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Max POV
The next day, when I came to school with Ella, Nick came over to me. I immediately put my guard up and wondered if I was going crazy because as he crossed the parking lot, I saw him in rich white robes like only really old princes wear in the medieval times. He had a simple gold band on his night black hair. He looked kind of like the boy from my dream only with robes instead of black jeans and a black t-shirt. But that wasn't the scariest thing I saw. It was slightly scary, amazing and impossible all at the same time. Streaming out behind him were two black wings matching the color of his hair.
I blinked and rubbed my eyes, yawning to make it look natural. Nick arriver and stood in front of me. When I'd finished 'yawning', I looked up at him.
"Yes?" I asked innocently staring into his eyes that matched the color of coal. I waited expectantly.
"Yo, Max," he said. "Can I talk to you later after school? I want to show you something."
"Uh, sure," I said. Was he trying to pick me up? It didn't sound like it but you can never be so sure. Lately a lot of the boys in my school have been shooting me glances and asking me out left and right. Of course I've always said 'no'.
"I'll need to tell Ella and Iggy, though" I said.
Nick's face furrowed in confusion a bit.
"Iggy's real name is Jeff," I explained. Nick nodded. "Come on, Nick, we-" I started. I wanted to get to class early so I'm not late.
"Please," Nick said, grimacing. "Call me Fang. I hate my real name."
"Okay, but why?" I asked and started to edge towards the school entrance. Fang followed me and explained.
"When I was little, I still hated my name. I used to run away from my parents when I was angry, bored or even for no reason and hide. One day, I'd run to the secret creek behind my house that no one knew about and there in the middle of the stream was a gleaming white fang." Fang explained, he was staring off into space. "I really liked the fang so I strung it on a necklace and named myself after it. It took a few days but I finally got everyone I know to call me Fang. Now I have to do it all over again," he chuckled and I laughed lightly. Fang pulled out the fang from his story and showed it to me. It was long and was curved slightly. It gleamed in the sunlight and sparkled like snow. I marveled at it and then I touched it. The edge was sharp and ridged, the rest top was smooth and clear of scratches and wear. Finally we reached homeroom and we all took out places just as class started.
Class seemed to go in slow motion because I was curious of Fang's request to show me something. Finally, after telling Ella at lunch that she has to go home by herself, I found that Fang was waiting for me outside French after school since I didn't have French with him.
"So, what do you have to show me?" I asked him out of interest. Fang shot me a mysterious glance and smiled.
"You'll see," he said and I scowled. I hated secrets. But my anger was quickly replaced when Fang led me into a back street behind the school. There was an old abandoned factory behind the school creating an alley behind the school. I frowned at this. What did he have that was in the alley behind the school? I soon found my answer when he paused, turned around and spread his wings.
And no, they weren't just black wings like from my dream; the feathers were tinged, blue and purple tinting the edges of his black feathers. They were beautiful, they were scary, they were familiar.
Not from my dream but from my memories. Maybe I am going crazy, I mean, a boy just showed me his wings..
And then it all cam rushing back to me. I did know him… His name is Prince Naresh and he saved my family. My family! I looked around wildly. My family was nowhere to be found.
"Naresh! Fang! Nick! Whatever your name is! Where's my family?" I asked. I grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him.
"Calm down, Max, Mabel," he said and gently removed my shaking hands from his shoulders.
"What are these memories about? Why do I still have my other memories? What happened after I was killed? Is this heaven? Why are you in heaven? Why-" Naresh/Fang put a hand over my mouth. I immediately stopped talking.
"We were all born together and we have to get everyone's memories back. Not now though, I'll have to teach you have to do that…" Fang looked serious. "Listen Mabel, Max I want you to just act like you have always and if someone asks you to go out on a date or anything, ignore them. He could be anywhere. If you're in trouble or you have something suspicious, say my name and we'll talk later. Understand?" I shook my head yes and shivered at the terrible memory.
I had just left Naresh's palace when another prince had come up to me and asked me to marry him. At this, I'd said no but the stupid prince wouldn't take no for an answer and pretty soon forced me to marry him by black mailing me with my family. The prince told his officers to collect my family and so I readily agreed to marry him if they didn't hurt my family. Hey, at least I'd have a lot of money.
But just as I was walking down the aisle, Naresh, Ilario and his whole family burst through the doors and demanded that I was Naresh's rightful bride. Then the idiot prince called for his wizard, at which point I was running towards Naresh when I fell, not tripped by anything but still it was a dead stop. It'd hurt, slamming into the idiot prince's floor.
The wizard apparently used some sort of killing spell and he wasn't a good aim and got me. It felt like someone poured fire down my throat then set my blood vessels on fire because it felt like I was burning from the inside out.
Then the world was black.
Naresh/Fang told me the rest of the story. The wizard cast a spell on everyone in the room. They'd all be reborn and then have to face each other to win my hand by fighting and combining with some sort of animal.
Fang, I'll call him that said he was combined with a black swan. That's how he got his black wings. Fang said that I was combined with an eagle because when he closed his eyes he always pictured me as an eagle.
