Nightstars 4

 " To Gramma. My Nightstars journey is almost over. Only two more books to go! Another saga will come to you readers!"

 -M.N

Nightstars 4: The End of the War

Chapter 1: War

I woke up after my fall in battle. We retreated back to owl lines for two reasons: 

1: me

2: losing owls

We got some more reinforcements, 200 more, I think, so now we're stocked with soldiers. 

In two days, we're planing to attack the hawks again. 

We made a small base. We also made a war room. The war is pretty busy, because they're talking about how to attack and etc. Plus the place is filled with soldiers, so owl soldiers always go in the war room. 

Hazel is fully back to normal. She been talking to Roy and Squirrely and also talking to me a little bit. 

Suddenly, a large boom crashed in one of the rooms. An owl quickly shot the hawk and it died. 

"That was a close one" said Roslet. "One more grenade and the whole base would broke apart."

"Roslet's right" said Hazel. "That was a close one but Roslet better watch out: there are lots of soldiers here." 

"Right" I said.

 "But not as many as in the hawks' base" added Squirrely. 

"Good point" said Hazel. 

The soldiers were fixing all the damage done by the grenade. Even after dinner they were still not done.

"The damage done by the grenade will be gone by morning" Roslet told all of us.

But Roslet didn't tell us that the soldiers would be working on the damage at night, so that made me not sleep for the rest of the night. I don't mind that sometimes I can't sleep but if I trying to sleep and there is noise, I can't sleep even though I don't mind not sleeping but noise is the problem: how would you like it if you had to sleep though people drilling in nails?

It's not nice, but Hazel and everybody else slept away, dreaming, I bet. But I get to hear nails going through wood.

The next morning I slept in and I got lots of that. Hazel and others were waking me up. I yelled at them because they woke me up and I told my story about last night.

I slept though lunchtime and I woke up at 4:00 PM. Everybody was asking where was I and I told them the story of...

We had dinner and talked for a little bit and then we went to sleep and this time a had a good sleep.

After we had our breakfast, we did training: war training to explain better. I'm not very good at the war training but I'm good at shooting the dummy with a arrow at arrow firing. That went on until lunch. After, we trained some more and before I knew it, it was dinner. We talked for a bit after dinner and went to sleep.

The next morning we got our game faces on and went to the hawk base.

Roslet told us that the plan was that we would soar down to the roof and Roslet would use his saw and cut a hole in the roof. We would go down the hole and fight in the base.

The hawks were ready for an attack but they were no hawks on the roof, so that makes our plan a lot better.

We soared to the roof, nothing stopping us and touched the roof. Roslet used his saw and we were in!

All of us jumped into the hole. There were lots of hawks here and since we caught them by surprise, we shot them rapidly, shooting and shooting, never letting go of the bow.

In one minute, all the hawks in that floor died, leaving only dead hawk bodies on the floor. It wasn't a pretty sight like all dead bodies but that's life.

They were five floors in the base. The reason we knew that was because a few days ago, Roslet sent a hawk: a captured one that wanted to kill the hawks because they were cruel to him. Roslet sent him as a mole to spy on the hawks. The only thing Roslet got from him was that the base has five floors.

Suddenly, some hawks went up to where we are. We showered the hawks with arrows, but some of the hawks were smart and ducked the arrows, even though it was an ambush.

The hawks that survived the attack called for the reinforcements, the hawks at the other floors. They came quickly but the hawks didn't tell their buddies that there may be an ambush, so the hawks got shot with arrows. But some hawks started to fire at us and I thought that our winning spree would be soon over.

One owl down, another owl down, and soon the hawks were starting to win, shooting at us, never stopping, just like we did to the hawks before.

Suddenly, Roslet called retreat and we all flew away from the hawk base. That was a pretty good battle, because sooner or later, we're going to break the base and win the war.

Roslet said that the battle was good, that we were using our men wisely and everything was great. But the thing that was bad about the battle was that winning hands changed quickly, from one hand to the other.

4:10 AM

At 4:10 AM, we were all asleep but suddenly I heard a noise. I woke everybody up, and Roslet got the soldiers. The hawks were attacking us!

We all went into war and attacked the hawks. They were very close to the base but lucky that we stopped them. We fought the hawks more and more. The hawks were getting closer and closer. But then there were two hawks nearing the door. I rushed to kill them.

When I saw the two hawks, they were Dresfer and Rloaf!

I was about to call Roslet and some soldiers to come here when Dresfer slapped me to the ground. I slashed back.

