Chapter 3
Thanx sooooo much to everyone who reviewed and I am really sorry I haven't updated. Okay someone asked for a list of the flock members and their powers so here it is:
Max: super speed, control of electricity
Fang: invisibility, force fields
Iggy: teleport, touch something and know its colour
Asha (she is made up): control of fire, tell and change someone's emotions be touching them
Nudge: feel left over vibrations of what has happened somewhere she is also like a magnet
Gazzy: super farts, mimicking
Angel: Controls read and talks in someone's mind, breathe under water
Okay um a few things
1)-I know it says angle a lot but my computer will change it automatically
2)-do people recon nudge should go out with tom
3)-I am thinking of writing some stories of Alex rider characters and/or the flock taking part in some shows such as total wipe out, gladiator, takeshi's castle, crystal maze or ninja warrior. What do people think?
4)-I don't know any fighting skills so fight scenes will be unrealistic.
Disclaimer: do not own maximum ride or Alex rider
One other thing italics are max and fang talking with their eyes.
*******ride meet rider********
Mpov
After that … interesting lunch we went to the gym where we split off from the boys to get changed. After me and Asha got changed into the oh so lovely maroon t-shirt, blue skort, yellow nee-high socks and white trainers, we walked into the gym were the boys were already there.
"Hey" said fang quietly as pulled me to him. I smiled at him in response and snuggled into his chest. Just then tom walked up to us
"Not to interrupt anything, but is ash an angel?" fang and I looked at each other; I subconsciously pulled in my wing tighter to my spine. "Don't look so worried, but I've never seen Alex smile so much since... well the point is she must be an angle to make him smile so much." We looked over to wear Alex and Asha were talking/writing to each other and smiling and laughing, they looked happy. It saddened me to think that this might not last because we would have to move on we always do.
Then the coach came in he had ginger hair a small nose and beady watery eyes "okay then class over here new, today we will be doing self defence/ Hand to hand combat. So to start with split into three groups first group of people with no experience, second group of people with some experience and last group of people with lots of experience. Chop chop oh and can the new students come here please." Asha, Iggy, fang and I walked over to him leaving everyone else to get into their groups.
"Sir?" I asked
"Oh yes, max, nick, ash and Jeff I assume?" we nodded our heads and he continued. "Any medical issues I should know about?"
"Um well I'm blind and ash is mute I spose that could be counted as medical issues." Said Iggy
"Okay ash your fine but Jeff you I'm afraid can't take part" he said pointing to Iggy.
"But sir please can I have a go I have really good hearing so I can predict were people are."
"The coach sighed and said "fine it's on your head, which groups then?"
"Umm" I said looking at fang
High
"Top group please" and we walked over to the top group were Alex and about 4 others were already standing.
"Okay then form a line and from the bottom group tell us any experience if any" the coach instructed.
"None"
"None"
"None" this went on all through the bottom group with the exception of tom who said
"What Alex has taught me."
The coach raised his eyebrows and turned to Alex. "What does he know then?"
"Not much basic block, punch, kick, not much." Alex said shrugging
"okay next" when he finally got past the intermediates which had all had 1 or 2 self defence lessons he got to the top group.
"Brown belt"
"Blue belt"
"Purple belt"
"Purple belt"
"Black belt" said Alex quietly, I assumed this was good because half the group was looking at him in awe whist the instructor nodded. Then it was our turn, great how do you tell them that you have never been taught but are probably better at fighting then anyone here because you're a genetic mutant?
"Umm well w technically we haven't ever had a lesson but before my dad died he taught us." I said fiddling with fangs hand; he squeezed my hand in response.
"Well okay anything more specific?" asked the coach.
"No but we could show you max and nick are the best." Said Iggy turning his sightless blue eyes towards me.
"Fine let's see what you got." Said the coach pulling out some mats for us to fight on. When he was done he motioned for us to come forward "come on then let's go." Fang and walked forward still holding hands he kissed my forehead and we separated and faced each other. "Fight"|
I don't want to hurt you fang said as we circled each other.
You think I want to hurt you? I asked him
No but that doesn't make me want to hit you anymore he replied.
"Oh for god's sake" exclaimed Iggy "just hurry up and hit each other already!"
"Jeff let them concentrate!" shouted the coach
"But sir they're not going to fight!"
"Why not!"
