Random Musings of a Bored Teenager

[Roxie !]

Eep! Almost forgotted this >< Hey! The new book is out today! I...must...have....

In the mean time, I probably have to get off soon, so I'll start writing it now, but I probably wont get finished...if not, it shall be up tomorrow!

[le Dawnz]

O.o Another book? I still need to read the first one! -pouts- The library only has the second one and I want to read them in order.

[Roxie !]

-Nods- I've been reading them pretty quickly, and I'm glad I picked now to start, otherwise I would have to wait for the third one...which would have KILLED me. I've finally got the third one, and just started reading it!!!-Squee-

And O.o!! That sucks! If you want, I could bring my copy of teh Firsteh one when I come to SD. I've already read it and over-analysed everything(xDDD) So you could borrow or even have it if you want.


Anyway...this chapter is more about the set up of it all. The actual plot starts in the next one.

Chappeh 4

It had only taken us a few moments to land in the shadows of the carnival's outskirts and put on our ragged, over-sized sweatshirts. See, we can't retract our wings or anything like that, but we can snap them pretty tight when we fold them. These garmets, scruffy and scraggly as they might have been, hid the tiny detail that we were...well...half-avian mutants.

"...and there's this stuff called cotton candy that's supposed to be delicious, and besides that there's all kinds of food! Oh, and look at all the games! And rides! Look how big that Farris wheel is! It'll be just like flying...only, um, slower and more relaxing."

A few seconds later, Nudge seemed to have caught her breath. Sure enough, she was the first one to speak. Honestly, I had no idea how she knew so much about the...well, the normal world, considering that the closest we'd ever come to a 'normal' life had been a few months spent with a woman who turned out to be our worst enemy. Her name had been Anne Walker, a supposed FBI agent who took us in after Fang almost died. She'd let us stay in her home, even sent us to school. Normal school, I mean. But it had turned out that she had been the Director of The School. Our old home-sweet-home of a genetic engineering laboratory. But, that's another story.

"Oh, Max..." Angel tugged on my hand. She sounded awestruck--like a little kid experiencing her first time at Disney World or something. I raised an eyebrow and glanced down at her. Big mistake. The blonde six-year old was gazing up at me with her round, pleading blue eyes, and I knew what she was asking me.

"No," I told her firmly, raising my gaze to survey the rest of the Flock. "No way. We're here to hide, keep our heads down. This isn't the time for fun."

Iggy glared in my direction, and even though he's blind, it's kinda surprising how good he is at it...almost like he's x-raying you or something.

"Max, you agreed that we needed to blend with the public. People are going to be suspicious if they see six scrawny kids like us just wandering around aimlessly." He pointed out.

I rolled my eyes. As if anyone would have time to notice us, anyway.

"I believe it's called loitering." Fang smirked, and I shot him a quick 'Thanks a lot!' glance.

"C'mon," Iggy persisted, grinning slightly. "Let's have a little fun."

"For once." Grunted the little talking mutant dog whom we had named Total, twitching an ear indignantly as he sat at Angel’s feet, glaring up at me with coal-black eyes.

I sighed. Lately, it seemed like I wasn’t doing so swell on this whole leadership thing. I mean, three cheers for democracy and everything, but the younger kids could get a little hard-headed. Iggy wasn’t much better; always laid back, and Fang was silent as usual, staring at me with his cool dark eyes.

Don’t stray from your path, Maximum. You need to stay focused. The Voice argued.

Sheesh, you’re like a broken record.

There was something about its stern, would-be maternal tone that just ticked me off. Maybe that’s why I finally caved, just out of spite.

“Okay, fine,” I said, narrowing my eyes. “But don’t draw attention to yourselves. Any of those people could be Erasers for all we know, and even if they aren’t, the last thing we need is another publicity stunt.”

“Excellent,” The Gasman grinned, nudging Iggy mischievously. I rolled my eyes. Knowing those two, the moment I let them out of my sight, they’d create some sort of explosion or other form of chaos.

“I mean it, guys,” I warned them, and even though Iggy couldn’t see me glaring, the edge to my voice placed a smirk firmly in place on his freckled face. “Stick together, and don’t get too settled in. We’re only staying—“

“As long as we have to.” Gazzy finished, his voice a perfect mimic of mine. One of his ‘abilities’ is to mimic any voice or sound. It can be useful, but pretty damn annoying in a situation like this. I chose to ignore him, however, turning away to survey the others. Fang was his usual nonchalant self, while Nudge and Angel looked excited, and Total was wagging his tail happily.

The little dog’s nose twitched. “I smell hot-dogs!”


