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Introduction:

This story will include my bird related (zero fandom wise) oc's that I made in the past on Deviantart (which i will redraw btw). So for example, one of my bird oc's being an eagle named Hershi will be in this story. Also, this story is mostly going to copy some aspects of the warriors/warrior cats universe, legend of the guardians (aka that owl filled movie) and maybe mlp/my little pony but not completely. But then again, this is fully original since it's about birds and not cats. This is only inspired by warriors. For example, as for the warriors universe the good cats that end up dying after having a predetermined life go to Starclan and that they end up being called 'Starlcan cats'. As for this story, birds that follow the rules and their codes to their own flocks that don't fight/kill without apparent reason will go to some place called 'The Evergreen of Paradise'. In the evergreen of paradise birds are called Greeners. The opposite of Starlcan in the warriors universe is called 'Place of no Stars' or 'The dark forest'. In this story the place where evil and bad birds go is called 'Edners wood' which only has a forest full of dead empty trees with only small ponds and lakes.

Birds that belong in a huge group is always called a flock, but there is different types of flocks. Just like how there is clans in warriors. Different flocks will have an territory of their own. There is rogue birds as well that isn't in a flock and they have their tactics. I almost forgot to mention that all the characters in this story live in a bird metropolis city. There is borders between where birds fight being wild and where birds live the simple lives of humans. Since the metropolis city is made by birds, it would have a layout described as this: the entrance of the city would have a road leading inside a small short forest, past the forest there is buildings and houses, past that there is more houses and buildings like stores and restaurants, past that there is a park and a few more buildings leading to two more roads on the left and right sides, either road had signs above them saying 'forest - turn left' and 'other regions - turn right' meaning that the city is expanded. Before a bird goes inside the forest by either driving, walking, or flying they train to fight. Birds that belong to a flock or is a regular citizen train inside a training center using weapons like a orb staff and sometimes only their talons and beak. Rogue birds that aren't citizens on the other hand train inside the forest instead of in a center.

After any bird is done training, they get to do whatever they want after that. The last thing to say about the metropolis city is that only bird species and breeds is allowed in the place since every bird has enemies. Enemies that could be intruders to the peaceful world that has only a livelihood of birds in there. Because if a certain enemy even one enters the bird metropolis city. Who knows what a foreign creature would do inside the city? Therefore, the city is protected behind a medium sized metal door with gates behind it and it is camouflaged inside the human world forest pretty well. Anyway, i'm going to tell you which characters will be inside the story that I've came up with so far. I might make more characters in the future. Read everything below please as there is a lot of information on how the world of avifauna, flocks inside avifauna, character personality traits, and fighting tactics of birds work.

Characters and personality traits:

1: Excel (species is red-tailed hawk) nice, very friendly, calm most of the time, only gets moody when she don't get her way

2: Excess (species is red-tailed hawk) kind hearted, can be a hothead when they want to, brave, snarky and overprotective

3: Speeda (species is roadrunner) kind, cunning, swift, only gets mad when someone hurts her or others

4: Icy (species is woodpecker) kind, open minded, cares about others, extrovert

5: Hawky (species is great-horned owl) free spirited, daring, strong, ambivert, enthusiastic

6: Hishi (species is peahen/female peafowl) faithful, cooperative, patient, unique in her way, determined

7: Pong (species is superb bird of paradise) generous, willful, special, decisive, witty

8: Chrissy (species is hummingbird) charmful, nice, friendly, cutesy, innocent

9: Hershi (species is bald eagle) benevolent, brave, loyal, strong, tough, confident, cares about others

10: Flicky (species is scarlet macaw) friendly, honest, bashful, ambivert, empowered

11: Terror (species is peregrine falcon)
bossy, dominant, unmerciful, dishonest, impatient, tough, fearless, immoral, murderous, caustic

12: Fleet (species is peregrine falcon)
devoted, caustic, pretends to be nice, untrustworthy, charismatic, dauntless, vengeful, crude

13: Midnight (species is crow)
shy, half loyal, pessimistic at times, could be a liar, tries to be honest, mostly friendly towards other birds, ordinary

14: Princess Beacon (species is alien bird)
ambitious, resourceful, has self-control, kind-hearted, open minded, fair, cooperative, protects every bird

15: Princess Elara (species is alien bird)
is the same as her sister beacon (stated above) but later on in the story she becomes evil like terror (stated above)

16: Tappy (species is blue and yellow macaw)
sincere, jealous at times, isn't too mean spirited, has mixed feelings for others, a bit overprotective, decisive

17: Moburn (species is snowy/arctic owl)
submissive, cruel, arrogant, scornful, wicked, insincere, maniacal, sadistic

18: Teterburr (species is emperor penguin)
caustic, greedy, envied, selfish, dominant, deceptive, dauntless

19: Mionna (species is emperor penguin)
kind, cares about others, aggressive at times, is against unfair leaders, strong, charismatic, ambitious, authoritative

20: Embra (species is cardinal)
proactive, agathokakological, confident, rough, cunning, deceptive, daring, petty

21: Jase (species is rooster but with a dark green head)
friendly, smart, brave, stunning, adventurous, reliable

22: Atricia (species is welsummer/welsumer hen)
appreciative, ambiguous, generous, extraordinary, unique

23: Antonio (species is eastern wild turkey)
cool, timid, maidenly, softhearted, only strict when needs to be, is a quick thinker

24: Floresta (species is albino-colored peacock/peafowl)
elegant, sassy, active, energetic, talkative, inspirational, perfectionist

25: Jack (species is ostrich)
nice, innocent, quick, witty, daring, spry

26: Holly (species is ostrich)
outgoing, spry, ambivert, awkward sometimes, good hearted, soulful

27: Vect (species is ostrich)
cold, evil, chaotic, insane, unforgivable, aggressive, awful

28: Callus (species is superb bird of paradise)
good, friendly, ambiguous, curious, open minded, affectionate

29: Duke (species is toucan)
sweet, awesome, stylish, persuasive, sensible, obedient, lives life to the fullest

30: Dan (species is puffin)
cool, handsome, stylish, naturistic, laidback, athletic

31: Dave (species is puffin)
normally lazy, active when performing, calm, is a smoker, silly sometimes

32: Alec (species is red-tailed hawk) (is Excel's and Excess's father)
has the same personality traits as Excess

33: Quincy (species is red-tailed hawk) (is Excel's and Excess's mother)
has the same personality traits as both Excel and Excess

34: King Qaua (species is alien bird) (is Beacon's and Elara's father)
has the same personality traits Beacon but is also a triumphant star-born leader

35: Queen Asposh (species is alien bird) (is Beacon's and Elara's mother)
has the same personality traits as Beacon too but is also a good listener and observer

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The world of Avifauna:

So this starts off with the entrance of the metropolis city named Epilasia. The secret world that is for birds and birds only has a metal door that is camouflaged inside a forest. A gate behind that door then after that the world is very big and expanded on the inside. Even though I already shared info about this above. I still needed to add it here. Anyway, i'm just going to put the same stuff from above to down here. What comes after the gate the city would have a road leading inside a small short forest, past the forest there is buildings and houses, past that there is more houses and buildings like stores and restaurants, past that there is a park and a few more buildings leading to two more roads on the left and right sides, either road had signs above them saying 'forest - turn left' and 'other regions - turn right'. But that's not the only stuff inside of Avifauna. Epilasia includes a lot more infrastructure and loads of other things in it. Almost kind of like an alternate world. Plus, any other creature that isn't a bird doesn't know that Epilasia exist. Which is a good thing for everybird in Epilasia. Because if you don't know the true reason of why Epilasia doesn't allow other species that aren't birds into it's place. Well, here's an explanation. Read it carefully please.

Ok, so........in the world and universe of Avifauna and Epilasia there is enemies and prey of any and all birds. I'm pretty sure you already know that. Ahem, the enemies/predators of most birds in this story are 1. Humans (mostly towards game birds and turkeys but not domesticated birds), 2. Dogs, 3. Foxes (mostly towards chickens but could attack other birds too), 4. Cats (sometimes), 5. Bears (rarely but still happens), 6. Wolves, 7. Badgers (they eat bird eggs), 8. Beavers (mostly towards ducks but is still considered an enemy), 9. Mountain lions (uncommon since they live in a high place but still considered an enemy), 10. Any other enemy that attack other bird species, for example cheetahs (they live in the savanna) and coyotes (they can live in any habitat except for weather that's too cold for them) this story takes place in a forest and a bird only city therefore i may or may not include coyotes in this story. And, I can't include cheetahs or any other animal that attacks or eats a specific species of a bird unless that species of bird is in their correct habitat. Anyway let's move on to what food birds in Epilasia eats.

The food that birds eat in this story is the same food they eat in real life but with a mixture of food that humans eat as well, all except for chocolate. Birds can not eat or consume chocolate at all in this story which is the same thing they can't do in real life. Not everything in this story is that realistic but for the chocolate part it is. Let me put in this way, in real life birds can't eat pizza or anything like burgers or any other inedible food. In this story birds can eat pizza but the pizza isn't made by humans. Pizza is made by bird chefs in which they use the insides of canary melons or some other fruit that they cut, flatten, pour milk on it to make it textured, use silken tofu as the cheese, use regular meat that carnivorous birds eat as pepperoni (only when pepper is added) or any other topping or none at all, then the last thing that happens to pizza is that it gets baked/cooked. As for burgers, bird restaurant workers use almost the same ingredients humans put in a burger except for the meat being from rabbits and not cows and the bread made from the insides of a canary melon with milk poured on it but baked really long to make it puffy and copy the image of a bun. Plus the cheese is just silken tofu used in pizza. Furthermore, I think that sum's up how things in avifauna/epilasia work.

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Canon Flocks and their morals inside of Avifauna:

Solar Eclipse Flock (Based on solar eclipses)
Morals: Since this flock is guided by the sun and solar eclipses (which only come once or twice a year/month) birds in this flock are seen as the good guys. The bird that is the main controller and creator of this flock is Beacon. Two leaders and one deputy is allowed in this flock. The first and main one being Beacon and the second one that will take place if the the first one dies or gives up their role would be a different bird of any kind. The purpose of this flock is that birds in this flock are subjected to follow rules due to that they cannot become unruly and crazy. All birds must listen to their leader. It doesn't matter if birds are nocturnal or diurnal in this flock. However, birds are only allowed to be active in the woods that's inside of epilasia during the daytime/afternoon and anything later than that is not acceptable. That means birds must go home before the end of the day after doing things inside the forest that's apart of the bird-made city. During a solar eclipse, birds have to be ready to do whatever their leader tells them to do during the experience of the eclipse. Even then a solar eclipse would happen, humans would wear protective glasses in order to look at the eclipse. Birds would do the same but glasses would be of different shape and size in order to fit the bird that would wear them. In a solar eclipse birds are advised to do activities like either staring at the eclipse or pray bowing to it. As for a normal sun, the same thing happens except for staring at it with glasses. Other rules for this flock is that no bird should be by themselves even if it's daytime, it is best to be with another bird if you go traveling somewhere. Birds that fight each other should not have a fight longer than 1 or 2 hours. If it is longer than that, birds would be exiled for having a battle without an end to it. And during a battle birds shouldn't kill the other unless it's for a good cause. Injuries that is light or partially deep that isn't fatal to a bird is okay as the bird that's injured can get healed by a medical helper bird. Not all battles have to be too serious since not everybird would want to hurt one another. Meaning fake/faux/play pretend battles is accepted to be apart of this flock. The total member count of how many birds can join this flock is approximately 120 and no bigger than that. 120 is a big number but it's enough to support the entirety of birds being in the forest. There is a territory to this flock inside the forest of epilasia. The territory is separated from the Lunar Eclipse Flock by having small rocks circling around bushes, trees, and small leaves. Past the rocks, bushes, trees, and small leaves, the inside of this flock consists of many nests either on the ground or in trees. There is specific nests for either one or two leaders. And there is only one specific nest for one deputy. One last thing to say is that the only birds allowed to stay in the forest past afternoon are guard birds so they keep watch over the territory of the S.E flock. Other than that, this flock is about bringing birds together no matter their differences. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lunar Eclipse Flock (Based on lunar eclipses) Morals: This flock is guided by the moon and lunar eclipses (aka the blood moon or red moon) which means all birds that's a member of this flock has to take their duties and roles during the nighttime instead of the day. Just like the solar eclipse flock, there is two leaders and one deputy. But things are different if a different leader change the rules to a point only one leader and one deputy controls the flock. Unlike the solar eclipse flock, this flock doesn't show mercy to other birds that easily. The creator of this flock being Elara doesn't have a say about this. This flock would normally injure a bird really bad to the point they end up in terrible medical conditions. When Elara is in control of this flock she basically would tell birds to do whatever they liked to do. So birds would just have random fights with anyone and anybody. Fights can last up to 30 mins or just plain 3 hours or more. Rules in this flock have birds to travel through the night sky of Epilasia and every other part of the bird made city. There isn't many rules for this flock since this flock isn't the same as the solar eclipse flock. If a lunar eclipse happens, birds get fascinated by the full red moon in which they be ordered to hunt throughout the night until daytime. Basically this flock will be inspired off of Shadowclan from warrior cats. Plus, when birds are hunting at night. Birds end up leaving Epilasia to go and kill some animals that outside of their city and is apart of the human world. Sometimes hunting can be successful but not always. Birds in this flock can kill believing that it's for a good purpose. Which may or may not result in an exile. I almost forgot to mention that when birds train, birds train in this flock by making sure their opponent end up in critical condition or seeing their opponent die. The territory for this flock is surrounded by a lot of trees, bushes and only one big rock for the leader to stand on. Inside the territory there is some nests on the ground for birds that can't fly and for birds that normally live on the ground and there is a lot of nests that's in the trees that surrounds the outside and inside of the territory for this flock. Also when this flock comes in battle with the other flock, they try their best to move quick, fast, and swift when being in battle. This flock is reliant on speed and swiftness of birds just to see if a bird can kill another bird easily or not. But, this flock don't always kill. It only depends on which leader is in charge. This flock is more likely to just go hunting for food like rabbits or any other prey that certain birds eat. The member count for this flock is at least 121 (almost the same thing as the S.E flock member count but with an extra member). One last thing to say about this flock is that, this flock can only include birds that are strong enough to withstand a fight or battle against another bird without dying right away. For example, Hershi (which will be used later on in the story) ends up being strong enough to fight a golden eagle that already had healed wounds in which Hershi spares instead of killing them. But at least Hershi would injure the bird more past the healed wounds. Anyway I think i'm done explaining this flock. Until more flocks get created. This flock and the other above are the only flocks in existence. And, new flocks aren't created until a good and trustful leader is allowed to make one. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fighting tactics of birds inside of Epilasia/Avifauna:

Solar Eclipse Flock: The birds apart of this flock fight using weapons like orb staffs (which are black and the orb inside is blue) since they shoot out blue magic. And, of course birds also use their natural weapons including their talons and beaks. The dodging tactics of birds is when they use their staff to block an enemy's staff or they fly/move out of their enemy's way whenever an enemy tries to strike an attack at them. They wear protection as well whenever they fight. Like open helmets (which is medieval styled) and body armor. The only time a bird's armor is knocked off or removed from their opponent is when their attacker shoots the helmet off of their head since the blue magic can't destroy the body armor. When birds use their beaks and talons as weapons against each other they try to aim their opponent's weak spot. Including the wings, legs, feet, eyes, neck, tail, face, and of course the head. However, not all birds have talons or raptor bird looking feet. This is where orb staffs come in. And, this is also for birds that could be too small to fight but still fight regardless of size. The way of how an orb staff is used is when birds either use one or two wings (one is usually needed in order for a bird to fly with the other wing) to make sure that the staff don't fall out of their wing. Birds use their wings instead of their feet as hands. I know it may not make as much sense, but this is a story. Not a real thing. When using a staff, birds can use their wing to press a certain button on their staff that's invisible to the naked bird eye but can be seen with a magnifying glass and that it shoots out blue magic. The blue magic that forms and comes out of a orb staff is powerful enough to go through a wall. The magic can't be used as much for other things since it's only useful during a battle/fight. And, the magic from the orb is toxic in which birds can't mess with. The orb itself inside the staff is safe to touch unless the blue magic is shot out from it. Birds are not always lucky to use their staff with their wing, sometimes they have to use their mouth to hold their staff and just use it as a poking stick to injure their enemy. Birds that could be regularly small or very small will have to use their own skills to fight if they're small. Orb staffs come in different sizes that could be for small and tiny birds but they don't always be beneficial for a small and/or tiny bird. Bigger birds on the other hand have a good advantage when they fight. Other than that, this info wraps up what the solar eclipse members do when they fight.

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Lunar Eclipse Flock: The birds in this flock barely use a weapon to fight. But like the solar eclipse flock, they still use orb staffs. Just not as much. This flock only have strong birds to battle. Ranging from very large and big birds only down to medium sized birds. Birds that are smaller than medium isn't normally allowed unless they can win a 1 on 1 fight. Birds in this flock fight going after weak spots just like the solar eclipse flock but in a different way. The members of this flock don't exactly wear armor like the flock opposite to them. Birds mostly wear only a open helmet (that's medieval styled though) and only back armor in which it doesn't cover the entire torso of the bird who's wearing it. Birds use their beaks and talons as weapons in this flock as well. To the birds that don't have any talons whatsoever, and only what features they normally have on them can use their skills to fight too. Whenever birds fight, they often charge at their enemy/opponent trying to knock their enemy down. Birds can be able to push, shove, and pin down their opponent. Either when it's on the ground or against a tree. This always happen during a battle. The dodging tactics of birds when they fight in this flock is that they try to fly/run out of their opponent's way too. But it's not always successful. That's why they need to have bigger and stronger birds so that they can win any and all fights. When birds get ready to fight before they go out and battle, they go to a certain spot that's in the forest of Epilasia. And in that spot, birds sharpen their beaks, talons, and/or claws (depending on the species). If this flock were to battle the other flock, they try their best to be on top and to win the battle. But only a few victories of this flock ever happen. This flock gathers their members up just to do damage at the other flock. Which only results in some members of this flock either dying or just fatally injured. When a fight or a battle ends, the recipients leave the scene once they've either won or lost in a fight. I don't have much to say about this flock, but this info must be included in order for the story to make sense. So don't judge me if most of the info for this flock isn't making sense or if it's not detailed well (which i try to make it detailed well). Anyway, this is all I could think of trying to explain how this flock would work when they fight. Besides, this flock would have the same traits and strength as Shadowclan from Warrior cats but it's with birds. While the S.E flock is more likely to be a variant of Thunderclan from Warrior cats. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rogue Birds: Birds that aren't a member of any flock have to be categorized here since they don't belong in the other flocks. It doesn't matter how many birds would become a rogue. It's only the groups of them that matter. Since rogue birds can do whatever they like to do at will. Anybird can be leader just as long it is limited. Only one leader can lead the rest. Rogue birds do not wear any armor at all and they don't use any weapons. Except the fact they were a mask (that resembles a plague doctor one) that's steampunk based and sharp fake talons on their feet (or whatever were those extra addons that the owls in legend of the gaurdians movie wore on their feet). And, they mostly use their beaks, talons, and/or claws. Rogue birds can either form and lead their own groups or be apart of one big group/flock with only one leader. There is deputies for groups that include rogue birds. Rogue birds are very hard to trust since they are tricksters and they have their own beliefs. (Note: these types of birds are based on the rogue cats from Warriors). Birds fight using what they've already got. They dodge and avoid attacks by ducking, rolling, and tucking their heads and tailfeathers. These birds often try to evade a fight if a member of a flock mess with them. If a bird can't evade from a fight, they have no choice but to use their attacks on the opposing flock member. Rogue birds also like to travel into the city of Epilasia only to taunt, mock, and pull pranks on the humane bird citizens. A group of any rogue birds don't have a specific territory since they don't belong to a flock. So instead, they live basically anywhere. Ranging from tall and hard to reach trees, down to small little bushes. Rogue birds spy and invade on other flocks just to steal any and all types of food from other birds. Rogue birds can mostly be small and medium sized since there is no evidence of a big or large bird being rogue. Enough of all that info and explaining, I think i'm done talking about how birds that either belong to any of the two flocks or isn't in any flock at all be doing things in a fight. Anyways, just read the last note I added to this chapter before continuing on to the third one. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A/N: I forgot to add that the enemies/predators of birds are called Birdsnatchers. Including foxes, dogs, cats, wolves, bears, humans, badgers, beavers, mountain lions, and etc. all of those enemies are called Birdsnatchers and that's it. The only reason of why they are called Birdsnatchers is because enemies like foxes like to take away chickens from their coop while humans (or hunters) shoot a bird down just to trap it and do other bad stuff to them. I'm not trying to offend anybody in real life but that's all I could say. This is inspired by Watership down by only 1 percent since the enemies of rabbits in that story are called Elil and in this story enemies of birds are called Birdsnatchers. This is just a note, but onto to story. There will be a third chapter, it'll just take a while to make.

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PROLOGUE PART 1

Somewhere deep in space, there is a planet full of extraterrestrial beings called alien birds. And, the planet they live in is called Planet Turtious (of course that’s the name). On planet turtious was a big celebration group of the alien birds surrounding the king and queen leaders. The celebration included a new birth of two huge eggs that were already laid that were about to hatch. Once they hatch, the king and queen will have a family they would call their own. As with this, everyone was waiting patiently being excited about the eggs hatching in order to give new sprouts of life. Time was sparse but sooner or later the eggs started to twitch and shake. Queen Asposh looked at her husband King Qaua smiling happily as she says “Look, our precious eggs are about to hatch. I can’t wait for them to pop out and see the world. Oh here they come!”. The eggs continued to twitch as they began to crack inch by inch every second. At one second, the tip of a small beak poked out but it went back inside the egg. Everybody had mostly gasped and repeated the words “ooh” and “ah”. King Qaua was still being patient seeing his future children about to come out of their eggs. Asposh was still smiling as she was patient and excited too. The eggs was still trying to hatch and open but the main thing that was mostly fascinating were the color of the eggs. Both of the eggs was a lavender shade of purple with black spots. Those were unique colors out of any other egg that was ever laid or hatched by other alien birds. Other than that the eggs were hatching and cracking a bit much faster than what they were doing before. The eggs tried their hardest to hatch better in a relatively fast nanosecond. While the eggs was twitching a lot, small beaks and feet kept poking out of the eggs and went back in them over and over again. It took some time until one of the eggs finally hatched. The first hatchling to appear had some resemblance of feather color compared to their father, which was that there was a difference between them and Qaua. King Qaua was a complete jet black bird with purple spots all over him and had three purple eyes along with long dark gray legs and a dark gray beak. The hatchling on the other hand was only a shade of really dark purple instead of black with long black legs and a black beak. “Look! One of them hatched!” Said one of the alien birds in the crowd. The small hatchling struggled to open up their eyes as they laid flat on the rocky ground. During the time of everybody’s gaze on the hatchling that did come out of their egg, the other egg abruptly hatched as the second hatchling had jumped out of their egg and quickly fell on the ground. Once that happened everybody changed their gaze and shifted to looking at the second hatchling. “*gasps loudly* Now both of them have hatched!!” One of the alien birds said in the crowd. Qaua sighed as he went closer to where his hatched babies and wife were laying at. It took some time until one of the hatchlings finally did open up their eyes. But it wasn’t easy, the first hatchling was still blinking a lot trying to get used to their eyesight. The other hatchling however was already awake and aware since they had a set of three golden yellow eyes which were the same as Asposh’s eye color. The other stuff that was also amazing to look at was that the second hatchling had glamorous white feathers with golden yellow splotches all over their body and with small black spots here and there in certain sections of their body. Also, they had a light yellow beak and long light yellow legs. Not knowing that there was an egg shell on the hatchling’s head, Asposh decides to use her wing to pick up the shell and throw it to the side. Then she picks up the hatchling using both wings. Qaua looks back at the first hatchling, waiting for them to wake up. After a few moments passed, the small hatchling slowly opened up their eyes which resulted in the revealed eye color of the hatchling’s three eyes. In which the eye color of the hatchling’s eyes were that they were purple just like Qaua’s eyes. Before the hatchling could get used to their own surroundings, they were immediately picked up by Qaua and were then given to Asposh. Asposh took hold of both of the hatchlings and held them tightly in her wings. Qaua sighs with pride in his eyes as he snuggled close to Asposh as they both looked down and watched their own two children. “Aw, look at them. They look just like us.” King Qaua says. A small snicker comes out of Asposh’s mouth as she starts saying “Yeah except that I don’t have any spots and only golden stripes on my body. But the three golden eye trait and golden beak and legs are all my genes. They both look beautiful. What we should we name them?”. “Hmm. They both look like they’re girls so.....I think we should name the purple one Elara, Princess Elara. And the other one should be named Beacon, Princess Beacon. Those will be their new names for now on.” Qaua says with calmness. “Those sound like wonderful names for our kids to have. Seems like they like those names, look at them chirping and nudging their heads and necks against my chest. *sighs* One day these two will grow to have longer legs and have a longer neck and be like us. I’m glad that we were lucky to have two daughters. Since both of them have a lot to learn about this Planet we live in, life, what their purpose in life is, other planets in the galaxy, and last but not least Earth and their inhabitants.” Asposh says. “Understood. Let’s switch our kids together and hold them.” Qaua replies back. “Okay.” Asposh replies. Asposh gets up to stand on her two long legs as she then holds up Elara above her head using her wings to hold her weight. After what Asposh did, Qaua did the same thing as he decided to hold up Beacon above his head using his wings to hold Beacon’s weight. “Ahem. Attention everyone!! Get out of circling around us and get in a line!! Everyone, I order all of you to not circle and crowd us and do what I say and get in a line. I want to see columns and rows. No mishaps.” King Qaua says commanding all of the other alien birds to follow his orders. Every single one of the alien birds listened to what Qaua told them and they did what they were told as they all had lined up in rows and columns. Nobody could tell how many rows and columns since there was so many birds on Planet Turtious. Since counting every one of them would be a huge pain in the noggin. “Now bow everyone.” Qaua says confidently. Everyone listens and does what he says again. “Ahem. I hereby announce that Princess Beacon and Princess Elara are now our new additions to the Royal Alien Bird Throne!!! Everyone may now cheer and rejoice.” King Qaua says proudly. Everyone cheered in the background as they were repeating the words “All hail Princess Elara and Princess Beacon” nonstop while Beacon and Elara was staring down at the millions of Alien Birds that were bowing down and chanting about their names. The expressions on both Elara and Beacon’s faces was that they were both confused but since they both couldn’t talk, they both shrugged it off.

Three years later......

“Okay since the two of you are now all grown up, I have quests for the both of you. You and Beacon must travel to Earth to help rescue and save all Earthling birds that live there.” Asposh says outwardly. “But mom, why should we go to that other planet even though it’s not our own?” Elara says in a adamant way. A sigh escapes out of Asposh’s mouth. “Because, those birds don’t know that they’re in grave danger without any protection from outsiders from their world. They need our help since earth birds have to be saved from certain entities that only have an interest in harming them. Only you and your sister could save them and build a new civilization of smart and unique intelligent birds that can live their life in their own way.” Asposh replies in angst. “Hmm, I don’t know if we should do that. Ever since you taught us about Earth i’m beginning to think differently.” Elara says. “Hey sis! Earth doesn’t seem like a bad planet to visit!! Our mother only wants what’s best for us! I think Earth sounds fun!! *smiles happily* Ooh I can’t wait to meet the creatures and life forms on Planet Earth! Eee!!” Beacon says while being close to her sister Elara. Elara rolls her eyes as she turns to talk to her sister saying “Calm down Beacon. You don’t have to be that excited about visiting a planet full of creatures that we have never even met or seen before. Plus we don’t know what their motives are if they were to see us”. “Ok hun, i’m finished!! Come look!” Qaua says shouting at Asposh. Asposh listens and walks towards the what appears to be a huge clear sphere shaped bubble. Both Elara and Beacon also walk towards the bubble as well. “Ooh, what’s that? It looks pretty!” Says Beacon. “Haha, well that’s a ship there sweetie. It’s to help hold in whatever you need to bring with you before you go to Earth. Me and your father are going to help pack your things and send you straight to earth.” Asposh replies back. “Wait, so that ship is going to have us maneuver our way straight into Earth? Sorry but i’m not going in that thing.” Elara says while scoffing and walking away. “No, you are going to that planet. Also, yes that ship will have both of you maneuver your ways into Earth. And when I tell you to do something I expect you to do it. I may be nice, caring, and loving but that doesn’t mean I won’t punish you. So stay with your sister and get along.” Asposh says in a strict manner. Elara sighs rolling her eyes as she then says “Ugh, fine.” and walks back towards where her sister and mother were at. Beacon smiles and hugs the side of her sister’s body using one of her wings. Elara just glares at her and then looks back at her parents. Both Elara and Beacon watch their parents grab and throw every item they could find and collect to put in the ship. Once their parents was both done doing what they could to fill up the ship with trinkets and valued items, they both had walked together to the entrance of the ship. “Wait! Before you both go and leave I must show you something.” Asposh says towards Elara and Beacon. “Yeah? What is it?” Elara asks. Asposh walks towards the two of her daughters. “Ahem. Before you do anything on Earth I must let you know this first.” Asposh says. “What?! What is it mom?!!” Beacon says bouncing up and down. “Here’s a trick you both could do before meeting up with the Earth-born birds and let alone interacting with them. In order for the earth creatures to not get scared or confused by the fact that you have three eyes, you must learn how to close your third eye and hide it. Now watch me do it and then you both can try out the technique.” Asposh responds towards Beacon and Elara. Beacon and Elara both watch their mother close her third eye and makes it disappear. “Woah.....” Beacon says. “See? Like that. Now you try it.” Asposh says. Beacon replies with an “Ok!” and takes a deep breath in and out and closes her third eye. “Yay! You did it Beacon! You go girl!” Asposh says in a supportive manner. “Huh? I did?” Beacon says. “Uh huh. Yeah you did! Let me go grab a mirror to show you.” Asposh replies. Asposh quickly grabs a mirror and shows it in front of Beacon’s face. “*gasps* Omg, I did manage to close my third eye!!” Beacon said amazed. Asposh puts away the mirror and says “See? I knew that trick would work”. “Yeah it did mom.” Beacon says. “Elara? Aren’t you going to hide your third eye too?” Asposh asks. “On it. *closes and hides eye* There.” Elara says. Asposh opens and reveals her third eye as she then says “Good, now you’re ready to go traveling! I’m so glad that both of you had grown up to be adult alien birds. *cries a bit* You two had grew up so fast! Can’t wait for you both to make your mother proud! Now go on and enter that ship and start driving!” Asposh says in a statement. Elara and Beacon both turn around and enter the round bubble ship and close the lid. “Ooh!! I’m excited!! I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait to see the amazing earth planet creatures!! I wonder who’s doing the driving.” Beacon says cheerfully. “I am. Also please calm down with the excitement. There is no need to go crazy and start going off your rocker.” Elara says. “I know I know, but could you blame me? It’s going to be a wonderful ride down to earth!” Beacon replies. Elara sighs as she moves around to go and sit down in the pilot seat as she starts strapping and buckling her seatbelt. Beacon sits in the passenger seat and buckles her seatbelt. “Seatbelts are now ready and checked. It’s time to blast off with this thing.” Elara says. “Goodbye mom!! Goodbye dad!! I’ll miss you both!!!” Beacon says shouting loudly at the plastic like window. “Goodbye you two.” Asposh says waving her wing. “Yeah goodbye!” Qaua says waving his wing. “Hope to see you again soon!” Asposh says. “Okay, bye!!” Beacon replies back. Elara puts her foot on the pedal as she also starts pressing buttons and then finally pulling on the joystick that controlled the ship. “Ready?” Elara asks looking at Beacon. “Yep! Ready!” Beacon replies. “Ok we’re going on the count of three. One, two, three. Let’s go!” Elara says as she presses her foot down hard on the pedal and starts driving the ship to make it quickly lift up off the ground and to easily speed up with moving away from Planet Turtious. As the ship was quickly driven away from the home planet of Planet Turtious, both Asposh and Qaua looked at each other and started talking. “Do you think they’ll be safe?” Asposh asks. “I believe so. Also we as a species are immortal. There is no way that any life form on earth could do any harm to our daughters. Otherwise if that were to happen, I will have every alien bird to come and invade earth and destroy or even enslave it.” Qaua replies back towards Asposh’s question. “I hope so. I just want to see how far they’ll make it. And I hope they will come back one day.” Asposh says. Qaua sighs as he starts to walk away. Asposh immediately follows him. “Ok since we’re now floating in space, I wonder what else we’re gonna do.” Elara says. “Ooh, I know! How about I be captain?” Beacon asks. “No! You’ll destroy the ship if I let you control it. Plus you need to be serious and stop goofing around with your child-like silliness.” Elara responds roughly. “Blah blah blah. Always so serious about stuff. Why can’t you just be more easygoing?” Beacon says in a mocking way towards Elara. “Y’know what? Before we reach the atmosphere of Earth i’m gonna have to teach you how to be more serious than what you are now. Because on the way there, you will know how to act around me and other people.” Elara says while focusing on driving the ship she’s controlling. “Ooh!! What does this thing do??” Beacon says as she pulls onto the joystick that were once in Elara’s wings but now are in Beacon’s. “Hey don’t touch that!” Elara says. Beacon ignores her sister as she then pressed and stepped her foot down really hard on the pedal and started on making the ship go really fast. “Weee!!!” Beacon says. Elara rolls her eyes as she speaks mentally saying “Why do I even bother? She’ll never listen to me without mom and dad around. *sighs* Guess she’ll have to learn the hard way.”

