Dragon and Hummingbird 2: Peculiars Rising

Dragon and Hummingbird 2: Peculiars Rising



Prologue:

	Peculiar siblings Michael Humming and Saladora "Sally" Humming traveled to Cairnholm Island and met Miss Peregrine, an Ymbryne (a female Peculiar who can turn into a bird and manipulate time to create loops for young Peculiars to live in). Sally herself is a young Ymbryne. Michael is a Dragonian, a Peculiar who can take the form of a dragon. Michael can also transform individual parts of his body into the equivalent dragon parts without fully transforming into a dragon. Sally takes the form of a hummingbird. Miss Peregrine called in Miss Avocet, the Ymbryne who trains young Ymbrynes, to meet Sally. However, Miss Avocet got attacked by Hollows (invisible monsters that hunt Peculiars) and Wights (blank-eyed humanoids that used to be Hollows) en route to Miss Peregrine's time loop. The Wights took Miss Avocet, and later Miss Peregrine, hostage. Michael, along with Miss Peregrine's wards, went off to rescue the Ymbrynes. Sally stayed behind and successfully reset Miss Peregrine's loop. She kept the loop going until the others returned with Miss Peregrine. Sally also took in four other Peculiars who arrived at Miss Peregrine's loop: Penny, Cassie, Vector, and Cirrus. After Miss Peregrine returned, she was impressed with Sally's skill as an Ymbryne and decided to finish training Sally herself. With Miss Peregrine's guidance, Sally made her own loop. Penny, Cassie, Vector, and Cirrus decided to be Sally's wards (they had already started calling her Miss Humming) and they, along with Michael and Sally, left Miss Peregrine's Loop and headed for Sally's loop.


Sally's POV

	I really hadn't expected Miss Peregrine to ask for permission to finish giving me my Ymbryne lessons herself. Miss Avocet seemed happy to let Miss Peregrine teach me. Miss Peregrine took me to a field out beyond her house and helped me create a loop. Once I successfully made one, Miss Peregrine decided to help me look for the spot to create my first permanent loop (I didn't bother with resetting my first one). I decided I wanted my loop to be in 1944 just like Miss Peregrine's loop, so those of us staying in my loop could visit Miss Peregrine from time to time. After flying around the island for a while, we crossed the ocean to search the mainland. I noticed a giant off-shore platform which seemed to have several buildings on it. I remembered hearing, in the present day, about an offshore city near London that had been built and founded by people who wanted to be their own country. This so-called "country" eventually fell apart and the place was abandoned. Here in 1944, the offshore city looks to have been abandoned fairly recently. I decide to make my loop here. My wards will love having an entire city to play around in. Me and Miss Peregrine land inside one of the city's buildings, which is full of radio equipment. I set up a loop here around the entire city. As an added precaution, I make it so the loop entrance is underwater. This will make it harder for the Wights and Hollows to find us. Once the loop is set up, me and Miss Peregrine return to her loop. I gather up my brother and the four Peculiars I took in, who have decided to become my wards, and bring them to my loop.


Michael's POV

	We arrive at the offshore city where my sister's loop is. after we enter the loop, everyone splits up to explore the city. I enter a building and find it full of radio equipment.

	"Looks like someone had a pirate radio operation going on in here", I remark. Vector phases in and out of the equipment.

	"Most of this stuff looks to be still operational. Maybe we could get it working again. We could take some of this stuff to Miss Peregrine's house and set up radio communications with them", Vector suggests.

	"I'll discuss that with Miss Peregrine the next time we visit her", I reply.


Penny's POV

	Looking around, I stumble into what appears to have been a toy store. There are still toys on the shelves, as if this place was abandoned in a hurry and they couldn't take everything with them. While I'm still looking around, Cassie walks into the toy store. Cassie and I are both 12 years old and we've been friends for a long time, so I'm not surprised she followed me.

	"We should give some of these toys to Miss Peregrine's children. Here's a bear identical to that one Miss Peregrine has to half for the twins. Claire, Bronwyn, and Fiona might like some of these dolls. Enoch would enjoy bringing some of these action figures to life", Cassie suggests. We make a note to take some of these toys with us the next time we visit Miss Peregrine's Loop.


