Chapter 28: Wassup?
~~Catty~~
AMBROSIA POV:
Since yesterday I had a whole mix of feelings jumping around inside my head. Confusion and annoyance were the biggest, and other random ones like worry, hate and sadness also managed to spin inside my thoughts. Half of the time my thoughts were actually questions. Un-answered, annoying questions. Such as: How the hell were we videotaped? Why didn't Alice see it coming? Why didn't I see it coming? Grrr…
I looked around at our surroundings. Rosalie, Emmett, Alexa, Elfohrys, Elyador, and I were all crammed inside Emmett's Jeep. Emmett was singing some annoying song on the radio, while Rosalie and Alexa were talking. Elfohrys and Elyador seemed to be in some kind of mental conversation, so I didn't want to bother either of them. Bored and frustrated, I looked outside. We were on a highway, with a lot of cars not nearly as nice as ours. It looked like we were in some small town. We seemed to be pulling up to some kind of motel. Huh, why would there be a motel in a small town? It wasn't exactly the kind of place I could imagine the Cullens staying at.
"Emmett? Why are we at this motel? Couldn't we stay in somewhere, I don't know, that doesn't look like Hobo Inn?" I asked grumpily. Hey I didn't like cars, and since we'd been driving for 6 hours in a confined space, I wasn't in the greatest of moods. Plus there was that looming mystery of us being seen… Emmett just chuckled. Even though he was driving, he looked at me in the rearview mirror.
"We are staying at 'Hobo Inn' because we want to stay somewhere inconspicuous incase someone happens to recognize us."
"Whatever." I looked out the window again, as Emmett parked. I wasn't going to argue, and plus, I've slept under ROCKS before, I could take a motel. I stepped out of the car and took Elyador's hand. We walked in the entrance and an elderly lady with frizzy hair greeted us. Emmett went over to talk with her. I looked around the shabby lobby. Well compared to this place, rocks sounded slightly inviting…. We were the last ones there because Edward was driving the other car, and I heard that he could go pretty fast…. Apparently Edward already booked a couple of rooms for a while. I didn't know how long we were planning on staying in this place. After Emmett had told the lady that we were the "Jones party" and had reservations, she pointed us up to the second floor. This place only had two levels, and frankly, I wasn't enjoying either of them.
We stopped at room number 239, and I opened the door with my keycard. I heard the little "click" and opened the door. The room only had one queen-sized bed, which I believed that Elyador and I would be sharing. We actually didn't need the beds, because we wouldn't be sleeping, but ya know, they were good props. Just then Alice flitted into the room and sat on the bed, arms crossed with a bitter expression on her face. "Since I saw what you two were planning on doing tonight, I'm hereby making you," she pointed to me. "Ambrosia and Alexa stay in this room, and you," she pointed to Elyador. "Elyador and Elfohrys stay in the one all the way down the hall." Her face was stiff, and she reminded me of a mother scolding her children for a moment.
I sighed, decided that I would humor Alice. "Fine, I'll stay with Alexa tonight, and Elyador will stay with Elfohrys. Now get out of my room." Elyador looked at me with a surprised look, and then sighed also.
"Yes, I also agree to your completely absurd plan." Elyador said, rolling his eyes and raising his arm as if he were vowing something. I grinned. Alice smiled and jumped up to kiss us both on the cheek before she left, skipping down the hall.
"I think I'm going to spend the day with Alexa, if you don't mind. I haven't had any real 'girl time' with her yet. You should hang out with Elfohrys." I didn't really want to leave him, but he seemed like he and Elfohrys needed some 'guy time' as well. He smiled and kissed me for a minute until I was slightly dizzy. He pulled away, pecked me on the cheek really quick, smiled and flitted out the door leading to the hallway.
I knocked on the door to the room Alexa was in, and after a moment she was at the door smiling.
"So what do you want to do today? Elyador came in here to get Elfohrys and said that you said that you wanted to hang with me today." I shrugged as she stepped out in the hallway.
