icefox: woo-hoo! No more finals! so... someone thinks that i'm not updating this story and i'm going to assume that means never updating, so I need to tell you guys something. I am a college student who just got done with finals and works for her grandma all day saturdays and has robotics at least every tuesday night, so its not like I have a lot of free time. Plus I have more then just this story I am working on, so please be patient. I might not update as much as you people might want me to, but I will always update. I will never abandon a story because I would fall in love with stories that get abandoned and know how it feels to know that a story you really love will never get finished. Like right now, there's a one piece story I absolutely love called Dead Wish and the author doesn't know if he/she is going to finish it because they lost the inspiration to work on it. T.T

Anyways, here is chapter 3 of Wings Of A Feather! I have 2 chapters written in my little notebook here, so look forward to the next chapter in a few minutes. Also as an apology for taking so long, other then the extra chapter, go to my profile and look at my story ideas. Some of them I have started and some I have outlined and everything but haven't started yet. Just look through them and tell me if there are any you want to read and I will type them up and post them or at least start working on them so that they can come up soon. Yes, most of them are crossovers or anime related, but I still hope you look at them just in case there might be one you like.

Disclaimer: if you don't already know that I don't own Maximum Ride and Percy Jackson and the Olympians, then you haven't really been paying much attention here, have you? XD

Chapter 3: Erasers in the Strawberry Field

(Max POV)

It has been 12 years since our mute flock member joined us. Since then, we have gained 3 more kids for the flock.

The first one to come was Nudge. Fondly referred to as The Nudge Channel for her motormouth, Nudge is about 11 or 12 like our mute flock member with gorgeous caramel/chocolate hair and eyes to match her flawless milk chocolate skin. The tawny winged bird kid seems to be obsessed with fashion and you would be lucky if you could get her to stop talking for more then a minute, but I guess that's one of her charms.

Gazzy and Angel came to us at the same time and are the only 2 in our flock related. Gazzy, or the Gasman for reason you don't want to experience first hand, is a blue eyed blond around 8 years old that has a talent for mimicking voices perfectly and making bombs. Both of these talents gets him in trouble many times, especially the bombs he likes making with his best friend Iggy, He's a real sweet boy despite all this, a trait he shares with his little sister Angel.

Now don't tell anyone, but Angel's my favorite. She is a really sweet girl that has golden blond curls and beautiful blue eyes that go perfectly with her name. Even her wings are pure white. She is also the youngest in the flock, being 6 years old. Maybe that's why I favor her so much. Angel was only 2 years old when we escaped from the School 4 years ago, So I've raised her like I was her mom.

Yes, we escaped from the School. It wasn't because we just decided to bust out of our cages all of a sudden and ninja our way out of the place. For some reason, a scientist named Jeb Batchelder helped us escape. After escaping, he brought us to the E shaped house we live in now and disappeared soon after. No one has said it out loud, but we all know he's dead.

Now why am I telling you all this? It's time to start the day! Breakfast sounds really good right now. Maybe the food faeries visited us last night...

10 minutes later

'What is this?' I ask myself as I stare at my attempt at cooking breakfast. It was burned beyond comparison and had odd purple fumes wafting from it. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to cook.

"Max?" A sleep filled voice asked from the entrance to the kitchen. I turn around to see Gazzy and Kai staring at me. One was still trying to wake up and the other was staring at my back where I hid my concoction. 'Hey, my cooking's not that bad Kai! ...Right?'

Kai, full nickname being Chimera (kai-me-rah) is our mute flockmember. We gave him that nickname because of him apparently having 3 types of DNA and chimera are greek creatures that are created from more then one type of creature. Our nickname for him goes surprisingly well with his real name. Like most of the flock, Angel has a special talent and this talent is reading peoples minds. Now, she can control it almost perfectly, but a year or so ago, she would read peoples minds on accident. One day she accidentally read Kai's mind and his earliest memory which was a pretty brunette woman naming him Perseus Jackson. Angel heard this and a handsome man with Kai's black hair and green eyes call the woman Sally before the accident stopped. We tried looking her up in California (location of the School) and Colorado (where we are now) guessing her last name was Jackson and she would be nearby, but found nothing. We would have looked harder, but Kai didn't seem to mind not knowing, so we dropped it and kept his flock name because Perseus sounded weird after calling him Kai for so long.

