Max's POV
Okay, so I'm flying thousands of feet up in the air, and all of a sudden, the African American girl, Nudge I think her name was, screams out in pain and falls to the bottom of the basket. I immediately take evasive action, and fly us slowly down to another cave. I just noticed, outside of the School, there is a lot of space. And we've found an impressive amount of caves, here in this place that Fang calls, "Colorado."
So anyways, we land, and I take "Nudge," into the cave, while the others wait outside. I immediately notice weird bulges underneath her shirt. I tear it off, so that all that's covering her upper body is her bra. And no, for all you perverts out there, I'm not a lesbian! I take a little bit of the cool stream water flowing through the cave and I dab it on her forehead. I manage to get her to lie on her stomach, so I can get a better look at her back. Even though I think its totally impossible, it looks like this girl is growing wings. Like the ones I have. Her back muscles are really tight, and I notice really hard lumps forming underneath her skin. They feel like bone, and cartilage. I just try to make her as comfortable as possible. Then even amidst her unconsciousness, she screams in pain. Boy, this girl's got a set of lungs! And then its all over. Two giant sets of wings poke through her back, and spread out along the cave floor. They're limp, blood-soaked feathers are easily distinguishable as a light brown, tawny color. Like the color of a deer, or so I've heard. I clean her up with the remains of her shirt. I knew that she'd hate me for that, but its either use her now useless shirt, or let her bleed to death. So I clean up the wounds around her newly formed wings till they stop bleeding. Then I lay her gently against the cool cave floor. Her back must feel like its super-sore, and really painful, hopefully the cool floor will help alleviate some of the pain. Then I stepped outside to inform the others on what's going on.
Fang immediately asked to go see his sister, so I let him. I guess he wasn't expecting a bloody, winged, shirtless girl unconscious on the cave floor, cause he then calls me into the cave with a shaky, "Um… MAX!"
Fang's POV
She's shirtless, bloody, and now has a pair of wings sticking out of her back. "Um… MAX!" I yell. The least Max could do was let her borrow her jacket, or something. I don't know, I'm not great at clothing issues, but there's no way we'll be allowed into any civilized area, with people, when we've got two girls with wings, and one is shirtless. We need to be a lot less obvious than that!
"Hey Max, do you think Nudge could borrow that jacket your wearing? We can't go into town with her not having a top. Plus, we need to stay hidden. If people start noticing kids with wings around my neighborhood, there's going to be trouble."
Max nodded, and shrugged off her jacket. She laid it down next to Nudge, so that once she woke up she could just put it on. Then I go over to check on her. I touch her forehead, and am surprised to find that she doesn't have a strange fever or something. Then I check her pulse, and moniter her breathing. Her pulse was faster than usual, but steady. Max then explained that this was normal for avian-human hybrids, such as herself. And her breathing seemed totally normal. So there was no real need for alarm. Thank God!
I told the other kids how Nudge was doing, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But that's when Gazzy went down. Oh great, here we go again.
