The Aamsang hamlet of the humans, in which was found the Aamsang air-hamlet of the air-humans, was headed by a certain Asafack family — Mr Aantony Asafack and Mrs Aadaa Asafack, who had a ten-year olds boy and girl twins Aamin and Aamina, who were melanodermic humans. The Asafacks were also Amiléké Christians of a Pentecostal "Christians for Christ" church, who abhorred magic in any form, and magic believing and practicing people were abominable to them as they were to their Almighty God.
In Aaleveng village as in many human communities, the humans had long ago suspected a great deal of magic and magicians around them, and a great deal of magic types and magician types too, of which one of them was air-magic and air-magicians who were around them, and living amongst them and in their communities due to persistent rumours of supposedly existing alien air-beings of air-humans different from them humans who were the so-called air-men and air-women and air-boys and air-girls, who were also so-called airers and aireresses and air-landers and air-landeresses and air-worlders and air-worlderesses, and also known as air-wizarders and air-wizarderesses and air-wizards and air-wizardesses; and who oozed air out of them and became transparent, and evaporated themselves and became invisible, and who had feathers, plumes, wings, patagia; and who could fly, could glide, and all sorts; and who were from an air and its air-land and air-world and its air-wizardering and air-wizarding air-land and air-world, and who practiced an air and air-magic of air-wizardercraft and air-wizardcraft and air-wizardery and air-wizardry; and these rumours gained grounds due to increasing unnatural 'air-magical-like' occurrences like the one the Asafacks and many other humans had witnessed nine years ago, though they had seen it slightly and blurry, and which had seemed to be some sort of airs of the Air against anti-airs of the Anti-Air, and also air-spells against anti-air-spells ⸺ and all these in an air-atmosphere and air-skies as strong rumours of such had circulated. It had also seemed to be something as an 'air-magical air-portal', an 'air-darkness' and an 'air-smoke' seeping out of it, another 'air-magical air-portal', and seeming air-humans as they were described to be ⸺ and the Asafacks and the humans did not know that these 'air-magical-like' occurrences were a result of the air-humans coming in multitudinous numbers on Earth as they fled the autocratic and absolutist air-colonization of their air-land and air-world.
The Asafacks as all humans were not happy of these air-wizarders and air-wizards and their air-wizardercraft and air-wizardcraft which they could neither see nor apprehend, nor even interact with, nor knew if they were benevolent or malevolent to them. This then made them the humans scared of it all, and decide that all of it was malevolent to them due to its mysteriousness, as they knew nought and nothing about it. And then the humans inspiring from the historical human witch-hunts on witches and wizards, then decided to engage in wizards' hunts, and those engaging in supposedly air-wizarders and air-wizards' hunts, then termed it air-wizarders and air-wizards' air-hunts to search for these air-wizarders and air-wizards they believed they and their air-wizardercraft and air-wizardcraft were harmful to them, and also to persecute and punish them, or get them out of their Earth world if it were true that they came from that air-wizardering and air-wizarding air-land and air-world.
The air-humans who had stayed secret and secluded from the humans as they did not want them to learn of their existence and analyse them or even dissect them, and who also did not want to share their air and air-magic with them, from this humans' air-wizarders and air-wizards' air-hunts lived more secretest and secludest from them as they could not go back to their air-wizardering and air-wizarding air-land and air-world due to the air-colonization. The air-humans thus learned how to live alongside the humans in total secrecy and seclusion from them, and this case was the case of air-human families as the Airsleys, the Airanies, the Gasanies, the Featheranies, the Plumeanies, the Winganies, the Patagiumanies, the Flyanies, the Glideanies, the Onehumanairanies, the Otherhumanairanies, as well as the Aafacks, who chose to stay on Earth amongst the humans despite these ones air-wizarders and air-wizards' air-hunts which was practiced by all human beings upon all air-human air-beings in all air-hamlets.
The Asafacks who were the authorities appointed by the Aaleveng Assembly to go after all supposedly air-humans, air-persons and air-peoples, and air-magicians, and air-wizarders and air-wizards, and all air-magic practicers; engaged in an especially aggressive air-wizarders and air-wizards' air-hunts against all suspected in engaging in air-magic or any other magic for that matter.
The Aafacks had encountered the Asafacks upon their arrival on Earth, and spellblinding them to their air-human identity, had perfectly spellbound them into seeing them as fellow humans and human hunters as them, and had gained their trust, and led them to believe that they were totally abhorrent to magic and magic practicers as them, and had assisted them in purported air-wizarders and air-wizards' air-hunts in which they the Aafacks mostly surrendered to the Asafacks rebelling air-humans who adhered to air-beliefs and air-magic-practices.
