"Run, Max!" Alice yelled, snarling at the Volturi.
Well, that solidified my decision, "What? What the hell? No way! We can totally take them!" I mean, there were four of them and way more of us.
"I'll try to use my power if it comes down to a fight. . ." Bella began. Before she could finish her sentence, Felix leaped at her. My super-fast-awesome-raptor-vision-that-has-so-far-bested-anything-I've-ever-come-across could barely track his motions. He pinned her to the ground in a flash. She struggled, smashing the cement.
"Everyone's gone home," He said, "Which means we can have a jolly little fight right here. And if I take care of you, Alec. . ."
Everything went quiet. I glanced around anxiously. Bella still struggled under Felix's superior strength, but Alice and Nessie had blank expressions on their faces.
I glanced to the Volturi, who looked shocked beyond comparison, "It's not working?" Jane hissed to Alec.
"I can't reach into their minds! Something's blocking them!" Alec hissed back, obviously thinking us mere humans and not able to hear them.
"Um. . .what is he doing?" I said out loud.
"He can desensitize you! Run, flock, run!" Bella cried. I didn't have time to wonder why she was immune to it. Angel, can you get into any of their heads? I thought.
No. But I can block you from whatever Alec's doing. But my power doesn't extend to Alice and Nessie. Sorry.
I hissed in a breath, and yelled, "Attack!"
The Volturi, thinking us mere humans, simply grinned at my yell, at least. . .until I plunged my fist into Demetri's face.
Ow ow ow ow ow bleeping insert-swear-word-of-your choice! I broke few bones in my hand, but Demetri staggered back. He righted himself and launched at me. A/N: Yes! Maximum ride has awesome fight scenes! Yes! Yes!
Damn, those vamps could move fast! I dodged under his attack, but he landed next to me and kicked my ribs. Oh bleeping mother- I sucked in a breath and did something I'd hoped I'd never had to do. . . "Fang!"
Fang, who had been currently helping Nudge and Gazzy corner Jane glanced up in my direction and jumped through the air toward me, way higher than normal humans, but not actually pulling out his wings. Which was good, because it seemed like the wings were our only advantage, and we didn't exactly want to give it way.
"Come on, you way out number them!" Total cried, from his spot on the other side of the courtyard (away from all the fighting, of course).
"Shut up!" I yelled back, kicking Demetri in the face. Dammit, (hopefully, Angel wasn't listening into my mind at this point) that was my toes broken as well. I glanced around quickly at exactly the same moment Fang landed on the ground a few feet away. Angel was glaring daggers at Alec, obviously having a battle of the minds, Nudge and Gazzy had cornered Alec and were duking it out, Iggy was helping Bella battle Felix, everything was going well.
"OW!" I shrieked out as Demetri pulled my legs out from under me. I fell to the ground and he landed on top of me.
Suddenly, his weight was lifted off my chest. I scrambled up to see Fang punching him repeatedly, although I could hear bones snapping in his hands with every punch, "Don't-mess-with-my-Max," He growled.
"WHAT?" I yelled, outraged, "I'm not yours anything!" Anger flowed through me, hotter than I'd felt in a good long time. I grabbed Fang by the collar and heaved him up, "What the hell are you talking about?"
A sliver of amusement showed on his face, "Max, we're going after the vamp. Not each other."
Oh, right. I snapped a kick at Demetri-ow, stupid made-of-rock vampires-and Fang was just about to lunge at him when
BOOM!
I landed about twenty feet away. Coughing from the explosion, I glanced up to see Iggy and Gazzy high-fiving triumphantly. Jane and Felix had both been caught. While not burning, they were unconscious. A/N: By the way? Vampires becoming unconscious? Yeah, I have no idea. If you have an argument, take it up with Stephenie Meyer :-)
Alice and Nessie both blinked rapidly, glancing around, "What-" Alice began.
