Disclaimer:
I do not own Maximum Ride or Harry Potter.
But I'm going to steal Fang and give him to one of my best friend's for her birthday.
I will. I promise.
"Laugh, and die." I snarled at Fang as he looked at me, his eyes wide. I was in a dress. Yes, me, Maximum Ride, in a stupid dress. I growled as some of the girls passed me. I hated this. My mom made me swear over a letter that I would look nice, well nicer than usual, at the ball. I could imagine her face now, thinking of me and Fang in the clothes that she sent us.
Me and Fang stood in the common room. I was waiting for Ron to come down. Fang was going with a fifth year girl named Katie Bell. She played some ball game, and had a thing for Fang. She wanted him to try out for the game next year. I think that she just wanted him because he was tall, dark and "handsome." I looked over my dress again.
It was a dark red color, it went lower than my ankles - even in my high shoes that I had. Around the waist was a ribbon, and in the knot part a flower emerged from it. The flower was made of lace, and much lighter than the dress itself, and blended in well. The dress didn't have any sleeves, it was like a tank top, without a spaghetti strap. There was a large dip, only a little higher than my chest. I had a small undersized tie-up shirt on, it looked like a blouse that had been cut in half and had strings to tie it together instead of buttons, and had shrunk it. There were soft lacy things that led all the way down my arms, it was thin and flexible. My shoes were bright white, I think they would be called short heels instead of high heels. They were short and low to the ground, I wobbled when I walked in them anyways, and I didn't think I could get down the how ever many flights of stairs there were walking. I was going to roll. There was a red headband that went with it, but there was no way I was going in that. Not in a million years. The dress was enough, I even brushed my hair! That was a miracle on its own.
Why couldn't I be like Fang? Just a simple tux and then I was done with it. Just then Ron walked down. I wanted to fly away and never return. The guy was wearing a dress. A dress! And he smelt like a old lady! "What happened? I told you I wasn't going to go with him if he wore something like that!" I turned to Harry.
"S-sorry Max. I didn't know that's what his mom got him." Harry stuttered.
"Whatever. Fang, I need to get down there with Sir Dresses-Like-A-Woman-alot. You can wait for that Katie girl." I whispered to him. Fang smiled, and I waited for Ron to walk over. I marched out of the room with him, and the three of us started to head down toward the Grand Hall. Ron looked so happy, I couldn't believe this. I wanted to do anything, but this.
I walked to the entrance, everyone was standing around waiting. I stood on the outskirts, Harry and Ron didn't even notice, they continued walking. McGonagall opened the doors, and looked around. "Ah, Mr. Potter. You're here, now all we have to worry about is where Miss Ride is." she said.
"She was right here." Ron said, looking around.
"Mr. Weasley, go wait with the others unless you are going with one of the champions."
"Actually Professor," I groaned, walking toward them. "He was last minute, unfortunately." Professor McGonagall nodded, and I looked at Ron. "Can we go now?" I asked. "Isn't this punishment enough to be seen with him?"
"Not yet Miss Ride. We are still waiting for Mr. Krum's partner." she explained; there was a hint of amusement in her voice. I think she enjoyed my comment about the red-head.
"I hope that she hurries up." I growled. "I just want to get this over with."
"Hey, Harry, isn't that Hermione?" I heard Ron whisper to the scar headed boy.
I looked to the stairs, the girl who was always hanging around with them was walking down the stairs. She looked like one of those girls who were way to stuck up with their looks at the moment. She wore an ugly dress in my opinion, but I didn't really care.
Krum walked up to her and smiled. We got in line to wait for the doors to open. Ron tried to put his arm around mine, I yanked it away. He didn't try that again. We walked into the room, it looked so different! It looked so much better than before. There were so many words, I couldn't describe it honestly. Then the worst noise came to my ear. The music started.
I looked at the red-head, and whispered, "Look, let's pretend that we're dancing with each other. Then you never have to touch me, and we won't have to worry about me rearranging your face." Ron looked at me, and shook his head.
"Come on, just one dance. Please, then we won't have to worry about it again. Alright?"
"Alright. But I still need to break a bone or something. That's my price, got it?"
"Okay." he murmured, he didn't seem to pleased about my deal. But I was. he grabbed my waist, I wanted to smack him hard, then I grabbed his shoulder and tore at the dress that he wore. Afterwards when the music started, he stepped on my foot. Three times. By the forth time the song was about to end, and I kneed him in the place that no boy wants to be kneed. He moaned in pain as I walked away. I heard snickering, but I didn't want to listen to them. I went to a wall, and sat down, enjoying the piece I closed my eyes.
Footsteps wandered over toward me, I opened one eye to see Fang. "So, how's that Katie girl?" I asked once he was close enough to hear.
"She's okay, but she wanted to go dance with one of the Weasley boys. I had no idea which one though." he said, sitting down next to me.
"Do you want to be here anymore?" I asked, opening my eyes. "I mean, here, at this school?"
"No, but that was smart letting the others decide what we should do. We can't control them for much longer, and you know that. Iggy could go along with almost anything we do. Nudge, she's a different case. She'd fight us to get what she wanted in some cases, even defy us. Gazzy is almost the same as Iggy, but he's younger, he wants to feel normal. Angel, she's the same, but there is something about her. Something that I can't escape." Fang muttered softly.