The Airsleys too and their akins had encountered the Asafacks upon their arrival on Earth, and had spellblinded them to their air-human identity, and spellbound them into seeing them as fellow humans. They as all other air-humans had also spellblinded them and all other humans into not seeing their whitish physical air-human appearance, and also spellblinded them into not perceiving their air-humanity and air-humaness, and air-humanesque such as their air-human names.
The Asafacks had forthrightly told the Airsleys and their akins about their abhorrence of air-magic, air-humans, or any other non-human entities, and had told them about their air-wizarders and air-wizards' air-hunting activities, and had told them they hoped they would help them in identifying and reporting any such air-magic practicers and air-humans, to which the Airsleys and their akins had wholeheartedly agreed.
The Asafacks had told them about assemblies they occasionally held which were to discuss about their air-hunting activities, which they held at their home, and which they invited them to be part of. The Airsleys and their akins had heartily agreed to participate, and this so as not to raise the suspicion of the Asafacks, as they had surmised that the assemblies also were to secretly scrutinize all new arrivers in the hamlet to see if they were humans truly, or hidingly air-humans.
The Airsleys and their akins had thus faithfully attended the assemblies, and today again was programmed another assembly which they would be attending, and which the Asafacks had told them in advance they and their children would be the only ones attending with them.
It was Saturday and AarryAir, Airien, and Airian were at home. It was close to a week since the air-assembly at the Aafacks where they had fastly fled from the Aafacks's nest before they witnessed these ones and the other air-men and air-women's awful anti-air sacrifice. Their dad and mum had narrated to them how after fleeing from the air-assembly, they had come back to collect them, and they couldn't see them and no one knew where they were and they could not be located; and they knowing of the torments of the Aafack kids on them believed that these ones were at it again on them, and that was how Mr Airmanie sent the swirl to retrieve them.
At eight o'clock the Airsleys were all ready and they all soared out of their nest and saw the other families emerging out of theirs too. They all were no more in air-human air-being appearance as none of them had upon them feathers, plumes, wings, patagia, featherostomies, plumostomies wingostomies, patagiumostomies, feather-wears, plume-wears, wing-wears, and patagium-wears; but were all in normal human being appearance, and all wore normal human clothes, as they always did whenever they were to go to the Asafacks, or so to the human hamlet. After greeting each other, and conceding it was time to go to the Asafacks, they all soared up and through the branches and boughs of their tree's canopy, and out of it, and through the air-wards to the open air above which was a sunrayed sky.
As they all stood in the air, Mr Airmanie then spoke. "We go to meet the Asafacks then!" AarryAir saw him put a hand into a trouser pocket, and come out with the usual pouch, and put a hand inside of it, and retrieve it powdered with the white sparkling powdery substance which he sprayed in the air as he started canting an air-incantation, "O Aero Ventum, Apparero Et Prendero Illes Aero-Hommo Horos De Illa Aero-Hamello Ad Illa Hamello!" and after the canting, the powder sparkled and after sparked, and the sparks swirled, and swirled all around them, and they were all swirled as AarryAir felt it on him, and he saw and felt as the sparky swirl became a sparkly swirl as it breached the air-wards over their air-hamlet, and saw it seep them out of the air-wards, and instantly a snapping sound was heard as a white, brilliant, blinding light blinded them for a second; and then they recovered their sight and saw they had emerged at the back of a big, multi-storied, public building which was the usual side they emerged into in the hamlet. They all then felt the sparky swirl swirl away from them and become back powder which swiftly dissipated itself.
Then they all turned all around to assure themselves that no one was present who saw them suddenly appear, and no one was there.
"Remember, no flying or gliding!" Mr Airsley reminded to them all, as they all acquiesced.
"We have to act as normal human beings as the human beings!" Mr Otherhumanairmanie said as he stood beside Mr Airsley. The two were the ones always leading and guiding them whenever they were in the human hamlet, as they were true humans as well as other human air-humans, and knew more of the human life and living.
"I believe we are all ready," Mr Airsley said as he stared at everyone, and when he had seen everyone assent, "ok, let's go," he said as he led the way around the building, and they walked and emerged on a familiar pavement of a street of the hamlet. They walked again past the building, and walked a little, and after crossed an intersection of the road, and crossed the pavement along humans to stand before the grand, green-and-white gates of a zoo, upon which was an archway which held a signboard, upon which was written in green-and-white "Zooleveng, the Zoo of Aaleveng".
