Chapter 13: Discoveries
(Wolf's P.O.V.)
I hate when I feel like this… so tired, so sore… it's hard to even think. It's like a black dream with only thoughts… the pain in my head is keeping me from opening my eyes, luckily it is dark where ever I am. My legs feel heavy, my chest feels like someone hit it with a bat, and everything else… well… I can't really feel anything else; I only feel heaviness over me with a pain behind that. Why does this always happen to me? The unexpected always occur when I'm not at my best and paying attention.
…finally, that heaviness is leav-…. A….. awwwgggg…. This… is some…. Horrible pain.
Ok, time for a reassessment… my head feels like a rock, my entire body feels beat up…. Except my right arm… why can't I feel it?
(3rd P.O.V.)
Since Wolf is a human, every owl that arrived where wolf was unable to move him to a safer and more populated area of the Great Tree. A select few of owls stayed with Wolf as he remained motionless and unconscious. As Wolf started to groan and shift, the Guardian flew away to a cluster of owls higher in the tree. When the guardian left the cluster of owls, a few flew down to where Wolf was starting to regain consciousness.
(Tyler's P.O.V.)
When I landed on the grass near Wolf, his eyes were just fluttering open, and I could have sworn I saw his brown irises turn from their usual brown, to a golden green, but when I blinked my eyes, they were brown...
While his head lulled to one side, his eyes finally found me and I saw shock flash through his eyes, and he murmured weakly, and I could hear the strain in his voice, "Hey their birdie… nt nt ntt."
I just chuckled as he tried to call me near him like a stray animal. I humored him and stepped within a wings reach of him, still smiling… if this went the same way as it did to me and Soren, he was going to get hurt even more…
He dragged his arm across the ground until it was near me, and he raised his hand to pet my facial disk, and when he was about to touch me, I quickly scooted to my side. He just grunted and tried again, but I repeated my action as well and as he dropped his hand onto the ground, he said irritated, "Come on man, now that's rude…"
I scooped some dirt up with my talon, and lifted it until it was above his hand, and dropped it onto his hand. He shifted his eyes to his hand, looked back at me, and said, "Now that's downright rude." I heard him mumble the last part to himself, "and I can swear your smiling…"
Indeed I was too.
Turning my head to face the owls behind me, I said, "Ok… I guess it's time to do that lightning trick…" I groaned, and faced Wolf again, and slowly lowered my wing to his palm…
(Wolf's P.O.V.)
I can't believe what I just witnessed… this owl just avoided me, and then dumped some dirt all over my hand… now that's rude…
The owl turned away from me and made a few soft hooting noises, then when it faced me, I heard a grumble emit from its throat. When it stopped making the noise, it stretched a wing out towards my hand and slowly lowered towards my hand. I felt a tingling in the air, and then heard a sound like lightning striking a tree, and I instantly felt a searing, burning pain, streak from my hand through-out my body. I have felt this before, but on a much smaller scale.
-Flashback after losing consciousness-
It is raining and I had just pulled over, this person's car had died out just outside the towns' limit, so no-one was around to help out. As I unbuckled my seat-belt, my vision flickered for a second, and I saw a flash of gold around my vision… my sixth sense had just gone off. I hesitated as I grabbed the door handle, but pushed it off as I opened my door. It was raining hard, and this is the type of rain not even I liked.
I closed my door and towards the other persons vehicle and leant over the window to block off some of the rain as they rolled down their window.
"Thank you! I didn't think anybody would still be out, and I have been here for the past hour or so. My car battery died on me, and I haven't been able to get it started." A silky feminine voice spoke out.
I looked towards the hood and said, "Well, I have some jumper cables in my trunk somewhere, if you want to pop the hood, I will handle this for you."
"Thank you again!"
I just nodded, and started heading back towards my car, and as I was circling around to the back of my trunk, a loud thunder clap shook the world around me. The good thing is the rain started to die down. As I reached the back of my car, I took out my keys and unlocked the trunk.
Five minutes later, I was ready to give up, but when I felt a cold piece of metal touch my finger, I shifted some of the dirty rags around, and came across my jumper cables. I grinned and started to walk back to the other person's hood, and noticed how it was finally just a light drizzle instead of a full-fledged storm.
