Flylanders : Chapter 1

Joy Hybrid never felt a happiness in one full year after her mother passed away. She is now a 7 year old girl. She is call a hybrid because of her hair, wings, and eyes colour.

Her eyes is mismatched, which is pink right eye and red left eye. Her long hair is blue with lots of silver streaks is being tied up with a red ribbon. Her right wing is blue and her left wing is silver. But she was hated by her father and oldest brother because of her appearance, and her power.

She is a royal, and every royal have a power. Her father and oldest brother have fire power. Her second older brother have ground or tree power. While her twin brother have wind power. Joy herself have ice and snow power.

She is dying with all the beatings and mocking from her father and eldest brother. So her second older brother, Christopher, asked her twin brother, Thomas, to go to the other world, which is the Chima world. Thomas agreed and took his sister with him and come to the Chima world.

But when they were falling to Chima, they didn't land in the same place. Joy landed at Eglor's office, which makes the inventor eagle surprised. Thomas fall in front of Longtooth the lion guard, which makes him shocked.

Eglor knew right away that Joy is the legend human that Chima world thought that their existence is just a myth. Eglor also knew that from Joy appearance, she's just a child, or a hatchling in eagle's book. And she looks hurt. So Eglor carefully scoop up the child with both of his hands and fly to his home.

He put her on the bed and do everything that he can do with Joy's beating bruises. Joy was still unconscious when Eglor was done, so he let her sleep on his bed while he sleep on the sofa. Eagles are known with their overprotectiveness to their hatchlings. Eglor think of Joy as a hatchling too, so he feels a little overprotective to her.

While for Thomas, he have a pair of red eyes, silver hair, and pair of silver wings. But the legend humans, can appear their wings and make disappear when they didn't need it. So Longtooth and Eglor only saw a legend human called the Flylanders, with no wings at all.

Longtooth, brought Thomas to his house and let him sleep on his bed, while he sleep on the extra mattress.

The next morning, Joy woke up with a scared feeling in her mind.

"What have I done..? Father will be furious at me!" Joy screamed when she didn't notice her surroundings. Eglor was wide awake when he heard Joy screamed. He went to her side and Joy immediately recognized him as an eagle at Chima World. She learn about them when she was little. Seeing Joy's scared face, Eglor said gently...

"Hello there, you alright?" Eglor asked gently. He knew perfectly that Joy got those bruises from a beating from someone.

"I-I..I'm fine.. Wait. Where's my brother?" Joy suddenly asked. While Eglor was confused.

"I don't know. I only found you alone at my office, Little Hatchling" Eglor said. Joy noticed what he called her and asked...

"Little Hatchling?" Joy asked.

"Yes, you are a child right? We eagles, called a child, a hatchling" Eglor explained. Joy nodded and noticed that her bruises were cured or treated.

Joy wears a white long sleeves shirt, a vest with hood which have half side of it with blue colour, while the other half side silver colour, that she unbuttoned. Same goes with her tie. While the rest, she wears black pants, black shoes, and black socks. The white shirt, black pants, black socks, and black shoes are the official attire for a Flylanders. While the vest and tie appears when they were born. Usually they didn't have hoods on their vest, but since she is count as an unnormal Flylanders, or a hybrid, she has a hood which called 'a hood of shame'.

Eglor noticed her uneasiness and asked nicely...

"What is your name, Little Hatchling?" Eglor asked. Joy looked at him with very innocent eyes. Eglor feels some hatred from deep inside himself when he remember that someone had dare to hurt this hatchling, which looks like she's too thin and smaller for her age.

"I-I'm Joy.., sir.." Joy said. Eglor smiled and said...

"Welcome to Chima, Joy" Eglor said, kindly.

While at the Lion City, Thomas, who wears silver vest, silver tie, white long sleeves shirt, black pants, black socks, and black shoes, just woke up and was surprised to see Longtooth.

"Hello there, little fella. Say, what's your name?" Longtooth asked gently. He had told Lagravis about Thomas, and Lagravis asked him to bring Thomas to him when he woke up and feel much better.

"T-Thomas..." Thomas said. Longtooth was amazed with his pair red eyes, because it looks like an emerald or blood colour of red.

