Hey guys, another chapter for you.
Lukhas is OC of Lukhas the Spix macaw.
Enjoy and review.
Amazon
Blue macaw village
8:08 PM
War hollow
The war hollow was a bustle of activity, macaws ran left to right, grabbing papers and relaying orders.
Rico had gone to alert the Rio Army of the coming threat and to tell Rafael, Nico and Pedro to prepare for a big battle.
In the center of the hollow stood a round table, at the table stood Eduardo, Jewel, Roberto and our heroes.
Blu stood in the corner of the room, reading a book he had grabbed from his library, Mythical Weapons and Spells was the title of the book.
Blu was flipping through the pages until he came across a picture of 2 jade blades, with chains attached to the handles.
Blu read the title of the page, Kenada Saes of Lai the Terrible.
"So that's what they were called" he whispered to himself, before flipping to the next page.
He was looking for a certain weapon, the blade Dauntless.
The blade was said to have been gold with grey gems lining the sides.
He finally found the page for the special blade, he then walked over to the table and dropped the book in front of Angelo.
"Thanks Reynard" he then turned to Jewel, Eduardo, Alex, Skyler and Xerxes.
"This is the weapon Prev wields, the blade Dauntless. It can trap the souls of its victims in the gems and sadly there is no way to free them. When the owner of the blade dies the souls are allowed passage to heaven".
Jewel stared intently at the spix macaw, sh still held slight distrust for them.
Xerxes decided to bring up a suggestion, "I can return to the tree of Ga'Hoole to bring reinforcements, Otulissa would probably want to help out".
Eduardo nodded and allowed the owl to go get reinforcements.
As Xerxes left the conversation continued until Jewel noticed Reynard leave the war hollow and decided to follow this strange bird.
She walked to the edge of the hollow and spotted Reynard heading off in the direction of the Pit of Doom.
She took flight and followed him, being sure to stay out of eyeshot of the mysterious bird.
She saw Reynard dive through the spix macaw entrance and with silent flight she followed.
Blu
I stood on the center stone island of the pit of doom, where I had years earlier fought to secure the blue tribes right to the brazil nut grove.
I smiled at the memory of my first victory in the jungle, but no one would be able to tell on account of my cloak and mask.
I looked down at my talons, with metal armor covering them, then to the water below.
I saw the moon's reflection in the water, that was until I saw the thing I had come here for.
A faint green glow resonated deep below the surface of the water.
I decided that it would be easiest to swim without my cloak on.
I pulled the hood back from my head and shook the rest of the brown cloth off of my body, revealing my thunder and lightning tattoos, I closed my eyes as the cool evening wind rustled my feathers.
I then took a step off the platform and fell, to the water below.
I made sure to dive in this time and not break my back from surface tension.
I felt the cold water wrap around me as I continued on my downward descent into the dark underworld of the pond.
I used my wings to propel myself through the water, like a penguin.
I closed in on the green glow, and it was what I hoped for .
The blade of Lai.
I used my talons to grab a hold of the blade, feeling the leather strap that wrapped around the metal handle rub against my talons.
I now dragged the weapon out of the ground and through the water.
When I breached the surface I instantly swam for the platform.
Using my wings I managed to drag myself up the cliff and back onto the platform.
I put down the blade and put my cloak on.
I was just about to leave with the blade when I heard a voice behind me, "That was the blade that killed my husband".
I turned to see Jewel, standing behind me.
About a million questions bounced around my head at that moment, DId she see me get the blade? Does she know my identity? What do I do?
My questions were silenced when she said a sentence, "I remember the nights I used to spend with Blu here. We would watch the sunset or sunrise and kiss beneath it. He was the kindest bird I've ever met".
Jewel just nodded, a slight tear escaping her left eye.
It really tore me up on the inside to see her like this.
"We should probably find you a hollow for the night".
I just nodded again and followed her, with the weapon in my talons, to a hollow on the edge of the tribe.
The hollow sat inside an old cannonball tree, with only one room containing a small nest.
I landed on a branch outside the hollow, next to Jewel.
She walked inside and let me settle in to the hollow, the nest was kind of uncomfortable but I did not complain, (not that I could) and I set my weapons down in the corner of the room.
I saw Jewel looking at my batte claws with awe and fear.
Upon removing my mask and helmet I covered my face with my cloak, as to keep my identity as secret as possible.