Suddenly, Roslet and some 3 soldiers arrived to where I was and fought them and a minute later they were caught.

Then the hawks retreated and went away from our base.

We put Dresfer and Rloaf in our jail and we went back to sleep to sleep for a few more hours.

Chapter 2: Backup Plan   

In New Mexico, the hawks built a new base and the general and his hawks are in it, in  the War Room, talking about the new updates on the war.

"So the count's base is going to be smashed soon if they don't get smart and now they need help" said the general. "Got any ideas?"

Nobody put their hand up.

"OK, fine, because I've got a plan" said the count. "The plan is that if Roslet and his buddy boys destroy the base, the backup is our base, and if our base is smashed, we had had a base in Monterrey, a base in Durango and one in Chihuahua, all in Mexico."

Then there was a loud applause.

Chapter 3: An Owl From Reykjavik Comes to Help  

Suddenly, a flying object came flying to the base. I called for help, but it already landed.

The object was an owl, not a hawk, and that was pretty surprising, because most flying objects were hawks.

Since it wasn't a hawk, we invited him in into the base.

He first introduced himself. His name was Polai, and he came from Reykjavik, Iceland. He was a pretty good Owlen speaker, but his grammar needed work. But it's a hard language.

"Wing, you from Canada, right?" Polai asked.

"How did you know that?" I asked.

"I travel out of Reykjavik lots and mostly visit Canada" said Polai. "It's amazing there."

"Thanks" I said.

  "Now, the reason I came here was because I want to help you" Polai said. "I want you to win this war and something else."

"What's that?" asked Hazel.

"You see, the hawks have surrounded Iceland and my people are scared. Also, my soldiers are cannot fight because they are outnumbered but I got 50 soldiers out of Reykjavik and you may use them to fight the hawks."

"Polai, I would love to help but you should use the soldiers to fight the hawks surrounding your country" said Roslet. "I'm sorry."

"But if you use the soldiers, you may smash the base and the hawks will go out of Iceland but the soldiers will save you" said Polai.

"But 50 soldiers won't save us" said Roslet.

"But the soldiers are trained well" said Polai. "They are some of the best soldiers in Iceland."

"But Iceland is tiny, it's a dot on the map, no offense" said Squirrely.

"I know but the soldiers are really good and they will save you, I promise" said Polai.

"OK, we will let them join us and you as well" said Roslet.

"Perfect!" Polai exclaimed. "I knew I could count on you guys!"

"But when are the soldiers coming?" I asked.

"Right now" said Polai.

Suddenly, objects came towards the base and landed nicely on the ground, barely touching it.

"Polai!" one of the soldiers exclaimed.

"Hello guys!" said Polai.

We lead them inside the base and showed them to their rooms.

"Nice" they all commented. "Very nice."

"Thank you for the rooms" said the soldiers.

"You're welcome" said Roslet.

We had dinner and talked for a bit. The soldiers presented each other. One was Rascal and another was Selait, an owlen name, just like Roslet's, and it means "Silent."

After dinner we went to sleep after another day, another chapter of life.

Chapter 4: Bombing

We were doing training right now and our new soldiers are loving it: everybody loves it but me, but I already said that. 

Like I said, we were doing training when suddenly I heard a noise. Then there was a huge boom. It was a rock and it hit the base!  

More and more booms were heard and then the base destroyed fully.

Chapter 5: Destroying 

Since the base was destroyed, we had to travel, but the problem was that there were so many people, that if we wanted to ambush, there would be too many men but we could always make a small team of people ambush as well.

But one problem if we wanted to travel: there's a big base in front of us, so that makes no traveling and right now our mission is to destroy the base like they destroyed ours.

Suddenly. we saw an old cabin, a human one, and we went in. It was abandoned and the wood was rotting and termites were going in and out of the rotting wood, building nests in the old wood. 

There was a sign that was getting closer to falling and it said:

Camp Bear

The good news is that the hawks will never bother to look in here for us, so that's some good news for us.

We slept here and it was not a place to be: termites were climbing on the wood (like I told you) and that's really annoying because it feels so, so... I don't know the word for it but it doesn't feel good.

The others, like me, were annoyed too and so we got out of the cabin and slept peacefully on the ground, sleeping happily for the rest of the night.

The next morning we ate some of the food rations we still had left, but me, Roy, Squirrely, Hazel and 10 soldiers went hunting for food.

