As the months went by, Aqua and Ivy got used to their new human bodies while Roxy and Roxanna got used to not only their hedgie human friends, but their new haircuts as well. Everyone agreed that it was a little awkward that Roxy's hair looked like Aqua's and Roxanna's hair looked like Ivy's. Roxy's hair was cut very short to the nape of the neck, but still straight. Roxanna's hair was cut so that it was almost a shave in the back and layered hair on the top. Aqua's hair remained the same- long, light blue, bouncy and full of body. Ivy's hair was a bit longer than it was when she was a hedgehog, and a bit more curly too. The girls decided one day that it was time to celebrate, since there hasn't been a crime in a long time. They went downtown to a café and chatted until the food came. Roxanna was busy on her laptop doing research for a report on local endangered plants, Roxy was looking a pictures of male surfers, Ivy was on the phone talking to J' Amy, and being very loud about it too, in turn, Aqua sat being annoyed by her sister. Meanwhile, across town in an unknown place known as the Sky Palace, a robbery was taking place. A female hedgehog with deep violet, slightly curly hair and crimson eyes slowly slinked out of an unguarded room, when she was tackled by the palace guards. A tall female hedgehog, around the age of 17, with thick, grey hair with gold thunderbolt streaks in a puffball ponytail and light blue eyes stood in a strapless gold shirt that was ripped at the bottom, showing her stomach and a long skirt matching her top. She stood with a scowl on her face as she watched the thief be pinned and held down to the floor. "So... you thought you could try to steal the precious crystal of air AND the sacred family crown that has been here through generations? Did you think you could come in my palace and thieve from right under my nose?! Have you no dignity, no shame, no SOUL?! To do something so selfish, so stupid..." She stopped and stared at the thief, then started talking again as she walked away. "People like you should be exiled... but I shall spare you. I am not a queen of revenge nor selfishness, but of righteousness and ever lasting peace. Guards... throw her out." The thief looked at her and smirked. "Oh don't worry your highness. I know the way out." With that, she threw the guards off of her as a dark and powerful ora surrounded her. The queen stood in a fighting position. "If this is the way you want to end your days, I shall be the one to make it happen." A smaller female hedgehog, similar to the queen, but with two ribbon braided puffy ended ponytails and a halter shirt with a silver gem in the middle of it, came from behind a corner behind the queen, eager to see what was going to happen. "Go Sky! My big sis is gonna kick some booty!" The queen, known as Sky, quickly turned to her little sister with an expression of shock and anger. "S-Skylar?! What the hell are you doing here?!" Sky covered her mouth, realizing the swear she had said in front of her 12 year old sister. The thief took this chance and drew two black and violet daggers, lunging toward the child. Sky pushed her younger sister Skylar out of the way, then took her hand and started running down the nearest hallway. The thief smirked as she watched the two flee. "Try all you want, but you'll never escape the dark grasp of I, the Temptress of Void." Sky and Skylar ran down several flights of stairs and through the ballroom chamber, out of the palace doors. They would have kept running, but the fact that the palace resided on a floating island replayed in the girls minds. "Skylar, hold onto my hands tightly. We're going to have to fly down to the city." Skylar did so, and the two where lifted off the ground like weightless feathers and flew down on top of a nearby rooftop. They started running as fast as they could, with Skylar tripping over her long skirt every once in a while. "Skylar, I've told you, you can use the wind to your advantage, even with the simplest things like blowing your skirt so that you don't trip." "Yea, but~" "But nothing. Listen, my sister, it is time for you to take over a great responsibility and take over as the queen of the palace. Ever since I was blessed with the knowledge and the power of the wind and air, the words of the wise winds have always told me my time was short. Well... my time is up." She took of the crown that was in the hands of the thief and looked at it. "Take the family crown and wear it with honor. Even if you don't want to, keep it with you for as long as you live." A tear rolled down Skylar's face as she continued to listen to her sister's words. "Remember a few years ago. when we were training and I did that pretty light show and got stronger? Well, I did that with the help of this crystal in the crown- the crystal of air. It possesses the fury of one thousand thunder storms and the quickness of a sky full of lightning. This shall aid you on your journey to help protect the kingdom. You will meet two girls of water and earth. The combined elements of water, earth, fire, and air will save all that is precious. I know you can do it." "But, like... I-I don't understand! T-this is so whack, yo!" A dark voice emerged from a distance. "Of coarse you don't understand. You're just a weak child with power greater than you could possibly imagine. You thing you can stop me from plunging this pathetic world into darkness?! I'd like to see you try." Sky stood in a fighting stance once again, this time with a sickle with a thunderbolt shaped blade. She unwrapped a cloak like scarf from around her arm and threw it to Skylar. "Take my Airasial scarf to fly down lower to the streets. Find the girls of whom I spoke of. Go!" Skylar slowly nodded and tied the scarf around her neck. "And Skylar, remember this... let the lightning strike through your veins." Sky smiled, then returned her focus to the enemy in front of her. Skylar leaped off of the building and, with the help of the Airasial scarf, flew toward the horizon as her sister prepares for battle. The darkness grows stronger as the shattered light tries to find the pieces to make itself whole again.