~Chapter 5: From a Morning Sky to Dawn~

No one wanted to be outside of one of these days. The morning had disappointed most of the recruits: finding the once proud city of Mistral decimated and the crazy flying hippie. To help this already tired situation the cool morning turned into a sweltering afternoon and most everybody had retreated to cooler areas. Even Sky, who was usually perky and happy to interact with the recruits had retreated to his room, probably on his computer, doing more technical tasks. Miki and Annie were sitting on crafting tables in the crafting room, sipping milk and generally being quiet.

Dawn strode in and looked at the two and said, "Hello."

The two returned the greeting, even offering her some milk and a crafting table to sit on. Dawn sat down and asked the two, "Keeping cool?"

Annie panted, "Pretty much!"

The silence started again broken by Darren sprinting into the room. He asked Annie, while panting, "Are there any diamonds in here?"

Annie rose from the crafting table and walked to a chest and after a bit of rummaging withdrew the light blue jewel. As she handed it to the brown-eyed recruit she asked, "Any particular reason you want a diamond?"

Darren winked, "It's a surprise!"

He sprinted out into the blinding sunlight, stopping to say something to Flame who walked in the crafting room, much like Darren had done. He looked over the trio of girls and asked, "Can I have a butter ingot, perhaps hammered into a circle shape?"

Seeing Annie's confused face he exclaimed, "Or I can get it myself!" and proceeded to get an anvil, crafting table, hammer, and butter ingot to store in his inventory.

He looked over the trio a final time and said, "Well, see you later!", and ran off to the stairs down to the bottom deck.

Miki commented, "And to think I thought we'd get no one today until evening!"

Annie shrugged, "I won't ask what they needed the butter and diamond for. Though, Darren seemed...mischeivous."

Miki cut in, "And Flame was the same as ever!"

The two shared mutual laughter until they turned their attention to Dawn once again. Miki asked, "So what brings you here this killer summer afternoon?"

Dawn laughed a bit and answered, "Oh I decided to give Sky some time alone since he was working madly on the computer last time I saw him. Plus he seemed embarrassed at the Mistral City incident. I saw you two first when I walked out to the deck so I decided to come over here."

A slight breeze blew across the deck, bringing coolness to the three. Miki grinned and exclaimed, "Okay I say we make a run for the stairs!", and at this run full-speed out of the room and across the deck.

By the time Dawn and Annie made their way down the stairs they found Miki at the bottom of said stairs, tangled in her cloak and dazed. Annie giggled, "Bro, I warned about those stairs! I warned you!"

Miki mumbled something that sounded like, 'Shut up.'

Later,in the cafeteria the group ate golden apples while watching, outside the large window, the sun start to descend to the land. Bursting into the door was none other than Ryan. He surveyed the cafeteria, for there was more there than just Miki, Annie, and Dawn. He barked, "Everyone up on deck on request of Commander Sky!"

Every time that the words, "Commander Sky'' were uttered, Dawn would laugh a little inside. Sky did not ask for the recruits to call him that it just happened. So he went along with it. Ryan turned to Dawn and commented, "Even you, Dawn!"

At a stark contrast to the horrible afternoon, the night was cool. The sun had just set and the glowstone built into the ship made the buttership shine in the starry sky. The recruits stood around, questioning why Sky had called them there. At the most, they were a day away from the nearest town. One recruit commented, "It must be important!", and that's what they agreed on.

After this was exclaimed Sky literally ran onto the deck. He stopped and looked at the recruits then turned to his companion, Ryan, and started to gesture wildly and say something the recruits couldn't hear. Ryan simply shrugged and pushed Sky towards the recruits. Sky stumbled before he slowly walked before the recruits. He cleared his throats, "First of all when this is done, everyone kill Ryan."

This earned him a punch in the shoulder by Ryan who said," That's not what you're supposed to say!"

Sky stopped to clear his throat again, "Well, actually I wanted to..talk...yes, talk to Dawn! Though, Ryan thought it would be a good idea to drag you all out here!"

Ryan flashed a smile, "I imagine a lot of them would like to enjoy some chill after that Nether-esque day!"

Dawn withdrew from the crowd, walked up to Sky and asked, "Yes? What did you want to talk to me about?"

Sky chuckled a bit and tried to fish something out of his pocket. After a second, he withdrew it out of his pocket, where he accidentally dropped it, for his hands were shaking uncontrollably. The two looked at it, a simple black velvet box. He picked it up and asked Dawn,"So Dawn..I've always wanted to ask you this but...would you...would you marry me?".

He said the last sentence with increasingly shakiness and speed. He looked down at the ground as he opened the box, revealing a dainty butter and diamond ring. Dawn grinned as she exclaimed, "YES! YES, SKY!"

The two embraced and reached in for a kiss...until Dawn deft hand snatched Sky's sunglasses off his face and she went sprinted away. She yelled at him, "Come get them, Commander!"

Sky yelled as he ran after her, "Why are you doing this?"

Her response was, "For the lulz! Come get your glasses and that kiss!"

And thus, sailing off into the unknown, the Commander Sky gained a wife and the Sky Army gained a laugh.

AN: This had to be done...I can't write romance. *sobs in corner* Enjoy your unexpected chapter already!