Chapter 5:

Hey guys, I think I forgot the disclaimer last chappie so here it is...

Disclaimer:

Dear Santa,

This year, I have been a very good girl and could I please pretty please have Maximum Ride for Christmas.

Santa:

No. JP Owns it.

I WILL REPLY TO ANY REVIEW THAT DOES NOT CONSIST OF LOVE IT OR UPDATE SOON. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REPLY TO THOSE. READ LAURA'S REVIEWS FOR INSPIRATION. :p

LAUREN OR LAURA: that is my name for you know cuz i can never remember. If i call you something else by mistake please try to keep in mind the fact that I am possibly the worst person with names. Like, a couple of weeks ago, I got my OWN FREAKING NAME WRONG. So forgive me. I just checked the reviews and your name is apparantly Laura. Cheers for this girl.

Anyway, to reply, THANKYOU. I was gonna keep her flicking her ponytail but I thought wait, she wouldn't have smooth flicky hair. So yeah. This chappie isn't as funny, but you have to read to find out.

EVERYONE ELSE THANKYOU TO YOU GUYS TOO!

keep the reviews coming!

Can everyone please read the below:

I used Fang's POV here to make it more interesting and like, up the romance a bit. But it doesn't use I, it uses the same style as the book with FANG THOUGHT (see book 3)

I am trying to update more. Yay for updates. By the way I found two funny new stories.

BLACK OBLIVION (whatever95)

and FANG BECOMES A MAN (sunshinerosesandDEATH) it isn't as gross as it sounds but I was laughing so hard there were tears down my cheeks.

Sarcasm and Suspense are cool. Alliteration is not. Anyway, in this chapter there is not much, basically a filler, but read it, cuz if you skip it you will be confuzzled. And I just realised that I am like, another Nudge. MY ANs are So long. Oh my God i should shut up now. Just one more thing:

I WROTE IGGY AND MY COMPUTER'S DICTIONARY SUGGESTED FIGGY! LOL TO THE MAX!!

(see book two)

ANYWAIIZ ON WITH THE STORY FINALLY.

Max POV

News Flash. Flying in a hurricane with four kids younger than you, an annoying brother and a talking dog is not fun. Being soaked to the bone, freezing cold, wearing nothing but torn rags and trying to land but not being able to is definitely not fun. I'd been tossed into Fang's way and had him smirk at me more times than I could count and the voice spouting advice in the form of Hallmark card excerpts did not help. Not that you would know.

When the storm comes in, celebrate your adversity, for it is the eagles that soar while the small birds take cover.

What the heck does that mean?

Think about it Maximum.

I don't have time to think about it. I'm in a freaking hurricane, trying to stay alive. I'll decipher fortune cookie quotes later.

Wait a second. It is the eagles that soar. We have eagle DNA. So what he meant was that we had to take advantage of the storm, while the human-wannabes sheltered.

Exactly, Max. They are weaker in the storm. Use that, and find somewhere safe and hidden.

Okay rewind a bit, just in case you haven't figured out that that was what we were doing. The sky was a strange puke coloured yellow. Almost green. For you guys who flunked basic geography that meant a hurricane was about to start. Unfortunately for us, we had two choices. Go back down to the human-wannabes that were stronger than flyboys, or fly in a hurricane. We chose the second option.

So now we were trying to land. Note the word trying. Every time we angled our wings downwards, we were pushed back by updrafts. I was grinding my teeth again. At this rate, by the time the day was over they would be worn down to stumps

Angel giggled. 'What is it with everyone laughing at me today?' I questioned.

'Maybe you're just weirder than usual' Iggy replied. For some reason that annoyed me. Like I wasn't as normal as him? The blind bird-kid. Huh. I'd had enough of this.

'I'm gonna go ahead and find a place to land' I muttered. Not to Fang. I still wasn't speaking to him. Wait, technically you can't speak to Fang. Let's rephrase that. I wasn't giving him a chance to laugh at me. Angel giggled again and sighing, I pushed into my own personal warp drive.

Leaving them behind.

A good idea?

I think not.

Fang was pissed. Max just took off like that leaving the flock. Sure, she was going to find shelter, but couldn't she have had patience and gone with the flock. Not everyone had super speed like her.

On the other wing, maybe that was her point. To get away from everyone and not give them a chance to tease her anymore. Max was his best friend, but sometimes it was just so much fun to see her so exasperated. Huh. Big words Fang. Anyway, it was just a splash of colour in their otherwise grey life.

Well to him, Max was the colour in his life. Even when she wasn't angry. Just when she laughed. She was the only one who could make him smile.

'Fang!' Iggy's exclamation snapped him out of his trance. 'Behind you'

In their life, when someone said that, you spun around with the best punch you could muster up. So that was what he did. Followed by a roundhouse and an uppercut to the cheek. The flyboy fell to the town below, smoking as he went.

Fang felt vaguely sorry for the poor bugger down there that was going to get hit by a lump of metal with wings, but he didn't have time to think about it as another three Flyboys launched themselves at him.

And that was exactly why Max shouldn't leave.