Hope you like the first chapter to my first story! LOT of FAXNESS!!! Max is 18, so if you know that you know everyone else's ages. All Max POV

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own the book MAXIMUM RIDE, James Patterson does. I only own my box of fancy chocolates…from Wal-Mart

I ran… and ran… and ran… until I could barely breathe. They were going to get Fang. I wouldn't let them get Fang. Suddenly, I see them: an M-Geek holding Fang by the neck over a cliff.

"Put. Him. Down," I said to the M-Geek, trying to sound menacing but I was so scared.

"I will if you and your flock come with us," the M-Geek said in his almost-human-but-still-sorta-metallic voice.

I looked out over the cliff the M-Geek held Fang over with my raptor-vision.

"Max! Get out of here! Save the flock! I'll be fine!" Fang shouted to me.

Yeah, that'll happen when Iggy dresses up like a peacock singing showtunes while cooking waffles.

"No, Fang! I can't do that! You know that better than anyone else!" I screamed at him.

"Very well, then," the M-Geek said, and dropped Fang over the cliff.

"NO!!!!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Fang was gone. I would never see him again. I ran over to the cliff's edge and looked down, not seeing Fang. If he wasn't alive… I shouldn't be either. I leaned over the side of the cliff and fell.

I gasped and bolted straight up in bed. I felt my forehead and, of course, sweat was all over it. I tried calming my breathing, but that didn't work. I started to cry silently and lay back down. I snuggled up to Fang, causing him to wake up.

"Max, what's wrong?" he asked, turning around to face me.

"N-nothing, Fang," I said, curling myself against his sexy smooth chest.

"Come on, I know it's something. You're sweating more than the time I first kissed you four years ago," he said. "Was it a nightmare?"

He could read me like a kindergarten-level book. With pictures. "Yea…" I said reluctantly.

He sighed. "What was it about this time?"

"You… you… I can't even say it," a few more tears leaked out of my eyes onto his chest.

"Shh, shh, Maxie. It was just a dream. It won't happen."

That made me feel a little better. That and the fact I was extremely close to him. Literally.

"I love you. Now go back to sleep, baby," he said, kissing the top of my head.

"I love you, too, Fang," I replied.

I lay next to him like that until I heard him breathing evenly. I looked at the clock. 5 am. Well, I can't go to sleep now, not when I have to wake the kids (Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel) up in an hour and thirty minutes to go to school. I just laid there in Fangs strong, protective arms.

Hope you like it! Look out for the next chapter!