Chapter 3: Cursed Wings

KAIRI

Max guided us down to a cave, where we all landed.

Sora let me go and I turned to him.

He stretched his wings out to full length.

He smiled and said, "This feels a lot better."

Max let Riku down and looked at Sora.

She smiled and said, "Oh yeah, this was your first real flight, not none of that fly as long as you can things they do at The School."

Riku yelled out, "Will somebody please tell me what the hell is going on here?!"

Sora gave a small laugh and tucked his wings in to his back so neatly you wouldn't even think they're there.

He smiled and said, "I miss you guys a lot, but an explination might be helpful to you guys."

We all walked into the cave the two older boys were talking.

I looked at Max and asked, "What are they doing?"

She smiled and said, "That's Fang and Iggy. Iggy blind so Fang is telling him where everything is at."

The two boys made their way into the cave.

The smaller blonde boy picked up some wood and began making a fire.

Max walked to the back of the cave and held up some cans.

The rest of the group and Sora gave a big smile.

She began tossing three cans to each of them.

I looked at them and asked, "What's will all the food? And why so much?"

Max sat down next to Sora and said, "Our matablomisms are really fast. We need about 3500 caliores each day."

I looked at Sora seeing he was really thin maybe he need all that food.

He hapily opened each can and began eating the contents.

After he was finshed he smiled and said, "I haven't eaten like that in a long time."

He looked toward me and Riku and said, "Now down to business. The place we were in is called The School. It's a genetics labs that based in trying to create human hybrids. Max and her friends here were experimented on from the day they were conceived. They put bird DNA into each of them, thus the wings. 98% human 2% bird."

Riku looked at Sora and said, "But what about you?"

Sora stretched his wings out from his back and brought them forward.

He looked down and said, "They did tons of sureries on me. Grafting the wings, improving my hearing and eyesight, proding me with needles everyday to make me like this. I was their first hybrid to survive the operations."

Max spoke up and said, "And even though they count us a sucess they want to lock us up, run more and more test, until we eventually die."

I look at the group of kids sitting around me.

They been doing that to these kids since they were babies.

What kind of monster does that?

The little blonde girl spoke up and said, "The whitecoats and the erasers are the kind of monsters."

I looked at the little blonde girl.

Max turned to her and said, "Angel, you know better than to do that."

She smiled and said, "Sorry Max."

Riku looked at her and said, "What did she do?"

Sora smiled and said, "She read Kairi mind. Right?"

I nodded and said, "But how?"

The blonde boy smiled and said, "Along with being a bird kid, we get these really cool powers. By the way I'm Gasman."

The girl next to him said, "Don't ask why. I'm Nudge and I am really glad to be out of that cage. It doesn't help that I'm claustrophobic, well we all are claustrophobic since we lived in cages for a really long time and..."

Sora laughed and said, "Max was right, your a total chatterbox."

The two boys next to Max waved. "Hi I'm Iggy and yes I'm blind, no I don't have trouble flying, and I am the best dam cook here."

The last boy said, "I'm Fang."

Short, sweet and to the point.

The little dog jumped up and said, "Don't forget me. I'm Total."

A talking dog? Not really that surprising?

I smiled and said, "My name is Kairi, it very nice to meet you."

Riku smiled and said, "I'm Riku."

He did it the same way Fang answered.

Max sighed and said, "Great, another Fang."

The group laughed.

Riku wrist started beeping.

Sora smiled and said, "They know a lot about us too. It's kind of hard to hide something from Angel."

Riku nodded and put his com-link on speaker. "Riku and Kairi are you there?"

Sora responed, "King Mickey!"

The king replied, "Sora! Thank godness your alright."

I said, "Sorry we didn't go to the gummi ship, we had a change of plans."

Mickey sighed and said, "How so?"

Riku replied, "Sora wasn't the only one down there."

The com-link went quite for a while.

He finally replied, "I see. Goofy, Donland, and I will be a your location in the morning."

Sora nodded and said, "Watch the skies."

The link went off.

Max smiled and said, "Well this will be interesting."

Fang got up and tossed some clothes to Sora.

He said, "Here these should fit."

Sora slipped on his pants underneat the hospital gown.

Once the were on Sora pulled of his shirt revealing the series of scars on his torso.

He tucked his wings flat and put on the black t-shirt.

Max smiled and said, "There are slits in the back so you can slide you wings out."

Sora nodded and slid his wings though the the barely noticable holes.

I looked at Sora and asked, "Can I..."

He nodded and pulled his wing up to me. I placed my hands against the arangment of white and silver feathers.

I said, "They're so beautiful."

Riku looked at the group and said, "Since you said you have bird DNA, do you know what birds your mixed with?"

Sora smiled and said, "When we were there Angel read one of the whitecoats minds and said, that they used falcon DNA for me."

Max smiled and said, "Hawk."

Fang said, "Raven."

Iggy said, "Seagull."

Nudge said, "Albatross."

Gasman said, "Owl."

Angel smiled and said, "Swan."

I smiled and said, "That's incredible."

Sora looked at Riku and said, "Hey do you have any potions left?"

I looked at Sora seeing the cuts and scars on his arms.

I looked at the other kids who until now I just noticed that they were in the same condition.

Riku pulled off his bag and held out seven potions.

He smiled and said, "Drink up."

Each member of the group pick up the small bottle.

Iggy opened it and smell it. He held his head back and asked, "What is this stuff?"

Sora smiled and quickly downed the green liquid.

He held up his arm showing his cuts as they glowed green and sealed closed.

Max smiled and said, "Whoa..."

Iggy yelled, "Hello can't see here? What happening?"

Fang shoved the bottled into Iggy's mouth and said, "Shut and drink it."

The rest of them drank it and watched in amazment as there cuts and wounds disappeared.

Sora smiled and said, "Scince isn't the only thing out there. There's magic too."

Nudge jumped up in excitement and said, "That is awsome! I can't belive that I drank something magical."

Sora held out his hand and concentrated.

His keyblade appeared, but strangely different. The keyblade was the kingdom key but the keychain had set of silver wings on it.

Gasman looked at it and said, "That's what you were talking about right? The keyblade."

He nodded and said, "It was until now my body was strong enough to summon it."

He twirled in his hand an tossed into the air.

It vainshed in a cloud of sparkles.

Max looked at Sora and said, "So that means the Heartless are real too."

He laughed and said, "Do you think I made that stuff up, I mean Angel read my mind as I told you."

She looked down and said, "I was just hoping it wasn't."

Yeah, I wish it wasn't true too.

I wished we could have stayed on the island.

Angel gave a yawn and walked over to Max.

Max spread her wings and wrapped them around Angel and herself.

She smiled and said, "I think that's a sign that it's bed time."

Nudge, Gasman, and Iggy leant against the walls and wrapped themselves in their wings.

Fang grabbed two blankets and hand it to me and Riku.

I smiled and said, "Thank you."

He nodded and found a place against the wall where he wrapped himself in his pitch black wings.

Total curled into a ball next to Max and Angel.

Riku and I layed on the floor.

Sora found a place against the wall as well he wrapped his wings in and smiled.

I closed my eyes and fell into the first goodnight sleep, I've had in months.

We finally found him.