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Wings Of Fire
Metal Talons
By Cookie C. Crow
Chapter one Uzi
Uzi was walking down the Kingdom Halls.
She was walking to her class to present her project, which she may have or may not have took some creative liberties. Her mid night wings shimmered in the shadows of the crystal lit cave. Her bright purple eyes glowed from behind the door way, as she stopped to double check her bags. Uzi decided to put some music on her phone while walking down the hall, so she could keep her mind steady. *Electromagnetic gun, check. Blue prints, check. Sketch books, check. Bla bla bla. My boring Uni stuff. This should be every thing.* she thought to herself before continuing down the hall, and entered the room. She sat at her seat next to that on sky wing who always seemed to have their head on fire. Literally, their horns and neck scale were literally on fire. She set her bag away from him, out of fear he might be a fire scale, or at least part fire scale. As she waited for the teacher to walk in, Uzi decided to resign the plans she had for tonight, in her head. She double checked her blue prints, she double checked everything. She couldn’t let *anything* wrong happen tonight, for this could change the wold. This could change the outcome come of the war. This could change-!
“Uzi?” A voice from behind her said. “Are you good? You seem so distracted.” He chuckled.
Uzi looked behind her and realized it was Thad. His beetle like wings flickered behind him. Uzi quickly put her stuff away and turned to look at him. “Oh, you know, I was just looking over my work.” She lied.
“Come on Uzi. You know you can tell me. I promise no one else will know.” Thad grind at her in a curious way.
Uzi barked, “I told you! I’m just looking over work!”
Suddenly the bright pink rain wing from behind her chimed in. “Ha! ya right. *You* do your work? Don’t make me laugh.”
Uzi glared at the rain wing. It was Lizzie. Uzi then snapped at her, “You’re just jealous of how cool I am!”
“Uzi, I’d *never* be jealous of *you.*” Lizzie’s tone had a slight snarky ness to it.
“Bite me!” Uzi responded in anger. She realized that Thad had decided to walk to his seat while she was arguing with Lizzie. Uzi looked back at Lizzie who was now talking to Doll and Rebecca about how dumb she was and stuff. Uzi held back the urge to spit fire at her. As everyone settled down, the teacher dragged himself in with a sigh. His spotted tail dragging behind him. He stretched his sea foam green talons across the bored, wiping of marker marks some student did while he was gone. He then sat firmly in his desk, and faced the class.
“To day is the dead line to present your projects,” He said in a monotoned voice. “Before you present them though, I’ll be going over the safety equipment you need for it, and reviewing the steps. Now then the-“
The teachers voice blended into the back ground as Uzi stared at the screen blankly. *uuuuuuuugh! This is so boring!! She thought to herself. The teacher stretched his deep blue wings for a second before flipping a watermelon in his talons, some how keeping the same blank expression. Uzi yawned, then looked around the room. Then looked back. *get to the good part already!* her mind complained. Thirty minutes had passed, and the teacher finally concluded. Uzi got excited and started grabbing her electromagnetic amplifier gun out of her bag, that was before he pointed to Lizzie and said that she could go first. Which of course he’d choose his daughter first. Of course he would. Some times Uzi wondered how they were even related. The only thing they have in common is that they’re rain wings. Uzi had sit through TEN more, grueling, minutes of watermelon talk. Uzi jumped from her seat when the teacher finally called on her. She grabbed her electromagnetic amplifier gun and put on her slide show she had made for the class. The teacher said, putting his talon on his face. Uzi started her speech, she stood firmly in-front of the bored.
“For twenty years we’ve been fighting a war against an enemy who claimed their greater than us! They’ve killed our dragons, and shun us into hiding! For twenty years, we’ve had to live in fear, to the point where we don’t even do anything about it! So for *my* project,” she said in an ironically prideful tone, “I’ve decided to make this sick as hell rail gun!”
The teacher shook her head as some of the students gasped, and others held back a laugh. Uzi glared at Lizzie at the mention of laugh. The teacher sighed, walking up to her.
“And what does this have to do with how to turn watermelons into an energy source?” The teacher spoke.
“Well. Um…” Uzi stayed silent for a bit. “So, it doesn’t count?”
The teacher looked at her with a “what do you mean? Of course not,” face. He then sighed. “Put it away before you hurt yourself.”
“Ya! I’m sure it doesn’t even work!” Rebeca called out.
“Honestly, for once I agree with Rebeca.” The sky wing flicked his golden tail.
Something about this ticked Uzi off. She then yelled, “oh ya! Who said it didn’t work!” She flicked the switch, “who said I need to finish to in order for it to work?!” The gun then blew up in her face, as everyone gasped, Uzi fell unconscious. Everything went black, as she heard Thad call her name in concern.