Hawk's Drabble/Fic Game #6
Martyn and Grian as a duo is one of my fave duos so.
and i was watching The Flight SMP SO ft. cat-avian hybrids Grian, Jimmy, and Martyn!
Yet another case of feral street kid Grian.
I PROMISE i will TRY to do someone other than Grian and Martyn i PROMISE.
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Martyn mostly had two things on mind-
Get back home as quick as possible
Pray Jimmy doesn't do something too chaotic unsupervised.
Martyn and his little brother had been on their own at the edge of a small community of hybrids for a while. They did fairly well, considering Martyn was 15, and Jimmy was 10, and they'd been on their own for about 6 years now, after their parents went missing in a flood.
The few other locals helped out, of course, but like many street kids, Jimmy and Martyn made sure to stick around the other kids like Skizz and Impulse and Ren and Cleo for fear of being sent to some orphanage den. No one liked going there.
Martyn and Jimmy were mixed hybrids, which weren't as uncommon as one would initially assume, and were in fact rather common. They were avian-cat hybrids. Martyn was both a raven avian and a cat hybrid, just like Jimmy was a canary avian and a cat hybrid.
They both had wings, of course, and feathers behind their ears and in their hair, and slightly bigger claws than normal, thanks to the talon genes, but still retractable. Their eyes got the best qualities of both, too. They both had the ears, tail, and fur patches- in their case, around the same color as their hair, so golden and blonde and a bit of brown mix. They both had good hearing -even better than most cats- and sharp noses. And of course, they got all the vocals of each kind.
Martyn had gotten swept downstream in the recent rainstorm when he and Skizz were trying to fix up a raft, but he'd gotten out unscathed, just wet and a few days' travel from home. He'd sent a message-feather along to the others that he was fine -a handy little spell Skizz and Scott had taught the gang- and set off through the woods. You didn't use the roads if you were alone and under 18.
Having a few emeralds on him, Martyn was stopping at one small town to snag a bag of goggles he saw out for a cheap price- there were a lot on the bag and were apparently so cheap because the person who had ordered them changed his mind.
So now Martyn had a bag of goggles to share with the others.
Just as Martyn stopped at one stall to say hi and maybe buy from to a trader he recognized, he spotted a flicker of red in the corner of his eye.
Another cat-avian mix. Not completely impossible or out of the blue, sure, mixed hybrids happened all the time, but it still took him a minute to process.
The kitten looked about 11, with red wings and wild eyes. His ears were long and tufted, and his tail was long too. His dirty, scruffy fur and hair were a honey-brown color, and the kid was wearing torn blue pants and a worn red jumper that looked old and too big for him.
Also, the boy was digging through the trash and had just pulled out a moldy apple. He sniffed it carefully, then glanced around, saw Martyn watching, and bolted, fur on end.
"Oh, I've seen that kid before," The wandering trader said. "Doesn't talk much, wanders into a few of the towns around the woods now and then. Spends more time in the woods, I think. Smart, though."
Just. An eleven-year-old. On his own. With scars around his throat that you could barely catch a glimpse of if you looked at the right moment.
He quickly finished his trade and found himself wandering in the same direction as the kid had gone, making it back to the woods and gliding over the treetops.
Soon enough, he was back on the ground, wandering carefully through the forest, nose twitching.
But it was only the next afternoon he wandered into a small tunnel that led into a clearing with a small cove in the middle.
It was there that he saw the little boy.
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