We caught 20 voles, 15 mice (all babies) and 3 hares, but we ate half of the feast and saved the rest for later.

We attacked the hawks and we won the battle. We were all proud of the battle, helping each other, shooting the hawks and battling for victory.

The next morning we finally destroyed the hawks' base! Roslet, me and Hazel threw grenades and the base smashed down into a pile of wood.

Now since the base is destroyed, we can travel to see if there are any more bases to destroy.

Chapter 6: Dreams

We traveled. Now I've never traveled with other people other than Roy, Squirrely and Roy, so it was a bit weird going with 50 soldiers and Roslet (we all had to split up).

I forgot to tell you this: remember the bombing, the one that smashed the base? Who survived? There were about 200 soldiers (some died in different battle and we didn't get more reinforcements but Polai's soldiers), so we had something like 200 soldiers. The bombing killed 50 soldiers and not one soldier of Polai's was killed, even though half of Polai's were in there, so he was right: the soldiers are good.

Now we traveled for some time and then we stopped and ate some of meat from yesterday but I hunted and got some meat. I shared some of the meat to the others and I saved the rest for later and also gave some more meat to the others to keep for later as well. 

After dinner we talked about what we were going to do if we won the war, but chances are not good but things can change if you put your mind to it.

When it was my turn, I said that I would go back to Canada and relax for the rest of my life. That's what I said. 

Hazel said that said would go around the world and help people and she would never relax. 

Roy and Squirrely said that they would go find a home with me and would always relax.

After some other talked about what they would do, we went to sleep. I was glad because I was tired and a bit bored of the conversation, but at least I got to hear what people would doing after the war.

Chapter 7: Another One

The next morning we ate breakfast and traveled for a bit. Then we stopped for a rest and soon ate lunch. We traveled some more and ate dinner and then we went to bed. 

20 days later.  

We are in Mexico, the land that we enjoyed until we saw that the hawks were there too. Now let's hope that Mexico is safe this time, but then again let's keep our eyes peeled.

We're near Mexico City and we're resting or in Roy and Squirrely's point of view, playing around. They're played in the coconut trees, playing Hide and Seek. These boys really have energy because I'm so tired I can only move my head.

The others are relaxing, not doing anything but sitting in the sun talking to each other. Nobody asked me anything and that's good because I'm relaxing in the sun, soon going to get a tan, a feather tan to be explain more.

An hour later we ate dinner and went to bed after all that relaxing and tanning or all that beach sun.

The next morning we ate breakfast and flew. Too bad we had to leave that spot because I enjoyed it there, the playing and talking and tanning. Too bad we had leave.

We soon rested and soon ate lunch. Then we flew again and ate dinner and then we went to sleep.

The next morning we saw something when we arrived to New Mexico: a base and it looks like it noticed us!

They shot at us. We quickly fought back but they were too strong because of the numbers. We retreated away from nowhere.

Chapter 8: A Surprise in Battle

We had to fight but we were outgunned. Soon, we came up with a simple plan: ambush. 

They were bushes so we could ambush here and also not too many hawks were outside the base so we didn't have with hawks smashing the bushes and ruining the plan. 

The next morning Hazel woke me up for the ambush and when we arrived at the bushes, Roslet told us the plan again and soon we were ready for action. 

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ambush!" whispered Roslet. 

We fired. We got a few down but not more returned to attack. 

"This is weird" said Roslet. "The hawks should be attacking us right now."

But what Roslet didn't notice was some of the hawks were on the roof and flying to the ground to attack us. 

They attacked and we fought back but soon more hawks came and we were outnumbered. 

Suddenly, hundreds of birds flew to us and landed. 

"We're here to help!" said a parrot. "We followed you and we're here to fight!"

They fought and helped us kill some hawks but not all of them. 

Soon no more hawks came to fight. We won the battle and we thought that we were outnumbered!

Chapter 9: We Destroyed More

Soon, we smashed another base after the one in New Mexico and also in the battle, there was a hawk that was dying and said that there were two more bases left and the one in Iceland (which we already knew).

Now we just smashed a base in Monterrey and the hawk told us that the other one was in Chihuahua too and now we're going there to destroy it.

Days later.

We arrived in Chihuahua, the last... Second to last base left and now we're going to smash that thing into a pile of wood and cement in a minute.

They attacked and we attacked and soon we were in a huge battle. The battle went on forever and they were smashing us hard, but I think that because we're running out of people because of no reinforcements.

Roslet told us to fall back and we did.