The zoo was where the Asafacks had told them to meet them, though this had surprised them that they told them to meet them at a zoo for the assembly, as the assemblies had always been held at the Asafacks' home.
They entered the opened gates with the humans, and walked on the broad walkway, and on either side of the walkway were lines of wide archways with grand, green-and-white gates beneath them in which cheerful crowds of humans entered and exited, with many of them holding cages in which were all sorts of animals. This wasn't the Nestland Airwayers' first time either in the zoo, as they had visited it many times whenever they came to the hamlet to tour and tourist it.
AarryAir remembered that warder-dad had told them back at home that the Asafacks had said they would spot them and come to them once they were in the zoo, and he believed that they kept on walking for that. He however saw that as they were staring everywhere and at everyone and everything, warder-dad on whose one side he was and the other dads were peering too to see if they could glimpse the Asafacks.
"Hellooo!" AarryAir heard from a familiar voice directed at them as the others heard it too. It was the voice of Mr Asafack.
"Hello, here come." Mr Asafack said, as he and Mrs Asafack and their son and daughter were ahead just at the next gate on the right side of the walkway. They all walked to them and exchanged greetings with them.
AarryAir then strangely noticed that the humans passing to and fro seemed to pass before this gate they stood in front of as if they neither saw it or it simply did not exist. He then understood that some air-magic had been performed on the place so that the humans couldn't see it or think it existed, and he shared this with Airien and Airian and the closest boys.
"But the Asafacks obviously see it!" Airien observed.
"Then I don't know why they see it, and not the other humans." AarryAir said as he shrugged.
"And they are true humans as us, but not as us other human air-humans aware of and acquainted to air-humans and air-magic." Airian noted.
"The air-magic might have been performed when they had been here already . . .." Airboyie suggested.
They all then thought about it, and simply shrugged regardless.
"Glad you are here, and glad you came on time as usual." AarryAir, as he veered out of his thoughts, heard Mr Asafack, a sprightly, average, stout man with shaved hair, and charcoal-black skin felicitating, and the Nestland Airway parents conceding.
"I have something . . ., some air-beasts . . ., or air-beings . . ., I don't know which one they are either, or if they are both, which we felt, and hunted, and caught yesterday at dusk." Mr Asafack said as he led them through the gates upon whose archway was a signboard on which was written "Zooleveng's Aviozoo and Ornithozoo". "I wanted you to see them too as today was our assembly, and I would rather have you here see what our air-hunt yielded, rather than have us sit and talk trifle at my house."
AarryAir could feel the tenseness and ponderment of his warder-dad and the other dads as they listened to Mr Asafack's sayings.
"Come." AarryAir then heard Aamin say excitedly to them. "Come and see what dad and his colleagues caught yesterday." He said as he ran with Otherhumanairboyie and Airian he favoured most by his side, and AarryAir and the other boys followed as they left the parents behind.
"Boys, you better be careful eh?" Mr Asafack shouted after them, though none of them heeded to him. "Aamin don't take them to the zoo you were told not to approach alone. Wait till we arrive there." He continued, though it seemed Aamin in his excitement did not hear this one.
And as they ran along the walkway, AarryAir saw that it had on either side of it lines of archways with smaller gates beneath them which led to gardens and sanctuaries and shelters in which were found numerous species of birds.
They reached the end of the walkway where they faced another gate, which unlike the other gates were closed. Aamin however had the keys and opened the gate, and they all entered it into a garden. This garden too was not as the other gardens they passed by which had the birds in the open air flying all about and all around in the air and on the trees, or inside cages which hung on the big branches and boughs of the trees. The garden instead had a line of small, oval-shaped and oblong-shaped white-and-red bricked buildings with lattice windows, and latticed doors which were barred with big iron bars on the outside.
"Come," Aamin still leading, said, and started walking on tiptoes as he gestured to the others to do same. "Do not make noise. There are terrible creatures in there. Daddy and his friends captured them after they saw them and hunted them in their latest air-hunt." He then bent on his knees and crawled, prompting the others to do so, as they took a path in the garden that led to the first building. "Alien air-beasts . . ., alien air-beings . . ., alien air-humans . . . or whatever," he shrugged as he crawled, "that Daddy says they are. Though in truth they are not normal creatures, and seem to be some sort of air-magic air-creatures."
