[Pippa] How to Fly to Helicopter Sky
How to Fly to Helicopter Sky
Very, very G
Genfic; pin if you squint like Maru
Britsticks says "This is like JE Bambi" which is a pretty accurate description, I believe, except that there are no deer, and nobody gets shot. Animal!KAT-TUN teach bird!Jin how to fly (to Helicopter Sky).
Jimmy and Koyama are Jin’s nest-buddies, born from the same batch of eggs. They are never very close, always competing for food from their mother, although Jin and Jimmy get on quite well.
Then one day, Jimmy flies off to search for far and distant lands, and Jin never sees him again. He is very sad and misses his nest-brother a lot. Koyama has lots of friends in the same tree and works very hard so that he can learn to fly over to their nests to keep them company when their mommies are away from home looking for food.
Jin is the last bird in the nest to learn how to fly. He tries very hard, flapping his wings over and over again and jumping up and down in the nest as though it will help him get airborne. It doesn’t work.
One day he sees his friend from the nest one branch over, Yamapi, fly up into the sky singing a beautiful song and Jin looks down at his claws and a tiny tear runs down his feathered cheek.
The sound of a helicopter reaches his ears and Jin looks up, seeing the machine rising higher and higher up into the blue. ‘I want to go to helicopter sky,’ Jin says sadly to himself, and in a burst of determination he hops to the edge of the nest, flaps his wings, and throws himself into the air.
For a moment, Jin feels true weightlessness and his heart soars up to where the helicopter is circling above. Jin feels the wind rushing past him as he frantically flaps his wings, and he can’t believe that he’s finally done it!
Jin lands in the haystack and strands of hay fall in every direction as he tumbles to the ground.
Dazed and puzzled, Jin looks up at the sky and cries out to his mother. “WHY, JENNIFER?” he yells, and to his surprise a voice answers him.
“Because you are weak,” the voice purrs, and Jin looks around in horror to see a silver tabby looking at him from a few feet away.
“Please don’t eat me!” Jin squawks, and tries to get to his feet but he is too dizzy from tumbling to the ground and falls over again. “I haven’t even begun to live!”
Ueda the Cat sniffs. “I wouldn’t eat you,” he says. “Your feathers are sticking up all over the place and I don’t eat messy food.”
Jin is not convinced and he backs away from the cat. As he does so, he stumbles and falls down a rabbit hole. It is dark and dirty, and Jin is very scared. He has never been underground before.
“Hey, who’s that?” a voice asks, and Jin chirps anxiously.
“I’m Jin,” he says, hopping from one foot to the other. “Who are you? It is dark in here and I can’t see.”
“Let’s go outside into the light,” the voice says, and as they head back up into the field Jin sees that the occupant of the rabbit hole, surprisingly enough, is a rabbit. “My name is Koki,” the rabbit says, and sits up, tugging on one of his ears. Jin looks in awe at Koki Rabbit, who is a dazzling golden colour that Jin has never seen before. “Why are you on the ground with us, little bird? You belong in the sky.”
“He can’t fly,” Ueda says disdainfully, and Jin lowers his head sadly. “He fell out of the tree into the haystack.”
“I can’t fly either, Ueda,” says another voice, and they look around to see a green turtle slowly making his way over. “I heard all the fuss from over there and thought I’d come to see what was going on.”
“Hey, Kame,” both the cat and the rabbit say, and Jin wonders why the rabbit is called Koki and the cat is called Ueda but the turtle is just called Turtle.
“Why can’t you fly?” Kame asks Jin, and Jin shrugs.
“I don’t know,” he says. “I try copying how the others do it, like Jimmy and Kei-chan and Pi, but I guess maybe I’m not destined to fly like they do.”
Suddenly, they can hear barking in the distance, coming closer, and everybody freezes except Ueda, whose tail just flicks in irritation. “It’s just Junno,” he says, and the others relax (although Jin doesn’t really know what a Junno is).
“Hey! Hey guys!” Junno wags his tail as he slows down just enough not to barrel into the four of them, grinning and panting. “What’s up?”
“We’ve made a new friend,” Koki says, twitching his nose at Junno and then pointing a paw to Jin, who is hiding behind Kame. “His name is Jin, and he can’t fly.”
“Hello, Jin!” Junno says. “Iriguchi Deguchi Taguchi desu!”
Jin just blinks. He doesn’t get what the dog was trying to say, and from the eyerolls of the others he assumes that he didn’t miss much. “Uh, hello,” he says, hopping out from behind Kame’s shell.
“What do you want to fly for?” Junno asks, shaking himself all over before flopping down onto his stomach, head on his paws so that he is more at Jin’s eye level. “The ground is a good place to be, too! There are lots of exciting smells, and things that you can roll in!”
“I’d like to fly,” Ueda says thoughtfully. “It would be easier to catch things to eat, if I had wings.”
Koki and Jin edge away a little at this, although neither Kame nor Junno are particularly bothered.
“Cats aren’t supposed to fly,” Jin says, growing in confidence. “But birds are. I want to fly because I am a bird and that’s what birds do. If helicopters can fly, why can’t I?”