Roslet told that we needed a plan and soon somebody had an idea and the idea was the plan and here it is: a group of soldiers will fire from behind the trees. Then some of us are going to fire from the higher branches and rest will block the ways out of the trap like the hawk base but they will also be confused because they won't know where we're firing from.

Suddenly, we saw some hawks. Time for the trap to be sprang!

More and more came and a few moments later, no more hawks came out of the base! They were all here!

We got into our positions and the group of soldiers fired. They fired back and soon all   of us were shooting!

We blocked the ways out of here and killed them all! Now to go to Iceland!

Chapter 10: To Iceland We Go!

After the victory of the battle, we suddenly remembered about the base in Iceland! We still had to go there!

Days later. 

We found the hawks in Reykjavik, Iceland and right, we are going to fight them and win the war!

I was surprised to see Dresfer and Rloaf. I thought that they died in the bombing but I see that they survived. 

They fought and we fought. It was a huge battle! I got the honors of fighting Dresfer and Rloaf at the same time. 

Suddenly Polai shouted though the battle and shouted "I, Polai the second, king of Iceland, will fight for my country and destroy the hawks!"

He and his 50 owls smashed the hawks badly and I think that they are going to all die now!

Suddenly, there were no more hawks. We won the war!

Chapter 11: The War is Over!

Then Hazel came towards me and kissed me, not on the cheek but a full kiss, a kiss on the beak or the lips.

Then we all had a group hug.

But where was Dresfer and Rloaf? Where are they?  

 

  

   

          

 










    




 

Nightstars 3

To everybody, for everyone, to be read by people, but most of all, to by enjoyed.

-M.N

Nightstars 3: The Hawks are Rising

Chapter 1: Chase in Rio

We made it to Rio de Janeiro, the city of dreams and magic and made it just in time for Carnival, too! 

Right now, we're flying over Carnival and it was huge and amazing to see!

If you said that Carnival was the biggest party in the world, you were right, it is the biggest.

The boys were flying on one side and I was at the other, enjoying the view of Carnival and probably the first owls ever to go to Brazil and see Carnival. 

Suddenly, I saw something in the air, maybe just a parrot, probably the parrot we talked to earlier. 

But the object was coming to us and next thing I knew, something had grabbed me! 

Dresfer was maniacally laughing with Rloaf, who had caught my friends. 

"Let's go, Rloaf! " yelled Dresfer. "We'll be paid in gold if we get these owls out alive!"

I slipped out of Dresfer's wings, tried to free the boys but my thoughts were interrupted by the slam of Dresfer's wing slamming my wing. It hurt but I could still fly. 

The boys were fighting Rloaf and I got chased by Dresfer. 

He chased me in alleys, over people's houses, never giving up hope to chase me. 

I wondered how the boys were doing, fighting Rloaf. They probably have beaten Rloaf by now. It's three versus one, plus Rloaf's stupid. 

Dresfer was gaining speed by the minute and was only a few feet behind me and soon I would been a prisoner again. 

But he was speed and I was cunning. We both have a fifty-fifty chance: he could get me and get the gold, or I win, and escape from the bad guy. 

Suddenly, a moving van was parked at someone's house and loading furniture in the van. I went under the van, hoping I would trick Dresfer, but he went under the van, but he forgot about the telephone pole and he hit his head on the pole.

I flew as fast as I could. Now to find my friends.

Chapter 2: On the Road Again

I saw Hazel flying to us and it looks like she escaped from Dresfer.

"Brazil's not safe anymore, guys" I say. 

"And now we have to travel again? Roy asked. 

I nod my head. 

"Wing, it took us about 60 days, (or two months), to get to Brazil." said Hazel. "Roy and Squirrely aren't going to last that long and I won't last, too." 

"We could always go to Argentina" I said. 

"I could go, because it's not a bad distance and I think that Roy and Squirrely could do it" said Hazel. 

"I'm in" said Roy. 

"And I'm in, too" Squirrely agreed.   

"OK, we'll travel in the morning." "Good?" I said. 

"Good" the others said in unison. 

The next morning, we left the wonderful city of Rio and are on our way to Argentina, second largest country in South America.

We ate breakfast and flew a bit, then we had lunch, relaxed for a while and later had dinner and went to bed. 

I was still thinking about Dresfer and thinking if he was following us and I wish that the world was at peace, everyone would be happy, me alone again but I would have peace to the world and be alone, than the world at war. All I want is peace. 

