Chapter 2- King of Birds

We've been walking for 4 hours without a rest. I was exhausted and I can't feel my legs anymore.

"Wait a second!" He paused and looked at me.

"I can't take it anymore, I too tired! Please let me rest for a moment." I begged.

"Fine."

"By the way I haven't told you my name and you keep calling me female and you haven't told yours too. My name is Isla, my family and my friends call me Lala, and you can call me that too. What about you?"

"I don't have a name."

"Eh? Then what are those females who're chasing you, called you?"

"Hmmm.. they just keep calling me handsome." He nonchalantly said.

"Then why don't you give me a name instead?" He suggested.

"Let see.. can you show me your beast form?" He stood and remove the coat and threw it on my face.

Then he morphed into giant yellow Philippine cobra. My legs won't stop shaking.. This is the first time I saw a cobra and it was this huge.

He morphed back to his orc form.

"Cobra.. what should I name him?.. scientific name of cobra.... Nah.. I'm definitely sure he is a king cobra so scientific name of king cobra... What is it?.. Ophiophagus hannah.." I murmur, then a sudden light bulb above my head flickered.

"Aha! Ophio! That will be your name.. What do you think?" Honestly I want to name him narcissus but suddenly I want to be creative.

"Ophio, My name is Lala. Nice to meet you." I smiled and reached my hand for a hand shake.

"Nice to meet you, Lala." He look away and took my hand and shake it.

Oh, wait! Is he blushing?

Eh? No way!

"A-are we done? Let's go!"

"Wait, Ophio! My legs feel numb I can't walk."

He sigh and took a pouch and took a green stone like thing.

"Open your mouth." He instructed.

I open my mouth and he put the stone inside it when I swallowed it, it turns into liquid. Suddenly I felt better.

Then we walk again after a few minutes, Ophio suddenly stopped and I end up bumping to him.

I peeked at his side to see what could be his problem.

There's a man in front of us. He has brown slick back hair with mix of some brown feathers, his eyes were hypnotic bluish Gray.. He is very handsome..

"What business do you have with us, stinky bird?"

"I don't have any business regarding with you, but I want to speak with the female." The so called stinky bird replied.

"You can't!" Ophio hissed.

"As far as I can recall, you're not her male. So what right do you have to decide for her?"

"So, you're being cocky now?"

"It was you who rejected the female and calling her ugly even she's is the most beautiful in this world." What so I'm the prettiest here.. I knew it I shouldn't doubt my beauty just because of this narcissistic mother f*cking snake.

"I told you I am pretty, you dare to say ugly to a daughter of a beauty queen."

"I don't know what the f*CK you're saying!"

Oops. Beauty queens don't exist in this world.

"I mean I am the daughter of the most beautiful woman in the Universe.. I mean the Entire world." I brag.

"Yeah.. yeah.. so stop yapping.." he rolled his eyes and return his attention to that pretty bird.

"Hey.. he said he wants to speak with me, let me talk to him."

"No!" He replied immediately.

"The choice is not yours though."

I walk closer to the pretty bird.

"Ttch." Ophio seems more annoyed now.

"Female, I want to apologize for scaring you yesterday. I didn't mean that. I just want to know you and court you to be your male but you sprinted out and I try to chase but I realize that I scare you in my beast form. And I heard everything that you don't like mating. If it's fine for you I will join you on finding a village. I'll protect you and maybe there's a chance that you open your heart for me to be your male."

"Mr. Bird before I speak with you.... Could you please wear something first! I can see your big friend pointing at me!"

"Oh.. sorry about that.." He took a hide from a bush and wore it.

"It's done!" he said.

"Ehem.. You're right I am not looking for a mate because I'm still hoping to return to my world. But if there's really no chance then I will consider you to be my male.

"I don't agree to that." Ophio disagree.

"Well, I don't need you too agree, like he said you're not my male.. Hmp.."

"You..!"

"He will go with us weather you like it or not!"

"Thank you for agreeing, female." The pretty bird said happily.

"Don't call me female, Lala that's my name. If you say you're the giant bird from the last time then are you a Philippine eagle, then are your kinds rare here too?

"I don't know of the kind of eagle your saying.. But I'm a Maned eagle and yes my kind is very rare. Each female can only lay one egg every estrous cycle and rarely conceived that is why our kind rapidly decline, and near to extinction."

"Estrous cycle? That's when mammals heat to mate. But I don't heat." Both of them show a shocked expression.

"Even you can't bear a child I still want you to be my female, Lala." The pretty bird sincerely said.

""Uhh.. I appreciate what you said but I didn't say I can't get pregnant. I just don't heat like the female here but I have this cycle were I bleed every month it's kind a similar to estrous cycle but it only happens to my kind."

"You bleed every month?" Ophio shockingly asked.

"Yes, isn't it the same here?" He covered my mouth with his hand.

"Don't ever mention it, Lala.. Listen to me females here can only bleed once a year it means they can only get pregnant once a year and you bleed every month you can pregnant more often than females here you will be targeted by ferals to be a breeding tool! You have to be careful!" He said full of concern.

"Eh?"

"it's only the 3 of us who should know this." The pretty bird said.

"O-okay.. Oh, by the way! You haven't told me you name."

"Aeron, the king of birds and the last of my kin."

"Nice to meet you, Aeron."