Maximum Ride is property of James Patterson. Kisha, Jamie, and Chris Reaper, Lash, Malissa, Deveann, and Dr. Washington are property of ME! Kumali is property of Jwan!

Three reviews... I could do better, oh well. Still at my cousin's house, might spend the night again, who knows? I have the Naruto Shippuuden theme song running through my head. For the record Jwan, I do NOT have writer's block! I always wander aimlessly when I don't have the whole plot completely formed yet. I drew some pretty awesome pictures of Adriana and Kai today. I'll only tell you that they are the children of some of the Maximum Ride characters, I won't tell you who, and I LOVE KAI! Sorry, I love him even more than Fang. I deserve to, he's cool. I have a black headband wrapped around my hand and it looks cool and gothic. I'm now going to get back to the story.

Kisha's POV

Mom pulled me off to the side once everyone was inside. "Phone for you." She smiled sweetly.

"Hello?" I said, hesitantly taking the phone.

"You moved without saying goodbye! Again!" It was Malissa.

"Well... something came up..." I murmured.

"Like what?"

"Fang is a Siren, Deveann is a Changelum, and Lash is dead."

"L-Lash is what?"

"She's dead."

"Oh... oh my. I erm... actually wanted to tell you that... Aaron and I are going steady but... gosh, I don't know if I can be happy anymore."

"It's fine. We're gonna have a funeral soon, wanna come?"

"Yeah. I know this is odd... but... how did she die?"

"Fang killed her."

"Oh." There was a long silence. "Call me when you want to hold the funeral."

"Will do." I hung up. When I got into the kitchen I sunk my fangs into Mom's delicious homemade cookies. The cookies that remind you of all the good things happening in your life. Gazzy had a crush, Iggy and Kumali were getting close, and Deveann's wound wasn't infected.

Deveann's POV

Kisha had a fever and needed to get to bed. I looked around the kitchen. She was no where to be found. "She's in the entry way on the phone with her friend." I nearly jumped. That wasn't Angel reading my mind. That was Jamie taking an educated guess. Kisha came in moments later. She picked up a handfull of cookies and shoved them in her mouth. I supressed a smirk. Fang raised an eyebrow. I tapped Kumali on the shoulder.

"I'm going on a tour, you're in charge." She gave me a quizzical look but shrugged. I put my hand on Kisha's shoulder and steered her over the fridge. "Pick out a drink." I told her. I grabbed the two liter of Mountain Dew and a plastic cup. I grabbed a bag of potato chips and led her to the guest bedroom. (ended up having to go home, boo hoo) "Get in." I ordered, pointing to the king sized bed with the white, pure cotton sheets and the fluffy, silky cream comforter. A room I was privalidged just to be standing in.

"I'm not sure I like where this is going." Kisha said, blushing profusely and glancing hestitantly at me.

"It's not like that!" My voice cracked and she giggled at me. "Just get in the freaking bed. If you don't I'll have to force you."

"It still doesn't sound right." She snickered, getting in and adjusting herself under the covers. I poured her a drink and handed her the bag of chips.

"Anime or the recommended Spanish soap operas?" I asked, picking up the remote to the plasma screen TV.

"Anime. Blood Plus... maybe Inuyasha or something... Oh! I know! I wanna watch Naruto Shippuuden!"

"But Naruto-" I began.

"Is so hot in Shippuuden! And I love Gaara!" She blushed.

"Fine." I turned on one of her many recordings.

"Sit with me." She patted the bed next to her. "I'm lonely and it's weird having you stand over there." I sat on the comforter next to her. She leaned up against me and batted her eyelashes a few times. I sighed and wrapped my arm around her, trying to relax. Before long I felt my eyes drift close and I fell asleep. What finally woke me up, what felt like seconds later, was a pair of warm, bubblegum flavored lips on my own.

"Hm?"

"You're awake." She smiled sweetly. I looked to the window, it was dark out.

"It's night, what'd you wake me up for?"

"I was bored." She fluttered her eyelashes again and traced my collar bone lightly with her nail.

"I'm not a toy, Kisha. You're not feeling well and you need your sleep." I turned on my side. Our noses touched.

"I don't want to go to sleep." She said firmly but quiet enough so that only I could hear it.

"Then what do you want to do?" I was catching on, now. Suddenly a sharp pain from my wound made my teeth clanch and I sucked in a breath.

"Deveann?" Kisha sat straight up, automatically reaching for my shirt.

"No, it's alright! I'm fine. Dr.Washington said we could easily treat the infection and the sharp pains will stop." Oh no.

"Infection? Deveann, you are infected! Why didn't you tell me?""I didn't want to put more stress on you.""Just trust me! I'll be fine!" She started to pull the covers off. She was going to pick up the phone. I held her down.

