A recently turned 22 year old was watching her 7 year old nephew playing with his new invention in a rapidly moving river; its gorgeous colors mixing to make a bluish-white color. Her hazel eyes softened greatly as she watched his blonde cropped hair bob up and down as he tried to catch the invention. She sat on a boulder right behind where he stopped, her brown and caramel highlighted hair swishing back and forth in the slight breeze surrounding them both. She watched the kid sitting on a boulder, one knee up, her arm resting on her knee cap.
"Cale, you're being reckless. Don't let it get too far in front of you." She told the 7 year old.
Cale looked up at his aunt and nodded his head vigorously. He loved her. She was his adopted mother seeing as he never knew his real one. She was like a goddess in his eyes though too; a beautiful woman who was strong and independent. And his father's young friend and coworker seemed to take a huge liking to her. Cale was happy that she was his aunt, someone he could trust with his life.
She smiled at him when he went chasing after his invention again. Only when she heard the crack, did she get up and rush after him and his contraption.
When she spotted Cale with his father, she smiled gently and went up to the both of them.
"Dad, my invention broke." Cale said, looking so crestfallen.
"We'll fix it sometime, together." His father replied.
Cale beamed when his father looked to his younger sister. She knew immediately what was going to happen next.
Sam, Cale and the young woman all got onto a hovercraft that already held two people. The man driving smirked to the woman when she climbed on board directly behind him. She rolled her eyes but smirked and blushed slightly. Cale came up next and sat in her lap. Sam sat on the other side of the 'backseat' and watched his sister and son play, her keeping the kid's mind off what was going to happen.
"Cale, there's something important your father has to tell you." The woman told Cale while setting him in between herself and Sam.
Sam told his son about what was to happen. The woman started to have a conversation with the person in the passenger's seat.
"Tech, you're coming with us right?" She asked him.
He nodded his head.
"Of course Sweet Pea. I couldn't leave you and little Cale out in the other world alone could I? How would you survive?" He replied laughing.
The woman laughed and swatted his shoulder. The man driving smirked when she turned to him.
"And what about the great Korso? Is he gonna come with us, or is he gonna go off on his own adventure?" She asked, slightly hoping he would come with them.
Korso frowned while looking at the ship he stopped in front of, looming over them all.
'Can I really leave her out there to her own devices? She may be strong, but she's not that strong.' He thought to himself looking back at her.
"I wish I could." He said over the loud noises.
She frowned as well and looked to the floor below the hovercraft. Well, she knew this would've happened sooner or later. Sam, Cale and Tech all were already down off the hovercraft so the two could talk.
She looked up at Korso with tears starting to glisten from her eyes.
"Promise me you'll look for us then. Please." She begged, crawling to the front and wrapping her arms around his shoulders.
Korso stared at the woman in shock. Then he wrapped his arms around her shoulders as well and buried his face in her neck.
"I'll find you. I promise." He told her.
She looked up at him and nodded her consent. She looked into his eyes, glancing at his lips for a fraction of a second, before crashing hers onto his. He seemed greatly shocked by her actions, until he returned the affection.
"Whatever happens. Stay strong and be the woman I came to love. Got it?" He told her when the broke apart.
She smiled and nodded her head vigorously.
"I might just be worse because you won't hold me back. But I'll manage." She replied scrunching her nose in the cute way he loved.
The two were broken apart by Tech.
"Get down from there Sweet Pea! The shuttle's gonna leave without us if you keep this up!" Tech shouted.
The woman rolled her eyes and jumped down from the hovercraft. Sam went to hug his sister when she was already a step ahead and wrapped her arms around him.
"Keep it safe got it? That is until we get there." She told him.
He nodded his head.
"You got it." He replied.
She nodded her head back and stood with Cale and Tech.
"Stay safe, all of you." Sam told the three.
The woman rolled her eyes and gave a half-hearted salute. Tech shook his head and Cale stared at his father in confusion. Korso looked down at his girl one more time before the two flew off.
Sam and Korso got to one barracks and Sam jumped off the hovercraft.
"Look for them all in the future, right Korso?" Sam told him.
Korso nodded his head determined.
"Wouldn't dream otherwise." He replied.
Sam nodded and rushed into the barracks as Korso flew off in a whole other direction to get to his own ship.
Sam stopped on a platform and told the people to let him down. He suddenly was soaring down to a huge ship that was circular and had weird circles all over it, almost spiral like.
'Let's hope I can get this safely hidden away for them to find.' Sam thought to himself seating himself in the sip and trying to get the beast off the Earth's atmosphere.
Tech, Cale and the woman all stared out the window of their shuttle, waiting for the friend/family to get out safely.
"Come on Dad, come on." Cale was encouraging his father.
"Get outta there." Tech was muttering to himself.
The woman was only worrying if Sam AND Korso made it out safely.
'Please let them be safe. Please let them be anywhere out of the Earth's atmosphere.' She thought to herself.
When she saw both ships leaving just in time, she let out a big sigh of relief and smiled to herself.
'Thank you.' She thought while smiling more.