You can bet you bunnies that if I did not have to go to school you would have had this a week ago! However I do have school, and school is stupid, so you have it now. Sorry. Please enjoy, the Cullen's are not here yet, but soon-I promise. ENJOY!
disclaimer- Maximum Ride, and Twilight are owned by their own perspective authors, and publishing houses-sadly I am not either.
"Max." Angel, whined "Why can't we stop for food, I don't want to eat energy bars, in the sky, flying."
The kid has totally lost her toughness, and only in the two months since we settled down at mom's, what was the world coming to?
"Sorry Ange, do you want to make it to Forks or not?"
"Fine." The little girl with angelic curly blond hair, and cloud white wings pouted.
"Good." I shot back.
We had been flying for almost two days straight. Since we were trying to make it from Arizona to Washington in a timely manner, we only stopped to sleep. This was something Fang found hilarious, although I am lost as to why. So since we were setting our pace very quickly we were just about over Forks, green lush forest coating underneath us.
"Angel, think of it this way," Nudge was trying to cheer her little sister up, "the less we stop the quicker we get to Forks, and the faster you get to meet Edward. Also the sooner you get to put you plan into action..."
I cut in there "What plan?"
"Uh- its nothing." Angel grinned, meaning it was inarguably going to be something, only time would tell what.
"Anyways," Nudge continued, "I just want to see them, to meet them and the sooner we get to Forks the sooner that happens. I wonder if Rosalie or Alice will do my hair. Or maybe Jasper will finally tell you and Fang to get over it, or Carisle will know how to restore Iggy's sight."
"Or we can find out vampires really aren't real." I pointed out.
We flew on for about another half hour enjoying the freezing damp air. We flew above the clouds, in attempt not to get soaked, and then freeze solid. Just one of the corks of flying to cold damp cloud covered Forks in the middle of winter. The weather didn't faze me, it let me think, it let me enjoy flying, it had been awhile since we got some serious millage. Yet it bothered me that our whole two day trip Fang hadn't said a word.
Not that he normally says much but Fang's jaw was locked, eyes set dark. Part of me told me he was only going because I was the leader, he almost always fallowed whatever I said. Which made life much easier for me, by the way. Just it didn't make that hard jaw-line any easier, Fang rarely smiled, but just as rarely did he frown, it was disturbing whenever for a long period of time he showed signs of emotion. Still, though I understood how he felt, I was dragging him along an an adventure to find six fake vampires. I'd be pretty upset too.
"Well nows our chance to find out." I said pointing down at a small town bordering an expanse of forest and the ocean, I had glimpsed by chance when the clouds thinned for a millisecond. "Drop down underneath the clouds now, but try and stay inconspicuous, we don't want to blow our cover now." I tilted my wing down and slowly declines through the cloud.
Soon we were all coasting the underside of the cloud looking for a good place to land and not be seen.
"We could go to the cliff that Bella jumped off of in New Moon, its in LaPush so it will be a walk to Forks, but unless you want to forest land I think it would work best." Nudge said thoughtfully.
"Or," Angel said, "we could just scan the forest looking for the Cullen's house clearing and just land there."
"Or," Iggy stepped in, "we could land on the roof of Forks High School and just jump down."
"Or," Gazzy said, "we could land in the shadows by the road that leads into the forest that the Cullen's driveway should be off of. Then we can just look for the driveway and bam we found them."
I analyzed the options my flock had put out. "You know what, Gaz lead the way."
From a distance Fang gave me a critical eye, like he thought was going insane. Who knows, maybe I was.
The Gasman easily floated up in front of the flock as he looked for shadows along a long free way that was probably the road that lead to the Cullen's drive way. With his hand, he motioned for us to fallow as he smoothly descended onto the side of the road, no one was around, no one saw us.
"Pull your wings in guys." I reminded as I shook my out and hugged them tightly to my back.
There was a light dusting of snow on the ground. Looking up at the sky, at the clouds we had recently burst through, it looked like it was threatening to snow more.
We started walking on the side of the road, into the forest. It was cold, but not freezing, and Angels chatter with Nudge was the only sound around. Fang walked slowly and carefully at the back of the group. I was tempted to go back and try to cheer him up, but the other girls shrieked before I was able to.
"Here! Here, Max." Angel pointed excitedly down a long winding drive-way.
"What are you waiting for?" I asked. "Go on, we aren't going to stand here like idiots waiting for them to come are we?"
Angel shook her head before running down the winding path. I fallowed as did the rest of the flock. Soon we reached the end were a magnificent old white Victorian stood. I couldn't help but notice though that one side of the house was completely glass.
Angel, Nudge, and Gazzy ran forward, pressing their grubby little faces into the window.
"It's empty!" Gazzy yelled, "They aren't here." He balled his little eight year old fist, upset that we had come all this way for an empty house.
Nudge turned around her lips pursed, "Its not over yet. Come on, they probably had to move. You know with the book published everyone would come here looking for them, like us. Plus the age thing was probably starting to push the envelope. We should go to LaPush, and look for one of the werewolves, they would know were the Cullen's went, and they would still be here because of bloodline or something."
This idea didn't strike me as a great idea, and my guess is Fang didn't like it that much either, basically because every fiber in his being tensed. See when we were running from the School, the crazy lab that created us, and tortured us with experiments and stuff, we were chases by Erasers. Erasers are basically man-made werewolves, they looked like normal super-model guys, then in a flash they turned to cold blooded freaks that wanted nothing more than to rip out our throats. Therefore the whole idea of willingly looking for werewolves didn't strike my fancy.
"How about we just take this as vampires aren't real, and go to California or something." I shook my head.
"Max-please!" Angel gave me bambi eyes.
"We promise the Pack won't rip our throats out." Gazzy offered.
"Yeah, they are all super nice, and they helped the Cullen's stay safe from the Vulturi and stuff. They are on our side." Nudge also gave bambi eyes.
"But they don't know what side we are on." I pointed out, playing like official rain-on-the-parade-lady again.
"Let's go." Fang said.
I looked at him dumbfounded.
"To LaPush." he clarified, as if I needed help to realize that.
"Fine, lets go."
The flock jumped to their feet and we were off to go possibly meet werewolves, the things our arch enemies were modeled after.
Hope you enjoyed!
For Max fans I should probably mention if I haven't already that this takes place after Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, since I absolutely despise and shun Final Warning.
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Bub-bye Darlings,
~A.
