Storm Hawks- Yin vs. Yang
Chapter 3
Fun, fun and more fun!
"You're master Cyclonis' sister!?" asked Aerrow in a shocked voice. He obviously was having a hard time coming to terms with that fact.
I answered, "Well yeah! What about me and her being sisters do you not understand?!" Finn raised a hand.
He said, "Uh, all of it! How can you…" he pointed at me.
"And her be sisters? You're nothing like her! She's mean and conniving, you're happy and cheerful! How in the world can you two be sisters?!" he finished asking. I chuckled, surprising that he only new me for about a minute and he thought I was happy and cheerful.
I answered, "Well, we used to stay in Cyclonia together, with our grandmother, Master Cyclonis. She wouldn't let us out, no matter what. Then the Dark Ace joined us and he became a big brother to me and Cyclonis. I used to be like my sister, but I wasn't as mean, I had more of a heart. She used to like punishing people, I got a good giggle out of it, but then I'd hear the screams and yell for her to stop. When grandmother passed away, Cyclonis knew I was going to interfere so she locked me inside a room, and told me I was helping Atmos by choosing a terra, then she'd send medical supplies over there. I begun to get suspicious, then I overheard a plan that was horrible, based for me. I escaped then ran into Aerrow and Starling. There's my life story!"
Everyone's mouths were hanging open. I giggled a bit and then walked over to one of the sky rides. I begun examining it.
"wow, snazzy!" I said in admiration. Piper chuckled a bit and walked over to me.
"Like it? That's my sky ride. It turns into a little helicopter." she told me. I turned to look at her and smiled. I looked at the others, they had gotten over the shock and it wasn't long till Starling took off in a sky ride Stork made her in no time at all. We all waved goodbye and then I walked over through the corridor exploring.
Junko walked to me and asked, "So, you got anywhere to go? We can help you out if you want?" I turned to look at him. He looked like he'd pulled heaps of courage to ask me that. I sighed, sadness overtaking me.
Junko noticed and panicked a bit.
"I wasn't meaning anything offensive! We love having you onboard, I was just curious if you had maybe any friends or family in Atmos, or anywhere to go?" he quickly tried to reassure me. I put a hand on one of his giant arms and sighed again.
"Don't worry, I knew what you were trying to ask. I wasn't taking offence by the question, I was just hit with realisation that I don't have anywhere to go. I should of put more thought into my escape plan. I have no where now." I told Junko. Junko's eyes went big with sorrow, making him look so cute! He looked like a baby wallop that had just had a toy taken off of him.
Junko turned to look at the others and they looked kinda sad too. Suddenly Finn piped up!
"Hey, I got an idea! She can join us! She can become a Storm Hawk!!" he said. Everyone lightened up and I gasped at the fact of them making m one of their own. They looked at me.
"Is that a bad idea Cyclonisius?" asked Aerrow. I shook my head, and felt tears welling my eyes. Junko put one of is giant hands on my right shoulder and looked worried.
"Guys, why's she crying?" asked Junko. I sniffed and walked to a seat at the main table. I motioned for the rest of them to sit down. They sat without much hesitation.
"It's just that, well, when I was in Cyclonia, I trusted nearly everyone there. Then I heard about their mean plan against me, it, well…" I started but couldn't find the words to finish my sentence. I didn't need to, Aerrow finished it for me.
"Tore you apart and now you're having trouble trusting people?" he asked. I nodded. He seemed to be able to read my mind.
"You said the Dark Ace was like a brother to you, that must of really hurt you a lot when you heard about their plan. I would be going through the same thing." said Piper. I nodded twice, my head hanging low.
Stork said, "Well, shouldn't we test her first?" Everyone looked at him but me. They looked confused.
"Test her for what?" asked Finn. Stork opened his mouth to answer, but I beat him to it.
"To see if they have a tracking device on me." I finished for him. Everyone looked at me, I was still staring at the table.
Aerrow got up, walked over to me, placed a hand on my left shoulder and said, "I don't believe she's being tracked, her appearance at the battle took Cyclonis by complete surprise. Even Dark Ace looked stunned. She's one of us, if that' okay with her. We already have a spare room ready for her, it just needs to be decorated and furnished. Then it's all hers." I looked at him scared out of my wits. He looked kinda confused at my sudden fright.
I looked back at the table and I heard someone get up and elbow Aerrow in the ribs. His breathe left him in a second and he put his hand on the table to steady himself. I looked up and saw it was Piper that had elbowed him, and by the look on Aerrow, it was hard. I felt a giggle fit rising from my stomach and I smiled, covering my mouth with my hand as I tried to hold the giggles back, but they won and I started laughing. Piper looked at me and she laughed with me, along with Junko, Finn, Radarr and Stork. The only one that wasn't laughing was Aerrow, he couldn't cause he was still trying to get his breathe back.