It is at this point that Jin feels the ground move underneath him, and all of a sudden he shoots up into the air, flapping his wings wildly as he gets pushed upwards. He yells, and falls back down again, landing on Junno’s back and sliding to the ground once more.
“What was that?!” he asks, eyes wide.
“Did the earth move for you, too?” Junno asks with a grin, and then whimpers as Ueda flexes his claws threateningly.
“Uh, hi guys,” says Maru, blinking as he emerges into the light. “Did I interrupt something?”
Kame is looking thoughtful. “You know…” he begins, “I think I have an idea how to help you, Jin-kun.”
Jin looks at the turtle. “Ehh? Maji de?!”
Kame nods. “Un. If Maru agrees to help, I think we can get you into the sky again.”
Maru blinks at Kame, squinting as he tries to focus. “Oh, hey, it is you,” he says. “Hi, Kame. What can I do to help?”
“When you came up to the surface, Jin was pushed into the air for a moment,” Kame says. “I thought that maybe, if you did it with enough force, it would give him the thrust to get airborne and then maybe he could fly.”
Ueda laughs softly. “But did you see his coordination when he was flapping his wings? His method of flying is certainly… idiosyncratic.”
“Yeah,” Koki nods. “You’re supposed to flap both wings at the same time, Jin-kun.”
“Why don’t you practice first?” Junno suggests, and Jin nods.
“Okay,” he says, standing in between the five other animals and stretching his little wings. “Like this?” He flaps experimentally. It feels different from how he’s done it in the past and when Koki nods at him he gives a little chirp of happiness.
“Okay, Maru, go back underground and come up with all your might underneath where Jin is standing,” Kame says. “Jin, you need to stay exactly where you are and be ready to flap with all your might when Maru pushes you up, okay?”
“Hai!” Jin salutes, and Koki, Ueda and Junno edge back a little, to clear space.
Jin feels the ground trembling underneath him as the mole tunnels his way through the soil, and then suddenly…
BAM! Jin shoots up into the air with his eyes closed tight shut and he’s flapping, flapping his wings so hard that he feels like they might fall off and please, please, please don’t let me fall down again, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna flyyyyyy!!!
Jin hears cheering coming from somewhere far below him, and when he opens his eyes he can see his five new friends barking, meowing and cheering him on.
“THANK YOU SO MUCH!” Jin yells down to them, still flapping hard. “THANK YOU FOREVER!”
As Jin circles around to go to Helicopter Sky, Yamapi flies down to meet him.
“You finally made it, then,” Pi says, and together the two little birds fly off into the sunset.
Very, very G
Genfic; pin if you squint like Maru
Britsticks says "This is like JE Bambi" which is a pretty accurate description, I believe, except that there are no deer, and nobody gets shot. Animal!KAT-TUN teach bird!Jin how to fly (to Helicopter Sky).
Jimmy and Koyama are Jin’s nest-buddies, born from the same batch of eggs. They are never very close, always competing for food from their mother, although Jin and Jimmy get on quite well.
Then one day, Jimmy flies off to search for far and distant lands, and Jin never sees him again. He is very sad and misses his nest-brother a lot. Koyama has lots of friends in the same tree and works very hard so that he can learn to fly over to their nests to keep them company when their mommies are away from home looking for food.
Jin is the last bird in the nest to learn how to fly. He tries very hard, flapping his wings over and over again and jumping up and down in the nest as though it will help him get airborne. It doesn’t work.
One day he sees his friend from the nest one branch over, Yamapi, fly up into the sky singing a beautiful song and Jin looks down at his claws and a tiny tear runs down his feathered cheek.
The sound of a helicopter reaches his ears and Jin looks up, seeing the machine rising higher and higher up into the blue. ‘I want to go to helicopter sky,’ Jin says sadly to himself, and in a burst of determination he hops to the edge of the nest, flaps his wings, and throws himself into the air.
For a moment, Jin feels true weightlessness and his heart soars up to where the helicopter is circling above. Jin feels the wind rushing past him as he frantically flaps his wings, and he can’t believe that he’s finally done it!
Jin lands in the haystack and strands of hay fall in every direction as he tumbles to the ground.
Dazed and puzzled, Jin looks up at the sky and cries out to his mother. “WHY, JENNIFER?” he yells, and to his surprise a voice answers him.
“Because you are weak,” the voice purrs, and Jin looks around in horror to see a silver tabby looking at him from a few feet away.
“Please don’t eat me!” Jin squawks, and tries to get to his feet but he is too dizzy from tumbling to the ground and falls over again. “I haven’t even begun to live!”
Ueda the Cat sniffs. “I wouldn’t eat you,” he says. “Your feathers are sticking up all over the place and I don’t eat messy food.”
Jin is not convinced and he backs away from the cat. As he does so, he stumbles and falls down a rabbit hole. It is dark and dirty, and Jin is very scared. He has never been underground before.
“Hey, who’s that?” a voice asks, and Jin chirps anxiously.
“I’m Jin,” he says, hopping from one foot to the other. “Who are you? It is dark in here and I can’t see.”
