Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride. Short, sweet, and right to the point.

Max POV:

I look over at the bodies and came to the realization that we were outnumbered. Maybe for every man we had they had three to cover him. This was not good.

"Vincent, we're outnumbered." I whispered. He nods in response and looks over our enemy.

"We will fight in sequence. This is only a challenge that we must surpass. We have come too far to quit now." Somehow, one of the twins came from behind me with a gold bow, arrow ready.

"I guess it's too late to say we come in peace, huh?" A smile comes over Vincent's lips. That's when he charges forward. The rest of us followed suit, but broke off in different directions, in different groups. I'm not too sure when those were set up, but I just stayed with Vincent and Journey and we went straight for a group of those soldiers.

My sword sliced through armor, and cut through the opposing wooden spears that dared to oppose me. Wow. This is amazing. Either my weapon is off the charts amazing or their armor is just terrible. I like the first option more.I cut down one of the soldiers in front of me by slicing his neck, as soon as he falls another comes from behind me with his sword raised high above his head. I quickly block with my shield and deflect him. After that, I bring my sword forward and pierce him through the stomach.

"Max!" I follow Vincent's voice and look back. He was surrounded by five soldiers. At first, I thought he was calling for help, but when I saw how he knocked all of them down with one swing of his sword I thought otherwise. "Max, turn around!" Three more of those soldiers were right behind me. One with a sword, another with a spear, and the last with a bow.

"I got it." I watched the archer closely as I charged them. His reach was what made him more of a challenge if it came to us being one on one. The swordsman was the first to meet me, there we clashed. He blocked my attacks from the body blows to the clear head shots. Then he got lucky and struck my side. First pain rushed through me, then anger came almost instantly. Did he just hit me?! Oh HELL no!

I bring my sword up and bring it down on his shoulder. He gave a cry of pain, brought his sword up for a counterattack, and missed. So, I just as quickly bring my sword up again and slice his chest. The spear user came over, but the archer was gone. Where was he? No matter. I have to get him first. I push the spear away from my face and push my sword through the slit in his helmet. Blood coated it on contact. Now the gold was stained. Oh well. Now where was that archer?

"Aggghh!" A sharp pain came to my shoulder. When I looked down the first thing I notice is a black arrow, now resembling the color of red thanks to my blood. "What the-?" I look around quickly for the archer that I missed before. Where did he go? I knew I should've kept my eye on him. Once I spot him a mere few feet away, readying a new arrow, I start to rage. I look around at the scattered bodies, either of my enemies or my allies, and to my luck, spot a discarded bow. I rush for it, wrap my hand around the arrow, and quickly yank it from my shoulder. There was hardly any pain from the removal, since I'm been shot before. There was a technique to removing these things when in battle. I spot my target again and reassemble the arrow.

"Hmph. Thanks for the arrow, but you can have this back." Then I let go. It soared through the air with sharp accuracy. Needless to say, it found his skull with no problem. A small rush of victory hits me when I see him fall, but that turns bittersweet very quickly because the next thing I know, a distinctive cry snaps me out of it.

"Ahhhh!"

"Nico!" He was on the ground with three soldiers stabbing him with his sword. "Nico!" I quickly ran over and, unsurprisingly, Nina was here a spear of her own. Her face was covered in blood that I prayed wasn't hers, her eyes were fueled by anger, and her spear was everywhere. The two soldiers that were closest to her went down instantly from decapitation. The third seemed confused as to what he should do. Run? Or fight this angered girl?

"Die!" And after seeing his allies fall, he still thought he could take Nina on. He raised his sword to strike, but was cut short by his mid-section being sliced in half. Then, she actually stood over him and started stabbing him continuously. Whoa. I'll admit Nina kind of scared me right then.

"Uh, Nina?" She stopped to look at me. Her green eyes scaled over me for a second, before she lowered her weapon. She was still being fueled by her anger.

"Max, how is he?" I look down at Nico and quickly get to his side. His armor did a good job of blocking against the attacks, but there was still a lot of damage to his chest. The golden armor was still stained with red.

"I'm not a doctor, but he's hurt pretty bad." That's when Nina occupied the other side of him.

"Max, cover us." She put her hands on his chest and searched for the source of the huge blood flow. When she did, she quickly pushed her fingers into it, while she looked around for a makeshift bandage. "Nico, it's gonna be okay. Just stay calm."

"N-Nina." His voice was strained so much; I could barely make out what he was saying.

