Thanks for all the reviews. I made sure to update sooner this time so hopefully you guys will start reading my story again and won't be so mad at me for taking forever to update. Here is the 71st chapter. ENJOY!!!
Chapter 71 Déjà vu
Max's POV
After I headed into the shower, I let the warm water massage all of my troubles away. The warm water felt nice against my back and I didn't realize how cold I'd been.
I turned the water off and walked out of the shower. The cool breeze around me sent shivers up and down my spine. There were also goose bumps forming on my arms. I quickly grabbed the towel from the towel rack and wrapped it around my body.
The towel was nice and warm. I strolled up to the mirror, fog covered all of it. I rubbed the steam off of the mirror and looked at my reflection. There were big bags under my eyes. I widened my eyes and they were completely blood shot, there was barely any white in my eye. I even had some scratch marks on my arms. It seemed like someone had clawed me. Wait…I don't think Fang did that to me. Unless…nah, it was just a dream. Right underneath my collar bone, there was a humongous bruise, around the size of my fist. I pressed it. OUCH!! Bad idea, note to self, never do that again.
The door to our bedroom slam open and I heard Nudge tell Fang something about breakfast, I wasn't paying complete attention. The scratches and bruises were taking over all my thoughts and it was hard to get my mind off of them. One dream with Ari in it and I was already having weird things going on, not that anything in my life isn't weird to begin with anyways.
She left our room with another slam with the door. The sound echoed in my head and made my head hurt. It almost felt like one of those crazy headaches that I had when Jeb was the voice in my head. I pushed my head together, so it wouldn't fall apart and fell right on the floor and curled my legs up tight against my chest. My chest was starting to hurt from pulling my legs in so tight.
The headache lasted for only a few seconds though so I dropped my legs and grabbed the sink because I was too weak to lift myself up off the ground. My face was now pale and I looked like I had just seen a ghost.
Slowly, I started getting dressed. The whole back of my shirt got soaked from my dripping hair but I didn't care at this point.
The steam from inside the bathroom shot right through the bathroom door as soon as I opened it. I took a deep breath before stepping out. My muscles were sore but I put on a face that would hopefully make it seem like nothing was wrong.
Fang stared at me with every step I took. His eyes looked up and down my body but I didn't mind it, well why would I?
I stopped in my tracks and Fang closed the space between us. Two arms slithered around my waist and tightened, bringing me as close to Fang as he could pull me.
"You are so amazingly beautiful," he whispered into my ear.
Despite all the pain I was feeling, a smile crept across my face and Fang started leaning his head closer to me and planted a sweet, tender kiss right on my lips. He pulled away sooner then I wanted him too. Whenever I was this close to him, everything around me just disappeared and all I could see was him.
We intertwined our hands before walking through the door. The headache started to slowly drift back into my head and every step I took made me extremely dizzy. Concern swept over Fang's face. I didn't realize until now that I had my left hand holding tight onto my head. Everything started to fade away and black spots started to appear where color should have been. Fang's face fell deeper into concern. His face was getting completely blurry.
He spoke something but all I saw was his lips moving, no sound came out of his mouth.
All of the colors from the world completely disappeared and I was left in a big black hole of nothing, I couldn't even move.
Fang's POV
I wrapped my arms tightly around Max's body. Something was terrible wrong but I couldn't figure out what, who would be doing this to her?
"Angel," she spun around 180 degrees to face me as soon as she heard her name.
"Yes?" She asked me, even though she probably already knew what I was going to ask her.
Everyone was watching Angel and me at this point. All of the eyes were getting kind of creepy; most of them were actually watching me. It seemed like if I took a breath, they would notice.
"Can you read any of Max's thoughts?" Angel closed her eyes before I could even finish my sentence. She was completely silent, and so was everyone else.
All of a sudden, Angel's face scrunched up into a knot and she looked like she was in a ton of pain. "UGH!!!!!" She shouted out and the sound almost broke my ear drums. Nudge and Ella went over to try to shake her out of it but she didn't move and her screaming kept on sounding throughout the house.
"ANGEL!!!" Nudge screamed right back at her but that did nothing, of course. I wonder what goes through the girl's head most of the time, well…maybe I don't want to know.
The noise stopped and everything fell dead silent, you could hear a cricket a mile away humming its beautifully annoying tune.
Smack, we all fell out of our weird daze from the sudden silence and snapped our heads up in unison.
My mouth dropped at the sight in front of me. Angel was smacked up against a wall. There was a huge Angel shaped hole that she was standing in. Her face sagged down and there was a face length scar running across Angel's face. She also had cat like scratch marks running up and down the length of her arms and legs. Her breathing was staggered and the pain she was feeling was strewn across her face.
"What happened?" Iggy asked concern covered his face and amazingly enough, even reached his eyes. I didn't know that was possible for him.
Gazzy stepped closer to Iggy and whispered everything to him, without taking his eyes off his little sister. Iggy slowly walked up to where Angel was in the wall and carefully put his arms around her and pulled her right out of the wall. In a few seconds, all of Angel's cuts disappeared. We all stared at Iggy in shock, he just healed her. (A/N I'm not sure if he had it in one of the books but either way, I'm saying he just got the powers, but please tell me if he already had healing powers)
Angel's eyes fluttered open and she looked like she just came out of some sort of trance. A huge yawn came out of her mouth and she stretched, making it seem like she came out of a relaxing, long nap.
"Why are you guys standing so close to me?" I lifted my head up; we were all surrounding her now and our heads were about touching each other's.
"You were reading Max's mind and then you just flew and hit the wall, then Iggy healed you." Gazzy acted out everything that had happened to her.
