Summery: Yugi, Jou, Malik, and Ryou are human. At least that's what they want to believe. In truth they are ninety eight percent human and two percent avian. Marik, Seto, and Bakura are ninety eight percent human and two percent vampire bat. What happens when you mix the two groups, throw in some insanity, love, and life threatening situations? I have no clue, just a lot of fluff and angst and thirteen foot wings!

Scorpia: Heehee (tentatively) Um hi. Hope you like my fic and um please review...

Yugi: Pwease? (chibi look of pleading DOOM!)

Warning: Angst ( a little bit, and maybe...could that be? Na that couldn't be a bit of humor...could it?)

Disclaimer: This goes for the whole fic! I do not own Yugioh! I only own my dreams and oh what sick and twisted dreams they are...

EDIT
Hello again, I have gone through and revised this on 7/30/11 but please tell me if I missed any mistakes!

On with the fic!

Yugi was falling. As he tumbled to the ground he caught alternating glimpses of the forest below and the rocky cliff above. Then he also saw the blue, blue innocent looking sky, filled with white poofy clouds and soft caressing breezes. The sky just seemed so open and clear.

Oh how he hated it.

What ever made him think he could ever soar into that wonderful yet deceiving sky? Why? Why couldn't he fly? He would never soar into that blue, blue sky with that wonderful and terrifying thrill of elation. Why?

'Because' he thought bitterly ' I am a freak.'

50 feet till he would hit the ground

30 feet. He opened his arms and laughed wildly, wings flapping uselessly around his body.

10 feet.

1.

Yugi awoke from his dream, sitting up abruptly from his cot. Shivering slightly he looked around the room with wide amethyst eyes, a sheen of cold sweat covering the teen.

'Are they here? Have they finally found us?' Were his first coherent thoughts as he stumbled from his bed in a panic. But he tripped over his blanket that had been thrown to the floor in his haste. He fell to the ground with a small yelp.

Ruefully, he glared at the blanket and got up rubbing his sore back side. He then silently padded out of the small room and into the 'kitchen', a simple couch separating the cooking area from the living room.

He wasn't surprised to see Ryou already there with hot chocolate on the stove. Yugi slid gratefully onto a stool at the kitchen bar and took the green mug offered by the white haired teen. Ryou then poured his own mug and set the chocolate on the stove to keep warm. He then sat in the stool next to Yugi, his brown eyes looking patiently over the rim of his blue mug, regarding the downtrodden teen.

Yugi took an absent sip from his chocolate, his thoughts on his dream. Ryou sat, simply waiting and watching as Yugi slowly came out of his thoughts.

"Do you wish to talk about your dream Yugi?" the White haired teen asked gently before taking a delicate sip.

Yugi sighed. Taking another drink, he set the mug on the bar and wrapped his fingers around it to keep them warm in the chill night air.

"Why? Ryou, why do we have to be so different?" His eyes averted from the boy next to him.

Ryou just looked at Yugi over the rim of his blue mug. "You already know the answer to that question Yugi. Maybe it is not that question you truly meant to ask? Perhaps the Other question?" He took his eyes off the disparaging teen in front of him and glanced at the doorway to the kitchen.

"Either way, you know the answer. We were all born differently, not just you." Getting up, Ryou stood at the kitchen counter, messing with the stove and some bread.

Yugi scowled at the dregs of his chocolate. Then he tipped the green mug up and drank the last of the chocolate. As he held out his mug for more, he noticed a red mug on the counter. He raised an eyebrow.

"Expecting some one?" He asked. Ryou just filled all three mugs with hot chocolate and set them down on the bar.

A few seconds later a sleepy, tow headed teen stumbled into the kitchen. Eyes still closed he mumbled something about pink bunnies taking over the world. He then collapsed into the nearest chair. Which, unfortunately, still had Yugi in it.

Several seconds later, with a now awake Jounouchi and a slightly squashed Yugi, every body got settled again. That is until Jou tried to gulp down the hot chocolate.

The teen's eyes were now wide open in pain as he grabbed his tongue and howled. Yugi quickly moved the red mug out of danger from madly flailing limbs. Ryou some how produced a cup of cold water with a few ice cubes. The teen gratefully stuck his tongue in the cold water.

"Ha ha ha ha! This is a perfect Kodak moment! HAHAHA! You should see your face Jou!"

