The Phoenix Bird
Disclaimer and Warnings: see chapter 1
Chapter 3: My Name...
"…The fable tells that he dwells in Arabia, and that every hundred years, he burns himself to death in his nest; but each time a new Phoenix, the only one in the world, rises up from the red egg…"
Yuri set the boy down on his bed and carefully removed his coat form the smaller body. He tossed it to the floor and it fell in a soaked heap.
The boy looked about fourteen-fifteen and was, seemingly, small for his age. He had pale skin and four bright blue triangles were painted or tattooed onto his face. He had two-toned hair, slate-blue, almost grey, in front and a darker blue, almost black, short ponytail in the back. The boy was wearing a black tank top that was made to specially fit around his wings and some well worn blue pants. He was barefoot- but had bird feet instead of normal human feet. On his pale hands, he had sharp, short claws.
Yuri curiously ran a hand along the feathers of one of his wings, it was real, and the feathers were a bright, crimson red. There was some golden colored, hard substance protecting the bone and reinforcing the feathers. The boy was very warm to the touch and Yuri was very worried that the boy had a terrible fever. He was also bleeding slightly from numerous wounds and cuts that Yuri hadn't noticed in the dark night. There were larger, more dangerous cuts that looked like they had been made by glass.
As Yuri traced his hand along the golden rimming of the wing, he came to an irregular bump. Worried, he tested the other wing and there was no bump.
Oh no… looks like one of his wings are broken… Yuri thought sadly.
Quickly, Yuri went to his storage room and took out a broom. With some effort, he knocked the straw end off and took the handle to the kitchen. With even greater difficulty, he cut the handle in half, using a large knife, and then went back to his room and selected a shirt form his drawer and tore it into small strips of cloth. Then he sat down beside the boy and set the wing bone. The boy stirred not once the whole time.
Yuri went back to his bathroom and rummaged around for his antiseptic and then once more ran to the kitchen and filled up a bowl with lukewarm water. Upon arriving back in the bedroom, he washed and cleaned many of the boy's wounds and then bandaged up the worst of them.
"Poor child," Yuri murmured to himself as he finally took a step back to examine what he had done. Once satisfied, he picked his soaked coat off the ground and took it to the front door and hung it on the coat rack.
He checked his clothing, and completely wet it was. With a sigh, the redhead went to the bathroom and turned on the shower. He had to wait a while for a nice warm temperature and then quickly stripped off all clothing and hopped in.
After coming out, Yuri wrapped a towel around his waist and proceeded to his bedroom to get some spare nightclothes to sleep in. He walked through the doorway and began rummaging through his wardrobe. And then a shuffle from the bed caught his attention…
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While Yuri was having his shower, Kai awoke. He slowly opened his eyes against the bright light. It took the phoenix a moment to realize he was inside in a human room. The stench of Wingless was everywhere. What were they doing to him? What did they want?
Had he been captured? Slowly, the memories of the night came back to him and Kai began to shake. Was this human going to force himself on the Phoenix? Kai curled his knees to his chest and winced painfully. His cuts and wounds hurt.
Then, he saw that his cuts and bruises had been bandaged up… by that human? Impossible! Why would a human help him? They were too stupid to do almost any simple task.
I have to escape. I have to get away… Kai convinced himself inwardly.
Slowly, as to relieve some pain, Kai uncurled himself and shuffled over to the side of the bed. He panted slightly from the effort, but he was determined to escape this place. This human would not take him. Suddenly there was strange humming sounds coming form the hall and the human walked in, a towel around his waist.
Kai was startled a moment from the look of the human. He was very beautiful- for a human at least. Smooth, ivory skin; tall; long legs; red hair resembling a blazing fire; and then there wee his eyes.
As the human turned to look at Kai, he didn't seem too stupid and had noticed the phoenix moving on the bed, Kai was about to dash away, but he was held in check by the human's eyes. They were so unusual, beautiful and mesmorizing. What human had eyes like this? What type?
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Yuri was frozen in place by the stange boy's gaze. The boy had enticing crimson eyes, mahogany in the darker lighting. The two stared at each other for what seemed like eons, and then Kai was able to shake off the spell and dove for the door.
"Stop!" Yuri cried. He, being closer, reached the door first and the bird-boy stopped a few footsteps away.
"Please. I only want to help. I don't want to hurt you, just calm down please," Yuri said quietly, holding his hands up in a sign of non-aggression towards the poor boy.
