Chapter 2: Half Dead

Morning finally came and Piper was the first to wake up, she wanted to investigate the tropical forest for the morning. As for everyone else, they were all sleeping like rocks... "Snoring" rocks. Piper quickly made breakfast got dressed into her normal storm hawks fashion and headed for her heliscooter. But then Piper remembered that there were no power crystals left, so instead she shrugged and walked out of the door and past the wonderful water which she planned to jump into later... after the guys had made sure that there were no "poisonous Anacondas" in there. As Piper went into the forest, she decided not to go too far from the Condors view or she could get lost. and getting lost in one of the mysterious "Other" half of Atmos' tropical forests probably was not the best thing.

As Piper pushed her way through the new and unusual exotic plants, she noticed a black smudge on the ground. When she studied it closely, it was not from a fire. In fact, Piper had no idea what it was. A little more ahead of her she noticed spatters of dried blood on the ground, as she followed the trail, she noticed more spatters of dried blood on some of the trees trunks and bushes. After a few minutes of following this trail of blood, the spatters began to turn into splodges, then it went from splodges to smudges... and eventually, from smudges to small pools. Piper knew that whatever she was about to discover was close because the blood was going from dried to fresh. Finally Piper pushed through one more large exotic bush and to her devistation, was a girl, who was daringly close to her ending.

Piper gasped and approached the severely injured girl, who lay under a tree, looking very lifeless. The girl had straight long scruffy midnight blue hair, sort of like Piper's hair colour, but only darker, almost black, and her skin was pale white with a couple of light brown freckles on her face. She wore clothes that were different to what people wore on the side of Atmos the Storm Hawks were from. She had a torn checkered red mini skirt with black thin-chained skinny jeans on under, she also wore a torn black tank top where all the torn bits were crimson red and she had black ankle converse shoes on. Much much different to what anyone on the Storm Hawks' side of Atmos would wear!

It was quite obvious that the trail Piper had just followed was this girls blood and that this girl had tried to go somewhere to get help when bleeding out the way she was. Even now as this girl lay before Piper, she still bled non stop. Since Piper wasnt so strong, she struggled to get back to the Condor with the unconscious girl's arm over her shoulder, but eventually she managed to arrive back at the Condor.

When Piper and the lifeless girl got there, Finn was bathing in the sun on his hammock with his celebrity-like sunnies on, one hand resting behind his head and a drink in the other while Stork held his protective spray mumbling paranoid things to himself as his eye twitched madly at bugs... They had obviously checked for Anacondas because Junko, Radarr and Aerrow were at the top of the waterfall, looking very excited... excited enough to jump.

"CANNON BALL!" Junko bellowed as he leapt off the waterfalls edge with Aerrow woohoo-ing and Radarr chirping in excitement as all three came whirling down toward the bottom of the waterfall. Because Junko had done a "cannon" ball, he caused a tidal wave, going right toward Finn and Stork and even Piper and the unconscious girl, drenching all of them. Finn who got hit by most of the tidal wave since he was right in the middle of it, ended up being spun and twisted up inside his hammock and untwisted out extremely quick. He landed face down on the sand beneath him with a thud.

It took Finn a few seconds to come to. When he sat up, he looked abit shocked. In fact, he looked like he had just seen his precious stash box of hair gel bottles being thrown out of the Condor window along with his guitar by Piper. "What the hell? Dude, you messed up my morning hair and woke me up!" Finn began to whinge as he stood up and death stared at Junko, not realising his glasses were sliding off his face.

"But your morning hair was already messed up cause its morning hair?" Junko said with a confused expression on his face. Finn just pouted and sulked until he realised what he had just said. "Morning hair?" he muttered to himself as he shook his head in shame.

As for Stork, he just stood with his hands clenching his protection spray and his knees slightly shaking and his eye twitching again, not that you could see his eyes cause after being drench by water his black fringe had covered half his face aka his eyes and he just looked like a drowned green rat. He looked through his fringe at Junko with a very unimpressed look on his face as Finn lunged at Junko. He tried to tackle him, forgetting that Junko was a wallop, so unfortunatley for Finn, he ended up running into Junko as if he was running into the face of a cliff and falling backward into the water with a dumb look on his face.

Aerrow and Radarr cracked up laughing at Finn and Junko as they began tackling in the water like a pair of 6 year olds. "Waaahaaa! There could be mind plankton in this water! Eeeep!" Stork sqealed as he began spraying himself instantly with his protection spray. Piper gave a funny look at Stork as she watched him run inside of the Condor yelling something she didnt quite hear properly, but she was sure he had just said the S word in merbian language.

Suddenly the girl moved and grunted a little as she pulled off of Piper and stood with her eyes slowly opening. The coldness of the water had obviously woken her up when it came down on her and Piper the way it had. As the girl stretched her arms out and stood on her tips, every bleeding gash, cut and bruise slowly disappeared. She was healing.

When the girl had opened her eyes fully, her eyes were large and very almost-black-blue, like a very dark night sapphire, they looked so deep, mysterious, serious, and most of all... sad. Suddenly when the girl had fully come to, she noticed Piper looking shocked. The girls eyes widened in shock, she wasnt meant to let other people see her healing.

"How long were you there for..." She asked Piper in a quiet voice.

"Not long. I carried you from where you were cause you were bleeding i was going to bandage up all your wounds. But.. you healed..." Piper said quietly. The girl suddenly took Piper by the shoudlers and looked at Piper right in the eyes.

"It's our secret... no one is alowed to know that i can do such things ok... dont even tell those guys over there!" The girl said calmly. Piper nodded.

"I'm Piper, over there is Junko, Finn, Radarr and Aerrow... who are you?"

Suddenly Piper noticed the girl looking at Aerrow in shock, it was like she knew him. Quickly she looked away and to Piper and forced a small trembling smile.

"Liexi Fang"