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Assassination Plot
Rin was sitting on a chair in the empress' personal quarters watching Lark closely. After ten years they had gotten closer, but she still didn't trust her. A nine-year-old girl with dark black hair and bright cobalt eyes was drawing in a sketchbook. Her daughter looked up at her and smiled.
"I have splendid plans for Tessa," Lark said. "For the past five years we have been training her and teaching her to control her powers, and I have come to believe that she will be a great successor."
Rin nodded suspicious. "Yes, but I'm not sure it's a good idea," she replied. Tessa glanced at them curiously. "She is much more powerful then me, but she is still my child."
"I understand completely," her sister answered. "I know you are highly suspicious of me. And I know I deserve it, after all I have done to you- and will do to you yet. Don't worry, your daughter is in good hands."
Rin frowned. The suspicious feeling became more intense. "Does that mean I will be eliminated if I do not cooperate?" Rin inquired.
Lark's violet eyes landed on Tessa and then looked back at her. "Precisely," Lark smirked. Rin shook her head. Why did her sister always do that? She was so manipulating and used threats to get her way. That was the motto of the Master Cyclonis'- they always get what they want.
But yet, the Master had been kind to her. She was no longer rotting in the dungeons, even though she had rebelled and more or less joined the Storm Hawks. And became forever linked to a certain member of their squad. Her pink eyes looked at Master Cyclonis. How much did her sister know? If she knew about Finn, and yet was still treating her somewhat decently, perhaps she could risk going along with her plans. For now.
"Fine," she said reluctantly. "But I want to be with her at all times."
"That is understood," Lark stated. "After all you are her mother." Tessa, oblivious to the seriousness of the conversation, got up and went to the chair where Rin sat.
"Does that mean I can spend more time with you Mum?" she questioned. Her blue eyes sparked with hopefulness. When Rin nodded she squealed happily. Rin then looked up at the clock. She frowned; it was way past Tessa's bedtime.
She got up. "Come on, Tessa it's bedtime," she said and held out her hand. Her daughter grabbed a hold of it and looked back at Lark.
"Good night Auntie Lark," she said yawning. She giggled; drunk with overtiredness.
"We will discuss this tomorrow then?" Lark asked expressing the necessity of extending the conversation. Rin nodded and then led the sleepy Tessa to their personal quarters of the castle.
When there she dressed her daughter in her pajamas and tucked her in bed. "Good night Mum," Tessa said and drifted off to sleep. She stood there for a moment looking at her beautiful child. Even though she was just nine she understood things that should be way over her head. According to her, her child was a genius. She did well in all the lessons and did excellent in training. She could even fly a switchblade elite properly. Every time she went up into the sky she would be happy.
Tessa inherited Rin's abilities and more. She could morph into any animal and heal outstandingly, but she had two more. She could morph into any human she'd touched for a short time, and could talk to animals. Rin thought this was extraordinary. And unfortunately, Lark found these good qualities for the next ruler of Cyclonia. Rin had to remind herself at least Lark wasn't going to kill her child.
She sighed and then went for her evening walk through the hallways. Rin took in the paintings around her. One was of her family. There was her father frowning and her mother with a sad glint in her eye. Orin (Dark Ace) was pulling on Lark's braided hair and herself was placed on her mother's lap smiling. She sighed. They weren't quite the normal family where the kids were supposed to get along and the parents happy. That never happened. She moved on. That picture always reminded her of her unhappy childhood.
Rin grinned at the next painting. She was laughing and her sister was making silly faces. When she was little and not the successor to the throne Lark was always friendly. She frowned. But when Lark found out that she would have the throne instead of her, Lark loathed her and found every possible way to discredit her. The newest painting was of the current royal family. Lark sat on her throne, Orin stood behind her glaring at the man painting, and she was sitting on a wooden chair besides Lark with a blue-eyed seven-year-old on her lap. Those blue eyes sparked an ache in her chest.
She passed a door and stopped dead in her tracks. She went up to the door and put her head up against it allowing her ears a better angle. Rin frowned. She creaked open the door slightly and peeked in. Her brother was sitting on a chair and the pink haired woman named Ravess lounged on a plush black sofa. She wondered what they were talking about so she stayed.
"You are going soft Dark Ace," Ravess taunted. "Especially with that child. What is wrong with you?"
Orin frowned. "I am not going soft Ravess," he retorted. "Watch yourself."
