Ok. This is my first Fanfic EVER!! So expect anything from me. FinnxStork! Characters may appear extremely ooc in first chapters. R&R and constructive critique is welcome.
Warning: Rating because of the fact that I have no idea where I'm going with this. And man on man action in later chapters!
Edit: I've tried to fix what spelling and grammatical errors I could find -which should mean I missed half of them.
Aerrow frowned. "What do you mean, Have any of you guys seen Finn? I thought he was with you, Junko." They were in the bridge. Aerrow sat on the bench in the room with his
co-pilot Radarr playing checkers. So far he had been losing big time against his two foot tall opponent, when Junko had walked in, wondering where Finn were.
"No, last time I saw him he said he'd be target practising. But that was hours ago." The wallop shrugged.
"Please don't let it be that Finn did after all... Even though I told him not to." Aerrow muttered, turning to look up at Junko, not noticing that Radarr was fiddling with the pieces while he was looking away.
Piper entered the bridge. "Hey, Piper" Aerrow called, sitting up from the bench, abandoning the game completely. Piper stopped in her tracks. "Have you seen Finn?"
"I don't think so. What, did he break anything? Please tell me it wasn't any of my stuff!" She started to look slightly panicked.
" Whoa, chill Piper, I wasn't saying anything about that." He waved his hands in front of him, trying his best to calm her down. Man, she really didn't trust the blonde sharpshooter. But then again. Experience had taught them that unlike king Midas, everything Finn touched, would meet a fate of destruction.
"Talking about missing persons. Where's Stork?"
"Right behind you."
Stork! You nearly scared the living bejeebus out of me!" Aerrow gasped, recollecting himself after the mildly uncomfortable shock. The merb had recently developed a habit of popping right out of nowhere. They had started to suspect the helmsman was hiding from something or someone. Probably from another one of his fictitious dangers. "Have you.."
"He is not on the ship." Stork interrupted. Holding up a four digit hand in front of him in a gesture to show that he didn't need to hear anything more "I just came too inform you that Finn's skimmer is not in the hangar. Quite obvious that he is not here then, would you not agree, hmm?"
"Damn it! Why does he have to be such an irresponsible brat!" Aerrow walked up to the large windows in the front. It had gotten dark outside. He looked down at the terra below the dock that the Condor currently resided in. Terra Atmosia, the capital terra of Atmos.
*
They had come earlier that day too to report that the mission they had been assigned to had been successful, only to be assigned with a new one. They had also been there too to fill their supplies. The storage room had been almost empty when they arrived to Atmosia.
Finn had been incredible restless and stressed for a very long time and the moment they set foot on the landmass, it just seemed to have doubled. Finn had literary begged Aerrow to be allowed to leave the Condor afterwards when the last crates had been carried into the ship.
Just for the night, evening, heck, even just for a couple of hours would have done. Aerrow knew exactly what Finn had had in mind. Atmosia was known among the Sky Knights and their squadrons not only for the Sky Knight Council and the beacon tower, but also for its night life with its many bars and clubs it had to provide.
The answer that had left the redheads lips had been a plain no. "But why?" Had the other asked. "Don't be silly Finn. If you may recall, we have been assigned with a new mission. We're an official squadron and thus we get missions. We'll be leaving early in the morning. And the last thing I'll need then, is a sharpshooter with a hangover! Sorry buddy, but that's how it is."
Finn's eyes burning with anger and desperation, his voice slightly cracked. "You think I don't know how to take care of myself, is that it?!" He started to yell. "If I'll have to remind you. I am 19! not some 14 year old inexperienced newbie and already then I kicked Cyclonian ass! I have the scars to prove it! I'm damn old enough to take care of myself!"
Aerrow stepped up in front of him with a stern look in his eyes. His voice, so much unlike Finn's half hysteric yelling, was filled with authority. " You will not leave the Condor for such reasons. And that is an order, sharpshooter!"