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(Time skip)

Present day

Rain pours down heavily while gunfire and barking could be heard miles away inside the darkened air of a forest. Heavy breathing and footsteps were also present since there was a young male duck running for his life looking back and forth every turn he took. The duck was still afraid of what was going on around him as he kept on running and running. It was not long after the duck had got his leg caught in a snare trap. He was hyperventilating as he began to turn his head to see the snare trap tugging and pulling on his now wounded leg. Being speechless and only wanting to run away from the hunters that were attacking his species, he began trying to make himself get free from the trap that was holding him down. But when he tries his best using his efforts on trying to free himself from the trap, it was too late. His fate was sealed. Soft crunches of leaves being stepped on was heard by notices of a hunter standing above the duck. It takes just one second before the duck stops what’s he’s doing and ends up turning his head towards the hunter’s direction. Small tears formed out of the duck’s eyes as they then rolled down his face showing that he was shortly soon accepting his fate. But what remained was the look in his big soulful eyes as the black pupils were constricted inside his brown colored eyes. The rifle being held by the hunter was then pointed downward at the duck. And pow comes out a gunshot instantly killing the poor duck. After that happened, the scene went onto a mother duck running away with her baby ducklings. “*huff huff huff* Mommy, why are we running so much?” Asks one of the ducklings. “Shh...We must not let the hunters find us. Or else they’ll come and have our hides. And none of us wants that. Just stick together and stay close to me.” The mother duck replies. “What do you think happened to daddy?” The second duckling asks. “No time to answer. But I don’t think he’ll make it. Since no duck ever fought off against a hunter.” The mother duck replies again. The mother duck and her ducklings continued on running through the wet grass of the dense forest. While they were running away, on the other side of the forest the two princess sisters had began to wake up. “Ugh, what happened??” Elara asks. “Uh, I don’t know.” Beacon replied. “Whatever. I think we made our destination. Also, we might have crashed.” Elara says rubbing her forehead with her wing. “Ugh...let’s just move around and start finding life forms.” Elara says in an angsty mood. Both Elara and Beacon started to get up from their positions since they were both no longer inside of their ship. Once up, they both had made a trail of rocks to lead them back to their ship so that they don’t get lost as they were walking and traveling together through the forest. Meanwhile, the mother duck and her ducklings were still running away from the danger they were in. It doesn’t take long until the two princess sisters notice and see the mother duck traveling with her ducklings seeing how fast they were all running. “Huh? What’s going on over there? And why are those ducks running away?” Elara asks in confusion. “I don’t know sis. Also, who or what are they running from?” Beacon responds and asks as well. “Hmm. We might need to follow them in order to see the problem. Let’s go.” Elara says. Both Beacon and Elara nod in agreement as they both went to fly together following the mother duck and her ducklings. Through all of the chasing and running around, the mother duck and her ducklings was immediately stopped from running away since there were two large hunters standing above them. This had signaled that it could be the end of their lives. The ducklings decide to huddle up and stay really close to their mother. “Mommy i’m scared.” Says one of the ducklings in a terrified tone. “Shh, it’s okay. We weren’t made to survive this long anyway.” Replies the mother duck. “I guess it’s our ending.” Says the mother duck again. “*starts to cry* I don’t want to die! I’m too young!! Waaa!” Says a different duckling. “Those ducks need our help. Or else they’ll all get killed by those other creatures. And they both seem like two legged enemies towards that innocent duck family.” Says Elara. “Wait, don’t we both have two legs and that family down there also has two legs?” Asks Beacon. “Really Beacon? Really? Of course we both have two legs and that the duck family also had two legs. But the difference between us, the family, and the two legged monsters and is that those creatures surrounding the family has hats and clothes on. That family and us don’t have that on our bodies. Also, the duck family and us both have tail feathers. Anyway, never mind that. Let’s go and save them now.” Replies Elara. “Kay’ fine.” Beacon says rolling her eyes. Both Elara and Beacon spread their wings and fly up to a high tree. “Ready?” Elara asks looking at Beacon on the branch of the tree. “Ready.” Beacon replies. “Ok, ready, set, go!! Attack!!” Elara says. Elara and Beacon both jump off of the tree as they both dive down and land on the soft green grass while standing in front of the mother duck and her ducklings. Seeing this, the mother duck along with her ducklings were confused as to why there were suddenly two big and tall birds standing in front of them. The hunters (which are humans) was also shocked and confused as well seeing how two big bird-like creatures was in front of them. Both Elara and Beacon started growling as they both used their magic powers to start growing fangs and sharp teeth inside of their beaks. Both of the hunters was extremely scared seeing what was being seen in front of them. One of the hunters dropped his rifle. While the other one was still trying to act brave. Elara and Beacon then both had made themselves grow larger and taller using their powers. “U-Uh, I think it’s time to run.” Says one of the hunters. “No. I’m going to stay here and shoot those damn birds no matter how big they are.” Says the second hunter. The hunter that didn’t drop his rifle started to load and point it at both Beacon and Elara. Beacon and Elara revealed both of their third eye as they also grew extra limbs that are connected to their chests and wings. After that they both also grew horns on their heads that matches their body colors. Next thing after that, they both started to form cosmic energy balls inside their mouths right before they both blew them out of their mouths in order to attack the hunters. Once the cosmic energy balls were released and that one of them hit a tree and that the other almost hit the hunter who used to carry his rifle. The very scared hunter had quickly ran as fast as he can. The other one still wasn’t phased as he shouted and called the hunter who ran away a ‘coward’ and that he ‘chickened out’. Not until both Beacon and Elara had growled and roared loudly while stomping on the ground. Now that was something that actually did make the other hunter to start getting scared as he then too had ran away. But even with the hunters running away, it still wasn’t enough to help make sure no more harm was being done to the ducks. So therefore both of the alien bird sisters had quickly chased after the hunters. “Oh shit oh shit oh shit! They’re gaining up on us!! What are those things?!!! Holy shit!!!” One of the hunters say while running. “I don’t know goddammit!! But whatever they are, they will kill us!!” The other hunter says while looking behind himself. “Haha this is fun! Look at those puny creatures faces!” Beacon says telepathically inside her mind. “Yea, you are sure right about that. Let’s see if there is anymore to scare.” Elara says telepathically inside her mind replying back to her sister. The mother duck and her ducklings were still in their spots since they were watching the entire scene unfold. “Mommy, what were those things and why did they come in to protect us from the big scary hoomans?” One of the ducklings asks. “I think those two large beings are here to save our kind. Maybe they care about how vulnerable our species is slowly becoming. Otherwise if they weren’t here for that, we would be goners.” The mother duck replies. The chasing scene continues as the two sisters were completely chasing and going after the hunters since they were trying their best on getting away from them. After moments here and there passed, the hunters were running towards the several other hunters that were busy killing more ducks. “Look out everyone!! There is two monsters going after us!!! Move move move!!!” One of the hunters says. “Huh? What do you mean by move?” One of the other hunters in the group says. “Look at what’s behind us!!! Now MOVE!!!!” The hunter says. “Oh shit, we should pack our things and get out of here. OK EVERYONE GET IN YOUR TRUCKS, WE HAVE ENOUGH DUCKS FOR FOOD AND CLOTHES!!!” One of the hunters from the group says while shouting. Every hunter grabbed their rifles and dogs and quickly put them inside of their trucks as they all then had entered in every single one of their vehicles and tried their best on driving away. Right before the two sisters were almost close to running to the trucks so they could crush them and possibly destroy the hunters in them, all of the hunters was lucky enough to control and drive their trucks so that they could get far away from the alien bird sisters. Beacon and Elara roared after seeing the small trucks from under them had managed to leave the forest. After they were done roaring, they both had went back to their normal forms. Plus, they both had closed and hid both of their third eye. Then after all that, they both traveled back to where the mother duck and her ducklings were being at. “Oh my, it seems like those beings are coming back.” Says the mother duck. Once Elara and Beacon were close to the mother duck and her ducklings they both calmly introduced themselves. “Hello small duck family, how are you today? My name’s Elara and this lighter colored bird next to me is my sister Beacon. *bows down while stretching my long neck on the grass*.” Elara says in a respective tone. Beacon also bows and does the same thing as her sister. “Huh. You two must be interesting birds aren’t you? I didn’t think that there would be tall and huge birds existing inside of this forest.” Says the mother duck. “Well that’s because we come from a different place and that we decided to visit this forest since we heard calls for help. And we are also here to help rescue every kind of bird not just you ducks.” Elara says after standing up straight since she stopped bowing. Beacon stops bowing too. “Okay. I’m grateful that you two had went to come and save us. How should I repay you?” The mother duck asks. “You’re welcome. And as for repayment?? Nah, you don’t need to repay us. We’re doing the favors for you.” Elara replies. “Oh ok then. *starts to shout* HEY EVERYONE COME OUT OF YOUR HIDING PLACES, I THINK WE ARE ALL SAVED!!!” The mother duck says. After the mother duck had shouted every duck, from baby to adult had all came into the clearing of where the mother duck was at. Both Elara and Beacon watched every one of the ducks come out from where they were before and moving into the safe spot of where the mother duck was standing at. Once all of the ducks that were still alive had filled the area, the mother duck had turned to look at Beacon and Elara. “Uh, who are all those ducks?” Elara asks. “*laughs a bit while making snorting and quacking sounds* Haha, woo wee. These other ducks around here are other families and sometimes single handled beings that happen to be apart of my species. All of them had hid from the hunters while the ones who couldn’t were being shot to death. Also, they weren’t sure if someone would come rescue them but since you two have said me. I think they’ll all be comfortable around you.” The mother duck replies. “O-Kay. Well we mainly have a mission on helping many other bird species. Also, what type of ducks are you guys?” Elara asks. “Me, my babies, and everyone else are Mallards. That’s what our species are.” The mother duck responds. “Okay, what are your names?” Asks Elara. “My name is Martha. My four children have different names. The first one is named Noah, the second one is Katie, third is Luca, and the last one is Ella. As for everybody else, I don’t know their names. Plus, I used to have a mate but he’s dead.” Martha replies. “Okay Martha, who was your mate?” Elara asks. “Harold. His name was Harold. He’s been my mate for 5 years and *starts to shed tears* he’s dead and he was just a developing father that was going to take care of my babies. Now since he’s no longer here, my kids will not have a father.” Martha says sorrowfully. “Aww, that’s so sad. But don’t worry, we’ll bring you guys to a safer place.” Beacon says. “Yea, just like what she said. We’re both sisters after all.” Elara says as well. “But where? And how are you going to protect us all?” Asks Martha. “Hmm, that is a difficult question to answer. But as long we’re here, no harm will happen to any living bird on this planet.” Elara says confidently. “Thank you. Should we all follow you?” Martha asks. “Yes sure. Of course you can.” Elara replies. “Alright.” Martha says. Martha and her ducklings along with all of the other ducks started to follow wherever Beacon and Elara was heading to. While walking around, some owls and eagles came out their nests and hiding places to go and stare down at the two sisters which were leading all of the ducks and ducklings. “What’s going on down there? Huh, I think we all must follow them as well.” Says one of the owls. All of the owls and eagles agreed with each other and had began flying above the sisters and ducks. “Where are we going?” Martha asks. “Me and Beacon are going back to our ship.” Elara replies back. “Oh.” Martha says. During many hours spent on traveling to the crashed ship (now labeled a spaceship), the sisters and the ducks made it to their destinations. The owls and eagles also met their destinations too ever since they all followed after the other birds. Beacon turns around and sees the owls and eagles. “Hello other earth birds. What brings you here?” Beacon says and asks. “Hoo, hoo. What are you doing in our territory?? *turns head sideways*” Says one of the owls. “Uh, we’re only here to save birds and grab items. Also, why did all of you follow us?” Beacon asks. “Because we were wondering where you guys was walking at. So we all had to follow you. And what do you mean by saving birds?” Says one of the eagles. “What I mean is that my sister and I are planning on saving birds like those ducks and even your kind. But since you are all here, we can help save you too.” Beacon replies back at the eagle. “*scoffs and makes a raspberry sound* Our kind? Yeah, right. How does that prove anything? No way that we eagles and owls can ever be saved from anything.” One of the eagles say in a mocking tone. “You must know that both my sister and I are not ordinary birds, ok? Also, please do not make fun of how that saving birds is an important and necessary task especially when almost all of the ducks could have been killed if they wasn’t saved. It is not a joke. Do you hear me?” Beacon says in a sincere statement. “Ok fine. We’ll believe you. But after you guys get the items near that bubble-ish spaceship, where else are you going to take the ducks and us to?” Asks one of the eagles. “We don’t know yet for sure but we plan on maybe making a hideout for you guys.” Beacon responds. “Okay.” One of the eagles said. While Beacon and Elara were trying to collect and grab their stuff from and around the sphere-like spaceship, somewhere outside of the forest there were huge trucks being driven inside of the forest and they were labeled as “Animal control” and they were all blinking flashing colors of red and blue, and they were also parking on the dirt path of the road into the forest. After the trucks were done parking some humans that were wearing protective gear and carrying tools with them had exited out of the trucks. Then the next thing they all did was they were walking around the area of the forest trying to search for something. Meanwhile on the other hand, one of the ducks that’s in the gathering group was curious as they went to walk towards a bush peaking through it. What shocked them the most was that they saw the animal control trucks and the humans near them. This was something that needed to be reported on, so quickly right away the duck left the bush alone and ran back into the gathering group. The duck then had ran up close to Elara and Beacon while breathing heavily. “Guys! I think we got company! And it isn’t any good company either.” Says the duck. “Huh? What company? Who else could be trying to disturb the peace here?” Elara asks. “*huff huff* Y-You can go look and see for yourselves.” The duck replies back. “Hm, okay. But it better not be those creatures with their weapons again.” Elara says while squinting her eyes. Elara walks over towards the bush and sticks her head and neck right through it, what she saw was the thing that the duck had warned her about. “Animal control? Oh no. That doesn’t seem like a good thing for that to be here. Is it because of my sister and I were being too scary at those two legged creatures who had weapons? Hmm, that must be it. But it was only to help protect Martha and her family. I sure hope that those other creatures don’t come and find me and everyone else.” Elara says right before pulling her head and neck out of the bush. Elara sighs as she turns around and walks away from the bush and goes close to her sister. “Beacon.” Elara says. “Yes? What is it dear sister?” Beacon replies. “I have something to tell you and it’s about that there is some animal control experts on the prowl in this exact forest at this very moment.” Elara says whispering at Beacon. “Oh. So what should we do about it? I don’t know if they’re coming here or not.” Beacon says. “What we should do about it is that we need to hurry up on collecting our stuff and help the other birds run and fly away.” Elara responds back. “Ok if you say so. But as for now the animal control experts are nowhere as close to finding our location.” Beacon says. While Beacon and Elara was continuing on picking up their stuff the humans somehow end up tracking the sisters trail and suddenly spots them. “There’s the birds!!! Let’s get em!!” Says one of the animal control people. Elara turns her head after hearing the human speak. “Beacon you might want to reconsider what you’ve said. We should start going right now!!” Elara says looking back and forth. Beacon quickly looks up at the animal control people as she then immediately picked up the stuff she could hold. “Everyone go go go!! Run far away as fast as you can!! And Beacon you should make a portal so that every bird can get inside it. Or maybe I can help you.” Elara says commandingly towards Beacon and all of the other birds while also grabbing the rest of the items near the spaceship right before she starts running away herself. “They’re getting away!! We must gain up on them!! We can’t let those things escape from our grasps!!” Says one of the animal control people. All of the ducks, owls, and eagles were flying really fast and far away from Beacon and Elara. Both Elara and Beacon used all their skills on running a bit much faster while gaining up on getting and staying closer to the ducks, owls, and eagles. The running and chasing only escalated further and further as everyone were trying their best on finding a way on losing the animal control people’s actions on catching them. It wasn’t long till everyone ended up on running into nothing but big and large trees. “Uh oh.” Says one of the ducks. “Aha!! Knew they would get stuck in a dead end! Let’s go and corner them!” One of the animal control people says. “Oh god, they’re coming closer to get us!! Hurry up!!” Elara says. “Okay! Let’s do this together!” Beacon says. Both Elara and Beacon use their powers to help open and create a white void-ish portal. “Okay, everyone must go in the portal right now!” Elara says telling the other birds what to do. Every one of the ducks, owls, and eagles had listened to Elara as they all flew inside of the white filled portal at a very fast pace. After all of them were in the portal, both Beacon and Elara ran into the portal themselves while they were carrying their items that their parents gave them. The animal control people were still running but before they could even dare enter the portal themselves, both Beacon and Elara managed to quickly close the entrance to the portal leaving all of the animal control people in the dust. “Great. Fucking fantastic!! We lost track of all of them. We were almost close to getting those shitty birds. Guess we’ll go back home then.” One of the animal control people says. Way back at the entrance of the forest all of the animal control people had packed up their things and entered inside their vehicles to then start driving away. After all of the animal control people were gone, Beacon, Elara, and all of the other birds were panting and breathing harshly trying to catch their breaths. “Phew, that was close. I’m glad that we all made it out safely.” Beacon says right before dropping the stuff that were in her wings and falling down onto the white ground. “*coughs a bit* Y-Yea. Maybe we should rest for a while.” Elara says right before collapsing on the ground too. All of the ducks, owls, and eagles looked at each other and shrugged, then they all decided to form groups based on their species and ended up falling asleep. It was then and there that everybody in the white void were asleep including Beacon and Elara. “Goodnight Princesses, a new morning awaits for you to explore. Until then, bye bye.” A unknown voice says in the abyss.
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PROLOGUE 1 ENDING

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PROLOGUE PART 2

In the early morning there were birds medium and small chirping and tweeting all throughout the entire forest. There were also even woodpeckers here and there pecking at holes while being inside of trees. Plus, small hummingbirds were also drinking and sucking nectar from freshly bloomed flowers. This was a beautiful morning that was shining brightly with nothing but peace surrounding it. Ever since it stopped raining, everything had became freshly renewed. Near ponds, rivers, and lakes were small robins and finches drinking and dipping their heads into water. Groups of birds here and there had flew through the landscape of the forest. Meanwhile back inside of the white void, both Beacon and Elara had woke up stretching seeing that the ducks, owls, and eagles were already awake staring at them. “*yawns* Why are every single one of you staring at us?? I didn’t expect that all of you would be awake.” Elara says in a tiresome mood. “*quacks* Sorry, but we all were wondering what was the stuff you guys had. A-And we just wanted to see what will happen if you both woke up to seeing us mess with your stuff.” Martha says in an anxious way. “Well to respond to that is you shouldn’t touch me and my sister’s stuff. It is sacred. It’s also fragile items that my sister and I have to hold and carry. So leave it alone.” Elara says sternly. “Ok, ok! We won’t touch your items again!” Martha says apologizing. Elara just sighs as she walks past her sister Beacon and starts opening up the portal which served as a way to travel from the forest into the white void. Elara walks out of the portal and starts traveling through the forest. Before Beacon could follow her sister, she turns around and tells the ducks (including Martha, the owls, and eagles to stay put and not to attack each other. Everyone listens to Beacon and stand their grounds. After seeing them do that, Beacon follows and catches up with her sister. Both of them travel into the clearing of the forest where the songbirds, woodpeckers, and hummingbirds were at. “Do know what to do?” Elara asks looking at her sister Beacon. Beacon nods before saying “Yes”. “Ok.” Elara says. Elara and Beacon both separate from each other as Elara starts to fly up high in the air. Beacon focuses her eyes on the small birds that are minding their own businesses. “Okay, just take a calm breath and start conversations. You can do this.” Beacon says mentally inside her mind. Up in the air while flying, Elara spends times flying around the world searching, finding, and rescuing many different types of species and breeds of birds. It may not seem that easy but as long as Elara still has her magical powers, she can possibly make herself carry and hold heavy and large birds. On the ground, Beacon walks carefully and slowly towards the groups of songbirds and other small birds trying not to scare them away. Once Beacon got closer to the songbirds, the songbirds immediately flew up into trees. “*tweets* Stranger danger!!” Says one of the songbirds. “Stranger? I’m not a stranger.” Beacon says back. “Tweet!! Oh really? Then who are you and why are you suddenly in our territory?” Asks one of the songbirds. “*thinks: that question again?* I’m Beacon and I have a sister named Elara. I am here because I want to help rescue your species and bring you all to a better place. Also, my sister and I don’t mean any harm to you guys. So all of you can trust us.” Beacon replies. “Will you help provide us with food?” One of the songbirds asks. “Yes of course. I’m sure that my sister and I will do that.” Beacon replies in a positive way. “Okay! We’ll trust you then!” One of the songbirds say. All of the songbirds, woodpeckers, and hummingbirds flew from where they were and came towards Beacon only to surround her. After some time of flying and looking around, Elara finally comes back to the forest that Beacon was inside of. Beacon looks up at the sky as she shows a shocked expression on her face with her golden yellow eyes widening and staring at how huge and large her sister was. Elara dives into the forest and softly lands down onto the green soft grass. “Um sis, what the fuck. How are you that damn huge? I thought you could only match my size and height. How is this even possible?!” Beacon says in an ambivalence tone. “What? Calm down Beacon. I had to use most of my powers in order to pick up and carry the heaviest birds including ostriches, emus, and cassowaries on my back while flying. If I did that with my regular size I would’ve fainted because those birds are the same size as us. Also I got every bird I could get over here. You must be happy.” Elara responds in a peeved tone. “Okay, i will calm down.” Beacon says before sighing and returning back to her calmness. Elara shrinks down and goes back to her normal size only being at the same height as her sister. After that all of the birds had gathered together and started to chirp, tweet, squawk, screech, quack, honk and make many other sounds at each other. The forest was filled with noise as much more birds were making noises at each other. “Ahem. Will everyone please calm down and shut up? We need a quiet gathering.” Beacon says in a sincere manner. All of the birds look at Beacon and then they all go back to doing their thing. “They won’t listen to you. Let me try.” Elara says. “*inhales and exhales* ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!! SHUT UP AND PAY ATTENTION!!” Elara says while shouting loudly in a very stern tone. “Oh, she means business.” Says one of the birds in the crowd silently. Elara smiles and calms down seeing all of the birds listen and behave. “See that? That’s how you get everyone to follow your orders.” Elara says in a very suave way while looking at Beacon. “Yea real charming....*rolls eyes*” Beacon says before scoffing. “Everyone, I announce that you all should listen to what my sister and I have to say. You must now know that all of you should learn that your world is filled with nothing but danger. But don’t fret, cause we both have a plan on making flocks separating all of you from each other so we could better set up a society for you guys.” Elara explains in front of all the birds in a calm and sincere demeanor tone. “Hm, that sounds reasonable but *squawks* why did you take us out of our homes?? All of us were doing fine without any problems.” Says one of the parakeets. “Because that home you were in were filled with birdsnatchers.” Elara responds abruptly. “Birdsnatchers?? What type of word is that?” One of the other birds in the crowd asks. “It’s a word that is now used to describe anything that isn’t a bird.” Elara says rolling her eyes trying not to get too mad. “*bawks* Hey why did you take me and my kind out of our humble barns??” One of the chickens asks. “Yeah!! Also, what are we all doing here?? What are you planning on doing with us?? There is no other place for us to go beside our own habitats.” One of the toucans asks with a upset look on their face. All of the other birds reply with “Yeah!!” and then all of them argue. “Will you calm down everyone?!” Elara says a bit loudly. Every bird sighs and listens to Elara as they all stop talking. “Phew. Ok, to explain what you are all doing here is that all of you are here to build a civilization and start living the lives of the humans you were once around. And what we are planning to do with all of you is that there is going to be homes designed for you and have everything handed to you without having someone/something else be in your way.” Elara says with confidence. “Wait. Elara....” Beacon says. “What?” Elara says turning her head towards her sister. “*whispers* I think we are missing a bird species.” Beacon says whispering inside of Elara’s nonexistent ear. “Oh....but what bird species?” Elara responds and asks. “*whispers* Penguins....” Beacon says while whispering. “Oh um, well maybe one day the penguins will come to us. I can’t fly to places that’s too cold for me.” Elara says. “*whispers* Alright.” Beacon says while whispering before she turns towards the audience and looks down at them. “Another thing I have to say is that humans are not what you guys think. They are nothing but evil scumbags who use you for their own entertainment. Most of them want to harm you and spoil the things you want/need.” Elara says trying to convince all of the birds below her. Silence surrounds the area until a chicken/hen starts saying “Bawk bawk!! Are you sure about that stuff you say?? I don’t believe it.” Some of the other birds started to agree with the chicken/hen. “Yes, I am confident in what I say and that none of it is fake. And if you guys don’t believe me then how about I call out the ducks from the other part of the forest?” Elara says in a statement. “Hey ducks!!! Come out and join us!!!” Elara says yelling out in the sky. “Okay!!! We’re coming!! But should we let the owls and eagles follow us??” Martha says from afar while being inside of the white void. “Yeah of course you could!! The more the merrier!!” Beacon says loudly. “Ok thanks!!” Martha replies back from afar. “You’re welcome.” Beacon says. Elara turns to look at her sister only giving her a glare while Beacon on the other hand just closes her eyes and gives a sheepish grin. All of the ducks, owls, and eagles had shown up to the clearing and began to join the huge crowd of birds. “Alright now everyone gather up and listen closely.” Elara says in a statement. All of the birds including Martha and the ducks stay silent. “Humans are evil. Am I right Martha??” Elara asks while looking at Martha. “Oh uh....yeah!! Yea they are!! Humans are evil!! They tried to attack and kill my family and all the other ducks!! Only because it was hunting season for them.” Martha says quickly with a small anxious expression. “Hear that everyone?? That’s my proof that humans are evil. To all you chickens and hens, if I didn’t save you most of you would either get killed by a fox or have your heads chopped off by a farmer.” Elara says cunningly. Everyone stays silent for a while until all of them start agreeing to what Elara says. “Yeah!! She’s right, humans are evil!!! Let’s start chanting!!” One of the birds in the crowd says. It doesn’t take long until all the birds were chanting and raving about how humans are evil because they are birds. Elara smirks being satisfied hearing everybody respect and agree with her. Beacon takes her gaze to look somewhere else. “But wait a minute, how are you going to provide us with food and keep us well fed??” Asks one of the birds in the crowd while looking curious. “We’ll have to see about that. I promised that I will provide food for the small songbirds since they want to live and eat as well. But my sister and I will come up with a plan and surprise all of you.” Beacon says calmly and confidently while smiling. “Ok ok, everyone should be quiet now. Let’s begin the revolution starting now. But before we all start, my sister and I are going to be making groups and these groups are called ‘flocks’.” Elara says. “Correct. My flock is going to ruled by me and actually I’m going to include two leaders and one deputy. I’m the main one to lead and hold this flock accordingly. Hence the fact that under my rules I expect everybody to follow them. As you can tell, my sister and I are both different colors. Therefore it means that my kinetic markings are associated with what you guys probably know is the Solar Eclipse.” Beacon says excessively in a detailed manner. “And I align myself with the Lunar Eclipse. My rules will be slightly different from my sister’s but it’s ok. The flock i’m making is going to consist of two leaders and one deputy too but if one of the leaders is retired or no longer alive they can be replaced and the deputy will take over the second leader spot. But the deputy doesn’t have to be a leader immediately, they can choose that if they want to but if they stay deputy they are allowed to.” Elara says in a voluble way. “So who’s willing to join my flock?? Anyone up for the Solar Eclipse flock?? In this flock we could grow greater and stronger than ever!” Beacon says while raising her wing up in the air. Some minutes pass by before some birds here and there started to agree and raise their wings. “Hmm, how about this......anyone that is a daytime diurnal bird, would you like to join my flock?? And any other bird would you like to be a citizen??” Beacon asks. Most of the birds including songbirds that were diurnal were quick to say ‘I’ll join. Pick me!’ a lot. Beacon liked this traction so she decided to allow and accept every bird that wanted to be in her flock. The birds that chose not to be in any of the flocks were left in their own group. “Anyone that is a nocturnal or crepuscular bird, would you like to join my flock?? The Lunar Eclipse flock??” Elara asks. Certain birds including the many different types of owls, eagles, hawks, vultures, ostriches, emus, and many others had agreed on joining Elara’s side as they all had raising their wings in the air and started saying ‘We’ll join’. “Hm, okay then. That’s good enough.” Elara says shortly after the birds on her side had agreed with her. A random falcon comes out of one of the groups as he goes closer to Beacon when he then starts talking to her asking “Ms.....uh what’s your name??”. Beacon has a look of confusion on her face but makes it go dim a bit as she lets out an answer from her mouth. “Beacon. My name is Beacon ok?” Beacon responds back to the falcon’s question. “Alrighty, Ms. Beacon can I be the co-leader of this flock?” The falcon asks. “Sure and what is your name?” Beacon replies and asks. “My name is—“ The falcon says getting cut off as every word he would say is in the background while Elara starts asking her own members. “Who wants to be second leader in command?” Elara asks suggestively. “I will, your highness.” A hawk says while bowing down in front of Elara. Elara and Beacon look at each other before one of them start saying “Okay, I think that’s all of it. Everyone should remember what flock they are apart of and that since they’ve joined that flock, you should stay loyal to it. Other than that you are all allowed to relax and do whatever you want to do as for now.” Elara speaks up loudly in a quick timely fashion. “Wait, there’s something we can show you. You are all not off the hook yet. Follow us.” Elara says. Beacon gives off a “are you really sure” look before joining in on her sister as she follows her flying through the forest and going towards the portal that’s connected to the white void. All of the birds also followed Beacon and Elara. As everyone was inside of the white void both Beacon and Elara had grabbed some peculiar staffs and started on using them. The birds were surprised seeing the beams of blue magic come out of the staffs. “Oops, we don’t need that. Not for now.” Beacon says. Beacon and Elara both put the staffs down and then they decide to go and use their powers to make the white void turn into a nice beautiful meadow with trees and bushes in certain spots. “Wow” Says one of the birds in the huge crowd. “Like what you see?? This place could be yours if all of you stay and work hard to keep this place to yourselves.” Elara says in a persuasive manner. “Yea! This looks awesome!!! Maybe we don’t need our homes after all!!” One the birds in the crowd says joyfully. “No wait. That’s not the only thing though. You guys can still have your natural biomes and habitats but it’ll be designed for birds only okay?” Beacon says. “Okay.” One of the birds in the crowd says out loud. “What we all want you guys to do actually is start building houses and whatever else you could make.” Elara says in a suave fashion as she smirks. “But how? We’re birds, not humans.” One of the birds says from in the crowd in a concerned and slightly confused manner. “Just build things using your skills. Use what you’ve guys already got but mix it with tools. *uses magic and creates human-made tools out of thin air and throws them* Here, this could help you all.” Elara responds. “What should all of us build? And when we are all finished what should we call this place??” Asks one of the birds in the crowd. “Here’s a tip, you all could build the stuff that humans had built. A city.” Elara replies. “A city? Huh, what kind of a city?” One of the birds ask from in the crowd again. “A metropolis city. One made by birds and is for birds. I don’t know the name of what should you call it but it’ll come to me later. Anyway, my sister and I are going to fly away and give you guys time to impress us. Since we’re both going to gather and collect food for all of you and maybe even try to make sure there is millions and trillions of it.” Elara says exquisitely. “Bye guys. Later on we’ll bring you guys appropriate food for all of your species. But while we’re gone please do what my sister says and start building.” Beacon says right before leaving out the portal with her sister Elara. Before any of the birds could talk to them, the portal was closed instantly. The birds mostly sighed before they all started to agree with each other to get their jobs done with. “Ok everybody let’s do this.” Says one of the birds. Everybody nods and says “Ok.”

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Time skip to Montage time.

Beacon and Elara both spend their times on flying to many different places searching, finding, and collecting food that satisfy the tastes of any bird that would eat it. Other than that, inside of the secret area hiding past the ‘human’ world forest the birds gained confidence as they all began to get interested in helping each other create and build a city constructed by them. Out of nowhere, a radio is placed down on the grass by a toucan as music is turned on playing a instrumental version of “Who let the dogs out” by Baha Men. Every bird begins to start tapping their feet as they all dance to the music. The birds start beginning to sing out the lyrics as one of them start saying “Who let the birds out” and “tweet tweet, chirp, quack, squawk” repeatedly. “Well the party was nice and it was bumpin’” One of the birds sang out. All the other birds say “Hey, yippie, yi yo”. “And everybody having a ball.” All of the birds say “Ha, ha, yippie yi yo”. “Until the fellas start the name calling.” The other birds responds with “Yippie Yi Yo”. “And I heard the girls respond to the call (I hear a woman shout out)” All of the birds sing and repeat the words “Who let the birds out” and “tweet tweet, chirp, quack, squawk” while they all start building things. Any other lyric of the song are sang by toucan who made the music start blasting out loud. While time was passing by all of the birds kept on singing and jamming to the music while building houses, stores/shops, and many other buildings and things. All of the woodpeckers would peck and drill their beaks making holes in trees while also helping other birds build things using the remains of the trees. Any other bird species like ostriches had to use their long necks in order to help up smaller birds so they could do their jobs on building things. After a while, some buildings and other stuff representing a city were starting to form and show up. The birds worked harder and faster as they all worked together to continue on creating and building infrastructures and many other things. The song was still playing but as the day was getting dull while the sun was going down, the song gradually descended along with the birds singing had also descended before everything started to fade away. The sun was going down in the evening filled sky as everything fades to black.

End of Montage.

