"What's your name

"What's your name?"

Large emerald eyes blinked up at him, slightly hidden behind long light blue hair.

"I don't have a name." The small child replied.

"Then I'll give you a name, and you can come live with me. Does that sound good?"

Smiling, the child nodded happily.

"Ok, how about I call you-"

Aerrow gasped and quickly sat up in bed, sweating. Swinging his legs over the side of the bed, he tried to calm his thumping heart. Taking deep breaths, his heart rate slowly went back to normal. Running his hand through his short red hair, he thought, 'That dream. I haven't had that dream in over a year. The last time I had it was the night before-'Stopping that thought, Aerrow stood up and lightly walked out of his room, not making a single noise. Slowly walking to the bridge, Aerrow watched his feet. He could feel his hips swaying even when he didn't mean too. Old habits die hard. Sighing deeply he continued on.

Walking by Finn's room he could hear loud snoring, a snort, and then more snoring. Smiling he went to make sure the rest of the crew were okay. After checking Piper and Junko, Aerrow decided to stay away from Stork's room. Who knew what kind of traps he had set up outside his door? Finally getting to the bridge, he looked out at the night's sky. Walking over to a side window, he gently touched its surface with the tips of his fingers. Noticing his refection, he frowned. Reaching up behind his right ear, he carefully pulled a very small, pale blue crystal away and slipped it into his side pocket.

Immediately after the small rock fell in, he changed. Long, light blue hair fell down his back, stopping at his knees. His build became even smaller, and all of his muscles softened, giving him a very girlish look. Wide green eyes became even wider, and his lips turned full and pink. He then noticed something else different; his hips were wider then he remembered. Frowning at this, he shrugged it off as nothing important.

Standing there in his true form watching the sun rise, Aerrow felt truly free. This is why he left. This is why Aerrow left Him.

With his extraordinary hearing, Aerrow could hear foot steps coming his way. Quickly grabbing the crystal, he stuffed it back behind his ear just in time. He was now the Aerrow his friends knew. A moment later, the door swung open and in walked Stork.

"Morning Stork!" He called out. Stork replied with a grunt and went over to the controls, making sure that they were still on course. 'Some things never change.' Aerrow thought with a fond smile.

Quickly walking out, Aerrow headed back to his room. He just realized that he was still very tired.

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Looking down at the picture is his hands; he felt a pain in his heart. His heart ached constantly now days. Quickly breaking the frame, he carefully slipped the precious picture out.

"Why did you leave me? Kira, why did you go?" Choking back a sob, he held the picture to his heart. Falling to his knees, he looked back at the picture. He could feel hot tears running down his cheeks.

"Kira…kira." He let out a heartbroken scream.

In the picture, there were two people. A tall, older teenage boy with spiky black hair, and in his arms was a boy; about ten years old with light blue hair and wide expressive eyes, smiling.

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Falling out of bed with a thump, Aerrow woke with a start. The alarm was blaring and the ship shook violently. Stumbling onto shaky feet, Aerrow started towards his door, only to trip over a medium sized box. Catching himself before his face smashed into the ground, Aerrow rolled onto his back and let out a huff, blowing his bangs out of his face.

Looking at the box that he tripped over, Aerrow recognized it immediately as the one that he kept under his bed. 'It must have slid out when the ship shook.' Opening it, he gently touched the picture that was resting on top of everything else. On a whim, he took out the photo and slipped it under his shirt, right above his heart. He had a feeling that he was going to need it.

Grabbing his armor, he quickly snapped it all on before he ran towards to bridge; he had already wasted enough time. Stumbling when the ship shook again, Aerrow suddenly had a bad feeling. Cyclonians.

Reaching the bridge, he found everyone else already there.

"What's our status?!" He had to yell over the sound of enemy weapon fire.

"Very bad. We're almost surrounded, we're low on power and weapons, AND the Dark Ace is out there." Replied Stork, distracted with controlling the ship. His eye was twitching. Felling he heart sink when heard that the Dark Ace was out there, Aerrow was about to start handing out orders. He was stopped however when the ship gave a particular hard jerk, and he felt the crystal behind his ear almost fall out. He didn't have time to fix it when in the next moment; the ship lurched and started to fall.

"How low on power did you say?!" Finn wheezed out from under Junko. That had to hurt.

Aerrow didn't remember much after that. All that he knew was that when he hit his head hard on the floor, everything went fuzzy and he could hardly hear anything above the roar in his head.