I heard Fang stand up next to me. He looked like he'd been dipped in smoke, "You okay?" He asked, offering me a hand.
I didn't take it. Instead, I stood up, glaring, "What did you call me? What did you call me? I'm not yours. I don't BELONG to you!"
Fang grinned, "Sure you do. You're my Max."
I'd been about to charge into a long tirade of how incredibly sexist-pig that was when the meaning of those words finally hit me. I blinked rapidly, and stared open mouthed at him.
"You're cute when you're like that," He added, grinning. Fang grinned. Fang grinned. Yes. Fang. Grinned. That's like. . .that's like. . .me blushing. Which I'd already done.
"Um. . ." I said.
"How very interesting," A cool, remote voice said.
I looked up to see a group of men and woman, all wearing cloaks in various shades of gray-just like the vampires we had just beaten the crud out of. The one who had spoken was a man with skin that looked like the shale, and black hair. And red eyes. Very creepy red eyes.
There were about ten or so others with this man. Two others wore black cloaks the way he did, both men with shale skin. One woman fluttered around him, clutching at his cloak slightly, almost as if she were protecting him.
I decided to forget Fang and walked over to Alice, "Who are they?" I murmured.
Felix, Jane, Alec, and a rather beat-up Demetri walked over to the gathering.
"They're the Volturi," Alice said, her eyes full of undisguised fear.
Crap.
Angel's voice broke into my head, MAX? Max? The one who spoke. . .his thoughts. . .I don't like them, Max. I don't like them at all. Oh. . .! Her voice trailed off and came back with full force, His name is Aro.
"Aro," I said, nodding my head is his direction, "How unpleasant to meet you. We were kinda hoping to avoid you all." A faux smile broke out on my face.
"And you are?" Aro said said cheerfully.
"I heard some call her Max," Demetri hissed, glaring at me. His face was all mashed up.
"Did they do that to you?" Aro asked.
"Yes. . .but they smell human. . ."
Max? Angel said telepathically, Max, Alice and Bella say not to let them know how strong we are. Or about our wings. Or anything. Because Aro. . . I could almost imagine her shaking her head, Just don't.
Tell Total to be a normal dog, I hissed back at her.
"Hey!" I interjected. I mean, I like to intimidate my enemies, but I don't want Aro-whatever, "I totally broke my hand doing it," I held up my broken hand.
"How very interesting. What are you, exactly?"
"Me." This seemed about as safe an answer as I could get.
"I see," Aro said, "What are your names?"
"I'm Max," I said.
"Nick," Said Fang.
"Ariel," Angel interjected, smiling demurely.
"Captain Terror," Gazzy said, looking pleased. I mentally groaned. Even Zephyr had been an improvement over Captain Terror.
"Um," Iggy said, thinking, "My name's Ernest. Ernest Rutherford," I mentally groaned again as Iggy took on the name of his hero; the guy who invented the nuclear bomb. A/N: I researched that just for you! So be happy!
"And I'm Tiffany-Crystal-Butterfly-Rainbow-Sunshine-Artichoke-Loch-ness-monster-Appalacian mountain!" Nudge squealed happily, "But you can call me TCBRSALNMAM for short. Or Tiffany."
"Um-hum," Aro said, "How very interesting.
He floated over to me. I nearly coiled away as my acute senses picked up his scent; he smelled like dried blood. When he was about a foot away, he said, "May I?" He held out his hand.
"Sure," I said, figuring he wanted to give me a handshake or something, also figuring that this would be an excellent time to flip him.
No Max! Angel screamed mentally. But it was too late. My hand had already touched his. It-felt-so-freaking-weird. A second later, he released my hand, "Something's blocking her," He announced, "But not like it was with Bella over there," He smiled at Bella, who glared at him hostily, wrapping her arms protectively around Renesmee, "Like a person is blocking her." Huh? What was he talking about?
He swept a smile over us, "Let's all go underground, shall we?"
