A New Crystal
I agree with my reviewers, some parts of my stories were lacking detail…ya…but anywho, I made this chap 7 pages long to make up for it! And you may hate me at the end wuahaha, but this definitely isn't the last chapter!
CHAPTER 2
The Water Death
Piper looked down into the water, seaweed had surrounded her, freaking her out a bit. Once her heart race slowed she began to make her way through the green muck, back to the cliff to get out, she was cooled down now, perfectly refreshed. As she neared the cliff her eye's suddenly blurred as pain shot up her leg, gasping she looked into the water, a pair of eyes glared back at her. Piper screamed, louder then she had ever screamed before. She panicked and reached down to try to push the thing away. Her hands met with black slippery skin. That's when she realized that the animal was bigger than she had thought, and that her leg was actually in the animal's mouth. It's teeth cutting through her thigh, blood pouring out turning the water red. She pulled away but it was no use, the animal began to drag her under the water, Piper started to panic as the cool water came up to her chin. 'Is this how I'm going to die?' She thought 'I don't want to die.' The animal gave another tug 'NO!' A wave of anger washed over her then. She turned as best as she could and grabbed onto the cliff. She grasped onto the loose dirt, making some of it fall into the water, mixing with her blood. The animal dragging her down slowly, pulling on her leg, she tried desperately to grab something that could save her. Piper thrust her hands into the dirt trying to get them stuck, somehow, to buy her some time, but the creature gave another tug, pain rippled through her body again. Her hands slipped through the dirt, but on the way out her right hand felt something rough pass by. She twisted her wrist grabbing onto it. It was a stray root; she grabbed on with both hands and held on for dear life.
Aerrow ran as fast as he could to where he heard Piper scream, his heart pounding in his chest. 'Nonononono, not Piper, please, not Piper.' He reached the small cliff he had seen her jump off of, hit his knees and looked down. His heart stopped as he saw her clinging to a small root coming out of the cliff and a huge animal hanging off her leg. The animal was all black, it's eyes a cloudy yellow. Everything around him seemed to slow down when he saw the blood. Was all that from Piper? His blood started to boil. He could barely see the animal through all her blood, but from what he saw, he figured it was a shark. It was all lumpy and misshapen though, and it looked like something from a horror movie. All he knew was that he had to get Piper out of there.
Piper looked up to see Aerrow kneeling on the top of the cliff, looking down at her, relief flooded through her body. He would know what to do.
Aerrow kneeled there stunned; he didn't know what to do. Finn, Junko, and Radarr ran up behind Aerrow to see what was going on.
"Whoa…" Finn muttered as he saw the creature that was latched onto Piper.
That's when the creature moved its eyes up to the cliff, and realized there were more people, which meant more threats. The animal gave a huge pull at Piper and she slipped off the branch, and it flung her high into the air behind it, farther into the water, and into it's territory.
Aerrow's hands grasped the edge of the cliff and his eyes widened as Piper shot through the air, he responded with out thinking. He brought his feet under him and launched himself off the cliff and grabbed her wrist bringing her into his chest, wrapping his arms around her. The two fell into the water with large splash. Piper's leg was throbbing with pain as they came up for air; she couldn't use it to swim. Aerrow held on to her tightly and carrying her, he started to swim back to the shore. The animal was nowhere to be found but the blood was still there. Finn reached down off the cliff and Aerrow lifted Piper a little out of the water and she grabbed Finn's hand. He hauled her out of the water, that's when Aerrow noticed how bad her injury was. His anger rose even more, her leg was bleeding badly, multiple deep cuts were spread out around her thigh, and her whole leg was red with blood. She had lost a lot of it and she would need medical attention. Finn lied her down on top of the cliff, her eyes fluttered shut as she drifted into unconsciousness.
"We need to get her to a hospital! She has lost-" But Aerrow didn't get to finish, a pain in his right arm made him stop talking. He turned. The animal's yellow eyes bore into his.
Radarr yelped and hissed at it, but the animal pulled Aerrow under the water fast. It had learned to do this faster from the last human.