Cirrus's POV

	I'm not surprised to see the girls hanging out in the toy store. I decide not to enter the toy store myself, and keep walking right past it. I wanna see what else this city has.

	"Let the kids play around in the toy store", I remark to myself, "I'm more interested in what kind of defenses this place has". Cassie, Penny, Vector, and I haven't actually known each other very long. The two girls were chased from their hometown by Wights, and the found me when I was being attacked by a Hollow. Of course, none of us could see the Hollow, but they'd heard the Wights mention it. The girls saved me from the Hollow, and both of them found me attractive even though I told them I'm 14-years-old. To be honest, I hadn't expected two 8-year-old girls to be interested in boys, but they started following me around. I helped them chase the Wights from their town, but only to pay them back for saving me. The girls' parents told them that the three of us weren't safe in the town anymore and that we were why our town was targeted.

	"You three are what is known as Peculiars", Penny's mother explained.

	"You need to seek out a type of Peculiar called an Ymbryne", Cassie's mother added.

	"My father once told me about an Ymbryne named Miss Peregrine", I let Penny and Cassie know, "She lives on Cairnholm Island". The three of us decide to set sail for said island.

	"If you run into your fathers, tell them to come home soon", Cassie's and Penny's mothers tell them. The girls' fathers are both soldiers in the army and were sent in Iraq. We don't plan on going through Iraq en route to Cairnholm island, but assure the girls' mothers that we will deliver their message if the chance arises.

	We were attacked by more of the invisible monsters just outside of France. I conjured a thunderstorm and fried most of them with lightning, but one of them managed to board our boat. I gunned the engine and moved us far out to sea. I hoped that the Hollow would fall overboard. When it didn't, I whipped up a small hurricane to take the Hollow out. Unfortunately, my hurricane proved too much for our boat to handle. just before the boat sunk, I created a tornado to carry us to safety. My tornado carried us all the way to Cairnholm Island and deposited us on the beach. I quickly snuffed out both the tornado and the hurricane.

	Vector met us as we headed inland. Because he is older than the three of us, 16-year-old Vector makes himself the leader of the group. He also explained to us about the loop and its entrance. we met Miss Humming inside the cairn, and Penny mistook her for Miss Peregrine. After I set her straight, we all took a liking to Miss Humming. Vector may have taken more than just a liking to her. He convinced the three of us to stick with Miss Humming instead of staying with Miss Peregrine. Its my opinion that Vector had "ulterior motives" for wanting to stay with Miss Humming.


Vector's POV

	I notice Cirrus standing outside the toy store, staring off into space. As I approach him, he snaps out of his trance.

	"Just remembering how we all met up", Cirrus explains. He then runs off. I notice what appears to have been a restaurant nearby. I go inside and find it full of kitchen utensils. I enter the large building next door and find a large number of bedrooms.

	"This must have been a motel. We can use this as living quarters", I note. There also seem to be a large number of small houses scattered throughout the city. I notice none of the buildings have any electricity running to them, so I make my way to a building with a bunch of generators behind it, which I figure must be a power plant. I can't figure out how the generators were powered, so I decide to improvise. I drag Cirrus to the power plant and get him to bring down a few bolts of lightning. The generators activate and soon the whole city has electricity.


Cirrus's POV

	Now that the lights are on, I notice a building with a few tanks out behind it. It looks like an abandoned army base. I make my way inside through a door to the side of the hangar. There's a single jet in the hangar. There are several rooms in the building. I find two bazookas in one room, a gun rack with a bunch of rifles in another, and some boxes of grenades in a third room. I also find a crossbow not unlike the one Miss Peregrine has. I decide to give it to Miss Humming. I also decide this abandoned army base might be a good place to use as a battle fort if we ever get attacked by Wights and Hollows. For now, I leave the weapons, save the crossbow, where they are.


Cassie's POV

	After hanging out with Penny in the toy store for a while, I zoom around the town and check everything else out. I reach a large building with army vehicles outside it in time to see Cirrus emerge from it holding a crossbow. it looks just like the one Miss Peregrine has.

	"Have you seen Miss Humming?", he asks me, "I wanna give her this crossbow".

	"I've been checking out the town", I respond, "I have no idea where she is". Cirrus runs off and I zoom into the army building. I find a bunch of backpacks. scooping up some of them, I rush back to the toy store.