I heard the hood pop, and saw the lady step out of her car and walk towards me. "Aren't you supposed to hook those up to your car first?"
I stopped walking and looked at the cables, then at my car, and finally back at her, "You are absolutely correct… now it is my turn to thank you."
Turning around and walking towards my car, I glanced over my shoulder, and then tapped quickly on various parts of my car hood, and heard a loud click, and it lifted itself up until it was at its designated lift limit… I designed this part of my car myself.
I hooked the two ends of the cables to my battery, and grabbed the other end… what I didn't tell her was I made this cars electrical system myself, so it was very… VERY… powerful.
I started to walk back towards her vehicle, and said, "You may want to step over towards the back of my car… for safety reasons."
She looked at me with a confused face, but started to walk towards my vehicle until she was by the back passenger door.
When I lifted the two ends I had, I put them within three inches of each other's tip, and watched the blue bolt dance in between them… it even left a blue glow around me.
I took the last step, and started to slowly place the ends of the battery, and I heard her vehicle rev extremely loud, and a blue flash with a concussive BOOOM SHOT off, and I was flung back a good seven feet, and slid to a halt by the ladies feet.
(A.N.: sorry girls about this sad excuse for a scream)
"EEEEEEKKKKKK!" I barely heard that, I saw her close her mouth and crouch down over me and move her mouth around a little bit…
Muffled, but the vibrations confirmed I was talking, I tried to say 'I'm alright… just can't hear'
There was a static sound in my ears, and I saw her nod and walk towards her car and take out a phone and make a call. I closed my eyes, and stood up shakily. When I opened my eyes, I started to walk over towards her car and she quickly walked in front of me and moved her mouth some more, she was still holding her phone, but I just said(or hope I said), 'hold on, I got to do something real fast.
I gently held her as I walked around her, and stepped up to her hood, and I grabbed onto the plugs and yanked… bad move.
The cables came off easily and I pulled them to my chest, and my vision turned gold again, but it didn't flicker, it just stayed, "AHHHHHHH-"I quickly threw the cables to the ground and yanked the other ones from my car and yelled again, "GOD DA***T! THAT STUNG!" I know I yelled it since I could faintly hear my voice. I turned around to see the lady staring at me, and then she shook her head and gestured to me, and then my car… it took me a second, but I caught on and sat on my trunk.
A while later, I turned around and saw a police car, accompanied by an ambulance racing down the street from the town towards our location… I looked at the lady, and gestured for her to come closer to me, while I reached into my pocket to pull out my wallet. When she started to come near me, I opened my wallet, and pulled out my military ID, showing how I was an active duty Pilot, and then slid out a card with the Generals name, number, rank, and other information on it and held it out to the lady. (A.N.: I don't really know how military ID's are, only saw a few from my friends)
She looked at them, and read them both, and quickly looked back up at me, and I mumbled out, "tell them to use those, and tell them not to talk loud, I'm barely getting my hearing back… Ohh, and don't tell anybody about what happened… classified." I winked at her and laid by back against my hood, and my vision finally returned to normal, and I heard Lady gasp, and I added, "Oh, you can talk about that, that's just my eyes." I'm glad this thing also knew when to shut its hood automatically…
The blackness slowly started to fade away, and I felt a soft feathery mass on my arm, and I felt renewed strength with a sense of relief flood through me. I also saw the feathery mass starting to shift on top of my wing… it was earth brown, with a white stripe down its chest, and from my angle, I could see black dots on its wing. Another owl, with a lighter coat of brown amble up to me, and wrapped its wings around it and quickly pulled it away. When they were about ten feet away, I almost gasped when I heard the lighter brown owl lean over the darker one and speak perfect English in a feminine voice, "Tyler? Wake up Tyler... or I will pull another feather out…"
The darker owl, named Tyler, shot up so fast; it almost hit the female owl and said, "I'm UP, I'm UP… DO NOT PULL another feather…" Tyler was gasping for air by the time he finished and was staring at the light brown owl with a look of dread on its… face, beak, I don't know.
I chuckled, and Tyler looked at me, "Hello Wolf… sleep well?"
I jerked my head back, and said quietly, "How do you know my name?"
