A/N:
me: of course i own Maximum Ride and Twilight!
Maximum Ride: **appears magically with a puff of magic smoke** NO YOU DONT!!!!! SHE LIESS!!!!! YOU LYING LIER WHO LIES!!!
me: **glances around kinda freaked out** w-w-what are you t-t-talking about??
Edward Cullen: **appears with a glimmering sparkle of sparkly light** You can not possibly own Twilight. You don't know what your talking about.
me: *sigh* I guess not. :'( seriously tho, if i were Stephenie Meyer (real owner of Twilight) or James Paterson (real owner of Maximum Ride) would i seriously be writting FANFICTION for my OWN series?? i thought not.
Enjoy! :)
Chapter 3
Max POV
Later that day we were camped out in a few tree's away, away from the restaurant we ate at.
"Max, do you think we could go on a small flight before we hunker down for the night?" asked Gazzy with pleading eyes. Angel then turned to give me "the look" as well.
"Aw guys, you know we just flew further than we ever have at one time, and yet you think we should fly MORE?" Nudge complained."Ok, I'm game!" I looked at her, my look said, thanks oodles, nudge!
"Fine, we can go for a short flight. Come on guys." I led my flock to the edge of the tree limbs we were on and jumped. Free falling. Nothing like it! I unfurled my wings in all their 14 feet glory. We flew peacefully for about 5 minutes before Gazzy started singing 'To where you are' in Josh Groban voice. I LOVE him, but Gazzy had been singing Josh Groban a lot recently.
Max? heads up. People below. The gurl from the restaurant I think. Angel let me know using her mind.
"Guys, going down. NOW!" I alerted my merry band of mutants.
"Max, they're waiting for us!" Angel said.
"In the trees guys," I said.
"Any evil intentions, Ang?" Asked fang in his no nonsense tone.
"Not that I can tell. They keep thinking, "Can they really fly?" and she gasped "and the guy with the copper hair is a mind reader. But he cant hear us! Awesome! I nodded but kept my face as straight as possible. So they know about the wings. Darn! There goes trying to keep them hidden. They heard me Max! They can hear us from all the way down there!" She projected in my mind. wow. That was a LONG way down. . . .like 100 ft long. 'max! they're not human! i know what they are. . . . . .please please please dont get mad, i think we really need to trust them. . .their secret's possibly as big as ours.'
'Care to share sweetie?' i asked her. 'Yeah, ummm, well they're . . . . . . Vampires.' well now isnt that nice. . . we're about to go meet a group of freaking VAMPIRES. just peachy.
"Thanks for the heads up, Angel. Can you send my next thoughts to the rest of the flock?" I directed my thoughts to angel next. Then, after a nod from Angel, I looked at the others and got instant eye- contact with all but Iggy, who gazed at my nose. Still, he tried.
"Guys, Fang, Angel, and myself are going to climb down and see if these guys are a threat to us. If angel sends you the 'ok' come down to us. If things go downhill- Angel will tell you U&A ok?" I got assorted nods and wary smiles.
A quick glance at Fang and Angel and we started down the tree.
Just as Angel said, they were waiting for us. About 20 feet away from the tree we were in. There were 10 of them. The two from the restaurant as angel a thought as well as 8 shockingly beautiful people each with pale skin and gold eyes. They looked like a family, but no one actually had any of the same features, save the skin and the eyes.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Yup. That's me, good, straight forward, no beating around the bush. They were stunned for a second before they recovered.
'The blonde haired one in front is Carlisle, the bronze haired one is Edward the mind reader." Angel told me. I nodded to her in response as the one called Carlisle stepped forward.
'Hello, my name is Carlisle Cullen and this is my family. If you would come back to my home, perhaps we could have a formal introduction.' He told me In a sincere and caring tone. Angel giggled behind me.
'Max, I think we should go, they all have nice minds and the big one thinks really funny.' How she giggled in my head I have no idea!
'Whats so funny, Ang?' I thought.
'He thought' - giggle- 'you and' - snicker- 'Fang were my parents." She full out laughed after that.
"Seriously, you with the dark hair, do we LOOK like we could be her parents?"
Everyone stared at us and the curly haired muscleman had this confused expression glued to his face. Okay, I'll admit it, I giggled. But with all the stares we had to clear the confusion.
"No, we are not her parents. I have simply taken care of her since she was 2 but I am not her biological mother." I told them cautiously. If they were with the school they would have attacked us by now. But just to be careful we didn't move closer.
'I'm max. Maximum Ride and I'll come with you with the rest of my family not far behind."
"Ang, Do they know?" I asked her.
"They know about the wings but no more." She answered.
