Before I began I want to state two things, first this takes place in the Wingtalia universe, if you don't know what that is it's an au were the Hetalia characters have bird like wings. Second, Ludwig, Feliciano, and Kiku are all small kids in this story, that is all enjoy!

Chapter 1 - Pure Hell

Ludwig woke up with an excruciating pain in his head from lying on the cold metal floor. Seconds went by until Ludwig quickly sat up, now realizing that he was on a metal floor. He rubbed his eyes looking around, he could barely see the hands in from of his face. He frantically started to feel around, his hands soon felt a thick metal pole, moving his hands around he felt more thick poles. Behind him, and to both of his sides he felt more poles, reaching his hands up Ludwig was finally able conclude where he was. Above him he felt more cold metal, not even an inch above him, he couldn't believe it, he was in a cage.

"What going on?" Ludwig asked himself.

"Hello?" A faint voice asked. Ludwig turned, and quickly scrambled to the direction where he assumed the voice was coming from.

"Yeah, hello," Ludwig responded.

"Ah, Ludwig!" The voice said louder, Ludwig then recognize the voice.

"Feliciano!" Ludwig exclaimed, pulling himself closer to the bars. "Yes, it's me."

"Whats going on?" Feliciano asked, "I-I think I'm in a cage."

"I don't know, but I think I am too."

"I thought I was dead when they caught us, but then we woke up."

"Hey wait, Feliciano, do you know where Kiku and my bruder are?" Ludwig asked.

"No, I'm sorry," Feliciano mumbled.

Before either could say another word they very blinded by a bright light. Ludwig rubbed his eyes until they were adjusted, looking around to see he was right, they were in cages. In a small room, full of mostly empty cages, some with bodies, Ludwig wasn't even sure if they were alive. Looking at Feliciano, who was also looking around, Ludwig was relieved to see Kiku in the a cage next to him, sound asleep. The sound of footsteps scared the two children, the two people stopped in front of Ludwig, blocking his view of his friends. One of the people bent down looking back and forth between the three kids.

"Amazing, they actually caught them, and manage to keep them alive, this will be the scientific breakthrough of the century," the man said.

Ludwig gripped the bars, pulling himself as close to the man as possible, "where is my bruder?" Ludwig demanded.

"Oh, the three of you guys are related," the man assumed.

"Answer my question!" Ludwig shouted.

The man looked back at Feliciano and Kiku, then back at Ludwig, "well, seeing how your the only one here talking, you're going to answer some questions for me."

"Pis off!" Ludwig sneered.

"If you do I'll give you and your friends some food and water. Or you can refuse and wait until the next time I feel generous, if you make that long," the man said.

Ludwig gripped the bars harder, turning his head away from the man, "fine."

"Good boy," the man smiled, "now are the three of you related?"

"No we found each other," Ludwig answered.

"Okay, now I noticed you three have different wing colors, are you all mixed with different species of birds?"

"No it goes by our hair color."

"Why did you evolve but not the rest of the humans?"

"I don't know I was just born like this."

"How many generations has this been happening?"

"I don't know."

"Is your diet the same as a bird's or humans?"

"We eat what we can find."

"Have you met others like you?"

Ludwig remained silent, knowing how many people were killed by poachers, he refused to mention any like him that he had met.

"Done talking, fine." The man stood up facing the other man, "give them the food and water." The other man turned to the cart next to him, individually he threw two dog bowls into each cage. Once that was done, the first man turned to Ludwig, "still have nothing to say?" Ludwig didn't make a sound. "Very well, grab that one and bring to my lab room, we're starting early." The man said pointing to Feliciano.

"What!" Ludwig exclaimed, "I answered your questions!" Ludwig looked to see the other man opening the cage, Feliciano immediately started to panic pushing himself back, kicking at the man. However, it was useless, the man tied a collar around Feliciano's throat, then attaching a leash to it, dragging Feliciano out of the cage. Once Feliciano was on his feet he tried to fly to only realize that they had bounded his wings, making it unable for him to even stretch them out.

"NO STOP!" Feliciano shouted as they pulled him away, Feliciano looked back stretching his arm out, keeping the other arm on the leash. "LUDWIG, KIKU, HELP!"

"FELICIANO!" Ludwig cried out reaching out to Feliciano. Once Feliciano and the two men were out of the room, Ludwig pulled himself away from the bars, sitting back in one of the corners, he pulled his legs up to chest. He lived his whole life in fear of being killed by poachers, but this was much worse. Oh he was alive, but the was living in a place separated from his friends, he didn't even know if the last member of his family was alive or not. This was much worse then being dead, he was alive, alive in pure hell.

A/N: thank you for reading, any comments, questions, and reviews are appreciated!

Until next time!

~Silent Fangirl