Roslet told me that a few seconds later after the bombing, the hawks really ambushed us and killed lots of owls. He heard that there were no owls alive in the ambush there were not taken.  

I almost cried thinking about this in my sleep and thought that they may be alive, but the odds were 70-1, so they were just dead, their bones rotting, eaten by other animals, or maybe alive but no chance in that. 

We finally woke up after a long night, looking at the sun, its light shining on us but warming too. 

The three of us ate breakfast, flew for a few miles and had lunch. We flew again for a few miles and relaxed in the sun, we later ate dinner, talked for a bit and went to bed. 

The next morning we woke up to a new day and had breakfast, flew for a few miles and ate lunch. Then we flew again and landed on Sao Paulo and then had dinner and went to sleep. 

Chapter 3: Plan

"Meeting, meeting!" yelled the count. 

The ten hawks, the count and Dresfer and Rloaf sat in their seats, thinking of a plan. 

"Hawks, we need a plan because the owls escaped, thanks to Dresfer and Rloaf!" shouted the count. 

"Sorry" said Dresfer. 

"Sorry doesn't cut it, but think of a plan, you two!" shouted the count. 

"Yes sir" we said. 

Suddenly, a hawk said that we should think where they may be going. 

"Hmm, they could be going to Argentina or back to North America, but I think Argentina" said the count. "The three best ways are: 

1. Brazil, Paraguay, then Argentina. 

2. Brazil, Uruguay, then Argentina

3. Brazil, Bolivia, then Argentina

And these three are the best ways to go to Argentina."

"They would go the second way, right?" said a hawk. 

"Right" said the count. 

"My plan was that we should go the first way, because they're going the second way, and  when they reach the end of Uruguay and enter Argentina, we can ambush them" said the count. "Good?" 

"Yes!!" the hawks shouted with happiness in unison.

And now the hawks' plan is made and the hawks are hungry to catch the owls and are full of hope now. 

Chapter 4: The Wrong Way

The next morning, we had breakfast, flew for a miles and ate lunch. Then we flew for a bit and relaxed until dinner. Then we talked for a little bit and then we went to bed.

We slipped out of the hawks' wings every time and we dodge every move they do. It's like we're fugitives on the run, far away from home, surviving, surviving from .. It's the same thing, survive, survive, survive! That's all I do but it's the best thing I can do. 

I need to get away from surviving but if I was a soldier, I would a good one. In war, soldiers are used to kill the enemy soldiers but a soldier's mind, their job is to survive.

Humans survive. The nature of an animal is to survive, because their predator will eat them, but in a human's life, their only enemy is a gun, a person with a gun.

Meanwhile, the hawks are going the wrong way and are going the way to Peru, the long way to Argentina. 

"What's taking so long?!" yelled the count. "It's taking for ever to get to Argentina!" 

"Sir, we've only traveled for one day, count" said Dresfer. 

"One day?!" shouted the count. "I could have been in Argentina by now if I traveled 
alone!"

"Well, we're not on an airplane and hawks are-" said Rloaf. 

"Shut up, Rloaf" said Dresfer. 

"Don't tell me to shut up" said Rloaf. 

"Shut up, Rloaf" said the count. 

It was silent for a moment and then the quiet disappeared.

The hawks traveled more and stopped to have a few hours of sleep. 

Now, the owls are getting out of bed and are having breakfast right now. 

We finished our breakfast and flew for a little bit. I talked to myself, away from the others, talking about what will happen next and also about how the other surviving owls and birds are doing. 

Then we ate lunch and flew again. Then we relaxed and ate dinner. We talked for a bit and got ready for bed and went to sleep. 

The next morning we ate breakfast, flew a bit, ate lunch. Then we flew again, relaxed, ate dinner and then we went to bed. 

The hawks still haven't figured out that they're going the wrong way. It looks like they're won't be an ambush after all. 

Chapter 5: We reached Paraguay

We're at the border of Brazil and Paraguay. Bye bye, Brazil. 

We crossed the border and we kept flying like nothing happened, because that's what happened: nothing happened. We just crossed a stupid line, an invisible line. 

We just ate breakfast and we're flying right now, flying high in the shy, seeing the clouds, the sun and the birds high in the air, looking like it's another day beginning and ending. 

Paraguay is a peaceful country, a place that is sunny and wonderful and a nice place to be in, but we're traveling to Argentina, not Paraguay. 

Later, we flew down and ate lunch. Then we flew for a few miles and relaxed. We ate dinner and went to sleep.

