Chapter 7: Ga'Hoole Tree
(Wolf's P.O.V.)
"Ha-ha… well isn't that sweet?" I whispered as I quietly churred. Tyler and I were smiling as we looked down into a nook near the tree's trunk; Shana was cuddled into Simon's body, and he was inches away from kissing her beak, even in his sleep. An idea popped into my head that would be absolutely amazing, and when I looked over towards Tyler, I felt my smile broaden as he looked over to me also. He churred some more quietly and he said, "I know that smile, what you planning Wolf…?"
I slowly walked down towards them and walked up behind Shana as she slept, and I held my wing over the tow of them, and pointed my wing tip between their beaks. Tyler chuckled a little bit louder, and as I slowly prepared myself, I was directly behind Shana now, and as I took in a deep breath, I opened my beak and shouted, "WAKE UP SLEEPING BEAUTIES!"
While Simon jumped, he could only shoot his eyes open in surprise, and Shane jumped away from me and into Simon, and the magic happened; their beaks connected. I fell backwards and churred loudly as Shana continued to press into the kiss, and Tyler's eyes widened as he continued to watch them. All I could see was Simon's eyes moving around frantically, and Shana pressing into him still… as I continued to churr, I walked over to Tyler quickly, and I doubled over churring again, but Tyler soon picked me up and turned me around. What I saw made my beak drop; Shana's eyes were closed, and her beak was open as she was kissing Simon, whose beak was also open. I choked before I started laughing even harder, and this is what caused Shana to pull away from Simon. While Shana looked towards the tree, Simon looked towards us as he gasped in breaths of air; both had their feathers rising quite high.
Tyler was the first to stop, and as he stopped churring, he said out loud, "Wish Outillisa would kiss me in the morning like that." This caused me to start laughing even harder, but when I fell backwards, I fell off the tree, but before I fell too far, I landed in something sticky and strong. I looked up and yelled bloody murder, "SPIDER!"
Tyler looked over the edge and saw the same hairy beast I was looking at, and he made a weird noise as he shivered violently. I looked down, and saw a branch sticking out from the trunk, and when I gripped it, I started to beat my wings furiously, and I heard the web literally coming off of my body. I looked over, and saw the spider charging towards me. I yelled again as I flapped harder, and when my wings finally pulled me free, I shot up and away from the best and landed next to Tyler and gasped as I continued to look around.
My breathing stopped, and as I continued my search, my blood was becoming colder, and colder, until I finally couldn't help it, "Sp-sp-sp… SP-SPIDERS!" I yelled out, and shot away from the tree also…
(Simon's P.O.V.)
I had awoken to a loud noise, and then soon after I had such a pleasure when I was being kissed, but I didn't recognize it was shale, who had tried practically tongue tying me. Now, as Wolf shot away from the tree screaming about spiders, I saw Tyler's face turn a pasty muddy brown, and he to shot away. I looked up, and saw dozens of spiders looking down at us. I felt my skin crawl as I looked at Shana and said, "Let's go!" and I shot away also. I was flapping my wings, but I only heard mine. I looked back, and saw Shana staring up at the spiders as the slowly lowered themselves to her area, but she didn't move one bit.
Sighing explosively, I turned around, and shot back, and quickly grabbed Shana in my talons, and pulled her away just as the first hairy demon started to crawl towards us. The extra strain started to hurt me where Nyra had dug her claws in. I saw a tree across from us where Tyler and Wolf were both perched, and they were looking at us. I flew towards them but I dropped Shana, but she started to fly as soon as she left my talons. I looked down at her, and as she bent her head backwards, she smiled and flew up towards me.
While she looked at me, she asked, "Would my hero like another kiss?"
I felt my feathers rise after she said that, and I asked, "Did you stay there on purpose?"
This time it was she, who blushed, and she flew closer to me, just under my wing, and as we neared Wolf and Tyler, I felt my heart skip a beat. Shana had just kissed me while we were flying, and this time I had actually kissed back. I looked downwards again as she smirked, but soon Tyler and Wolf were in front of us saying, "WE should keep moving instead of staying here, we still have an angry Metalbeak and Nyra to deal with should they bring their army…"
"Where will we go? If they will try to attack us no matter what, then we have nowhere to go…" Shana said. They smiled towards us, and Wolf said, "We are Guardians of Ga'Hoole… we live in a giant tree…"
Shana seemed to grow bigger as she also became excited, but instead of letting it out, she kept it in, and as we flew on, I couldn't help but smile as I thought of our kiss. And then when I thought about it really, I frowned, what does she see me as? Am I her friend, Best friend, Boyfriend…? And what if she is just in heat? Well, it's not spring, it is summer, late summer at that, so it can't be because of that… so what is it, it can't be because I saved her life as she said, I was hardly doing that…
When a few birds flew past my vision, I came back too, and saw a sea before us, and I remembered seeing it in the plane before that horrible crash. I sighed as I looked over at my companions, and took note of who they were. Wolf was a spotted owl with black spots along his entire back, headstrong and seemed to enjoy a good time, no matter the circumstances. Tyler was a serious owl that had a white stripe running up his middle, seemed to be best friends with Wolf. I'm an Eagle Owl like Shana, except I don't have anything except my wits and being able to shape shifter.
Finally, the one that was causing me to feel so many mixed emotions was also the one that I had 'saved' from some rude crows, and from spiders. I had gotten to preen myself in front of her, and she had preened me also. I had slept with her and fought for her, and yet all she did was show me love and affection I don't believe I deserve. She hadn't revealed her reasons, but I had only suspicions, and I was usually correct when I thought I was. I was gambling it was a mixture of how I'm naturally nice and caring with my personality, along with how I looked in her eyes as an owl. I smirked as I remembered how she had first looked at me, but I frowned when I remembered how I had ended up here.
"There she is, a mighty big tree if I do say myself. Oh, we are still a ways off from it; trust me, but that is it…" Wolf was now rambling off on how he first thought of the tree when he had seen it, but I was just gapping at the tree as continued to fly. It is so… huge! It may seem small now, but if what Wolf says is true, and it is still far away, I can't wait to see it up and close…
"Now, when we get closer, a fog will most likely blow in, and you will need to fly with us if you wish to reach it safely, do you understand?" I heard Tyler say. I looked at him and nodded. "Ok, well, fall in behind us; it will make it easier for you to fly since you are still relatively new to flying.
A.N.: Ok, here is my next chapter. The more reviews I get, the faster I will update, so you may want to review fast, because I'm going to be gone for 2 weeks in 9 days, so you all have 5 days to motivate me to write more, or it will be over 23 days before the next update. XD better review…
