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Chapter 8

"I said I wanted to talk first didn't I."

The Dark Ace walked forward and knelt before Cyclonis.

"Master, once done, it would be my pleasure to finish off that pesky boy of a Sky Knight."

Finn snorted at his predicament whispering something like 'beat your ass enough times' under his breath, earning a chuckle from the rest of his team and a glare that could kill a man from the red eyed knight.

"And the blonde too... Slowly" Finn visibly gulped.

"You can do what you like as long as you make them suffer." She responded in monotone showing no feeling beneath her hard exterior.

"For now do what you came here to do..."

"Yes mistress." Dark Ace was back on his feet heading towards the hall that leads to the bed rooms, as he past the tied up hawks he smiled evilly making them cringe.

"You're going to love this Storm Hawks." Then disappeared, only his footsteps could be heard, all heads turned back to the winged female at the front.

"What do you want Cyclonis? What is he doing?!" Aerrow demanded while Finn and Junko sent dirty looks at her, all the while Radar tried to chew through the scarlet chain binding him useless, except each time he tried a painful shock was sent through his system, after his 3rd try he gave up with a angry growl.

"Tsk tsk tsk. Patience is a virtue, you will see..." She gave it a little more thought before adding on, "well you won't... Because you will die here soon hehehe" laughing half heartily she began circling the males and monkey, like a lion with prey.

"So I may as well tell you the real reason I'm here and a secret from one of those closest to you... Its a shame really... Keeping something like that from those so close... Hmmm" she came to a stop along with the sets of eyes that followed her movements.

"As you know I am a as you say a 'Dragon'... Cyl Igneous, my families insignia," she lifted the hair off the back of her neck to reveal a flame like tattoo, "the insignia of the family who ratted out our kinds location and brought them down to their knees before slaughtering every single on of them and watching the terra fall..." She gave a cheery smile at the memories of the screams and dying calls of those she once called 'friends'.

"You- you're the ones... YOU KILLED YOUR OWN PEOPLE!" Aerrow screamed as the sadistic woman giggled. He was left with nothing where as she took away everything she had for fun.

Her smile suddenly turned into an angry frown "Not everyone... Unfortunately for 'me' someone managed to escape..." She hissed.

The corner of her mouth twitched up as she noticed a special book on the main table. Cyl slowly swayed her way over, picking it up she shook her head and laughed.

"So you know already huh?" She opened the book and flicked through the pages before slamming her hand down on a certain page and glared, before bursting into hysterics, wings shaking with each laugh.

"Smart *giggle* girl *giggle*" she just managed to make out the words. Finn rolled his eyes, as the other stared in confusion.

She slammed the book down in front of them making the$ jump a little at the sudden movement.

"She burnt out the name... Smart smart girl."

"What are you talking about?!" Aerrow pushed, trying to find out what the sadist was talking about.

"The final 'pure blood' name has been burnt out of the book... Haven't you noticed?" She mocked their stupidity.

"Yeah... What of it?" Finn for some reason feeling courageous inquired.

"Well if you know the last name... You would know the person." She winked at Finn making him fake gag.

"As long as one pure blood lives another must live also... That in turn means the infinity games live on." She again flicked through the book till she came to the last 1 and a half pages.

"Ahhh you already know the date... A day after my birthday... Shame you won't be around to celebrate it." She joked.

"That's all good and dandy but what does this have to do with us?!" Aerrow was getting frustrated; it made no sense to him... He was glad Piper was away and safe... Piper he missed her.

Cyclonis raised an eyebrow at the red head, and then pulled out a book from under her cloak.

It was an old red leathered book, seemed to be in good condition, and also looked familiar.

"Tha- that's the Igeous's copy of Tale of Dragamos... How did you get it?" Junko stared in awe at the book being presented.

Cyclonis took a deep breath and shook her head giving Junko an incredulous look, "I am a Igneous you idiotic wallop!"

Flicking through the book she stopped at the last 2 pages with a mischievous grin and shoved it in front of Junko's face.

"Read it... If you can... The last paragraph of the last page."

Junko took a deep breath before beginning.

" Day: 11th
Month: October
Year: 3300"

another nervous breath.

"Cyl igneous VS P-" Junko stopped and stared wide eyed, jaw on the floor.

"Yes... That's right... Look what your precious team mate never told you." She laughed at the irony.

"Finish it! Say that name!" She demanded voice loud and frightful, Junko was shaking eyes rimmed with tears.

