Wings

Broken

This marks the beginning of my mystic friend group AU. All of us are different mystical/cryptic creatures. Explain in desc. Enjoy!

Early Saturday Morning
5:43 AM Late May

The warm smell of toast floated around the room as Arion stirred from their heavy sleep. They felt a small pain in their right wing when they awoke but chose to ignore it once they heard rustling in the kitchen downstairs and slowly decided to get up from bed. As they walked down the creaky stairs, they heard the voices of their insomniac roommates talk quietly among themselves around the breakfast bar.

Arion passed the bathroom on the way and heard some Latin phrases being sung and assumed it was Kelsie practicing her new siren songs in the shower.

They made their way into the kitchen and say Bee and Alyssa making toast and eggs while Ellie fed her bird. Bee was humming an old luring chant while scrambling the eggs until they looked done. Alyssa just finished plating some golden toast and moved onto setting up her new vases with some beautiful flowers she just grew. Arion made their plate quietly behind them, not wanting to disrupt the serene morning everyone was enjoying.

Once Kelsie finished up her shower, she joined them in the kitchen for breakfast. Everyone sat at the bar and listened to Bee and Kelsie do their warmups as they do every morning, but this time they were singing a new song.

"New luring song?" Arion asked softly, returning the food shortly after. They nodded in uniform, "The Temptresses want us using new songs because our targets have been getting used to the old ones," Kelsie said happily. "Ah interesting, any new hits for you or Bee?" Alyssa questioned while picking up a new flower book she recently bought. They both shook their heads, and finished up their food.

Everyone picked up their plates and brought it to the dishwasher. They set their plates down one by one as Arion started to rinse and load them up. As Ellie put her dish down, her tail brushed against Arion's wing and sent shooting pain into them. "Fuck!" They screamed clutching their hurt wing, "sorry for my language but I think something is wrong." Ellie took over doing the dishes so Arion could look at the wing.

"I didn't fully notice it earlier, but it feels broken," They stated calmly once they pain subsided into a soreness. Alyssa came over and looked it over carefully. Her medical expertise came in handy for situations like these. Whenever she trained with her fellow nymphs, Alyssa focused on flowers and nature, but she took a liking to the medical field in the human high school they all recently graduated from. Alyssa used her knowledge to quickly examine Arion's damaged wing.

"Not fully broken, but fractured, did you fly last night?" She asked, while getting out her herbal medicines. "Yes, I had to get a message to someone," Arion stated carefully. Alyssa didn't want to push on that subject right now, so she just scolded Arion instead. "You know night flying isn't good for you, especially that distance."

Arion started to argue but was shutdown by Kelsie, Bee, and Ellie whispering and laughing. "Yes, it was Owen, so what?" Arion scoffed, "He means a lot to me, and I wanted to see him, but I was being stupid, I know the distance from Texas to the UK is too far for one night now." Alyssa rolled her eyes and continued to fix up the medicine and the basis for a cast.

After the dishes were put away and Arion's cast was done, everyone went about their own business. Ellie and Kelsie watched TV, Bee started doing her hair and Alyssa was picking out clothes for gardening.

Arion went to their bathroom and examined their long gray wings. They got the wings on the night they met Owen, their soulmate, so the wings have always meant a lot to Arion and now that they are fractured, Arion has to figure out another way to see Owen.

Owen hadn't been doing well recently, so Arion had been sneaking out of the shared apartment every night to fly 4 thousand miles to see him. This backfired last night whenever they ran into a tree on the way back. For the past few weeks, Owen had been dealing with his recent transformation into a fire dragon hybrid. His violent tendencies have led him to burn down his house and injure his family. Arion knew Owen didn't like his hybrid, so they flew every night to try and see how far they could get. Every night they failed.

Arion stepped out of the bathroom and walked into the living room. Seeing Ellie making Kelsie sneeze with her tail brightened but their mood a little bit. Ellie's human form was her most common one, she turned into a wolf at night to sleep and then into the full werewolf on the blue moon nights. Ellie liked her hybrid, so did the other girls. Both Bee and Kelsie were sirens in an assassin group named The Temptresses, and finally Alyssa is a flower nymph. She isn't a hybrid, but her form allows her to be more human most of the time.

Seeing all of the different hybrids interacting together is very rare, but this house just happens to be a very accepting one. In Arion's case, they never thought they'd even be allowed to be friends with hybrids, they always thought they were human until they got their wings. The same thing happened with Owen.

Arion went to the couch and asked Bee and Alyssa to come into the room as well. "I am sorry for sneaking out, I thought I could reach England, but I am going to be logical now, which is why I am buying all of us tickets to see Owen in person!" Arion exclaimed. Looks of approval and  confusion appear on the others.

1000 words: End of chapter 1