Chapter 10
Max POV
No. No! God damn it! The blackness was swelling out from the clouds. Closing in. And I was flying right for it. I couldn't fly through it. I knew that much. But…I had to try something. Anything.
Maximum.
What the fuck do you want? I snarled in my head.
I'm asking you again, put the needs of yourself in front of your flock for one second.
Um, not. I'm sure you saw how that turned out.
And if you fly into the darkness you most definitely will never see them again because you'll be dead.
I pulled back, albeit reluctantly. The darkness was swelling. No way I was turning back. But maybe I could find a way around it…I could always just go under it.
Maximum. Go back to the house of night. They escaped, and you need to beat them there.
What? And why are you just telling me this?
It was a test. You passed.
A test? A test? Get. Out. Of. My. Head! And to my complete enjoyment, it didn't reply.
I tried to count how many times the voice had been wrong about something. Nothing came to mind. Sighing in frustration, I then began counting how many times I had actually listened to the voice. Definitely more often that it had been wrong. You can't beat statistics.
I turned back to the swelling darkness, getting ready to face them head on.
I might have done it too, if not for me suddenly being tackled clear out of the sky.
As I was falling to my impending doom I couldn't help but wonder if I maybe should have actually listened to the voice.
Just kidding!
I quickly regained my balance in the air, hugging the talkative hurricane that had just tackled me.
"Max! We've missed you so much! We were stuck in the school and they did tests on us but then we got out and we were resting in a cave but then those dark cloud robot thingies attacked us and we all got hurt but we all had new powers and so we didn't die but we flew over here to go and find you but you were already here waiting for us!" she paused for a breath, and I took that as my cue to start talking.
"I missed you too! I'm so sorry I didn't come and find you sooner."
"Oh shut up," Iggy said. "We can escape just fine without the great Maximum Ride. And apparently you can still be incredibly stupid without us."
I glared at him. I really need to think these things through because my glare, obviously, had no affect.
I was then tackled again by two blonde hurricanes, otherwise known as Angel and Gazzy. They both looked like death. This is my fault.
"Max!" Angel said.
"uh, Max?"
I looked up. Fang! He was pointed to the clouds. They were swelling, and now emitting a kind of buzzing noise. Well damn.
"We need to go!" I said, easily falling back into leader mode. "Follow me!"
Zoey POV
I looked up at the sky, watching to see if Max would make it back before we left.
I couldn't see a darn thing! I'm so worried. About her and her flock. What if they don't make it back?
Though something told me that they always made it, I just couldn't shake the feeling.
But you'd be put off too of one of your friend was flying off to kick some butt in this weather! The clouds are black, and the sky isn't even visible. I'm worried we won't make it to the depot and I'm on the ground.
"Zoey," I turned around, nearly jumping ten feet in the air. Oh, it's just Aphrodite.
"Oh goddess. Calm down. Everyone's ready. I called Stevie Rae."
I nodded. "Alright, good." I looked back up in the sky. The clouds were swelling. Heck, they were almost pulsating. What the heck?
"Damn," Aphrodite said. "Come on, we need to hurry. I just straightened my hair and I do not need to mess that up now."
"I have to agree with her there," Shaunee said.
"Ditto twin. Come on Zo, let's go!" Erin said.
Max is out there and they're worried about their hair! Ugh!
"Just a couple more minutes. If it starts raining we can call on out elements to protect your hair!"
I guess I was more worried about Max not being able to find us. She said she would, but I highly doubted her ability to track us underground. She has wings; it doesn't mean she's invincible.
I kept watching, hoping that maybe I would at least see her in the distance. Then we could start moving and hope that she sees us.
"Zo, we need to go!" Aphrodite said.
I looked up, and felt inclined to agree. It looked like lightning was flashing in the sky every few seconds. But there wasn't any thunder. Is that even possible?
Something told me it wasn't.
"Zoey!" I looked up. It was Max. And her flock. Well that was fast. Thank goddess for super human speed!
"Let's go!" Max said.
"It's about damn time!" Aphrodite said. "Now get that dumb look of your face and let's go!"
A few more flashed of lightning lit up the sky before I ever heard any thunder. But there was a loud boom; it was almost more like a growl. It wasn't natural. Rain began falling. And finally, we were off to the depot.
Something told me that I was about to have the most insane week of my life. It could have been intuition. It could have been paranoia. But it was most likely from knowing Max. And everything about Max is pretty insane.
I sent a silent prayer to Nyx, asking for safety at least to the depot.
Yep, this was definitely going to be a crazy week.
PLEASE READ!
This is kind of no warning, but this is actually the last chapter to the fic. Sorry most of this ending was just like 'oh by the way' and completely predictable. I'm going to work a lot harder on the second one. I just don't really like it when fics get to be more then twenty chapters long. But this is officially my first completed fic! Woo! I'll try to get the next one up quickly for those of you who are actually reading this. I'll try to make it infinitely cooler and I might even go so far as to kill someone.
So…yeah. =D Please find the next installment: Midnight Flight: the Art of War.
