Modified: How It All Began (ORIGINAL)

9. Rescued

I turn onto my back as I stretch out my tired limbs, I sit up and rub my eyes as Max stirs across from me,
"Morning sleeping beauty", He says his voice strained as he stretches his arms above his head and his chest heaving out,
I smile as I get up and walk outside and breathe in the deep fresh air,
"Belle!" Max shouts, I turn back to him as his eyes are wide staring at my shoulder,
"What", I ask him confused, he points at the mirror, indicating for me to go over and have a look for myself.
I roll my eyes and hurry over, my eyebrows shoot up in surprise as I'm looking at all my flight feathers I hope are all grown but still wrapped in their dusty shield, I turn around to see that they form an X just above my bum, convenient since I won't sit on them then. I carefully unfold them, I hear Max gasp from behind me as my wings are more than double my size, I stare wide eyed as I look small against them fanned out, I also noticed that I could fan out my tail feathers, as I suspected.
"Want help getting them off?" Max asks from behind me, pulling me from my wandering thoughts,
"Sure", I tell him as he begins to walk up to me, I could have probably have done it myself but he would have done a better job, I open my mouth to see the canines are still there probably a bit bigger, my eyes even brighter and my pupils a skinny slit in the daylight.
I sigh in annoyance as I know that they are going to find out about the rest of the senses now, but hopefully they don't think anything of it. The dusty casings fill the air as Max slaps his hands together to get rid of the remaining dust, he steps back admiring his work when his eyes catch mine in the mirror.
"All done I got as much as I could, leaving out the small blood feathers of course, my turn?" He asks as he turns around showing feathers still wrapped up, I smile as I take them off for him, once I'm done I step back and observe, his feathers are a combination of the same colour of his hair and slightly darker with his down feathers, I stretch out a wing in front of my face as he steps away from me and I see feathers covered in particles of dust, I decide to quickly flick my wings out and rearrange them, getting rid of the remaining dust, an audible ding vibrates through us as we both look at eachother, we look to the door as a plate of food is pushed out followed by another, we are called over to have our daily injections, we walk over and get injected and we sit back down in the entrance like we did yesterday.
"Exercise with me?" he asks as he pushes his plate to aside and reaches a hand out to me. I take it and he leads out where I begin to work on my muscles in my back and wings again.
As my flight feathers are in I'm startled as I actually lift myself up off the ground for a brief second this happens multiple times, I also learn how to use my tail to balance in the air, I slowly steady myself my wings still unfolded as my fun is cut short as the door clicks open, I quickly rearrange my wings as Dr Crewe appears at the door, Max looks at me as we head over to her and she snatches up my arm, I swear she purposely dug her fingers into my skin,
"That hurts", I say through gritted teeth, I feel Max's eyes on my back at the sound of my voice, my tail begins to twitch with annoyance,
When Dr Crewe heard me she digs in deeper. I growl a warning at her as we enter through the doors, I feel Max behind me grow restless from my growl, Im thrown onto the table and I'm held down but with more force causing me to gasp for air.
I growl a pitch louder so everyone who is holding me can hear me to warn them once again, but they don't let up.
They give me the injection again and stretch out my wings , but instead I bat them hitting multiple people with them in the process, they restrain me tighter.
They measure my wings span and how long my tail is, three people each side are holding my wings up as I hear the snap of a measuring tape being slid back in, I'm let go only to be grasped by her hold again.
She roughly shoves me out the door which makes me unfold a wing to counter balance but then I'm yanked back up and pulled down a corridor, I bare my teeth as I growl out and swipe at her with my claws unsheathed, as soon as I hit her she lets go with a started yelp holding her hands to her chest I drop into a defensive crouch and hiss at her with an undertone of a growl, my wings quiver above my head as my tail swishes side to side puffed out of anger and my tail feathers fanned and shaking side to side violently, I see movement from the corner of my eye and turn and swipe at them catching a buff guy in the eye, he screams in pain as I stand my ground and continue hissing and growling.
