Maximum Ride is property of James Patterson. Kisha Reaper, Deveann, Jamie, and Lash are property of ME! Kumali is property of Jwan!

Remember when I said I look sorta like Max just not as pretty? I've been wearing my hair like Fang's 'cept my hair's longer than that so part of it is in a braid on the left side of my head just behind my ear. I don't believe I have introduced you to my imaginary friend! I want you to meet Saber Flaire! He's really hot even though you can't see him. Oh! And he has kitty ears with four piercings on each ear. Thank you, Maria, for that... interesting introduction. Hi. I'm Saber. What kind of debut is that?! Can't you at least have some enthusiasm? I don't have enthusiasm. That's why you love me. Thank you. Nifty One, very good. Very, very good. Now, I haven't gotten it all pieced together yet but I'm soooo playing on that Siren thing. I read, re-read, re-re-read, and read it again and every time I'm like, I went to all that trouble of looking up Selkies and Sirens for nothing! So I had to do something with it. Here it is. Fang finally has a power. Now, this time it was totally involuntary and he didn't mean to use his power, as it usually is when you discover your power but later on you'll see how this can be used to an advantage.

Fang's POV

I didn't understand. I was just talking to her and suddenly it's like she's going to die or something.

"You nearly killed her." Kisha said coolly, helping up the stunned and stuttering Max. Well that would explain why she looked like she was about to die.

"What?" Max breathed.

"I wish you guys would take your heart a little less seriously and just follow your mind." Kisha rolled her eyes. "Max, do not let yourself be vulnerable like that again, do you hear me? I don't have time to explain but I will later." She turned back to me. "For goodness sakes, Fang, get out of the women's dressing room." She sighed.

I rolled my eyes and left to catch up with Deveann. "Wuzup?" He was in EB games checking out the Wii.

"Nothin'." My voice barely audible. He looked up at me.

"Something's up." He stood.

"'S nothin' really." I shrugged.

"Fine, but you're telling me later." He crouched back down to scan the price tag again. I heard a familiar, feminine mumbling.

"Thank you, ma'am." Deveann was staring, jaw dropped at something. I followed his gaze.

"Send it to my mom, she lives in Indiana. You might know of her." It was Kisha.

"Oh, yes?" The cashier had a slight smirk. "And what might her name be?"

"Jasmine Reaper." I knew that her mom was with us at the moment but she'd be leaving right after the movies.

The cashier's eyes bugged out. "Jasmine Reaper?!"

"Kisha Reaper, pleased to be buying the Wii." Kisha rolled her eyes. "Just send it, would you?"

"Y-yes, ma'am, right away ma'am." He saluted her and took the Wii.

"Happy, now?" Deveann nodded slowly. She shoved me out of the way as she left. I had half a mind to shove her back but Deveann would kick my sorry starts-with-an-A-rhymes-with-brass and I really wanted to know how I'd almost killed Max. We all met at the food court. Lash was begging Kumali to get her ears pierced but Kumali wasn't having it. Gazzy wanted a moolat'e which he wasn't getting on his life. Nudge wouldn't shut up about how funny Shrek 3 was. Jasmine had left. Angel, though, was uncharacteristically quiet and grim.

"What's up with Angel, she hasn't said a thing since you got back." Iggy whispered to Gasman.

"I dunno, she was so happy when we were at the movies. The minute she saw Max her face fell and she's stayed that way since." Oh no. Was Max okay? What had I done to her? Unlike the usual, Kumali and Iggy were the ones stirring up conversation. Deveann and Kisha were talking in a corner and Deveann's expressions were not encouraging. Max and I just stared gravely across the table at each other.

"Fang, I know you don't talk much, well you don't talk at all much, really but you're being so quiet today. And you're usually a bit happier. You haven't even been looking like everything's okay. OH! Is everything okay? Is there something wrong? What happened? How could something happen at the Mall? Did you run into an Eraser? But you'd tell us about that, wouldn't you? And you'd look a little beat up and worn out. So what-"

"Nudge, leave it be." Icicles dropped off of Angel's words.

"Angel, what's up?" Gazzy murmured to her. Iggy, Lash, and Kumali continued their heated conversation about their favorite types of music.

