" Treasure of Luna "
9 Tension between
"This.. is WHAT?"
Finn looked confused; he had never seen such extraordinary buildings standing so tall and also glassy; everything was so shiny too. However, he was uncomfortable standing here, because he felt like buildings were gazing down at him like angry parents who were about to shout at him. He hated that moment; there was something intense about these streets, buildings and people. People's face were perfectly-carved sculptures; their bodies were walking-mannequins; but their way of walking was almost identical to robots. No one smiled at each other or had friendly chats on the street.
"New York City!"
"Ah...huh.. and why are we here for, again?"
"To find Master Cyclonis, remember Finn?"
"Ah...huh.."
Finn was awe-strucked to see so many weird squre robots moving all over the place - they also had different colours such as red, silver, black, blue, yellow, green, grey and so on. The place where he has lived never had anything like these; they were always on the condor, but it seemed here, they prefer using squared robots rolling around the ground.. not flying on the air..?
"Finn, don't act so dumb right now. It's serious!!"
Piper scowled at him. This wasn't time to play dumb; they didn't have much time untill Master Cyclonis does something to this world like she did before to Atmos. She didn't want to see that again - destruction. It was never a pleasant experience or pretty sight to watch. Rather, it was disgusting and miserable. She felt guilty that she couldn't finish off Master Cyclonis when she had a chance. It was long time ago when only two of them were on the cliff figithing with crystals. She DID have a chance to kill Master Cyclonis, but she couldn't; maybe because she wasn't too cruel to kill anyone even if that person were evil who tried to kill her friends and destroy the Atmos.
"So, what should we do now?"
Aerrow turned his face towards Starling to ask for any instructions or plans of hers. She smiled.
"Well, it's not going to easy like we were in Atmos"
Now, confused looks from Storm hawks, including Ace looked at her. Instead of her, Elva answered.
"Because she's going to be like us. Wearing clothes just like us.. and we don't know how she looks on the earth.."
"I know how to"
Now, Ace smirked like before. Everyone shievered seeing him like that.
"She has a little scar on left side of her forehead that just looks like 6."
"Alright, so we need to look at left side of her forehead, but how are we gonna do that, man? We can't just flip everyone's hair to see it"
"Ahh, maybe we could ask them to do it?"
"Junko, seriously? that will just scare everyone away. Also they will think we are freaks"
"Hmmm..."
That was critical question from Finn. Very important one. Finn always had this weird instinct to ask something important in a right time for some reason, but unfortunately, that didn't happen often. But they knew, they had to figure out how to find her; even if they know she has a scar on her forehead, it doesn't mean it would be easy. She could easily hide it with her bangs or long hair.
"So, how about this..? Let's make assumptions such as she will wear black clothes and look like emo kid?.. And she will have either long hair or long bangs to hide her scar? And well, if we can't find one like that, then we would make another assumptions and so on.."
"But that would be very long list of.."
"Aerrow, but that would be only way to actually find her. This isn't small city. If we try to look for someone without name, it could take up to an year to do it"
"I know, but can't we just report to the police or something like.. getting some help from others?"
Elva sighed. This city was extremely different or rather this world is way different; it's more realistic than where Storm hawks had been.
"This isn't Atmos. No one's gonna listen to non-sense stories like what we have here."
"well what do you mean by non-sense? this is serious like I said!"
Starling broke the tension between Piper and Elva; they didn't have time to argue or actually stand around and think how to find her. There wasn't much time left untill Master Cyclonis does something to this world. To Starling, both Earth and Atmos are important; two planents are different, but they both gave her unforgettable memories.
"Two options: we could argue forever or we could move our asses off to look for her."
Neither Piper and Elva looked satisfied; Starling sighed, but she didn't say anything about it.
"Let's move. Aerrow, Elva and Ace will be one team, and me, Finn and Piper will be a team. Understood?"
Everyone nodded, although Piper was still pissed that she wasn't in a same team with Aerrow. She doesn't know why everything about Elva made her angry. Although she was genuinely nice, something about Elva wasn't pleasant to Piper. Yes, she had to admit that Elva looked sophisticated and beautiful, but she never got how Aerrow felt towards herself. Piper knew it. Finn knew it. Well, rest of crews, including Ace knew it. But herself, Elva had no clue; she didn't seem to care at all. That, 'that' made her irritated.
