The SkyWatchers Book 1: The Rise {COMPLETED!!}

Chapter 10

We're finally out of the signal digit chapters, I'm excited to continue writing.

Ergo, Goto, and Ito flew silently along side each other, their feathers touching lightly. They had decided to stay as close together as possible in the sky for defense, as hopefully they would seem a large a bird that the Owls wouldn't dare go near. They had been flying for a day now and Ito started to drop behind, but every time he did Ergo silently scolded him and he caught up. Ergo was happy to see some familiar things that Banco had drawn on the map, which meant they were close to their destination. Once the sun started setting Ergo noticed very large trees, reaching farther than the clouds. Ergo smiled and muttered

"We're nearly there ..." She gazed around and noticed that Ito rolled his eyes as well as Goto let out a sigh of relief.

As they continued flying Ergo started to lead and she dove down towards the ground, Ito and Goto followed right behind her as she dove. The ground grew quickly and once she was near the ground, she straightened herself and flew normally, Goto and Ito did the same. Ergo gasped as she saw that the branches on the trees were long and curled, creating a flying track. Ergo looked quickly to her map before tucking it away and diving through the first loop. Goto and Ito followed silently, staring around in disbelief. Ergo then dove even closer to the ground, moving the grass just so she could go through the next hoop. The next few hoops were easy as they just took a quick turn and a dive. The last hoop, was odd though. It twisted into three hoops, each on a different level. One hoop was close to the clouds and very small, the next was about middle flying ground and was normal sized, the last was close to the ground and very large. Ergo turned around to see Goto and Ito struggling to get through the hoops. She giggled and waited until they arrived where she was.

"Okay, I'll take the hardest one at the top, Goto you go through the middle on and Ito go through the bottom one." She said, happy that they nodded in agreement.

Ergo quickly flew up to the hoop, taking a quick spin before she tucked in her wings and dove throw the hoop. They all dove through the hoops at the same time and a loud ringing sounded before the hoops started glowing. Ergo gasped and watched as a door formed near the ground.

"Look." She said, nodding towards the door before diving down.

She landed on the door's ledge, wondering how Spina would get here. She shook her head, pushing the door open with her wing. As she opened the door, light exploded into her eyes and a whole city opened up in front of her. Ergo knew what this was, it was carted by  Banco before her and her HatchMates egg's hatched. It was created with the broken parts of each kingdom to create the perfect place and although is was still unfinished, it seemed perfect already. Goto gasped beside her while Ito's eyes opened wide. Ergo slowly stepped forward letting the sun soak into her feathers.

"This ... is ... amazing." She said, staring around in happiness.
"This is real? This was built by Banco? I ... I thought ... he just made it up, to impress us." Goto said, looking around. "You guys realize we get this place to ourselves for a night?" Ito said, looking at Ergo and Goto with a smirk.

Goto then looked at Ergo and smiled and she rolled her eyes and looked around.

"Where do we sleep?" She asked.
"No idea." Goto said, peeking into one house-looking things made out of leaves and branches.
"Well, why don't we spread out and find a suitable place to sleep." She said, walking off.

She heard Ito sigh but she was in no mood to deal with him, as she felt annoyed and very awkward at the same time. After a good few minuets of searching for a place to sleep she found an giant house thing, perfect for all their things.

"Guys!" She called behind her. Starting to set up her own bed. Once she was nearly finished Goto entered, followed quickly by Ito.
"Wow, nice find Ergo." Goto said, starting to set his bed up right next to Ergo's.

Ito set his up next to Ergo's as well and she sighed lightly, hoping nobody noticed.

"Now what?" Ito asked after they were all done setting up.
"Well ... I suppose we could look for food and a water source." She said.
"I saw a lake near us, it seems to be the center of the city." Goto replied, looking to Ergo.
"I saw tons of fish in the lake, so we're good." Ito said, shaking his ruffled feathers.
"Well ... since that's all set out we should look for a place where we can see Spina if he comes in. I don't want to be startled while I'm fishing." Ergo said with a snort.
"Oh yeah, Spina's coming ..." Ito said with a sigh.
"He's not that bad." Ergo and Goto said at the same time.
"Love birds, you two mind as well be Doves." Ito giggled.

Ergo huffed and stormed outside, leaving Goto confused and Ito dying of laughter. Once Ergo was outside she took to the sky, landing on a branch. She looked back, happy that she couldn't hear or see them. She looked back to the sunset, the mountains looming far away, blocking some light, and most importantly the growing figures in the sky. Ergo gasped, remembering Banco had said that Owls would sometimes patrol this area, and although it was impossible to find the city without going through the course, they would be able to see her. She quickly dove down to where they were going to sleep and found Ito teasing Goto.

"Shut it." She ordered.
"Why should ..." Ito said, being cut off.
"There are Owls, now quiet." She interrupted Ito.

She huddled closer to them, staring through some cracks in the ceiling, but she didn't see the Owls overhead. She heard approaching wing beats and heard Ito scream lightly, Goto grabbed Ergo as if he was about to sacrifice himself to let her live, while Ergo stayed silent, watching the entrance to the house. Suddenly, she heard a low, deep voice and approaching wing beats.

"Hey what's that?" The voice said, sounding close.

Suddenly, four Owls landed on the balcony that lead into the house Ito, Goto, and Ergo were staying and Ergo feared that this would be her last moment.

The ending to this book is coming up soon! But yeah, please tell me if I should start the ending to this book or not, 'cause I want to here from the people who read the book, not me, who writes it. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the book!