"Come on, we can take them!" Finn argued.

"With five of us!? It'd be suicide" Piper replied, horrified.

"We could distract them" Aerrow joined in.

"Shhh, we might not have to do anything" Eci pointed towards Snipe's guards who where preoccupied with the girl Finn had wolf-whistled at earlier.

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"Easy does it" Junko whispered as he picked two crates up effortlessly, it was a slightly harder task for the others but somehow they managed it.

Once in the shade of the trees they all breathed a sigh of relief, until the mechanical voice of Master Cyclonis interrupted their victory.

"Well, well, what do we have here?"

Instantly the Storm Hawks, excluding Eci who had gone, whirled around to meet her, and a dozen talons.

"We knew you were here, just a matter of time until we found you" she smiled and motioned for her minions to bring Stork and Radarr forward, who were enclosed in chains.

"Fantastic, certain doom" Stork gloomily responded, putting emphasis on his favourite word.

"Let them go Cyclonis" Aerrow growled.

"Or what?" she raised her hand to fire upon Stork, "you'll use a fancy move on me?" and she went to release the energy from the crystal she was holding.

However, she didn't make it quite that far. She screamed as a mass of white and gold fur, went for her throat.

"Get it off!" she shrieked, hysterically, doing all she could to keep the powerful jaws away from her respiring instruments.

It took several shots from the talons for it to eventually limp off into the shadows. Its direction however, led their sight to four dots of violet and a glimmer of silver.

Master Cyclonis coughed, "Its nothing" she reassured, standing up.

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But nothing, doesn't emerge from trees.

Four armour clad people stretched their bodies into a hostile position, Master Cyclonis hesitated but eventually gave the order to attack.

The Talons, instantly regretted it.

Soon all was quiet and the four people stood exactly as before, if it wasn't for the blood around their mouths, nothing would have seemed to happen.

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Cyclonis gave Aerrow a bad look and ran off into the undergrowth.

"I don't know how to thank you" Piper breathed, slightly disgusted by the semi-mystical beings stood opposite them.

"You need to come with us" one of the boys with violet eyes and black hair answered, turning he muttered, "Don't worry about the crystals, we'll take care of them" and with that he sped off.

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Finally they emerged into a clearing, it could have possibly classified as a house considering the thickness of the surrounding undergrowth.

In the centre was a sort of altar and placed upon it was a human form beneath a silk sheet.

"What is this place?" Junko asked politely.

"Our home" the girl with silver hair replied softly.

"What's on the altar?" Aerrow asked bluntly, the sooner they got out of there, the better.

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The other boy, who also had violet eyes but brunette hair, gently folded back the cloth.

It was Lypix.

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I want to say sorry for taking so long to get my act together and upload this chapter.

Exams, english coursework (for some reason there seems to be lots), an earthquake which undirectly caused a step on our steps to break. All while we are trying to sell the house.

However I'm aiming to get my life back under control, so soon i'll be updating. just maybe not as much as everyone else.