Hours later in the morning
It was a morning. Soren woke up, and opened his eyes, when he looked left he saw something that shocked him, next to him was a screeched owl whose eyes were moon blinked, and hearing Jutt shouted.
"All right, my lovely little owlets. That's enough beauty rest." Jutt shouted.
"Wakey, wakey. Rise and shine. It's another glorious day." Jatt shouted.
"Oh no." Soren whispers as he moves his wing in front of the moon blinked owlet.
"Soren." A familiar voice called him was Gylfie.
Then all the other owlets who are moon blinked started walking.
"Soren." Soren heard Gylfie's voice again, turned his head around, and saw Gylfie.
"Where are we going now?" Gylfie whispers.
"Gylfie, we need to act moon blinked." Soren replied whispering. Until Soren walked and acted like moon blinked owlets did.
Meanwhile, Grimble was watching owlet walking inside, when he looked right what's got a weird look, he saw Gylfie walking weirdly acting like the moon blinked owl, Grimble didn't do anything but weird look.
A few minutes later
Soren was pushed by Jatt ordering him to keep moving.
"Keeping moving, no dawdling." Jatt said and walked away.
"And welcome to the Pelletorium." Jutt said to every owlet.
"It's a great place for the rest of your lives." Jatt said.
Meanwhile, on top of Pelletorium, Nyra front of 6 Tytos owlets including Kludd, there are 4 human military colonels 1 Russian, 1 Chinese, 1 Yaran, and 1 North Korean, they're behind Nyra listening to her while she is talking to the owlets new soldier of Pure Ones.
"You mustn't feel sorry for them down there," Nyra said. "As lower species, they are fortunate to serve a higher cause. As Tytos owls their natural superiors, you too are part of that plan. One that will soon bring order to all the owl kingdoms when the Pure Ones will rule being helped by its allies. A new and noble era wall dawn. Now, prove your greatness..." Before the training is ready Kludd looks at his new rival and then looks at Nyra. "And rise."
Then when Nyra finished the trainees started flapping their wings Kludd's rival was flapping fast and upper.
"Higher!" Nyra shouted.
Kludd flaps his wings higher and looks at his rival whom he going to win but Kludd is winning.
"Higher!" Nyra shouted again.
Meanwhile back to the Pelletorium, the owlet on top of the bucket is carried by a bigger owlet who has the bucket on his back, the owlet on top throws the other owl's pellet at owlets who are moon blinked and stands even though he throws the pellet next front of Soren and Gylfie.
"Let's get this party started!" Jutt's voice shouted.
"Let's get picking!" Jatt shouted.
"Start picking up those pellets right now." Jutt said they Jatt and Jutt both laughed.
"That's right. Think of the joy. Pellets." Jatt said.
"We love them." Jatt and Jutt both said together.
Gylfie groans in disgust.
"Ugh. Other owls' pellets." Gylfie said to Soren.
"You know, maybe it would have been better if we had been moon blinked." Soren replied.
Sore and Gylfie stopped when they heard Jatt's voice.
"Oh, here we go." Jatt said as he pushed the moon blinked owlet back from the pellet that was revealed a blue light metal.
"Eureka." Jutt said.
"Great job, number 857..." Jatt said to the moon blinked but he didn't know who this owlet was. "whatever."
"All right, everyone, gather around." Jutt said. "Hey, you with the blank expression." He said to the two owlets that's next to Gylfie.
"That's all of them." Jatt said.
"Oh. Pay attention. He's talking." Jutt finished then Jatt moved Jutt away showing a pellet.
"Now this is the kind of pellet you're picking for." Jatt said. "Mouse fur, mouse bones, that's all standard."
Jutt picked the blue light metal piece out from the pellet as he said. "But the secret rare ingredient in this one is what Mr. Mouse ate: A metal fleck."
"Metal fleck." Jatt said.
"Now, I'm very perceptive," Jutt said.
"He is." Jatt said.
"I am." Jutt said. "And I'm detecting you..." Jutt put a metal fleck on Soren's beak making Soren feel weird and want it off.
"Nicely done." Jatt said.
"... want to volunteer to take this fleck to where all fleck belongs." Jutt said as he moved Soren to the stairs to the blue electric force there.
"You all watching? Hm?" Jatt asked. Soren was walking slowly.
"Come on." Jutt said to Soren pushing him to make him faster.
Soren walked faster to the stairs, Gylfie was worried, when Soren made it to the top of the stairs where flecks were that blue electric force. The light from fleck touched fleck that was on Soren's beak and dragged him making him weak, he groans.
