The Battle

Kludd looked to his left and then right. 30 owls were at his side, prepared to defeat the Gaurdians. One of them gulped as she looked at the large group of owls that were nearing them. Obviously it was Grace. Kludd flew up to her, his mask on his face and his metal claws on his feet. "The Pure do not accept cowards, brush that fear off owlet, now's your chance to become famous, all you have to do is... STOP BEING A COWARD!" he shouted at her. She flinched , but then resumed in flapping her wings.

The Gaurdian owls were here. Two new warrior, two red feathered owls attacked first. They attacked two small sooty owls and made a quick job of killing them. This allarmed the Gaurdians as they started hurling onto the Pure owls and started attacking them. Soren took on Kludd. the two started fight feircely. Suddenly, Soren realised he was battling against his brother. "Kludd?!" Soren gasped. Kludd smirked. "Did you think I was dead?" he asked laughing evily. Soren flinched. He thought his brother had died, but this evil laughed he was alive and as Pure as ever!

Meanwhile, a massive chocolate brown owl had took on Grace. She tried to avoid his swipes, but she only just managed it. Seeing how strong the owl was, she didn't even think about counterattacking. "Guess the Pure have a coward, what are you an owlet?!" the owl mocked her with his male voice. This made her angry. "For your information, I am an owlet!" Grace retorted. "I see you're an adult, but I don't know your name." The owl smiled. "An enemy chatting to an enemy, now I've seen everything!" he said. "Fine, my name's Bravewing! And yours, owlet?"

"The name's Grace," she replied. Suddenly an owl shouted at her. "Soldier you're meant to fight no chat!" the owl shouted. She obeyed the owl's command. She treid do claw at Bravewing, but he counter attacked, sending her falling. She regained her balance and started flying back. Bravewing started pecking at her, wounding her badly. She cried out in pain. Sonn she decided to use her first strategy and went back to dodging attacks and not attacking.

Her opponent seemed to have a lot of stamina. Even after half the owls in the battlefield had fallen, the two still were battling. He was a real proffesional. "And they say you were the best trainee!" Bravewing continued to mock Grace, who was hurt now, both spiritually and physically. Bravewing shoved her to the side. In the tiny amount of time he had free, he let out a strange noise, that sounded like a songbird's. Grace managed to fly back, but little did she know that this whistle meant more than met the ear.

Kludd was battling Soren and was begining to tire out. Soren heard his panting and he chuckled. "Tired?" he asked his brother mockingly. Kludd growled. "Not really!" he snapped. Suddenly, he saw something odd. There were two owls flying up to a golden-feathered owlet. The owlet didn't seem to notice. It was Grace! She was fighting a bulky, strong, chocolate feathered owl. Let her die, not going to do much harm, hen thought to himself. He looked at the falling owls. half of them were Pure owls, which meant they only had half the owls they had before. If anyone asked, it was because he didn't want to loose a soldier that was a good flier so fast!

He quickly flew behind one of the owls and pierced throught the owl's back. The he took on the second owl. It screeched and flapped his wings at him, but with no avail. Kludd grabbed the owl's wing and shook it hard, making it break and then he sent the owl falling down. It let out a cry and then fell onto the ground where it lay motionless. Kludd smiled victoriously and then went back to fighting the half amused half shocked Soren. "You had to kill them?!" he asked furious. "You're the same monster like the others." Kludd smirked. Then Soren's expression changed from angry to amused. He started sing, even if it was a fail. "Kludd and owlet on a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" This made Kludd furious. "I hate Grace, not love... and I never will!"

"Aw... you even remember her name... how sweet!" Soren mocked. "Just remember ... never say never," he whispered those last few words. Kludd kicked at his brother. "Get out of the Pure's territory, before I kill the rest of you, you too Soren." Soren looked at his enraged brother. "I won't hesitate to kill anyone, I am metal beak and I will even try and kill you, brother!" 15 shocked gaurdian owls froze in midair as they heard him. They were surprised that Kludd survived and his words were creeping them out. They all bolted away.

Well, not all of them. Bravewing was fighting Grace, yes still fighting her. Bravewing seemed tired out and he had a wound below his eye and on his wing. The most creepiest one was the wound that was in the shape of a star. It was on his chest and blood oozed from it. Grace had also her own wound, most weren't deep, but she was bloodied and some of her feathers were torn out. She didn't look as if she would last much longer. Kludd regretted that he appointed her as a warrior, she would surely loose. Bravewing attacked her again, scratching at her and kicking her. Then he grabbed her by her wings and started tearing at them, whilst the owlet screeched in pain.

Suddenly, a fire lit up. Not again! thought Kludd miserably. He saw that his soldier were watching the fight as well, amused, by the owls attempts at attacking bravewing. Then it clicked! The gaurdians had set fire to this forest to burn any owls that went to close. They were waiting a couple of meters from Grace's fight, watching. Kludd was sickened. And they called themselves the good ones! he thought. He saw that Grace was losing. Something tugged at his heart. "Wait," he muttered to himself.

Grace was out of energy. Slowly she was being beaten to her limits, slowly she was giving up. Then she started falling into the fire. Bravewing flew off, laughing. Kludd waqtched her falling into the flames, remembering the day when he fell too. This time, the victim was too wounded to survive. He commanded his soldiers to leave. They didn't argue. As they did so, Kludd lunged into the fire and pulled Grace out. He then flew to a rock that was out of harm's way and lay the owl on the rock. The owl lay there unconcious, barely breathing. He gave her on last look and flew off, back to his kingdom.

An hour later, with Grace...

Grace started coughing. She woke up and stood up and looked at the flames that raged nearby. She thought she would have been dead, but someone saved her... who? It couldn't been Kludd... he wouldn't save a soldier's life. she looked at her wings. They were slightly torn, but not broken. She slowly flew up, into the air. They she flew in the direction of the Pure ones. She said she would be loyal and then it was the Gaurdians that nearly killed her, that wasn't an option anymore, she would have to stay with the Pure ones. Her wings were throbbing, but she still flew on.

With Kludd...

Kludd didn't expect that Grace would return, nor did he really want her too. Or did he? He was disturbed from his thoughts , when an owl came crashing in. She landed with a thud. "Huh?!" He walked up to the owl. Just an owlet. It was Grace! "Sorry I came late... I just had a little bit of trouble, but someone helped me," she apologised. He tried to mask his look with a question. "Who?" he asked. She shook her head and sighed. "I don't know."

"Does that owl know that he/she shouldn't help other owls, especially if they are enemies!" he asked. That owl did know, but Kludd tried to not show anything."Well atleast you have another soldier that didn't die!" She answered back. "Oops sorry master... i didn't mean to-," she was going apologise, but then she saw Kludd laughing. "Huh?!"

"Nothing that is meant for you owlet!" he stopped laughing and replied. Grace nodded her head and walked of to her dorm. After that, Kludd chickled for a while and then went back to being serious. "How was the fight?" A voice asked. Kludd turned around to see Nyra. "Um... it went well enough! We fought them off!" he replied quickly.

"I see you aren't angry anymore, i hope that doesn't effect your battling, Metalbeak!" Nyra added. Kludd shook his head. "It takes more than a change in emotion to change the fighting of a Metalbeak!" he replied. Why would a chuckle change me?!How could a chuckle be that pwerful? Kludd asked himself. Nyra walked off. Kludd went into his dorm and took of his mask and metal claws. They were starting to get uncomfortable. He fell asleep and as he did so, he realised that his dreams began to change. The dreams of power changed into the dreams that inluded love, hate and attraction, the natural kind.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I know, not very interesting, but atleast things are warming up! Please review and I'll update as soon as possible!