~*~The Life Story of Apple the Budgie~*~

[Magic Birdie]

I'll work on this more soon.

 

[Magic Birdie]

Chapter Nine

For a day, all I had to eat was the bits of food the other chicks vomited up which I cautiously pecked at while they played outside of the cage with the human.
I was hungry, and all I could do was sleep to conserve my energy.
But why would Mommy abandon me?
Could it be that this hen was nicer than her? After all she let me stay, though she utterly ignored me other than to glare at me.
What if Mommy didn't really abandon me? What if the human had only made a mistake like I did?
I didn't know what to do in this horrible nest. I wasn't getting anywhere here. I had to find Mommy... What else could I do? They're not going to feed me anytime soon, I knew that for sure, but if Mommy really didn't want me, I would have no where to go. I can't come back, they would never accept me. Being put in here by the human was one thing. Going in by yourself was an invasion of their territory.
I poked my head out of the box. The cage was just like any other cage here was. Just like ours was. But outside of it, I couldn't recognize anything. How would I ever get back? And there certainly weren't a bunch of older meaner birds glaring at me where I was from.
I quickly backed into the box again.
There was nothing I could do.
Random ideas flew in and out of my head.
Maybe I could convince the human to bring me back? But there was no way for me to do so.
Maybe I could find a way out of the cage and find my own way? But no one has ever got out of the cage by themselves, and besides, how far could a hungry chick go?
Then I got the idea. I was thin and hungry. Maybe if I pretended to be abandoned by this family, too, they would bring me to, at least, another nest who might actually feed me, and ultimately, maybe somewhere near Mom.
It, like everything else, was risky, but... It could work.
Bravely, I poked my head back out of the nest box. The family was busy with their games.
I slid off the bars as carefully as I could to the ground.
The dad of this family heard me, and spotted me. He called to the rest of the family, who all came after me.
Uh oh.

 

[chickenlover237]

cool more! you must feed the beast!

 

[Magic Birdie]

cool more! you must feed the beast!

What does it eat?

 

[chickenlover237]

uh..... your writing

 

[Magic Birdie]

uh..... your writing

I knew that

I was just being weird.

Anyways..

 

[Magic Birdie]

Chapter Ten

"Please, I didn't do anything wrong!" Immediatly after I said that, I knew it was a lie.
The family kept their cold silcence as they began to surround me. Whatever they had wanted to do before, I knew they would do now.
They tilted their heads to look at me. Here I was, a small starving chick surrounded by a bunch of plump, well cared for birds who, as far as I knew, hated me.
My opponents gave me a look that was more than a stink eye, more than annoyance. I paniced, not knowing what to do or say. Shuddering, I backed up against the bars of the cage and pressed my back there as far as it would go. It felt stiff and cold against my sparesly feathered wings.
Now, the silence was broken.
In a screech, the family dove towards me. They tore at my newly feathered body and grabbed me in their sharp beaks and claws.
I tried to fight back, but was almost immediatly exhausted.
Stopping my stuggle, I had a chance to think.
Were they really going to kill me?
Were they that... that... evil?
And if they did, would they... eat me?
Escaping from my fright and into the real world, I saw they were dragging me towards their food bowls.
They dumped me in the water and littered it with seeds.
I screeched in pain. The water was filled with old food and solid waste.
The soiled water made my various cuts and bites sting.
Suddenly, I stopped yelling and pleading in pain to hear footsteps descending the steps in the stairway.
It was the human! Had he come to rescue me?
Seeing me stare, the family of birds immediatly gathered around me and covered me, stood on me, so that the human would not notice me.
I screamed as my head went under the water, but there wasn't much else I could do.
My short life was flashing before my eyes.
I was seeing what I thought my future might have been when the weight on my head was lifted, and the water bowl was brought out. I heard the human exclaim in surprise, and he dropped me.
At that point, I was all but dead.

 

[Chi Chi]

Write more please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Magic Birdie]

Write more please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure

And

I'm honored you made your first post here

 

[OwlLover]

MORE. NOW.