Sorry for the wait. But here's Chapter Two! Please R & R!
"Why is he here?" Fang hissed and nudged me in the ribs.
"Yeah, Jeb, why you here?" I shoved Fang's elbow away.
"Well, Max, you're here for a reason of course. And I'm here to tell you that reason." Jeb smiled and pushed on his glasses.
"Look, Jeb, can't I have a vacation for just once?" I started. "I mean, I have to save the world for scientists' sake! I need a-"
"We're going to go to bed," Tohru smiled and waved nervously.
"Yeah, okay. Anyways, Jeb, just get lost and leave me alone!" I yelled.
"Max-" Fang touched my hand.
"Fang! Go take the flock to the room! This is personal!" I ordered.
"Max, go to bed. I'll talk to you tomorrow." Jeb waved and went to bed.
"Shut up! Leave me alone!" I stormed into the room and slammed the door as hard as I could.
"Max!" Dylan ran to me and grabbed my hands.
"Get," I pointed to the couch. "Just get." He did as he was told, but kissed my cheek on his way. I moaned and slapped him. "Ugh!" I slumped onto the bed on the far side of the bedroom. Nudge, Angel and the Gasman were all crammed on the other bed. Iggy was in a chair, Dylan was on the couch, and Fang was in the bathroom. I lay down diagonal on the bed. Dylan started snoring and I put my hands over my ears. "Dylan, shut up!" I slammed the pillow over my head. Fang walked in, shirtless and had messed up hair. I sat up.
"Dylan annoying you?" Fang asked sitting on the side of my bed.
"Everyone is. Why is Jeb even here?" I stared at him.
"I don't know." He smiled and kissed my cheek. "Night, Max." I smiled as he turned off the lights.
"Night." I closed my eyes. And for the longest time couldn't go to sleep, but finally managed it.
Next Day
"Max, wake up!" I woke up to see Nudge, pounding on my bed.
"I'm up! I'm up!" I said, sitting up. I looked around. The flock was all barely awake, sitting on their bed, the chair, the couch or in Fang's case, the floor. "What, Nudge?"
"I heard a crash. The next room over, you know, the Sohma's?" She pointed to the connecting door.
"Nudge, honey, someone could have sleepwalked and ran into something. Or dropped something. It's the middle of the night!" I explained.
"No! I heard glass breaking and someone yell 'Get out of the way'!" She yelled and ran towards the door. "Max, go make sure they're okay!"
"Ugh!" I dragged myself out of bed and to the door. I looked through the peep hole and saw movement. So, I knocked on the door. Someone came to the door and answered it. It was Tohru. Her hair was all messed up and she wore a long nightgown.
"Um, hello," She smiled, though her hands were shaking.
"Hi. Um, my friend said she heard a crash coming from your room. She wanted me to check and see what was up." I smiled nervously.
"Oh," Tohru's smiled went away. "Well, see, Kyo opened a window and this gust of went just blew the room apart. He had to go against the wind to close the window. It was quite a sight."
"I bet. Gust of wind that blew the whole room apart?" I questioned and held onto the door.
"Yes. Come, come see!" Tohru grabbed my hand and led me into their room. Sure enough, their room was in pieces.
"Oh my goodness." I whispered.
"I know. Kyo, will you come out?" Tohru talked towards the bathroom door. It opened and out came Kyo, with many scratches. He walked over to Tohru and slipped his hand in hers.
"Isn't it a little late for a visit?" He asked, harshly.
"What happened?" I asked. Kyo looked at Tohru.
"Goodnight." He tried to shut the door. I jammed my foot into the door.
"I think you'd better tell me."
"Storm." Kyo shut the door. I looked at the flock.
"Storm." I repeated. Nudge nodded. "Bed." I said and walked to my bed. I turned out the lights and fell asleep.
I woke up at the sound of thunder, lightning, and hard rain. Fang and Iggy were in the kitchen, cooking. Nudge, Angel, Dylan, and the Gasman were still asleep.
"Morning, Max." Fang said.
"Morning. What up with the storm?" I said, pointing to the window.
"Started right after you went to sleep." He whispered and leaned over to kiss me on the lips. I pulled him closer.
"Okay, Fang, stop making out and help me get these eggs scrambled!" Iggy called out. Fang backed away from me and smiled. He walked to the kitchen and started with the eggs . I got up and headed towards the kitchen.