"Sir would you hit your wife?"
"No!"
"Then nick won't hit max and vice versa."
The coach turned to us "are you going to fight?"
"Yes" I replied and fang nodded.
"Continue"
fine let's get on with this I said to fang
But stuttered fang
No buts lets go fang sighed but nodded and threw a roundhouse kick at me head I dodged and threw my own punch fang dodged and connected a fist to my stomach.
"I am so going to kill you Jeff for comparing us to a married couple!" I said as I dodged a punch to my head I grabbed fangs fist and elbowed him in the stomach then continued rotating using my momentum to slam down on top of fang. The air left him in a rush past my ear and twisted my head and pecked him on the cheek. I rested there for a bit then got up and offered fang a hand; he took it and pulled himself up.
"that was good, but I could tell neither of you were really trying especially nick" the coach said then turned to the rest of the group "right top group pair up and spar one 3, let's see, Alex and Asha, Ollie and jasmine, Luke and Jim, max nick and Jeff in a 3" I turned to fang and Iggy and we set up on the mats we had used earlier.
********ride meet rider*******
Apov (when they went off to spar)
Alex and ash walked off to get some mats together while they were walking Alex was thinking about the fight he had just witnessed it had been good there was no denying that, but the coach had been right, they were not going full out it had been a play fight almost. As the two picked up the mat he looked at the girl standing next to him, she was pretty, very pretty and very nice to when they had been chatting earlier he had felt more free and relaxed then he had for ages but he couldn't like because that would put her in danger and he would not do that to anyone. By the time Alex had finished going through all of this in his mind they had finished setting out the mats. He and ash circled each other waiting for someone to make the first move, in the end it was ash who threw a punch to Alex's head and the fight had started. It seemed they were evenly matched in the end it seemed it who be the person who could continue for the longest would be the winner. The rest of the class watched it lasted for well over half an hour when ash tripped on the mat and fell into Alex and landed on top of him on the mats. Alex looked down at the girl lying on top of him she was breathing deeply and seemed to be making no move to get up.
"Shift it" said Alex prodding her she looked up at him and shook her head. "Please" begged Alex the class was starting to snigger. Again ash shook her head "why not?" she looked at him and dropped her head her eyes closing miming sleep. "Fine," Alex gave in and let his head drop and lay there panting too. The people closer to them who had heard there exchange had started all out laughing at them. The coach had come over by then and saw them "whets going on are they hurt?"
"No sir she won't get up because she's tired so he gave up." Said a student by them
The coach sighed then turned quickly when he heard a yell from the opposite side of the gym. There panting on the floor in almost exactly same position as Alex and ash was fang and max "have they been sparing for long." Asked the coach.
"34minuets 17seconds sir" said Jeff from his perch on the bench on the side of the gym.
"I won't ask how you know that but okay these 4 can rest the rest of you back to work."
Alex leaned forward again and whispered in ash's ear "you ready to get up yet" ash sighed then slowly rolled of him and sat up, Alex sat up too and they sat there just watching the world go by.
After school still Apov
"You so fancy her!" tom was jumping around Alex as they walked to get their bikes from the shed round the back of the school.
"I don't." Alex was insistent.
"You do, you do!"
Alex sighed and turned to face the smaller boy, "even if I did I can't because she could get hurt! You know that."
"But mate you saw how well she fought, she nearly beat you and the rest of the family was the same."
"It's not the same; I can't put her in that much danger, I just can't!" Alex said as he unchained his bike. A sudden high note split the ear Alex spun round to see the hole school facing a sheepish looking ash with her fingers in her mouth, her family who had been next to her when she whistled were holding their ears in pain. When she saw him looking at her she waved and beckoned him over. He looked at tom then sighed and walked over wheeling his bike next to him tom walking behind him.
"Yes?" she looked at him then pulled out a note book and began scribbling furiously when she was done she handed it to max who looked at it then nodded if a bit reluctantly, then passed it to Alex. It read wuld u like 2 cum 4 a sleepover 2night tom cum 2. After he read it he passed it to tom whilst thinking it over.
"Hell yeh" said tom "come on Alex pleaseee"
"Oh fine let me check with jack." He said pulling out his phone. The phone rang and then
"Hello" rang out a cheery American voice
"Hi jack, umm I was wondering could I go for a sleepover to night?"
"Yeh of course who is it?"
