Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride or Harry Potter
The door knob turned and out of the door way came a red haired boy. His face was covered in freckles. He wore a black floor length cloak with a badge that in a big purple letter said "p". It was framed as if it was some sort of boy -scout badge.
"Are you guys the new students?" the boy asked not seeming to care about what was going on.
"Is this…"Max said as she tried to remember what the school was called."…Hogwarts?"
"Ya…are you guys lost? Cuz I can tell you where the nearest town is." Ron said and then thought. These people obviously aren't of the magic typ. He looked them over again. No trunks or books any cages even their robes weren't on.
"No if this is Hogwarts than this is the place."Max said about to just run past the kid or just fly to somewhere else. Ditch this place.
"Ok…I guess…Dumbledore did ask me to get the new students."The boy then started to mumble to himself as he motioned for them to follow him.
When the flock entered the old shack they walked onto a room much bigger than the shack had been. A grand stair case filled the room, lined with soft red carpet. The stairs were made of white marble and the room also had big windows filling the room with golden light. The flock just stood there for a moment and then saw that the boy who'd been leading them was gone. They looked around down one amazing hallway after another and soon found they were lost.
"This place is so cool" cried Gazzy who was looking at a floating candle.
"I wonder how they got them to float." asked Fang as he started to inspect the candle.
"Guys we have to find that kid or someone…"Max trailed of mumbling about how she could get lost with such a good since of direction.
Then just a monument latter there was a loud crash. Max turned around faster than one of her round house kicks to find a suit of armor on the ground in pieces.
Max turned to Gassy surprisingly not mad. Slowly she ran to the end of the hallway looked left her eyes.
"Yak" said Fang
"Well I think the thing opens up."
"What do you mean?" Asked Iggy confused. Max quickly pulled out a slip of paper from her front pocket.
"Before we left Hawaii Jeb gave me this." On the slip of paper the flock saw a map. Rooms labeled and rooms numbered.
"These little boxes are secret passageways. They lead to and from places in the school."
"So that old hag thing is a passage?" asked Gazzy.
"Yup and we can dump this stuff in It." said Max a sly grin playing on her face.
The flock quietly snuck down the hallways until they found the old hag statue. Carefully and as quietly as you can put a suit of armor in a hole they did.
"Well that should do It." said Max a little happier now. But just then there was a crash from inside the hag. A loud voice was heard. Some-one was inside the passageway. Ever so casually Max lifted the hump of the hag lady's back. There inside a little ways down was a figure you could only see because of the candle nearby.
"What the…"Max trailed off as she hosted herself into the passageway.
The passageway was dark you could barely see anything. Even with her raptor vision. This mad Max start to giggle as she imagined a suit of armor come clanging down the passageway towards the boy who now was at her feet, poor kid.
"Are you all right?"asked Max trying as hard as she could to not laugh.
"Ya…" said the boy as he stood up, then almost immediately sat down.
"We should get you…"Max trailed off she didn't even know where she was let alone get some-one somewhere ells.
"The infirmary." said the boy just as he went uncloses. Max nodded and picked the boy up in both arms. Then she looked up. The passage way was stairs until you got to the entrance. The entrance was a straight tunnel up that wouldn't be so hard to climb if it wasn't for the body in her arms. So Max mentally measured the walls. I'll be cutting it close she thought and double checking that the boy was out cold she spread her wings. Thirteen feet of beautiful caramel colored glory the candle light glinted of each feather making them shine like glass. With on little but powerful beat Max came through the whole her wings brushing the sides of the passage walls. This wasn't good quickly Max drew her wings close to her back; the walls were getting narrower as you exited. Max lost the little bit of air holding her up and fell a few feet Max grimaced as she tried to maneuver her way through the small hole and still there was no way to get enough air and still fit. So slowly she and hesitantly she opened her wings to full length. There was a loud snap as the brittle bones in her wings broke to fit in the whole working fast and trying to think straight before and thing ells broke she gave her wings and extra beat and just barley caught hold of the ledge of the entrance. Breathing hard Max hoisted the boy up and handed him to Fang and Iggy who supported him as they tried to follow the confusing map Jeb had given them to the infirmary.
It took about an hour but the flock, plus one student got to the infirmary.
It was a big room with little hospital beds and cartons forming a sort of room for each. Big windows lit the room filling it with big beautiful beams of light. The room was like any other hospital room…but then there's been one thing that seemed off. Then it hit her. Max turned to Fang to tell him but he beat her to it.
"I know this place doesn't smell like a hospital.
Max grinned ear to ear as she realized this. Then almost immediately stopped as she realized a spasm of pain go through her that forced her to her knees. Max clutched her shoulder as she felt the blood pool inside her shirt and through her feathers making them stick together in a blobby mess. Fang kneeled beside her and started to say something Max couldn't hear though the blood pounding in her head.
Why had she even done something so stupid? To hurt her wings because some kid was sneaking around the school. Why hadn't she given it a second though?
At that monument everything went dark.
"Get the nurse…or Doctor Max needs help now!"Fang said to Gazzy "Iggy rip up that curtness or if you can find some bandages." Gazzy came back with a ripped up curtain Fang took it and pressed it into Max's back and held it. Soon it was seeping red with blood.