"What is that?" … "It looks like a person!" …. "We have to help them!" …. "We don't even know who they are!"
Faintly, I could here two voices, one male and one female. I couldn't tell if I was in Heaven, or still on Earth. All I could feel was being lifted up by something, and being carried away to what felt like a whole new world.
When I first opened my eyes I saw a silver metal ceiling. I tried to sit up, but the pain in my head and back kept me down. I must have groaned or made some sort of noise, because I soon heard a gasp and a woman with a long black ponytail looked over me. Her dark blue eyes look concerned as she looked down at me. I tried to talk, but couldn't. She said,
"Don't try to talk. You're badly hurt." She then put a cold cloth on my forehead and left.
It's been a few weeks since I was able to leave the SkyForce infirmary. I'm not exactly sure what I was doing there, or who I actually am. The only thing I'm sure of now is my name: Flameheart. I found out that the two pilots who had brought me here were Derek and Selena. Selena seems really nice, but Derek seems suspicious. Violet was the one that helped me get better, Ol' Gabby is our mechanic, the other pilots are Finn, Jenny, Martin, Will, and Summer, Will and I are related, and we're at war against a corrupt company called Morcucorp and a group of bounty hunters called The Chaos Pirates. Somehow, this all seems a bit familiar, but I can't figure out why.
"Flameheart!" Will called out to me, "Justice wants us to go do some training with Derek, you com'n?"
"'Course I am!" I said with a laugh. Kicking Derek's butt never got old, after all, he asked for it.
When we got out to our planes and into the skies, we could hear Derek over the static,
"Alright, ladies. I'ma bought to show you how it's done!" See? See why it's fun to fight him? Will and I split into two different directions. We figured since it was almost night we would team up once, just to take him down quickly.
Derek started shooting at Will first. While she distracted him, I flew around the stone pillars to shoot him from behind. As always, we took him down in about two minutes.
"Ugh! Not cool!" He yelled, once we had gotten back to the base, "Justice says that we can't team up in war games!"
"Sure you can," Justice's deep voice sounded from behind us, "As long as it's equal."
"Well, it WASN'T!" Derek stabbed the air with his finger.
"Well, I'm sure you'll be able to get in an equal fight once the Chaos Pirates strike again." And with that, he left the room.
"Damnit!" Derek followed.
"He reminds me of someone," I said after a few seconds of silence. "The spiky hair, the determination.."
"You LIKE Derek?" Will asked with astonishment.
"No, no," I shook my hands wildly., "He just reminds me of somebody that I used to know…"
"Isn't that a song?" She asked.
"I dunno, let's just grab something to eat, then maybe we can see if we can help out Gabby with some repairs." We both looked at each other and burst out laughing. Nobody helped him, and he didn't seem to want it.
The sun had gone down, but I wasn't tired. Whenever I can't sleep, I go up to the roof of the tallest watch tower on our base to think, specifically about one thing. When I had recovered enough to move around comfortably, I found a folded piece of paper with some foreign writing on it. I've been trying to figure out what it says, but I've had no luck. I don't even know what language it's in.
I haven't shown it to anyone, not even Will or Violet. Something about it feels special; It almost makes me want to cry, but I have no idea why. The only thing that looks slightly familiar is: пожар. I think I've seen it been written before, but where I have no idea.
I soon became tired and decided to go to my small cot. I was reluctant to do so, for sometimes, I had small flashes of memory come back to me. But all I could see was blood, and all I could feel was fear and satisfaction at the same time.
A soft voice whispers to me, "It's late. We should sleep now." The voice is male, and is spoken in a foreign language that I don't know, but at the same time, I can understand it. I feel something soft beneath my head, and realize that a small sheet is all I have to stay warm. Am I in SkyForce? No, it feels too empty to be a room filled with 10+ people. The same voice is now speaking to himself, in a kind of song like way, as if he were singing.
"What was that?" I ask.
"Nothing!" He whispers urgently and jerks his head up, as if he didn't know what he was saying, or if he just didn't want anyone to hear him.
Suddenly, this somewhat peaceful scene turned to blood and horror, as I seemed to falling, falling, falling down a never-ending hole.
"Uh!" I gasped for breath, as I sat straight upward. That's how that dream always ends, with that horrifying event. Is that what happened to me? What made me lose my memory? And if so, who was that boy? Why do I feel like I've seen him, even after this possible "accident"?
"Flameheart?" A drowsy voice was heard a few feet away. As the first rays of sunlight came through the few windows, I saw that Violet was sitting up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." I said, reassuringly, "I just had that dream again."
"What, the one where the guy's speaking in Spanish?" I looked over to see that Jenny was awake. She always tried to lighten the mood with her sarcastic remarks, but this time I couldn't laugh. This was the closest I'd ever come to clearly hear what he was saying. "Just forget about it," she continued, "I'm sure some flying will cheer you up." She looked at my face, "Or at least distract you for a while."
When we got to our central room, Justice was waiting for us in the middle of the room, as always.
"Alright, girls, we need help. Simple as that." He stated that so clearly, I was surprised. He usually went into a long explanation about what we had to do and how we had to do it.
"So soon?" I asked, half-jokingly.
"Yes," he answered, completely serious. "Thanks to Morcubus' 'security'-"
"Some 'security' he's got there." We hadn't noticed that Ol' Gabby had entered the room. "They're just thugs he hired. Hardly any real skill, but plenty 'a threat."
"The Chaos Pirates are more than just thugs!" Everyone turned to look at me with a slightly confused expression. "They have plenty of skill, and are DEFINATLY a threat to anyone who opposes them!"
"Since when do you defend the main thing that has Morcubus winning the war?" Derek asked, suspicious, as always. But this time, I couldn't blame him. I couldn't believe I'd just said that too. I mean, I'm loyal to SkyForce, right? Loyal to Justice, and Violet, and even Derek…Right?
