Couvian Kingdom

Part 1

Luminous green clouds hovered in the back and to the side of the tower spotted with lights, the valley below filled with occupied houses that are split by a river, spike like walls raised from either side of the valley giving it an eerie feeling, different types of birds soared through the air. The Storm Hawks stared amazed upon the new world from the dock of the condor, it was a jaw dropping scene for them all.

After the battle they opened the portal to a whole new area. Birds flying above head some had swooping long tails that followed their up and down motion as they flew. Excitement as well as nervous flooded through them.

"This is going to be fun." Exclaimed Aerrow, full excitement filling his eyes, the uncharted areas, new people and places to be, and more to learn from the afar side. They were across the mountains range that block Atmos from the Far side. Piper, Junko, Finn, and Aerrow exchange childish glances, "Let's head in and make some plans." Aerrow announced his eagerness to explore the uncharted area or even if this was an area it could be long platform.

Once inside everyone took a seat while Aerrow stood in front, and Stork managing the Helm. "We should find a place to land the ship, clearly this place is inhabit by people who we don't know and they don't know us." Aerrow stated the obvious, "And we don't really know much about their economy, language, or system of ruling." Piper added, "And not to mention the flying vulcabat, flying sharks, or even what those long tailed lizards are!" Stork grunted, his eye twitches with possibility of curtain doom, "Okay... What we also know that Cyclonis is somewhere about here." Aerrow added. The team gave a nervous looked to one another, "But our top priority is to make sure we are not going to make enemies of the local people here. Stork find us a docking area or just land somewhere. The rest of you get ready for ground expedition." Aerrow added.

Stork had not been successful in finding a landing stage and decided to play safe and land near the river where there was a fair opening. "Okay, Stork stay here with Radarr the rest of us are going to take our skimmers to the town." Aerrow said, pointing down the river where they saw lights of an occupied town. "And what if we run into the locals?" Junko asked, scratching behind his neck, "Or some pretty girls." Finn irrelevantly said, ignoring him, Piper wrapped her cloth bag around her chest, "Leave that up to me. The last thing we want to do is make a wrong impression on them." Piper said, remembering the Wallops, "Okay sounds like a plan. Let's move it out." Aerrow gleamed as he said it.

(In the navigational room)

Stork and Radarr worked around the ship to repair it, "I never thought I'd said this but I'm glad that Colonel made these changes." Stork uttered, Radarr made a series of chirps and chatters, the quicker he can get this done, the quicker he can get back to his book of Doom and maybe a lunch of Merb cabbages, but definitely away from Radarr's chatter.

Not much had been needed to be repair on the navigational room, but he needed Junko's man power to replace some damaged metal. Other than that Condor could never been better, putting away so tools he noticed that the compass stopped working, tapping on it to see if it would work again, but it stayed still, "Yep, we are curtainly doomed." He groaned.

(On a path to the town)

"Piper the the compass stopped working. And we need to know what time it is." Stork grumbled over the coms as the group biked down an old beaten road, it was lined with twisted trees and bushes, there were little bumps from here to there. "That's just great, you have to wait for me to come back." Piper said, it was good to know as well, she had one last timepulse crystal left. "We need to restock our supplies as well, Aerrow." Piper addressed him, Finn and Junko watched the tree lining in amazement, "Yea, We can stock up, when we get a chance." Aerrow said from the front, Piper had already guessed how many miles it was to reached the town from where the Comdor had landed. She bet herself it was at least a 10 minute drive with their skimmers. "I wander If there are the same ingredients here." Junko pondered aloud, "Man, I wander if they heard about Storm Hawk Finn down here." Finn wandered, "If they did, they'll have the same respond as the girls back from Atmos." Piper played, that earned her scorned look from Finn and a couple of small laughter from Junko and Aerrow.

They reached the town, in the matter of minutes as Piper guessed. The town had a lot more building than what they saw from where they had enter from Atmos, people of all sorts of ages and shapes walked about busily in the streets, small signs of shops, bars, and clothing shops were a lit on the Main Street, they pulled over to the first building and parked their skimmers. "Wow, this place is lively as ever." Piper examine.

Aerrow and the others stood there for a couple of moments as they admire the town and the tower that now loomed above them casting an ominous shadow over the town. "Hey look there. Those long tailed beasts keep circling that tower on top." Junko pointed near the top of the tower, "I wander why they are doing that?" Aerrow muttered, "Those are dragon keepers. They protect a very important treasure." A young lady replied to their question, "Dragon keepers?" Piper asked, "You must be here to guide Finn through this town." Finn hummed, grabbing her hands, "Finn let her go." Aerrow said, narrowing his brows as well to keep him in check, "What else can you tell us?" He asked the young lady, "The Couvian Kingdom here believe that the Dragon keepers are peaceful creature that allowed us to live here." She informed, sounds of a group was approaching them as the girl stepped back a little to not get in their way. "You must be our new guest." A Knight with a metallic blue helmet on remarked, she had the same color blue as the color for her breat plate, and a metallic grey for the bottom of her torso, and a metallic blue armored skirt, matched with grey armored suit, she was different from the rest they had opened face helment and regular armor on.

