After a good sleep, I realised that his father wants to have no business with me. I mean, I wonder why he has such issues. Josh told me about the thing that happened and oh boy… that is really messed up on a few angles. I can tell that He wants Josh to marry a girl with class and stuff. If he was a little more traditionalist and wanted to find a girl that would be probably willing to, I bet it would be Lady Autumn he would be paired up with if they could somehow reorganise the agreement. I mean, the Ambala King is a bit too traditionalist. When you look at Allomere and Princess Autumn, she is at least 9 years his junior.
Anyway, I know that Someday, Boron is going to get a rude shock when he realises he tore us up for nothing at all, but for a reminder of a messily secret that will be haunting him till kingdom come. I would laugh at the look on his face, so would Barran and Josh. I just know it. He pulls some funny faces sometimes when you come down to it.
After a quick breakfast, Bryony starts having a trip down memory lane. I mean, she wants to show me what Tyto is and I am fascinated anyway. She snaps out of very quickly when Shard says a trigger word. I think it was "Ramaxon". That would be a trigger word that seems most likely possible. Later on, we bid Bryony's Aunt a farewell and we thank her for her hospitality as we leave to fly back to Ga'Hoole.
Sure I can wait until Josh gets back to school and we can sit together and talk and stuff. I don't think that we'll be able to kiss or anything of the likes that, but we'll manage. I hope.
No you can't manage, Lydea. You need to be with him or you will die and that won't be my fault.
When we head into the clearing, I think of where Lina would be and where she had gone. Honestly, where the heck did she go if she left? Where does she go all the time when she is marked absent on the roll? She is strange that chick. I look ahead of us and there she is? Out of nowhere, two Pure Ones are on her tail. We yell to take evasive action, but she ignores us!
Lina and the Pure Ones start attacking us, she is working with Pure Ones? That explains a lot about everything. Wait… OH MY GLAUX! SHE IS A TRAITOR! Lydea is struggling to flight her off and I knock her off her tail. The two Pure One Guards take Shard by the wings and throw him into a tree. They flung him so far, it is farther than I can relay back and forth in under 54 seconds. I decide to use that new move I created. I grab the enemy and smack them into the other enemy. I call it an enemy fail. Well… the name is still in progress.
While I'm not looking, Lydea is smashed into the ground and they rumble. Lina has the advantage and she takes her up into the air. I chase after her and she drops Lydea. Either I save Lydea or beat Lina. I don't know what to do? What will i do? Wait, Lydea is unconscious and so is Shard. I beat Lina and she just flies away. I feel like chasing her, but i have someone else to tend to. Shard flies over and we check to see if Lydea is ok.
"Lyd? Lydea? Are you ok?" I ask while shaking her
She groans in pain. That can't be a good sign. I mean that sounds like something is broken and her wings don't look good.
"We have to get her help. I'll fly to Ga'Hoole and..." Shard starts off then i stop him as that is clearly, unfair and also I do have some problems with that.
"No. You are not taking off and leaving me here, Shard!" I whine "If I am alone, I could be ambushed by Tyto Resistance and… and…"
"I am getting help, Bry. Not breaking up with you. TR thinks that you are dead so just lie low, ok." He replies.
He flies off while i try not to panic. Last year, that was how they attacked me. Ramaxon faked injury and i sent away for some help. When I was completely alone with him I was unaware of the fact he was faking. Then when my back is turned, Ramaxon gets up and pins me down and the rest came and that basically is it before i blacked out. I think. My memory is shaky of that day and i never really want to remember it at all. That is why I have so many scars I have to cover up. It is just a touchy topic when it comes down to it. I wonder how Shard is doing.
Shard flies very quickly back to Ga'Hoole as fast as he possibly can. Shard is heavy in train of thought and he hears a thunderclap above him. He thinks that he will have to get there before the storm comes. He is too distracted when he arrives; he crashes into his classroom at the GTA. He just missed Barran on impact as he was thinking to hardly of who would want Lydea dead. He gets up, dusts himself off and Barran is clueless of why Bryony and Lydea aren't with him. She realised something has happened and wants answers.
"What happened? Shard, where is Bryony and Lydea?" Barran asks while in a fluster
"It's Lydea. I came to you since you know who she is and stuff..." Shard starts talking before Barran interrupts
"Where is she? What happened?" Barran asks again for answers as she is panicking
"Pure Ones ambushed us. We were just outside of Tyto Forest and..." Shard starts before she interrupts, again
"I'll get some medical help and show us there, Shard." Barran announces before adding "Oh and if you see or go to tell Autumn, Strix Struma or Ezylryb, please tell them the situation at hand."
"We have no time to lose. They beat her that bad and Bryony is freaking out." Shard replies "Only because of the Tyto Resistance thing."
