“Okay.” I sigh. “I think that will make me feel better.”
“It definitely will,” Raven says.
Jayden opens the door to the academic building and we make our way through the empty halls. It’s eerily silent in here with everyone out getting ready for training. Classes have stopped for the most part because battle training takes precedent right now with war looming over our heads.
When we are almost to the healers’ offices, we hear a crash, then a high-pitched scream follows. It’s coming from the healers’ offices. Weapons at the ready, we rush inside but what we find is unbelievable.
Raven bursts into laughter. “What the hell happened here?”
Kira spins around with her hands raised as if she’s going to fight us. She blinks and slumps her shoulders as she turns back to Dax and Draven. Draven has massive scaly black wings and his eyes are nearly black.
“What did she do?” I ask. “How the fuck do you have wings?”
Draven tilts his head to the side. “I don’t know. She used a spell I have never heard of. I’m not even sure if this was her intention.”
“Okay, so do you know if those are permanent or if you can like retract them or something?” I ask. “Maybe we should get Greyson. Are you a shifter now?”
“I don’t know. The pain when they ripped from my back was excruciating. Why aren’t you freaking out about this?” Draven raises a brow at me.
“Well, we are all pretty much freaks now.” I point to myself, Jayden, and Raven.
Raven scoffs, “We are not freaks. We are fabulous.”
“I mean obviously,” I agree. “We are also crazy powerful hybrid type creatures. If this is permanent, then Draven needs help figuring out limitations, like can he fly? How do we test these things?”
“Your brain is beautiful, baby. You don’t even react to weird shit anymore. You just figure out how to run with it.” Jayden kisses my temple.
“What good does it do to freak out about shit we can’t change?” I ask.
It doesn’t do anyone any favors to freak out. What’s done is done and now we need to adapt to this new revelation. Find out as much as possible about what this means and how we can use it to our advantage.
Dax grins. “The wings are pretty badass.”
Dax runs a finger down one of the scaled wings and Draven shudders. “Uhh, maybe don’t do that again. They’re… sensitive.”
Kira raises a brow at Draven but he avoids her eyes and not so subtly adjusts himself. This time it’s me who bursts into laughter when Dax’s eyes widen and he takes a step away from Draven.
Kira elbows Dax in the side as he opens his mouth, probably to say something crude, and he snaps it shut before anything comes out.
“Thad, can you go get Greyson? I think he’s the only one who can help with this. What did the healer say?”
“Nothing,” Kira grumbles. “They’ve never seen anything like it before, so we have no idea what’s happening.”
“We need to talk to that bitch Bethany and find out where she learned it and what it’s supposed to do,” Raven says with a snarl.
“While it’s cool, people shouldn’t be throwing magic around like that. She could seriously fuck someone up with it.” My shoulders slump.
“Agreed,” Draven says. “I don’t know that I would want to reverse it, though. Once the pain stopped, I felt powerful, like I can do anything.”
The wings on his back twitch and flutter behind him. He turns to the side to get a better look and I gasp. They are exactly what I would imagine a dragon’s wings would look like. They are onyx with veins and tiny bones running all the way through them. There’s an almost leathery appearance to the flesh on the wings. It appears delicate.
“That’s your choice if we can even have it reversed. We also don’t know if this is permanent or not so you may not have a choice in the matter,” I say.
“We will figure things out as they come, like we always do.” Jayden squeezes my hip.
“What’s going on,” Greyson says and then gasps. “What the hell happened to you?”
“All we know is that my sister used some strange magic and it gave me dragon wings.” Draven shrugs.
