Two chapters in one week. I've been busy. Happy late 4th of July. I hope everyone had a great day yesterday! I'm so excited for this chapter. Get ready for one wild ride coming up. Also please leave a review.


"My dear it has been wonderful working with you," Farth said as he walked the halls of Cyclonia with Lilith. The two had just finished overseeing the rest of the preparations for tonight's event. The event was set to start in less than eight hours.

"Farth," Lilith said as she grit her teeth. The short man was starting to really get on her nerves. For the last month the man had been flirting with her and trying to woo her. All he had successfully done was piss her off.

"Are you going to be watching the matches tonight?" he asked as he quickly got in front of Lilith and cut her off. He knew that tonight was going to be his last chance. Because after tonight, he would be gone from Cyclonia.

"I haven't decided," Lilith answer courtly. She knew that Farth wanted to sit with her so that way he could spend more time with her before she would get great joy in kicking him out of the palace.

"Surely you would like to watch the matches in a seat of honor?" Farth tried to tempt. "I mean, Master Cyclonis has given me the best seats in the house. Well besides Master Cyclonis' seats that is. I figured that it would be the best place of honor for such a lovely creature as yourself."

"Thank you, but I do not know if I will be watching the Championship. There is still a chance that I could be sent out on a last minute assignment," Lilith said as she tried to walk around Farth. She knew that it wasn't likely, but Farth didn't need to know that.

"Surely, Master Cyclonis wouldn't send someone as important as you to go do a simple assignment tonight. Surely, she would let you sit and watch the entertainment of tonight," Farth said as he grabbed Lilith's gloved hand to kiss.

Lilith had been wearing gloves ever since the night that Dark Ace had proposed to her. She had kept the ring a secret from almost everyone. She had told Master Cyclonis of the ring, but that was it. The last thing she needed was Ravess seeing the ring and lording it over her and using it to her own advantage. "She can, and I would be happy to go do an assignment for Master Cyclonis," Lilith said darkly as she ripped her hand away from Farth. In ripping her hand away from Farth, her glove had been removed from her hand. "If, if I watch your Warrior Championship, I will be watching it with Master Cyclonis, Dark Ace, or even Ravess," Lilith said dangerously.

"Your hand?" Farth asked as he caught a glimpse of Lilith's bare hand. As Lilith had been trying to remove her hand. Farth had caught a glimpse, more importantly, of the diamond ring on her fourth finger.

Lilth quickly slapped her other hand over her ring. "It's nothing," Lilith ground out.

"That is a ring to signify that someone else has tried to claim you for themselves," Farth said as he was reeling from the shock that the women was already engaged.

"Yes, I have been claimed," Lilith growled as she tried to walk away.

"No, some other man can't claim you!" Farth screamed like a child.

"Excuse me? I am not a prize for you to try and win. I am a person, not a piece of property. And furthermore, I am allowed to love anyone that I chose," Lilith said as she drew Nyx. "I can love anyone that I want to love. In fact, I would chose Snipe over you to love."

"I meant no disrespect," Farth tried to amend. He saw his life flash before his eyes as the pissed off general held her sword at his throat. Part of him wanted to make amends to try and continue wooing Lilith, the other part of him wanted nothing more than to run away screaming.

"No, for the last month I have put up with you. I have put up with your comments and you trying to kiss me. I have put up with long after my fiancé said that we should have nothing to do with you. But for the good of Cyclonia, I have put up with you!" Lilith said dangerously. "I have put up with you because it was asked of me."

"I-" Farth started, before he was cut off.

"No, you don't get to speak," Dark Ace said as he had rounded the corner in time to watch his fiancée explode on the short guy. "Farth, I believe that this will be the last that Cyclonia will ever be doing business with you," Dark Ace said dangerously as he stood in front of Lilith.

Farth, stood there floundering for words as the two walked away.


"Okay, mark the calendar!" Finn shouted excitedly as he raced into the room with the rest of his friends. "Because today's the day that your life has changed."

"Ha!" Piper scoffed at her friend. "You finally changed your socks?"

"No," Finn said as he still had a look of pride and triumph on his face. "I, Finn, have just scored six, count them, six tickets to the one, the only Ultimate, Extreme, Mighty, Mega, Warrior Championship!" he said as he even provided his own echo.

"So, that's a no on the socks then?" Stork inquired sounding very unimpressed. In fact he would have been ecstatic if Finn had actually changed his socks.

