Prophecy of Wind - Harpy TF

Eva, a quite small 19 years old girl, loved animals more than anything. Only, her parents were allergic to most of them. She had to live with only an aquarium and a couple of fishes.She was satisfying her love for them by sometimes sneaking out to the plain at a couple of minutes of walking from her home. She always brought her Kodak with her so that she could take some birds in photo and even sometimes foxes that were passing by.

One of her numerous dreams was to have a fox for friend like in movies, but she knew it was impossible. Though there was one dream she wanted more than all of the others: To fly. Not in a plane or any simple thing like that. She wanted to have her wings and set out for the sky. Sadly, no bright inventor managed to create portable wings (at least not some you could control freely). So to compensate for it, she sometimes went skydiving or hang-gliding.

Even with these activities, she still worked hours on a prototype she was creating in her father's workshop. It looked like a hang-glider, but it was two separate wings. Even though she tried it on many times from the roof of her house, it never really worked. One night, she dreamed she was wearing her hang-glider and that it flew just like bird wings but then, she lost control and fell to the ground. When she woke up, she fell down of her bed and had a terrible backache. That explained her fall.

Only she had time to see something in her dream. While it was flying, bird feathers replaced the plastic cover she used in her own hang-glider. She decided to give it a try, but with a lot of feathers. After all, if you switched the feathers for plastic boards on a bird, it wouldn't fly far...So she sneaked out again to her plain, but this time, not to take pictures, but to find bird feathers. Her hunt was hard, because she didn't want to harm any birds for taking their feathers.

After almost 4 hours of searching, she sat on a rock that was lying there. She was exhausted and discouraged. How could she find so many feathers? But she heard a little voice inside her head (she imagined it like a small bird standing on a tiny branch) that said not to give up. She used her small bits of hope and courage and stood up to go searching again. Only this time, she really got lucky. She found a feather lying there simply, which made her quite happy, but most of all, there were more. More feathers were going all in the same direction. Hoping not to find a dead bird, she continued slowly, taking every feather she saw.

After she had a total of 38, she looked up and saw something that startled her. In front of her was a giant looking heap of menhirs standing there in a circle around a rock. As she closed to the stone in the center, she realized it was no ordinary stone. It was like a pedestal with weird carvings on it. As she closed in, she could see the carvings were illustrating a bird standing on a pedestal like this one but also there was a text written all around it. It said: «Thy who will read this text is the chosen one, who shall stand before the elements of nature to put in value the goods of the wind, breath of the gods all around us. Only she can choose her destiny. To be or not to be.  Thy shall stand on the pedestal and pronounce her most precious wish if she is ready to accept her destiny»

Understanding it was talking about her; she stopped and sat in the mud. Was she dreaming?  It couldn't be talking about her. That only happened in fantasy stories. Only, if it could really grant her wish, she had to try. She stood up, cleaned her pants with her hand the best she could, and jumped on the pedestal. Already, she felt weird. A sensation between nervosity and curiousity. She said with a high voice the louder she could: « I WANT TO FLY! » Almost like if the sky heard her, the clouds started to gather over the menhirs and started turning. As she looked over her head, she saw the phenomenon and freaked out. What was happening in here? Almost as soon that she had this thought, lightning fell on her. As she thought she was to die, she closed her eyes and screamed. But nothing happened. Only, she was overwhelmed by a new sensation. Almost all her body felt numb.

She fell on the floor and saw something she never would have ever imagined. Feathers were starting to grow on her right arm, right in front of her eyes. She tried to stand up but realized her feet were changing too. Her ankle and her feet were becoming scaly. Right after, her toes fused to make three in each feet, and they grew much longer, and a new toe like the three others pushed back from her ankle.  Claws poked through her scaly toes and rounded. The scale was now covering her entire lower leg. These were definitely bird legs. «Why am I becoming a bird?» she thought to herself.  Without an answer, she looked at her still transforming arms. Feathers were now entirely covering her arms, and even a good 50cm under her arms. The feathers were sky blue. To complete her change her ears elongated a little to give her elf-like ears. She was now a full pledge beautiful harpy.

By curiosity, she looked at the pedestal. The picture no longer showed a bird but a harpy on the pedestal. She looked at the inscription to find they had changed too. They now said:« The great Emperor of the sky is born, sage of the wind and master of all birds. Her destiny awaits her on the other side of this world». After she read that, she sat on the pedestal and looked up. The transformation didn't hurt at all. It was even a little bit fun. But now she was thinking about that text… what could it mean? Leaving her thoughts aside, she stood up, took a momentum, and sprinted forward with the bird legs. She jumped fiercely in the air and flew away. Her new life awaited.