Disclaimer; I do not own Maximum Ride, nor its characters. Spark is mine, all mine!
Sorry about not updating in who knows how long! I was busy at first, then I decided to do an animated movie for English. . Animation takes quite a while to do so….
Anyway, I'm back!
After much cheering and jumping, the flock and I were directed to a 'safe house'. I dunno about the rest of the flock, but I thought it looked about as safe as a den about to collapse. It was just a normal house…. But I think Max agreed with me. Maybe Fang, too, I couldn't tell.
Dr. Martinez went out to buy food, pizzas to be specific. She brought Gazzy and our humongous orders with her. Gazzy apparently was going to check for bombs in the pizza. I gotta remind myself to ask the rest of the flock by the apparent exploding pizza incident was about.
I think that Gazzy just wanted to be the first to get his food.
Angel giggled when I thought that. Her mind reading abilities are creeping me out, and are annoying.
Gah!
Gazzy came home, chewing on a piece of pizza and toting the box to it in his other hand. Then Dr. Martinez came through the door with the rest of the boxes. Gazzy stepped to the side very quickly. The rest of us attacked.
Sometime later, we all were sitting on various pieces of furniture in the room. As for me, I was perched on the arm of a couch, munching my pepperoni and anchovy pizza (Eww, anchovies… but Spark likes almost any fish). The others were giving my anchovies funny looks. I didn't get why most people don't like them. They tasted like fish, which are good. People eat fish, right?
Ahem.
I was starving. It turns out that shifting used a heck of a lot of calories and energy. I had been so hyped up on adrenaline the first night I had discovered my power, I hadn't noticed. After that, 'til that afternoon, I hadn't really used my power.
To tell the truth, I was a little scared of it. Scared if I transformed, and couldn't shift back.
The others were oblivious to my mental rants. Angel had learned early on to stay out…
*Flashback...*
I flew happily through the clouds. Everything was nice, lovely weather, friends, and nobody trying to kill me.
As if to make my day better, I spotted a small flock of sparrows. With Angel trailing close behind, I glided over to them. Before they could scatter, I said cheerfully, "Hi!"
They looked at me, startled, before a the lead sparrow chirped back, "Hello…"
With enough of an introduction for me, I began chatting with the birds. Angel got an odd expression on her face, like she had a headache, and blinked fiercely. "What is it?" I asked curiously.
"Well, I'm reading your mind, which I'm hearing the birds like you do, the bird's thoughts, and my own ears."
"How do you hear ears?"
Angel whacked me. "I'm hearing the birds tweeting, and you hearing the same birds as if they're human. It's very confusing…"
"Glad to be of service…" I muttered, and flew back over to the birds.
*End Flashback*
The whacker in question looked at me. "I don't need a reminder of that, Spark."
"Stay out of my head then, nosy. My thoughts are mine alone."
Angel, small and normally innocent and friendly, did not take this remark very well. She looked furious and was about to jump down on me when Brigid (Fang had told me the Glared-at-by-Max-Redhead's name) burst though the door easily.
Didn't that defeat the purpose of the safe house if anyone and everyone could get in?
"The door was unlocked," Brigid said, noticing my confused looks.
Well. That explains a lot.
"I heard you guys were bored."
"From who?"
Brigid gave me another funny look, "Dr. Martinez told me…"
Max was still suspicious. "Still, why did you come down here?"
Meanwhile, Gazzy, Nudge, and Iggy were having a pizza-bit flicking-fight. I snuck quietly over to join them.
"I asked her to." Enter Dr. Martinez.
Max nodded, though it wasn't apparently not a very good reason.
Nudge came over, abandoning the food-fight and poke her nose into a box that Brigid was holding. "What's in there?" she asked curiously.
"Random stuff. We don't want you to blow up the house out of boredom. Mind you this house actually belongs to someone…" The redhead gave a pointed look at Gazzy and Iggy.
They whistled tunelessly and innocently. Fang was nowhere to be seen, but Angel, watching her brother, giggled.
Then, Brigid looked at me expectantly. Oh, joyous occasion, this was going to be good. "Spark," she began, "I still want to see if you can turn into a dinosaur. It would be huge if the world could find out more about them, and I think it would do you some good for some practice with shape-shifting." This girl never gave up, did she?
Max replied for me. "Yeah, I think we'd have a huge problem on our hands if Spark turns into a T-Rex and someone sees her."
Brigid ignored this. "Here, I got something that should help…" She dumped…. A picture book into my lap, and went towards a TV in the corner. What in the world… After messing around a bit, the redhead had apparently put in a DVD. And not just any DVD. Jurassic Park. Well, I've never seen it, but I've heard a bit about it, and this is what I've concluded: Dinosaurs+ Park+ Fences Going Down+ Island+ People on the Island= … Excellent animatronics, screaming, and pure chaos. Sounds good to me!
Well, it turns out the movie was cool, and the picture book good for whacking stuff with, but not much else. I had seen a rather large error in the plan. "Uh, Brigid? Most of the dinos there are big. The house is small. And do we really want any type, shape, or form of Velociraptor in the house?"
Looking thoughtful, Brigid looked at the movie. Then she put in… I don't believe it, another JP movie. This one… started on a beach, rather innocent. A girl found a lizard. The lizard stood on it's hind legs, chirped, and was quite obviously a dinosaur. I turned to Nudge, "They make them that small?"
She shrugged, looking at the screen, "I guess so…"
Later, we learned the name of the girl's 'friend'. A Procompsognathus, which we shortened to compy, was apparently perfect for me experimenting with its shape. Small, easy to avoid if anything happens, still a dinosaur, and adorable to the extreme.
After the movie and epic car chase scene, I stood in the center of the now cleared room. Fang, having reappeared at the start of the movie, stayed near Max, and the flock, Brigid, Dr. Martinez, and Ella fanned out to the sides.
I closed my eyes and concentrated on the adorable green and brown striped compy. It was about one foot tall, had a long, narrow neck… And I felt the glow of shape-shifting…
I began to shrink. Not daring to do anything more than breathe, I waited 'til my transformation was over. Several people gasped, and I opened my eyes again. Everyone was so big!
Wordlessly, Brigid pulled a mirror out from her purse, and I looked into it. Staring straight at me, green with brown stripes, blue-eyed and lizard-like, was a compy.
What do you know, dinosaurs might have been birds after all!
So, this chapter was bit of a filler, and Brigid (sorry) was a bit OOC, but I think that that aspect of Spark's power needed some explanation.
So anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, and please review!