"Soren." Gylfie whispered worriedly.
Then the bat who was resting next to flecks woke up, had red eyes, it squeaked, laned front of Soren trying to take fleck from Soren's beak, then it did, it took fleck to the bucket that it carried, it let go and fleck went to the bucket fill with fleck like magnets. The bucker lowers, bat screeches called other the bat, the other bat comes from sunlight it grabs the handle that helps it carry the bucket and flies away.
Soren went back downstairs
"All right, more baskets to fill." Jatt said.
"All right then back to work." Jutt said.
Soren was panting and went back to Gylfie.
"What happened?" Gylfie asked worried.
"Listen, Gylfie, those owls are doing something terribly wrong even though they had allies including Yarans, Russians, Chinese, North Koreans and I don't know what else. We have to find Kludd and we have to get out of here." Then a familiar voice was Grimble came to Soren and Gylfie.
"And exactly what do you two think you're doing?" Grimble asks in anger.
Meanwhile somewhere still in Pure Ones, there are bats carrying buckets filled with flecks dropping off to the bigger bucket that fills massive pieces of metal flecks. But then two mystery owls both wore metal helmets in the darkness watching bats filling big with flecks.
"Once we have amassed enough flecks," A big owl with a dark helmet and deepest voice said. "We will set a trap."
When they heard footsteps a big owl looked to the darkness to a human approaching him with the Wagner Group logo on his uniform.
"Sir, missiles from Americans convoy outside of your border, we got them," Human said with a heavy Russian accent.
"Ah! Excellent." Owl said while another mystery owl was waiting for him.
"So where is the money?" Russian Wagner asked.
Then 2 Pure Ones soldiers with 2 suitcases gave them to Russian's hand Russian left with 2 suitcases filled with gold bars when he was gone and owl soldiers left 2 mystery owls continued talking.
"Then it is up to you to lure our enemy and its ally to their rightful place: Into our claws." Big owl said.
"And then the Western Kingdoms and the Tree, those will be mine." The owl who waited for the big owl continued.
"You have my word." Big owl said then the second mystery owl flapped his wings to light and was gone. Then the light shines big owl revealing a dark helmet his right eye is fine but his left eye is blind.
Meanwhile, Grimble took Soren and Gylfie to nowhere.
"What do you plan on doing with us?" Soren asked Grimble.
"Quiet!" Grimble pushed Soren before he said he rolled his eye right to the Pure Ones soldier who had red eyes and a dark helmet with an AK-47 in his left wing the soldier looked away.
So Soren, Gylfie, and Grimble made it to the gate to like library. Soren and Gylfie looked terrified not knowing what Grimble doing to them and taking them.
"What is this place?" Gylfie asked.
"Get inside." Grimble said pushing them. "Stop asking questions."
When Gylfie jumped to the rock when she looked left she gasped in horror, she saw an owl skull and a skeleton hearing something screaming echoes like burning in Hell.
"You know, the Pure Ones won't be too happy if you don't let us get to the Pelletorium." Gylfie said to Grimble.
"No." Grimble replied moving in front of Soren and her. "And they won't be too happy when they find out what I'm gonna do to you either."
Soren and Gylfie were in fear but...
"I'm gonna teach you to fly." Grimble said.
Soren and Gylfie were surprised.
"Fly?" Soren asked.
"You can breathe now." Grimble said.
Then Gylfie sighed in relief and Soren did the same Grimble chuckles.
"Yeah, it's been getting worse here." Grimble said. "I told myself if any came who were smart, and brave enough to resist I'd help them. I guess you two'll have to do."
"But aren't you a-?" Soren asked but was stopped by Grimble.
"Pure Ones?" Grimbles said. "No, I hate them also even though I'm a CIA asset."
Soren and Gylfie smiled.
"Almost as much as I hate what they've turned me into. My feathers weren't always stained with these colors. When the Pure Ones invaded my country Republic of Kharak, the military and I fought back. Now, they thought could use that so they took my family. And they promised me if I followed orders, no harm would come to them. And I've been doing their dirty work ever since. But until when I was on Pure Ones a rare human spying I caught him he told me he's a CIA and so I became a CIA asset." Grimble finished his pass.
Soren and Gylfie look at each other, Grimble flaps his wings, flying and landing on the handle nearby.
"Now, have you flown at all before?" Grimble asked.
"Well, I have been branching." Soren answered.
"Well, you don't have the luxury of gliding down from/ a nest anymore." Grimble said. "We need to work on your power skills, starting with what you already know. Show me what you can do."
