Chapter II: Heather, Heather Bringer

I don't understand . . . What's going on? . . . People . . . What? . . . My eyes fluttered open slowly and found myself in a room I did not recognize. I sat up slowly, but even slowly I felt like passing out. "Where am I?" I said to myself and then remember slightly being saved by people . . . I couldn't tell who or what they were but the first thing that popped into my head said they might be Cyclonians. I got up from bed and thought to myself what I'm going to do. If their Cyclonians I have no choice in saying I'm the Princess of Atmos, they already know who I am. But if their not Cyclonians . . . I'll think of a name . . . they can't know I'm a Princess. No Way! I walked slowly towards the door and the door opened. They didn't bother locking the door . . . weird . . . so their definitely not Cyclonians . . . unless they left it unlocked for a reason. I looked around the hallway; the ship was a bit beat up and old but not like it was going to fall apart. I blinked and took a right and found myself wandering around the old carrier till I heard voices filling the hallway.

"We don't know who she is . . . there's no information on her at all." One of them talked. He was a man about 19 or 18. He seemed to be the leader by the way he was talking.

"Yeah but we do know one thing." This one sounded maybe a little younger and a lot cockier.

"We do." This one sounded a lot older and his voice was deep, maybe a little shy too.

"Yeah she's totally hot!" The cocky one said and I rolled my eyes.

"Finn can you not think of how hot she is and focus on the real problem." This one was a girl sounded smart and sophisticated.

Finn . . . I'll remember that. I giggled and covered my mouth so I wouldn't make a lot of noise. But I guess that really didn't work since in a couple of moments later I had a monkey thing standing right next to me, looking straight up at me with utter confusion. I uncovered my mouth, faced it and bent down. "Well hi there little guy. Well aren't you the sweetest thing." My hand went towards it to smell and it smelt my hand. He didn't think I was alarming or evil so he put his head in my hand. I started petting him behind the ears and under the chin till:

"His name is Radarr." I heard a voice and I looked up. I saw a young man with red spiky hair and bright green eyes. His warm smile was all I needed to know that I wasn't held captive under cyclonians and I was actually saved by a Sky Night Squadron. I looked back to the ground and sighed blissfully. I looked back to Radarr and held out an opening hand for Radarr to take hold and crawl to my shoulders. He gladly took that open hand and crawled to my shoulder as I stood up slowly, so I wouldn't get light headed and pass out on the spot. When I was standing up straight, I closed my eyes because even though I stood up slowly, blood was still rushing to my head like hastening waves on a stormy coast. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes. I looked straight into the young mans gleaming emerald eyes and smiled gently. The smile was an act to hide the horrible pain in my head of blood rushing and it was being bought. "And my name is Aerrow." The young man finished and introduced him self in a complete confidence and intelligent manner.

I brought my hands to my heart, afraid that my crystal would glow from my head pounding with this much accumulation of blood running to head, so covering it was the best I could think of. "And I presume you are the Captain of this Carrier?" I asked keeping my politeness at a high.

Aerrow smiled in bliss, "Yeah I am. You're good at guessing." He took a step back and with an open arm wanted to lead me in the room the others were in. "Why don't you have a seat. I really don't think you should be walking around after that crash you were just in."

I smiled luminously and took his arm. He gently led me into the room, which turned out to be the main control room of the Carrier. There were 4 other people on the main floor, after the stairs Aerrow and I walked down. One of them was the girl talking before. She was leaning on a round table with her hands, which was in the center of the room, looking down at a map. She had hair as blue as night and I could see her orange eyes that matched the orange head band in her hair. Her skin was also remarkable to me. Her chocolate smooth skin made me envious for which it was so smooth and beautiful and got me thinking how she could keep it so shiny and flawless on this ship. Another one was leaning on a railing near the stairs I walked down with Aerrow. He had pale blonde spiky hair and ocean blue eyes. He had skin some what like Aerrow's and had a cocky grin plastered on his face so I presumed that he was Finn. Another was leaning on the steering wheel of the carrier. They had green skin and black spiky hair and I knew they were a Merb by just a glance. The last one was in the shadows of the controls and I really couldn't tell who or what they were, but I could see the tallness and big ness so I suggested to myself they were the strong man of this whole deal.