Jewel understood I wanted to be left alone so she left the hollow.
I was now left to my own devices, I tried to sleep but too many thoughts bounced around my mind.
I heard a voice in my head and instantly recognised it, Soren.
I began to seemingly talk to myself, but I was indeed communicating with my barn owl friend.
"So, how's your first day back with the living?".
"I gotta say it has been hard to keep my identity a secret, by the way. What is the name of your wife?".
Soren replied with a slightly sad tone, "her name is Otulissa, and as far as I know she leads the guardians of Ga'Hoole right now. Why do you ask?".
"No reason".
"Well when the battle begins our Valhalla guardians will be ready to fight, on your go of course".
"Thank you and good night Soren".
"Night Blu".
After several hours of trying to fall asleep I finally fall into the gentle release of slumber.
78.6 Miles away from blue macaw tribe.
A spray of flames engulfed part of the forest, 2 macaws were facing down the dreaded ruler of Frozen fjord, Prev.
One was a spix, the other a military.
The name of this spix was Lukhas, he was using a blade of pure energy to combat the dreaded blade Dauntless.
But one downside to Lukhas's blade was that it ran on life force, use it for too long you're bound to die.
The military macaw was using a rifle to take out the hawk soldiers that charged at them, giving his friend time to fight Prev.
The pair were on their way to join the Rio Army when they were intercepted by the hawk.
Lukhas sent 3 strikes towards Prev, who blocked them all before sending a set of very quick strikes towards the young spix.
Now Lukhas tried his best to keep up with the experienced hawk, the young spix was sent flying through the air when Prev managed to land a strike on Lukhas.
Lukhas tumbled through the trees, until coming to rest on a rock.
His military macaw friend saw this and charged Prev, shooting a bullet at the hawk who used his blade to deflect the shot with ease.
Prev then cut the military macaw's gun in half and instantly knocked him down to the ground.
The hawk then threw the military macaw into a tree, snapping it in 2.
The military macaw now lay, leaning on the stump of the tree, blood exiting his beak and with hawks closing in around him.
Prev stepped forward, "tell me where the blue macaws and Alex the Owl are".
The green macaw glared at Prev, "never".
Prev grinned and stepped onto the macaws chest before thrusting his wing into the poor warrior, the military macaw tried desperately to pull the wing out before he went limp.
Prev moved his wing around a little bit before pulling it out.
He pulled his wing out, holding the macaws heart in his wing before walking away, "never is here".
He then threw the heart into his mouth and swallowed, enjoying the taste of the still beating heart.
Lukhas just watched the events unfold from the treeline, before making his escape through the canopy.
He had to inform the commanders of just how close Prev really was.
War hollow
Stacker, Zain and Angelo began explaining their plan to defeat Prev with the rest of the macaws present.
"We will use a tactic from the great war to hopefully crush the hawk forces.
Eduardo, however wondered where these guys came from and just how they knew all this information, upon asking Angelo sighed.
"To tell you the truth, we Guardians of Valhalla. We died long ago and due to being legendary warriors were allowed to live in Valhalla, coming to the realm of the living to help fend off the worst threats. I died against Lai almost 2000 years ago, Zain fell beneath the blade of the Angelus long ago after his family died and Stacker died leading his men in the battle of Winchester Meadows".
The mortal macaws nodded their head at this information before Alex added another question, "what of the cloaked guy, Reynard I think?".
Zain quickly walked forward "that information is classified".
Alex just grunted, Skyler held Alex's wing in her own.
They all still missed Blu, perhaps he was in Valhalla right now.
Suddenly a spix macaw flew into the hollow, panting like he had been flying all night.
"Prev is near!" he shouted "Prev is coming!".
Then the macaw just collapsed.
Alex rushed to the macaws side, checking his breathing and pulse.
"Get the medics!".
Tree of Ga'Hoole
The Ga'Hoole honor guard marched along the inner hallways of the tree of Ga'Hoole.
With them walked Xerxes, this owl had just arrived that morning with news of an impending attack in South America.
The guard had begun escorting Xerxes to the the throne room, where Queen Otulissa lead the tree and made tactical decisions.
She was in the middle of a meeting with some guardians of the search and Rescue chaw when the doors to her room opened.
"Ah Xerxes, nice of you to come back", she greeted cheerily.
"Hello Otulissa, I bring news from south america. An army of hawks 70,000 strong threatens the birds of south america. Their leader is Prev".
