CAN'T BE TAMED
AVIS CYRUS
PROLOGUE
I could hear them; the humans. They'd been coming and going for... I don't know how long it was, I lost all sense of time when they captured me. And now it was almost time for the unveiling. They had all the high-society humans outside my cage, and the curator was making a speech. Cameras, I could hear cameras snapping pictures, I don't like cameras, the flashes blind me.
"Ladies and Gentlemen,welcome to the museum." The curator spoke and I whimpered in my nest. This wasn't really my nest, they had taken me from my nest when they captured me and put me in this sad excuse for a nest. Worse; they'd put me in a cage. A cage. "Tonight we are proud to unveil our greatest exhibit yet." Me. They'd experimented on me at first, did blood tests and x-rays and so many other tests I couldn't remember, just to make sure I was what I was. And then they'd taken me to a museum and put me in a cage with this stupid fake nest to show me off to the high society humans. I hate humans. "A creature so rare it was believed to be extinct." The humans gasped and murmured and I heard more camera shots. "Well tonight, we shall see." The curator chose un upbeat, excited tone to continue. "Ladies and Gentlemen in captivity for the first time, the rarest creature on Earth; Avis Cyrus!" I hid under my wings, scared, I wasn't supposed to me for show. I heard the curtains rise and took a slow, deep breath. They didn't want some 'fraidy little thing quivering in a nest, and I certainly didn't want to be seen as a weak, 'fraidy little thing that hid in its nest. I heard murmurs as I tried to compose myself.
I flung my wing covering my face down and turned, staring at the humans. Some gasped as I stared at them and they stared at me. Slowly I rose and stepped out of the nest, trying to keep my facàde up as I kept staring, using all my will not to quiver and hide. I held my shoulders up as I walked forwards, towards to humans. When I stopped and staring with as much hate for the race as I could muster, they clapped. They applauded. I hated them. One human man stepped forward and raised a camera.
FLASH!
I snapped my wings out and covered myself with them. I don't like flashed. I don't like flashes one little bit. They all gasped when they saw my wings, all the pretty, dark colors; greens and blues and blacks mostly. They were talking. I couldn't hear anymore camera clicks so I slowly lowered my wings from around me as they all talked. I glared at them as hard as I could, this wasn't where I was supposed to be.
They must have sensed danger and started backing up, running away from the freakish, weird animal. The wild, dangerous thing they had taken from its home and forced into a cage after poking and proding for days. If they were going to captivate me and use me as a museum piece I was going to give them something to remember, I decided. I screeched and started flapping, I rose a little off the floor of the cage and they all ran as fast as they could to get away from me.
The curator panicked and tried to assure everyone that everything was okay, that I was behind bars. I couldn't escape. Well, I'd show him. I screeched and flapped and rattled the bars of the cage, humans screamed and I almost felt a little victorious. The curator ran as well and I lowered myself to the ground of the cage. I looked at the bars, I wanted to go back to my home, back to my nest in the mountains.
I folded my wings in and went for the bars; stupid humans. I could easilly fit through the bars, and then I was free in their stupid museum. I ran. My legs were a little shakey, but I ran, I picked upa shoe one of the humans had left behind and threw it as hard as I could at one of the exhibits. The glass broke and alarms went off and lights started flashing. I think we've already established that I don't like flashing lights, so it should be no surprise that I didn't react well to that. I screeched and took off, flying through the museum and knocking things over and breaking more exhibits in my need to escape, but no matter where I went I couldn't find how to get out.
I was angry, I wanted to escape, but I couldn't find out how. I hate humans, I want to go back to my nest in my jungle. Back to my family, the animals were my family. The other birds that came said I looked more like humans than anything else, and I understand humans, and I'd even tried talking like one a few nights ago. But, they would never be my family, the animals in my jungle are my family, and I would never ever be like the humans. The humans are vile creatures who capture and enslave for no reason other than they can.
After I don't know how long I got tired, I couldn't find my way out of the museum, I couldn't find my way back to my jungle.
Slowly I turned back around and found myself back in the room with the fake nest. I sighed and tried not to cry. I couldn't escape and all I could find was the humans' way of captivating me. I whimpered and climbed back into the cage, I hated it here.
I curled into the nest and looked around, all the glass was broken, the tapestries were shredded and askew everywhere, one of the lights flashed and exploded. I whimpered and felt a tear escape my eyes as I settled into the fake nest and let my wings lay out around me, protecting me as much as possible from the outside environment of the humans.
As I cried myself to sleep I prayed that I would be able to escape the humans soon.
Okay, so this is a new idea I came up with just yesterday from the Can't Be Tamed music video... Obviously. In this story the Avis Cyrus has been captured and is forced to be a feature in a museum; a fragile, sensitive creature she has to learn to be tough or the worst could happen. In the museum the Avis Cyrus meets the night guard/janitor of the museum who has to clean up after her rampage and they strike an unlikely friendship.
Sorry about not updating Family Bites, but I've been trying to update it for the last eight days and the stupid site won't let. The closest I've come is someone on a forum said to update or post in fandoms with less than 40, 000 stories in it. So, I'm tyring to post this one.
I hope you like it.
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