Sky went to congratulate Portia but she seemed angry..
"Why didn't you tell me I was going to have to face something like that?"She asked.
He tilted his face, confused then was about to ask what she was talking about when he realized she had never done that as a normal activity before, so he said,"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were scared."
"Not scared, sympathetic, that creature saw its entire race die before its eyes right before you people kidnapped it, you have kept it locked in that cage for God knows how long and you never bothered to feed it!"
"Portia, calm down."He said.
"I won't! Why would you include me in something like this?!"
"Is anything the matter?"A new man came, accompanied by his uncle.
"Yes, everything's the matter!"
He stood there, calmly accepting all her rebukes and statements with his uncle begging her to stop.
The man then asked,"Are you finished?"
"Yes."She said, angry at his calm tone of voice.
He was about to speak when Sky stood in front of her then said,"Father..."
"Father?!"Portia yelled to herself.
"...I'm sorry she yelled at you but she has a point, we can't just hunt down wild creatures and keep them in dungeons just awaiting the day of slaughter, but if you are going to punish someone, punish me."He said, going on one knee.
Portia looked at him, surprised as his father said,"Your wings will be clipped tomorrow morning."
Then he waked away.
Portia's jaw dropped and she stared at Sky in horror as he smiled at her then said,"It's okay."
"No, it's not."She said,"Hey mister! Yo royal pain!!"
His father glared at her from the corner of his eyes as she said,"You can't just cut off your son's wings like they mean nothing to you!"
"In this home, respect is given much more authority than power and outlook."He said.
"But they're precious to him, please, don't do something like this."
"Portia please, it's enough."Sky begged,"Before it gets worse."
"Worse?! Now it has gotten worse! Mr Feather brain, what the heck have you been doing to your son that he thinks something could be worse than getting your appendages chopped off?! I oughta put you in your place!"
His father finally turned around with a grin, then asked,"Are you challenging me?"
"For Skylar, yes."She said.
"You mentioned my name?"He asked.
His father then began laughing then yelled,"So who else wants to challenge me?! To give my son a chance of keeping his wings?!"
No one stepped up, but Skylar himself.
His father frowned and told him to back down, but he said no.
His father then said,"So be it, your blood is not on my hands."
His six black coloured wings just shot out and blew a monstrous wind at the two which almost tore Portia's skin off her body before it blew her through the walls of the arena.
She got through unscaled, but turned to Sky, who was covered in rubble and bruises.
She tried to wake him up, but he didn't, as his father took a step into the arena, then yelled,"Listen everyone! We have a duel, between my former son and his disgusting girlfriend and me, if they win, he gets to keep his wings which are far more precious to him than I am, but if they lose, I'll have an extra pair in my collection..."
He flew up, blocking out the sun and even Aeric was scared as his father dashed down like a black bullet breaking the sound barrier.
Portia squealed as he slammed into the ground, causing cracks even to the walls of the arena.
He stood up then laughed and said,"Playing hide and seek, are we? Well two can play at that game."
Portia begged for Skylar to wake up and he slowly began getting to his elbows, he then looked at her then asked,"What have I done?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I made my father angry, the last time that happened, he went psycho and destroyed half an island in a split second."
"What?"
"Portia, we shouldn't do this, I'll just apologize and get my wings clipped, maybe he'll calm down."
"No, we are not losing to that tyrant and that man isn't a father, he's just like Kofi and Pablo, Jaques and Monroe, a bully and we are going to stand up to him."
She mentioned all the bullies he had experienced in his previous and present schools, then they heard something scary,"Gotcha..."
Portia stretched out her arm to at least do something when a large, dark violet wing grew to protect her from the black feathers, as they exploded on impact.
Skylar had to bring feathers from his other wing to replace the burned ones as he yelled for her to get them out of the fourth dimension.
She brought them back and asked,"How the heck did he do that?!"
"It's just one of my parents' many secret tricks."He answered, cautiously examining his surroundings.
"Talking about parents, where is your mom?! You said she was one of the greats so shouldn't she like come to your rescue and whoop this guy's extra large keister or something?!"
"Now is not the time to talk about my mother."Skylar said shielding them from an exploding feather.
He did a 180 Arabian dive roll as Portia did a normal dive roll then yelled,"Now is the perfect time to talk about your mom, no secrets remember?! Where is she?!"
A black feather flew towards Portia's heart then Sky ran and flapped the few feathers remaining on his wings to gather speed and knock her out of the way in time, his father laughed as the feathers from his back started detaching and darting at them like black clouds before swirling around them like a tornado, as his father's feathers immediately grew back.
He was amused, watching them argue, it reminded him of his first wife...