Three- Old Acquaintances Three- Old Acquaintances

(Max POV)

"So we meet, Maximum Ride." A rough voice said behind me. I spun around and cursed that singer for distracting me. There were ten Erasers behind us give us those evil wolf grins of theirs.

"And who the heck are you?" I hissed at the one who seemed to be in charge.

"It doesn't matter." He said giving me an even eviler grin.

This was just great. Unavoidable fight, ten Erasers six flock, no big deal, defenseless ordinary human behind us, a bit bigger of one. And was it just me or had the entire populous of this stupid town vanished.

I glanced back at the singer expecting her to look frightened of these freaking huge model-like guys with evil grins plastered on their faces but nope, she was scowling at lead Eraser boy.

"His name's Rex." Angel told me via telepathy, "And the singer knows him and her name's not Luna."

And you know all this how?

"Well right now she was thinking 'What the freaking heck is Rex doing here?' and after she told me her name she was thinking 'I'm lying to a six-year-old. What is the wold coming to?'"

And you didn't think that this was important before because…

" 'Cause I wanted to hear another song."

I glanced back at the still scowling singer and then decided to try to use this new info to my advantage, "So then, Rex, what exactly did you want?"

Lead Eraser boy, now known as Rex, looked like he was about to say something but then a look of pure shock crossed his face. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the singer's expression change ever so slightly and she glanced towards me at the same time Rex spoke, "How'd you—"

"A little birdie told me." That obviously wasn't the answer he was looking for because he got really mad and lunged at me and the rest of the Erasers took that as the cue to attack.

I dodged out of the way of Rex's lunge and managed to elbow another in the gut before spinning around to kick a third in the face. I heard a growl behind me then oof and I saw Rex land on his back several feet away. I was about to shout thanks to Fang or whoever had got Rex before he got me but Fang was fighting off two Erasers (with Total in his backpack) several feet away. Iggy was holding his own against one, Nudge was dancing around another while Gazzy threw rocks and dirt at it, and Angel was telling several to ram their heads into trees. So who had taken down Rex?

As if just to answer my question the singer, who I'd previously assumed would have run away from the freaky wolf things, walked up to Rex with her hands in the pockets of her windbreaker and put her foot on his chest before he could get back up.

"Hi Rexy." She said in a sweet innocent voice that rivaled Angel's as she dug her heel into his chest.

Rex looked really mad but then the angry look on his face was replaced by shock, like see a ghost kind of shock, "Impossible!" He said, "You're dead!" That would explain the 'see a ghost' shock.

"Really?" The singer said with mock confusion, "I guess I didn't get that memo." The evil-sweet smile was back again.

"Why you—" Rex grabbed the singer's foot and threw it off of him as he stood. She used the momentum he had created for her to spin on her other foot and dodge him as he lunged at her. It almost looked like Rex's claws went strait through her instead of around and that's obviously what he thought because he'd stopped dead and was staring at his hand, "What the heck?"

Fang appeared behind me startling me enough to do a three-sixty sweep and notice that all the other Erasers were either out cold or had run away realizing they were getting their butts kicked leaving just Rex. "What's with them?" Fang asked me.

"I don't know." I told him realizing that the rest of the flock was watching the two of them as well.

"Maybe I am dead." The singer said her smile getting less sweet and more evil. She had obviously wanted Rex to think his claws had passed through her instead of missing, "Maybe your little broken angel has come back to haunt you." Rex lunged again and again the singer spun out of the way. "By the way," The singer said, "you might want to know that the rest of your pack seems to have deserted you."

Rex glanced around and growled before growling something incomprehensible at me and retreating.

"Well that was... interesting." The singer said the creepy evil-sweet smile was gone along with the sweet innocent voice and her lips were pressed into a thin line.

I turned toward her and she to me, "Who are you really?" I asked.

The singer smiled slightly. Not the evil-sweet smile but just a normal smile, "Ionnae." She said, "And we might want to skip town before these goons wake up."

Okay, everybody, you're going to have to be even more patient with my slowness because things are starting to get very different.

To anyone who didn't read the original Ionnae is pronounced eye-on-ae

Thank you to all readers and reviewers who put up with my slowness and the death of my first story.

-Ebony-