The One Year Flight
Chapter 1 A New Dawn.
AN: Hello and welcome to the first chapter of Broken Wings companion story One Year Flight. This will focus on a particularly difficult time of Kai's character development. As for a time line, this series will take place after chapter 5 of Broken Wing, but still four years before the events of the Storm Hawks series. So yes Kai is still fourteen…at the moment. If you haven't read chapters three through five of broken wing this story will make no sense, so go back and read it first. Unlike the other series however, Starling will play little to no role in this one, appearing only in a few flash backs and as a passing mention. I will try to incorporate as many of the series cannon characters as I can, but author OC's will be limited to Broken Wing only, due to my trying to keep a solid and stable timeline, remember Kai didn't meet the Rock Hearts or any of the other OC's until the Tigger or Crystal Lights series. So without further waiting, let's get this show on the road!
Disclaimer: I do not own Storm Hawks, and never will. They are the property of Asaph "Ace" Fipke and made by Nerd Corps Entertainment, however I DO own Kai, the Shadow crystal and this story.
"Speech"
"Thought"
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"Ugh." Kai tried to open his eyes, but shut them immediately after doing so. "Why is it so bright?" Kai asked weakly.
"Whoa hold up there ace! Let me go get the boss." A voice answered from Kai's side.
Trying to keep his eyes open proved to be difficult. Where ever he was, the entire room was lit up like a flash crystal. "Where am I?" Trying to move, Kai became aware that he was in some sort of bed. An extremely comfortable one at that. From the feel of it he guessed it was covered with fur pelts.
"So your finally waking up there eh little fella." A familiar voice called out.
"Where do I know that voice from?" Kai was trying to think when a hand covered over his eyes.
"You're ok. Just go back to sleep. You were tore up pretty bad, and got yourself a pretty bad concussion." The voice paused for a second.
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"When you wake up next time, we'll have a little chat. That sound nice?" Kai couldn't remember who the voice was off the top of his head. But he knew it was that of a friend, someone that he trusted. The hand pulled away from his face and before succumbing to sleep he could just make out a smiling face.
Though drifting off, he was still able to hear voices in the room.
"She was right, he has changed. His eyes aren't even the same." The female voice said.
"Ya think it's a bad thing chief?" A male voice responded.
"I don't know. But she left him here for us to look after. Remember you can't breath a word of this to anyone. We owe her that much, and the final choice should be up to Kai, not some old goat that's outlived the dinosaurs."
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"Let him sleep. If he wakes up again come and get me. The boy's need to run some more drills before the day's end anyway." As she was speaking, Kai knew that she was leaving the room since her voice was getting further and further away.
"Eh no problem chief, I could use a little time off. My headaches have been getting worse." The male voice called out.
"Then don't egg on those hosiers so much in the future." The female voice replied.
That was the last thing Kai was aware of before he once again dived into the void of darkness and into the realm dreams.
AN: Short I know, but I wanted to leave you guys wanting more, and I felt this was a good place to stop. Any guesses as the where Kai is, or who his two care takers are? Here's a hint, their cannon characters that have appeared at least twice in the show.