Aerrow's brow raised with suspicion of the new party, especially the female knight's covered face, "And you are?" He inquired, his team could be at risk with these guys, "At ease. We were sent to gather you for a king audience." The Female Knight said, he looked over at them there was only five of them, and if anything does happen, they would be out. "Please Follow us." The knight said leading her patrol to the tower. Everyone stopped and stared at them, some with suspicion looking eyes, other with admiration, some even clapped or called out names, and other just stared out of curiosity. "I don't like this." Junko quivered, "Yea bro. Let's hope they don't start throwing veggies at us." Finn agreed, "Guys just calm down.." Piper said, but her voice seemed to have fail at her attempt.

They reached the tower as the base of it was bigger and the branches that connected the tower to the ground seemed to be some sort of connectors, between the open areas where buildings ranging from royalty looking to important buildings. The female knight took a right as the rest followed they walked over the bridge, Junko eye swirled around as he took everything in, "This is so cool." He exclaimed, everything was from small to big, long to fat looking buildings, Aerrow search for what could be of help to them if their so call escorts decided to fight them, while also admiring the new part of town, "uh-huh." He agreed, there were two bridges far from each other, the one that they are walking on and one nearer to the tower, it was a lot darker here then from the part of town they entered, but lights posts kept the streets bright enough, he looked at the water as it rushed away from the tower.

Piper took the time to make a small mini map just in case they needed to get out of there.

They reach the other side and stopped at the first building. Inside was a big rectangle sized room stone made up a desk area as a man rummaged through paper, "Good Evening Lynna." The man said, moving his glasses to get a better look, he had a kind of a scientist look then a well proper man, his dusky black hair was a mess, but all was wearing a suit, "King has given us orders to retrieve the new guests." Lynna informed slightly moving her hand, Aerro also noticed that there was a black kind of a scarf around her neck, "Yes, he is just finishing an audience, it will not talk long." The man said, going back to receive some papers.

Lynna went to pet the black thing around her neck, it moved making Aerrow back up, that caught the attention of his group, a head popped up from Lynne's left shoulder, it yawned and stretched like a cat from her back, then it moved his head back to face them. "Umm hi?" He questioned, the thing tilt its head, Amber eyes stared into Aerrow's emerald eyes, causing him to fill uneasy, "Dude, What is that thing?" Finn asked as he tilted his head to, "Aerrow don't make any sudden movements." Piper warned, "Its kinda cute." Junko noticed. Some other the other knights in the squad laughed at their curiosity, "That's enough Tip." Lynna said turning around, so both the creature and her helmet stared at the Storm Hawks, "Don't worry Tip is just as curious, he won't hurt you." Lynna justified Tip's action. "He's ready. Here Lynna, have the king fill this out too." The man said as he sat back down.

(Back at the Condor)

Radarr tapped nervously on the railing where he was stretched across, watching the river and the trees for any signs of movement, so far he only notice off beat splashing from the river, not that it even concerned him, Stork had managed to keep Radarr on watch duty after saying that the splashing could be a possible doom of being eaten by a walking fish eagle while giving him the classical look when he says curtain doom.

He chirped as to say, "Man I wish I was with them." Radarr eyes popped wider as he knew that smell, he didn't even need to know where it was coming from. It was Stork's emergency supplies of Merb cabbages.

(At the King's Audience)

His majesty sat on the throne on the raise platform, he carefully examined each one of them. Glancing at the other, Aerrow spoke up first, "Greetings, Your majesty. We came from the other side of the mountains, we call Atmos." Aerrow spoke, the king looked to Lynna who shrugged in responds.

"Ah, Atmos... Its been a long time since anyone came here from there. My question now is what brought you here and why? Is it for good or bad attention?" He inquired an honest answer, he sat forward and rested his chin on his hands. "We are here on totally good attention, your majesty." Piper claimed, placing a hand on her heart worried that she might say something wrong or to upset anyone, "We are here to stop Master Cyclonis from continuing on her evil plans." Aerrow added to Piper's statement, "Master Cyclonis... Why does that sound fimilar?" He muttered to himself, "We did fend off a girl that was about to attack the tower." Lynna informed, "Then That must be your Master Cyclonis... I want to know everything you know." He exclaimed his interest. "That goes for us to. Your majesty." Piper said in agreement.

The exchanging of what had happen in Atmos the past year gave insight to Master Cyclonis evil deeds, and the King gave them the run down of Far side or what they call Earos. "What you should know that is very important is our dragon classes."

"Dragon Classes?" Piper asked. "Yes. Dragon Keepers are protector of sacred orbs that are filled with powerful energy one shard from one can power a whole fleet, we call those Sacred Orbs. Dragon Flyers are capable of forming bonds with humans and other species, take an example Lynna here has a Dragon Flyer, she formed a bond when it was a hatchling. Dragon Guardians are Guardians of ruins or sentientals that protects a terra, the last dragon are called Dragon Hunters these dragons are not friendly and could be very much dangerous." He warned them. "The Pulyran Empire is not you friends they want to rule the whole" before he could finish a knight busted into the room.

"Pardon the intruding, Your highness we are under attack by Pulyran Forces." The young knight said in a frantic, Lynna took a step forward, "What are we going to do about them?" She asked, it was clear that she may predict that the Storm Hawks could be a diversion, "They are not a threat but an ally, I'll leave you in Lynna's care." The King said, and with that he got up and shifty left.

(On the Condor)

"We are done for." Stork hysterically laughed, unknown two big ships were coming in they did not look friendly. One waved a flag with a symbol on it, while the other sounded for battle. "I thought I left you in the Atmos." The fimilar Dark Voice hissed, "CYCLONIS!" Stork yelped, Radarr jumped onto his back. "Hehe. I thought the others would be here as well." Cyclonis sneered.