Sorry I took so long, school just started... tenth grade is harder than I thought... Anyway, here's another update.
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Roseate: Chapter 6
Aerrow never expected the home to be this big. Rooms, hallways, hallways, more rooms... it went on forever it seemed. And he failed to notice that there was a third floor. They left the bottom floor, leaving the kitchen, living room, and a huge office behind them.
"Here's your room Stork. It doesn't get much sunlight though." Roseate swung open the door. A bed with an almost black bedspread was in the center, a wide window with navy curtains was covering one wall. A desk in the corner and a loft at the top were a couple of other details, but the room was pretty simple.
"Not much sunlight? That's fine." The Merb took a couple steps inside and turned back. "You got any disinfectant?"
"The bathroom's just down the hall, two doors down. I believe there's some there." Rose shrugged. Stork left the group and headed for the cleaning supplies.
Rose led the team down the hall more, to a room across the stairs leading upwards.
"Yuro's room is down there." She pointed to a door a ways down the hall. "And Finn, here's your room. And Junko's. It's the only bedroom big enough for both of you. It used to be an office for my father. But it's downstairs now."
There was more depth to this room. It had lofts and shelves all over, one bed in a loft, another jutting off the wall. The colors reminded Piper of a beach.
"Whoa." Finn and Junko dived in, the door slamming behind them.
"Do they always do that?" The girl in blue asked Aerrow and Piper. They only nodded their heads. A smashing noise was heard inside. "I'm not gonna clean up that!" Roseate shouted for the two inside to hear. She brought her voice back down. "Jay-Jay's room is right here. He loves it cause our mother opened another room for him. It's huge." Pointing to the door next to the stairs across from Finn's, she began up the stairs, Heron already waiting for them.
The remaining Storm Hawks followed Rose up the stairs, this floor much smaller. Only three doors instead of seven.
"Here you are Aerrow." She twisted to doorknob. The light green walls almost echoed his eye color, Piper thought. The window was big, like most in this wacky home. It looked more like a study room, but there still was a bed up in the smaller loft. The ceiling was different though. Clouds were painted on the top, a couple air skimmers flying though the white clouds.
"Thanks, Roseate." Aerrow was at a loss of words.
"I painted the ceiling with my mom. It wasn't hard. This used to be my parent's room." Roseate motioned to the room. "Finn and Junko's room just has clouds. Their room used to be my brothers until they wanted separate rooms. Make yourself at home, Aerrow."
"I'd rather see as much of this house as I can, Roseate." Aerrow walked out, Radarr reluctantly leaving. Heron watched him leave, the dog matching Radarr's own growl.
"And because there are no more bedrooms and that my room is big enough, Piper, you can stay with me." She opened the wooden door, and Piper gasped with Aerrow. Heron broke the moment by racing by and plopping on the bottom bunk of the bunk bed.
"Heron..." Rose went inside to push the big animal off the bed. "You shed too much!"
"I love your room!" Piper exclaimed.
"Thanks." Roseate fingered with the blue crystal on her neck.
The room was a light blue, the bed frame painted white. A white desk was against the other wall, a ladder leading up to a bed sized loft above, where a rug and bean bag chair rested. A closet door was on the other wall, and a big window completed the side of the bunk beds. Book shelves were built into the wall, where tons of books, papers and some crystals resided. But what was most interesting was the white ladder in the center of the room that led to a hatch on the ceiling.
Rose fixed the lavender colored sheets that Heron had ruffled.
"Well, there you have it. My whole house!" Rose sat at her desk, letting Piper and Aerrow file in. Heron settled near the shelves, rolling over in the sunlight. The window over her loft above the desk let in more sunlight, the room light and airy.
"How many different maps you got here?" Piper stepped over the big dog, and shuffled through the books and maps. A hum of engines vibrated through the room, a picture rattling on the wall.
"That must be my brothers... I tell them not to fly so close to the roof." Rose shook her head and left the room, Heron racing past her.
"We should go; her brothers went to the Condor." Aerrow said and Piper went out of the room, Radarr bounding after them. The two went down the stairs, seeing Stork file down the other stairs at the end of the hallway with Junko and Finn.
Heron's bark echoed through the home, and some shouts and hollers came after.
The kitchen door was open, wind blowing inside, Roseate at the doorway.
"I TOLD YOU GUYS NOT TO LAND NEAR THE HOUSE!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. Only cheers and laughs replied to her anger. Heron barked and barked, adding to the disrupting noise. "And what- YOU TOOK THEIR SKIMMERS!!!" More cheers and even louder laughter.
"What!" Aerrow and Finn yelled in unison looking at one another then running through the door, Junko and Piper dashing out behind them. Rose let them pass.
"You guys are so dead..." She muttered.
"WE FIXED THEM!" Jay-Jay called to the team. Yuro turned the engines off, a ringing sound left in their ears. Stork stayed behind Heron, afraid to pass the dog.
"Hey, check it out! The little dudes fixed 'em!" Finn called out to the Storm Hawks. Jay-Jay was in Aerrow's Skimmer, Piper's Heliscooter in tow. Yuro was in Finn's skimmer, Junko's in tow.
"How can they tow all our-?" Piper started.
"Ask them. They'd love to tell you." Rose broke in, as she approached her brothers. "Ok, I let you use my sky board. Now where is it? I need to do one more patrol."
Jay-Jay threw her board out from behind him, which Roseate caught with ease. Heron bounded to the board and hopped on, tongue already hanging out.
"No, Heron, not today." Rose shoved him off, and the Bernice Mountain Dog whined. "I'll be fine."
With a swift locking sound and a shift of weight, she was off, and soon disappeared over the trees. As well as the sun.
"Is she always on patrol?" Junko asked, turning to Yuro for an answer.
"Well, ever since mom and dad left, Roseate was always afraid that Cyclonia might take over the island and mom and dad would come back to nothing." Yuro explained, unhooking Finn's skimmer from Junko's. Jay-Jay decided to add more.
"Yeah and she's always practicing with that water crystal in-"
"Jay-Jay! Rose told you never to talk about that!" Yuro cut in, scolding his brother. Jay- Jay ran his hand though his golden hair and smiled sheepishly.
"Talk about what?" Aerrow asked, narrowing his eyes a bit.
"Nothing!" Yuro stumbled for a change in subject. "Uh... don't you guys want your skimmers back?"
Aerrow was about to inquire, Piper was thinking hard about these two but Finn broke in, laughing.
"HECK YES!"