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Re: Mwa ha ha!!!
« Reply #15 on Jun 20, 2007, 6:43pm »

harumph. Fine, then. Here:

Sable scanned theground below him, slowly circling the sky. He had spotted his prey – a large, plump vole eating a nut near a rock. In a split second, he had planned his angle and deavor, and was preparing to dive when he heard a high-pitched screaching form far away. His father was calling a flock meeting.
Sable sighed and turned out of his airwave, away from his lunch. Why did he have to call the meeting now? This had better be good, he thought as he grumpily flapped towards Stone Haven. Most of the flock had already gathered around High Ledge. Sable scanned the ground with his preysight, looking for Otis. He spotted him, and made a quick descent and landed beside him and his mother, Ginger.
“Sable, dear, shouldn’t you be with your mother?” Ginger fretted. “She might be worried.”
“Oh. Yeah.” Sable blinked at Otis as a way of saying hello and good bye at the same time, then flitted over to one of the front perches where his mother was perched.

“Eagles of all ages, all size,” Sable’s father’s voice silenced the chattering of beaks. “One of our scouts has spotted a human, fully armed, not far from our territory.” This statement was met by gaspes from the gathered eagles, but Ezio went on, “I shall send out double patrols to be careful, and I advise you all to be on the lookout when hunting and flying in general. Try to keep in groups of two or more. Fleglengs are not allowed out after Highsun. Any questions?”
Sable puffed out his chest and flapped indignantly. Highsun!? That only gave him and Otis half a day to play and hunt! Stupid humans, thinking they can go around with there big ol’ firesticks, shooting every bird from the sky. Well, Sable would show them!
The crowd slowly dispersed. Without a word to his mother, Sable flew away to talk to Otis.

“But that would be violating the whole Flock Code!” Otis protested as soon as Sable had finished.
“It does say to protect your flock at all costs,” argued Sable. “Come on! We can save our flock and put humans in their place all at the same time!”
“I suppose… If we succeeded… but, Sable, what is we don’t?”
“Don’t succeed? Impossible! I have this plan right down to the last down feather!” replied Sable conidently.
“Alright,” Otis agreed grudgingly. “I really don’t know how you talk me into these things you know.”
“Fine. We’ll meet here tomorrow and start phase one.” Sable then flew off into the setting sun, hoping his mother wouldn’t be too mad at him being out past the new curfew.

Sable woke up to an empty nest. His mother always went hunting early. Sable impatiently awaited hre return so he could be off as well. He only had until Sunhigh, thanks to a certain someone.

After what seemed like an eternity, Slylark finally returned with some crushed up meat for Sable. Sable didn’t need crushed up meat anymore – he was already a fledgleng – but he preferred it, and gratefully took it from his mother.
When he was finished, he said,
“Mom, I’m going out to play with Otis, k?”
“Alright,” Skylark agreed, “But remember the curfew. Sunhigh!” Skylark screed a reminder to the already distant Sable.

“There you are!” Otis called, sighing in relief as Sable landed. “I thought maybe you had chickened out or something.”
“I never chicken out!” Sable scoffed, puffing out his chest feathers.
“Ok, ok, calm down,” Otis said hastily. “Let’s just get this over with.”
So both took flight towards where the scout said he had spotted the human.

“Whoa!” “Whoa, whoa, whoa”- Otis was cut off by Sable’s wing feathers in his beak.
“We don’t want them to hear us!” Sable whispered, but he too was awed by the sheer sight of all the humans. There had to be at least 20 of them! They had small, portable twoleg dens set up all over the place, and there were dozens of their controlled fires in between.
“Ok,” Sable told Otis quietly. “You know what to do.” Otis nodded meakly and took wing, spiraling down towards the targeted human.
Sable, too, flew off of his pearch, but his job was only to wait at the moment. He watched with his prey sight as Otis neared the human, and… Yes! Sable clacked his beak in laughter at the humans grunt of surpise and pain, then dove head first towards his friend; it was Sable’s turn.
But Sable pulled out of the dive just in time as he saw a firestick bullet zoom past him, ruffling his chest feathers. He could onlt watch in horror as another one hit Otis. He could only watch helplessly, his gullet filling with guilt, sadness and anger, as Otis plummeted to the ground in front of the humans.

The two humans laughed and scooped up Otis. Then they walked away.
All of Sable’s instincts, feelings and thoughts told him to rush at the humans and peck their large and stupid eyes out, but he didn’t. They still had firesticks. Instead he flapped up high into the air. He cawed mornfully into the air, then sadly flew back to the flock.

Suprisingly, none of the flock blamed Sable for any of this. In fact, Sable thought they might not have even heard much of his story; only that Otis had been killed by humans. At the moment, every eagle was cawing indignantly and puffing out their feathers – everyone except Sable. He just stood at the front of the crowd with his father, trying not to be noticed too much.
“We must avenge the fledglings death!”
“This injustice shall not go unnoticed!”
“We ought to rip out their stupid colourful eyeballs!”
“SILENCE!” Ezio’s voice overpowered all of them, and they all fell silent.
“Otis’ death shall not go unmourned, but I fear for everyone’s lives if we attempt to avenge him.”
“But there are so many of us!” Came a caw from the crowd. It was Otis’ father.
“It does not matter how many of us there are. What matters is how many will be killed in this vengeful escapade.” Ezio’s voice was sad and full of regret, but everyone knew what he said was true.
“Since we do not have the body, we will have a ceremonial burning of prey instead. Calypso!” Ezio called out the Priest’s name, and Calypso rushed forward as if he had been waiting for the call.
“Yes, King eagle?”
“Prepare for a burning of prey. Everyone else- meet here in 4000 beats. Dismissed.”

So, Sable took wing into the air. He had no intention of attending his friend’s ceremony. He would mourn alone – that is what would have rathered.
Well, Sable had learned his lesson. Never again would he be so adventurous as to put soemone else in danger. Although, now that Otis was gone, Sable didn’t quite know who else he had to put in danger.

Moral of the story:
Never put someone elses life in danger for your own scores.

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Re: Mwa ha ha!!!
« Reply #16 on Jun 27, 2007, 9:56am »

Wow. Quite a nice story, although you could introduce the plot and characters more.

I wasn't too sure if Ezio was Sable's father... O.o He was, right?

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Re: Mwa ha ha!!!
« Reply #17 on Aug 15, 2007, 2:30pm »

ya. he was.

but... but... introducing stuff isnt fun! i'd rather just get on with the plot.

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