Good day to you all. I have managed to update within three days. That's worthy of a pat on the back.

Anonymous: As the great philosopher, Ace Ventura (not related to the Dark Ace I checked) says: Alrighty then!

Pluvia: Not sure how I could mention and/or figure out Radarr's age but I will consider it

Rose of Rush: Awesome. Glad that I suprised someone

Delphi: Don't worry inquiring reader, I did update.

Whisper: You think? Hmm... perhaps we, the writers, know something Finn doesn't lol :D

Sapphie: Feel free to find out

Rose: Do you think something good is going to happen? In one of my stories? Rookie mistake. Torture is always more fun

Ali: You can have lessons but not learn anything. Glad that you like soft and fluffy because I don't think it will get any better

Dolan: You would know!!!

Neko: I know it seems lazy but there are 365 and one quater days in a year. There isn't enough chocolate in the world to make me write that repetativly. Thank you for the long reiview. It was a pleasure to read.


Piper's POV

I was waiting outside my dorm. Finally I was going to catch the mystery spy. I theorised that now was the time when the mystery spy was going to turn up. It could be a whole host of people. But I had narrowed it down.

Once I had found blue hairs on my pillow. Then Sam was getting mad at Lily for having accused her of running off with an apple that she had left out. So it was someone with a big appetite and blue hair.

There were only three people with the skills to sneak around, blue hair and a big appetite: Tom, Jerry and Steve.

Someone tapped on my shoulder. I jumped.

"Hey Piper." I breathed. It was only Luke. We had become really close lately and it wasn't just because I was an informant for Aerrow. It was also because it turned out that jerks can be really good friends.

"Hey Luke," I said.

"You look tired."

"I was up late studying Cyclonian history." I was actually talking to Aerrow. We couldn't through the day because I was supposed to hate him with an anger that could burn down cities. By night we were actually good friends. Every so often he would sneak out. I would but his dorm is a lot more crowded than mine.

"Cool. So was I. There are so many famous generals throughout history." I laughed. Typical Luke. He was already looking for that next rung on the ladder to success.

"Do you have a favourite?"

"The Dark Ace. He's the most famous general, he's also Master Cyclonis's top flyer-" I didn't hear the rest of what Luke said because the thought of the Dark Ace brought back my home. The image of it burning and my parents chained up and me being dragged away to this stupid camp.

"Piper!" I was dragged from the depths of my mind by Luke. He looked annoyed. "Were you even listening?"

"Yes, the Dark Ace is amazing. I wish I could meet him too," I said taking a guess. Luke smiled.

"So why are you hanging around here?" he asked. I came up with the best excuse I could.

"I didn't want to watch the six year olds being beaten up by Snipe today," I said and it was partly true. Unfortunately yesterday Aerrow and Finn had gone on one of their 'suicide' missions. This basically means that they were going to get caught by Luke's goons.

What made it worse was that I had heard them get caught because the blankets they were supposed to be 'taking' for the smaller people were stored next to the girl's dorm.

Luke hadn't mentioned it was Snipe on patrol.

Luke grinned at me. "Piper, there aren't any six year olds being beaten up today I swear. It's a Saturday why don't you just come and hang out with our friends?" I nodded and smiled when really I would rather be shoved face down in a vat of rotting meat on a hot day and left there for ten minutes. At least the smell would be better.

As we walked along I waited to hear the sound of Finn squealing in pain. I didn't enjoy it because Finn seemed okay except for his taste in 'music'. When I was greeted by silence for a second I hoped that Snipe was ill or too tired to do any beatings today.

Then I heard the sound that I had heard on the first day of being here: the silent sound of Snipe beating up Aerrow and Aerrow doing nothing about it.

I walked a little faster. I knew that Luke would misinterpret this as me actually wanting to see his friends but I was mentally freaking out. Was Aerrow okay? Why had Snipe started on him and not Finn? Was Finn hurt?

I rounded the corner to see two of Snipe's burly friends holding Aerrow, who had his eyes shut. Finn was watching from the steps. As soon as he saw me, I knew he was just as upset as he was.

I flashed him a quick smile to convey that I was happy he was okay. His grey expression spoke for itself.

The beating must have been almost over by the time I got there because Snipe motioned for his friends to put Aerrow down.

SPLAT!

Aerrow fell in the mud, face down with mud streaming over his fiery red hair. Finn rushed over. Snipe and his friends jeered. I waited for Aerrow to get up, lean on Finn and walk over to his doting audience.

Aerrow didn't get up.

"Is he okay?" Luke was standing next to me. He didn't seem to care. I watched as Finn kneeled over Aerrow trying to wake him up.

"Aerrow, buddy. Come on, wake up you're scaring me." Nothing. Aerrow didn't so much as twitch. My first instinct was to run over and help him but that would jeopardise my friendship with Luke.

"Somebody help!!!" screamed Finn. Tears were rolling down his cheeks. He tried to wipe them off. Aerrow's chest was only slightly moving and I could hear his breathing from where I was standing, about ten feet away.

"Look there's Tony and the guys," said Luke, putting one arm over my shoulder. He began leading me away.

For a second, I imagined what would happen if I ran over to Aerrow. I would help Finn, call for help, tell Aerrow it was going to be okay.

Then the second passed and I walked away from my friends trying not to cry.

Behind me I could hear Finn crying. Then as I watched, the Talons came along, dragged Finn off Aerrow and carried the motionless Aerrow away. Finn was quickly surrounded by Aerrow's other friends as they tried to make him feel better. He just sat down.

Luke and his friends were silently celebrating. Good times were about to roll. Aerrow was gone and Finn was distraught. Now they could have control of the camp.

I just sat there and tried not to look at Finn.