Lesson One:

Teacher: Maximum Ride

Student(s): Nudge, Maya, Iggy, Fang, Dylan, Angel

Lesson: How to let your anger out

"Kay kids! Time to learn Lesson Number One!" Max told all of her students.

"Really? Do we get to watch Mulan II?" Nudge asked excitingly. *

"Not quite, but you might be able to learn the moves from movie during this lesson," Max replied mischievously. Nudge squealed in excitement, while Fang, Dylan, and Maya groaned.

"So what's this amazing lesson?" Iggy asked sarcastically. Max grinned.

"How to let your anger out." Fang, Dylan, and Maya froze. Probably 'cause Max was eyeing them evilly. Well, now we all know her first victims.

Max clapped twice to get their attention. "Ok everybody!" she said, "I'm going to split you guys up into two teams. Iggy, Angel, and Nudge will be the first team," the three teammates high fived, "and Maya, Fang, and Dylan will be team two," Maya smiled and batted her eyebrows at Fang.

Continuing, Max said, "One person from each team will be paired with someone from another team. I will tell Team One something, either a skill or an idea, which will challenge the member from the other team. The goal of this exercise is to let out all of your anger and emotions onto your opponent."

"This is soooo unfair! Team One has all the advantages!" Dylan whined.

"Also," said Max, "there is one more catch," she pulled out a stack of cards from her jean pocket, "on each one of these cards, there is an action listed. Each member from each team must draw a card from the pile. Understood?" Everybody nodded.

Match Judge: Ella

"First up," Ella said, "is Iggy versus Fang!"

Iggy and Fang walked up into the middle of a large field (the size of two football fields), which would serve as the arena.

"Players, receive your cards!" Ella commanded. Max held out the stack of cards first to Iggy, and then to Fang. Both of them read their cards silently to themselves. Fang frowned at the action he got.

"Iggy, receive advice from Max," Ella ordered (I think she is starting to like the idea of ordering people around all day).

Max whispered something into Iggy's ear along the lines of: beat Fang up or use a lot of bombs or don't be afraid to hit Maya "accidentally". Then, Max whispered when Iggy's card said. Iggy smiled at the action that he had received. Without a doubt, Iggy knew that Max had set this whole lesson up exactly the way that she wanted the matches to go.

Iggy folded at card that read, "Use dirty tricks," into his pocket as Fang did the same.

Now, Iggy thought, things shall get interesting.

*One of the first songs in the Disney movie, Mulan II, was called Lesson Number One. This when Mulan taught a bunch of little girls how to fight