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Max

The first to arrive were the "vampires". Incredibly fast and strong, they weren't really the vampires that they described in movies and books. They weren't pale or ice cold either but they were carnivorous and ate a lot of meat and drank a lot of blood to compensate. Hey something has to fuel their speed and strength right? There were about two dozen of them and split themselves into little groups, covens, they called it. We stood pretty far apart from each other, pretty sure that they were as scared of us as we were of them

Go talk to them. My voice prompted.

I cleared my throat and stuck my hand out for them to shake. "Hey, how's it going?" I asked.

"Pretty good, thanks for breaking us out there." A tall blond with dark eyes and a lanky figure that stood at the front answered as he shook my hand.

"Well, technically Angel broke you guys out; we were trying to break her out." I explained and assumed he was the leader.

"Who cares? Feels great to be free." He replied and I smiled.

Next to arrive were the "mermaids". That was pretty self-explanatory. They had fish like tails and could breathe underwater. Then the "fairies" arrived I had to chuckle a bit at that one. They had wings like us, except they were butterfly wings.

"How do you guys fly?" I asked one of them.

"Well, we're all really, really light. We only drink sugar water and our wings are pretty big. We don't fly up very high either, just a few feet off the ground, 20 feet at most." She explained.

"Ah, I see." I said. They did look quite delicate but not breakable, a lot tougher than I expected.

As the day went on, experiments kept arriving and the last few arrived at sunset. There were about 2000 experiment in total, not including the flock. I spent the day talking and getting to know them. I saw a bunch of half transparent kids and got curious.

"Why are you guys half visible?" I asked curiously.

"Well, they were trying to make us invisible like those kids," She gestured towards a group on my left. "But they screwed up and now we're stuck like this." She said glumly.

I patted her shoulder, "Why couldn't they just leave us all alone?" I said bitterly and she looked at me a nodded.

By the end of the day, I had seen all of them. Birds who could talk like Total, flying monkeys like in the Wizard of Oz, nymphs, dryads and dragons. The last few kids, looked like regular kids, but of course with the stories I heard today, I knew they weren't just ordinary kids.

"Hey!" I called over to them. One of them looked up cautiously. "Hey, it's okay, we aren't going to hurt you." I reassured.

"Hi." He replied.

"So what can you do?" I asked him.

"Show me yours first." He shot back. I opened my wings to their full 14 feet of glory.

He didn't look very surprised, figures; I'd seen a couple more flocks arrive after the fairies; he must be used to it. "Okay, now show me yours." I said. He looked at me and started to sing an eerie tune without words, like the wind howling all of a sudden wind began to circle around us faster and faster.

"Whoa, that's intense." I said. "Can you all do that?" I asked him.

"Why don't you ask them?" He said and went to sit down, tired from the journey. I did, and it turned out that each of them could manipulate an element like that first kid but the elements were very like their personalities. The girl who could manipulate water was very calm and peacemaking, slow but powerful, her voice was calm and moving. The boy who manipulated fire had a very bright personality but a really short temper and he had a really bright voice. The boy who manipulated earth was very stubborn but was very courageous, his voice was deep and very solid. There were a couple more who could manipulate the elements, turns out to get here, they had the water kids (they called themselves aquos) create a tunnel in the lake, the dirt kids (they called themselves terras) solidified the ground while they walked, the fire kids (they called themselves aduros) warmed the air and the air kids (they called themselves aeris) kept a breeze to fuel the fire and bring in oxygen and walked here together. I was impressed, angry and in awe all at the same time. Impressed by how they were such troopers and kept going when the going got tough (not uncommon for mutants like us), angry that the scientists could do such a thing to such small kids (the smallest manipulator I saw was about four years old) and in awe by their powers (I have to admit, they were pretty cool).