"Well Thomas, my king wants to meet you when you already feel better and okay. Are you want to meet him now?" Longtooth asked. Cristopher had told Thomas to explain everything about their circumtances to stay at Chima, so he told him to talk to their leader.

Thomas nodded and get up from bed. He followed Longtooth to Lagravis throne. There's a young lion who is with Lagravis that Thomas didn't recognized, considering he just woke up.

"Ah, hello there young Flylanders. How do you feel?" Lagravis asked kindly.

"Hello, King Lagravis. I'm fine, thank you" Thomas said politely. Lagravis nodded and then said...

"Can you tell us from the beginning, how do you end up here?" Lagravis asked.

"Well, first, I guess you know about our world that have very little female population. I'm a royal, and so does my sister. A royal shouldn't have a daughter. They consider it as a disgrace to the family. Well, only my father and my oldest brother who think like that. My mom, my second older brother, and me don't think like they do. We know that we are equal to each other. But since my father and oldest brother have more power than we do, they used to beat up my twin sister. Say, I came here with her.., where is she?!" Thomas said, franticly for the last part.

"Thomas!" Joy said suddenly. She flew in and hug her twin brother. Thomas was surprised, but happy that Joy is finally with him again. With Joy, Eglor, Ewald, and Eris came in too.

"I see you dropped at the Eagle Spire" Laval said, who is the young lion that Thomas didn't recognized. But they all went silent when they see that Joy has mismatched wings colour. The lions and the eagles, except Eglor, also recognized her mismatch eyes colour, and her hair have two colours. Now they know why Joy's and Thomas' father and oldest brother hate her so much. Because she is a hybrid and have to use the hood of shame. Thomas noticed their reaction and said...

"I guess you finally figured out why they treated her that way" Thomas said. All the eagles and lions nodded sadly. They knew about the Flylanders history, that's why they knew that they didn't really tolerate differences that much.

"Right, but I guess you still have something to tell us about?" Lagravis asked. Thomas nodded and said...

"Well, Joy could die if they continue their beating at her. Usually my mother always protect her, but..she passed away a year ago. My father and my oldest brother's beating at her become much worse. My second older brother knew that she will die if this continue on, so he asked me to accompany her to Chima.." Thomas said, but was cut off by Joy's disappointed and sad face.

"Christopher asked you to do this?" Joy looked at Thomas in disbelief and sad. Thomas understand why she's upset, so he said...

"Yes, but it's not.." Thomas tried to say but was cut off by Joy who's backing up to the entrance of the chima pool. Joy was upset because she thought that Thomas willingly go with her to Chima. But Thomas do willing, but Joy thinks that he only do it because Christopher asked him to do it.

"But you said..." Joy was already upset. When she touched the wall, there's ice coming out from her hand. It freeze little part of the wall, right where she touched it.

Joy gasped and look at the others fearfully. She can see that the eagles and lions were very surprised seeing the ice. Joy looks so scared and then she ran away outside. Eglor wanted to go after her, but Thomas stopped him by saying...

"Don't go after her.. She will be back soon" Thomas said.

"But... What's causing that ice, Thomas? Aren't you royals can release your power when you already have full control of it?" Lagravis asked. The others look at Thomas too.

"I think you have twist information here.. We royals have our power since we were born. But it's depend in us, whether we can control our power or not. Joy still can't control her power yet, so she will only release her power when she was emotional or her emotion is unstable or uncontrollable" Thomas said while went to the wall where the ice is formed.

"While me and my brothers already can control our powers" Thomas said, while melting the ice.

"What is your power?" Laval asked, curiously.

"Wind. Or air. My brother Christopher purposely sent me to go with Joy to this world because only wind that can melt her ice" Thomas said.

"Why? Isn't fire melt ice too?" Laval asked, confuse.

"Not ice power I suppose. You can only fight a power with a power, depends who's stronger I guess" Thomas said, when he finally melt the ice completely.

"But, how wind melt ice?" Eris asked.

"Hot air. One thing I learned that useful when Joy freeze something she isn't suppose too" Thomas said.

"So.. I guess her ice power is different from what the ice tribe used to use?" Laval asked.

"I guess so" Eris said.

"I'll go and look for Joy then" Eglor said and then fly off outside.