A member of the Tyto Resistance flies to Ga'Hoole bearing the five members of Moon Master Class. They are all banged up and bloody as they have a few scratches and gashes from their fight with the Pure Ones. Since last night, after the Parliament meeting, Boron decided to look for the kids and to organise search parties. Barran had no choice but to agree with him, seeing as she feared the worst for Josh. The search parties have been looking for the five teenagers. Boron had spearheaded a party that had been searching the Desert area of Kuneer and Barran left with Princess Autumn to go check Autumn's home of Ambala.
Barran had only arrived back in Ga'Hoole when the resistance member lands in the middle of the city and she bears the five in the basket. Barran and the rest of the city come and crowd around. Barran's first reaction is what sets the mood.
"Oh my Glaux... Josh!" She utters in shock and in sadness
She runs her clenched claw against her son's face as her emotions take way and she starts crying. She cannot bare the sight that is her incapacitated son. Autumn is shocked to see that such a thing has happened and she takes Barran back to the Palace Hollows. Barran spends most of her night in her hollow as she sits upon her perch and cries when she is looking through her portraits of Owlet Josh and a family portrait before things got hectic. Josh is getting treated along with Lydea and the other three in the hospital.
Boron is unaware of what is going on as he returns from the search. Lady Autumn thinks that she has to be the one who tells him of Barran's condition and Barran will be most likely the one to tell him of what happened to Josh. The Ambalan Princess lands in the city square a moment soon and she catches Boron's attention.
"Boron, we have a situation." Autumn says
"What is it? Have they found the kids?" Boron asks
"There is something more important to deal with at the moment. Barran has started to cry and she shows no signs of letting up soon." She replies
"Where is she?" He asks
"In the Palace." She replies
He takes off and she watches him fly off to see what is wrong with Barran. Autumn sighs as she didn't want to say what happened to Josh. She knows that Barran will tell him and she just goes to speak to someone.
Meanwhile, Boron arrives at the Palace and Barran is crying her eyes out. She is also lying on the floor on her back. Boron gets her up and she has red eyes from crying and a red face also. Her tears are still going as she is being held close. He lets go and has a hold of her shoulders.
"Barran, what happened?" Boron asks the teary eyed Barran "What is going on?"
"It's Josh..." Barran starts before wailing in sorrow
"What happened? Where is he?" Boron asks her as she cries some more "What happened to him?"
"...Follow me." Barran replies
He lets go of her and They fly to the hospital. The crestfallen Queen leads her husband through the hospital. Everyone is still in a fluster as the five are still knocked out and have to treat them of all their injuries. When they come to the room where Josh and the four others are, they see Parzival's mother, Sierra, who had been informed by Lady Autumn of her son's injuries and Bryony's aunt, Sienne, who knew of the attack and travelled to Ga'Hoole top see now her niece was doing, are also in the room.
Barran and Boron walk up to their incapacitated son and the queen faints when she sees all of the bandage that was applied to the teenager's body. Josh is nearly covered in it and only his face, head, wings and claws aren't covered in bandage; Boron takes one look and is silent as he knows why Barran had fainted. He is overcome by sadness and Autumn is helping Barran up as she had become lightheaded. Boron places his wing over Barran, as she starts crying again, as they both cannot stand the fact that their son has been weakened and knocked unconscious. For once since Josh has become a teenager, Boron cares about him and knows if he wasn't so "mad with power" he would have realised how important the mission is.
Later, Boron had called to order the Guardian parliament. As he might know how to take back Lydea's Kingdom, but he is also angered over what the Pure Ones have done to his only child. All the guardians agree and there is anger and outrage over the obvious ambush on the five teens. There is also yelling and calls for things that are deemed barbaric in the Owl World.
"It is time to finish what we failed to finish years ago." Autumn announces "If the Pure Ones dare think they could become as mad with power as they are already then by Glaux I will beat them all for the North if I have to."
"We tried to destroy them and to make them fall, but they took out Princess Schana's Parents." Ezylryb adds
"I have come to a conclusion." Boron says, making a hush come over the parliament as they wait for his answer "It is time to take a course of action. We will do this not just for the Northern Kingdom, but we are also doing this for my son, Josh. We are going to sharpen the battle claws. We are going to take down those Pure Ones! For the Schana and the North!" Boron finishes
This prompts the Guardians to send out the order to take up arms to fight the Pure One menace once again. They all are getting ready and will be taking off soon. Hours later, Josh wakes up and is horrified to find out that his father has ordered to take up arms. Josh takes off his bandages and goes to fly over to the Palace Hollows. He isn't stopped by anyone, as his fury is more powerful than anything known to owl-kind. Josh arrives and is giving a piece of his mind.
"Dad, you can't do this! We are upon the scrolls and close to finding the mirror and finishing this ourselves!" Josh yells
"You will understand when you are a father and when Pure Ones try to kill your child. Also, Lydea would thank me for cleaning up the mess that those Pure Ones made. I know we dropped the North, but it was for Lydea's own good as well as for peace reasons. Besides, it is high time to take it back like we said we would years ago." Boron replies
"She won't thank you when it comes to doing that! You are making this worse! She will not fight for her kingdom and she will never fight against the…!" Josh yells toward his misunderstanding father
"Josh, Duty Calls." Boron interjects
Boron flies off Leaving Josh by himself. The Guardians then leave as a storm begins to roll north and is moving to the Northern Kingdom. Josh heads back to the hospital and is outraged over what his father has now done.
I cannot believe this! He is making this worse. I do understand his logic, as he is right about dropping the North in the first place, but how can he take an extremist answer towards this. I fly back as we need to find that mirror and leave now. If we don't find it and the Pure Ones win... I won't want to imagine that. When I arrive, Lydea is stuck in a tangle while the others are doing the same thing as I did earlier, but succeeding.
"We have to find the mirror before they get there." I announce
"How will we get there?" Bryony asks when she gets the bandages off
"Fly. What else?" I sarcastically ask
"We can leave... Now... Before the... Guardians attack." Lydea says while she still struggles with her bandage
"What if they attack us?" Shard asks "The Pure Ones could be waiting for them and we are Guardians… technically speaking."
"We'll paint ourselves up all convincingly like Pure Ones if we get there before them. If the Guardians come we can take it all off. Fool proof." Bryony remarks
"We have to... Hurry!" I holler as i am helping Lydea with the bandages and trying to make them follow
The bandages are really tight on her as I had used my battle claws to cut it all off. Then we all put on our battle claws and helmets then take to the sky. Then out of nowhere, Lina and her Pure Ones have a net and they throw it and before we take action, it envelops us. Like the mists do over the Great Tree. She laughs at us and they usher us into separate cages.
"Looks like you won't be finding the mirror then." Lina taunts
"You won't get away with this, Lina." I sternly say
"I don't care." She replies
