Me: Hey people. I just wanted to say that I want to thank all my patient people who have been waiting on this story. I got the idea after reading The Hunger Games so it's loosely based on that. And yes I have read a similar story like this but I had already halfway written the story so I finished it. Sorry whoever wrote it but I had this idea way before I read your story, so sorry. I swear I'm not copyrighting, or the transfer from Microsoft to Fan Fiction doesn't keep the big letters so i have to bold them. And a little sneak peak in this story, Total is a HUMAN!
Larry Bob Jr: You are so weird.
Me: As you can see I taught Larry Bob Jr. to say other things besides "LEAVE ME ALONE!" Like for instance the disclaimer.
Larry Bob Jr: KC doesn't own Maximum Ride.
Me: *clears throat.*
Larry Bob Jr: *sigh* But she does own me. *bursts into tears*
Me: On with the story!
Punoah (Poo-noe-uh). It's the new world. It takes place where the United States used to be. Everything else has been destroyed due towar. I live in the Washington D.C. area the old country's capitol. Punoah's capital is now in Oklahoma City. Now days, everybody lives in agang. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone.
If you aren't in a gang by the time you're at least thirteen, you die. But, I mean, not that you'd live past forty years old anyway. That's the average death age now. So there five major gangs in the area. The Graves, The Corruptions, The Mayhems, The Capers, and The Skeletons.
The Graves are famous for they're silence. They almost never talk and even when they attack, it's quiet. The leader is a man of mystery,they say. Until he's shooting a few holes through your chest. He's known for his brains, strategies, and basically keeping Graves the bestgang out there, but The Corruptions, the gang I'm in, are a close second.
We aren't quiet but once we attack prepare to die, because there is little chance of you escaping. We are also good on the defensive side too. In fact we rarely attack but more likely defend.
Then there is The Mayhems. With them it's attack, attack, attack. But as good (and random) as they're attacks are, they stink (badly) at defense. (Hence all the attacking.)
Then comes the Capers, famous for kidnapping their victims, then torturing in them in hidden holding cells for days, then killing them after aweek. Everything else about them is average, but no-one wants to mess with them, on fear of getting a mass kidnapping.
Last and least are the Skeletons. Because if you join them, that's what you are. If you can't get in any other gang you go to them.
The gang wars have increased of the last 50 years. In fact it's the year 2060. In 2020 you officially had to be in a gang. In 2030 you had to chose a gang when you turned thirteen. In 2035 you had to chose by the time you were ten. In 2040 they made it legal for gang scouters,(which are just like they sound) to go into middle schools (It was already legal in high schools). In 2045 for safety, when you chose your gang, you had to pick up and move in at your gang dorms.
That was the year I was born. I'm fifteen, a Corrupter, and my name is Maximum Ride. And this sorry excuse for a world is my life.
Me: You likey? Review and Larry Bob Jr gets a pet.
Larry Bob Jr: Yay, I want a goldfish!
Me: But you ate last five!
Larry Bob Jr: So?
Me: *head-desk* review?