Finn refused to let Stork's attitude bring him down. "Today only, the toughest gladiators of Atmos go into the Cage of Battle but only one will come out the ultimate warrior." Finn looked around at everyone's faces. None of them were excited, and so seeing this, Finn continued, "Did I mention that I had to trade ten power crystals from our toaster oven so that way we could all go?!"

"That's almost our entire power supply!" Piper exclaimed at Finn.

"What? No toast?" Junko exclaimed as he started trying to figure out what he would have for breakfast tomorrow.

"Don't worry about it, I'm sure we'll have enough to get to the games," Finn said, completely missing what Junko had just said and the reason why Piper was worried about their power supply.

"Unless it's at the other end of the Atmos," Aerrow said. "So who's hosting them this year?"

"Uh, that's a good question," Finn said as he looked down at the tickets to find out the answer to the question Aerrow asked. But before Finn could respond, Piper snatched them out of his hands.

"You've really did it this time," Piper said angrily.

"I did, didn't I," Finn said prideful, completely missing Piper's tone and look she was given him.

"You're Mega Warrior whatever, is being hosted on Cyclonia!" Piper practically yelled at him.


"This is so boring," Lilith muttered as she walked again around the building. She was doing final checks to make sure that everything was in place. She wanted no surprises tonight. Lilith had just finished her check when she spotted Dark Ace. "Where are you going?" she inquired.

"Myself, Ravess, and Snipe have been sent out on a mission," Dark Ace answered simply.

"But you'll miss the Championship," Lilith said. She could really care less about the event tonight, but she still wanted to watch it and hangout with her fiancé.

"We have reports that the Storm Hawks have been spotted over near Terra Tranqua," Dark Ace said as he continued walking.

"So take me as backup instead of the other two," Lilith said. She was desperate to finally get to face off against the Storm Hawks.

"No, Master has given orders that you are to remain here unless she says otherwise," Dark Ace said as he entered the hanger bay.

"Come on! I want to smash a Sky Knight!" Snipe yelled out as the two walked over to Dark Ace's skimmer.

"I'll see you later," Dark Ace whispered as he mounted his skimmer.

"About time," Ravess sneered before she gunned the throttle and bolted out of the hanger.

Snipe was quickly on her tail.

"It shouldn't take that long. I will see you tonight when everything is over," Dark Ace said as he leaned over and kissed Lilith.

Lilith stood there as Dark Ace drove out of the hanger. Once he was gone, Lilith turned around to go find Master Cyclonis. Lilith started wandering the hallways again, though this time she was deep in thought.


"Remind me again why I agreed to this?" Cyclonis stated as she bent over to pick up a fallen scroll.

"Good will, your majesty?" the Talon offered.

"Fine," Master Cyclonis huffed in annoyance.

"Think of it this way Master, you need to show the people that you are willing to give them entertainment," Lilith stated as she rolled her eyes at the idiotic Talon.

Piper clamped her both hands over her mouth as she heard the third voice. 'No, it can't be!' Piper screamed to herself mentally.

"It may be easier to rule with an iron fist, but then more will rebel and turn to those self-righteous Sky Knights for help," Lilith said as she followed Cyclonis out onto the balcony.

"You're right," Master Cyclonis replied. Cyclonis sat in her throne overlooking the cage with the Talon standing on her right and Lilith leaning casually on the banister to watch the cage matches.

As the matches went on, Master Cyclonis grew bored of watching the wrestling matches. "If I must sit here, I might as well get some work done. Get me the Regenerating crystal scroll from my desk," Master Cyclonis ordered.

The Talon nodded his head and went inside the office to fetch the scroll.

"You seem distracted," Master Cyclonis said to Lilith as she waited for her scroll.

"It's nothing," Lilith said as she turned around to face her Master.

"Tell me, what is on your mind," Master Cyclonis inquired further as she accepted the scroll.

"Trouble with a guy," Lilith answered simply as she put a smile on her face. She wasn't going to Master Cyclonis that she had found a picture of a boy that she drew when she was younger and to this day was drawing the same boy.

"Oh, trouble with you and Dark Ace?" Cyclonis inquired as a smirk crossed her features.

"Ma…master?" Lilith stammered. She knew that her and Dark Ace's relationship was weird, only a few people knew about it, but that was not what she was worried about.

Master Cyclonis was shocked to hear the general stutter. In the eleven months that she had known the general, she had never once heard the girl stammer.

"It was Farth Master," Lilith said as she lowered her head in shame. How could she call herself Master Cyclonis's best if a simple man got on her nerves and angered her so easily?