Once again, I was left with a choice. We could take off and leave our new friends alone, or we could stay with them and stick it out to the very end.
Hey, if we got in another life-or-death fight, Alice might actually lose the shopping back (from Victoria's secret! GAH!) That she had clutched to desperately this whole time.
THIRD PERSON
"They're taking a rather long time," Carlisle mused. They had finished mapping out how they were going to sneak over to the abandoned lab, and were now waiting.
"You know how Alice can get," Edward said. But, still. His hand hovered over his cell phone. It was a little bit past dark; the rest of their group should be finished shopping by then. He decided not to interrupt Alice and dropped his arm, getting into a long conversation with Emmett on their next fight. A lo-on-on-ong conversation.
MAX POV
Number sixteen on things I hate list:
BEING UNDERGROUND.
I was practically flying out of there (flying out of their; ha-ha-ha, because I'm a bird? Get it? You know what? Never mind.) The two dozen or so of us were standing in a long cavern while the three volturi leaders looked us over.
"I say we exterminate them," A vamp which Alice had told me was called Cauis said in a bored voice.
Okay, he reminded me exactly of the Ter Borcht dude that I had eventually ended up driving into a mental facility (okay, not yet, but I'm getting their. If we ever get captured again, Gazzy's going to use his interesting ability to emit gasses. . .)
"Exterminate us?" I shouted, "Exterminate us? Bite me! We are far cooler than you could ever be! And, at least we're not mass murderers!" Now he reminded me of the uber-director, who I had smashed to pieces (or watched while a tornado smashed him to pieces).
"But, Cauis, think of how strong they would be if they were vampires," Aro suggested.
I froze. Vampires? Vampires?!?!?!?!?
Like hell they were changing us into vampires.
"No-freaking-way!" I shouted.
"But they've broken the law," Cauis hissed, pointing to Alice and Bella, "Those six humans must die."
"What law?" I snapped.
"Are you the leader, or are you just someone who yells a lot?" Cauis asked me in a tired-sounding voice.
Oh-no-he-didn't. I instantly thought of four witty retorts (and two dozen not-so witty retorts). But I instead said, "Yes, I'm our leader."
Cauis frowned and looked at Fang, "Why do you let the girl lead you, Nick?" He demanded, making it clear that he did not believe Fang at all.
"She's the strong one," Fang said simply, while I quietly seethed. Not at being called strong (because I AM strong) but at Cauis for being all sexist pig and all.
"Well," Aro said conversationally, "They did hurt Demetri quite a bit. We can't forgive that, but it does mean that they are very, very strong. Which means that they are worth keeping around."
Like a toy or something. Or a pet. A pet bird.
"What say you?" Aro said to Cauis and the other man in the black robe.
"Kill them," Cauis hissed, no surprises there.
"I think we should keep them," Aro said. He turned to the other man, "And you, Marcus?"
Marcus shrugged. So far, he had shown no emotion at all, "I think what they did was a trick. They are not worth keeping."
Aro shrugged, "Very well," He said, "Kill the-" He frowned.
I turned to Angel. She had a very focused look on her face. Aro turned to her, "Well, well, little one," He said, "Why would I not want to kill you?"
"Because we're not easy prey to kill." Angel said simply.
"I see. You have mind-control powers, Ariel?"
She pouted, "It doesn't work on vampires."
"Ah," He said, "Well, unless you can convince me otherwise," He nodded his head to the guard, who began to advance slowly.
"No!" Alice, Bella and Renesmee shrieked just as I yelled, "Up and away!"
So much for keeping our wings secret.
I just had to leave it there. Hah hah hah!
I have a question: when this story is done, what kind of crossover should I do?
Maximum ride/twilight
Maximum ride/percy jackson and the olympains
Maximum ride/ artemis fowl?
Maximum ride/ The Hunger Games?
If you review, you can tell me. That's a hint. REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!! REVIEW!!!!!! (sobs quietly) PLEASE!!!!!