Right, the part in italics was a joke between me and my sister so I added it in, it's just kinda random but it fits the story aswell. Just trying to clear up any confusion or laughing at me *blush*
Hope you enjoy! :):)
11
Aerrow knew he was dreaming. 1) He was watching the scene, including himself from above. 2) He was no longer in any pain and was free, outside but still had a tag along...
'This will be easy!' Dark Ace tried to make himself sound more powerful than he really was.
'Doubt it.' Aerrow smiled tauntingly then sped off into the sky on his beloved sky ride. Dark Ace followed, shooting after him.
Aerrow easily dodged them and had fun making Dark Ace look stupid, until a pair of brilliant orange eyes seemed to flash at him from a distance.
'Piper?' Aerrow braked his ride then remembered too late that he was being pursued. He jolted as the familiar, glowing red blade appeared at his chest, but the handle was at his back.
Dark Ace's evil cackle announced his victory.
Aerrow was frozen solid, unsure what to do now that he'd finally been penetrated. Not that it mattered...
He grabbed the blade proceeding from his chest and shoved it back, turning to face his enemy once the blade was no longer in his body.
'You can't kill me, Ace.' He smiled evilly back at his nemesis who stopped cackling to stare at his victim, confusion taking over his features. 'I'm already dead.' Aerrow revealed his secret then laughed again, victorious but evil, Dark Ace's face now showing horror. He yelled and jumped back, slipping off the edge of Aerrow's skimmer only to land on his own.
A sharp smack to his cheek made Aerrow come back into consciousness, gasping for air when his broken lungs returned to feeling along with the rest of his injuries. His dream was still in his head and Aerrow guessed it had been around the fact that he'd thought he'd died in the throne room. But here he was, awake and very much alive, so obviously, this wasnt over yet.
'You're gonna want to see this...' Dark Ace's blurry shape was towering over Aerrow, triumph in his stance.
Aerrow coughed then tried to cup his head in his hands but found they were bound tightly together behind his back.
'What happened?' Aerrow didn't really expect an answer but received one anyway.
'Master Cyclonis beat you up but had to save you from that falling pillar because you're the starting piece in our plan, Aerrow.' Dark Ace cackled, accurate to Aerrow's dream.
He closed his eyes at the pain dotted all over his body and let the cool wind ruffle his hair, calming him slightly.
Wind? Aerrow forced his tired eyes to open and just managed to stop himself from yelling out loud.
He was flying through the air on Dark Ace's ride, the wing it looked like, and coming toward them and the thousand Cyclonians beneath him, all the Sky Knight squadrons in Atmos.
Aerrow hurriedly scanned the scene and his eyes landed regretfully on the distant shape of the Condor. That meant that his team was here! After he'd practically begged them to stay away! He couldn't watch them be slain, burnt to a crisp in seconds. It would be bad enough to watch another mere Cyclonian get hurt by that crystal, never mind all his fellow Sky Knights and friends, his team, his Piper.
'A great feeling eh, Sky Knight?' Dark Ace asked, making it more obvious than ever that he didn't think of Aerrow as a Sky Knight at all.
'What is this?!' He asked in disgust.
'The future of Atmos, or it will be in a couple of hours...'
Aerrow's gaze finally rested on what he'd been searching for:
Piper in the middle, her jaw set in concentration with Radarr on her ride, Finn beside her, eyes wide but trying to compose himself and Junko on the other side, looking more determined than Aerrow had ever seen him.
'It will be nothing like this when we win.' Aerrow hissed through his teeth, referring to his fellow Sky Knights, and squadron.
Before Dark Ace could reply, an eerie silence fell over the composed battlefield, drowning out the thousands of engines on both sides, making the armies stop parallel to each other, one hundred metres between them.
Dark Ace smirked then shoved a gag around Aerrow's mouth, making speaking impossible if he were to try. Then the ride containing the two silently sped forward into no-mans-land, between the two armies, stopping in the middle of the space between them.
Aerrow tried to fight the bonds on his mouth, hands and feet but couldn't, he was still hurting from his recent unfair beatings back in the throne room.
Gasps sounded, breaking the silence, at the sight that met the owner's eyes became more clear.
Aerrow, the youngest and best Sky Knight, bound and broken-looking on Dark Ace's ride, fallen to his knees and head bowed in silent pain.
'Aerrow!'
His stomach flipped and he snapped his head up to search desperately for the owner of the voice. He found her, front row now and eyes filled with horror and grief. Her bottom lip trembled ever so slightly but she didn't let any tears fall.
He gazed into her eyes, trying to say without words to turn and leave, they couldn't win against that crystal and would leave Atmos open to invasion very, very soon.
Dark Ace's cruel laughter broke Aerrow and Piper's eye contact and he started to scan along the familiar faces who were about to witness his defeat.
He saw Starling, Harrier, Billy-Rex, Suzy-Lu and others, all with the same horror-struck look on their faces.
He bowed his head again and tried to untie his hands but was struck hard in the stomach.
A chorus of angry shouts erupted but were silenced quickly by a crystal held by one of the near-by cyclonians. Aerrow doubled over, unable to clutch his already battered up enough stomach, so almost curled into a ball.
His muffled, rasping breaths echoed over the heads and was closely followed by Dark Ace's laugh.
'You see? He's just a kid who got lucky too many times!' Dark Ace announced, smirking at the faces in front of him. 'Now he got a little hurt and look at him! Pathetic!' The echo stretched for miles.
Aerrow felt the throbbing in his stomach ease slightly and uncurled himself, toying with the binds around his wrists again.
'You all thought he was a better fighter than me?! Ha! No such thing! I single-handedly destroyed the old Storm Hawks, and I will do so to the new ones!' Dark Ace raised his arms in triumph of his memory but all that answered him were objecting jeers and rude hand gestures that were muted once again.
Aerrow watched from the corner of his eye as Dark Ace reached into his pocket and pulled out the coal-like crystal, toying with it in his palm before setting it into the hilt of his blade and igniting it. A black flame burst into being and surrounded the blade, buzzing with electricity.
'Just watch me!' He raised the blade high above his head and swung down, bringing it upon the Sky Knight who kneeled in clear view for everyone to see.
Ooohooohooo, I hope that was an interesting-enough chapter until next week-end? Please review saying what you think will happen as well as your opinion of this chappie. (If anyone guessed right I'll dedicate the next chappie to them ;p I've already written it so I'm not about to steal any ideas btw)
I'm excited to hear what you think! :D:D
Laurisa xx