(Middle of Autumn Term- April)
Since i had been overthrown from being leader of my resistance, i feel homesick. Tyto Forest is my home as I was born and I grew up there and unfortunately for me, autumn brings some treasured memories to my mind. I mean, the forest may be mostly pine trees, but sometimes when I see the red, amber, brown and orange leaves on the Great Tree. It reminds me of the trees in the Tyto Forest when the deciduous trees had those leaves. When I learnt to fly, during the autumn around my 9th birthday, I used to be camouflaged when my aunt came looking for me. She used to call "Bryony! Bryony, where are you!" and she would always find me. I always end up going to Tyto every school holidays with Shard to protect me if I ever run into Ramaxon again.
i can't help but cry about what Ramaxon and my rebelling Tyto Resistance did to me. They beat me half to death and they left me to die in the Forest. I wish sometimes that I could live without fear of Ramaxon attacking me. My aunt isn't a part of the resistance because of this anymore. She pulled out when she found out about this. She reported it, seeing as she is a Senator representing Tyto in the United Owl Kingdoms.
All i have is my aunt. My parents died protecting me from the Pure Ones a long time ago when they took over Tyto in the Coup. Now, i don't know if my aunt is busy or not as i want to visit her these holidays. I remember The last thing she told me before my resistance rebelled against me was: "Bryony, a leader knows their own strengths and weaknesses. Hun, you ought to appeal to those who are trying cause a fight. Look them in the eyes and say to them that you are their leader."
I'm actually lucky to be alive, If the guardians didn't save me, I'd be dead and up in heaven and Glaux now. I just find a way to get over this scar on my mind. I ended up making friends, I did know Shard and Parz when they came to Tyto ages ago on a mission, but after we just got rid of the Pure Ones, they come back. One thing is for sure, If i didn't have any of my friends, who will know what I'll be like. I would be like some sort of nervous wreck that would never go back to Tyto. I got over it and I still have my confidence.
One day, in the middle of term, This new girl comes into our class. Since one of our other members of our class ended up leaving to go to Ambala, she must have been put here, since we need the 10 members in this class. She is a snowy like Josh and Lydea, but i sware she is wearing ochre (Which is used for disguise and/or cosmetics nowadays), but who cares really? I have to wear it to cover up a few nasty scars that were left from after what happened. The Four of us go up to her to introduce ourselves, you know, to be friendly, but she snubs us! New girl must have some real balls to think she can snub the only people here who want to be her friends. My mind is in anger mode and i am so furious my instincts take control. I mean, no one snubs me and she is giving the "little spoiled bitch" vibe. I hate little bitches anyway. She then snubs Sylvie, who is a little elf owl, Mona, a white and grey barn owl and Chad, a horned owl. That is the final straw and I go up there to show her that there are other people in this class.
"I think ya didn't hear any of us back there. We are the other students in the class beside you ya realise. So i suggest you start talkin', be nice, introduce yourself, and do it before i get so mad and decide to give you a welcome present." I yell
"Bry, let it go. She is new, not Parz when he steals your ochre container." Shard consoles
"Whatever, Tyto bitch... Whoa! Who is the guy with the perfect looks?" she asks looking at Josh who just arrived. Oh no, she didn't! She is trying to hit on Josh? I mean that is stupid. Josh says "Err... Hi?" when she starts to go over to him. Lydea and I stand in front of him, in her path.
"Keep your hands off, newbie. He is my boyfriend. So, i hate to say this, but, back off!" Lydea screeches in anger as we stand in front of her. She keeps trying to barge through and Lydea welling up to the brink, where it will explode like a volcano. I mean, she just can't do that. That is just wrong. I think that girl should back off before Lydea turns into a snow-zilla.
"Move it snowflake covered and bogan!" She says barging her way through us. Parz decides to join in the convocation as he yells "No one shoves my home-girls like that!". He has a point when you come to it. Josh then says after, in his Boron voice "He is right. No one shoves anyone aside. As Moon Master's Class President, i will have to report this behaviour to Barran, who is my mother coincidently."
She then just gives up and says "Whatever you pathetic prince! You don't get any of Lina then." How did she know he was a prince? Wow, she must have not gone to orientation. I mean, she has to follow our rules. The Teenage Code is our rules and they are important to us. I mean, it isn't the actual rules of the GTA, but it is the rules we, the teenagers, use.
I think her name is Lina and she just walks away when Barran comes in. We just take our seats and just leave it be. Besides, she can't talk in class. That snowy really has some real balls when it comes to how much of a cunt she is.
Throughout the course of the day she is getting her revenge. I mean, just from looking at her, she must have been kicked out of so many schools. Seriously, she must have one last chance before she goes to reform school. I would hate to be her parents. In Flight Class she causes a whole class clash and blames it on Parz as he is distracted looking at Kat'lyn in the other class. This leaves us disorientated till lunch, since we all just are so frigging dizzy.