Tyler just shrugged and said, "I don't knowww… maybe it is because I used to be a human named…" it stopped and grinned, "Tyler Airmen…"
"No way… how… but… are you serious?" I asked, and I could feel my jaw hanging. Tyler had disappeared from radar over a fortnight ago, and his last words had been of complete loss, considering no-one knew what he meant, or where his radio had come from, which had smashed onto the U.S.S. Airman a few seconds after his final words.
"Yup, it is I, your best teacher, as an owl," Tyler just chuckled in at the end, but donned a serious face and said, "but what are you doing here and how did you get here?"
"Do you remember how I had all those crazy ideas? I decided to do one… hang-glide into the Bermuda triangle… I may have borrowed some military supplies, but after you went A.W.O.L., they promoted me… and everyone knows how I hate that responsibility…"
Tyler nodded and said, "Well since you woke the whole tree, crashed and burned, and burned a good half of the night away… let me just check on a few things before we do anything yet."
(Tyler's P.O.V.)
When I had landed near the king and queen, I told them about what had happened and asked them what was to transpire…
"Seeing as how he is still an Other and we have no current threats. We will have to ask parliament about what to do about this…" King Boron trailed off.
"…Predicament." Queen Baran finished for her mate.
I nodded, and replied with, "Can I take him to my old camp? He can have my old supplies while he is here then." King Boron nodded, and I turned around and flew over to Wolf.
I landed more near Outillisa, who was standing near Spot, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger. I leaned over and said, "Can you guys go wait near where you found me? I'm going to lead Wolf over their soon…"
They all nodded and turned around to take flight. While everyone else took flight, Outillisa hesitated, and then turned around and pecked me on the beak and said, "Please be safe, and hurry." As she finished, she turned around, spread her wings, and took flight.
When I turned to face Wolf, I saw he was now sitting up and was smirking at me, and I could have sworn I felt like he was going to say something, but he remained silent. I started to walk up to him and when I was close enough to be heard, I said, "Can you move? I'm going to lead you to my old camp, I have some things their you can have while you are here."
Wolf nodded, and I turned around and said, "Ok, follow me."
As I started walk forward and I heard Wolf grunt as he stood up. While I was walking through whatever owls had remained, I heard King Boron announce, "Everyone, you can return to your hollows or resume your previous activi…."
By then I had walked out of hearing range and I could hear Wolf stumbling behind me every so often, and I saw my camp up ahead.
"So Tyler… how is it to kiss an owl lady?" I heard him chuckle. "Is she your girlfriend, or is she your mate yet?"
I suddenly felt my feathers rise up at the mention of mate, and I replied, "All you need to worry about is yourself."
"Whatever you say… UMPH…" I turned around and chuckled, Wolf had just stumbled over a root… "Do you mind if I turn some music on, my IPod didn't break surprisingly? I have Owl City."
Chuckling, I said, "Sure, go ahead… just one song though."
Wolf said, "Ok. I will play some vanilla Twilight then…"
The stars lean down to kiss you
And I lie awake and miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere
'Cause I'll doze off safe and soundly
But I'll miss your arms around me
I'd send a postcard to you, dear
'Cause I wish you were here
I'll watch the night turn light-blue
But it's not the same without you
Because it takes two to whisper quietly
The silence isn't so bad
'Til I look at my hands and feel sad
'Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly
But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist-deep in thought because
When I think of you I don't feel so alone
I don't feel so alone, I don't feel so alone
As many times as I blink
I'll think of you tonight
I'll think of you tonight
When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh, if my voice could reach
Back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear
Oh darling, I wish you were here
"Good timing… the camp is around this root…" I said to Wolf.
(Outillisa's P.O.V.)
After we had landed near Tyler's camp, I walked over to his make-shift… tent… and curled up into a feathery ball and spoke loud enough so anyone of my friends could hear me, "Wake me when they are almost here, please."
I didn't care so much for a reply, but as soon as I relaxed, I started to think back to the previous night…
When did I fall in love when someone I barely know shows up? I know he cares for me too, why else would he protect me when the Pure Ones threatened the Great Tree? Is it because he is strong, handsome, or is it because of the way he looks at me? Uggh… I better think of something else, I already know he loves me… he even told me.
