Piper inched through the vent trying to make as little noise as possible, the silvery grey vent soon turned into a rusty red colour, some of the parts were hanging out of place, one false move over it and BANG she'd be the cyclonians for sure.
When she looked up she noticed Finn, Junko and Radarr,
"What on earth?" She shouted loudly, Finn and Junko both grimaced and raised their fingers to their lips,
Finn pointed to a small gap and told Piper to look through it,
Piper placed her eye in the space; she then turned to face Finn,
"Aerrow and Starling!" She whispered smiling.
In the small cage they had been placed in, Aerrow was hanging upside down on the bench and Starling was clipping her belt on a little tighter. When Dark Ace appeared in the room and unlocked the door,
Starling stared and him vacantly for a moment,
"Yes?" She requested,
"Not you," Dark Ace growled, he walked over to Aerrow and grabbed him by the back of his top, lifted of the ground Aerrow felt like a cat being held by the scruff of his neck,
"What are you doing? Put me down!" he shouted angrily trying to get Dark Ace to loosen his grip,
"Cyclonis wants to see you, boy," Dark Ace snarled,
"Well," Aerrow said folding his arms, he was about three inches off the floor so there wasn't really anything he could do; Dark Ace marched off with Aerrow.
Starling was left on her own for now, the cell doors were shut and she was getting annoyed, the two guards standing out side her cell were boring and didn't say anything, they just stood there.
Starling then heard Aerrow's voice,
"Put me down!" he shouted, Starling smiled knowing that he was still okay she then heard Dark Ace reply,
"Say please"
"Please" Aerrow grumbled,
"No" Dark Ace replied spitefully.
After a few moments of quiet, Starling was getting nervous was Aerrow all right?
Was he still breathing?
The air vent started shaking, Starling gave it a confused look until it caved in, she fell backwards landing on her rear end staring at Junko, Finn Piper and Radarr who'd landed in a heap on the floor, the cyclonian guards were about to Spring an attack until Starling slid a small bomb filled with electricity crystals, sending painful sparks through the guards bodies,
"Whoops" She muttered looking at the henchmen.
Piper ran up to the door,
"You okay Starling? Did you get your nunchucks back?" Piper asked quickly,
"I'm fine, calm down and no I didn't they're still here, somewhere" Starling replied,
"Wouldn't they be in the treasury? That's where Cyclonis keeps everything" Finn stated,
"Yes of COURSE!" Piper shouted happily, she scanned the cell, "Where's Aerrow?"
"Dark Ace took him" Starling answered, Pipers mouth gaped a little bit which turned into an evil frown,
"Junko, Finn go find Starling's nunchucks, Radarr help Starling get out" Piper ordered,
"Wait where are you going?" Junko queried,
"I have an appointment with Master Cyclonis" She hissed,
"That's dangerous Piper, you don't know what she's capable of" Starling said,
"I don't care either" Piper added before running towards Cyclonis' throne room.
Finn and Junko looked at each other before fleeing towards the treasury,
On the way to the throne room the guards never noticed Piper lurking around, until she battered them on the back of the head,
"Cyclonians are so stupid" She whispered to herself as she approached and open door.
Piper poked her head around it to see Cyclonis, Dark Ace and Aerrow. She stayed out of sight for the moment, she needed to think of some way to get her leader out of that room, she listened in on the conversation they group were having so she could get the general idea of what was going on.
Cyclonis walked around the edges of her throne room, Aerrow was standing in the middle and Dark Ace was leaning with his back against the wall,
"You know Aerrow," Cyclonis began, "Sky knights are supposed to be smart, intelligent, have at least an ounce of intellect, but you, you seem to appear in the most stupid places possible, like here, you have no reason to be here!"
Cyclonis wandered up to the teen and clasped her pale hand around his throat,
"Why are you here?" She questioned in a quiet voice scowling nastily.
Aerrow remained silent, so Dark Ace answered for him,
"Something about nunchucks" he said impassively, walking over to the redhead, he then struck Aerrow around the face with the back of his hand knocking Aerrow onto the floor,
"And next time you're asked a question, ANSWER!" Dark Ace bellowed.
By the door Piper got her staff at the ready.
In the treasury, Finn and Junko were tossing old pieces of everything around.
Finn found some old jewellery and had it wrapped around his head,
Junko had some metal pieces, which looked really nice, to him,
"Hey!" Finn shouted reaching into a box,
"What?" Junko murmured, Finn pulled out the object that was in the box, in his hand were a pair of nunchucks, with gold handles and dazzling purple crystals inserted into them,
"Are these Starlings?" Finn asked impatiently swinging the weapon around sending out a brilliant white blast knocking a hole in the wall.
Outside the hole a cyclonian henchman peered in,
"OI!" He shouted when he noticed Finn and Junko,
"Well at the moment they're going to have to do!" Junko yelped, grabbing Finn's arm and running away.
In the dungeon, Starling was getting bored with Radarr, he struggled with the lock, kicked it, punched it, poked it, flicked it and now he was trying howling at it,
Which was really rattling Starling's cage, literally.
She stood up and wandered towards the door, luckily Radarr was fed up with trying.
Starling pulled a small hairpin out of her hair and put it in the lock, her normal look changed into a strict concentrating face with her tongue sticking out pointing upwards.
The lock sprung and Starling was free, now all she had to do was find the rest of the group who were scattered around Cyclonis' palace.
Piper watched ready to pounce at any moment when she heard heavy footsteps and a violin; she turned around slowly and gave a nervous chuckle to find Ravess aiming a red crystal tipped arrow at her and Snipe glaring at her, pounding his mace in his hand,
"This is bad," Piper mumbled.
