Hey there readers! This is my FIRST ever fanfic, so be nice to me.

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride. I only own MY plot hah!

Hi there, I'm Max. I'm the leader of my little group, called the flock. I'm just gonna tell you now, we have wings. We can fly, which is what I was doing now. I tell you something, I'm happiest in the world when I'm flying. The others love it too. Fang, Iggy, Angel, Gazzy and Nudge. We were like a family, really close, even though we were quite young. I'm 14, so are Iggy and Fang. Nudge is 11, Gazzy is 9 and Angel is 6. We stuck together, and we were inseparable. I guess that's what happens when we all grow up warm and cosy in dog crates…

That's another story, which I don't want to tell right now. The School. I shudder when I'm thinking about it. The reason we are set apart from society and have wings…

I look around. I think we were in Texas right now, it was hot and cloudless. The sun was shining and the desert was looking beautiful. I closed my eyes and just drifted with the slight breeze. I opened them again, and noticed Fang staring at me with his black eyes, hidden as always.

"You enjoying yourself there, Max?" said Fang, smiling slightly at my expression.

"I'm just peachy." I replied with a smirk. He was weird sometimes.

He snorted and rolled his eyes, then went into a full downwards spiral, using the techniques he learned from the hawks. We were up fairly high, about 8000 feet, so he should be fine for… a few seconds before we was bird-kid splatter. We were pretty fast when we wanted to be.

He swooped upwards, and Gazzy whistled. Fang was getting bigger now, really filling out. His black wings moved powerfully until he blotted the sun out, which was almost a welcome relief. The sun kinda got old in a desert.

He pulled up alongside me again, just as Gazzy and Iggy started ruffling each others feathers.

"Quit it you guys!" I shouted at them, putting sternness into my awesome leadership voice. "Just try behave yourselves for a few minutes?" I pleaded with them now.

"Fine." They sulked in unison. Creepy.

"Okay guys hang a left, I see a town." Towns meant food, and when you were put on a diet for 3000+ calories a day, food was all you could think about.

"Lets land in those trees Max!" squeaked Angel, and I rolled my eyes.

"Okay, sweetie." I replied, smiling. Food!

Okay guys first chapter done! Tell me what you think!

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