"Here take a seat." Aerrow suggested politely. He let go of my arm and gently sat me down on the seat.

I smiled at him. "Thank you Captain." Then all of a sudden I felt the chair being pushed into the table a bit and I looked over my shoulder and saw a . . . "AHH!" I screamed. They man from the shadows came out and gently pushed me chair in and he was a Wallop. "A WALLOP!" The wallop jumped and took a step back. He was scared that I screamed. I screamed again in excitement and turned in my chair to look at him. Everyone in the room freaked out over my screaming and was just wondering why I was acting so strangely. I just shrugged it off and continued to freak out. ".God! It's a real Wallop! I've never met a real wallop in my life but I read about then all the time!" I stood up quickly and ran in front on him. "I've always wanted to meet one too!" I started walking around him in circles looking at every aspect. The look on his face was priceless because I was freaking out over the mere sight of him and he was afraid. I stopped walking around him after two circles and stopped in front of him. I tilted my head to the side. "You're a little smaller than I expect, but you're still a real wallop." I stuck out a hand to shake. I giggled. "Nice to meet you." I smiled.

The wallop blinked because of my over-reacting of seeing him and he relaxed and took my hand gently to shake. "Nice to meet you too." He said gently and calmly. His voice was sweet and shy and I enjoyed the sound of it. The wallop had pale teal hair and fog grey eyes that were filled of sweetness and friendliness. We shook hands but then he suggested I sit down again and I sat down quickly at that moment I'd do anything that wallop said because I was so mesmerized because I finally met a wallop.

The blonde one which I thought was Finn pushed off the railing near the stair and walked over to the girl. "See," Finn nudged the girl, "I told ya' She's hot!" he said in a harsh whisper but I still heard it.

The girl rolled her eyes and looked up from the map to me and smiled. She walked over to me and stuck out a hand. "Hi I'm Piper."

I kindly took it. Still happy that I met a wallop and shook it gently. "Nice to meet you." I smiled and then she started pointing to everyone else.

"The wallop you just meet would be Junko; he's our heavy ballistics expert." I smiled brighter and I saw out of the corner of my eye that he sat down next to me in a chair. "That one," She pointed to the Merb, "Would be Stork. He's the pilot of the ship." And I looked at Stork and smiled. "You already met Aerrow, our Captain." I looked back at Piper and then to Aerrow and shook my head while glowing because I was so happy. "And that would be Finn." Her voice changed from happy to annoyance. "Our Sharpshooter." She rolled her eyes as she watched Finn raise an eyebrow at me and smirked.

I giggled at the fact that Finn was hitting on me from afar and shrugged it, I don't even know him and he's hitting on me. I thought and giggled. I felt Piper walk away and walk over to where Aerrow was standing; whose arms were crossed over his chest and Radarr was his shoulder.

"So what's your name?" Junko asked politely.

"Uh," Right then my happiness snapped. Damn it! I can't tell them my real name or they're going to bring me home! And I don't want to go home! They seem like nice people, but people that don't want to get in trouble with my brother and my father! God I have to think of a name! QUICK! I thought and bit my lip thinking real hard of a name. Then I hit me. "Heather, Heather Bringer." I smiled.

"WAIT!" Piper screamed and then I thought that she knew I was lying and knew I was the princess. I swallowed quietly as I waited for her to continue. "You mean your Heather Bringer! Third Cousin to the King of Atmos! Your father is the president of the Alcohol consumption in Atmos! YOU'RE ROYALTY!?"

My soul sighed and I laughed nervously. "Yup that's me."

"Explains the Royal Symbol on your carrier." Aerrow acknowledged.

"Explains a lot of things." Piper added as she leaned on her hands over the table.

