I hope you guys liked to prelude and if any of you were confused Max, Iggy, and Fang are all suppose to be 18 however Maxis stuck between 16 ½ and 17 but weare just going to refer to her as 17.

Max pov

We have been flying for nearly three hours now and I know the flock probably needs to rest and get something to eat. I don't need to do either but I know they need to.

"Let's land over there." I say to the flock and point to the clearing down below. They begin to circle down.

It's been hard trying to keep from them finding out. Especially with Angel being a mind-reader. I came close to slipping in my mind once, but caught myself in time. Other challenges of coarse include me not eating the food they do. Most of the time I go off hunting by myself, quench my thirst, and then kill something for them to eat.

"I'm going hunting." I needed to feed very often considering I was a vegetarian vampire and I was constantly around the flock with their blood running through their veins.

"I'll go with you." Angel said happily.

"No." I must have snapped that a little to harshly, because the flock all turned their heads towards me. "I'm sorry Angel, but I'd rather go alone." She still looked upset and I wanted to do nothing more than to go and comfort her, but then she would feel how cold my skin is and would be repulsed.

Of coarse they had noticed that my skin was now very pale, but I fended off their questions with simple answers such as, "I hadn't been in the sun in a while." Which I discovered was stupid of me to say because then they wanted me to go to beach. In the sun. I couldn't because then they would know I was different.

Fang was the worst though, he would just stare at me through his dark eyes. He had tried to talk to me several times but I had refused coming up with stupid responses. He was doing it now. He was looking at me.

I headed off into the woods walking until I got far enough that Iggy couldn't hear me. I then took off at vampire speed running far away so that if I lost control I wouldn't hurt any of the flock. Then my instincts took over and I had soon gorged heavily on deer. I caught one too for the flock and then started the journey back.

"Ewww! Max what is that?" Nudged asked obviously grossed out by the dead deer.

"It's a deer, Nudge." Iggy chuckled lightly at my sarcasm, but was silenced when Nudged slapped him over the head. I prepared the meat to be cooked and then went and sat down.

"Whatever. I'm becoming a vegetarian." I snorted at Nudge's comment. It having more meaning to me, than it really did to her.

"You'll starve then because we have nothing else to eat." I started to serve up the meat. "Just don't think about what it was, think about it as you key to surviving, that's what I do." She didn't seem very convinced by this but ate it regardless.

"Max, don't you want any?" Angel questioned looking at me with Bambi eyes trying to figure out what I was thinking. I out up mind blocks. Bella had taught me how to do that.

"No, I'm not hungry." Fang gave me a look that said we-need-to-talk but then went back to his food. Occasionally I would choke down some human food considering that when I was just Avian-American and not Avian-Vampire-American, I used to eat a ton. It tasted and smelled disgusting but I did it to put them at ease.

"There's an empty warehouse over there." Angel pointed "We found it when you were out hunting. Can we sleep there tonight?" Stupid Bambi eyes but they diserved not to just sleep in a warehouse, but in real beds.

I sighed and looked at Fang. He nodded.

"Sure, we can." How could sleeping in an empty warehouse cause something to happen, right? The sad part was that Angel and Nudge were happy about sleeping indoors. They deserve so much more. But I couldn't give them any of that, not being what I am.

Have faith in your self, Maximum. I growled to quietly for the flock to hear. Despite my changing into a vampire, the voice still didn't go away. The worst part of it was that it was constantly nagging me to tell the flock what happened to me over those two years when I was gone.

Whatever. My patience seemed to have degraded with the change.

You have to tell them Maximum. What happens if Erasers come after you guys? Are you going to sit there and fight lamely? Or are you going to use your full-out vampire strength? If so what would you tell them?

Urgh. The voice is so annoying. I would just use the same excuse I used when they saw how increasingly fast I could go. I mean I had super speed when I was human, or sort of human. So, when I was changed into a vampire I was triple as fast as I was. I was even faster than Edward. I just told the flock that my super speed became mega super speed when I was gone. I would tell them I had super strength. Which wasn't a total lie.

"It's starting to get dark, lets head into the warehouse and get set up for the night. They all got up, Iggy extinguished fire, and with that we were walking toward the ugly gray building.

It had opaque windows so you couldn't see through them. The door had faded green paint that was cracked.

I squeaked the door open and looked inside. There was nothing just a dirty floor.

"Ok" The flock followed me inside and began to unpack their new blankets. We had, unfortunately just gone shopping and bought new cloths, blanket, etc. It had been overcast so I could actually go out. Despite the no sun factor I still drew unwanted stares.

My skin was obviously an attention drawer, but when I changed I became what would be considered 'beautiful'. I was not, in my opinion nearly as beautiful as Rosalie who also had blond hair, but to ordinary humans, my beauty was extravagant. Fang seemed to notice too.

My vampire picked up something moving outside, and I immediately tensed up.

"I'll take first watch." I knew that way I could go check it out later.

"No Max." My attention immediately snapped back to Fang who had said that.

"You always take first watch, then you never wake me or Iggy up." It was true, but I couldn't sleep so I had nothing else to do. But the couldn't know that.

"Fine. But I get second watch." Whatever was outside moved again and I knew I was going to have trouble just pretending to be asleep.

"Well, well, well, look where Maxi is now." I heard it at vampire frequency, and my head snapped toward the door.

"Something wrong Max?" Gazzy asked me.

"No nothings wrong Gaz.

"But something is going to be wrong. Very soon."