"You'll figure out in time." Angel was becoming more mature than I'd imagined.

"WHAT?!" We all turned to see Deveann. "What do you mean? How- he would never-"

"Deveann, don't worry about it. This is their problem not ours, if they had a little self control maybe this would be easier. Besides," A menacing grin snuck onto Kisha's face, "this could be worked to our advantage." We all stared at them in wonder. Kisha caught our eyes. "Everything's going to be just fine." She was talking to me and Max. I didn't get it. Maybe I never would. The two came back over and sat down. "I'm thirsty, who's up for drinks?" Kisha smiled, reassuringly. We all responded with a meek "yes."

"Max." I had pulled her off to the side as we walked down the packed corridors, trying to remember where the exit was.

"Yes?" I thought I'd finally gotten it.

"I think... I understand now. I think my power... is over you." Her eyes bugged out. I was her weakness. She hated anything that was a weakness. Now, I suppose she had two weaknesses, the voice and me. She'd never admit it. I didn't want her to have to.

"No." Kisha interjected. "Not just her, Fang. Sirens have power over the opposite sex. Period. It affected me as well. Don't speak into her ear like that. The two of you are so wrapped up in each other you hardly notice things." She rolled her eyes for the fiftieth time that day. "You're voice wasn't right, Fang. It wasn't human, it wasn't bird. It was hardly even English. The fact she could understand what you were saying is just clarifying that she was indeed your target." Everyone else had pitched in on the music conversation. Gazzy was now singing the constipation song as Kumali giggled under her breath. (I do not own that constipation song part.)

"What?" Max and I said as one. Kisha sighed.

"You just aren't getting it, are you Fangy-boy? You are more like a Siren than I had originally imagined. Heck, you are one. Goodness knows it's probably better you'd never known your tramp of a mother. In fact, your father was probably the Siren, your mother was seduced by him. He was probably a perv, too. When the School told your mother what you were she probably gave you up willingly. Oh boy, never thought I was so close to the truth. There is so much to explain." She put her head in her hand and took off towards Kumali to join into the conversation. Max and I stared at each other for a moment.

"I don't believe this." I moaned. "Why don't any of us have normal blood in us?"

"If we had been normal humans the School wouldn't have operated on us." She shrugged.

"Didn't you hear her, I'm not a human, I'm a Siren." I spat. "Just like my father."

"Fang, it's all theories..."

"No, they were theories until I proved them right by almost killing you." I was going to hate myself forever.

"Look, Kisha said something about using something to our advantage, what if this was it?"

"How can we use this to our advantage?" I was getting angry.

"When has Kisha let us down?" Max snapped. Oh no, I'd insulted one of her three "sisters" what will I do? Inward sigh.

"About as many times as you have. Once." I recollected the Deveann's wound, which was still in the process of healing, mind you.

"Oh yes? And when was that?" She had her hands on her hips and I refrained from laughing.

"Well, Deveann's gaping hole on his stomach and when you nearly carved your arm like a Thanksgiving turkey."

"And how exactly is that letting you down? Deveann brought that upon himself and she beat herself up about it enough. Everything turned out fine. How did my chip fiasco effect you in any way?"

"You scared me, Max. I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life. You scared all of us and I don't ever want you to break down like that again." I explained.

"How did we get on this subject again?"

"I'm a Siren."

"Oh, yes. Now I remember. Well, you're a Siren, Kisha's a Changelum, Kumali's an elf, Gazzy's a snake, and I'm a freak. I dunno whats up with Nudge but I'm pretty sure it'll have something to do with her love of everyone and so she can relate with them and see what happened or something." There was a long pause. She was talking to her voice. "I was just kidding but okay, I'm right, whatever, still works." I chuckled.

Okie Dokie! Wuzup? Took me a while to write that but I liked it! I'm thinking about posting something else, just a bunch of Fax fluff, but with my OC's in it naturally because I can't seem to get them out of my mind. It'd be a different fic but a nice break from all this logical stuff that has to do with research. I'm going to tell you this now because I'm not sure you'll understand it when Kisha explains in the next chapter but Sirens were once depicted as having the wings or legs of birds. I think that that will tie in here somewhere. I hope you like! Please Review! Kissies!