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Chapter 7-Nickoletta

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"Hello Max." She said. I gasped. Her voice was smooth and perfect. She was very thin, and looked like she hadn't eaten anything in a long time. She was wearing a black tank top, black skinny jeans, and black shoes with no laces. She had scars over her strange skin, and on her face. When I looked back at her face, her eyes were bright blue. They were the brightest blue I had ever seen. I gasped and backed away from her slowly. She put her hands up, palms forward. "Max, it's okay. I'm not gonna hurt you." Then she looked up. I heard something hissing. She looked back at me. "Don't move." I trimbled at her voice. I trimbled. "Don't. Move." She said sternly. Her voice sounded mean, but I trusted it. She pointed upwards. I looked up. In the trees, there was a snake curled around a limb, heading towards my head. The girl crouched down, and jumped to where the snake was. I turned my head away, and I heard something snap. I shuttered. The girl was in front of me, about three seconds later. "You can move now."

I wiggled my toes a little, and backed up a step. "Thank you." I said. She nodded. "Didn't your parents ever tell you to stay out of the woods?" She asked. "Didn't yours ever tell you not to talk to strangers?" I replied. She shrugged. I looked into her eyes again. They were still the bright blue.

"Max! Hurry up!" Angel yelled. I looked back at the girl. "How do you know my name?" I asked her. She opened her mouth, but then I heard, "MAX! HURRY! HURRY!" I grunted. "I'll make you a deal. You come back at twilight, and I'll tell you how I know your name." I narrowed my eyes at her, but then I nodded. She crouched again, and jumped up. Wind blew in my face, and when I could see again, she was gone. I looked around, and then I ran back to the others.

When we all got back to the Cullen's, it was twilight, and almost nighttime. I looked out the window, into the woods. I wondered if there was any reason to go back to that girl.

'A big reason Maximum.' Oh not this crap again!

'What the hell are you doing in my head again?! Nudge, Gazzy, and Iggy said that you wanted me to do this on my own!' I yelled back in my mind.

'Well you might not come back home from the mission if you don't have her help.' It replied.

I waited, shocked.

'I'm done.' The Voice said.

'So your saying, if I don't become friends with that...thing out there, that I won't come back home?' I swallowed, scared.

'I'm not saying you won't come home. Maybe you will, maybe all of you will win. Or maybe just you could come back, or none of you could come back. There are a million possibilities. So maybe it would be a good idea to go back out there.' It finished.

'Then what?' I asked.

Nothing.

'Then what?!' I repeated.

Still nothing.

Great. Attention everyone, Voice has left the building. Again.

I growled, and I walked over to Fang. "Hey I'm gonna go for a fly, okay?" He nodded. "You okay?" He asked worried. I nodded. "Perfectly fine." He nodded again. I walked out the door. Maybe I shouldn't tell him I was bringing a non-human creature home just yet.

I flew to where the baseball field was, then in the woods I had flown in. I landed and folded my wings in. I heard someone clear their throat beside me. I swirled around and saw the girl sitting on a log. I sighed. "Uh, hey." I said. "Hi." She said back. I walked over to her, and sat down on the ground. "So are you gonna tell me how you know my name?" She nodded. "I was in the woods, and I heard you playing. Plus that little girl was yelling your name, so I would know it by now anyways." Duh, Max. I glanced down at her skin. It had gotten pale now, pale as a vampires. "So," I said. "sense you know my name, maybe I should know yours." She looked up at the sky. "Nikkie," She said. "It's short for Nickoletta." I nodded. "And Max is short for....?"

"Maximum...Ride." I said. "Why, cause of the wings?" I looked up at her. "Don't worry, I ain't gonna tell anyone. You already know my secret."

"And what's that?" I asked. She healed her arm up. Suddenly her skin was tan. I gasped. "How do you do that?" I asked. She put her arm down. "I'm like you Max. I'm not human." She smiled. I ran a hand through my hair. "Okay, how about we do this. Sense you saved my life pretty much, I'll tell you about the wings, and all that, then you tell me about the skin, and the eyes and what your doing here, okay?" She nodded.

I told her about the School, all of the Flock and what they could do, then about the Voice, Forks, why I was in Forks, and the Cullen's. "Okay," I said breathless from talking. "Your turn." She sighed and nodded. "Well, I didn't really come to Forks for any reason. I was traveling, hunting, and sight seeing I guess." I chuckled. "Guess you saw a pretty memorable sight when you saw all of us." She nodded her head fast. "I've seen stranger," She mumbled. "I've seen a lot of places. I've never had a home really."