"Junko what is it?" Aerrow asked worried... He'd never seen him like this.

"Come on mate just say it." Finn encouraged he was also worried for his best friend.

"Yes go on reveal her secret..." Cyclonis whispered into his ear, making him shiver at her cold tone.

"Cyl igneous VS... VS," radar Aerrow and Finn edged closer, Cyclonis's grin widened, "VS... P-Piper Draganeel..." He whispered her name. However everyone else heard it as if he shouted it to the world. "But that's impossible right!" He looked over to Aerrow to get confirmation that his fear was not true

"What... Isn't that... No there's no way... She couldn't be!" Aerrow argued not believing his ears. Finn stayed silent thinking it over.

'Piper... It couldn't be... Why wouldn't she tell me?! I'm her best friend...'

"It makes sense... But it's still a surprise..." The blonde whispered to himself that no one heard.

"Yes Aerrow you heard right... Your beloved crystal specialist is actually one of my kinds... A Dragmosian 'dragon'... The one that escaped... The one that will be fighting to the death with me... And the one-"

"And the one that will kick your crazy ass to kingdom come." All heads shot to the door to the helm from the hanger.

"Stork?!"

"I see you guys are in a bit of a pickle... I guess I shall leave you to your fate..." He pivoted back out towards his strange flying contraption that he calls a 'sky ride', however a sinister voice stopped him in his tracks and made him smirk and eye twitch.

"What did you just say?!" Cyclonis challenged... She was fuming, the feather on her wings ruffled.

"I said... She will flaw you... To put it simply" Stork replied like he didn't have a care in atmos. The others looked up to his bravery.

Finn turned his head to look at Cyclonis glaring, "You got that right, we don't care what she is, but this is piper we're talking about, and knowing her she can overcome and out think anything in her path whether that be you or an army!" Everyone looked a little stunned at Finn's outburst, then he realized what he just said, "urmmm no one tell her I said that..." Junko giggled, that was defiantly Finn, he would never complement Piper when she was around, but he idolized her.

"I agree with Finn, you can't beat her Cyclonis, she's better than you!" Aerrow backed up Finn, each storm hawk was smiling their confidence and courage was building, while Cyclonis's anger was brimming.

"As I was saying... She's stronger than a psycho bitch like you."

That was the last straw, the humanoid snapped.

Using her crystal staff she threw each member across the room

*THUMP/WACK*

until they collided hard with the steel wall of the condor.

Each person breath was drawn out sharply; Aerrow hit the corner of the metal door frame and spat blood as he collided, meaning something, probably a rib had punctured one of his lungs.

*Thump*

They hit the floor in pain, gasping for the breath that was lost, and trying to move as little as possible since they knew ribs had been cracked.

Out of nowhere Aerrow, Finn, Stork and Junko's right hands began glowing, the light made them squint their pain began to cease, once the blinding light dimmed the after result was a mark.

Not just any mark.

"The Draganeel insignia! Impossible! They are only able to have 'One' rider... How?!"

On each of their hands a black dragon was curled tightly (top of PP). However Aerrow's was larger than the rest.

"I thought only a blocking crystal was able to make them appear..." Stork mumbled to himself, making Aerrow stare at him dazed, he wanted to know what Stork knew at this point in time.. Storks eyes widened for a second "...unless..." He whispered. He had managed to catch everyone's attention.

"Merb?! What is it?! What is the meaning of this?!" Cyclonis shouted.

Stork just ducked his head before raising it with a smile on his face and gave a throaty laugh.

"You're in deep shit..."

*BOOM!*

An explosion from outside the condor shook the surrounding area, 6 sets of eyes watched as smoke, flames and the remainders of a battle cruiser fell to the waste lands.

1 down 2 to go.

*BOOM!*

The second fell, ripped in 2, parachutes filled the sky along with thick black trails of smoke.

A frantic looking talon sprinted into the condor's helm; all eyes turned their attention to the panting Cyclonian.

"Master *pant* Cyclonis! *pant*!"

"What's going on!?" Cyl ordered.

"Something is *pant* taking down our ships! *pant*!" He pointed to where the battle cruisers once were.

"But what?!... What the hell is doing this you insolent fool!" The look in her eyes could kill life as we know it.

The talon was so scared he was practically pissing himself, that made radar try to block his nose from the pungent odour.

"A- a ... Dragon Mistress!"

