Hello guys!

First of all: I'm very sorry but I'll explain what happened. I had already translated this chapter to the computer, but then a blackout appeared and I could not save. When I translated again, my pc broke and I didn't save in a pen drive. When I translated for the third time, it was on my father's house. I forget to save on my pendrive. Now that I'm at his house again, I'm posting this. Sorry again for the delay...

P.S: Airman and CB, try to figure out something in this chapter... Airman gave me permission to do it...

Disclaimer: I don't own Guardians of Ga'Hoole.


It was darkening, and the fire was still burning the tree. Dain stood up after yawning and encountered Mary at the entrance of the hollow, looking to the burning.

He walked quietly to her side to not wake the spotted owl who seemed to be dreaming about another owl called Cleve. Mary had already noticed that he was awake.

"Dain…" She said almost whispering while turning her head to face her mate "How come a fire burn for more than a day and a night?"

"I don't know sweetheart… but we will stop this burning for the sake of Silverveil…"

"Yes…" Mary looked again to the fire and saw an owl at the other side. It was just a blur, but it was definitely an owl. A white owl. "Darling, that owl… across the fire… is Shard?"

Dain looked beyond the burned tree and, soon after his vision get used to the brightness of the yellow and red flames, he recognized the owl. It was Shard, but he was with someone. He couldn't hear well due to the noise that the fire was making, but definitely he was accompanied.

"Yes… but I saw another owl with him. It must be the king of Ga'Hoole. You don't have to be afraid…"

"All right…"


Shard was tired. He had worked on that "idea" for almost all the day. His talons were aching, but he would not give up. His invention was almost finished.

"Soren, can you tie this wine tighter?

"My claws are aching a lot…" Soren said making faces while rubbing each claw.

"Oh…then, leave it to me!" and after saying that, he tied the vines and began to pull them. His breathing was accelerated. His claws were shaking as he pulled harder, but he endured the pain. He did not want to demonstrate his weakness to the king. He did not want to show the king that he couldn't finish something that he had begun, and with these thoughts in mind, he kept pulling the wine until it became firm.

"Finished…" he sighed with a trembling voice.

Soren felt that there were something strange with Shard. He couldn't walk without making a painful expression, and then, he fell to the ground after tripping on a rock. Soren run as fast as he could with his claws begging for a rest to see what happened.

"Are you all right?"

"I'm working since dawning… I'm tired and my legs are shaking… I'm hungry, since I do not hunted since I woke up…" admittd him with a small smile on the face.

"For Glaux's sake, when a problem appears, it brings out the whole 'problems' family with it?" said Soren laughing. "Just wait here. I will try to hunt something for us."

"Please…" said Shard laughing too.

Soren came back with a vole and they divided the meal. Shard then, walked slowly to the lake with the help of the Tyto Alba.

"Why do you need to go to the lake? Are you thirsty too?"

"You will see when we get there…"

When they arrived, Shard put the claws in the water. It was cold, and gave an invigorating effect and anesthetic.

Soren only understood what he was doing when he decided to do the same. He felt a quick relief and his claws seemed to be forgetting the pain.

"So… How do you know Ga'Hoole?" asked Shard looking to his own claws. He was eager to listen to that story since Soren told started to tell.

The Barn Owl looked to him and began to tell the story.

"When I was an owlet, I lived with my family at the Forest Kingdom of Tyto. I had an older brother, Kludd, and a little sister, Eglantine. Our parents always told us the great achievements of Ga'Hoole and the wars that they won, but Kludd thought that these stories were all fake. I don't remember when I heard this, but someone told me that Kludd was shattered when he was an egg and, after sometime, he met another Tyto Alba with a pair of battle claws…" He told everything to Shard. He told about how Kludd pushed him from the hollow, how he and Gylfie survived the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphan Owls, the reunion with his old nest-maid snake, the crows attack, his arrive to Ga'Hoole, the chaws, how the parliament were and described the tree. He told about the owls that lives there, about the wars that they battled. He told about his "escapades" with the band and about the travel to the Northern Kingdoms. Then, he told with a melancholy voice, about the last war of his nephew and how he became the King. In fact, he told everything about his childhood and his days in Ga'Hoole, ommiting only the part about the Middle Kingdoms. He wasn't sure if he need to know about the existence of a new Kingdom.

