Jamie's eyes widened when the beam shifted roughly. He flipped himself into a kneeling position on top of the beam and glared at the ground. No one was below him, but he swore someone was shaking the pillars from beneath him. He opened his mouth, about to use his echolocation to locate the offender, but before he could let out a sound, he was suddenly shoved off the balance beam. He screeched, quickly spreading his wings and flapping to catch himself.
Once he was steadily flying in the air, he turned around glaring at the assailant. Or perhaps, assailants would've been a better word. Three vulture hybrids were standing on top of the beam. Jamie scowled at them. "Oo, I think he's mad at us, Nathan," the vulture on the left snickered. "Ne, why are bothering with the flying rat?" The one on the right complained. Jamie didn't know either of their names or bothered to learn it, the only one he remembered was their leader, Nathan. He smirked at Jamie and crossed his arms, "temper, temper, Jamie you wouldn't want to get in trouble for throwing a tantrum would you?" Jamie didn't respond, merely keeping his gaze locked on Nathan's.
Nathan leapt off of the beam swooping in front of Jamie. The other two followed with him and the three of them circled around him as if they found a corpse to feed off of. "It's so boring around here. We just want to have a little fun, so how about we play for a little bit?" Nathan suggested, but Jamie knew what his form of "play," was. He saw how three vultures bully the other weaker hybrids before. Jamie scanned the area for a possible escape, but he was outnumbered so he thought it would be best to comply. The four of them landed on the training ring where hybrids sparred to practice for future battles at the octagon. "Good." Nathan said smugly, loving how compliant Jamie was. "Now I've heard that you're an intense fighter at the octagon, so how about we have a brawl?"
Jamie's gaze drifted down to his feet, tugging at his bat ear nervously, "B-But they said that I'm not allowed to anymore…."
Nathen tilted his head to the side. "O come on, just one fight ain't gunna hurt ya." The three of them began to snicker. "Well maybe a little…" he admitted, clearly confident in his own skills.
"No, I don't want to get in trouble." Jamie refused, clutching Velvet tightly.
"Don't be such a baby."
"I said NO!" There was sharpness in Jamie's voice that made the vultures jump. Nathan was the quickest to regain his composure. His face twisted in anger as he and stormed up to Jamie. He grasped Velvet by the head. "STOP IT!" Jamie shouted, keeping a vice grip on the stuffed bunny, but somehow Nathan was able to wrench the toy out of his arms.
Jamie threw himself at the Nathan and began clawing at him wailing, "GIVE HER BACK! GIVE HER BACK! GIVE HER BACK! LET GO OF HER YOU DISGUSTING SCAVENGER! I WON'T FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS!"
"Shut the fuck up!" Nathan shouted, punching the boy in the face and sending him falling onto foam mat. He tossed Velvet at the other vultures that caught the stuffed rabbit and laughed standing on the sidelines.
Jamie struggled into a sitting position; cupping his swelling cheek his face was wet with tears. "V-Velvet…." He whimpered. He stood up and staggered over to the two vulture hybrids. Not even paying attention to the audience that was beginning to surround the training ring.
Nathan grabbed Jamie by the back of his head and yanked him closer to him. "Ah, ah, ah, you can have that rag back when you're done fighting me." He slammed Jamie onto the mat and pinned him. "Come on..." He urged. "We even have an audi-" His sentence was suddenly cut off when Jamie tore his arm free and clawed the boy across the face. Nathan let out a hiss as blood began spilling from his cheek onto the mat. A drop of it landed on the corner of Jamie's lips.
His eyes darkened as he swiped the droplet away with his tongue, suddenly going eerily silent.