Chapter One-
"Okay, everybody ready?!" I yelled.
"Yeah!" Everyone chorused.
"Be careful Aerrow," Piper said to me.
"Hey, it's me." I give her a crooked smile and rub her arm before taking off to make my move.
…...
I ran down the hall towards what I hoped was the throne room, knocking down talons along the way. We could not fail, because if we did then it was the end of for Atmos and I couldn't let that happen. Not if I could help it. I then saw two giant stone doors and busted into the room shouting:
"Shut down the machine and hand over the Aurora Stone you stole-! Master...Cyclonis?"
"Let me guess, you're that pesky Sky Knight. Aren't you a little young…?" She said in a low voice.
"Funny I was going to say the same about you." Cycloniss smiles wickedly.
I pull out my energy blades and begin to fight her but she was more skilled. I then thought I had one option: The Lightning Claw, my special move, so I performed it hoping to have a good result.
"Lightning Strike…" Cycloniss gasps. She didn't recover from the shock quick enough, she couldn't create a shield and so the wave of electric blue light, created by a flap of Aerrow's wings, cut into Cycloniss's chest.
"Geargh!" Cycloniss grunts. Aerrow Walks over cautiously to the wounded Cyclonis and says:
"That's right, I'm his son and I inherited his power!"
Seeing she won't beable to get up and retaliate, he takes the opportunity to set Finn and Junko free from the Storm Engine and to grab the Aurora Stone from the Storm Engine and breaks it with his Energy Blades. He's suddenly hit on back by a bolt of red energy and falls to the ground, from ten to twenty feet, unconscious.
His body is sprawled on the stone floor, his weapons to the side of him, as he heard the Dark Ace`s laugh.
The Dark Ace walks over to his master and picks her up carefully after inspecting the wound. "Are you alright Master?"
"ergh." Cycloniss grunts, irritated.
"Damn Sky Knight…!" Cycloniss walks over to see Aerrow's wounds, clutching her own, relying on her staff.
"The Storm Hawks are supposed to be dead…" Cycloniss says to herself. She wished she killed them herself, for killing her parents, but that Dark Ae did was good enough. Dark Ace walks over and asks:
"What should we do with him? I have seen his skills; with proper training he would make an excellent Talon. I know who he is that Lightning Strike's boy,"
"Why does a descendant of the Storm Hawks exist?! Do you know-eangh!-What that means?!"
"I couldn't kill him, he was only four years old. I took him from Lightning Strike and his wife and left him on Terra Nimbus with the intentions of retrieving him and bringing him to Cyclonia as my son. He may be Strike's boy but he is my nephew; I thought he could join us one day. If I have done anything wrong Master I apologize and beg fora merciful punishment." Dark Ace explains.
"I'm only put-off by the fact you kept that a secret, considering we'll be married when I come of age. No I won't punish you, he would have been just a boy then…" Cycloniss' eyebrows furrow.
"Interesting…an orphan all this time and with no influence, he still becomes a Sky Knight…" Cycloniss wonders out loud.
"After the seige on Terra Nimbus, he was lost; I wasn't able to find him and bring him with me as I would have liked. So what do we do with him now?" Dark Ace has Aerrow cuffed, pitying Aerrow and himself for things not turning out like he wanted. Aerrow a Talon instead of a Skiy Knight.
"Leave him here. There may be more; you deal with the others (those fighting with the Raptors) and I'll deal with the wit and the Wallop."
"Aerrow!" Finn yells.
"Buddy!" Junko cries.
"You're friend may ruined my plan but it won't be long before Dark Ace captures the rest of your friends and bring them to me." In response, Finn and Junko share worried faces. Aerrow wakes from hearing their screams. He sees them, although blurry, and says:
"No don't Hurt them. Hurt me, I destroyed your machine so I should bear your wrath. Finn take the stone and run and leave with the others. Now!" Finn and Junko jet out of the throne room, narrowly missing the energy blast Cycloniss shot at them.
"Gah!" Cycloniss screams, partly from the pain and the other part for not eing able to stop them, to actually be hurt. Cycloniss goes to her Storm Engine to inspect the damage.
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Dark Ace fails to capture the Storm Hawks (Piper, Stork and Radarr), they had escaped before he got there. He then returns to tell Master Cycloniss they have escaped. He notices that Finn and Junko are gone along with the shards of the Aurora Stone.:
"I'm sorry master ,they escaped before I could find them. I shall accept your punishment." Dark ace bows, his head hanging exposing the back of his neck, and waits for her answer. Execution or not. Cycloniss turns to yell but screams and clutches at her injury on her chest. Dark Ace runs to her to help her.
Aerrow realizes she is seriously hurt and gets up says:
"I can help her, she NEEDS medical attention! I promise not to try to escape,"
"No! I'm fine!" Cycloniss screamed, against her instincts that told her she was indeed seriously hurt.
"Take him to-get HIM medical attention and then throw him into the dungeon." Dark Ace doesn't do as she says right away; he helps her to her throne, gives her first aid since Cycloniss had refused seeing the doctor (it had to be kept a secret), and then does as he is told and brings Aerrow to the infirmery, then the dungeon.
Sitting on the cot in his cell Aerrow wonders about his fate as the Talons guarding him laugh and make fun of him.
"This is the descndant of Lightning Strike, ha!"
"Yeah, I'm not afraind!" Aerrow scowls and gruntz angrily.