Aerrow struggled against the grip the animal had on his arm. He could feel his arm bleeding but he tugged as hard as he could anyway. The water started to get darker the farther they went down, Aerrow was running out of breath.
"OH NO!" Junko yelled as Aerrow got dragged under the water, he was about to jump in when a hand held him back.
"You can't swim Junko! Uh," he quickly came up with a plan "hurry and carry Piper back to the Condor, and get Stork ready to take her to the hospital. I'll get Aerrow out of there." Finn said.
"If I can…"He muttered under his breath.
Junko picked up Piper who moaned, she had been drifting in and out of consciousness since she had gotten out of the water.
"Be careful buddy." Junko said sadly, looking at Finn.
"When am I ever not?" Finn replied with a smirk. Junko looked at him with sad eyes.
"I'll be fine. Now go!" Finn said giving Junko a slight push. His friend ran off towards the Condor.
Radarr chirped beside him.
"Stay here, I'll go get him. Don't worry." Finn said giving Radarr a reassuring smile. The little blue animal only looked sadly into the water, he wasn't convinced. The blonde really didn't want to go into the water. 'What if I get eaten? The world can't survive with no Finn! No! I have to do this.' And with a deep breath he plunged into the water.
The animal's teeth loosened the grip on Aerrow's arm. He took this chance and punched the animal on the top of its head taking all his anger out on the thing. Surprised, the creature released the teen's arm, Aerrow kicked through the water, his foot connected with the animal's ribs. The animal roared out in pain and tried to get away. He didn't want it to get away that fast though, the thing deserved to die. Aerrow watched the thing swim away though; he knew he wouldn't last that much longer underwater. The animal's tail grabbed his attention, it wasn't shark-like at all, it was long and skinny. It didn't look like it belonged to the animal, but what scared Aerrow the most was the huge spike at the end of it. That's when he decided he better get out of there, now.
Aerrow swam as fast as he could towards the surface, which wasn't that fast because he could only use his left arm, that's when his heart started pounding in his chest, begging for air. He saw Finn jump into the water far above him. Finn started to swim down towards Aerrow, who was relieved to see his friend. Aerrow swam harder towards Finn, even if he passed out from lack of oxygen, Finn would still bring him to safety. Aerrow's movements slowed as his brain started to shut down. He looked up to Finn's face, Finn's eyes had suddenly widened, but he wasn't looking at Aerrow, he was looking past him. Aerrow knew what was coming but didn't have the strength to dodge the attack coming from the creature. Pain spread out across Aerrow's back, as the spike ripped the skin open, Aerrow opened his mouth to scream but water rushed in choking him. He saw the creature come back for another attack; he looked up desperately for Finn, who was a few seconds away. Aerrow felt something collide with his head, the pain was overwhelming, his view went black and he let the darkness take him.
Finn stared as his leader was hit over the head with a weird spike that stuck out of the animal's tail. At least that's what Finn thought it was. Aerrow went limp and the animal's head snapped up to where Finn was, the yellow eye's cutting into his. Finn didn't stop swimming towards Aerrow though; he was determined to save him, even when the animal sped towards him he didn't stop. 'I'm so gonna die.' Was the only thing running through Finn's head. The creature opened its mouth, showing multiple razor sharp teeth, Finn felt fear and lots of it. Finn pulled back his fist, ready to punch the animal in the face. He knew it probably wouldn't work but it was worth a try. He aimed for the animal's…. snout? Well what ever that ugly lump on its face was. He gathered all his courage and when the animal was about half a meter away he shut his eyes and swung. Finn's fist sped through the water and connected with…nothing? He opened his eye's to see the animal wasn't even there anymore. For a minute Finn though he had scared it away with his awesomeness. But he spun around looking for it, just in case. His heart stopped when he saw out of the corner of his eye moving. He got his fist ready again, and turned to face the creature, but it was already under attack. A little blue thing was latched on its back, biting into the black flesh, weird purple blood spilling out of it. Radarr had secretly jumped in behind Finn, and now he was keeping the strange creature at bay, trying to buy some time for the two teen's to escape.
Finn took the distraction and swam down to Aerrow, whose blood was everywhere; somehow Finn found his wrist and started to pull him up to the surface.
