Chapter 10: Vegetarian

You could hear Aerrow and Piper talking before you could see them.

"If you ever try that again-" Piper said. " I swear…." but she was laughing as she said it.

Aerrow looked pleased with himself. " You have to admit- it was pretty fun!"

"Fun?" she exclaimed unable to stop smiling. She threw her arms up in the air. "I had to blast that wall open!"

"Yeah." said Aerrow. He sighed wistfully. "Where I would be with out you Piper?"

She stopped. "You'd be stuck to that wall, and be about two inches thick." She measured the distance with her thumb and finger.

They laughed and entered the bridge.

"Hey guys, " said Aerrow seeing Stork and Finn, "You wouldn't believe what-um, Finn?"

"Yeah?" replied Finn tiredly (he was still in his white towel- which was technically grey now).

"Why is your hair pink? And why are you umm, wearing that dirty towel?"

"And why," added Piper, "do you have two Chroma crystals."

"Well I can explain-"

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Piper was looking at the damage in her room shacking her head (why was it always her room?) and sighed.

"I'm really sorry Piper," said Finn cringing, afraid she would attack him at any moment. "I promise to clean it up."

"You'd better," muttered Piper tiredly. She looked over at Finn. . "Now let me see those crystals."

Finn handed over the crystals while Piper looked closely at them. "Huh," she muttered curiously. "Well they certainly look the same." She commented.

"At least now we know what the Cyclonians wanted the Iris crystals for." said Aerrow. "They could have replicated any crystal they wanted."

Piper was still looking intently at the crystals. "I wonder…"

She tossed one of the crystals at Aerrow.

"Try activating it." she said.

As though on cue, the crystal began to glow and Aerrow's form changed in a flash of light. He appeared to wearing different clothes and his hair was a light blue. Piper activated her crystal as well, and her hair tuned pink, her clothes all grey.

"I can't believe it!" she exclaimed staring at the crystal. "A perfect transformation of the composition!" She was ecstatic. " Can you imagine what we could do?" her eyes got big and shiny the way they always did whenever crystal were involved. "It's the discovery of the centaury!"

"Yeah," said Finn not sounding interested. "that's nice and all. Now can I pleeease have one?"

Aerrow handed Finn his crystal. "Why is your hair pink in the first place?" he asked.

Stork cringed inconspicuously.

"Long. Story." muttered Finn giving Stork the death glare.

Finn held out the crystal. Please just work, he thought pleadingly. The crystal responded, and a bright flash of purple tinged light erupted.

"Did it work?" asked Finn eagerly, looking up but unable to see the change.

Junko held up a mirror.

Finn's hair was blue.

"Blue?" he exclaimed. "I wanted blond! How do I make it blond?"

"You just have to imagine it blond," said Piper. "Like so," She closed her eyes and her form flashed once more. Now her hair was red.

Finn looked at her stupidly. "Your hair's red, not blond." Piper rolled her eyes. "That's because I imagined it red. Now you try."

Finn closed his eyes and tried to imagine his hair blond.

Blond, he thought. Blond blond blond blond blond…

Hmmm...blondes. Cute little blond girls in short skirts and flirty pink tank tops, showing off their curvy bodies…

The crystal flashed.

Finn opened his eyes. "Did it work?" he asked eagerly. His team-mates faces were shocked, then, they broke out into peals of laughter.

"What?" he asked.

"Wrong type of blonde," said Aerrow chuckling. Junko held up the mirror again.

Oh Finn was blonde alright. In fact, he looked just like the blond girl he'd been imagining.

"Ahhg!" he screamed in a girly voice that had nothing to do with the crystal at all. He clasped both hands over the crystal and though of own normal dude face as hard as he could. The crystal flashed for the third time.

He opened his eyes hesitantly.

"Am I girl?" he asked.

"Well you don't look like one anymore if that's what you mean." said Stork slyly.

Finn opened his eyes and checked the mirror.

"YES!" he cried. "HELLO GORGEOUS!" he grabbed the mirror and kissed his reflection. "Now I can get ready for the dance."

"Oh yeah!" said Junko. " I gotta go pick up Cardinal!" he put the mirror in Stork's hands (which Stork didn't seem very pleased about at all).

"Wait," said Piper, "What dance? Who's Cardinal?"

"Some waitress who asked Junko to the Valentines' Dance." Stork carefully leaning the mirror up against the wall. "Anyway. I should get ready for the dance too."

Pipers face dropped. "You're going to the dance!?"

Stork smiled devilishly.

"Of course I am. I wouldn't want to miss Finn losing our little bet." He said.

"Winning the bet." Finn corrected. "We're going to the Singles' Dance to pick up some hotties. Or at least," he turned to Stork, "I am."

Stork rolled his eyes.

"What bet?" asked Aerrow.

"Oh nothing," said Stork. "I wouldn't worry about it. Let's just say it's going to be a lot quieter around the Condor after tonight."

"Huh?" was all Aerrow managed.

Pipe raised an eyebrow. "Is there anything else we should know about?" she said. You leave the guys alone for a couple hours and everything happens.

"Uh don't think so," said Finn, as he turned to go, then looked back. "Oh yeah, except, you're coming."

"What?" said Piper and Aerrow in union.

"Well," said Finn slyly, "Either you're coming to the Singles Dance with us, or you're going to the Valentine's Dance as a couple." his eyebrows did a little dance.

"We don't have to go to anything," said Aerrow feeling uncomfortable. "Right Ra- ...?" he looked from his shoulder then around the room. 'Where's Radarr?" he asked, and it dawned on him that he hadn't seen the little guy around since he got back.

Finn shrugged. "Said he was going for a walk or something back in town. Dunno."

"You just left him in town alone?" said Aerrow shocked.

"Naaah, he can take care of himself." said Finn. "I'm sure he'll show up soon enough."

"Storm Hawks are supposed to stick together, Finn. " he said. "Who knows what's happened to him?"

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Two wine glasses full of grape juice clinked together. The little table on the restaurant's open balcony overlooked a beautiful sunset, dipping behind the edge of Terra Muse.

The two diners squawked and chattered quietly, while a young musician played a harp of in the far corner.

A male waiter with a black curly moustache came over to their table notepad and pen in hand.

"So what would you like to order?" he asked the odd looking couple. It was not everyday you saw a hen and a...a blue monkey thing (what was the blue one anyways?) dining together.

The blue furry one and the hen looked at each other, then replied to the waiter in a series of incomprehensible squawks and chitters then looked at the waiter expectantly.

"Ummm…" said the waiter unsurely. "Maybe you'd like to hear our specials?" He guessed.

The two nodded eagerly.

"Well," said the waiter. "There's our roast chicken special tonight…"

The hen jumped back and squawked insulted. The blue thing jumped on the table and growled shaking a fist at the waiter who cowered.

"Er..my apologies..perhaps something vegetarian instead?"

Yeah it's been a while since I uploaded Fluff. I have more diffuclties writing this one- just not in the 'fluffy' mood I guess. Nothing really happens in this chap either. It's all a kind of inbetween one should be better. Bit of RadarrXNamelessStalkerHen at the end too.