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Chapter 7: The Surprises


Narrator (POV)

The Guardian's hurried to the medical wing of the Workshop. After setting her down in a one of the beds, they got to work trying to heal her arm. After easing off her cloak, they tried to take off her coat. Which proved harder than you would think. Even in sleep, her injured arm was kept clamped tightly to her chest, and the other Guardian's efforts were proving futile. Futile in taking off the coat, or unclamping her arm. They weren't sure what to do. Stormchase stepped forward quietly while they were talking and made one of his tangible clouds,which look rather like stuffing at times, making sure that it was soft and cold.

He gently lowered it onto her arm. He relaxed when she sighed and and lowered her arm to the bed. He quickly wrapped her arm in the cloud, and wrapped some of the bandages around it to make sure it wouldn't come off. He had been finished for about 30 seconds by the time the other Guardians noticed. The first to notice was Bunny, who walked over. He was about to pick up her bandaged arm when Stormchase pushed his hand away. He eyed the new Guardian questioningly, who merely motioned to her arm and shook his head.

He motioned towards the other room and started walking, glancing back to make sure the other Guardian's were following. When they were in the other room, North asked,

"Vhat did you do to her arm?"

"I bandaged it, what do you think?" Stormchase answered.

"I think what he mean's, is how did ya' get her to relax her arm?" asked Bunny.

"I just did what I always did. I made a cloud bandage. Using some of the stronger bandages North had helped, though." he explained.

"I am not following." said Jack.

I don't quite understand either, Stormchase." Tooth said. Sandy made a question mark above his head.

"Do you think you could demonstrate your 'cloud bandage'?" asked North. Stormchase nodded and formed a small cloud above his hands.

"What type of 'injury' am I dealing with?" asked Stormchase.

"Vhat?" said North.

"I change the cloud according to the injury. So, what am I dealing with?" he explained.

"What about a broken arm?" asked Tooth. Stormchase frowned, and Tooth flinched a little. His expression softened.

"Sorry 'bout that, Tooth. Ask Rainsong later. She's the one who's good at dealing with broken bones. My clouds can't harden like ice. Believe me, I've tried. I was thinking of a cut, or a burn." Stormchase explained.

"What about a slash to the leg?" asked Bunny. Stormchase nodded and walked over towards Bunny, whom he grabbed and nearly dragged to the couch, making him sit down.

"Where is it and how big is it?" asked Stormchase matter-of-factly. Bunny was surprised but traced the spot, going from below the knee to an inch or so above the ankle, and indicated how wide it was with his fingers, which was about an inch the whole length.

"How does it hurt and how much does it hurt?" Stormchase asked. Bunny wasn't sure how to answer that.

"Okay, I"ll just assume that it burns like fire." Stormchase continued. He quickly and carefully made a dark gray cloud, about as big as his head, and carefully touched and sent his power into it. Once satisfied, he carefully stretched it out over the wound and wrapped it around the leg, making more cloud bandages, this time an almost pure white, and wrapped up the darker cloud until you could barely see the it.

Bunny studied it quizzically, and took note of how it was really cool on his fur, but not too cold, nor was it damp. He carefully stood and moved it, seeing that it stretched in some places but was firm in others, so you could move easily but without tearing the wound.

"This a great skill you have, Mate. What else can you do?" asked Bunny curiously. The young spirit grinned, and made a another cloud, bigger than the first, and white as snow. Within a minute there was a an egg shaped cloud blanket, about big enough to cover a bed and hang off the side, that had streaks of lighter and darker grey, forming an image of a rabbit, a fox and a cat sitting together. The other Guardians were left speechless. Stormchase lowered his gaze to the ground.

"I know that it's not very good, I just-OOF!" Stormchase was interrupted when Bunny pulled him into a hug. He loosened his grip to let the kid breathe, and saw the younger guy's confusion.

"What are you talking about, Mate? It's beautiful, and I'm just impressed that you were able to make that in under 60 seconds. How long have you been doing this?" asked Bunny.

"You...really like it?" asked Stormchase, sounding shocked.

"Of coarse we like it. Why wouldn't we? You have a gift." said Tooth. Sandy and North Nodded. Stormchase handed it to Bunny.

"Your giving it to me, Mate?" Bunny asked in surprise.

"Yes, I am. You don't have to worry about it unraveling our dissipating like a normal cloud or blanket. It's one of my permanent clouds, so you don't have to worry. If it gets dirty, then hang it in a tree during a rainfall, than let it hang in the sun. The rain rinses it, and the sun will draw the extra moisture from it." Stormchase finished. Bunny nodded as he marveled at how soft yet durable it was. He pulled at it some, then a little harder, and he flinched when there was a ripping sound, and gaped at the hole that was now in the middle. Stormchase laughed and fixed the hole. There was no trace that there had ever been a hole.

