
Dawn, is the leader of The Clan, she is an excellent owl, in my opinion. ^^
This is Dawn. She is a female Great Gray Owl, obviously. She is light gray, with white spots and silvery streaks.
She has brown streaks in her lower body, and she has pale golden eyes. She is kind, but tough, and she is an excellent warrior. She has long, black talons and she is very smart and knows a lot of the things in the owl world. Like flecks, moon blinking, and about the Pure Ones, she had a bad experience with them as an owlet. When her parents died, an eagle fostered her. Her name was Amidali. Very nice eagle. Anyways, I will stop blabbering and get on with her story!
The Story of Dawn
The Leader of The Clan
Dawn's story begins in a fig tree hollow in the forests of Ambala.
An eagle was flying along, peacefully, looking for a nice, plump rabbit to bring back to her nest. She heard something, something strange. She looked down, and saw on a fig tree where two Great Grays, a female and a male, fighting for their lives! Against them where three Barn Owls, and one Grass Owl, and they were fighting, to the death.
Amidali dived down and slitted a Barn Owl's throat and he fell and hit the ground with a loud thud, his head almost coming clear off.
Amidali screeched and the remaining owls, one Barn Owl and the Grass Owl flew off scattering their feathers everywhere. Amidali looked at the Great Grays, to her horror, there was an egg in the nest! And, the two parents looked battered up, they wouldn't make the night, the large eagle presumed.
She sighed and she entered the roomy hollow and she incubated the egg, at least tomorrow it should hatched, she thought. She closed her eyes, and fell asleep.
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Amidali woke up with a start, dawn was upon her, and the little egg was hatching! She got up and looked down as a small blob spurted out of the pure white shell. She smiled, so this was like being a mother!
Then it hit her, the small one would she food! She quickly flew out and grabbed a worm she saw on a small, sparkling leaf, of a gray flower Amidali liked to call "Dawn Flowers" because they looked so much like the light of day which she flew out to hunt for herself.
She flew to the hollow and gently poked the wriggling worm to the owlet's beak, it opened it and swallowed it, headfirst, even if its eyes where closed shut, she found its head. Amidali just swelled with pride.
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About a moon cycle pasted, the owlet was almost fully fledged, she only had a couple downy tufts left to go. She was almost eager to pull them off, but her mother, Amidali said, it was against bird-nature to pluck off feathers. She looked eagerly at Amidali, "Mommy! You said once I fledged you would name me!"
Amidali smiled down at the owlet, "Of course... I can't break a promise can I? Well, you are light....like Dawn! And you have such a bright personalty... and you were born at Dawn.... I shall name you Dawn, my dearest owlet..."
Dawn smiled, she loved her name! "Dawn..." she repeated. "I love it!" she squealed with joy, today she was going to learn how to fly, and she got a name! Dawn just couldn't believe how well this day was going! Amidali turned to her, "Okay, just watch me." Amidali flew out the hollow and went up higher, and she did graceful movements and landed again and turned happily to Dawn, "You try, now. Remember, I will catch you if you fall, so don't worry." Dawn nodded and hopped on the end of the hollow and streched out her small, light gray wings with silvery bands on them.
She took a deep breath and jumped and flapped like crazy, to her surprise, she was in the air! She opened her eyes and flapped her wings, less crazy and she was flying, she was actually flying! She opened her beak and hotted the traditional Great Gray call happily.
"Come on back, Dawn! Don't get too far away!" She heard Amidali call behind her, Dawn nodded and flew back, flapping in rhythm. She landed clumsily on the nest, but overall, she flew excellently. Amidali looked so proud, she might explode of pride! "Dawn! I am so proud of your first flight! We should celebrate!" Dawn's eyes twinkled, "Celebrate? With voles?" Amidali smiled and chuckled, "Voles for my little Guardian!"Dawn smiled, she loved being called a Guardian, she just loved the Guardians of Ga'Hoole legends, and knew, some day she would fly to their tree and become a Guardian, to save the innocent, with Amidali at her side!
Dawn puffed up, "Yes! I shall get my own vole!" Amidali chuckled, "Not yet, my Guardian! You don't know how to dive yet, so I think I should destroy some of them for you!" Dawn was furiour she couldn't hunt for herself, but glad she wouldn't have to try!
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After the celebration, the two happy females fell asleep. Dawn was dreaming of flying over the Sea of Hoolemere, fully fledged, and there was others with her, she couldn't hear their names, but a Great Horned fell and she found herself diving after him! And then, a noise woke her up. She opened her eyes, Amidali already awake beside her.
Dawn whispered worridly, "What's that?" Amidali whispered back, "Stay here, I will take care of it." Then, as if summoned, a huge Barn Owl, a huge male with a metal mask flew in and attacked Amidali, and another Barn Owl flew in and tried to grab Dawn, but she fought back and scratched the Barn Owl's leg and bit his talons as he reached for her. Dawn looked over to see the horrid sight of her mother, Amidali, writhing in pain her neck bleeding and her wing dangling. Dawn screeched and scratched her attacker's throat, leaving a huge slit and blood splattered her light gray feathers and she flew out of the hollow flying as fast as her small wings could carry her, the blood drying on her feathers, making her look like a light gray-silvery red comet, flying through the sky.
Dawn was weeping, missing her mother and wondering how she would live on her own. Her gizzard clenched with dread. She yarped a pellet trying to calm herself down. And landed on a fig tree branch and huddled herself together, looking like a huge fluff ball. Then she heard a small voice, "Hello? Bloody gray owl? Are you alright?" She looked down, to see a small female Norhtern Saw-Whet owlet, who looked like herself, an orphan. Dawn nodded, "Yes... my name is Dawn." The female chirped back, "My name... is Frigitha... my parents died from a forest fire... so, can you help me?" Dawn nodded, "Sure, Friggy!"
And then, a glorious friendship began.