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Time skip to nighttime

A portal was opened as Beacon and Elara both go through it entering the what used to be a small decent meadow with trees into a now freshly lit metropolis-like city. There were roads, cars, estates, parks, playgrounds, and many other stuff in various areas. Beacon and Elara were both amazed at the sight of how a successfully made city was in existence knowing that no human had made a masterpiece such as this. While Beacon and Elara were staring everywhere a small budgie came running towards the two sisters as he was jumping around excitedly. “Peep peep!! Yay you two are back! Look at all the amazing work we did when you were gone! Do you like it? Oh oh, and did you both bring everyone food?” The small white and blue colored budgie asked with huge bubbly dark gray eyes as he was smiling real wide. “Huh? Oh, yeah of course we love it. What you’ve all done was very impressive. And there is no doubt about that we did bring you guys food. Yet that’s not the only stuff we collected. We even collected and stole some phones, electronics and human made clothes but my sister and I both had used shrink rays to make some of the stuff made by humans become bird sized.” Elara replies back towards the budgie. “Oh ok! What should all of us do now?” The budgie asks. “*turns head around* Hmm, I think you should make a door to separate this place from the human world you used to live in. Here, my sister and I will help you after we bring in all of the stuff we grabbed and collected from the outside world.” Elara says admiringly. The small budgie flys out of the way as he stays sustained in the air for five minutes watching the two sisters push/pull and carry wagons and other containers that were filled with many different items. Once every possible item and thing were brought into the city, the two sisters had walked closer to the open portal as they both use their powers making and turning the portal in a semicircular door-like shape. “Perfect.” Elara says before taking a puff of air out of her lungs. “With that shape right there, you and everyone else could make a least three doors for every bird of any size. That portal is at least 20/21 inches long. Meaning that most of the huge or large sized birds won’t have problems entering and exiting this city. Here’s another thing, I think i’ve came up with a name for this place. Let’s call this city Epilasia, sounds like it has a good ring to it.” Elara says exquisitely with a smug grin on her face. “Alrighty then! But wait, when all of us birds get finished with building doors what else should we do after??” The small budgie asks after flying down and landing on the ground. “After you complete the job of making doors, all of you could expand the city and build more and more things before possibly building and creating a royal palace/castle for my sister and I to live in.” Elara says in a elegant manner while having her eyes blinking softly as she has a soothing smile. “Okay!! Thank you Ms. Elara!!!” The small budgie says while smiling. Beacon wanted to speak during the whole time but she didn’t as she kept quiet seeing her sister doing the talking. Elara and her sister both walk together while continuing on carrying and pulling/pushing items inside of containers and wagons throughout the streets of the metropolis city. It would take forever until midnight and early morning to get items and food far inside the city but while both Beacon and Elara have their powers they can do anything. Including putting the specific stuff they collected in certain places where citizens could easily access them.

Later on that night.......

By midnight, everyone in the city were fast asleep. No noise, music, or talking/chirping was ever present. Even Beacon was asleep. Except for her sister Elara, who was sneaking around the palace hall of the hugest building in the sky near the mountains. Elara was walking on her tippy toes trying to be careful of not disturbing the peace of the silent atmosphere. Every step was taken as Elara’s small feet was softly pressing the floorboard of the palace carpets. Elara walked everywhere but finally she enters the throne room where her sister and herself would sit in. She grins deviously seeing her targets which was a small golden crown next to a silver cloak laying and sitting on her sister’s throne chair. On the other hand, Elara’s own throne chair had nothing on it at all. Elara frowned and squinted her glowing purple eyes at the sight of her throne not having nothing. “Peccable” Elara says mentally inside her mind. She sneaks closer and closer towards the crown and cloak thinking about wearing them. After sneaking for a while she reaches her destination as she stands close and hovers over the crown and cloak. She stares down at the two items in front of her as waves of desired feelings overflowed her mind. “Take it. Take the crown and the cloak. It won’t hurt.” A voice in her mind tells her. Beacon emerges from her slumber as she walks through the palace herself looking for her sister. Finding her sister wasn’t a hard task because there she was, she was messing with Beacon’s stuff. Beacon was a bit unhappy seeing this so she walked up behind Elara and as soon as she was close enough to be behind her, she began speaking. “Elara, what are doing?” Beacon asks sternly. Elara stands in one spot trying to ignore her sister. “Elara. Tell me what you’re doing and step away from my crown and cloak.” Beacon says in a low deep voice while being stern. “No. You don’t tell me what to do. I’m here to prove you wrong on your leadership. I don’t think you’re ready to handle being a leader of any flock. I have thousands of books and orb staffs that i’m going to bring with me to put in the city so the townsfolk will read and learn about how to become great flock members and leaders using both your rules and mine. Plus most of them must know there is magic in these staffs and those books will help make them know how to use them. There is even suits of armor that I will let all of the birds have availability to access and use. The books has plenty of helpful lessons that will make all of the birds know about armor and how to use it. Mainly everything that the birds will have to know about is inside those books.” Elara calmly says talking back to her sister. “What? That doesn’t make any sense. Elara please listen to yourself and step away from the crown and cloak.” Beacon says as slight panic arose in her voice while her glowing golden yellow eyes was glistening against her white and spotty plumage underneath the moonlight. Elara ignores her sister Beacon as she uses her wings to put on and wear the golden crown on the top of her head. So then after that she pulls on the silver cloak over her body and wears it. Elara looks to her left seeing a orb staff, not hesitating she grabs the staff with her left wing and holds it sideways as it points at her sister Beacon. “E-Elara, what are y-you doing? Please put the staff down! Listen to me right now!! Before it’s too late!” Beacon says in fear. “No, once again you can not tell me what to do. I’m done with your tomfoolery, you listen to me because you are inexperienced but I am not. Only I can be the better ruler of this world in this minuscule realm!!” Elara says bitterly with a harsh tone in her voice as the glare in her eyes deepened while having the tips of her beak press down roughly on each other as she frowns. Tension was in the air as both sister and sister were circling around the room looking at each other giving mean facial expressions and making snarl sounds. In a quick moment, Beacon tries to run in and attack her sister but before she could do that she instantly gets kicked in the face as her entire body is thrown into the air and is slammed against the wall. After the impact of hitting the wall, Beacon’s body slides down slowly onto the floor as Beacon herself has a small bit of yellow colored blood leak from her head. She breathes heavily before coughing some yellow blood too. The wounds wasn’t major since it could always be healed with magic. But it didn’t matter since Elara stood above Beacon with a mischievous grin on her face. “Sorry that I must do this to you but it has to happen.” Elara says while pointing the orb staff at her sister’s face. Right before a blue beam of magic coming from the staff could reach or touch Beacon, Beacon immediately dashes and moves out of the way. This resulted in Elara being enraged. “Come here and don’t move!!!” Elara says while shouting. Beacon began to start running away from her sister as she went back and forth between rooms throughout the palace. Elara hated this, she didn’t want to chase her sister but she had to. During the running around, Elara came up with a plan. When both Elara and Beacon went back to running inside of the throne room, Elara uses her right foot to pull and snag the rug sideways off the floor. As a result by this, Beacon fell and slipped face forward down hard onto the tile floor. Elara giggles and laughs evilly seeing how her sister fell. “Oops, seems like you fell. But don’t worry you don’t have to think about falling anymore with my help. So here let me help you.” Elara says in a malicious tone. Beacon gasps in horror as she tries to scamper to her feet and run away but ends up slipping and falling with each try. After many tries, Beacon finally manages to grab and hold the side of a wall being connected to where a door should be while using her wing as she gains little restraint on getting her balance standing up straight. She quickly turns her head around to face her opposing sister. “Wait sister, wait!! Please!! No!!—-“ Beacon says in a begging and pleading manner right before she ended up getting turned to stone from the effects of the orb staff shooting out a blue colored light beam. “Sorry sis, but it had to be done. One day you’ll see that I was right. But it’s time for me to go now.” Elara says cunningly. Some minutes past as the crown and cloak that Elara was wearing suddenly turned black. She sighs right before using her magic to make a huge backpack she should carry while having tons of books, orb staffs, and different types of armor inside of the backpack. The only orb staff that wasn’t put inside the backpack was the one that Elara used. So therefore she decided to hold the staff in the claws of her feet. Before leaving, she looks around to see if everything is collected. She shakes her head up and down in approval which meant she had the things she needed to bring with her. And just like that she was off, she was flying fast and swift through the night sky. She flaps her wings and starts diving down into the city. But she sharply stops herself from touching or landing on the ground of the city streets as she takes off the backpack and unzips it and lets the contents and the backpack itself fall down into the city. After seeing everything fall onto the ground, Elara began to turn around and fly away from the city while making sure that she doesn’t go back to the palace. The beautiful scenery of the night sky had the moon shining its light against Elara’s very dark purple plumage. Looking everywhere, Elara tries searching for a place to temporarily live and sleep in but without having anybody see her. She sighs as she flies to where the mountains behind the bird-created forest was. She flies very fast after seeing a open cave in one of the mountains. Without any mistakes or injuries, Elara safely lands down at the entrance of the cave. She walks further into the cave before letting go of the orb staff from out her feet. Next, she looks around the place and the outside of it. “Not a bad place. I might make this my lair, but first i’ll have to get minions to follow my lead. *sighs* But for now, this is my home and since I took care of my sister only I can do what I want. I am no longer Princess Elara, I am now Dark Scarlet.” Elara says while talking to herself. She sighs again as she grabs her orb staff with her right wing and then proceeds to walk further and deep inside of the cave as her entire form fades to black. “Oath to those who scratch, peck, and flutter should put those tactics to use and not give it away to those that will steal it from you. May your forthcoming be radiant and shine with you.” A unknown voice says in the abyss.

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PROLOGUE 2 ENDING

Chapter Text

In the cold breezy weather of the south pole there lived a colony of emperor penguins. Inside of that colony was a baby penguin who was just beginning to hatch out of their egg while hiding underneath their father's pouch between his feet. It takes some time until the baby penguin finally hatches and starts coming out of the egg. Once out the egg, the baby penguin struggles on pulling himself out from underneath his father's pouch. The father penguin sighs as he tries his best on helping his child to come out from underneath him. While the father penguin was busy helping out his kid to get out of his pouch, the mother penguin comes in to check on her mate and offspring. "Did they hatch yet?" The mother penguin asks while looking down at the pouch between her mate's feet. "Yep, just trying to help him get out from beneath me." The father penguin replies back to his mate. "Oh, well then I guess i'll help too." The mother penguin says. "Nah, I got this." The father penguin replies. After a few moments was passing by, the father penguins manages to make the baby penguin pop out of the pouch from between his feet. The baby penguin slides and slips onto the icy ground right after he's out of his father's pouch. As a result of sliding, the baby penguin shakes his head vigorously before lifting his head up. And with his head up he slowly but surely opens his eyes up.

Teterburr's Pov:

I shot my eyes open seeing my surroundings not knowing about my whereabouts. I look back and forth, then stand up on my two feet as I look up and see unfamiliar faces of two adults standing close to me. I blink my eyes twice hoping what I was seeing was real or not but apparently it was real. I was confused on who these adults were surrounding me. "Aw, look at how cute he is. Honey, he has your red eye color. So young and cute!" I heard one of the adults say to the other one behind me. I was frowning a bit as I didn't understand these people. "He's our son, a wonderful one. What should we name him?" I heard the adult ask the other one. The adult behind me sighs while he uses his flippers to pick me up and holds my weight close to his body. "Maybe we should name him Skipper. Or Foro." I heard the adult holding me says. "No, how about Teterburr (tet-ur-burr). That sounds like a better name than those two." I hear the other adult say. "Okay then guess we'll go with that." I hear the adult behind me say. "W-Who are you two? A-Are you my p-p-pawents?" I ask nervously as the words come out my small black beak. "Aww, his first words. Silly dilly, we are your parents. Look at your father, he looks just like you. Both of you have red eyes while I have brown eyes." I hear my now supposed "mother" say. "Yes, that's right. We look the same." I hear my dad say. "Ok but w-wat are your names?" I ask again. "*laughs* Don't be so silly. My name is Hability and i'm your mother while your father is Castefer but others call him Chief Castefer." I hear my mother now named Hability say to me. "Anywho, why don't you go to the other baby penguins in that group over there and make some new friends?" I hear my mother Hability ask me. My father puts me down and lets me go. I softly get pushed by mother's flipper while I hear her telling me to 'go on' and 'you can talk to them'. I shrugged so I listened to what my mother said as I start walking and waddling away from my parents while heading towards the bundle of baby penguins with the same body color as me. I sometimes slip and fall since the ice was slippery against the smooth surface. But I would always get up soon after and continue to walk/waddle. I walk and waddle closer to the group of baby penguins while looking around the place across the entire mainland of my home seeing many other adult penguins standing and waddling everywhere. As I got close to the group of the other baby penguins, I went to try and force myself in the circle since everyone was huddling and staying close together as a way to be warm. Inside of the group I felt squished by everyone else since i felt thousands of flippers and beaks poking and pushing me everywhere. I struggled as I was wanting to not be surrounded tightly by other penguins. It takes some time till I managed to push myself in the middle where it isn't too crowded. Being relieved of finding the middle of the group, my eyes glowed with huge sparkles in them as I saw a girl penguin with blue eyes like sapphire. I quietly said 'wow' and 'woah'. She looked beautiful to me, I knew I had to talk to her. Maybe me and her could be friends and if we're both lucky we could grow up together to have kids and raise a family. I was eagerly quick in running towards her but slipped and fell each time trying to. It doesn't take much time till the girl turns around to look at me slipping and falling on the icy ground. She gasps seeing me as she went to run towards me and starts on helping me up. She extends out her flipper to me expecting for me to grab it and hold onto it. I smile a bit while stretching my flipper and making it reach and grab hers. In a tight hold with both of our flippers touching each other, the girl uses her strength on pulling me up with both of her flippers. "T-Thanks. I needed help right there." I said nicely after wobbling a bit trying to stand up straight. "Hehe, you're welcome." I hear her reply to me. "You're cute. Uh, do you want to be friends?" I asked the girl penguin sheepishly while a small smile stretches slowly through my beak. "Yeah sure! What's your name? My name's Mionna and I love to dance and twirl!" Mionna says in a brightly happy mood towards me. "Eh. I guess my name is Teterburr. It's something my parents named me but it isn't a bad name though. I hope you don't mind it." I said in a uncertain tone while looking away and back at Mionna. "Teterburr? Nah, I don't mind that name. It sounds unusual but I sort of like it." Mionna says replying back to me. "Oh okay. That seems nice. So are we friends now?" I asked. "Uh huh! Wanna snow fight?" Mionna asks looking at me. "Um, there isn't any snow here. There's just ice and mountains." I replied back to her. "No silly. I know that there isn't any here in this area but if we leave and go to where there is snow. We could probably play together and make snowballs to start throwing at each other." Mionna says whispering quietly inside my nonexistent ear. "Ohh. So basically we're just gonna sneak out the group and stay away from the others?" I whispered back while my beak was close to Mionna's nonexistent ear. "Yep. But shhh, we gotta be quiet and sneak out of this huge group of kids. Also, we need to make sure the adults or our parents don't see us leaving the group." Mionna says whispering in my nonexistent ear again. I nod my head saying "Ok". "Kay', follow my lead." Mionna says talking to me. Quietly and carefully me and Mionna were walking together as we both slipped through the big crowd of baby penguins. Being free and out of the baby penguin group, we both had started playing tag as Mionna was chasing me which was leading us to be far away from everyone and everybody including the other baby penguins inside the group. Me and Mionna was having fun as we would always say "Tag! You're it!" each time we took turns switching roles. We was having so much fun not worrying anything about someone or something following after us. At a certain moment we stopped playing tag since we both found an area where there was snow. "Here we are! Snow! Now we can do a snow fight and make snowmen!" Mionna says cheerily with a wide smile across her face looking at me. "Oh yeah!! That sounds awesome!! Let's do it!" I replied excitedly. And just like that we didn't take much time as we both went to quickly make snowballs and started playing together throwing the snowballs at each other. We laughed, giggled, and overall rolled around in the snow making snow angels. Me and Mionna also made snowmen since we sort of got bored of just doing snowball fights as it was only us two. We both even played hide and seek in the snow, since we both would take turns putting our bodies under the snow while the other is counting and trying find the person inside the snow. It felt like me and Mionna was going to be best friends. I never wanted this to end but shortly soon enough someone would come looking for us. I was daydreaming a bit here and there but Mionna helped me to snap out of it, then we both continued on playing together and did many childlike things. In some moments Mionna would pin me down and playfully fight with me. We did tickle fights and play fights. For example, Mionna would use her beak to poke my neck and nibble on my flipper. She would even use her own flippers to gently hit me a little and I would hit her back with my flippers in a gentle manner too. Using our feet to fight was hard but in small moments Mionna would stand on top of me with her feet touching my chest. Shortly after Mionna gets off of me when finishing up on using her time to stand on my chest. I would try to repeat some of the stuff Mionna did to me but while mixing my own original ways of fake combat with her too. However, in a short while me and Mionna stopped play fighting and we both started conversations with each other. "Hey, Teterburr." Mionna says looking in my ruby red-like eyes as I stare into her blue sapphire-like eyes. "Yes? What is it?" I asked replying back. "Do you think we're gonna grow up together? Who are your parents by the way? I know mine but do you know yours?" Mionna says asking me curiously. "I-I um, I think we could grow up together but we'll have to rely on our parents. A-And, my parents are Hability and Castefer. My father is the chief leader of everyone else in this landscape of a place." I reply awkwardly. "Oh that's sounds really cool! Your father is the leader of penguins!! Ok ok, wait, my parents are Tilla and Morque and their not leaders. *gasps loudly* Oh my gosh!! I think you can become the leader of penguins one day and I could become your mate!! That sounds great doesn't it? If your father retires or dies you could replace him and be a strong and courageous leader! Then if that happens everyone will call you chief Teterburr!!" Mionna says in a very excitedly and cheerfully mood with a huge smile across her face as she jumps around and twirls a lot talking to me. "Ahah, hah. I can't disagree with you on that one. But yeah I agree with you, I believe so too that I can be leader. And actually I don't like the name of chief, how about I get called Lord Teterburr?? That sounds way better than Chief Teterburr. Plus, do you really think we could become mates? I'm not against the idea since I l-like you but how would our parents react?" I asked replying to Mionna's bubbly and jumpy attitude. "Hmm, if people call you lord that will be a different reaction. Leaders prefer to be called chief not lord! But I guess if you want to be called that, there's no say in me stopping you if you like that title. And yes of course I think we can become mates! I don't mind if our parents say anything about it. I think our parents will adore us and accept us two being together. One day we could have a family and raise our own son/daughter!! Other than that, I am confident that you will be a great leader and I will always support you and that you should never give up!!" Mionna says in a cheerful state while looking at me. "Okay then. I'm glad that your here to support me. Hopefully soon that day will come and we will be adults doing our own things together. I love you Mionna. I hope that you could promise me that when we do become mates, I hope you could give me love and our future kid some love. I'll be guarding our future egg and child of course but I hope you will feed him or her with the right amount of food. I also hope you would always hug him/her and nuzzle your beaks together staying with them and caring for them. That's what our future will and should be. Will you keep that promise?" I ask bashfully and sincerely while looking deep into Mionna's eyes as I stand close to her. "Yes, i'm sure that I will keep that promise. As long as I live, I understand everything you said. *looks up at sky* But it seems to be getting late, we must go back to our parents and the other penguins or else they'll be very worried about us missing. It's almost going to be nighttime and it's only the evening so let's go." Mionna says in a dull and serious tone while looking back and forth at the sky and at me. "Ok, let's stay close when going back. I don't want to get lost." I replied shortly after what Mionna says. Mionna starts walking and waddling away being in front of me while I follow her lead and walk/waddle behind her. While we were both walking and waddling together, out of nowhere we heard a shout coming from behind us. Me and Mionna both turn our heads to see who it is that it is shouting from behind our backs. We both looked surprised seeing a group of 5 baby penguins while one was in front of them all, making it seem that there was 6 kids in our path. The kid in front of the other ones was walking/waddling closer to us. They give off a smug grin on their face right before saying something to us. "Hey, where are you going off to? You do know that me and everyone else behind me heard everything and saw everything you two said and done. The only way of how is that we all secretly followed you and spied on you since we couldn't risk ourselves being caught by you two or the adults. So tell me, what are you doing here?" The kid in front of us asks while looking at me and Mionna. "Uh, we were just about to leave this area and go back to the baby penguin group and our parents. And the answer to the other question is uh......we was only here to play and have fun doing nothing but having snowball fights, making snow angels, making snowmen, playing tag, and playing hide and seek." Mionna quickly says before trying to dash off as I follow her. "Hold it!! You two aren't going anywhere. Don't just run away and pretend you're not in trouble. Me and everybody else could easily tell on you. You don't want that now do you? Imagine, thousands of adults and other children with a reaction towards you both sneaking off expecting for nobody to come and find you. That would be an huge embarrassment and it would be very disappointing, right?? *turns around* Am I right guys? *hears everyone say yes and yep, then turns around again* See?? That proves everyone agrees with me and I am right. Oh ho ho, wowzers I can't forget about you buddy with the red eyes of eh i don't know what i'm looking at. That is totally not a normal or natural eye color. Just look at that, those eyes are freaking red it looks weird!" The kid circling around me and staring at me says. I frown a bit after hearing that and I also got a bit more upset as all of the kids behind him giggle and laugh in a mean way. I turn to see Mionna about to say something and apparently she did. "*looks back and forth harshly* Hey! Don't be mean! I have blue eyes and that isn't common either but at least I have dignity!! Leave him alone, he did nothing to you to be attacked verbally!! And don't say he looks weird, don't even call him weird. He's fine." I hear Mionna say as she defends and protects me. I hear the kid scoff and make a raspberry 'plbbt' sound. "Hah!! As if! Listen girly, this is a boys thing only. You have no say in the matter of what I call this red eyed freak!! Everyone surround him!! Make sure that the dumb girl doesn't interfere!" I hear the kid say as he's referring to me and only me. I sort of get worried and concerned about what's about to happen to me. I barely catch a glimpse of Mionna trying to save me but before she could, all of the 5 kids that were with the 6th one had came to surround me. Which made me feel isolated with only 5 other kids surrounding me blocking my way to be near or close to Mionna while the 6th/main kid is in my presence. "No!!! Don't hurt him! He's my friend!! Leave him alone!!" I hear Mionna shouting while she tries to force herself to get to me. "Back off!!" I hear one of the kids surrounding me say as I see and watch them punch/smack Mionna away making her fall down into the soft snow. "Heh. So let me see here, your name is Teterburr right? And the girl's name is Mionna, correct?" The kid in front of me asks. "Y-Yes. I am Teterburr and my friend's name is the girl who's named Mionna." I replied trying not to sound too afraid while confronting the kid. "Hmm, okay then... Y'know, I've heard that you wanted to become a leader like your father. I don't know if you could agree with me but it's IMPOSSIBLE to become a leader. To be a leader you would have to defend and protect everyone who would even dare listen to you, respect you, and of course trust you. Do you think your dad's job is that easy? No, it isn't. Because here's a thing you don't know, your father has to prevent predators like skuas, leopard seals, sea lions, sharks, and orcas from killing and eating children and adult penguins. Yet YOU however are not even fit or tough to be a leader. Like, it's not possible you could ever be a leader since I believe that you're gonna have all kinds of predators to come and kill everyone including yourself. You gross red eyed fiend!" The kid in front of me says in a very crude and mean way. "L-Look, i'm not here to fight you or anything like that. I did nothing wrong, can we please talk this out? What I said about becoming a leader was just a silly dream eh heh..... Also, could you please be a little more nice and not call me names?? I would really appreciate it." I say and ask with a shaky breath in my voice while looking at the kid's orange eyes staring back at me with a glare. "*snickers* You are pathetic, so weak and dumb. Do you expect me to listen to you and do what you tell me?? Ha! I think not!! Now you listen to me, whatever you said don't matter. You will not become a dang leader, it's not even the right task or job for you to cater to. Your also not even skilled enough to deal with fighting against an enemy or predator. And that dumb girlfriend of yours isn't going to be your future mate, so you could kiss your daydream future family crap goodbye because it won't and never will freaking happen. I'm going to be the leader actually and not you, also that friend of yours will be my mate too. Oh oh, and another thing to say is that i'm never going to stop calling you names. You are ugly, you are a scummy fool, your a fishhead and many other things I could call you. I can go on and on with these nicknames for you, because nobody and I mean nobody wants to see you or be around you. Maybe you should run away and cry to your mommy. Or wait, maybe don't do that. Instead you could sacrifice yourself and let those leopard seals or orcas or whatever else in the water to come and eat you right up!! Then you wouldn't be here anymore. Haha!! *sighs* To be honest with you, you must be stupid to think that we aren't gonna fight. I'm much more smarter and braver than you could ever be!! That's why scaredy-cats should never exist!! You better toughen up and fight me like a dude!! Or else you'll be just a dumb, stupid, weak, pathetic little sissy." I hear the very rude and mean kid say to me as he was looking angry and malevolent being in my face. I felt a bit scared as I back up away from the kid bullying me, and oh great gosh he was right. I am a scaredy cat and I am weak. Maybe I should give in. No, I can't. He's just trying to break my spirit by calling me names and attacking me with words. But then again, the way of how he threatened me saying I should sacrifice myself and let predators eat me made me believe if that would happen I would not be alive anymore. I wanted to cry hearing those exact words, it didn't seem right. Everything else he has said to me was just as bad as him threatening me. I didn't like anything about this kid. He's too mean. Wait, who is this guy? I don't know him. I don't even know his name. I must find out who he is and ask him why is he bullying me. I sigh taking a breath in and out. "Excuse me but it appears that you should be back to your parents. Since your behavior is not allowed or okay to be judging people on what they look like! Where did you even learn to speak the way your speaking to me?? I never said any insult to you or anything else bad. Yet your saying insults and bad stuff towards me. Your a meanie!! Also, how about you be quiet and shut it?! I will become a leader one day and I will behave more better than you could be!! Plus my friend who's name is Mionna and don't you dare forget it will be and always will be my mate, not yours. So therefore you're wrong. Oh and, you are not smarter, braver, stronger, or anything else than me. People who say that are just afraid to admit that they themselves are a weak person on the inside. Oh and wait a minute, what's your name?? If you know mine then what's yours? Please tell me, I need to know. And another thing to point out is that I am not a sissy. I can fight, just you wait and see. I am not weak or dumb or stupid!!!" I reply with a spiteful and upset tone in my voice as I yell with a high-pitched sounding voice trying to make myself sound brave while still confronting the kid in front of me. "*laughs loudly* Ahaha!! What a great show this is!! Lookie here, we have a small competitor trying to prove that he's brave!! Ahahahaha!!!" I hear the kid laugh and say while he's pointing his flipper at me making fun of me. I frown in silent anger as I hear all the other penguins surrounding me laughing loudly. I hear him sigh and turns back to me with a serious look on his face. "Listen, listen, listen, if you don't shut up and let me talk I might have to force you to run away myself. I might as well tell you my name before I go on. Ahem, my name is Paletano. If you think you're so brave and strong thinking you could beat me, then why don't you start fighting me right now?? Huh?? Huh? Yeah, I thought so. You are just the same as the others, weak and vulnerable. Not able to defend yourself. Always relying on an adult or some other kid to come and protect you. Stupid sissy." I hear Paletano say to me while looking the other way. I felt anger and hate fuel and rage inside me since I couldn't take the name calling, insults, and/or the threats. I immediately take action as I leap in the air and jump on top of Paletano. I breath heavily and deeply while having my body hover above my bully's body. I growl very deep as my beak and mouth turns into a big frown. I watch and see my bully Paletano frown at me as he used his flippers to push me off of him making my body fly in the air for a short moment before abruptly landing down into the snow. I fall on my back in the snow then I make myself sit up and stand up. Me and Paletano stare into each others eyes with nothing but hate and anger targeted towards each other. It wasn't much longer till we both fought and attacked each other. We both was going at each other's throats after all we were hitting each other with our flippers and pushing and kicking each other too. "G-Guys? What's going on?? Hello? I can't see!" I hear Mionna in the background say. I gasp for a little bit hearing her voice but shook my head back and forth to go back to focusing the fight. I run fast towards Paletano seeing he's doing the same thing as me. I try attacking him but before I could I look up in the air and watch Paletano planning to jump on me. I try to turn around and run away but suddenly I get pinned down on the side of my body. I growl angrily seeing and feeling my bully's foot pressing down against the side of my face and head while he's standing on top of me. "Let m-me go. Get off of me. I-I want to fight you to p-p-prove that i'm not weak!" I said stuttering a bit since my face and head was pressed down very harshly by my bully's foot. "Shut up. Quick!! Everyone!! Let's kick him and beat him! Let's also call him names making fun of him and spit on him!" I hear Paletano yell and shout at the other kids. I gave up in wanting to fight, let alone do anything as all the kids and Paletano start kicking me, punching me, stomping on me, and spitting on me. I was told many awful words and insults that I couldn't even imagine was possible. I was threatened a lot and was still being bullied. I cried a lot feeling the pain being brought down on me. I begged and cried for mercy but I was ignored. "Stop, stop. Quit it! Leave me alone! It hurts!! Please stop!!" I begged crying and sniffling. My cries and begs was not enough to stop them as they continued on hurting me. The only thing I could do was try to cover my face and head with my flippers to not have bruises or black eye markings across my face. The stuff happening to me was against my will since I didn't ask for this to happen to me. I cried and cried more and more the more pain was put on me. During this moment I would get kicked in my stomach at times and I would cough up small ounces of red blood. It felt like I was dying but not quite exactly since I was still alive suffering in pain. I didn't like this, I didn't want to be here. But, if this is how life is gonna treat me then so be it. THIS is where I learn things differently. This was my life and it will never change. I'm no longer innocent, i'm different. Thanks to my bullies, they've taught me a lesson I'll never forget. Some time has passed since the sun went down without me noticing it meanwhile the bullies that was hurting me finally stopped their torment on me once they've realized it was nighttime already. I laid there restless in the quiet snow covering the side of my body as I watch the pitter-patter of feet running past me. I breathed in and out slowly while a small smile of relief grew upon my face thinking about how happy I was to see all my bullies fully gone. Once everything grew quiet, it was only me and Mionna by ourselves again. I hear her gasp in shock as she sees all the kinds of bruises and marks all over my body. "Are you okay? I'm sorry that I let that happen to you. I wanted to help you but they wouldn't let me in. Did they hurt you? Tell me if it hurts if I touch you. I know it wasn't your fault for what they did to you, I should've kept you from harm. I'm the one at fault. I shouldn't have made such a stupid decision on me convincing you to leave the group we were in and leave all the other penguins behind. I'm sorry. *sniffles*" I hear Mionna say in a regretful tone to me while she stands close to my still living and breathing body. "Shh, shh. It's okay, i'll be fine. Just a few bruises here and there no biggie. I'm not gonna die. *coughs* You just gotta *cough*, help drag me back home to where our parents and families are. *coughs a lot*" I say weakly and quietly trying to comfort and calm down Mionna. Mionna sighs as she uses her flipper to touch me, I groan in pain as a response to her touch. "Seems like that do hurt. I'll have to slowly pick you up and handle with you. Because if I don't the pain will only get worse. I'll help you up." I hear Mionna say to me as she slowly grabs my body with her left flipper before using her other flipper to pull my injured flipper. Slowly and carefully Mionna manages to work her way up on helping me stand up. After she helped me get onto my feet, she hugged me. Nice and tightly. I could feel her tears flowing down her face behind me while I heard her softly sobbing. I sighed as I use my flippers to hug her too. "Oh Teterburr i'm so so sorry that you were bullied by those meanies. I hated how they tortured you while leaving me in the dust of not interacting with the scenery. I should've been more careful. I should've!! *cries*" I hear Mionna say with her head touching the side of mine's. "Shh....it's okay. Like i've said, i'm not gonna die. I'm going to be fine. We gotta go back home now. It's late." I've said in a soft almost breathless tone while my eyes slowly blink. "I just, care about you. Also, whatever those bullies said to you. Don't listen to them. They don't mean anything. You're not ugly or pathetic or any of the other things they called you. I think that your handsome, brilliant, and dashing. Plus, don't listen to those meanies trying to steal your confidence of becoming a leader. I'm sure that it will happen one day of you becoming a leader. It's not impossible. Moreover, when that Paletano guy told you about me I felt furious. I didn't even know him. I don't think i'll ever love him more than you. But sure of course I'll help you bring both of us back to our homes and families." I hear Mionna say while confessing to me. I pat her on the back slowly with my flipper before talking. "It's fine, i'm okay. It'll just take some time for these wounds to heal. It'll get better. Just promise me one more thing." I said while talking softly. "What?" I hear Mionna ask me. "Please promise me that when we become mates, I hope we'll never ever part. I don't want to lose you. We must stay together, forever. Do you flipper promise?" I ask her in a soft dull tone. I hear her sigh a bit before she answers my question. "Yes. I flipper promise." I hear Mionna reply back to me. "Ok, now we must go. Carry me." I said. "Alright." I hear Mionna reply back to me again. Soon after our conversation, Mionna helped pull, carry, and drag my body on the side of her shoulder while walking/waddling and trudging through the snow and ice making our way back home to our parents waiting yet probably looking for us. This was evident that this would go into my adulthood for now. Guess I'll have to wait and see. I hope.

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THIRD POV:

5 years and 8 months later....