Finn body froze and his face had drained of all color at those last words. Aerrow had called him by his title. Something that Aerrow never did. And the intonation that he had used.
He averted his gaze from Aerrow, looking anywhere else than at the man in front of him. Biting his lower lip, he gave the Sky Knight a stiff nod in response. Then he had left the storage room and walked in direction towards his quarters. "Like hell I will." He muttered to himself when he was out of earshot.
*
It was obvious for Aerrow now that Finn had decided to rebel against their agreement and gone on a spree on the streets. "Well, we'll just have to find him then I suppose" Aerrow sighed, resting his head in his palm. Radarr climbed up on Aerrow's shoulder. " The question is just where."
"Heh, the Gnawling surgedians will surely have taken him long before we find him. But considering that we're on Terra Atmosia, we might just as well find his corpse in the nearest trashcan by the morning" Stork said. His eye twitched and he grimaced at his own inner mental image.
"Don't say scary stuff like that, man. I'm sure Finn is doing fine.. Or at least not that bad. Right?" Junko glanced at the others, searching for some sort of confirmation. Piper shook her head. "I'm not so sure about it Junko. It is Finn we're talking about here after all. Knowing him, he might as well be getting himself into trouble this very moment as we speak. And I think I know him very well by now."
"Which you don't" Stork mumbled softly to himself. Not really meant to be heard by any body else. "What?" Piper looked over at him. "Doom?" Stork said, with a look of innocent confusion plastered upon his face. She clicked with her tongue. "Riiight." Turning towards the rest of them she continued. "Anyway, It's a big terra and a blonde lunatic on the loose. So tell me. Which bar should we start looking in?"
That last phrase had been meant like a half hearted joke but the expression on Aerrow's face told her it had not been the best thing to say right now.
Junko, Radarr and I will go searching for Finn right away. Stork, see if you can reach him on his headset" Aerrow's in-command-authority voice was back. "I'll come with you guys." Piper came walking with them towards the door. Aerrow gave Junko a nod to continue to the hangar where their skimmers resided, then turned to the crystal specialist "No, Piper you stay here with Stork".
Piper was about to protest but Aerrow continued smiling. "I do not question your capability Piper, not at all. But we will have to split up when we look. And I'm sure that you can take care of yourself if some idiot comes up to you and tries something funny. But considering the circumstanced, you'd have to beat some thug down every ten meters or so. It's not so effective, no? Keep Stork company up here." He glanced over at the merb standing at the controls of the ship pressing buttons trying to broadcast the missing sharpshooter. Piper got the message. Finn was not the only one who'd gotten himself some new habits. "I trust in you and you are all irreplaceable Piper, don't forget that." Aerrow looked back at Piper and gave her a reassuring smile that he meant every word. He knew how sensitive she could be at times.
"Fine. I'll do it" Piper sighed defeatedly. She could not argue with The Sky Knights reasoning. Said Sky Knight continued through the doors that then closed behind him.
She sat down on the bench and picked up one of the game pieces and let it mindlessly play between her fingers. She watched as Stork spoke into the speaker. "Hello, Finn do you copy? Finn?" No response. He sighed and gazed out though the windows of the Condor. Piper could swear that she heard some quite foul cursings leave the otherwise so quiet merb's lips.
Junko had already started the engine on his skimmer when Aerrow entered the hangar." I just don't get it. Why would he do something like that. I mean. It's not like him to run off like this or go against you. It is just not like him" Junko had a puzzled expression on his face. Aerrow sighed and sat heavily on his own skimmer while Radarr slipped into his seat.
"It beats me as well." No more words were spoken. Was it my fault. Aerrow thought back to when he had last seen Finn. No. He thought and shook his head. Finn had had it coming. He had pushed it too far. Aerrow had responded like he should have had. The hatch out opened. They drew out and flew through the night sky down to the enlightened terra.
Well, that went pretty well... not. But do not fret! I will return shortly with a new chapter(and more angst).
