"Thanks for the distraction back there, Rick." The knight sincerely thanks their superior officer, who walks directly in front of them.
His sights casually peek over one of his shoulders as he maintains his current stride.
The raven haired male dutifully responses with, "It wasn't a distraction. You two really do have an assignment to complete."
Minato and Natalie eventually face each other with an expression of confusion present on their faces, which prompts her to request, "So what is it that we have to do, dad?"
The group veered around a corner before the male revealed the mission to the pair behind him, "You two must retrieve the former King and Queen of Noursaia."
"You mean…" He pauses in the middle of his sentence before he finishes "King Lao and Queen Nori?"
"When do we leave? How much time do we have?" The raven haired woman inquisitively inquires about their time-frame and the specifics of their mission.
The bespectacled man unexpectedly halted in front of them. They managed to react in a similar manner as the man in front of them.
Rick rotates around to face them and provides answers to her question, "You leave now and you don't have any time to waste."
"…but the fastest things on Noursaia are our ships but those are too bulky to travel through the city streets." His daughter mentions the problem that they face with their fastest mode of transportation.
A smile merely stretches across his face before he voices, "What I'm about to show you two is the reason why I led you here."
"These, by far, are the fastest vehicles for carrying and traveling without using a ship."
"So where are these things?" The blonde curiously queries out of excitement as his eyes swiftly scans his surroundings in order to locate the objects.
The raven haired male digs inside of his pants pocket, removes an object within his hands, turns his fists upright and opens his palms toward them.
Natalie and Minato behold two metallic circular disks in the palms of his hands.
The bespectacled man starts to explain to the pair, "These are newly developed hoverboards."
"You two are the very first people to ever test these things out."
She raises an eyebrow at her father while her companion excitingly needles with a "Really?"
The older man nods his head as the male swiftly reaches out and secures one of the metallic disks within his grasp.
The woman slightly hesitates before she eventually removes the other disk from her father's hand.
The young man merrily flips the disk within the palm of his hands from excitement while the woman poses to the male, "So how do you operate this thing?"
'Hm, I wonder if I do this...' The tallest of the three assumes before he presses the blue circle with his index finger.
This caused a flat and thin rectangular prism board to materialize in front of him.
"There's your answer." Rick claims as he points in the direction of an ecstatic knight, who manages to have his board levitate above the ground.
"Get to it you two!" He sharply orders the two.
His daughter nods her head, mimics Minato's action, and gingerly steps on the board.
"Let's fly Natalie!" He happily shouts before he suddenly zips off down the hallway to the front gate.
"Be careful, Natalie…oh and watch out for that hot head." The raven haired male advises his daughter.
Natalie casually nods her head before she follows behind the happy go lucky blonde.
Jordan leisurely leans forward around the corner of the corridor when he inwardly thinks, 'So those two are on a mission to retrieve the former King and Queen of Nourasia.'
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Kiera and Kieran were swiftly sprinting in the direction of the infirmary room, suddenly overhearing loud piercing screams bouncing off the walls of the hallway.
"What's that awful noise?!" Kiera poses out of curiosity after she tightly presses the palm of her hands against her ears to block out the noise.
Kieran hones his focus in the direction of the noise, which appears to become louder and louder with each step toward the infirmary room.
"I think mommy might be in trouble." He provides an answer to his twin sister's question with an expression of concern on his face.
She removes her hands from on top of her ears and firmly states, "Then what are we waiting for? We need to go help mommy."
The twins resumed their sprint through the hallway until they finally reached their intended destination: the infirmary room.
'Let's go save our mom.' The pair shared similar thoughts once they stare at the double wooden doors that would lead them to their mom.
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"It's starting to crown, my lady." The doctor suddenly discloses after Eva releases yet another deep breath and tirelessly rests her head against the pillow.
"You're almost there!" Aikka utters inspirational motivations to his wife while he tightly squeezes her hand within his.
"Why is this one being so difficult?" She verbally complains while she tries to concentrate on her breathes when she can feel fatigue start to wash over her body.
He could sense that his wife's will was about to succumb to fatigue and sleep, 'If I don't act now then he might have to cut her open to extract the baby.'
The orange haired male reaches one of his hands out until he feels her cheeks against the palms of his hands and guides her face until she stares at him.
"Honey, I'm going to need you now more than ever, okay? Are you with me?" The Noursaian encouragingly inquires to his wife, whose eyes slowly starts to droop from exhaustion.
"But I'm so tired…" The raven head with crimson tips whisper her comment with a lazy smile present on his face.
"I know you are but you have one more left to push out."
"I'm going to need for you to give me one good long hard push. Then you can sleep all you want." The young man calmly advises to her, which causes her smile to grow.
The king knew she was ready once she tighten her grasp around his hand when he assured her, "I will be right here all the way."
Eva releases another deep sigh as she mentally gears herself up for one final good push.
She asserts, 'If Aikka says I can do it then I know I can do it!'
"Just a little further and…" The doctor instructs the queen before the sounds of a newborn cries fill the room once again.
"It's a healthy baby girl." He declares the sex of the baby to the happy couple. There was an equally wide and radiate smiles across their face.