Years has passed since Teterburr was bullied endlessly by Paletano and his friends. Teterburr's parents smile at him saying how he grew up and is now an adult penguin with a beautiful slick black and white plumage all over his body. No bruises was on his body as an adult though cuz' his body healed over time. He had yellow and orange markings on his neck and had a orange and black colored beak. His red eyes was small and beady on the sides of his face as well. Teterburr would hug and conform his parents showing that he loved them at least a little bit. Then he would walk/waddle away from them. He was still friends with Mionna as he would be eager to meet her again. As soon as Teterburr meets up with Mionna, they both greet each other smiling and hugging. After that they both waddle/walk together side by side as they both were talking to each other about certain things. While walking/waddling together an familiar enemy approaches quietly towards Mionna and Teterburr. Without them noticing or seeing the person they both stopped walking/waddle as they started talking to each other. "Hey Mionna, since we're both adults now. May I ask you a question?" Teterburr asks nicely towards Mionna. "Yea sure." Mionna replies back to him. "Will you be my mate? Nobody's here around us." Teterburr asks. "Of course. I would love to become your mate." Mionna replied back again. Both Mionna and Teterburr smile at each other while giggling. An unknown yet familiar penguin approaches them both very quickly by waddling/walking fast. They slow down and stop soon after right before talking. "Hey!!" An unknown yet familiar voice shouts out in the distance between the person shouting, Mionna, and Teterburr. The shouting caught both Mionna and Teterburr's attention. They both look at each other in confusion, then they both look back the person far away from them. "You two aren't mates. Because if you two were, then yikes. Besides, you'll have to fight me first if you want to be her mate. Remember me??" The unknown voice coming from the familiar looking person says while he reveals his figure to both Mionna and Teterburr. Teterburr gasps in shock as his eyes widened seeing who was in front of him. Teterburr snarls feeling angry thinking about how come this person was just standing there in front of him and his what's supposed to be his mate. "You. It's you. Why are you here?! You've caused me so much trouble, so much pain. I hate seeing you. Go away and don't bother ruining our moment." Teterburr says in an unhappy mood trying to threaten the person in front of him and Mionna. The stranger just scoffs and snickers. "Yes, it is me. Knew you would remember my face. I'm Paletano, the one who made you be in pain. It's still pathetic that you try to threaten me and make me go away. You know i'm not listening to you. I'm just here to tell you that if you want to be Mionna's partner, then you'll have to get through me in a fight to have her. That's what all adult male penguins do, is that they always fight over a female. So go tell Mionna to move out the way. Cuz' i'm ready to fight you." Paletano says while smirking and grinning at Teterburr. "Fine. I'll fight you. Mionna, stay out of this and don't interfere." Teterburr says with a serious look on his face. Mionna looks a bit upset hearing that but listens and backs up away from Teterburr and Paletano. Both Teterburr's red eyes squinch and stare at Paletano's orange eyes staring back at him. They growled at each as they both leap into action of running into each other with their chests hitting and bouncing off of each other's body. After that they both were biting each others necks and punching/hitting themselves with their flippers. At one point Paletano would pin down Teterburr. Yet Teterburr would push Paletano off of him and start smacking him in the face repeatedly with his strong hard-felt flippers. Paletano was not happy about that as he bit and snarled at Teterburr while pushing his head up against Teterburr's neck and head. Teterburr bites and pulls on Paletano's right flipper making it hard for Paletano to have access on using both of his flippers to hit and attack Teterburr. Paletano hisses and makes an angry trilling noise from his mouth while shaking his head back and forth vigorously in motion. As a result of after doing that, Paletano uses his other flipper that isn't being bitten to go and smack/hit Teterburr's head and face to make him release his flipper from his mouth. Teterburr trills and hisses at Paletano as he pins him down and bites/pecks at him repeatedly. The figthing really unfolded as they both roughly and harshly bit, slapped, and pushed each other a lot. Mionna was very concerned about the situation as she started to say something. "Guys, stop. Please don't fight. It doesn't have to be like this." Mionna says in a worrysome tone. Both Teterburr and Paletano ignore Mionna as they were still continuing on taking turns pinning each other down while the other would slap/hit and bite them hard. Growling, hissing, and trilling was in the air the more they would fight and hurt each other. In the fight, Paletano manages to make himself push Teterburr very far away from him using his flippers and body. Which was resulting in Teterburr falling on his back very hard onto the ice/snow. Mionna stares down at him in concern wondering if he's okay. Paletano smiles in pride seeing Teterburr's body lay there on the cold antarctic icy ground. He gives off a puff of air from his mouth/beak being satisified believing that he won the battle while walking/waddling away. Teterburr wasn't done yet as he went to make himself get up off the ice and went to run towards Paletano behind his back. Paletano notices this, therefore he turns around and uses the sharp tip of his beak to strike down the side of Teterburr's face causing a long bloody scratch mark on Teterburr's left eye while Teterburr was running past him. Teterburr falls down and gets up to stand on his feet. Teterburr breathes heavily opening and closing his mouth a lot while he uses his flipper to cover his now bleeding eye. Paletano turns around to face the back of Teterburr's body with an evil grin on his face. Whereas Mionna was very concerned about Teterburr since her blue eyes were filled with sorrow. Teterburr blinks his only undamaged eye a bunch of times before taking his flipper off of the eye that was damaged. He gasps in pure shock and horror seeing his flipper covered in red blood revealing the fact he realizes he's blind in one eye. Tears start forming from his right eye as they drip and roll down his face and onto his flipper which is covered in blood. Hence, this made Teterburr grimace and turn around with fury and hatred across his face while he growls. "How could you!!!" Teterburr shouts with malice in his voice. Paletano simply smirks and laughs at Teterburr's anguish face. "Because I wanted to. Looks like my work here is done. I've won, while you have lost. Mionna is now my mate and not yours. She's mine do you understand me?? You deserved that mark on your face, there's nothing you could do to remove it. And actually it makes you look better since one of your eyes is gone. Now people will only have to deal with looking at your not so blind red eye. Moreover, why don't you listen to me and leave!!! You don't belong here! You are a worthless and an actual ugly sleazebag!! A thing for me to note to you so you'll always remember is that you'll never ever ever become a leader!!! It's just a very dumb and stupid fantasy that'll never happen!!! So go on!!! Leave now!! Go away and never return!! Punk!! Haha!!" Paletano says in a very very crude way before he laughs. Looking back and forth, Teterburr had no way to combat what Paletano had said and done to him. Thus, he went to cry silently pouting as he walked/waddled away very fast to the edge of the ice that was connected to water. He frowns a bit in sadness looking back at Mionna while Mionna looks back at him with the same look. He sighs turning his head the other way as he then took no time to hesitate as he made a rash decision on jumping into the cool ocean water while starting to swim far far away from Mionna and Paletano. "Teterburr, wait!" Mionna says while trying to follow Teterburr and catch up with him. But of course before she could actually follow him, Paletano stopped her dead in her tracks. Mionna sighs after seeing Teterburr being finally gone and out of her sights. Mionna turns towards Paletano with an expression of disapproval and despair written all over her face. Mionna squinches her eyes while her beak stretches into a huge frown. "Look what you've done. You made my childhood friend feel bad about himself. Now he's going to gone forever." Mionna says in a statement sounding slightly pissed. Mionna breathes heavily a little bit after saying that. Paletano simply shrugs not listening to what Mionna said. "Relax, he's gone now. It's not like he has any feelings or anything. Besides, I've won the battle. I've won the fight. You are my mate now and you gotta stay with me. Come on, let's go." Paletano says arrogantly while putting his flipper on Mionna's back forcing her to walk with him. Mionna rolls her eyes as she says 'fine'. Mionna and Paletano spend hours upon hours walking/waddling together. This meant that the sun was at midpoint of going down and almost disappearing. Meanwhile in the water Teterburr was swimming everywhere inside the ocean. In the ocean some dangers did accour but Teterburr managed to make himself avoid attacks from enemies and monsters. Swimming past fish and other sea creatures, Teterburr would get hungry as he went to kill fish, shrimp, and krill to eat once his head reached the surface of the ocean since he couldn't eat underwater. The food he ate did help a bit on filling his belly and keeping himself well fed. Cause if it didn't, he would be starving to death. Other than just eating and killing prey, Teterburr was still swimming left and right through the ocean. While swimming he was thinking to himself of wanting revenge for what that rude bully had done to him. No, it can't just be only one bully. He wanted revenge on all those who had bullied him. He wanted control. He growled in anger not accepting the fact of how that bully Paletano had made him feel defeated as he took his friend/mate. He felt everything was taken away from him even when he tried to gain things nicely and patiently. Feelings of madness and hatred fueled and writhed inside of Teterburr the more he thought about what happened to him. Along with him wanting to make a plan on having his bully and everyone else that caused him pain and suffering to get their own tastes of medicine. Just thinking about those thoughts made him smile wickedly. Paletano was right about him when he was a kid, he was a red eyed fiend and all the other stuff he called him. But it's okay since Teterburr has a trick up his sleeve to show Paletano he will regret what he's said and done to him. Teterburr sighs as he thinks about how his plan will unfold. During all the swimming around in the ocean, Teterburr stops as he reaches his destination of an icy piece of land. He jumps out of the water and lands on the ice while sliding on his stomach. After that, he stands up on his two feet and stands in front of an entire colony of leopard seals with one huge leopard seal being the leader of the rest. He grins thinking this was an opportunity of showing his true skills on becoming a possible future leader. Calmly, he walks/waddles through the colony of the leopard seals trying to sneak by them just to go near their leader. All of the leopard seals woke up to seeing Teterburr entering their territory as they all snarled and growled at him. The leopard seals were angry since they didn't know that a random penguin would come to their area. One of the leopard seals leap their upper body at Teterburr trying to bite at him. Teterburr swiftly moves away from the leopard seal so he doesn't get an injury. At the peak of it all, Teterburr makes it all the way through and stands in front of the leader of the leopard seals with confidence. The leopard seal that was next to the leader had nudged him and woke him up. The leader of the leopard seals opens up his eyes blinking them a lot and then starts growling/snarling with a deep sound in his voice. Then after that he roars/bellows loudly at Teterburr trying to scare him off. Even with that going on, Teterburr wasn't scared. He was rather calm and chill with a smug look on his face. The leopard seal leader didn't understand why this one penguin in front of him wasn't running for his life. 'Is this penguin that stupid?' The leapord seal leader says and asks mentally to himself. "Grr......What is a penguin like you doing in a territory of ours?? Shouldn't you be grrr......fishing? You do not belong here. Get out, or else we will kill you." The leader says bitterly while still snarling at Teterburr. Teterburr ignores and scoffs at the leopard seal leader's threat. "I can't say on what i'm doing here. But, I have a request to make just for you. That question you've asked me about fishing however, I don't think I have to worry about that. Also, I think I can beat you. One on one of course. While everyone watches. It's just going to be a simple test." Teterburr says suavely while still having a smug look on his face. The leopard seal leader blinks a bit being a little confused right before he starts laughing and snorting deeply. "Is that supposed to be a threat? Haha!! Oooh, and what request is it?? A fight? Do you want to challenge me and win or lose? Because I think you're setting yourself up for something you can't win. No penguin defeats me!! Never! All penguins fear me and get easily killed and eaten by me and my followers!! So it's impossible for a weak measly penguin to defeat me. But if it's a challenge you want, then let's start it." The leopard seal leader says abrasively before jumping down his rock and landing on his flippers with his tail laid flat behind him. Teterburr looks up at the leader as he was standing tall above him. Teterburr wasn't scared yet amused at seeing someone bigger than him. Teterburr's red eye looks into the leopard seal leader's brown eyes. They both growl at each other and start snapping their mouths open and close. After that they both slowly walk around in circles as the audience in the background watches them. Suspense was rising in the air during this event since the other leapord seals were opening their eyes focusing on the battle about to start. In the first attack the leader jumps up to attack Teterburr but at the same time Teterburr jumps up as well which caused them to both have their chests/bodies hit and bounce off of each other. In a quick result of that happening, Teterburr trills and pins down the leader making him land on his back. The leader growls and snaps at Teterburr as he pushes his own body upwards to push Teterburr off of him. Making Teterburr bounce off and land down onto the ice. Next thing after that the leader hastily uses his flippers and tail to make himself move towards Teterburr's body. Teterburr easily gets up and turns around seeing the enraged leopard seal. The leader makes himself leap up in the air as he tries to strike down at Teterburr wanting to pin him down. Yet before he could Teterburr makes a quick dash at sliding on his stomach to slip past by the leader as the leader himself falls down on his face onto the ice very hard with small bruises and scratches marking his face. After sliding, Teterburr stands up to turn around and smirk at the leopard seal leader laying down. The leader turns his head around with an angry look on his face as he then pushes himself up with his flippers to go and turn his whole body around and open his mouth wide charging at Teterburr. Teterburr jumps up and leaps out the way at the moment of the leader trying to bite him. Teterburr then jumps on top of him and turns his body to face him. The leader was still angry seeing how the penguin fighting him managed to make him lay down on his back again. Teterburr couldn't wait to finish this fight off, so therefore in a way he used his flippers and body to hold down the leader under him despite how big the leader was compared to Teterburr's body. The leader growled a lot while his tail was flailing and thrashing around vigorously. Teterburr opened his mouth wide open as he started to bite down on the leader's neck. The leader gasps in shock feeling the penguin on top of him biting his neck. Teterburr growls deeply while he moves his mouth further down on the leader leopard seal's neck harder. This resulted in the leader to freak out uncontrollably since he was starting to scream/howl loudly. Teterburr knew what he was doing and he loved it since he used the tips of his beak to poke them further into the meat and flesh of the leader leopard seal's neck. Tears formed in the leader's eyes as he was screaming/howling/bellowing very loudly while his tail and head was moving around very fast dealing with the pain. Teterburr was not budging as he bit down further and further on the leader's neck very harshly while moving his head back and forth pulling and tearing the flesh/meat apart with his beak. The piercing sounds of crying/screaming was getting louder and louder by the minute the more Teterburr would make the biting harder and deeper. Bits of crimson red blood was leaking out of the neck of the leopard seal leader. Teterburr was going insane and crazy liking this feeling of slowly killing a living being under him. Blood was filling the inside of his mouth and it was covering the outside of his beak. He liked the taste of blood but since he didn't want the leader to suffer any longer he quickly bit down onto the leader's neck the hardest he could while moving his head back and forth very vigorously. He struggles a bit but manages to pull a huge chunk of the fleshy skin and meat all the way off of the leader leopard seal's neck. With the chunk of meat in his mouth he shakes his head back and forth while it's inside his mouth. Shortly after he throws it away and spits it out causing it to splat on the ground. As a reaction, everyone in the crowd gasps seeing something so shocking. Teterburr then pushes the dead corpse of the leopard seal leader making it lay on the side of it's body. Next thing he did was he decided to stand on the other side of the dead corpse's neck with his foot pressing down on it. Then once he did that he lifted his head up high looking at the sky as he opens his mouth making loud shrilling noises. Doing this was proving his victory that he won the fight. With pride he was proud of himself on killing someone for the first time. After he finishes on making noises, he stops standing on the corpse and licks the blood off of his mouth/beak with his tongue then walks/waddles away from it. The other leopard seals in the crowd didn't like this as they all felt grief for their own leader being dead right in front of their eyes. A huge pool of blood was leaking and pouring out of the dead leopard seal leader's neck. All of the leopard seals turned angry as they all growled and snarled at Teterburr walking/waddling away. All of them had chose to go after Teterburr as their snarls and growls grew louder. Teterburr immediately turns around towards the leopard seals making them all stop moving. "Who's next?!! I can do the same thing to all of you!" Teterburr yells threatening all of the leopard seals starting to tremble. "*gulp* Y-You killed our leader. Now we don't know who to follow. We didn't expect for you to come and kill anyone. B-But we're at your mercy and we want to ask if you could lead us. Just don't hurt us. We'll be n-nice." One of the leopard seals say nervously. "Hmm, okay. Promise me one thing." Teterburr says towards the female leopard seal. "Y-Yes your sire?" The female leopard seal replies and asks back. "Promise me as long as i'm your leader that you would call me Teterburr. Lord Teterburr. Remember that name for now, it will be my long run of a name to have. And don't you ever dare disrespect me." Teterburr says demanding the female leopard seal and the others behind her to listen to him. "O-Ok Lord Teterburr. But could we ask you one thing?" The female leopard seal asks. "Sure, go ahead." Teterburr replies. "Okay, thank you. Our question is that are you going to let us eat baby and adult penguins? We need food y'know?" The female leopard seal says and asks in a statement. "Oh, yes of course I will. You can eat some of them but not all of them since I wouldn't have any penguins to kept captive under my command. Just spare the ones who may need to live and be taught to behave and listen to me. All of you can follow my lead, you don't need to stay here. It's only a wasteland by now if you stay. I'll find a different place for everyone to be at. Oh and when the sun goes down i'll come up with a plan so you better listen or you'll miss out. Now follow me." Teterburr says constructively. Everybody listens to Teterburr as they all followed him to go and swim with him underwater in the ocean. This was seeming to be a new beginning, a new reign actually of leadership beginning to fall into Teterburr's trap. Time was passing by through Teterburr's journey of leading all of the leopard seals that were swimming with him in the water. The sun was slowly but surely going down. Inside of the water though, the leopard seals would attack underwater enemies that were a different species apart from them that would intend on hurting their new leader. Basically they were protecting Teterburr since their main leader that was a leopard seal was killed by Teterburr. Teterburr took notice of the leopard seals protecting him as he liked the fact of them wanting to do something so beneficial for him. At sudden moments the leopard seals would get hungry swimming with Teterburr. The leopard seals didn't want to eat their leader so therefore Teterburr had to provide them with food (which isn't including himself) during the journey to find somewhere to live at. Teterburr had to help the leopard seals on eating squids and shellfish. The leopard seals were satisfied and happy for Terburr's appreciation. Teterburr would give the leopard seals a 'you're welcome' each time he would help keep the leopard seals nice and fed. The swimming around in the ocean was still going on since nobody stopped yet. Splashes and sloshes of water were fundamentally sound during the whole moment of nonstop swimming. Some hours were spent on trying to find a different piece of land. Teterburr was beginning to lose hope on finding a different place so he swam further and faster. All of the leopard seals noticed this movement as they all swam faster too while following Teterburr in front of them. Teterburr smiles as he sees the bottom of an icy platform therefore making him to swim closer to it. Once he was close enough, he uses his body on full force to jump up really high up out of the ocean water and lands on the icy piece of deserted land while sliding on his stomach. After that he stands up and starts to walk/waddle. He gave enough space for all of the leopard seals to jump out the water and do the same thing. As everyone was all together on the icy land, all of them were surprised and amazed at seeing some sort of ice cave with holes around it being in their presence. This was jackpot of a location for Teterburr and his followers to be at. He looks up at the sky and notices it was night already. He grins mischievously thinking this is the perfect place to make a scheme of a particular plan. He sighs and continues to walk/waddle towards the cave as everyone else follows right behind him too. While everyone was heading towards the entrance of the cave, way back at Teterburr's home was Teterburr's friend Mionna moving around being awake since all the other penguins was asleep. Mionna knew what time it was since at nighttime everybody including her parents would fall asleep staying in groups. Yet she wasn't tired as she wanted to start finding and spying on Teterburr to see where he was at and if he was okay or not. Mionna quietly shuffled around walking/waddling trying to go back to the place where she last saw Teterburr at back when the fight between him and Paletano has happened around the place. It didn't take long till she found the area of where Teterburr used to be at. Mionna sighs with a small hint of doubt in her throat on wanting to do anything as she looked around hoping nobody would wake up and catch her doing something. After making sure nobody was around, Mionna sighs again calming down and makes a brave facial expression as she jumps off the ice and falls into the cold ocean water. Mionna shivers a bit feeling her body hitting the water but soon enough she gets used to it as she swims the fastest she could not wasting time on trying to find Teterburr. She propels her body to move in several directions inside of the water by flapping her flippers up and down and in circles a lot. The bright moonlight was making the surface of the ocean be glittery and lit up showing ripples through it. Mionna swam faster and faster searching and looking everywhere trying to find Teterburr. Each moment passing by, Mionna would jump out of the water everytime before going back in the water. But when her body was jumping out and back in the water the moonlight was shining and glistening off of Mionna's sleek black and colorful plumage on her back. Mionna was puffing a lot the more she would swim further and faster in the ocean water. 'What was Paletano thinking? I don't love him. I can't believe he hurt my friend's feelings. Ooh, I hope he isn't dead or in critical condition. I love Teterburr but I just hope to god that he's okay. I don't know where he went but I'll find him. It's my top priority.' Mionna says thinking to herself inside her mind. Countless hours of swimming was being spent but Mionna didn't care as she tracks down where Teterburr might have went. After a while, Mionna pokes her head out of the water and sees a dead body of a big leopard seal rotting on an icy platform. 'Was Teterburr here? Did he do this?' Mionna says thinking to herself again inside her mind. She shakes her head and goes back to swimming. She swims away from the icy platform and tries to follow Teterburr's tracts through the currents of the water. She swims further some more and then squints her eyes seeing the bottom of an icy platform slowly appearing in front of her not knowing if it was evident of it being real or not. She gets closer to the platform while blinking her eyes a lot, once close enough she notices it is real. She pushes her body foward through the water to jump/leap out of the water while landing on the icy platform sliding on her white coated stomach. She breathes softly as she helps herself to stand up after getting done with sliding on her belly. She looks around the place noticing where she was at. She looks at the ice cave that's covered in holes with a wide open entrance to it. 'Hmm, I wonder this is where Teterburr's hiding at.' Mionna says thinking to herself once again inside her mind. Mionna starts to walk/waddle quietly and carefully trying not to have herself be seen through the main entrance. She walks/waddles all the way to the otherside of the cave and swiftly hides behind the holes. She stands on the side of the cave and looks through one of the holes seeing the side of Teterburr's face and body while becoming shocked and worried recognizing leopard seals being close/near Teterburr. She just knew there was a reason on why she snuck out, it was to figure out what Teterburr was really doing while he was gone from home. Not wanting to leave, she stays quiet and peacefully watches/spies on Teterburr silently since she wanted to know what was going on without disturbing anyone. She watches Teterburr starting to talk. "Okay everyone so here's the plan. I have a plan on making myself become a leader of all penguins. With all of them calling me Lord of course. I've been wanting to be leader since I was young but due to circumstances I've had enemies left and right trying to ruin my dream. They will not get away with this!! I have a great plan to make sure everybody regret what they've done to me!! Am I right everyone?!" Teterburr says looking down at the crowd of leopard seals. The crowd of leopard seals shout out and agree with Teterburr saying "Yeah!". "Haha, yes. Now i'm going to explain some details. Ahem, I have an idea on killing my father. If you don't know who he is, well let's say he's the chief and leader of the colony of penguins I used to be apart of. My mother on the other hand will have to handle with being torn to shreds by most of you. I'm not in control of my mother's fate so who knows what will happen actually. I myself want to be remain powerful in command and control everyone below me watching them bow down to me as I laugh in their face. Oh and before you ask me again about me letting you have food to eat. I will let you have plenty of food, starting off with babies and children inside the penguin colony. Remember only eat some of them not all. Then i'll let you eat the adults, some not all. I also wanted to have a mate but unfortunately she was taken by a terrible excuse of a penguin!! But it's fine, none of you should interfere with that though. I'll take care of that problem and make her mine. Other than all of that, I want all of you to wage a war of bloodshed and violence against all penguins!! Except me *clears throat*. Do everyone agree with me?!" Teterburr says in a loud statement. All of the leopard seals shout and say 'Yeah!' again like they did before. On the outside of the cave Mionna was still standing there watching everything. After hearing what Teterburr was saying Mionna had a huge expression of worry, fear, concern, and disappointment on her face as tears formed from both of her eyes. 'A w-war? Against all penguins? Does that include my--oh no. No no no, this isn't good. I gotta tell and warn the chief about this. He must know his own son is planning on causing the death of many innocent lives. B-But I can't go yet, I must know more.' Mionna says thinking to herself inside her mind. She gulps as she blinks her eyes letting the tears to roll down her face and drip onto the ice. Teterburr grins evilly right before he starts talking again. "Let's explain our plan in a different way." Teterburr says.

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Time skip to Montage time.

Mionna moves her head back and forth in confusion while still focusing on what's going on as she starts to hear music playing. Then she hears Teterburr start speaking. "I never thought leopard seals essential. But they're crude and unspeakably plain. Maybe they've a glimmer of potential. If allied to my vision and brain." Teterburr says. The tempo of the song bounces and rises in the air when Teterburr slides down two icy ramps on his stomach before landing and standing on his two feet. Low 'hums' come into effect while Teterburr walks/waddles slowly in a fashionista type of way. Teterburr starts singing as he says "I know that your powers of retention. Are as wet as an orca's backside. But thick as you are, pay attention. My words are a matter of pride. It's clear from your vacant expressions. The lights are not all on upstairs. But we're talking chiefs and successions. Even you can't be caught unawares. So prepare for a chance of a lifetime. Be prepared for sensational news. A shining new era, is tiptoeing nearer." Teterburr says while singing before being slightly interrupted by a female leopard seal as she says "And where do we feature?". Teterburr replies with "Just listen to teacher" while rubbing his flipper on top of the female leopard seal's head. After that he moves away from her while the female leopard seal shakes her head not approving of being touched there as she quietly grumbles a bit in anger. Teterburr continues singing by saying "I know it sounds sordid. But you'll be rewarded. When at last I am given my dues. And injustice deliciously squared. Be prepared!". "Yeah, be prepared. We'll be prepared. For what?" A random male leopard seal says. "For the death of the chief." Teterburr replies back. "Why? Is he ill?" The male leopard seal asks. "No, fool, we're gonna kill him. And the others too." Teterburr says. "Great idea! Who needs a chief?!" Says one of the leopard seals. Three leopard seals say "No chief, no chief, lalalalalala." Teterburr gets a little angry as he says "Idiots, there will be a chief!". "Hey, but you said, uh." One the of the leopard seals say. "I will be chief. Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!!" Teterburr says while moving his head back and forth and while raising both of his flippers in the air. "Yay, alright, long live the chief." One of the leopard seals says. All of the leopard seals start saying 'Long live the chief, long live the chief!' and 'Chief, chief, chief, chief, chief, chief'. All of the leopard seals then sing by saying "It's great that we'll soon be connected. With a chief who'll be all-time adored" while they all move in unison as they all look up at Teterburr standing on a tall pedestal-ish platform being made of ice with it being slanted. Teterburr grins smugly before singing and saying "Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected. To take certain duties on board. The future is littered with prizes. And though i'm the main addressee. The point that I must emphasize is......You won't get a sniff without me!!". While saying 'you won't get a sniff without me', Teterburr jumped off of the platform to scare/pin down a leopard seal then he gets off of them soon after. Next thing he did was that Teterburr moved from platform to platform by sliding and waddling/walking fast everywhere before climbing on top of a very high platform. Then he continues to sing some more by saying "So prepare for the coup of the century. Be prepared for the murkiest scam. Meticulous planning. Tenacity spanning. Decades of denial. Is simply why I'll.........Be chief, undisputed. Respected, saluted. And seen, for the wonder I am. Yes, my (nonexistent) teeth and ambitions are bared. Be prepared!!". All of the leopard seals was jamming, dancing, and doing things while the song was still going. During the song's final closure the leopard seals and Teterburr all say/sing out "Yes, our teeth and ambitions are bared. Be prepared!!!". The song ends as all of the leopard seals laugh and holler loudly with their deep sounding voices and while Teterburr laughs manically loudly too. Everything fades away as Teterburr just smiles evilly looking down at everyone while the moon behind him shines light on his head, neck, and body.

End of Montage.

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Once the song and everything else ended, Mionna was amazed yet confused on what she heard and saw. She stayed a little bit longer to hear something else come out of Teterburr's mouth. "Ahem, by sunrise starting tomorrow we'll travel together to visit all the other penguins. By that time we'll unleash our plan and start a massive battle and we will win!! We will not fall, do you hear me?!!! We won't fall!!! Aha ha!!" Teterburr says while shouting. Everyone agrees with him with 'Yeah!', 'Wooo', and 'We love you Lord Teterburr!'. "Good, now bow down to me." Teterburr says. Mionna watches all of the leopard seals lower their heads to bow in front of Teterburr. After seeing and hearing all of that, Mionna thought to herself that what she've witnessed both visually and heard through her nonexistent ears was enough info to have so she could run far away from the place she was at. In a flash of a second Mionna immediately walks/runs/waddles away very fast before sliding on her stomach fast as well. While sliding she forces herself to steadily move very fast so she could get closer to the edge of the ice that was connected to the piece of land she was on. She stands up quickly being near the edge then she shortly after jumps/leaps in the air and lands in the ocean water which would be really cold by now if a human was to be in water like this but there isn't any humans around. So therefore, Mionna's body was nice and warm when she was swimming in the ocean. She swims very fast and swift traveling through the ocean on the journey of going back home. She couldn't believe how Teterburr became a traitor on wanting to be a good penguin/person. She knew for a fact she needs to warn the dangers of this man. Without hesitation she moved faster through the water going left and right in zigzags to make a quicker way on travelling back home. The more faster she went the more it was better to go back and tell the leader of emperor penguins. It spent some time here and there to go back home but soon enough Mionna finally makes it back to the icy and snowy landscape of a home. She swims closer to the land before finally using her body to jump/leap out of the ocean water to land on and slide on the ice. After sliding, she gets up to stand as she starts walking/waddling towards the crowd of sleeping adult and baby penguins. Quietly and carefully, she sneaks past by everyone in search of the main emperor penguin leader. Looking back and forth she makes sure no one wakes up. She sighs taking her time to look everywhere on wherever the leader could be hiding at in the crowd of sleeping penguins. She sort of frowns thinking of losing hope on finding the leader but suddenly that frown went away the moment she finally found the leader. She ran towards the leader in excitement right before falling and slipping down on her face/stomach. She shakes her head then gets up on her two feet and starts waking up the leader. She uses her flippers and head to nudge/push the leader's body. This attempt of trying to wake her leader up wasn't working since he was still asleep with his back turned towards her face. She didn't want to do something she would regret but she had to. Following this reason, she opened up her mouth wide as she begins shouting and making very loud trilling/shrilling noises. "Wake up everyone!! Wake up, wake up, wake up!!!! WAKE UP!!!" Mionna says while shouting and shaking her head a lot. With a loud wakening call coming from Mionna, everyone in the colony had woke up and started getting upset at her. Many of the penguins who woke up from Mionna's screaming and shouting were making angry trilling/shrilling noises themselves. The leader/chief of penguins woke up himself as he was moving his head back and forth while blinking his eyes a lot. "H-Huh? What's going on?" The leader/chief penguin asks. "What do you mean by 'what's going on', one of the members of your colony under your leadership had woke us up!" A random grumpy female penguin says. "Yeah!! We were trying to get our sleep here and this lady had decided to annoy us so we couldn't sleep!! Shouldn't you tell her to be quiet?!" A random grumpy male penguin says with a deep voice. After what the male penguin said, everyone agreed and thousands upon thousands of penguins grumpy, exhausted, and tired started yelling/complaining being not happy of how their slumber was interrupted. The leader/chief penguin coughs and sniffles a bit before fully waking up to stand up on his two feet. "Okay okay, wait everyone. Calm down. What's the problem? Tell me, who woke all of you up?" The leader/chief penguin asks. All the penguins point their flippers at Mionna's direction of where she's standing at. The leader/chief turns to look at Mionna and sighs. "So it's you." The leader/chief penguin says. "Yep. It's me. The same girl who was friends with your son when I was a kid. Hehe." Mionna says with a cheeky grin on her face. "Mionna, what are you doing waking everyone including me up?" The leader/chief penguin asks in a serious tone. "Look, i'm sorry. But there is something important I need to tell you. Please listen." Mionna says hanging her head low with her grin fading away. The leader/chief just sighs and blinks his eyes before saying and telling Mionna to 'go on'. Mionna gives off a sigh of relief as she lifts up her head with a small smile on her face. "Ok, here's the thing. Your son--" Mionna says before being cut off. "Wait! My son? Are you sure about this?" The leader/chief penguin asks abruptly. "*sighs and rolls eyes* Yes, i'm sure about this. It is your son. Ahem, look. Your son, Teterburr is still alive and well." Mionna says concisely. "*gasps* He is? Tell me more!" The leader/chief penguin says. "Ok then but you're not going to like it though. Sir, your son Teterburr plans on attacking and killing you and your mate/wife and even everyone else exept me I think. He is not who he used to be. He's changed. You must take great action on protecting the safety of everyone. Oh and another thing he plans on doing is that he wants the children to be killed and eaten by leopard seals. You've got to protect them. S-Since I've seen at least a huge number of maybe 1,000 or 2,000 leopard seals being with him yet they weren't attacking/hurting him. I secretly went away to go find Teterburr and there he was, he was inside a cave with a lot of leopard seals surrounding him. What amazed me the most was how no harm approached Teterburr. I was thinking to myself if he tamed them or something but I became scared hearing everything, every word, every sentence that came out of that evil penguin's beak. I heard his plan, i've heard everything. And i've heard he wanted to create a war having leopard seals go against penguins. It was the most awful thing i've ever heard!! So after a while of hearing him talk, i've fled the scene to come here to tell you about what's he's doing! Therefore you must do your best on protecting and saving everyone. Please, I beg of you. Chief Castefer you must believe me." Mionna says in a very straightfoward and long statement. "Hmm, are you really sure about this info? I don't fully believe or trust you. How do I not know you're lying? What if it isn't my son and could be someone elses??" Castefer says with a hint of doubt and blasphemy in his voice. "Please sir, you have to believe me and trust in me. I would never lie to you, I promise. I've spied on Teterburr without him even noticing me watching him. If it was a lie, he would've been dead before I even saw him if the leopard seals ate him. But that wasn't the case. He was still alive and it seemed like he was working with the leopard seals or at least having the leopard seals work for him. I was confused at seeing the leopard seals bow down in front of him so that must've meant that they were working for him as if he was their leader. Just, nevermind that. Chief Castefer you need to know that this was your son, nobody else's but yours. He even said he wanted to replace you by making you get killed by the leopard seals during the war. I've heard him say that straight out of his beak and there's nothing that can prove me wrong about that. He really did say it. I also heard him say that once he became leader or chief, i've heard he wanted to have penguins submit to him and call him Lord Teterburr. Doesn't that sound suspicious? Or morally wrong if i'm correct? Also, that's not the only stuff he's said. He even said he wanted to keep some penguins, adults and children, alive so that he could capture them and force them to serve/work for him. It was just a horrible thing i've heard come from a penguin's beak. Overall, Teterburr even has the same red eyes as you and he has a scratch mark on one of his eyes. He appears to look blind in one eye and fine in the other." Mionna says sincerely without any expression of happiness in her voice. Castefer looks a little suprised, shocked, and concerned but he shakes his head back and forth before stopping to look at Mionna with a serious look on his face. "Ok then. I'll believe you. If it really is my son then i'll be sorry i've ever doubted you. I understand your concerns. Other than that, everyone stand up!! It's time to get ready!! We have a big day and event starting tomorrow, go go go!!" Castefer says demanding all of the adult and baby penguins to wake up right away and to stand up straight. "Ahem. Quick!! Hide and protect the children! Don't just stand there! Put all the children away and keep them in a group so they all stick together. Find a good place to hide them at. We don't want no kidnappers to approach. Anyone else must stay here to keep watch of when danger arrives. And Ms. Mionna, you can just go right over there and rest while sleeping since you know tomorrow is going to be big. Go on, don't stand close to me for too long." Castefer says commandingly towards all the penguins including Mionna in a serious manner. Mionna rolls her eyes a bit before actually listening to what Castefer told her as she went towards the direction Castefer was pointing at when he told her to go and rest. After walking/waddling to the small area that's supposed to be Mionna's resting place, she sighs laying down on the side of her body. She moves her head looking around her surroundings while watching adult penguins and baby penguins moving around. Then she turns her head to look back at the leader. Next she went to look up at the stars twinkling in the night sky. She softly smiles thinking something good will happen if she makes a wish looking at that star. She closes her eyes taking shallow breaths in and out then opens them back again. She felt good doing that, she made a wish. Furthermore, she yawned stretching her beak open before quickly closing it. And after that she turns her head to match her body facing the same direction of laying down on one side, slowly yet surely she closes her eyes and goes to sleep. "You shall not judge someone too early when free and innocent. Or else they'll become what you call them and be your greatest nightmare." An unknown voice says in the abyss.

