A/N : hi I'm chlorinated freak, and I totally own maximum ride

Max: No one owns me I'm free as….. well a bird

Chlorinated freak: -_-

Max Pov.

Sunlight glows like gold illuminating our wings…yeah I can be poetic.

"Guys it's a freaking cloud it can be whatever you want to be," I intervene in an argument about clouds. Okay maybe I'm not the most poetic, but I can fly. For those of you new to the ride we are genetically engineered avian humans; meaning you guessed it we can fly. There are 6(7 if you count our flying, talking dog Total) of us, there's Angel 6, Gazzy 8, Nudge 12, Iggy(who is blind), Fang and I are 15. Angel and Gazzy are the only ones actually related, but we all mine as well be family.

Today was actually peaceful for once; no mutants attacked us, no scientists tried to experiment on us, we just hung out at the beach. We were heading to my mom, Dr. Martinez, and my half sister, Ella's, house. For some much needed R even when I'm flying and feel like noting can go wrong it's bound to happen. Iggy who was carrying Total, (even though he has wings he can't fly very well) flew over to Fang and said, "Here take the dog."

Total who found this extremely offensive retorts, "the dog is that all I am, do I not have a name?"

"Shut up or I'll drop you," Iggy snapped.

"You wouldn't" Total said sounding aghast.

"Fang take the d…. I mean Total. Iggy, Total shut up or else," I said, and yet another occasion when my death stare is wasted on Iggy.

I angled my wings to fly over to Angel leaving the boys grumbling behind. "Hey sweetie, what's up," I asked.

"Well Gazzy and Nudge are upset," she stated matter-o-factly.

Puzzled I looked over at them pointing at clouds happily and asked, "Really they seen happy to me what's wrong?"

"They miss going to school and having other friends," she stated. Then reading my mind said, "They were thinking it and so am I."

Along with flying, Angel can read minds, Nudge can draw metal to her, Gazzy and Iggy, who can also feel colors, are great with explosives, Fang can turn invisible, and I can fly very fast. Angel, Fang, and I can also all breathe under water. Did the white coats, or the evil scientists who created us, mean to give us these extra powers, who knows. That's just another one of the many question we have yet to figure out. "Yeah, well look how well it turned out last time," I snapped.

By this time the rest of the flock had heard our disscusion and flown over. Gazzy begged, "Please Max, maybe we could find a school without evil scientists."

Gazzy looked at Fang hopefully, but he just shrugged his shoulders, which is no small task while flying, and said, "Talk to Max she's in charge."

I shot a triumphant look at the flock, but when I saw Angel, Gazzy, and Nudge's faces my face fell. "I'll think about it. Time to land guys," I said reluctantly knowing this would come back to haunt me and started my descent.