"Farth?" Cyclonis inquired as she sat there on her throne overlooking the cage matches.

"Yes, he put me in an uncomfortable situation earlier and I haven't been myself since it happened," Lilith stated.

"No!" the three heard from Master Cyclonis' office.

"Did you hear something?" Master Cyclonis asked as she shifted her attention to her office.

"Stay here," Lilith said as she drew Helios and walked back into Master Cyclonis' office. Lilith got to the desk, the place where she had thought she heard the sound, and checked all around it. When she couldn't find anything, Lilith made her way back out to the balcony. "There was no one there," Lilith said as she sent one more glance back into the room.

"Is that the reason Farth went scurrying around all day?" Master Cyclonis inquired.

"Yes, Dark Ace confronted him after Farth acted like a child for finding this," Lilith said as she held out her gloved hand with the ring on it.

Master Cyclonis nodded her head in understanding. When she had been told about the engagement between Lilith and Dark Ace, she at first hadn't been happy at all. She felt betrayed by Dark Ace. After all, how could he be loyal to her when he was supposed to be loyal to the woman that he loved. She also wondered how Dark Ace could fall in love so fast. Lilith had been in her control for not even eight months yet. But as sometime passed, Cyclonis remembered that she could always her crystal again if she wanted to. She had a way of lording it over Dark Ace. If he showed more loyalty to Lilith, she would simply torture Lilith to get him back in line. Then if Lilith ever questioned her loyalty, all Cyclonis had to do was toss her back into the chamber and reprogram Lilith's mind.

"I see," Cyclonis said in understanding as she figured Farth had saw the ring.

Lilith was about to reply when the door to Master Cyclonis' office opened and closed quickly. "Someone's in your office," Lilith said as she redrew Helios.

Master Cyclonis stood up and made her way into her office as she was flanked by the Talon and Lilith.

Lilith quietly went around the other side of the desk towards the red head that was focused on the door. As the two were about to escape, Lilith watched as a Talon pushed in a cart full of desserts and smacked into the two. Acting fast, Lilith grabbed a hold of the boy and held her sword to his throat and held him against her body so he couldn't escape.


They were so close to escaping. Aerrow couldn't believe his bad luck as a Talon ran right into them with a dessert cart. Then on top of that, he was being held at sword point.

"Not bad," Master Cyclonis stated as she used her finger to wipe away some of the frosting sitting on Piper's face. "Except for the sour Storm Hawk after taste," she said with distain.

"What should we do with them?" the Talon asked as he flanked Master Cyclonis should Piper try anything.

But Piper was in no state to do anything besides stare at the girl who she thought of as her older sister.

"We could let into that cage with Storm Hawk and let him deal with them, one by one," Master Cyclonis stated.

"Please, Master, let me prove myself and defeat them in front of everyone," the person holding him asked.

At the sound of the voice, Aerrow went ridged. 'No it can't be,' he thought as he recognized the voice. 'She can't be working for Cyclonis.'

"You think that you could defeat them all?" Cyclonis asked as she motioned for the Talon to take a hold of Piper.

"I know I could Master," Lilith said happily.

"Fine, we will see how you do," Master Cyclonis stated. She sent Aerrow a pure evil look. She was finally going to unleash her weapon upon the Storm Hawks.

"Move," Lilith barked at Aerrow. She pushed and shoved the Sky Knight out of the office and towards the arena cage.

"Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer started as Aerrow was pushed into the cage, "for the first time ever, a special match up, arranged by Master Cyclonis herself, in a duel to the finish. It is the lovely, yet deadly, Lilith. She is one of Master Cyclonis' top generals. Second only to Dark Ace himself. She will be facing Aerrow the Storm Hawk."

"No way," Finn said as he watched Lilith walk into the cage that his leader had been pushed into.

"Get out of here Masher," Lilith ordered as she walked around the cage. She was a lioness stalking her prey.

"But-" Junko started.

"I don't need you," she said as she sent him a look.

Junko finally got the message and exited the cage as the two remained, preparing to fight.

"Adrianna," Aerrow said as he faced his older sister in the cage match.

"You're going down Storm Hawk," Lilith ordered as she pulled Nyx out of her sheath. She was not going to take any chances. She was going to defeat this Storm Hawk and prove to Master Cyclonis that she was the best.

"Adrianna it's me," Aerrow said as he slowly lowered his short swords. He couldn't believe his eyes at what he was seeing. "What happened to you?"