Well I'm trying to make this chapter more than like 5 words long...lol.
Hopefully it will work out.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Maximum Ride.
It had been four and a half hours since we'd last stopped at the Bahamas. I was tired and sore, no doubt the rest of the flock was too. I was staring down into the ocean, trying to spot something out of the ordinary, something that would confirm all those rumors and scary stories about this stretch of the ocean that was called the Bermuda Triangle. But I couldn't see anything wrong, just your average water, with its waves and swells. I felt someone's gaze on me and looked up to meet Fang's dark eyes. "What?" I asked, getting self-conscious. He inclined his head to the left, I scanned the area he was pointing to and sighed in relief as I saw land.
"Yo, guys. Bermuda, out to the left." With that all six of us changed direction and flew on to the island
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Bermuda was really nice. From the air it had looked blob shaped and all green and yellow and light blue. Now we had landed on the beach and it was fantastic! The sand was a lovely yellow-white, the water looked clear and pristine, there were exotic palms outlining the edge, and I just realised that I sound like such a weirdo. I mean, fantastic, lovely, exotic, pristine? God, our little visit to a real school must have affected me more than I realised.
We were all just sitting there taking in the beauty of the place. Gazzy was the first to speak up and break the spell. "Max, can we please go swimming?"
"I don't see why not." He went racing shortly followed by Angel and Total – whom I had been carrying for the whole flight and was not happy about. Iggy and Fang dug around for some protein bars.
I looked at the little kids playing in the water and felt like joining in.
"You coming, Nudge?" I asked as I took off my sweatshirt and started to walk down the water's edge.
"Sure!"
The water was cold but refreshing. Soon I found myself in a water fight with Angel and Nudge. I tried to tell them to stop, but it's kind of hard to speak when salt water is being splashed in your face. So in the end, I just gave up and swam away, out to sea. I heard a splashing behind me and looked over to see Fang had followed. I stopped swimming and looked around to realize that we were well away from the shore now, maybe 200m.
I looked at Fang again and saw that he was slightly grinning. "What are you so happy about Mr. Show No Emotion?"
He didn't answer, just swam over to me and crashed his lips on mine. And first I tried to pull away because I was afraid I would forget to kick and thus cause myself to drown, but soon I forgot about everything and kissed back just as hard. Our tongues found each other and I was in heaven.
Finally air became a necessity and we pulled away, only to hear angel scream loudly.
One glance at the beach and my heart was in my throat. Erasers had swarmed the area and had hold of the others. But before I could do anything, four large erasers suddenly popped out of the water next to us and the next thing I knew – WHAM!
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When I woke up, I was at the one place that I dreaded most, in a dog crate, at the school. I frantically looked around for my flock. They were all in crates just like mine. I saw that Fang, Angel and Iggy were on the other end of the room, and Nudge was next to Gazzy, who was next to me. I searched around for Total and realised that he was curled up next to Angel in her cage.
Apparently I was the last one to wake up because they were all looking at me waiting for instructions. I reached out to ruffle Gazzy's hair and tried to put on a smile. I failed the second part.
Then a door opened and in came... you guessed it, Jeb.
"Hello. I've missed you."
"Well we haven't" I snarled. I might have imagined it, but I think his warm smiled cooled down a little.
"Ah, that's my Max, strong till the end."
"I guess this is the part where I say something nice about you...sorry, I got nothing."
I saw his jaw tighten as he walked out leaving us alone again.
Now to get down to business, "Okay guys, here's the plan."
Oh Yay! More than half a page long! Still, not very long. Sorry!
The next chapter will be up once I have actually thought of the plan Max is talking about...lol
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