• Feathers •

• Chapter 1 •

   In this land, there were many half and halfs. And by half and halfs, I mean half Human, half creature "Hybrids". Now, some were overly strong, and some had a decent amount of strength. While some were weak. Completely weak. Most of the stronger Hybrids had magic, or powers, in a sense. While the weak Hybrids were forced to use hand combat, or no combat at all. Which, obviously, was very stressful in wars between Hybrids. With no fighting skills or strength, the weak would die easily, and quicker than the strong ones. Which made it so there was slowly less and less of their species. The weakest Hybrids were the birds--not including the Phoenix. And because the birds were the weakest, again, there wasn't many of them. And one day, there became none of them. Or so they thought.. You see, there was a deadly, long war. With no way to defend themselves, all the birds slowly died. Except for two, who managed to run away and hide beforehand. Two siblings, who both promised eachother they'd stick together forever. And they were determined to keep that promise tight. No matter what happened..

   Vanoic took his sisters hand, and ran for the forest. "B-brother!? What are you doing!? Mother needs our help!" Cried Avi, trying to escape his grasp. "Avi, I love mother just as much as you do. But she told us to run as far as we could. I didn't want to either, but she was serious." He said, stopping, turning around, and kneeling in front of his sister. "B-but.. You shouldn't of listened! Yes, she is our mother, and we must listen to her wise words. But she could die, Van!" She said, begging. He put his index finger to her mouth, to shush her. "Shh, they might here us." He whispered, she tilted her head. "Who might hear us, brother?" She whispered back. He stood up, and took her hand once again, quietly muttering, "The bad guys." Then they ran off into the damp, scary forest.

   Avi and Van continued walking through the forest, even though their legs began to hurt, and they started to get tired. Van, being the older sibling, held Avi in his arms, so she could sleep as he kept walking. He, a little while later, stopped at a tree. Van laid Avi down on the soft green grass, while he sat along the trunk of the tree. He sighed, and looked at his sleeping sister. "Oh, Avi. What am I going to do with you." He said, with a slight chuckle. He then yawned, and slowly closed his eyes.

Since they were both soundfully asleep, they were completely unaware that someone..

..Was creeping up behind them..