A few days after Tango discovers that he can eat gold and thoroughly traumatizes Doc; pay back for the fish incident, he's in the shopping district restocking his shops. He's made about a stack of diamonds and is humming a bit as he restocks. He's about halfway done with the restocking when his back starts throbbing with pain. He winces but continues on. As he's leaving the rocket shop to head over to the concrete shop, someone from behind asks if he's ok.
Turning around Tango spots Keralis sitting in the shade of Xisuma's honey store, "I'm fine, my back started aching a bit."
Keralis makes a slight buzzing sound as he hops down and joins Tango on the road, "Be careful, the meteor is still active."
"I will be," Tango says, inhaling sharply as his tail bone throbs painfully. He crumples to the ground as white-hot pain rockets up his spine.
Seeing this Keralis instantly calls Xisuma, before sitting down next to Tango and talking softly asking him questions trying to distract him from the pain. This proves pointless as Tango passes out a few seconds later.
A few moments later Xisuma shows up, takes one look, and teleports them to Tango's base. Where he gently picks him up and sets him down on his bed. Turning to Keralis he instructs him to go and get Impulse and Zedaph.
Keralis runs off his wings fluttering nervously as he tries to find a way down. Xisuma pulls a few potions from his bags and slowly gives them to Tango taking extra care to prevent him from choking. As he waits for the others to show up his tail gently sways as he paces back and forth.
A few minutes later Zedaph and Impulse arrive saying something about Keralis having to deal with something at his base. After about thirty minutes it's apparent as to why Tango had collapsed. What seems to be a tail is slowly growing from his back.
After a few hours it appears to have stopped growing. It's about as thick around as a quarter and it was about three feet long stopping just above his ankles. By this time the sun is setting so they decide to go to sleep and deal with this in the morning.
Surprisingly Tango is the first one awake, in his sleep-filled haze he doesn't realize that he has a new limb until it hits his leg as he brushes his teeth. He stumbles back until he hits the wall. A few moments later a knock sounds at the door and Zedaph calls through, "Tango, you in there?"
In response Tango opens the door looking at Zedaph with wide eyes, all color slowly leaching away. He stumbles out of the bathroom and into his sitting room where he collapses face-first into the couch, "Can someone explain what happened?"
Xisuma sits on the floor next to Tango and explains what had happened the day before. Before asking if anything else was hurting.
Tango considers this for a few minutes before answering, "My shoulders, it feels really weird just below my shoulder blades."
Xisuma nods for a moment writing something down in his notebook before snapping it closed and standing up, carefully pulling Tango to his feet, "Can you walk to the wall and back?"
Tango gives Xisuma an inquisitive look before complying and he attempts to walk over to the far wall. He only makes it a few feet before he trips himself up by getting his tail curled around his leg.
When the bare skin on the tail touches his leg he shudders, lifting the tail away from himself. Seeing Tango almost completely restricting the movements of the tail, Xisuma walks over and starts explaining why he should let the tail do what it wants.
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A few hours of hard work practicing walking later and, Tango's ready to be done for a while and just wants to go back to sleep. At Xisuma's prompting he walks around the base once more before carefully sitting down in a chair taking extra care not to squish his tail.
"Earlier you mentioned the area below your shoulder blade was feeling odd, has that changed at all?" Xisuma asks a bit distracted since EX and Zedaph were whispering back and forth about something looking rather suspicious. As if feeling his brother's eyes on him EX sticks tongue out and then disappears in a flash of light.
"Um, it feels like somethings, moving. No, it feels like something's growing? Like it feels like something under pressure," Tango tries to explain from his seat where he wiggles a bit uncomfortable.
Xisuma squints walking over to Tango, he has him stand up and he gently presses down on his back around the area Tango said was feeling weird, "Oh, wings."
"Wings! Are you kidding me?" Tango grumbles hissing a bit through his fangs. Before slumping down, head in his hands.
Impulse walks over Zedaph right behind him, they lean over and give Tango a hug taking extra care not to hurt his back or tail.
A few days later the wings were finally growing in, the first day they only grew out to his elbows when he stretched them out. They have a thick layer of gray downy feathers covering them.
