So Hey Guys! First of all I'm going to tell you that I had given up on this story. It's been like 3 years since I've updated. Personally, I had lost interest in Maximum Ride…sadly. But when I read James Patterson's last MR book, I decided to finish this story. :) I will end this story in like 2 or 3 more chapters, so keep reading and expect the grand finale!
One of Ari's men brought a struggling Iggy into the room. It was no surprise that they had found him so quickly; after all no one really escaped the school unnoticed…I didn't know what I had been thinking, risking Iggy's life in vain.
Iggy's face was full of anger; he was obviously frustrated that he couldn't really see where he was. I closed my eyes and wished that for a minute Iggy could read my mind, so that he knew I had a plan and that I wouldn't stop until I saved both of us.
Ari still had my hand in his; he had made me sit in his lap and was waiting for his whole pack to arrive. I wanted to ask him where Fang was, or when would I see him but I knew that Ari wouldn't share the information he had with me.
"Ah, yes… the pack is here Max." Ari's face was dark, his eyes flashing. "Today is the beginning of a new generation; with Max as our leader we will be invincible!"
The pack howled; half men - half wolf, excited expressions taking over each of their faces, except Iggy who threw accusing looks in my general direction. I gulped.
Was it me or had they multiplied? Last time I'd seen them they were like 10, now there were like 30 men more or less, all of them looking at Ari, their leader and me, who he had claimed to be leader also. My throat ran dry.
"Why do you want me to be the leader, why do you want me?" I heard myself say, all of the men turning from Ari to look at me.
Ari laughed a deep sort of growling laugh that made all of his men follow him. He smiled a malicious, evil smile that made my hairs stand up and caused my body to shudder.
"Max, you will be given everything these scientists have been successful with. Wings, speed, heighten senses; you are going to be the perfect human, the beginning of a perfect generation. You have so much potential, your character, independence…the creator saw to all that."
He had stood up now, eyes full of excitement and eagerness; he looked at me, expecting to see my eyes reflect his eagerness. I couldn't process any of it, it all sounded so terrible, all the experiments the scientist had done to find the 'perfect' human being, all of the people who died and suffered because of this horrible, sick invention of the 'perfect' generation.
And then I wanted to throw up, my stomach churned and my throat tightened. All the men were waiting, looking at me, their faces expectant. Before I could say or do anything I heard a very recognizable voice that made my blood freeze.
"Max you are making the right choice."
My mom was standing in the door of the wide room, Jeb standing beside her. She looked pleased with what she saw, her smile the same as when she always saw me. She walked over to me and held my chin in her hands.
"As my daughter, I've always wanted the best for you and thisis the best." She caressed my cheek, a mocking gesture of how she always did when I was little and I thought she was the best mom in the world.
"I am not your daughter." I spat, my face full of anger and swatted her hands away from my face. After everything she had done, she was nothing to me.
My mom's eyes flashed but then she went back to her flat expression. "Perhaps, one day you will understand everything. But right now, just know that you are either with us or in our way. And Ari will kill everything in our way." She said, emotionless and cold.
I was about to throw myself at her, when Ari forcefully grabbed my arms back and flashed his long canines at me, stopping whatever I was about to do. I snarled and glared at both of them, showing my dislike for both of them.
"She will come through after we are done with her." My mom continued, as if nothing was wrong. "Or her precious Fang will suffer the consequences."
Everyone laughed a sickening mocking laugh that made me sick to my stomach and my knees weak. My anger rose and I looked at her with all the hate I could muster. "Where is Fang? What did you do to him!?" I screamed, trying to break free of Ari's restraint.
"Nothing…yet." She smiled at the last word. "Take them to the cages, maybe then she'll learn to be grateful." This was the last thing she said before walking off with Jeb, leaving me with Ari and his vicious pack of men.
All of the men laughed once again, howling and growling to the creator's orders and then I felt an explosion of pain in my head and everything went black.
I woke up with a colossal headache, my head filled with excruciating pain. I was in a dark room full of cages; across from me Iggy was lying inside one, still asleep. I looked around at all the cages and got angry at how they treated these kids like animals. I couldn't imagine what kind of childhood they'd had here, where everything was dark.