Soren and Gylfie look at each other "Come on." Soren said, then they started running, flapping wildly until they flapped normally, and then they were flying lower.
"Ah, good, good." Grimble said Soren landed on the bucket's edge and Gylfie landed nearby on the rock.
"Now, try and feel every muscle, every feather in each stroke." Grimble said and Soren and Gylfie looked at him. Soren and Gylfie flapped their wings.
"And rush!" Grimble said. Gylfie rushed her wing faster until she went upside-down and fell to bump Soren's back.
"Ow!" Soren groaned, and Gylfie landed on the floor on her back she laughed and Soren landed next to her.
"He-he-he. All right, you two," Grimble said. "that's enough. Come on. Back to practice"
Meanwhile Nyra and her trainees.
"Now, the best of you..." Nyra said. "...the fittest and the most brilliant I will present to the Lord High Tyto."
After she said to her 6 trainees she opened the cage that held the little chirping blue bird when she grabbed it, it chirped in fear, shaking but her talons were strong enough to hold it.
"So let's see how much you've improved..." she said as she moved her head close to the poor little blue bird. "...as fliers, as fighters." And she let go of the bird and it starts to fly away.
The blue bird fly passed between Kludd and his rival, the trainees looked at Nyra.
"Well?" Nyra said with a smirking face then the trainees including Kludd and his rival started running towards a bird, hitting each other, all screeches, Kludd was running ready to flap his wings but his rival pushed him left side, Kludd's rival started to flap his wings before Kludd flaps his wings chasing the blue bird, Kludd was close to the bird but his rival pulled his tails to back but Kludd still leads, his rival rammed him forcing him to back, the blue bird flew over the ruined statue Kludd's rival was running on statue drop some stones from a statue at Kludd but Kludd dodges the stones, the blue bird flew over the banner the owl flew over banner but Kludd stop at banner grabs the handle and throws at other owls who are behind him, they yelped, and banner hits them to force them to on the ground, Kludd smiled what he did but focus on the blue bird and his rival, Kludd's rival is close behind the blue bird he tried to catch it but missed, Kludd let out growls and anger, he yells when he rammed his rival, Kludd's talons catched the blue bird.
Then it was done Kludd won, and he landed on the floor with the blue bird in his talons, he smiled that he caught a bird, then Nyra landed behind him.
"Well done." She said. "You've shown exceptional obedience and discipline. My husband will be most pleased by your progress."
Kludd is about to give a bird to Nyra, but Nyra moves her talons to say 'no' so he lets go of the bird, and the bird flies the light.
"Well, it's that like the great fighter owl that I never seen before?" A voice with an old Spanish accent behind Kludd and Nyra looked at the back, Nyra and Kludd saw was old human with a white suit, brown skin, short black hair, and a short black beard, it was El Presidente of Yara.
"So I have never seen this, brave one owlet who just throws a banner at owls like a net like me and Papa." The old man said with a Spanish accent being proud, Nyra chuckled.
"Yes, he is." Nyra said but Kludd was confused who's this guy?
"Anton Castillo, El Presidente of Yara." The old man said to confuse Kludd.
"He and his country are one of our allies." Nyra said to Kludd.
Kludd understands right now.
"So I feel like did I interrupt something?" Anton asked.
"Yes." Nyra answered.
"I apologize for that." Anton said and left. Kludd looked at Nyra when she spoke.
"Tell me, does your brother have similar as a flier?" She asked Kludd.
"Who, Soren?" Kludd said. "No. He fell out of the tree when he was still a hatchling. He's lame."
Nyra chuckles and says. "Oh, soldier, you mustn't confuse praise for a license. Never lie to me. For the Lord High Tyto, we need as many fliers as we can find. Come, let's tell your brother what rewards there are for those who recognize their true family."
Then when she said that Kludd was thinking.
Meanwhile back to Grimble, Soren, Gylfie.
"No, more flap, deeper flap." Grimble said when he was flying and Soren and Gylfie were flying behind him. "The still air has no shape to use. You gotta compensate with your downstroke." Soren and Gylfie landed on the floor and listened to Grimble "Make your wings tips almost meet, if you can, without stalling."
"I can't curl my feather enough, Grimble. My wings are too short." Gylfie whined.
"Well, they said Lyze of Kiel's wing were short." Grimble and landed in front of Soren and Gylfie. "And that didn't stop him. And you're gonna need to fly a long way to get to the Guardians."
"The Guardians of Ga'Hoole?" Soren asked surprised hearing the word "Guardians".
