I'm Max. Maximum Ride, if you want to go into detail. I'm not you're… normal type of person. I'm 2% bird, and while that may not seem like a lot, it's enough for me to have wings. That's right, 13 foot wide wings, that I can actually use to fly.
You might be wondering how this happened to me and the others. That's right, there are others like me, my flock. There's Angel, the youngest. She's 7 years old, and she's the most… special of us all. She can read minds.. There's her brother, the Gasman (I think the name gives you a warning; never stand upwind), who's 9. Angel and the Gasman were given to the School together, and while we're all like family, the Gasman and Angel are actually related. Then there's Nudge, 11 years old. Iggy, who's 15 and is now blind from one of the experiments that the School did on him. Then there's Fang, also 15, and me, 15.
So, how this happened. Our parents either gave us to the School, the School took us by force, or we were made in test tubes. Fang, Iggy and I grew up here, the others were brought in later. The School is a horrible science lab/prison, full of the most horrible, sick scientist you could imagine. We're experiments that they made. We live in dog cages and are like lab rats. So before you go and complain about how your school lunch cafeteria has horrible food, be thankful you're not with us.
We had a plan a year ago. We were going to escape, because there was one white coat that had a heart here, and he was going to help us. His name was Jeb. The night of the escape, the Erasers found out and killed him in front of us. Erasers are half human, half wolf experiments like us. So here we stay, locked up in this horrible place, worrying that when one of us gets taken for testing that we might not see them again.