A/N: okay 2nd story!!! Yay! Max wrote the books okay? The flock doesn't know about it, yet their about too!

Summary: set a year after max. One day the flock's chilling with Dr. M and Ella when a box mysteriously shows up at the door containing 5 books. What happens when Fang decides to read them aloud to the group?

Disclaimer: I own nothing of this story, The flock belongs to JP. I got the idea from Choices HP who did this with Twilight! I highly recommend it! :) now! On with the story!

Max POV:

We, the flock and I rather, are hangin out with my mom and half-sister for a little while to gives a bit of a rest. I think they all could use it.

I was contemplating on what to do until mom got back from work and Ella got back from school, which hopefully shouldn't be that much longer, when the doorbell rang. I ran down the stairs to get it.

'Angel tell everyone to get away from the windows.' I told her telepathically.

'Okay Max, done! Be careful!' she told me.

I got to the door being quiet as a mouse and looked through the peep hole. It was no one other than the mailman thankfully. He handed me a package and asked for my signature so I singe Max Ride and he left like that. After waiting to hear a ticking noise to make sure it wasn't a bomb, I gave Angel the okay to come on into the living room so we could open the box.

'Well lets open it already!' Gazzy said, 'I wanna see whats in it!'

'Hold your horses Gaz, I'll open it in a second.' I told him. Truthfully I was dying to see what was in it as much as he was, I was just trying to be a little more patient than he was. Of course that doesn't often work for me.

'Fang I need a knife.' I asked. And with a look that said 'is there anything else your majesty?' he handed me his pocket knife.

I opened it and stared blankly at this collection of books. There were 5 of them all together with their spines up so we could read the titles. Each of them said 'Maximum Ride' along with another subtitle. I stopped when I saw them all saying my name.

'Well that's not weird at all!' I said. 'Fang what do you make of this?'

'. . .I say we read them. As a group.' I stared at him. We didn't read all that much before now and yet he's just willing to become a reading rabbit all of a sudden? This kid amazes me every day.

'Okay, I guess we can' I muttered, 'but why don't we wait for mom and Ella, I'd bet they'll wanna hear/read too.' Angel agreed with me, followed by Nudge and Iggy. And Gazzy last simply because he wanted to know right now.

2 hours later:

'We're Home guys!' I heard my mom call out. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can read them now! Aaasss soon as we eat! I'm starving! And I know my little guys are, so I got Iggy started on dinner as I told my mom about what happened earlier.

'So are you gonna read them then?' she asked.

'Of course they are!' Ella answered for me 'AND we're gonna read it too! I mean come on, some box shows up with a bunch of books with Max's name on them and they're just gonna let them sit there? I bet they had a hard enough time waiting for us to get here!'

'Mom are you sure its not NUDGE that Ella's related to??? Seriously El, your gonna make my ears bleed! And you're right, we were waiting for you guys since I know you'd want to be included.' I added with a warm smile at my family.

'Well then, what are we waiting for? Lets get started!'

We were sitting in the small living room trying to figure out what order we'd read in, among the noisy chatter I decided it was time to intercede. 'Okay okay! I'll read first, then Fang, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, Mom, and Ella. Sorry ig but I guess you'll just have to listen.'

Everyone settled down after that so I began:

'The title of this one is Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment.' Why does this sound so familiar??

'Prologue: Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving till your next birthday. Yes, you, standing there leafing through these pages. Don not put this book down. I'm Dead serious -- your life could depend on it.

This is my story' 'this seems kinda familiar. . . . hmmm' Iggy muttered.

'the story of my family, but it could easily be your story too. We're all in this together; Trust me on that.

I've never done anything like this, so I'm just going to jump in, and you try to keep up.

Okay. I'm Max. I'm fourteen. I live with my family, who are five kids not related to me by blood, but still totally my family.

We're -- well, we're kind of amazing. Not to sound to full of myself, but we're like nothing you've ever seen before.

Basically, we're pretty cool, nice, smart - but not "average" in any six of us - me, Fang' I just ignored the stares for the next few lines as writing this thing came back to me. I guess I forgot to tell them. . . WOOPS! My bad!

'Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel -- were made on purpose, by the sickest, most horrible "scientists" you could possibly imagine. They created us as an experiment. An experiment where we ended up only 98 percent human. That other 2 percent has had a big impact, let me tell you.

We grew up in a science lab/prison called the School, in cages, like lab rats. It's pretty amazing we can think or speak at all. But we can -- and so much more.

There was one other School experiment that made it past infancy. Part human, part wolf -- all predator: They're called Erasers. They're tough, smart, and hard to control. They look human, but when they want to, they are capable of morphing into wolf men, complete with fur, fangs, and claws. The school uses them as guards, police -- and executioners.

To them, we're six moving targets -- prey smart enough to be a fun challenge. Basically, they want to rip our throats out. And make sure the world never finds out about us.

But I'm not lying down just yet. I'm telling you, right?

This story could be about you -- or your children. If not today, then soon. So please, please take this seriously. I'm risking everything that matters by telling you -- but you need to know.

Keep reading -- don't let anyone stop you. -- Max. And my family: Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. Welcome to our nightmare.

'okay speak already - please stop staring at me!' I know - i'm such a wimp!

'Max, why haven't you told us you wrote a book? That included us nonetheless??' fang said, eerily calm I might add.

'well - I didn't want everyone to freak out, and it wasn't much - lets just keep going, I've forgotten most of this anyway.' So we continued as I handed the book over to Fang.

WELLLL????? do you like it? love it? hate it? what???? Should i continue???

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- Jezi