When he finished, he looked to Shard's eyes. They were almost shining, not in an abnormal form, but in a way that expressed all his admiration.

"Soren, you are a incredible owl! Seriously, I don't know if I would have thought the same things!"

"Under pressure you can think in something that you wouldn't ever imagine in a normal situation…" said him a little embarrassed. It had been a long time since he was praised for his achievements. Because he is king, the majority of the owls praised him because of his position, but Shard praised him for respect and admiration.

"Now you, Shard. What do you have to show me?"

Shard stood up. "Just wait here." And then walked to a near pine tree, and from the entrance near the roots, he grabbed a book.

"What's this?"

"Soren, I want you to have a good look at this book." He held out the book to the Barn Owl.

Soren analyzed the book and then open it. He understood some words, just as Shard at the beginning.

"Shard, what's the purpose of this book? I can't understand a thing…" he looked at the back of the book. It was a little burned, but nothing serious that would compromise the reading. His face froze.

"W-What's your name doing here? You wrote this?"

"No. It was written by an "Other", or rather, a "human".

"Human?" Soren was unfamiliar with the term.

"Yes, the humans are what we call 'Others'."

That was a great discover. "But how do you know about this?"

Shard pick up the book and started to translate the word.

"Here, this word here. For some reason, my Gizzuition told me that this word here means 'human'."

Soren was excited and scared at the same time. " And what did you translate until now?"

Shard told him everything he translated, and when he finished, Soren pick up the book and began flipping through the pages.

"Er…Soren? What are you doing?"

"I'm checking if this book doesn't have some other part which can be translated…"

"To tell the truth, I just went till page 3. When I noticed that the words repeat, I closed it…"

Soren was already at the end of the book when he suddenly stopped. " HERE!" he said triumphantly. "The words changes at the end of the book."

"Really?" said Shard, but then, he heard the noise of wings. Not of one owl, but of many. It was the Chaw of Chaws. " Soren, hide the book and don't tell about it to anyone."

"Did your parents saw this book?"

"Yes, but I don't think they know about the subject."

Soren then flew to a tree and hid the book along with the foliage and roots of the place.

When he came back, the owls were waiting for him.

"Sir…" said Poot. "What were you doing?"

"Oh, nothing in particular… I was just seeing the moon with Shard. You know, with the king's duties, I'm exhausted and I need a place to relax a bit…"

As Soren tried to make a excuse, Shard was shaking more and more as his parents analyzed him.

"What you did this time?" asked his mother with a ton of disapproval. "You don't waste time here unless you are… you are…" his mother didn't complete her phrase as she approached him and made him stand up. He winced when his talons hit the ground.

"Alright, now you crossed the line! Why your talons are so badly wounded?" screamed Mary.

"I…I was… just…" he tried to speak, but he was stuttering. Soren noticed his friend's problem and would help him, but Gylfie and Eglantine exclaimed:

"WOW! What is this thing with mud on the top?"

"It's genial! The way that these woods are tied… It's incredible!

Mary was casting a fearful glance to Shard, who knew that he had done something bad. The last time she did that was when he almost fell from the tree on a rainy day.

"I'm going to ask again: Why are your talons so badly wounded?"

Shard was too scared to answer, and then, he heard someone answering for him.

"It was my fault… sorry."

Soren said looking straight to her. That eyes didn't scare him.

"He is assuming the blame in my place?!" thought Shard looking to him.

His voice was firm, fit for a king, but because he was sitting in the lake, Mary did not take him seriously and continued to stare Shard.

Soren stood up and entered in the middle of them.

"I already said that it was my fault. Why are you still looking to your son?"

"That is none of your business… please go away…" she said ignoring him.