"You aren't going anywhere." I breathed. "You're going to have plenty of liquids and you're going to get some rest." She pouted at me. "Don't even try it." I chuckled.

"Fine." She growled. "Lemme at least see the injury." I lifted my shirt up just enough to see the bandage. She shook her head. "It's all bloody, didn't you change it just a few hours ago?" I nodded. "At this rate you'll die of blood loss." She folded her arms and slammed her back into the headboard. "(cencored) Erasers. I'm never gonna get married." I started laughing. "Deveann! This isn't funny!" She smacked me.

"I'm going to be fine. What I'm worried about is you." I stroked her soft shiny hair.

"Deveann, your blood isn't clotting... your blood cells aren't functioning right. They're trying to mutate to make your body compatible with Changelum blood." She growled under her breath. Then she snorted. "Of all the Changelums to have your blood mixed with it had to be me, the one who's DNA is outa whack. I want you to go see my mom about that wound." Then her eyes lit up. "Oh my gosh." She said smiling and turning to me. "Oh! I'm an idiot! The flower!"

"Huh?"

"My flower! You gave it to me! It's got healing properties!" She squealed, pushing me out of the way and running to Max. I ran to the doorway. Max's face was solemn, then, as they talked, became bright. She nodded and went into Kisha's room and came out with Kisha's back pack. She handed Kisha the flower. Because it was going to be another embarrassing time when Kisha will be saving my butt everyone had to be there. She practically tore my shirt off in her haste to fix what she felt she'd broken. She ripped through the the bandages. Once it was off she flinched. Kisha rips Eraser's heads off and she never flinches.

"What is it?"

"Well, for one, you've got blood practically pouring out of you, secondly, that stab was very close to hitting your spine. At the force that Eraser was packing, your spine would have litterally shattered." I flinched, too.

"Ew." Nudge and Angel whined. Kisha pressed the rose to my cut, instantly I felt skin grow over and the pain had become numb to was gone. Kisha handed me my shirt.

"You need to get back in bed." Kumali told her.

"But it's so boring!" She cried.

"The girls will come in and join you, it'll be like a party."

"Fine."

"You cannot stay up past three in the morning." I told her. "You need your rest." She stuck her tongue out at me. "Kisha, I'm being completely serious. I don't know what's wrong with you, we can't just write it off as a cold."

"I can do whatever I want to do, sick or not, I'm the leader."

"Kisha-"

"Hon, do what your friend says. He's just trying to help." We all jumped about five feet in the air. "Hello kids." She was doing laundry in the room across the hall. "For all we know you could be going through a severe genetic disruption..." She snickered. "Or maybe it's puberty." She shrugged and walked off with a basket full of folded clothes. For a minute we just stared at Kisha until she smacked herself in the head.

"Puberty, duh!" She walked back into her room. We all looked around at each other.

"Did anyone catch what they meant?" Iggy asked.

"Uh uh." We said as one.

"Not even you, Angel?" Gazzy said. Angel shook her head.

"Are you coming?" Kisha opened the door and asked the girls. Ther were weak yes's and muttered of agreement. The girls went in.

Kumali's POV

"We need to plan her funeral." Max said.

"Next week?" Nudge pitched in, taking my advice and sticking to short sentences.

"Yeah, that'd be good. It's going to be rainy all week." Kisha murmured.

"I don't get it. What did you mean by puberty?" Angel asked.

"Do you mean that like, what does it mean or what does it have to do with my situation?" Kisha asked.

"What's it got to do with your situation." I clarified.

"Well, your body releases unusual hormones when you go into puberty but Chagelums, being much like animals, and myself having wings, we have a sort of 'mating season.' Obviously, also being much like a human, when that time rolls around I have the ability to restrain myself but this has only happened once and that's because Chagelums don't reach the point where their body feels itself is fit to have children until their late teens. Once a Changelum goes into a sort of 'heat'," she looked around at us, making sure we were still with her, ignoring the fact that Max and I weren't really interested in Changelum mating habits, "they're rather... flirty, but if they haven't... mated by a certain time, they get desprate and also a little sick. That's what's happening to me right now." There was a moment of silence.

"You're in heat?" I blurted.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Alright, that was funny! I got out of my, "She says 'Fine.' and then what?" phase. That was funny! I, personally, think that it's funny. I was going to have Jwan finish up this chapter and then create a ton of Kimmy chapters but then I got bored and started writting again. Don't worry, the Kimmy stuff is still going to be in here. I told her to make very thought she had Kimmy related. I really wanna hear what she comes up with. She said she thought you guys would get bored of Kimmy. Then I go, "They never get bored of Fax." You guys love Kimmy, right? I'm going to have a course of Kimmy, a course of Faxness, a really said dessert of Kevin and that's it. I'll have some Kevin side dishes, though cuz I can't keep myself away from Kevin for long. Please Review! If you don't, no update for you! Kisses!