“Let’s go outside into the light,” the voice says, and as they head back up into the field Jin sees that the occupant of the rabbit hole, surprisingly enough, is a rabbit. “My name is Koki,” the rabbit says, and sits up, tugging on one of his ears. Jin looks in awe at Koki Rabbit, who is a dazzling golden colour that Jin has never seen before. “Why are you on the ground with us, little bird? You belong in the sky.”
“He can’t fly,” Ueda says disdainfully, and Jin lowers his head sadly. “He fell out of the tree into the haystack.”
“I can’t fly either, Ueda,” says another voice, and they look around to see a green turtle slowly making his way over. “I heard all the fuss from over there and thought I’d come to see what was going on.”
“Hey, Kame,” both the cat and the rabbit say, and Jin wonders why the rabbit is called Koki and the cat is called Ueda but the turtle is just called Turtle.
“Why can’t you fly?” Kame asks Jin, and Jin shrugs.
“I don’t know,” he says. “I try copying how the others do it, like Jimmy and Kei-chan and Pi, but I guess maybe I’m not destined to fly like they do.”
Suddenly, they can hear barking in the distance, coming closer, and everybody freezes except Ueda, whose tail just flicks in irritation. “It’s just Junno,” he says, and the others relax (although Jin doesn’t really know what a Junno is).
“Hey! Hey guys!” Junno wags his tail as he slows down just enough not to barrel into the four of them, grinning and panting. “What’s up?”
“We’ve made a new friend,” Koki says, twitching his nose at Junno and then pointing a paw to Jin, who is hiding behind Kame. “His name is Jin, and he can’t fly.”
“Hello, Jin!” Junno says. “Iriguchi Deguchi Taguchi desu!”
Jin just blinks. He doesn’t get what the dog was trying to say, and from the eyerolls of the others he assumes that he didn’t miss much. “Uh, hello,” he says, hopping out from behind Kame’s shell.
“What do you want to fly for?” Junno asks, shaking himself all over before flopping down onto his stomach, head on his paws so that he is more at Jin’s eye level. “The ground is a good place to be, too! There are lots of exciting smells, and things that you can roll in!”
“I’d like to fly,” Ueda says thoughtfully. “It would be easier to catch things to eat, if I had wings.”
Koki and Jin edge away a little at this, although neither Kame nor Junno are particularly bothered.
“Cats aren’t supposed to fly,” Jin says, growing in confidence. “But birds are. I want to fly because I am a bird and that’s what birds do. If helicopters can fly, why can’t I?”
It is at this point that Jin feels the ground move underneath him, and all of a sudden he shoots up into the air, flapping his wings wildly as he gets pushed upwards. He yells, and falls back down again, landing on Junno’s back and sliding to the ground once more.
“What was that?!” he asks, eyes wide.
“Did the earth move for you, too?” Junno asks with a grin, and then whimpers as Ueda flexes his claws threateningly.
“Uh, hi guys,” says Maru, blinking as he emerges into the light. “Did I interrupt something?”
Kame is looking thoughtful. “You know…” he begins, “I think I have an idea how to help you, Jin-kun.”
Jin looks at the turtle. “Ehh? Maji de?!”
Kame nods. “Un. If Maru agrees to help, I think we can get you into the sky again.”
Maru blinks at Kame, squinting as he tries to focus. “Oh, hey, it is you,” he says. “Hi, Kame. What can I do to help?”
“When you came up to the surface, Jin was pushed into the air for a moment,” Kame says. “I thought that maybe, if you did it with enough force, it would give him the thrust to get airborne and then maybe he could fly.”
Ueda laughs softly. “But did you see his coordination when he was flapping his wings? His method of flying is certainly… idiosyncratic.”
“Yeah,” Koki nods. “You’re supposed to flap both wings at the same time, Jin-kun.”
“Why don’t you practice first?” Junno suggests, and Jin nods.
“Okay,” he says, standing in between the five other animals and stretching his little wings. “Like this?” He flaps experimentally. It feels different from how he’s done it in the past and when Koki nods at him he gives a little chirp of happiness.
“Okay, Maru, go back underground and come up with all your might underneath where Jin is standing,” Kame says. “Jin, you need to stay exactly where you are and be ready to flap with all your might when Maru pushes you up, okay?”
“Hai!” Jin salutes, and Koki, Ueda and Junno edge back a little, to clear space.
Jin feels the ground trembling underneath him as the mole tunnels his way through the soil, and then suddenly…
BAM! Jin shoots up into the air with his eyes closed tight shut and he’s flapping, flapping his wings so hard that he feels like they might fall off and please, please, please don’t let me fall down again, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna flyyyyyy!!!
Jin hears cheering coming from somewhere far below him, and when he opens his eyes he can see his five new friends barking, meowing and cheering him on.
“THANK YOU SO MUCH!” Jin yells down to them, still flapping hard. “THANK YOU FOREVER!”
As Jin circles around to go to Helicopter Sky, Yamapi flies down to meet him.
“You finally made it, then,” Pi says, and together the two little birds fly off into the sunset.