A/N: Oh, yeah, btw, I sorta use "I" a lot, if you haven't already noticed. If you didn't you should notice in this chapter.

Chapter 2

Daeyalt's POV

I flew over Africa, and with my sharp, raptor vision-enhanced blue-green-gray(A/N: That's sorta the color of my eyes. its weird. tell me if thats, like, hazel or something. i don't know. i always think of hazel as purple...hehe) eyes, I saw the fire Ashleigh was talking about. I zoomed down, and saw a dirty-blonde teenager shaking a poor little girl. She sorta looks like Soarra, and the little one looks like Ashleigh. I shook the thought away. This is apparently my new life, without that flock.

Something told me that the dirty-blonde's name was Max, or Maximum Ride. My hand reached for her shoulder, and when it touched, I said, "Max."

Max had relaxed, and dropped the little one. A dark-skined girl, like Allie, helped the Ashleigh-look-alike up. The Allie-look-alike noticed me, and smiled slightly at my wings.

I just realized I still had them open. But I don't mind. I sorta like showing the beautiful yet unusual color-blend off. I shook my wings, ruffling the soft feathers, then said "Max." again.

She slowly turned around, looked at me with surprise, then fainted.

Max's POV

Who was that girl? Is she hurting my flock right now? Did she shoot me with a dart to make me faint? Did I faint by myself? I'm Maximum Ride, I don't do that. I never faint. I didn't even do my battle stance. But only 'cause something about her voice sounded unharming and soft and sweet.

What was happening to me?

I blinked open my eyes to see the same girl, patting my head with a damp cloth. The flock was sitting next to her, but didn't seem to notice I was awake.

Until my little mind-reading six year old had read my thoughts, and also saw my eyes open.

"Oh, Max! Your awake!" she said, smiling brightly.

I jumped up, and formed my fighting stance. I pointed at the girl, who looked to be about my age. "W-Who's she?"

Angel smiled and hugged her arm. "Her name's Daeyalt. She's just like us, Max! She even used to have her own flock!"

I put my hands on my hips, and said, "Of course she's like one of us. I saw her wi- wait, did you say, 'her own flock'?"

Angel nodded. "Yeah! There's a girl like me, Nudge, Gazzy, Iggy, and Fang! Daeyalt says there's two people like you. If you calm down, she'll tell you her story."

Daeyalt nodded. "Yes. They're a wonderful flock, or were." Her smile faded to a frown.

I softened a bit, but was still on alert. "Fine."

Daeyalt smiled. Man, I don't know how this girl is like me.

Then Daeyalt said, "I don't know you or your flock very well yet, that's why I'm not acting like myself. But trust me, when I get to know you guys more, I'll be way more like you."

I looked at her in surprise.

"Oh, yeah, Max, I forgot to say: She has powers like us! And her ex-flock!" Angel practically squealed with joy.

I just nodded, still surprised.

Daeyalt smiled. "Please, sit down. I don't bite."

I muttered "But I do." then sat down.

Daeyalt's POV

"Well, to start with, I'll tell you about my flock."

"I thought that's what you were gonna tell me."

Daeyalt rolled her eyes, then said, "Angel, is just like the little one in my flock, Ashleigh. Nudge is the look-alike of Allie, Gazzy is Alec, Iggy is Emette, Fang is Wings of Fury, or Fury. And we call him that 'cause his wings have sharp bones, and he uses the bones to fight off our enemies. Oh, and you, Max, is me and Soarra. Soarra was the reason for me coming here. We're always the flock leaders, together. Until a little while ago, when some Erasers attacked.

I had fought with all my might, trying to use my powers to assist me. But when I was attacked by the biggest brute, Ira(1), he had knocked me down. One of my legs was bruised and possibly broken, one of my hands was sprained, my face was covered in blood and bruises, and my lip was split open. He had me pinned, trying to make me scream for mercy. My flock then came to the rescue by killing him when he was about to finish me off. Then a couple days later, Soarra suddenly went all crazy. She said I had almost killed the flock, and that she should finally take over, after all the years of sharing. I begged my flock not to, but something made them vote for Soarra. She doesn't have my, or Ashleigh's, telepathic power, so she couldn't have forced 'em to vote for her. Unless my little Ashleigh made them." I shook my head sadly.

As Angel squeezed my arm, Max said, "Unless she mutated enough and obtained the power, like with me, Angel, and Fang's gills."

I shrugged. "Possibly."

"Oh, Max! Can she please stay with us? She said that Ashleigh said for her to find a new life with another flock. And the only other flock is us! She has to stay! Please?"

I crossed my fingers, then Max sighed. "Fine, she can stay."

"Yes!" Angel whispered.

I giggled, and smiled at Max. Thank you, I thought to her.

She smiled slightly back.

XXXXX

"Hey, uh, Daeyalt?"

"Huh?" I opened my eyes, to see Max leaning over me. "Ugh. Wha do you wan? I'm trying to sleep."

"Can I talk to you, outside?"

My eyes flew open, and I sat up. I saw Angel holding Total, and I smiled. I looked around the tent to make sure everyone was asleep.

Total was snoring, and so was Iggy and Gazzy. Everyone else was sleeping soundly.

I looked back at Max, and smiled. It was the don't-you-be-messing-with-me-girl smile. "Sure." I got up, and followed her outside.

She beckoned for me to sit. When I did, she blurted out, "What are your powers?"

"Excuse me?"

"I mean, uh, well," She scratched the back of her head in nervousness. "In your story, you said you used your powers to help you. What kind of powers?"

"Oh! Ok, well..."

A/N: (1) Its Ari backwards!

I think that'll be the last chapter today. Cuz my parents don't like me on during the weekdays, cuz they think it interferes with my homework. Lies. And also cuz Family Guy is on. So...

PEACE OFF HOMIES!