It hurt. It hurt a lot. My body felt like it was being punched and twisted into knots. My bones ached, and I was sure that quite a few of them were broken.
"It's okay sweetie, you'll be okay, just hand in there." The voice was soft and caring. My eyes painfully fluttered open, and everything was flooded with white. "That's it, c'mon...stay awake." the woman said, and I noticed that she was a nurse. I was in a hospital. Suddenly, everything flickered to blue. Sky blue. The halls of the hospital were gone and replaced with a cloud dotted sky. My body grew numb as the cold air whipped around me. What was going on?
People were rushing around the California State Hospital. Outside a room, a worried couple stood outside a room, watching their daughter through a window. Their other daughter sat crying silently nearby.
"Jake, I don't want you to teach Kira how to drive." the woman said, her gaze never leaving her child.
"Then how the hell is she supposed to learn, Jesse?"
"We'll get her a teacher! Jake, you're stressing her out!"
"She needs to learn how to judge distances instead of freezing up! I can help her!"
"No you can't!"
"Um, excuse me?" said a nurse, bringing the Lockhart parents from their argument.
"What is it? Is Kira okay?" Jesse Lockhart asked, her voice laced with worry.
The nurse's face grew solemn. "Well, she's not dead, but..."
I kept falling through the sky. My body was so cold; it was painful to have the wind rushing past me.
Almost out of nowhere, I heard mumbling. It was almost inaudible against the rushing air.
'Mom?' I thought as the soft murmur of her voice continued. She sounded worried. I tried to call out, but my throat felt strangely dry. My parents were talking to someone, but I didn't know who. After a while, the voices started to fade away as I continued to plummet through the sky.
'Mom...Dad...'
He stood quietly at the wheel. His yellowed eyes darted around the sky. Four other beings sat at a table behind him. A boy with red hair and emerald eyes was talking lightly with a dark skinned girl. Her topaz eyes had a happy shine.
Another boy, a blonde one, was boredly flicking a little pebble back and forth to a strange rhino like creature.
Out the window, the green carrier pilot saw something falling.
"Uh...Aerrow?" he said, but the blonde had started a rant.
"Man! There's nothing to do around here! Can we please go to Terra Tropica?" he whined causing the red-head and girl to look at him.
"Finn, would you stop whining? We're patrolling around for a reason." the girl scolded, and the red-headed nodded.
"Piper's right, Finn." he said. "We're still keeping an eye out for the Dark Ace."
"Aerrow..." the pilot said more urgently this time.
"Aw man." Finn pouted as he sunk into his seat.
"Oh, stop it Finn." Piper said. Just then, the strange alien rhino raised his hand.
"Junko, why are you raising your hand?" the red-head asked with a raised brow.
"Sorry Aerrow, but Stork needs ya." Junko stated while pointing at the green carrier pilot. Aerrow turned his head towards Stork to find out what was so important.
"There's something out there falling to its doom."