Hey peoples, well like I said, I promised to update at least one more time this weekend, soooo, here it is. 

Enjoy!

~Vivian (xX9Music-Lover9Xx)

2 YEARS LATER

Fang POV

It's been exactly two years since Max has left, and she hasn't come back yet. It was on the news just a few months ago of how Itex has been discovered by the press and how it's been taken down by the one and only Maximum Ride, but it was said she disappeared, and no one has seen her since. She had left with my heart, and never came back. My heart is still with her, and I know she's alive. I don't know how I knew this, but I just did. I quit writing blog entries; instead Angel keeps them updated because she didn't want the tradition to stop.

Speaking of Angel, she's now ten, she grew up quite a bit, still the cute, innocent looking Angel, but she matured a bit. Nudge has become much less talkative but is now sixteen. She hasn't been the blabbermouth that she's been ever since Max had left. Iggy has been trying to help the flock get over her leaving, and tried to help keep them going. He in a way took her spot as leader. Gazzy tried to stand strong like the trooper he is, but we all knew he was hurting inside.

As for me, I never let out a single word since she's left. Not. One. Word. Angel would still enter my mind, but she eventually quit after realizing my thoughts haven't really been changing. Max would probably want me to take the role of being leader since I was second oldest and whatnot, but I couldn't. I couldn't lead the flock, that role was only for Max and no one else. Nothing has been the same since she's left. It's been dull but at least no one's been after us.

The flock has sort of got over her and decided to live on, they go to school, they have their friends, they relax and don't have to worry about anything. I one the other hand go to school but never say a word to anyone. Everyone always glances over at me and starts whispering things, but I always ignore them. I don't care what they have to say. Some people never come up to me, they find me threatening.

But none of that matters. Max took my heart, and I was stupid enough to believe that she'd come back. But she disappeared, nowhere to be seen by anybody. I knew she was there, I just knew it, but I never bothered to go looking for her. If she wanted to be with me she would've come back, but obviously she didn't because she just decided to go into hiding.

Maybe she meant to drop my heart and shatter it into pieces.

I stood up and walked across the wooden floor of the tree house. Memories flashed through my mind.

If only she knew what she had done to me when she left, but I don't think she cares. I sighed and flew back to the house. We were still in the same house as before, with Dr. Martinez.

She would've been asking me where I've been and why I skipped out on school….again, but she already knew that I wouldn't reply so there was no point in doing so.

Oh, and I did get a new power just about six months ago. Not only am I invisible, but I can also teleport to any place up to 50 miles around me. Only problem with that is that after doing so, I lose all my energy, resulting in blacking out.

I walked passed Dr. Martinez and down the hallway into my room, closing the door behind me and plopping down on the bed. What to do today. I sighed and then lied down on my bed, closing my eyes and just thinking. Thinking about what to do with my life.

Max POV

I was way too gullible to believe that I defeated Itex. Yes it was all over the news that they had fallen to destruction, but guess what, not all was destroyed. And just now did I realize it. Yes, right now, while running through the forest, Ari following after me with a gun and a chopper right above me. Well, what can I say? Crap.

I kept on running ahead, having no choice because if I were to fly up, I would end up colliding with the chopper. I started to run slower and slower, losing energy, when all of a sudden I heard a loud bang, what sounded like a gunshot. I didn't bother looking back, but I made a while guess that the bullet would hit the one and only me. Seconds later, I felt a searing pain in my wing and I ended up dropping to the ground. The damn bullet had grazed my shoulder and ended up hitting my freaking wing!

I dropped to the ground, closing my eyes, trying to block out all the pain. Ari kept running and eventually caught up to me. He smirked at me and brought the gun towards my temple, leaning down so he was kneeling on one knee. "I'm sure you're tired Maxie, but don't worry, you'll be able to go to sleep soon. Everything will be over," he whispered.

"Stop!" someone yelled from the chopper. Jeb. "She's going to be out soon anyway. Leave her be," he yelled down at Ari.

Ari looked back from Jeb at me seeming slightly disappointed, then his ugly looking smirk came up again as he whispered, "Good night Maxie, sweet dreams." He opened up his disfigured wings and then flew off, catching up with the copper as they both flew west.

I was left on the ground in the forest. "Don't…fall…asleep," I muttered groggily to myself. But then again, maybe that's what I wanted. Maybe I could just fall asleep and everything will finally be over. No more stress, no more pain, no more fear. Just eternal rest. I was closing my eyes, slowly, until I felt something wet drip on me. A few seconds later, I felt another wet drop, followed by more and more wet drops until it started pouring.

Rain, I thought. I haven't felt rain for quite a while, and it felt good. I could feel the rain dropping down against me, my blood being washed away as it hit me and trickled down. The rain started to wake me up. I was both thankful yet disappointed. Part of me wanted to just get this all over with, but the other didn't want to leave yet.

After a few minutes, I managed to stand up, but walked with a limp since I ended up falling on my leg when I had fallen. I just walked a random direction, hoping to get to some safe destination where I could get help. I don't remember how long I had been walking, but I eventually had come across a tree I found recognizable. I looked up, and far above me was what looked like a tree house. Wait…a tree house…holy shoot!

I knew where I was. Squinting my eyes and using my enhanced vision, I saw in the distance a light blue two story house with a white roof top. Mom's house! I immediately started running, well what you would call limping/running I guess, towards my mother's house. I had lost a lot of blood and things had started to spin. Maybe this was all a delusion. Maybe it was just a mental image of my mother's house. I was already out the forest and in the yard, which was probably a few acres big, when I suddenly started to get a terrible headache. But I couldn't give up.

I limped towards the front door; because heck knew there would be no way I could get in through the window. I went up the few steps onto the porch but ended up tripping, my vision blurring. It was still pouring and I was cold, bleeding, and dizzy. I dropped on the porch making a loud thud.

I heard someone get up from the house and the started walking to the door.

"Who is it?" I heard my mom as she opened the door. Her eyes widened as she saw me in the shape I was in. "MAX! FANG GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!" She yelled, trying to get me into the house and into the living room.

She had lied me down on the couch, and I closed my eyes. Fang had run down the stairs and looked across the living room, until he finally noticed me.

"Max…," he uttered. Mom's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. What was that all about? My mom ran back into the room with a first aid kit, and even though I kept my eyes closed, I could tell that they were trying to stop me from losing anymore blood.

"Stay with me," my mom said. "Max, whatever you do, don't go to sleep! Open your eyes!" she said.

But of course there was no possible way for me to keep my eyes open any longer. I just had to get…some….rest.

Hmm, I'll end the chapter here. Sorry folks, won't update until I get at least five reviews. But the soonest I can update is sometime this week, maybe not today or tomorrow though.

Tell me what you think about this chapter! Thanks for reading.

~Vivian

(xX9Music-Lover9Xx)

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