Chapter 2: Once a life time meeting
(Soren's P.O.V.)
I was sleeping well into the evening, dreaming of when I first came to the tree, and even dreaming of when I had first met Gylfie. I suddenly started to dream of how I had also met Digger and Twilight, and the great journey we had started sharing. The dream then switched over to how Digger had almost drowned in the sea of Hoolimere…. I started to wake up, still drowsy, when I heard what sounded similar to the short swords used for practice, but what really woke me up was a loud scream. That is what jolted me out of my peaceful slumber, and when I looked towards the only other owl in the hollow, I saw Gylfie, staring at what seemed to be a… short sword tip, sticking out of the thin hollow walls.
Just as I was getting out of my nest, I heard the worst sound made from the tree… a sort of crunching, yet loud thump resonated from the outside, and then the short sword was pulled from the wall. Only a few moments later, I heard a quiet, but audible thump hit the ground far below. Gylfie and I looked at each other then I started to walk towards the hollow entrance. Before I could get to the entrance, Gylfie said, "Should we really be going out, it might not be safe? We should let the sentries handle it."
I thought about it, and then replied, "I know, but what if the sentries can't do it alone? We must see who also stuck that sword into the wall, and who made that noise." But Gylfie being as clever as ever countered with, "We mustn't just rush into this though, you know the saying… curiosity killed the o… *BOOM BOOM BOOM*." That stopped our conversation quickly, the sound was loud and seemed to echo within the small hallow. It sounded like thunder, yet when I looked outside, I didn't see any clouds, or anything else indicating a storm. We both soon saw the sentries flying towards the King and Queen's hallow.
"Whatever is causing all these strange things, those sentries will know, I will be back. I'm going to go ask those sentries what is happening," I told Gylfie. "I will be right back." With that said, I started for the hollow entrance again. It had gotten darker, just not as dark as it usually gets. With one last look behind me, I was met with a concerned look from Gylfie, but I still was set on my mindset.
I turned back to the sky, spread my wings, and lifted myself out of the comforting zone of the hollow. During the conversation that Gylfie and I had been in, I had lost sight of the sentries. I wanted to hurry and find them, so I took off towards where I had last seen them. Which was somewhere near the shoreline of the island. As I was gliding down, I saw a small orange glow, like the fires I see in the forge, but this was nowhere near the forges. So I made a far-fetched guess and went to see if they were over there.
As I got closer, I didn't hear the usual chatter of the sentries, so I started to descend as quietly as I can. I saw a figure, but it didn't look like anything I had ever seen…..or heard about. 'Curiosity killed the owl…,' I remembered Gylfie telling me that not too long ago. I landed with barely a noise, and approached cautiously. I stopped as soon as I heard an odd noise emanating from the figure, it was holding up a shiny square with a long stick near what seemed to be its head, but I wasn't too sure. I had stepped into the firelight. "Hello? Who and what are you?" I had let my eyes wander down and look what was at its feet, and then I froze in absolute horror. I saw that short sword, except the tip was attached to an even longer thing. The whole thing was bigger than any other sword in the guardians' armory, but the blade itself was longer than Gylfie's wingspan.
Then the figure had stood up, and was towering over me, even though it was 10 feet away. It slowly walked towards me, then hunched over by bending its legs… and reached a white, oddly shaped, featherless wing towards me….
(Tyler's P.O.V.)
I was just fiddling with the fire now, thinking about how I got here, and thinking that I had somehow drifted thousands of miles in a parachute to land. Even if I didn't know where I was, I still had a gut wrenching feeling I would be here for a while. I didn't know where I could be for owls to be wearing masks, and to top it off, a huge tree. I felt it was best to see if my radio was working yet, and to see if anyone was within its operational area. The satellites should work well enough to give me a loud and large operational area.
"This is Petty Officer 1st class, Tyler Airman. Does anyone copy?" I was rewarded with static…. Just like the first few times I had used it. I heard a soft screech, then a few soft hooting off to my left. As I turned my head to see what had disturbed me, I was met with the sight of a small cream colored owl with a heart shaped face, and its gaze slowly looking around my feet. I slowly got up and went over towards the small owl slowly, as to not frighten it off. As I couched, I noticed it had started to tremble; I wanted to see it, yet felt like I should calm it down.
As I reached my hand out towards it, I felt like a static charge was building around my body, and like a build-up of even more electricity around the area my hand was. I pushed the thought away and slowly lowered my hand to the owls head, and stroked its head feathers. All of a suddenly, the two owls I had seen earlier, with 6 more surrounding the area landed in a semi-circle around them, all facing me, with half wearing metal claws, and the other half holding up swords similar to that which had brought my plane down.
As I pulled my hand away the small owl, my first thought was to grab my combat knife, but what I hadn't expected, was a sound like thunder to reverberate around our area, causing many of the owls to screech and look around. Then a bolt of lightning stretched between me and the small owl, but instead of yellow, the lightning cast a bluish haze around our area. I let out a yell of pain, and I could barely make out the painfully loud screech of an owl. It felt as if I was dunked into a tank of cold water, then having someone drop an active Taser into the water, and even that didn't compare to how it felt. The lightning vanished, and it left the area in a blue light, even though my vision was a red haze.
I felt like I was falling, yet all that happened was I staggered back a few steps and fell to my knees, then twisted as I fell, and finally landed on my back. I was having bits and pieces of memory that weren't mine flash before my eyes. A hollow with a pink-red snake, a fluffy ball of feathers, a red owl, and two larger owls, then a memory of being scared, and being held in a larger owls claws. Then a memory of a heat by my feet, and a bluish light surrounding me, then pain in my chest.
"What happened…."
"Did you see that?"
"How could that have happened?"
"Someone get the king and Queen!"
"What is that thing?"
"By Gluax!"
Then I heard a small flapping, and before I lost touch with the world, I heard a female voice shout, "SOREN!" I was wondering where all these voices were coming from, but then I blacked out….
A.N.: and their goes chapter 2, I had fun making it, and it was a thrill. I won't be able to update a lot since I don't have a permanent internet connection, but do not fear, that just means longer, and better chapters! I would like to give a wonderful thanks to Airman0007, for he was the first to finally review my story. I will bring into the story of how and why the rifle was needed for the story, like a little flashback. I might change the rating to 'M' later on, just so I can probably add cuss words, or ill just make another story that has 'M' content to this one, but have it be a separate version. Remember to review and tell me what you think. It's more important than you think. And remember, this is my first actual story, this one at least breaks 1.5k words per chapter. Also, I had updated and improved chapter 1. Until next time…
Disclaimer: Read the first chapter, I don't need to use it more than once…