I stood up and said, "Aerrow, the reason I was so scared there was cause you mentioned me and a room, I've been locked up in a room for years, nearly my whole life, all I've seen is darkness, yet you can trust me so easily. That's what scared me, the memory of being stuck in that room, trapped against my own will." Aerrow looked at me with concern. He put a hand over my shoulder.
"Did you think just for a second that we would lock you in a room? Of course not! You deserve better than that! We would never keep you isolated, or trapped against your own will. I know it's hard for you to trust people, but I strongly encourage that you trust us, cause, well, we're the good guys. We care about you Cyclonisius." he reassured me. I looked up to look at him, and smiled.
I turned to look at everyone and said, "Thanks guys." they nodded then Stork led me to the control bay and he told me everything I needed to now about the engine, the crystal converter, the steering, basically everything.
After that Finn took me to the rooms and showed me everyone's room. But he tended to brag about himself a lot though. I guess that was just what Finn normally does.
Piper took me to the crystal converter and told me how it works and let me try working with it. Every time I was about to make the wrong move, Piper would shake her head and I'd go for the next option.
Junko took me to the engine room and told me all about the engine and what to do if it suddenly gave out.
Radarr took me to the top of the Condor and showed me the views, cause that's all he could basically do because I couldn't understand him.
Lastly, Aerrow took me to the hanger bay and told me about the launching pad and about the sky rides.
Once that was done, I was walking back to the main room with Aerrow when suddenly my eyes were covered and I yelped, not liking the dark. I tried to wriggle out of the person's grip when I bumped into the person.
Aerrow's voice filled my ears saying, "Shh, don't worry, it's just me, I want your room to be a surprise. Don't worry, I got you. Keep walking forward." I listened and did as he said. Then he stoped me and turned me around. I heard doors opening and then my eyes could see light as my eyes were uncovered. They were blurry and took a while to adjust, but when they did, I gasped. My room looked lovely.
They were bright colours, not dark like my previous room. I loved it. Piper grabbed my hand and took me to a closet. She opened it and I saw a whole heap of different brightly coloured clothes that look beautiful and were nothing like my sister's clothes and fashions. I gasped.
Piper grinned and said to the others, "I guess that means she likes it."
"Like it? No. I LOVE it!!!" I said, hugging Piper, in a sisterly way. I ran to Junko, gave him a big hug, squeezed poor Radarr, hugged Finn, much to his liking, shook hands with Stork cause he wasn't the huggy type, and hugged Aerrow.
I stepped back and said, "Thanks guys." they smiled back at me. I turned to look at my room, then at the gang, then frowned, thinking hard.
"What is it?" asked Finn. I smiled and looked at them.
"What do you guys do for fun around here?" I asked them. A huge grin formed on Finn's face and he dashed somewhere, then came back with a surf board.
"We sky board of course!" he answered. Aerrow smiled at me, Junko laughed one of his loud laughs, Piper sighed then gave in, smiling. Stork sighed and walked to the steering wheel of the Condor and Radarr chirped loudly, hugging my left leg. I smiled down at him.
Once we were outside, I watched the others sky board. It looked so easy, but usually things that look easy are incredibly hard to actually do. I laughed as Finn stacked nearly every move. He was the showing off one.
When it was my turn, Aerrow was driving the sky ride and I stepped onto the board, starting to have second thoughts. Aerrow grinned at me. I bent down, holding the edges of the board. Aerrow started up the sky ride and we were flying. I slowly stood on the board and it instantly dropped about a foot. It then started swinging, left to right. My hair was being blown away from my face and way behind me. This was incredible! I was amazing to be flying. I suddenly heard violin music.
I turned my head to see Ravess! She laughed maniacally and fired one of her arrows. I screamed and Aerrow turned his head, gasped, grabbed the rope attaching the sky board to the sky ride and pulled it toward the sky ride, hard. I went flying forward and he grabbed me quickly, sending the sky board flying. We were dodging shot after shot. Aerrow couldn't keep this up, Raves was going to hit us soon.
I grabbed Aerrow's shoulder and turned myself around so I was facing Ravess. She looked confused at my sudden move. I held my hands forward and concentrated. My staff appeared and I held it tight. I fired and got Ravess' sky ride, first shot. She jumped off of her sky ride and onto a talon's sky ride. She growled as they flew around.
I said, "Tell my sister I'm not coming back, not without a fight!" she growled and they flew off. I made my staff disappear and I turned around to look at Aerrow. He was amazed. He landed and we got off. Everyone was cheering and Aerrow playfully hit me on the back. I smiled at him.
"Give it up for our newest Storm Hawks member, who saved not only herself, but me as well!" said Aerrow. I looked at my feet, embarrassed and started blushing madly. Everyone started laughing. I stopped blushing and laughed along with them. These guys were actually my friends. My real friends. And I was happy. We were going to have lots of adventures together, I could feel it!