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Chapter 21 - Winners don't use drugs
Stork suddenly popped his head out from the deck door "umm what are you guys doing and who and what is this… child doing on my ship?" he blurted out startling the others.
"Piper's gone missing Stork, we think she has gone to help Aerrow" Junko explained.
"I know" he replied to their surprise.
"How, have you been ears dropping on us again?" Finn asked.
Stork rolled his eyes "why would I want to listen to what you have to say? You say it anyway. I have a tracking device on her, Aerrow as well" Stork explained disappearing from the door frame; he expected them to follow.
As the others caught up with Stork who was now at the controls he revealed the monitor "it works much like any other sonar system but I modified it to have specific icons for each person. Aerrow for example had the symbol of his twin blades crossing over each other while Finn had the symbol of a broken guitar.
"Why do I get the broken guitar?" Finn asked slightly peeved.
"It's what I think of your 'music'" Stork laughed while doing the quotation symbols with his fingers, Finn crossed his arms not amused.
"So where's Piper?" Junko asked leaning over so that he could see past Finn's blonde hair.
"She's… on the move I know that much" Stork muttered as he studied the monitor, concealing his slight grin from the others.
In the streets of Sudeki
Piper halted suddenly at the end of an alleyway, she looked up into the sky as the rain poured down upon her "the shield must only deflect elements that has a crystal form, that could explain the rain and the fog that is yet to come" Piper thought to herself, her entire body was drenched from head to toe even her hair was down, reaching her lower back.
She took a sharp left following the path Theo led her down; her footsteps caused the water building up on the ground to splash her even more.
Her eyes darted as she took each turn making sure that not only to be weary of where she was going but to make sure there was no danger around each corner, for all she knew Sigmund could still be on the loose.
Each street looked like the last, with only minor details like a fruit stand or a flower covered windowsill showing her the way.
Perhaps if she had the time she would examine and study the flowers in the windowsill or the fruit that seemed somewhat fresh to see how they survive such harsh conditions but then again she would have to study the people of the land as well.
But she was on a mission, a mission to her meant more than discovering new crystals, it meant more than helping a terra full of orphans. To her it meant even more than defeating Cyclonis. She wanted no, needed to find Aerrow and see that he was okay.
Finally that very street Theo and herself jumped off the roof was in sight, she almost sighed with relief but before she could she noticed something was amiss. The rain had stopped.
As she looked up she noticed the clouds still covering the already gloomy sky, that's when they started to act weird. Instead of a grey shade storms usually are they began to turn a faint yellow color. Piper knew what was happening, she needed to move quickly.
Bolting down the street as fast as she could she took another sharp left into the alleyway, the haystack was still like it was the last time.
Looking up again she saw the one thing she was dredging, the hallucinogenic fog was seeping through the shield.
Piper felt the need to swear but suppressed it as she made her way towards the front entrance of the bar and it was lucky she did because as she reached the corner two Talons were hopping on to their skimmers
"Come on harry, we need to check this place out like Master Cyclonis ordered us too" one of the Talons whined.
"No way, this storm looks serious we better get back to the tower" the other Talon named Harry replied "We will just tell Master Cyclonis that we didn't find anything but a bit of rubble" the other talon didn't look to happy but as he looked up to the skies his expression changed.
"If you say so Harry" both the Cyclonian's started their skimmers up and sped off.
"How does Cyclonia know we were here?" Piper asked herself as she walked around the corner jumping over the railing landing at the entrance.
She pushed lightly against the door which collapsed; Aerrow must have been in one hell of a fight.
Before she entered she looked up once more, the fog was coming down at an alarming rate she needed to find a way to block off the fog's access.
She ran over to the bar, the vast variety of alcohol was now just bits of dripping glass scattered across the bar top.
She searched frantically until she noticed a button near the cupboards "I hope this does what I think it does" she pushed the button cautiously.
The fog was now at ground level and was coming into the bar "I'm too late" Piper murmured as she stared out at to the streets.
Suddenly a siren went off, startling the navigator. The windows and doors were being shut by huge sheets of metal, Piper sighed with relief forgetting that the bits of the fog had entered the building.
That's when she started to sway "I don't feel to good…" she breathed grabbing a hold of the bar.
The sound of the metal sheets finally closing ringed in her ears as she rubbed her eyes with her other hand.
A sudden sharp pain could be felt in her left hand, she raised it up to look at it to find she had cut herself on the broken glass scattered across the bar top.
She pulled a piece out, like it was nothing and analyzed it.
She saw herself in the reflection "is this me? This piece of glass?" she muttered as she swayed slightly.
"Am I just a pain in everyone's hand? Do I just bottle up my feelings like this piece of glass does to alcohol?"
"Am I here just to look after something and be seen through?"
"Why must I be the one to care for the others, they don't appreciate what I do…"
"Why don't I just end it here, send the glass across my wrist e-e-e… what am I saying?" Piper suddenly stopped swaying, the effects of the fog had ceased as it was disconnected from the rest of itself.
Piper stumbled over to one of the chairs that were left standing and she let herself slump into it, she let out a heavy sigh "well we now know that the fog has negative effects on the human psyche" she humored herself before realizing why she was there in the first place. Thinking about what she could have just done to herself can wait.
She stood up slowly making sure that the fog had cleared completely out of her system.
There was no sign of Aerrow down stairs, just piles of broken wood and mortar from the fight earlier.
She looked towards the staircase; he could be where she had left him.
Jumping up to the ledge where staircase used to be, she ignored the constant reminder of pain from her hand and lifted herself up.
She sighed once more on her knees before turning towards the only window that was in the corridor, that's when she spotted Aerrow.
"Aerrow!" She screamed.
Author Notes:
Stork: you left it on another cliffhanger...
Doilan: yep, I wonder if my readers can take it
Finn: who said they liked your story?
Doilan: well considering they read it, is a pretty big push to my side of the arguement
Finn: they could be just being nice...
Doilan: don't patronize me, last I heard you couldn't get a girlfriend
Finn: neither can you
Doilan: I'm not looking that's why
Finn: that's what they all say
Stork: Starting arguements are fun :D
From the one they call Doilan
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