"Emma, we will head to school and search around there first"
"Sure thing, we will meet here around... 6 o'clock?"
After that, two teams departed wherever they are heading to find Master Cyclonis. They had no clue, of course - unsure how to find her.
"Follow me"
Three of them - Aerrow, Ace and Elva - didn't dare to speak; it was just too awkward to say something... I mean Ace was always quiet, but today Aerrow seemed silent for a whole time and Elva was deep in thougts where they should go to look for Master Cyclonis. They walked about 20 minutes towards school...
"Ouch!"
Aerrow and a strange girl who had a pitch-black hair bumped into each other. It was unexpected, though he quickly recovered himself to help a girl like a gentle man. Ace seemed to be amuzed to see Aerrow acting like a well-mannered sky knight again. He laughed at him silently and Elva was impressed to see him doing that.
"Hey, if you were a boy in our school, you would have thousands of girls worshipping you, hahaha"
Elva laughed, but Aerrow stiffened a bit again. He had that moment so many times it was uncountable; she never gets it; this girl never ever gets how he feels about her. Unexpectedly, she says something like that just to jiggle his heart violently. At first, it was too much for him to bare, but he was used to it, now. How come this girl never understands how I feel about her? How? How am I supposed to do it? Great, now I don't even know why I am falling for her. This is just GREAT. Damn it. This love thing is just so stressful. And I don't understand why Piper acts so worked up around her and me. I mean.. why? we are friends, me and Piper. Right? There's nothing going...
His thoughts were interrupted by a voice from above.
"Trouble with your love life, boy?"
Aerrow frowned. Ace's smirking face was right beside him, looking directly down at him like a bully looking down at bullied one. He didn't like it.
"You don't get it, Ace. Have you ever loved anyone before? You, The DARK Ace?
This time, Ace stiffened; he wished this boy didn't say anything about that. He knew better than anyone on the Atmos how it feels to be madly in love with a woman and he.. knows too well about losing someone... so simply.. and how it feels... it's painful. More than painful.. Yes, it is. But one word cannot possibly describe how he felt when he found out that Elizabeth, love of his life, was dead indeed.
"Sure, boy. I HAD loved a woman. You think I'm just some kind of freak who only desires power. Ha, thanks!"
"Well, fine then. Give me some advice for how I should confess?"
"Getting advices from me, boy? This is unexpected"
"Whatever"
"Wait for a chance to be alone with her and kiss her. That's it"
"What?.. seriously? That was stupidest idea I ever heard from anyone"
Ace smirked.
"Again, it's your choice to choose what to do"
They looked at each other; Aerrow found it weird to talk to him about the privat part of his life; Ace was amazed how he told advices to actually help this little brat. They have never thought that this time would actually come... having normal conversation to each other, talking about thier days...or love or so on.
"Hey! Hello Are you guys listening?"
Elva interrupted to see if Ace and Aerrow are present with her. She waved her hands in front of thier eyes to wake them up from whatever they are.
"Yeah, sure.. Elva"
"Alrite! I figured we should go to the school first, though I am not sure if it is a good idea..."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you know school isn't exactly what you think... It's different from the Atmos"
"Like how?"
"Everyone loves gossiping. It's their favourite thing to do.. talking about other people and if I bring you guys to the school...oh man"
Aerrow and Ace were confused. What is she talking about? Why?
"Well, I will go into the school alone.. and you guys wait at the cafe near our school.. well, it's right in front of our school anyways."
"Name?"
"It's Andante"
Both of them nodded, and stepped into the cafe, although they were worried if she does encounter the Master Cyclonis. She could be in danger, because Elva doesn't know how Master Cyclonis looks, but on the other hand, Master Cyclonis knows how Elva looks. Well, there wasn't big different between at Atmos and on the earth.
They looked out the window and saw Elva walking up the stairs to the fancy school. Students with fancy uniforms are crowded in front of the door and it was strange to see Elva wearing a normal clothes, but it seemed no one cared, or no one dared to look at her or talked to her. There was something weird about it. Usually, when she was with Storm hawks, she was nice. However, Aerrow saw different side of her today. She looked so strong and charismatic... Her way of walking up the stairs was defined and dignified; it looked like she was claiming her power over everyone. And everyone couldn't dare to talk about it.
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