A/N: Thank you dear readers for all your patience. You are so kind. This chapter goes back to Piper's POV. Once again I must sadly admit that I do not own the Storm Hawks. Oh, but how I wish I did. Anyway, that is enough of me babbling, and one with the story.

The dream seemed so real so alive. It was like watching a movie play on the big screen at the movie theater. I was seeing a figure being put into a dome like machine. They were being strapped to a chair. When they were fully strapped in, I could then tell that it was a girl. But I couldn't tell who it was, but she seemed familiar.

There were three others in the room. They however were on the other side of the prison. They seemed to be arguing. But then they abruptly stopped. Then the shortest and smallest-most likely another girl-went to a control station. Then there was a bright light and even through the thick looking glass I could hear the scream of agony. I could feel myself toss and turn in my sleep, as if the sound was hurting me.

When it stopped, there was nothing but silence for a long while. One of the figures then said what was going through my mind process. "Oh dear God, we killed her." "Like I said you idiots, this was an experiment. I called it that for a reason." Said another "Wait, she's moving!" one of them said excitedly.

"Let her out. Let us see how well this worked." The in command person said. The sound of metal complaining against the pressure to open filled my ears. "How do you feel my dear?" came a much anticipated voice. "Like I have finally been awoken from what seemed to a never sleep." Came the voice of the girl that was not to long ago screaming. "Perfect."

The light of the early morning sun came through the window. I went to get up, but found that I can't. I was being pinned down by something. I couldn't even turn onto my back to see what was pinning me to the bed. "Don't even try to scream." came a female's voice. The most eerie thing of this was, was that I knew the voice. "Why are you doing this Amirra." I demanded. "Because my dear and naïve friend, my husband and I want that treasure that only you can find." She said pushing me into the bed even harder.

"What treasure? What has Domiwick done to you?" I said willing my voice not to shake. That's when I realized that, it was Amirra in the glass dome in the dream. Something was done to her, probably on Cyclonia. "Some many questions and no time to talk. You're coming with me, and if you scream out to your little brats, I swear I will make you regret it." She said pulling me up with her, and heading for the window.

She pushed me out the window and to my great surprise I didn't hit the ground. I was caught…by none other than Dark Ace. Then Amirra appeared next to us. Then we (me being reluctantly carried) walked back to their skimmers. "Ah Piper, how have you been?" Domiwick asked with a smug grin spread all over his sick and twisted face. "Shove the nice routine up your ass grant it will fit up there next to your head, and cut to the chase." I said growing rapidly tired of being held by Dark Ace.

"I think my dear; Amirra has already explained your role in all of this. You're to be our guide to the treasure of Xexeria. After all you know that terra, like the back of your own hand." Domiwick said wrapping an arm around Amirra's waist. "And how pray tell do you know about my past?" I asked shifting my weight in my captors' arms.

"You just gotta love Master Cyclonis' library. She was books on everything and everyone. Including you and the rest of your bratty friends." Amirra said snuggling into Domiwick slightly. It made me feel like I was gonna barf. "So you know that I'm from Terra Xexeria. And what's this treasure to you anyway."

"They are only interested in the books that it holds. And Cyclonis gets the rest. This is fair considering she is being so gracious to them in letting them borrow what ever they might need." Dark Ace spoke. "We're wasting time just standing here, let's go already." Amirra whined. "Yes we should be on our way." Domiwick agreed. I was put on Dark Ace's skimmer and the funny thing was, he didn't trust me to sit behind him.

"Now let me inform you of something. If you try to mislead us or refuse to do what we say, I can't promise that your little Aerrow won't be safe for much longer." Dark Ace whispered in my ear. "And let me tell you something, just because you and that thing over there don't have the balls to go out on your own to find this treasure, doesn't mean that I'm going to mislead you. Besides if I do this for you, you'll have to let me go, or else you'll get your sorry asses kick by Aerrow again." I said as he started to navigate us toward the terra.

BACK AT THE HOUSE

Aerrow woke up with a raging headache. The last thing he remembered was a figure coming at him and the hard blow that knocked him out. He looked around at the surroundings to find that he was in the basement. But his hands were tied to something behind his back. He pulled his hands toward him, only to receive a howl of pain.

"Ow man STOP!" Finn's voice cried out. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't know." He quickly apologized. "Finally you wake up, have you any idea how completely mind numbing it is to sit tied up to Finn for an hour." Stork demanded. "Uh guys, why are we even tied together?" Junko asked.

"I don't know, but we've got to figure a way out of this. Piper's not here, she must have been kidnapped." Finn said with surprising thoughtfulness. "Ok let's get separated and go find Piper." Aerrow agreed. And for the next three hours that's what they did, tried to get out.

BACK TO PIPER

As we neared the terra, my mind wandered. But little did I know that I was actually just having another dream. All I could see was the sea. It stretched and shook slightly from the waves. But then I felt the feeling of falling. I was falling off of a cliff. As I broke the waters surface, I could see a shimmer. But it was impossible to make out. Darkness engulfed me, and I felt my body lean back until I hit Dark Ace's chest. And a quick sleep came to me. But the last thing that flashed through my mind before I totally fell asleep was Aerrow. God, how I hoped he was ok, but I was too tired to worry all the much. I would worry when I woke up.