HAWK
I soared high, high above the ground, skimming the clouds with my tail and talons. A sea of fluffy whiteness stretched out below me, while the sapphire-blue sky flew above me, like some weird yet beautiful parody of the sea. The sun shone its beams down on my feathery back, as my wings caught the thermals and pushed me upwards with ease.
It was a different story down on the ground.
My ears, strange as they looked, worked ten times as better as a bald-headed eagle's. I could tune my ears, too, kind of like a radio aerial. I could focus on a conversation or discussion while blocking out the other noises. I could also listen to two separate things using different ears. I could even twist my ears 360 degrees.
Right now, however, a certain L Thunder and Raven Featherclaw had caught my attention with a heated... hm, how do I put this? Argument.
"You're a complete idiot!" yelled L.
"Oh, idiot am I?" snapped Raven. "I don't see you risking your neck to save someone!"
"I'm not stupid enough to do that!"
"You calling me stupid?"
"Yeah! Maybe I am!"
"Shut up, Elly!"
"WHAT did you call me?"
"Elly! Ring a bell? Y'know, it's a girl name. You're too dumb to know, though, so - "
I didn't catch anything after that, apart from some various punching noises, punctuated by yells, shouts and the occasional odd swear. I heard Dimentio quote a simile that had something to do with dogs and cats, then got bored of the whole thing and beat my wings to speed up. Soon, I had found a nice little tree in which to perch in. I landed, folded my wings, preened myself and waited.
RAINBOW BUTTERFLY
I stared miserably through the cell bars. Bolt was squashed in his little corner. O'Chunks took up half the cell. Mimi and Nastasia were conversing together in low voices, heads together. Blumiere and I were sitting, cross-legged, watching the empty cell across from us.
"How did we get into this mess?" sighed Blumiere, stroking my hair.
"I don't know," I sighed back.
"Wakey-wakey!" cackled an all-too-familiar voice.
Six heads raised as a strange, alien-like creature slithered towards us. It looked like a twisted hybrid between a bird, a dolphin and an eel. Its skin was smooth and grey, like a dolphin's. Its head was also dolphin-like, with large, white, pupil-less eyes and a green sail rising up from its head. It had a yellow, hooked beak, with a small, white, sharp fang jutting out from either side, a small nostril next to each fang. The nostrils resided on the top of the beak. Its body was serpentine, with an eel-like tail. The end was dolphin-like, and another, longer, green sail ran from its neck to its tail. Two grey sails that vaguely resembled wings jutted out of its back, and a light-grey underbelly ran from the beak to the end of the tail. Its arms were human-like, and its hands resembling bird talons.
Eevill. Our captor.
"Uh-oh," said O'Chunks. " 'Dis looks bad."
"Ya think?" hissed Mimi, her eyes wide with fright.
"Don't worry," crooned Eevill, his white eyes filled with unexplainable malice. "This session's going to be nice and long..."
"Crap," said Nastasia.