"That's perfect! If you would like to follow us we will go when you are ready." Carlisle told us, obviously thrilled that we were going with him. The one with spiky hair who looked like an elf had been wearing an impish grin since before he asked us.
"Okay, you can go on ahead, we'll follow." I told them
"Up in the trees, lets go." I whispered to Fang and Angel. We started climbing while the Cullens started walking away. Gaz, Iggy and Nudge were all ready to go, I had Angel prepare them for it.
Edwards POV:
We were on our way back home after the meeting with the kids who we thought had wings.
I couldn't get over the fact that I couldn't read their minds. It was like with Bella those years ago, there was silence and only silence.
Their hearts beat almost faster then Renesme. We already knew they were different, but they smelled not only like a human, but like a bird. Almost like their DNA was mixed, but who would do that? Who would be that sick? Carlisle's thoughts were like my own. Esme was worrying like the mother she was. I smiled encouragingly at her and she smiled warmly back. As I entered Alice's mind a vision came to her. There were more than just three kids we saw, there were six! The bird kids were- in the vision- at our home, hanging around each doing something. I smiled as the vision continued and Alice drug an unwilling Max upstairs. Alice was glad she would have another human Barbie. Jasper was to wing Alice as she would focus and lose focus on her surroundings. 'They were very tense, the older two. The younger one was all over the place, wary all the time, became mad for the briefest of seconds then became giddy. I wonder if she's bipolar? Reminds the slightest of Edward sometimes. All over the place.' I let him continue but ran ahead so I could watch for the children.
Angel POV
I couldn't get over the thing that the guy said earlier. He was just so funny. I heard Edward thinking about heading to the house ahead of everyone else. 'Hey Max- Edward's almost at the house, I think you should show him how fast you can go!"
'Okay," she said, 'Fangs in charge, meet ya there!'
And she was off! She's now been able to go over 400 miles. I can barely see her, even with my raptor sight.
Max POV
I was zooming to where Carlisle told me where the house was. Ever since that day so many years ago, when I had first found I could fly faster than any of the flock, I had found I could go even faster. Now i think i can go around 450 mph. . . .its wayy faster than anyone can track with their eyes. . and i rarely get the chance to use it, trying to stay as a group ya know. . .
I beat everyone to the house and just lounged by the porch waiting for someone to show up. . it had taken me a total of 15 seconds to get there a new record for me. I smiled to myself as i thought of this, letting my wings cool down from the work out they had just had.
Thats when Edward showed up. He looked completely shocked that i had arrived before he did. I figured i better say something so i perked up 'Didn't expect that, mind reader, did ya?' i smiled deviously and he looked even more incredulous.
'How did u beat me here? i flat out SPRINTED to get here that fast.' he was pacing now 'why you and not everyone else? and wait. How did you know i could read minds?' He stopped pacing and stared at me once again.
'We all have a few secrets of our own now don't we?' we stared at each other for another 5 seconds before he broke off in his own little world again.
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STILL MAX POV
With it being Forks, the inevitable happened. It had started to rain. So i stopped my story and offered for us to go to a cave i found not real long after we met the Cullens. We flew off toward First Beach before it could rain any harder.
It was a beautiful little peninsula thats for sure. The beaches with scattered driftwood all around, and the multi-colored rocks and stones. Finally we approached the cave and took shelter.
'It's so beautiful' Aspen said. 'what i wanna know is, why did you leave?' i opened my mouth but before i could utter a word she held up a hand and said 'wait, lemme guess, you were about to get to that weren't you?' we both laughed and i continued with my story.
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Alice POV
we were headed back to my family's home and i had been searching the future to see if anything real exciting would happen and lo and behold something surely did!
I stopped dead in my tracks (get it? dead? yeah okay nevermind. . . ) and everyone looked at me, jazzy looked at my to make sure i was still 'here' and i knew he'd start shaking me if i didn't reply soon.
'NO WAY!!!!' i said and burst out in hysterical laughter. They all looked at me like 'oh great, what was it this time?'. so i told them. 'Edward finally met his match. Maximum Ride just beat Edward to the house!'
what did they do after i told them this? well they were shocked for the smallest possible nanosecond, then they head off full speed for the house. This was something we just HAD to see for ourselves.
When we got there however, I couldnt see anything since jake was with us, well with Nessie technically but still, This was NOT what i expected to see. . . all 6 birdkids just waiting for us, ON. OUR. ROOF.
Thats a first!
AN:
well that has to be one of the LONGEST chapters i've ever written and am bound to write! yikes! it was fun tho! sorry it took so long to update! crazy schoolschedules can completely knock out your schedule! anyway. anybody who reviews will receive a nice hot plate of cyber cookies!
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