Ch 4: The Flock
This chapter doesn't go with a song. I couldn't find one to match the tone so I just turned on my Pandora and wrote. Ok so if anything is all gramarized its cuz my mom insisted on going through it and fixing every letter, and as my grammar is excellent I know the line between good grammar and 18th century.
Me no own Maximum Ride.
Me own plot.
Nothing else.
Kaythanksbye.
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Ok y'all, just so you know, I always imagined Gazzy to be brunette and chubby… so that's what it's gonna be. Any flames will be taken in the review box and Total will take care of you. *Total growls at the flamers*
Max's POV
Things started getting hazy, maybe it was from the adrenaline crash, maybe it was from pain, or maybe it was from the soft maple of the forest around me, but I hardly had time to wonder before I started drifting off to sleep, in the arms of a perfect stranger.
"What's wrong with her?" I heard the worried voice of a frightened child. "Like, is she gonna be ok?"
"Yea, she'll be fine Angel," said a monotone male voice.
I slowly opened my eyes, as if coming out of a deep sleep. Which… I did. The first thing I noticed was the crackling of a fire, and the faint smell of maple and smoke. Then I saw him.
He was sitting by the fire, whittling a stick. He had black hair, with bangs that covered his eyes. Like those bangs that sweep across the forehead, but more original, like he had them before they became popular. I guess he was kind of the original Emo.
"Whaaa?" I said in a groggy voice.
The Emo looked up at me and said, "Finally awake huh?"
I started to stand up when small hands pressed on my shoulders and a sweet voice said, "Don't get up. You hurt your ankle real bad and you shouldn't get up quite yet." I looked behind me to see a small girl, about 6 or 7 with curly blonde hair that framed her face nicely. But then I noticed, her face was marred by a faint pink scar going down her temple. It looked like it must have hurt when she got it, which made me wonder how she got it.
"Where am I?" I asked her
She giggled and said, "Earth."
Well that's great to know. At least I wasn't abducted by aliens. I sighed and said, "That's great to know, but like where?"
She just giggled again and said, "I like you, you're funny." Then she leaned forward and kissed my forehead.
The Emo cracked a smile and said, "Don't scare her Angel." Then he looked at me and said, "You're still in the forest as you were before, we just moved a bit."
I sat up despite 'Angel's' protests and I looked around more and saw a chubby little kid around 8 or 9 walk over holding a few dead rabbits. My eyes grew wide. The Emo apparently noticed my eyes growing to the size of that melon that's orange on the inside and has a twin that's green on the inside.
He looked over to the chubby rabbit murderer and cracked another half smile and said, "That's the Gasman - don't ask why. We call him Gazzy."
The so called 'Gassman' looked at me, then ran over and said in a perfectly calm voice, "The objects in your bag can make 27 different types of bombs."
I didn't know how to respond except for, "Wh- you looked through my stuff?"
He kind of blushed and said, "Well we were trying to find out who you were."
I sighed and said, "Well I'm Max. What's your real name?"
He simply said, "Thomas," then he hurried over to the fire and started skinning poor Thumper Jr.
I quickly looked away so I wouldn't barf and looked back at the Emo. "So what's your name Mr. Emo?"
He glared at me and Angel giggled and said, "He doesn't like being called Emo." Then she simply sat on my lap as if I were her mom. What the heck?
Eco mumbled, "Nick, but they call me Fang."
I started absentmindedly messing with Angel's curls and said, "Who're the other two people? The guy that picked me up and the girl who talked a lot." Little Angel giggled, once again, and said, "That was Nudge, the girl who talked, and the other guy was Iggy. Nudge's real name is Monique and Iggy's real name is James, but if you call him that he might get mad at you."
So there you go, I had everyone's names… I think. Just when I was gonna ask where they were, they walked right out of the forest, with an armful of sticks each, and when the girl, Nudge, saw me she dropped her sticks and ran over to me and said, "Oh my gosh you're awake! Well you should be by now, you've been out a long time. Does your ankle hurt? It shouldn't hurt as bad, Iggy wrapped it up. How'd you hurt it? Why were you in the forest anyway? What happened to-"
Just when I thought my brain was going to explode a hand slapped over her mouth and I looked up at the owner of said hand, grateful. It was the Iggy guy. Now that I got a better look at him, I saw that he was pale and had strawberry blonde hair that stuck up all over and seemed to never be able to be neat.
Nudge had smooth chocolate skin and dark brown hair that popped out in a girly afro. She looked around 12 or 13. Her eyes were huge, like I'm not even kidding huge, but they seemed to work for her.
"So what are you all doing in the forest without a parent?" I asked suspiciously.
Of course Nudge The Talker answered me first. "Oh that's easy! We're runaways!" she exclaimed before Iggy could slap his hand over her mouth again.
Mr. Emo Pants stood up and said, "What about you?" The way he said it made me realize that he was the leader of their group, and that he was attempting to distract me from the answer I got.
"Same, I guess." I replied with a shrug.
Then the chubby guy said, "Iggy come make breakfast." Iggy took his hand away from Nudge's mouth and went over to make breakfast al la bunny.
Gazzy came over and sat next to Nudge, and then Angel, Nudge and Gazzy proceeded to ask me every possible question they could think of about me, while Fang just sat listening, taking in every detail about my life.
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