"Mmm. Pancakes, waffles with butter and maple syrup. Eggs, bacon, sausage, and an omelet with ham and cheese. Donuts, sourdough toast, Hash browns and house potatoes on the side with hot chocolate to drink. How'd you know my favorite?" I smiled and headed towards the fridge. "Where'd you find all this?"
"Well, I saw this credit card in the hallway under the name Jeb Batchelder. I thought, hm, breakfast is on him." Fang smiled and flipped a piece of toast over.
"Chocolate chip bagels and muffins." I said grabbing them out of the fridge. "Fang, Iggy, you're my heroes."
"I know." Fang kissed my cheek.
"Should we invite the Sohma's?" Iggy asked placing a plate of bacon next to my muffins.
"Do it." I said with a mouth full of bacon and muffins. Fang walked over to the connected door and knocked. That woke the rest of the flock.
"Waffles!" Nudge announced and ran to the table. "Give me a plate!"
"Yes?" Tohru answered the door. She had bags under her eyes.
"We were wondering if you'd like some breakfast? We fixed it this morning." Fang did his award winning smile.
"Sure! Let me get Kyo." She skipped off. Fang walked to the table and sat down next to me.
"Enjoying those muffins?" He smiled and grabbed one.
"Oh, so very much." I gobbled another one up. The flock and the Sohma's gathered around the table and ate breakfast together. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. "Be right back." I muttered and went to the door. Without thinking, I opened the door with seeing who it was.
"Thank you, Maximum." Jeb said entering our room. Part of my muffin fell into the floor. "That's gross." Jeb pointed to the muffin.
"What do you want?" I hissed, picking up my muffin, blowing the dust off and eating it. Jeb made a 'ew' face. "Heard of the five second rule?"
"Max, may I come in?" I waved him on and let him come in.
"Tell me, Jeb, why are you here." I asked as Dylan grabbed Jeb a plate full of food. I gave him a 'We don't give Jeb a plate of food around here because he's mean' look. Dylan smiled and stuck his tongue out at me.
"Well, Max, mmm this is good stuff. I taught you well." Jeb smiled at Fang and Iggy. "Anyways, Max, you're here for a reason. And I'm here to tell you that reason." Jeb said, again.
"You told me that already. What's the freaking reason?" I threw a muffin at him.
"Thank you." He said, catching the muffin. "Max, last night a storm started. It was bad. It still is." Thunder clapped and I jumped. "That's why you're here."
"A storm brought me here? I thought Angel brought me here." I said.
"Max, you've dealt with a category 4 hurricane before. Now, this is nothing like Earth has ever had before. A few scientists I've kept in touch with have been watching a storm for many years. The storm is a hurricane. A hurricane beyond category 5. They've considered it a category 15." I started choking on food.
"Category 15?" I coughed.
"Yes. It's supposed to hit Japan in two days. The early signs have already started. This hurricane came out of no where. We have to evacuate all of Japan. And maybe even parts of the Koreas, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, and New Guinea." Jeb explained. "You and the flock are to stay in Japan, through the hurricane."
"If it's that dangerous of a storm, why are we to stay?" Gazzy asked.
"This hurricane was man-made." Jeb ate the rest of his plate.
"Excuse me? A man-made hurricane? That's not possible." Kyo interrupted.
"Oh, but it is! These scientists figured out a way to make a hurricane stronger than anything we've ever seen!" Jeb smiled. "It's quite amazing."
"And…. What about us?" I muttered.
"First of all, we want you to tape it to show our achievement. Two, these scientists want to see how well you can do in this storm."
"Jeb, you are the most sick, mean, horrible person ever. I actually thought you had changed for a moment there. Thought maybe you were the old Jeb. The kind, caring one I wanted as a father. But it turns out you think of us like a reality T.V show. You like to watch us suffer and you have no real feelings for us. You pick your favorite and hope they survive. We're just a big experiment to you." I hadn't put much thought into that speech but it turned out to be pretty good. Tohru clapped.
"Wow Max! Such a speech! You're my idol! The Sohma's and I will stay with you. To the very end of the storm!" Tohru smiled. But she had no idea what we really were and how we had a much better chance of surviving that her. Suddenly, the window busted open and hail, rain, thunder, lightning and wind, blew the room apart.
"Oh shoot."