Chapter 1
" Are you alright?" asked Nudge.
" I'm perfectly fine." I stated, the sarcasm going completely over her head. Nudge has always been kinda clueless, but then again, I am a perfect liar. The truth is that I am not fine, though I didn't tell you or anyone else that. I should probably introduce myself, before I carry on with my rambling. I am the chosen one. No, really thats what I have been called a couple of times if my life so far. My actual name is Max, though. Maximum Ride. You like the name? Well, get your own awesome name, because this is my name.
I have had a less than satisfactory life, but that is because I am a special person. Not like I have issues, though it wouldn't surprise me if I end up with a giant bill for 10 years of therapy. No, I meant that I am special as in I'm not your average bear, except that I am not a bear, I am a human being. Well, I am mostly human. A good 98% human.
Now, I see all the hands in the class shoot up in the air, but take your hand down if your question involves what the other 2% of my DNA is. See, all of your hands slowly trickle down to your desks in this imaginary school classroom that is in my head. I mean, there isn't even anyone to hear what I am laying out on the table. But back to the other 2% of my DNA, I'm not going to tell you.
My life hasn't been the rays of sunshine and rainbows that everyone says that their life has been. In fact, my life has been rats and harsh medical facility lights and that sucks majorly. I've grown up in a place called the school, where I was given and forced to take 2% of foreign DNA and was forced to lose 2% of my own DNA. I wasn't the only one though. There were five others that are exactly like me, only five that I knew of. We all escaped the school together with a scientist named Jeb Batchelder. Years later, Jeb disappeared, leaving me as the unofficial leader because we think that I am the oldest.
A couple of years later, the youngest in the family, Angel, was taken back and we went on the run to save her and to avoid being taken ourselves. Afterwards, our life has been terrible. The second oldest of our fl-family, Fang, was badly injured and the government found out, leaving us to live with an agent (who turned out to be someone who works for the school), and going to actual school. At the regular school, had to wear uniforms, that means that I had to wear a skirt. But, something that happened to both Fang and myself experienced something, we both dated someone, and neither of us liked who the other was dated. Then we found out who asked Anne ( the agent) really was and had to make a hasty retreat. There is a lot of things that I leaving out because I don't want to tell you, so there you have it. We were fine with running until the seventh ever person like us showed up and tore us apart because she put false hope in everyones head, something that I can't do. This is that story.