Guardians of Facebook - Mesmo: The Last Telepath
This story and the characters herein are based on the life of a fictional character used in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole based role-playing community on Facebook. It is written in first person narrative because when role-playing on Facebook you become part of the character.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Guardians of Ga'Hoole or any of its known characters. There are however a few character that I do own and characters that I have been granted permission to use by other role players.
Chapter One: The Striped Pearl
Many moons ago, two barred owls stood around a nest in which a rather odd looking egg was now hatching.
Look Neuro, the egg is cracking!"- My mother Valery hooted to my Da telepathically.
It's always easy to tell apart the egg of a telepathic owl. Whether the egg belongs to that of barn owls, great horneds, snowys or even great greys it is always striped a bright blue colour. Some say it has something to do with the (blue) electrical signals of the owl brain, but I guess I'll never really know. Being a barred owl, my egg was white and rather spherical. For this reason my egg resembled a striped pearl.
Everyone in the settlement the telepathic owls had built in Silverveil suddenly felt a disturbance in their minds at the moment my egg tooth cracked the egg, or so my mum tells me. This was an unusual occurrence and did not happen every time a telepathic owl was hatched. Mum also told me that everyone agreed that I must be the most powerful telepathic owl since Teleglaux himself (The first telepathic owl, but that's another story). The others quickly traced the location that the disturbance was coming from and everyone was now crowded around me. A buzz of tele-talk entered my mind and mum had to telepathically shush them. I slowly stood up and uttered my first telepathic words -Mum, da?-
-Hello there little one. - They replied
-He is a mesmerizing little owlet, isn't he?- And that's how I got my name. It was shortened to "Mesmo" of course and I personally think that they couldn't have picked a better name, considering the hypnotics of telepaths and all. It was further shortened to "Mes" by my mate.
Thank you for coming everyone, but the owlet needs to be alone for a while."- My mum chased everyone out the hollow. As soon as everyone cleared out I gazooled my first real word "Mes-merr-ise" and then I smiled. A telepathic owl's tele-voice sounds exactly the same inside your head as his or her actual voice. That morning I had my First insect ceremony and my da read me the first legend of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole. We didn't have very many books, only the legends, two books on telepathy, the story of Teleglaux and my mum's first book. I sat in my nest and looked up at my da with wide eyes as he began reading aloud.
"Once upon a time before there were kingdoms of owls, in a time of ever-raging wars hatched in the country of the great North Waters and his name was Hoole…" He began.
When my da finished reading the legend I fell asleep to my mum humming some sort of telepathic lullaby and dreamt of the Guardians.
Sorry it's so short. I'm working on length and the chapters do get longer. Please R&R!