Hello everyone!!! This is Morningrain
Really sorry about not updating, my cousin got major writers block on this story and I've been bugging her about it for MONTHS so now I decided to just post my chapter that I wrote forever ago, and if cousin STILL has writers block, well I'ma take your advice and finish the story.. So if the part with Max becomes kind of screwy... well I can always say I DID warn you!!
This is the chappi I wrote forever ago when I was waiting for Bloodfang to update…
Disclaimer: I DO NOT me repeat DO NOT own Maximum Ride, story, plot and characters, etc. but I do own this plot and what ever happen within it.
Iggy's POV
Then suddenly all the corners turned sharp.
"M-Max?"My voice shook as I said it and echoed off the blank room's walls.
"Yeah it's me" she replied, but something was wrong in my ears with the sound of her voice. "We've got a lot of catching up to do."
"Max is everything ok? Something doesn't sound right…" I asked suppressing the urge to shout out 'what happened to Fang?!?' Normal Max would blow up, what would changed Max do? But then again, what do I care? If Fang is dead…
"A lot happened to me since they captured me," she answered with a slight humorless laugh. "The flock is ok, when the school captured you they flew away, but now I need you to tell me where this new meet-up place is so when we escape if we are separated I'm not blundering about across the country."
"So Fang excaped, he's alive," I breathed out a sigh of relief letting my head 'plop' against the wall behind me.
"Yes I DID say they all got away," her tone was flat and had a sharp color to it.
"Max something isn't right, what did they do to you?" I tried to keep my voice calm but a sudden rush of adrenalin came and my heart beet sped up.
"Tell me this first Iggy, why when you were unconscious did you keep repeating Fang's name?
I froze in fear. Her voice was razor sharp and I could hear the suppressed anger. Not only could I hear it though, but her whole body radiated with the deadly anger boiling inside of her.
"You've missed a lot Max," I whispered letting my voice trail off. 'What is she going to do with me now?' I thought feeling terror. Then I realized how afraid I was and that shocked me. This is Max, flock leader and mother to us, but the anger coming from her was immense and seemed to grow with every passing moment.
"Max calm down! Nothing happened I just... I just kind of fell for him… but nothing happened! He didn't even say he loved me…" I trailed off. By chasing me and hugging me didn't that at least mean something?
"Stop freaking beating around the topic! He left me while I was gone didn't he? That piece of cow crap! He told me he loved ME! And he goes for YOU? The blind kid who, oh let's see, IS A GUY?"
"Max it really isn't that big of a- what's wrong with the fact that we are both guys!?! And for your information, and everyone else's, I'M NOT JUST THAT BLIND KID" I yelled but before I could realize just how stupid that was to do Max launched herself at me knocking me from my seat and banging my head against the ground on my side.
"I was going to just let you take me to the flock THEN kill you all and take Fang, but I have had a change of heart," Max grinned evilly picking me up from the floor by my wrists and slamming me against the wall. I felt something cold and hard slide from the wall and circle my wrists. Realizing what was happening I kicked with my legs and struggled to get free before my legs were locked in as well, or at least try to make it harder for them to be locked in. But max was just TOO strong. After my wrists were locked in she jabbed her elbow into my side with a crack of ribs then grabbed my ankles and held them till they were locked in as well. Once I was secured she stepped back.
"Now, you are going to tell me where the flock is and you are going to join me in taking them down, or else I am going to enjoy breaking you," she said with an obvious grin in her voice.
I couldn't talk because my mind was full of too many things and my ribs screamed in pain with every breath, but I had had worse and by the sound of it... worse was coming. When I'd caught my breath and mind I opened my mouth to lie to her, of course I would never give the flock away, but before I could say anything her hand slapped down on my mouth.
"I'm going to give you some time to think first, after all I don't want you getting away from me without more… serious injuries," her cold voice rasped in my ear.
Dread seeped into my core, but it was followed by a rush of adrenalin and certainty. No matter what they did to me I was not going to help them take down the flock. I thought about Fang and knew I would never betray him especially.
I felt Max's gaze on my face and I knew she knew my answer, but I also knew she didn't care.
Fang's POV
Pain raced through me as something hit me hard, and I heard the cracking of many bones. Warm soft arms then wrapped around me and held me for a moment. "Iggy..." I said but my mouth failed before I could finish the last part 'I love you'. Then blackness took over my mind, a pool of it drowning me and tossing me. Clogging my ears and the last thing I heard was a cry of pain from the only thing that matter to me then cold. Cold and pain.
I woke up for a moment when something hard and flat hit me then my mind shattered with my body. Pain… were did it all come from? How could one body have so much pain...?
