HIYAAAA!! I'm back! Sorry I haven't updated for awhile. I keep going to my cousin's place for the weekends. So normally, I won't be updating during weekends. ANYWAY, over the week, something funny happened with my friends and me, so I think I'm going to recreate the story in a Storm Hawks version sometime. And I just might tell some other funny stories of my life in SH version too. Okay, on with the story.

"Family's Gone"

He did it. One simple order, yet a hard one to carry out. But he still did it.

Tanner stared at his hands in disbelief.

"I just took down the Storm Hawks…"


Sora's POV

Groan.

What…what happened?

I turned my head to look at my surroundings. On the ground, couch on my left…Aerrow and Radarr?...Oh…now I remember.

Yeah. Unfortunately. The Storm Hawks went to try and stop Cyclonia from its invasion, and Mom was taken by the Talons. So Aerrow, Radarr, and I were sleeping just to pass some time.

Aerrow and Radarr were still asleep, so I decided to just mope around the house while they still slept. There was no purpose to waking them up, we still had to wait for whatever would come.

It was raining now, so I got up and walked over to look out a window, which was overlooking the small woods that also lived with us on our terra.

Huh?

Bits of fire were falling from the sky, and following it were pieces of metal.

What…is going on?

A figure fell from the sky as well, crash landing on the terra, in the woods. I recognized the body shape and the hair. My eyes widened.

"Dad?..."

I dashed out the door, sprinting as fast as I could towards the woods.

No no no! This can't be happening!

As I reached the edge of the woods, a sound of something falling was heard. I turned my head towards where the sound came from, and what appeared before my eyes was just unbelievable. The Condor was falling apart and was in flames as it fell through the sky, down to the Wastelands.

What?!

I sprinted over to the edge of the terra, slipping on mud as I went. Finally reaching the end, I peeked over the edge and saw nothing, but clouds. Clouds, and the Wastelands burning below them. But no Condor.

"No! No no no!" I clutched my head in my hands in despair.

Shaking my head, I got up and dashed through the woods. There was still hope. There was still Dad.

"Dad? Dad! Where are you?" I called out.

"Sora! Get away from here! Go away!" a voice yelled. It had to be Dad.

"Dad! What's going on? Where are you?"

Reaching an open area within the forest, my eyes lay upon a figure trying to get up from the ground. It was Dad.

I ran over to him and helped him up. His mouth and nose were dripping with blood, his body all bruised up, his face cut up.

"Dad, what happened?" I whispered.

"Sora, you have to get out now! You have to get off the terra! They're coming!" he snapped.

I ignored him, and the last part he said. "Dad! You have to tell me what happened! And I'm not going to go without you! What happened to everyone?"

He looked at me with an expression that gave me the chills.

"We lost."

"What?"

"We couldn't defeat Cyclonia, and we all fell."

"No…what about all the squadrons? What about the Storm Hawks??"

"All the squadrons are fine. But ours…" he trailed off.

"What? What happened to Gunner?…Jake?...Enna?...Zoram?"

He just shook his head.

"I saw the Condor go down into the Wastelands. Surely, everyone else is somewhere safe!" I shouted.

"No…they…they're all gone…"

"NO! That can't be!" I yelled even louder.

"Sora! They're coming! You have to go now!" Dad started pushing me away and appeared to be getting ready for a battle. He looked up into the sky, expecting something to come.

"Tanner! What happened to Tanner? Dad! Please tell me Tanner is alright!"

Dad turned to look toward me. His eyes, full of sadness.

Oh…oh no…!

"He's…" Dad hesitated. "He…he's gone too."

The whole world stopped moving. The rain stopped. The woods around me disappeared. Dad froze in position. My heartbeat was then the only thing I heard.

Tanner…gone…

A faint voice began to penetrate my trance.

"Sora…Sora…Sora!"

Everything came back, the rain, the woods, Dad, and I snapped back into reality.

"Sora! They're coming! GO!"

"What? Dad! NO! I'm not leaving without you! Aerrow wouldn't either!"

"Sora! You have to go NOW! The Talons are coming!"

"Dad!" I began to cry.

He ran up to me and held my face in his hands. "Sora…my daughter…take this," he held out the Sardonix crystal, the crystal of our dear terra, Sardonia. "Be a good girl…and take care of Aerrow for me…tell him I love him very much. And I love you."

"I will Dad…" I cried.

Aurinn's POV

I heard the treetops above us begin to shake immensely. The Talons were here, and making their way down the trees. Not only were the Talons here, but Tanner too. I shoved Sora into the bushes so the Talons wouldn't take her, and so that she wouldn't see what a monster Tanner became.

Once Sora landed into the bushes, I knew she sensed that she really needed to go, and she did. She gave me one last look, and mouthed "I love you Dad" then ran out the woods, and never looked back. That was the last time I saw her.


"Aurinn, I'm surprised you survived. You're a tough one, aren't you?" Tanner said.

"I'm surprised at what a monster you've become! Why have you done this, Tanner?" Aurinn snapped back.

Tanner punched Aurinn square in the face, knocking him over hard on the ground. "It's Dark Ace. And where's the crystal?" Dark Ace walked over and stamped him foot on Aurinn's chest.

