I don't own Maximum Ride. I wish I owned it, but I do not. So, please don't read this and be all like "THIS HAPPENED IN THE NEXT BOOK!" because it didn't. So… bye.
Max POV
Even in these circumstances, I still noticed the beautiful day that unfolded before me.
After searching the whole night for Fang, I spent the night in the woods. I stocked up on food at a deli not far from my rest place, and took off the next morning. The night went fairly well. I wasn't attacked or watched, so I was able to get a full night of rest. This morning I took off after eating about seven honey buns. The morning was gorgeous. The sky was a brighter blue than Angel's eyes. There were only a few puffy, white clouds in the sky. The air was nice and breezy when I soared through it. Even though the day was amazing, what was going through my head wasn't.
Fang left me. That one thought made the sky a shade of grey to me. The clouds seemed to turn black. Everything moved in slow motion as I looked for Fang. By now I was in Iowa. I had no idea why I was going in this direction, I just went that way. I have this feeling that Fang went this way and my gut feelings are not taken lightly. I was flying by a flock of eagles. I had never seen an eagle before, and now I was seeing at least seven of them. My wings flapped in sync with the eagles' wings. A tear streamed down my face. The flock wasn't here to stop me from crying, so I just let everything out. And everthing consisted of a lot of tears.
Hours later, the eagles went in a different direction and I was by myself. The sun was starting to set so I slowly descended down into a tree. A giant sign that stated: Welcome to South Dakota! Was a couple hundred yards away from me. I tried looking at the sign again. Why South Dakota? Fang would never be near the Dakotas'. Why did my senses take me in this direction? I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. My dumb senses were taking me to a place Fang would never go to. But why did it feel so right? So close?
Great, Fang hasn't been gone for twenty-four hours and he is already driving me frikin insane.
Iggy POV
It was five o'clock in the damn morning, and I still haven't gone to sleep. I stayed in Max's room the whole time. I wanted to wait there until she and Fang were back in the house, safe and sound. But I couldn't. Max left me in charge, so I had to follow my orders and care for the Flock.
Everyone was in bed. Gazzy's snores could be heard from a mile away. I checked on Angel and Nudge a couple of minutes ago, they were tucked away in their beds fast asleep. Dylan was on the couch; he hadn't fallen asleep. I think he was still in shock from Max blowing up on him before. I felt bad for him, but at the same time I didn't. Fang was part of our Flock. Fang was actually party of our Flock a long time before Dylan was even created. Yet, Dylan wanted us to just drop Fang and let him go. The only reason I felt bad for him was because he had to put up with a mad Max.
I was just sitting awake in Max's room alone. I sat on her bed and leaned back against the pillow. A loud crackling noise came from under my butt and I shot up from the spot. I picked up her pillow and found a crumbled up, folded piece of paper. It was Fang's goodbye letter. It had to be since it was wet from tears. I started to cry. Ugh. Guys don't cry. It's number one in the rule book!
"Why do you feel sorry for him?" a voice asked from the doorway. I jumped out of the seat from fright.
"Did you intend on scaring the shit out of the blind kid? If you are approaching, have louder footsteps." I whisper-yelled at Dylan. I heard footsteps coming closer to me, so I backed up. "And I feel sorry for Fang because he is going to regret this once Max finds him."
"Max isn't going to find him." He said. He mumbled something under his breath. The four words that scared me the most were 'make' 'sure' 'she' 'wont'. I backed up even further from him and unfurled my wings. "He is a good hider." These are the times I wished I wasn't blind. Seeing Dylan's facial expression right now would help show that he is sympathetic or evil. The tone of his voice is indicating the latter though. Oh dear, oh dear.
I heard Dylan's own wings snap open. "Want to go for a fly?" He asked.
I raised an eyebrow, "No, I have kids to watch." I walked passed Dylan and into my room. You have no idea how badass I felt when I 'accidentally' bumped shoulders with Dylan as I walked out. But why was I acting like this to Dylan? He hadn't done anything to me, but he has been acting suspicious lately… he was acting most suspicious before fang left, when he got up from the wedding party to call someone.
Max POV
Don't do it Max. Don't do it. You will regret it if you go after him. I almost fell out of the tree. My voice was talking to me again. Yes, I have a voice inside my head that gives me advice. Lucky me. These were the times where I hated the voice's advice.
Shut up. I thought back, I don't care if I regret going after him. He is coming back. He had to have left for some reason, and I am going to find that reason out. I mentally flipped my voice off and relaxed. I was still sitting on a large branch in a tree just outside South Dakota. I was happy the voice didn't say anything; I wanted to be alone to my own thoughts for a while. A deep breath escaped me when leaned my head against the base of the tree.
He was near here. Fang was near me. This thought made me calm. There was no civilization near; there were just plains, trees, and one long road that no one traveled on. My eyes snapped open. Fang liked to be alone and calm. North Dakota was mostly farm land and woods. South Dakota was where the towns were. He would go to North Dakota to think. Wow. I came up with that by sitting in a tree. I felt close to him because North Dakota was one frikin state away! My wings snapped open and I jumped out of the tree. Strong winds blew in my face. I looked up to see a giant black cloud hovering in the sky. Well, I could travel in this. There is no civilization for a couple more miles, I can fly low.
As the first couple of rain drops fell, I gained more and more confidence that I would find Fang.