Here In Your Arms

Chapter 3: Demons

Thanks for all of your reviews. I hope this story is everything you think it will be. I will be working on longer chapters, but I am so busy I get in a hurry. 

Disclaimer- once again….do not own the flock! If I did…I would be rich.

??? POV

We glided silently in the night looking down into the trees and mountains searching for them. We had an idea where they were, that's where we probually would have been to if we could have so we headed toward the nearest town. "Lets go in and ask if any kids have checked in." They nodded and we walked into the hotel. It was really nice actually, golden and warm and a fire was in the middle of the lobby. I glanced at my friend and he nodded, he is weird like that, he can smell a lot better than me and our other friend. We could all smell really well, but he could tell if some one had been here two hours ago. I nodded and we walked up to the desk anyways. So they were here. Good. Our mission would soon be over and we could be free from the school forever. We had been looking forward to this for five years, ever since the white coats had told us about the mission.

"Hello how can I help you." Smiled the blonde preppy girl behind the desk.

"We are just looking for some friends of ours and were wondering if they had maybe checked in here?" I smiled back at her and my friends snickered behind my back. Quite the charmer I heard one of them mutter behind my back. I promised myself to take care of him later.

"Ok what are their names?" She stared at all of them.

" Maximum Ride, and umm." I didn't know any of the other names they liked to use. I looked at the others and one of them shrugged while the other stepped forward.

" Maximum, Ariel, Nick, Jeff, Zephyr, and Krystal." He said smiling at the girl. What a flirt I thought. He smirked. " My friend has short memory loss so you are going to have to watch out, he would forget his own name if me and Sam weren't here." I growled and he sniggered his way into a corner with Sam on his heels muttering something about making me mad not being a good thing.

"Yeah well…We love each other." She laughed. "Could you tell please tell us what room they are in?"

For a second she looked like she wasn't going to as it is kind of against the rules to give out room numbers and such. But after five minutes of my looking sad, and smiling at her she finally gave in. Excellent. I turned around and snapped my fingers. Sam and Ryan hopped up and out of the squishy chairs and walked quickly toward me. "Third Floor, rooms 345, 347, and 344. Max herself is in 344 so we should start there." I whispered this as we pushed buttons in the elevator. Sam looked confused and started sniffing around. "They wouldn't have come by elevator Sam, they were raised in cages unlike us remember? So they probally have a fear of closed spaces." Sam nodded then crossed his arms as the elevator went upward toward floor three. Bing. The elevator doors opened and we stepped out. "Go left." Ryan said as we hurried to find room 344. We found it and stood silently outside looking at the door. "Remember the plan guys." They nodded and I knocked on the door.

MAX'S POV

I sat up on the bed woken up from my deep sleep by a slow steady beating on the door. I sighed figuring it was Nudge or Angel or someone. I walked silently toward the door trying not to wake Fang. I opened the door slowly rubbing my eyes. " What do you guys want? Its only seven and we had a long night so you should go back to…." I stopped rubbing my eyes and sucked in air fast trying not to scream. This was not angel or any of my flock. Three lean tall guys stood in my doorway with smiles on their faces and their arms crossed across their chests. I took a step back. I turned around to make sure Fang was still asleep. He was. Good. I turned around and faced the guys. "Can I help you?" I stuttered not sure what I was saying.

"Hello Max, and yes you can help us." The tallest one smiled at me. He has really insane white teeth. I swear I almost slammed the door in their perfect faces when I heard him say my name. I looked at him instantly tired and wary. I noticed that I was only in a pair of boxers and a tank. They had apparently noticed to because they were having a hard time keeping their eyes on my face. I stomped my foot to make Fang wake up, I knew he would.

"Um...Who are you guys." They laughed at me but I didn't care, I had to know everything before they were allowed in my room.

" Sorry guess I should have told you that already. My name is Luke, and these are my friends Sam and Ryan." He pointed at his two friends behind him and each nodded when he said their names. I figured out that the shortest one was Ryan. He looked about Angels age and his hair was so blonde it looked white. The next was Sam. He looked around Nudges age, he had brown hair with blue highlights and spiked hair. Then their was Luke who was my age was tall and lean and had pitch black hair that was messy and fell to his chin. I felt Fang finally walking over to me. Silent as always.

"Um so…now that I know your names…why are you here?" I really had no idea why they were standing in front of my door. They looked normal…nothing that would be a dead give away, they didn't look like Erasers, as perfect as they were they just weren't giving off those vibes, and I knew Fang thought the same thing because he wasn't saying anything.

"We just escaped the school, and knew where to find you because we heard the Erasers talking about you, we have been searching the whole state all night and are really tired." He said this really quickly. I glanced at Fang. He shook his head not knowing what to do.

"If you let us in your room we will show you why we had to get out so badly."

"I…but….umm….why don't you show us out there? Its really early still and as far as we could tell there is no one on this floor." I was thinking quickly about how I could keep them out of my room. They shrugged and took off their shirts. Dang do they have muscles! Almost as much as Fang! Then they spread out pitch black feathery wings, and I gasped.

More tomorrow. I think this chapter is long than the others. But I couldn't think of anymore that could go in this chapter and it is late and I have school tomorrow. Darn…anyways review please!!