Max gets free and stands by me in the same motion of defense, we don't look at eachother as we keep an eye on the people with robes,
"We need help down here two of them that have been companioned have turned on us, approach with caution I repeat approach with caution", I hear someone shout from down the corridor, I decide to bolt, Max is straight on my tail.
I never made it though because I got tackled by someone ramming into me from the side, again, it pushed all the air out of me as I was tied and picked up.
I was carried all the way to my enclosure hissing and growling all the way, I get thrown in once they cut my ties, I get up and resume my crouch position with my wings slightly outstretched with feathers fanned and fur puffed out.
The door closes as they push Max through, I huff and go over to the tree and climb all the way to the top to try and cool off a bit, I crouch into a sitting position with my tail hanging off the side still twitching, I shake my wings out and rearrange them. I'm greeted a few moments later by Max's friendly face.
He eyes me cautiously as he notices my still twitching tail, he slowly pulls himself up and sits down, he shakes his wings out and pulls them to his back, I watch as his tail slowly curls around himself.
He shuffles about as he gazes at his tail on his feet, after a few minutes of tense silence he speaks,
"Come on let's go exercise and get this unwanted energy out", I look up as he gives me a light smile, he getures with his head to follow as he climbs back down to the ground, I follow him to the clearing by the waterfall and watch as he begins flapping his wings, I huff as I stretch my wings and begin to bat them down and fan my tail out, I manage to get air but I drop straight back down, I chew on the inside of my mouth as I decide to jog around the tree with my wings batting down, after some time I manage to lift myself off of the ground and fly a few inches above the ground for a few seconds before my feet collide with the floor again.
I'm sat down at the top of the tree my legs and tail dangling over the edge watching Max work on his skills, I was told to take a break.
A chilly breeze works it's way up my spine and causes me to ruffle my feathers and pull my knees to my chest with my tail tight around my ankles.
I catch a whiff of rain in the air and as soon as I look up a snowflake lands on my nose, my eyes go wide with excitement.
"Max! Max! It's snowing!" I stand so I can look up into the bright blue sky.
I look down as he has a small smile on his face I decide to try and fly down so I open up my wings and bat down, I lift off and over the edge, I quickly start descending and I surprisingly have a soft landing, I'm getting the hang of this.
The snow begins to fall heavier and soon everything is covered, I shake my wings as snow covers the tops, I look over just in time to see a ball of snow hurling towards my face, I duck and my wing instantly covers me as I feel the snow hit my feathers, I laugh as I gather up snow and pelt it towards Max, and then a full on snow ball fight takes place.
After a few rounds of intense snow ball fights we filter to the entrance and sit against the wall both of us smiling wildly and our chests heaving, I huddle down into the corner as my eyes begin to droop, I look over to see Max has done the same but facing me, I smile as my wings cover me and my tail covers my legs from the wandering snow flakes.

I snap my eyes open as an overwhelming feeling pierces through me, I slowly uncover myself and breathe in, my eyes widen as I recognise the faint but growing smell, I hear Max stir from underneath his wing, I look over to see him sit up in alarm at my posture,
"What's wro-" he stops mid word as he intakes a sharp breath his eyes widening,
"You smell it don't you?" He slowly nods as he looks out the entrance,
Then we hear it. The sound of blades slicing through the air, we both rush out and look up to see if we could see the growing louder helicopter, we look at eachother and Max smiles at me as he notices a tear drop down my cheek, he gathers my hand in his and squeezes reassuringly we both look up again at the bright sun that has surprisingly melted the snow already.

We are being rescued.

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Or are they? You can just imagine how big her wings span would be, but anyway make sure to read the next chapter when it's out and comment what you think of the story so far or what you think is going to happen in the future, also don't forget to vote as it helps a lot, anyway there is no other new characters but I hope you enjoyed and have a lovely day!