Storm Hawks- Yin vs. Yang

Chapter 13

Fighting the Darkness

(Aerrow's P.O.V)

Bella and I were sitting on the balcony edge, watching the sun rise to mark the beginning of a new day. It seemed like I had known Bella all my life, but we'd only known each other for about two months, and we were already together. I put my arm over Bella's shoulder. She smiled at me, then frowned and looked the other way.

I was confused now. What was on her mind?

"Bella? Is something wrong?" I asked her. She slowly turned to look at me. She sighed and shook her head. Suddenly we heard the door open from inside and hurried footsteps rush inside.

"Guys! Guys!! Come and meet my new friend!!" yelled a very tired Piper. I held Bella's hand and we went downstairs to meet Piper's new friend. When we walked into the main room we saw Piper and another girl with blonde pigtails and green hair sitting on the seat laughing like someone had stuck a feather under them.

Bella frowned, obviously thinking. Piper suddenly noticed us there and shushed her new friend.

She said, "Bella, Aerrow, everyone, this is Lark. I met her in town when I was doing some recon." Bella and I looked at each other with confused faces.

We both said in unison, "Uh, hi!" then we both looked at each other in complete disbelief of our unison.

"And guess what?! She's into crystals too!!" said Piper.

Lark said, "oh, I got a few. But I don't know as much as Piper!" Piper flicked her hand down.

"So not true! Lark actually created a shield that protected us from the upcoming storm that was on it's way towards us! We didn't get hit by a single rain drop! We almost forgot about the storm!" said Piper.

Lark was giggling and finished, "Until that really loud thunder!"

Then they said in unison, "KABOOM!!" I was really lost now. Even Bella was lost too, and she's a girl! Bella walked away from us and towards the window. She appeared to be looking out at the scenery. Her hair had just been washed and was now a little wavy. Her amethyst eyes were concentrating on something outside, like she was looking for something.

(Bella's P.O.V)

I had a really weird feeling about Piper's new friend Lark. She seemed familiar, too familiar. Not familiar to them, but to me, like we're related somehow. But that couldn't be possible, I don't have a Lark in my family. I decided to do the royal crest of Terra Tankus family check, even though I had no idea how to do it. I just closed my eyes and focused my aura around the room. I made sure my aura was invisible so no one had any idea, and then I made sure everyone else's aura was invisible as well, except to my eyes. I started glowing a pale pinky-purple. I turned around to see Aerrow's aura a pale light blue. Junko was glowing a highlighter green, Piper was glowing yellow, Stork was glowing a brown colour, Finn was glowing a light silver colour and Radarr was glowing very dark blue. However when I got to Lark, she was glowing a very, very dark shade of purple. I gasped silently but quickly recovered. I walked out of the room while Piper and Lark were still having their giggling fits. I saw Stork put ear plugs in his ears before I exited the room. I walked over to the hanger bay and stood at the edge looking out at the scenery. I knew it was dangerous, being too close to the edge, but I needed some fresh air.

Suddenly I heard footsteps behind me. I sighed.

"Aerrow! For the last time, I perfectly…" I said turning around thinking it was Aerrow but turned to see Lark there, without Piper by her side.

"Lark? What a pleasant surprise!" I quickly said imitating a cheery voice. She frowned, making me give her a lop sided look of confusion.

"Uh, is there anything I can help you with?" I asked, still confused. She walked closer to me, still not saying anything.

"I know you did the royal crest of terra Tankus family check. You'd better keep your big mouth shut or else! Don't worry, I'm not after anything, I just wanted to see what conditions my little sister has here compared to Cyclonia and try to see what made her leave her dear big sister heart broken when she left." she said in a funny voice.

I pretended I had no idea what she was talking about.

"Huh? Royal crest of whata what?" I asked in a confused voice. That just made Lark angry and she grabbed the front top bit of my shirt, around the neck and pulled me to be face to face with her.

"I'm telling you I'm your big sister and don't deny that cause I know you already know! But I'm also telling you that no one on this ship is in danger and to relax ok, I'm not ordering any attacks!! Now keep your big mouth shut and don't tell anyone!!" she hissed at me. She then let me go and walked away leaving me kind of dazed at the sudden attack.

Cyclonis had to be up to something, there's no way we would be safe, we were never safe. Cyclonis must be ordering some kind of attack. I turned around and went back to gazing up at the clouds of the new day. The wind swept through my long waist long hair and I felt at peace, but not entirely at peace. I was still suspicious of Cyclonis, a.k.a Lark.

Suddenly hands went around my waist making me jump a bit. I turned my head a bit to see red spiky hair and I relaxed a bit. I looked down a bit to see emerald eyes staring at me lovingly.

