Full Moon: Downfall

by Erzaler Kael

1000 years after the fall of the Guardians. The Pure Ones have lost the intentions og the original leaders, but still retain their laws. One of the many owls living in the empire unknowingly becomes the main threat to the evil empire.

1. Prologue

I do NOT own TGoG, I'm not Kathryn Lasky.

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Prologue

A thousand Pure Ones flew over the darkened Sea of Hoolemere. Behind them the once great tree burned to its roots, lighting the dark night. Their leader hovered over her army. Nyra had been waiting a long time for this moment. The full moon on this night lit up her moon-like face. Suddenly, she felt an alien feeling in her gizzard. Was it the feeling of happiness? Of victory? A smile (her first since hatching) forced its way under her soft-pink beak. The Guardians of my tail feathers are finished! Oh, if only Kludd were here to see the demise of his brother and the Racdrop Guardians. He would be thrilled. Thrilled to see the start of a new era of Pure Tyto Supremacy! The leader of the Pure Ones gave a long final look at the dying tree.

In the following years, under rule of High Empress Tyto Nyra, the Pure Ones took over the known owl kingdoms during the campaign of Purity. They had control of the minds of all non-Tyto owls, and rewrote history to work in their favor. The Pure Tytonic Empire would last for the rest of time, they thought, but the world was going to change a thousand years after the fall of the Guardians. And it would start with the crack on an eggshell...