In the throne room Aerrow was having problems of his own,
He slowly stood himself up and shook his head; he then heard Master Cyclonis' cold voice from behind him,
"Now Dark Ace, none of that" she said turning to face Aerrow, Cyclonis had her deep purple robe on, it was impossible to see her face while it was up, but it gave her a scarier look as to when it was down.
Finn and Junko came to a split hallway, Junko ran to the right and Finn ran off to the left, this would make Starling's job of getting them all together a whole lot harder.
The cyclonian henchman was completely confused, he wasn't sure whether the blond teen and the wallop and run to the left or to the right, so he just walked back the way he came, saying to himself that he would deny everything if Master Cyclonis found out.
Junko walked slowly through the dark corridor, nothing seemed to be around apart from a door, which appeared to be locked, and good thing Junko had his knuckle buster's with him.
Finn wandered aimlessly around the castle walkways turning at the end of every corridor until, he also came to a door, a deep red one, and like always curiosity got the better of him,
Finn slowly opened the door and managed to squeeze through seeing as the door didn't open all the way.
Ravess was standing behind Piper, and Snipe was about to hit her with his mace when he found he couldn't swing it. He turned his head to see Junko over his shoulder, lit knuckle busters, and holding onto the mace.
Snipe didn't let go, so Junko ended up throwing Snipe and the mace to the opposite end of the hall.
Piper smacked Ravess over the head with her staff, managing to knock her out.
Aerrow scrambled to his feet, he didn't expect Dark Ace to lash out like that.
Dark Ace pulled his red glowing blade onto Aerrow, who by this point was getting really fed up, Dark Ace was ready to belt when he heard Cyclonis yelp loudly.
Cyclonis was a living, breathing ice sculpture,
Aerrow gazed around the room, when he noticed Finn with his crossbow over the back of the room,
"I know you're in here," Dark Ace began, "You can't hide from me"
Dark Ace didn't notice Piper pop-up behind him, with her energy staff pointed at the back of his head,
"Finn can't, but I can" she said calmly, Dark Ace slowly turned around to see an angry looking fire bolt crystal aimed under his nose, Piper gave him a playful wink.
"Stupid girl I ought- " He was cut off when Junko thumped him in the back thrusting him through the air.
The group were looking around, it appeared that Cyclonis had vanished into thin air, even though she was frozen, the magic she held was still powerful.
Finn came out of his hiding place, Junko and Piper both sighed with relief and Aerrow was still gazing around the room,
"Where are Starling and Rad-" The red head muttered to himself, he had to stop, when Radarr flew in and attached himself to Aerrow's head, the rest of the group started laughing.
Radarr was purring loudly, Aerrow picked him up and perched him on his shoulder, anything beats sharp claws digging into his face.
"He's a lovable little mission specialist," Starling said, walking in casually.
Piper ran up to Aerrow and latched her arms around his waist,
The rest of the storm hawks were a little perplexed at what was happening, including Aerrow, but Starling seemed to know what was going on perfectly well, she was Piper's age a few years ago.
"I'm glad you're safe," Piper whispered, tightening her grip,
"Um, you too," Aerrow said, smiling sweetly at Piper.
You could always tell what Aerrow was thinking with his facial expressions, if he scowled, it wasn't because he was in a bad mood, it was because he needed to finish something that he had already started, but this smile was a new one,
Piper had never come across it before.
"Why are you smiling at me like that?" Piper asked quietly, looking up at Aerrow who just shrugged,
"You might want this," Piper said releasing her grip and pulling the tiny piece of torn cloth out of her pocket,
Aerrow took it and looked at rip on the back of his shoulder.
Finn was in a daze, which he snapped out of when Junko grabbed hold of him, Piper and Aerrow, Radarr was just out of the clench seeing as he was clinging on by a thread of Aerrow's red hair, which broke off, Radarr landed with a thud on the floor.
After Junko released his grip on the trio, Finn pulled the nunchucks out, no one was sure where he kept them, most people dreaded to think about it.
He handed them to Starling, who smiled. And as a thank you she gave Finn a quick kiss on the cheek before vanishing from the room.
Finn's face flushed scarlet, his eyes were wide and the blue in them shimmered more, a tender smile spread across his red face.
The group were relaxing on the condor, which Stork was flying, muttering all sorts of prophecies to himself, we're all doomed was one that cropped up a lot.
Piper was sowing the patch back into Aerrow's shirt so for now he was strutting around the condor in a plain black t-shirt (I bet you all thought that I was going to say shirtless)
Finn was in his quarters re-gelling his hair, though he really didn't need to seeing as he had about a ton of it on any way.
Junko was in the bathroom fixing the sink, which Finn broke, he manages to break the most unlikely of things.
Radarr was curled up on Aerrow's lap on the bridge, he had nothing better to do apart from eat cat food and chase his tail.
Stork flicked the Condor to autopilot and left the bridge,
"I'm going to bed, if I stay up to long I might witness the slow and painful demise that is staring me right in the face."
"Good night to you to, Stork" Aerrow said.
Piper had just finished the patch when she looked up and noticed what the night sky was doing,
The moon was glowing and it had tiny stars scattered all around it,
"Wow" Piper whispered wandering over to the window, Aerrow slid the sleeping Radarr off his lap and followed Piper across to the window,
"Pretty isn't it?" He muttered, just so Piper could hear,
"It is" She replied quietly taking hold of his hand and smiling softly, though the smile could no longer be seen, due to Aerrow leaning down to Piper's height and kissing her tenderly in front of the silvery moon.
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well that's the end, I think
one word to describe the ending though….
FLUFF !