Legend Of The Guardians: Kludd's Son
Chapter 7: The truth about Carlos
The truth is reveal... enjoy.
Carlos is sleeping in his hollow quietly, all snuggedin a corner as he dreamt about Thana…
Carlos is flying through the open space of the sky, taking a whiff of the fresh air. He did a few loops and dives and spirals as well. He chuckled happily as he was flying and feel the air currents underneath his feathers. But a female snowy owl appeared in front of him, revealing to be none other than Thana. Carlos gave a love struck sighat such a beautiful sight and he heard her giggle, as she flew away from him and Carlos chases after her.
Carlos was flying behind her, and he gave a sigh when he stared at her beautiful feathers. When suddenly, he and Thana encountered a fog, snapping Carlos out of his daze, as he realized that Thana was gone! He began to panic.
"Thana?" He asked, but there was no response, which causes Carlos to panic even more, "Thana!" He called. But a dark cold laughter suddenly cackled through the sky,causing the young prince to go yeep, a troublesome condition that locks your wings when you are in a frightening situation that said. The poor owl crashed landed into the ground as his feathers were scraped. He got up and turned to see a horrific black creature staring at him with evil eyes. He began to scream again as he tried to run, but there is no time to escape.
The dark owl swiftly swung it's talons and grabbed him by the neck and slammed him into the wall. Carlos tries to break free but he couldn't, the dark fiend chuckled devilishly as it raises its sword, Carlos's eyes widens with horror, begging it to stop. But his begging was soon ceased.
Carlos woke up screaming, shuddering profusely before realizing that he was back in his hollow, he sighed deeply that his nightmares are getting worse and worse than ever after he escaped St. Aggies. But he sighed again, wishing his mother would be here to comfort him, but she was back at St. Aggies. Another memory came to him as he remembers when he was 7 years old...
*Flashback starts*
Carlos was tossing and turning and woke up screaming, Nyra heard her son screamed and went to her son's hollow, as she let out a yawn.
"What's wrong, dear?" She asked tiredly. He hugged her with a sob.
"Nightmares mommy, nightmares!" He cried as he sobbed. She shushed him gently as she giving him a supporting hug.
"It's okay Carlos, I'm right here, it's okay, mommy's got you, it's okay." She told him. He cries harder, and nyra began to hum softly. With a few minutes of humming, he stopped crying and sighed as he breathed in his mother's scent, after alittle while, she heard him breathing silently, fast asleep, and she placed him down to bed and kissed him in a cheek softly as she told him in a whisper. "Goodnight, my sweet prince." She told him. Kludd stood at his son's hollow entrance and Nyra went up to him and gave him a nod, stating he was fine for now, prompting the king to let out a relieved sigh...
*Flashback ends*
The present day Carlos sighs deeply about that recollection, he missed her deeply. But he couldn't go back now, not after what he had been doing for the last couple of weeks. He realized that he had lied to many owls here at the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole for far too long, and he felt really awful about it. He hated lying ever since he was 10 years old, he hated how people lie to other owls and lie to themselves, it was just so damn wrong...but he was not sure if he was ready to tell everyone the truth, and he realize it might be for the best for them to know who he was.
But suddenly, Thana appeared, alarming him as she stood outside his hollow.
"Sorry that I scared you." Thana said in an apology tone of her voice.
"It's-it'sfine, Thana." He replied.
"May I come in?"
He hesitated for a few minutes, but then he nodded. The princess entered his hollow and looks around and then back to Carlos with a worried look in her expression.
"I heard you scream, is everything all right?" She asked Carlos. Carlos looks in her eyes, wishing that he can tell her the nightmare he had, but he couldn't... not yet.
"I-I'm fine, thanks for asking." He lied. She looked at him with confused look,
"You sure you're all right?" She asked him.
"Positive."
"Wanna go for a walk and look at the stars with me?" Thana asked. He stared at her for a moment, pondering her request, but he then nodded and they left the hollow.
Later, they were perched on a branch staring at the night blue sky together and they began to talk about themselves about their life and parents.
"I got to say, your father is one very busy owl." Carlos said. She nodded.
"Yep, sometimes he is. He always keeping things under control and takes care of things, and he always never let bad things happen to anyone." She said.
He smiled a little and returns his head back to the night sky, Thana was some what curious about his family, as she began to blush nervously.
"So, what does your parents do?" She asked, Carlos fell silent as he didn't want her to know that he was the prince of the Pure Ones. He feared if he told her the truth about who he was, she would hate him forever and he would never see her again and to add on to that, he would most certainly be exiled. He let out a heavy sigh.
"My father is, as you would call it, a business man, he sometimes puts people to work...and he usually spent his time on important things that he had to for a little while, he trained me in combat to become as strong as him, but I...I never seem to perform up to his standards... and he just, just..." Carlos let out another sigh as he choked down his tears," I feel like he never loved me...and wished he had a stronger son. He even called me a weakling once." He lied, Thana's eyes went wide.
"That is awful! Why would he say such a thing?!" She said in shock. Carlos sighs,
"I know...and I had tried my hardest to prove my worth to him, but it was never enough for him...it became so unbearable to live with him...so that's why I ran away from home to find this place. So I could learn combat and how to look after myself." He told her. She remains silent, and then she gave a nod.
"I see...I just don't understand how your father could be so cruel...what about your mother? What was she like?" She asked him. He stared at her again and gathered his thoughts and continued.
"My mother... she is like every mother, kind and caring...Sometimes she is a bit harsh on her servants, always wanting to make things look perfect, and she cared for me..." Glaux, did he hated lying. It was making his beak sore. The snowy owl looks at him, and nodded. She and Carlos began to stare the sky once more,Thana look at Carlos once more, sensing that there was something that Carlos was not telling her, that something was off about him...but she just shook the thoughts out of her mind.