"I've got a new friend called ash they've invited me and tom over."
"Yeh that's fine come grab your stuff then you can head of."
"Thanks jack bye"
"Yeh I can come just got to pick up some stuff." he said as he turned back to the group.
"Why bother I'm sure between me and nick and probably max we can get you some stuff and for tom our younger brother will have some stuff he can borrow."
"Okay cool let's go then."
At max's house
Mpov
"Hey people, we're home" I shouted as we trouped in the door
"Maaaaaaaaaaaxxxxxxx" shouted angle as she ran down the stairs towards us.
"Hey Ariel" I said as she ran up to me and clung to my leg. "Where is your brother?"
"Umm maybe you don't want to know but Jeff might" she said twisting my shirt in her hands I sighed
"Jeff go sort it out now." Iggy sighed trudged up the stairs.
I led our odd group into the lounge were we settled on chairs bean bags and the floor. Ella came next
"Max have you seen my…" she stopped mid sentence when she saw our guests high I'm Ella max's sister, "oh by the way were igjeff?"
"Went up stairs to see zephyr this is Alex and tom" I said waving to them. She smiled and sat down on the empty sofa. I was sitting on the sofa next to fang whilst Alex and Asha were on the other sofa tom was sitting on a beanbag on the floor.
"Right everybody get changed then meet back down here, tom, Alex, if you like black clothes go to nick umm Jeff is probable to big but I've got jeans and t-shirts you can borrow. Ash has got some too"
With that we trudged upstairs to followed me to get some clothes and I gave him some joggers and a plain blue t-shirt.
"Thanks" he said
"The bathroom is opposite when you're done go back downstairs I'll meat you down." When he was gone I pulled on a pair of jeans and a tank top with a shirt open over the top. I was just about to go down when a hand snagged my wrist. I spun round my fist raised ready to smoke in my attackers face. Fang caught my fist and pulled me to him.
"What have I told you about not sneaking up on me?"
"Not to." He said smirking down at me.
"Oh I give up come on lets go down, you seen nudge?" I asked as we walked down the stairs.
When we got downstairs we discovered that we were the last one's down. Alex and ash were both sitting on a sofa writing to each other again whilst tom was on a beanbag again. Iggy was sitting on the floor with Ella on his lap staring into nowhere Gazzy and angel were chasing each other round the sitting room, and when fang and I came in angel ran and hid behind our legs.
"Max save me he's going to let one of!"
"Zephyr if you dare let one of no bombs for the rest of the week." At this Gazzy sat down with a humph next to Iggy. I sighed "were is tiffany?"
"I'm here max I'm here max don't forget me, oh have you got friends round I like friends, I had friends at the day night school one of them had stripy hair like a zebra, do you like zebra's, I do with their funny tongs' like giraffes did you know that giraffes have blue tongs', can I paint my room blue?" it was quite funny watching Alex and tom's reactions to this.
"I never thought I'd see the day that someone could speak as much as tom." Said Alex who dodged a piece of god knows what that tom had thrown at him.
"Right this is tiffany people." Nudge smiled brightly and sat down next to tom.
"Oooh max can we play a game please, I know how about truth or dare! I love truth or dare do you its so much fun; you must like it because it's what got you fnick together! And do youhmphmh…"
"Thanks Jeff right what shall we do then." I asked
"Max please can we play truth or dare please please please." I was about say no when I made the mistake of look at angel who had her bambie eye's on I looked at fang
Help I said
I fall for bambie eyes to you know! Fang replied with a shrug
Oh god not truth or dare I moaned
God help us agreed fang.
"fine." I moaned "let's start the torture session then."
"Yay" yelled nudge "can I start please max please."
"Off you go then."
"Okay then let's have Ella." At the mention of her name Ella looked up from where she had been snuggled into Iggy. "Umm Ella truth or dare"
"Dare" said Ella looking slightly worried.
"Okay I dare you to…. Kiss Alex on the mouth."
"I refuse" Ella said shaking her head " I've already got a boy friend you can only do that dare to single people you know that we invented that rule after you tried to make max kiss Jeff!"
"Oh fine um I dare you to have your hands tied to Jeff's till tomorrow morning!"
"All night, are you kidding!" said Ella looking slightly alarmed
"Yep all night." Said nudge happily. Ella sighed got up grabbed some rope and tied her hands to Iggy's. Threw all of this Iggy had been trying to keep a straight face but was now failing miserably and was chuckling.