"Yeah." Grimble answered.
"But how will know where to go?" Soren asked.
"Well, you have to get to the See of the Hoolemere yeah, where the Tree is shrouded in ancient mists." Grimble said but Soren remembered stuff as he said out loud.
""Which keep it hidden from all but the strong of purpose and true of heart."" Soren said.
"Yeah, exactly." Grimble said Soren smlied. "I'd come with you but I still hold out the hope of freeing my family."
"Really?"
A familiar female voice caught Grimble, Soren, and Gylfie shocked. They saw Nyra, Kludd, 2 owl soldiers with battle claws, and 1 human with a Russian uniform, Russian emblem tattoo, and AK-47.
"Kludd." Shocked Soren said.
"Go!" Grimble said.
"Kludd, come with us!" Soren said but Kludd didn't answer.
"Go now!" Grimble shouted.
"GET THEM!" Nyra shouted as one of the owl soldiers flew off ready the claws on Grimble while the Russian human raised an AK-47 at Grimble.
Soren and Gylfie run to the light. Pure Ones soldier tried to strike Grimble but missed and Grimble grabbed his talons and threw him at the Russian human before Russian fired his rifle, knocking them both down, Ak-47 flew off from Russian's hands and landed between Nyra and Grimble, and another owl soldier flew at Grimble, Grimble grabbed the enemy's talons and he threw him at wall hearing bone cracked knock him down.
"Kludd!" Soren shouted running.
"Your little owlets won't get away." Nyra said ready to fight. Grimble looked down to see an AK-47, he ran to it and grabbed it but Nyra grabbed the rifle, fighting each other, Grimble tried to kill her with the rifle but grabbed the rifle between Nyra and him. Soren and Gylfie were running but stopped at the edge. Grimble yelled as he heads butt Nyra's head, she groaned in pain, and she was forced to let go of the rifle, Grimble pointed the rifle at Nyra with his talons, but Nyra came screeched in anger grabbed and take the rifle from his talons she threw it at the wall it breaks apart, she flew at him.
"Soren! What do we do?" Gylfie asked Soren they both watched Nyra and Grimble fighting.
Nyra swings her talons at Grimble and misses 3 times, Grimble strikes back scratching her on her chest, Nyra flies back and charges Grimble again, Grimble head butts her head again, and she is forced on the floor by Grimble hit her head with his strong wing, Grimble landed on hear, he grabbed her head with his talons.
"Soren, we have to go!" Gylfie said to Soren.
"Wait. Kludd! Come on! Now's our chance!" Soren shouted to Kludd, but Kludd didn't do anything but stay here.
"Well, what are you waiting for, son? This is your chance to go home!" Grimble said to Kludd, agreeing with Soren.
Kludd looked at Soren and Gylfie who were still waiting outside then looked at Nyra in trouble, she screeched for help then...
"I am. I am home." Kludd said and screeched in anger like a devil at Grimble, Grimble "Huh?" in question.
"No." Soren said shocked.
Nyra looked at Grimble from Kludd, she raised her talons, and kicked Grimble's face, making him push back from her, Nyra threw Grimble with her wing, and Grimble groaned in pain feeling his wing was broken.
"Would you wound your queen, Grimble?" Nyra asked.
"You're not my queen!" Grimble shouted as he swung his wing at the lantern, The lantern hit the floor breaking its oil drains and fire touched it and raised more fire Nyra flew back from the fire and charged at Grimble.
"We need to jump now, Soren!" Gylfie shouted to Soren.
Nyra flew to Grimble, Grimble jumped over her grabbed her back, and rolling toward Soren and Gylfie.
"Now!" Gylfie shouted then Soren and her jumped to the edge screaming before Nyra and Grimble fell to the edge too, Nyra screamed while falling. Soren and Gylfie were flapping their wings.
"Come on, Gylfie! Flap!" Soren shouted, Gylfie flapping her wings wildly was falling fast. "Flap your wings!"
Nyra and Grimble were still fighting while falling, 2 Pure Ones owl soldiers saw them falling the flew to them, and 7 Russian human soldiers saw them too, shouting in Russian in alarm, raised their AK-74Ms but they wouldn't fire because they saw their friendly, Nyra.
Soren fell to Gylfie who was now in trouble flying and screaming, she was close to the floor but the good news was Soren flew under her helping to flap her wing and fly normally like Soren, Soren and Gylfie flew through the canyon passing 7 Russian soldiers They saw them, one of Russian soldier started firing his rifle at them but he missed.
