get it. She looked out the window from the top of the door to see Aries, the twelve year old Chosen Maximal. How long had it been since they last talked. Brianna opened the door, but she kept the screen door closed.

"Do you have any drugs on you, miss?" she teased.

Aries sighed and turned her jean pockets inside out, as well as her jacket. Brianna opened up th screen door to let her in.

"How you doin', chick!" she cried. "Mom, it's Aries! Remember?"

"The pink lion? Sure!"

"Hey, Aries, what brings you here? Felt like saying hi, or what?"

"Actually, I got some bad news…"

"What kind of bad news? No! Don't tell me! Jericho got arrested?"

"No, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did!" Aries laughed. "Anyway, stick to subject, please."

"Sorry, my bad. Go on…"

Aries pointed to the couch to ask to sit down. Brianna told her to go ahead and she sat down on the sofa looking tensed and terrified. The dragon had never seen her like this in a while. Feeling as though this was something pretty intense, she sat down in the rocking chair across from Aries.

"The reason I came here is to warn you. There's something else out there that's like us, but more deadly. Possibly fatal to all of us; all the Maximals."

"Come on, we've been fighting these guys since spring break! What could they do to us now?"

"You don't understand. We haven't gone up against anything like this. There're seven savage beats out there. What does that remind you of?"

Brianna's eyes went wide and she sat on the edge of her seat. "Wait, are you saying there's seven more of us out there?"

"They're just as strong as us, and they emerged the same way we did. They're just not into the crime fighting as we are. They kill like Decepticons."

"Seven kids with the All Spark…I know they didn't just appear right now, correct?"

"Yeah. Jericho and I have been sensing them for some time now and wasn't sure how to tell you. Figured I could tell you now before it was too late. I even have names if you want to hear them."

The Maximal leader wasn't sure. Just getting news that there was a group just as good as them out there. She didn't think there could be, but there were no angels without demons, right?

"I think I'll sit that out for a bit," she answered. "Do they have a team name?"

"They call themselves the Predacons."

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Author's Note: Check in at YouTube to see what the characters look like! .com/watch?v=RQAxhPHk_OY Includes my version of the Predacons!

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