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"Miles, you can't be serious," said the African American girl. "Are you seriously going to trust these guys? They could be Erasers!"
"Yeah Miles, you're just gonna let them talk trash about Jeb and do nothing about it," said the young boy.
Miles turned and looked down upon his own flock. "Obviously, they're from the School and Jeb also helped them escape. Let's just hear what they think of Jeb and if we don't like what we hear, then we'll trap them and make their lives a living hell."
"Hey! That's not fair!" Gasman yelled, finally awake. The rest of the flock was already awake from their little knock-out and already knew the play-by-play on what was happening.
I looked over at Gasman and gave him a reassuring smile along with a pat on the back. "It's okay Gazzy." I then turned my attention back at Miles. "But in order for us to tell you the story, we're going to have to know who all of you are first."
Miles gave me an unsure look but then looked back at his flock for a while.
"Alright. Guys, let's do what she says," he ordered.
His flock started whispering to each other again until Miles gave them a look that meant he wanted them to introduce themselves now. The sooner, the better.
They all did as they were told and came out of the darkness so that we could all see their faces. There were four of them, plus Miles. We pretty much knew what the little girl and the little boy looked like along with Miles, but this was pretty much the first time I actually got a good look at the other two.
I was right, the African American girl looked to be just about the same age as Nudge, maybe about a couple of months older. She was kind of tall for her age but looked really nice. She had beautiful dark brown curly hair and big dots of black for eyes. I could tell by the clothes she was wearing, that she was a tomboy. She had a big black shirt with 'Linkin Park' labeled across her chest in white letters, khaki colored shorts that belonged in the men's department, and black Converse with a red star on the side of each shoe.
The boy next to her, I've never seen or heard from. He looked to be the same age as Fang, Iggy, and I. Pretty tall for age just like the African American girl, but still looked around the ages of fourteen to fourteen in a half. He had nice, straight, blond hair with brown streaks in it. It was the style that made you just want to run your fingers through it and mess it up when you looked at it. And his eyes were those kind of eyes that could probably mesmerize you into doing anything just by looking right into them; a beautiful crystal blue. Again, just by looking at his outfit, you could tell what his personality was like. His black T-shirt and navy blue jeans stated that he was probably one of those every day guys who don't really talk that much in crowds with people they aren't familiar with but pretty outgoing and nice with people they knew.
"This is Conner." Miles started off pointing at the quiet boy. "Conner is a mute. He can't talk at all after an experiment back at the School. They were trying to see if they could make his voice ten times louder than regular voices so that he can paralyze his opponents hearing and render them unconscious, but instead, he ended up losing his voice for good."
Well, I guess that explains why he never spoke.
"Oh, I'm sorry Conner," I told him. He gave me a shrug.
"Iggy's pretty much the same. He lost his sight after the School was trying to make his vision ten times stronger but ended up blinding him for life," Fang told them, pointing at Iggy.
Conner looked over at Iggy and started giving hand signs to Miles.
"He said he feels sorry for your blindness Iggy and that he knows how you feel," he told him.
Iggy smiled and gave out a chuckle. "Thanks man. Right back at ya."
Miles then left Conner and moved over to the African American girl.
"This is Kat. She's the middle child of our little group but is the one with the most determination and courage. She pretty much has what Conner failed at receiving; she can scream super sonic waves and also has the instincts of a cat. So, she basically has the DNA of both a cat and a bird."
Nudge looked at Kat as though she were examining her and then opened up her mouth to speak. "So, you have the DNA of both a cat and a bird. That's pretty cool but kinda weird when you think about it. So does that mean that a third of you is part bird, another third of you is part cat, and the last third of you is part human. Wow, you're less human than we are. That's kinda sad once you think about it but really cool and neat when you think about it positively. I mean, being only a third human and two thirds of two different animals makes you different. Not different in a bad way, I mean different in a good way. Like, unique. I wish I were unique, but I guess having wings and being two percent avian is unique enough. Do you think—"
Kat smacked her hand over Nudge's mouth and gave her a very serious and paranoid look. (Shudders) She looked like a murderer.
"Unless you want your lips ripped clear off, I'd suggest you stop talking," she told her. Nudge gulped horrified and kept her mouth completely shut.
Miles looked down at Kat and gave her a stern look while Kat gave him the innocent 'what did I do' face. He ignored it and went on to the younger boy.