A lot of their stories went like this: I was walking home from school when suddenly four figures in black suits grabbed me and stuffed me in a dark van. When I woke up, I woke up with powers or wings or a tail and I knew my life would never be the same. They put me in a dark room with a dozen other kids and it smelled like blood and feces. Every morning we would get a small meal, not nearly enough and then taken out into the exercise room where we were made to run mazes and other tests while the scientists experimented. They poked all sorts of needles into us, they turned us against each other and it was the same routine every day. Get up, exercise room, needles, food, bed. It hurt my heart just to hear and it brought back memories of mine. But in the time that they were there some of them disappeared and some never came back while others were seen walking around in the black suits completely brain washed. I felt a tear fall down my cheek. Me, Maximum Ride, save the world flock leader, was crying.

We had to do something about this, for the sake of the world and the innocent children being tortured by the Doomsday Group. I think it's time for a little recon.

Fang

We were on the move again, there were some strange people in black suits that came after us, but we took them down and kept running. We were in Virginia now, trying to blend in as much as possible sleeping in forests was hard because unlike Maya and I, the rest of the gang weren't comfortable in trees and there were a lot of bugs on the ground. So we almost always slept in hotels, switching to a new one every night, never in the same city twice and trying to throw the Men in Black off our trail. Tonight we were staying in Roanoke and were watching TV after dinner, something we haven't done since the Men in Black started following us. Suddenly the news caught my attention, "If you have seen this little girl, please report to your nearest Doomsday station, you will be rewarded greatly, not to mention helping save the planet." The announcer said. I knew the little girl he was holding a picture of, that little girl was Angel.

I looked over at the rest of the gang and they were looking as shocked as I was.

"How did she escape that explosion?" Holden asked; he was also known as the human starfish.

"I was sure she was dead, I didn't hear any breathing." Ratchet added.

Maya spoke up, "I'm pretty sure we all thought she was dead, but now we're wrong. The next question is what we should do from here."

I stared at Maya, she was a natural leader. "Well, judging by the news and that the building behind the reporter was called L'institut de sciences de la vie, whatever that means and the Canadian Flag in the corner, I'd say it was in Canada." I said smirking.

"The Institute of Living Sciences." Maya translated and everyone gaped at her in shock. "Also, that would mean that this institute is most likely in Quebec."

I recovered quickly from my shock and looked it up and quickly found the address and copied it down. Then I said, "Alright guys, looks like we're going to Montreal, Canada!" I booked the first flight to Montreal and we got ready. Later when everyone was gone packing, I asked Maya, "How do you know French?"

She replied, "They taught us in the school along with 15 other languages which is why I got around so well in Paris, remember?" Oh yeah, they speak French in France, duh. "The French they speak in Quebec is a bit different though, but I can probably adjust."

I stared at her, "Anything else I need to know?" I asked a bit jealous.

"Well, I'm a black belt in 5 kinds of martial arts." She said. I stared at her open mouthed. "Just kidding." She said laughing and then said so quietly to herself, I wasn't sure if I imagined it or not, "Not really, I'm actually trained, in piano, guitar, CPR, medicine, math and sciences." Wow, Maya really was perfect, a little too perfect, but she was perfect.

So we set off the next morning, we drove to Norfolk and then we got on our flight. Airplanes made me really antsy but Maya seemed perfectly fine in it. It's too bad not everyone had wings, but airplanes were faster, it's just I hadn't been doing much flying lately. So we touched down about an hour later and left (we don't carry around much baggage in the run). We arrived at an underground city type thing and there was a huge mall. We got a little sidetracked considering everyone wanted to see what the difference between Canadian bacon and bacon was, they wanted to buy maple syrup and they wanted to try poutine. Oh my god, poutine is amazing, its fries with gravy and melted cheese. It's food made by the angels. After a delicious lunch, we continued searching for this hidden institute so we split into pairs to cover more ground. Ratchet and Holden, Kate and Star and Maya and I. We kept searching, Maya had to go to the bathroom and while she was gone I remembered it was her birthday soon and I saw a beautiful necklace and bought it for her. I went back and she wasn't there yet so I stood and waited. Suddenly someone knocked me out and I didn't even see them. Everything went black.

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