Imperfect Day

I when I got back to the apartment, I packed all the clothes I would need for my trip to Birdia and for the tournament. Bradley was to stay back to watch the apartment while I was gone. Around noon, about an hour after I got home, I left for the hanger. There I met up with Swan and her parents, I was ready for this journey of a lifetime, we talked the whole way to the planet. I started to listen to music from my old mp3 player like in the old days. I had one Earbud I made in one ear and offered the other to anyone who wanted to try it out.

A song I loved began to play when Swan took it from my hand, The song was "Through my Ray Bans" and it was a slow love song. The singer seems to take Swan's ear, She looked at me and saw I was right in the middle of peace. I began to sign with the song, not loud, but enough for the people around me to hear my voice a bit. Swan's father spoke up and I jumped a bit, "Earth music is pretty mellow isn't it?" I laughed, "Sometimes, but we do have music that is kind of evil or angry." I said back playing a couple for him.

We listen for most of the trip till we landed on the planet, when we got out of the ship I saw more guards. The rulers of the Planet had given us the best guards to keep Swan safe. Then I saw the crowd behind the guards. There had to be hundreds of them. "Hello, Scahaw Family, we hope your visit home is going to be a nice one." some of the birds said to us while others noticed me, the human that had come back to the planet. They then asked for my name, "Young sir, We have seen you miss Swan here, what is your name?" The bigger bird asked, I smiled at him and held out my hand, "My name is Jake Zero and I'm a Sargent of the U-F and a member of her crew." All the birds stood back a bit and started to whisper among themselves.

"Aw, he is the demon of the U-F, yes he can take out hundreds of pirates at once." some said as I walked with Swan to the car, we were heading to the capital for my ceremony. I was still smiling and Swan thought I was being weird again, "What's with that smile for Jake? Aren't you mad they call you a demon "? I looked at the mirror pointing back, " No, I think that nickname is kind of fitting the way I fight sometimes. " I said, thinking at least they aren't calling me something else like a weak human or a worm.

We went to the capital and waiting for us were a couple of elders, they studied me very closely. They even asked me a bunch of questions, but the question I answered right away that surprised them was my motive. "Son, why do you want to be one of our people?" The lady of the group said, she looked like the leader among them and so I gave her my honest answer. "Well, I want to spend my life with Swan and I don't want her to be shunned by her friends and family. So throw my home planet for this one is a good sacrifice. No more of an honor to become one of you so I can be with her. "

The elders all looked at each other then came up with a decision, "Let Swan take Jacob here for a walk around the lake and the city for the night. We'll meet back here tomorrow and give you our final say. " Said one of the elders, I looked at the sun going down, "There wasn't going be a lot of things to see, With it getting dark or that's what I had assumed. Swan took us through the trails around her home near the lake. It was just breathtaking, with all the colors of the forest with the glowing plant life and creatures. Even the lake was glowing like a rainbow, it was huge and you could still see the moon on the water. It was like a picture from a nature magazine turned to eleven.

The lake drew my attention even more and I wanted to go see it close as we walked by it. So Swan brought us to a place where we saw a couple of tables. "Swan do you know how to swim," I said, putting my hand in the water to feel it. "No, I never learned how to when I was little," she told me, I grabbed her arm after I took off my shirt and pants. "I can teach you," I said back to her as we got further into the water. She freaked out for a moment, then I told her to hang on back tightly. She did what I asked her to do and I dove under the water with her still on my back. What she saw made her tear up if she could. You could see all the beautiful lake fish and creatures swimming around us.

Swan wasn't freaking out anymore, now she was relaxed with holding on to me. We stayed like this for only a couple of minutes till Swan needed to breathe. We came up and she floated a foot from me, I turned to check out the moon she saw the scars on my body and back. When I looked around to see where we were I saw it was the middle of the lake. "Jake, do you really want to spend the rest of your life with me?" Swan asked when she touched one of my scars with her hand. I turned around and grabbed her hands in the gentlest way I could. "Swan, you are the only woman for me, I don't have feelings for anyone else. To throw my heritage away for a new one with you is not sacrifice it's a gift. Plus together we can see things like this all the time and no one can take that away from us."

She got closer to me and then she looked into my eyes, we kissed under that moon and you could feel how soft she was. She was more human-like than a bird and her warm body felt good next to my skin. We stayed in each other's arms for a while, felt like almost an hour till I got a bit cold. We went to the shore and dried off for the night.

Back at the temple, I didn't know this, but the elders and Swan's parents were watching us. "How sweet is Jake to our daughter!?" Roxian said to her husband as he smiled at his wife. "I knew from the start he was a good person and has a gentle soul." The elders watched my every movement and knew what they thought they saw. I only wanted peace and wanted to experience everything I could. Learning about the weird and new was what I loved to experience.

The elders spoke for a moment and came up with the sole reason, this was for love and true love in this universe. Love is hard to come by, yes the rules say no mingling with other races but the rule was old. It has no place in the time of things with wars and races becoming closer.

When we returned to the temple and the elder told us what they chose, We were happy for what they had decided. Just as we were about to have a celebration I was called on my mission pad. It was from Hallz, he was calling to remind me of the tournament starting in two days. We had to leave as soon as possible, so we got our things and headed to the ship.