Me: Chapter 5! It's been awhile since I wrote for this one. I had to read on it.
Piper: You went and reread it?
Me: Yep. I've got sooo many stories I'm mixing them up .Maybe I can end a few in the next month or so. Thank Atmos it's SUMMER! No more school! No more teachers no more text books! Just me, my friends, my computer and my writings!
Piper: She's gone nuts/ Someone kick her.
Me: (glare)
Finn: someone should kick her.
Me: I can always torture Finn's New girlfriend.
Finn: NO! Not her!
Me: Now on the story. You all know I don't own the storm hawks.
The girls were trying to burry themselves into their blankets to keep from freezing. Aerrow and the guys were trying to figure out why the heat broke.
"Dear Atmos. It's only December 13th and it's bloody freezing cold!" Aria squealed.
"Topaz and emerald are having a better time… probably skiing on the mountains of Terra mountaintress." Saphire exclaimed.
"No, emerald likes to snowboard." Aria exclaimed.
"Good point." Saphire exclaimed, sipping more hot chocolate. Starling came in wearing a thick winter coat, lined with white fur.
"I don't know about you guys but I'm going to the mall where the heat's working. Piper's coming with because she doesn't have a winter coat. Topaz and Emerald are also on their way here from Terra mountaintress with the band. The guys already know and are combining rooms to make room. Emerald and Topaz are sharing. Finn, Aerrow, and Radar are sharing. Chris, Chase, and Junko are sharing the three bed bedroom. Tina and Tia are sharing. And I think Carla will be okay with her own room. The last room the band can play in. They are in the Christmas festival anyway." Starling exclaimed.
"Let's go. We need to get new outfits for the festival anyway." Saphire exclaimed, bolting up from her blanket, finishing her hot chocolate and pulling on thick leggings and knee-high boots with fur lining.
"Saphire, you are not wearing that horrid mini skirt with fake fur are you?" Aria asked.
"Yes I am. It's warm and this place is frozen. I should have thought about it earlier." Saphire exclaimed. Then she pulled the skirt on. She handed Piper a fake fur sweater.
"It's cold out. This will help keep you warm somewhat. I wish I'd kept my old winter jacket. You could be wearing that instead. It was warmer than that. Not to mention more comfortable. " Saphire exclaimed. Piper took it and slipped it on. Saphire then pulled on a long sleeved black shirt and then pulled on a thick black jacket with white fur lining. They looked at Aria.
"You coming?" Starling asked. Aria sighed and stood. Then she dressed in pants and a sweater and sneakers. She pulled on a silver winter coat.
"Let's go." Aria exclaimed. The girls walked out of the room and down the stairs. Aerrow kicked the heater in the living room. The guys all sighed in annoyance. Starling laughed slightly.
" Not Funny Starling." Harrier scowled.
"Well… It looks like you need a new one." Stork exclaimed. Harrier nodded.
"You guys gonna go to the hardware store and get a new one?" Starling asked.
"Looks like it. Why?" Harrier asked.
"We're heading to the mall. Miss Piper has no winter coat and will need one. We're also heading out to get outfits for the Christmas festival in a week." Starling exclaimed.
"You girls behave." Harrier exclaimed as he went back top examining the heater as the girls headed out.
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"Race you down Chase!" Emerald challenged the drummer, a black haired boy with yellow eyes and a 6 pack stomach. Emerald had shoulder length black hair with violent red ends and green eyes.
" Your on!" Chase exclaimed. They raced down the mountain side. Topaz laughed at her twin as she flipped her black hair over her shoulder, her yellow eyes dancing in delight as they followed it's twin snowboard down the mountain with Chase. She skied down with Carla and Chris. Tia hollered in excitement as she and Tina snowboarded past.
Carla had long black hair that went to her knees that was currently braided, and blue eyes. Her eyebrow and ears were pierced as far as anyone could see, but her belly button and tongue were also pierced.
Chris, Carla's brother was blond and blue eyes and not as fit as Chase nor as attractive, but that depended on who you were asking. To Tia, he was hot.
Tia was a tall girl with a wiry frame and green hair and pink eyes. Tina was her sister. Tina was pink haired and silver eyes. Many people took one look at her and thought she was blind but no one knew she could see better then most.
"Race you down! Last one down pays for lunch!" Tia shouted, full of spirit and energy. Tia was lead guitar player and a singer. Tina played the keyboard and sometimes guitar. Tia could also play keyboard but played guitar more.
"Your on!" Carla yelled with a smile. Soon everyone was racing down the mountain.
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Once the girls reached the mall they were frozen but Piper seemed to be cooping with the cold better then the others. The girls went to the coat store first where Piper got a thick and fluffy coat with fur lining. It was dark blue as well. They got matching boots for her too but Piper said they went too high.