At the mere mention of the hawks name all the owls in the room turned pale.
One guardian spoke up, "Prev, as in Prev the Destroyer?".
Xerxes nodded in reply.
Otulissa could not believe what she was hearing, "But Alex managed to kill him 20 years ago, he froze under 150,000 tonnes of ice".
Xerxes just shook his head, "I don't know how but he has returned. And without Blu the Rio Army stands no chance against him. I beg of you help the macaws, please".
Otulissa thought for several seconds, several excruciatingly long seconds before looking to s long eared owl, "Bubo, sharpen the battle claws. To war".
Bubo nodded before flying off to prepare the tree for war.
The guardians of Ga'Hoole were going to take a trip to the amazon.
Prev's throne
A lone male scarlet macaw walked up to the throne, bowing before the hawk that sat upon it.
"Milord, I have found the spix macaw tribe" said the scarlet macaw.
Prev smiled at the information, "thank you my loyal servant, your reward will be given to you once we exterminate the macaws and that wretched owl".
The macaw looked to the king, "the tribes and rio? Those will be mine, correct".
Prev smiled, "you have my word".
The macaw nodded before leaving the hawk.
Prev looked to his guards, "prepare the army, we leave tomorrow at dawn.
Amazon
The next day
9:09 AM
Blu slowly opened his eyes, the sun's rays creeping their way into the hollow.
Even with the cloak over him the sun still stung his eyes.
Blu stood up from the nest, stretching a tiny bit.
He looked towards the corner that held his weapons, he then noticed that Lai's blade was gone.
Blu looked around his hollow, frantically.
Blu could not find the jade blade anywhere in his hollow.
He quickly dawned his mask, helmet and cloak before leaving the hollow.
He decided to check the war hollow first, he glided through the cool morning air, closing his eyes as the air went over his feathers.
He remembered the days before his death, he would watch the sunset and sunrise with his mate.
He was Blu, defender of brazil.
But the man and the legend were gone to the world, dead to his family.
As he was flying he looked to the sun feeling the warmth of it's rays on his feathers.
But the sun was suddenly blocked out.
I gazed to the east to see a mass of birds, armor gleaming in the sun flying towards us.
I was about to unleash my thunder power when I noticed they were far too small to be hawks.
Upon further inspection the mass was made up of owls, specifically Guardians of Ga'Hoole.
Leading the force was a female spotted owl, wearing battle claws and a red metal helmet, behind her was xerxes, his bronze wing shimmering in the rising sun.
"Xerxes" Blu whispered to himself.
He flew to the side as the owl army soared past him, behind the guardians came the 5,000 bird strong Rio Army led by Rico.
The 2 fighting forces landed in the clearing of the blue macaw tribe, with all the natives coming out to see the massing of forces that had gathered there.
The next fighter to arrive was the blue phoenix.
Blue phoenix had come back when a disturbance was sensed.
She had been in africa with the other phoenixes when she sensed an upcoming battle.
When she landed she instantly planted her eyes on Blu/Reynard.
Skyler flew up to the phoenix, "do you get a weird feeling from that guy?" asked the phoenix.
Skyler nodded, "he reminds me of Blu, but he's dead. Right?".
The 2 walked up to the macaw, but Blu flew to the war hollow before they could reach him.
Blu landed in the war hollow where the leaders of the Rio Army, macaw tribe and Guardians were, along with Zain, Stacker, Angelo and a new young spix macaw, Angelo was holding Lai's blade.
Blu let out a sigh of relief before making his way to the table.
All eyes turned to him as he stood at the table.
"Ah reynard thanks for coming, just to catch you up, Lukhas here fought Prev last night and his friend died to Prev. As far as we know he is within a hundred miles of us, so our next move must be decisive".
Blu nodded.
They were about to continue conversation when Nico flew inside.
"Prev has found us! He is attacking!".
Without a second word everyone inside the hollow flew off to aid in the battle.
They arrived to the clearing where they saw thousands of hawks flying above the army that sat on the ground in awe.
Alex flew forward with Angelo.
"How did you find us!?" asked Alex.
Prev smiled, "oh a little birdy told me.
And with that Stacker flew up behind the hawk.
"Hello 'friends'" greeted the scarlet macaw.
"No" whispered Angelo.
OOOHHH, cliff hanger.
Please review.