Maximum Ride: Around The World.
"Max?" Fang's slightly worried voice called through the door. I finished chucking up the last contents of my stomach and rinsed out my mouth, then wiped around it with some tissue.
"Yeah?" I called back retying my hair back into a pony tail then walked to the door and opened it. Fang looked down at me slightly. Why does he get to grow and I don't!?
"Is it back." It wasn't a question, it was an order to tell him, so I nodded as we walked back out to the benches where the flock was waiting, I ran into the public toilet in a park.
Where are we? I asked the voice.
Odessa. It replied. My eyebrows reached my hairline.
"What?" Nudge asked me seeing my expression.
"We're in Odessa." I said, Nudge laughed and bit into her corn dog.
"I know." She replied. How'd she know?
We all walked into a cluster of trees, to be hidden from the people.
"Fang. You forgot Total." The Gasman said with a laugh and pointed to pissed off looking dog that sat beside Fang. Fang grumbled about it and opened his back pack. Total hopped in and grumbled back at him.
"Stupid." Is what we heard.
"Hey. You're lucky I'm carrying you. I didn't see anyone else opt for it!" Fang rolled his eyes and spread his wings.
Angel giggled, picking up on some of Fang's thoughts I guess. "Guys! I haven't finished this!" Nudge called as we all took off.
Iggy huffed and plucked it from her hands stuffing the rest of it in his mouth. Everyone gaped at his mouth which went the size of a...Sperm whales mouth. Okay exaggerating but, it went big.
"How...?" Fang started. I nodded. Iggy's face was confused.
"I sense you're all staring at me." He muttered starting to fly, we followed suite.
"Yeah. You're mouth went huge." Nudge said and pushed him, Iggy scowled and pushed her back, then she knocked into The Gasman who pushed her, he pushe himself backwards too and bounced into Angel, then Angel pushed him back and it was a game called Pushing.
I chuckled and looked over at the silent boy. "So..." I started. Fang looked over then back ahead. He was listening. "Where're we going?" I asked.
He nodded his head infront of us. "Thatta way." He replied with a smirk. I rolled my eyes and sighed looking over at the setting sun.
"Thats pretty." I murmured. Fang snorted.
"Pretty?" He echoed. I narrowed my eyes at him and nodded.
"What, a girl can't say pretty?" I asked. Fang laughed.
Laughed.
Did you hear that? Laughed. Which rendered me silent. Fang stopped laughing and looked over at me.
"Thats the second time I've heard you laugh." I muttered. Then flashed me that rare smile.
"Is that a bad thing?" He replied, swooping to the left and then back to the right. I watched and shook my head.
"No...I mean, shut up." I tapped his back with my wing and then looked over at the four members of the flock, now playing a game of tag.
"We gonna rest when it gets dark?" Fang asked after a couple of seconds. I shrugged.
"Yeah, I think Nudge will be tired. and hungry." I groaned. "That mean's we gotta buy food." I grumbled. Fang nodded.
"We got that card right?" He asked. I nodded.
"Yeah." I said and hovered checking my butt pocket to make sure it was there. It was.
So. Mr. Voice, why aren't we so talkative? I asked it, I mean, I think I was actually missing it. He hadn't spoken for two months.
Oh, I'm just ... here.It replied. I frowned.
Here? There? I know that, I mean why aren't you speakin, you're always lecturing me...Why the sudden silence...It reminds me of Fang, I don't need two of them. I said releasing my frown.
No reply. Urrg, it likes to irk me doesn't it.
"When should we land?" I asked with a sigh. Fang looked around and then back at the sky.
"Its getting pretty dark. We should land..." He was cut off by The Gasman.
"THERE!" He yelled. I spun around suspecting Erasers. "NO! I mean GUN! Fly FAST!" He yelled speeding ahead of us all. I looked around.
"Gun?" I muttered hearing a gun shot.
"Max." Fang's unsteady voice, it sounded muffled. I frowned and put a hand to my stomach and looked at it.
Ew. Blood. and that was my last thought.
::Fang::
My knee bounced up and down and I bit nervously on my index fingernail. Max has been out for a whole day, I was arfraid she was in a coma.
Actually, I was shitting my pants. She was two inches away from the ground when I caught her, the man with the gun? Well, he's tied to a tree right now with two gun shots in his feet.
Hey, I can't help it, he hurt Max. She's my ... Family.
"She's awake?" A small tired worried voice asked, I looked over at Angel who came into the hotel room. How'd she get in?
"No." I replied, Angel's face fell again as she saw the blood on Max's stomach, and tears fell freely down her cheeks. Ah crap, I scoopd her up and sat her on my lap, she buried her face into my chest.
"Why can't I heal people." She wailed. I wrapped my arms around her and sighed.
"She's okay Ange." I said surprisingly sounding soft. Angel cried a bit more.
"She's dreaming." She whispered after a while.
"About...?" I asked. Angel shifted in my lap, so her back was against my chest and legs out infront of her. She giggled a little and shook her head.
"Food." She said. "And...Us." She added, and then carried on, "You're at the table in a pink dress. I'm sat with Total on a couch. Max is laughing at everyone, including Nudge and Iggy who are in chicken suites." I smiled secretly.
"Very ... weird dream." I said, Angel laughed and nodded.
"G'night then Fang." She turned around and hugged me again, I patted her back and huffed as she left the room.
"What am I to do with you..." I muttered at Max. She was always getting injured...I yawned and went to the other side of the bed and lay down on the covers, Max had the covers over her chest...So I couldn't see...
Which is a good thing! Nudge put the bandage around her.
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"Fang?" I heard a voice ask early in the morning. I forced my eyes open and looked over at her, then snapped them shut and put my face into the pillow.
"Max. Put a damn shirt on." I ordered.
Laughing, then it stopped and I risked a peek. "Good." I muttered and sat up.
"What happened?" She asked unwrapping the bandage to reveal a scar on her pale stomach. I took the bloody bandage and aimed it at the trash can and got it in perfectly.
"You got shot." I answered sitting cross legged. Max groaned.
"Again?" She mumbled. I nodded knowing about her wing. "We better head then...How long was I out for?" She asked getting off the bed.
"Just a day." I answered getting up to and running a hand through my hair, letting the bangs fall back into my eyes.
Max nodded and sighed. "Ugh. I feel sick. My head hurts. Damnit." She ranted. I grinned and walked over putting my hand on the back of her neck and squeezed it.
She faced me and flicked my nose gently then walked off to get the flock. Leaving me in confusion.