The next morning we woke up and ate breakfast. Then we flew for a while and later ate lunch. Next, we flew up in the sky and flew for a bit and relaxed. We had dinner, talked for a bit and then we went to sleep. 

I awoke up in a different place. I was in a cave surrounded with birds. I also noticed that the others were here too. They already woke up, and were thinking, "What the heck are we doing here?" I thought the same thing too and I heard the words " monkey" and "owls." 

My thought was answered when a monkey covered in jewels, diamonds, and a crown walked into the cave and shoved birds away so he could us. He first walked up to me, his breath smelling of bananas (eww!) and he turned around to the birds and spoke. 

"Thank you for getting these owls, because I want to keep them because I want to said that I caught the owls, like they got us monkeys in the war and I showed the world that the monkeys got revenge on the owls." 

Then it was lots of claps. Suddenly, he threw some diamonds from his fur and everyone rushed to get the diamonds, not noticing me, Roy, Squirrely and Hazel fly away from the cave. 

We flew as fast as we could from the cave and rested behind a blueberry bush.

"I have no clue how they found us" said Hazel, her voice angry. 

"I don't know how they found us and how they could drag us to a cave in the middle of nowhere" said Roy. 

"Yeah" chimed in Squirrely. 

"We might as well fly somewhere" I said. 

"I guess so" said Hazel. 

 The birds were still fighting over the diamonds, shoving one another, greed in their eyes, as though their eyes were glowing. That's the sign of greed. 

We flew some more and later we had a quiet dinner. I don't know why but it was not so the birds couldn't find us but we were all tired from a long day. After dinner, we all went to bed. The day in over.

Chapter 6: Roslet is Caught

Wing was missing. We found that out four months ago and right now we're in Kansas, searching for Wing, Roy and Squirrely. 

He is not in Canada, his homeland but we're looking for him in the United States. We've covered about 85% of the US, but after North America, we're searching the south. 

Why is the world so big? Why can't the world be small, like Pluto, the dwarf planet, but science is not like that. Science cannot give all the things one person would want and everybody needs to learn that. 

This war is the problem. War smashes hope, survival, friendship and happiness and that's what the hawks are doing. Smashing life. After the owl race and many other races, they will try to destroy the human race, the most powerful race of all. When they destroy them, all that live will bow before the hawks.

30 days later. 

We've finished searching the United States and we entered South America, the south North America. 

We split up into two groups: one group would take owls and the other would take hummingbirds. I would go alone and search the area for danger. 

I flew for a bit and then I stopped to rest. 

30 minutes had gone by since I left them. 40 minutes went by. An hour went by. 

I headed back to the place we were split up an hour ago. Good thing I didn't go too far away from the place. Suddenly, I saw something. A hawk! Now this was a surprise! I was about to fly away from the hawk when something hit me in the head. I got knocked out and was dragged to a hawk base. 

Then I woke up to see that I was in a hawk base. A hawk with a big booming voice came to me and looked at me. The hawk was chubby, he yelled lots to the hawks, (a general) I thought and was not the kind of guy you would want to with. 

"Stand up, soldier!" he yelled. "I'm the general, and you better listen to me or you are going to make the biggest mistake in your life!"

"Okay" I said, acting calm and trying not to make the biggest mistake in my life. 

"Good" said the general, not yelling this time. 

I was put in a jail cell, bored, trying to get out of this cell. Every hour, a hawk would give me a tray with a little bit of food. The food was always the same thing: bread and rotten banana, and I was forced to eat that stuff. 

Sleep wasn't so bad. I got a good night's sleep, but no air conditioning, but otherwise, it was pretty good. 

It was my second day at the prison. The first thing I heard was the yelling from the general. Not at me but at the hawks but time to time, he yelled at me.

The second thing I heard was work: every single hawk was busy working, doing the job that was needed to do.

The day was fine, really, but I just want to get out of here. I mean, who can live here, even if you're a hawk and even the general. How can he live? He yells 24\7, okay? In ten years, this guy is going to lose his voice. 

Suddenly, a bell started to ring. The lunchtime bell. Everybody started to fly over to the buffet table near the general's office. The table had beans, Bavarian sausages, lettuce (nobody even touched the lettuce), creame glacee (french for ice cream) and potatoes. 

When the hawks were eating the super yummy food, I got sent the lettuce from the buffet table and ate that stuff. It was good. 

The bell for work rang and all the hawks rushed to do their jobs and I got to sit in my cell, bored as ever. 

