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Summary: Takes place shortly after Whisper's death. Tourniquet hangs with her new skua friends in loads of adventures and games and Antarctic dangers. But when Tourni finds out the truth, a chain of events left her and her friends on the other side of the world. And a mysterious someone pays a little visit. Can Tourni and the gang ever get back home? And who's this impossibly familiar visitor?

Part 3

Chapter 1

All is peaceful above a beautiful landscape of ice and newly formed snow on the ground. It is late afternoon and there isn't a single noise in the air.

"Weeeee!"

Well, now there is.

A flock of skuas zoomed pass the scene, bringing with them, more peace breaking.

"Let's go faster!" Tourniquet yelled in delight. She was riding on the back of the large banded bird in the lead, Seifer. The skua smiled and dove sharply through the air.

The baby Emperor screamed, her eyes wide in excitement. Behind Seifer, three other skuas followed. The sea birds were gang companions, befriending Tourniquet after her mother was killed by some local orcas. However, the little penguin knew nothing of the death and everyone preferred to keep it that way, at least until she gets older.

Seifer spun like a feathered top, enjoying this ride himself. His buds, Dino, Vinni, and Frankie, flattened their dive as they neared the ground. Seifer, however, didn't pull up until the last millisecond.

He flew back into the sky and the four birds circled the snow cloud that was brought up. Tourniquet giggled at the sight. It was hard to believe that not too long ago, her skua friends might have well be her biggest predator. Although they did save her a few times in the past, they also tried their luck at hunting her.

Before, Tourniquet started to feel caution in their presence, but now she loved being around them, each play session promising a big adventure. She stayed with them from dawn to dusk…or at least until her leopard seal caretaker, Rojas tells her enough's enough.

Tourniquet scanned the ice below and found something particularly interesting: a hole to the water. She smiled. Although she nearly drowned once before, she would love to swim. It was one of her biggest dreams; along with learning how to fly and figuring out how to find her Heartsong.

Now's the perfect chance to fulfill on of her dreams.

"I want down, Seifer. I want down." She said.

"No prob kid. Hang on." The skua replied. He and the others flew towards the ground, but then noticed the hole. Tourniquet stood up quickly and tried to jump in, but she wasn't fast enough.

Frankie caught her tail in his beak.

"Aww." Tourniquet protested. Frankie flew her a little ways away from the water before setting her down. The skuas landed and surrounded her, spreading their wings to keep her from making a run for the pool.

"No fair! There more you than me!" she said, trying to get pass.

"Sorry, Touinaquet. No can do. Rojas said dat you're not allowed in da water till you're big enough." Vinnie told her. Tourniquet tried again to get pass before giving up, finally sitting on the ice, looking at her feet.

"Still no fair." She muttered. The skuas furled their wings and sat down, confident that Tourniquet was through with her attempts. The baby penguin stared at each of them. It was very easy for her to distinguish the four seabirds.

Seifer was the easiest to recognize as he had a strange yellow band on his leg. Tourniquet was very curious about it, but she never tried to ask why it was there and how he got it. But besides that, Seifer was brown and was the leader of the group. Personally, she like him the most.

Vinnie is a golden colored skua and Tourniquet regards him as the fun loving member of the group. He's the most willing to play any game she comes up with and always make jokes and always had stories to tell.

Dino was considerably dark in color than the others, having almost black feathers. He was the bird Tourniquet always kept a high respect for, as he's the most aggressive and tends to get violent when angry.

And Frankie is what she notices as the average skua. This whitish bird is not at all hostile like Dino, but at the same time, he's not a push over either. Only when he's hungry will he get edgier than normal, considering he's the lowest ranked of the gang.

"Why can't I swim?" she asked. Her answer was simple.

"You're not supposed to. Rojas made dat very clear." Dino explained.

"But why?" she pushed on. She wasn't at all hindered by the last accident she had in water. And besides, she's a bit older now…about a week older, but still older! She can handle it!

The skuas looked at each other briefly. How could they explain she's still too young, and that there would be things in there that will be more than happy to bite her head off. Or maybe it's best not to hide it.

"You're still a chick." Seifer muttered.

"You're not waterproof." Frankie continued.

"And you'll get eaten by horrible monsters!" Vinnie finished in an attempt to scare the idea out of her. It worked and she quickly dropped the subject. Instead, she can fulfill another dream.

She stood up and the skuas, thinking that she was still going to bolt to the water, followed her lead and blocked the way.

However, Tourniquet just started to do this weird….ritual. It consisted of jumping, flapping her flippers, falling back down and sliding a bit, getting back up and repeating the procedure. They looked at her in confusion.

"If I can't swim, teach me to fly!" she said. Startled, the seabirds cocked their heads and looked at each other. After a moment, they laughed.

Tourniquet stopped and looked at them. "What so funny?"

Seifer calmed down enough to explain. "I hate to break it to ya, kid….but Flipper Boids can't fly."

Tourniquet was shocked. She never knew that. Because although she never saw a flying penguin, she thought that penguins had to learn the ability. She had no idea they were completely incapable of it.

But she had to learn why. She knew she was a bird and so were the skuas. So how is it that they can fly and she can't?

Her friend picked up on the problem.

"We'll make dis nice and simple. Look at your wings…" Seifer ordered. Tourniquet looked good and hard, as if it was the first time she noticed it. "…Now look at ours."

All four skuas spread their wings in full view. Tourniquet noticed two major differences: Their wings were large in comparison to hers. And they had these long stiff flight feathers.

Now she knew. Her wings were puny and had no big feathers…and she knew by observation that none will grow. With a defeated sigh, she sat down and so did her friends.

"So if I can't swim…and I can't fly…then what can I do?" she asked hopelessly.

"You can walk." Vinnie answered with a grin. Tourniquet smiled a little. She's starting to feel better already. A few moments of relaxing silence went by.

"Now…" Seifer started, getting up onto his feet. "It's startin to get dark. We should take yous back home."

Tourniquet looked at the setting sun. She was surprise how time went by so fast. She nodded and stood. Seifer lowered down so the penguin could get on. She climbed up and clung tightly as they flew off towards the beach.

She was getting sleepy anyways.

The start of the last story of the trilogy…I honestly never thought I would come this far…Please R&R!!!