HEY!!! OMG SCHOOLS OUT!!! I WAS TOTALLY HIT WITH INSPIRATION!!! I'VE HAD WRITERS BLOCK FOR LIKE EVER!!!
But anyways...i'm setting up a poll for whether or not I should combine the chapters with POVs...smiles...
here we go...
Chapter 5: The Meeting
by zarrondrea
(Max's P.O.V.)
I saw the black-skinned girl floating in the air... ON WINGS...
My instincts were still controlling my actions and I lit up my hands, blood-red eyes trained on the girl in front of me.
I was snarling and about to launch the fire at the girl when a dark figure shot out from behind a tree.
He had wings too.
"MAX! Calm down!" I heard Zara yelled at me.
"I don't think there going to hurt us." Zephyr told me.
They're ones to talk about being calm, I grumbled in my head. But, I did calm down a bit. The fire died out from my hands and my eye returned to their normal brown.
"Um...hi..." I mumbled. "I'm Max. Maximum Ride."
"I'm Zara..."
"and I'm Zephyr..."
"We're twins." They said together. Oh, did I mention that they have this freaky "twin telepathy" thing?
"I'm Fang and this is Nudge." The boy said. He was decked out in black from head to toe, totally in contrast with his...sister? friend? But whatever she was, the girl was wearing blue jeans and a loose white t-shirt, not looking completely emo.
You can trust them Max. The obnoxious Voice told me.
"Hi. Why were being attacked by Erasers? What are you doing here? How did you get those wings? How are you two flying without wings? Are you okay? Do you have any powers, well other than fire?..." the girl, Nudge, began to babble, asking a million questions a minute. Oh my god, slow down! I mentally screamed at her.
"Nudge, calm down." Fang told her in his whispering voice. "Why don't we go back to our house so we can talk?"
"Okay. Just don't try any funny business."
The two newbies took off. I waited a second for the twins to catch up and then took off flying, quietly asking Zephyr, "Powers?"
He replied to me, "Fang can turn himself invisible and Nudge can sense emotions and control metal."
I nodded and replied "Don't let them know you can sense and block powers."
We arrived at their house. It was that cool sideways 'E' house I had seen earlier.
"Talk. Now." I told Fang.
He shook his head. "I want to wait for my family."
Family?
More experiments. The Voice told me.
Okay. Are they all Avian hybrids like me?
"Fang! Nudge! We're back!" two young male voices echoed through the house. Two boys entered the room. One was probably around my age, thin and wiry. He had brown hair and eyes was decked out in blue jeans and a red T-shirt. The other was young, probably eight or so. He had blond hair, blue eyes and was wearing jeans and a green T-shirt.
"The older one can 'see' colors and control sound. Judging by his powers, I think he's blind. The younger one can mimic voices and has a "toxic" farts." Zephyr whispered in my ear. I nodded.
"Gross!" Zara exclaimed.
"Quit eavesdropping!" Zephyr and I told her.
"Max, this is Iggy," he pointed to the older one, "and Gazzy," Fang told us, pointing to the younger one. "Iggy, Gazy, Max, Zara and Zephyr. Where's Angel?"
'Right here' a girl's voice echoed through my head, before I instinctively threw up my mental barrier. I'm pretty sure the Z-twins did too. Some Erasers could read minds and it almost got us killed. Not fun, let me tell you.
"That girl's a telepath. A mind controller. She can breathe underwater and talk to animals."
"That's FREAKY!!!" Zara shouted.
"Quit. Eavesdropping. Do I need to spell it out for you?" Zephyr told his twin.
"Yup! Here I'll do it for you. Q-U-I-T E-A-V-E..." Zara shot back. I tuned them out, wondering how the heck she learned to spell so good? It's not like we had lessons or anything.
You can trust them. The Voice repeated in my head.
Great you've turned in to a broken record, I sarcastically told it. "Voice says we can trust them." I told the twins.
Just as I was saying this, the freaky-mind reader/controller/animal talker/fish/bird girl entered the room. She had long blond curls and blue eyes, so I'm guessing she's related to the other boy. She was dressed in jeans and a pink t-shirt. She couldn't be more than six.
"This is Angel." Fang said. I nodded to her. "We're all here. You first."
"Let's get formal introductions." Zephyr suggested. "Like name, age, powers, if you have any." The three of us all quietly snickered. We already knew their powers.
"I'm Max. I'm fourteen. I'm 2% eagle. I escaped with these obnoxious," (the twins threw dirty looks my way), "two four years ago. I hate my father and don't know my mother. I can control fire, fly at super sonic speeds and I have this annoying Voice in my head that tells me what to do. I've been on the run from Erasers for 4 years. " I said. The newbies looked at me like I was crazy. "What?" I asked them. They shrugged and looked away. The twins burst out laughing.
Finally, Zara calmed down enough to tell us, "I'm Zara. I'm eleven. I'm 2% lion. You all smell like food right now." They all backed up before she continued. "I'm joking, God. Relax. Birds don't even taste good."
"Yeah, and you found that out, how?" I asked her. She had taken a bite out of me a few years ago when she was in bloodlust. I still had the scars from her teeth.
She threw me a grin and continued. "But I can control the wind, which is how I fly. I have heightened senses. I LOVE fighting and I live for bloodlust."
Zephyr said, "I'm Zephyr. I'm 11. 2% lion. "I can control the wind, too, I Know things, like things that help with survival, I love fighting, too."
"We have a twin telepathy, retractable claws and sharpened teeth." The twins said together, showing the aforementioned items.
I looked over at the five newbie strangers. "Your turn," I told them.
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