a feather in the wind

    A girl named Ashla picks a very blue feather out from the oncoming wind, finding it beautiful, which was nice considering her horrid day. Ashla is a brunette with red eyes who had hoped to get a position in the Navy as a pilot, but couldn't control her planes, and without a collage, family or any money to fall back on, she had nowhere to go, considering she's pretty paranoid towards people she doesn't know, she is without other friends. Shame too because, she's really nice once you get to know her. "caught that feather out of the air did you?" a man said wearing a captain's uniform, much older than her. "That feather belongs to the rare bird, Articuno, which probably means that it's probably headed back to its nest." "excuse me?" Ashla said "Who are you and why are you talking to me." "My apologies ma'am," the man said "I'm captain Rusty Bay Raymond and I would like to take you on a trip to the sea foam islands, where the legendary bird sleeps." "Um, how do I know this isn't an elaborate trap to rape and kill me?" Ashla said. "Well, can't fault your logic seeing how you just met me," Capt. Raymond said "But answer me this, if I was to do any of those things, what would I have to gain out of it and what would you lose, is this risk better than forever living at the harbor?" Ashla thought for a moment and decided to come along with Capt. Raymond.

     Raymond took Ashla and her things to his private ship, where she met with the rest of the crew. "Now, in return for this round trip, I'll admit." Raymond began, "You will have to do a little work aboard this ship, I'll give you some time to set up the things in your room before we take off. After the boat set sail  Ashla decides to talk with her crew mates. "So why are all you here?" she asked "Why else?" one said "To finally catch legendary bird, they say it holds tremendous power, and whoever owns it would become nearly unstoppable." "Are you sure you can capture it, if it's as powerful as you claim, wouldn't be impossible to capture?" Ashla said. the group laughed. "Not as long as you have the right tools for the job." the crew responded, nets, harpoons, and enough lead to kill the entire crew, no reinforcements required." Ashla was a little curious and wanted to see if they would succeed, so she remained quiet. Three days later the Sea foam islands were within sight. "Ashla," Capt Raymond said "You are about to meet the highlight of your entire life, I can almost feel her-- I mean its presence." strange, he referred to it as if it had a gender, as if he knew it, but it was probably nothing.

    After the ship docked the crew was assigned to set up camp while the captain explored on ahead, he also asked Ashla to come along with him. They were near the bottom of the cave when Raymond began to confess. "Ashla, I must admit to something, I have in fact been here before, and I have always come here to make sure that this legend stays alive and well, and I brought you here because, well..." Raymond showed Ashla Articuno's now vacant nest. "Someone had either captured or even killed the previous incarnation, and whenever that happens I have to find anther to take the place of the last, and this is a very big honor to be offered this very important job." Raymond pulled a syringe shaped like a feather from his pocket. "Please Ashla, you have no idea how important this creature is." Ashla had nothing to lose so she decided to accept. Raymond injects the feather into her as she begins to feel strange. She  found her arms were growing longer, larger, and sprouting blue feathers, she formed wings. She looked at her chest to find it was tearing through her shirt, leaving thick, downy white plumage on the front but blue feathers on the back, her spine was cracking to better suit her. her upper thighs swelled with feathers covering it, but her lower legs began to turn scaly and thin, while her feet spread into large talons, a long feather came out her rear forming a tail. Last was her head, her neck swelled, the feathers soon followed, her mouth and nose began to melt to form a beak, her eyes expanded to fit her new skull, to finish her red hair reformed into a light blue crest.

   Ashla looked at her new body, not with anger or dis pair, but with excitement and joy, she began to fly around the area and nuzzled up to Capt. Raymond. "I'm glad you enjoyed this, I'll have to tell the crew I saw noting and then we'll leave you alone." Raymond said when a net came from out of nowhere and trapped Ashla within it. "What are you doing?" Raymond said "I told you to set up camp outside." "We didn't want to miss out this time." the crew said "And now we'll finally have it to ourselves." They then proceeded to beat and shoot at Ashla. "No, stop now!" the captain pleaded. "Rrrr, I never thought I'd have to use this." Raymond pulled out a red feather and stabbed it into himself. Ashla opened her eyes when she found that the net was burned off her. She was staring at a giant flaming bird fending off the crew, urging her to go, she flew away, leaving her former captain to die at the  hands of his own crew.

   She then went on to live her life as a free bird, and hopes to one day set her captain free