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During the next morning when the sun rose up, Teterburr and his followers being the leopard seals had all woke up to start acting on their plan on making a full on war and battle against most if not all penguins. Teterburr was smirking with pride thinking about his victory against every single penguin in existence along with his leopard seals working with him. Basically Teterburr didn't want to lose since if he fought on his own it would be total failure for him. If this plan works and ends up in success Teterburr would have total control over the penguin species but Mionna thinks otherwise. While Teterburr and his leopard seals were all traveling through the antarctic waters of the entire homeland of the antarctic landscape, Mionna and the other penguins except the leader had all woken up. Mionna gets up groaning and stretching her body right before she twitches her head back and forth trying to become more awake and aware of everything around her. After finally getting her full consciousness Mionna then stood up on her feet to start walking/waddling over to Chief Castefer since he was still asleep in his spot on the ice/snow. Mionna bent over as she reached her flippers to touch and shake Castefer's body to wake him up. "Chief, wake up. It's time. The day has come. Please wake up, Teterburr and his army is coming. We need to be ready." Mionna says in a sincere statement trying to wake Castefer up. Castefer struggles a bit in wanting to stay asleep but Mionna shakes him harder right before she uses her flipper to slap/hit his face. "Wake up." Mionna says. Castefer coughs a bit before taking a deep breath and letting it out. Then after doing that, Castefer opens up his eyes and turns his body to use his flippers to help him push his body up so he could rightfully stand up on his two feet. Mionna watches Castefer as he shakes his head back and forth in a quick manner then he looks at her. "What is it? Why was I woken up? Tell me Ms. Mionna." Castefer asks sincerely while looking at Mionna. "*sighs* I woke you up because today is the day. The battle, remember? Teterburr and his entire army of leopard seals are coming this way to attack and kill us. We got to be ready and be spot on for being alert of him approaching." Mionna says with a serious expression on her face with a small frown on her face. "Oh, now I remember. That's for telling me. Ahem, everyone. You must be on your eyes and nonexistent ears to pay attention and look out for the incoming enemy attack. My own son Teterburr is abound to show up with hundreds if not thousands of leopard seals that happen to work along his side to come and destroy our entire colony. So I want everyone to form a huge group behind me in prepare of war. Mionna, that includes you too." Castefer says while standing tall and proud of not being afraid of anything with his flippers spread out on the sides of his body. Mionna nods her head and says "Yes sir." before following every other penguin that walks/waddles to hide behind Castefer. Castefer squints his eyes looking upset at seeing his own son Teterburr show up with all of the leopard seals appearing behind him. Teterburr leads the leopard seals behind him as he walks/waddles across the area of his old icy and snowy cold home. Teterburr sighs as he looks up at the sky seeing the sun being completely risen and that the sky was a clear light blue with white clouds surrounding it. After that he turns his head to look at Castefer staring straight at him with a grimacing glare in his eyes. Teterburr ignores his father's expression as he walks/waddles further to where his father was standing at. Castefer growls as he blurts out the words "Not too close." at Teterburr. Teterburr scoffs but listens as he takes a few steps back making a 5 inched space between Teterburr and the leopard seals and Castefer and his colony of emperor penguins. Teterburr and his father both share glares as one of them start talking. "Son." Castefer says in a ill-tempered mood. "Father." Teterburr says in a ill-tempered mood back. Silence stirred in the area for a little while until Teterburr broke the silence. "Huh, look at that. My own father trying to protect all the precious penguins behind him. Hehe. Well that won't last for long though. Right everyone?" Teterburr says mockingly while looking at the leopard seals behind him. Castefer grunts before frowning and opening up his mouth/beak to say something. "Teterburr, what are you doing here on our territory? You know you don't belong here anymore. I thought I raised you correctly. But look at you, you're nothing but a disgrace to our kind around here. Most of us are not going down without a fight. The children are nowhere in sight so there is no use in trying to get your evil fiends to come and eat them. Also, all of us are sticking together to help protect the kids that are secretly hiding around here. So you better back off because we don't want to get rough with you." Castefer says threatening his own son in front of him. Teterburr rolls his single red eye before speaking back. "Tch, as if I care about that. I still want a battle between you and me. So if anything, i'm going to let all of my helpers attack you regardless if you want them to or not. I will be leader, not you old man. Get out of my way or i'll force you to get out." Teterburr says with a deepened glare in his red eye while also threatening his father since he was snapping back at him. After he said that, both Teterburr and Castefer were looking and staring into each others eyes with hateful expressions on their faces. "I think it's settled. If you're this stubborn then.......*turns head to look back at everyone else* Everyone's ready?" Castefer asks looking at the other penguins behind him. Everyone including Mionna all nod their heads and agree to what Castefer said. "Okay then. Penguins..........attack!" Castefer says commanding everyone behind him to follow his lead. "Leopard seals, attack!!!" Teterburr says commanding all the leopard seals to follow his lead. Suddenly in a quick flash, a whole battle was happening right before Mionna's eyes. A huge battle between leopard seals and adult penguins just fighting to death. Penguins left and right were sliding on their bellies to charge in and attack the leopard seals. While the leopard seals were flopping around and using their bodies to jump on top of a penguin to pin them down and kill them. Loads of roaring, growling, roaring, hissing, and trilling/shrilling were filling the air of the battlefield of the entire massacre. Some penguins were dying while other would lose their limbs and even be fatally wounded and injured. Tears pricked at the edges of Mionna's eyes as she were in shock seeing a limping penguin holding on for his/her life with one flipper moving around as the other was torn off. Screams were also heard since a few penguins were trying to run/slide away from certain leopard seals that were not giving any mercy as they chased innocent penguins to immediately pin them down/drag them and brutally kill them. Mionna was starting to panic as more tears filled her eyes and she began to breath heavily as if she was hyperventilating since seeing a huge massacre appearing all around her was beginning to be too much. Mionna didn't know what to do since she stood there in one spot while she was watching all of the insanity of a war unfolding enormously all over the place. There was some penguins that were able to kill some of the leopard seals that were wreaking havoc towards them. But it wasn't enough, the battle wasn't over. More bodies of penguins and leopard seals were dropping and falling everywhere. Plenty of blood was being spilled during the scenery of the war as Mionna's panic levels increased more and more. It was just a huge massacre that only became worse each passing moment. Also, inside of the battle Mionna witnesses Castefer trying to fight off the leopard seals. Castefer was only able to injure three leopard seals and he killed only two leopard seals. But the leopard seals got the best of him as they all ambushed him and immediately killed him. Then on the other part of the battle was Hability, which was trying to protect herself against the leopard seals but gave up since there was too many of them surrounding her as they then all had attacked her and took bites out of her. The last thing Hability could do was wave her flipper in the air in trying to beg for help but it was the end for her. Mionna also witnessed that her own parents were trying to fight the leopard seals themselves but were failing. So in a quick fashioned way both of Mionna's parents were killed by the leopard seals. Mionna screamed out and cried saying "NO!". Mionna still was too timid to move as she has looking around the place frantically with her pupils being constricted and her head moving back and forth a lot. All the way on the other side of the entire battlefield was Teterburr just standing there with a smug look on his face since he was amused and entertained by the death and gore of all the penguins and leopard seals. Teterburr was satisfied by the sight but couldn't stay for long as he went to walk/waddle towards an ice cave that doesn't have holes yet it was filled with icicles. Mionna sees this since she knew where Teterburr was heading to. Mionna blinked her eyes letting tears roll down her face as she stopped acting sad and started to get very upset and mad at Teterburr for causing tyranny over the antarctic landscape. Mionna knew it was time to finally do something and not just stay in one spot being scared and afraid. Teterburr was thinking to himself that he done the job, that he got away with causing penguin slaughter by having leopard seals kill the penguins and not himself killing them. After Teterburr was inside of the ice cave, Mionna readied herself to slide on her stomach to help propel herself towards the direction Teterburr went when he walked/waddled away from the scene. While Mionna was sliding on her stomach going in zigzag patterns, a few leopard seals tried to jump in and attack Mionna since they wanted to stop her from going after Teterburr. But before the leopard seals could reach Mionna, a few penguins had pinned down and attacked the leopard seals that were going to harm Mionna. Mionna was thinking in her mind of wanting to say "thank you" but couldn't since she was mainly focused on finding Teterburr and wanting to kill him. Therefore, Mionna had went faster on approaching the ice cave Teterburr was in. Once she was close to the entrance of the ice cave, she stopped sliding on her stomach and got on her feet to stand up. While standing up, Mionna walks/waddles further inside the cave. Inside the cave she spots Teterburr standing still with his back facing her while he was smiling crazily staring into the abyss of the ice cave wall. Mionna walked/waddled a bit further before stopping. "Teterburr....." Mionna says sternly in a soft voice. Teterburr blinks his eye before turning his head to face Mionna. Then he turns his whole body facing Mionna in front of him. "Oh how generous of you to come here. Remember me? I was your friend. While everyone is out of both of our ways, I can finally become mates with you. Isn't that great?" Teterburr says nonchalantly as he looks at Mionna with a grin on his face. Mionna squints her eyes and grimaces in disgust. "I do remember you but it doesn't mean i'll forgive or accept you based on your actions towards me and everyone else. And don't you dare say 'generous', that's a disgrace for you to say that word when you're evil. Also, no, it is not great for you to become mates with me. I don't even like you!! *blinks with tears coming out of eyes* How could you?? How could you be my friend and betray me by wanting to cause everyone around me even the people i loved to get murdered?? Why? Just why? Y'know what? I will never be your mate, especially not when you had my own parents, not just yours, to get murdered by enemy predators. You're just a sick bastard you know that?! Plus, you are no longer my friend anymore. You've changed but I won't. I can't believe you would become like this but I hate you!!" Mionna says with a very upset/sad tone in her voice while frowning as tears were running down her face. Teterburr just blinks a few times before understanding and realizing what Mionna had said to him. Mionna frowns at him in anger/sadness waiting for a response from him. Teterburr grows angry as he had his pupil inside his eye constrict in his red eye. He growls before blurting out "Fine then. If you don't want to be my mate then I won't hesitate to kill you right away. Hahaha, I can always get a different female penguin to be mates with me. You're nothing but a worthless fool anyway. So let's fight!!". After hearing him say those words, Mionna shakes her head and leaps into action of running towards Teterburr in hatred. Teterburr also runs towards Mionna with hatred inside him too. As they both ran towards each other, both of them clashed/bumped into each other with both of their chests touching at the same time. Mionna growled as she uses her flipper to slap/hit Teterburr's face which only made him madder. Soon after she did that, Teterburr growls as he pushes Mionna down on the cold hard ground of the ice cave. Mionna hisses at that as she gets up to attack Teterburr by pushing him down and slapping/hitting him a lot with her flippers. Teterburr wasn't giving up that easily as he got up and went to use his flippers and body weight to push/pin Mionna against the ice cave wall. Mionna struggles as she was pushed and pinned further into the ice cave wall while Teterburr smiles as he uses his beak to bite the side of Mionna's neck drawing small bits of blood to come out. Mionna clenched the tips of her beak just struggling to deal with the pain. Mionna didn't want to die, not like this. So apparently Mionna used her flippers to push Teterburr off of her. Then after that, she went to pin Teterburr against the same wall he had pin her on. In the matters of it all both Mionna and Teterburr were fighting roughly with each other as they kept taking turns on pinning each other, slapping/hitting each other, and biting each other on their weakspots. But during the fight between Mionna and Teterburr, up in the ceiling of the ice cave was the icicles shaking and moving the more Mionna and Teterburr would keep running around and pushing/pinning each other down. Mionna took notice of the icicles falling down and penetrating the ground floor of the cave she was in. Mionna avoided the icicles but was still fighting against Teterburr. Teterburr was also avoiding the icicles that were about to penetrate him. The fighting grew more intense as more blows of slapping/hitting was happening more frequently and how much more icicles kept falling. Both Mionna and Teterburr were growling/hissing at each other as they both were still causing injuries to each other. In an instant, Teterburr manages to use his flippers to push/throw Mionna far far away from him as Mionna flies midair before landing and falling down on her face on the harsh ground. Seeing Mionna laying there on the ground being injured and helpless, Teterburr was breathing heavily before he grinned at Mionna's body then went straight to immediately running towards Mionna on wanting to attack her. Time was ticking as Teterburr was eagerly wanting to come near Mionna since Mionna was still laying down with a hard time of getting up on her two feet. Mionna thinks rationally in her mind wondering what she should do and that whatever she needs to do she has to do it fast or else Teterburr would be the one to end her life. Mionna wakes up feeling woozy but manages to make herself blink and open her eyes then as she got her focus cleared out she looked around her surrounding and tried frantically looking for some sort of weapon to use in her aid. Mionna lifted her head to take a quick turn to look at Teterburr and she watched him coming closer and closer. Teterburr laughs manically as he shouts "Ready or not here I come to finally end you!!". After hearing Teterburr laugh manically again Mionna looked away and frantically looks around her body again hoping to find something to help her. It was until then she came up with a plan and then she turned to her left and found a very neat and pointy icicle just being there in its spot with the tip of it sticking in the ground. Mionna felt glee light up in her as she had found the perfect weapon as an opportunity to use it against Teterburr. Mionna sighs as she opens her beak/mouth and turns her head sideways so that she could put the smooth round bottom and sides of the icicle inside her beak/mouth. Mionna kept her beak/mouth open as wide as she could have it and she pushes the side of the icicle that has the sharp tip to face the direction where Teterburr is heading by using her tongue while also making sure that the icicle that was slowly starting to melt inside her mouth to not make an injury or poke her tongue or even her throat almost. Mionna breathes deeply through her nostrils as she tried to not to cough, spit, or clamp down on the icicle as it was was stuck inside her mouth just laying on top of her tongue. Mionna closes her eyes as her mind said "Please let this work" then she opens them and waits for Teterburr to come closer so that her plan can work as it will unfold. As she had the confidence, Mionna stayed still as she was pretending to keep laying down in front of Teterburr but litle did he know a smart penguin girl would be ready to defeat him. Teterburr was feeling excited to just use his beak to attack and kill his "used to be" friend that was going to be his mate before she rejected him since he was getting nearer towards Mionna and when he was having himself run closer to her he had opened up his beak and mouth very wide just ready to bite down on Mionna's neck since it was a very vital part of the body. Yet, unexpectedly when Teterburr was really close to Mionna he immensely had his idea go to shambles as he was quickly stabbed in the throat which sent him in a total state of shock and worry as his only functioning eye was constricting and becoming small, he also couldn't talk as the blood was gushing out of his neck and that it's crimson color was coating the icicle in which with Mionna's help had been pushed two inches deep in his vital vocal cord which is past the white and yellow feathers that rest under his chin. Time was slowed down around Mionna and Teterburr as they were both staring deep into each others eyes. Teterburr felt his heart breaking realizing what Mionna done to him as a tear forms and rolls down his face out of his one functioning eye while Mionna on the other hand just slightly smiles in a satisfied way with very few tears in her eyes as she was still upset but was glad that she was able to get up and harshly stab that icicle deep inside of Teterburr's neck/throat. Teterburr tries to speak but it only results in coughing and spitting more blood, that was a moment to know that he shouldn't try to talk and he shouldn't breath either as he could choke on his own bodily fluid. Then soon enough Teterburr becomes ill as he feels himself cough and spit some more blood and that the blood was quickly building up like a pool of it just forming inside his mouth coating his tongue making it impossible to tell if his tongue was pink or red. But it looked red because of the blood continuously coating it inside his mouth making him wanting to gag since it tasted awful. Mionna stands there in front of him only staring at him deadly as she did nothing only wanting to have Teterburr to either choke on his own fluids or to pass out from the pain, stress, and blood loss. Teterburr has some more tears only coming out of his one red eye as his mind faintly appears with small words saying "Please,....M-Mionna" while he raises and stretches his flipper out in front of her. Mionna squints her eyes in dissatisfaction and steps away from Teterburr as she had the hatred to only want the man in front of her to just fall over and die. Teterburr could feel his feelings being way more hurt and torn apart by his childhood friend rather than just the bullies that got in his way when he was young. Teterburr could feel his eyesight getting heavy and that his head and brain was swelling. In a flash of a moment, Teterburr became drowsy and lethargic as his head felt like it was spinning in which he fell harshly backwards down onto the icy hard ground with his chest bouncing up a bit as he falls causing him to cough blood again. Mionna stares down at Teterburr pathetically laying down in front of her as she saw him still being alive with his flipper being raised up and she sees that all his blood was completely covering his entire neck and icicle that was used as a weapon to fatally wound him. Mionna still does nothing as she still waits for Teterburr to finally drop dead and die with no way of coming back to life since she never wants to see him again once he's gone. Teterburr took the silence from Mionna as punishment as he frowns with his mouth/beak still being open with blood filling and pooling in it. He had sorrow appear in his red eye as his mind spoke again "No....." then he lowers and puts his flipper down on the side of his body and takes his last final moments of having consciousness trying to look at Mionna again and say his final words through his head since his vocal cord is completely destroyed by the icicle piercing it. Mionna sighs as she walks/waddles towards Teterburr and stands above him while only bending her neck and body halfway downwards getting a better look at the guy that is slowly suffering and dying from his blood loss. Teterburr could feel his mind warp as he sees Mionna in front of him with a dull look on her face, his eye opens wide in a surprised way as he gets a hallucination of seeing Mionna as a child with only white, black, and gray feathers covering her body with big worried and sorrowful blue eyes having tears formed inside them and a frown on her small black beak/mouth. Teterburr mentally gasps inside his mind, then he sees the hallucination change and switch to showing Mionna back in her normal adult form with dull blue teary eyes as she had a small upset frown formed through her beak/mouth and that her body was covered in black, white, and yellow feathers and then once Teterburr saw that he blinked his eye and felt clueless. Teterburr kept blinking his eye twice and then saw the hallucinations become worse as they kept flashing and switching from seeing Mionna as a kid and Mionna as an adult. Teterburr was thinking of saying 'no, no, no' and 'why is this happening to me?' but since this was going on too fast it was going to be too late to process all this since his eyesight and hallucination(s) was getting real blurry and shaky. Teterburr gives in and rests his neck and head all the way down letting his mind say one last word "Why?" before letting himself die as the last bit of life circulating in his red eye was struggling to stay but it gave in as well and fades out resulting in the red eye being dull with no sign of life as it stays open and doesn't close. And since Teterburr was blind in the other eye, his other eye was already dull and white. Plus, when Teterburr died the blood that was in his mouth/beak came out gurgling and spurted out from the sides and corners of his dead corpse's beak/mouth and the blood that was coating his corpse's neck was squirting out a little bit more too which only made a big puddle of the blood surrounding the back of Teterburr's neck and head. After seeing Teterburr die, Mionna opens her mouth/beak to let out a sigh of relief before kneeling down at the feet of Teterburr's dead body. A moment of silence was being filled through the air as Mionna was staying in one place staring down on the dead corpse that was once a penguin who had feelings and emotions which was all found to be useless meaning Mionna had to kill the person she used to care about without much guilt knewing what she done was the right decision. There was also silence outside as most of the battlefield that was going on when Mionna fought against Teterburr ending up having mostly dead bodies of penguins and leopard seals and that there was way less leopard seals than how many there were before and there was still some more penguins that happen to be either injured or uninjured and alive as most of them survived through the battle of leopard seals vs penguins. The battle had to come to an end at some point since most of the penguins that survived had told the leopard seals to stop fighting which left the seals being confused and a bit angry at the same time but they agreed to it. Other than that, the survivor penguins had came towards the icicle-filled cave to check up on Mionna who's still kneeling down in the exact same cave. There was no warnings as the penguins had waddled/walked their ways into the cave and all of them snuck up behind Mionna as a big group right before they all stopped walking/waddling as all of them stood very close behind Mionna having her surrounded but by concerns, worries, and curiousness. Mionna only turned her head a little bit to see who's there and she saw the other penguins standing behind her but she payed no mind as she turned her head again to focus on Teterburr's dead corpse. Even though Mionna tried to keep a straight face being glad she killed a murderer she unfortunately begins to frown and turn out to be breaking down and crying. Mionna sobs letting tears roll down her face like many times before all over again but this time the tears don't stop flowing as she ends up sniffling a lot and that she ends up choking a bit on her tears but manages to take breathes to stay calm and to keep herself alive. Mionna still keeps crying as she closes her eyes and puts her flippers over her face trying to wipe them off but they just keep getting wet so she sighs giving up but opens her mouth/beak to speak. "I-I'm so sorry Teterburr, it's just that i-if it weren't for that awful orange-eyed ingrate you wouldn't never be this evil. It's sort of my fault and I brought you with me. B-B-But that doesn't mean you should kill others. *sigh* P-Please forgive me, i'm terribly sorry old friend...." She says shaking her head slightly back and forth with sorrow then gets done with saying what came out of her mouth/beak. Mionna closes her mouth/beak and sighs letting few more tears roll down her face then slightly makes herself get up on her feet as she turned around and walked past the penguins making her way out exiting the ice cave filled with icicles. As soon as she got out of the cave she looked around the landscape of her 'home' that had loads of dead bodies in which she did not like at all but she stopped as she saw at least 4 or 5 leopard seals standing in one place like a group as they were all huddling together. In this case it made Mionna a little bit peculiar as there shouldn't be any leopard seals left around the place. Mionna makes her way on waddling/walking towards the seals and confronts them. What Mionna didn't expect was that the penguins had left the cave that they followed her through and that all the other penguins had went and followed her outside of the cave and that they're all behind her as she is confronting the leopard seals. Mionna ignores who's behind her as she opens her mouth/beak to speak. "Excuse me but what are you guys still doing here? Are all of you lost? Because, you do know that this place is for us penguins only right?" Mionna says in a soft stern voice with a normal expression on her face. The leopard seals turn to face Mionna as they all look confused before one of them raised their head up making a 'oh' expression then opening their mouth to start talking back to the penguin in front of them. "Heh, we're just waiting for our leader to come back. And we're not lost we're just wanting to probably get our leader to come and be here to probably keep some of you hostage since we fought already." One of the leopard seals said before making a cheesy grin with their eyes closed. "Huh, what are you going to do to us krill-butt?" Another one said as they were twisting their head back and forth showing their teeth towards Mionna's face since they were slightly growling trying to be threating cause they insulted her. Mionna just blinks before getting angry as she starts saying "Look, if you don't leave you'll have to regret even coming here in the first place. And, i'll--" Mionna says before being cut off by the rude sounding leopard seal. "I'll what?" The leopard seal says mocking Mionna in her face. Mionna feels her head reacting like steam coming from a pot on a stove as she feels anger fuel in her. "I'll tell you what happened to you leader." Mionna says flat out in response to the seal's remark. The mean leopard seal gasps then looks at the other seals before looking back at the blue-eyed penguin in front of him, he scoffs and replies with "What about it? I bet he's alive and well and that he probably made you his mate or something." The leopard seal says with a smirk. Mionna growls a little bit not wanting to hear that since it never happened and it won't happen because she already killed the proposed 'leader' of these dumb leopard seals. Mionna sighs before rolling her eyes and saying "Well bad news for you guys. It seems like i'm going to be still single. Like it's just fantastic that you'll assume me of having an interest to a person who killed not only a million of penguins but he also had your kind to go on a spree to kill my parents, mine, and that your kind also had killed your 'leader's' own parents in which didn't care much about. Hah! And I thought that I would be the dumb person to figure that out but I guess not." Mionna says sarcastically in front of the 5 seals that are in their group. One of the leopard seals start to freak out before saying "What are you on about?!". Mionna replies with "What i'm saying is that your leader is dead. He is dead. He will never come back and you know that." The leopard seal looks around frantically while panicking as they spoke again saying "T-That can't be true right? He's gotta be still alive!" The leopard seal says with a small worried expression on their face. Mionna smirks and lets out a laugh then says "Try calling him. Try it and see if it works if you don't believe me." The leopard seal looks and acts clueless before swallowing their own saliva and opening their mouth to say "Teterburr?! Mr?! Sir?! Mr Teterburr?!". Mionna just grins and smiles sneakily watching and hearing how pitiful the leopard seal was being trying to call out for their dead leader. The leopard seal panicks more and tries speaking louder repeating words including when they say 'Lord Teterburr' and 'master please answer'. Mionna rolls her eyes groaning and opens her mouth/beak to yawn while stretching at the same time. "Ugh, look this isn't going to work. Like I told you, he isn't coming back. He's actually dead." Mionna says in a flat tone. The leopard seal stops trying to yell and shout for his leader then looks scared at seeing Mionna before opening his mouth to say "Really? Then who killed him?" The leopard seal asked. "I did. It was to stop him from making me his mate and it's so that he could no longer harm others the way he harmed me. So that's you're answer." Mionna replied. The leopard seal gasped and the others behind them reacted to this as well and gasped loudly. "Yep, what you heard is true. Now let me remind you this again. Get your asses away from this spot and get the living hell out of here!! Or else me and everyone will team up and beat you up!" Mionna said harshly in a very loud and clear voice making a threat in front of the 5 leopard seals. The four leopard seals behind the one in the front all whimper and quickly scamper away then proceeding to hop/jump into the ocean water and swimming away. The last seal wasn't scared as they didn't budge but when Mionna and some other penguin walked/waddled a bit towards the seal, the seal then whimpered and turned around to scamper as well before heading into the water and swimming around. "Well that was easy." Mionna says before waddling/walking away as she passed by the penguins that soon ended up following her. Mionna finds a tall icy pedestal where she could walk/waddle up high on to get to the top and start a speech to get everyone's attention. Mionna felt something in her glimmering but she didn't know what it was yet she was happy being confident as she went near the pedestal and went to climb up on it. She sort of has a hard time getting up the pedestal but as soon as she got to the top she got a world view of all of the penguins standing down on the ground under her. She could feel power pulse through her heart as she stood there in silence enjoying the view and soaking in the warm sun with a confident smile on her beak and face. She closed her eyes in peace as she inhaled the deep warm air as the wind was breezing past her plumage making a little appearance of her feathers pricking up but she paid no mind to that whatsoever. Her eyes then opened back up after she breathed in the air that were around her. The next thing she did was shake her head back and forth in a quick motion before clearing her throat to step further on the edge of the pedestal only to balance herself carefully making sure her feet were gripped on tight, then she stretches her neck out before letting out a loud sounding ear-piercing shrilling/trilling noise and that the more she made the sound extending and wasting her voice she was hoping that all the penguins below her could understand her. In which, surprisingly they did as all the emperor penguins had turned their gaze up at her figure where she stood before them with a pondering expression glowered on her face. Once they all had her attention because of the noise, Mionna blinked her eyes before exhaling slightly as she pricked her beak ever so slightly open she starts saying words "Okay now that i've got you're attention everyone. I have something important to announce. I---" She was saying in blatant expertise before being approximately interrupted. A penguin perked up to go near the bottom of the pedestal that Mionna was standing on. The penguin was barely jumping up while raising and waving their flipper around trying to get her attention towards them. Mionna rolls her eyes a bit but since she's patient she'll be friendly towards the penguin as she sighed before saying "Yes?". The penguin stopped and then began to spoke "Um, sorry miss but why are you standing on where Chief Castefer would be at? You're not the leader. Why are you standing there?!" the penguin would say as those words came out his/their mouth while others behind them had agreed and nodded their heads. Mionna just ignored it as she knew what to say as a response to those inquistive questions that were thrown at her. Mionna took a breath before exhaling and responding with "I'm sorry for the bad news but the Chief is dead. Our chief is dead. If nobody were paying attention like I had during the battle, he would be living right now. He's d e a d, do you guys get it or understand?? Because I know that most of you do know that. He is never coming back since he died in that fight we all had together to help keep away the seals from killing the young ones. Ahem, now will you excuse me. I am your new leader now. Anyway, i'm going to reveal my big speech today for all of you. So you better listen and learn." Mionna said in such a snooty but not too mean-spirited clear and confident way. And with that, the blue sapphire-eyed penguin had began to get herself ready before letting out what she wanted to say. But before she does, she gets interrupted again. "Now what?" Mionna said sort of annoyed with a small frown edged at the sides of her beak. A mother penguin steps up and says "Hey, there's only adults here. What about the children?" the lady penguin says just 10 ft below the sapphire-eyed penguin that stood before her. Mionna wanted to roll her eyes but couldn't since this penguin that was in front of her was old sounding and she didn't want to pick a fight. Mionna sighed and said "Look miss,....for you and everyone's concern all your children are still hiding. All of you can go and grab them back since it's safer now that the leopard seals are gone. Then I sha'll continue my speech alright?" Mionna says calmly but in a sincere yet critical manner. The lady penguin had to stretch her head to get an understanding of what Mionna said through her nonexistent ears. Mionna was waiting for her response to see if she understood her. In a response, the same woman had nodded and knew exactly what Mionna had told her right before turning around to tell the other penguins to go and unhide their kids. Mionna sighed and waited for everyone to grab their kids and bring them back in the open so she could finally speak in front of plenty of penguins like herself injured or uninjured and alive. Time was ticking but she was very patient and hoped they all came back. Once all the penguins and their children all came back, they gathered around in front of the big tall pedestal that Mionna was standing on. Seeing all if not most of the penguins gather around her had made her day gleam a bit better. Mionna smiled happily then she finally came to terms and started letting her speech out of her beak. Mionna cleared her throat as she says "Attention everyone, I am your new leader Mionna. I will be your new leader for years to come and must do everything I say. I may not be that experienced but trust me I sha'll guide all of you and help protect you just like our previous leader did. He was a great leader, wasn't he? Wouldn't you trust me to be your leader and help guide you? I know what you might be thinking and that you might disagree but......I feel something in me and that I should take the lead of you guys. I don't know this feeling but it feels like i'm chosen to stand here giving you this speech and...........I don't know what else to say. Yet, whatever i'm feeling, I should be here and keep in mind that whatever I say must go. Also, you may call me Chief Mionna, Chieftess Mionna, or Mistress Mionna any one of them don't really matter to me. I just want to be respresented as the leader that I am right now. Oh!! And actually I would like to conduct that i'm the leader of all penguins rather than just us Emperors. Why, you ask?? Well it's because if i'm the leader of all penguins, most of all of us can be a much stronger nation of an army of penguins being together by our sides and always defending and protecting our kind. Us Emperors can't always defend ourselves doing it alone in just one species. We need help, and by getting that help we need to include and accept other penguins into our colony making it bigger than it was before!! If we don't have other penguin species be apart of our family, we would be the ones that could easily die out there in the waters by all those carnivores and predators. So mostly, we need to include other species. In fact speaking of that, I've actually invited all of the other penguin species over to our home so they could meet this gathering. Do not ask me how, or when, or why. Just know I did it for good. *sees all the other penguin species walk/waddle their way to the crowd then coughs and clears throat* Now as every one of you emperors, macaronis, blue penguins (both little penguins and white flippered penguins), rockhoppers, kings, adelie's, gentoos, galapagos, chinstraps, and many others are all standing here under me I have something you must need to know. Even as we all penguins might seem stronger together, here's one thing you need to know. In order for us to survive and co-exist with each other we must hunt together as an entire colony of not just one species but as an entire big family of seafood loving experts that like to hunt, eat, live, and breath that seafood life. Are you all with me?!!! *raises flipper up waiting for a response* Are you??!! *hears thousands of yeah's with my nonexistent ears and sees all the other penguins raise their flippers up which makes a smile on my face, then sighs and puts my flipper down* Well, it's not just that you should all focus on. You must also respect and honor each other. No mentions of your different styles and looks okay. All of you know what you look like but you don't need to describe it too much around yourselves ok?? You should also make sure no predator gets away with trying to attack or kill any of your kin or else you'll be kicked out and left out of this huge colony of this family we're building. Plus, with a small place like this, all of us can't exactly live or stay here out in the open like this. Including that there's a mess of dead bodies everywhere, and it's not a good or healthy condition for us to live in. But I have a plan in which that we're all going to find a better place to live that is far more bigger and developed than this area. I don't know exactly how or when but we will get there one day to a good home for all of us. Phew, all this talking is getting me all tuckered out but one last sentence. Ahem, with a big trustful new penguin leader like me, do you register or know everything that I told you? Give me a yes or no. *hears everyone say yes with my nonexistent ears again then smiles* Well, do you all agree with me??!! *hears loud yeah's with my nonexistent ears* Louder!! *hears louder yeah's with my nonexistent ears* LOUDER!!!!!! *hears way more louder yeah's and yes's and other positive energy with my nonexistent ears as i finally stop shouting* Now that's more like it. Glad everyone is on the same page as me and agrees with my terms. *sighs* I think I should rest as my speech is now over but I also want everyone of you to bow in front of me. Then when you're done bowing, I want all of you to cheer for me." Was all the words that came out of Mionna's mouth in which it was tiring for her to even say a lot of words and it was tiring for everyone to hear it. But it had to be done to get the point across. Other than that, all the penguins did what Mionna told them as they all bowed respectfully in front of Mionna then before she knew it, they all had cheered out happily saying 'Mistress Mionna' very loud and proud repetitively. As they all got finished cheering they all went 'Woooh!!' out loud then they all stopped completely and went silent. Mionna smiled and softly giggled before saying "Music to my ears. Welp, now it's time for me to start moving" is what came out of her mouth as she sighed stretching her stiff legs/feet before she could finally turn around and start walking/waddling down the pedestal she just stood on for her speech. Mionna felt prideness in herself knowing that she convinced many people/penguins to believe her wording on what she'll do about being leader and everything. She was happy. She only hopes that everything will go her way accordingly if she plans it right. Mionna was getting closer to meeting the floor ground level but before she could walk/waddle to it, her nonexistent ears picked up a sound of somebody shouting 'ahh!', 'watch out!', and 'woahhh!!' which made her eyes shift their gaze to the sound before finally turning her whole head to it. "What the?" Was something Mionna said before getting plummeted to the ground by sheer force of a random bird tumbling through the sky despite that they were flying and that they ended up bumping into the sapphire-eyed emperor who was now a leader of a interesting colony of different species of the same kind. Due to this happening, as a result of the bird bumping into Mionna for some reason both Mionna and the bird were tumbling down the pedestal together and reached the floor ground right where the ice/snow was. It was a good thing that penguins like Mionna had a lot of muscle and back meat so that breaking or injuring the spine isn't easily something to just happen to a penguin. And maybe it's the same with some other bird species except for small birds like the one that ran into her. No matter, once the rolling around had stopped both Mionna and the bird had gotten dizzy yet they shook their heads so they could both wake up feeling focused on what's going on around them and what they were doing. As soon as Mionna's eyes could focus on the bird that was in her view being on top of her chest, the bird had got immediately scared and backed up away from her and started saying "Whoops! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to run into ya. It was a mistake!!" in which was more of a sarcastic and scared type tone that the bird had from their mouth. Mionna was n o t happy, at all. The little bird quickly got off of Mionna and stood next to her body and watched Mionna slowly get up on her two feet as she was dusting herself off. "Hey, down here!" The bird tried to gain the emperor's attention. Mionna groaned as she says "What?". The little bird that got her attention then hoisted up their waist to stand up straight with most of their chest poking out before stretching a bit then deciding to only starting to mess around with their head feathers, and then they also had ruffled up their body feathers before shaking them all out letting a few of them hit the ground in which the bird doesn't care as they then yawn. "Could you hurry up already?!" Mionna says in a half-angered shout. Hearing this made the little bird stop what they're doing and that they change their mood and start saying "Eh, heh....." before deciding to grab a handbag with a strap on it and that they put on one of their shoulders that was connected to one of their wing(s). The little bird then smiles sheepishly as they use one of their wings to get something out of the handbag they were carrying before they take it out and shoves it in front of Mionna's view. The bird was sticking their wing out holding the thing that came out of their bag as they were wanting Mionna to take what they were holding in their little wing. "Here, take it!" The little bird said trying to give what they had to the tall penguin in front of them. Mionna stared at it in a confused yet concerned manner with a 'huh?' look on her face. Mionna observed it carefully but refused to take the offer. Mionna squinted her eyes before glaring at the bird below her. "Sorry but who are you? Also, what type of bird are you? I don't trust those who aren't a penguin." Mionna said with slight spite in her tone as a frown could be seen at the edges of her beak. The little bird looked a little confused and worried but shook it off and decided to give an answer. "Heh, I guess i'll introduce myself. Hello i'm Utia and i'm a messenger dove. But i'm mostly a white pigeon/dove who happen to travel sending messages to people. And it's cold out here brrr!! So i'm wearing this blue puffy coat you see on me and I also have a warm beanie on my head and I have warm boots on! See?!" The little white dove named Utia who had a pair of turquoise blue eyes had said their words in a happy tone as they pointed the tip of their wing to what she was wearing. Mionna looks down at the dove and sees her clothes being shown off exaggerated in the basking sunlight on top of her. Mionna blinked her sighs deeply sighing before looking straight up at the distance averting her gaze from the dove. The dove gets a bit unhappy and starts shouting "Hey! I've introduced myself. How about you intruduce yourself as well?? Huh?!" which was heard in a loud annoying snobby tone. Mionna groaned to herself ignoring the little dove that was at her feet. But before she knew it, a little crunch sounding bite was made as the dove had used the tips of her beak to bite at Mionna's white-coated leg. It was a little bit painful but not to a big extent to have a certain impact on Mionna. She grew a little bit angry as she shook of the small bird from her leg. The dove didn't land too far as she was thrown off the emperor's leg since she only fell a few feet from where she was before. The dove, Utia smiles mischievously with content as she got proud that she got the young emperor's attention. She smirks saying "Now that i've got your attention, how about you say your name? And tell me what kind of bird are you??". Mionna sighed before rolling her eyes to give in and answer saying "*coughs clearing throat* I'm Mistress Mionna and i'm the main leader of all penguin types and kinds in this land of ours. I used to be just called 'Mionna' but since i'm the leader of my huge colony of a thousands of penguins, I refer myself to Mistress Mionna rather than 'Mionna' only. My species that you're wondering however is that it's very obvious that I am a Emperor Penguin, the largest species out of all the penguin species you see here. I also am planning to help move my colony to somewhere that's somewhat more suitable compared to this area we're in. But I don't know how a little dove like you could do anything to help a colony of different types of penguins ranging from big to small to go and just magically leave here and go somewhere else. So I don't know why you're here Ms. Utia." Utia didn't know what to say but she didn't have any feeling of happiness as she just blantly says "Mistress Mionna, as you'd like to be adressed, I have a very serious message for ya. It has exactly what you want and need for your own centered desires. That's why i'm here. I send messages and this is an envelope and I suggest that you open it to take a look at it. It's not a message made for me, it's made specifically for you and it was made by unknown bird/person but it was issued through the mayor of my hometown to be sent far away. As you can see, if you pay attention and read carefully you'll see the big picture." Mionna shows a inquisitive expression across her face and beak before finally agreeing to the gift that was being given from the little dove that was below her. Mionna uses her flipper to snatch the envelope that were almost about to fall out of the smaller bird's wing as she was gripping it tight. Mionna takes a good look at the envelope right before she starts prying at using her beak to tear open the piece of paper that was in her hold. Correspondingly, once the envelope was torn Mionna discarded the paper on the ground not caring much about it since most of the place was dead and that everyone that's alive can move and live somewhere else. It didn't take long for Mionna to grab the paper with both flippers and hold it in front of her as her eyes was focusing on reading the words. Mionna squinted at every detail of the note and that in her mind she was reading it as 'Dear Chief/Leader of Penguins, I have something very important for you. It came to my attention that in our city Epilasia actually is missing something. And that something is one particular bird species that we don't have. Moreover, I came to believe it's you as the leader of penguins and your penguin kind are the ones that are missing your spot in our beautiful town. So come and join us!! I know you're current home is fine enough, but to us we have much more bigger stuff that also includes perfect cold temperatures in which you'll feel exactly like home but with a lack of ocean filled predators. We would've came to visit you but it just seems too cold, so we want you to visit us!! Why not come and travel to our wonderful city? It has plenty of fish and many more! Also, the reason of why we need to have you is because with penguins our city will be more welcoming and enjoying to be in. Plus, our city is perfect as you don't have to worry about an enemy trying to attack/kill you (except for other birds of course) but otherwise we would owe a free warrant to your first time living here.' And blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...............etc.....etc.....etc as there was way too many words that were in all one paper but Mionna got done with reading them all. Mionna in her mind says 'Well damn, this sure does have a lot of words. With most of them being too much of trying to convince me to believe what they're saying in their wording'. Mionna sighs before shaking her head in a vigorous way to shake off the stiffness that were in her neck and body before proceeding to let go of the letter/paper letting it gently fall to the ground as she then corrected herself to face the dove below her. The dove stood up more extended with her feet apart as she looked up at the emperor that was standing dominantly in front of her. "Well did ya read it? The message?" Utia, the dove asks while still looking up at the bird above her. Mionna sighed before giving an answer with "Yes, I did read it. So I guess you're telling me that I have a purpose and that i'm supposed to come and visit some town or city named 'Epilasia'? Is that it?". Utia blinked a bit before saying "Uh huh! Yes, of course that's what it is! Why wouldn't it be? My hometown needs you more than I do!! And like you said, you wanted to find somewhere better to live didn't you? Well here's your answer and that you can travel and move to Epilasia for a big stay in!! It might not sound too great but hey, what else do I got?!". Mionna thought for a while of whether or not to believe all this and trust the message she read and thr bird she met. Yet, if she doesn't act now on this, the deal/offer might go away. Mionna blinked her eyes before responding with "Hm, well if you want me to leave this place and live somewhere I desire for myself and my colony. Then tell me how long will it take to travel to this one 'town' or 'city'. Hmm?". Utia was perplexed by this question in particular but she thought of something as a comeback as she opened her mouth to gracefully reply with "Oh uh.....let me see here. *looks at a small device for a quick second then puts it away* Hmm, it seems that it'll be about 400 or 1,000 miles away from here. It might take you 4-5 months or even longer to even reach or visit Epilasia. So that's the conclusion." Mionna was astonished by the amount of time and the length it will take to get to a special hidden city like Epilasia. Mionna almost fell back but stood her ground and kept herself stable. Mionna sighed before saying "If it's going to take that long with that amount of travel and work to get to one place, then that means me and everyone else will have to prepare ourselves. By what I mean is that I will have to make sure everyone including myself is well fed and well slept for the big travel. We are NOT going to travel right now as of this moment but I assure you that we'll all go together when we're ready. But I must point out that there are still children here and that knowing they are all still baby chicks they don't know how to swim. So it might take even longer before I could lead my entire colony of all these different types of penguins with all their children to some place that they haven't even been to. Like look at them, these kids need to get plenty of care by their parents and that until they're all grown up and that if nobody produces more children or lay eggs, I will guarantee that we all will come and visit that city one day. Just know that only if everyone is fed plenty of fresh seafood and had spent time saving up their energy by sleeping a lot and to make sure there are only adult penguins of each species, is when we'll have the signal to let everyone know that we'll come visit Epilasia in their primeness.". Mionna sighs once again before turning around to walk/waddle away from the messenger pigeon-dove that were still in the same spot that she was standing in. Right before Mionna could walk/waddle any further to her colony and spread the same message she got, the small dove Utia follows her to annoy her again. "Wait! I get what you're saying but when are you going to be there? If you got to prepare yourself and your people for the journey, then how long will it take for all of you to swim from here all the way to where that place is if it's so far away for you all?" Utia asks confusingly with a neutral mouth shape formed on her beak. Mionna closes her eyes before opening them again to go and turn her head and body towards the small dove below her. Mionna takes a deep breath before letting it come out of her as she then says "Ahem, didn't you tell me it might take 4-5 months or longer for us to come? Well, that's how long it'll take. As for me and my colony, we'll just tell you and probably other people or citizens of that city you came from when we're ready to come visit. Ok? Now let me tell everyone else." Utia nodded and understood as she waited patiently for what would happen next if the emperor penguin leader will say anything else after they're done talking to their kind. Utia stood there watching and looking at the sapphire-eyed emperor having a big conversation with the countless of thousand other penguins that were surrounding her. Once Mionna got done with talking to mostly every single one of the different big and small penguins that were of different species, she smirked to turn to the dove letting out an nod from the motion of her head. "They said they're in. And that they want to live in Epilasia as well." Mionna said in a smug/happy way towards the little white pigeon with turquoise-blue eyes. Utia felt happiness spike in her as her tail feathers spiked up to start twitching/wagging around. Utia squealed and jumped up completely forgetting that she had a handbag in which it fell right off her shoulder but as she noticed it she quickly put it back on her shoulder. Utia breathed in and out calming herself down a bit before saying "Really? Well if they said yes then we have a deal!! But wait, are you going to move or live somewhere else temporarily that isn't in this area? Since I now see that there are corpses lying around here and the blood is-is....horrific!". Mionna wanted to cover her nonexistent ears after hearing all that but she sighed and said "Uh, yes. And of course that's what we'll do. My colony and I are going to leave this place and move to another one. But hopefully we don't have to swim but if we do then i'll uh......try to have everyone have their kids be carried or picked up by their own parents/relatives before heading the water. Anyway, I think we should both say our goodbyes as I've already know what I got to do and you've got your thing to attend to as well. Do you agree with me or accept my side of the deal?". Utia thought for a moment but then nodded with a small smile on her face. Utia flapped her wings and quickly gave a hug to the sapphire-eyed emperor while the emperor herself also hugs Utia back using both of her flippers, then after they're both done hugging, they both depart as they smile to each other giving themselves forms of conformity and acceptence of their arrangment of the letter/paper talking about Epilasia. "Mwah!! Goodbye Mistress Mionna!" Utia says while giving out a blow-kiss to Mionna before turning around to flap her wings in a flow only freshly flying higher going away from the cold arctic home. Mionna grins wondering why the dove did that, but didn't let it bother her as it must've been a friendly gesture and she also had waved her flipper in the air. "Heh, goodbye Utia. We'll meet again soon." Mionna said while still waving her flipper in the air before finally stopping once she saw the white dove who wore the blue coat had left the scene completely since she was still seen flying away. Once the dove was actually gone, Mionna sighed turning to her colony only to help guide them as she were their leader and that she orders everyone to follow her lead by either traveling on land or in water. In which it didn't really matter as the moment Mionna leads the many different penguins from different species and sizes, the scene surrounding the antarctic penguins moves upward to a bright sun before fading out.