I stifled a groan. Now we’d never get out of here.
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Fifteen minutes later, I’d accomplished one thing: getting everyone fed. So far, no one had paid us much attention. In fact, if you’ll believe it, we sort of…blended in. All around us there were contortionists, clowns, jugglers…you name it. So as you can imagine, the ‘normal’ peoples’ attention was directed elsewhere. Of course, they couldn’t see the wings sticking out of our backs which were currently hidden by our sweatshirts, so there you go. Let me tell you, the whole thing had me wound tighter than a chain around a rottweiler’s neck. The others were pretty happy, except for maybe Fang, who walked silently beside me.

“This is stupid.” He muttered.

“Oh, don’t give me that! You were the one going on about all of that ‘we’d be safer in a crowd’ crap. Well, we’re surrounded by guys sticking flaming batons down their throats, and Angel is getting a few new career ideas. Thanks for that, Fang, I feel real safe.” I scoffed sarcastically.

“I wasn’t the one soft enough to give in to letting these guys run around like maniacs.”


“It’s a carnival, what did you expect them to do? Sit around and mope in the shadows all day like you do?” I snapped, perhaps a little harsher than intended. I knew that Fang had his reasons for being so, well…dark, but right now it didn’t seek to matter. I was tired of everyone, from the Voice to Fang criticizing my decisions. Without sparing him a second glance, I sped my pace so I was ahead of the Flock once again, and concentrated on leading them to the Farris Wheel. Nudge had been going on about it since we’d gotten here.

“And now, what you’ve all been waiting for…” A loud, booming voice sounded form behind us. I spun around, instinctively tense, but the comment hadn’t been directed toward us. It was coming from some sort of microphone or speaker, I guessed, because there didn’t seem to be an immediate source of the voice.

“The famed Shephardde Carnivale Circus is about to begin!”

I heard an excited gasp from Angel, and shot her a ‘don’t even think about it’ look.


I think you should do it The Voice commented. I was so surprised by this that I stopped walking, as did the rest of the Flock, looking puzzled.

What? I thought you were against our little ‘jamboree’. I thought snidely, but the Voice ignored my sarcastic choice of words.

Go to the Circus, Max. It’s important. It told me. Very important.

[le Dawnz]

-nods and stomps foot on floor- But I don't know if I can wait that long! -tries to pout but fails- xD Yeah that'd be great if you could bring it! If not, I can always look around Barnes & Noble or Amazon. I want that new warriors book too but Jess -pretends to glare- said she was getting it for my birthday but she keeps forgetting. And I don't like bugging people about stuff like that. I'm even too shy to ask for a free sticker at one of the booths at the Ribfest! Just ask Jess! I even had to have my mom ask a friend of hers if he would burn a movie for me when I was not around because I'm just so weird like that. -shakes head- I'm just hopeless. But what can ya do?

Anywhoz, awesome chapter! Getting inneresting. Can I give some constructive critizism*? I noticed that you use 'well...' a lot. 3 times in this last chapter. And you also use just '...' a bunch. Just thought I'd point it out being the 'annoying over-analyzing know-it-all' that I am.

[nightsky]

Yep I got my copy from the library, its really good so far! Im at the part where Max gets shot and stays with Ella and her mom.
Great, an update! I like this, your in character, i was recognizing(sp) that when I was reading to book.

"I believe it's called loitering."

Lol Fang!

[Roxie !]

Dawny- Okay, I'll bring it, no problem! ^^ -Pre-packs book- If you wanna wait that long, that is. O.o Squee!! Only a few more daysh! And lol thats ok, I get what you mean xP.

And Oooh I do, don't I? -Re-reads- O.o Thanks! I'll try and fix it ^^

Tessa- Kewl! I like that part. It also reveals one of the bigger mysteries for the rest of the series.

Anyway, thanks for readin' guys ^^

[le Dawnz]

Oh... mygosh!! I started reading Maximum Ride: School's Out- Forever yesterday(I just couldn't wait for the first one anymore) and I'm at chapter 53(out of 142 chapters including the epilouge, my gosh!), and btw, these chapters are SHO-ORT!! But anyway, I have been pretty much amused the entire time so far, ESPECIALLY when a girl starts hitting on Fang. I mean, come on that is so hilarious!! And THEN in chapter 52(which I just finished) I couldn't stop laughing!!!! That girl KISSED Fang! And he kissed her back! And Max was watching! And she freaked out! And the Voice was all 'Maybe you have feelings for him.' It was soooooooo hilarious! Even funnier then the girl flirting with him or when Max was talking to herself about Fang really starting to open up to her or how he was embarressed even though he NEVER gets embarressed or the funny things they say like when Max said 'The prince gets a bed all to himself' and Fang said 'Yes, the prince has a gapping side wound' or Nudge said 'I look like a prep-school barbie' or how Gazzy keeps changing his name, first Captain Terror and then Zephyr or even funnier how when Iggy(who's of course, BLIND) asks to come into the bathroom to brush his teeth and Max is all 'No I'm in a towel!' and he's all 'I'm BLIND' and then after that mirror thing she goes to her room(still in a towel) and Fang comes in and is all comforting and then he kisses her forehead which was EXTREAMLY funny itself! But THIS? THIS is just BEYOND funny! I expected(just like Max) for him to push her away when she kissed him but he just put his arms around her and kissed her back! And the funniest part is, Fang and Max have like, the BEST cemistry, and she was sooooo oblivious to it until she realized she was freaking out over Fang kissing some other girl! WOW!!