Dain tried to calm her down. "Mary… he is a King… you can't say that to him…" but the act to calm her down just triggered her wrath.

"I don't care if he is King, or if he is just an ordinary owl, or a scroom, or just a racdrop of crow… I will not forget those who hurt my son for nothing! DID YOU HER ME?" she turned to Shard again and force him to walk away. Shard was almost crying when Soren grabbed her.

"STOP! If you said that you will not forget those who hurt your son, than you should never forget yourself! Why are you hurting him? Don't you see that he is almost crying! How can you call yourself a mother!?" Soren said angrily. He could not stay doing nothing while that happened. And in his heart, he knew that it was his fault. If he didn't let Shard do his part of the work, he knew that his talons would be much better, and he knew that his mother would attack him. Who wouldn't after hearing such words? "I don't think that I'll be able to defend myself, but at least she will release him…"

And exactly as he thought, she prepared herself for the attack.

Shard was terrified with his vision. His mother attacking the King of Ga'Hoole. He needed to do something about it, and ignoring all the pain in his talons, he moved between them and saw the claws of his mother getting close.

"Shard! Watch out!" screamed his father, but it was too late. He couldn't evade it.

Shard close his eyes tightly, waiting for the impact.

…Nothing really happened. Nothing touched him, but he felt touching something. It was dark, and he couldn't see anything. But then, he heard the same voice calling for him.

"Shard…Shard…"

When he opened his eyes, he jumped in surprise. He was grabbing his mother's claw! And she was lying at the ground, looking paralyzed to him! He turned his head around. Soren was lying at the lake with his wounded talons exposed "How did this happened?"

Dain carefully approached his son and spoke perplexed:

"Where did you learned that?"

"That what?"

"This movement… I only heard about it… Almost every owl can't perform it. "The Protection of Hoole…"

"What?!"

"It is a defensive movement that requires timing and speed. Is a very advanced defense technique where you push someone you want to protect, along with an incredible body movement, it is possible to make a spinning upwards diagonally holding the opponent's attack and throws it on the floor and can be completed in the following section with a second attack ... Only Hoole knew how to do this technique…"

Yes, now Shard was really scared of these things that happened with him. How he knew about something that he had never heard about?

He remembered that his mother was still on the ground, and went to rescue her, along with Dain.

"Mom… are you okay?" he tried to ask with minimum possible guilt, but inside, he felt worse than a racdrops.

Mary stood up, and without looking to her son, went back to her hollow.

Soren stood from where he was, walked to Shard and put his right wing on his right shoulder, while he watched his dad heading toward the hollow too.

Shard could hide his true feelings, but he could not control his sadness and not thinking about anything else, threw himself on the wings of Soren and began to cry uncontrollably.

Soren seriously looked to his friends and asked to everyone to go away for a while.

First, he need to talk with him. Something that can make him calm.

"Shard, at your age, I found out that my parents were scrooms. They had to tell me that my brother was the Metal Beak…" and then, he told him another long story. This time, about his sadness and disappointments, but he told him about his happy moments with his friends and with his mate too.

"You must know that your family loves you more than anyone and you should never feel guilty about the difficult moments that interfere in this love. Remember: Tears releases the sadness of the heart, but are not able to heal its scars. So, you can cry all you want and when you feel better, you must stay strong to face the problems on your way. Of course, being able to face your problem will not heal the scars, but at least, will make it be less painfull."

Shard stopped crying. Soren's words comforted his gizzard. He never ever have felt such sadness both in his gizzard and in his heart. That was a grief hard to overcome alone, but Soren managed to make him stopping feeling bad until that period is over.

"Do you truly believe that they love me?"

Soren was startled. "What kind of question is this?"

"Yes, why do you ask?"

Shard stepped back from Soren's chest. His face was still wet due to his tears.

"I'm scared… really, really scared…"

"Scared of what?" was the only think Soren came up with.

"I'm scared of these thinks that happens to me… I never caught a coal and I never fight… How come I do these thinks… I don't know what to think about it…" he said looking to Soren.