Hours passed, minutes, days. I didn't even know how long it had been since I'd been here but I was thinking I was going to go crazy if I didn't get out of here. Across from me Iggy was calm, his expression sad and his face had lost all hope. He didn't believe me every time I told him that we would get out of here, not anymore and frankly I was starting to lose hope myself.
Every now and then a scientist would come and take a child, and the kid wouldn't return in a long time or just wouldn't return at all. I was growing anxious and I didn't know how long they'd make me be here.
I didn't realize I'd fallen asleep when I heard the door open and footsteps echoing in the room. A scientist came and stood right in front of me, opening the cage and taking me out. He grabbed me forcefully and shoved me forward.
"Try something and I will shock you with this taser." The man said, holding a taser gun to my back.
I walked slowly, not wanting to think of what they'd do to me, dreading the hours to come and thinking of all the things I'd seen them do to the children.
We entered a room, like every other room I've seen since I've been here. There was the metallic table, the tray full of syringes and the light coming from the lamp. The scientist strapped my arms and legs to the table and I grew sick with the smell of alcohol and disinfectant.
"You don't know the privilege you've been given in being the first perfect mutant." The doctor said, giving me a crazy, wild look. "This will hurt, a lot but I promise it will all be worth it." The man smiled pitilessly and proceeded to grab a fairly large needle from the tray.
Be strong Max, Be strong.
I felt my eyes start to water and I closed my eyes to keep the tears from falling. I was going to be an experiment. I looked up and wished I could somehow wake up and this would all be a horrible dream.
"What I'll first inject is Avian DNA, you will be half bird- half human, how marvelous is that?! You will fly!" The white coat smiled, like he really thought she was giving me a free ticket to Disney.
He took my arm and applied some alcohol with a pad and started pressing the needle into my skin. The liquid burned and I couldn't hold back a scream. I bit into my lip, drawing blood, struggling and trashing against the strains.
Three things happened at once.
I felt the needle disappear, a choked scream and then silence.
I couldn't breathe and my arm felt on fire. I was panting; my forehead sweating and I couldn't understand what had happened. The needle was gone, and someone was ripping the straps that held me off.
I opened my eyes swiftly and before I could scream or fight, my breath froze and my throat went dry.
I was looking into those familiar beautiful dark obsidian eyes that I had missed so much.
Fang was tearing my straps off; a dark, weary look crossed his features. Not at all how I imagined our reunion. I was stunned; I couldn't believe he was here, saving me. I wanted to hug him, ask him where he had been, explain everything that had happened but nothing came out.
He seemed to be wary, rushed and his movements were fast. He threw the dead white coat in a supply closet inside the room; he picked up the needles and arranged them so it looked like nothing had happened. And while he did all this I just sat there, not saying a word, shocked he was here, alive.
He turned slowly to me, and inspected me with his eyes, revealing nothing. He kept his distance, and I didn't know how I felt about that, or what had changed but I wanted to do nothing more than to run to him.
"Max, are you alright?" he asked me, his voice so familiar and so beautiful, my heart melted.
"You're here." Was all I said, my eyes raking all over his frame. He had dark clothes like usual, but they were torn in different places and from the way he moved I noticed he looked really tired.
Before I could say anything else, he closed the space between us and kissed me fiercely.
Oh, Dear God, I kissed him back, with everything I had.
I poured every emotion into the kiss how much I missed him, how much I needed him. My mouth opened to his and his tongue snaked into my mouth, making me gasp a little. I moved my head at a different angle and this time Fang opened his mouth, and let me slip my tongue inside it. We kissed a little deeper, tongues stroking over each other, lips pressing tightly together.
He got closer to me wrapping his hands around me, and pulling my body against his. As Fang's hands slipped away from my face, I snaked one of mine around the back of his neck, drawing his lips a little closer.
Then all too soon Fang started to pull away, ending our breathtaking kiss all too quickly.
When he smiled, I felt my breath leave and time freeze. "I missed you, Max" he whispered softly, making my heart stop.
I didn't care if I used to not feel anything for anybody, Fang changed me and I was still independent Max but this boy made me feel safe, at home and for the first time ever, not alone.
Fang seemed to have remembered where we were and his eyes looked panicked. I've never seen him so agitated before, which scared me a little.
"We have to go, Max, they're coming."
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