A Girl, her Wings, and Everything in between

Chapter 14: Claire's second charm

Author's note:

We have reached chapter 28/2! How do you guys feel?
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Claire sat in her chair at home while she was doing homework on her tablet. It was already a year since she was registered for this virtual school. It was great that she was in a virtual school, though, because if she was in a normal school, she would have to wear a crown of flowers and seaweed to school everyday, which was pretty awkward. That was because the high school near their house was a school founded in 14898 and the uniform had not changed since. At the start, since the area was full of people with strange minds, they thought that putting seaweed on girls' hair would make them have more children. Of course, that was fake.

Well, she was doing her homework and scratching her hair because she did not know how to do a question. Name the process of humans turning into zombies. The answer was not 'zombification' or 'zombyocation'; it was something else.

Suddenly, as if by magic, Claire's wings began to fold into a jacket that covered her arms, now paralyzed, and then feathers extended to her legs, and to her toes. She began to look like Bomby.

"BOMBY!!!" Bomby shouted from her door. He would say this word whenever he sees anyone without arms. Very disrespectful, everyone thought of him.

Eventually, Claire's wings merged. Then, they went on to cover her collar, making her impossible to escape. "Help!" Claire tried to shout, but a ball of feathers were thrown into her mouth. Bomby ran out of the room.

Once Bomby was out of the room, a few strands of Claire's hair became green. Then, a crown made of seaweed and ivy formed. This crown then dropped onto the floor.

A feather picked it up an put it onto Claire's head. Then, it tied Claire's hair onto the crown with an impossible knot. The crown then grew roots (Claire did not see it, but she felt it) which pierced into Claire's brain. Claire shrieked in pain, but no sound came out. Maybe there's sound, but too small to be heard.

Once her skull became full of holes, the ivy covered her face. She thought she closed her eyes, as a spectrum of colours began to form.

When she woke up, she was still stuck in the feathers, but this time they were feeling like her mother's wings. She could move her hands and her legs. Her wings experienced extreme discomfort. She moved them and the feathers on her back broke.The feathers on her hands and legs were stuck to her like glue.

Her brain knew all the answers to the questions , maybe due to the crown's memory. Who knows? Plants may have a memory system and this crown may have a better memory system than Claire's. Claire touched her head and to her horror, the crown was fixed permanently to her brain! But she smiled. This crown meant she would know the answer to every question asked.

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Back in Carren Cty, there was 0 people left, excluding the king, the prince and a few prisoners. The man who carries the right to kill people was still left. The king was giving the killing of people a break, as he was recovering from dengue fever. His cook put jalapeños in his food as to decrease the fever, but it did not work (Of course!)

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Brian was playing with his collection of feathers again. This collection started as he was a young kid: he plucked a feather from his mother's left wing. That was his first feather.

Till now, he had 610 feathers already, and all of them were from different birds. One was from his sister, one from a Hallugis Sixety, and one from Bomby (he plucked one from a baby bird). The fluffies always had been a part of his experiments to create a real unicorn from a white-coloured horse. Most failed, though. But one passed. The experiment killed the horse.

Brian then looked at the part of the ring he had taken from Claire. He had analysed and called it Demesymancoin. Demesymancoin (pronounced as De-me-SE-man-coin) was a new material found so he promised to keep it properly. The material had 232 protons and 231 electrons.

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Meanwhile, Claire was having a nap. The feathers dropped onto her bed and formed a nest. Claire's skin became fairer and her looks changed dramatically. However, she did not realize it.