Max and her flock had called up her very rich sponsor and rode a private jet into Japan. Sakura and her mother were standing outside of a small café in town, not far from where the accident had been. Sakura was antsy, she began to pace in the empty street. She looked up and saw seven small specks in the sky. They were too big to be ordinary birds.
Sakura ran back to her mother and gestured to the bird-kids. Her mother looked up just as they started angling downward. They landed in the empty street and stopped not far from where Sakura and her mother were standing.
The girl that appeared to be the leader had brown hair that seemed to be sun-streaked. The other kids ran up behind her in an unorganized huddle. A little blonde girl was clutching a black haired dog, which also seemed to have wings.
The leader, who was Max, started introducing the other bird kids. The silent black-haired one's name was Fang, the blind one's name was Iggy, the eight year old boy's name was the Gasman, for obvious reasons, the dark skinned girl's name was Nudge, and the little blonde girl with the dog's name was Angel, like Sakura's mother.
"I think you're forgetting someone," said a voice.
"And that is Total, our mutant, flying, talking dog," Max concluded. The Scottie wagged his tail.
"Okay so you have a dog that talks that's almost as weird as…" Sakura's voice trailed off.
"The wings?" Angel asked.
"Well, yes," Sakura said.
"To be perfectly honest I've seen weirder," Sakura's mother said. She smiled at the flock.
"It's nice to meet you all. My name is Angel Kiryu, I'm Sakura's mother," before she gave Max the chance to reply she opened the door to the café, "You must be hungry," she said.
"We're always hungry," said the Gasman.
