Chapter-9 Laura Discovers Her Wings

I barely slept for some hours when Lydia came to wake me up in my room. Lydia said shaking my entire body, " Laura. Get up now. It is morning ". I rubbed my eyes and asked, " What is the time right now. I don't think that I slept much. Let me sleep a bit please." Suddenly I heard Max's voice. He said, " Get up. You have to train to learn to control your powers. Don't you want to master your powers."

" Right. I have training to do but what is the time?", I asked picking up the alarm clock to see the time and screamed, "3:30am! Are you out of your mind, Max. You expect me to train at 3:30am. The sun is not even out. Everyone is sleeping. I also need to sleep. Wake me up at 6:00am."

Max replied, " You have to train in a town full of people. You expect to train when all humans are up. Do you want to show your powers to the humans? Do you want to tell them that you are a supernatural creature? They will kill you if they saw that you have powers. We need to practice at dark." I said, " Okay fine, I am getting up. But who will I train with? It's only you who is present over here? " Max replied, " That is my headache. I will do something about that. You go and get ready for training. You only have half an hour. Now, get up."

I got out of the bed and went to the bathroom, cursing Max under my breath for waking me up. I got dressed in my exercise clothes and went to the lawn. I found out that Max and Lydia were already there waiting for me.

I asked Max, " Why is Lydia over here? Won't it be dangerous for her over here?"

Max replied, " First we will learn how to fly properly. After you have mastered that, we will go to mind reading, then laser and then your power of talking to animals. Honestly, I have never seen anyone with the power to talk to animals. I am quite surprised with this power of yours. Anyway, Lydia wanted to see you fly and she forcefully tagged along. I refused but she did not listen and said, ' I have never seen my sister use her powers. I also want to see her fly, read minds everything.' I could not refuse her because I felt bad for her too. Also, I was reminded of my sister. She will not be present when we will practice laser power. Don't worry. Now let's begin. "

I asked him, " What am I supposed to do? " He replied, " First, I need to know the first time you discovered your powers."

I replied, " I don't remember clearly because I was very young. I have a faint picture in my mind. I was about to fall from a height. I don't remember where and why but I was hanging on a railing. When I lost my grip, wings appeared on my back and I started flying. After some time the wings vanished from my back. "

Max said, " It was a life and death situation so they appeared but, now you need to learn to learn to get them appear voluntarily. First, focus. Then think that you want your wings to appear." I followed whatever Max instructed me and it really worked. Wings appeared on my back just by focussing and wanting them to appear. I was on cloud nine with this small achievement.

I showed them to Max. He said, " Good job. Now we need to learn how to Fly properly."

" Yes sir", I said, teasingly. 

Lydia screamed, " Wow Laura! Your wings are so beautifull. I am jealous that you have such beautifull wings." With my concentration on my wings and showing them off to Max, I had forgotten that Lydia was also there. I asked Lydia, " Do you want to touch them?"

Lydia said, " Really? Can I touch them?",she asked Max instead of me. "Can I really touch them? They won't break, right Max? If I will touch them it won't hurt my sister, right? "

Max patted her head and said, " Of course. They are part of Laura's body. Just like her arms and legs. You can touch them and they will neither break nor hurt Laura." I smiled at this interaction. Lydia came forward and touched my wings like she was touching a very delicate glass showpiece and exclaimed, "Wow! They are awesome. I wish I could show them to my friends. They will be so jealous of me then."

I immediatly said, " No Lydia. You can't tell anyone about my powers" She replied, " I know. I just wished. Don't worry, Laura. I will not tell anyone about you."

She then asked me, " Laura, did it hurt when wings came out?"

I, without thinking much, replied honestly, " Yes it hurt a bit. I felt like something was piercing my skin."

Lydia said ,"Max, I don't think we should continue the training. My sister is getting hurt in this training."

Max replied, " It was the first time she made her wings appear. Of course, it will hurt a bit but it will get better with time and training. Now Laura, we will practice flying. Listen to me properly and focus." I said, " Max wait, can I quickly go in my room to have a look at my wings first? This is my first time too to see and feel my wings. By seeing Lydia's reaction, I am also curious how my wings look, please".

Max sternly replied, " Laura, we don't have all day. They are your wings you can look at them any time but we can't practice flying all day. Now focus. " I knew he was right but I want him to be a lenient in the training. Anyway, I sighed and agreed. He said, " Now you need to focus and and think that you want to fly. Then you need to push your wings above to make them flap. Here, put on this bluetooth earphone so that I can instruct you how to change direction." and he gave me an earphone. I put them on and did as he instructed. I was able to fly for approximately 30cm from the ground and then I fell.

Max and Lydia came running to me and said, " Are you okay? "

" I am okay but now I am feeling very tired and am feeling like I will faint now. I am exhausted. " , I replied.

Max said helping me up on my feet, " Let's continue tomorrow. You need to work on your stamina too. Anyway, you did a good job considering this as your first time. You can go and rest now."

We all went back and saw mom cooking breakfast for us.

She asked ," Max, what can I make for you? What do werewolves have for breakfast?

" Anything is fine, ma'am. We can eat everything that humans eat.", he replied.

