Chapter 24: Saving Spots

A female snowy owl swooped into the air and towards Spots. Ash wanted to help, but didn't know if Kabu would approve of it. She swooped in to Spots, but hooted alarm as she came too close to the water; her feathers skimmed it a bit, and she was forced to go onto land, to prevent herself from being unable to fly.

"Zapada! Are you okay?" A female barn owl flew over to the snowy owl. The few birds who were there weren't allowed to swim, had to glide in the air and fly in place.

The snowy owl got to her feet. "Yes, Nyx, go back to flying, we'll get Spots!" Zapada ordered. 

Windows and Dell suddenly jumped out of the water in unison.

Kabu was running to go get Spots. He looked at them. "Get back in the water!"
"B-B-B-But K-K-K-Kabu, it's f-fr-freezing!" Dell protested, "We're r-r-reptiles!"

"And what about reptiles is bad with doing that?" Kabu growled.

"IDIOT!" Windows snapped, "We're COLD-BLOODED! Meaning if we go in FREEZING TEMPERATURES, WE DIE!"

Kabu snarled at Windows, but turned to Skye and Willow, "Get these two to the healers' den and order Feather to start a fire, stat!"
Skye and Willow nodded. Skye grabbed Dell with her talons and flew in the direction of The Bending Tower. Willow picked up Windows, who snarled protest, and ran after Skye.

"C-Can I help Feather?" Eclipse asked.

"Keep swimming!" Kabu ordered.

"GUYS! HELP!" Spots yowled, trying to fight the current. Ash gasped as he noticed Spots was nearing a waterfall.

Without hesitating, Creature jumped into the river and swam for Spots. Spots kept trying to fight the current, which was threatening to throw him down the waterfall. Ash got very nervous, seeing the current was almost too much for Creature to handle. "Please! Get Spots!" Ash yowled.

Creature swam harder. Spots tried swimming for him, but wasn't moving. He spotted a stick on the ground. Spots jumped into the air and went to grab the stick. Ash watched nervously, barely remembering to keep swimming in the water himself.

As Spots grabbed the stick, his paw slammed down on it, and it flipped. With the stick, he fell down the waterfall.

"SPOTS!" everyone yowled in unison.

Author's Note:
Stupid current is stupid. >:U