Strong, witty, swift and loyal. After I thought of those character traits of the eagle something amazing happened.
Behind me sprung a fourteen-foot wingspan of eagle wings. Brown on the top with white flight feathers. I brushed my wing in amazement. I flapped them a bit, rolling my shoulders and I lifted off the ground a few inches.
"Can I fly with these?" I asked Fang. He nodded and smiled.
"Just flap and adjust your wings in the way you want to fly. Tilt your right wing up to go left and left to go right. To do down you angle downward with your wings and up, you have to flap a bit more." He didn't flap but he showed me with his own wings, tilting his wings this way and that. I marveled at how he could control every feather on his wings. "When you land, stop flapping and tilt your wings back, then run and gradually slow to a walk. That seems to be the basics…" he said and yelled when I leapt into the air and started flapping my wings. Despite the fact I've never flown with bird wings, I was pretty good at it.
Fang took off after me and made loops in the sky, keeping his eyes on me if I started to fall. We flew over our town and I saw as a bird would as if flew over our town. I found I could see really well like an eagle and I zoomed in on other people in our town. I spotted my mom's car on the way to the grocery store. Then I spotted my house, I'm pretty sure Fang frowned as I started to fall to our house and unfortunately, I hadn't practiced stopping because I started to plummet to the roof of my hose, the brown shingles getting bigger and bigger. I tried to stop like Fang said, I slowed my fall by a couple twenty miles per hour but I still crashed through the roof and get this, landed in my bedroom. My breath whooshed out of my and I looked up through the ceiling to the clear sky.
"Are you okay Max?" Fang asked and dropped through the hole in my roof. "What were you thinking?" I shrugged and dusted myself off. Only then did I realized my bedroom was covered in dust and parts of my ceiling fan. Oops. I came through and smashed my fan… Well, at least I'll have an excuse to tell mom and Ella.
Just then I head footsteps running down the hall.
"What the heck was that?" Iggy said and stared at us in shock. We still had our wings out and everyone was frozen. Only Ella came behind Iggy and said in a strangled voice.
"Um, Max? Why do you have wings on, why's your stalker in your bedroom also with wings on and what happened to the roof?" She asked in amazement.
"I- I can explain…" I stammered. "You see Fang-"
"Fang? Who's Fang?" Iggy asked. I jerked my thumb towards Fang.
"As I was saying, Fang and I got assigned to do a project together for a skit and we had to… to…" I stopped, trying to stall.
"You don't have to lie, Max," Fang stepped in front of me and extended his wings a bit, covering the room. "They're part of your memories too."
Just then Iggy and Ella gasped and clutched their heads.
"What happened to them?" I asked in bewilderment.
"They're getting their memories, it'll only last a second," Fang said in a calm voice. For some reason I didn't trust him and ducked under Fang's wing and ran over to Ella. She was moaning and clutching her head as if she had a bad headache. When she finally stopped moaning she looked up at me.
"Mable? What are you doing here?" Ella asked.
"We live here remember Ella? Or should I say Eavan*" I smiled and patted her back gently. Ella looked up at the hole in the ceiling.
"Um, did you, like, fall through the ceiling?" she stared at my wings. I'd forgotten they were still on my back.
"Yeah, I didn't put the brakes on fast enough…" I said and smiled. We hugged as if we hadn't seen each other in a ling time. Something groaned behind me.
"Man, took you long enough!" I turned around and saw that Iggy was glaring at Fang.
"Sorry, had to get Mable first, Ilario, you understand right?" Fang shrugged and punched Iggy lightly on the shoulder.
"Whatever," Iggy crossed his arms and pretended to pout.
"Hey, Max?" Ella asked after she'd stopped laughing from Iggy's ridiculous pouty face. "What are we going to tell mom?" Fang spoke up.
"We can say that Max and I were working on our project and you and Iggy were getting homework help, or whatever you guys were doing," Fang smirked. I have no idea why but Iggy and Ella blushed. I'd have to interrogate her and Iggy later. "But then suddenly the fan fell and got destroyed. Max and I were downstairs planning out the project and you guys rushed in to see what the matter was."
"I'll admit, Fang, you're quite a good planner!" I said, impressed. By then, we'd both tucked in our wings and started to clean up the bits and pieces of ceiling off my furniture. My wings seems to dissipate, it was a really weird feeling, like something is being taken from you but you don't realize it until it's gone...
"Well, mom's at the grocery store so we probably have a few minute before mom gets home," I said. Iggy and Ella gave me a weird look then shook it off and started to help clean up my room. I looked up at the hole in my ceiling.
"I hope it doesn't rain," I said and every burst out into laughter. One question tugged at my mind though.
Where was everyone else and who were they in this life?
So, yeah. That's it. I hope you like it, though I myself don't really like it… Please RnR! I'm glad a lot of you guys like it! I get to look at my email and see at least one email from ! Thanks! Don't forget to look at my drabbles and Hunger Games fanfic!
*Eavan is Ella's past life name and is Mable's real sister. It means fair one and is Celtic/Gaelic.