"Why should I tell you?" he grunted. "But I'll tell you anyways! It's with Sora! And I know you love her! So don't you dare hurt her!"

Dark Ace just stood above Aurinn, and his face completely changed from bad guy attitude, to sad. He sighed.

"Aurinn…I'd never hurt Sora. And I don't want her to EVER get hurt. She never will be. That's why…I…have to…get rid of you."

"What?"

"I made a deal with Master Cyclonis that if I killed all the Storm Hawks, then Sora would be spared, and Aerrow, too."

Aurinn just closed his eyes.

"So be it," he said.

Then, Tanner, not Dark Ace, said, "Aerrow, Sora, please forgive me."

And Aurinn of the Storm Hawks was no more.


Sora's POV

Gasp.

The house was right in front of me and I slipped and fell onto the ground. Something happened. Something was gone. I knew it would happen. And I knew that it just happened. Dad was gone. Gone.

I got up and continued to do what I was supposed to do. Get off the terra.

"Aerrow! Radarr! Get what you need and go to the garage NOW!" I yelled.

"Wha-? Sora? Where have you been? What happened?" Aerrow asked, panicking.

Looking at him square in the eyes, I said, "Too much to tell. But we need to go. We're in danger." Then, I started grabbing supplies.

Aerrow did the same, Radarr too. We finally got packed in a mere two minutes and ran down to the garage. Aerrow and Radarr were already seated on my skimmer, and I was making final adjustments. Then, I looked around the room we were in. This was the last time we were going to be here. This was the last time we'd be on Terra Sardonia, our home. There was no use to coming back. Memories would flood our heads, bad ones, if we came back. There was nothing left to come back to. Everyone that once lived here was dead, except for us.

As I got onto the skimmer, I realized I forgot one thing.

"Hold on, Aerrow, I'll be right back."

I ran up to my room and headed to my night desk. On its surface, was a picture. A picture of all of us. Storm Hawks. Family. I quickly grabbed it and ran back to the garage and stuffed it in my bag, then sat down in my skimmer.

"Okay…time to say goodbye," I whispered.

We flew off into the rainy and gray sky. I had no clue where I was going, or where I should go. We had no map, no navigational system, nothing to guide us anywhere. Worst of all, we had no where to go to, no one to go to.

The rain beat hard on us, so I got a blanket to wrap around Aerrow and Radarr. There wasn't enough room to store another blanket, so I didn't have one. But I didn't care.

I didn't care about anything anymore. I was devasted. Our whole family was now gone. Tanner…was…gone. It hurt so much just to think that. And now, only Radarr, Aerrow, and I were left of the Storm Hawks. Well, we weren't even Storm Hawks. We were just part of the family of the sky knight.


Meanwhile, somewhere down in the Wastelands, two figures were wandering about.

"Dad? Is that the Condor over there?" one of the figures asked.

"Son, that is! Hurry, we have to get over there!" the other figure responded.

A few hours passed, and the two figures found no survivors in the Condor.

"Everyone's dead. And…Gunner's dead too, Dad," the first figure hung his head.

The dad shook his head. A tear dropped from his face. "Gunner was brave to die like that. I'm very proud of him and his crew to go out there and try to stop Cyclonia. I'm going to fix up the Condor for him and his crew."

"Dad, are you serious? It's going to take ages!"

"It's the least we can do to honor the Storm Hawks…and Gunner," the dad replied.

"O…okay," the son added.


Sora's POV

We flew on and on. My skimmer had a full tank when we left, and now we only had enough to go for ten minutes. I wasn't able to spot a single terra in the rain. And Aerrow and Radarr didn't either, because they were sleeping most of the time. We flew for about a full twenty-four hours by now, and our food supply was running as low as our gas.

It was still raining, and I was tired, cold, and hungry. With barely any money, food, or gas, we were screwed. And knowing that my family was gone didn't help at all.

My eyelids started to get heavy, and they began drooping.

No…no…stay…awake…huh? Is that…a tree? Wait…TREE?? SHIT!

My reflexes quickly triggered me to push Aerrow and Radarr off the skimmer before we crashed into the tree. They fell off somewhere, but were safe. I, on the other hand, crashed into the tree. My skimmer broke into pieces, and I rolled off somewhere. Pain gradually crept into my body, and I couldn't move. My head turned toward the two I had left. They were awake, and safe. That was the most important thing. Safe. They ran over to me.

"Sora! Sora! Sora!" I heard Aerrow yell. "Sora! Please be okay!" He tried to hold me in a semi-sitting, semi-laying position.

"Aerrow…" I smiled.

Then…blackness.

He said he'd never leave me.


Oh, man. So many things have happened! And could you guess who the two figures were in the Wastelands? Will the Dark Ace come back into Sora's life? Where have Sora, Aerrow, and Radarr landed? What will happen to Sora? Is she dead? Or is she still alive? What will happen next? So many questions only to be answered by the story itself!

If you have the time, please feel free to rate and review. I'd love to hear from you. The more reviews, the faster I'm likely to update the story! Okay, cya next time! CIAO!