Ventus woke up one morning in his hammock between Martin's and Chris's, who were both still sound asleep. He looked around the Tortuga, but noticed one hammock empty.
Aviva observed the sunrise on the shell, her medallion in hand. Ventus looked from the Tortuga's shell.
"Hey… woken up early?"
"Morning, Ven. I actually… haven't slept well," Aviva admitted. "You know, I've been thinking… I think I'll never find love, if I keep this habit of having current crushes."
"Hm..." Ventus observed her worry.
"You know… every girl dreams about a knight in shining armor, but me… I dreamt about an angel. A beautiful, strong angel with silver wings."
"An angel?" The description sounded familiar, surprising him.
"*sigh* But who am I kidding? I think I'll never find this angel..." Aviva said, going back inside. Ventus sighed.
Later in the HQ, David read one of Chris's books about mythology. Then he saw Aviva and Koki.
"Where are you girls going?" David asked, seeing them with purses.
"I'm taking Aviva for a walk. She sounded really depressed this morning," Koki said, "Hey… where are the other boys?"
"Well, the Hesperides called for help. Something about "mysterious bites in their golden apples"..."
In the Hesperides' garden, the boys investigated the golden apples.
"Hmm..." Chris observed the bite marks in an apple. "The jaw size is a little big to be a little brown bat. But I can't quite identify these marks." His Creaturepod showed a crossed circle. "No match of any small herbivore with sharp teeth either."
"See? It couldn't be our bats. They're specially trained to never eat anything without our permission," Hesperie affirmed.
"Hm… well, we'll stay here till we find some clue to help you solve this mystery," Chris assured. "Don't worry, Hesperie. We'll solve this problem."
"We hope so. Zeus was utterly upset for the failure of our festivity," Erythea said.
"Uh… guys?" Ventus called. "Could you… come here a sec?" Martin and Chris agreed, making the Hesperides a signal to wait.
"Are you okay, bro?"
"Well… you know when I was a boy, back a 10,000 ago… I had a crush on Flora… a HUGE crush..." His face got a bit pink. "Well… now I..."
"You have a crush on Aviva," Chris said in a teasing tone. "Rather obvious, don't you think? Before you got your adult size, you always blushed close to her."
"Bro…" Ventus blushed harder.
"No worries, big guy. We'll let YOU tell her, when you're ready." Martin winked to Ventus.
"Thanks."
"Aviva, you can't just give up on love," Koki said. "Of course, you made some huge mistakes, but that's not a good reason to do it."
"I certainly agree," Clarissa commented.
"Maybe… but I don't feel… I don't know, ready for t-"Aviva bumped into someone. "Ay, perdoname! I wasn't looking."
"No, no, miss. It was my fault." The young lad offered his hand to her. He had yellow eyes and maroon hair. "My apologies. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Klaus."
"Uh… y-yeah.. I'm-I'm Aviva...Um... I'm Aviva..." Aviva blushed, awkwardly introducing herself. Clarissa and Koki rolled their eyes, and received a letter from the Kratt bros. She took his hand and he pulled her up.
"Aviva? The Wild Kratts' Aviva?"
"Si."
"Uh, Viva?" Clarissa called her attention. "The boys need us in the garden."
"Huh? Oh, okay." Aviva snapped out of her trance. "So… guess we'll see you later, Klaus."
"Fine for me. Adios." He walked away. Aviva placed a hand over her heart.
"Here we go again..." Mina whispered to Elsa worriedly.
In the garden, the girls arrived.
"Over here, girls!" Bites in his human form called. Suddenly, Aviva felt a little sleepy.
"You guys go ahead. I guess I'll take a quick nap," she said.
"You sure, Aviva?" Koki asked.
"Yeah. Guess waking up really early wasn't the best idea."
"Okay, girlfriend. Don't sleep all day." The girls walked ahead as Aviva walked a bit away from the group. She stopped and sat under a bloomed cherry blossom tree. A few seconds later, sleep claimed her.
Aviva opened her eyes. She wasn't in the Hesperides' garden. It was some kind of village, a white stone city.
"Hey, where's Terra?" she heard a young voice. Aviva turned around.