"Told you so..." Stork boasted earning a daggered glare from the female.

"RAAAAWWWWWRRR" a monstrous cry reverberated throughout the condor making every one who could cover their ears.

*Boom!, Boom!, Boom!*

Sky Rides fell like flies.

"Piper!" Cyclonis growled, "that's absurd! How did she get here so quickly! She was at Gundstaffs! That's 2 hours flight!" She pointed at the talon crystal stall just grazing the underside of his nose, "Go! Use everything we have! Take her out of the sky's now!"

"NO!" The boys chorused.

"Yes mistress!" The talon saluted before running off into the battle field.

"ACE?! Where did that moron head off to now! He had a simple task!"

Master Cyclonis slowly turned towards the bound and writhing Storm Hawks, her violate eyes narrowed.

"Well a Dragon among Hawks... Interesting." She laughed before lifting a sharp clawed hand above the protectors of the sky ready to strike.

"It's a shame she will be the last one of you to die... I'm not even allowed to do this... i decided to bend the rules a little and make things in my favour... and Don't worry about piper when her time comes I will make it as painful as possible..." Her claws began to glow purple and grow, "time to die!" She brought her hand down at amazing speed.

"CYL!"

Inches away from Junko's face her taloned hand stopped. Junko let out a deep... Deep breath of relief

"Ahhh why isn't it my 'Best Friend Forever!'"

The boys turned to see piper in the door way that led to the hall way...

"Even think about laying a finger on them I will snap you precious 'Mate' in 2!"

All eyes widened as she brought out a choking Dark Ace, hand firmly gripping his throat, legs dangling a few feet off the ground.

But what shocked the boys the most were her orange eyes... Her pupils were slits and seemed deadly; they were practically spewing flames of anger.

Cyclonis gulped, she hadn't planned for her to get here so fast.

"I don't know what you're talking about... He is not my 'Mate' and I was just talking nothing more." Playing the innocent card, Cyclonis tried to get closer to Piper and Dark Ace, the bluenett took note and placed another hand by Ace's chest.

"Another step and he's fried..." She warned, Cyclonis stopped dead in her tracks.

"I know what he is to you... I can smell it..." Piper wrinkled her nose in disgust, "and frankly it smells revolting." Her grip tightened making Ace gurgle and claw at her hand, and Cyclonis to stiffen.

"You dare come here! Bring your army! Threaten and harm the people I care about!..." She walked towards Cyl the Dark Ace dragged behind, "did you forget that I have my full abilities! You are at the disadvantage!"

Even in the position she was in Cy stood her ground lifting her chin and standing tall.

"Actually I know you haven't practiced... And I know that you have not trained with you riders... And since this is the first time one of us has had more than 1 it will take time... And that's something that you do not have... 11 days... So you are the one that will fail!" Cyclonis reminded, sinister smile evident while Pipers face was going red with fury.

Closing her eyes and slowing her breath, slowly lowering Dark ace releasing her vice grip lightly, she replied calmly "You came here... That was your biggest mistake... I'm not allowed to kill you now...," this made Cyclonis relived her body relaxed, the others mainly Aerrow stared in amazement, wanting to disagree with her antics, Finn tried calling out to her, asking what she was thinking, but she seemed to be caught in thought, she then lifted her head a snarl forming at the back of her throat making everyone in the room freeze with terror, even Radar was whimpering.

"But I 'will' beat you to an 'inch' of your life! And you will not leave here unscathed and unscarred you BITCH!" Piper spat, Stork grinned he was enjoying the show.

Piper threw the Dark Ace with an enormous amount of strength out of the hanger doors he skidded and skimmed down the runway before slipping off the side down to the waste lands.

"NOOO!"

Cyclonis darted off at tremendous speed after him her wings providing extra thrust, until she leaped off the edge reaching out towards her rider.

"Pi! Your okay?! Please tell me what's going on!?" Aerrow pleaded the crystal specialist.

"Not now!" She pulled out a box shaped crystal a light turquoise colour, "I'll explain everything later!" Piper held it at arm's length towards the bound boys. A light emitted cancelling out the chains that held the rest, "for now get the condor out of here, Stork the engines are fixed! get somewhere safe!"

She placed a hand on Aerrow's cheek, her thumb gently caressing the soft skin.

"I have something I need to take care off... Make sure you get everyone out of here."