"Really, Heh, Heh." I laughed even more nervously and bit my lip harder. My head now felt like it was swimming, maybe it was because I was so nervous that they were going to find me out or maybe because that I was in a carrier crash and I hit my head. I quickly brought my hand up to cover my Medical Crystal, because I felt it glowing against my chest.

Aerrow noticed my weird behavior and raised an eyebrow. "Heather, are you okay?" He asked.

I laughed, "Yeah, I guess I hit my head hard in that crash." I said and felt the blood rushing to my head. My face felt hot and I brought my other hand to my head.

"Piper." I heard Aerrow order Piper. His voice changed from sweet to demanding in a second. Before I knew it, Piper said in my ear that she was going to bring me back to the room I was in before. I felt like I was going to black out so I just nodded and stood up as Piper grabbed my arms and helped me up. But even standing up as slowly as possible still made my blood rush faster and I blacked. I fell on Piper's shoulder and she held me up from falling anymore.

"Guys!" Piper yelled as the weight of me got heavier for her to handle and she began to fall to her knees because of the weight.

"Junko bring her to Piper's room! She needs to lay down, now!" Aerrow ordered. "Piper you go with him and stay with her till she wakes up. Finn and I will bring her bags to your room!" With that everyone nodded. Junko scooped me up in his arms and brought me to my room, with Piper following suit. Aerrow and Finn grabbed the suit cases that they found in the carrier to my room. Junko laid me on the bed and covered me with the blanket, the boys stood there for a while but then left and Piper waited for me to come to.

The bright blue sky was illuminating in my eyes as I laid there on the concrete ground that was holding me down with royal shackles of my father. The clouds were a perfect white and the sun was warm against my skin. Oh, how my soul burned with love and compassion to be in the endless sky. Why can't I go! I want to go! I thought while screaming but with no sound of misery and despair. The sky was where I longed to be. The wind in my hair, the sights to see, everything I ever dreamed of was the sky. I watched skimmers fly in the perfect sky of the world and a tear left my eye. I want to fly, I want to fly. I want to be with them. I watched them disappear in the downy clouds that I longed to fly through. No come back! I beg you! Come back!

My eyes opened and I found myself in the room that I woke up in before, but this time I saw Piper working at a desk. I moaned as I tried to lean on my arm to get up but my head was taking to much control and yelling at me to stay down. Piper looked away from what she was doing and to the struggling me. She got up from her chair, "You should lie down." She said while coming up to me and gently pushed me back down so I was lying back down. "You took such a beating you can't function right." Piper sat down in a chair that was placed beside the bed side.

I looked up at her and moaned again, "What happen?" I asked in a harsh whisper. I closed my eyes and brought my hand up to my head which just pulsated and my sight went white. The light of the room was making my head worse than it already was and I could feel the heat of my Medical Crystal working so hard to get rid of this headache that was growing worse.

"You blacked out on top me and Junko carried you back to my room." Piper laughed softly.

Once I heard Piper say that, I recalled blacking out as Piper stood me up to bring me back here because I didn't look so good; I was embarrassed. ".God, I'm so sorry." I moaned and covered my eyes with my arm while hiding my blush at the same time.

"No it's okay." Piper laughed. But then I heard her get up from the chair and walk back over to the desk. I lift my arm away a bit and looked at Piper whose back was to me. The shadow of my arm was enough darkness so the light of the room wouldn't bother my head anymore. "Oh, the boys brought down the bags that they found in your carrier." Piper said, back still facing me. I looked away from her back and to the door, which beside it was my small suitcase and my 2 brief cases that were mine. I sighed in joy, knowing that once Piper left I could get rid of this headache because of the contents in one of those brief cases.

"Oh, thank god! I'm so happy they found them! I don't know how I would of ever survived without them!" I said in joy and giggled. I expected something from Piper but she stayed quiet. "Um, Piper, are you okay?" I asked looking at her back once again. Her silence and stillness was scaring me.

I heard Piper sigh and she then turned around quickly. She had a straight and stern face. "I know who you are! You are not Heather Bringer. You are the Princess of Atmos, Clara Artemisia."