Max's POV

"Max just leave me alone" Jeb growled at me.

"But it's true and you know it, so just tell me!" I yelled at him.

"Max you're just a kid, you wont understand!" he yelled then stormed off and I heard his door slam shut.

For the past 3 days I had been asking Jeb how we were made. We had always been told that we were injected with 2% bird DNA, but Iggy brought it to my attention that it was impossible, for how would they know that we'd get the wing and light weight and lungs and all that stuff, and 2% isn't enough, it's just impossible, so something had to be wrong.

And don't ask me how Iggy, a 10 nearly 11 year old kid knows that kind of science stuff, he's just smart like that.

So I'm Maximum ride (Max) and I'm 10. There's Fang and Iggy who are 10 as well. Then there's Nudge who is 9 (A/N I had to make Nudge older so she hits 11 earlier. You'll understand later) and the Gasman, or Gazzy who is 4. And Angel who is 2. Tomorrow we all turn one year older! Its gonna be awesome! But Jeb was dampening my mood.

"Did you get it out of him?" Iggy asked. "No" I frowned.

"Humph" Iggy frowned flopping onto the bed, unfortunately for him Gazzy was in his frightening fours and was moving everything and touching everything, and Iggy had thrown himself to where Fang's bed had been, but because Fang's bed was on wheels, Gazzy had pushed it to the other side of the room, so Iggy fell flat on his face.

I burst out laughing and in seconds was rolling on the floor with tears running down my face from laughing. Fang chuckled, Nudge giggled hysterically, Gazzy did a cute giggle and even Angel who was lying in a basket had smiled.

I helped Iggy to his feet and his cheeks were bright red and he stormed out of the room. We all looked guilty, we shouldn't have laughed, Iggy was blind and even though he had the best hearing, smell and touch of us, he sometimes found it difficult when we moved stuff.

"I haves an idea" Nudge piped in. "Why don't we tell Jeb that if he doesn't tell us what's going on then we will leave because we cant be in the same house with a liar and if he says 'fine leave' we'll stay in the cubby house until he changes his mind?" Nudge said in one breath. "That's a good idea" I smiled and Angel giggled. I picked up Angel and we walked down to Jeb's room.

"What's going on?" Iggy asked poking his head out of the bathroom. "Come on ranga" I said and he frowned. "It's strawberry blonde" he said. He was right, it was strawberry blonde, maybe on the blonde side, I have no idea how he knew that.

I banged on Jeb's door and he answered. "Yeah?" he asked. "Jeb we have decided that if you don't tell us what is really going on then we will leave, all of us. And maybe the erasers or white coats will get us again and we could be killed and it'll all be your fault" I glared at him.

"Not this again Maximum. Fine leave, you'll see how hard it is out in the real world" he said. "Fine" I glared then spun around and left and the others followed.

I walked outside and opened my wings and the others copied me. "Ok, I'll tell you!" Jeb yelled from the window and we grinned and he sat us down at the kitchen table.

"Ok, so by now you've probably figured out how impossible it is for you to be like this" he started.

"I figured it out" Iggy beamed. "Shut up" Fang told him. "No you shut up" Iggy started. "But then if I did you wouldn't be able to anything coz your blind" Fang teased. "Like there's a difference if you talk or not emo boy" Iggy said back and Fang growled. "Shut up ranga" he said. "I'm not ranga!" Iggy yelled throwing himself at Fang and they began wrestling on the ground.

"You two are so stupid!" I yelled at them and Jeb pulled them apart, Iggy had a blood nose but Fang was unscratched. Jeb handed Iggy a tissue and continued with his story.

"Not everything I did to you was scientific. The reason you are all like this is because I used….. Magic" he said. It was silent as it sunk in. "Pfft, magic doesn't exist" Iggy scoffed. "It does" Jeb said. "Prove it" Fang said. "I cant. I had my wand snapped in half for what I did" Jeb said.

"Wand? More bullshit" Iggy said. "Iggy language!" Jeb snapped. "Yeah it's bullshit" Gazzy banged his fist on the table and Jeb shot Iggy a dirty look, which was wasted as Iggy grinned.

"It's all true, believe it or don't" Jeb said getting up. "Now get to bed. It's going to be a big day tomorrow" he grinned before leaving.

I carried a sleepy Angel to her bed and tucked her in. "Goodnight Nudge" I said kissing Nudge's head and tucked her in as well. I picked up what looked like a small bomb and rolled my eyes.

I tucked Gazzy in and walked into Fang and Iggy's room. "Is this yours?" I asked Iggy and tossed him the bomb. "Nope" he said hiding it under his pillow. "Liar" I glared and he grinned. "Night Max" Fang yawned. "Night Fang" I said trying not to smile. Iggy was feeling around for the top of his blanket which was hanging off the bed. I dragged it up and threw it over him. "I'm not a child, I can do it myself" He sulked and rolled over to face the wall. I sighed and went to bed.

Jeb's POV

I walked to my room and lay down on my bed. I knew they would take it like that. It was all true, every word of it. I had been a student at a school called Hogwarts and I learned magic there. All of a sudden I heard a tap at my window and my heart skipped a beat as I saw a brown owl outside. I opened the window and took the letter from it:

Jeb. We are aware that you have broken our law and told your experiments of our world. There will be consequences.

Sincerely

Cornelius Fudge

Minister of Magic

What had I gotten myself into!