Series presented by: BloomingViolets and Pink-Green-White-4ever
Challenge: Dream – written by BloomingViolets
Last Revised: October 10, 2005

Summary: Flying was one of her dreams.
Disclaimer: We don't own 'em, wish we did.
Ship: Syd/Sky

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"Hey, what are you doing?"

Syd turned from her position, only to find Sky behind her giving her a curious expression. The pink ranger smiled at him, before returning her attention to the sky above. "Nothing really."

"Why are you staring up at the clouds?"

She shrugged. "It's a secret."

Sky moved until he was standing next to the pink ranger and tried to see what Sydney found so fascinating about the sky. The pink ranger closed her eyes and took a deep breath, inhaling the fresh air. What was it that Sydney found so fascinating?

"Tell me," he prodded.

For a moment, the two rangers stood on the rooftop of the academy in silence, watching at the sun was slowly setting. After a minute, Sky decided to ask again, when Sydney suddenly spoke up.

"I've always wished I could fly," she spoke softly and so suddenly that Sky almost missed what she had said.

"Come again?" He gave her a startled look.

"I went once with my dad before he died," the pink ranger continued. "We owned our own plane and he took me up on my ninth birthday."

The blue ranger kept silent as Sydney continued speaking. "I remember how exhilarating it was to be up there with the clouds…" her blue eyes looked wistful. "I wish I could go up there again."

"Why don't you?" Sky asked. His blue eyes stared at her with compassion. He knew what it was like to grow up without a father.

Sydney shrugged. "After my daddy died, it just wasn't the same." Her eyes were on the sky again. "I miss it though, even if I only went once."

In a split second, Sky made a decision that he knew he would never regret. He grabbed the pink ranger's hand and began pulling her along. "Come on."

"Sky… what are you doing?" Sydney protested lightly as she stumbled along.

"You'll see!" Sky pulled her along, dragging her though the hallways of the Academy, past the common room and down into the zord bay area. He led the pink ranger over to where his zord sat. Sydney stared at him. "What's going on?"

Pulling out his morpher, Sky grinned at her and pressed a button. The door to his zord flipped open. "You said you wanted to fly again, didn't you? Well, my zord is the only one that can fly."

"Are you serious?" There was no mistaking the surprise in the pink ranger's voice.

He nodded and climbed inside. "Are you coming or not?"

Syd quickly scrambled up the steps that led to the opening of his zord. Sky grinned at her from where he sat. "Sorry, there's only one seat in here. Think you can handle sitting on my lap?"

Syd grinned back. "As long as you don't crash." And with those words, she promptly climbed in.

Together, they flew the blue ranger's zord into the clouds, twisting and turning, laughing as they did so. For an hour, they stayed up in the sky, admiring the sunset from their view.

Sydney leaned against Sky's chest, content with everything around her. The blue ranger's arms were resting comfortably around her waist. She sighed. "Thank you for taking me up here, Sky."

Sky smiled, but said nothing. He wrapped his arms tighter around Syd's waist, glad that he had made one of Syd's dreams come true.

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