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Later on in the night in a distance far away......

Somewhere in a dark and murky forest there was a chill of cold air blowing and blazing through the wind. There was trees in the forest where no signs of life could ever be found as they shriveled and intertwined each time they were pushed by the wind breezing past them making it believable that they could break off by just how skinny and thin they were. Bushes had little to no leaves as they too were just like the trees as they could only sway a little bit before bouncing back to normal after being pushed by wind. And, the sky was very peak and dirty as the colors was overlapped with dark gray and that only small parts of it had normal dark blue/black colors. The atmosphere in total was all foggy, quiet, and sleazy as there was no one living there making it all the more creepier. Plus, the grass felt like it had rain on it but it didn't and it was wet as moss the more if it was ever touched but nobody is there to touch it. The areas where water was, which were only lakes and ponds had little almost to no movement. Even if the lakes and ponds did have movement, it was very slow including how they don't have fishes or anything inside them at all. Everything in the entire area was soulless and unnerving being just completely still in slow paths. But, yet there was a body in the damp lush grass slowly fading into existence being born in the very chilling and dark forest. The body laid there as it barely moved with its beak facing the sky. There was also a deep and big red stab wound appearing on the neck of the body as well but the organism itself still didn't move. Minutes passed as the body fully made its appearance in the forest and as the feet of it finally twitched in a nick of time. A few minutes more and suddenly two eyes opened in the deep darkness. One red eye and one white. Slow and shaky breathing came out the beak of the newly awakened body that felt life the moment after it formed into being apart of the surrounding environment. The body slowly blinked its eyes as it gasped for air closing its mouth and reopening it. It takes a moment but the body then sits up and looks around. It wondered where it was as they then looked down at where their flippers were, which was when they were both laying on both sides of their torso. The unidentified organism got a bit of shock realizing they can still move and feel their flippers being intact and connected to their body. In the next moment or two, the body got up and stood all the way up on their feet trying to analyze and understand everything going on around them. Things were a bit confusing and spontaneous for them not knowing where they were as they had questions and thoughts in their head saying 'Where am I?', 'How did I get here?', 'Is this the thing I get for not being great at trying to become the best chief/lord emperor penguin out there?', 'Or is it because i'm just a lower ingrate just like those who bullied me?', 'No, couldn't be. They're just imbeciles not knowing I had the great plan to lead and rule.', and 'What even happened to me?'. Stuff came to mind where all of a sudden, the figure talking and elaborating to itself in its head immediately realized that they remembered everything. Rushing thoughts and ideas came filling throughout the organism's head, making many versions of what happened in their previous life come into their brain. The hatching from an egg, coming out and making a friend, playing in the snow, being bullied by others, growing older, becoming mates with said friend, fighting another penguin, getting injured during the fight, swimming away to fight again only to lead a gang/cult, creating a war at home, fighting the one friend which almost became a mate, almost trying to have victory over killing/fighting the 'friend', and last but not least, getting an surprise attack from the 'friend' and being violently stabbed in the throat with no retribution of why they did so. All the memories were there, and they even reminded who the figure was that was in the very dead and quiet forest. A gasp was released before the shaking and waving of the head and flippers that was apart of the organism was reenacted as they also blinked their eyes twice. The mouth/beak opened as words came out speaking "I-I'm Teterburr a-and I-I'm A-ALIVE!!" and the awoke figure now rediscovered as Teterburr exactly saying those words in extreme loud pride with his eyes wide and his face and beak facing the sky with a crazed/happy smile formed open the open beak of his. Unfortunately, the excitement had to end as Teterburr had calmed down a bit realizing what has happened to him, how he died, and why he was killed. Teterburr felt a bit of anger in him thinking about Mionna, what she did, who she was, and the way of how she treated and betrayed Teterburr in dismay. That wasn't all as he also thought about those who had hurt him. Bullies like Paletano and the penguins who sided with him, all had treated him badly. He didn't like it, not one bit as he clenched his beak together tightly and growled deeply with bitterness plaguing his mind and tongue. But then, he sighed realizing to not focus in all that stuff. He knew he was killed for a reason, but he didn't have time to think of wanting revenge on Mionna. At least not yet to him it seems. So besides that he shook it off and blinked feeling sad before looking up with wonder. "I wonder where my parents are." Teterburr said coherently with only a inquisitive tone in his voice. Teterburr used his flippers to touch and feel his neck then went to use them to touch the side of his face. "Yep, still there. Those wounds will never fade but at least I'm here" Teterburr said a bit before going on to explore and walk/waddle through the forest he was in. He waddled/walked everywhere finding nothing inside the forest he was currently placed in. He sighs before trying to find whether or not if there was an exit. Minutes and seconds came and gone as there wasn't much of an exit to find. He sighs again giving up but walks/waddles to somewhere where he does find something a bit much different and special compared to the recent and current area he's in. There was another side where there was plenty of sparkling and shining trees, rocks, plants, bushes and even grass that glistened in the moonlight. And, the entire hue of the other side was mostly very bright with white lights hovering over the things that had color in them. Like, the green grass was sparkly and glittery but with a bit of white mixed on top and/or inside of it. Moreover, there was just so much life booming in the other side as it had nice flowing and colorfully crystal clear water going on through the rivers, lakes, and ponds. Following all of this, there was food and flowers being inside the other nice and colorful lovely side. The trees and bushes inside that side were clearly different from the ones that's behind Teterburr. As well as that most if not all the trees and bushes on the other side had plenty of leaves covering every part of them and the trees weren't skinny on the other side. Another thing was that the sky was very clear and had completely normal night sky colors in the other side, and the atomosphere was lively and energetic without making you worry at all. The very last thing was that the grass was probably dry but had little moisture but not as much and that it could've been probably soft and easy to walk on. It was just a lot that was going on over there which was making Teterburr be dazed by how it looks. He couldn't see much of what was with the other side but mostly it was just only that it was so much better than where he resided in. So with that being said, he tried to deem his curiosity down in search of his parents to see if they are there in that other side of being in the afterlife. But, right before he could even step foot in the other side as he was very close to it. There was a barrier between the dead lifeless forest against the populous and bouncy soft-filled glossy forest. He didn't understand and he even felt a bit of a sting on the bottom of his foot before retreating back from the other side. Teterburr was concerned yet confused on why he couldn't cross over to the less dead forest that didn't have lifeless trees and plant life. He tried to step over there again but the sting from last time got worst as he put his one foot in the side. He groans backing his foot away and sighed knowing he couldn't walk/waddle over. He looked up trying to look deep into the other full-of-life forest trying to see if any souls/spirits landed there. And, of course there was some life forms. Teterburr squinted his eyes using only his red eye to mostly see and detect that there was a lot of penguins being in the other side that had life and it was true, it was abosolutely true! He looks further while also managing not to accidentally fall to the other side as it will hurt him a thousand times worser than what happened to his foot by just stepping. His eye widens seeing Mionna's parents but he didn't really bother much as he looked even more to the right side of the forest scanning for his parents. He would even move his body by walking/waddling along the sides of the border trying to find his parents. He spent more and more time looking everywhere for his parents being in front of the border with his eyes wide open and sometimes squinching a lot back and forth. It takes a lot of time but at the last moment, he finally finds his parents and saw they were seperated from the other penguins as they as well were trying to look for Teterburr too. Teterburr felt a bit of not just amusement but also joy that he saw them. On this inside he felt a little bit of sadness and regret that he killed his parents but it was the only way to gain leadership. But she shook his head not thinking of that thought. He clears his throat before nodding and saying "Mom, Dad". Simple words coming out of his mouth didn't completely reach his parents as they didn't hear him well from afar. He thinks and tries again as he clears his throat and shouts "Mom, Dad!!". This time it sort of worked but his parents still didn't listen. This would be the last time he would try to get their attention. He shakes his head a bit before coughing to clear his throat, then he finally lets out one final breath as he shouts out "MOM, DAD!!". That's what did it, him shouting way louder finally caught both of his parents attention. In this situation, his parents turned around to him and had wide eyes seeing him since they both had looked and stared at each other before realizing and accepting that their son was right in front of them. Both of Teterburr's parents, Hability and Castefer came running/waddling fast towards the barrier before stopping abruptly to not go in the bad place. Both of his parents suddenly gasp and breath heavily before slowly stopping to calm down only to look up and stand up straight while facing their only son. The aura of the scene shifted as feelings of deceit and worry were being in the air between all of three penguins being on both sides of the barrier. The trio all shared looks but soon enough the silence had broken. Teterburr's dad deeply sighed opening his beak before saying "Teterburr, why did you do this? Why did you murder us and had all those penguins lose their lives?". Teterburr felt shooken by those questions but he didn't know if he should answer those questions. Teterburr's mom looked at her mate with a slight frown before turning back towards her one son. Hability stepped a bit forward still respecting the barrier between both sides since she was not as close to get injured by whatever force that makes you feel pain by stepping over an opposing area. Hability made a soft clearing throat sound before tilting her head to the side as she then gently blinks her eyes to say "Son, please tell us why you had did what you just done to your kind. Your father is only wanting to know why you didn't exactly follow the right rules to leadership. Instead of you waiting until you got a partner and get the chance to have your father's heritage put on you. You decided to turn it around a bit and uh.....how should I say this? You went and declared war to your father and made almost every penguin in the antarctic die because of your selfish desires to be just like your father". After hearing what his mom said, Teterburr was silent. He didn't want to speak even though his parents was asking him questions, they were also judging him in a less mean way. Teterburr actually regretted on wanting to look for and see his parents. He feels a frown forming through his black and orange beak, but he didn't want it to show. Instead he ignored the frown and tried to speak with worry and gleam in his eyes. "I-" He said before being cut off by his now negatively changed father. "Know what? Don't say nothing. You don't deserved to answer our questions. What you did was wrong. You can't even give a simple apology or explanation of why you killed us. You led our natural enemies and predators to us and it wasn't on accident. You know what you did, and to make it clear *coughs* ahem..................WHY DON'T YOU GET AWAY FROM THIS BARRIER AND LEAVE!!! YOU DISGRACEFUL SON OF OURS!!!" All of what came out of Teterburr's father's mouth was overtly negative and cocky as it was only filled with spite because it is spite because of how rightfully Teterburr needed those insults. Yet, it wasn't going to ever help solve anything of wanting to redeem anything worthy of trying to explain why Teterburr did his crimes of ruining innocent lives. Teterburr was let astray feeling bullied by his own parents, he knew this would all happen. He tried to keep himself sane even though before he died, he wasn't sane at all but he still tried. Hability looked at Castefer squinching her brown eyes at him staring into his red eyes with a disgruntled look on her face, then soon after she calms down and looks back at Teterburr but slightly gasps seeing that he was already walking/waddling away. Hability panicked looking back and forth before raising her flipper "Wait, son....look.......I know that you've probably might had been bullied or not made many friends. And, I know that you wanted revenge or something. But you murdering lots of penguins isn't quite right. You just got to know and understand that we love you. You could've been mates with that female penguin and lived a good life to keep the heritage. We don't mean to shame you, you just gotta know killing normal penguins isn't moral" all of which Teterburr's mom said as she was trying to help say something positive. Teterburr heard everything but he still was stubborn on wanting to comprehend and listen to what he's being told. Hability sighs before spreading her flippers wide open as she says "Honey, this side is full of Evergreen trees. Which means this is the Evergreen of Paradise. And that side is full of not so pretty trees, so that could be Edner's wood. But, it's not about that. It's about that you murdered everyone. I personally don't think your father should be so harsh to you with his words. Yet, I think we can get this settled and put what happened behind us. What you did was wrong, very true but here where its only us spirits/souls, we can make all of the negative and awful hate and everything fade away. So come on Teterburr, you're our son and we love you very much and you can come back here as you promise to change and say that your sorry to be a good penguin. Please come here". Teterburr knew what his mother was saying to him as he was contemplating on whether or not should he trust her. He felt slight ringing in his nonexistent ear reverting back to what his dad said, barely wanting to hear or get a recall of anything of the words his mom said to him. He felt weary and dread fill him making himself despise the situation going on between him and his parents. He felt that if his parents don't like him, that bullies in his past life don't like him, and even his ex 'friend' that he wanted to mate with also don't like him, he felt like he was conflicted just by being in his parent's presence and that he was clearly feeling himself be ripped to shreds in sincere verbal and mental ways only because of what was being directly said to him. He stands still not wanting to move, look, turn, or talk. His mother changed her mood as she moved her flippers to place them on their respective sides on each side of her body. His father grimaces and squints his red irises showing disgrace for his son that hatched out of an egg only to become an evil entity in his eyes. Hability acted hesitant seeing her mate and/or husband turning away as he was walking/waddling off into the Evergreen of Paradise holy side not wanting to ever look back at the monstrous form of a penguin. She was constantly looking back and forth in a pick or choose type of situation, between son and mate, she chose mate. Hability sadly let out a breath from her mouth/beak giving up hope for her son as she too had turned her back and went the same direction her mate Castefer were heading in. As two of Teterburr's parents were walking/waddling away through the other side, Teterburr brightened his gaze as he turned around ever so slightly and saw his family leaving him. He had felt multiple scars coming through him like shocks of thunder that would never leave him be as he consciously could tell that his parents were right even though he tries to hide regret of himself being in the wrong. He deeply sighs mentally and heads off further towards the inside of the area he was literally left with no choice but to live in. He walks/waddles so far off into the forest that he can longer remembers where to go to find that special spot between the barrier of the alive side where good penguins like his parents live in vs the empty and dead side where a bad penguin like himself currently resides in as the line between both sides don't mix/intertwine between the two. With being said, Teterburr finally found the spot he could actually rest in being inside the big dead forest. He calmly sits and leans against a tall dead tree that was standing there waiting just for him. The bark and wood of the tree weren't pleasant as it was scratching/itching the black colored backside of Teterburr's body and plumage. It really wasn't good to lean against the tree but what else was he supposed to do?? Hell, even the tree's color to Teterburr was that it was abosolutely coated in gray, black, and light brown colors, all of which made Teterburr sick to his stomach but if this was the place for a emperor penguin like him then so be it. He would be better off living here rather than being inside of that icky rainbow filled 'good' side. Otherwise, it was best suited for him to just live in a empty and dark place with no leafy trees or nicely flourished bushes, only nothing but quietness and little breezes of wind passing by. He wasn't sure if he was the only one in the whole place but he didn't care knowing he'll never get company from anyone else especially not now from the current situation. Thoughts played with Teterburr's mind each time he tried to forget and not remember a single negative thing. He couldn't stop overthinking about how his parents treated him and he even still had some hatred for his traitor of a 'friend'. He wanted yell, shout, and growl in pure anger but he couldn't. Above all, he was really angry, upset, puzzled, and even just mostly being really really sad. He stared at the ground with a stern look not willing to do anything in the lonely part of his location. He felt sick of it but sighed mentally closing his eyes and slowly accepting his fate of being in the lifeless forest around him. In the midst of the shadows in the surrounding dark forest a quick swift move of air went past the half-blind penguin with it not one bit phasing the cold blooded emperor sitting down against the tree behind him. Teterburr felt a presence of something behind him but didn't bother to even look and see what it was. The thing behind him was quietly floating and waiting deceivingly thinking about the perfect moment to strike. Teterburr groaned having his eyes closed but still didn't bother to look. Apparently, it was too late as suddenly whatever creature or entity the thing was had chose its decision to fly fast making its way to rush inside of Teterburr's body. He didn't even know what hit him but as soon as the thing that went in his body, Teterburr's soul/body writhed and twitched feeling the effects of the possession inside him. Whatever was going on with Teterburr caused him to open his eyes letting out a gasp realizing something took over his body. It was already settled as whoever or whatever that's controlling him made Teterburr have a feeling of wanting blood in his mouth and beak. Teterburr could still control his body/soul himself but he also felt another thing inside him not knowing anything about it. Teterburr looked at his flippers before looking up at the sky thinking about penguins, bloodshed, fights, bullies, an enemy friend, betrayed family, and overall death. He wanted to know what was he feeling as more and more intrusive thoughts came on running in his mind. He asked mentally to himself 'What is this? Who's in my body?'. No answer was ever admitted to the clueless now possessed penguin. He just didn't understand why he was constantly thinking about grotesque stuff of only nothing but violence, blood, and death. Of course Teterburr knew he was evil but this was a bit much for a penguin like him. He didn't want to continually think about wanting to hurt others or in general anybody being hurt completely. But the thoughts kept happening no matter how hard Teterburr tried to get rid of them, he couldn't stop it. Subsequently, Teterburr had visions that appeared in front of him showing leopard seals fighting, attacking, roaring, growling, killing and eating penguins and even other species but sometimes its penguins. He didn't know what was going on till he saw a vision of a leopard seal opening and using their mouth to clamp every sharp tooth into a penguin's chest and body making sure the helpless thing underneath them was feeling real pain. Teterburr wanted to look a way but found out he couldn't even move his neck or close his eyes to not look at the scene even if its just a temporary vision, and with that he gave in and watched everything unfold. He saw the leopard seal finish the job as it had pulled a chunk of meat from the hopeless and dead penguin victim. Seeing that made Teterburr remember that he did the same action to that one big leopard seal that used to be a leader. He shook his head in disbelief but it was real. While still watching, Teterburr saw the leopard seal shake its head with the penguin meat in its mouth, and then with blood coating the creature's mouth and teeth, it had decided to throw the meat in the air before letting it fall down in its open mouth in which this case Teterburr watched it gobble and gulp down the meat while also still chewing and mashing the food into smaller bits and pieces in a very sloppily wet-doglike manner. Teterburr wanted to throw up a bit but seeing such a sight, the thing controlling him made him think otherwise as it forced him to actually enjoy seeing the leopard seal eat the carcass of the poor dead penguin. Once the leopard seal was done eating, it moved on to attack another penguin but before Teterburr could see it, the vision disappeared and faded out. Teterburr felt sorrow that the vision he had went away but something happened. Teterburr's tongue was pulsating in a static motion causing him to open his beak to look at it. His tongue didn't stop as tingling sensations filled it but then again he wasn't even tasting or eating anything himself, it was only the leopard seal he saw that could've tasted the penguin meat it was eating. Wait, something wasn't right. After the fact that Teterburr saw a vision or sight of that leopard seal eating a penguin, he somehow all of a sudden began to feel his tongue acting strange even though its supposed to be a nonliving but helpful feature of his body. Teterburr's pupil constricted in still form as he was actually quite terrified of what's going on with him. His tongue began to move and flicker sideways but did it more than once. Teterburr wanted to close his mouth/beak as he tried to raise his flippers and the thing was that he couldn't move his flippers at all. Just what was controlling him?? Teterburr's eyes opened wide as small whispers was in his mind and were being spoken in his nonexistent ears. He then felt the malign taste of how it would be if there was blood being in his wide open mouth/beak right now. Deep growls was being produced and were echoing throughout his head but he didn't know why, it just took control of him. Then, he heard a voice say 'Blood'. This was new info as Teterburr was actually becoming crazy considering that he was hearing voices in his head saying things like the word 'blood', he wondered if it'll say anything else. With mostly everything going on, Teterburr's mouth/beak immediately closed without hurting the tongue but the mouth/beak was half open. As Teterburr got control of his body back, he had the urge to clench the tips of his black and orange beak pretending if he had teeth and that if he was biting an object. His jaw felt different as it was the opposite of a normal penguin's mouth, he of course didn't have teeth knowing he is a penguin but he had sensations that felt as if he had them. Teterburr was realizing that he had the feelings and sensations of a leopard seal's mouth/jaw inside of his mouth/beak and that it was actually inside him. His tongue was suddenly moving a lot and it even got a sharper tip that could actually make a cut wound if tried yet it wasn't long enough since it could only fit inside his mouth. After moments passed, his tongue completely stopped all movement but his beak didn't. Teterburr pressed the tips of his beak really hard against each other feeling more and more strange tastes filling his mouth even without nothing being physically there in his mouth. A voice invaded in his mind as it said 'Food'. Teterburr didn't know who this was saying this but it told him 'food'. Soon but surely Teterburr could feel the blood of his enemies and other penguins being in his mouth as there were screams of the innocent souls of penguins being in his head, it craved him and it sure enough made him lose his mind even a bit worser than how he lost it before he died. Teterburr's eyes were still wide in a crazed like state as mostly the black pupil in his red eye were constricted very tiny and round. More moments pass, then all the feelings and sensations that was inside of Teterburr's long mouth and beak suddenly faded away. He wondered where the flavors and tastes of metallic and malign blood that was in his mouth/beak even head off to. It didn't even matter as the voice came back to haunt him and it had more to say. "Blood and meat is the only way. Don't be afraid. You need meat and the blood of others. Your tongue is the key to everything, and your beak can be used like sharp teeth inside of an enemy predator's mouth. Eat Penguins...........you d..o..n..t....n...e..e...d...a..n..y....o..t..h..e..r....p..r..e..y....e..x..c..e..p..t.....f..o..r...p..e..n..g..u..i..n..s........A..n..d, if y..o..u...d..o....e..a..t.....o..t..h..e..r......p..r..e..y......y..o..u......k..n..o..w......w..h..a..t.....h..a..p..p..e..n..d..s...................................................................." The voice said deep inside of Teterburr's mind and nonexistent ears before leaving out a heinous laugh/giggle. The voice wasn't fully done yet but it did have one last sentence in its words. "Remember this, you must kill ALL penguins and leave no survivors. Then once done, y..o..u.....w..i..l..l.....s..a..c..r..i..f..i..c..e........y..o..u..r..s..e..l..f......t..o......l..e..o..p..a..r..d.......s..e..a..l..s.......o..r........o..r..c..a..s." Teterburr couldn't take it anymore as the voice fully controlled him and that any of the thoughts he had before quickly made him not even consider about thinking of them. Teterburr had accepted his new reality as his wide eyes got even wider and crazier looking than before as his pupil constricted a bit more yet it reached the limit. Teterburr's beak/mouth, which was fully closed like a normal penguin would have theirs closed, had turned into a long and eerie stretched out grin being very wide till it hit the limit. The only last instinct that Teterburr could do was to move his red eye as it looked and stared straight into the forest around him. Without Teterburr blinking or opening his mouth/beak, he stayed like that as he heard leopard seal roars, growls, and any other possible sounds inside his mind. He was no longer a penguin, let alone an Emperor one, no.....he...was......p-a-r-t leopard seal and p-a-r-t penguin. This was how it is, a emperor penguin like Teterburr gone mad. Static tv sounds began to fill the void with Teterburr continously staring and staring into nothing. More of the tv sounds filled in and soon enough it was everywhere. Then the next thing that happened was that the darkness of the Edner's wood forest finally caught up to Teterburr as it surrounded and hid his body. Only the penguin's eyes were still shown but that too had stayed for a while before finally disappearing as everything fades to black. "To those who wreak havoc upon others sha'll know the consequiences of their actions. And, to anyone who saves others is best to never associate themselves with the evil force themselves in the first place." An unkown voice says in the abyss.