The animal flailed in pain, it ran into a large rock, crushing the little blue creature. A loud crack erupted from inside Radarr, and it went limp.
Finn heard this and looked back, wondering what the sound was. Radarr's lifeless body was floating above a big rock, obviously dead. His limbs were all bent at weird angles, not moving, his eyes closed.
"NO!" Finn yelled, losing some precious air. The black creature turned its head up swiftly to Finn and let out a roar that vibrated the water violently, its blood surrounded it, giving the creature an eerie glow. Finn swam frantically up to the top desperate to get away from the nightmare, his lungs longing for air. He broke the surface, and greedily took in as much air as he could, the warm air rushed into his lungs. Then Finn raced for the shore, aware that the creature could attack at any time from below. He had noticed they had come up at a different part of the beach, the cliff was far off to the left, and the shore was in front of him. Finn's feet touched something, and his heart sped up as he looked down. Sand. He dug his feet into the white dirt and pulled Aerrow onto the shore. He dragged his friend onto far onto the shore, afraid that the creature would jump out of the water or something. Finally lying Aerrow down carefully he started to check on his injuries. The one on his back was the worst; it spread from the top left corner of his back to the bottom right. His right arm was chewed up pretty bad, and the cut on his head was turning his hair a different colour red, and the sand was beginning to turn red too. Finn ran to get something that would stop the bleeding, and found Piper's towel. He grabbed the bright yellow fabric off of the sand and ran back to his buddy. Aerrow was getting really pale, his face whiter than the sand. Finn wrapped the towel around Aerrow's chest slowing the bleeding slightly.
Stork was notified of the current condition of the team and started the engines immediately. Piper was awake, and cranky from all the pain she was going through. Sitting on a couch wrapping her own leg up she grumbled to herself. Junko handed her a bottle of painkillers along with a glass of water. She took them, and drank down quite a few painkillers. She was worried about Aerrow, the last she had seen, was him being pulled under the water by the beast.
Junko was worried too, Piper was pale, Finn had jumped into the water after the beast, and Aerrow had been dragged down by it. He felt so useless right now, shoulders sagging he slumped down into the closest chair.
The Condor shook and then it was up flying; they were going to land on the beach. Stork had insisted that he landed the Condor on the other side of the terra. He had muttered something about some kind of worm eating through his brain if he was near water. 'Maybe I should have listened; maybe if I did I wouldn't have gotten hurt, maybe if I did Aerrow would be okay. What am I saying? He's probably fine, sitting on the beach with Finn. His green eyes watching the sky waiting for us to pick him up. His red hair waving in the wind.' The Condor shook again as it landed on the beach. Junko immediately jumped off into the sand running towards where he last saw his buddy. Piper started to climb out but someone grabbed her arm.
"Nuh-uh. You're not going anywhere." Stork said quietly. He looked at Piper. He could see worry in her eyes, and he was sure she could see worry in his. She looked down and quietly walked away from the exit and back to the couch.
"I just hope their okay." She whispered to herself sitting down.
"We've been through worse." Stork replied shrugging as he walking back to the controls. Piper was a little surprised that he had heard her but she made nothing of it. She lied down expecting to see Finn and Aerrow burst through the doors any second 'Practising fighting moves'. Soon enough Finn ran through the doors.
"WE HAVE TO GO NOW STORK!" He yelled exhausted. Piper sat up on the couch. Finn was all wet, but where was Aerrow?
Her thoughts were answered as Junko walked in carrying a bloody Aerrow. Piper immediately stood up, pain shooting through her leg. It was nothing compared to what her heart felt. 'This is my fault!'
"No-" Was all she could say before bursting into tears. Junko looked around a little confused as to what to do. Finn quickly led them to the infirmary room, and Junko laid Aerrow on a bed. Finn wrapped Aerrow's injuries up as best as he could. Junko left the room, freaked out from all the blood. That left Finn to do the first aid. Taking the towel off, he put on the proper wrapping. The white fabric turning red as he tried to stop the bleeding. He only had three injuries, but they were all bad. His arm was cut up from tugging away from the weird creature, bleeding as bad as ever, his back had been sliced open, and his skull was probably cracked. Overall he had to get to a hospital quickly. Finally Finn finished, and took a step back, it was horrible, he had done a bad job. Finn wasn't exactly trained to do first aid. Tears came to his eyes; they better make it to a hospital fast. He heard a click as the door opened, wiping a tear as he turned around to see who had opened the door.