"They're only knee-high." Saphire argued. The girls ran over to a store featuring holiday clothing. They scurried inside and walked along isles and racks until they had there arms full of clothes so they wandered of to the changing rooms to try them on. Starling went first.
"What do you think?" She asked when she came out. She wore a strapless dress that went to the floor. You couldn't even see the shoes. A piece of holly was pined to chest. White fur trimmed the dress.
"Too revealing." Saphire exclaimed without even looking upl. Starling gasped in horror.
"Look up stupid." Aria commented. Saphire looked up from the magazine in her lap.
"Too long." Saphire corrected.
"I had a feeling it was."
"Unless you wanna trip to your doom I'd trim it." Piper commented. The others stared at her.
"You sound like Stork." Saphire exclaimed. Starling walked back into the stall and changed into a dress much like the one she had just been in but it was about calf length and was long sleeved that draped.
"I like this one better it's warm. And it's got a little cape." Starling exclaimed, pulling on the cape that ended about mid back also in red and trimmed in white fur.
"Wear that to the festival." Saphire exclaimed.
"Yeah!" Aria exclaimed. Starling walked back in and came out moments later in a mid thigh length strapless dress in red with a black thick belt and trimmed in white fur. A holly hair piece was in a bag attacted to the bag.
"Cute. Wear it on Christmas. We'll be in the house the whole day so you don't need sleeves. The holly is a hair piece isn't it?" Saphire exclaimed.
"yeah." Starling replied.
"It's adorable." Aria exclaimed.
"What do you think Piper?" Starling asked.
"It's… pretty. "Piper exclaimed. In the back of her mind, she didn't truly care.
"Okay. I'll wear it on Christmas. Saphire, change into one of your outfits." Starling commanded. Saphire happily got up and walked into one of the stall and changed. Starling emerged moments before Saphire. When Saphire emerged she wore an almost floor length dress with sleeves in red with white fur trimming.
"Ewwww…. Tooo
long." Aria laughed. Saphire laughed as well and walked back in and
changed into a mini skirt in red velvet and white fur trimming and a
red velvet belly shirt with draping sleeves also trimmed in white
fur. When she emerged, Aria smiled.
"Christmas. Not the
festival." Aria exclaimed before Starling could comment. Starling
smiled.
"It's lovely Saphire." Starling said. Saphire smiled and walked back into the stall and emerged in a dress that was like Starling's Festival dress with a huge ribbon tied around the waist and bowed in the back.
"Awe… it's sooo cute." Aria squealed.
"Festival. Aria, your turn." Starling exclaimed. Aria bolted into the stall Starling had been in with her outfits as Saphire walked back into her stall and emerged in her clothed with her two outfits and shoes. Aria emerged moments later in a silver dress like Saphire's festival dress without the fur trimming.
"Festival. It's cute, and your color." Starling exclaimed.
"I agree. What do you think Piper?" Saphire looked at Piper.
"It's… nice. I agree with Starling." Piper exclaimed with false cheeriness. The other girls smiled and nodded and Aria went back into the stall and came out in a green dress with white fur trimming that went to mid calf and was strapless.
"Um… ewww… and the boots… yuck." Saphire exclaimed. The boots were grey with black fur trimming and sagged so though they were supposed to go to mid calf, they only went to her ankle
"Agreed." Starling exclaimed. Aria walked back in and came out in a red skirt and red one strapped shirt trimmed in white fur.
"Christmas." Starling and Saphire exclaimed at once. Aria smiled.
"Your turn Piper." Starling exclaimed as Aria walked back into the stall to change back. Piper walked up to one of the stalls with the outfits and shoes and changed. Aria emerged and sat down with her two outfits and shoes. Piper emerged in a red mini dress with white trimming and black heels.
"No… it's missing something." Starling exclaimed. Piper turned around and walked back in. She emerged next in a red velvet belly shirt trimmed in white fur and a mini skirt that matched with knee-high black heeled boots. Red wrist bands trimmed in white fur on her arms.
"Nice. Christmas." Saphire exclaimed.
"Oh…so pretty!" Aria exclaimed with a smile. Starling nodded in approval. Piper looked beyond them and saw her mother's disapproving smile before her mother disappeared, proving it was just a figure of her imagination. She walked back into the stall and appeared in a red dress that went just below her knees and was short sleeved with a cape that went to her butt that draped around her, trimmed in white fur.
"Festival!" The three girls chorused at once. Piper walked back into the stall and changed into her clothes and walked out and toward the cashier with the other girls.
"Good day Starling, Saphire and Aria. How are you ladies today." The cashier greeted.
"Lovely. You?" Starling greeted.