A gentle nudge to my upper wing caused me to lift my head out from under my wing, and I blinked tiredly at the source of disturbance, and saw Twilight standing there, and he said, "They are around the roots if you want to come out…"
"Thank you Twilight. If you can, may you just tell Tyler where I am when he gets here?"
He nodded his head and turned around to leave, and I settle back down into my previous position.
I wonder how Tyler thinks about the idea of having owlets. He told me I have to wait, but he never said how long… also when will he be going on his… mission… to scout for the King and Queen? Just if I could go with him, but I'm not done with my chaw practices just yet…
Muffled voices could be heard and I thought I heard some talons crinkling the ground near where I was curled out, but someone outside talked and I ceased to hear the steps. I felt the feeling of feathers curl around me, and I slowly pulled my head from my feathers, and smelled the Milk berries aroma envelope me as the other owl hugged me. All worries and problems washed away and I just leaned into the owl and sighed, I didn't have to open my eyes to know it was Tyler, just to know its him by the green sparks I could feel running through my feathers told me who it was.
"Let's go back to our hollow and go back to sleep; Queen Baran said another owl would take this mission for me and Spot. OK?" Tyler asked me.
Nodding my head, I stood up tiredly, and looked outside, it was fully night now, with the moon shining brightly down and I said, "We will need to sleep out of the moonlight or we will get moon-blinked." I stated.
Tyler looked at me with a confused look plastered on his face, and asked, "What is Moon-blink?"
I looked him in the eyes and said, "You just don't want to have it happen to you…"
"OK, well I'll go tell everyone else we are leaving for tonight…" Tyler said. I saw him walk out in front of everyone and say, "hey, Outillisa and I are heading back to our hollow, so… bye."
I walked up to him, and when I got near him, he asked me, "Are you ready?"
I nodded, and we both opened our wings, but wolf asked, "Hey Tyler, how did you ever turn into an owl?"
I looked at Tyler, and saw him look at me to, then smirk. He turned to face Wolf and said, "I focused on being an owl, and I turned into one…" after he let that hang in the air, he chuckled and turned to face me and said, "Let's go."
After we turned to take off, we heard Soren, Gylfie, and Twilight all gasp.
We turned around and I quickly looked at Tyler, who had his beak agape, and then I looked back at Wolf.
Wolf looked down at himself and said, "It's a dream come true!"
When I looked back at Tyler, he muttered, "You're a macaw…" and I saw Tyler slump sideways, and assumed he had just passed out…
A.N.: hey hey hey… how was this chapter? I will be trying to introduce some songs into the story more often, to lengthen it up a bit and to add some character also. If anybody hasn't realized yet, I'm putting myself into Wolf's shoes, and will be using a few of my past experiences, or how I would be, as his charistics. I have to say, this chapter came out fairly well… I almost made it into a short 2,2—word story… good thing I didn't. Also, what do you guys and gals prefer… long or short chapters? And who else likes Owl city? That song is from Owl City: Vanilla Twilight, and if you listen to it, it is good, though my personal favorite is Owl City: Fireflies.
P.S. sorry about chapter 12, when I had put it in, I didn't see that my 9th chapter was put in instead… gave you guys some pre-chewed story on accident XD.
Airman0007: Ha-ha how is this for you? Also, don't think it's weird to believe in that stuff, I personally wish most of it was true; it be shape shifters, magic, soul-mates, Psychics, ETC… it would all be cool. Every once in a while I swear I see something, but when I take a double-take, it won't be there… it happens when I'm driving to… so yea. Also, I was thinking about LOTG on my way to school one morning (It was like 6:50 A.M.), and I swear on my LIFE, I saw a white owl that looked like Nyra in the LOTG movie… I so should have gone checked that out… oh, look at me, I'm babbling away now… Lol (you have your own paragraph to prove it to)
Tic234stars: I like your ideas, but I will most likely find a way to put the first one into the story some way, it takes time and motivation to write all that bonus stuff, and I'm about ready to finish this story and create a sequel probably… I won't be giving away the plot or anything now.
-now, I would also like to say this, I'm sort of like a Psychic myself… I have read my mom's mind a few times by accident, and I'll go get something for her she didn't verbally ask for, so just to let everyone know, it is possible… also, I have a sixth sense, it warns me of possible danger at times, and it does work, if any of you has EVER experienced something like this, PM me what it was please (s'il vous plaît!).