At the table mom asked us what I did in today's training. I told her everything and she, like Lydia also wanted to see my wings.

" Mom, I am tired and don't think I can make wings appear now.", I said. 

" No problem, sweetheart. I can see them when you will train tomorrow.", Mom replied. 

After breakfast, I went to Max and said, " We will also practice tonight after dinner till 11:00pm amd then in the morning too".

Max asked, " Why? This training will exhaust you so don't push yourself too hard. You did great today and will soon learn to control all your powers."

I replied, " I know but I want it to be done quickly. I feel like I need to master my powers as soon as possible." and I really felt it but I don't know why. I feel an urge to learn all my powers now that I have someone to teach me.

I went to my room to get ready for school and before changing into my uniform, I stood in front of the mirror to see my wings. I did everything as I did in the morning and my wings reappeared. I saw that my wings were really pretty. They were huge and were of purple and golden colour. I could make them appear and disappear. I, then realised that I am getting late for school. I changed into my uniform and found Max and Lydia at the gate.

I asked, "Max, Where are you going?".

" I am going to my school for today's class and for my transfer certificate to your school. Can you drop me to the bus stop? " , he replied.

Lydia exclaimed, " You go to school? Why will a werewolf need to go to school? "

I smiled but Max got annoyed and said, " Why do humans presume that supernatural creatures don't need to study?"

I asked Lydia to be quiet and agreed to drop him to the bus stop.

At school, Eliza and Taylor grabbed me and asked me about my training. I told them everything, even my achievement. They also wanted to see my wings and wanted to join me for training. I was slowly getting annoyed that everyone has so much interest in my wings. Then I remembered all this is new to them too.

I said, " Let's go to class first. We can talk in lunch period." In class our teacher announced that our vacation will begin from tomorrow and We all were very excited. It meant that I can focus on training and I need not worry about school. I was ecstatic.

At lunch period, I said to Eliza and Taylor, " I will train tonight after dinner with Max too. If you want, you guys can come and stay with us for the training. But remember that we only train in dark so that other people can't see us so, you will have to sacrifice your training."

They replied, " Of course we can do it."

I, then said, " By the way Taylor, why didn't Oliver come to school today? Do you know? "

Taylor replied, " Yesterday, after you and Max left, Oliver was upset for some reason. I called to check up on him and also thought to ask him where he went yesterday night but when I called him, he hurridely answered the phone and was sounded worried about something.

He said 'Taylor, I need to go back to my home for some days. There is some family issue with my uncle. I need to go and take care of it. I will be out of reach for nearly a month then I will return. So, don't call me before I call you. Bye' and then he cut the call. I could not ask him anything and his concern sounded genuine so I did not say anything to him. "

" It's fine. I just wondered why he didn't come to school today. Anyways, so you will come, right? ", I said.

They replied, " Of course. "

At home, I told mom that Eliza and Taylor will spend vacation with us to see my training. She readily accepted and then told me that she has a surprise for me. She covered my eyes and took me to my room. On the bed was a beautiful exercise outfit with a cut on the back giving space for the wings. I hugged and thanked mom and asked her if she wants to see me in this with wings now. She answered yes so I changed and them in front of mom made my wings appear. She had same reaction as Lydia.

After sometime, Taylor and Eliza came. I showed them mom's outfit they also praised it. When Max came home, I asked him jokingly, " Max, I was wondering that are my wings common with other supernatural creatures or mine are especially pretty. "

Even though it was a joke, Max replied seriously, " I have never seen anyone with the same colour of your wings. They are very unique and rare."

Eliza was listening everything and came out and scared Max, " Really? It means my friend is superior than others. Wow!"

Max said, " Laura, can we talk in private for a moment. "

I knew what he was going to say but could not refuse. I went with him to the kitchen. He said, " Don't tell me that they will stay with us, for the training." I said nothing just the word 'sorry'.

He said holding my shoulder tightly, " I knew it. Laura, I know they are your best friends but you can't show all your powers to human. What if one day they sabotage you? "

I defended them, " Max, I know what you are worried about but don't worry. They are not like that. They have been my friends since I was 7 year old. They won't betray me. They were there for me when I became an outcast because I had powers. They stood against their parents for me." While saying this, tears filled my eyes.

Max gave me a tissue and said, " I am sorry. I didn't want to hurt you but I don't trust anyone easily. Fine, I will not object your family and your friends but take them in at your own risk." I thanked him and assured him that nothing will happen.

Eliza was waiting for us and on seeing my face asked me, " Did you cry? Did Max made you cry? " I said no. Eliza did not listen to me and screamed at Max, " Hey, I don't care if you are a werewolf or what but if you hurt my friend I will kill you." I said to Max in his mind, " See."

Max said sorry to us and then told me that tonight I should rest and we can train the next day at 3:00am again. I sighed but said okay. I told everyone the timings, Mom already saw my wings so she said she will make me something good for breakfast. Taylor, Eliza and Lydia wanted to join my training and I accepted. We had dinner together. Max slept in his room, Taylor in the guest room and i, unfortunately had to share my room with Eliza. I warned her not to snore. She promised not to snore and told me that day she drank and had cold that is why she snored and surprisingly she didn't snore and I slept peacefully.