Chapter 48

Koala Bear

It's been a few days since the night I was able to get Nova to do something. But since then, he's been out off it again.

He's been so out of it I can feed him and get him to drink and he doesn't even notice. He's a wreck.

I closed Star's journal and put it away. It was around noon, and this is when I always went hunting. This time Iggy was going with me.

"You comin Shadow?" he called from the edge of the cliff, his wings already out.

"Yea." I replied and was by his side in an instant. "Meet you on the ground." I said as I jumped off the cliff.

I smiled to myself as Iggy gasped. He had never seen me do this before and had caught him by surprise.

Iggy landed by me a few minutes later and pulled me into a hug. "You scared me half to death." he accused, "Next time give me a warning before you jump off a cliff."

I laughed and ruffled his hair. Grabbing his hand we started to head out into the forest.

Hunting was successful. I scared Iggy half to death when I pretended a mountain lion was eating me. He nearly killed me after he found out I was pretending, good thing I'm so fast…

I finished up my newest entry and gave a sigh. I knew we didn't have much time left on the cliff. Ever since Star's death, the cliff itself has started dying. I had gone on the island to ask what was happening, and they told me it was because of Nova's presence. They said that if I wanted to stay at the cliff, Nova would have to go.

I couldn't do that to him. He was part of the flock now whether I liked it or not. The flocked sticked to gether so he was coming with us weather he liked it or not.

"Nova," I whispered as I shook his shoulder softly. "Nova get up please."

He didn't move an inch, his mind still silent. I gave up quickly and walked into the tree's.

The forest atop the cliff now looked as if it were fall. There were red, orange, yellow and brown leaves covering the ground. The treetops where close to bare and the critters were starving to death.

A few days ago me and the flock decided to evacuate all the animals we could. We've been spending the last few days flying up and down the cliff side carrying as many animals as we could.

As I walked through the leaves the silence was uncanny. All the animals that were left here where silent. I knew this meant something big must be coming.

My silent walking did not help the eeriness of the quiet woods. I wished that I wasn't so graceful so that I could make the leave crunch beneath my feet and end the silence.

I jumped almost 50 feet into the air when an owl hooted. There was a baby koala bear on one of the tree's and after I landed I heard it make a little whimpering noise.

I remembered bringing two adult koala bears and one baby one. That must have been this little girl's family.

I walked over to the whimpering joey and pulled it into my arms. It clung to my shirt and put it's little head on my shoulder.

I had a hard time fighting the urge to kill the animals we were saving the first two days, but after the third day I was pretty much pro at it. So I didn't even flinch when she licked my face as a thank you.

I came into the clearing cradling the little creature. I wasn't surprised to see the flock asleep in their sleeping bags, it was to0 quiet on the cliff for them to possibly be awake.

I sat on a rock by the fire and tried to sooth the joey's shaking. I found a little bottle with milk and started to feed it to the baby koala.

While she drank the milk I tried to come up with a name that suited her. All I came up with were names like Brenda and Jesse, which weren't so bad, but they didn't seem right. Finally I decided on Aditi which means Universal.

After Aditi finished her milk she fell asleep in my arms. Until now I didn't know that koala bears could snore, but Aditi did. It was a cute snore though.

The flock loves Aditi. I have to keep reminding them that as soon as we find her family we would have to return her, but they won't listen.

I have a feeling that they all have found Aditi's family but haven't reported it. Okay, more than a feeling. I smell her family all over them but don't say a word. I have even stumbled upon her family a few times while I was hunting and didn't say anything, and I don't help them with the search because I know it would be too easy to find them if I did.

I closed the journal with a little laugh as Aditi pulled at my shirt. "You hungry little girl." I asked.

She let out a little whine which meant i hoped meant yes and pulled out another bottle of milk.

(end of chapter 48)

Hey guys! I hope you have liked this chapter. If your wondering how Aditi came to be, ill tell you. I was sitting in englesh class and my teacher was in a different room. a teacher of a different class came in and chalenged us to put koala bears in our story, and poof, Adidti was born.

any who, I'm thinking of writing a fanfiction on twilight. I was thinking about what would have happened if bella went with jacob instead and desided to ask my readers if i should write a fanfiction about it. what do you think? plz comment your oppinion!