"And this Dash. You can probably guess why we call him 'Dash'. The School experimented on him and gave him the power to run and fly at incredible speeds."
Gasman folded his arms across his chest and gave Dash a smirk. "Oh yeah, bet you can't imitate voices or build highly explosive bombs."
Dash shot back. "Who need bombs when you can make an Eraser's head explode just by circling around him at top speed a couple hundred times. It's all about the speed dude. All about the speed," he said with a proud smile planted on his light-skinned face.
Miles shook his head and rolled his dark eyes as he moved on to the last member of his little flock.
"And finally, there's Mini, the youngest member of our group. You've already witnessed her powers which are producing protective force fields that can be used as both a defense mechanism and a trap for any enemies like Erasers and also the ability to change completely invisible."
Angel walked up to Mini and looked at her like Nudge was looking at Kat. I hope she didn't chatter up a storm like what Nudge did, or else maybe both Mini and Kat would rip her lips clean off.
"I love your shirt," she said. "'Cat's Don't Dance' is one of my favorite movies."
"I know! I love them too!" Mini squealed.
"Alright, now that we've introduced ourselves, how about you introduce yourselves," said Miles.
I looked up at him and gave him an unsure glare.
"Come on, we told you our identifications, now you tell us yours. Fair is fair," he said.
There's that line again. Fair is fair. God, I hated that line! Who in hell made up that line anyway?
"Alright," I said, introducing my flock from oldest to youngest. I started off with Fang. "This is Fang. He's the second oldest in our flock, next to me and pretty much second in command when I'm not able to be leader."
I know it's really weird, but Miles seemed to be glaring at Fang. I wonder why? Did he have some grudge against people like Fang? I wonder if Fang noticed he was glaring at him.
I couldn't really see Fang's face, but I did witness him clenching and unclenching his fist. What's going on?
I shrugged my shoulders in my mind, dropping the whole ordeal and went on to Iggy.
"This is Iggy. Like we told you before, he's blind because of the stupid School," I told them. "And this is Nudge. As you've witnessed before, she can pretty much talk to her heart's content. She also has the power to touch an object like a chair or something and see all the people who've been sitting on it in the past. Almost like a forecaster."
I then moved on to Gasman. "This is Gazzy. He looks cute and stuff, but deep down inside of him is something you wouldn't want your nose to inhale. But, other than that, he's great kid and really smart too. He and Iggy build thousands and thousands of bombs that we use on Eraser's all the time."
And finally, I went over to Angel. "And this, is Angel. She's the youngest of the flock. But, like I said about Gazzy, don't let her cuteness fool you. She can breath under water, talk to fish, read minds, and if you ever get on her bad side or are just some random Eraser, she can go into your thoughts and make you do horrible things to yourself like beat the crap out of you or even kill yourself. But I don't think she'll ever stoop to that level. Will you Angel?"
"Nuh-uh." Angel shook her head.
"Hey, what about me?" Total asked, wagging his tail back and forth.
"Oh, and of coarse, there's Total," I said, introducing him.
Kat's eyes went so wide it was scary. "That dog can talk!" she yelled.
"Yup," Total said with a smile.
"The School gave him some funky dog food which probably gave him the ability to talk and to jump at incredible high altitudes," I explained.
"Cool," Dash said in amazement. "Hey Miles, how come we don't have a dog?"
Miles didn't answer, but instead, walked up to me.
"And, you are?" he asked.
I gave him a determined look that showed him I wasn't afraid of his dark gaze. "I'm Maximum Ride. But you can call me Max," I said with a smile. So much for sounding serious.
"Maximum Ride huh," he said with a smirk. "I think I've heard of you. Jeb use to talk about you back at the School. He said you were like the daughter he's never had."
Bingo!
"And there you have it! If Jeb likes me that much, then I can't be an Eraser," I told him.
He raised his hand and put it in front of my face. "Not so fast. You're still not off the hook. You have to tell us the story on what you and your little flock think of Jeb and how he helped you escape and why."
I looked at him and felt like letting out a frustrated growl. I'm never going to get through to this guy. He's just not going to quit until he proves that I'm an Eraser. Well, that ain't going to happen because I'm going to prove him wrong.
"We're all ears, Maximum Ride."
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