Once again, I'm so, so sorry for keeping ya'll waiting. Here's the new chapter! Oh, and thanks so much for the encouraging reviews! They all were so sweet!
Disclaimer:
Me: idontownanythinginmaximumrideexceptmyplotandfang. (PHEW!)
Max: You wanna say that a little slower?
Me: Ummm...I don't own Maximum Ride?
Max's Pov
This time, I didn't wake up slowly. Not even remotely. Consciousness hit me like a freight train, and I jerked into a sitting position, heart racing. As soon as I sat up, I nearly fell back down again with the pain in my head. It wasn't a mind-splattering headache, like the ones I had experienced not so long ago, but it still felt like a family of porcupines were playing a contact sport on my brain. With cleats.
I looked around me, my nostrils flaring. I was still a captive. I was in a medium sized hut (I know! A hut!) on a floor of woven palm leaves. Surprisingly, I wasn't tied up. No duct tape gags, nothing. Ummm...weird. It was nighttime, and I suppose you could say it was dark, though I could see almost perfectly. Night vision is just a part of the whole mutant bird kid package deal, like "Buy a mutant human avian freak! And if you call this toll free number now, we'll even throw in night vision! Remember: that's 1-800-FREAK-NOW!".
Moonlight was pooling in the frame of the hut's only door, which was another woven palm mat. Now and then a shadow would pass across the silvery light. Maybe one of my captors was pacing outside, or suddenly had to use the bathroom or something. The shadow paused by the door and I went completely quiet. My breath caught involuntarily, and the shadow moved towards the door. The door flap slowly opened. I crouched in a fighting stance in the darkest part of the hut, adrenalin pumping. The girl from before – one of my kidnappers – padded carefully into the hut. Knowing that she would be blind until her vision adjusted to the darkness of the hut, I pounced. I grabbed her, covering her mouth so that she couldn't scream, and pushed her to the ground. She fought like a wild cat, kicking, scratching, and biting my hands. I sat on top of her so that she couldn't move. Her green eyes were wide with terror.
I caught my breath for a second, then growled, "I'll ask you one more time – WHO ARE YOU?!"
She whimpered, and I peeled my hand back from her face. She panted for a while her eyes looking for an escape. I rested my hand gently on her throat, letting her know that if she screamed, I would break her neck. (Well, I wouldn't really break her neck, but she didn't have to know that.)
She sighed softly and then spoke. "My brother and I – we've been on this island for a few months, and we haven't seen anyone at all. It was our little paradise. When we realized that there were...humans...on the island, we were afraid."
Humans? So she classifies herself as??
She continued, unpurturbed. "Seth, my brother, wanted to sedate all of you while you slept, and put you on another island. I thought that we could learn from you. You weren't harming us in any way. But then...I was observing you once and saw something...unusual." She paused, as if she were trying to figure out how to phrase something.
I caught my breath. Had she seen my wings? Did she know what I was? If so, then we were in some pretty deep crap.
Soooo...hope you liked! Sorry it was shorter than usual, but I haven't had much time lately. Review with your thoughts, ideas, ect. Luv ya! :)