A musical sound of laughter sounded from her mouth, Gazzy's re-enactment was hilarious. He actually hit the wall pretty hard, I know it's not nice to laugh at someone else's pain but none of us could help it. Gazzy even cracked a smile at his stupidity.
Once we made sure that Angel was completely fine, Max started to twitch, which caught our attention again. Her helpless body was lying on the ground all limp.
"What are we going to do about Max?" Ella broke the silence. Tears were building up in her eyes and one shining tear slipped from her eye and slid down her face. She wiped the tear from her cheek and a red line was trailing where the tear slid.
Nudge wrapped her up in a giant hug. "It's okay. Angel will tell us what's wrong." All of us shifted our gazes back to Angel. Her head sagged, sadness washed over her face.
"I don't know what's going on with her but whatever is controlling her or what's in her mind, shocked me. And I don't mean one of those gentle shocks you get when you rub your feet on the ground and touch someone; I mean one of those full shocks. The electricity is still running up and down my arms." A shiver sent through her body. Angel took a deep breath before saying anything else, she must be exhausted, "It seems like someone is controlling Max or something like that but I don't know who."
My head shot up faster then any of us could fly, which is definitely fast. "Does this have anything to do with Ari?" The whole Flock cringed at the sound of his name. Dr. M and Ella just stood there with confused looks on their faces.
"Who is Ari?" Dr. M and Ella asked in unison.
Nudge spent a few minutes explaining to them who he was. None of us had to add anything to Nudge's description, talking was definitely her talent.
Silence overcame all of us as soon as Nudge finished her explanation. The terrible memories of everything that Ari had put us through came flooding through our minds, I may not be a mind reader but it was plastered on everyone's face.
I turned back to Angel and asked her again, "Angel," she turned to face me and she waited patiently for me to ask the question again, "Is Ari involved with what's going on with Max?"
She hung her head and mumbled the answer to the ground. It sounded like, "Mmph."
One of my eyebrows rose. "What???"
"I said yes," she replied and lifted her head up. Sadness shown throughout her eyes.
"What are we going to do," she asked me. Everyone turned to face me; this is what I get for being Max's right hand man.
In the next instance, Max disappeared from where she was lying down.
Max's POV
I woke up with a horrendous headache that made me feel like my skull was going to break apart again.
The sun was blinding in my eyes. WAIT, the last thing I remember is fainting while in Fang's arms. There were definitely no windows in the hallway.
Around me was a forest of trees. No, no NOOOO. Please tell me this is not happening. I thought it was just a dream but now it's coming to life.
My hand instantly went to my back to find my wings. I let out a deep breath that I hadn't realized that I had been holding in. There were wings on my back at least.
I spread out my thirteen foot off white and brown wings. They swayed back and forth in the gentle wind that was picking up.
I started to flap my wings back and forth. My feet left the ground and I was lifted up high enough to see over the trees. There were only trees for miles. Even with my amazing eyes, I still couldn't see any sign of civilization.
A figure flashed past my vision, they were moving so quickly that I didn't catch a glimpse of them.
"Looking for me???" There was the voice that I knew was going to come sooner or later.
I turned around and glared into the bloodshot eyes of the one and only Ari, well maybe not one and only. "Yes."
The smile that was plastered on his face when I turned to face him, instantly turned into a smirk and excitement danced around in his eyes. "You ready for me to kick you ass." His smirk grew even larger, if that was possible.
I returned the smirk with evil eyes. "Not going to happen. Your foot is never going to come in contact with my ass." His smile fell a little, probably not expecting me to say anything back, but why wouldn't I, and after all I am Maximum Ride. With that name comes leadership and comebacks.
"Let's get this started then," his fist flew right in front of him in a fighting stance. He was prepared for this, but surprisingly, so was I.
Fang's POV
Pacing back and forth was even worse then just standing in place. Max's mysterious disappearance had scared the crap out of all of us. Where the hell could she gone, she was unconscious for Christ sake.
My vision started fading, please don't tell me I'm going to faint too. Instead, my vision was replaced by Max.
She was lying alone in a field surrounded by only trees. Fear spread all over her face, she knew exactly where she was and knew what was next to come if she stayed here any longer.
She first checked to make sure she had wings; there is no other way for her to get out of there without them. Her wings spread out in their full thirteen feet glory. They were swaying gently in the wind. Within seconds her feet pushed off hard against the ground and she was shot off into the air. The lightness of flight cheering her up. A flash swept across her vision and was gone within seconds. You couldn't even catch what color the figure was.
"Looking for me," the familiar voice of Ari appeared right next to her ear.
She turned around to face his wolf like eraser smile.
"Yes," Max said with confidence, knowing that she was going to see him.
His smirk grew on his face and his eyes were gleaming with excitement. "You ready for me to kick your ass?"
An evil smirk crossed her face. "Not going to happen. Your foot is never going to make contact with me ass." Ari's face fell. Even though he is one of the strongest erasers and definitely bigger then Max, she still intimidates him.
"Let's get this started," he got into a flying stance in the air. Max matched his position and they started to fight. Blood was strewn all over their bodies within seconds. Ari had the worst of the bruises. His paw like hands gripped onto Max's shoulders and he flung her back against one of the trees. Out of the corner of her eye was a sign.
With that I came out of the vision.
"I know where she is," I shouted to everyone.
I hope you guys liked that chapter; it's the longest one I've written. Does that make up for me taking so long to update????? The next chapter should have some action in it, for people who really want more then just romance in my story and I might actually go past 75 chapters now but please review because reviews inspire me. And I'll definitely update sooner if I get the same amount of reviews as last chapter. Thanks for all the reviews.
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