When Soren looked to his eyes, he felt a little dizziness. "That eyes… Everytime I look to his eyes I feel strange…"

This time, he stepped back and started to feel normal again.

"No… Not even you!" Shard almost started to cry again.

"No Shard, I'm not scared… It's just… your eyes are very different from the other owls…"

Shard went to the lake and looked deeply to his eyes. "It's true you don't find many owls with light-blue eyes, but it's because of my eyes that he stepped back?"

Suddenly, the wind seemed to accelerate, the trees made a lot of noise. Otulissa flew close to Soren as surprise as him.

"What is happening here? The atmospheric pressure is changing!"

Soren run and grabbed Shard, when he turned, his suspicions were revealed. That time, he saw something at Shard's eyes. One of his blue eyes changed to a shining green.

"Shard! Shard!" shouted Soren.

His left eyes changed to blue again.

"What happened?"

"I can't tell him the truth… at least not now…"

"Nothing… you just spaced out. Come on, the weather is strange. We need to extinguish the fire…"

"Roger…" and he flew away.

"He don't remember anything…"

Otulissa walked to his side. "What just happened?"

"I didn't want to believe, but now I have no other choice…"

"About what?"

"Shard has 'The Vision of Glaux'. Do you know what it is?"

Otulissa said:

"Well, It's sound like a power or ability, and a very powerful one to have the name 'Glaux' on it…"

"You are right. Before our last battle with the Pures Ones, Coryn told me one thing…


(Begin of Flashback)

"Why are you so worried?" asked Soren looking to his nephew.

"The flames showed me something that I didn't want to see…"

Soren became worried as well. He didn't saw Coryn acting that way much often.

"I saw three owls. A Barn Owl and two Snowy Owls, and behind them was a Owl wrapped in a Gold light. This Light divided in three colors as well: Red, Green and yellow. The red one went to the Barn Owl, and the other two to the Snowy Owls."

Soren was listening intently all his nephew had to say.

"Then, I saw an Eclipse, four owls going to the Beyond the Beyond, then I saw the Northern Kingdoms, but I couldn't find the owls, then the Middle Kingdom, where I can say that I only saw one of the Snowy owls… The one who got the green aura… I could only understand one of the images, the last one that appeared to me after all the others: One owl with the Ember of Hoole and you and the Band all wounded. I don't know if this story is in chronological order, but I can assure that this is very bad." After saying that, he and Soren looked to the Ember, that was inside a bucket.

"Could it be a new King? The one with the Ember? Is that that you are afraid of?"

Coryn glanced a withering look to his uncle.

"Uncle, you know that I didn't want to be king! I never cared about this status! If it is possible to me, I would give up this responsibility now!"

Soren was not scared by his words. He knew it was all true.

(End of Flashback)


Otulissa then said:

"But how do you know the name of this… 'thing'?"

"I invented it now… Coryn and I discussed this and came to a conclusion that the Owl that was behind the others was Glaux… or just a personification of him. So we imagined a lot of names. In Shard's case, it affect the eyes. So I just name it 'The vision of Glaux', but let's talk about it later. Shard is waiting for us to put out the fire with his invention."

Otulissa jumped.

"He made that? I thought it was you!"

"We made two. One he made in half-day, and the other half the previous time with my help."

She notice his wounded talons.

"If your talons are like this, then Shard's are…"

"Mine would be much wounded if it wasn't for him. He made me stop and continued alone. He has a gizzard and heart that are very kind."

Otulissa listened to everything, until Soren turn to face her and say:

"Go get his parents. We will need all the help that is possible.

"Yes, sir!" said Otulissa.


I kept my promise: This chapter is about 3x longer than the others. Remember: Any errors, Pm me or put it on the review.

I don't know how to name this chapter, so feel free to show your creativity... (Please, I'm begging you... even at the portuguese story at my notebook, i couldn't imagine a name for it...)

Glauxspeed everyone (*v*) (this is supposed to be a Owl ^^)