"Koki? Jimmy?" Well, they looked like Jimmy and Koki, but their clothes were old fashioned and Greek like. She then recognized them after a couple of seconds. "Rose… and Pyce?" Both were looking down a path. Aviva finally noticed the child standing with them. She had two wavy pigtails, held in place by two familiar hair clips.
"Flora?"
"Mom! Aunt Athena! Did you find-" Flora came to a halt. Her mom was carrying a certain person's limp body in her arms.
"T-Terra?" Hermia and Athena let some tears come to their eyes. "M-Mom, what happened to him?"
"Mom?" the fire nymph asked as she and Pyce came up to them. Rose gasped in horror when she saw Terra's body. Tears immediately sprung up.
"Terra…?" The child touched his face. It was barely warm. "Mom, is he…?" She looked up at her, hoping to see a shed of truth in her eyes that this was a joke.
"... He is," she said simply, the tears finally running down her face. Rose buried her crying face into her boyfriend's chest. Flora, struck with complete sorrow, sobbed in her aunt's dress. Hermia brought her son closer to her, as if embracing him.
Aviva stared with teary eyes. "Oh Flora… it really was hard on you," she muttered.
A pink petal blew by on a breeze. It seemed to call her attention to behind her. When she looked, she was awed. In a void of white stood a peach blossom tree.
"It's nice to meet you finally... amiga," a woman's voice greeted. The mechanic looked at the base of the tree. A woman that looked just like her was seated on the base of a root. Her long, dark hair was down and wavy. Two flower hair clips kept her bangs back. There was a single hibiscus flower in her hair. She wore a tan, Greek top and a tan Greek styled skirt. It was held up with a flower pin.
Aviva was stunned. "Flora...?"
"Hello, Aviva," Flora greeted. "Welcome to your mind. Better saying, your subconscious world."
"Wow, I heard the guys once talk about meeting their past selves in their minds, but I never thought I'd meet mine." The passed Gaia Guardian chuckled.
"And... I'm sorry about Terra."
"You know what? Guess I would not be perfect for him anyway," Flora admitted.
"And neither would I for Chris. I still like him... but more like a friend now."
"This does not mean you'll have to give up finding love. Who knows... maybe there's someone out there, waiting for you. He could even be nearby, if that were possible."
"You think so?" She nodded. "Thanks Flora."
Aviva woke up after this, seeing a white Creature Power Suit behind her head. It was Ventus' CPS. But what was it doing there?
"Miss Aviva?" The Air Guardian looked up to see Klaus standing above her. The sky showed that it was sunset.
"Klaus? What are you doing here?"
"I could be asking you the same thing, sleeping out here." She blushes at that. "Here, let me help you up." He held his hand out. Aviva felt that something was wrong, but ignored it and took his hand. As she stood, she had a grip on the white CPS in her other hand.
"Hey, what's this?" David wondered, picking up a small, metal object out from under some bushes. "Hey guys, I found something!"
"What?" Chris asked, once they all got close.
"It looks like… a helmet with teeth," Mina said. "A helmet small enough for... a tiny creature."
"Uh… guys?" Jimmy pointed up. The team looked up to see… something like a cloud made of… small creatures.
"Isn't the sky lovely here?" Klaus asked Aviva.
"W-well, yeah, you are- I mean, the sky is lovely." She turned away from his face, blushing. It just felt right, but also wrong. She couldn't make any sense of it.
Shouts for help snapped her out of it. In the sky was a cloud of... bats and her friends!
"Dios mio!" she gasped. Suddenly, some of the bats swooped down at her. On instinct and in panic, Aviva summoned her tessens and blew them back in a gust of wind. What she didn't count on was the strange smell of Klaus's perfume knocking her out.
"Aviva! Come on, amiga! Wake up!" Koki called. Aviva woke up and sat up in a cage.
"I got her on my own, mother." There, in front of her was Klaus, with his mother… Donita Donata?!
"Nice work, my little smarty," Donita baby-talked with Klaus. Dabio huffed. He felt jealous that Donita didn't give her the respect she gave her son.
"You jealous, Dabio?"
"I'm her son, too. Adopted, but I am," Dabio admitted. The team's jaws dropped at that statement.
"You know, that actually explains a lot," Martin thought. Chris nodded in agreement.
"Dabio, stop speaking to them! Get over here and make my son some iced tea. He's thirsty after such a good job."
"Yes, Donita."