"Have you ever had a family?" I asked. She shrugged. "Sort of. Not a really nice one though." Suddenly her skin got pale as a vampires that second. She rubbed her white arm slowly, tracing the veins I could see in the moonlight. "So what's up with...?" I glanced at her arm. "Like I told you, I'm not completely human. Ha, I'm not even one percent human!" I put a hand on my chin, interested. "Well then what are you?" A grunt escaped her throat, like she was dreading telling me. But she began to talk.

"Werewolves and Vampires really don't like the company of one another most of the time. They don't like each others smell, the way each of them think...some have sick minds Max. Very...sick...minds." She choked, but continued. "My mother was a vampire, and my father was a werewolf....they both wanted to please people to make them proud of their...sacrifice." I raised an eyebrow. "What was the sacrifice?"

"Me." She answered. "It was me...I was made as an experiment. Some non-human creatures wanted to see what a werewolf/vampire would be like. If they would live....what they would eat....or what they would not eat, I guess. Werewolves can still look human sometimes, but the vampire genes took that over. So now for some reason, counting on the time of day or if I choose to, my skin, hair, and eyes change, or by my mood. And that's not even all I can do."

"What else could there be?" I asked half laughing. Nikkie turned to me. "You know how some vampires are gifted?" I nodded. She nodded back. "Oh. Well what can you do?" She raised her hand up and moved it in front of her face. "I have a few abilities. One, I can make illusions. If you wanted to see that Fang guy in front of you..." She stood up quickly, and made her arms go towards me. Her hands curved inward, and she shut her eyes. Suddenly Fang, not moving, was in front of me. I gasped, and backed away. She opened her eyes, and Fang faded away slowly. "I also can turn into mist, and a shadow." She crouched down, and turned into mist. Her body faded fast, and went away inch by inch. The mist went above the trees, then Nikkie turned back into a human, and fell about twenty feet, hitting the ground. "And lastly, your mind readers and fortune teller didn't know I was here, because I'm immune to them." My eyes went wide. "Ta-da." She said. "Whoa." I said standing up. "But it's nothing compared to being able to fly at the speed of light Maximum." She replied. I had my jaw dropped, shaking my head. "What?"

"Well not only did I just meet a vampire/werewolf," I said. "But your story is kind of like mine." She crooked her head thinking, then nodded. "I guess so." She said. Her skin changed to a nice warm, and bright glowing tan color. I guess that meant she was happy.

"But I've never really loved anyone, like you love that Fang guy." I blushed. "Thanks." She nodded, and glanced at her leg. Even though she was wearing dark pants, I could see that one was bigger than the other. "What's up with your leg?" I asked. She looked down at it, and pulled the jeans up to her knee. There was a cast looking thing on it, from her ankle to her knee. "What happened?" She put the jean leg back down. "Like I said Max, I've been a lot of places. And in some of those places, your not welcomed." I knew what she was talking about a little. Being chased around the world by Erasers wasn't very heart warming earthier. Then I got an idea.

"Maybe you should come with me. One of the Cullens, Carlisle, is a vampire doctor, and maybe he could help you with your...leg." She rubbed her arms. "Well...I don't really like being out in public." She muttered. "You won't be, it'll just be the Flock, me and you, and the Cullens." She shrugged. "I mean I haven't been around...other vampires or people in a long time. Plus I don't trust everyone I meet."

"Look, you can trust me. I think that you need to come with me." She raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

"You remember the Voice, and the mission I told you about?" She nodded. "Well maybe you can help me. Just...please come with me. I still have no idea why I'm here, and I really need some help. It isn't like me to ask someone I just met for help, but your a lot like me, and I think you know how scary it is to be on the run, and I think you were meant to come here. Plus, I've never met a vampire/werewolf."

"Well I've never met a human avian-hybrid." She smiled, then stood up. "Okay, I'll go. but these people better not make me do anything stupid, like baby-sit that half human blood sucker, or your little mind reader." I nodded. "And I am not going on a hunting schedule. I go when I need to go, and I hunt what I hunt. No discussions." I thought for a moment, then nodded again. She nodded back. "Okay, lead the way." I nodded, and I let my wings out, got in the air, and flew back to the Cullens, while Nikkie followed by running. I hoped that the Cullens and the Flock liked a werewolf/vampire teenage girl. This would be interesting.

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I'm sorry this chapter wasn't very long, but I tried to get as much as I could in at my short time I have on the computer. I might be able to get on this weekend, and I will try my best to. Thanks for reading, and in the next chapter, Max takes Nikkie to the Cullens. Please Review! No Flames PLEASE! :)

Oh, and a fun fact, my friend told me the name Nickoletta is how you say Nicole in Spanish! Without the A though, it has an E at the end I think. (Thank you Keighla!) Okay, anyways, thanks for reading! :)