So this is the next chapter! I hope you guys like it! If you guys have any tips fill free to tell me! Or even criticism helps!

Disclaimer: I still don't have Maximum Ride. Really and truly. If I did I would be bragging right now.

Iggy's POV:

I sat there just sitting there for a while. Maybe I was sleep deprived?

I looked at the walls. Yes, I looked.

I love my room. Like majorly. My room was completely white. Meaning? You betcha, I can see. Well sort of.

It's hard to describe. I can see the faint outlines and some of the colors. When I'm painting I can't really see it that well. It's kind of fuzzy. Perhaps I should of mentioned this earlier.

I picked up the paintbrush. I dipped my brush into the paint. Ahhhh turquoise. Turquoise was one of my many favorites.

I suddenly heard a faint knocking sound coming from the end of my door. Oh crap.

See when a flock member knocks on your door, they never give you any time to respond. I don't even know why they knock because really they just barge in.

"Hey Ig?" Fang said walking through the door.

He immediately started laughing. "Your painting? Seriously?"

I sighed. I looked at him. God I loved that. I could actually see him! Even then, he had found out my dirty little secret.

"How much?" I asked him.

"Huh?" he said still laughing.

"How much can I pay you to not tell anyone?" Why did it have to be Fang? Why not Ella? Fang was probably going to blackmail me about this for years. If not more.

"50 bucks."

"That's insane!" There was no way I was going to pay that much money for my secret.

"Hey Max! Ella! Come over here!" He suddenly screamed.

"Fine!" I looked around the dresser to find my wallet. I pulled out what appeared to be a fifty. Where does the blind boy get his cash? Bombs and what not are pretty pricey to get all the materials for, but if you buy it then sell it back for much more than it's worth, well you get a steady profit.

Gosh I love eBay.

Fang ran off. I pulled out my paint brush and painted some more.

"Flock meeting!" I suddenly heard Max calling down stairs. Great.

I ran down stairs.

"Guys, you know, I think it would be well, fun, if we did something out of the ordinary. You guys seemed to be stressed or something. So I decided that we should have some fun!" She said, lack of better words, perky.

"So, guys, were headed to the beach!"

There were several screams of joy and excitement, mostly from the girls, including Ella. The only thought I had running through my head was "And gee, since when was the last time we went to the beach and didn't get killed? That's always been a stress reliever!"

Instead I ran upstairs and put on some swimming trunks. Since when did I have swimming trunks? Since Dr. Martinez is very sweet and apparently Ella likes shopping. I didn't feel like arguing with Max anyway.

- Line break named George-

Three cups of coffee and a long drive (apparently it wouldn't be nice if we flew while we were with Dr. M and Ella) later, we arrived at a warm, and very sandy beach.

Ella and Nudge fanned out in the sand to "tan" while the rest of the flock practically dived into the water. And then we realized it was still pretty cold so we ran out of the water as fast as we could.

"Come on Iggy don't be chicken!" Gazzy yelled out to me. "Get in the water!"

An eight-year-old calling a fourteen-year-old chicken. Am I the only one who sees a problem with that?

So I jumped in and tackled him. Suddenly we were both underwater and fighting to the death. He punched me in the gut so I sent him flying, literally. I thought we both would end up with water up our nose and coughing like a maniac. But then I noticed something weird. I had been underwater for like five minutes. Without taking a breath.

Panicking I felt my neck. There were tiny gills!

I jumped out of the water. "Hey guys! Check this out!" The I dived into the water again. And I didn't come up for breath until ten minutes later.

"Whose got gills? I do!" I bragged. Maybe today isn't so bad after all. And maybe me getting gills isn't as cool as when Max did when she nearly got squished by a gigantic octopus. So what? We both got gills! It was too cool!

I dived in and swallowed water. It came back as small bubbles out of my gills. How freaking cool!

"No way Iggy! That's awesome! Your like Max and Fang now! Ooh and Angel! I wonder if I'm fishy too. That would be cool but ew fishes. That's just nasty." Nudge was interrupted by Fang, who clamped his hand around her mouth.

"That's so cool guys, I wish I had them too." Ella said looking pretty disappointed.

"Sorry Ella. But believe me, you really wouldn't want to be in our situation." Max said all leader like

Nudge got up and went under water. She came up four minutes later.

"Omg guys! I've got 'em too!"

And so it begin. Everyone had apparently gotten fishy. I thought I was special! (Just kidding). In all actuality I kind of wish I was the only one who had fins today, but hey, at least we had something more.

One more power, cool in it's own way, but still majorly weird.

I know that this may not seem very relevant to the summary right now but believe me, them getting gills has something to do with the plot. Plus I thought it would be nice to let them all get something extra, Max, Fang, and Angel can't get all the powers.

I would just let Iggy be the one to get the powers since I think he would be the next one to develop since he is third oldest (even though Angel develops the fastest apparently) but it really doesn't fit what's going to happen in the fic. Any way if you want to guess the "unintended side effects" early fill free!

RnR? Purty please with Iggy on top?