Chapter 5

I walked straight into the garden where what looked like golf was being played, and all eyes were on me.
"Who is that?" Yelled some fat lady with a dress and a crown with a lot of hearts on them.
"It would appear, Your Majesty, that it is a girl."
I looked to my side, and noticed that white rabbit from before. So it was alive!
"Hmph," Said the queen. She was obviously a queen.
She stared at me, and I stared back.
"What is your name, girl" Asked the queen.
"Maximum Ride."
"Queer name," Replied the queen. After a few second`s silence, the queen said to me, "Do you play croquet?"
Well, it looked like golf, and I`ve played that once or twice. So I figured it was safe to say yes.
"Sort of." "Very well then. Somebody bring a flamingo and a hedgehog!"
A game card with feet and hands walked up and handed me a flamingo, legs first, and a hedgehog that was rolled up like a ball.
"It`s your turn," Said the queen.
I walked forward, took one look at the upside-down U`s and the ball, and figured out that I was supposed to hit the ball, or in this case hedgehog, through the upside-down U`s.
I leaned the flamingo down and was about to hit the hedgehog, when the flamingo lifted its head and glared at me.
"Sorry dude, but I get the feeling that it would not be wise to upset the queen," I whispered to the flamingo.
Especially since she`d been yelling to random people, "Off with their heads!" And that person would be dragged away.
The flamingo sighed ( Can flamingos sigh? ) and let its head drop back to the floor.
I was about to hit the hedgehog through the upside-down U`s, when the hedgehog suddenly rolled away.
"Ugh!" I yelled, and threw my arms into the air in frustration, still holding the flamingo.
The Fang-cat chose now to make its apperance. Except, of course, it was just the head floating in mid air.
"What do you think of the queen?" Asked the Fang-cat.
"I think she`s completely crazy! She`s yeliing at random people for their heads to be cut off, and they haven`t even done anything!"
"Who are you talking to?" Asked the psyco queen.
"Um-"
"My name is Cheshire Cat, pleased to meet you, Your Majesty."
"Cheshire Cat, eh?" Said the psyco queen.
"Indeed."
A silence fell, then the psyco queen said, "Well, since you seem to be polite, I will let you shake my hand."
"Don`t be silly, I do not want to do that," Replied the Fang-cat.
"What? You do not want to shake hands with me!"
"No. I do not," Said the Fang-cat, smiling in his creepy way.
There was another silence while the psyco queen started turning red in anger. Then she yelled,
"OFF WITH HIS HEAD!"
But right before the guards could catch the Fang-cat, his head dissapeared.
"Where did he go? Search for him!" Yelled the psyco queen.
Since the queen was a total weirdo, I decided to sit back, and watch the show while everyone got down on their knees to look for the head that was floating ten feet in the air, grinning.
The Fang-cat looed at me, winked, then dissapeared. I saw his head again, right behind some poor chap on his knees looking for the head that was right behind him.
"Boo!" Whispered the Fang-cat, making the other guy jump up like the way they do in cartoons.
After he dissapeared, he appeared again behind dome old lady and did the same thing with that other guy.
He did it to everyone, making me laugh so hard, there were tears on my face.
I especially loved it when he did it to the psyco queen.
He got right behind her fat ear, and whispered, "Boo!"
The psyco queen shrieked and jumped up. She started looking all around her, and when she didn`t find him, she got up, took one look at my laughing face, and yelled at me, "OFF WITH HER HEAD!"
I stopped laughing there.
The guards approached me, holding their hands out.
I wasn`t ready to be executed right then.
I karate-chopped their hands that were stuck out towards me then gave them a hard kick in gut.
They gasped, falling to their knees, as I ran towards the middle of the garden, then launched myself into the sky. I looked back down, to see everyone waving at me except the psyco queen, who was running around yelling "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" over and over again. I think she finally cracked. Time for a new queen.
"Max! Max! Max!"
I looked up towards the sky, and to my delight, saw Angel calling me. She waved her hand towards herself, then pointed to the sky. I nodded eagerly, then flew after her.
We flew towards the sun, leaving all that madness behind, but Angel kept looking towards me and yelling,
"Max! Max! Max!" Then there was a huge shadow behind her, and I saw Ari, holding a sack. I tried to fly to her while Ari was stuffing her in there, but there was some sort of barrier. She kept yelling my name, and I yelled hers back.
I felt someone breathing on my neck, so I turned around, and there was Ari again, holding the sack that held Angel. Grinning, he shook it, making me growl at him and try to get to him, but I couldn`t because of that stupid barrier!
Ari dropped the sack, and I was forced to watch as Angel fell to her death.
"ANGEL!" I yelled.
"Max! Max! Max!"
Then, still hearing Angel scream my name, Ari grabbed me, and as soon as his hand reached towards me, everything went black.
And I woke up.