Hey guys! Just lettin' you know that I don't own Maximum Ride, Fang, or Iggy (that's JP's job). But I do own Lucifer, Reggie, and all the other people I made up. Enjoy!

Fang never once in his life thought he could feel love. He didn't think it was possible. Not even for his family; god, he hated those people. But today he did. He cherished the dog sitting on his lap.

The puppy had beautiful fur. If you were far away it would look like silk. The colors were brown, black, and white. He had never seen fur mix together as beautifully as this with these three colors, not even on a beagle. The puppy was about four months old, still learning how to control herself.

She had never felt love before. That much he could tell. She must have been kicked out of her house because she peed on the floor or her mother didn't want her for whatever reason. He found her on the street two weeks ago being beat up by a bunch of teenagers. He shooed them away, but when he went to pick her up and take her to the vet to get her wounds checked, she backed up.

He left her there, but not for long. He went to the store to get her some food. When he came back she was sleeping. Most likely from exhaustion. So he picked her up, brought her to the vet, brought her home once she was all clean, and let her sleep. Ever since then she followed him around and never left his side. She became loyal to him the moment she woke up.

She also never barked and never growled at anyone unless they were threatening him. He had only seen her love him these passed two weeks. So why shouldn't he love her in return.

The phone started ringing and Beth jumped off of his lap. He was about to get up when she came running into the room with the phone in her mouth. That was a new trick.

He took the phone out of her mouth, wiped off the slobber, and answered.

"Hello?"

"Hello. Is Nick Corpsehaven there?" the person on the other side asked. He hated his last name, but he didn't want to change it because it was the name of his father and his fathers father and his… well you get the point. He also preferred Fang. He had the nickname since childhood.

"This is he."

"Thank god," the man on the other line exclaimed. "Nick, it's Jeffery or Jeff as you call me remember? I have some great news!"

"Aren't you the one everybody's calling Iggy?" Fang asked him.

"Yes, but you really need to listen! It's so awesome!" Iggy exclaimed excitedly.

Fang pet Beth for a minute, and when he realized Iggy wasn't going to talk until he gave order, he finally asked, "What?"

"There's a new women in the office! She's hot! Oh, her butt—"

Fang cut him off. "Jeff, or Iggy, you just started work yesterday. You're not going to impress her with your office skills if you keep staring at her ass. How did you get my number anyway?"

"Boss gave it to me. She wanted me to call you and tell you her assistant got fired and you're taking their place. But at the same time, this new chick, who is taking your place, is sexy. A little short, but sexy all the same."

"Okay, Iggy. Tell the boss I'll be there in fifteen minutes," Fang told him. And without saying goodbye he hung up and went to put on his suit.

The trip to Hell took longer then Max thought it would. Hell can't be that far away from Heaven, can it? She finally got there and she thought she might die from exhaustion. The captain helped her out of the boat and left without a word.

A little creature about three feet tall stumbled up to her. His skin was a disgusting brown-green and he smelt like sewage. He—or more favorable, it—motioned for her to follow. Its skin flapped as it did so.

Max nodded and followed. It led her down the concrete pathway to the front doors. The doors were huge. Its wood was a beautiful mix between dark and light brown. There were big knockers on each.

The little goblin-like creature opened one like it was as light as a feather. She begged to differ, but she just shrugged it off.

The hall they entered was gigantic. Just like in Heaven everything was marble. The marble here was a little darker and there was a long red carpet going down the middle of the room. Pillars went through splitting the room into thirds, the carpet in the middle.

Something caught her eye on the other side of the hall, on the end away from her. It was a chair. One that she could fit in. It wasn't too big or small; it was the perfect size for a regular human. It was the only thing in the room, along with the carpet and pillars.

"I see Reggie has already invited you in." The sudden voice made her jump.

She whipped around to see a man. He was at least eleven inches taller then her, which isn't saying much. And he wasn't too bad on the eyes for his age either. This man had peppery hair, eyebrows matching. He must have been forty, forty-two?

He was lean. Perfect body structure for his size.

His dark gaze drifted over Sophie with inertest. She felt self conscious, but she couldn't afford to be like that. She had a feeling he was the man she was looking for. Lucifer.

"You must be Maximum Ride, correct?" he asked. When she nodded he continued. "Then you're just who I was looking for. Come, sit." He walked to the seat on the other side of the hall.

She didn't know how she was going to sit when he took the only chair.

