A/N: This is a Max Ride Fanfic I randomly thought of. I think I may have seen this idea before when I was surfing FanFics, so if you thought of this idea first, I'm really sorry. Not sorry enough to not load this, though. :) Oh, and Fang is probably a little OOC. I don't write guy POV's well.

A/N2: Hi again, this is the revised version. For some strange reason, this whole thing turned up like CRAP before. So to all the people who read it anyway, and especially those who reviewed to tell me . . . THANK YOU!!! You are all awesome! This is the new, more readable version.

Disclaimer: This is MY UNIVERSE!! And in MY UNIVERSE, I own everything. So of course I own Maximum Ride! (Which roughly translates in Kitty Speak: If you recognize it, I probably don't own it)

Max's thoughts: Look like this!

Voice's thoughts: Look like this!

Fang's thoughts: Look like this!

Dominance

MAX'S POV:

I walked home after a loooong day at school. All I'd been thinking about since third period was going home. As I walked along ht sidewalk, the voice decided to make itself known.

"Max, when you go home I need you to be very careful." It said

"Oh, like I'm usually a care-free butterfly," I snapped at it. I was not in the mood to be nice.

"You are always careful," The voice replied patiently. "But usually only about enemies on the outside."

"What does that mean!" I shrieked at it, impatient. Couldn't it tell I had a hard enough day already?

Apparently not. it didn't answer me at all. Typical stupid voice.

I walked in the door to the kitchen. My day had ended about an hour earlier than the others, for which I was grateful. I had a while to sit and stew before they came home and I had to act happy again.

I went upstairs to take a shower. God, I felt disgusting. Like I was covered in cracking, dry mud. The water made it fell a little better, but all I wanted to do was roll on the ground to make it stop itching.

I got out of the shower and got dressed. I had just finished brushing my hair when I heard Nudge get home. Believe me: when Nudge gets within hearing range, you know it.

"And I have sooo much homework to do, I think the teachers give us way to much, but I think there so awesome, especially Mrs . . . " I tuned her out after that. Nothing important happenned today. Thank god.

Ir rushed downstairs. "Hi Angel, Nudge. How was your day?" I asked, though all I really wanted was to stay alone in my room. But I couldn't make everyone worry about me. I sighed in my mind.

"Don't worry, you'll be spending a lot of time in your room for the next couple of weeks. As will Iggy and Fang." The voice came out of nowhere, like always.

"Why would I be in my room? More importantly, why would we all be in our rooms?" I thought back. For once, it actually answered. Though the reply wasn't really relevant.

"How old are you now, Maximum?" the voice said.

"Eighteen, as you very well know," I said back, confused.

"And when humans are eighteen, what happens?" It said, as if explaining to a small child.

"Um. . . A person legally becomes an adult?" I'd never really thought about it. We'd never had parental figures, so as leader of the flock I'd always kind of thought of myself as an adult.

"Right. Well, when the genes in a human become more adult, the animal genes are going to as well. And what do male animals do when they become adults?" The voice said, walking me through this step by step.

I gasped. "They find a new place to live! They go off on their own!" I felt like crying. This was absolutely horrible.

"Well, yes, but that's not what I'm talking about. Well, not precisely anyway." It sounded kind of amused.

My first reaction was relief. They weren't leaving. Then I was annoyed at the voice. Why didn't it just tell me?

"Fine Max, I will," it said. Now it sounded annoyed. "When a male animal becomes an adult in a group, their instict is for two things: to become leader of the group and find a mate. The females rarely lead a group by themselves, because all the males would be fighting on instict to be the head. Not just against the female leader, but against each otehr. It would tear the group apart. Now do you get it?"

"Oh,"I thought. "So now Fang and Iggy . . ." This was horrible. From what I knew from nature videos, one would have to leave.

"Well, actually, maybe not so much Iggy. Since smell wouldn't be much of an issue, or sounds. . . the voice said thouhtfully. For your human forms, sight would probably be the only thing to trigger this. (Spoiler Alert for The Final Warning!!!!!)If you keep Iggy away from white walls for a while, and he never sees anything of you or the other girls in the family, he should be fine. At least this has a predictable season, just like animals."

"That makes this SO much easier, thanks."

