They spent the next few days flying north along Hoolemere. On the third day, they noticed that someone was following them. possibly a lot of owls. They decided to pick up the pace to see if they could lose them. When they started going faster, 5 barn owls, two of them adults, started chasing Nizrook and Tanna. They flew as fast as they could.

"Tanna, there's a storm over Hoolemere. We should fly in there to see if we can lose them!"

"But we could die doing that!" Tanna said, worried.

"It's our only chance, Tanna. If we don't, then it's them who will kill us!"

"Okay Nizrook. Just stay close to me, please."

Hail started pouring down over the lake since it was cold up north. Their pursuers all started slowing down, but Nizrook and Tanna wouldn't slow down.

"I don't think we can make it all the way across." said Tanna, more scared than she had ever been before.

"We have to try!" Nizrook said. "Wait, what's that?"

Before Tanna could ask what he meant, a barn owl, a great gray owl, a burrowing owl, and an elf owl flew over them. The owls went after the owls chasing Nizrook and Tanna. They kept going forward, trying to get away from the combat happening behind them. As they flew, they both started to dip lower. right as they were about to fall into Hoolemere, a snowy owl grabbed them. As soon as his talons wrapped around them, they both passed out.

Tanna woke up in a tree hollow. As soon as she could think, she started looking for Nizrook in a panic. When she couldn't find him, she started searching all around the tree, avoiding any owls she could see. She finally found him alone in another hollow, just waking up and starting to look around for her.

"Nizrook!" she said, relieved, giving him a hug.

"Tanna!" Nizrook said, both of them starting to tear up.

"Where are we?"

"I don't know, but at least we're alright."

The spent the next few minutes crying, hugging each other. The only reason they stopped is because a barn owl walked into the room, startling them.

"Get back!" Nizrook said to Tanna, stepping in front of her. "I'll kill you if I have to!" Nizrook said to the barn owl

"Don't worry. I was the one who tried to help you" He said to Nizrook, who wasn't completely convinced.

"Well, it's understandable, Soren." said an elf owl, stepping into the room, making Nizrook jump. "The pure ones trying to kill them is the last thing they probably remember."

Just then, the burrowing owl and great gray owl came in.

"The white one is missing!" said the burrower.

"Why are you two not surprised?" the great gray said, not seeing the two of them in the corner of the room.

"What's going on here?" Nizrook asked

The elf owl decided to speak up. "I'm Gylfie, these are Soren, the barn owl, Digger, the burrowing owl, and Twilight, the great gray. We're Guardians. you were taken to the great tree by Boron after you two started going yeep."

"Who was chasing us?" asked Tanna, still terrified.

"Those were the pure ones, a group of Tytos who believe that all other owls are lesser species." Soren said.

"I have a feeling they don't appreciate us barging in like this." Gylfie said. "When you feel like you want to talk to us, we'll be just over there." Gylfie said, pointing at the parliament hollow. "Let's go, guys." she said, walking out.

Nizrook was shaking so he sat next to Tanna. They stayed huddled up together for a couple hours. They decided that they would go over to where Gylfie said they should go to talk to the owls who saved them. All the way to the hollow they were directly next to each other. When they walked into the hollow, the snowy owl who grabbed them addressed them.

"Hello you two." he said "Can you tell us your names?"

"I'm Tanna, and this is Nizrook" Said Tanna.

"I see. Do you mind if i ask how you lost your leg, Nizrook?" The snowy owl asked.

"I was born with only one leg." he said, his leg starting to shake as he noticed all of the owls in the room.

"And how did you make the owls chasing you so angry?"

"We were alone because Tanna's parents didn't come back from the trip they were taking, so I greeted them and they tried to kill me. When one went after Tanna I accidentally killed him."

"And what about your parents, Nizrook?"

"Two moons ago a tree fell over and hit him in the head. Since we had only just met, he and I don't know his parents." Tanna said.

"So, would you two like to train to become guardians?"

They looked at each other for a second then looked back at Boron. "No." They said in unison.

"We were talking about the guardians a few days ago and decided that we wouldn't want to become guardians if they existed... Which, I guess, they do." Nizrook explained.

"Though we'd like to stay here if we can." Tanna said, getting Nizrook to approve of that with a nod.

The snowy owl talked with a female snowy owl right beside him for a few seconds.

"We have a couple of hollows we could spare. we can have someone lead you to them." He said, but at that moment he saw Tanna supporting Nizrook because of his leg shaking. "Or we could put you together in one hollow if you want."

"I think we'll go together." Tanna said.

"Okay. Gylfie, can you escort them to one of the empty hollows?"

"Sure!" Gylfie said.

After she flew them to their new hollow, Gylfie told them where they could get some food.

They spent the rest of the night and the day Snuggled up together, happy to be alive and together.

*spoilers- they die next chapter. JK, I will not spoil any of my stories! Have an awesomazing day!*