The man snapped his fingers and a chair appeared beside his. He motioned for Max to sit. She took the offer while he started speaking again.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked.

She gulped. Would he take offence if she called him the devil? She hoped not. "Um, the devil."

"Yes, that's what the people of earth call me nowadays, isn't it? You can call me Lucifer, it makes me more comfortable." That was the last thing she wanted. Wasn't it bad enough that she was having a conversation with this guy, but now they were on a first name basis?

"Now Maximum, have you heard anything about your test from 'His Majesty' up there?" he asked. She shook her head. "That's all I needed to know. Would you like me to tell you? Or, would you like to learn as you go?"

"Tell me, I guess?"

"You guess? You guess? It's a yes or no question Maximum. Would you like me to tell you?" His voice got low and his face got dark. Max was never good at conversations with strangers and she didn't want to start now. Her breath sped up and her eyes widened. And she thought her mother's looks could kill.

"Yes." Her voice was sheepishly small.

His face changed automatically. He was smiling once more and continued with the 'nice' questions and answers. "Now, the Test. It will test your greatest skill as a human. Kindness, care, love, happiness—those are all emotional skills. Your best emotional skill was care. I'll explain that later."

"Sports, business, acting, singing—those are all talent skills. You know your best talent skill is business. Come, follow me." He got up and started walking away without waiting for Max. She had to jog to catch up to him.

Every step he took equaled two of hers. He was unnaturally tall for a human. Leading back to her thoughts that he wasn't human. He was a monster, Satan, the Devil, El Diablo. Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood. Even though she wasn't human she was nothing like him and she never wanted to be.

"Now since I told you that your best emotional skill is care, which means you are being tested on how much you care about some one. I understand this will be difficult because there are a few rules to this part of the test. Rule one… wait. Reggie!" The little green creature popped out of a hole in the wall that Max didn't see there before. "Get Miss Maximum a notepad."

The—Reggie disappeared for a few seconds then returned with a notepad and a pen. Limping over he/she handed them to Max.

"Thank you," Max said with as much gratitude as she could muster up, but at the same time she tried not to grimace at the goo that came from his hand when she/he handed it to her.

"You may leave now, Reggie. Where were we?" said Lucifer. He doesn't even show the poor he/she any thanks for what he/she does for him, thought Max.

"Now, write this down," he told her. "Rule one, you must choose one person and stick to them. Rule two, you must show that person as much care as possible. Rule three, if you don't find someone in the first three days, I'll choose some one for you. You got that all down?"

Max was trying but he was talking pretty fast. When she finished writing a few seconds later, she nodded for him to continue.

"You know your best talent skill is business. Well you will be working in an office for that one obviously. There're no rules to this one, just work your hardest." He smiled at her charmingly.

"There are a few things I should warn you about, though. If you are finding this easy, I will make it harder for you. Nothing will be the same as when you used to be alive. You also only get a year to do all of this, too."

Max wrote as much down as she could. She did have a few questions of her own though.

"Wait… will I have to find my own job, house, clothes, and everything else I'll need?" she asked him.

"Of course not, that's all taken care of."

"Don't you have a son?" Max asked.

"Yes."

"Didn't he kill a couple angels?"

"Who told you that?" He looked at her incredulously.

"The internet," Max told him in a monotone voice.

"Not everything on the internet is true!" he yelled suddenly. And then, "On the internet it tells you you can drink when you're pregnant, but it's not true! If you do drink, then the child will turn out like Reggie!" Suddenly, Reggie popped his/her head threw the wall.

"Yes Master?"

"Not now, Reggie!"

"Jeez, okay," Max said when Reggie went back in his hole. "Remind me to not get on your bad side."

"Okay," Lucifer said brightly. Then he sobered immediately. "But yes, yes he did."

Ignoring the sudden bipolerness (yes, she knew that wasn't a word), Max followed him out of the door.

"Here we are." He motioned to a large machine, which, by the way, wasn't there before.

There was a medium size platform at the bottom. A huge panel full of buttons and levers made a semi-circle beside it. She had no idea what the huge monstrosity was for because Lucifer wouldn't tell her. All he told Max to do was step inside.

He pushed a lot of buttons and switched a lot of levers. Finally many, many, many lights started flashing around her; Max thought she was going to go blind. A loud noise happened, making her jump. Then she was gone, just like that.

Poof!

This chapter was a lot longer then the last one. I hope you liked it! Review! Please?