"Truth or dare…max" she said looking round for her victim.
"Dare" I say looking her in the eye wondering if I would regret this?
"I dare you to let nick feed you for the rest of the evening." She said she looked like she wasn't happy with this dare. I shrugged and nodded.
"Alex, truth or dare?" Alex looked like he was struggling decide
"Truth"
"Okay then who do you fancy?"
"oo ooo I know this he can't lie!" said tom jumping up and down in delight.
Alex looked like he would happily rip of tom's head right now. But then he smilled.
"Tienes pelo pelirojo y marrones." He said smiling slightly. (She has red and brown hair.)
"Oh that's cheating none of us speak Spanish!" said nudge frowning.
"Oh but I do he likes the person with red and brown hair" said Ella smiling "my mum is Spanish you know!"
"Since you actually have to say a name I am going to tell them he fancies ash." Said tom that had got up and was hidden behind the sofa fang and I were sitting on. Alex had gone bright red by this point. Asha looked up at him then scribbled something o her note book and showed it to Alex he read it and smiled. Oh god if I have to split them up I am gona feel so guiltly. You know were part bird well jeb has a theory that we mate once and for life and if Alex is asha's partner we could have problems.
"Right then next up ummm Jeff truth or dare" said Alex looking around.
"Truth" said Iggy he looked at me slightly nervous.
"Okay why do you seem to have different names?" oh god he was observant how did he notice that. Come on Iggy think of something.
"nick names don't know where we got them from I'm Iggy, tiffany is nudge, nick is fang, max is max, zephyr is Gazzy Arial is angel and ash is Asha." Nice save Iggy. Alex nodded accepting this and smiled. "Right then um lets have tom truth or dare?" tom took his time thinking then said
"Dare"
"Tomorrow I dare you to let nudge and Ella give you a makeover that they would like to give to max, you have to wear it all day." Everyone was trying to hold in there laughter at this and tom looked as though he was about to faint. We were just about to carry on when mom came in.
"Hey Arial zephyr, time for bed now you have school tomorrow and the rest of you bed before 1 this time thanks." Gazzy and angel groaned but came over gave me a hug then trudged off to bed. "See you." With that she vanished out the door.
"Right then tom it's your go!" tom looked up so its Asha fang or nudge, I think I'll go for Asha. Asha truth or dare." Asha thought for a moment then put up 2 fingers. "Dare?" tom asked Asha nodded. "I dare you to… kiss the person in the room that you fancy. Asha went bright red and when I say red I don't mean a little tinge to the cheeks. I mean the red only someone who controls fire could go. Tomato red. I looked at fang
What's the betting it's Alex? I asked him
Almost definitely, do you rekon they'll notice how red she is? Fang replied.
Maybe, Alex noticed us slipping up on our fake names. Then very slowly Asha leaned in to Alex and kissed him on the cheek, she pulled away quickly and went back to sitting huddled in a ball on the sofa. Nudge giggled at the shade of red Alex was now going almost enough to rival Asha. Then Asha raised a finger and pointed it at fang.
"Truth" said fang Asha thought then brought out her note book and scribbled something. "Have you ever worn any colour except black" he read out loud "umm no not really unless you count school uniform and the last time we played truth or dare" he shuddered at the thought. I was trying to suppress laughing at the last memory whilst Iggy was not so successful and was laughing hard at the thought of fang in a pink leotard. "Well that leaves nudge truth or dare?"
"well I could choose dare but last time you made me let max dress me for a week ad that was just horrible all those boys clothes yuck but then it wasn't as bad as the time max me and fang drop clothes that was funny max in a dress mind you all that black yuckedy yuck yuck!! So if I go for truth I think that should be safe yes I think I'll go for truth."
"Okay nudge have you ever been quiet for more than 30 minutes?"
"umm well I don't know when I'm awake probably not because you know you can't stop the nudge channel but when I'm asleep maybe but I do sleep talk max woke me up once and said I hadn't stopped talking since I had gone to sleep maybe that's why when we go to a hotel you let me have my own room. Soo probably not." I smiled at this even with the white coats nudge hadn't shut up in the end they just ignored her.
Sorry about the dodgey ending will update as soon as I can
Kewlbanana