Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride James Patterson does. I only own my characters, the plot, and the ninjas you don't know about.

This is my story. I am Jewel. My trusted flock and I are on a mission. But, I should probably tell you the story from the start.

I turned the corner around another street. I saw the park and thought to myself. I looked and the playground and remembered all those times I played there, as I shifted my bag up higher on my shoulder.

A black van turned the corner and stopped near me; I snapped out of memory lane and continued walking. But as soon as I started walking toward my home the van doors opened and something came out.

"Wait...are those...?" I questioned myself, unsure; because what came out of the car was wolf-like-human-things. Three of them started walking to me and my eyes opened wide. I quickly ran the other way. The wolf things ran after me and tackled me. After that I couldn't remember what happened I just remembered blacking out and waking up in a cage.

"Wh-wer-were am I?" I stuttered my eyes slowly opening. I turned my head and saw a boy about my age, 14. He had golden hair and, if possible, even more golden eyes. He was wearing a bright blue shirt, worn out skinny jeans, and sneakers. But get this right on his back he had an even more golden pair of wings. Yes, wings.

My first impression: He looks like the sky with that shirt on and the sun with that golden hair...

"Hi! I'm Alex" Mr. Sunshine said. I groaned even his voice sounded like sun.

"Ugh I'm Jewel." I told him

"Ooh that's a pretty name! Jewels are pretty, and sparkly and glittery an-"

"Sunny boy Shut-up! I don't even know you and you're making me angry!" I hissed at him. Sunny-boy looked hurt.

"Sunny-boy, Eh? What's up with this Sun stuff?" he questioned.

"Well you look like a sun with all your golden hair, eyes, and wings..." I just realized he had wings, I slowly turned my head around to see a pair of wings staring back at me. I screamed because I didn't know what else to do.

My wings were amazingly weird. They were dark brown almost black at the top and the feathers got lighter and lighter until they were almost a white color.

"W...we...what?" I ask confused.

A small girl with black hair and green eyes screamed, waking up the boy who looks like her brother. The girl looked around and saw the boy with black hair and calmed down a little.

"G-G-Gary? Wh-where are we?" she stuttered then looked behind her "and why do we have wings?" she shouted in a scared tone.

The boy Gary looked around terrified, then he saw me "You two! Tell us where we are!"

"Hey hey hey, relax! We are all in this together. I have no idea where we are and neither does Sunny-Boy" I pointed to Alex behind me, he sighed, "So what do you say that we four work together?"

"What about us two" a voice asked

"What?" I looked over to where the voice came from and saw a boy with blonde hair but had streaks of black in it.

"You heard me. We want to join your team." he stated

"We?" I looked at the cage next to him.

There was a girl around the age of 12 who looked like she just came out of a movie, well a horror movie. Her dark brown hair was tangled in the back while some stuck to her dark skin. Her dark brown eyes looked away from my own. She was wearing combat boots, camo pants, and a black T-shirt. Her plain brown wings were curled around her.

"I guess..." I told them.

"Good" the boy hissed as he pushed back his dark blonde hair. His wings were completely black except for some smaller feathers on the bottom which were a dirty brown color. He was wearing a sliver shirt, but the rest of the clothes were black. He probably had lots of time to blend in.

"Well what's everyone's name?" the little boy who looked to be around eight said "I'm Gary! And this is my sister Halo!"

"I'm Jewel but you can call me J" I told everyone.

"I'm A-" Sun started to say

"His name is Sun" I cut him off

"It is not!"

"Well now it is!"

"Fine" he agreed in a defeated manner.

"I'm... I don't like my name... So call me Moon..." the other boy who looked my age said.

"I'm star" the girl behind him said after that she folded her wings around her like she was shy.

"How old is everyone?" I asked "I'm 14"

"14" Sun and Moon said at the same time.

"12..." Star told us then folded her wings closer to her.

"I'm 8 and my sister is" Gary started but his sister cut him off

"6... I'm 6" she said.

The door clicked open and all our heads swiveled towards it.

"I see you have all meet each other." a man in a white coat said. I stared at him then growled as he walked to me.

"Who are you? What do you want from us? And what did you do to us?" I hissed.

"Ahh yes I am Jeb. And the school gave you all wings and special powers and what I want will be told later." I gave him a confused look. "This right here is flock 2"

"What happened to flock 1?" I pondered out loud, wondering if they had died.

"As I was saying flock 2, you should learn to work together because you are all the same. Trust each other."

"Are you mental?" I asked him he sighed

"Find out your powers or else you die, survive or die, fight or die. Kill or be killed"

"I swore I have heard these lines in a movie before...Oh yeah! It's called Scientists gone mental!" I smirked and sun and Halo giggled a little.

"Pick a leader. This leader must be strong and... and well leaderlike!" Jeb said loudly and excitedly.

"leaderlike? Is that even a word?" I asked him

"maybe?"

"oh great we are locked in a cage and a crazy scientist that makes up words and experiments on 6 to 14 year olds. Ha-ha I so don't sound crazy!" I pointed out with sarcasm. Sun, Garry, and Halo giggled. While Star was still trying to hide and Moon was just sitting there like he was bored.

The crazy scientist left and I turned to the group, "well are we going to pick a leader? Or just ignore Dr. Crazy?" I asked them.

"I think we should do what he says and pick a leader" Halo said to me and rest of flock 2, but Moon, nodded.

"So who?" I asked

"I vote Jewel." Gary said

"Same" Halo agreed

"Y-yes J-J-Jewel." Star stuttered.

"I agree with them too!" Sun almost yelled.

"What about You Moon?" I asked him

"What?" he asked not even looking up.

"Who do you want to be leader?"

"I don't care" he mumbled

"Well then alright I guess I will be the leader!" I smiled a little.