Penny's POV

	I begin picking out what toys and dolls I wanna give to Miss Peregrine's children. As I'm wondering how I'm  gonna carry all this stuff, Cassie returns with a bunch of green backpacks.

	"Found these in the abandoned army base at the edge of town", She explains.

	"Good. Help me load these toys and dolls into them. We can use the backpacks to carry this stuff with us next time we visit Miss Peregrine", I tell her. We load up everything and head out.


Sally's POV

	After I had let my wards explore the city, Michael and I decided to check out the radio equipment. We manage to get it working. There's enough spare equipment that we can take some to Miss Peregrine's house and set up radio communications with them. Michael and I start to get hungry. We step outside to see Penny and Cassie walking out of an old toy store with army bags full of toys. Cirrus comes running up to us with a crossbow in his arms. Vector appears carrying a fishing rod and a bucketful of fish that he reeled in.

	"I caught our supper for tonight", Vector explains.

	"I thought you'd want this crossbow since Miss Peregrine has one", Cirrus adds, handing me the crossbow.

	"We wanna take these toys to Miss Peregrine's children. There's more than enough for us to share with them", Penny and Cassie declare.

	"Seems like we all miss Miss Peregrine and her wards. we'll go visit them tomorrow. For now, let us eat", I decide.


Vector's POV

	"I found an old restaurant, and an old motel. There's a bunch of small houses too. We can dine in the restaurant building and then sleep in either the motel or one of the houses", I explain.

	"Works for me", Miss Humming says. I lead everyone to the restaurant. Me and Cirrus managed to fire up the oven and cook the fish I caught. After our meal, Sally resets the loop and then we all head to bed. the six of use decide to sleep in one of the houses, the largest one. the motel building will be left available for if another Ymbryne and her wards needs to stay with us at some point.


Olive's POV

	I'll admit I was tempted to leave Miss Peregrine's loop and stay with Michael. However, end the end I'm too loyal to Miss Peregrine and her wards to let some boy pull me away from them. I'm still gonna miss having Michael around. Maybe he can come visit sometime. seeing Jacob and Emma share a kiss before they went to bed makes me remember that fiery kiss I shared with Michael. I can only hope I get to share more of them with Michael in the future.


Michael's POV

	The next morning we eat a quick breakfast and prepare for our trip to Miss Peregrine's loop. I transform to my dragon form and Sally transforms to her hummingbird form. Penny, Cassie, Vector, and Cirrus climb onto my back. I'm excited to see Olive again, so I fly as fast as I can. The six of us reach Cairnholm Island in under 30 minutes. We hurry into the cairn and up to Miss Peregrine's house. I rush right up to Olive and kiss her. Sally heads inside to find Miss Peregrine and let her know how things are going at our loop. Penny and Cassie rush off to share their toys with Miss Peregrine's wards.

	"Any more sightings of Wights or Hollows?", I ask Olive.

	"There's been no Wight sightings, and Jacob walked around the island last night after the reset to check for Hollows. He didn't find any. Miss Peregrine reckons there's other groups of Wights and Hollows out there, but we seem to be safe for now", Olive assures me. After a while, Sally decides to fly back and check up on her loop. Jacob decides to take another walk around the island to look for Hollows, Emma goes with him. I decide to join them on their walk simply cuz I'm bored. Naturally, Olive decides to follow me.


Jacob's POV

	I figured Emma would join me on my walk, but I didn't expect Michael and Olive to come with us. Of course, if I do come across a Hollow, four Peculiars are better than two. As we leave, I notice Miss Peregrine taking the rest of her wards on their daily walk. Penny, Cassie, Vector, and Cirrus have joined them on said walk. Miss Peregrine takes them in the opposite direction from me, Emma, Michael and Olive. We don't see anything out of the ordinary at first. As we walk down to the shoreline, where Emma keeps a boat secretly hidden, we see two boats approaching the island. One boat has a young girl in it, and she's projecting light beams from her eyes. The other boat is full of Wights. Michael transforms to dragon form and Olive jumps onto his back. They fly directly above the Wights' boat and pummel them with fireballs. Miss Peregrine arrives with the others and Bronwyn chucks a large boulder at the Wights. The boulder sinks the wights' boat and creates a tidal wave that sends the Wights flying into the distance.