Her crimson eyes land on her husband face, as her eyes slowly blinks when she softly proclaims, "I did it, Aikka!"
The orange haired male leans over and places a gentle kiss on her lips before he mutters, "Now you can rest…I will check up on the other two and their sister."
The Noursaian did not receive a verbal response, which prompted him to peer down to see his beautiful wife sound asleep after the long hours required for the delivery of three newborns.
'You truly are one of a kind.' He deems as he affectionately runs his hand along Eva's cheeks.
'I am really a lucky man.' The male realized once he kissed the top part of her hand before he returned her arm to her side.
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'Just where did he go?' Princess Mai thought after she witnessed the confrontation between the Avatar and Minato.
'That was really intense back there.' She recalls once she removes herself from the corner that she spectates from.
'I haven't seen the Avatar this upset…' The princess weighs before she realizes, '…unless it concerns Natalie and that Minato character.'
'Not to mention that when I said that those two were cute together, he didn't agree nor disagree.' The young woman concludes about his strange behavior.
'Then he's always so cold to Minato especially if those two are together.' She thinks to herself.
The princess mind was seared from the hateful stare present whenever the Avatar would face off with Minato.
Prince Mai instantly gasps at her previous thought since she mentally pieces the puzzles together.
'I knew it was something strange about his behavior around her.'
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Minato and Natalie speedily zip across Nourasia's skyline on the hoover boards.
He led because of the fact he is a knight and knew the location of the former king and queen.
"Where has Rick been hiding these things at?!" The blonde happily shouts his question as he easily executes a full 360° degree spiral.
"From people like you so they won't act reckless with them." She retorts.
Her green eyes closely watch the knight play with the board a little too much.
"Ah come on Natalie…" The young man grumbles once he slows down to her speed.
"…you have to admit that you want to let loose and enjoy these before Rick takes them away."
"These are highly confidential military issued vehicles not play things." The raven haired woman sternly corrects him with her arms across her chest.
His face shifts to a "are you serious" expression on his face, "I will not let you suck out the fun that I get to have on this thing."
The blonde leans forward and increases his speed, tilts the back portion of the board up, and floats directly upward before he disappears in the clouds above.
The soldier glided to the spot where her childhood friend previously was, continously hovered in that same exact spot, and glanced up in the direction Minato flew in.
"Be careful Natalie…oh and watch out for that hot head." The captain recalls her father's words of cautiousness.
Her sights attempt to focus in on the bright blonde hair that Minato is known for, 'Why am I usually the one who gets stuck with him?'
The woman releases a sigh of frustration until she spots a black dot far off in the distance.
Before her eyes could even zoom in to see that it was none other than him, she hears his voice.
"Natalie!" The young man screams at the top of his lungs with a goofy expression on his face while she shakes her head at his aloof personality.
'If he doesn't pull up then he will crash in to the ground.' The raven haired woman notes after she calculates the risks of his current action.
'The idiot is going to kill himself!' Natalie suddenly realizes as she brings both of her hands around her mouth.
"Slow down, you idiot!" She yells at the top of her lungs but the male could not hear her because of the dense air pressure.
'I have to slow him down somehow…' The woman contemplates as she examines around for a solution before she devises one.
The soldier steps back on the board, which turns upright before she begins her ascent upwards.
'Once I knock him off path…I'll have to move fast to catch him.'
'So Natalie's going to have some fun…finally.' The knight assumes to himself not aware that he could hardly slow down at that very moment.
The woman bends her knees in order to increase her speed before he could reach maximum velocity, which means it would be all over for him.
"Pull up!" The young woman screamed once she felt that she was close enough for the blonde to hear her but she did not receive a response.
Once they finally cross paths, Natalie reaches her arm out, grasps his collar, tugs hard and throws him in a random direction.
'Now…' The soldier sharply veers left and begins her descent to catch him, who appears to scream his precious little heart out.
"Natalie!" "This is totally not fun!" "Help me already!" "What's taking so long?" were his shouts before he turns his attention to Noursaia's surface.
The captain brings her arms behind her with her board backwards so she can easily streamline in order to quickly catch up to him.
"Holy crap!" Minato loudly screams before he suddenly feels a pair of arms wrap around his shoulders in order to slow down his free fall.
'I wish this thing had rockets!' She wishes to herself.
Her foot accidentally taps a button on the board, which causes two rockets to appear out from underneath the board.
His obsidian eyes simply gawk at the fact that his face was but a few centimeters away from the empty street way.
Minato nervously releases a sigh of happiness and thanks his savior, "Thanks for the save, Nat."
"You need to learn to be more responsible! You could've easily died from your little fun, you idiot!" The raven haired woman belittles him once she helps him back up.
"Now can we please return to the task at hand…with no more interruptions?" The soldier suggests once he eventually recovers from the incident at hand.
"You are right, I forgot how serious this mission was. I'm glad you rein me back in." He graciously thanks her for her gesture of concern.
She releases a sigh of frustration before she removes herself from in front of him and proceeds in the direction of their mission.
'Yep…she's definitely mad at me.' The blonde inwardly weighs to himself.
The knight decides to closely trail her and abide by the mission's objective.
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Author's Note:
12.12.16 Major editing revision
06.27.17 Major cleaning edits