Nyra heard gunfire from a Russian soldier she had an angry look that she wanted Soren and Gylfie alive not dead.
"No! No! Cease your fire! I want that Tyto alive!" She shouted luckily for her, a Russian soldier heard her and lowered his gun.
Pure Ones soldiers have arrived at Nyra and Grimble, they start fighting Grimble, Nyra...
"No! Follow the owlets-!" Nyra shouted at her soldier but her head was hit by Grimble.
"Follow the owlets!" She shouted repeated. "Go, you fools!"
"Go! Go tell the Guardians!" Grimble shouts at Soren and Gylfie then Soren and Gylfie disappear before he starts sighing his bodies are getting weak and dead. Nyra screeched and clawed him, panting watching Grimble falling dead, she flapped her wings when she looked at Soren and Gylfie escaping, her eyes went red in anger.
Then she and Pure Ones soldier flew chasing Soren and Gylfie. Soren and Gylfie flew to the same place where Pure Ones kidnappers dropped them, Soren saw Nyra and 2 Pure Ones soldiers chasing him and his friend behind. After a second of chasing through the cave, Soren saw a light small exit that fit for him and Gylfie.
"Look! There! I see a way!" Soren shouted to Gylfie who was behind him.
"Where?" Gylfie asked then Pure Ones soldier clawed her back she screamed in pain flying fast from Pure Ones.
"Gylfie, come one, follow me!" Soren shouted.
Then everything slow motion Soren closed his wings passing through the exit and Gylfie through the exit last before Pure Ones Soldier closed his talons and tried to catch Gylfie but failed. Everything resumes Soren and Gylfie flapping their wings made it, no sight of enemies chasing them then disappear through a fog.
Meanwhile, Nyra growled in anger and defeated.
"Faster, Gylfie. Come on! Faster!" Soren shouted to Gylfie She was next to him flapping her wings fast.
"I can't, Soren, I just can't. I have to rest." She said back.
"No, Gylfie. Come on, we have to!" Soren said he looked back no sighted of enemies chasing them anymore.
"Hey, wait. I think they're gone." Soren said quietly.
"What? Are you sure?" Gylfie asked Soren looked back again.
"I think so." Soren answered ho looked at his wing, he saw his feathers too, and he realized he was flying.
"Hey, you know what?" Soren said to Gylfie.
"What?" Gylfie asked curious.
"We're flying." Soren said happily he laughed in enjoyment, Gylfie was surprised she also flying.
They went out from the clouds seeing the sun rising happily.
"Does it feel the way you thought it would?" Soren asked.
"No." Gylfie answered she closed her eyes feeling fresh air then she opened her eyes. "It feels much better.".
They both laugh.
"What are we gonna do now, Soren?" Gylfe asked.
"We're gonna find the Guardians of Ga'Hoole" Soren answered.
Then they left.
Meanwhile back to Pure Ones.
"Grimble's death was unfortunate." Nyra said looking at the light while next to her was an old human, a Russian general with a general full dress uniform, a lot of awards, Lev Orlov but he had given himself the nickname from the Second Panic War "Hannibal".
"I agreed." Hannibal said in a Russian accent.
"But you..." She said, she and Hannibal looking at Kludd. "You had a chance to follow your brother, yet you didn't. I'm starting to think that you might actually deserve to stay. To be one of us."
"Oh, I want that." Kludd said.
"We offer power and purpose." Nyra said. "What can you offer us?" Kludd 'hm' in question, Nyra looked at Hannibal, Hannibal nodded answering Nyra's request.
"What can you offer us, both?" She said looking at Kludd while Hannibal was all ears.
"I..." Kludd after looking in fell in love and then snapped. "I have a sister."
"Go on." Nyra said.
"She's young, but she's got spirit..." Kludd said. "...and will grow into a strong Tyto."
"Perhaps you could bring her to me." Nyra said. "Here the young ones are our future."
Nyra left leaving Hannibal and Kludd behind.
"So it is true that you can't support the West, American, or damned Ukrainian!" Hannibal said looked at light raised his arms in anger his hands made fists.
"No, because we are the alliance between us," Kludd answered Hannibal looked at him.
"You know what, boy, Yara, and Pure Ones have become... uh, fascism years ago? Pure Ones was no longer communist before the Cold War ended. And became fascism when a new leader was on the seat before the Second Tyto-Pure Ones War?" Hannibal asked.
"I believed so." Kludd answered.
"Good, Yara was the first country to bring back fascism to it before Pure Ones." Hannibal said then left Kludd behind.
Kludd was thinking about what Nyra said.
To Be Continued...