The day began like any other. King Josiah woke up, drank his coffee, and went up to where Jeff was in the planning room. There was usually nothing on the duck radar. But today was different. There seemed to be a strange signal, but there were no images of what it was.
“My lord! The signal is acting up!” Jeff yelled.
“Really!? The ducks must be attacking!” But the moment Josiah put his feathers on the radar device, the signal failed and the screen went dark.
At Edward’s lair…
“My lord, their signal devices are destroyed.”
“Exellent, my swans! Let the parrots be annihilated!” King Edward shouts. “The ducks and swans will reign supreme!”
“Lord Josiah, we haven’t heard a thing from Arthur ever since he went missing. The last thing we heard was that he had been captured by the ducks,” Jeff explains. “The ducks are terrible. I wonder if he is being tortured or dead by now. The ducks are bread thieves.”
“Well then, we need to make a plan,” Josiah responded.
“We can do that when General Anthony wakes up. Anyways, would you like your coffee?”
“I already had some, but thanks anyway,” Josiah said.
“Anyhow, could you go get me my cloak? I'm trying to get ready for the day,” asked Josiah.
“Yes sir,” said Jeff.
Jeff scurried away to get Josiah’s cloak. He entered his bedroom and went straight to the wardrobe.
“Hmm… Ooh! I think he’ll like this! It looks cool…” said Jeff.
Jeff ran back to the balcony where Josiah was, and handed him the cloak.
“Here you go, my lord,” said Jeff.
“Thanks, Jeff. You know, you're a great advisor. No one will ever replace you,” said Josiah.
Meanwhile, King Edward was plotting the next part of his plan.
He was running all over the place, trying to find his notes on his swans.
“These swans will conquer the parrots for sure! With their stealth cloaks, they can penetrate even the strongest of parrot security,” Planned King Edward.
“Ducks! Swans! Our ultimate attack will commence in 5 minutes!” Yelled king Edward, not realizing that a parrot spy known as Oscar was nearby. Oscar ran as fast as he could to get to king Josiah. When he got to Josiah he told him everything he knew about the countdown to release the big strike.
“Lord Josiah! The king of the ducks had made a project called: ‘Swans’! They're gonna launch an attack on us right now!” warned Oscar.
“What!?” Josiah slammed his staff on the ground angrily. “How done are they?!” asked Josiah.
“They’re 99% done, sir!” yelled Oscar.
“Send the troops! NOW!!!” demanded Josiah. Hundreds and thousands of parrot troops began to fly into action. Strangely, there were no duck troops.
“Is this the wrong lake? Or am I a big dummy?” yelled a parrot.
“You’re probably a big dummy,” replied another parrot.
Suddenly, an unusual wind began to blow across the lake. A parrot said, “Is it just me, or are those ducks massive?!”
“It's worse. IT'S SWANS!!!”
“No it’s not! Look! They’re fake!”
The army whipped around to see their kingdom being completely razed. Houses being burned, boarded up, or captured. The shops and trading posts, destroyed. But the worst thing was seeing king Josiah’s palace fall from the Great Tree of the parrot kingdom. Jeff and Josiah were up in the palace’s throne room. They flew to safety as it fell.
“Oh no!” started Jeff. “We might have to retreat.”
“Go find Anthony. Hopefully he will be able to organize our retreat.” Josiah replied.
“Say, where is Anthony?” King Josiah questioned. “He flew away from the palace, right?”
“Let's just shout, ‘retreat!’ and hope.” Jeff said.
“RETREAT!!” Josiah screamed.
All the parrots flew behind the city in a big group.
The swans won…or so they thought?
One day later…
“My liege, I think we’ve lost them,” Jeff says. “But we still haven’t come across a single spot we could possibly camp.”
“If we can’t find anything while flying, we’ll have to find a cave, or, if we can’t, dig out an underground network.” Replies King Josiah.
“I mean, we can make pickaxes,” Jeff said. “I don’t think they will find us underground.
So they dug… and kept digging. One month later, they finished the underground Republic of Parrots.
But this war wasn’t over. Not at all..
To be continued… DVP 4 coming soon!