ZENITH

"Give up already"- Spencer

Running from a flock of winged creatures, Spencer could be seen holding an egg, panicked.

A while ago, Spencer had Spotted one of these creatures flying towards a cliff, and in his childlike curiosity, he climbed on top of the cliff to see what it was, and in reaching its peak. He came across a nest of them.

Staying hidden to not alert them, he got a little too close, intrigued by their ability to fly he wanted to gain this skill as well. He came across eggs as he was snooping around, believing he could gain their ability of winged flight from absorbing one.

He picked one up, and began to walk back to the edge of the cliff, but in his attempted escape.

*Snap*

He had stepped on a twig that was apart of the nest, alerting the creatures to his activities, seeing this, he picked up the pace running towards the edge of the cliff and jumping off, leading to the current situation.

The creatures were relentless in their pursuit of Spencer, constantly diving and snapping their beaks at him to slow him down, he only kept running faster to avoid their pursuit.

"Come on, its just one egg"-Spencer

*Shriek* the creatures only responded with a high pitched screech.

Two of the creatures dove at him trying to impale him with their beaks. he could sense this due to the survival instincts of all the creatures he had absorbed, Spencer shifted his weight to the right,

flickering out of the direction of their charge.

In doing this the creatures lost track of Spencer.

Spencer could be seen hiding behind a tree, holding the egg to his c.h.e.s.t, waiting for the creatures to leave.

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Thirty minutes had gone by and they still did not leave, Spencer was growing restless, he didn't want to absorb the egg now, because if he gains any great changes he might be exposed, the chase will resume and he wasn't sure if he would even get anything from the egg.

Choosing to wait for a little longer, it was beginning to get dark.

After an hour had passed spencer decided he was tired of waiting, taking the egg he liquified it and absorbed it into his body.

*Grunt*

His body began to pulsate. his arms surging with energy and elongating his pinky and ring finger fusing and increasing in length, from the bottom of his arms, a membrane of skin and muscle that stretched from his highly elongated fourth fingers of the hands to the start of his hip was formed.

He grew wings, but not the wings of a bird, his wings held no feathers just a thin layer of skin stretched along his sides.

"Cool"-Spencer

*SHRIEK!*

A loud pitched shriek rang out, causing spencer to turn around and see that the creatures had seen him as his newfound wings were much wider than the tree could hide, alerting the group to his location.

The creatures flew towards Spencer with the full intention of impaling him with their beaks.

"Time to test these out"-Spencer

Spencer tried to move his wings, but all he received was his arms awkwardly flailing about, seeing as he had zero knowledge on how to use these wings.

Realizing his stupidity, forgetting how he didn't even know how to use his new appendages, Spencer quickly undid the changes, morphing his arms and bracing himself for the incoming attack.

The first of these creatures to reach spencer flew straight at him with its beak, seeing this he waited until it got close enough.

When it did, Spencer shifted to the side and grabbed its beak, using its momentum he threw it over his shoulder.

*BOOM*

Slamming it into the ground incapacitating it, he turned back to the others of the group waiting for them to attack. As he expected, another one did, taking a different line of approach it flew upwards accompanied by another that flew to his left.

Both flying at him, Spencer grabbed the one that was already on the ground by its beak and swung it in the direction of the one to his left, knocking the creature out of the air on collision, the one above him continued its dive at Spencer without delay.

Looking up, seeing the creature flying towards him, it drawing near, he reverted his arms to normal as he didn't need them at the moment. The creature drew closer, close enough for Spencer to summon his tail and swing it into the creature head.

*Thud*

It dropped to the ground unconscious and potentially dead.

All of this happening only in a matter of seconds the rest of the creatures in the group seeing this decided that this fight was no longer worth it and flew away.

"Finally"-spencer

Spencer was relieved, even though he could have easily taken care of them without any issues, he wasn't in the mood for a full-on fight.

Looking at the ones he had already flattened, he walked to the first one that initiated the attack. Looking at it, the creature was roughly the size of a giraffe, its beak making up a large portion of its face.

With no expression visible on his face he raised his right leg above his leg.

*CRACK!*

Dropping his foot on the neck of the creature, snapping it with ease.

It began to liquefy and move towards his body, causing him to feel a change greater than what he felt when he first ate the egg of one of these things.

Not yet summoning his wings to see the changes he walked up to the other two and did the same thing, the changes feeling vastly different from before.

He summoned his wings from his body and began to examine them, they felt stronger than before, the membrane they were made of seemed thicker and darker in cooler, it seemed to have also grown in size, the top part of his wings appeared to have gained a thick layer of scales along with sharper endings.

His wings were much different from the wings of those creatures, seeming to have evolved further and become more suited for Arial combat including self-maintenance. Spencer seeing this was impressed but he was more interested in the usage of these wings.

He started to experiment with them, slowly beginning to gain a better grasp of how they work, soon making conquering the skies his new goal.

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