Second in Command.

Egon

Prouloge

Willow stands up and looks at herself in the mirror. She studies her silver white fur and her thin wolf like face. She studies her long thin tail , big white wings and gray Blue eyes for a few more minuts until loud shouting from the hallway drag her atention back to the real world. She turns arund and walks to her beedroom door, opening it carefully. She looks out in the hallway and at her brother and sister standing there. Her brother was holding a broken plate and yelling about something, having his ears down and hissing softly. Her sister was just yelling standing there yelling too, problaty about something stupid. She hated How her siblings always fought. Her sister Maple was quite tall for her age with snow white fur and a deep brown almost black nose and pointy cat like ears. Her brother Aspen, the one standing in the hallway and not the one who is still laying in his bed like whatever other lazy creature. Aspen had silver like fur and a scar over his nose, and a long cut in his left ear, witch He had goten when they Where younger.

"Ok break it of" she hears coming from behind them, she turns arund and sees her mother coming up the wooden stairs with her gray white wings henging hevily on her back. She watches as her morther yells at them both for a minute wille she is standing in the background waching.

Her mother points at her "Willow, go and Wake up Oak" her mother sais in a firm voice. Willow growls softly and turns arund to walk to the last room in the hallway, she grabs the doorhandle and opens the door quickly. "Wake up!" She yells into the dark room. The only responce to this was some quiet growling sounds from the pile of blankets and pillows on the floor. She Did not like her brother Oak, it was almost like she hated him. Everyone always said He was special, not only did He have a black mark under his paw That ment That He was special or whatever, But He could Also change the color of his eyes. Everyone else on the Island and herself could change the color of ther fur or nose, But He was the second one ever known to be able to change his eye color. That means He Might have a decent life as an entertainer at the castle. Oh as she wished she could be in the castle. Queen Holley promised of an atack on the humans in 2 days.

She picks up a book That was laying on the floor next to the door she tok a quick glance on it to se That it was a book on human history before throwing it across the room, hiting her little brother in the back of his head. She watches as her little brother quickly sits up, rubing the back of his head and growling loudly. "Shut up" she hisses and steps out of the room. Slaming the door behind her as she starts walking down to the kitchen. she walks through the kitchen and into the living room, siting down on the pillow on the floor next to the low table. She drags one of her claws over the table in a small cirkle motion, bored watching her claw leave a small mark in the wood.

"Are you lisening?" Her fathers angry voice said from the other side of the table. She looks up and meets his eyes. "As i was saying, i want you and your siblings to go out to the nearest Island and hunt today"

"Me too?" Oak sais from the stairs. Her Dad just answers with a nod. "But he can't fly all the way out there" He heard his sister call from the top of the stairs. "Then you will cary him!" Ther father snaps back. There was somethings ther father Did not like at all about his special kid. First of Oak coulden't and would never be able to fly like the rest of them becuse of a problem with his wings. And his teeth was to small and harmles to do any real danger on Anyone. Noone answers for a long moment before ther father yells at them to get out and start the hunting, they always got sent hunting when there was no school. They huried outisde and out in the garden, Willow spread her wings and takes of in the sky. She always feelt free flying up there, like Nothing could bother her. She looks back to se That her brother and her sister are piking up Oak and taking of into the sky too.

"I Wonder if we will se Any humans" Oak sais sudently after a few minuts of flying

"There is no humans arund here, the grown Ups sais they can't Get all the way out Here"Her sister Maple responded.

"But one of my Books said That they are realy smart. And That they can create floating things and flying things to travle over the whole world"Oak sais in a know it all voice.

"Don't belive everything you read in Books Oak. We don't know if it's true or not and we will probalty never Even come close enugh to se one. It's Forbiden rember?"

"I don't care.i would move to the human world and change my name to something else. Then noone would know it was me"Oak sais. "oh realy?" her other brother said "What would you change it to?"

"Egon"Oak answers "It's a human like name atleast. there is another book That sais That humans have a lanuge That is not just sounds, and That with enugh studying we could learn ther lanuage and comunicate with them."Oak continues.

"Again. If it was true it's not alowed" Her other brother Aspen sudently snaped.

All of them went silent again. Stupid human loving brother, she tought again thinking about the hairless wierd mokyes from the Books in her brothers room.

From the corner of her eye she sees Oak sudently looking up "There is a giant metal bird in the sky."

She stops and looks up, trying to figure out Where He is looking. She can hear a far away sound high up over the skyes somewhere. "There is no metal bird in the sky" she snaps at her brother wille turning back to look at him. Oak opens his mouth to speak But closes it again and just looks down at the water far bellow him. They fly for arund one hour before finaly landing on a Island far away from ther home. She can barly se ther home Island from there, she studies the far away shape of ther home for a moment before turning arund and walking into the forest of the new Island.

This was the Island Where they often practised ther hunting. It was not a big Island, But big enugh for bird and other small creatures to live on. She drops down onto all four instand of standing on her hind legs as she often do. Her father had teacher her to stand on all four when she hunted. She changes the color of her white fur to a more green and brown ish color. To match the trees and bushes arund bether. She starts walking into the forest alone. Hearing her siblings walking arund somewhere far ahead. She goes quiet and tryes to Lisen after the sounds of pray. But there was Nothing. No bird singing. No insects buzzing or small creatures runing arund under the layer of leafs and bushes. There was no sounds at all. She stands complity still for a moment, looking up at the sky. She sees a few birds fly away far over them. She looks arund for a bit more before walking to find her siblings. She finds them standing on the beach all looking at ther home Island.

"What's going on?" She asks and sits down next to them, trying to spot What they are all looking at.

"There is a giant metal bird in the sky" her sister sais. They all go quiet for a moment. Then she sees What they are all looking at. They Where all looking at something That looks like a big metal bird, or almost at least. It Did not flap it wings and it Flew in a wierdly straight direction and left dark clouds behind it. "What's That?" She asks slowly. There was another moment with silence. "Something human" Oak sudently mumbled. She Did not have time to make another joke about How her brother just loved humans. The metal bird had droped something over the Island. "what's That?" She whispers. "I don't know" Oak whispers back. They stand still for a moment before Aspen sudently stands up "Lets go hide in the caves" He sais and runs to the other side of the beatch. There is a large stone wall there with small caves in it, just big enugh for somone to hide in. She waches as her brother flaps his wings and flyes into one of the higest caves and curls up inside. She waches as her sister flaps her wings and flyes into another small cave in the stone wall. And she waches as her little brother runs up to the wall and tryes to clime up. His useless wings henging hevily on his back. She does not have time to think, she runs over to her brother and places her Two front paws under his hind legs and pushes him up as high as she can. Just as she sees her brother finaly climing into one of the lowest caves in the wall she hears a loud sound. So loud That it made her ears ring. She look over at Where the sound came from But sees only white.