For Good Sportmanship.

EP8: Piper's POV

Aerrow jumped onto the slanted beams, and lunged from side to side to make it across to the rings where he had to swing to each one to go on to the next section.

He's going too fast, he's going to get tired...

He landed on a platform and from there he had to walk on a log to the other side. Then he had to run to get momentum to jump and pull himself up a wall.

After that he had to climb up a rope. He struggled really hard on that one, it was cardio then upper body strength to balance then cardio again and upper body strength-It's a pattern, the obstacle course is rigged!

"Watch closely how your Sky Knight fails you,"

"Shut up Cycloniss, because I plan on beating you. You just worry about that."

"Hmph."

"Come on Aerrow, you can do it!" He dove into a downward tunnel, he must have dove in wrong because we all heard him grunt as he slid down awkwardly inside.

Coming out you can see he was breathless. He had to go through the tires, more cardio, and jump over a log like revers limbo. In order to win the crystal he had to clear it without taking out the log.

But because he was too tired, he didn't get a good jump on it and the log collapsed under him.

"Ah!"

"Aerrow!"


Latem's P.O.V.

I ran to the local pterodactyl stable with the rest running after me.

"Sir, sir!" I yelled. The care taker was taking off the saddles from the backs of the birds.

"We need four please,"

"Oh, uh..." Finn, Junko and Stork just caught up.

"I'm afraid I only have three-"

"Deal!"


Back to Piper...

"Well one down, one to go!" I ran to him.

"Aerrow are you okay?" I took his arm over my shoulders and supported his weight.

"Yeah those bags of rice aren't soft though,"

"Too bad, he looked like he was going to win."

"You better do better than your leader Piper, or I'll win..." she said with a smile.

"Maybe the battle, but not the war." I pulled Aerrow to a chair that someone kindly provided.

"It's okay if we don't win Piper I-"

"I will, I'm lighter so I'm sure I'll make the jump."

"Cycloniss plays dirty, so be careful."

"Just worry about that bump on your head."

"Alright kid if you fail, then this girl wins the crystal. Are we clear?"

"Crystal."

"Hear that everybody?! Now, *horn blares*"


Back to Latem...

Stork-"I think-I'm gonna hurl...hmmrgh!" The up and down movements of the bid's flying wasn't good for his stomach.

"Not on Sandy your not!" I yelled.

Finn-"They have names?" he asked incredulously.

"Yeah they do."

"Cool! What's mine?"

"Finn." I said with a grin. I passed a totally confused sharpshooter.

Junko-"Lily is such a sweet girl, he he!"

"Now let's hurry, crystal reserves are always subjected to bandits."

Finn-"Like those?" I looked towards the direction he was pointing at.

"No, that's new."


The next scene is brought down from the right corner by the flap of Latem's pterodactyl...

We went onto the ramps, Cycloniss managed to be on the ramp in front of me the rest of the way but while she walked on the log, I was shimming up on its belly risking that my hands got stepped on.

"Hey, that's cheatin'!" yelled the big man.

Aerrow-"I don't remember hearing you say she had to walk over," I can imagine him giving the man the "I'm technically right, deal with it" smile.

We were tied at the wall and I fought to recover from the fall to get a head start at the rope put we were still head to head.

"You know *grunt* it doesn't matter if I don't get the crystal," she said pulling herself up.

"There's a team at the nearest crystal reserve picking up every single one of them." She pulled herself up for the third time.

...I'll check the nearest crystal reserve. Hopefully it isn't empty...

That was what she said before the rest of the team head over here. I pulled harder and faster to catch up with Cycloniss who was a few spots above me.

"I'm not so worried about losing either Lark. We'll be the victors and in case you haven't noticed, half of the team isn't here!"

I dove into the tunnel leaving her behind.


Let's catch up with the others...

"RAWR!" The green-gray giant monster roared and hurled a rock from the ground at us.

"What is that!"

Finn-"We didn't officially meet!"

Stork-"Allow me...monster, us, us, GIANT MONSTER WAH!" He swerved away.

Sand flew into my eye and I instinctively pulled the reins back. Sunny of course flew down to land but a rock disrupted her path and we were going down. I fell off the side, hit a hump of rock and rolled down it.

"Well if it isn't the wimpiest of the lot." I heard a man say.

Stork-"Dark Ace."

"You're late, we've already packed them all so we won't be staying any longer."

Finn-"We're not letting you get away with that,"

Stork-"We aren't?" Junko found me and helped me up.

"Who's this guy?"

DarkAce-"You'll learn soon enough. Attack!" Three of five of those Hulks ran towards us. We sprawled.

DA-"Ha ha ha, head back to base." he ordered the other two who had giant carts of turbo crystals.

"Hey! That's more than your share!"

DA-"Are you gonna cry?"

"I'll show you who's the girl here!" I ran and tackled him to the ground.

"Get off of me you pest!"

"Junko, stop them!"

Junko-"How?!" He was running around the area trying to get away from one of them. I looked and Finn and Stork weren't doing so well either.

"Argh!" Dark Ace or whatever pushed me off. He was strong. I took out a Flare crystal and turned away from it's bright light. It was brighter than the sun.

"Nyah!" I swept my leg from under him, taking him down, and ran to Sandy, the nearest one.

Thanks Dad.

"Sandy, up! We're not letting him get away with all of them."


Back to the girlfriends at odds...

I ran through the tires, buying me time to prepare for the jump.

"Ha!" Slow mo of Piper twisting in mid-air so the arc gave her more height as she went over. Her shirt barely brushed the log.

The crowd's cheer was deafening. The man pulled me up and held my arm up.

"There she is, our winner! What a surprise, I was sure blondie would win."

"I guess I did win huh?" She clapped softly.

"I can be a good sport friend." and she walked into the crowd, lost again. A friend of the large man gave him the prize to hand over to me. Aerrow limped over and gave my back a pat.

"You were awesome!"

"Move out of the way! Aerrow! Piper!" I turned to the yells of Finn. He and the other guys were running over.

Aerrow-"Hey, how'd it go?"

Finn-"Pretty good, but it's gonna get bad."

"What do you mean?" I saw Latem storm over here with a dark expression.

"What's going on, and I want the truth."

AN- O-Spaghetti-os! Things are gonna get GOOD!

When the DA said pest, it's because the writers wouldn't have had him say freak. Censorship laws of inappropriate words on kids TV.

Stork-"Ca-can we *wheeze* *wheeze* *thud* argh."

"Stork!"