For Atmos.
By Nightingale101
Special thanks to Flossy2095 who helped me with the characters
"Exactly 100 years ago, Cyclonia won the great war. All of the sky knights and their squadrons were imprisoned in the crystal prison, until there was just one sky knight and his squadron, Aerrow and The Storm Hawks. But they surrendered themselves when Terra Atmosia was threatened. But of course they had a backup plan. The wallop had swallowed some crystals that he then tried to pass on to that girl. But the mighty Master Cyclonis, being better than the girl at The Binding simply called to the crystals away from her. The Storm Hawks defeated, they were thrown into the crystal prison. And Cyclonia took over the Atmos. Master Cyclonis became the ruler of the Atmos, a true hero, after her passing her son became the ruler, and after him his daughter, and so on and so on, until my mother, but now she is gone too. And now, I join a long and noble line of rulers. I am Nira. But you will address me as, Master Cyclonis!"
As she finished speaking the crowd erupted in cheers. The young master was standing on the balcony of her palace speaking into a microphone. She was addressing the 10s of thousands of talons and people from various terras who had 'volunteered', to come and witness the coronation of the new Master Cyclonis. She was the second youngest to take throne, the first being the one who defeated the Sky Knights and took over Atmos. She was 14, the new master is 21.
While the crowd was going crazy (Some not of their own free will). A girl in her early teens was leaning against the wall of the courtyard, completely silent.
She had short, jet black hair and bright emerald green eyes with long, dark eyelashes. Her skin was very pale, almost white. She was wearing a black tank top with dark greyarmguards attached to fingerless gloves on both arms also on her back was what looked like a small backpack; that was where her glider was, she also had black cargo pants, dark gray boots, and a light gray belt.
Her name was Kera
No one was paying her much attention, but like the talons, she also worked for Cyclonia. Though she was a bit higher on the ladder then the talons, she was a Nightcrawler.
Before you go thinking that the ceremony was held at night, it wasn't, it was held in daylight. And Kera was standing in one of the sunnier spots of the court yard.
The reason for this was because Kera is not a full blooded nightcrawler; her mother's name was Robin, and she was human.
Robin lived and worked on Terra Neon, that's where she met Kera's Father, the Nightcrawler and thenhe left 3 or 4 months later. 9 months later Kera came along. She never asked her mother why she fell in love and had a baby with a nightcrawler; she didn't really want to know.
The perverse Master Cyclonis had recruited her because Kera can do the one thing full blooded nightcrawlers can't do, go out in direct sunlight and probably because she was an orphan.
Robin had died when Kera was 10, two days later a bunch of talons and the master herself had shown up on Kera's door step. She talked a lot about how, Kera was one of kind. The only half blood nightcrawler. And how Kera could 'Serve the Cyclonian Empire'.
A lot of people still hate the Cyclonians and always talked about how mean and nasty the Master was. But when Kera met her, she was nothing but kind and sweet. That was the only reason Kera was on Cyclonia now.
Too bad her daughter wasn't anything like her. Nira was evil. 3 years ago, when Kera was 10 and had just come to Cyclonia, Nira had stole all her younger sisters toys and thrown them off the terra.
Kera thought that the devil would run away from Nira.
The new master was now talking about all the things she was going to do. Kera had been told to go and watch the Coronation she didn't have to stay for all the 'I will be the best Blah blah blah' crap.
She got off the wall and walked though a small door at the base of the castle.
When she had been 'told' to watch the Coronation, she had really been ordered to, by the new Master's 13 year old sister Aquaria.
Aquaria and Kera had been friends since they met (Another reason why the old master had recruited her). She was more like her mother, kind and sweet, but she was also one hell of a fighter.
Aquaria and Kera had lots of things in common but one main thing which they talk about the most – there hatred of Cyclonia.
Aquaria hates her sister, and Kera, well, she just hates the whole damn terra, which was why she jumped at the chance to go on any mission off the damn place.
She had finally reached Aquaria'sroom which is almost at the top of the palace. It takes forever to walk up all the god damn stairs, it took about 25 minutes, but Kera could still hear the new master blabbing on.
She knocked on the door, and waited.
"Come in" Came a very boarded voice.
Kera placed her hand on the scanner pad and the door opened.
The room was a bit fancier then where the talon slept. It had dark purple wall with stone floors. The new master moved Aquaria here when their mother died six months ago.
The teen was sitting in a chair on the balcony looking out over the sky; from here you can just see the light from the beacon tower of Atmosia.
Aquaria had spiky dark pink hair and royal purple eyes with long black eyelashes. Her skin was pale like her sisters although not as pale as Kera. She was wearing a dark purple tank top that stoped just above her bellybutton, with black shorts and nee high dark magenta boots.
Aquaria took her eyes from the sky and looked back to see who had entered. When she saw it was Kera she smirked.
"So how'd it go?" She asked
"How do you think it went, Aqua? The same speech she's properly been practising since she was 2. 'Blah blah blah I'm Master Cyclonis'." Said Kera as she walked over and leant agents the door frame that lead out to the balcony.
"Don't worry if everything goes to plan, we won't have to put up with it much longer." Aqua said with a smile as she walked into the room, and added "Close the door would you?"
Kera pulled the double doors closed and turned to find Aqua was read their plan again.
"So when's this going to happen?" Kera asked as she sat down in a chair.
"3 days, is that good for you?" said Aqua.
"What do 'you mean is that good for me', according to the Master I have to do what you say."
Aquaria laughed at that, the she turned serious. "You know we could get caught or get killed"
"Yeah I know. But I'm still doing this." Replayed with a smile.
Then the was a knock on the door. And a second later the door was open and two talons were there.
"The master Requests the presents of her sister and the Nightcrawler Kera, in the throne room." Said one of them.
"We will be there in a moment." Said Aquaria
"You don't think she knows?" Said Kera.
"Of cause not" Said Aquaria