Winged People (Darius/Open)

Her cheeks were flushed with a light shade of pink in reaction to the compliment the man had given her. "Beautiful, huh? Well, you just wait and see my animal form. I'm sure then you wouldn't think I'm beautiful." she threatened and flashed her pearly white fangs at the boy. It was more like the truth than a threat. Her animal form was hideous to several people. It would surprise her if the man actually thought her animal form was cute. Alice thought bats were cute before she even found out that she could turn into one. The whole time she thought she was a human, but she got the age where her shifting powers started to activate and take control.

It was hard to control it. She was still trying to keep herself from transforming whenever she got angry, although, she couldn't do much damage in her bat form. All she could do was go on a bloody rampage and kill the small animals in the forest. Okay, so maybe she could do some damage, but there wasn't much she could do to a human or a larger animal. Alice shuffled her feet nervously and looked down at them, blushing a little bit more. The man was indeed very handsome. "Um... I'm new to the school. My name is Alice.." She introduced herself and glanced up at Darius a few times.

The light shade of pink immediately changed to red. What the heck was wrong with him? How dare he embarrass her like that! Saying that he liked her feisty attitude and that she was beautiful. It was pretty clear that he didn't know what she was. Her face almost turned red with embarrassment at the little nickname Darius gave her. Ally cat~ Ally bat~ Oh gosh... There was no way she was an Ally Cat. Alice hated cats because they would play around with her wings! Her wings almost got tore off by a cat when she was in her bat form. The girl started to calm herself down and listened to the man speak. A white falcon? I have never seen one of those before. "Ah~ Are you ready to hear this, Darius?" Alice ran up to the man and whispered in his ear, "I'm a vampire bat." She attempted to playfully nip at his ear with her fangs and she giggled to herself, looking up at him with those crimson red eyes of hers.

Yep, it was official. There was something mentally wrong with Darius. He liked her feisty attitude, he said that she was beautiful, and he thought bats were pretty cute!? Alice didn't believe a word he said. Of course, Alice had thought a lot of things were cute that people thought were disgusting and she wasn't mentally unstable. The bat remembered when she was a little girl that she had a childhood friend. It was a boy, and she was deeply in love with him. They would always play house together and talk about the future. The boy said he wanted to marry her when they got older. Then, her childhood friend made another friend and it was a girl. They started playing together, and the boy completely forgot about Alice.

It was coming up to Alice's tenth birthday and she invited her childhood friend over to celebrate it. She only wanted him at her party and yet he invited his little girl friend. Alice was very unhappy and she attacked the girl. That's when the boy found out that she was a half-blood. He called her a monster and then she never saw him or the other girl again. Her body shook slightly in hesitation as it brought back the memories. "Y-Yes. Who knows it might be fun~ I like to fly." Alice stretched out her wings and started to flap her wings to where she was hovering over the ground a little bit. She wasn't sure if her wings were able to carry her in her human form. She wanted to try to fly if she could.

"Hey, it's not that easy, you know!" she snapped and flapped her bat wings. Come on.. Don't fail on me now. Alice flapped her wings a little harder and started to fly up into the air. It just took a little more strength than usual to get into the sky. It had been so long since she last flew in her human form with her wings. She laughed as she watched Darius do some sky tricks. Alice clapped her hands together and curtsied to the king of the sky. He owned it like no one else and did his own tricks. It would probably take a while for Alice to get her wings to do that in her human form. "Ha ha~ I'll race you to the end of the forest! One, two, three, go!" she said really fast and zoomed over the trees. Every once in a while she would look back to see if Darius was following. "Now, who's the slowpoke~!"

Alice rolled her eyes at Darius and playfully pushed him but not enough to make him fall over. "Oh, so I just brought out the best in you?" There was a shocker. They didn't even know each other and like magic, Alice happened to bring out the fun side of Darius. It was kind of funny that Alice was starting to warm up to the man. He wasn't that bad. He thought bats were cute and he liked to fly. Alice shook her head and gave Darius a challenging look. "Oh, noooooo~ I'm not going to let you distract me like that. I'm going to win this race." she said before she flapped her wings hard, blowing a gust of wind into Darius's face. That was one thing she could do with her wings. If she flapped them hard enough, it would create a gust of wind. That was a way of defense against humans and other half-bloods. Sometimes she could create big ones and knock someone out from underneath their feet. Alice was sure Darius would be able to do that as well as any other winged half-blood.

The bat girl was shocked at the speed Darius was going. It was a race after all. There wasn't any sugarcoating or anything like that allowed in a race. Alice gave it her all until she got to the edge of the forest. Of course, Darius was waiting for her while she was dragging herself along. "Not... fair!" she complained and tried to catch her breath. Her wings ached in pain because she wasn't used to carrying so much weight. Her little bat body was no problem at all. Her human body gave her all kinds of problems. Alice flew over to a tree and sat on the top of it so she could take a break from flying. She pulled her knees up to her chest and thought about the question and how she should answer back. "Well, I've never been to one before... Is it fun? And, when you ask someone to the school dance, does that mean you want them to go with you as your date? Do I have to dress up?"

"O-Okay. I'll try to find something nice to wear." Alice smiled at Darius and swung her legs back and forth, humming to herself happily. It sounded like it would be fun as long as no one bothered her. She would probably be stuck to Darius side the whole time since she had never been to a school dance before. Darius had just worked a miracle. Normally, she wouldn't be into such things, but she thought she might as well give it a shot. Darius was a nice guy so it wouldn't hurt her to just go with him to the school dance. "But, I don't know if I'm good at dancing. I don't want to make a fool out of myself and embarrass you."

The bat whimpered and flapped her black wings, following Darius above the clouds. Her wings were still getting used to flying around with the extra weight. It sucked that Darius couldn't take her hand and she would just float in the sky without having to use her wings to keep herself up. Alice shrugged a little as if the sunset was no big deal. "Yeah... I guess it's okay." She watched the sunset and realized that it wasn't that bad. It was very beautiful. "So, you like sunsets? I prefer the nighttime especially if there is a starry night sky. I lived in the city when I was little. The lights were so bright at nighttime that you could barely see any stars."