Maximum Ride belongs to James Patterson and his marvelous brain!

After I was sure I had left my 'home' far behind I finally calmed down and had no idea where i was going so I decided to land in a wooded area by a rest stop to pick up a U.S. Map and open the envelope that had all I needed to find my family. Hopefully.

I landed softly in a group of trees and after making sure no one had seen me I grabbed a jacket out of my bag and put it in to cover my wings and headed into the building. It was about mid day by now I think around 1pm, and there were plenty of people in the building, with kids and dogs stopped to take a break from driving on family trips and camping. I seen a little girl running around with a small dog and my heart ached for my angel and little total. Clearing my head of depressing thoughts I kept walking.

I walked up to where they had all the pamphlets and found one with a map on it. I was somewhere in Tennessee which was pretty amazing seeing as I started on the other side of Virginia. I plucked up the map and went back outside to the tree line and pulled out the envelope to see which flock members were closest to my current location. Turns out Iggy was the closest to me in Atlanta only a couple hours fly away. As I was packing my stuff I heard a chilling voice come from behind. A voice I knew all too well.

"Well well well if it isn't a little birdie?" The voice was rough and a little hard to understand through the snout and teeth.

"When did they let the dogs out of their cages Ari?" I asked smugly "I thought all the erasers were decommissioned when you let us all get away?" I said holding my ground but a little nervous about a fight seeing as I had been out of practice for a bit.

"Well you see we weren't decommissioned, we were being revamped, improved, our wings are stronger now, and were faster too" he said with a sly toothy grin. I was looking out for others but I didn't see any in the area.

"wheres your buddies Ari I thought you didn't fight alone? Only in your disgusting little packs? I remember when you were just a scared little kid who needed me to save your life!" I guess I crossed the line with that one because as soon as the words were out of my mouth my jaw exploded with pain as I tasted fresh blood blossoming in my mouth.

I ducked just as he swung to hit me again lunging up to knee him in the stomach and land an elbow to the back of his head.

He sucked in a raspy breath before standing straight up and knocking me in the jaw with his head, stars filled my vision as I tried to regain my balance, gulping in oxygen greedily a I took off in the air. I knew I stood a better chance in flight.

With Ari right behind me I threw a roundhouse kick right to the barrel of his chest and heard a satisfying crack as I made contact with his ribs. He lashed out wildly at me gasping for breath, I tucked my wings and fell under him to get behind him, then I cupped my hands and slammed them hard over his ears rupturing his ear drums.

With a scream he fell to the ground and I took off not willing to stick around and see if he was up for round two.

I pointed myself in the south east direction and took off to find Iggy. If I was gonna survive for much longer I needed to find my flock and put our broken family back together before any of us get hurt.

Then it dawned on me, what if they hadn't had their memories give back yet? What if I never found out how to give them back their wings? What if i was the only one to ever get their wings back? Would I be alone forever?

Not wanting to think the worse and not knowing what else to do I just kept on course going over where he lived and what I would say to him.

Another half of me was hoping I wasn't to late and that he would still be safe and sound and not already taken by the school.

I just took a deep breath and kept flying I mean, what's the worst that could happen right?

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