Me :finally, Time to update. I have aawaaay too many stories.
Piper :Saphire does not own the storm hawks but she does own Saphire, Aria, Sara, and the maids.
Me: The maids are .
Piper: oh well…
Me: now on with the story.
"they are ." The words hung in the air.
"You don't mean…" Piper started to say looking up. Aria and Starling stared at Harrier.
"She's a complete orphan. I knew the family, they were nice but according to the library of records, Her only family that wasn't on terra rex was her mother and father on Cyclonia and now they are ." Harrier looked at Sara sobbing into Piper's leg before containing. " It breaks my heart to say it, but… it's true… there is no family left for her." Piper looked over at Aerrow who nodded.
"I'll take her. It would be cruel to shove her off to people she doesn't know, not when there is someone she has latched onto. I know, I've only known her for a day but she just… I don't know how to explain it."
" Piper… It probably would be best if she went with you. She is only five and she and you have already created a bond that not many can create… It's like a mother and daughter bond in a way." Harrier said. Starling nodded in agreement. Suddenly Starling's radio beeped.
"What's up Elena?" Starling said clicking a button.
"I need you to keep an eye on the carrier with the children. It's on the edge of the south border. Dark Ace is getting suspicious. I'm going to have to run too soon. Dark Ace is getting nervous and he is keeping a close eye on everyone." Elena said. She sounded like she was running around.
"Elena, you'd better get out of there now. "Starling said into the radio. She turned to face Aerrow. Aerrow gave a command. "Stork, Head for the south border. We need to make sure we don't lose the children." Stork nodded and directed the ship toward the south border.
"Starling, I'm taking a skimmer to the children's cruiser. Do not return this message." Elena said over the radio. A click was heard as she turned off the radio. Starling sat down on a chair and stared off into space. Piper picked up Sara and walked off toward her room. Aerrow followed her. Once in Piper's room, Piper set Sara on the bed where the little feel asleep like instantly. Piper turned around and looked deep into Aerrow's eyes.
"What do we do?" She asked. " Sara has no family and we can's keep her here. It's too dangerous. Who would keep a watch over her when the rest of us are out in battle. Aerrow, It just won't work."
"WE can make it work. We handled Tinky didn't we?"
"That was for a day. She is for a lifetime. She is only 6. Her birthday is in two weeks so technically she's six." Piper sat down on the edge of her bed at Sara's feet. Aerrow sat down next to her.
"We'll make it work. We've made everything else work don't we?" Aerrow asked, taking Piper's face into his hands. " We can make this work, because if you are thinking what I think you're thinking you are not going to."
"I know you won't let me leave the storm hawks." Piper smiled softly as she spoke. Aerrow let her go after he just confessed? Yeah, right.
" No way in hell would I." Aerrow told her before she kissed him. He stood and pulled her out her door so they wouldn't wake up Sara. They walked into the living room of the condor and sat down on the sofa were Piper curled up next to Aerrow. Aerrow wrapped his arm around her shoulders and fell asleep that way. Starling walked into the room about 15 minutes later and walked right back out. Aria was right behind her.
"You okay?" Aria asked Starling when she stepped right back out.
"Aerrow and Piper are asleep in there."Starling whispered closing the door and walking down the hallway.
"So… is it true, that you and my brother have something going on?" Aria asked running after Starling and walked with her. Starling looked at her funny.
"Where's you hear that?"
"From my sister, Saphire. You know how she's off on Terra Logic where all the really good universities are. She's studying to be a doctor or nurse. She's really good with crystals too. She said you let it slip when you were visiting her, that you were dating my brother. Is it true?" Starling blinked a few times before answering.
"If you're sister is soo smart why don't you believe her?" Starling said stopping to look t the teenager.
"I just want to hear you admit it." Aria said, flipping her blond hair over her shoulder so it wasn't in her face.
" Yes, I am dating your brother. Happy?" Starling watched the 2��s smile grow wider.
"I knew it. I can't wait to tell Saphire you admitted it." Aria ran through the ship with Starling chased after her. They knocked Stork over once they reached the bridge.