Kai snorted, so this strange human was just as stupid as the rest. He couldn't talk properly either. And what was worse- It had placed Itself between him and his escape. And still, this human was different; maybe it would be able to understand him…
"Move. I want to go," Kai demanded. The human's confused face only proved his guess that It hadn't been able to understand him.
"I, I don't understand you. Can you speak English?" Yuri asked quietly. The boy had responded with a series of clicks, whistles, squeaks and screeches.
The boy snorted, stomping his foot and Yuri noticed the way 'Birdie' kept looking past him and out the door. He wanted out…
Of course! In his medical training, Yuri had learned that when an animal wakes up in new surroundings it might be a bit aggressive because it was confused and scared. Birdie was probably worried that Yuri might try and rape him, and then his own smell in the room might be aggravating the birdboy on even more.
Okay, he had to get the bird to another room, preferably a more unused one so that he could calm down a bit. And while doing so, Yuri needed to get into his pajama pants, seeing as he still had only the towel around his waist.
"Move!" Kai demanded again, startling Yuri out of his thoughts.
Of course! The spare room, it would be perfect for Birdie here.
Yuri smiled- not showing his teeth and teeth showing was a sign of aggression to animals- and gently beckoned for Kai to follow him. The boy seemed confused, almost astonished to see the communication, and then quietly followed.
Yuri led Kai over to the spare bedroom and bowed by the door, gesturing for Kai to go in. Kai was still shocked. How could a human be that smart? Were humans that smart? Impossible! They were dumb, useless and annoying! He tried to shake his head of any more thoughts about the human- but It was too strange, too different.
Yuri did not enter the room after Kai, but waited patiently as Birdie observed his surroundings. The blue-haired boy turned to look and Yuri. Yuri gestured to the whole room and then pointed at Birdie. Birdie nodded quietly, the room was his? Why was this human so nice to him?
The sound of a someone clearing their throat brought Kai back to attention. It placed a hand to It's chest and made a strange grunt sound that humans make a lot. It waited for Kai's reaction, and then repeated the sound.
Kai's eyes widened, the human was trying to give Kai It's name!
Shaping his tongue around the strange word, Kai waited until the sound had been repeated a third time before he tried. The sounds were hard to make, but he seemed to have managed them very well. It nodded excitedly and the smile seemed to get bigger. (Though no teeth were shown)
It nodded to him. His name? How would it sound translated into Wingless tongue? Would it still have the nice ring to it as it rolled off the tongue as slippery as melted butter? Kai thought hard, and was able to do the best he could with his small knowledge of Wingless speech. He placed a hand to his chest and said determinedly,
"Kai."
Yuri nodded, repeating the name to Birdie to make sure it was right. So Kai was his name…
Kai looked exhausted, so Yuri let him curl up on the bed in the room and left him. Yuri returned to his own bed and got changed into some new clothes. He crawled into his bed, and fatigue tried to take him, but what held it at bay? Yuri growled and mumbled something about bad-timing insomnia and rolled onto his stomach, laying his left hand by his head.
Of course!
He needed to draw something- and here was his inspiration right in his own house. A boy with wings and such- he was no angel, spoke a strange and alien language and had the most interesting appearance of anyone Yuri had ever met!
Quickly diving into his sketchpads, paper and pencils, he selected a pencil and curled up against his bed, finally able to let some creativity out.
The sketch came quickly, which surprised him, usually his drawings took some time to complete. As the pencil came to a happy halt, Yuri smiled proudly at his work.
It was a picture of Kai, still rough, guidelines visible and it was unshaded, but there it was. A work of art he was very proud of. It was Kai, supposedly sleeping while he leaned against a wall or something. A scowl still sketched onto his face even in his sleep. Frowning slightly, Yuri took his eraser and erased the scowl.
He drew a content smirk on the face of his sketched 'bird'. Now it looked great.
There, I'm sorry I haven't updated in forever, but I had some things to work out in the plot before I could write this chapter and I still do. No, a VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION!
Should this story be…:
A) a more-or-less real-life drama with heartbreak, breakdowns and junkB)
B)More Fantasy-based, with mythical creatures and stuff. And guys trying to take over the world, like that. If we do fantasy-based, I promise I won't make it unbearable- it'll still be on earth and stuff, just more crazy fighting scenes.
I MUST KNOW!
I can't continue the story until I know which way this will go. So review, review, review and spill you guts about what you want it to be. It doesn't really matter to me, and I'll probably just do another fic with the unchosen option as the plot, but I leave this up to you guys, the readers!
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