"This night is beautiful, isn't it?" She asked.
"Yeah, it is." Carlos agreed. They turned each other as they were face-to-face and eye-to-eye with each other once again. Soon, they drew their beaks close to each other, ready to connect their beaks once more. But then...
"Ahem!"
The two pull their beaks away instantly as they look behind him to see Ezylryb approaching them.
"Hey Carlos! Can you give me a wing? My hollow is getting a bit cluttered." He explained. He looks at him, and then back to Thana.
"It's okay Carlos, I know what you're going to say." She told him. She kissed him on the cheek, and gave him a wink. It caused Carlos to blush once again, thefemale let out a giggle as she leaves. He gave a love struck sigh as she leaves. He only then heard Ezlyryb chuckle snapping him out of hisdazed state.
"Okay there, lover boy, let's clean up them books." He said. Carlos sighed as he began to follow him.
They were at his hollow; Ezlyryb's hollow was filled with so many books and weather inventions he invented. Carlos was amazed by all of this but was snapped out of his awe as he heard Ezylryb grunting as he tries to put a pile of books away.
"Mind giving us a light, lad?" He asked.
"Don't worry, I think I got it." He said, as he grabbed a nearby flint and tried to light the wick of the candle...unfortunately however, as he did so, a stray spark landed on his claw, burning him instantly. Carlos let out a pained growl, as his eyes flickered red. Ezylryb gave a gasp as he dropped his books.
"What in Glaux's name? I know those eyes anywhere...you're...you're a Pure One?" He asked in terror. Carlos's breathing hitched, realizing that his Pure One heritage was just revealed. "Explain yourself!" Ezylryb demanded. Carlos could easily tell that he wanted to know the whole truth, and not wanting to have the famous rival of Metal beak against him, he decided to tell him everything.
After telling the old owl about how he came to be here. Ezlyryb was silent and seemingly disturbed by what he had just told him.
"So...You are the child of Soren's brother Kludd and Nyra? But why didn't you just tell us?" He asked him.
Carlos gave a nervous sigh, "Because I didn't know what you guys would do to me if I were to tell you who I'm really was. I was afraid that you might torture or even kill me. And ...and, Thana would…" He stopped for a moment as he felt worse that he had lied to everyone, including his uncle, Soren. Ezylryb took note of his expression and let out a deep sigh, knowing that this young lad had a lot to lose should the truth be revealed.
"Let's keep this a secret between the two of us, No one is to know what happened here tonight." He explained to Carlos. Carlos stared at Ezlyryb, visibily frightened as tears formed in his eyes, the old owl wipes it off from his wing and gave him a small nod. Ezlyryb return to finish cleaning the books up and Carlos felt like everything was close to falling apart. A bit hesitant, he made one more request.
"Promise me, you won't tell Thana?" He asked him. The whiskered screech owl let out a sigh as he turned to face him.
"I promise, but I must warn you, it is not best to keep such secrets from everyone for so long. Secrets do have a tendency of getting out." He warned. With that, Carlos felt that he really made a huge mistake.
Carlos returned to his hollow,feeling a impending sense of dread. He knew deep down that the old owl said was right...but then he was back to the same question he was before, what would happen? Suddenly, he heard a knock snapping him out of his thoughts, as he said, "Come in." Soon, the feminine frame of Thana came into his hollow.
"Thana? What brings you here?" He asked her.
"I just want to check on you, just to make sure you don't suffer anymore of them nightmares." She explained.
"R-really? Is that all?" He questioned. She felt as nervous as he was.
"No...I just wanted to ask you something..." She said as she blushed. "C-can I sleep with you tonight?" She asked. Carlos was shocked by this! She… wants to sleep...with him? That was certainly unexpected as he went from feeling dread to feeling awkward and nervous.
"Doesn't your father mind? I never slept with a girl before...so I am kinda new to this." He admitted.
"No, he is quite fine with it. I ran into him while returning to my hollow and I explained to him that I was going to sleep with you for the night." She said. Carlos was a bit hesitant. He was quite enthralled that a girl of his dreams want to sleep with him...but there was the fact that they were both from different sides of a bitter war. Thana was the daughter of the noble king Boron and the benevolent queen Barran, while he was the son of Kludd and Nyra, both enemies to the Tree of Ga'Hoole. To sleep with her could bring upon untold disasters for both of their family, especially given that the Pure Ones were hell-bent on taking over all of the owl kingdoms. But...looking at those beautiful golden eyes of the beautiful snowy owl...he just couldn't bring himself to say no.
"Sure, you may." He said. He saw her smile as she went to tucked herself in the corner next to him and snuggled up to him.
"Don't worry, Carlos, if something happens to me, all I will need to do is screech." She told him Carlos stared at her.
"Screech?" He asked She nodded him.
"Yes, but I don't need to worry...as long as I have you...I feel safe already..." She smiled,
"Good night, Carlos..." The snowy owl let out a yawn as she nuzzled into his chest. Carlos however, did not have the same luck. He was touched, of course...but in the end, he was fraught with guilt. His web of lies is snapping all around him, and it is only a matter of time before the remaining threads will snap under him. If this lie...the whole truth about his identity as the heir of the two most hated beings on Earth comes out...everyone around him will suffer, his friends such as Rosh and Jaden, his uncle Soren, and his love Thana, as well as the whole tree will pay for it. Carlos tried to shut his eyes, hoping that sleep would befell him...but he wasn't holding his breath. He only hoped that things could not get any worse...
So much for the truth at least, but lying is a bad thing though, but I hope it turned out well... so thanks for reading and please review, I forgot to add that anonymous readers are accepted in Ch.1 I forgot to add, so feel free to review it anyway. Chapter 8 will come up sooner or later. So, thanks and review.