"Well. Have a happy holiday!" The cashier exclaimed as they paid and left. Piper walked back to the house, numb, and felt empty. She felt bad for trying to be happy. Her mother died and it was her fault. If she'd obeyed her mother and quite the storm hawks, she would have been home to save and protect her parents. When they walked into the house the guys weren't there and the heater was gone. They turned on the oven and deiced to bake a cake and make hot chocolate to warm. up their bones.
"mmm… smell that chocolate. It at least warms the soul." Saphire exclaimed. She hande Piper a mug of the drink and got her own. Piper stared into the drink.
"Piper, You've been really quiet since you arrived. Are you okay?" Starling asked, sitting down across from her.
"Yeah… just… I feel as if I'm responcable for my parents' death. I mean, My mom wanted be to quit and if I had I might have been home to protect my parents and stop that freaking raptor. I could have prevented it." Piper exclaimed.
"No, Honey, you couldn't have prevented it." Starling exclaimed. Saphire smiled with a plan in the back of her mind. She slipped on a pair of reading glasses and sat down next to Piper.
"Miss Saphire, please explain to me, Dr. Saphire why it is your fault your parents were killed by a raptor, a rugue." Saphire exclaimed with her face in a serious expression. Piper laughed slightly.
"I could have stopped them." Piper explained.
"You could not have. You were following your dream. That does not make it your fault. Just because your mother was trying to get you to follow her dream does not make it your fault." Saphire exclaimed in a serious manner. Aria sat next to Starling trying not to laugh.
"Can you see anything?" Aria asked in a laughing manner.
"Yes, and a therapist always wears glasses." Saphire exclaimed. She stood and attempted to walk over to the stove to check on the cake and tripped on the way there.
"You sure about that?!" Piper asked, laughing.
"No actually I can't see a thing with these on but I was trying to make you laugh and I'm thankful it worked." Saphire exclaimed, picking herself up off the floor as she took off the glasses. Piper slid off her coat.
"It's nice and warm in here." Piper exclaimed. Starling nodded in agreement.
"It's coming off the oven." Starling exclaimed.
"Let's hope it's not broken too." Saphire exclaimed, making the others laugh. Soon the girls were gossiping and talking as if nothing were wrong, as if Piper's parents weren't dead, as if there was no war between the Sky knights and Cyclonia. The girls continued until the cake came out and the boys came into the house.
"My, it's warm in here." Harrier exclaimed when he set foot into the kitchen.
"You can thank the oven for that. My goodness, you look half frozen. Here, you and the boys come here where it's warm and have a mug of hot chocolate and warm your bones before installing the heater.
"No, we gotta install the new heater now Starling. The toilet water is frozen. That's not a good thing." Aria and Saphire started laughing so hard. At Harrier's comment about the toilet water being frozen. Piper giggled slightly.
"Well, at least have hot chocolate while you work." Starling exclaimed. Harrier sighed.
"Fine" Harrier exclaimed. Saphire walked to the stove and poured more water into the kettle and pour more chocolate mix as Harrier walked out and said something to the boys in the next room.
"The toilet water is frozen." Aria laughed. Starling started laughing as well. Saphire pulled out more mugs from a cabnet and pour more hot chocolate into the mugs and set them on the tray Aria pulled out. Saphire took the tray and walked out.
"Here's some hot chocolate to warm your bones. Dang I'd forgot how cold it was. I've been in the kitchen so long I've forgotten." Saphire exclaimed. The guys smiled at her and thanked her, taking the mugs and sending her back to the kitchen where it was warm.
"They are so sweet." Saphire exclaimed.
"And Caring." Piper added, a smile graced on her lips. She again saw her mother and her frown, this time staring at them from the window before disappearing, turning into snow. It had started snowing again.
"Will this snow ever stop?" Aria asked.
"I don't know but if you stare at it too long you'll start to see things. What do you see that's so interesting Piper?" Starling asked.
"I saw my mom, frowning at me." Piper answered.
"Piper, your mom would be proud. Relax, your over working yourself and your mom doesn't like that. Relax, your on vacation." Saphire exclaimed.
"no I'm not. I'm visiting a terra waiting for the signal to turn my plan into action." Piper responded.
"And you're on vacation while you wait. "Saphire exclaimed.
"She's right Piper. You gotta relax. Your mom wouldn't like it if you over work yourself." Starling exclaimed.
"Since when are you guys therapists?" Piper exclaimed in a joking manner.
"Since we meet you like this?" All three girls chorused together. A loud bang was heard from the other room, followed by laughing and cheering and the feeling over warm air rushing over them. The girls stuck their heads out of the kitchen to see the guys laughing in the living room where the new heater had been installed behind the mantle.
"Thank goodness. What was that bang?" Saphire asked.
"It was Finn smacking his head into the heater." Aerrow responded. The girls laughed. Then walked back into the kitchen with the boys behind them to enjoy the heat of the kitchen.
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Me: R&R! Hope you enjoyed. Later.