Even at lunch she doesn't give up her revenge for what happened earlier. She spiced Lydea's food so she had to drink a whole lot of water just to stop the burning. Poor girl. She was screaming and yelling until they gave her some water. I identified it as Cayan Root spice, coming from the Kuneer Desert Area. My aunt uses it in cooking and makes sure it doesn't overpower the food she makes. It gave her such a burn she was sent home. Josh offered to take her home (since Barran told the doctor to see her when she has cooled down, and not at the hospital to save Lydea the trouble and Barran from filling out paperwork) and Barran declined as she uses the "she is old enough to go by herself" lecture. I mean, she is acting like such a rainstorm. I mean, he would be back in a few minutes, but no, she sends Lydea home by herself.
In history, Josh fell asleep, and it was Boron who took Barran's class (for the twice a week we have Boron as our teacher for Math, History, Religious Studies, English, Geography, Social Studies, Political Studies and War Studies, that is about the theory classes all that Barran teaches besides Flight Class as her prac, since she leads the Barran's Flying Talons) and he got drawn on with ink. He looked utterly stupid, but funny as he flipped out when he saw the aftermath of falling asleep in class. In Combat Class, Strix pairs up Josh and Lina and she unkindly uses a textbook to hit Josh, Instead of the sticks. I mean seriously, she picked her textbook and hits him. She left him lying on a branch, unconscious, until Barran and the Medical team take him back to the Palace Hollows. Lina gets 12 detentions and flint mops for a month.
I swear she is out to get us, only as we told her to "get way from Josh". What is her fucking problem?! For Glaux sake, she isn't to steal another girl's man and she just can't to that shit, especially what she did to Josh in this case. Also, she can't get away with trying to steal another girl's guy. That is just plain bullshit. I know that girls would give anything just to have him sit next to him, or to even talk to him, but why would she steal?
She is totally immoral and she is just against The Teenage Code (that is the self-implied code that is used within the GTA for all of us teens to follow a set of rules). Sure i could go on and on and on about this but i have to study. After all, you get more homework and more theory study in Moon Master Class compared to the other class. Yeash, I didn't really go to school until I came to Ga'Hoole. I have been leading the resistance since I was nine when I learnt to fly.
Even the next few weeks it is a pain. We are nearing the end of term and she tries to make our lives a living hell. We have our mid-term tests and the stress is a pain (and she is causing it, not the homework and study). She tries to attack us, embarrass us, stuff us up in practicals and even tries to get into our permanent records to expose who we really are. Unfortunately, she was caught when she had snuck off from class and got five detentions and flint mops for two weeks.
She tries so hard to expose us or make us cry or feel pain. We are stronger than she thinks and more morally sound. Sometimes , I think I want to break her neck, but I have some control over my anger. I want to know what her real problem is, also why she wears ochre on her head and chest, but that has to wait. I know I am curious, but I have too much to do and she will not get in the way of me getting good grades on my report card.
After exams, I decide to confront her with Shard and Parz (I didn't bother with Lydea and Josh as they aren't going to get sucked into what I am going to do. Besides, I don't want to get them into trouble. Either way, they are our alibi). We are the main people she plays like fools. She keeps making Parz look like a womanizer and a dumbass. She calls me a Bogan and that really pisses me off. We corner her at the end of school, after Josh and Lydea go to a study/date at the Palace Hollows (good luck with that. Barran and Boron better not be around or he'll get it). We corner her in the library as the three of us are prepared for the likes of her.
"Well. Look what the trade winds brought. A Bogan, a big-time Gangsta Poser and the bearer of a Dark Family Legacy. Come to be humiliated for all eternity?" Lina taunts
"You better stop yapping now, bitch. We came here alright. This is personal wise, but not humiliation wise. I suggest ya should fess up and pay for what you did to us." I declare
"Yeah, ya wet blanket. Stop puttin' us out. Let the fire burn, baby." Parzival says
"In this tree, fires have to be put out as quick as possible to stop it from burning down, like you." Lina announces
She comes to attack us. Oh, she is asking for it. I counter her as she lunges at us to try and let us "learn" her twisted lesson of tainted friendship. She is more messed up then them hagsfiends in them legends that I have been hearin' bout. The only things around us are books and we throw them at her she weakens and falls to the ground. Can't even handle a few books being thrown? We try to see if we killed her or not, but she clearly grabs all three of us and fling us into a wall. How the hell?!
She is coming at us fast when Strix Struma, our Combat Class teacher swoops down and pins her to the ground. It is what happens all the time, since we always end up having bitch fights all the time. The teachers have to pin us to make us stop. She is struggling when Strix starts to lecture her.
"Lina. You may be new, but know the rules. Claws off. That means no fighting, at all." Strix informs her.
She gets off her and comes over to lecture us on why we shouldn't fight in the school grounds and why we should save it for the enemies. We are forced into cleaning the mess we made and going home to our hollows. Lina is given flint mops since she is breaking the rules (again). I don't know what that chick's problem is with us, but I'll find the truth even if it kills me.