Whew! -breaths heavily like just finished running the mile- Okay, rant over.

[le Dawnz]

OMGOMGOMGOMGosh!!! Must add more to rant above! I am TOTALLY becoming obsessed with this book. I'm on chapter 73 now and I'd like to add Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww poor Iggy!!! He was sooooo depressed and he cried! I mean, a fourteen-year-old boy crying? No, a fourteen-year-old blind boy crying! Most of the blind kids I've met and/or heard about are pretty defiant for a while, always trying to be the 'tough guy'. Iggy seems like that. And I felt SOOOO sorry for him! And then I was like OMGosh AWESOME when Max heard about Iggy's parents on TV! And OMGOMGOMGOMGosh!! Max and SAM?!?!?! I think Sam is TOTALLY sweet and I'm soooo gonna feel sorry for him if and when Max and Fang FINALLY admit they love each other. And I love this line at the end of chapter 69 after Max tells everyone she's going on a date with Sam and all the kids are bugging out: 'And did you notice who didn't say a word? Right.' It made me laugh hystarically. Well... not hystarically, but I did bust out laughing in a way that gain a 'you are sooooo weird' look from my sis. And then Sam KISSED her!! I was like ewwwww and awwwwww at the same time. And UH-OH!! Fang is starting to feel sick like Max was in the hospital! And Iggy's found a girlfriend! Yay for him! And what made me laugh harder? Angel talking about Ari: 'And he loves you, he loves you a lot.' When I read that I was like OMGosh I SO TOTALLY KNEW IT!!! Cause Ari was all mad and always obsessing over Max and the kids and it was just totally starting to get creepy and I was like duuuude there has GOT to be something going on here and then Angel said it and I was like I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay I'm done now... again. I'm willing to bet I'll be back in a few hours to rant some more!

[le Dawnz]

Okay, I know it's been like, less then a minute since that last post but... OMGosh!

Quote: "So? How was it?" Fang leaned against my dest and crossed his arms over his chest. I heard something in his voice and looked up at his face. As usual, he looked completely impassive, but I knew him so well that I could read the almost indiscernible twitch of his jaw muscle, the slight tightening around his eyes.
"I saw him - what's that phrase? oh, yeah - 'stuck to you like glue' So I guess you got along all right." Fang waited as I tried to figure out what was going through his head.
"Yeah," I said finally. "There's a lot of that going around."
He looked a little embarrassed, and I kicked off my sneakers. Fang sat down next to me leaning against my headboard. "So you like him? I don't have to kill him?" His voice was tense.


-falls out of chair rereading that one-

[le Dawnz]

-giggles- And this is just plaing funny!!

Quote: "Bet you were kind of cute, pup girl." He bared his teeth as if they were fangs and made a little growling sound. "Rrrff!" he said, and made a pouncing motion at me. I smacked him upside the head.

[le Dawnz]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohmygosh!!!ThatwastotallyawesomeIjustfinishedreadingitanditwastotallyawesomeandIsocan'twaitforthenextbookandforthefirstbookcauseitwassototallyawesomeanditwassoooooawesomeandhaswaytoomanythingstorantaboutsoI'lljustsaythatitwassososososoreallysosososoreallyreallysososoawesome!!!Okaybye!!

[Roxie !]

DUDE!!!! YES!!! You read one!! I really liked SOF, its probably my favorite of the three. Eeeeevvvilll Anne. And I KNOW!!! I'm sofreakinmad...If he doesnt make another book, I swear...I'll kill James Patterson! FANG AND MAX STILL ARENT TOGETHER!! It's supposed to be the LAST book! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! Ok, sorry, I won't spoil nothing.

And about Ari...OMG -Sob- It's kinda gross that he loves her, because....-Shuts mouth- And then he...And...-Wails and breaks into tears- YOU HAVE TO READ THE THIRD BOOK SO I CAN RANT!! ARI IS JUST THE SADDEST CHARRIE EEEEEEEEEEEBER!

And lol Yes, Fang and Max are very funneh. My favorite Characters are probably Max, Fang, Ari(Used to hate him, now I love him), and Nudge. Who am I kidding? I love them all! Gazzy ish soooo funny, too. I love these books, I swear. They're probably my favorite, besides His Dark Materials(Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass). You ever read them? They're awesome. Anyway...Back on subject. I'll GLADLY Rant wif ya later. Right now I gotta go though. Peace!