AN: So for this world, I'll be using the colours of male bird wings, since many female birds are very dull. Also, I know peacocks can fly, but in this world that's never happened before. Comment and tell me what you think!
Lapis yawned and stretched, feeling her feathers fluff out as she flapped her wings gently. She curled up underneath her pale blue blanket, her bedroom was freezing. Snow was falling softly outside, it had been for a few days now, covering everything in a blanket of glittering white.
The blue haired teen was 16 years old, she lived in an old house with her mother, father, and... No siblings. On the day her egg had hatched, the egg beside her hadn't. She wondered if her sibling had lived, would they be like her? Lapis wiggled her wings from under the blanket and she ran her fingers over her ear, feeling the tiny feathers that grew on the tip of it and on the sides of her face. There were a few feathers on her elbows too.
Her wings weren't too long, only reaching a little past her lower back, they were a beautiful blue, pale at the tip of her wing only to darken to almost black where her wings bent. They were soft, beautiful, worthy of her title as a peacock. That's right, Lapis Lazuli had the wings of a peacock, as such she was expected to be vain, shallow, gaudy and conceited. Bright and fancy.
When she changed out of her pyjamas, which consisted of denim shorts and a tank top, she had dressed herself in black jeans, a blue t-shirt, and a grey hoodie that hid her wings. She didn't wear makeup, barely brushed her hair and just left it as a fluffy mess, because while she was expected to be vain and actually care abut her appearance, she didn't.
Her parents barely cared, they still grieved for the little egg that never hatched. Lapis had learned from a young age that "At least you still have this child" was something that went in one ear and out the other.
"Mom, dad, I'm going out on a walk, I'll be back for lunch, okay?" She said as she slipped her coat on and tucked a book into her sweater, held tightly to her body by her wing. 'How To Fly'.
Her father's voice came from the living room, he was trying to change a light-bulb that had gone out last night. "Aren't you going to have breakfast? Peanut butter toast is on the counter for you, didn't you smell or see it?" He asked, and the blue haired girl's stomach growled as she sniffed the air. She caught the scent of one of her favourite things to eat for breakfast and smiled. She was going to buy something, but this was more than okay!
"Thanks dad!" She chirped. Her parents weren't attentive but they cared in some little ways. Lapis quickly ate her breakfast and headed out into the snowy world.
She looked up at the pale grey sky, people flying around everywhere. Feathers drifted around, mingling with the falling snowflakes, the soft beating of wings both big and small, fluffy and neat, filled the air, giving the blue haired girl goosebumps. The wind-chimes on her porch jingled softly in the wind, which was perfect today, she would be able to make another attempt, since she was too afraid to try a windless takeoff.
Lapis was determined to become the first peacock to ever known to take flight. She pulled her hood up to hide herself and started to run down the streets, her breath coming in little puffs as she ran to the forest near her house.
The teen made her way into the snowy clearing, most of the fluffy white powder was brushed away, as Lapis came her extremely often. She took off her coat and hoodie, and rubbed her arms as the cold air greedily drained them of heat. The tanned girl set her book down on a tree-stump and opened her wings. "Strong down-strokes, wing tips almost meeting at the top, come on Lapis... You can do this..." The young girl said to herself.
Her wings started to beat strongly, and she could feel the air starting to gather under them. This was it! She would finally-
"There she is!" A voice startled the blue haired girl, and she almost fell back, her wings now still, no air under them. "Lapis Lazuli."
A girl stood in the entrance to the clearing, Heather McClarin, another peacock. Soon other girls followed behind her, all grinning at Lapis. Heather wore fancy clothes, her makeup was perfect and her hair, blue like Lapis and all other peacocks, was long and in perfect little curls. "We've had enough of what you're doing Lapis, it's not right." She huffed, and pointed to Lapis' sweater. "I mean look at your clothes, did you make them out of rat fur? And your hair, don't even get me started, is someone trying to nest in it? Oh god you aren't even wearing ANY makeup!" She said in mock horror, "You aren't acting like a peacock at all! You're even trying to fly." She said with a nasty grin.
Lapis hugged her wings close to her body. Another person came in, a large woman with the wings of an eagle. "A flying peacock hm? We can fix that." She said calmly. Lapis started to shiver, and not from the cold.
All at once the other girls pounced on her and pinned her down. "We'll fix you Lapis, don't worry." One of them said. Lapis screamed in pain as she felt hands on her wings, something that wasn't allowed without consent, before the searing pain of her feathers... Her feathers...
Some of them were drifting on the ground in front of her, followed by a few drops of blood. These girls, the ones that she went to school with, that had tried to get her to be like them, were plucking and ripping out feathers from her wings.
Not all of them had been ripped out, but a good enough amount to have the girl crying and begging for them to stop. The large woman forcefully grabbed her. "Looks like you don't want to be one of the normal people hm? Don't worry little one, we can fix that too." She threw Lapis in large cage and hauled her through the forest as the young girl cried in agony, her wings plucked and bleeding.
The cage was placed on a large boat at the frozen docks, the girls weren't allowed to follow out of the forest, for no one was allowed to know what happened to people who couldn't fit in.
The blue haired girl fought to keep herself awake, terror pulsing through her veins as she was taken from her home. She looked out of her cage, she could barely move around in it, but she watched the waters they traveled through, rough with harsh winds, not a bit of land to be seen in the water as the snow cast a flurry filled wall, Lapis could no longer see where they had come from, her home far behind as they kept pushing through the water.
It seemed her parents were going to lose both children.
The boat shuddered and Lapis let out a sharp scream as one of her wings bumped the wall of her cage. "Alright, we're here." The woman from before spoke with a gruff commanding voice, and once again the young girl's cage was lifted quickly before being moved.
All the walls of her cage were solid except for the door, she watched through the bars and her teary eyes widened. The boat had come to a desolate island, there were black and grey clouds swirling over it, jagged rocks sticking out all over the coast, run down buildings and not a person in sight. Her cage was opened and Lapis was dumped onto the rocky ground, she let out a whimper as tears spilled over her face, she knew now exactly where she was.
This was the place where people went if they could not behave the way they were supposed to. This place was supposed to be a legend, but it turned out to be true. It was bleak, a world of nothing where outcasts were sent to try and live off the scraps of the mainlands bounty, and now the young girl was stuck here.
"Welcome to the Island of the Exiled."
