An island

The Messenger Owl with the Little Owl on its back and the 10 volunteer Owls continued to fly.   They looked left, right, up and down hoping to see something that would give them direction to where the Little Owl’s parents might be.  

As they flew, they suddenly saw something suspended in the air in the distance.  It looked ominous but the Messenger Owl motioned for them to fly in the strange area.  As they came nearer, they could see it was a suspended island with clouds surrounding it.  The Messenger Owl approached the surrounding clouds to fly through, but the clouds were sticky like marshmallows.  Three of the volunteer Owls flew head first into the clouds and became covered with sticky goo.  They twisted and turned and struggled to free themselves.  The other Owls saw what was happening and used their sharp beaks to cut the Owls from the sticky, stringy mess.  

Once they were all free, the Owls continued to circle the island, looking for another opening when they spotted a hole in the ground that the island sat upon.   A gush of wind suddenly drew them in and forced them into the dark hole.  The Owls couldn’t see as they tumbled and scraped along the sides of the hole.  The Messenger Owl yelled to the Little Owl to hold on and not let go.   

Suddenly, they emerged from the hole and were on the other side of the clouds.  They saw a beautiful green island.  The Messenger Owl turned to see that the Little Owl was secure on its back.  The Little Owl sat wide-eyed in wonder.   The Owls continued to fly and saw luscious green trees, waterfalls and colorful flowers.  They landed by a water hole and gathered themselves.  They each took a long drink from the water to quench their thirst.  They realized they were extremely hungry and looked up to see that the trees had fruit hanging from them.  Each of the Owls flew  upward and grabbed a fruit from the tree.   They landed on the ground and used their beaks to break open the fruit to get to the inner juicy flesh.  They began to vigorously eat when suddenly one of the Owls who had brown and white feathers suddenly had feathers of all yellow.  A second who had similar brown and white feathers turned all green.  A third and fourth Owl turned blue and black colors.  Suddenly each of the 4 Owls had turned a plumage that was of a color different from their own.  

The Messenger Owl with the Little Owl on its back and the 6 other Owls had difficulty breaking open the fruit.  They were unable to eat any of the flesh of the fruit.  When they saw the other Owls turn colors, they began to fear that something strange was happening.  All of the Owls who had changed colors suddenly spread their wings in a menacing stance and began hissing.  They began to approach the Owls who had not eaten the  fruit.  Suddenly the colorful Owls flew aggressively toward the Owls who had not eaten the fruit with their claws forward ready to attack.  The Owls who had not eaten the fruit stood to defend themselves.  There was a terrible clash of feathers, beaks and claws.   

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Rosalie and Sensei flew in on the Horse’s back.  They beat back the aggressively colorful Owls and separted the colorful Owls from those who had not eaten the fruit.  Rosalie yelled out for the Owls who had not changed colors to follow her, the Horse and Sensei to the hole to escape the island.  The colorful Owls saw them escaping and began to fly toward the clouds to catch them on the other side, forgetting that the clouds were impenetrable.  As the colorful Owls flew into the clouds they were caught in a web of stickiness.   The untainted Owls, Rosalie, Sensei, and the Horse emerged from the hole and could hear the colorful Owls emitting terriflying shrieks at them as they flew off into the blue sky.