"I think the princess had better step away from the edge before she falls, then Terra Tankus will be one princess short." he joked. He pulled me along with him then started going down, pulling me with him. I giggled as he sat on the floor and pulled me down, kinda hard so I fell on his lap. I guess I must've been a bit heavy cause I winded him. I giggled a bit and turned my head to see him smiling at me, dazed a bit from lack of wind. Once he recovered he pulled me into a hug and wouldn't let me go for some odd reason.

Was it just me or was Aerrow suddenly taller? Much, much taller? I looked at his eyes and saw a new emotion I hadn't seen before. Evil!! I gasped and tried to wriggle out of his grasp. He had too tight a grip on me and I couldn't free myself. I screamed but he covered my mouth, stopping me with his hand.

I tried wriggling and noticed his grip was weaker with just one hand. I bit into his hand that covered my mouth and heard his yell. I recognised the new voice that was heard. Dark Ace! I bit harder till I tasted his blood in my mouth which I can tell you now, tasted horrible. He let go of my waist and tried to punch me in the head but I moved and he ended up punching his own hand. I let go, now being freed and ran into the main room. I saw the real Aerrow in there and ran to him, burying my face in his chest. He seemed surprised at my sudden move put comforted me. He put his arms gently around my back and tried to calm me down so I could tell him what had happened. I suddenly heard heavy footsteps and gasped looking at the door. I heard muttered cursing as well. I rushed to the door and pressed the switch, locking it. Everyone was looking at me, very confused. Even Radarr was looking confused. If you're wondering where Fi-Fi is, she went with Raymus to terra Atmosia to try and get the sky knight council's help in rebuilding Terra Tankus.

I sighed as I didn't hear any more footsteps from behind the door. I leaned against the door cause my knees were suddenly weak. Suddenly I heard a zapping kind of sound. I gasped as I tried to hear it better, putting my ear to the door.

I suddenly screamed and backed away from the door as a sword went through the door, melting the metal. I fell to the ground as the door suddenly split into two and fell to the ground. Everyone gasped and braced themselves for battle.

"Dark Ace!!" yelled Aerrow. Dark Ace paid no attention to Aerrow, he turned to me with pure anger in his eyes. He'd gotten out of his 'Aerrow' disguise.

"You!" he pointed at me, "You'll pay for what you did to my hand!!" he said showing me the cut and teeth marks on his hand. He swung his sword down and I braced myself for instant death, but it never came. I looked to see Aerrow, in front of me, blocking the attack with his energy blades. He turned his head to look at me and saw the fear in my eyes. He growled and attacked the Dark Ace in his anger. I stood up and rushed over to Junko.

"Find Piper!! Lark is actually Cyclonis!! You gotta help her!!" I yelled to him. Junko and Finn rushed over to find Piper and help her kick Cyclonis out of the Condor. I turned to see Aerrow, only just holding his own against Dark Ace. I brought out my staff and winked at Aerrow. He saw my wink and kept Dark Ace where he was, not allowing him the move. I focused all my crystal energy into my staff, making the crystal at the top glow a bright white. I was puffing and turned to Stork.

"I need more crystals if I'm going to use this attack! Can you get me some more Stork?!" I said to him. His eyes widened and he nodded then rushed into Piper's room to grab all the crystals he could find. I was struggling to keep this up, sooner or later, I was going to faint and loose all the energy for the beam. I suddenly felt my vision going blurry and noticed three figures rush into the room. They were Piper, Finn and Junko. They gasped at the fight and saw me struggling to stand up. Another figure rushed into the room carrying almost his weight in crystals. It was Stork.

He threw the crystals to the floor and I sighed still puffing. I focused on the crystals and my glow became stronger. The light suddenly filled the room.

"Aerrow!! Move!!!" I yelled and Aerrow ducked out of the way as I fired my attack at Dark Ace. He screamed and then we didn't hear anything else after that except for an explosion. My world went black.

(Aerrow's P.O.V)

After what seemed forever I finally managed to open my eyes after that huge explosion. I looked around but saw nothing but black smoke or dust.

"Report!" I tried yelling but all I breathed in was dust. I coughed trying to clear my air pipes, but I just breathed in more dust and coughed even more. The dust started clearing.

"I'm ok." said Piper.

"Fine here" said Finn who had Piper help him up.

"Everything's fine here" said Junko who was helping Stork and Radarr up. But where was Bella? I stood and saw Bella, laying on the ground on top of the crystals. I rushed to her and lifted her off of the crystals. I sighed in relief as she moved in her sleep. She'd just used too much energy. I looked at the rest of the group and saw Stork looking horrified. I raised a brow.

"MY SHIP!!!!" he yelled. I turned behind me and struggled to keep from laughing. The explosion had created a huge hole in the side of the Condor, probably destroying Bella's room and my room. I cracked up laughing along with everyone else, except Stork. He was still fussing over the hole in the Condor.

Suddenly I heard a groan and looked down to see amethyst eyes staring up at me. I smiled at her.

"It's ok" I said to her, "it's over for now." she sighed and her eyes slowly closed once again.