Piper came in, and automatically started to fix Finn's wrapping on Aerrow. Finn gave a small smile.
"I can never get them right." He said quietly. Once Piper was done she stepped back and looked at Aerrow with sad eyes.
"This is all my fault." Piper said upset.
"Hey, it's no one's fault. Okay?…Okay?" Finn said. Once Piper didn't respond he walked over to her and put his hands on her shoulders.
"He'll be all right, he always is." He said reassuringly. Holding back tears himself.
"It's okay to cry Finn." She said looking into his eyes. Finn didn't know what to do; he stood there awkwardly for a moment. Then his vision began to blur as tears swelled up in his eyes. Finn reached out and hugged Piper. She started crying into his shoulder as his tears silently splashed on the floor.
Stork found the terra that Piper had quickly described to him, (the closest one that had a hospital), Terra Isolen, and landed the Condor right outside the hospital.
Doctors rushed out two stretchers to the ship. Junko put Aerrow carefully down on one, and Finn helped Piper onto the other one. By then Piper was extremely pale, she didn't feel good. The blood loss was getting to her now.
They were rushed into the emergency room, through many doors, more and more nurses running beside Aerrow's cart, some holding on to stitching equipment. Piper was separated from him as she was pushed down another hallway. She tried to sit up to see where he had gone but she fell backwards, dizzy, she watched the lights pass on the roof; she soon got sleepy and fell into a deep sleep.
Mean while Finn, Junko, and Stork waited in the waiting room.
"Dude you know you could sit down hey?" Finn said looking up at Stork, whom was the only person standing.
"Ya, that's a good idea. Sit where all the sick people sit. No thanks I don't want to die." He received some glares from around the room at this comment, but he stood standing. The doctors came in a few hours later and told the trio that they could go see their friends. They all followed one doctor named Dr. Tyson through multiple hallways and doors, then into a little room with two curtains. He left the two with just one comment.
"Don't try to wake the redhead, we aren't sure if he's really that stable right now."
Piper crossed her unhurt leg over her hurt one, deciding to play a little prank on the boys.
The room was really bare, and white. All four walls were white, the curtains were white, and there wasn't even a window. The sheets were white and the lights just lit up the walls, which made the room almost blinding. A few chairs were against the wall near the curtains, I bet you can guess what colour they were. The only noise they could hear was the beeping of the machines that sat behind the curtains, monitoring Piper's and Aerrow's heart beats.
Finn walked up to the first curtain and carefully pulled them back, trying not to make too much noise. Piper was lying inside the curtains on a white bed with white sheets.
"Piper?" Junko finally spoke after so much silence, but his voice shook. Piper didn't open her eyes.
"You okay buddy?" Finn asked.
"Ya I'm okay, I just really don't like doctors…you remember the dentist…. doctors are worse."
"Actually, I never got to see them, but I heard about them, I still think you're over reacting. The Dentists couldn't have been that bad."
"Wallop Dentists are the most feared type of dentist in all of Atmos…" Stork started to mumble to himself after his remark.
Finn turned back to Piper and leaned slowly over Piper. Then he reached up and grabbed her shoulders shaking her roughly. She opened her eyes and glared at Finn.
"Ow, Finn." She said.
"Oh, come on! It's your leg that's hurt, not your shoulders!" He said annoyed.
"Finn. They amputated my leg." She said quietly. Finn's jaw dropped almost to the floor. Junko's eyes got wide but Stork just smiled.
"What is amputated?" Junko asked.
"Piper…I'm so sorry…. I didn't know…" He said sadly ignoring Junko's question. He looked down at Piper's blankets seeing there was only one leg impression. 'Why didn't I notice that before? God I'm so stupid.' His thoughts were interrupted by a noise he thought wasn't appropriate at the time. Piper laughing.