"I don't know, I just haven't spent that much time with you since you 'woke up'." I knew that Alexa wasn't completely 'rested up', according to Carlisle, but she seemed perfectly fine to me.
"Yeah I know. God I hate Aro! Damn him..." She shook her head as if to remind herself not to get too angry. After all, Aro was dead.
"Well hmm, what should we do?" I said while I walked down the steps. We exited out the front doors, and made our way to the back of the motel. This was a smallish town, so the parking lot in the back was all cracked up, and there were over grown shrubs bordering the perimeter of it.
"I have an idea." Alexa spoke up, after a while of silent walking. "We should find the nearest park; I really want to practice my powers." That sounded like a great idea.
"Yes! I like it. Can we find a lake or something? I need to bend some water otherwise I'll be pathetic at it." I smiled, and she returned the grin.
"Okay, first we need to find a travel center or something, so we can get a map." Alexa said. We found a tourist center a while later, and managed to figure out that we were in the northern part of South Dakota, and if we walked a couple of miles we would land in a huge national park…with a lake. Well we didn't exactly want to walk all that way, partly because Alexa still needed to rest and partly because we were lazy, so we stole Emmett's Jeep and took off. The road down there was so pretty, so earthy, and I could tell when we were in the park, because a forest started growing denser with even more pine trees as we drove further. Something occurred to me while we were driving. Both Alexa and I were 14, how did we learn how to drive?
"Uh, Alexa?" I asked, despite the fact that it was completely off topic of the conversation we were having a minute ago, "How can we drive? We're only 14…" Alexa seemed to get an 'oh yeah' kinda face, and then shrugged.
"Well I guess since we're elves, we mature faster than the normal person, so we're, like, already full grown. The driving thing probably comes naturally, like the normal elf would be riding a horse or something…At least that's Carlisle's theory." I relaxed and pulled up to a parking space in a gravel lot. We got out, and hiked into the woods by the lake, 'cause you know, if we would've gotten seen by someone that wouldn't have turned out so pretty. The woods were mostly pine trees, and they smelled amazing! There was a small, tree rooted path that wound up into the forest to the right, but instead we turned left, towards the lake and off the path. We stopped a while into the woods, in a big clearing far off of the trail. I couldn't hear, see or smell a human for miles, so I knew that we were alone.
I turned around and faced Alexa and clapped my hands together. "Okay let's see some daisies!" I said to Alexa, helping her with her power. She shut her eyes for a moment, opened them, looking pointedly around the clearing. Where ever her gaze went, a patch of bright yellow daisies would sprout up from the ground. She closed her eyes again, to stop her power. She looked at me excitedly. "Yay! I've never made quite that many daisies before, with just my eyes. That was so cool! Now it's your turn." We walked over to the lake at the edge of the huge clearing, and I knelt in front of it, my knees wading in the shallow water. "Shoot a geyser up from the water."
I concentrated all of my power into the grey marbled water stone in the pouch around my neck. I could feel the energy it was giving me, and used all my energy and concentration to pull that up through my arms into my fingers. I opened my eyes and shot my hand into the air above my head. While I did this a huge geyser sprouted up from the pool of clear water and went a good hundred or so feet in the air. I smiled as I controlled it to go higher and higher. The geyser was about four feet wide, and was a good 20 feet away from me. I controlled it so neither me nor Alexa got sprayed with water. It must have stayed up there for a good two minutes. I dropped my hand, and the geyser went back into its place in the water. "Yes! That was so-" I was going to say "awesome" or "wicked cool", but a murmur above me made me snap my head up, and clamp my mouth shut. My super acute hearing had let me heard something far above in the skies. My eyes narrowed at the sky. It sounded almost like humans, but I couldn't hear any planes…
Alexa heard it too because she was looking at the same place I was, directly up in the sky. I could make out six forms a couple thousand feet above us. Even though it was twilight, I could see perfectly. They appeared to be some type of hawk, but they were shaped differently. The shapes were descending, fast, and I could hear the murmuring getting louder and louder, like someone was turning up the volume on a radio. I decided to have a mental conversation with Alexa, just in case these things had super acute hearing, like we did.