"And what about me and you?" I asked.
"You, you're the leader. You try to do what you want." He stopped, like he didn't want to continue with himself.
"What about you?"
"Me, I have my own mind." he replied simply.
"I wish I had Angel's power, I could tell what you're thinking then." I chuckled.
He smiled, and stood up. "I'm gonna go get something to drink, do you want to join me?"
"Nah. You go ahead, I'll stay here for a while." Fang nodded, and disappeared into the crowd as a weird looking band went to the stage and started playing.
"Um, excuse me, do you want to dance?" a voice asked as I closed my eyes again. I looked up, it was the other champion.
"What about that girl you brought?" I asked snidely.
"Oh, she wanted to eat, I wasn't hungry, I told her I'd come sooner or later to join her." he answered.
"You won't step on my feet, will you?" he asked.
"Not unless you want me to." he laughed, holding out his hand. I took it, and we walked toward the crowd. I looked around me, and I saw Fang, looking at me opened mouth. He squeezed his plastic cup so hard that it broke the plastic and whatever was in it spilled all over him, then he looked kind of angry. I smiled and waved with my other hand. He glared at me.
I walked toward the center with him, and the band started to play. The boy let go of my hand. "Hey, I forgot your name, what was it again?" I asked, before we started to dance.
"Cedric. Cedric Diggory." he smiled, and we started dancing. It was actually really fun. "Hey, your friends with Nudge, right?" he asked after a while.
"Yeah, I've known her forever." I answered.
"Has she told you about the kids in our dormitory?"
"No, what do you mean?" I asked, stopping, and looking at him.
"Well, the other children don't seem to like her that much. You see, constantly I see her being made fun of by the other children. I was wondering if you knew about it, since she's usually with you and all. But, she just seems, unhappy."
"No, she's never told me." I answered.
"Well, then I guess you know now." he smiled.
"Yeah. Thanks."
"She's really nice, I don't know why they're being so rude to her." he answered. I nodded, I couldn't believe what was happening behind my back. Nudge had always told me when something was bothering her. I couldn't believe this.
Just then, the doors burst open. Everybody was silent, and watched as the little person ran through the crowd. Her curly blond hair bouncing up and down. "Max!" Angel shouted. I ran forward and bent down as she whispered, "They're here. Me and Gazzy saw them. Gazzy went to get Iggy and Total went to get Nudge."
My eyes opened wide. "Alright. Thanks sweetie." I looked around and spotted Fang, I motioned for him to follow, and the three of us ran out of the room as the glass shattered, sending shards down toward the people below. "Oh no." I muttered as Fang ran over toward us.
"Max, we have to help." Fang said. "They'll know, but we'll save people."
"Run around back first, then we'll fly up and fight them." I said.
"What about our clothes?"
A shard of glass fortunately fell right next to us. I picked it up and dug into his suit. "Now do me." I said once I was done. I moved so that he could do it. I smiled, and we ran out of the room, we were suddenly joined by Nudge and Total. "Young lady, we need to talk about Hufflepuff." I said. She gasped, and was silent. She was wearing everyday clothes luckily.
We saw the entrance ahead of us, and jumped, spreading out our wings. I flew toward the top, and started our descend toward the flyboys. They saw us immediately.
"Get ready to be terminated Maximum Ride." the lead drone called to me.
"Where did you get that? The Terminator movies?" I retorted.
The eraser robots flew toward me first, and the flock moved toward them, getting ready to fight. I launched at the head one, it scratched me across the face as I punched it with all force. As it blew up, I put my hand to my cheek, it was bleeding a little, but I'd live. I was suddenly surrounded by about five of the flyboys.
I swung my leg out, and whirled in a circle, just wanting to try it, and hit them all in the chest. They buzzed, but stayed aloft. I smiled. "Not going without a fight, are you?" I asked.
"We are not leaving until you are dead Maximum Ride." they buzzed in unison.
"Well then, you'll visit us a few times then, won't you?" I asked, kicking out my leg and spinning again. One at a time they shook and then blew up as well. I smiled. "Oops, looks like you won't be visiting for a while then." I looked at my leg, it stung really bad. One of the flyboys must have got at it because I had a pretty good cut down it.
I looked to my flock to see that Iggy and Gazzy had joined the fight. Iggy had just busted one of the monsters. Nudge was doing well and fighting off two. Fang was destroying four of them, and Angel was beating up one. I smiled as a few of them were destroyed, and then finally all of them were obliterated. We heard some cheers from below, somebody must have seen them blow up. We flew away, and then went to the ground, quickly, me and Fang went toward the Great Hall again. People were looking to the sky as the glass was being fixed.
"What was that?" I heard Ron ask.
"I don't know." bushy girl whispered.
"I know what is was. Actually, it was a who." I heard Harry say. My blood ran cold. "It was Max and her friends."
"No it wasn't." Ron said. "She can't fly Harry, just give it up."
"Then why do they have cuts all over them." Harry asked.
"We have cuts," Fang started, "because some glass fell on us." I sighed, nice save.
Harry glared at us while the other two nodded. We were gonna have to be careful. We can't let the secret get out. We just can't.