"What the hell dude?" He asked looking at Piper confused. She was clutching her sides in laughter.
"You are SO GULIBLE!" She laughed out.
"Don't you think the doctor would have told us she had her leg amputated?" Stork said.
Finn blushed in anger. 'Ya, I'm stupid.' He thought. Then an idea dawned on him. He curled his hand into a fist and took a step towards the bed and 'accidentally fell' his fist connecting with Piper's leg with a thud.
"Ha- OOWWWWW!" She yelled pushing Finn away, rubbing her sore leg. Junko put a finger to his lips signalling for Piper to be quiet.
"Aerrow is sleeping." Junko said quietly.
"Not anymore." Said a groggy voice from behind the other curtain. Stork pulled back the other curtain to reveal a pale Aerrow sitting, with his eyes open slightly.
"You okay Piper?" He asked casually turning his head to her.
"Ya I'm fine, but how are you doing?" She asked back worried.
"Well, I have been better," He said with a smirk, his gaze then fell on Finn "How'd you get me away from that thing?"
"With these babies." He said flexing his arms. Piper laughed.
"Okay, now tell us the real story."
Finn glared at her before explaining more.
"I jumped into the water and swam down and I saw Aerrow down there, he was swimming away from what ever the hell was down there and he slowed down. He was tired and stuff, I guess, and the animal attacked from behind, but I couldn't swim fast enough. The thing ended up hitting Aerrow on the head and then it turned on me…" All eyes were on Finn now "I was gonna punch it in the face, which seemed like a good idea at the time but then Radarr-" 'RADARR! Oh no.' Finn collapsed into a chair.
"Oh no…" He mumbled.
"Finn, what's wrong with Radarr? Where is he?" Aerrow asked tensely. Finn was quiet for a while.
"Finn!" Aerrow said desperately.
"He's…he's………..he's dead." Finn said sadly. Everyone but Aerrow gasped.
Aerrow's heart sank…his little buddy was dead? His head hit his pillow. No way, Radarr was always there. He found Radarr the day after his dad died. Radarr had been his best friend for years, sometimes his only friend. Now he was gone? Forever? Aerrow's heart started feeling heavier and heavier as more realization hit. 'Radarr would never be there, ever again. Ever.' He shut his eyes, he really didn't feel good.
"Aerrow, you okay?" Piper asked. Aerrow didn't hear though, he heart race had sped up, and with the lack of blood he had it made him pass out.
"Aerrow? Aerrow!" Piper's voice echoed in the back of Aerrow's head.
Then everything was silent; except for the sound of the beeping machines that were beside Piper and Aerrow monitoring their heart beat. Piper's was going strong but Aerrow's began to cut out.
"Beep…Beep…Beep…….Beep………………….Beep……………………BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP" The machine sent out some kind of alarm, echoing in the small white room.
The Storm Hawks freaked out. Junko sat down with a heavy thud, put his head in his hands and started crying. Finn stared at Aerrow, expecting him to wake up soon, and everything would be okay again. Stork looked around frantically, the noise hurting his ears. Piper screamed for help, adding to the noise of the alarm. Doctors and nurses stormed in with little machines attached to weird little crystals. Dr. Tyson was the first one in and grabbed a machine, placing it on Aerrow's chest. Aerrow's body jerked as electric current shot through it. The doctor did this for what seemed like hours trying to get a plus out of the teen.
Piper had started balling, and Finn held her close again trying to comfort her, but he wasn't doing a good job, he was crying too. Then the doctor took the machine off of Aerrow and handed it to a nurse. He looked sadly at Aerrow, glanced down at his watch, then he turned and announced.
"That's it boys, I'm calling it – time of death: 10:19." The doctor's words seemed to pierce through the hearts of the Storm Hawks.
:O oooooo, I killed Aerrow! Muahahahaha! This one is how long I will make my other chapters, sorry if it wasn't as descriptive as some people want it. Give me some tips to improve. Oh and Lace Agate, lol, don't be scared to give me pointers! I'm not going to snap at someone if they say they don't like my story. Anyway, I want reviews please! I'll be writing my next chapter, until I get a few more!