Chapter 7: Hazel Leaves the Group

We have no clue when we are and what we're doing. We're just flying. 

Roy, Squirrely are fine, but I don't know about Hazel. Hazel hasn't been talking to us or herself but it's maybe because we she's tired and she's just angry at all of us. 

When we were flying, I thought that I could cheer her up. Once I got the courage, I flew to her but I started to fly slowly. 

But when I spoke to her, it was all wrong. Instead it was: 

Wing: Hazel, are you OK?

Hazel: Just go away, OK Wing?!

Wing: But Hazel-

Hazel: Just go away!

Then she flew away from us. I tried to catch up to her but she was faster than me and flew away from me but I just reached her in time. 

"Hazel-," 

"Just go away!!" she screamed. 

Her eyelids were full of tears. 

Suddenly, she slapped me so hard that she sent me rocketing out the sky. 

Then we flew away from me and the others as fast as she could.

"So much for that" said Roy. 

"Yep" agreed Squirrely. 

We traveled on without Hazel. Nobody talked when we traveled. Maybe it was because Roy and Squirrely missed Hazel. Me, I didn't miss Hazel because was just being stupid. But she did have a bad life. Her whole family had died, she was alone. She was like me, alone, and no family. The only family she had was us. We were her family and her only home. 

Then we had a quiet dinner. Again, nobody muttered a word. After that, we went to sleep and were starting to begin a long sleep. 

Chapter 8: Roslet Escapes (with no saw)

I began my eighth day in prison. It was another normal day, the yelling of the general, the working hawks; it was another normal day. 

The lunchtime bell rang and all the hawks leaped to the buffet table, munching on the food grossly. Then the back-to-work bell rang and the hawks started to go to work. 

There was no dinner bell, but instead the hawks ate in the "dinner room" they called it. I  don't know what they eat in there because it's way too far away from my jail cell but maybe they just eat the same stuff they eat at lunch. 

But today, there was a big feast at dinner and everyone was invited. Since everyone was invited, this also means that the prisoners are allowed to join too. But there was only one prisoner: me, and this is my big chance to escape from the prison. 

I was let out of my jail cell and entered into the party. The party was big and very nice, I have to say. The hawks also made the party look good with lots of details. The buffet table was in the middle of the party. There was also punch and some root beer, I think, but what were they celebrating for? I don't think that they were celebrating anything but just having a little party. 

Suddenly I remembered why I wanted to go to this party for. To escape from the hawk prison.

I mingled in with the crowd, trying to escape without being noticed, but then I found a little gap in the crowd of hawks and I went though the hole. 

Now for Step 2: fly as fast as you can. I did that and now I'm out of the base! Yes! After 8 long days, I escape! 

I flew for a while and stopped to rest and camp here for the night. 

It was a long, long night tonight. I couldn't sleep tonight, so I just started to look at the stars, counting each star, one by one. After a few hours of that, my eyelids started to grow heavy and before I knew it, I was sound asleep. 

Chapter 9: Wing and the Count 

I was angry right now. The three of us haven't said a word to each other for three days and Hazel hasn't returned to us yet, which is a surprise because we're her family and we're her home but I'm also not surprised that she hasn't returned yet. 

We're eating dinner right now and all is quiet but quiet is like peace; peace is quiet. 

After we finished our dinner, we went to bed but I couldn't sleep, so I just looked into space but I knew the night would be longer and plus I was bored, so I went to sleep but something tells me that there was more than one owl awake like me but I said to myself, (you're probaly wrong, so just forget it).

Meanwhile, the count and his hawks are still traveling the wrong way. 

"What is taking so long?!" shouted the count. "We should have passed at least one country!" 

"Sir. the GPS is saying that we are entering Peru" said the hawk by the GPS. 

"I told you to put away that GPS!" yelled the count. "That thing is useless because it is human-made!"

"But it's 100% acc-" 

"But please put that thing away!" 

"OK" said the hawk. 

The GPS was right but like I said, the hawks were going the wrong way but their luck may change. 

We return to Wing, Roy and Squirrely. It is morning there and they are eating their breakfast and soon are about to fly. 

We flew in the sky, gliding in the air, feeling the wind on our wings. But yesterday, something popped and we started to talk to each other. The case of us is closed or finished, you could say.  

We didn't talk a lot, but a little bit. It was good that we finally talked because my throat was starting to dry up. 