Tango, Zedaph, and Impulse were all in Zedaph's cave of contraptions, they were having fun and messing around. Tango was quickly adjusting to the wings and was getting used to the weight of them on his back.
"Tango," Zedaph starts to speak, "Um, your feathers are shedding."
Tango whirls his head around trying to see the wings before giving up and asking Impulse what was happening.
"It looks like your wings are getting ready to grow to the next stage," Impulse says after a few minutes of inspecting the wings that were quivering nervously.
Tango shivers a bit at the odd feeling of the wings movement, "Ok, so they should just get bigger and not have the downy feathers?"
Zedaph shrugs, "Probably, I mean we probably won't know for sure until it happens."
In the following week, the wings grow to full size, they are about ten feet in length with mostly gold feathers with some red and rust-colored ones closer to the edge.
It took a few days for him to be able to get off the ground and for him to be able to properly fly and not just hover in one spot.
It was about midday when Tango showed up at Impulse's base, having flown there. He was understandably shaky as he was still learning and there wasn't someone else with functional wings on the server.
He flies through the waterfall entrance and clumsily lands almost tripping over his tail that was happily wagging, "Impulse, check it out."
"Nice, that was a pretty good entrance and landing," Impulse says as he looks at Tango's wings that were fully extended and flapping softly. His tail wriggling excitedly.
Tango grins before leaving to go show off his wings to more people. It's rather reminiscent of a bird showing off his feathers.
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"IMPULSE! Look!" Tango yells as he excitedly flies into his friend's base.
Impulse who was knee-deep in redstone trying to construct a farm looks up at Tango who's grinning ear to ear, "What?"
Tango jumps off the auto smelter and down to Impulse's level, "My tail, it's got some fur on it," He says flicking said tail into his friend's face, his wings quivering in happiness.
Leaning back to avoid getting bumped in the face, Impulse looks at the tail more closely and indeed there was a thin layer of blond fur covering it. He smiles up at his friend as he pulls himself out of his redstone, "That's great, I'm glad that it's finally growing in."
Smiling wildly Tango flaps his wings a few times, "It's super soft too," He says, As he flutters his wings, drawing them close to his back. He and Impulse take a few more minutes talking and then Tango heads off back to his base and Impulse continues his work on some redstone.
Over the course of a couple of hours the fur on Tango's tail grows in completely. It was a bright blond and the end of the tail had a small golden bit of extra fluff, which is a small tuft of fur. The fur on his tail is incredibly soft and would fluff up if he gets startled.
A few hours later Tango is brushing his tail and making an attempt to preen his feathers. A loud crash coming from his base startles him and he accidentally pulls a feather out from his wing. Hissing in pain he stumbles out of his room to find the source of the noise. He didn't notice at first, but his wings were suddenly shrouded in flames, his tail's tuft was also flaming. In an attempt to look bigger and more intimidating. He slowly walks out into the main Area of his base, Zedaph, was standing awkwardly having tripped over an anvil, "Um, sorry... Oh my gosh! You're on fire!"
"What!?" Tango says spinning around to look at his wings. The fire flares for a moment before disappearing, except for the little bit of fire on the top of his tail.
"Did you know you could do that?"
Tango shakes his head before moving his tail up to eye level squinting at the small flame on it.
Zedaph walks over and looks at the flaming appendage curiously before extending a hand and moving closer to the flame. Tango gives Zedaph a panicked look as he touches the flame, "Calm down Tango, the fire isn't even hot. It's just warm."
"You didn't know that," Tango exclaims as the fire on his tail finally stuffs out.
Zedaph gives Tango an apologize look before asking, "Do you need help with your wings? The feathers are all janky."
Tango slowly looks Zedaph in the eye before nodding, "They need preening, I don't really know how I'm supposed to do it."
"Ok, let's see, we probably just need to brush the feathers out with something," Zedaph says looking Through his pockets to find something suitable.
He finds a couple of pens and decides that they will work and he and Tango set off with preening. Impulse walks in about thirty minutes later and is a bit confused about what was going on, but helps anyway. Once they finish Tango's wings look nice and neat with an even coating of oils. They are pretty exhausted but overall pleased with how it turned out.