Title: Maximum Ride Nighingales Lament

Rating: T ( Some violence, minor coarse language, and minor suggestive adult themes)

Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Adventure/ Romance

Summary: Chaos consumes when Ashe finds out her world is no longer safe. An excapee from The Tower. She, her brothers, and sisters must take flight before they are taken and treated like propery once again. A startling find shows them the key to unravling a bigger plot than they have ever imagined.

Disclaimer:I don't own Maximum Ride, or anything out of the book. I do, however, own the plot, the characters, and anything else. I would also like to add Rebbeca's song is in here.

Author's note - Hello again! How have all you lovely people been? I hope it has been an enjoyable read so far. If anyone has feedback please leave a review.

Flashbacks and thoughts are in italic.

Chapter 4- Shoot the Moon

Summer days are gone far too soon. Leaving you to shoot the moon and miss completly. Letting you face the gloom all alone.

My mothers words floated into my head leaving me to ponder. Unitl I felt the sharp pain in my shoulder makeing stars fly into my vision and I was snapped back into reality. The warm blood soaked my leather dress. I felt my self tumble toward the ground. My wings let the air slow my decend but it was inebitable. I would hit the icy cold water below. But for now I was to suffer until either my mind or the impact killed me.

I blinked once and it hurt. Even the smallest movement hurt. Then panic and fear flooded my system. I had never panicked or feared before. Well except for once.

Flashback-

The lights were low and our cages swung slowly singing an erie song. I had to fight back vomit because of the deceased bodies in my cage. Each with abnormalities. Not a one was breathing in the room. Over a hundred dead kids layed lifeless. Murdered by derranged physo paths trying to 'perfect' the human race. I was all but eleven at the time and I knew what death smelled like. I knew the taste of terror and the shadow of death loom over all. I knew what it was like to be tourtered. I knew what it was like to give up and to feel the shadow embrace you but not strong enought to win the battle of tug-a-war.

I saw a door open and sank low to the bottom of the cage hoping that they would think I was dead. But I couldn't fool death's helpers. They knew who would not breath in the next hours, minutes, or seconds. I hoped mine would end fast. No suffering. Fast.

The keys rattled when they sunk into the locks giving clicks to tell when it was open. One of the many scientists scurried into the cage and picked me up. They had recently put restraints on my hands so I couldn't retaliat and I was too tired to move my legs. He petted my head and scurried back out.

"It is no good for you to be around so much death." He said as he pulled me flush aginst his body. I melted. I couldn't fight aginst him. I never could. He triggered something in me. Something that would render me harmless. I also knew what obbsession felt like. It was cold and hollow. Just like this man.

He set he down on the ground and I saw my brother across the room. He didn't look so good. In fact he looked like he had an incident with death. Then I smelt it. Death. It was comming. I saw people file into the room. All dressed presigestly. Only two carried metal trays filled with God knows what.

"I want you to watch this." The man whispered into my ear making me shiver.

"Watch what." I wasn't sure the words even came out.

"Your brother die." He said all too excidely for me. Then I relized Death was comming for Basch. These people where here for amusment. To watch my brother die. I had never felt fear before. Never. Until I saw the six inch needle and I panicked.

I lunged out of the mans grasp. In a near blur of white and black, I swept the scientist aside landing on my brother.

"NO!" I screamed and a light consumned me. Consumned everything. I heard some type of words but couldn't make out the dialect. The words were in a chant. Then the light died and everything around was nothing. Nothing. I heard only four heart beats. I saw the look of pure amasment on the mans face. He was loving it. Every minute of it. It was sickening. No amasment should be felt because of death.Then I realized something. Death wasn't comming for Basch, but for all those people I killed.

I sat up and my brother stirred a bit. Thank goodness. I sat up then a pain on my back made me slump forward falling into that mans arms. He held me and stroked my hair.

"Sleep for now my princess. You did good. Very good. Now all that stood in my way is gone. Love, get some rest." With that I felt horror and fear slowly creep up me until I fell into a dreamless sleep.

(End of flashback)

I thrased in the air despretly trying to grab at anything and everything I could but came up short of the edge. My mind went completly blank and I did the best I could to not black out. I started swearing in every language I could think of which did me no good except for the fact I wouldn't go straight to heaven. I saw the clear water below and did my best to flip over so I could see up not down.

I saw movement above me.Basch and Caleb were in a race aginst time to reach me but they had came too late. Then I realized that not only Basch and Caleb were flying, the girl that shot me was flapping her speckled wings hovering and the older male was right behind my to heros trying to reach me. But their attempts would be a lost cause. Basch screamed my name over and over. He held something out as he tried to catch up to me and it shone beautifully in the moon light. Wait. I put my hand up to my neck, which hurt, and felt for my mother's neckalace and felt only air. I felt catatonic and straightened like a board.

Now I was just falling freely over the waves with the wind whipping furiously against my face, my arms spread out to my side, my hair thrashed about aimlessly behind me as I stared into the deep lake of water beneath me. Tears appeared in my black eyes, eventually streaming down the side of me cheeks and seemed to be suspended in mid-air as I approached my imminent death. I blinked the tears away and closed my eyes tightly, waiting for my body to smash roughly against the water's surface with a loud splash. The moment seemed to be proceeding in slow motion. Finally, I reached the large pool and collided with it surface, bringing immense pain as I instantly sank into the water. I had hoped that it would only be a second or two but much to my displeasure, the moment to die did not come quickly but instead, painfully slow.

I turned onto my back to slightly ease the pain but it only brought more so much more. Opening my eyes I stared at the glistening water above me slowly being tainted with my crimson blood, waiting for my life to finally end. It felt like my lungs were about to explode from lack of air and convulsions over took making me thrash. Someone was swimming toward me, reaching out their hand to grab mine in an attempt to pull me out of the water… to save me from death. My breath eventually died away and I could feel my life slipping away from my grasp. My eyes closed and I allowed myself to be carried away… away from everything that surrounded me… away from everything I ever loved… into nothingness. Then I felt it, a hand clutching mine… and my eyes opened slightly, trying to focus on the figure above my that was so willing to risk their life to save mine from my watery demise. My blue lips were parted and I sucked in a mouthful of water. As of this moment in time, I started to see nothing but blurs of past moments with my flock and friends and… a flash of clear, ocean-blue eyes, staring down at me, full of hope and determination, urging me to survive as long as I could. Though I knew that, in the end, the attempt would not matter, I tried to stay alive long enough for me to be rescued but my world was soon shrouded in nothing but darkness and she drifted closer to the sand at the bottom, my body limp as my mind slowly faded away as the darkness took me away…

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