"Just tell them when they get home. Be careful, though. As soon as Fang sees you, he's not going to take any leaderly orders from you. Iggy should be alright, as long as you don't talk in front of white. Oh, and images sent to his mind from Angel are out of the question if they include a girl. So warn Angel too."

I snapped back to reality just as Nudge said "And then you asked us what we did today." I did? I didn't even remember what she was talking about.

"Um, sorry Nudge, but I have to talk to you both real quick." We walked into the living room and sat on the reclining chairs.

"Listen, there are going to be problems in the flock for awhile. There are probably going to be a lot of arguements between Fang, me, and maybe Iggy. We might lock ourselves in our rooms for a long time. Don't be worried, it's be over in a little while. Angel, don't show iggy any images that have any girls in them. At all. Or maybe even Fang." I thought of what the voice had said about males fighting. "Just don't show him any pictures. Nudge, try not to talk too much in front of Fang when he gets home. He might be a little . . . irratible."

They both nodded solemly. Just then I heard the guys get home. "You'll have to tell Gazzy yourself. I need to deal with Fang and Iggy."

I walked back into the front of the house to see Fang, Iggy, and Gazzy walk through the door. They were talking to each other and laughing.

The strange, tingling, itchy feeling raced across my skin, as heat rushed down my spine. I had never really noticed before how hot Fang looked, with his dark hair in front of his eyes, blocking them from view.

"Oh, did I mention, you might feel something too?" The voice said wickedly.

All I said was a string of words that can't be repeated here for the kiddies.

FANG'S POV:

I walked through the door, my head turned to look at Iggy. I turned toward the kitchen and froze. Max was standing there, looking annoyed, her lips barely moving. She was talking to the voice again. She's so hot when she's angry

"Whoa. Where did that come from?" I thought. Then something in my mind clicked, shifting over.

"Why does she talk to that stupid voice? She's mine." That thought surprised me for a second, but then the surprise was gone, replaced by a burning desire to make her look at me and to shove Iggy out of the room at the same time.

I got one of my wishes. She looked at me. I must have looked strange, becuase she suddenly drew back from me. The thought of her backing down gave me irrational pleasure. Somewhere, deep inside my normal mind, a voice was wondering what was happening. The recently more prominent part of me snarled at it to shut up.

"Fang, Iggy, come with me. We need to talk." Max said suddenly.

Why did she need Iggy too? He wasn't nearly as good as me. But Iggy showed no signs of not going, despite the fact that she ordered us around like her pet dogs. I would have to go as well.

We walked into the living room and sat down.

Max took a deep breath. "Okay. So I have some information that concerns us all. Apparently, when our human parts become adult, so do our animal parts. For a couple of weeks, you might be feeling . . . different."

"When does this start?" Iggy asked calmly.

"Well, it might not start at all for you. For me it's already started, and from the look on Fang's face, it's started for him too. We just might want to all stay in our rooms until this passes."

I snarled. Who did she think she was, bossing me around. I was stronger than she was: I could do what I wanted. She took one look at my face and raised her hands in submission.

"I'm not ordering you to do anything. I'm just voicing my opinion." she said hastily. The little voice in my head wondered at how quickly she backed down, thinking it wasn't like her. I paid no attention to it, but my new thoughts were slightly placated.

"Woah, dude, cool it. She was just saying that we probably don't want anything we'll regret later happening." Iggy said.

I moved so fast that I barely registered what I was doing. Suddenly my hands were on Iggy's neck, and I was almost hissing in anger. Iggy's face was surprised.

"Iggy, just don't say anything." Max murmured. To me she said "Please don't hurt him. He didn't understand the situation. Let him go." She sounded frightened. I shook him in disgust and tossed him to the other edge of the couch.

She sighed. "I'll just go to my room now." She turned and practically fled upstairs.

A/N: So, that was just something I thought of. This is definately not finished. This is kind of my first fanfic: the other one I wrote belongs on fiction press and is going there ASAP. So please review and tell me what you think. (Clarification: My profile says I don't live for reviews, but they do help. And they make me happy. What I meant was that I will never hold my updates hostage in return for reviews. They go up when I write them, without waiting for x number of reivews. SO REVIEW!)