Story Tales: The perfect ending.

- Once upon a time there was a beautiful little town

AN:So sorry, I didn't make the Friday date that I thought for sure I'd be able to post by. But finals are this coming week and didn't want to miss any of my study sessions. I'm a bad girl I LET YOU DOWN! I wouldn't have posted this either, except a cute little idea entered my head and I really wanted to write it. So here is a really random entry into my little story collection. Just as a note, it takes place much later than the two previous stories. Uhm, not sure exactly when, but some time during the series.

DISCLAIMER: I do not in any way, shape, form ,or fashion own rights to the Maximum Ride series. That would be a felony and I would be in big doo-doo. Of course a Mr. James Patterson does have full copy rights to his characters and developing storyline. So I'm just going to kidnap a certain female named Max, her adorable little Angel, and maybe Fang.

Max bolted up from her soft downy pillow and searched about the room, her eyes wide with fear for her flock. She was alone in a hotel room, safe, but what had waken her so suddenly? The answer came as a small voice screamed loudly once more. It was angel.

She tossed back the blanket pinning her down and quickly padded across the hallway that separated them. Taking one small, deep breath she twisted open the door and launched herself into the small room. It was quiet, save for the small curly hair blond that sat up in her pile of covers, sniffling and wiping away an endless stream of tears.

"Oh, Angel, baby what's wrong?" she whispered softly to the whimpering young girl.

Okay, so she wasn't a baby anymore, but she was still her little girl. And no she wasn't technically hers, but she'd always taken care of the flock like they were her family. They might as well have been, nobody else was as close to her, nobody else meant so much.

Angel clung tightly to Max as she settled back down in her bundle of covers. The frown lines slowly disappeared and the wrinkles expressing distress at the top of her forehead smoothed down as well. She sighed and rest her eyes once more. Max smiled and gently settled the young girl's hair back into place. Pulling the covers up to her chin she gently pressed a kiss to the girls temple then moved to return back to her own room.

"No, don't leave yet, please." Angel's voice trembled slightly as she reached out a small hand to clasp Max by the wrist.

"Tell me a story," she requested from the older female.

Max frowned for a second before settling back down beside Angel. Tell her a story? What kind of story? She tried to remember what kinds of things parents usually told to their children, but she hadn't really grown up in a normal life setting, so she didn't have a clue as to what type of stories even existed for bedtime telling.

"Alright, let me think up something," she tilted her head upward and thought for a moment.

"Well once upon a time (that's how they always started, right?) there was a beautiful bird princess that lived far far away in the kingdom of Maxville." Max smirked at her brilliant idea for naming the town before trying to come up with some main plot.

"One day the kingdom grew very sick from a deadly poison, and the bird princess didn't know what to do."

Angel snuggled back under her blanket and pulled her friend Celeste close against her face. Things were looking good so far. Hey, this was easy!

"So she sent out a royal message that if anyone could stop the poison they would be greatly rewarded. And so many came and tried for days and days to get the poison to stop."

The girl smiled and slowly began to close her eyes as she tried to image this once beautiful town that was slowly beginning to fade away from poison.

"Max, did a handsome prince come to save the town?"

Angel smiled sweetly and peeked her eyes back open to see Max with a small blush across her face. She suppressed a giggled and let the other girl finish telling her story.

"Well, yes a handsome prince would have to come save the place I suppose, and he was handsome, he had beautiful black wings and everyone in the whole town thought he him to be amazing I suppose."

The younger girl slipped away into her dreams as she imagined herself living at the castle, and Max was of course the beautiful princess. She dreamt of playing in beautiful gardens while the prince Fang cured the town of the awful disease. By now she was mumbling softly in her dreams while Max continued to talk to herself about the town and how the courageous prince had to go off and face demons to find a cure for the poison.

"And finally he returned to the city, beaten, tired, and hungry. He gave the potion to the princess and soon everything was revived and the town would prosper once again. The End."

Maximum smiled cheerfully at what she thought was a perfect bedtime story.

"How was that Angel?" She blinked and looked down at the quietly sleeping form beside her, obviously she had fallen asleep way before the story was over.

"Oh.." Max blushed, realizing she had been mostly talking to herself for the past hour.

"Night Angel." She tucked the covers back and quietly exited the room, being careful to shut the door gently behind her.

Trying to be extra stealthy so that she wouldn't awaken any other visitors, or wake up one of the other flock members, she tiptoed back towards her room down the hall.

"Nice story, I think my favorite part was the kiss that the handsome prince received from the princess, you know, as reward for saving the town.

Max squealed in shock and spun around to see Fang smirking at her, just inches away from where she was standing. He grinned and stepped closer pulling her close against his chest. She blushed and tried to remember where she had said the two had kissed in her story.

"But I didn't sa-"

Fang laughed and tilted her chin upward pressing her lips gently to hers.

"I know you didn't."

He grinned and pressed his lips to hers again, softly kissing the princess in his arms.

"But it would have been a better ending."

She nodded her head stupidly and watched as he slowly raised an eyebrow, smirked again, then return back towards his room. Her hand moved up to touch where his lips had been just seconds, or was it minutes, prior.

He's right, she admitted, that would have been the perfect ending.

AN: Sorry once again for being so late with updating. And the next one may be a while as well. I have finals all week and then I'll be free to write whenever I please! So if you can just be patient I'll update as soon as I can! :] AND I'm so sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes. I finished this in a hurry and pretty late. You can burn me at the stake if you really want.

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