Wings of Peace

Chapter 3: New World

Storm woke to a throbbing pain in her head. When she tried to look around, her head would hurt even more.

    "Hello? Jay are you there?"She called trying to sit up, only to lay down again when her head hurt even more.

    "I am here Storm, don't worry we are in this together,"responded a voice she knew.

    "Jay you are alive! I am so glad--,"Storm stopped talking as another wave of pain beat down on her head. Causing her to pass out.

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    Storm woke again, but this time there was no pain. She looked down at her body. Where there used to be scales, there was flesh like a scavenger. Where her talons were, there was scavenger hands. She looked over at Jay, he was a scavenger with dragon wings on his back. His blue-gray eyes and jay feather wings were the same, except instead of armor, he had ripped jeans and a pale blue sweater that had a cloud with dragon wings on the front. He still had his necklace, but it was tucked under his sweatshirt, his hair short and brown. He  was stood in front of her and reached down his hand.

"Here, I'll help you up,"he said with a smirk. As he helped her up, Storm looked around more, and saw they were in a court yard with other scavengers surrounding them. One stepped forward, a scavenger wearing a baggy bright green sweat shirt with a long rainbow skirt underneath and tennies. She had ragged brown hair pulled back in a sloppy pony tail, with streaks of green, yellow, blue, purple and orange.

"Hi, Storm, It's me, Mango,"she said, laughing at how Storm looked.

"Uh, hi?"Storm replied, still trying to figure out this place.

"Storm!"Mango squealed and turned around to the scavengers gathered behind her."Guys, see I told you I knew her!"

Storm leaned against Jay, she didn't understand this place, yet she could recognize the clothing. She looked at herself. She was wearing slightly baggy light blue jeans with a dark blue t-shirt and her blue and white sweatshirt was tied around her waist. Her brown hair cascaded down her back until just beneath her shoulders. Her shoes here teal, white and gray tennies with white laces. On her wrist was a black hair tie, and on her back were her wings.

Jay stroked her head."Don't worry, I'm here,"he muttered. Storm brushed his hand off and tried to stand up. She succeeded after multiple tries, but stood up in the end.

Storm looked beside her, Blossom had a pink cameo shirt on that said 'Lighting girls don't run away, they reload' accompanied by gray and blue leggings. Her hair was red and she was wearing combat boots with cat socks peeking out from the tops. She had dragon wings just like the rest of the scavengers.

"Where am I?"She asked Jay.

He looked at her."We are at Lightning Middle School. Those are our class mates, we are humans,"he whispered.

Storm nodded as a voice that sounded like her mom's came on the intercom."Attention students, please go to the gym for an assembly."

The students in the court yard grounded."Ug, can't we stop having match maker dances? "Muttered a boy in the back row.

Jay took Storm's hand."I'll lead you there,"he said. Storm tried not to pull away or blush, but she felt her face grow hot. She let Jay lead her through the four sets of double doors and down a flight of stairs. They turned right and followed a mass of teenagers into the gym.

The gym was huge! It had two stories and the bottom one had bleachers lined along the sides and students sitting on them. She read a sign that said 'maximum capacity: 4,056'. Jay lead her up the bleachers to the second to last row. Mango lead Blossom to the open spot next to them. As they sat down, a woman with blonde hair stepped onto the gym floor.

She wore a white dress and had almost black dark blue eyes. Her wings were the same color as Queen Light's, and she had a dark blue necklace. She grabbed a microphone and spoke into it.

"Yellow students! We are going to have another match maker dance! I don't want any of you to leave this year with out a date!"She paused to let the groans die down."Go to Principal Jill to enter. She will take your dollar or ticket."

As the students climbed down the bleachers, Jay handed her a small green sheet of paper with a tiny man on it."What's this?"She asked.

"It's a dollar. Humans use it to get stuff, do you want to go to this interesting dance with me?"He asked.

Storm nodded."Sure, how bad could it be?"

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    "Storm are you okay?"Princess Cloud asked, her sister had been acting weird all week and Jay was never around her, he was around Cloud. She enjoyed it, even though she thought he was cute, she would never have him for he was far too clingy.

Storm turned towards her,"I am fine sister, you won't be."

Cloud stared at her was that acid she heard in that voice? No it couldn't have been, could it?

She looked Storm in the eyes,"what is wrong? Is your wedd...."Cloud trailed off Storm had seemed so upset after mother told her to stay away from Jay."You are not the true--"She was cut off by a growl from Storm wait that wasn't Storm it was a weird dragon standing in front of her and that was the last thing she saw.