Even though I wish I do I do not own Maximum Ride

Chapter 4: Black Lightning

"What?!" I yelled at shao after hearing what he said ", your f****ng kidding me right?"

"Wish I was but nope," Shao said.

"Okay well at least explain to me about the Arcayians," I said.

"Most just call us leapinians and we live on a planet not far from here. We usually send people here on missions but most come here on their own running from the law or things of that nature, which is why I am here. Our people have powers that are not normal as you have seen. We can control the true elements: Terra, which contrary to popular belief is not earth but a minor control of the earthly elements like on the periodic table, Dark, Light, Shadow, Sun, Lightning, Mist, and Flare, or fire as most prefer to call it. I originally was a Shadow controller, what we call ourselves, but during the shadow war Echo the Shadow Phoenix revealed to me that I was the Zero of this Millennium. A zero is someone who has full control over all elements including the base elements Khaos, Infinity, and Arcius. Each 'clan' as we call them has a leader who is immortal in the sense they can only die in battle. We call these people Lords and each has some kind of connection to Arcia who is the base of everything."

"Okaaaaay," I said not completely believing him ", Than I only have one question I have is why me."

"Because I said so," Yelled someone from behind me and I turned to see Sylver flying up behind us. He moved so fast I didn't see him; he came up behind me and warped out of there with Max.

"We have to follow him!" I yelled.

"What do you think we're doing? This would be a lot easier if you actually knew how to use your powers," Said Shao.

"Give me a crash course than."

"Okay all I need you to do is focus on your core find a place that generates some kind of heat, allow it to unleash it's self and think about your heart's desire," Shao said as he disappeared. I did has he told thinking about Max, that's all I could think. I felt myself moving much faster and opened my eyes surprised to see that I was in a small tunnel of light. I quickly reformed again right besides Shao in the middle of a forest.

"Keep quiet, we need weapons before we take this place by storm. I think you were here earlier in life," Shao said as I looked around and saw that we were at the place of the school in Germany. Or whatever it was I don't want to even try to remember. Shao motioned for me to follow him as he ran through the trees with great accuracy not even tripping up once I flew behind him noticing that he was moving really fast.

He stopped suddenly and I almost ran into him but he just bent down and lifted a door in the dirt that was trying to be disguised as grass but failed. He started to climb down and I did to and realized we were in a stash of world war two weapons.

"Okay look for something out of place, anything. Once you find it tell me," Shao said.

"There," I pointed out as I saw a very shinny pistol.

"Wow Synsis, you really need to work on disguising these switches better," Shao said to no one in particular. Shao walked over and spun the weapon as a door appeared. He walked in and came out with a few futuristic looking weapons. He handed me what looked like a silver version of a standard issue assault rifle, a sword that looked like a samurai sword, and a magnum with the purple smoke design on its mussel. I knew what that did.

"Here take these, I have ever thing I need. The assault rifle, we call it an Opsin, fires in small burst but be careful because you only have three clips. Each clip contains about twenty six bullets. The gun has no kick so don't worry about that and the bullets have a drug inside them that when it his anything organic it will start to eat at its body. Kinda works like nanobots just less effective. The sword is for close range fighting, I would've preferred to find a Strato Shotgun but the one that was there is jammed. You know the pistol, you have six shots but be careful if those bullets collide with anything that isn't organic it can react and cause a portal to the Infinity Shadow Dimension to open," Shao explain as I sheathed my sword and slung the Opsin over my shouldered and carefully inserted the magnum in my pocket.

"Ready," I said with confidence.

"Okay now wait here as I go grab my weapons of choice," Shao said as he came out with a sniper rifle ", This is one powerful weapon, the bullets explode on contact but fly so fast you can't track them."

Shao and I ran back towards the building, it looked so out of place. It was like on of those research facilities you see in movies. shao signaled for us to fly over the fence as a guard passed. Once we got over he explained that my gun silences it's self, which is amazing as I shot a guy who was about to yell for somebody but just ended up choking on bullets. We went to the door and Shao placed his hands on the door and blew them open. Alarms blared as we ran through the hallways and Shao took the lead leaving people with multiply wounds from his sword. He ran into a few people who were unlucky enough to be decapitated.

Shao motioned for a door and we entered. It shut behind us and locked as in front of us appeared Sylver.

"Hello Fang, nice toys. Just try me," he said as I fired a whole clip at that bastard, forgetting that he could simply deflect the bullets.

"Fang this is going to be a sword fight. Just stay out of the way and make sure not to get in my way," Shao said as he ran at Sylver. Their blades collided before I could even blink they collided again, and again. While this was going on I was looking for max but only saw another person appear out of nowhere. I realized that he looked a lot like Shao just younger.

"What the F***, Leto. You too?" Shao yelled without taking his eyes off Sylver.

"Hello brother, I'm here on my own accord not with these jokers. I have a message for you from the Shaoses. septa," he said to Shao than disappeared. Shao let out a string of curse words in Arcayian, than English, than Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese. I decided to help him and came at Sylver with my bladed swinging with precision. Sylver just pulled out a second sword and fought us with amazing skill. I ended up with a sword to my throat but blasted him off with a small burst of energy.

"Where is Max!" I yelled.

"In the Arcayian Dimension," Sylver said as if I would know what that meant. This pushed Shao over the edge apparently because he took out a small device pushed the large circular button on it. Suddenly the entire building disintegrated, I'm not kidding it disintegrated. He was than in the form of a purplish black phoenix. He said some thing in no distinctive words and spun in a spiral ramming Sylver as they flew into some different dimension.

He than reappeared in his normal form looking pissed. He walked right past me and said "Come on we need to get to the Arcayian dimension before tomorrow," Shao said.

"Why," I said trailing after him.

"Because I'm not sure Arcia would recognize Max as a person of importance and would kill her before checking. Or worse," Shao said voice rising at the end and shrugging his shoulders.

"Now how do we get there exactly?" I asked Shao.

"By having a friend inside World of Lightning warp us there."

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