"All I am saying is that you need to do something," she returned. "Otherwise, all the Talons will think you are going soft. No respect will be given to you anymore. You deserve more."
Her brother stood up abruptly and glowered at the woman. "I am still the person next in line for the throne," he smirked at Ravess. She only smiled back. Rin guessed she knew something her brother did not. "You need to respect the future emperor of this kingdom."
Rin gagged. Her brother… the next emperor? Lark would never allow that. Apparently Orin did not know that. Ravess laughed. "You are so ignorant," she sneered. "Master Cyclonis would never allow you, a mindless brute, to rule Cyclonia."
Orin grabbed Ravess by the neck. For some reason fear entered into Rin's bloodstream. Why was she afraid for Ravess? She was the one provoking him. "How dare you disrespect a senior commander!" he growled his face inches from hers.
"I- I-" Ravess tried to gasp out a few words for Orin was making her lose her supply of oxygen. His eyes unclouded and he undid his iron grip on her neck. Ravess coughed and sucked in the needed oxygen. She glared at him.
"What is the meaning of me being ignorant?" he demanded. Rin watched Ravess' movement closely. The older woman only grinned.
"Did you not hear the news?" she asked innocently. "Master Cyclonis redid the lineage. Rin's daughter is now the successor to the throne." There was a pause to emphasize the next sentence. "And if she accidentally dies you will be next in line to the throne again."
Orin pondered on the idea. A feeling of dread overcame Rin, but she couldn't move, she was planted to the spot. She had to know what her brother was going to do. He started to pace around the room and Ravess sat up watching him. He stopped and spun around. Anger shown in his blood red eyes.
"That brat has to die," he spat out. "It's a mixed breed. It's not even a true Cyclonain."
Rage boiled inside Rin's body when her brother spoke of her precious jewel like that. He had no right to insult her baby. Her daughter was a gift, a true blessing. She wanted to slap him, put him in his place. But another thought came to mind. She had to protect her baby. Tessa was the only thing she could have of Finn. She had his optimistic attitude, his beautiful bright blue eyes, and his charming smile.
"When do you plan to carry this out?" Ravess questioned carefully. He was in such a foul mood that he could lash out at her. Rin noticed that if Ravess pushed her luck too far then she would be a dead woman. "What do you want me to do?"
"Stay out of it," he answered. "I vow that, no matter what, that half-breed is going to die." Rin's eyes widened in fear for her daughter's life. She was only an innocent nine-year-old girl who hasn't lived her life for very long. How could he talk like that? She was his niece after all.
"You will now get the respect you should have," Ravess assured Rin's brother. The woman grinned and ran a hand through her pink hair. Rin had a feeling that Ravess was aggravating him to do her will. The older woman had always been jealous of Rin's unexpected position with Master Cyclonis.
Orin walked over to the door. Rin broke out of her trance and dashed down the hallway. She heard his footsteps coming closer and she picked up her speed. Rin burst through the big oak doors that were the entrance to her quarters and she hurriedly closed them. She strained her muscles for the doors were heavy. Once closed she slid to the floor and hugged her knees close to her chest. This reminded her of the time she found out she was pregnant with Tessa.
She felt her brother trying to push open the doors. She cried out when his red activated blade pierced through the wooden door. Tears streamed down her cheeks and she noticed that Tessa was standing by her bedroom doorway with wide blue eyes.
"What's going on Mum?" she said with a small shaky voice. "Who's at the door?" Rin's heart melted. Her daughter was so innocent. How could her brother wish to murder her?
"Go get dressed, honey," she gently ordered. She yelped when the blade come through the wood again inches from her head. Tessa was still standing there. "Now!"
The shout caused Tessa to flinch and she ran into her room. Rin hadn't meant to yell at her. She morphed into an ox and tried desperately to keep the doors from giving way and opening. She had to get her daughter out.
Her daughter returned one minute later in jeans, a shirt, and a jacket. She sighed. At least she had some sense in dressing herself for travel. She morphed back into herself and she felt the door bulge. She readied herself and dashed towards her daughter leading her to the balcony. The doors opened sending splinters flying through the air and revealed a crazed Talon Commander. She transformed into a big bird and in her talons she was carrying her shivering daughter. She couldn't do this all the way to the next terra, so she had to go to the hanger. A shuttle or a switchblade elite might work.