"Can't catch me!" Aria challenged ducking behind some machinery in the room. Starling chased after the health specialist and found no trace of the where the young female had been.
"Where'd she go?" She asked aloud as Aria hung from a few pipes above her head. Harrier watch Starling wondering who she was looking for. 'It couldn't be my sister, she's right above her head.' Harrier though rolling his eyes, wondering how Starling could miss his sister's bright blond hair that dandled almost right in front of her.
"Harrier, have you seen your sister?" Starling asked. Harrier pointed to the ceiling.
"She is not that much of an angel." Starling said, thinking he meant heaven. Harrier smirked.
"I know that. She's a terrible cook, no offence Aria." Aria mock saluted her brother meaning she took none. " And she is not an angel period. You're more of one than my sister." Aria put on a face of mock horror. She moved along the pipes until she dropped onto the sofa in the corner.
"She's on the sofa." Harrier told Starling who immediately turned around.
"Hola, senorita. "Aria greeted being a smarty-pants. Starling smirked at the young health specialists.
" I found you."
"No Harrier pointed me out. I'm surpised you didn't look up. I was hanging right above your head." Aria laughed at Starling's look of confusion.
"Where is Piper and Aerrow?" Finn asked. " And Sara?"
"All three are asleep. Sara is in Piper's room and Piper and Aerrow are in the living room asleep on the sofa. Piper is curled up near Aerrow and Aerrow has his arm around her shoulder." Starling told him. Aria let an 'awe' escape her mouth. Harrier smirked and snickered. Stork turned around from his driving.
"They were doing what? Oh dear… the end of the world … it's already near." Stork's eye twitched.
"That is sooo cute. You only said they were sleeping." Aria complained. Starling stared at her.
"I figured you would have figured that out. I mean, We did catch them kissing in Piper's room."
"They were what?" Finn asked jumping up from his seat next to Aria.
"We caught them kissing in Piper's room earlier. According to what Sara told me, when Aerrow showed his face on Cyclonia, Piper threw a fit. Sara hid behind the bathroom door and peeked around the door and watched the whole thing. Aerrow asked her to come back and when she asked why he said he needed her." Starling started. Sara finished for her as she appeared in the doorway.
"'Why do you need me? You only need me to give me right back for a bargain.' That's what missy Piper said. Aerrow only stared at her. He stuttered when he spoke next…' I need you because… I... I love you.' He said." Sara exclaimed softly walking in. Starling smiled at the little .
"And then what happened?" Harrier asked.
"Then missy Piper ran to Aerrow and gave him a big kiss." Sara exclaimed giggling. Aria sighed dreamily, instantly drifting off into la-la land. Harrier snapped his fingers in front of Aria's Face.
"Hey…" She complained.
"My sisters are not aloud in la-la land. Dad would scowl the both of you if he knew." Harrier scowled his sister.
"And if he was alive." Aria shoot back. Starling snickered. Suddenly the alarm went off, waking up Piper and Aerrow who bolted down the hallways onto the bridge.
"Stork, What's doing on?" Aerrow asked the moment he got into the room. Piper stood behind him.
"I have no idea." Stork said as Piper checked the scopes.
"It's the children's carrier!" She exclaimed as the Alarms stopped blaring. A voice came over the radio.
"Storm hawks! It's Alias's Husband. We have children aboard! Please take them! We have talons on our Tails. Elena is also on board." A deep male voice said over the intercom with Elena's voice in the background. Aerrow looked at the Carrier through the scopes.
"Come to our ship, all of you. We'll take you to terra Aqua where you can catch you're ride to Terra Rex, or we can take you right there."
"Would you?" The voice asked again.
"Yes. We'll take the children on the skimmers and take them here with your help. The talons will send the carrier up in flames and think they've won against you. The other carrier already went up in flames and now lies in the waste lands."
"Elena told us as much. We'll board our skimmers but there are 12 children aboard. There is not enough room on three skimmers to get them and us out of here." The voice said.
"We'll send over some skimmers and help." Aerrow said back.