Airian turned to AarryAir and Airien and the boys behind him, and they exchanged looks which queried what truly air-magic air-creatures had Mr Asafack and his mates caught; for if they did truly caught an air-magic air-creature, then they knew that very soon air-wizarders and air-wizards would be here to collect them back; and they stared back at the enthusiastic Aamin in front of them, pitiful of what these air-wizarders and air-wizards will do to him and his parents and all humans who had seen the air-magic air-creatures if they were truly these.
As they reached the balcony and started to rise up, very wild beatings and bangings were heard within the building before them first, and then from the other succeeding buildings, and they all stared up to see the strangest air-magic air-creatures beat and bang their wings and patagia wildly and violently at the windows and doors, evidently wanting to be freed from their imprisonment.
Their wildness however terrified Aamin who ran backwards as AarryAir and Airian and Airien and the boys began retreating backwards so as to seem normal to Aamin who might be watching them. They also feigned fright, though in truth they were littly frightened for they knew what these air-creatures were, as they were the half-air-human and half-bird hybrid humanavians and humanornithans, and anthropavians and anthropornithans, and aviohumans and avioanthrops, and ornithohumans and ornithoanthrops, who all were not that wild, as well as other similar air-creatures, as they had seen them in books about air-creatures and air-beasts of the air-wizardering and air-wizarding air-land and air-world, and were seeing them for the first time, and not in their air-human air-hamlet but in the human hamlet, they unbelievingly thought. They also flinched in fear that the humans in the zoo might hear them as they wildly waved and flapped.
How had Mr Asafack and his mates succeeded them in catching these air-creatures, and catching hordes and flocks of them as they saw them beating and banging wildly at the doors and windows, AarryAir and Airian and Airien and the boys wordlessly wondered as they stared at each other, and at Aamin who was farthest back shaking in fright. They then remembered to shake too, and so started shaking as him.
And so Mr Asafack ran into the path with warder-dad Airion and the other fathers at his back as the commotion of the air-creatures had evidently hurried them.
"What . . . what happened?" Mr Asafack asked to Aamin as he ran to him and held him. Aamin simply stayed speechless and shaking, and pointed at the air-creatures. "What happened?" Mr Asafack asked to AarryAir and the boys. "What have agitated them so?"
Airian then started stammering an answer, as AarryAir watched the comical stare and stance of his warder-dad and the other dads who feigned scare and shock at seeing the air-creatures so as to seem normal to Mr Asafack, though some of the dads, in the past as they had narrated it, had apprehended some of the air-creatures when they were at the true air-wizardering and air-wizarding air-land and air-world, and AarryAir was sure none of them was scared even the slightest of the air-creatures.
Mr Asafack, still confused, and seeming reluctant to approach the building, then spoke. "As you can see Airion . . . Airmanie . . . these are the air-beasts . . . I was telling you of . . ., and . . .."
AAOOM! the sudden sound of an explosion resonated, and instantly appeared a dissipating white-and-black powder in the midst of which were several white-and-black hooded, and robed and cloaked or feathered and plumed, and winged and patagiumed, and white-painted face air-wizarders and air-wizards, who with air-wands and air-woots held up and ready, immediately pointed them at Mr Asafack, and all furiously shouted, "STUPEFERO!" and white-and-black air-spell sparks emerged out of the wands and woots, and all swiftly and stabbingly smashed at Mr Asafack who stood straightest and passed out before he had time to see or hear the air-wizarders and air-wizards.
One of them moved forward, and then stopped before the upright and unconscious self of Mr Asafack, picked him up and put him on his shoulders, and then turned to warder-dad Airion and the other fathers who had stayed silent and watching, and lifted up his hood slightly, and they all unsurprisingly saw it was Mr Aafack, and also unsurprisingly saw the usual sneery stare and smile on his face as AarryAir saw it too.
Mr Aafack then turned to the others and gestured to them, and they wordlessly went towards the buildings; and without a word of his own, he lowered down his hood as the same white-and-black powder instantly apparated and disapparated with him.
AarryAir then catching an aside movement, opened his mouth in surprise, and after shock, as he saw the forgotten Aamin silently tiptoeing away from them. Airien, and after Airian, and then the boys also saw it, surprised, and after shocked also; and this too caught the attention of warder-dad Airion and the other dads who followed their stares, and saw Aamin disappear out of the path. Mr Airmanie then waved his head in a gesture, which AarryAir and the boys understood meant they should go quietly after Aamin without the other air-wizarders and air-wizards noticing it or noticing Aamin.