A/N- Thanks to everyone who reviewed! This chapter is kind of like a third person point of view. I really hope it doesn't get too confusing.
Disclaimer- I don't own Maximum Ride.
Since Iggy and Fang were still fighting as Max flew away, Angel took charge. She turned to Gazzy.
"Okay, Gazzy, you stay with Iggy and help him keep Fang here. Nudge and I'll go talk to Max."
Gazzy nodded, and Angel and Nudge took off into the sky. As they followed Max, Nudge talked. A lot. Angel figured that she did it to keep her nerves down.
"Okay, so, Angel, what just happened? I know Max and Fang were, like, fighting, but how did Fang do the fire breathing thing? Is that a new power? Do you think that it's new, or maybe he's been, like, hiding it from us! That's probably it. Fang hides a lot of stuff. But why did he burn Max? Usually Fang would never do anything to hurt Max! Oh, maybe it's a Fang clone! Remember when we were in Germany and we saw clones of everyone?"
Nudge stopped to breath, and Angel spoke up.
"I don't know, Nudge. But we need to find Max and make sure she's okay."
Nudge nodded, and carefully scanned the ground.
Back at camp…
Gazzy carefully watched Fang and Iggy, making sure that they didn't get too hurt. He would go and break them up himself, but they were both like, three feet taller than him.
So he and Total just sat and watched. Finally, Iggy and Fang sat down on separate sides of the camp. Iggy had a bloody nose, and Fang had a black eye and a split lip.
Iggy carefully made his way over to Gazzy. As he sat down next to him, his sightless eyes darted back and forth. Gazzy knew that as a sign that Iggy was upset about something. So, as best friend, it was his job to find out what.
"Hey Iggy." Gazzy said. "What's up?"
Iggy grunted. "I just wish that I could see what happened." There was silence for a second, and then he spoke again. "What did happen?"
Gazzy thought for a second, and then he spoke again. "Well, they were fighting and you told them to lay off. So Fang told you to stay out of it. Then Max was yelling at Fang, and Fang looked like he was holding his breath. Then Angel jumped up-"
"And knocked me off her lap." Total muttered sulkily.
Gazzy waved him off. "Shut up, Total. So, Angel jumped up and started screaming at Max to move. Then Fang started, like, choking, and motioning at Max to get out of the way. Then fire exploded out of his mouth and she dove out of the way, but it hit her arm. I think you know the rest."
Neither of them noticed that Fang was listening closely, or that he was glaring at Iggy's back.
Iggy nodded. "I just hope she's okay."
Back to Angel and Nudge…
After a couple minutes of careful looking, Angel and Nudge saw Max at a river bank. She was splashing cold water onto her burnt arm, and her shoulders were shaking. They dove down to her and approached carefully.
"Max?" Angel called out quietly. "Max? Are you okay?"
Max jumped up and spun around, but when she saw who it was she turned back to the water. "Yeah."
Nudge crouched down next to Max and gently grabbed her arm. She looked at it carefully, and splashed some more water on it. She sent Angel a mental image, and a message. Is she really okay?
Angel nodded. Yeah. It doesn't seem to hurt her too much.
Then Angel's head snapped up, and she looked at Max piercingly. "No, Max. He didn't know. He couldn't control it. He just got really mad. He didn't mean to."
Max shrugged and stood up. "If you say so." She looked around for a second, then looked Nudge in the eye. "What happened after I left?"
Nudge realized that Max had been crying. "Uhhh… Iggy and Fang were beating each other up when we left. Gazzy's making sure they don't seriously injure themselves, and Total's… doing his own thing, I guess."
Max looked up at the sky. "It's dark. We should head back." She motioned to Nudge and Angel to take off, and she followed them into the air.
For the first few minutes there was total silence. After a bit Nudge couldn't stand it anymore and started talking.
"Hey, Max? Remember when we used to pretend we were those fancy planes that do tricks, back when we first learned to fly?" Max nodded slowly, not sure where Nudge was going. "Well, why don't we play that?"
Angel immediately started begging Max if they could play and Max smiled. "Okay, I guess so."
Angel and Nudge cheered, and they all started doing fancy flips and rolls through the air.
By the time they got back to camp they were all laughing loudly. Max realized that she hadn't had so much fun for a while. She realized that it felt pretty good. Maybe I should do this more often.
A/N- there's chapter 2. I'll probably get ch. 3 up tomorrow. I'm really tired. Tell me what you think. I'll just go for 1-2 reviews. THANKS!!!!!