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Tallen looked at him, sorrow filling her eyes. "I….forgot…..a long time ago…..but she pushed me off……and she did it on purpose….." she replied her eyes suddenly turned glassy.

"Tallen…who pushed you?" Aerrow asked gently.

"Lark Geneva Cyclonis," she replied looking at him…but not looking at him. Tallen's body felt limp, weak. She sat down slowly on Aerrow's skimmer and he crouched in front of her and watched her carefully.

'Lark...Lark….Lark…..where have I heard that name before?' he thought to himself. "Master Cyclonis?!" he yelled startling Tallen who fell backwards off the bike. She stood and rubbed the back of her head. The Sky Knight gave an apologetic smile.

"Yeah…her."

"But why?"

"She wanted to 'dispose' of me."

"Because…."

"Well, all I can remember is that when we were little she pushed me off the ledge. I don't know why…..but she wanted to kill me," Tallen replied lacing her hands behind her head and looking up. Aerrow's eyes took on a serious look. They wanted her.


Bridge-

"But the problem is, I don't know why," Tallen explained solemnly to the crew. Everyone, even Finn, was staring at her, listening hard.

"I thought you forgot everything," replied the Tactician.

"I caught a flashback when the Cyclonians came a moment ago."

"So they want you…….to kill you?" the Merb asked. The Sky Wing nodded gravely.

"Well, they're not going near-" Finn began.

"No. I don't want anyone getting hurt because of me," the Sky Wing interrupted, knowing that they would try and protect her. They had been the only friends..no…family that she had ever known, and now she had to go.

"Tallen…." Aerrow said softly.

The white haired girl stood and left to walk down the halls to her room. Feather followed quietly behind.

Radarr gave a sad howl and nuzzled Aerrow. The Sky Knight seemed frozen. He didn't cry…or even move. Piper closed her eyes and tried hard to think of some way to save both Atmosia and their Sky Wing. Junko looked around, as if an answer would jump from the shadows. Stork stared at the table, shaking his head grimly. Finn gritted his teeth, anger at the Cyclonians boiling within him.

Aerrow stood and bolted from the room, running franticly down the halls until he stood in front of Tallen's room. He forced open the door and found the Sky Wing sitting in the fetal position on her bed, shaking. Immediately he embraced her and her shivering stopped. "Please, please, don't leave me. Remember, can you remember?" he whispered in her ear.

Her body went numb and her eyes glazed.


Flashback-

"Lark," the white haired girl clung to the other black haired girl standing next to her. They were at a funeral. A teenaged boy, only a few years older than Lark, stood behind them trying to look professional.

Lark stood still, eyes glued to the casket as it was lowed into the ground. A large, elegant headstone already stood centimeters away from the hole. "Goodbye, father," both girls said as the hole was buried. The procession soon left and the only people there were a handful of guards, including the boy with dark hair and red eyes, and the two girls.

"Come," the older of the two said harshly, jerking the younger one, Tallen, by the hand towards a large tower. The rain pelted down on the group as they walked.

-

"Do you understand?" Lark asked the boy, who was now a few years older.

"Yes, mam," he replied.

Tallen was looking through a keyhole into the main chamber of the Tower. A small cat-like creature, which had been named Feather, was latched onto the girl's back.

"Good, you are excused," Lark said and Tallen ran down the halls.

The boy exited the room and watched as Tallen rounded a corner and walked towards him, not knowing that she had just run down this hall the other way.

"Good Afternoon, Ace," she said and smiled up at him.

He grunted in reply and tousled her hair as he walk passed. She watched him suspiciously. The girl looked out the window and onto the rolling hills and farmland dotted with towns, and the large city below Cyclonis Tower. She sighed and walked off.

-

She stood on the edge of a cliff, eyes wide, waiting for the black haired girl's next move.

"Why?" she asked trying to balance. The rain poured from the sky and lightning shot bolts of light through the clouds.

"Because I can't have any competition," replied Lark in a voice that seemed somewhat possessed. She took a step towards the white haired girl and growled from the back of her throat. Ace stood behind Lark, both in black cloaks.

"Goodbye, Tallen," the dark haired girl said and shoved the white haired girl off the cliff.


"She's my sister!" Tallen cried.

"Who?" Piper asked putting a reassuring hand on the Sky Wings shoulder.

"Lark…..she pushed me because….we were both in line…" Tallen said closing her eyes to calm herself.

"For the throne," Aerrow finished. Tallen nodded and looked at him. The crew looked shocked.

"You're a….a….heiress to the Clyclonian throne?" Piper said. Tallen nodded again.

"Tallen, you can't go. No matter what. Right now you and her are both in line for the throne. If she goes, you inherit it," Aerrow said sternly.

"But that mean…" Finn started.

"We're going to war?" Junko finished.

"So-ho-ho doomed this time," Stork said throwing his hands up in the air.

Aerrow and Tallen stood. "We'll need to inform the Sky Knight Counsel, and then all other Sky Knights and their squadrons," Aerrow said.


Okie dokie, that is it for this chapter! Keep reading!

Next Time: What are the preparations for war, and in that case, will the Sky Knight Counsel agree to go to war?