Breathe Again-

Splatalot Fan-fiction

Hello everyone! :D

Welcome to this- a Splatalot fic, because I can!

As a prior warning it does contain three OC's, Thorne's anger issues, Kook's pranks, Gildar being vain etc...etc...

And I've mixed up the pairings a little compared to what everyone else seems to do on here XD Possibly some fluffy/romantic bits later on...we'll see if I can get that far first and if anyone even reads the damn thing!

Oh and as one last request- if you do read this, please be ready to persist and kick me to write more chapters. I can be a tad lazy with my writing... so I might need a few slaps to keep me going XD

Anyway, enjoy this first chapter! Please review :D

~KingOfMyHeart~

Chapter 1

That day in the castle had begun- well...- just like any other really. The defenders were defending, the attackers were attacking- just your average day in Castle Splat.

It was mid-fall- meaning the defenders had.. mixed views about the weather.

Faetal loved autumn- it made the leaves such beautiful colours.

Ballista loved the wind in her hair- the same wind that whipped the leaves into a frenzy and sent them scattering like birds.

It was the same wind that Gildar hated- apparently it distracted him from staring into his mirror and meant he always had to spend twice as long conditioning to make perfect sure that his luxurious hair wouldn't become knotted and windswept. (Believe me, you wouldn't want to be in charge of the castles toiletry finances...)

Kook loved the random, disorganised piles of leaves that the wind left in its wake. It meant he could annoy the others by dolphin diving into various piles of them and send them drifting over the recently swept courtyard and stockade... (Though it could cause some problems with his... fire snapping abilities...)

Tinkor enjoyed fall. It meant that he could work on his inventions without getting overheated and... more greasy than usual. This time of year at least he was guaranteed to be let back inside the castle at night without taking a bath...

Crocness, Vane and Skabb didn't appear to be affected by the change in season. Crocness could still swim in the moat, Skabb could still smash things- including attackers- and Vane successfully managed to eat the defenders month's supply of food in a week. No change there..

And the Blue defenders?

Knightriss felt like the year was vanishing too fast, Madeva had another cold and no one really knew how Shaiden felt...

And Thorne- well... Thorne hates every season.

Today, it just so happened to be Thorne, Kook and Shaiden defending the moat.

Shaiden was on Splatzooka, Thorne on vaporisers and Kook was on the Aqualiser.

None of them had much to say at all- there was a lingering awkwardness between Kook and Shaiden over the whole "dancing" issue, and Kook had already pushed the blue streaked alchemist to the edge of utter rampage this morning alone.

No one wanted to push things any further. So they kept quiet- besides the odd passing insult to the unfortunate attacker making their way around the moat.

Thorne glared down at an attacker girl through the mist of his vaporizers and almost chuckled as she slipped and fell off of one of the Beastly Battle Axes.

Today wasn't so bad...

Caw. Caw. Caw, caw.

Oh yes. There was that.

The blue clad alchemist let his gaze rise up and settle heavily, upon the black raven sitting on the castle wall.

It had been there all day, from what he could gather. Watching.

Just... watching.

It eyed him right back, unafraid of his steely grey eyes.

Strange...

"Oy! Bird!" Thorne shouted, letting off a flume of vapour in the direction of the bird. "Get lost! Shoo!"

Kook let off a chuckle from his perch with the Aqualiser. "Gee Thorny! Why you getting so worked up? It's only a bird."

Thorne glared up at his green hair companion. "Really? I thought it was a glowing Jack-O-Lantern!"

Shaiden looked over to see what was making her brother so worked up. "Really Thorne? A bird is annoying you? Just by sitting there?"

"So what? He does that already!" Thorne growled back, gesturing towards Kook with a gloved hand.

Shaiden smirked at her brother's expression and leaned against the Splatzooka, watching the raven.

It cawed again before spreading it's wings and launching itself from the wall and into the air.

Shaiden smiled briefly, watching the bird swoop around the moat gracefully with a few powerful strokes of its wings.

And in another instant, the momentarily graceful bird swooped down viciously, claws spread and full on attacked the person in its path of flight.

Which just so happened to be Thorne.

The alchemist lurched back, away from his attacker and batted at the bird with a gloved hand. The vaporizers clattered to the ground, as Thorne continued to swat at the Raven, who managed to get both sets of claws buried in his blue tipped Mohawk.

Shaiden's ninja reactions lurched into gear, after being momentarily frozen in shock. With a swift hand she loaded the Splatzooka and fired one shot in the general direction of the Raven, while Kook began yelling and throwing goo-grenades.

The Raven let go with a cackling cry, and flew off with two claw-full's of Thorne's hair.

Shaiden held fire and listened, while Kook threw another grenade for good measure.

"Oy!" Thorne yelled, waving his fist in the air and rubbing his injured head with the other hand. "Stupid bird ripped out my hair!"

"Shh!" Shaiden scolded, making her way around the moat wall, towards her brother.

"Why should I?!" Thorne growled, "You saw what that mangy thing just did to me!" He held his gloved hand in front of his face to inspect it. "I'm surprised I'm not bleeding!"

"Actually mate, you are!" Kook jeered, materialising beside them and gesturing to a cut on Thorne's forehead.

The alchemist bared his teeth at the bird and touched the cut gingerly, muttering something about the stupidity of birds...

"For pities sake! Will the two of you shut up..." Shaiden growled at them.

Both Kook and Thorne looked up as if to protest, but the ninja's eyes were not on them, but on something in the distance.

"Can you hear that?" Shaiden breathed, her brown eyes fixated on...something.

"What?" Thorne asked, trying to look at the same thing, but to no avail.

His sister took hold of his arm with one hand and pointed off into the forest that bordered the edge of the kingdom. "There..."

Thorne watched in surprise, and even Kook watched as a cloaked figure on horse-back rode off into the thick tree line.

The three defenders stood in silence for a while, before Kook spoke what each were thinking. "Do you think... we were being watched?"

The blue ninja narrowed her eyes.

Kook began to pace nervously "Do you think that the bird...? What if it was a spy? Do you think we'll get attacked? Do we tell Knightriss and Madeva?"

"Oh just shut up!" Thorne growled, grabbing the bird by the shirt and shaking him. "There's no way we can tell for sure!"

"No we can't." Shaiden said coldly, turning around. "But there is one thing I can say for certain."

"What?" Kook asked in puzzlement.

"We just gave the last three attackers a free pass around the moat..."

The cloaked figure rode off into the woods with a chuckle and the steady sound of hoof-beats on the damp forest floor.

"They're such fools! So fun to play with... I don't even care what my brother says, that crown is up for the taking." The rider laughed again- a harsh high laugh that betrayed their gender as female.

The girl directed the horse around a sharp bend in the track with a single brisk tug of the bridle. The black gypsy horse stallion beneath her, gave a snort and a harsh shake of his head.

"Easy boy..." His rider soothed, slowing them to a trot and patting his mane with a gloved hand. She stole a glance back at the castle in the distance- bright sapphires glaring out from under a hood, fist clenched around a piece of blue tipped hair in her hand. "Tonight... we attack..."

So...?

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