Chapter Text

The next day where somewhere else far away from the coldly airs of the antarctic habitat, and on the inside of the city Epilasia hidden deep inside the forest of the human world, there's a certain amount of a population of birds big and small that are either citizens or fighters that belong in flocks. Inside this beautiful city there's buildings, houses, parks, shops/stores, clubs, bars, schools, regions, restaurants, cafes, hospitals, governments, training zones and centers/centres, and whatever else is inside of this huge bird-made city/town. There's a big and lush forest where it's kept far away from the city, which is also apart of Epilasia. As in the city there's only birds working, traveling, dancing, singing, entering and exiting schools, going to parties in clubs/bars, eating/drinking in restaurants and cafes, going to hospitals for checkups/having illnesses or injuries cured, and many other things that were going on inside the city of Epilasia. Yet, there was still something way more important in the forest of Epilasia. There's not many residents of the forest but some birds can live and explore the capacity of it and maybe one day at least a thousand or more birds will be in the forest as the other half of the population of birds in the city of Epilasia will stay in the city and just thrive being a citizen. And, during the day of the entire town and it's forest the bright shining sun was illuminating and radiating its warmth down onto the birds living beneath it. It was such a beautiful day with life everywhere and in the forest there's something going on in the trees with who knows is happening. In the dense shadows underneath the sunlight there was bird resembling that of a peregrine falcon as they were hiding in the thick leaves of a large tall tree clenching their claws on the tough tree branch between their feet. This wasn't any ordinary peregrine falcon as this one had yellow eyes instead of the usual brown or black eye colors, but they still had yellow markings around their eyes. However, with this peregrine falcon they're focusing on what's below them. Alas, below the peregrine falcon was a little robin with black and red markings all over their small body. Without noticing, the robin was turning and moving their head while also chirping and pecking the ground with their beak as they were probably trying to find some worms or bugs to eat. The waiting peregrine falcon stays there watching, calculating, and staring down at what was going to be a quick snack in their eyesight. The falcon closed its eyes before reopening them as they constrict their own pupils before they leap up flapping their wings and before going down in a diving motion swooping towards the small bird spreading their feet extra wide being ready to kill/pin it. The screech/call coming from the falcon alerted the robin while the bird itself turns to see the other bird coming towards them with their pupils inside their brown eyes quickly constricting in constant fear as they then try to flap their little wings wanting to fly and get away from the scarier giant bird above them. Just right before they could even get away and fly, the falcon latched onto the robin as one of their feet had curled and gripped the toes around the robin's wings and backside. The robin in fear screams as they makes lots of tweeting and chirping call sounds before physically shouting and saying "Help!!! Help!! Somebody help me!!" all while flapping and frantically moving their head and wings. The falcon above the bird was happy to catch such weak prey being under their foot as only partially was the falcon's talons were piercing through the smaller bird's back and/or wing. Licking and slurping sounds could be heard from the peregrine falcon as they were moistening their yellow and black tipped beak with their tongue knowing they'll for sure be satisfied once they eat this bird being a different species from them. The falcon's gaze got tight as their pupils constricted even more but resembled the looks of a snakes pupil while getting ready to feast on and kill the small bird below themselves. In a sudden moment, something was heard from the bushes behind the peregrine falcon. The peregrine falcon wondered what it was as they heard something with their nonexistent ears but ignored as they went back to focusing on having their meal. Once again, the sound happened for another time as it was behind the falcon. The falcon in confusion had dilated their pupils as they could no longer take what was distracting them from having their one in a time meal, even it was nothing but a small pesky bird. The little robin was released as the peregrine falcon's talons had loosen the grip and that four holes was left on the bird's back leaking blood but it was nothing because the bird could just get that healed. The peregrine falcon inspected and used their wing to open up through a bushes leaves as they looked around to see who or what was causing them such a distraction. They looked everywhere turning their head back and forth peeping through the small bush searching for the source of annoyance. As soon as the falcon saw what it was, they were disgusted by seeing two hawks talking to each other, making out, and of course booping each other on the beaks. It was horrible!! The falcon just grumbles shaking its head spying on the two young lover red-tailed hawks being a couple as they were just talking to and hugging each other. While looking and watching the couple, the falcon almost forgot about the prey of the smaller bird they were just oh so planning to eat and feed on. The falcon turned away from the sight of the hawk couple to revert its head out of the bush to see what was going on with the bird they hunted. When the peregrine falcon turned around and saw the robin, the robin was already on the edge of flying away from the predator that tried to eat them and as it got spotted by the predator they started flapping. The falcon gasped and tried to go after the robin and yet it was already too late since the little bird had already quickly flew off all the way up in the sky while also saying "Goodbye!". In that exact moment, the falcon couldn't go after and chase the bird in the sky as they instead were very pissed off that their meal was now gone because of those who distracted them. Deep growls vibrated in the peregrine falcon's throat as they angrily stomped their way to the bush waiting for the hawk couple to get closer by it waiting to attack them. When the couple came closer towards the bush as they were talking and having a conversation, the falcon leaped out of the bush and went at the male red-tailed hawk sharply pinning him down with their rough and powerful force using their tough talons grabbing and tugging the young hawk's chest while also going 'RAAH!!'. After the falcon got on top of the hawk and pinned him down, the falcon hisses before saying "YOU!". A gasp came out of the young female red-tailed hawk's mouth/beak with wide eyes seeing what was in front of her. "Terror?!" The young female falcon said in sudden shock. Hearing that name the peregrine falcon was now identified with the name 'Terror' as he was then looking up to turn and see his 'supposed' to be mate/lover. Terror tilted his head responding with "Ah, Quincy. So glad you're here being with this *looks down* SCOUNDREL *looks back up* of a hawk. What brings you here?". Terror clears his throat before giving a faint chuckle and small smile on his beak. Quincy frowned as she did not like what Terror was doing since she shook her head back and forth. Quincy blinked her teal eyes while moving her head before saying "Um, what are you doing here may I ask?? And, why are you standing on my boyfriend?". Terror scoffed rolling his eyes hearing the response coming from the ignorant yet pretty looking brown-and-white feathered red-tailed hawk. Terror responded back to Quincy with "Because, I was actually trying to eat something ever since I found food to go after. And you know my species always have to eat our meat". Quincy sighed with a slightly disturbed look as a frown was formed on her yellow-and-black tipped short beak. Quincy squinted her eyes just a bit wondering why Terror said what he just had said. "Uh, yeah of course I know all that and our species eat meat too but......could you please get off my boyfriend?? He didn't do nothing to you. Let go of him." Quincy says in a concerned yet tad-bit upset kind of mood. Terror looked back and forth between Quincy and her boyfriend before sighing giving in but growls as he gets up off of the hawk he was pinning down beneath him. Terror grumpily squints his yellow colored eyes at the face of Quincy's boyfriend with a mean looking frown while also growling as he says "You BETTER be lucky that I haven't yet killed you. Quincy loves ME, not your ratheaded boby ass". Terror gives one last hiss at the young brown-and-white looking red-tailed hawk male. Once the boyfriend of Quincy had got up, he felt like as if nothing ever happened regarding that he just got pinned by an enemy of his. Quincy smiles coming closer to her brightly green-eyed mate as she hugs him with both of her wings. "I love you so much Alec." Quincy says while hugging and rubbing her face up against her boyfriend's chest. Her boyfriend, being the other red-tailed hawk with brown and white body markings except for the tail as it's clearly red/orange who's name was Alec had smiled back and patted her with his wing. "Heh, I love you too my sugar babe." Alec replied back to his lover. Quincy and Alec both giggled in happiness before they both wagged their tail feathers and nudged each other's beak tips in a cutesy and lovey-dovey matter. Terror with udder disgust had turned his head going 'Ugh' while sticking his pink tongue out. These three birds where one was a peregrine falcon being Terror, and the other two being both red-tailed hawks but were both different genders being both Quincy and Alec were all high school graduates since they were all in their 20's. Terror was 23 while both Quincy and Alec was 24. The energetic and young couple were a bit older than the bird next to them but they didn't mind as they were just always into each other no matter what activity they did. Even though all three of these young birds were graduates and had their lives ahead of them, the grumpy grayish/black and white feathered falcon Terror was not having no part of wanting to be associated with these two lovebirds as he actually hated them being together. Terror just despised how those two birds even got together in the first place, even when they all had been in high school, middle school, and elementary school as far as he could even remember. He oh so wanted them to just quit and stop being together but he felt that was never going to happen. He sighs having his eyes closed but gets interrupted as Quincy starts talking behind him. "Hey Terror, wanna go to the dance place??" Quincy asks in curiosity. Terror blinks his eyes a bit trying to get an understanding of what Quincy had said to him. "The dance place??" Terror asks in a confused manner back at Quincy's question. Quincy rolls her eyes in a quirky yet cocky way while also tilting her head to the side. Quincy sighs before saying "Come on. You know what I mean." Quincy says as a response to the falcon back. Terror still not understanding squints his eyes in severe confusing with a crooked half frown on his face/beak. Terror replies with "N-No, I don't understand what you're saying at all. If anything that's the most stupid thing to say to a highly intelligent being like me". Quincy sighs shaking her head back and forth with a slight facepalm as her wing touches her face. Quincy talks back as she rewords her sentence by saying "I meant the nightclub or you know, the club. Do you wanna dance there or nah??". Terror now feeling better about Quincy rephrasing what she said, he feels enlightened to give a smile but only one simple reply came out his mouth. "No." Terror said answering the young but beautiful red-tailed hawk. Quincy sadly frowned with her eyes matching same mood she was in. Quincy opens her mouth saying "Aw......, why not??". Terror shaking his head in annoyance had quickly turned his back against the female hawk. Quincy talks again trying to get a response from Terror as she says "Hey, can you please answer?". Terror sighed rolling his yellow eyes in sheer annoyance but decides to answer the begging hawk behind him. Terror turns around with a disgruntled look on his face before answering with "Because, if you have that damn RATHOLE being around you the entire time of my presence if I dare to try to dance along with you. You're going to have that ugly catmouth of a damn shitty hawk ruin and plague the whole hangout or dance thing. So no, I'm not ever going to come with you guys and dance in some stupid club. Either way, I actually have better things to do than be around you guys". And with that, Terror turns away and walks a few miles apart from the two hawk couple before finally running full speed as he flaps and flutters his long wings and flies very high up in the air without saying goodbye since the only thing on his mind was to just go away and leave the couple alone down on the ground inside the forest. As Terror escapes with great flight evading the big forest beneath him, the two hawks look at each other with slight frowns on their face's and beaks in confusion and concern. Alec says "Well that just happened". Quincy lowers her gaze in a fazed out mood. "Yep, that's what made him mad. Actually let's just find someone to help train us. We are fighters after all." Quincy said in a bit of a flat worded tone. Alec looks at Quincy before looking back at the sky as he then makes the decision to sigh and agree with his young girlfriend. "Yeah, you're right. Let's go to the training center/centre so we can get a trainer for us." Alec says in agreement with his lover/girlfriend as he nods his head. Quincy smiles before saying "Let's go then." The two hawk couple began to walk before subsequently running in a race type dash for who gets to the training center first kind of thing. The two smile before going out into where the city were after evading outside the forest. Up in the air while soaring and flying, Terror was actively searching and looking for where the training center/centre was located in inside the town. He flaps and flaps twitching and moving his head back and forth using his eyesight to look deep into the town being directly underneath him. He keeps flying very fast and very few searching for it but suddenly, he found it. As he spotted the perfect area where the center/centre was, he took a deep dive tucking his wings and feet tight as his eyes squinted the more he was moving through the air at a fast pace. He was going at 88 mph just by diving all the way to the ground below him. It didn't take too long till Terror gotten really close to the pavement of the bird city but before he lands, he does a smart move as he opens his feet and claws preparing them for contact and he spreads his wings as to not accidentally fall with his head hitting the pavement. In an instant, Terror uses his back claws on both feet and hind feet heels to slide and skid his way onto landing against the pavement ground. Even though it didn't feel comfortable to land using his feet like the way he did since it felt immense pressure on his back talons that's on both feet, at least it was ten times better than to end up falling or landing the opposite way where he could not only hurt himself but could even die or be killed by the impact. Anyway, as he finally made it to the place he removes his back talons/claws from the pavement that they were dug deep in before walking and entering the center in front of him. After walking inside the building, Terror walks towards where the reception desk was for whoever wants a new or assigned trainer. At the reception desk, Terror hands out a card from taking it out of his white and black striped under-wing plumage before finalizing and asking the bird behind the desk "Who's my trainer? And, where are they? I'll pay you 15$, that's it". The receptionist bird was quite shocked at such an amount of money coming from a mean bird being Terror as they knew if they end up wasting time in front of the peregrine falcon himself, they might end up being killed by the sharp beaked and tough-clawed bully. The bird behind the desk gulped nodding their head as they say while pointing their wing "H-H-Here's your t-trainer good sir. H-H-Hope you h-have a n-nice day, why don't you?". Terror looked to see who it was that the receptionist rung up and it seems like a old osprey who's name was Michael was going to be his trainer/mentor. Terror smiled a bit thinking inside his head the osprey he's seeing would make great playtime to turn into a victim of his once he gets the chance to tear the living gray and white shitty feathers out of his damn body. But Terror kept calm as he didn't want to show his true instinct towards the pristine and untouched senior of a bird. So instead Terror had showed his gratitude to the receptionist bird by taking money out of his other white and black striped under-wing plumage as he gave it to the bird behind the desk. "Thanks, keep the cash. It'll be enough for both of us." Terror said before making his way out walking with the very osprey that he'll make his victim the moment that they both walk out that door. When both Terror and the osprey Michael had gotten out of the training center/centre they both walked together down the road traveling all the way to where the forest far from the city was resting at so they could both have a trainee and trainer type of hangout time. In a quick moment, while both Terror and Michael were making their way to exiting the city, the red-tailed hawk couple came running straight towards their direction of them quietly walking to the training spot. Terror caught on as he shouted to Michael to 'Quick, fly!!' as the two carnivorous birds work together to flap their wings and head straight into the air making a fast airborne escape from the two 24 year old hawks. Terror sighs going 'phew' as he did not want to collide or have a meet up with those two pesky dinge-heads of a couple. Terror says to the osprey that it's nothing but some old childhood friends of his while explaining to why he told Michael to get up and fly away. Terror shook his head saying 'nevermind' as he and Harold had flew their way to the hot-spot of a big and nice forest having plenty of trees, rocks, and bushes where Terror could easily hide the body of his victim's body. Accordingly, two of the raptors had landed somewhere secretive and less populous deep inside the forest as both of them got their orb staffs so that they could use to fight each other. Terror felt this was an opportunity to start attacking and clawing at the vulnerable spots of the 30 year old osprey's body since he could sense the being's weaknesses. Michael on the other hand was only having a friendly expression on his face but of course he would have to be serious if he had to fight in order to train Terror. Both birds grabbed hold of their staffs with their wings and got ready as they both were standing far apart giving each other looks and deep stares where the osprey's yellow eyes would look into the falcon's yellow eyes had complete competitive motives knowing the fight gonna start. Michael spoke saying "So youngie, you wanna fight me?? Well here's the competition. Let's fight!". Terror smiles hearing those words as a gleam in his eye sparkled since in his body/mind he was craving for thoughts of having fresh blood in his claws/beak, he just loved it!! Terror chuckles before giving out a simple 'okay' back to the trainer osprey. The atmosphere became humid with feels of intensity and extreme power as the two forces of raptor birds were standing and growling at each other. Two of the different birds constricted their pupils in pure wild-bird mode. Things got hot as the osprey and falcon started to run fast towards each other with their mouths/beaks open knowing what's going on as they then both leap and spread their wings as they both are still in combat mode with no end. Terror and Michael screech and gawk at each other fighting and clawing at each other. Harold as an osprey flies and swoops down on Terror as he uses his staff to release some blue light trying to aim at the enemy he's fighting against. Knowing Terror, he flies and dodges the attack as he swings and hits his staff up against Michael's staff while Harold also holds his staff up against Terror's as they're both switching between air and mid-fighting, and are sometimes doing ground fighting. The slapping and hitting of wings, feathers, tails, and feet was going on between the two birds being in the fight. As Michael tried to release blue light with his staff again aiming for the peregrine falcon that he oh so didn't know actually was wanting kill him instead of having a simple fair fight, the falcon being Terror turns around in anger and flies straight towards the osprey as he slaps his wing in front of Harold's face making him partially blind in sky making the both of them fall down and land hard onto the grassy-green forest floor. As both Terror and Michael landed, both of their staffs were dropped and were placed in the grass behind/underneath them both. In confusion, the osprey Michael stares with his wide eyes looking up at the peregrine falcon being on top of him with his feet and body pressing down on his elongated body. Without knowing about the bird above him being less merciful, Michael witnesses and sees Terror raise one of his feet up with all toes and claws clutched together while holding in that position making the pupils in Michael's eyes constrict further but in fear. Terror deeply chuckles seeing his opponent being weak and scared below him as he was planning this all along with zero mercy when it comes to fighting a bird of another species. Terror's pupils constricts like a snake but it was in excitement as he smiled with a wide crazy grin. Terror tilts his head saying "You see, these claws are made for killing y'know?? Hmm, I would've saved these for a different occasion but eh.....I think that these should work fine for you!! And ospreys like you can make great osprey soup. Not for me of course, but other animals would love to have a taste of you. But sadly that won't happen. Well, say goodbye!". Terror appears as a reflection in the osprey's yellow eye involving a creepy smile and a turned head, soon enough it was too late for Harold to do anything as Terror raises his foot further opening it while the sun's rays glitter over Terror's talons making a sudden gleam and a little 'ting' sound. Terror smiled once he struck his four claws and toes deep inside of Michael's long and lengthy body ignoring the feathers that was coming all off of the belly of the poor bird/raptor as he made a huge gash starting from the neck all the way to where the legs and tail feathers of the dead bird's body be at. Michael's last sign of life after that long made injury and death wound only had him see a foggy eyesight vision of the bird who just killed him in cold blood as his pupils in both eyes slowly dilate growing bigger not knowing what to focus on. Terror watched the bird die under him as he took his foot out and licked blood off of it. Harold's eyes shed tears as then suddenly all life faded from Harold's yellow eyes with the pupils inside them completely being dilated and big. Terror felt pleased killing the innocent bird he tricked into wanting to train for him. His eyes went back to normal knowing what he did felt good. Yet, he wasn't done yet. This was the only beginning as the peregrine falcon was a bit more bloodthirsty for wanting to hurt and kill birds that are weaker than him. Terror sighed blinking his eyes but realizes he needs to hide or bury the body somewhere inside the forest around him. He couldn't bear himself letting any bird see this mess so instead he looked around for the perfect place. "Aha!" Terror says as he finds a big bush where he could fit the body in. Terror sighs as he gets up and grabs the dead carcass of the osprey and drags/flies it over to the bush and puts it in there. He confidently smiles doing what he did as he then gets ready for whatever else possible attack he's gonna do if he finds another bird to fight or attack. With conformation, Terror flapped his wings heading off to fly and search for somewhere where he could find another opponent that he could fight and rip the feathers out of their weak body after coming in contact with him. Terror sniffed and smelled through his nostrils finding on where else he could take place in the forest so he could kill another bird with his evil flawless ways. Flapping and flying through the forest he was looking for where he could join a flock to become apart of as he didn't only want to kill another bird, but he also wanted to be a leader and one that everyone must always listen to. Following this, Terror flew left and right between the trees before reaching and making his destination as he rests and perches on a tree branch while looking down to spy and see the insides of a flock that actually had his kind of birds that he could actually deal and work with. Terror smirks as he flies down the tree and lands on the soft grass before calmly and confidently walking his way towards the bushes as he squeezes past through them making a head-entrance to the whole territory/camp. A sudden disturbance was seen as condors, vultures, and buzzards were all looking at where Terror was on the ground as all of them got in defense mode of wanting to protect their territory/home. Terror looked up and saw all the different birds in the trees growling, staring, frowning, and giving all kinds of mean looks through their faces regardless if any of these birds had names or not. Terror scoffed because he wasn't scared of those types of birds anyway as he could already tell if he fought one of them he would kill them with one bite of his beak. It didn't take long for the leader inside the area/camp to notice because a mentor of his told him inside his den/nest that an intruder was on the premises of his lovely flock camp as then in a result, the leader came out walking and fussing about who had even bothered to touch a single inch of his specific-access allowed home. Terror, being outward and competent as he had himself all the way in the camp where there were plenty of nests on both ground and tree, was really hopefully expecting the bird to come out and have a battle with him. When the leader of the flock he owned and the territory he was recently claiming came out, he woke up shaking his fluffed head-feathers and letting out a faint sneeze because of the stuff he's been breathing in from his own feathers. Terror's eyes were in a 'ooooh' like state as he saw the flock leader being a gray-and-white tall brown-eyed looking harpy eagle. The harpy eagle wasn't happy seeing this intruder being in his sights and clearly invading the whole area of it all. The harpy snarled squinting his brown eyes before giving a command "Surround him". As a result, the condors, vultures, and buzzards all had swooped down at the same time right before gently landing all around Terror as they were doing what their leader said. Terror sees this but smiles as he didn't care about being surrounded, he just wanted to fight. After the three different raptors had surrounded the one enemy raptor upon them, the harpy blinked before meaningly letting out a clearing throat kind of sound. The harpy eagle opens his mouth/beak before saying "Who are you? And, WHAT are you doing on my *growls then hisses while twitching head* T-T-TERRITORY??!!". Terror not phased by the threat of questions by the harpy eagle in front of him had smirked and chuckled because of such things he heard from the eagle's mouth/beak. Terror couldn't keep a smile off his face as he then opens his mouth/beak further to make fun of the eagle that was once just asking him and that Terror left out hearty laughs from his mouth/beak making a tomfoolery of the situation around him. The angry harpy emits deep growls in his throat in pure anger not enjoying that a peregrine falcon like Terror was making fun of both his flock and his territory. The harpy lets out cruel words saying "WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING FOR??!!! YOU DARE to make fun of OUR home and OUR flock where I'M the only leader in sight??!! Oh no no no, we can not have that. You are TRESPASSING our grounds. If you don't tell me who you are, what you're doing, and why are you here, I will tell my GUARDS to swarm you and gang on you till you DIE. Do YOU understand??!!". Terror still laughing calms down and finally stops as he wipes his eye with his wing feeling better that he got his laughter out. The harpy still waiting on a response finally gets to hear what Terror has to say back to him. Terror mockingly lets out a sigh as he says "Oh, jokes...Very funny. I'm done. *coughs* Okay, you got me. No more laughs, just serious talk. I'll tell you who I am and you say what's your name back, got it? Ok, so my name's Terror you grumpy ol' hag sheet of a bird. What i'm doing here is that I want a flock but I don't own one and i'll be so lonely without being apart of a flock............So, I came searching here to see if there's a flock and here it is, right in front of me. And, the last thing I could say is that i'm going to start a fight so I could be leader and be winning against you". In shock the harpy had an opened gaped mouth/beak before shaking his head with his eyes closed. The harpy stopped shaking his head and opened his eyes to look at the peregrine falcon that was still being in front of him surrounded by his guards. The harpy hiss at Terror before giving a response with "I'm Botcho and this is my flock, the Lunar Eclipse flock. This flock belongs to us and it's led by me, but since you want to be leader I will fight you. But there is no way you can defeat me and take my place". Terror smirks scoffing as he rolls his eyes seeing the harpy eagle say and order out more commands to those who work for him. Botcho squints his eyes looking at the birds that was apart of his flock nodding and bobbing his head with a stern look making them know and understand what they should do for him in regards to prepare the fight between the harpy and the peregrine falcon. Botcho sighs ruffling his head-feathers and his whole plumage before getting his back metal armor put on him by his other birds that's in his flock. Terror still waits for when he'll be released from being surrounded by the raptors circling him. Once Botcho got his staff in his wing placed close to his body, he commanded the others surrounding Terror to stand back and walk away from him while still keeping a keen eye on him. Terror was handed out some back armor to place on his back behind his wings and he had a staff so he could use in order to fight. Botcho looks at everyone of the birds in his flock as he orders one command "Surround the place and don't let any exits be available". Terror felt excited for this moment, he was going to fight a gray-and-white harpy eagle right in his view/gaze. Terror was told by Botcho to put the armor on so that the fight could start, Terror blinked for a bit before realizing and understanding that he has to do it or else he won't be able to be in a fight and that instead he could be the one to get killed by the other birds. Therefore, Terror grabs the back armor and applies it to his body once he found a way to reach and touch his back using his wings, then he picks up and holds the orb staff with his one right wing and like that he was ready to go. This flock didn't seem that they needed much armor as it was only back armor that birds had to wear and that staffs were the common weapon. But regardless, everything seemed like it was settled as the audience and guards were circling and surrounding the area/camp to where neither Terror or Botcho could fly, walk, or even run out of the premises as this was something meant to happen. This fight was a dream about to come true and come to life as Terror's heart was beating and he could feel his eyes pulsate out of his skull thinking about spilling blood from the eagle. Terror and Botcho slowly walk closer to each other so that distance between them could be more compact when the battle actually gets to start. As both of the birds got closer to each other, they both start to circle around and give each other mean looks. The audience of birds in the background start chanting and saying "Fight! Fight! Fight!". Terror turns his head to the audience of the birds chanting and smirks because that they were ranting and raving saying "Fight! Fight! Fight! Come on and fight already!!!", then Terror looks back at Botcho where he could stare deep into his enemy's soul. The air got thick with feelings of tight lightning and thunderbolts as there were two raptors aka a peregrine falcon and a harpy eagle were both growling deeply at each other and even sometimes full out hissing in front of each other. While the two birds was still circling and walking around each other giving each other intense stares and mean frowns, Botcho declared a statement out his mouth/beak "You think you're so tough to come in my area with no warning, hmmm...??? Well here's my thing, YOU are not a welcome member of this flock and YOU will never be. So therefore, YOU WILL NOT WIN THIS BATTLE!!!!". Botcho angrily runs fast towards his opponent before leaping at Terror with wings spread open, claws/feet clenched that are almost half-open, beak open with tongue exposed, pupils constricted in brown eyes/irises, while all the way making a call/screech sound coming out of the raptor's beak. In a quick dash, Terror runs out of his enemy's way resulting in Botcho falling face-front and his wings/body hitting the ground. Terror flies behind Botcho making it up in the air before turning around to not only spread his wings but to also hold his claws while the pupils in his eyes constrict turning into snake-like form while screeching loudly as he swoops down at a very fast pace coming towards his enemy's direction. The screeching/calling gets closer and suddenly Botcho turns to realize his opponent is about to dive in on him and try to injure him. Botcho grabs his staff and grips it in his wing before flying fast and freely up in the sky coming in the same direction his opponent is concurrently going through. The two clashed as both of their feet and talons had intertwined together and at in the same moment, Terror used his wing to slap/hit the face of Botcho making his enemy lose his grip on his staff and that the staff itself falls on the ground. In anger, Botcho hissed and used his beak to rip some feathers off of Terror's wide wing. As this happened, both birds had released their feet/talons from colliding with each other and that Terror was mad as he was screeching back at Botcho before making himself fly upwards away from Botcho so he could start swooping down at the other bird in the air being in front of him. Botcho watches this as he swiftly dodges and he himself decides to attack Terror. Terror and Botcho both angrily screech, scream, and hiss at each other as they take lots of different swings and hits with their wings, beaks, talons/claws, and even sometimes their staffs. The two raptors bit, clawed, hit, slap, and shot blue light from their staffs each other vigorously and it took place in both air and on ground. The audience of birds were cheering and yelling "Woooo!!! Fight fight fight!!! Win win win!!!! Terror vs Botcho, Terror vs Botcho!!!!" and that they were all expending their voices ever so clearly since they were all watching the one on one fight going down. Terror and Botcho roughly clawed and bit each other until one of them pushed them down very hard until they brushed their wings and bodies onto the grass floor. Terror lands on top of Botcho being on the ground as he growls and bites the gray feathers off of his scruffy neck. Botcho grimaced and winced before hoisting his body upwards so he could use his feet to scratch and claw at Terror's throat/chest. Both Terror and the other bird got up before roughly flapping and spreading their wings to take aggressive action with even more clawing and biting and that even two of the raptors had growled hissing at each other each time they would pin and hurt each other against every tree the came across while in the same situation staying inside of the surrounded fighting ring. The more aggressive and mean the birds were towards each other doing countless of fighting moves and sometimes dodging the other, the crowd surrounding them were frantic with the yelling, shouting, cheering, and screaming only going on about who will win in the fight. During this, in a flashing moment Botcho spread his claws diving down on the enemy of his while seeing his opponent being on the ground mid-air. Successfully, Botcho swoops on Terror and instantly leaves a scratch/bite mark on the side of his neck causing the feathers and wound to be very deep with three lines appearing and that it was bleeding out red blood from the side of Terror's neck before it caused a nasty painful sting that the falcon could feel. Terror, while laying down since he was pushed down by his opponent, looks at his neck from the side then looks back at his enemy Botcho about to grab his staff. Terror growls pressing his beak tips against each other very aggressively while having his snake-like golden eyes squinting at the vicinity of the enemy he's fighting, and at the sudden moment that Terror sees Botcho picking his staff up, Terror turns around to get up and immediately runs himself into the harpy and he flaps his wings after his feet grabs hold of Botcho's chest and neck plumage in which in return in resulted in both birds heading straight towards a tree in a fast speed. Botcho had the wind knocked out of him as his body was harshly slammed against a tall tree in which Terror caused by sheer impact. Botcho, now slightly unconscious had no idea what was going on as Terror on the other hand was walking towards the staff that the eagle himself was about to grab. Botcho's body was on the floor covered in green grass being slumped over with legs spread out and that his eyes were closed as well. Terror could feel himself taking advantage at grabbing the staff he was standing close to with his wings spread out while hearing the crowd cheering and saying the name "Terror!! Terror!! Terror!!". Botcho's body twitched and his feet clenched as he could hear the rants and cheers going on but it was about his enemy, but suddenly he wakes up before standing on his two feet along with shaking and ruffling his head-feathers. Botcho opens his brown eyes being in their normal and dilated state but something came back inside Botcho's mind, he was still fighting. For this purpose of Botcho waking up to reality, he saw and witnessed that Terror already hot gotten the staff in his wing and without hesitating, Botcho in pure rage began running and leaping fast towards the spot Terror was at until he finally flapped his wings, constricted his pupils, and flew in the air before going in a diving motion with his feet/claws being in front of body as they were aiming/going for the peregrine falcon. A screech/call was heard from the harpy's mouth/beak as he got closer the falcon that wasn't paying attention to him. But alas, Terror was a fast thinker and he knew that the harpy eagle behind him was going to come close to him only for him to release his plan. As Botcho was still in the air diving, Terror turned around with the staff in his left wing as he then flew up flapping his other wing and once Terror matched up with where Botcho was going, he flew under his attacker, pushed/inserted the orb staff deep into the feathery and soft torso of his enemy, and gripped his wing hard on the orb staff before making it shoot blue light right out of it yet while the staff was releasing blue light, he pushed almost half of the entire staff up inside of the harpy's body. The harpy could feel the radiated light of the orb's power and that it was horribly piercing through his body and that it actually was tearing his insides out as he was about to die. Terror smiled since Botcho's expression that was once anger/madness had turned into instant fear/worry and that his beak was half open with a mixture of a frown/surprised gasp. Terror still had the staff in his wing as he further pushed the thing inside of his enemy's body and even made it release even more light causing a bloody scene as the magic from the orb had caused plenty of crimson blood to come pouring out of Botcho's body and since Terror was flying all the way past Botcho's body because he was going past his legs and feet, the staff was left stuck inside Botcho once it was shoved deep inside where his stomach was and that all his intestines were all out being exposed and were left draping/covering the top of the orb staff. And when Terror had flew all the way past the enemy's body, he then landed and stood on the fine green grass without looking back to see that Botcho's body was still in the air but yet of course it fell downwards at a fast pace and that when it landed, it wasn't a pretty sight to see since the dead harpy's body had a hunched up back, a slumped over neck, spread and laid down wings, spread open and limp legs/feet, dilated pupil in both eyes with no life inside, open beak with tongue sticking out, and of course last but not least the orb staff being deep inside the stomach of the dead harpy eagle and that its intestines were all over the staff with just nothing but blood oozing out of the raptor's body. With the harpy eagle Botcho dead, the peregrine falcon Terror was standing there in pure silence. The audience stared with no words coming out their mouths since most of them were still trying to understand what happened in their eyes. Silence was in the air with one bird that fought and won yet none of the birds in the crowd had even said one thing or made one sound. Terror waited as he was wanting them to say something instead of just being there in silence while watching him be there. After a moment passes or two, the crowd cheered, whistled, and clapped before saying "Terror!!! Terror!!! Terror!!!" repetitively and in a very loud way. Having victory and feeling triumphant, Terror took off and removed the back armor he had on as hehad a smile on his face hearing the crowd cheer for him and not the bird that he just killed. Terror moved as he went around the body of his dead enemy and walked his way upwards and towards the big rock before finally getting a chance to stand at the tip of it while looking down on the birds that's beneath him. And since Terror had won the fight, some of the birds stopped surrounding the area of where the fight took place in. The moment that Terror is standing on top of the rock, he coughs clearing his throat before blinking his yellow eyes as he lefts out a breath of air to say something "Ah, thank you so much for the congratulations but please everyone, please gather around and stand close to the rock. Ahem, now as things are settled I hereby say that I am your new leader Terror!! This flock is mine and only mine!! I have ownership over this flock cause I am the leader of the Lunar Eclipse flock!!! I'm in control and say that everyone should obey me and bow down to me!!! Also, whatever I say goes as everyone must follow and do my orders the way I tell them to. So for now, you must listen to me and nobody else but me!". Silence was around the forest but the birds below Terror were all just staring with their eyes and heads being aimed at Terror yet their nonexistent ears weren't quite as open. Terror looked a bit upset that nobody responded to him as they were just staring and looking in quiet silence. Without Terror looking behind himself, a deputy of the bird that once lived had walked up behind the new peregrine falcon leader. The deputy that's now behind Terror's back had lightly tapped him with their wing as to try to get his attention from them. Terror sighed and grumbled as he turned to see who was even disturbing and bothering him. To his surprise, Terror's pupils dilated as he sees another peregrine falcon but one that's female in which that she had yellow eyes just like Terror and he suddenly blushes a bit seeing the female falcon in his eyesight. The female falcon clears her throat as she starts speaking to the male peregrine. "Terror, is it?? Look, I know you're not the only one but do you mind me being here. And, should I be your new deputy since you're the leader now?? *gets closer and nudges head under Terror's neck* Oh and since you've been so brave to get rid of that old leader, I kind of want to *coos* be your mate y'know??" the unknown female falcon says to Terror. Terror, slightly blushing with almost hints to a faint smile had blinked his eyes before coughing and clearing his throat to say "Hmm, we didn't need that rat to lead this flock. *looks down at her tail feathers* I do say that you yourself is mighty feisty but I must know what's your name. Plus, instead of you being my deputy. I might make you share my position as leader, actually i'll let you be the other leader for this flock. Of course i'm the main one but if anything the only other bird that's allowed to be leader should be you my sweet". The female falcon with a robust energy had liked what Terror said to her as she sweetly nibbled on and rubbed her head on the male's neck and shoulder while cooing. The female stops before letting out a sigh as she moves away from Terror but turns around to face him as she then opened her beak to let out a reply. "Okay big boy, my name is Fleet. I'll be the second leader to this flock but who's gonna be the deputy?! Ugh, that old leader was no good since he didn't even give us that much food to help feed us, but with you as the new first leader will you promise to do a better job than that heathen of a bird. Do you promise to provide us with great food, marvelous guidance, and will you promise *gets closer and whispers in Terror's nonexistent ear* a good relationship with me?? The only last question I could ever ask you is what's your age??" the female falcon now named as Fleet says while batting her eyes and showing specific emotions. Terror, not hiding his blush smiled a bit before twitching his head to clear his throat so could feel calmed down in order for him to speak. Terror blinked his eyes before saying "I'm 23, you? About that deputy question, I say that I should find one to fit our flock. I'll absolutely promise to everything that you said dear. I will give you the love you need, I will guide everyone in this flock to the upmost tip top shape, and I will have plenty of food for all of the birds in this wonderful neat flock". Fleet smirks and hums before making a inquisitive look and expression as she then opens her beak to say "Hmm, I'm 23 as well and I've been deputy for 3 years but finally it's time for me to be a leader instead of just being that same old role I had for a long time. It's such a coincidence that we're even the same age but hey you get lucky every once in a while. Now that we know each other, we are now officially mates. But remember, be truthful to your words and say everything you said to me out loud to the others". Terror understood what Fleet said to him and that since he liked her just as much as she liked him, he nodded in agreement before walking to the tip of the rock to spread his wings open. Fleet followed suit and walked close behind him seeing that her now new mate walked and stood on the rock tip. Terror looks at Fleet with a bold look on his face before turning back to look down at the other birds below him. Terror opens his beak to say a bunch of statements "Ahem, everyone pay close attention to me. I must announce that not only I am your main leader, here's fleet and she's the second leader figure of this whole flock!! But then again, you should all obey me, respect me, and of course bow down to me to my every command. You can also do the same stuff with Fleet too as I would never want to leave her out of it. And also, being your brand new leader I will guide you, lead you, hunt food so you could all be fed, and last but not least be ten times better than that leader you all had before me. With two leaders you will never have to worry about intruders or anyone else that tries to be us or even tries to attack and destroy our flock as we'll both be there to protect you all since we'll just attack those that oppose us and crush their skulls and bodies as we bury them to the ground. *clears throat* Now, we just need a deputy and believe me I will find one and align them with our flock. As of this moment, all I said were all promises and I will stand by that as I will be a great great leader!!!!". The audience and crowd stayed silent making the peregrine falcon above them feel dread as Terror was thinking to himself did anything that he said worked or not towards the countless of birds under him. Minutes passed while the falcon in waiting stands there with his wings still spread wide, it took a while but the crowd of birds cheered and whistled like they once did before as they all said "Terror!! Terror!! Terror!!". Terror smiles and folds his wings closed feeling accomplished that he made all those birds cheer and agree with him since they all possibly believe and trust in him. Terror and his mate Fleet look at each other with smiles on both their faces before turning back to the crowd. They both finalize that their decision of being leaders made all the birds agree to both of the falcon couple as it was very good with zero regrets. Terror breathes in and out before using his wing to point to where all the vultures, condors, and buzzards were as he then opens up his beak/mouth to say "You guys, you are now my guards/servants. You must also obey and respect me as well and you must bow down to me too or there will be consequences. And, could you please remove that carcass of that dead bird's body?? I don't want to ever see it in this area ever again, and besides it's starting to stink up the whole place. Blegh". The only thing that came out of all three of the different types of raptors mouths/beaks were 'Ok your sire' as they all used their feet and claws to pick up the body and carry it somewhere while flapping and flying away. Terror felt like the birds will be back but for now he was going to focus on finding a new deputy to recruit for his one flock. Right when Terror spread and flapped his wings a bit, Fleet turned to him and pulled his leg making him stay on the ground. Fleet kept hold of him without letting him go. "Wait. Where are you going?" Fleet asked questionably with a confused yet concerned look on both her face and her bright yellow eyes. Terror looked down before groaning and rolling his eyes to not be so annoyed by the mate that he not only met but also had fell in love with. Terror folded his wings and stood down on the rock. Terror sighs before saying "I'm going to find a deputy for our flock, now what do you want?". Fleet still being conflicted on knowing whether or not is Terror gonna do something, Fleet decided to blink her eyes as she then squints them to look closely at the wound on Terror's neck. Fleet felt a low gasp in her throat but kept content with a stern look on her face as she then looks up and says "Aren't you going to get that checked out?". Terror looked stunned with confusion in his eyes as he was just staring and titling his head to the side trying to get an clear understanding based off of what his mate Fleet had just said. Terror awkwardly smirks before opening his beak saying "W-What are you talking about?". Fleet scoffed and rolled her eyes not knowing why her mate is being light-headed at this moment. Fleet shook her head in slight anger/embarrassment before blinking her eyes and plucking/pricking the feathers from her wing as to itch it. Fleet lets out a long sigh and says "I'm talking about the wound on the side of your damn neck. It's right there, don't you see it or feel it?". Terror's eyes widen as he realizes what Fleet was referring to as he then turned his head/gaze to look at the side of his injured neck. Terror turns his head/gaze back at Fleet and makes an even awkwarder grin but falters his eyes a bit seeing that he didn't want to be a geek while explaining things to his mate. Fleet squints her yellow eyes further with a frown on her face/beak as she was still waiting for Terror's response to her. Terror looked everywhere to try to find a way out of this but it wasn't working, so thereupon that he sighed and stared at his mate to pry open his beak as he says "Fine, this wound was made by my enemy 'Bozo' when he was alive but I fought him really well and killed the feathers out of him. And, *sighs* he did leave this mark on me but it's fine. It'll heal on its own very soon when time pass by. It's no big deal". Fleet, still unfazed had grumbled a bit before shaking her head a bit as she walked closer to Terror further putting her face into his. Fleet grabbed Terror with her wings and held him closer to her body. She and him both stare into each other's yellow eyes. Fleet opens her beak saying "I think you meant to say Botcho, his name was Botcho, but Terror, look at me. Even if it's for a little conversation, you must know that deep wounds like that from anybody could potentially hurt you. We don't want a sick disabled leader with one still being healthy, right?? Well, you have to get that wound padded and we have the right bird just for that". Terror still not getting what Fleet said, had been stuck to withstand seeing and looking at Fleet's face and body. Far away from both Terror and Fleet, an old yet wise red kite came walking out of the healer bird den/nest. The kite flew upwards and landed to where Terror and Fleet were standing at being on top of the rock. Once the red kite was very close to the two peregrine falcons, Fleet's previous expression went away as she smiled and let go of the mate she was holding tight to her. The kite tried to speak but was immediately hugged by Fleet as she came close to her. Fleet stopped hugging the red kite giving them a moment to breathe. The red kite blinked her eyes as she said "Someone called??". Fleet just nodded and said "Well we were about to but I think he needs your help". The kite walked past Fleet and saw that Terror was also turned around since he was seeing and looking at Fleet. Terror and the kite locked eyes and that when the kite looked back at Fleet, both of the girls were in agreement about what's about to happen. The kite came close to Terror examining and looking at the wound on the side of his neck. The red kite gasped and suddenly she went to fly to her healer bird den/nest. Terror was utterly confused and just didn't know what was going on. Fleet waited and saw that the kite came back and that she was holding a few tools inside her mouth. The kite landed right next to Terror as she spat out and dropped the things she had in her mouth onto the rock. Terror was wanting to stand back and fly away but since Fleet was there behind him, he'll have to just deal with what the bird was going to with him. "Okay, things are ready now. And hello my darling, I'm Emada. I won't hurt you, I see you became the new leader. Here, let me patch you up." The red kite now being named as Emada said with a friendly smile and look on her face. Emada told and said to Terror that she's the healer bird in this flock and that she's here to come heal him, and she also ordered him to lay down on his side while she does something to him. Emada grabs her tools and that she picks out a small pink half-ripened berry with her wing before putting spit on it and that she squishes the saliva coated berry with her wing before rubbing its juices onto where one of Terror's wound streaks were. Emada picks another berry and spits on it before squishing it with her same wing and that she rubs the juices onto the second wound streak. Then, lastly Emada picks the very last berry, spits on it, squeezes and squishes it, then rubs the juices onto Terror's last wound streak. Terror was wondering if the kite above him was done or not, yet to his answer, she wasn't. Emada picks out a long green leaf with only the right length to match the wound streak as she then places it and makes sure that it's glued on well inside one of the streaks. Emada then gets another green leaf and placed it inside the second streak. Last, she puts the third leaf and places it inside the third wound streak and snugly makes it very deep in there. "Okay, there ya are. You're good to go now." Emada says before quickly flying away after leaping up and flapping her wings. Terror gets up and stands then he turns around towards Fleet and looks at her with a half confused and half stern look on his face. Fleet just shrugs without no regrets since she was looking aloof towards Terror's reactions at her. Terror groans shaking his head back and forth as he decides to flap his wings and fly far away while still exploring/going through the forest. Terror moves from left to right flying inside the forest as he was actively looking for who could be both him and his mate's deputy. Terror keeps on flapping and flying as he was still looking for a deputy fit bird. While searching, he heard a cry/wail through his nonexistent ears from a random spot hiding in the forest. Terror wanted to investigate the noise in which that case he flapped his wings and flew down and landed into a tree as he was using his eyesight to look deep at the things going on the ground way below under him. He looks everywhere spying the ground to see if there was any signs of a living being living there. He could think of himself giving up no matter how hard he looked while standing in the tree branch. He turns his head and body slightly as he was giving up but when one of his eyes found the right spot, he brought his full attention to the area and that from afar he saw a baby snowy owl being messed with by some trio of jaegers that were surrounding around it and were even standing on it, well at least one of them were. Terror shook his head in anger as he then leaped before flying and diving straight downwards towards the birds that were surrounding and bothering the poor owl. Terror screeches/calls while diving closer to the jaegers that were around the owl. The jaegers all heard and saw the falcon coming towards them as they all jumped and flew far away from him the moment that Terror even landed to attack their asses. Terror, with knowledge of himself saving the snow owl from the others that were hurting him, had picked up the baby owl carefully with his feet despite having talons as he then flew and carried them all the way back to where his flock's camp/area were. Terror flies and soars far in the forest that he travels through and that at the same time he still holds and carries the owl in his feet. Terror looks in the sky seeking and searching for his territory, whereas the owl in his feet was looking up at him with their red eyes being curious as to why they were picked up and held by a bird different than them. As Terror found his territory, he dives down and lets go of the little owl that were in his feet. The baby white and snowy owl felt scared since they were being dropped feet down from the sky and that they were screaming/wailing while falling down really fast with no idea of how to fly. Terror flew around before turning and diving downwards to the baby owl but he flew past it, the owl was still falling but very quickly in a dash the peregrine falcon had came back and flew under the owl causing the owl to land on his back. Terror with swift grace had landed safely on the ground/rock with the baby bird on his back. Fleet turned around being surprised that Terror came back to be with his mate and be inside his territory/flock. Terror spreads one wing open as the baby slides down his back and hits the ground/rock. Fleet saw this as she almost would've said 'aw' but she felt a bit disappointed. "What's this?" Fleet asks in a question. Terror looks back at the young owl before turning back to his mate/lover. Fleet squinted her eyes looking at Terror while still wanting him to answer her question. Terror sighs as he then answers back with "This was the only bird I ever found for our flock and I saved them from some annoying owl-peckers". Fleet can see the big and puppy dog-like eyes being presented within the baby snowy owl as she looked at it. Fleet actually calms down by seeing how cute and vulnerable the little owl was and that actually she can now see that the owl needs to stay in the flock so they could grow up big. Fleet's beak turns into a warm smile as she says "What you're gonna name em'?? And are you still going to make them deputy, they're quite small to be one". Terror realizes that he haven't made sure if the baby owl had a name or not so therefore he turns towards the little snowy owl and starts talking to them. "Hey, what's your name young one??" Terror asks while looking at the baby owl beneath them. The baby owl, being big eyed and confused were looking everywhere except for at the falcons in front of them. Terror used his wing to turn the owl's head to keep focus at looking at only both him and his mate. The baby owl stuttered a bit but once they got the courage they said out the words "M-Moburn". Both of the peregrine falcons looked at each other before saying "Awww, his name is Moburn". Terror, with great delight felt pleased to bring both his mate and the young owl who's name is now Moburn to the top of the rock so they could all make an announcement. Terror grabs hold of the little youngster of an owl with his wing and holds him very close to his body. Terror uses his other wing to cover half of his face while coughing before spreading it open as he speaks out and says "Ahem, every bird below me must now listen clearly. Your leader, Terror, which is me has returned but I have something better to say. Everyone, say hello to our new deputy and extra member Moburn!! *raises and spreads both wings*". The young baby owl walked forward but stopped at the very edge tip of the rock as he looked down at all the birds under him. The whole crowd cheered and said "Moburn!!" three times while whistling as well. Terror walked a bit closer to the owl he was next to as he then moved/push Moburn to the side but gently. Terror opens his beak saying "Now that we have two leaders and one deputy, I say we are now officially a flock!!!!". The cheering and other happy sounds coming from the crowd got louder as that was the only thing that filled the air. Fleet walked closer and squeezed in between both Terror and the child Moburn as all of three of them were standing on the rock. Both Terror and Fleet was smiling and looking deep into each other's eyes. Moburn as the little young baby arctic owl had been confused the entire time but it didn't take long before he himself understood and even he had a smile appear on his little black and tiny beak. Cheering sounds echoed and vibrated since it stayed as the only sounds happening in the area while three birds stood there on the same rock for a long time as the sun, sky, and clouds had all slowly began to disappear. Soon enough with all the cheering and stuff still going on, the noises get muffled as all three of the birds fade in the dark and that the sounds themselves also fade as well. Apparently, everything and anything all fades to black.

