Hello peoples (just something I say).

I do not own Maximum Ride JP does

Chapter 3

Misconceptions

(Fang's PoV)

The pain was unbearable, not from the bullet, but from the thought that Max had betrayed me.

"Now you understand how I felt," Max said ", Asshole (AN: sorry but it doesn't sound good any other way."

"What," I stammered out gripping my shoulder where blood was seeping through my shirt. Max crouched in front of me raised her pistol then out of nowhere came Echo.

"Get the freak off him!" He yelled as he dove from nowhere and sent them both through the hole in the wall.

"Fang! I'll get help I promise," Zync said.

"Why," asked the boy ", why must the world be this way."

The strangest part was the boy's English was perfect and he talked like somebody with years of experience.

"Just stand still," he said as he suddenly warped and appeared to be about thirteen. He came over put his hands over my wound and started to repeat one word. Hope. I suddenly felt the weight of the world ease off me but I knew the wound was still there.

"I can take the pain away but it will only work for a minute or two," he said as he stood up and gave me a two finger salute ", see ya Fang."

He walked to the edge of the hole in the wall as I pondered how he knew my name.

"Oh by the way my names Marcus," Marcus said as he fell backwards and arched upward flying away. I felt the world start to slip away and I heard voices but none of them made sense. The most common things became foreign to me, my sight betrayed me. The pain just faded away and I lost all sense of time. It felt like seconds but it could have been days or weeks.

"Now quickly get him while he's asleep," somebody whispered so softly I thought I wouldn't hear. Not only could I hear it but I could judge how far away he was and his rough shape with my eyes closed. I shot out one hand and grabbed his neck.

"Shoot him," the guy struggled out as I chocked the life out of him. I saw someone raise a military style weapon and take aim. He didn't get to pull the trigger because I moved from one spot to the next in less than a second now lifting both of these people off the ground.

"Who are you," I said.

"Fang," the guy struggled out ", it's me Ryan."

"Yeah Fang," struggled the other one ", it's just me Zync."

I dropped both of them and said ", whats up with the black and you look different."

"What year is it," asked Ryan skeptically.

"Two thousand and ten obviously," I said.

"Um Fang it's been a full year since the incident," Zync said.

I stood there dumbfounded and went over to the wall. I smashed my head against it and felt it give way and break.

"Wow," Ryan said ", they've been working."

"Who?" I asked quickly.

"I wish we knew," Zync said with a shrug ", all I know is that Echo sent us here to get you."

"Echo, where is he," I asked.

"Before we take you to him, just remember that he felt like he failed when 'they' took you," Ryan said as he walked out the hole in the wall.

"Uh guys," he said and we both came out to find that we were standing in the middle of one of those large cities with millions of people around.

"Come on we gotta bolt," yelled Zync as he took off 'sprinting.' Ryan transformed and I followed the two of them.

"So what happened to Echo," I asked.

"A lot, but most importantly is his knew power," Zync said ", here he's told us the story a million times."

Flashback

(Echo's Pov)

As I fell to earth making sure Max couldn't unfurl her wings I knew what was coming. I knew that if I went all the way and ended this that I wouldn't be alive either.

"We're both as good as dead so you might as well tell me what happened," I asked Max.

"What does it matter to you, I remember you from when I was with the Angels and Fang was still with Itex. Your nickname is Archangel, you were always the special one so they sent me away. When I discovered your true connection to Fang I left the flock it's that simple," She said.

"What the hell do you mean," I asked.

"What you didn't know that Fang was your brother," Max said. This sent me over the edge.

"I'm going to kill you with my own hands," I yelled as I let go and righted myself with my wings. I then arched them upward to form a small oval and started to will my essence to form in the center of it.

"Let the power of 'infinity' guide me," I said even though it felt like someone else was using my body. I than pointed one finger at Max as an arrow of light shot out and nailed her straight in the chest. Just left of the heart and we were close enough to the ground so she wouldn't die.

Flashback end

"So Echo is my brother," I asked trying to ignore my true question.

"Yeah, but his power changed. That appeared to be a one time thing but now he can use what some call 'the dark arts.' Really he can just control a certain type of material. We nicknamed it after his old best friend, shadow. It is purple but he can only generate small amounts and it appears to be part of his body like it is him," Zync said ", It makes the wings and teleportation seem normal."

"It really does," I said ", now explain my increase in strength."

"No idea Fang," Zync said. We traveled for a few hours before we were over a small town and Zync said that this is where Echo was.

"So you've arrived I see," said Echo as we walked into a small dinner and Echo was sitting down eating. He had changed, there were a few streaks of silver in his hair and the rest of it was pitch black. He wore a sweatshirt that had an emblem of a blue phoenix on it and the rest of it was black. He was tapping his spoon to the beat of a song on the radio and signing along.

"Man you look happier than you ever have before," I said.

"Well it's good to be back home," he said ", I was taken when I was seven and never forgot this place. My parents used to take me here when I was young saying 'never forget this place' and guess what I never did."

The song ended and the DJ gave a callout for a song and Echo smiled and flipped out his phone.

"Yeah, Nick it's me Echo, please play Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol I've got someone who should hear that song," Echo said into the phone and the DJ announced the song and it started to play.

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things
Will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

"That is my absolute favorite song," Echo said ", even if the lyrics don't exactly mean what I think of them it doesn't matter. Fang the lyrics remind me of us, of our kind the ones who are tortured and ripped from their families. It feels to us like life is too much and we should just as the song says ', Would you lie with me and just forget the world.'"

"I'm not as happy as I seem but I just discovered something that made me happy," Echo said ", I found a person who is one hundred percent human and yet knows about our kind."

Echo signaled for one of the waiters to come over and he did.

"Fang met William," Echo said ", my old best friend and now head of a subliminal organization against the school, Itex, and the angels."

Sorry about all the organizations, I promise this is the last one. Oh and just a little something I forgot to say, the Fallen Angels broke up after Echo left.