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Chapter 22 – the kitchen hands new job
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A Few hours after
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Aerrow stood in his dorm room which Master Cyclonis presented to him herself, everything looked like it was brought straight off the display "I swear I saw a tag hanging off the chair" he thought as he sat himself down on top of the bed "are you alright?" a voice asked from the door way, Aerrow looked up to find a young Talon with his arm in a sling standing at the door. Aerrow sighed before replying "I'm fine"
"You don't look it" Aerrow knew straight away this talon wasn't like the others, this one actually talked to him for one.
"I said I'm fine thanks" Aerrow shot a glaring look at the talon that had become nervous.
"Alright sorry, no need to ah you know hit me or anything" this puzzled Aerrow.
"Hit you? Now why would I do that?"
"All the other general's do..."
"General's?"
"Wow I guess Master Cyclonis hasn't told you then?" the Talon had entered his room now and was trying to find a good spot to stand.
"Tell me what?"
The talon hesitated "I don't know if I should be telling you this...but Master Cyclonis plans to make you a..." the Talon was cut off
"General? Great is this some form of army or something?"
"You could say that, though if this was an army we would have three square meals a day" the talon laughed nervously at his own joke.
"If it isn't an army, then what is it then?" asked Aerrow showing no emotions towards the joke.
The talon had enough of the questions "look you can ask me more questions later, I kinda have to go"
"Oh" Aerrow slunk back onto the bed.
"Don't worry Aerrow you will see me again...as I will be serving under your 'command' from now on"
Aerrow sat up again "what do you mean?"
"I've been 'promoted' as you would say from kitchen hand to...servant" the talon looked depressed as he made his way to the door.
"Hey wait, hold on!"
The talon turned around at the door "yes Aerrow?"
"Just one more question...please?" Aerrow was begging now.
The talon sighed "fine, but make it quick I got other duties and if I don't attend to them, I'm dead..."
"Is he serious?" thought Aerrow as he had a flashback of Gadgets limp and bloody body.
The talon laughed at Aerrow's expression "I was joking Aerrow"
"Oh...anyway the question I wanted to ask was... what is your name?" this caught the talon off guard.
The talon hesitated, breathed in deeply then spoke "my names Dylan...though most call me Doilan" Aerrow felt like laughing but held it in.
Doilan saw Aerrow's attempt to hold his laughter in "yeah, best not to ask" and with that Doilan left the room feeling like an idiot.
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On the Condor
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Everyone was sitting at the table in silence except for Seth who was mumbling to himself. That's when Piper and Starling appeared from the corridor "hello everyone, where's the rest?" asked Piper quietly as she stood in front of the table.
"We dropped them off at Terra Atmosia, and you know the story with the night hunter's" replied Junko as softly as he could.
"I'm afraid I don't Junko" replied Piper and that's when Seth broke out of his mumbling state.
"They took it away from me in mere seconds, 12 years of work gone in an instant" Seth announced calmly not game enough to look Piper in the eyes.
Piper sunk further in to her shoulders "then you're not going to like the news then..."
"What is it Piper" asked Joker who kept looking in the direction of the kitchen.
Piper sighed when suddenly everything slowed down; she looked around to see the looks on everyone's faces each one having a unique gestures, Stork had his usual grim look while Finn had Marie-Ann buried deep in his shoulders while having a glazed stare that would go straight into space.
"When I got to Cyclonis' room...I found Gadget, dead" Joker was staring right at her now, horror printed all over his face.
"No, no that can't be but how? Oh god it's all my fault!" Joker ran into the kitchen, Junko tried to stop him.
"Junko, leave him cooking calms him down" Angel spoke softly as she knew that Joker wasn't the only one about to go into hysterics.
"What about Aerrow?" asked Finn as he felt Marie-Ann bursting into tears.
Aerrow's name sent a sharp pain down Piper's spine "he's one of 'them' now"
"Aerrow wouldn't do such a thing, would he?" asked Junko pulling the 'puppy dogs eyes' trick.
"He wouldn't Junko" replied Piper "he is being controlled by Cyclonis"
"How?" asked Starling who was leaning against the wall, fighting her temptations to smoke.
That's when Piper revealed the Marionette Crystal "with this..."
"What is it?" asked Finn rudely
"It's Marionette Crystal, Marionette means "puppet" in Spanish and that's also where it is found, in the Spanish armada sector" Piper couldn't help but give out meaningless facts, it kept her mind off 'other' matters.
"But if Cyclonis is controlling Aerrow with it, why do you have it?"
"The Marionette Crystal isn't like the Cyclonian mind control crystal which took over Joker; this one saps memory from the victim and thus giving the user a chance to 'manipulate' the victim"
"Is there a way to fix or cure it?" asked Junko trying to stay optimistic.
"Yes there is, you need to smash the crystal..."
"that sounds easy enough, here I'll shoot it out of my crossbow, get at least some entertainment out of the situation" Piper wanted to hit him for not letting her finish but she took a deep breath and continued "it doesn't work like that Finn, you see you have to smash it on top of the victims head, the memory can only travel a very minimal distance or else it will disappear and even then there is a chance of damage to the victim from the crystal itself as it is relatively thick" Piper explained as she demonstrated by flicking the crystal which made a solid sound.
There was silence as everyone thought.
The first one to speak was the least expected well from Piper and Finn's perspective anyway.
"Well then looks like we have to go back to Cyclonia" announced Dez.
"No" replied Piper softly but loud enough so that everyone could hear.
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Authors notes:
hey all!
yeah I know absolutely nothing happens in this chapter, sorry I really couldn't think of anything, I'm having a massive fight with the milkshake and he/she/it seems to be winning lol
I wrote this as fast as I could seeing as Jenergy seemed like she was having a 'typing' fit lol
I swear the next will be better! lol
so hopefully you enjoyed it
from the one they call Doilan.