Angel's POV
"Fang, Iggy?" I said knocking on Fang's door. "Heellllooooooo? We decided to move to the cave we found the first day we moved here, why won't you guys respond?" worry chewed at my insides then I decided to break the rule Max had set of 'not invading peoples privacy by reading there mind' and I opened my mind to their voices, and heard nothing.
I walked through the slightly open door to find the room empty. "FANG IGGY!!!!!" I yelled "Were are you!?!?!?" but no response.
"What's wrong Angels?" Gazzy asked as he, nudge, and total came up to see what was going on.
"Fang and Iggy are missing!!!" I yelled while running out the door to see if they were in another room, maybe Iggy's, or Max's? When I found though empty I ran outside.
"They're not here, I checked" Gazzy said, his voice shaking slightly.
"What happened to them? What if the erasers got them? Or do you think they went searching for max without us? They could of thought it to dangerous for us but isn't it dangerous for us to stay here alone? Should we go looking for them? I think we should do recon mission" then, to all of our amazement Nudge stopped talking of her own accord. "I think we should fly in big circles around the house to look for any sign of them and if that doesn't work we should meet up at the cave."
"Ok, w-what if we don't find them? Or if they are hurt?" I asked trembling.
"It's ok they are strong, and we can bring the medicine bag just in case" My brother said wrapping his arms around me.
"Ok, thanks" I smiled then Nudge ran to the living room to pick up the bag were Iggy had left it while Gazzy ran to the kitchen to get supplies and I went to Fang's room to grab the backpack we had gotten just to hold total in.
"Forget it" Total said sitting in front of me with a gleam in his eye. "There is no way either of you guys could carry me for long, the best thing would be if you left me here" his voice broke one the 'here' and I scooped the little dog into my arms.
"I'm NOT leaving you behind! What if the erasers come here and find you?" but his words took root in my mind and I knew what he spoke was the best thing to do… but it was a horrible thought.
"Don't worry about me, I get to stay home, watch TV, and eat all the ice cream I can! This is going to be fun, then when they come I'll run away… we will see each other again...I-I'm sure we will…" A tear slid down my cheek and he licked it away. "Don't cry everything will be ok; be strong for Max, now she's the one that needs YOU and so does Iggy and Fang."
"O-Ok, as soon as this is over I will come back here and find you! I promise!" I set him down on the floor softly then knelt beside him and took off my necklace that Max had gotten me, with a little extra persuasion. I took off the heart shaped charm and hooked it to Total's collar then gave him one last hug. Together we ran for the backyard were Nudge and Gazzy were waiting.
"I'm staying behind" Total announced "Hurry up and come back before the electric bills need to be paid."
"Take care Total" I said and waved good bye before I jumped into the air along with Nudge and my brother.
We flew in circles that increased in size and with our wingtips around 15 feet apart. I was thinking about all the horrible things that could have happened to all the lost members of the flock when something red caught my eye.
"Look down there!" I said making a spiraling slow dive down keeping my eyes trained on the red spot which I could now make out as a body... a very limp and oddly positioned body...
"FANG!!!!!!!" I screamed as I recognized the black wings and hair.
I landed carefully to his side and kneeled down beside him "Fang? Fang? Please be alive? Please oh please be ok!!" Tears streaked down my cheeks and my eyes started to sting.
His body was sprawled on the forest floor with blood coming out of several places, but he had landed on a mostly decayed log which had cushioned his fall greatly. A splotch of red colored the corner of his mouth. "Fang, Fang? Oh no…"
"Is that… FANG!!! W-why is he laying like that?" Nudge was screaming at the top of her lungs then Gazzy put a hand over her mouth. After making eye contact with Nudge he let go and bent down toward Fang then opened the bag he had put in a backpack along with some food.
Time seemed to freeze as Gazzy leaned forward and pressed two fingers to the side of Fang's neck feeling for a pulse. My mined raced. What would we do now? Carrying Fang to the cave would take forever and we still had to find Iggy. But what... what if he was dead? What if the erasers found us here? What if Iggy had already been captured to? Looking down at his body I saw that the ribs on the opposite side of where Fang fell were broken looking and a new thought crossed my mind. Who had done this?
Please read and review!!! I finially JUST convinced Bloodfang to update the next chapter, YAY!!!!
Hint Hint, Max POV in the next Chappi!!
P.S. No reviews mean no update!!! But since it has been so long since we last updated I might be nice and give you the next chapter with less reviews required, and Bloodfang may disagree but flames are welcome! As long as they are the constructive type but if you just say how the story fails then it doesn't count in my mind at least.