(Ambrosia is underlined, Alexa is in italics)
You see that, right?
No duh, you blonde. I mentally rolled my eyes. Yeah I see them, and they sure as heck aren't hawks, let me tell you that.
But they can't be human, can they? I mean they're speaking English; I just can't make out the actual words.
We both started running into the woods from the clearing, and hid behind a boulder.
What could they be! At that rate they'll be landing in this clearing in about thirty seconds…
Should we greet them? What if they can help us?
Let's just wait and see if they look like a threat or not.
From behind the boulder I could see them landing. Wow they were so graceful! They appeared to be kids, with wings. All of them looked like they could use a good shower. There were three girls and three boys. The oldest girl appeared to be around our age, and seemed to be the leader. She had long blonde hair, and was very thin and nimble, but inhumanly strong at the same time, by the look of it. Two of the boys looked to be the same age too. One had chin length, straight black hair, and was about the size of the girl. The other boy was taller, with short red hair. His eyes didn't seem right for some reason…Was he blind? A girl with dark russet skin and long black hair landed next, and she was definitely a few years younger than the older kids, but not as young as the boy and girl that landed last. They looked like the only ones who were related, both having light blonde hair, the boy looking a little older than the girl, who must have been six years old. "What do you think, Max? Some new kind of experiment?" The older boy with black hair said.
"I don't know, Fang, that geyser must have been a signal or something. It was too controlled-looking. Plus it was timed perfectly, just as we flew past it went off. I also smell something." She paused and sniffed the air, as did everyone else, and then the group split up and walked throughout the clearing. "It's a sweet kind of smell, almost icy, except-" she paused and sniffed again. "There are two of them." She sounded so sure.
I started to get goose bumps.
"One smells almost like a spice, and the other smells like some kind of water lily?" The supposedly blind red head said. I decided that we should make ourselves known at that point, so I stepped out of the boulder."Hey." I said so simply, and six pairs of eyes shot to my face. "Please don't get scared, 'cause we're not humans. We're elves."
Alexa then followed me as I walked into the clearing slowly, with my arms extended, as if showing them that I wasn't going to hurt them.
"Elves?" The leader said, slightly confused, as if she didn't believe in "mythical creatures". Then she snorted. "Prove it, you're not gonna fool us that easily." She said as she crossed her arms across her chest.
"Yes, we are elves. We were changed by an evil family of vampires, intent on experimenting on us for their own pleasure." Alexa said bitterly, and then the bird kids exchanged a loaded glance.
"If you want proof, honestly do we look human?" I pushed back my short, ash blonde hair to expose my pointed ears.
"We can also run faster than humans can. Watch." Alexa and I took off towards the woods at vamp speed, and rushed back again. "We also have 'powers'. Mine is water and hers is earth." I turned a small patch of air into ice, and Alexa grew a tree. "Believe us now?" I said with a sly grin on my face.
"Well, elves-"
"Please, call me Ambrosia, and this is Alexa."
The leader smiled, but still kept herself protected. Her tone had a strange hint of sarcasm and anger. "My name is Max. This is Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel." She waved her hand at each one when she called their names. "Looks like we've got a lot in common."
Bam! Chapter 28 is complete! Muahahahaha! I'm excited cause this is the first chapter that I, Catty, wrote. Even though it is Emma's fanfic. In case you're reading this and you haven't read Maximum Ride, well that's where the characters came from. Disclaimer: I don't own ANY of these characters. Alexa, Ambrosia, Elyador, and Elfohrys are stephmeyerfan14's, the Cullens, the Volturi, the Wolves, etc. are Stephenie Meyer's, and the bird kids are James Patterson's. Hope ya liked it! :o)
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~~Catty~~
