It was a nice quiet morning at the Piston Peak Air attack base. The birds were singing in the trees, the deer were eating and our number-one prankster was nowhere to be seen.

"NICK LOOPEN LOPAZ" a vice bellowed throughout the base. Correction, he was in the kitchen and it sounded as though Nick had just pulled a prank on Maru.

"Now what did he do?" I asked as I sat up from where I was sunning myself next to Blade.

"No idea" answered Blade with an irritated look. Blade was getting to the end of his line with Nick's pranks on everyone in the base. Suddenly we saw Nick hopping madly down the runway towards us, with Maru not far behind him. If it were possible Maru would have smoke coming out of his ears. Ares was watching from a distance with Windlifter.

"HELP, SAVE ME" he yelled to us. Not far behind Nick was Maru, swinging a wrench and yelling death threats. I personally wouldn't want to be in Nick's ski's if Maru caught him. Lucky he didn't catch Nick. Nick quickly hoped up to us and divided behind Blade for safety.

"Okay, what did you do this time Nick?" asked Blade without even turning around to face the smaller helicopter.

"I put salt in his coffee" admitted Nick with a sheepish grin.

"Prefft" laughed my older brother Kipper, who finds most things funny.

"Nick" I groaned as I stood up and folded my wings by my side.

"What?" asked Nick "He drinks too much anyway."

"There you are" said Maru, almost out of breath "why I have a right mind to-"

"Arr, please don't turn me into a ceiling fan" begged Nick with a look of horror on his face. Nick was almost turned into a ceiling fan when he put ink into the hoses and Blade and I got stained blue. Blue might be my favourite colour but I didn't like being turned blue. It showed up the most on my white patches.

"I deal with him Maru" assured Blade. Maru grunted and rolled of muttering under his breath about what he would do next time to Nick.

"Okay Nick, you and I have to have a talk" Blade said as he turned to Nick.

"I'll leave you to it then" I said and started to walk off. "Coming Kip?"

"Alright, I'm coming" answered Kipper as he started to follow me. I looked over at him a smirked before breaking into a gollop.

"Oh is that how we're going to play it?" laughed Kipper as we did the same thing and we raced away into the forest.

We raced through the forest for ages, jumping fallen branches and clearing fallen trees. I was having the time of my life with my older brother and together we were one and a family. Laughing we playfully shoved each other and rolled on the ground till the dust flew into the air. As we neared a stream Kipper and I stopped for a drink of the fresh water. Then we just sat in the shade of the pine trees watching as Blade and Nick flew over on spot-fire patrol.

"That was fun" said Kipper as we headed back to the base.

"Yes was" I agreed with him. Suddenly a deer ran out in front of us. Behind the deer was a pack of wolves. We stood stock still and hoped that the wolves would keep going but without much luck. One of the wolves stopped and looked at us. Then it called to the others and they also stopped and turned to look at us with their hungry eyes.

"Be ready to move" I whispered to Kipper who nodded. The first wolf that had seen us growled and started to approach us crouched down low to the ground, fangs beared. I flattened my ears and beared my teeth back at the wolf. Kipper had done the same thing. What it meant was that this meal wasn't going to go down without a fight. Just then a small animal ran out in front of us and that caught the wolves' attention and they took off after it. Mabey luck was on our side after all.

"That was close" exclaimed Kipper as he let out a sigh of relief. For a trained fighter he had no idea about how to deal with wolves.

"Well they don't normally attack unless they are provoked" I said to him as we continued back to base.

"Whatever you say sis" answered Kipper and then we trotted back to base.

Not long after we got back the alarm went off and Blade landed with Nick.

"There's a fire up near Whitewash Falls" stated Blade. "Let's load and go" There was hurry and scurry next as all the air attack team loaded up and started to take off. As I went to join them in the air Blade called me over.

"You sit this one out Belinda" Blade said to me. "If you are needed I'll radio you up"

"Okeydokey" I answered and walked over to Maru's workshop and watched as Blade left with the others. It really does suck when you are stuck at the base and can't go and help. But I had trust and prayed that they would all be okay and return safe.

A/N a bit scrappy I know but the next chapter will be better. This is set after A torn Soul. Leave a review if you like. It motivates me. :)