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Storm Hawks
Far Side Fray
Chapter 3: The Watch
A shaky blond sat outside the condor and watched his breath escape and mingle in cold air through his clanking jaws.
"Bur, why did I have to be first watcher?" He complained. "How could I possibly have a good aim when I'm f-freezing like this! How can I even shoot at all? I can't even feel my trigger finger!" He continued clearly not amused.
Inside the condor, the rest of the squadron was deciding who was going to have the next watch.
"I could go. After all, I'm probably the one who got the most sleep so far anyways."
Junko volunteered seeing as Stork was clearly in no mental shape to be alone, especially outside his beloved ship! And Aerrow was clearly not in the best physical shape to be alone out there with a beast roaming around. And as for Piper, she had to stay by Aerrow's side to keep an eye on him.
"Thanks Junko" replied the redhead. "Piper and I will have our turn after in half an hour."
And with this, the wallop nodded and left the room to take his turn and relieve Finn.
"Aerrow, are you sure? I really don't think it's best for you to be in the cold right now."
Piper asked her leader hoping he would just fall asleep.
"I'll be fine Piper. I'm already starting to feel better. Well, kind of. "
He tried to reassure her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Fine, but I'm not leaving you out of my site. I don't know what's worst, your infection or that thing out there."
To this Aerrow chuckled and replied, "Besides, there's no way I'm going to sleep after what we just saw."
"F-Finally! Warmth!" Finn popped in the room with his hands tucked under his arms and shaking.
"Anything while you were out there?" Aerrow asked his half frozen wingman.
"Nope! Not even a sound. Why can't Stork go out there? It would give us each a little more time to rest." Finn asked turning to the merb with an unimpressed look on his face.
"Uh, have you seen Stork? He's just like that time when the condor was eaten whole by that leviathan! We'll be lucky if he doesn't go mad and attract more attention to us in doing so." The navigator explained with a slight attitude to which the blond rolled his eyes and laid down with his back to what was left of the fire.
Half an hour passed and Junko came back in the condor, now frozen as well. Sure wallops had thick skin, however, being in high altitudes on a mountaintop, the winds can be quite harsh and can create biting frost! "I'm b-back. Y-your turn." The wallop stuttered.
"Anything?" asked the sky knight.
"Just a little rabbit that ran by."
"Alright then, lets get this over with." Piper got up and landed a hand to Aerrow.
Aerrow and Piper both sat on the condor's roof back to back to each other for a better view. "How are you holding up, Aerrow?" "Ok for now." He replied and kept watch.
"Hey Piper?"
"Mmm?"
"You always look after us, ask how we are. Can I ask you something?"
"What is it Aerrow?" she asked as she slightly twisted herself to see her sky knight.
Aerrow replied as he turned his head to face her, "Well, how are you?"
"Um, fine I guess? Wait why?"
"I've just been a little worried about you, you know, ever since you got sick off the binding."
"Oh…yeah, that. Well, I mean, I'm still regaining some of my strength back but I feel a lot better though."
"Ok, glad to know that. But please, don't practice when I'm not around."
"I won't. Besides, I don't think I have the strength yet."
After half an hour, they decided to climb back in the condor with the others. It was almost three in the morning and at this point, they just wanted to sleep, beast stocking them or not.
When they were back in the condor, they found all there teammates sound asleep, curled around the fire leftover. "Let's just go to bed." Aerrow suggested, "I think whatever was out there probably also fell asleep."
"Yeah" The tired navigator agreed and rubbed her eyes.
"Good night Piper"
"You too"
They found a spot around the last remaining warmth, closed their eyes and let the rest of the dark hours pass by.