Hey guys! Here is chapter 2. I am really enjoying writing this story so I decided to post again although I might not tomorrow....we'll have to wait and see. Also I would like to take this time to do my friend a favor; My friend Razamataz has written a fanfic called More that we bargained for and it is really good! So please consider reading it :D Anyway, here are the thankyou's: Kilazforeverleila: Yer, u are on the right track with the plot, I mean, seriously I NEED to bring the flock together again. Thanx 4 the review. Chira: I am happy that u liked it. Midge 1012: I sent u all of the answers to your questions and you will find out more by reading the chapter! :D I am glad that u r enjoying it :) masonangel: Here is more, I am glad that u liked it :D Razamataz: ily 2. lol. Plz don't strangle me........... here is more anyway. : Yes, it is Iggy and Ella, u were right, more on them in this chapter. Here is more.

Alright guys. One of my reviewers wanted to know how old the flock were, so here:

Max, Fang, Iggy = 33
Ella = 32
Nudge = 30
Gazzy = 27
Angel = 25

I know that they seem a bit old, but I needed it to be that way to make it work. (So that Heaven and Aaliya can be fourteen)

Anyway, hope that u enjoy it.....on with the story! :D :)

I folded my wings in and sat against the wall. Aaliya did the same and plonked herself down next to me. I guess that we were in this together now.

"So, this is really weird, huh?" I asked looking over at her.

She nodded and stared straight ahead at the heavily bolted door. I guess they didn't want us to leave this madhouse.

"Umm, how old are you?" I asked trying to get a conversation going.

"Just turned fourteen last month, but I am taller than all of the other kids at school."

I could so relate. "Yeah, me too."

Great, this conversation thing was going so well, note the sarcasm. I was running out of things to say when the door opened and a scientist slid a box into the room, then quickly bolted the door and left.

Aaliya and I looked at each other briefly before getting up and walking over to the box. I bent down and slowly opened the flaps until we could see what was inside.

I frowned as I slowly brought out a television screen that was thick as a 300 page chapter book. I cautiously pressed the power button and watched as the screen came on and became a shade of dark blue. Aaliya watched over my shoulder and I pressed the play button and a movie started playing.

It was a movie of six figures and they all had wings too. They were hovering in the air and appeared to be talking about something. There was no sound, so I couldn't hear what they were talking about and they were too far away to see too. Eventually the screen zoomed in and focused on two of the figures. My heart jumped into my throat and I felt like I couldn't breathe.

"That's.........m–my mom a–and........dad." I barely made out. I couldn't believe that this was happening.

"Really?" Aaliya asked and I nodded unable to say anymore.

They seemed to be my age and mom was smiling and laughing, while my dad had a half-smile on his face that he always had. They looked.......happy.

The camera then moved left to a dark skinned girl with wild hair. She seemed about 11 or 12 and was talking to mom non-stop about something.

"She looks like fun," Aaliya said with a smile on her face.

"Yeah, but this must have been filmed ages ago because my parents are, like, 33 now. That's 20 years ago."

"Wow," she answered.

"Yep."

Once again the camera moved onto another boy that looked about the same age as my parents in the movie. He had a huge grin on his face and was laughing and fiddling with some sort of device. He looked somehow familiar.

Aaliya drew in a breath. I turned and looked at her blood drained face. Her mouth was slightly hanging open.

"What?" I asked feeling confused.

"That's my dad," she said still staring at the movie screen and not blinking. I turned back and then realized that Aaliya looked like the girly version of the boy in the movie. They even had the same coloured wings. I watched as he continued to fiddle with the gadget in his hand and a younger boy with blonde hair and blue eyes came into view and started to help him with it.

"What are they doing?" I asked as the two boys started to smile evilly at the device.

"I don't know, but my dad has always been good at those sorts of things. We have never needed to hire an electrician."

I laughed at the last comment and went back to the video.

The camera moved from the boys and onto a girl with a dog who also had wings. The girl was hugging a teddy bear and talking to the dog as if it was a real person and she had a really innocent smile on her face. She seemed to be around sixish and looked like she could be related to the other younger boy.

"She's cute," Aaliya said with a giggle. I smiled and nodded, not really into the whole giggling thing.

The camera zoomed out so that we could just see the six kids clearly and then those wolf things came into view. Everyone stopped what they were doing and got into a battle stance. Even the dog looked about ready to destroy anything that it came into contact with.

All of a sudden, Aaliya's dad moved in front of my mom and held the device in one hand. When the creatures got close he threw it straight at them. The younger boy appeared to have shouted something, before the group dropped about ten feet. The youngest girl even covered her ears as the wolf things started to explode.

"A bomb, cool. That was pretty impressive," I said nodding in approval.

Aaliya's dad and the younger kid then slapped high-fives and started talking excitedly.

However, there were a few wolf things left, so the group flew up to them and started into battle. Once again, the camera zoomed in and seemed to focus on my mom. She was really kicking butt out there. As a creature swung at her head, she ducked and then kicked it at the base of the spine and watched as it fell.

"She's amazing, Heaven." Aaliya said to me with awe in her voice.

"Hmm," why hadn't she told me about this.......?

The camera then moved to my dad and showed that he was almost as good as my mom and he was throwing strong punches at the robots.

It moved to Aaliya's dad and showed him doing the same as my dad. It was then that I noticed that something was off about him. His eyes seemed to be really unfocused on what he was hitting. I figured that he couldn't see, although from the way he was fighting it seemed like he could.

