Moe: Let's do this thing!

Max: She is experiencing high motivation right now :)

Nudge: Moe owns nothing! Not Max, Not Iggy, No me, Not Fang, Not-

Angel: Shush! We are getting a move on! Moe does not own maximum ride or any of its characters.

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(KIRILL'S P.O.V)

I knew Alik was pretty pissed at me for dinner, but he just didn't understand. He's way too willing to share. That's not me at all. I need space from him and his lecturing. I now stood out on the front balcony to our hotel room.

The stars were out. This was my prefect time of day. Night. Dark like me and usually just as cold. But this weird state in America was unusually warm. I longed for the chill of my homeland. But first I had to take care of my business here.

Lost in thought, I didn't have time to react before a hand reached from above me, grabbing onto my shirt and throwing me roughly out into the night air. I land hard on the parking lot below. It didn't hurt, but I will admit I was taken by surprise. I stood up and shook the rumble off myself, my body had made quite the indention on the pavement.

"Hey, Kill-Bill."

I looked up, finally meeting the eyes of my surprise attacker. It was the blond one.

"I did not expect the chance to kill you to appear so quickly." I growled.

"You can try, but I doubt you will succeed." He shot back, taking off from the roof and hovering over it. "Enough talk, let's take this to the sky."

I walked over to a supporting column, elongating my finger nails into sharp talons and piercing them into the beam. I then lifted myself up, climbing up the side of the building and pulling my body up onto the roof.

The boy watched curiously. I didn't return my nails back to their original length.

"How do you expect me to fly without wings?"

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(MAX'S P.O.V)

We got home quite a bit after night had fallen. It was a silent fly home since Dove was still very upset and blaming herself.

We didn't talk about what she had told us at the park. None of us could really fully understand, I suppose. Well… except me. But only slightly. The whole thing about someone being built for you. I understand that part. We all understood about almost being killed. Not drowned necessarily. But still.

Everyone went straight to their rooms, no one bothered to tell my mom or Jeb anything. And when they saw our faces, they didn't really try to ask.

"Night." Fang said, closing his door.

"Night." I muttered back, though I was sure he didn't hear me.

I opened my door to, surprisingly, find the light on. I thought Ella would already be asleep.

Instead my 'sister' was sitting on her bed, writing vigorously into a journal that she kept. I sat on my bed, across from hers, and waited for her to finish.

Finally she closed the book, stuffing it back under her pillow.

"Oh my gosh, Max. You are not going to believe my night!" She giggled like a little girl.

"What's up?" I asked causally, not really interested.

"I got to kiss him, and it was really fast, but it was soft and sweet and romantic. I felt like my heart was going to burst! I was a little sad about what he said at first, but then I realized he said it so that she would know that he's mine and we are together and she can just hit the road back to her glacier!" She smiled, out of breath.

"Um…. What?" I took off my shoes and socks, still not really that interested in her story.

"Oh, Max. It was just amazing. Iggy kissed me and-"

"Are we talking about a dream?" I watched her weird excitedness, kinda weirded out myself. "Did I wake you up, or something?"

"No, Silly!" She laughed, slapping my leg lightly. "Iggy doesn't want to be with Dove anymore. He told me that after our kiss."

"And… When was this?" She was freaky happy and it was super creepy.

"Tonight! After mom, Jeb, and I came home. I heard a noise and it was Iggy, in his room-"

"Wait, Iggy is here!" I jumped up, but she grabbed my arm.

"Well not now, but he was! And we kissed. That's the point at the moment, Max. Stay with me."

"That's not the point right now! The point is that Iggy was here!" I yelled, trying to get it into her head.

"Uh, why can't you just be happy for me right now?" She scoffed.

"Excuse me?"

"Seriously, Max. It's like you don't even care about my happiness right now. Do you prefer him with Dove? Why would she be better for him than me?" This time she jumped up. "Why are you being like this?"

"Why are you being selfish!" I growled, the shock of my words making her sit down again.

"What the hell do you mean by that?" She cried. "You are being so hurtful!"

"And you are being dumb! It doesn't matter what you think, Iggy doesn't wanna be with you. And even if he did and you really love him like you say you do, then you would understand that what is important right now is finding him! And bringing him back here safe!" I pulled my shoes on once more and raced out the door to Fang and Dylan's room.

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(3RD PERSON P.O.V)

"How do you expect me to fly without wings?" Kirill asked, watching Iggy's reaction.

"What are you, a penguin?" Iggy joked, his wings beating to keep him at a steady height.

"I am no bird." Kirill growled.

"What do you want with Dove then?" Iggy growled back.

"She was built for me and I built for her."

"Why would a bird mutant be with a hamster mutant?"

"You can joke now, One They Call Iggy, but shortly you won't even be able to speak."

"You are all bark, no bite." Iggy challenged.

Kirill flexed his shoulders and tore away the remainder of his shirt, revealing black stripes stretching across his rib cage. When he looked up to Iggy again, he bared his teeth, showing the now sharpened ivory. Even his eyes were different, or maybe Iggy didn't notice before, but they were slanted straight down.

"What are you?" Iggy asked, trying to hide his horror and surprise.

"3% Panthera tigris"

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