"Thank you. The bay doors are open." This time it was a female's voice that replied. Piper, Aerrow, Starling, Harrier, Finn, Junko, and Radar ran off to the skimmer bay.
"Aria, Why aren't you on a skimmer to help them?" Stork asked. Aria looked at him.
"Me, Fly? Holy that thought scares me. I can't fly. I'm afraid of heights. I'm afraid I'll fall into the waste lands." Aria told him placing her chin on her hand and her elbow on her knee. Stork stared at her from the corner of his eye.
"That's funny. You seem like you're perfect, afraid of nothing, good at everything, awesome shooter, awesome cook-" Aria cut him off.
"I can't cook for my life. That was Starling who cooked the other day. I burned the water." Aria told him.
"It's not possible to burn water." Stork told her turning around as the others flew into the sky toward the carrier. The talons hadn't shown their faces yet but it was a safe bet they would soon.
" Well, it is in my case. I'll be lucky if I can saddle a boy who can cook or live with my sister or Harrier for the rest of my life."
"Your sister?"
"Yeah, My sister Saphire. You've probably met her. Piper, Aerrow, and Junko know her. She's off on Terra logic studying to be a medical person. She's not good at it. She knows about herb and crystals but that's like it. She s to use bow and arrows, but then again she can't shoot them. She's got an energy staff like Piper's. She can at least cook and bake. She's not the world's best aimer but she knows how to throw a right hook. Take it from someone who knows." Aria shook her head at the memory.
"How do you know?"
"I felt it."
"How?"
"Long story. I'll tell it anyway. I was 14 when it happened…"
Flash back ( told from Aria's POV)
I walked down the school hallways watching boys hanging and s flirting with pacing boys as they leaned against their lockers. Some guys leaned up against some lockers near a and would flirt with her or lean down for a kiss. I walked up to my locker and grabbed my book on Atmos's history for history class. I promised I'd meet my best friend outside of the cafeteria before lunch so I went down the hallway toward the café to grab lunch and my best friend, Katara.
When I got to the Cafeteria, I looked over to see what couple was in the 'make out corner'
Pause on flash back
"Make out corner?" Stork asked.
"Yeah, It was the corner where couples were out of sight from the school cameras and teachers didn't go to so couples would make out there during classes, in-between classes, and before and after school. Anyway,
Resume flash back
I looked over to see my best friend making out… with my boyfriend.
"Katara? Evan?" The words escaped my lips before I even knew it, just like my books, they fell to the ground and fell open. Katara stopped kissing Evan for two seconds.
"Aria, I can explain." Katara exclaimed, getting panicked. I didn't want to her it. I picked up my books as fast as I could and ran off. I ran to the abandoned s bathroom, where I would go with Evan to make out sometimes. I shut the door and hid in one of the stalls and cried. No one ever went in there because it was said it was haunted. Actually, I started that rumor so it became my make out playground. Teachers don't use the bathroom that the students use; they have their own special bathrooms.
I cried myself to sleep in the stall and didn't wake up til the end of the school day where I went to my locker, grabbed the stuff I needed and ran home where I shut myself in my room, didn't touch my homework and cried myself to sleep. The next day I started cutting myself so I could ignore the emotional pain. Katara kept trying to talk to me, but every time she came near, I got up and walked away. In every class I had with her I would sit away from her. I wouldn't talk to her, or Evan. They both betrayed me. I had been cutting myself for 3 weeks when my sister found out. She told Harrier and they both threw a fit. Saphire flipped out.
"You are such an idiot! How long have you been doing this?" Saphire yelled. I winced as Harrier came up the stairs.
"What are you yelling for?" He asked.
Pause flash back again
"I thought you said Saphire told him."
"She did but I'm telling you what happened when she told him."
"Oh." Stork nodded realizing what she was telling. The other vanished onto the Carrier in front of them.
Resume flash back
Saphire grabbed my wrist and showed it to him.
"LOOK! Look at what she has been doing to herself! "Saphire turned her attention back to me. " You idiot how long?"