All three boys looked at the fourth arrival.

"Thut up Malith!" Came the angry reply from Jou with his tongue still stuck in the water.

"Yeah yeah what ever…Hey Ryou you got something to…" He was cut off as a sandwich with baloney, salami, and pickles on it, was placed in front of him. Joey and Yugi wrinkled their noses in disgust as Malik began devouring the sandwich.

They all sat in companionable silence, all drinking (or eating in Malik's case). Yugi let his mind wander.

Yugi had known Ryou, Malik, and Joey all his life. They were brothers. Well at least figuratively. And they did share the same two percent DNA…

As Yugi's thoughts began to drift in this direction, he scowled.

'Those damn scientists. What right did they have? They had had NO right. Genetic experimentation on humans was illegal and was punishable by death. But they did it. They did it and they created us'.

Yugi's eyes narrowed in his thoughts, his hands tightening around his chocolate. 'What kind of sick, perverted, madman would try to graft avian DNA into humans?'

Yugi looked at his brothers. Yes they were human. Barely. Ninety eight percent human and two percent Avian. Or were they human? Monkeys only had a one point ninety eight percent difference in DNA. So did that make Yugi, Jou, Malik, and Ryou a whole new species? A different kind of life form?

They knew they were different. All of their bones were hollow, just like birds. They didn't have a lot of blood because of that, just like birds. They had human bodies, but due to their DNA they were shorter than average. But only by a few inches. And they had wings. Glorious 13-foot wings. Malik had a bronze tint to his, Ryou had silver, Jou had white, while Yugi had a mix of white and black.

But the wings were not the only side affects. While those scientists were at it, they tried some…different experiments. They were trying to create the worlds perfect soldier. They came up with abilities that would be 'useful' to say the least, and imbued them onto the poor children.

For instance, poor quiet Ryou, would always be haunted by others thoughts, seeing as how he was able to read minds. The scientists had tried to train him to control this power, but seemingly forgot an "off" switch when they made augmentations to his mind. They chalked it up as a mistake and threw Ryou away as a reject, something to improve on later.

Joey, the loud, out going, and most loyal of the group, didn't know his own strength, being able to lift and push anything up to eight hundred pounds in weight. He could easily overpower the scientist that had created them, which labeled him as a danger, resulting in him being locked up and bound, heavily drugged unless being poked and prodded. Tortured would also be an accurate word.

Malik, fun and slightly psychotic, could conjure up a flame big enough to light the dark side of the moon. All he had to do was concentrate hard enough on what he wanted to blow up and BOOM! It happened. In an effort to stop him from igniting everything he saw, the scientists kept him in darkness, blinding him when he was around any sort of light. Slowly the lack of light and the use of his power affected his sanity, slowly driving him mad.

And then there was Yugi. Yugi was the smallest and brightest of the quartet. He also just happened to be a defect. HE couldn't fly, his wings were useless, and he didn't have any abilities. He was the one they would experiment on the most, as he didn't have a natural defense and was easily over powered. He couldn't stop them from anything they did to him. He just couldn't do anything right.

"That's not true Yugi." Ryou said, placing a gentle hand on the teen's shoulder, having read Yugi's mind during his brooding session.

"Really." Yugi said sarcastically, rolling his eyes, " then what can I do that is right and not wrong?"

"Yugi, you are the smartest person I have ever met. You can think better than any of us. You were the one to get us out of that horrible place..."

Yugi shrugged off Ryou's hand and placed his empty mug in the sink. He then made his way to his small room, unaware of the sympathetic looks that the other three gave him.

He sank down on the small cot. 'Yeah, right. I can think. Whoopee. Heck, even Malik can think if he really wants to.' He thought as he huddled under the covers, waiting for sleep.

He then asked himself the same question he always asked. Why wouldn't his wings work? Nobody knew why, even the scientists didn't know why. Before they escaped, they never found out. The thirteen foot wings that sprouted from his back could barely be stopped from dragging on the ground, let alone give flight to the five foot tall teen.

'So I must be a defect, no matter what Ryou says. A waste of time and space.' Those words echoed in his mind as he fell deep into the blackness of sleep.

Tell me what you think! Ja ne...

EDIT: I fixed most of the typo's and tried to add more about their past, but over all, not a lot to change, I kind of like how this chapter turned out originally. Please tell me if I missed anything! 7/30/11