AN: This is my first FanFic! So I hope you are excited! I'm not going to annoy you and put a disclaimer on every chapter. So here it is for the whole story:
I do not own Maximum Ride, or anything from the series that James Patterson wrote. I simply took his characters, and some of his relationships, and put it in a new, fairly different kind of story.
K, now that that is done, happy reading! I'll see you at the bottom of the page!

Chapter 1

MAX POV

Once upon a time, there was a girl. No, really? Anyways, her name was Maximum Elizabeth Ride, but she went by just plain Max. She had light brown hair with natural blonde highlights and milk chocolate eyes that if they were open and not closed off to the world, you could see straight to her soul. Yeah, that pretty girl? Umm, well, yeah, that would be me.

All my life I have lived in a little town outside of Phoenix, Arizona called Bastidor with my half-sister, Ella. She's been the only constant in my life. My mother, Valencia Batchelder, died when I was 3. Ella's mom left her with us a year later, a few months after she was born. Her mother didn't want her anymore, and Jeb was her real dad, so he took her in. My father, Jeb Batchelder, remarried when I was 6. Anne Walker, then became Anne Batchelder and when she moved in, Lissa and Brigid, her two daughters, came too. A few months later Ari was born to the newly wedded couple.

It didn't really surprise me. Jeb wasn't even always faithful to my own mother, much less when he wasn't seeing anyone. Ella was obviously conceived before my mom died. Jeb probably only married that witch, Anne, for the baby she was going to have. You see, he always loved all us kids, even the twin witches.

When I was entering 7th grade, my dad got into a car accident. He died instantly. It was a head-on collision with a semi on our way back home from a trip to Phoenix. Ella and I were both in the car, but scraped by with only minor injuries.

After the accident, Ella and I were never quite the same with each other. We avoided each other for awhile. We had no parents left. It was just us. And Ari, but the 4-year-old was still too young to really understand, and he still had his mother. Of course there was still Anne, Lissa, and Brigid, but they seemed almost like they didn't care he was dead. I wouldn't be surprised if Anne purposefully got pregnant just for the money it would provide, whether they got married or not. Anne did take Ella under her wing though, since Ella was my dad's daughter, not my mom's. I don't know why she hated my mother so much, but that didn't really matter, she treated me like a slave, all three of those witches did.

When I turned 13, I asked Anne if I could change my name. At first she said no. Then I explained that the only connection that would still stand between us was her "legal guardianship" over me, which would end when I turned 18. That convinced her to sign the dumb papers. It was the best birthday present she has ever given me. My boring name of Maxine Elizabeth Batchelder, became Maximum Elizabeth Ride.

School wasn't much better. Lissa and Brigid were only a year younger than me. They treated me the same way they did at home, and considering they were queen bees, so did most of the school.

So, how was it? This was just the intro, most of my chapters are longer than this. And more interesting. I am not going to beg for reviews or anything, but just this once, review! It would make me very happy. Here's just a few tips on how I work. I'm a very busy person with lots of passions. Writing isn't that high on my list at this point. I pre wrote most of this story, so you can give me suggestions, but it won't do you much good. This also means that for you all, I have a timeline for posting set up. Every Tuesday, from now until the story is finished, I will be posting, so that's when you can check back. I mean, you can check back before, but it's not gonna happen. Flames are okay in reviews, although I wish you would refrain. Same goes for criticism, I have many critics already. Anytime you wanna talk about anything, especially Max and The Flock, or Fanfiction, or band, or choir, PM me! I love talking to people about my passions, and the time I have to be on my computer, I would love to spend responding to you, my wonderful readers. So yeah, review, and tell your friends about my story! And, um, if this is too hard to read because it's not double spaced, send me a review or PM or whatever so I can fix it for the next one.