Anyways, lets get back to the present and away from memory lane. I think Gazzy is trying to ask me something.

"I'm sorry sweetie, what did you say?" I asked, making Gazzy roll his eyes.

"Max, you need to stop hanging out with Nudge! She's supposed to be the space cadet. Not you."

"Okay, I'm sorry. Now what?"

"I was just asking what we were having for breakfast."

"Um, a surprise." I said, kissing him on the forehead. Gazzy was about to say something in response when they heard a crash and pained moan before the flocks blind strawberry blond mutant stumbled into the kitchen.

"Who moved the table next to the stairs?" Iggy asked with an irritated tone of voice.

"Sorry Iggy. The stairs just looked so empty." I apologized.

"Next time, tell me when you move something. Remember I'm blind." Iggy said sitting on the couch.

'Then act like you are! ^^()' I thought before peering into the fridge. 'Why aren't food faeries real? Oh well, maybe we have a few cans we can open up.' I sighed at my train of thought before freezing when I felt the hairs on the back of my neck raise. I whip my head around and come face to face with Fang.

"Fang! Will you quit that?" I yell startled at the raven haired boy putting his long hair in a pony tail.

"Quit what? Breathing?" Fang asked calmly as he walked over to the table to grab an apple.

"Make some noise when you walk! You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"I'll make eggs. Don't want Max destroying our last frying pan." Iggy said walking in from the living room. Kai laughed silently while I huffed in annoyance .

"Fine! I'll go wake Nudge and Angel." I say as I stomp off to their room. After dragging the half conscious Nudge out of her bed and helped the already awake Angel button up her shirt, we walk out into the living room to wait for breakfast to be done. During breakfast, Angel said she wanted to go pick strawberries, so I suggest we all go. So after cleaning up the breakfast mess and grabbing some baskets for the strawberries, we flew to the strawberry field.

Strawberry Field

Angel, Gazzy, Kai and Nudge raced to find the best strawberries while Iggy, Fang, and I took our time. As Fang and Iggy wandered off to the right, I walked over to where Angel had dragged Kai and started to pick some strawberries.

"if you make cake, I can make strawberry shortcakes." Angel said to me, making Kai give her a 'WTF, ARE YOU CRAZY?' look.

"yeah, that'll be the day, when Max makes a cake. I'll make it, Angel." I heard Iggy say. I whirled around to face the blind kid and glared (a lot of good that did me).

"Oh, thank you! Okay, I'm not a fabulous cook. But I can still kick your butt, and don't you forget it!" I exclaimed, one hand on my hip and the other pointing to Iggy (Again, why exactly am I making all these gestures when he can't see them? Oh well). I blink a bit in confusion when everyone started to laugh and Iggy put his hands up in denial. Even Fang was grinning and Gazzy looked... devious. That when it clicked. "Was that you?" I asked him, making the Gasman shrug his shoulders. I was about to reprimand Gazzy on mimicking others when I heard Angel scream. I spin around to stare at her before snapping my eyes to the sky where attractive men and woman were coming out helicopters and turning into red eyed creatures resembling werewolves before hitting the ground.

Erasers were here and, unfortunately, it's not a dream.

End chapter 3

Songs

Jungle P by 5050 (One Piece)

Metro by The Vincent Black Shadow

No Matter What by unknown (to me) artist (4kids YuGiOh!) XD (such a nerd!)

Draw With Me (music by someone from newgrounds. video by mikeinel)

IMITATION BLACK by Kumoi Gakupo, Shion Kaito, and Kagamine Len (Vocaloid)

Trinity Cross by Nana Mizuki (Rosario+Vampire)

Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy

Setsuna no Kioku (Chome Dokuro character song) by Satomi Akesaka (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

The End Has Come by Ben Moody

The Sailor Song by Toy Box

Hyrule Field Main Theme by Koji Kondo (Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time)