Suddenly, we started to go down a little bit and soon we had lunch. We started to fly again and after, we relaxed in the sun. Then we ate dinner and went to bed. 

The morning we had breakfast. Then we flew. To our surprise, we heard something. We flew slowly and quietly, but suddenly, that something grabbed Squirrely and soon the rest of us were caught too! 

I quickly saw that the attacker was a hawk. To explain better, there were ten hawks, Dresfer and Rloaf, and another hawk I didn't know. 

The hawk I didn't know introduced himself and then he put a piece of silk around my mouth and tied my legs and my body in rope. 

When the count was about to tie my body, I attacked him but to my surprise, he fought back quickly.

Soon, we got into a fight and we fought badly, one slash to the other, the fight never stopping. 

When the hawks weren't looking, Roy and Squirrely cut the ropes with the knives that Squirrely stole from two hawks. They cut the ropes and flew away behind another bush but mouthed to me that they won't go yet but they'll think of a plan. 

Suddenly, I slashed the count so hard that he slammed to the ground. "This is my chance to go" I thought. So I flew and met up with Roy and Squirrely.

Chapter 10: Hazel is Deciding

Hazel is thinking what to do but she only has three options: go back to Wing, Roy and Squirrely, stay here in the darkness and go to the hawks. 

I thought "I was stupid to leave the boys. I should have stayed but life is now complicated and I thought that I should leave because maybe I have nobody left to trust."

But I should have stayed because they were my only home and family left and now I have left and now I only have myself to trust but maybe I should try again. 

"Never lose sight of your gut thinks" my mother said before she went to war. "Never."

I think she's right. I think that maybe I can give the trio another chance. I trust them with all my heart. I'm going back. 

But where are they? They must have traveled pretty far but with speed and hope, I can catch up to them.  Time to put my game face on. 

Chapter 11: Roslet and the Others Find the Four

Suddenly, something spotted the three of us. Maybe a hawk but the object was much faster than a hawk. It was Hazel! She returned to us!

She explained about why she came. She came because she thought that she should give us another chance and because she missed us all. 

Suddenly, some more flying objects came to us and they were Roslet and some other owls. Roslet said that the hawks have surrounded all of South America and that we need  to attack them. 

"But it's 10,000 vs 20, Roslet" said Wing "The numbers are bad." 

"Not really" said Roslet. "They surround the continent, North, East, South, and West." "4 times 2 equals 8, but with the decimal and a 0.5, it adds 2 more and the number is ten." Here's an better way:

1. 4 times two equals 8

2. If you add a decimal and 0.5, the number is 2.5

3. 2.5 plus 2.5 plus 2.5 plus 2.5 equals 10

"So it's 2,500 hawks for each side" said Wing. 

"Right" said Roslet. 

Chapter 12: Into Battle

"We are trying to get to North America, right?" said Roslet. 

"Right!" we all said in unison. 

"Good" said Roslet. "The thing is, the whole continent of South America is surrounded by hawks and now we will have to fight our way though the hawks but too many hawks, right?"

"Yes!" we in unison again. 

"But I have called for reinforcements and they will come soon" said Roslet.  

"When do you think they will come?" asked Hazel. 

"In a few days" said Roslet. 

2 days later

"Sir, the reinforcements have arrived!" one of the owls said. 

Roslet brought 50 owls as reinforcements. They said that they were all the best soldiers they had. 

At nighttime, we found a few thousand hawks in one base! Roslet said that the base was the North base because of the giant N on top of the base. 

The four of us hid in a bush and the other owls hid in the other bushes near us. We were ambushing them. 

Suddenly Roslet gave the signal to attack and then ambushed them. 

The hawks were really caught by surprise and we started to shoot them and they started to fire at us too. 

But then, the count started to go into war too, because he fired rapidly with a bow and arrow, killing owls by second but then he stopped firing by the owls but started to shoot at me!

I dodged every single arrows that was shot by him and that was pretty cool because it's hard to dodge... never mind. 

I flew on top of the building, because I wanted to see what it looked like and so I could shoot some hawks. There was was nobody up there. I placed my gun in my hand and began to fire at some hawks. I got a few of them but the rest I missed. 

The view is terrible: owls were being shot down by the minute, also some hawks were shot too.  Everything was destroyed... It was not a pretty sight but all wars, no matter how big or small, all are bad.

Suddenly, a hawk was on the roof and I was about to shoot him. I shot him in the eye but the thing is, that I was still falling down. I hit the ground and blacked out.