I couldn't believe that my first kiss would be with a girl…
or with Cyclonis for that matter.
But at the moment I didn't care, her lips were pressed against mine in a timid way showing that I was her first kiss as well.
Minutes seemed to passed as we sat there making out at the dining table letting our minds go blank, I feel her hand wrap around my head pulling me into a closer embrace. I respond by wrapping my own arms around her body enticing a tiny yep of surprise from her. Then for no reason she breaks apart and says
"Piper?"
"Yeah"
She looks down for a minute and I see her eyes moving at a rapid rate before once again she looks me in the eyes.
"I know it's kind of silly to say at this point but…"
"Buuuutttt"
"I think I have strong feeling for you" now I'll be honest folks I don't believe that there's any shade of red bright enough to describe her face right now.
I look her square in the eye and I see not the vindictive psychopath I had come to know. But a teenage girl that was just now discovering that she could feel this way.
I smile at this and pull her into a tight hug, she seems to tremble at this showing that she probably never got hugs as a child so I say "I know and... I think I like you to." I feel a dampness on my shoulder I pull her back to see that tears were trailing down her cheeks.
"Are you alright?"
She takes a free hand to wipe the tears from her face "yeah but I think that we ruined dinner" we burst out laughing at this
Meanwhile outside the doors
"I hear laughter" snipe announces leaning against a pillar
"Snipe will you shut up your voice gives me a headache" says ravis
"But the laughter" says snipe confused at the fact that he can her laughter in a place that is a literal castle of doom.
The doors open and the two girls walk out side by side
"Ravis, Snipe" says Cyclonis
"Yes master "they say rapidly
"I'm not to be disturbed for the rest of the night" says Cyclonis not stopping to hear their answers.
She leads me down another corridor and up a flight of stairs until we come to a stop in front of the world's creepiest doors.
"Hopefully you don't mind using my bedroom"
"You planned this didn't you" I say wondering if we were going to end up in her bedroom anyway
"Maybe"
We go in the room and it's exactly like I thought it would be dark creepy bed check, nearly every table overflowing with crystals check, and of course an open balcony showing the never ending storms of red and lighting that was Cyclonia.
I walk over to the bed sit down and "you never answered my questions… well not all of them"
"Fine, what do you want to know?"
"What comes next? I mean I'm kind of freaked out about this"
"Well according to the old laws and codes I found we announce the engagement to Atmos and plan from there with the parents of the couples"
"I don't have any parents the storm hawks are the only family I have" I say a bit sadly
"I'm in the same boat, the only family I had died ten years ago" she leaning against one of the dressers in the room
"Oh and the whole dowry thing" she says shrugging
"Dowry?" I ask completely confused
"An older custom near exclusive to Cyclonia it's a gift or present given to the parents of the bride in exchange for permission to wed."
"Sounds like a bribe to me"
"Yeah it basically is, but it's the a custom we must abide by"
I bring my legs up and wrap my hands around them. She comes over and puts a hand on my shoulder.
"So piper seeing as I can't negotiate with your parents over you hand, I'll have to talk to the storm hawks then." She says with a cross between a smile and a frown
I smile at the thought of her basically asking Arrow if she can marry me.
"I'll have to find something of equal value to you giving me the heir to Cyclonia." She says
A thought pops into my head at hearing this. One that might just benefit all of Atmos, I look at her and ask
"It can be anything right?"
"In this situation, pretty much why?" she asks looking at me weirdly
"You'll see" I say falling back into the bed
She joins me momentarily and for a few moments all we do is lay there listening to the sounds of thunder before we lose ourselves to the bliss that is sleep
Around this time on the Condor
"Aaaahhh anyone get the number of the night crawler that hit us" says Finn waking up from the floor
The rest of the gang wakes up and stumbles into a somewhat standing position
Arrow looks around the room and says "alright everyone sound off"
"Here" says Finn
"I'm here" says Junko
"Chirp chip" says the co-pilot radar
"Anyone seen Stork?" the mumbling from the ceiling gets their attention
"Darkness, red eyes, doom dread and despair I've missed you" says the merb shaking and clinging to the ceiling for dear life.
Arrow puts on a smirk and says "alright Finn, Junko pry Stork from the ceiling Radar see how bad the ship is and Piper…wait where's Piper?" Stork refusing to come don says
"The darkness took her away"