"Shhh. Just be quiet." She was near tears now. Oh no. How much more? I look over the battlefield and see that the enemy had been dwindled down to only a small few. Many of them were scattered over the ground, but the soldiers I saw that belonged to us made my heart drop. I looked back to the twins and saw they had four soldiers going against them. One had two to himself. Both had their bows on their backs. To replace them, they used a sword. They stood back to back with huge grins on their faces. It seemed like they said something before going after the soldiers and coming out as victors. Whoa.

"Max, look out!" I turn around to see a single soldier coming over with a spiked hammer. He brought it down and just barely hit me. I take my sword to his chest, but I hear a loud "clank". Uh oh. He looks at me and through that helmet, I could see that smile aimed right at me. When he brings the hammer down again, it slams right against my head. I fall to the ground and taste blood. The warm liquid covers my face, also ruining my vision. But that didn't cover the image of the man that stood over me with a huge smile and a spiked hammer my head. I grab my sword and block from the attack he launches. That didn't do very well. He only slammed it to my chest and knocked the air out of my chest. I strain to look at him, but the blood was already making that harder. Oh no. Don't tell I meet my end this way. No. This can't be it. I can't die this way. What about Fang? Everyone is waiting for me to comeback. This can't happen. This can't be happening. I struggle to grab my sword again. That's when he brings the hammer up all over again.

"Max!" Vincent calls. When his voice falls over, I make out his figure and see him strike the hammer man. Journey's blond hair joins in and she takes her hits. I push away when I see him struggle to keep his footing against the both of them. Then as if it wasn't bad enough for him, the twins and some more of our soldiers joined in. Blood, and screams of pain came all over the place. I wanted to get up, but whenever I did my body quickly shut down and told me otherwise.

"Dang it!" I try to get up again, but by then the hammer man was on his knees and soon enough was on his chest. Dead. "Ugh!" I fell back again. I missed the whole thing.

"Max." I look over at one of the twins. "We did it. Come on." He picks me up and that bright smile he gives me makes me feel pretty bad about not being able to return it. My face was in too much pain.

"Yay." I say bitterly. His smile gets bigger.

"Let's go." I look over the battlefield again. We were victorious. Yes. My first fight in the Royal Army and we won. That's something I should definitely write in my diary. Ha, yeah right. Vincent, Journey, the other twin, Nina, and several other soldiers, one carrying Nico come over. We were all injured. Vincent's arm was bleeding and Journey was in her current condition with her eye. Twin was cut, but still smiling.

"Sir, what do we do now?" he asks. Vincent looks over to the gates that now stood before us.

"We go complete our mission." We all follow him in no specific formation. "Finally." Vincent slams his hand over the door, before noticing the two large soldiers standing guard. Did they see us fighting? "We were sent from the west. We have a mission from our king." They look over us. Vincent pulls the scroll from his armor and shows the seal. I guess that's all it takes, because they let us in.

Bright lights burn my eyes. The beauty of the kingdom was scorched by the pain I was feeling.

"Come on." Vincent points out the castle and we follow. People looked at us like were crazy. Cant blame them though. Two more soldiers stood guard and again, Vincent had to do the scroll thing. When the large doors bearing the insignia of a lion open, we creep in. Gold was everywhere. The floor, walls, ceiling, everything.

"Oh!" I look up to the staircase and see a young man at the top. His hair was blonde, and his eyes seemed like a deep sea of blue. They were gorgeous. But, judging by the fancy robe he wore, I knew who he was.

"Father?" An older man came from behind him, sees us, and starts smiling. "Is that-?"

"Ahhhhh! The Army!" He comes down the stairs. "Vincent!" He takes Vincent's hand and shakes it. "How have you been?"

"You Highness, we have a message from our king. You must-"

"Oh!" The king sees his injuries, and then quickly looks at us. "You need help." He claps his hands and servants suddenly appear.

"Your Highness! You must see this!"

"After you are taken care of. Believe me, our medics are the best in the land." They moved like a blur; taking our soldiers and taking them away. Doctors came quickly and took us.

"Your Highness, this a treaty! You must read this!" The king looks at Vincent and takes the scroll he extends to him.

"Ahhhhh! But, treaty or no treaty, you are our guests now. We will take care of you, until all of you are okay." Vincent was confused.

"But-"

"I am but a humble man. War or not. That can be put aside until you are all well." Whoa. He is really…cool about this.

"Your Highness-"

"Vincent, you are a great captain. We will discuss this later. Now take him." Another doctor grabs Vincent and Journey. This is happening so fast. Is he really letting us stay here? The king looks at me and Twin. "Follow them, please." We head after the servant.

"The king is a good man. We are good hands." Twin says. But I wasn't paying attention to him, because I was caught off guard by the deep blue eyes that followed us out of the room.

Okay, this is all for now. Hope you enjoyed.