"Put us down!" yelled Jane-Ann.

Hedwig knew that the young mice were tired and depressed over losing their home and worst their relatives. Jane-Ann and Suzy were now in the orphan league with their cousin Liam. And they had been flying for hours now. The snowy owl needed to rest too, but she knew she had to make certain that they were clear from the evil forest.

"Put us down!" Jane-Ann yelled for the twentieth-fifth time. "We're well clear from the forest!"

"Yeah," agreed Liam. "And there's a nice, interesting rock down there."

Jane-Ann saw where Liam was pointing and nodded. "Hedwig, land us down there! NOW!"

Hedwig did land. She was worn out not because of the flying but because Jane-Ann had been a terrible passenger. The owl understood what she and her relatives were going through. She went through the same with her owner. Liam and Suzy were taking it hard as well, but Jane-Ann was the one who was struggling with the pain the most. Then she quickly dashed off as if she was being chased by a cat.

"Hey, Jane-Ann!" Liam called as he picked up his little cousin Suzy and started running after his eldest one. "Where are you going?"

"I can't cope with this!" Jane-Ann cried. "I need to be on my own for a while."
Liam tried to catch up with her, but the heavy stones on the path made it hard for him to catch up. "Hey, Heddy, any chance of help here?" He turned around only to find there was no snowy owl on the rock where she had dropped them. This is the second time she had done that. Buy why is she doing it?

Liam looked ahead to find that now Jane-Ann was out of sight too. Now he and Suzy were completely alone together in the middle of nowhere. Where they were they knew nothing about at all except it was a valley of full of nothing but rocks and rocky walls with small holes in.

As he and Suzy started to make their way through the valley, Liam was wondering about what happened to Jane-Ann. Could she have just ran off so she could have time to herself to recover from the burning of her home since she was born? Could she have run off because she had enough of Liam's carefree and mischievous personality? Or maybe she must have gone off to commit suicide because she wasn't coping very well with the death of her parents.

Suzy yawned and started to sniffle quietly.

"There, there," said Liam. "I know you miss your parents. I miss them, too."
And he never thought he missed them as much as he felt right now. Even though he loved them and they were with his legal guardians, he never really viewed them as the closest things to parents since his own died. But now he thought of them, tears of missing and regretting not to bond with them came out of his eyes.

"LIAM!"

He and Suzy turned around to see Jane-Ann alive and running towards them. "You get lost for an hour and a half and you freak out?"

"Only from snakes!" Jane-Ann protested, running past them.

Liam laughed. "Oh, that's very brave of – " Then he realized what his elder cousin said. "What? Snakes!"

Then he heard hissing coming from behind. He turned around and his fear and Jane-Ann was right. There was a cobra snake slithering towards them. He slowly grinned at it and moved backwards. He didn't move very far.

"Why are you stopping me, Jane-Ann?" Liam snapped.

"Oh, no reason other than the fact that I am facing a viper!" Jane-Ann snapped back.

Liam turned around and saw the viper that Jane-Ann was facing. Then they saw both of them were blocked off by a milk snake and a carpet python.

"Can we help you?" Liam asked the snakes.

"Yes," said the viper. "We could use a snack."
"Isn't there a market near here?" Liam suggested.

"No food and water is hard to get by these days," said the viper.

"Especially since we had to leave the Alsdar Forest after Workat's invasion," said the milk snake.

All four snakes slithered closer to the mice, looking desperate for a bite to eat.

"Where is Hedwig when you need her?" Jane-Ann demanded.

"There she is!" Liam pointed up.

Then everyone including the snakes looked up to see Hedwig hovering above them.

"About bloody time, too!" Jane-Ann moaned.

But the snowy owl didn't fly down.

"Hedwig, we could do with a bit of rescuing here!" Jane-Ann called to her.

"An owl, friends with little mice children?" said the carpet python. "Doesn't this seem a bit strange to you?"

"Who cares?" asked the python. "Whether she is friends with them or planning to eat them later, we have the better chance of capturing them before she does."

The snakes turned around to the mice.

"HEDDY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Liam screamed.

The snakes opened their mouths and each other roared in for the mice.

"STOP!"

The other snakes stopped to look at the viper.

"The ground is shaking!" she exclaimed.

The snakes turned around and saw that she was right. And the rumbling was rocking like a real earthquake. They all looked up at Hedwig.

"What are you doing to us, owl?" the cobra demanded.

She just shook her head.

"Look!" Jane-Ann cried.

Everyone looked to see Workat's army running towards them.

"Seize everyone on the ground!" Bakey the owl ordered. "Leave Serpo to me!"

Hedwig, the mice and the snakes had no idea who they were talking about. Then the snowy owl dodged Bakey towards her.

"You can fly, but you can't hide, Serpo!" the barn owl yelled at her.

As she flew around looking for something to fight Bakey, Hedwig wandered why he was calling her 'Serpo'. Might he confuse her for some other snowy owl or might that be her name before Harry Potter dubbed her 'Hewdig'?

After flying around as quickly as she could, she realised she couldn't keep it up especially since it had been five hours since she and the mice left the farm. Then she saw a big mountain full of small rocks. She landed on the top and threw the top rock at Bakey's wand before he could say the spell. Then his face was hit by a rock. Bakey got hit by so many rocks and so fast that he couldn't even have time to open his beak let alone say a word.

Back on the ground, Workat's army had plenty of success capturing all four snakes and putting them into magical cages. The mice, on the other hand, were smaller and quicker. They managed to drive into a crack.

One fox waved his wand and said, "Wingardium leviosa!"

The mice flew up. They tried to break free but it did them no good.

A rabbit soldier reached for them, but they weren't there by the time his paws were together. Everyone looked ahead and saw that the mice were flying away in Hedwig's claws.

"What do we do now, sir?" asked a badger soldier.

Everyone turned around to face Bakey who was buried under a pile of rocks and was badly bruised.

"Sir, they're getting away," a frog soldier reported.

Bakey yawned. "We can get them tomorrow. Let's call it a day." Then he nodded off.