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?