EDIT: Deleted the story and put it here as a chapter. This is the end of the 'Slave' sequel.
I don't own The Storm Hawks. I only own Aridrinna.
R&R and enjoy.
Very early morning.
Aridrinna awoke in the extra cot the Storm Hawks had given her. She smiled, blissful.
Sweet, sleep…no dreams, only darkness…no nightmares.
She knew better than to think that they would be gone forever. Sooner or later, preferably later, they'll come back and haunt her again. But now…
She stretched.
…Time to get up.
It was before dawn.
In less than 15 minutes, she was dressed in her new clothes. Walking down the corridor (and successfully avoiding the traps) she managed to get onto the balcony outside. She looked at one of the ropes hanging from her special belt. They were made of a certain type of hair-she couldn't remember what type- that made them indestructible to age, plus the strange hooks at the end of them was impervious to wear also. She let one of them pass through her fingers, and then looked up at the curving plane of the ship.
Time to test out her skills.
Expertly whirling one of the ropes, she let the grapple/hook rope fly. It grasped onto a rivet, locking itself into place. The Fly Hook smirked. Perfect. She began to hoist herself up, until she wasn't on the glass anymore.
And then she began to "glide".
Whirling the ropes like a master, she skimmed over the ship, with a simple twist of her wrist, locking and unlocking the ropes as she went. After surveying the exterior of the ship for about half an hour, she then climbed (fly hook style of course!) to the very top of the ship.
Settling down, she faced her head forward to watch the sunrise.
Breathy lavender sky became a blushing pink; complementing the once dark clouds that were now a pretty shade of lilac and white. The glorious yellow-orange sun sent down beautiful rays.
It was a spectacular sunrise.
'I'm finally here,' she realized, eyes widening slightly. 'I'm finally a Fly Hook, on a ship, with a squadron and a Sky Knight. I'm finally achieving my dream.'
Then she thought.
'…But at what cost?,' she thought, 'Everyone…forgive me…please…'
She cried softly, in recognition to her past horrors, watching the sunrise.
Watching a new breaking dawn.
Aerrow stared at the plate in front of him.
Slightly steaming pancakes, and on top of that, glistening syrup. A glass on orange juice was next to it. Finn and Junko were already on their third helpings. Piper, on her second. Radarr was rubbing his belly in happiness and Stork…wasn't eating pancakes.
"Dude, are you gonna finish that?" asked Finn, voice partly muffled from the pancakes in his mouth. Aerrow glared at Finn.
"Just askin'" Finn said, gulping and leaning back to his plate to enjoy his third helping. Junko was on his fifth already.
"Man! These pancakes are so good! You're pretty good cook, you know," he said after gulping in down. Aridrinna beamed at him.
"Thanks; this is one meal I can remember baking." She didn't mention that it took about 2 tries to get it right and that she already ate all the bad ones so she was full.
Aerrow took a bite.
It was good.
While chewing, he was partly watching Aridrinna and her actions.
She was flipping pancakes. She seemed happy, but yet…it was funny but…when he first "bought" her -god, he hated that, buying a human, felt so wrong- there was a sense of…something around her. Some indescribable loss and sadness surrounded her being, like a veil.
He wondered why. And then he shrugged it off and went back to eating the yummy pancakes. 'After all,' he thought as he speared some more pancakes onto his fork, 'There's plenty of time to figure it out,'
'She's one of us now, give or take.'
Fluff...anyways, Hope you liked it! Bye!