"Q-que...?" Aviva muttered in shock.
"I must say you were right, mother. She IS really easy to fool when it comes to love. No wonder guys use her in their plans," Klaus commented. "Oh, and yes. We know all about the Cyrano incident. What a silly woman."
Aviva started tearing up.
"But just because you're kinda cute, I'll make my slave bats attack as slow as possible," Klaus said.
The mind controlled bats circled the cage.
"Leave her alone!" Elsa shouted.
Aviva reached for her medallion, but found it absent.
"Oh, looking for this?" Donita held up her necklace. "Too bad. Really pretty, though. I might as well keep it."
Aviva shrieked in panic, seeing how much danger she and the gang were in.
Ventus, not far from there, picked up his CPS, which was not where he left it.
"What's this doing out here?" he wondered in confusion. He heard a shriek from not too far. "Aviva?"
"Ventus!" Bite-Size called in bat form. "It's terrible! Donita's crazy son has mind controlled bats that are going to attack the team! You have to save them!"
"You got it. And I've been waiting to do this again for a while." His eyes glowed silver and the wind picked up. Wings made of wind formed on his back.
"Whoa, with wings like that, the owls would eat my dust. When did you learn that?"
"10,000 years ago. Guess I know the angel Aviva's looking for."
"Her what?"
"Long story. But first, we got to save them." With that, the two took off.
"Ay! Ay! Para! Stop it!" Aviva screamed when a bat bit her covered arm.
"Strangely, for a dream like this, I had my previous fear of bats," Koki said. "I was a children, so I didn't knew better."
"Knock it off, Dumbata!" Mina yelled.
"Quit speaking, pauper, or you'll go next!" Klaus menaced. "Nothing can stop us now, mother!" he vangloriated.
"Is that so?" a different voice questioned.
Suddenly, they heard a sound of… wings flapping. A winged silhouette was in the sky.
"Oh my Muses..." Chris gasped.
"Holy Cyclops," David mumbled in awe.
"Mess with someone of your own kind, you half-chewed casanova," Ventus said.
"It's..." Aviva recognized that silhouette from her dreams. "My angel..." Her eyes glowed.
Ventus flew down, grabbing Klaus and Donita by their arms. The two started screaming in panic when they were hoisted off the ground.
"Have a nice flight home!" The wind blew harshly as he threw the mother and son in the direction of a portal that led right to their mansion.
"Not AGAAAAIIIN!" Donita shrieked.
"Donita! Wait for me!" Dabio rushed after them both.
Quickly after, Ven sent a wave of wind at the bats, releasing them from the helmets. They immediately flew off as he touched the ground. The wings disappeared as he made a blade of wind and cut the lock to Aviva's cage.
"It was you… all along it was you..." Aviva's eyes glowed in charm.
"You alright, Aviva?"
"I am now." She hurried to him and embraced him tightly, kissing him firmly. Startled for the moment, Ventus's face became a sunset red, but he eventually wrapped his arm around her, taking Aviva with him to the air.
"I… sure didn't know they had a crush on each other," David commented.
"Really?" Martin asked.
"Of course not, dude. We all knew where this was going."
Ventus sighed. "Well… it was worth waiting all those years."
"Yes, it sure was," his love replied.
"Uh, hey you two lovebirds," Koki called. "And quite literally. Before you continue… can you get us out of here?"
"Oh. Right."
By morning, the Hesperides happily celebrated as their fruit bats return to their normal flying around the garden, safe from any accusations.
"We can't thank you enough for the help, Wild Kratts," Aegle affirmed.
"Hey, I say it was Ven here who did most of it," Martin commented. "He's the one that saved us and the bats. Speaking of him, where is he?"
"And where is Aviva?" Koki asked.
Mina pointed up. The team chuckled at seeing them dancing together in the air.
"Never I felt so happy in my life. Now I know how it feels to be truly in love," Aviva said.
"I hear you, querida."
"You speak spanish?" Aviva asked, surprised.
"Yeah… I do what I can," he said, blushing.
Aviva rested her head on Ventus's shoulder, feeling safe and loved at last. Ventus looked down, smiling at his brothers, then in response, nodded and signalized in approval.
Aviva's troubles with love, and Ventus's as well, finally were solved, practically gone with the wind. For all this time, the ones they wished for were right in front of each other.