Barran flies out the entrance and goes to get help. Shard was told of the others who had kept her secret and goes to tell them. Meanwhile, Josh hears the commotion from his room and starts trying to break the barrier of wood planks that have been placed in front of him. He knows that something has happened toy Lydea and he wants to get out, no matter what Boron, his father thinks. He bashes against the boards and has no luck on getting himself out. They guards are not disturbed by what he is doing as they know he won't get out.
Meanwhile, Barran spearheads a search party and takes with her medical help as Shard leads the way to where the obviously frightened Bryony and unconscious Lydea are. Lady autumn fears that the worst may have happened, explaining why the sea has become disturbed as it has large waves and rough waters. Ezylryb tells Autumn not to fear the worst, seeing as they know that Lydea is a "fighter".
When the group arrive, Bryony applauds Shard while the others check if the incapacitated princess is still alive. She is responding to when they speak to her, but they can hardly make out what she is saying. They quickly get her into a basket to be lifted back to Ga'Hoole. The storm looks like it will rain on them soon and they have to hurry. The trip back to the Great Tree is silent and full of silence and sadness. They think that she might not hold on for too long. Barran and Strix Struma fear that Josh will do the unthinkable.
The uncertainty has now spread to all of them. When they arrive, Josh is still trying to get out and he looks through a crack to see Lydea unconscious below him with the Medical Chaw. He then starts to use the anger of seeing his beloved like that to be more powerful when He bashes himself repetitively against the barrier. Autumn advises that she get Josh, seeing as she can hear him yelling and swearing at the barrier. She agrees with her and unblocks it. Josh is confused as the barrier had come off when he had tried to get out of the room. She lands inside as he didn't know the barrier could come off that easily.
"Mum. What is happening down there? Where is Lydea? What is going on? Please tell me." Josh asks in aggressive uncertainty
"Josh... It is ok. Nothing big has happened. Just calm down and tell me what is wrong with you first. Why so aggressive?" Barran asks her fidgety child
"Can't you see it? I've been locked in this room for night after night. I don't know what happens down in the city there. I heard commotion and i wanted to know what it is!" Josh whines as the room has made him more impatient
"Josh, my boy, I have some bad news. I don't know how to say this, but Lydea has been ambushed by Pure Ones. I am afraid that she could be fighting for her life at this point. I'm very sorry, my baby." Barran tells the impatient child that once was Josh.
"It can't be!" He exclaims as He barges out the window in impatience
His mother follows him as she knows where he is going. Josh's conscience keeps telling him that he will get caught and will be locked up for longer or until kingdom come. He decides to ignore it and keeps telling it that it has to shut up.
In the hospital, everything and everyone is in a fluster as they had found out Lydea's Identity already and had sworn secrecy over it. Lydea's wings have splints on as the fall from up high had caused her wings to break, as bird bones are light and hollow. Which does make it an easy task to break one's wing that easily from a minor blunder that causes a "fatal to the wings" blow? They bandage her practically anywhere as they are uncertain if the rest of her is ok, but the wings are broken for a start and it takes a while to heal, like breaking an arm or a leg.
Josh finds himself there in a matter of a few minutes and goes through the whole place, until he finds Lydea in the Intensive Care Unit. Barran follows him and he is beside his unconscious lover, trying not to be sad or angry about what the Pure Ones did to her. He never knew that they were capable of such damage or if they were just a myth or not, seeing as they haven't heard from them in this long.
"Don't leave, Lydea." Josh softly whispers as Barran holds him close and kisses his head as he holds back tears "Please don't leave."
"Glaux have mercy on the girl." Autumn says and has been following Barran in the chase of Josh as they did not know what to do with him.
Barran's Thoughts:
He is in love, pretty obvious when you come down to it. Love is a time when nothing else matters as much as the one that you chose. That is that basic way for me to put it, seeing as I would refuse to eat if I dint see Boron. Hey, don't blame me, when you have two families having a hate, you tend to have a type of protest.
He is not like his father when it comes to his spirit. He is not over-serious and always knows what's best ever since he decided to "grow-up". My baby boy, who is now a grown up, is carefree, kind and follows rules like I do. …Well, when I am not in one of my moods. I used to remember when he was an owlet, of all those times. When he was younger, he and i were the same in comparison as owlets of the same age. We were rambunctious, boisterous and clearly cute, but annoying sometimes.
He'd never back down from a fight now, as he is brave and confident. But a battle he would fight and die for is if Lydea was the one at risk. Sure, he knows to protect others, but when it comes to his soon to be betrothed, he will never let her come in harms way. I know this is hard on him, as i have gone through things like this before, but he will endeavour. I know he will. That is the other thing he has, a way to deal with the pain and to make a right from a wrong.
He is a fighter, sadness would never cause him to slow, but maybe now the effect is deteriorating him. I can bet until he hears her sweet voice again, he will never leave her side, for as long as he lives. I know they will always be together, just like your father and I. Even If Lydea gets her throne back and she has to separate from him.