"But pi-"

"No buts I'll be there as soon as I can... I have some revenge that needs to be paid." She gave him a tentative but beautiful smile and Aerrow returned it goofily

"Okay... Be safe" he grabbed the hand on his cheek and kissed the palm, making her blush slightly.

"Like always!"

Piper ran towards the run way before going into a full out sprint and dove off the end.

Finn gave off a girlish scream, "She jumped!"

Stork smacked him upside the head, "she'll be fine!"

2 blurred shapes zoomed past the wind shield, one black the other white.

"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Junko pointed over to the shapes, the blurs hitting at each other before rebounding off into a different direction.

"You people are idiots... It's Piper! And the bitch!" Stork pointed out.

One of the battle ships cannons turned towards the fight up above the ships, before firing a shot. A pain filled roar was heard.

The white blur fell below the clouds from the impact, leaving swirling patterns in the greenish white condensed water.

The black blur flew down to come face to face with the condor.

The Dragon stared straight at them before snorting, Dark Ace visible on her back.

"Piper was the one hit!" Finn stated, Aerrow put his hand over his mouth, his face looked horrified.

Stork rolled his eyes, "It will take more than a crystal power to take out one of those...," Aerrow looked slightly more relived but still worried, Stork looked back over to the problem in front of them, mouth open fire building up in a spherical build, "it's us that need to be more worried about!"

"Get us out of here Stork!" Aerrow ordered.

"The engines are still warming up...Prepare for impact!"

*BOOM!...BANG!*

The back of the condor was blasted to bits, the boys hid behind the table as pieces of shrapnel the size to plates whizzed past, if they came in contact you would be shredded. The smell of smoke filled the room.

"Ughh you might wanna hold on tight... We're going down..."

Gravity seemed to disappear; they were flung up into the air before being steadied by the roof of the condor. Pressure on their bodies making them unable to move.

"Junko! Since this is the end... I just wanted to say... It was me who threw up in your teddy's handbag! I'm sorry!" Finn admitted

"So It was you!" accused Junko, he searched day and night for the culprit and had to throw away the special addition outfit since the bad was ruined.

"Actually that was because of me... I put rat poison in the vermin's food... But it had the opposite effect of what I had hoped..." Stork butted in his side of the story.

"Well anyway... Guess this is the end... It was nice fighting with you... I hope my kid grows up to be as cool as his father..."

"Goodbye my baby! I was so glad I found you! My darling condor... As long as you go I will always follow..." Stork pronounced like a piece of Shakespeare.

"SQUARK!" Radar agreed.

"Yeah me too... At least we had a good run..."

"Well will always be the Storm Hawks." Aerrow reassured.

'Goodbye... Piper'

Aerrow and his team shut their eyes. Preparing for their death to come.

*SCREEECH. BANG. THUMP*

The storm hawks faces were in agony. Falling about 10 feet onto them does that.

"Well I guess here's the cavalry..." Stork said sarcastically as he looked up.

*RAAARRWW*

The mighty roar made the rest look up after they had unstuck their faces from the cold floor.

"I'm glad she made it in time..."

"SHE?!" Finn, Junko and Aerrow yelled concurrently, making storks ears hurt.

"Yes her... Who else... But...DID YOU SERIOUSLY HAVE TO HARM MY SHIP!" Stork raged throwing out a fist into the direction which 'she' was in.

Finn looked frightful, he pointed up to the claws,"y-you mean th-that's Piper..." He stuttered, he decided from then on he would never mess with her stuff again...

"Yep... Am I the only one of you strange people who isn't shocked speechless?"

All the pale faces around the room nodded, besides Aerrow he wasn't moving.

"Well... That's good to hear... I guess I will finally be able to get some quite time..."

Stork walked over to the windows to see what was going on,

"But I swear you would have been okay with it by now... more strange things have happened... this is just plain... awesome..."

Stork could feel Piper gliding the condor somewhere... But he didn't know where, he was amazed she was able to carry the condor after all then energy drained from flying here at such speeds.

There beyond the clouded mists and fog, land was seen, a small terra diameter of around 1km width around 2km, a huge mountain covered half of the terra, the rest was dense jungle. He didn't recognize it; he guessed it must be uncharted.

"Yay... Another perilous adventure..." He stated sarcastically then glanced over to the 4 Storm Hawks new statues, "and a hell of a lot of explanations... I wish I had mind worms... Wait... I might have... NOOOO! WHERE'S MY REPELLENT!"

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