Chapter 2: Where's Dad? (Where's Chanticleer continued)

A pheasant with a rifle jumped out and shot at Harry. Realizing who it was Harry rolled to the side and shouted "Expelliarmus!" The rifle was magically yanked and thrown out of Goldie's hands.

"Mom." Harry said running up to Goldie and hugging the blonde haired pheasant. Goldie embraced the human boy she and her husband had adopted.

"Oh Harry." She said in her soft voice. "I-I didn't realize, I thought the owls had come back."

"Owls did this? I thought they only liked the rain." Harry said as his mother lead him inside where a roaring fire was in the fireplace and all his friends where at the fire warming up.

"Well it wasn't cats that attacked us." Peepers the mouse said as she hopped up on an armchair.

"They just outright attacked you guys?" Harry asked in shock.

"That's odd." The Duke said "Owls don't normally just attack out of no where. We wait."

"What's he doing here?" Snipes asked angrily pointing at the Duke on Harry's shoulder. Patou noticed who the magpie was ponting at and he started toward the Duke growling.

"He's just freeloading." Harry said shaking the Duke off his shoulder.

"You little brat!" The former Duke of Owls said angrily as he was chased around by Snipes, Patou and Peepers.

"So mum." Harry said as they sat down in separate arm chairs. "Where's dad? What happened to him?"

"He put up a fight." Goldie told the worried human teenager softly. "But they took him."

"We think they where looking for something else though." Peepers said as she hopped on Harry's arm chair's arm.

"Looking for something?" Harry leaned down a little bit.

"Yeah." Patou said as he sat down at Harry's feet. "Cause they searched the entire farm. We don't know what they where looking for though."

...

At the owl's lair, beautiful music, with a sinister quality was being played by the former Duke's pipe organ.

A male owl walked up to the owl playing the organ. "We believe the boy to be in our world at last Grand Dutchess."

A female owl cooed as she pulled and dialed the knobs on the organ sending more snow clowds into the air. "Excellent." A seductive voice cooed. Amber eyes glowing in the darkness surrounding her figure. "Send out a team to capture him. Bring him straight to me. If he resists. Use HIM as leverage." The mysterious female owl looked over to her crystal ball where Chanticleer is seen sighing and hanging his head in a prison cell.

...

"Your leaving already?" Goldie asked the next morning as Harry wrapped his winter cloak around himself.

"Someone has to find dad." Harry insisted. "Mum, I'm going." He picked up the bag he had taken from Gryffindor Tower and had been given some supplies by his mother. Some bottles of water (Which he put an Anti-Freezing Charm on) Some non perishable foods like a jar of peanut butter and some energy bars (Chanticleer ate them when farming to save time on eating).

Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. The snow was so thick that his feet went down three inches into it.

"How long has it been snowing like this?" Harry asked the Duke who was following him in the air.

"Almost a month." The Duke said flapping his wings lightly to get another breeze to ride. "Wait." He paused. "What was that?"

Harry paused. It was quiet as he looked around the snowy mountain ranges. Too quiet.

BOOM

To Be Continued...

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