"I didn't say that it was invincible! If it rips for this or that reason, I'll fix it for you. Or if you spill paints on it, then I'll fix it." Stormchase explained. They were interrupted by a loud wail from the other room. They hurried in to see Rainsong squirming under the blankets. Stormchase immediately removed them and demanded,

"Who covered her?!" he was pretty upset, but to the other Guardians he seemed furious. A Yeti nearby spoke up in Yetish. Stormchase growled an answer back at him, surprising every one but himself when he did so in almost perfect Yetish.

"You...you speak Yetish?" asked North in total amazement.

"Wait, what?" asked Stormchase in complete confusion.

"You were able to understand the Yeti, mate. And even speak Yeti. You don't know how?" asked Bunny.

"N-no, I don't. It's happened before, though. Kinda." Stormchase explained.

"What do you mean?" asked Tooth.

"Sometimes when my emotions are spiked really high, and I hear a different language, most-times I can understand it, and sometimes I can speak. I'm normally able to speak it forever." Stormchase explained.

"That's pretty cool, mate." Bunny said.

"What's going on?" asked Rainsong, voice heavy with sleep. Everyone looked her way, having almost forgotten that she was there during the discussion.

"It's okay, Mate. You can go back to sleep."

It's not okay." Rainsong declared, sitting up with a grunt.

"Vhat's the matter?" asked North, causing Rainsong to jump and prick her ears, and look every which way, eyes widening in surprise and wariness. North flinched. Why was she acting this way? Had he startled her? Or was she warier because her injury?

She relaxed a little, and continued,

"Well, can we get something to make the pain go away, please?" she asked. North nodded and got a syringe(needle) full of pain relievers. He brought it forward slowly, and she slowly backed away as well. Bunny sighed and nodded to Sandy, who nodded back. He sent a stream of dreamsand to her, sending her to sleep again, and North gently injected it into her arm. She flinched a little, then relaxed with a soft sigh. Stormchase made another cloud blanket, this time in a square shape, and laid it on his sister. It had something on it that represented all the Guardians.

It had a Christmas present, a tooth, an Easter egg, some dreamsand, and a snowflake surrounding a lightning bolt and a raindrop. The other Guardians were surprised, to say the least. When they looked at him to comment, however, they saw him asleep on the bed, the blanket over his sister, and underneath him. North picked him up and was about to take him to the other room, when he opened his eyes a bit and mumbled,

"Keep an eye on her, will ya' Kangaroo? Thanks." then he was fast asleep. Bunny sighed and grabbed a chair. Sandy sent a little more dreamsand to her before leaving the room with the others, leaving the 2 alone, as a dream began to take shape above her head. Bunny watched idly at first, as she, Stormchase and Jack played and skated on the lake. He became more intrigued as he came into the picture, with Rainsong teaching him how to skate on the ice.

The scene changed when Rainsong and Stormchase made him a pair of wings made of snow and clouds, and began to teach him how to fly. It went perfectly at first, the 4 of them darting and diving through the air like birds. Stormchase and Jack disappeared as Jack chased Stormchase away in a game of tag.

Something happened, and one of dream 'Bunny's' wings stopped working and he began to plummet towards the lake. Rainsong screamed and dived after him, grabbing and trying to haul him upwards, with little success. She finally blasted snow, heaps upon heaps upon heaps of snow, and she pushed him away before they landed in it.

Dream 'Bunny' crawled out of the drift, glancing around and calling out her name. He hurried towards where she had landed and started digging, shouting her name. He dug right down to the ice; which was shattered to pieces. By the time he had gotten a hold on himself, it was too late. The ice had frozen over. He climbed out of the hole and spotted a wire wrapped heart shaped necklace. He reached over and picked it up. He wished for her to be alright, to still be with him, to be alive.

There was a bright flash of light from the necklace, followed by a thunderclap. When he opened his eyes again, she was there before him. She gently took the necklace from him and put it around her neck, before hugging him tightly and saying,

"I will never truly leave you. Not in the past, not now, not ever. Many things are so much more than what they seem. You only need to learn to look beyond the surface, to see what truly lies beneath." Rainsong said. The 2 began to run and play in the snow. As the dream sand dissipated, it looked like dream 'Rainsong' was changing, her fox tail shrinking, her fox ears growing, until it seemed like there were 2 Pooka's running side by side in the snow. It dissipated entirely, as Rainsong sank deeper into sleep.

Bunny began to think over what he had seen. It appeared like she was willing to risk her life for another's safety, and what she said about never truly leaving pulled up a memory that he thought he had buried long ago. The memory was of his long lost kit.


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