Yo, chapter two. Enjoy! :)
Question of the day: In soviet russia, does waldo find you?

Arghhh, my head! My poor head, it hurts so much. I need to get up, so I do, and theres a cute little squirrel in front of me, aww how cute. He runs away and leaves me there.
The tree seems like a suitable home for me until I can get somewhere else with a roof. The tree is so tall, but hey when you have wings nothing is too tall.
Now that I have a home I need to find food, the fruit trees seem to be a good candidate.
Time to sit up in a tree and wonder about why the heck im here, maybe those whitecoats I saw before I teleported had something to do with it? I sat there for a few hours roaming in my thoughts until I heard a small cry from under the tree, a small girl was holding her knees silently sobbing. I flew down in curiosity.
"Hey are you alright?" I asked and saw scars along her faces when she looked up.
"Claw arms!" She half whisper half yelled with a crazed look on her face
"Calm down, theres nothing to worry about, its safe up in this tree." I say, pick her up and fly to the most covered part of the tree and sit her on the branch.
"Whats your name?" I ask gently as I wipe her tears off.
"C-clara, I-I- think" I could hardly hear her response.
"Ok Clara, I'm Max, what was following you?"
"The half c-claws"
''Half claws? Can you describe them for me?"
"Half of their bodies were covered in armor and the other side was a huge arm with big claws! They h-hurt me, they tried to eat me but I got away, they arnt very smart so I was able to hide in a bush.''
"Ok, lets stick up here for now if they come around, I have some fruit for you." I handed her the fruit and she ate it quicker than you could blink.

The next night I saw them, the claw hands. They were just as the girl had described them. Clara was asleep so I just stayed still and let them pass, those things were a huge threat. I needed a plan. She had said that they were dumb, so im going to expliot that.
First, I need a weapon, maybe a rock... No that wouldn't work, I need a long distance weapon, like a bow. Yes a bow is perfect. I could use the fabric of my shirt and connect it to a curved stick! Max you're a genius. Of course I already know I am, but I like to reassure myself from time to time. You could say I'm a narcissist, but I just think I'm telling the truth.
After about 2 hours of fiddling with the stick and string I was able to make somewhat of a bow. Hopefully It would suffice.
Heres my plan, a hit and run. Yes totally not my style but what needs to be done, I would hide in the tress, shoot one of them then fly over trees so they cant see me(A/N writing this is so much easier when the character has wings! xD) then come back again and pick them off.

I told Clara to stay in tree tree, and that I would take care of the claw hands. She warned me about them but I still continued on. They were easy to find from their tracks, it lead me to a settlement. There were about 10 of them. Heh, too easy. Lets start with the first one. Swoosh... and target hit! Then out of sight before they could see me. Next one, I moved to a new spot and hit him strait on the neck. Dead. Shit they saw me! Move Max! Whew, close one. Third one, target hit again. But this time they were prepared. The one with a fancy claw saw me. "Die filth!" It talked! The leader must be intelligent! They all lunged for me but I dodged it by flying to a farther branch, one of them almost got me. I started running then flying to get away, but before I could get far into the skies, the leader jumped and jabbed an arrow into my wing. Damn it! It hurts so much and now I can only fly on one wing, almost immediately I started flying down diagonally and hit a tree. I have to face them head on now. Im trying hard to hit them but I'm no Jennifer Lawrence, eventually the bow cracks. Piece of junk. Now I'm really in trouble. Dodge, dodge, dodge (A/N doge! :D) the claws keep managing to barely scratch me. I needed to think quickly now, I cant fight them. "Hey! Leader man! Stop attacking me for one sec I have a deal!" I yell.

He gives the signal for his subordinates to halt. "What kind of deal" He snarls without even using a question mark. "If you guys promise not eat me or any other humans we wont attack you" I say.

He thinks for a moment and says "Okay, but if we get too hungry font expect us to starve! I will never forgive you for killing my comrades, and dont think we are allies... If I can I will kill you when I get the chance."

"Fair enough" I say, at least it was something. Good thinking Max, got myself out of that situation, I wasn't happy about the whole killing me part but I needed to get out of there. I turned my heel and ran. Stopping every so often to check on my wing making sure there was no dirt or disgustingness in it. While I was running I tripped over a wire, real smart and a pile of rocks mixed with leaves fell on me. I was stuck. What asshole put this thing here? After what seemed like forever someone came by and lifted the sheet or leaves and rocks. "Wait your not prey... your a human!" He yelps and falls back. "Well duh idiot, why the hell was this here?" I was pissed! "Im sorry I was trying to catch food... I didn't realize that there were other humans here!" He says quickly helping me up. "Ever tries using a bow?" I said in a sarcastic voice "Uh no?" He said. "Well dont, they suck" I say. "Is there anyone else with you?" I asked.

"No, just me"

"Well come with me, I have one other person. Power in numbers."

"Uh, I guess. Let me get my stuff"

I wait about 20 minutes and he comes back with some wooden knives and string strung around his shoulder."

"By the way, I have wings" He says and spreads his wings

"So do I! Are you a hybrid?" I ask

"Yes, I also have cheetah DNA, allowing me to run faster."

"Whats your name?" I ask

"I really don't know, I've always just called myself Cache"

"Ok cache, I'm Max, lets get going"

When we got to the tree I introduced Clara and Cache. "Do you guys know anything that could stop infections?" I asked them, mainly directed to Cache. "Whats wrong?" He asked.

"My wing is injured"

"Oh that cant be good, lemme see it."

I spread my wings and he examines it and says he will be back.

While he was gone Clara asked me, "What happened with the claw arms?"

"Well, I had them good until my bow cracked, it turned out their leader is intelligent and can talk and not dumb. He got my wing with one of my wings, and I had to find a way out, so I made a deal with him that he wouldn't attack us as long as we don't attack him, so you don't have to worry about them one bit!"

"Thank you Max" She says and smiles. After a while the pain ebbed away. "Huh? Max your wing!" She says

She startled me, "What about it?"

I looked over at my wing, and the hole from the arrow was gone.

Yay! Mystery... I didn't lie, I told y'all this would be a longish one, 1.4k words! That's a lot for me! I worked hard on this chapter I hope you enjoyed it, review if you please :D

~curly