Authors Note-Hey guys I am finally back! What ever you do please do not come after me with pitchforks and torches I have a good reason for not being here for what... a month now... I think. My life since I posted the last chapter has gone like this. I wake up at 6:30, I get ready to go to school and I get on the bus an hour later. Then I go to all of my advanced classes, and get literally bout 10 pounds of homework (maybe not that much but still) then on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have martial arts. When I get home, I veg out a little because I'm so stressed from school. Then I eat dinner than I do my homework take a shower. And go to bed. That is what my life has been like pretty much so yah. If you don't like my excuse that is your problem not mine. Anyway, my thanks to Bladedninja and TheOriginalADHDKid. You guys are the only reason I even made the time to write this at 10:00 o'clock in the morning or I would be catching up on sleep I lost last night from watching Insidious and Evil Dead. So yah sorry if the chapters crappy, don't hate me if I don't upload often, and review or favorite or follow if you enjoy this chapter.
Max POV
Waking up all I saw were huge trees all around me, they had to be at least 200 feet tall, and that was the smallest one I saw. Feeling rather than seeing a fire I sat up and was preparing to get up when I saw a pair of human arms holding me around my waist. Looking over my shoulder I saw Eragon sleeping right behind me with his arms wrapped around me. Shaking my head in disbelief I pulled his arms off of me regretting it because I was super cold. Once more I surveyed the camp and saw Midnight's saddle and bags on the ground 10 feet away. So getting up I walked over as quietly as possible not wanting anyone to wake up. Going through the bags I found my sweatshirt and threw it over my head, pulling the hood up I saw out of the corner of my eyes that Eragon was shivering so I grabbed my spare blanket and put it over him. Stretching the kinks out of my shoulders, I reached down and got my paper and quill, and wrote I was going flying for a while be back soon. And I set it down next to Broms sleeping figure, going back to my saddlebags I got my smallest knife and put slits down the back of my sweatshirt. And I slipped my wings out and stretched them out for the first time in what felt like years but had only been like a month. My once beautiful wings were no longer what they used to be, Once they were tan and white with brown specks and thirteen feet long, but know they pretty much tan with red blood stained into them because I was never able to clean them very well, and from not using them they became very weak and I am pretty sure they shrank about a foot or two. Deciding the best way to strengthen them was to do 10 power strokes up and land as well as I can. So I put them to their most upright position and flapped down as hard as possible which caused me to get off the ground one inch. Bringing them up faster than I thought possible, I brought them down even harder causing me to shoot five feet into the air laughing with delight I just decided to keep going up until I was to tired or I couldn't breathe from the air not having enough oxygen. Power stroke after power stroke I was getting really high, I was up higher than the tallest tree and still climbing. Until I had another attack that is, and it wasn't good for me, considering I had to be a thousand feet in to the atmosphere. What happened though scared me the most. My left wing had been broken and the right one was sprained and I was quickly losing altitude. Snapping them open despite the pain I slowed but I was still dropping like a rock so I angled my body like a skydiver, slowing myself further. Opening my mind and to everyone and screaming help hoping they would wake up I heard their startled cries and the look of horror on there faces when they saw that I was falling with really no control on my descent. Screaming at them to do something, but just seeing them just stand their watching me caused me to do something I haven't done in a while I called upon my magic and in the Ancient Language as calmly as possible I said 'Cushion fall' and pointed below me. And I laughed in delight when I saw the air itself form a cushion and when I felt it pushing me up to slow the fall. When I landed I curled up into a ball and covered my face with my hands and sat that way for longer than I should have when I knew we had to reach the elves. Despite the knowledge though I just didn't want to come out of my shell.
I wasn't that surprised when I felt someone pick me up pit me on Midnight (I could tell it was her from the amount of concern that wafted from her when we touched.) And wasn't surprised when I felt them strap me up by tying rope around me to keep me in place. I was surprised though when Eragon got on behind me and pulled me into him and hugged me while he just kept repeating "It's ok Max. Everything will be ok, were almost to the capitol, it's only two hours away while flying. And maybe the elves will know how to break your curse."
Deciding it was time to come out of my shell I uncurled slowly and said "Maybe I don't want it broken; maybe I just wanna stay crippled while I don't have to face reality."
Eragon replied with "O Max don't speak like that of course you want this fixed, than you'll be able to fly by yourself without the worry of your wings breaking mid-flight."
And this is where I broke the tears that I had been holding back for what looked like hours finally came, and they weren't the good kind, it was the icky kind when you hiccup and of boogers coming out of your nose because it's running so much. Turning around on Midnight I put my head into Eragon's shoulder and said "It was so scary I thought I was going to die, a freaks most horrifying way to die, the way that made them a freak, and for me that's flying and then falling to your death." I cried into his shoulder, and he didn't say anything other than assuring me that I am not a freak I am just different and different could be what we needed to defeat the evil king and that made me smile.
Awwwwww Max and Eragon are just so cute in my opinion, but that's me. Anyway review if you liked favorite if this is one of your favorite stories, or follow if you wish to know when I post a new chapter….. Whenever that may be :) Byyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeee Dooooooooods! Sorry if the chapter was short I am not using my laptop, I forgot it at home. I am using my dad's pc and I don't know how many words this is so yah. Bye.
-Abby7441