October 26 of 1915: Starts (part 1)
My name is Raven, and I'm a thunderbird, the last of my class, and I'm writing a diary… yes, really, I know I'm a talking bird and this is for humans, but you know, I don't care. Why did I started this diary? because I will pass the rest of the great war in a farmhouse outside of Trollberg, and why? well… it's a long story.
I always come every autumn to Trollberg for the annual bird parade celebrated every 14 of November, and this year wasn't the exception, I returned to the island, as normal as always, with yellow fur woffs flying above it and the walls of the city appearing behind the mountains as I closed to it, but with one difference: The great war.
Look, Trollberg is part of the German empire since 1864, before that date it was A danish island in the middle of the north Atlantic, so Trollberg is a mix of Germans and Danish people, but all of them were loyal to the empire.
As I closed to the city, I could look that on the wall there were artillery guns and Anti-air ones, which were curious since the wall was just for keeping the trolls out of the city, but with the war, the walls were great for near entrenchment and defense against future invasions (It is vital for the Germans as Trollberg was a great port in the north sea, so they won't give up Trollberg easy) with soldiers securing them.
I flew to the center of the city and stood in an electric pole, then I watched the stores and people in the street: Some stores were closed and others had ridiculous high prices in the store glasses, and the people were worried, scared or annoyed, maybe because there were bad news in the newspaper, so I waited for anyone to drop a newspaper to see the main news, and it didn't took long! Someone drop one in the street, at a distance I could read, the main news said: "The ship convoy was destroyed yesterday by a british battleship" no wonder why everyone was looking bad and the prices, I don't think this is going to be a nice time to Trollberg.
I searched for a tree for resting as the night was coming, there were no other birds in it (fortunately for me) and stayed there, I watched some kids playing near my tree football, and thinked that some of their fathers were now fighting in the trenches and they might not come back forever, some kids were Germans, others were danish, but all of them were playing the same game, they were from 8 to 13 years old playing at the same time, that scene made me happy.
Then I heard an alarm starting, but I didn't knew what was happening, so I decided to fly up for seeing better what was happening, but as I flied something almost hit me, I couldn't see what was that, but it scared me a lot that I transformed in my great form and flew even higher, and I could see what was happening.
Some airplanes were fighting each other, with machine guns on it. It was pretty new for me, I couldn't believe some planes were fighting (I never saw military planes in my life) and some of them were shooting me, and in a panic attack, I tried to escape that nightmare, but then something occurred: Something that will change my destiny of me and a family.
An AA (Anti Air) was pointing at me, then another, and another… before I realised I had 10 guns shooting at me. I tried to dodge all of them, but one hit me in my left wing. "So this is it" I thought as I was falling. "My life ends here, there's no way I can live from this fall" and then the drop hit me. My entire body was hurting, and I was breathing harder every second, as I was fainting, I could hear the voices of some kid and his father, I transformed into my small form again as I saw some human shapes near me, then I fainted.
Then I waked up in a coach, it was pretty soft. I opened my eyes and discovered that I was in a farmhouse: there was a bloody bandage in my win. It was a serious injury, but I knew it would get better.
Then I looked the room I was: there was 2 coaches and a single sofa, there was a table in the middle of them, with a plant in a pot, and a newspaper with the same title as the one read in Trollberg, coffees, eggs and some books.
The wall was full of paintings of Trollberg, woffs and also a painting of me in the bird parade. And some shotguns, hunting mostly. That panicked me for once, as I thought zi would become bird soup, but then I thought if they hunted me, then I wouldn't be in a coach with a bandage and instead in a stove being cooked over 100 grades. That calm me, but I had more questions: Were I was? Why I was saved from dead and not cooked? And who were the persons who saved me?
"Hey little bird" someone said, I looked at the place the voice came from and I saw a girl: a brown haired, tall girl, with some food on her hands. I wanted to say something, but I was a bird and I knew he would scare if I said something. She gave me the seeds, thinking I would eat them, but I prefer something better.
I looked the eggs in the table and pointed them. She gasped and asked.
"Do… do you understand me?" I was nervous, I wanted to say something, but I resist and just nodded.
"Oh my god, you can understand me!" she screamed excited, and another boy entered running by the scream.
"What happened?! Something bad?" he asked rushed. The boy had a blue hair and he was shorter to his sister, but older, as he talked and his look.
"The bird just talked!" the girl answered.
"Come one, Sophie! I don't think that a bird can understand the human language, less a raven!" He nagged. He was a bit annoying.
"But he understand me! isn't this true, bird?" I nodded. The boy also looked surprised, and the girl then continued. "Think 2 times before saying anything, Tommy, or this will happen and you would look stupid.
"I'm older than you, remember? I don't need any advice from you." He answered as he was proud of himself. He is pretty annoying, and Sophie thinked the same.
"He wants eggs, apparently, can you bring him the eggs in the table?" He asked Tom, and moody he bring me the eggs. They smelled delicious, and I was starving, so I ate like I never ate, they were delicious, then I lied down with my stomach full, and stared at the children.
"You will be fine, little Raven. As long as we are here" Sophie smiled, she was nice to me, but I was starting to get sleepy, so they left me and I slept.
My questions would get answered soon, but I wasn't be prepared for what would happen next.
