Chapter 3: Chapter 3

I do NOT own Maximum Ride (like anyone does)

"I can see that you guys have met Ciel here" Jeb said while gesturing to the grime covered girl who, now that I saw her face looked to be about my age actually.

"Well yeah we have met her but we don't know who or what she is. Or why she is here but we did just recently find out her name was Ciel." I shot back rather rudely while glaring at Ciel.

"Oh my GOD! Ciel is SUCH a pretty name! Why did you name yourself that?" Angel asked ecstatically. She knows Jeb…..which probably means she is from the School.

"Well it means sky in French and I love the sky, but my mom actually named me." Ciel mumbled with a shadow of a smile on her face. Fang even grinned when he heard that. We all know how much someone can love the sky, I mean look at us, we were born to fly (lol get it ;) ) Wait her mom? I just had to ruin this Kodak moment by asking yet another question.

"So I am guessing you're from the School right? Which means that your some kind of hybrid. What kind? And if you have parents why were you ever at the School?" I was kind of expecting her to answer but surprisingly (NOT) Jeb chipped in.

"Actually Maximum, she is just like you well kind of. Ciel grew up in the School after being taken at the age of 6 and underwent many of the same tests as you but is slightly more advantaged. Ciel has had extensive training in mixed martial arts and could easily take all 6 of you and have a 90% chance of getting out of it virtually unscathed. She was trained to be an assassin." Jeb was all brains and no fun. Wait we have an assassin among us? Yeah right she could take us all.

Jeb is correct, Maximum. But you have no reason to be weary of Ciel. She is here because she didn't want to harm any of you.

What the HELL is that supposed to mean?

No answer. Typical and predictable.

"What kind of assassin?" I just HAD to know.

"Search and….rescue." He said rescue with a slight smile on his face.

"Yeah rescue. I totally believe that. What was she trained to rescue?" because I had a strange feeling that that something was us.

"Nothing important just haywire experiments." Jeb shrugged all nonchalantly. I am SO not believing this crap.

No Max, she isn't here to hurt us. We can trust her. I read her mind.

Thanks Angel.

Well just to lessen the awkwardness and tension in the air my mom came running in with all of her medical stuff ready to patch up Ciel. "Okay let me see that awful gash on your arm now….oh where did it go? I could have sworn it was right here." My mom seemed really confused and even I was. Yeah Avian-human hybrids heal fast but not THAT fast. I mean that was a DEEP gash. My mom had Ciel in just her tank top carefully inspecting her now flawless arm. Ciel didn't have wings? I thought Jeb said she had wings?

"Yo Jeb I thought you said little Sky over here had wings. Where are they?" Jeb then took a cautious glance at Ciel and with a nod of the head Ciel closed her eyes and started to focus. Then out of the blue her wings started to unfold from her back, like they were IN her? Once fully unfurled, Ciel's wings were breathtaking. Not as pretty as Fang's but really close. They were a deep, pure black with silverstreaks in them.

"Ciel has the ability to conceal her wings within her back bone structure. She was practically made for camouflage." Well that was informative. It almost seems as though Jeb is bragging about Ciel. She then blushed amd curled up her wings but this time outside of her back.

"Well I think we should all sit down and explain everything. Answer questions." My mom suggested helpfully. Everyone agreed and headed for the living room.

We have 2 couches and 1 loveseat, as well as 2 recliners, in our living room. Me and Fang had the loveseat, Mom, Jeb, Nudge, and Angel had one couch while Iggy and Ciel sat on absolute different ends of the other couch and Gazzy sat on the floor. "So I will start from the beginning. Ciel was made at the school but was taken from her parents at the age of six and sort of recreated using her DNA but once she turned 11 she was entered into the Experiment X program. The Experiment X program is an assassin training program and we scientists had created a super Avian hybrid that could run faster, fight better, jump higher, heal faster, and just be stronger than the original Avian hybrids. No offense. But when Ciel was assigned her mission she refused. She didn't want to take down her target so she ran, but was caught after a horrible fall and minor, temporary amnesia. I was told that she was exterminated but I guess they misinformed me because here she is." After all that only one thing was on my mind she was made to be BETTER than us! Ugh, I hate her even more now.

"So what was this target she was supposed to take down?"

"You," I heard come from the girl that wasn't supposed to be here.

"What did you say?" I snarled at her.

"I said you were my target. When they assigned me you and your Flock I refused and when they sent me to my mission I left. They found me after I fell from the sky and brought me back. I ran away 2 days ago and found myself here. It's a complete coincidence that you happen to be the one to find me." Ok now I really didn't trust this girl but everyone else seemed to believe her so I'll go along with it for now but as soon as she does something funny she is out of my house, Flock, life and mind.

Don't worry Max she won't hurt us and she thinks Iggy is cute. She sorta reminds me of Fang. *giggle giggle*

Now that Angel mentions it, she does remind you of Fang. She was wearing all black and had on black eyeliner. It wasn't all thick and raccoon-y but natural and made her silver eyes really pop. Whatever, no matter how pretty she was or how much she liked Iggy I am still on guard.

Just to clarify

Angel's thoughts

Max's thoughts

The voice