"three weeks." I told her. I whimpered when I said it. Harrier glared.
"You've been doing this for three weeks? Aria what the have you been thinking?! You could have killed yourself!" Harrier roared. " If mom and dad were alive they would kill you!" I looked away from Harrier's angry eyes. They were both scared of losing me and angry as well as worried. Saphire never worked well with fear, it always mad her angry, and Harrier would pick up on her anger and become angry as well.
"So it would have only helped my purpose!" I screamed. At the time, I really wanted to die. Sorrow and anger was coming at me from all sides.
"Why the hell are you trying to kill yourself?!" Saphire screamed at me.
"Because I caught my boyfriend cheating on me with my best friend! So why don't you shut the up and let me !" I screamed. Anger flared in Saphire's eyes. Usually only an enemy would make Saphire as made as she was, and that would always make her fist fly. Out of Anger she punched my in the face. For the first time in a really long time, She lost her temper on family.
"OMG!" Saphire gasped as I fell to my knees. She began to cry as she pulled me into a hug.
"I'm sorry! Don't every cut yourself again. I can't stand to lose you as well." She sobbed. Saphire was always short on emotional strength. Sure, the can stand really strong disses but, when someone dies, she will cry so hard. Harrier came up to us and hugged us. Saphire placed her hand in my hair and pressed her face into my shoulder. Before I could register what was going on, I was crying too.
End flashback
"Harrier is afraid of losing what is left of his family, which is why he almost never let Saphire go off to her school on Terra logic." Aria said." He's afraid he won't be there to protect us or be able to be there to save us when he can. He's afraid us dieing period, wither he can save us, prevent it, or not."
"That sounds like Harrier alright." Starling said from the doorway as she ushered some small children into the room.
"Did you see her? Did you see Queen Piper?" A young boy with silver hair and bright blue eyes asked another little boy with green hair and brown eyes.
"Yeah, how could I not? I got to ride on her heliscooter." The little boy said back to his friend. A Little with bright pink hair and light pink eyes ran into the room closely followed by a with blue hair and red eyes.
"Anna catch up. I wanna see the carrier blow up!" The with pink hair exclaimed.
"Rose! I wanna see it too!" The with blue hair yelled back. They ran to the windshield to see a carrier surround the carrier they had just been on and blow it up. All 12 childern stood by the windshield to watch the carrier blow up.
"Okay kids, you saw it get blown up now it's time to get outta here. Stork! Head for Terra Rex!" Aerrow commanded as He walked up behind Piper. Elena stood behind him and looked over his shoulder. Rose ran up to Piper.
"Queen Piper, Are you going to be queen of the storm hawks or Queen of Cyclonia?" She asked. Sara ran to the Maid who just walked in with silver hair and blue eyes, Alias. Her husband was tall with black hair and gray eyes.
"Hello Sara!" Alias greeted.
"Queen of the storm hawks." Aria pretended to cough. Piper and Aerrow looked at her funny.
" Aria, did you say something?" Piper asked wondering if she heard it right.
"Well, technically you're queen of the storm hawks, I mean, You are dating Aerrow who is the sky knight so technically you're the Queen." Starling said. Piper looked shocked.
"Starling." She hissed.
"What? Everyone in this room excluding the kids already knew." Starling said holding her hands up in self-defense. Aria snickered as Piper sighed. It was going to be a long week.
Me: that's the end of this story.
Piper: WHAT?!
Aerrow: you're kidding right?
Me: nope. And Lipurfin, If you've got an issue with my style odf writing you can get the fudge over it! I will curse if I want to! Pay attention to the god dang rating! It's T for language! If It's t, Most likely it's got language! ( sticks tongue out)
Aerrow: I'm confused.
Piper: Lipurfin wanted Saphire to stop writing curse words in her stories.
Me: no way in hell am I changing now.
Aerrow: Hey, Crystal, Stop typing.
Crystal: okay.
Me: this is—
Answering machine: End of message
Aerrow: she did not just type that.
Piper: yep.
Aerrow: (rolls eyes)