Once they were close to the metal floor of the hanger she dropped Tessa and she morphed back into her human form landing roughly on the ground. Her head hit the floor causing her to momentarily black out, but she willed herself to stay awake for her daughter's sake. She struggled to her feet feeling dizzy and walked over to her daughter.
She grabbed her daughter's arm and pushed her into the metal cockpit of one of the shuttles. Orin's blade lodged into the metal frame of the shuttle. Her heart skipped a beat and she turned around. She came face to face with her brother. Rin backed up a little and then pushed down hard on the doors locking system. That meant she would no longer be able to get back in.
Rin morphed into a wolf protecting her daughter's shuttle. She would not allow her brother to end her daughter's precious life. She growled and then lashed out at him. He kicked her in the side and then got his blade out of the side of the shuttle. Since she hadn't been practicing much, her morphing powers shut off returning her to her original form. Rin blocked Orin's way.
"Move!" he ordered. His eyes were filled with sparks of hatred and the red seemed to be a more deeper blood color. He pointed his blade at her stomach. "Move now!"
She shook her head and kicked at him. She missed her target, but hit him in the side. Rin turned around. She had to say goodbye to her daughter. "Tessa," she said. "You must find your father. He's of the Storm Hawks, his name is-" She gasped and held her hand to the glass. She felt her life leaving her and she fell to her knees. Her brother's blade protruded from her chest. "I- I-" She wanted to say that she loved her daughter, but she was too weak. She collapsed onto the ground and her pink eyes clouded.
Tessa stared at the corpse of her mother. "Mum," she whispered. No, she isn't dead, she thought. Mum isn't dead; she's just knocked out. Denial filled her mind. Tears poured down her cheeks and she backed slowly away. If I can't see her then she must be alive somewhere else, she reasoned. All of a sudden a glowing blade shot through the glass barely missing her head. She yelped and staggered backwards.
She could see her uncle's angered face in the window. "Get out!" he shouted. She backed further away from the uncle she had once loved. She glanced down at the blade that had killed her mother and cried out in misery. Tessa hurriedly sat on the pilot seat and studied the controls. She remembered learning about shuttles and their inner components. She pushed a button and the engine sputtered to life. She heard her uncle utter a frustrated growl.
Ignoring the insane babbling of her uncle she pushed the button for autopilot and the shuttle took off into the red sky. She was leaving Cyclonia for the rest of her life. She would never ever come back. Not after what her uncle had done. Again tears began to spill and she wiped the tears defiantly away. Storm Hawks… who were they? She thought. Mum had said something about Father. Was he one of them? Mum told me to find him, so I must.
Finn was standing in the corner of the bridge and glanced around at his teammates. Aerrow and Piper were leaning over a map discussing where they were and what course to set. Silver and Junko were eating some strange squid thing, grinning at each other. Finn felt sick to his stomach. Tamar was sitting in the middle of the bridge playing blocks with two six-year-old twins. His heart did something funny and he brushed it off. There was no way he would ever see Rin again. It was nearly ten years since he'd last seen her, and there hadn't been a single word from her.
Stork was solemnly standing at the controls watching for mountain peaks or suspicious looking ships. He watched Stork's ears as they were continuously back and he had earplugs in them. Finn rolled his eyes; Tyler and Kara weren't making any noise. Tyler had black hair with blue highlights and orange eyes like his mother and Kara had red hair and green eyes like her father. He sighed. Master Cyclonis took her revenge to the extreme. There was no telling what she'd done to Rin.
Tamar got up and went over to him. "I'm sure she's okay," she tried to comfort him. "I don't think Cyclonis would murder a member of the same blood."
Finn nodded. The Condor lurched to the side. "Stork!" Piper scolded. She was comforting a crying Kara.
"What?!" Stork shouted. He still had his earplugs in. Junko took the duty of removing them and threw them in the trash. Stork glowered.
"Would you warn us the next time you avoid a mountain peak?" Piper said. Aerrow chuckled and took the crying child away from Piper as she went into 'mother mode.' "The next time you make my girl cry." She made a fist and shook it at him.
"Alright!" Stork said. "I will, but I'll warn you that when I take the time to warn you about turns we'll be flat against a peak. That would be our doom."
Finn smiled. He should feel lucky right now. He had a family right here and it was an entertaining one at that. Then sadness entered into his heart again. What happened to Rin? Where was his baby? Finn frowned. Will he ever see her again? Will he ever get the chance to see his baby for the first time?
Here is the first chapter to the sequel. I hoped you peoples liked it. Please review!