It then moved onto the other kids that we didn't know and it showed them holding their own against the monsters. Eventually mom came over and teamed up with the youngest girl and they finished off the battle. She then looked at everyone individually before they all flew off to the screen and it went that shade of dark blue again. I pressed the power button and gently placed screen back into the box.

I let out a breath that I didn't realize I was holding and leaned back against the wall.

"So, our parents had wings and they knew each other?" Aaliya asked. She hadn't moved from her sitting position near the box but was now facing me.

I nodded and drew in a breath. "I am just wondering why they never told us about anything. I mean, we have wings! And since they have them, I think that ours have always been there and we just didn't know about them."

"Yeah, it's a possibility. You wanna know what I think?" she said frowning in thought.

"What?"

"I think that this place has something has to do with this."

"Well, obviously since we are sitting here right now after watching a movie on our parents where they have wings that we didn't know about."

She just rolled her eyes at me and continued. "I mean, I think that this place has something to do with the wings, Heaven. Think about it, have your parents ever taken you to see your grandparents, or their brothers and sisters?" She asked with her arms crossed.

When I thought about it, no, they didn't. They never said anything about their parents or family and I never bothered them about it. But, I didn't see how this meant anything.

"No, but how does that relate to everything?"

"I have only ever been to see my grandmother on my mom's side. My mom wasn't in the movie, so I am assuming that she is normal. But my dad had never said anything about his parents or his siblings and this could be why." She then turned and went back to the box and she pulled out a piece of paper with printed words on it.

"What's that?" I asked as I went over and sat down next to her.

I started to read and suddenly everything made sense.

I sat on the couch and dropped my head into my hands while I waited for Ella to get back from the neighbours house. She had been rushing around the house all afternoon, making phone calls and emailing good friends of Aaliya's. She was so stressed out and in a hurry that she didn't even let me get a word in.

What I have been trying to tell her is that whenever someone goes missing in my life, I know where they end up. And as much as I don't want it to be true, I knew where she was. I just needed to get Ella to listen to reason so that we could make the important call that I hadn't needed to make in years.

I would have made the call earlier, but I couldn't actually read the number on the piece of paper and therefore had no idea what to dial.

I got up and took the phone off the receiver as the door was quickly opened and then slammed shut. I heard Ella's quick footstep as she hurried into the room.

"Jeff, give me the phone, please. There are still a few people that I have to try." She said quickly. She sounded really stressed out.

She tried to take the phone but I held it up out of her reach and looked in her direction with a frown on my face.

"Jeff, please." She said a little more calmly.

"Ella, you and I both know where she is. You can't keep pretending anymore." I said quietly.

At this, she burst into tears. I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her tight.

"Shh, it will be alright. Calm down, we'll sort it out, I promise." I soothed into her hair. She was always so happy and bubbly and hearing her act like this was hard. I knew how she felt though, I was worried too.

After a few minutes she calmed down and I let her go.

"Ella, go and find Max and Fang's number so that I can call them, alright?" She nodded and was about to leave the kitchen when the phone rang. I pressed the talk button and held the phone up to my ear.

"Hello?"

"Iggy?"

I chuckled. "I haven't heard that name in a long time."

"Fine, would you rather I call you Jeff?"

"No, Max, Iggy's good."

"So...........how are you?" She asked sounding unsure.

"Not so good right now. Our daughter has been kidnapped and I'll give you three guesses as to who did it." I said feeling angry. They leave us alone for 20 years and then they come after us again. This is just unbelievable.

She drew in a breath, "Our daughter was kidnapped today too. That's why I'm calling."

Now that didn't sound good. Both of them were gone.

"And Nudge just called and told me that her six year old son has been taken too. She and Peter are a mess." She added.

"So that's three missing children from families that have avian-hybrids as parents. I don't think that it's a coincidence." I said certainly.

"Nah, Ig. Where did you get that idea?" she said sarcastically. I could imagine her rolling her eyes right about now.

"So what are we going to do? Or has the great Maximum Ride lost her touch?" I asked teasingly.

"Fang and I will be there in a day. We'll get the whole Flock to meet up at your place, as we'll have a better chance of a rescue that way."

The thought of 'seeing' the flock again made me feel excited. But the reason for them being here wasn't my favourite one.

"So what are we going to do, fly or drive?" I asked, my wings twitching at the thought of flying.

"Fly, it's much faster."

"But, I haven't flown in years, Max." I answered.

"Neither have Fang and I but we'll be alright, although, we'll just have to get here faster to watch you crash and burn." She said with a laugh.

"Hey, I am sure that you will be just as bad as me, Max, that goes for Fang too."

She laughed. I missed hearing that. I missed everyone in the flock ever since we split up. But we needed to go our separate ways in the end.

"Well, I need to go and call the others now to get them sorted. Be ready by tomorrow and maybe practise your flying so you'll be ready. Oh, and make some bombs too, cause we'll probably need some of those. Say hi to Ella for me, bye."

"Bye," I answered and then hung up.

"So, what's happening?" Ella asked nervously.

I felt a smile spread across my face.

"We're getting the Flock back together."

And, there you have it! They are getting back together. In the next chapter I am writing in Max's POV because I need to do so. Also, Aaliya are going to find out more about their parents too, so sit tight. Also, I don't know when I'll be able to update so it might not be as fast as it usually is, sorry about that. Anyway, Review and tell me what ya think cause u know that i like to hear from u :D 3

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