A/N: Okay, this chap was hard to write through all my laughter. A LOT of falcon fluffies in this one. Hope you enjoy! P.S.: Anything in * * is Nuju or another character birdspeaking.

Disclaimer: Only own Zephyr and Aurora

Chapter 3: Back with the team

"Psee…"

Matoro looked up from his most recent problem (a report of Malum raiding a trading caravan) to see what Zephyr was trying to tell him. The young tiercel was looking from him, to the door, then back to him again. Repeatedly. And Matoro was almost positive he saw the young falcon's right talon tapping the floor in a show of impatience. He sighed and went back to his work. I'll make him some jesses* and let him ride on my shoulder when I finish this and turn it in to Ackar, he thought.

Zephyr was NOT amused. Why wasn't his new Daddy letting him explore? He was bored! If he could just get Daddy to get up… Then his eyes alit on a thin chain with a clip-hook on each end.

And a brilliant plan formed in his mind.

He grabbed one end of the chain and marched right on over to the foot of Daddy's chair, then began to climb. Its back had plenty of decorative parts to use as talon holds, and he quickly reached the top. His Daddy was too busy to notice. Quickly he looped the chain once, twice, thrice around the little "arch" at the top, and clipped the end to the main part of the chain (failing to notice it was looped through Daddy's shoulder armor as well.) He used the chain as a way of climbing down, too. Then he saw the remote control Boxor his Daddy had left out. A perfect pulling machine! He grabbed the control-device and tucked it into the helm, sitting behind it as if it were a steering wheel. Having hooked the chain around the machine's torso like a harness, he had it charge forward.

Chaos then ensued.

His Daddy's chair tipped back and landed on the floor with a thud, causing him to let out a loud yell of "What the Karzahni!" in surprise. Then the Boxor kept going… and dragged both him and the chair straight out the door.

Two Words: Not Good!

Matoro was just hoping he didn't run into his old team in this humiliating predicament. He was definitely keeping a closer eye on Zephyr from now on!

••••••••

Hahli and the others were calmly chatting about a battle against a Skrall when they heard it.

"Zephyr, turn that thing off! This is NOT funny!"

Zephyr? Wasn't that what Matoro had named his little tiercel?

Then she saw the Boxor Prototype charging straight towards them, a chain around its body and a certain enthusiastic tiercel controlling it from atop its helm. Said tiercel's face lit up with glee upon seeing Aurora, Hahli's little falcon, who had been watching the entire proceedings from her perch on Hahli's shoulder.

"SCATTER!" Jaller yelled.

The Boxor ran through the gap they'd left and it was then that they saw Matoro being dragged along behind it against his will, constantly yelling at Zephyr to stop. Hahli and Nuparu looked at each other once, then back towards the chaos, and gave chase.

Aurora clung to Hahli's shoulder for dear life the whole time, letting out a tirade of indignant hisses and was Mama not being more gentle? This ride made her belly churn!

••••••••

Nuju whistled a laid-back tune as the left his house, his staff clutched in his right hand as he wondered which prophecies might occur within the week.

Suddenly the sound of yelling reached his ears and his mind went on full alert. He looked left. Nothing. He looked right - HOLY KARZAHNI!

He leapt out of the way of the Boxor, watching as it dragged his former translator/assistant helter-skelter through the streets, the tiercel on its helm constantly cheeping with glee, Nuparu and Hahli chasing the whole procession in an effort to stop it while the latter's little falcon eyas clung to her adoptive parent's shoulder screeching quite the vocabulary of avian curses for one so young (he understood them because he'd learned their language.) Finally tiring of all the noise as the procession looped the block yet again, Nuju stood in the street and braced his feet against the rocky ground. When the whole group came around the corner towards him, he lifted his staff and literally screeched: *ENOUGH!*

He instantly saw the young mischief-making tiercel's face turn from one of glee to one of fear as his talon quickly pressed the button to stop the machine. Both Nuparu and Hahli stopped just in time, too.

*"Now,"* he said in both languages needed, *"Who caused all this chaos?"*

Aurora quickly pointed with one talon to Zephyr.

A/N: Okay, this part may be short, but our choir had a concert and that kept me from writing more for now. Read and Review Please…