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Later that night.................

By sundown inside the city of Epilasia where birds of every kind had all fell asleep in, was still some activity for the birds that go out at night. Doors were shut, shops were closed, restaurants+cafes were closed as well, parks were labelled as do not enter/trespass past midnight hours, homes owned by birds had signs with 'don't enter unless friend/family', businesses+work places was prohibited, hospitals were still open but only under certain circumstances, clubs+bars were both shutdown, schools was closed with every door and entry locked/closed, and whatever else that was once active in the day had also been closed/inactive too. Many day birds, regardless if they were in the forest of Epilasia or even just in the city of Epilasia, all of them would be resting and sleeping, including young chicks/babies of certain day bird species. Street lights were left on but some would be turned off just as well. Things like cars, trucks, and other vehicles were all either parked in garages of certain birds houses or they instead would be parked yet locked and turned off in appropriate areas suited for these types of automobiles. But somewhere, somewhere deep inside the the forest of the town/city Epilasia was a bit of life while other birds living in the forest was taking their cycled nap/sleeping. Past many trees were the territory of the Lunar Eclipse flock and in that territory, there was things going on inside the camp that was apart of said territory. Everything zooms to where the camp is far inside the territory as the bright shining moon emits its rays onto everything it came across even onto where all the trees, bushes, rocks, and whatever else was inside of the forest. Out, refreshed, and fully healed but with pink scars residing on the side of his neck, was Terror leaping out of his leader den/nest before flapping in the air to land inside a safe tree. As the peregrine falcon could tell that things changed between night and day he took deep breaths of fresh air entering inside his lungs. The nice feel of cold night air coating and surrounding the feathers and plumage of the peregrine falcon standing in the tree he stayed in. Something about the night with the sun down and that the moon plus its twinkling stars was stunning and unique as it was a more calmer time to go through especially being a bird with great eyesight and excellent flying skills such as the peregrine falcon himself being up inside the tree he's on. Terror looks everywhere seeing if any members of his flock were resting in their dens/nests and apparently they were. Terror saw an opportunity to fly away and leave the existence of Epilasia which would only be to hunt and collect food of course if he has to keep his promise to the flock that he now recently owns/leads and has control of. Terror flaps his enormous gray/black and white coated wings before leaping and swiftly flying with great speed out the forest and into the wondrous bird made city as he glides side to slide hovering above the big and less populated city/town. He felt good about doing this as the moon's rays would shine and glisten through his grayish and black back plumage without ever hitting the neat white feathers that was underneath Terror's whole plumage. Nothing was distracting, annoying, mistreating, and overall bothering the yellow eyed and yellow-and-black tipped beaked individual soaring in the neat wonderful sky. Terror's only goal was to leave, find prey, hunt, and of course bring it all back to camp after finishing the job. Hopefully it won't be hard to hunt is what Terror thought inside his mind. Swooping and gliding past all buildings, homes, and even some vehicles, Terror could see the exit to where he could go out and leave this bird-made city. His gaze detected the sealed shut and very secure metallic/solid iron extra layered three door that served as only an entry to the town but it was hidden behind staying in front of the entry grass/dirt path right before the very first/few buildings in which all the while, Terror outermost had seen everything from afar where he's flying including that he saw the exit. He flapped and flew closer and closer to the exit with a stone-hard look on his face being determined to make it there so he could input the pass code, unlock the door, and get out. Terror thinks to himself that he has never seen or visited what the human world/forest looked like outside of just the bird-made created forest he's been seeing the entire day throughout living in Epilasia. Terror also thought of what it's like to even see a human or any other beast unbeknownst to him that would never be seen entering the birds only created city. Just like all falcons, Terror knew not to even dare let a human touch him anyway if he were to meet one. All his life of living, Terror was only taught about humans and other outside critters from his grade schools and that most of his teachers were only tall birds and ones that ranged from swans, rheas, secretaries, ostriches, storks, and of course emus. Even though it didn't seem that his teachers of those bird species mentioned were that tall, they were pretty tall to birds that were shorter than them including when Terror used to be a young fledgling that didn't even had his wings and beak earned until he grew up and learned what he could best from the experts that thought him. Also, he mostly heard that humans were just two legged creatures called birdsnatchers that had way more things compared to a bird and they could potentially pose harm to a bird after getting in contact with them. Other species that wasn't prey to certain birds were birdsnatchers too but they have minimal intelligence to a bird yet they too pose threats to avians without even having to be smart as a human. In his mind, Terror didn't really think if he had parents of his own, he only knew that he had to go to school at a young age the minute he was born and hatched from a half brown/red and spotty looking egg. He couldn't even remember if he had siblings as most peregrines would have more than one egg in a single sitting, so that means that Terror could've been born in a nest with four or two other eggs but the thought boggled him and instead he forgets and often tries to not remember it. He didn't want to think of his past anyway, as he was getting really closer to his destination of being near the exit. Once he got far enough, Terror used his wings in mid-flight as he had swooped down and dived towards the three layered door and gently landed on two feet standing on the grass/dirt road that was still serving as just an entrance and not an exit yet Terror didn't care as he had to this for the promises of his flock. In the distance from afar someone/something was watching him and that they were in the air right behind him but haven't landed yet. Terror turns to look at the sign that says "Welcome to Epilasia!!". Terror rolled his eyes as his gaze shifted to the door(s) before making his way to walk close to the code pad. He stood very close to the little number key pad but this will have to do inside Terror's eyes. The figure in the air behind him watched closely just waiting for the perfect moment to happen. Terror could memorize and think of the right numbers to input for the code but he wasn't sure if he should do it. He turned to see if anyone was watching him despite that the whole town was silent, as he soon turned back he puffs out air from his body as he then uses his right wing to press on and enter the code by touching the key pad. He then steps back, waits for the doors to open, and then viola!! The doors were opened but it did take a long time as it was many different layers and that on the outside they were painted to look like the human forest from the outside of the city of Epilasia just as a camouflage type of thing. These doors that Terror was standing in front of wouldn't stay open forever as they had a time on them, so basically he flew up and went outwards into the human world forest that he oh so much was wanting to look at and experience. For the most part, when Terror flew out into the human world the figure watched until they finally decide to also fly behind Terror as well since they were following him. Flying freely without a care, Terror moves around the human forest until he found the perfect spot to land/perch on. Terror flies through the trees in quick ease and calmly sits and lands in a big tree. Terror felt a bit weird yet proud that he's standing on and touching a real tree that's in the outside world with his two feet. Terror sighs with his eyes closed before reopening them as he was fully identified being in his new surroundings. Terror thinks in his mind saying 'This will be the first time of me being in this forest rather than the other one. I'm just shocked that there's life out here. Oh well, better get to hunting'. Terror stares and spies looking deep on the ground below him while standing in the tree he's in as he searches for a possible sign of prey. He squints his eyes and thrusts his head forward as he's desperately looking for whatever prey could be awake and active out in the nightlight. Scanning and detecting, looking left and right, turning head sideways, in general using any tactic to find and search for his prey that Terror was doing. He sort of gives up yet unexpectedly he finds a vole moving, feeding, and sniffing as it was minding its own business being a vole. Terror goes in animal instinct mode as he spreads his wings, sharpens his talons along the tree's bark, and lastly his pupils inside his yellow bright eyes constrict into those of a snake before jumping and quickly diving heading towards the little animal. Terror's screech alerted the vole but it was too late as Terror's claws pierced through the body of the animal making it die instantly. Terror sighs with his feet on the ground and the prey under him clutched in his claw. "That's one I guess." Terror said out of pure boredom. Behind Terror was the figure that now was sitting/standing inside a tree just creepily staring at the falcon that stood below them. The figure smirked ruffling their feathers before clearing their throat and saying "That's cute. I wonder why you are out here and not in our home". Terror from the side view, could hear a familiar voice coming from behind him with his nonexistent ears. Terror didn't want to look but did he even have a choice?? Terror sighed before turning to see who the anonymous being was talking to him. When Terror looked, he sort of feels scared but calms down with a 'Oh, it's you' face. Terror's lover, who was Fleet were the one that had followed him and watched his every move and in this current moment she's just standing and perching inside the big tree. Fleet jumps down before approaching and walking towards her falcon mate. Fleet nudges and rubs her head up against Terror's before standing back so she could say something. "It seems that you did keep your promise after all. Hmm, do you mind if I *breathes closer to him* help you hunt?? Our flock needs plenty of food to thrive on starting tomorrow and I don't want anybody die from the lack of food. So can you please let me catch some prey for you??" Fleet says trying to suavely convince Terror into accepting. Terror blushes because he likes her and that he sort of thinks about having intercourse with her but he wasn't really thinking about that including at a night like this. Fleet calmly walks around the falcon she's trying to convince as she does a little bit of a mating display. Terror couldn't resist much cause she was his mate and that he entirely almost even forgot about wanting to be mates with a different bird yet that wasn't on his mind right now. Terror sighs closing his eyes shut. Fleets circles him a bit before halting as she says "Well??". Terror opens his eyes prying his beak open before saying "Fine, I'll let you hunt with me but next time I will gladly want to be left alone so I could hunt by myself. You are my mate after all, and you will have my eggs by me soon. But for now let's just get as much prey as we can so we could bring them to our camp". Fleet feeling satisfied and flushed by what her mate said, had hugged both wings over Terror's body. Terror didn't know why he had to be hugged but he didn't care as he just gave into it. Fleet pats him on the back with her wing before backing up and letting him go. Fleet and Terror nods in agreement that they'll hunt together after having a small little conversation. Terror picks up and holds the dead vole in his beak before flapping and flying with his mate Fleet as they both move through the forest searching and finding bunch of prey. Two of the lovers flew everywhere and that when one of them were lucky, they would fly down and grab food with their feet making small animals die the moment they do grab them. Plus, hunting was fun for the both of them as they smiled and felt happy for each other knowing that they're doing good for getting food for their flock and themselves. And without fresh meat, the birds of L.E flock would die or might end up trying to eat or feast on each other even they don't have food. Fleet would pick up and kill a mouse with her talons before putting it in her beak resulting in Terror to happily congratulate her. Fleet feels proud each time she did something in regards to picking up and killing small prey. Terror would take a turn as he would swoop down and kill a large raccoon and penetrates his talons deep inside it before it actually dies before flying and holding it inside his two feet. Since Terror had his feet occupied by the raccoon he's carrying, Fleet would be the only one to freely pick up more animals. Fleet looked down and saw one shrew and one long opossum as they were literally just doing whatever they were doing but of course Fleet took advantage and killed both of them and grabbed them in both feet before flying and flapping to where Terror was in the sky. After both falcons had caught enough prey, they turned around and flew the other way back to where they had first started and met in back at the beginning of the human world forest that was very close to the exit/entry to the city of Epilasia. Both Terror and Fleet landed a bit close to the three doors but when they touched the ground they both dropped the food they were carrying. Terror and his mate looked into both of each other's eyes as one of them got on top of the other and started softly hugging. The raptors both cooed and started pecking at each other's cheeks. The air between the two became a bit romantic/hot as they would rub the tips of their beaks together with hazy and dazed out eyes in each other. They both loved each other very much as they make lewd sounds by kissing each other. Their love for each other was escalating just a bit but they know that they couldn't do this for long. Terror brushes his lower body half where his legs and tail feathers were up against Fleet's lower body/legs and tail feathers. Both birds quietly and gently moan as their crotches and white plumage feathers are being touched/rubbed upon one another. The little sex moment that the two birds were having was ruined as a wolf's howl came about and that a real wolf was coming near them. Terror's head turned to the sound of the wild canine and that it was sniffing/licking at the food that both his mate and himself had earned the hard work to catch and get. The couple broke up and they both stopped doing their thing just to stand on their feet and fly after the wolf while both screeching trying to scare it. The falcons got aggressive and bit/clawed at the big canine that was messing with their food. The wolf tried to growl back at them and bark/bite at them but basically instead they winced, whimpered, and whined being attacked by the two peregrine falcon couple and in result the wolf turned around in retreat and scampered away. The raptors sighed as their little 'moment' was ruined and stolen by a four-legged non man's best friend type of creature. Terror and Fleet looked at each other with changed expressions as they were both angry because of the wolf/canine that came in and smelled the food/prey in which that was the reason of why it even came and licked and messed with it anyway. Terror facepalms with his wing before saying "Let's go, or else that wolf will come back for more and they might bring their pack with them to come get us. Ugh, I hate wolves". Terror walked towards the three closed doors and uses his left wing to press the big and square block button which was camouflaged to look like the forest and that it's a reversal version of opening the doors to Epilasia. As he waited for the doors to open from the inside-out automatically, he went to where his food was and he picked up the prey that he killed and carries the vole in his beak before turning back around with wings spread and watches the secure doors open up. Terror didn't wait as he flew fast inside the city and already made his journey to go back to where the territory and camp where for the Lunar Eclipse flock he was leading. Fleet wasn't left behind as she herself grabbed her stuff, picked up her prey, and carried the mouse inside her mouth before leaping/jumping upwards while flapping her wings. Terror was far into the city flying fast and quick without spending no time to stay around the buildings that were existing down below him. In a quick moment, Fleet caught up with Terror and that they were now both flying in the air heading all the way back to their main home. Flying very fast and very quick was the only efficient way to get home immediately so that there's no worries about not being able to get there on time. On those parts, Terror and Fleet swooped and glided very fast across the air and made their way inside the forest in no time being wasted. They both flew deep in the forest and went past many trees before finding/appearing upon the inside of their territory/camp. As they both rushed their speeds while flying, they both efficiently landed gracefully and swiftly on the ground that was nothing but soft green grass. The both look proud of themselves as they both drop their mice/voles out of their mouths before looking at each other to say something out of their mouths/beaks. "Now, see we both got here before anyone even noticed. What do we do know with the food we collected?" Terror says in a confused and questionable tone. Fleet hums and thinks for a moment while touching her face with her wing. Fleet prances a bit in circles but stops once a nonexistent and unheard ding was lit up in her mind. Fleet had an idea and it was that in the grass where Terror was standing at could be the perfect spot to place dead prey inside of. Fleet waves her wing trying to signal for Terror to move/back up as she then grabs all the food that both her and her lover caught, next she pushes the food to the side before using her feet/claws to dig and dig through all the lush grass exposing and showing all the dirt under it. She grunts switching between both feet as she was still digging a deep hole getting past through all the dirt and finally she stops. Fleet made the perfect hole for the collected pieces of prey as she happily pushes and drops all of them inside the hole. Fleet sighed happily saying "There". Terror watched as fleet walked/dashed towards the leader's flock/den which was underneath the big rock that a leader would stand on much like himself. Terror was dazed as he was processing what happened by looking between the hole and between where his mate went. Terror sighed and shrugged since if that's where his mate was going to put the food in then he might as well accept it and handle with it being there. Terror walked and ran to the leader den and when he was inside, he sat down in the nest while he snuggled right very close to Fleet and that soon enough they were comfortable as both of them yawned before shutting each of their yellow eyes closed and like that they were asleep. A good nights rest was now finally set upon all birds, including Terror and Fleet and that nothing else had even activate or made a sound. Quietness surrounds everything as things are just cool, calm, and collected. Now nothing but the night sky was put into view and expectantly, the stuff circulating around the moon and the night sky had faded into darkness in a good way of saying 'Shh, goodnight'. In the midst behind the darkness was a figure with a long shape yet unidentified. The figure smiled softly before saying "In elite grace and integrity by the ones that rumble and pound their enemies are more likely to withstand more that they bite than that they could chew. Alas, not all are winners". Once the figure got done saying all that, they faded in the abyss before anyone could even notice them. Nothing of the individual was seen, nothing........