Sorry for the long wait! With school and work and being grounded ): haven't had time to update.

The sound echoed through the corridor. All of the other attackers covered their had reached their breaking point. The leader of the attackers, Jake, decided it was time to send their "friend" on a little mission.

"Kookaburra! Can you please join us?"Jake called watching the other attackers came walking in. Yes before he was a defender, Kook was an attacker.

"Kookaburra is my father, call me Kook." He said laughing for the thousandth time. "What would you like?"

"We have a dangerous spy mission for you Kookabur-uh Kook." Jake whispered. "We need you to spy on the defenders. But since you're never quiet and probably aren't that stealthy, we have backup. No one knows her name but she's always quiet and it would be a big help if you went with her."

A girl with dark brown hair and chocolate eyes came into the room wearing all leather and cracked her knuckles. Beautiful was the first word to come to Kooks mind. He trusted her immediately.

As they begin their journey he observes her careful way of watching out for things. At one point three huge guys, one with long dark hair, one with matted brown hair, and one with a mohawk passed them. They spoke in low tones.

"She should be passing us now." The dark haired one whispered.

"SHE IS!" The one shouted. Both guys gave him a horrified look before they saw what was in his hand. "This is her splatana right?"

"Right. Which means she succeeded and is in. I never doubted her for a moment." Both the dark haired and the shouter looked at the one with the mohawk and spikes with an easy to read look that read...Yeah right!

Kook heard the girl growl. So she can kick some butt too? He thought. He realized he was in love with a girl but he didn't even know her name. They came into a big opening. A lot of prison cells so Kook figured it was the dungeon. Something was off.

"So...sweetheart wanna tell me your name?" He asked. She turned around with a smirk on her face and her hair whipped his cheek.

"Sure. They call me Shaiden. I'm a master ninja. That guy with the mohawk. My splatana. Mine. Oh and one more thing I'm surely forgetting...what was it? Oh yes! I'm a defender here." She answered in a British voice. Kook did what his heart screamed not to but his instincts told differently. He attacked her. She was fast, strong, and brave but it didn't last. Kook had the small girl pinned in minutes. He grabbed the ninja star that had been thrown at him only moments ago. He closed his eyes as he did what he had to. He had sliced into her cheek when he heard it. Feet. Loud footsteps cascading towards him. 6 feet or 3 pairs of feet came towards him. When they saw the star two of them froze. They knew the effects of one of those bad boys. Once Gildar and Skabb had been had at point range by one them after calling Shaiden short.

All but one stood back. The one with the mohawk. Her brother stepped forward. He didn't even notice the sharp star glaring at him. All he could see was Shaiden. She had tears in her eyes and a long dark gash on her cheek. Then he saw the one thing that hurt his sister. The bird. Everything happened so fast Kook didn't realize until he landed on his butt what had happened. Thorne had rush toward him but had been reminded of the star by Skabb and Gildar who had to hold him back. Kook glanced down and saw the girl glaring at him as she held her cheek. He saw a few loose tears escape from her eyes. 14 at most. Thats how old she was. Kook realized too late how bad the situation was. Her foot turned caught his ankle and down he went. The ninja star flew into the air. Shaiden grabbed it as it started to fall with such precision and grace that she didn't get cut.

"Go get em big brother!" All at once Thorne, Skabb, and Gildar rushed forward. Gildar took Shaiden upstairs while Thorne and Skabb threw Kook into a cell in the darkest corner of the dungeon.

"No need to torture me! It was only self defense." Kook whined.

"AGAINST WHAT A 13 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL!?" Skabb shouted.

"You call this torture? Just wait until tomorrow. You haven't seen torture yet until you meet these girls." Thorne sneered. Then he walked upstairs to take care of his sister. With a nod Lord Skabbington was gone too.

The next day Kook found out what he meant by torture. 2 girls . One was a pretty blonde and one...interesting brunette.

"Well well well look at what we have here." The blonde said.

"I hear you like to cut little girls. Well thats not cool. You see we only have 4 girls here. I mean we have 4 guys too but she's very important. We need her. If we hadn't had her, you would know all of our secrets. I'm Crocness and that's Ballista." Crocness explained. "I have some stuff to do so Ballista is here to speak with you. Have...fun."

"Thanks! I will have lots of fun. I love dark wet dungeon." Kook called.

"Good. But I wasn't talking to you. I hope you suffer. Have fun Ballista." She shouted while walking out.

"So Kook. Why did you close your eyes when you attacked Shai? Do you like her or something. Because I was taught to look someone in the eye when they backstab you and you're getting back at them for it."

"Do I like her?!" Kook asked incredulously. "Why of course not! That would be preposterous. Why did she ask about me. Does she like me? Because I am currently available."

"Ha! I knew it! The others say I don't know my stuff but they don't know what a look of love is. I had 3 older sisters." She shouted. "I have some advice for you, Shaiden is a little high strung because she had to grow up at a young age. Her parents were killed in an avalanche when she was 9 and Thorne and us are all she's got. You know what you do? You have got to make her laugh. You're a bird, sing for her, fly for her, give some stupid jokes, dance for crying out loud. I'll do you a favor, I'll send her down with your lunch. You have until then to impress her."

Later when Shaiden brought down his lunch he was ready for everything. Everything except for her ignoring him. She handed him his lunch then turned around. He grabbed her wrist forcing her to turn around.

"Don't touch me. I have had it up to here with you. You made me look weak. You don't know me and I don't really wish to know you." She snapped. Then she ripped her hand from his. He saw where he left his mark on his cheek. It was dark and had a large painful looking slice.

"Wait! I wanted to show you something." He shouted. Then he did a series of very bad dance moves. She was very confused but the sight was rather funny. She smirked at him as he finished.

"Oh Kook that dancing was awesome."

"Yeah you like it?" He asked continuing dancing.

"Awesome."

By then she was laughing by the time he was done. He then proceeded to show her the game board he made up on the wall. He grabbed a few rocks, shut his eyes, called out a number, and threw the rocks. He called out seven and all of the rocks hit the smack center of the number 7.

"Good aim. We need that. You ever consider becoming a defender?" Shaiden asked.

"Oh my gosh no! Your brother hates me already. I'm sure no one wants me here."

"Why just because of Thorne? Oh please he gets like that when the sun hits him the wrong way. But I am very persistent. He'll listen to me. Even if he doesn't agree with me."

Later that day, Shaiden's persistence paid off and by persistence I mean annoying Thorne to the maximum.

"Thorne! Thorne! Thorne!" She followed behind him.

"Thats not going to work. He could have killed you. I will not allow him to be on this team." He shouted back. A frown became clear on Shaiden's persisted to fake cry until Thorne gave in to her.

"Alright. Alright. Jeez. I guess we can let him on our team." He answered to her "tears." "But I'm not gonna like it or him."

"Deal." She stood on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek. Then she went to tell Kook the good news. Since then Kook and Thorne do not get along and Kook is a key role in the castle. As for the attackers? They gave away their most annoying attacker.