The story starts soon after the end of air gear but is loosely connected to its events

Air gear is owned by Ito 'oh great' ogure, I'm just a fan.

Ch.1: A misty morning part 1.

A boy with white hair and green eyes of considerable height is standing in a blue room with a mic, looking at you, the reader, and talking.

" Saying my life is as tasteful and colorful as gruel would be an understatement. Everything is basically the same, boring and repetitive. It doesn't help that I only go to the same three places: apartment, part-time job, library, as in the words of that one song 'all around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces'. One day though, I was struck with a flash of inspiration, which was…" he said, using his right hand, which was not holding the mic, and gesturing to a screen that suddenly appeared to the right of him.

The screen flashed to life, making the screen white, then suddenly, it grows bigger and bigger until...

The youth wakes up with a jolt, blinking rapidly wondering what his dream was about.

He then says the first thing that comes to mind "I need a hobby."

The city library

The youth, now wearing a short black jacket, black jeans, and a yellow t-shirt, walks to the counter of the library and shows his I.D card, which bears the name Hikaru Taki, and walks over to a table with some books.

As he walks over to a table, someone bumps into him, making them drop their books in a classic scene found in most romance movies. But romance is not in the air as the mystery person just stands up, takes his book and leaves.

"Sorry." Hikaru says, trying to apologize as quietly as possible, but sees that the person just keeps walking and decides to forget about the situation and focus on the task at hand.

Dumping the books on the table was the easy part, which was still hard to do considering they were heavy and plentiful. The hard part is going through them and picking a good hobby.

Hikaru decides to go for gardening, but when he puts the book down another one catches his attention. Its title was 'A-T's for dummies.'

"I don't remember picking that up." Hikaru mumbled then realized what happened.

"The guy I bumped into must have dropped it," he said, slamming his left fist on top of his right palm "he must be getting into A-T's, I should find him and return this," Hikaru said, trying to move forward, but only achieving walking in place. He turned towards the book and a slight smile crept up his face "but, since he hasn't come back for it, I guess I could flip through it."

He opens the book and hungrily reads through the pages, all the schematics and reference pictures attacking his eyes. He opens to a particular age and found a picture of flying day.

At seeing the picture of flying day, Hikaru remembered how he felt during the experience, the slight fear of falling, but at the same time the pure joy of endless freedom given by the sky, like it reached out a hand and pulled him out of his cage of grey into a world of color, even if it was only for a moment. As his resolve increased to greater heights as to what his new hobby should be, he found his picture.

"Hey, that's me." Hikaru said a bit too loudly, eliciting multiple shushes from everybody. "Ah, shush yourselves." He said with as much of an intimidating, yet calm voice as he could muster, eliciting even more gasps than shushes, making Hikaru smile and say "shush, people are trying to read".

He then moved as fast as he could to the reception desk to borrow the book. Moved is used instead of run because of Hikaru's peculiar movement style. It is achieved when he ducks his head down, leans slightly backward and strides quickly instead of taking normal running steps, which allows him to move quickly and effectively while dodging other people due to his lower half being much closer than his upper half.

Hikaru got there with the face of a kid who was just told he could have everything he wanted in the candy store and puts down the book with a hopeful smile.

The reception lady, who looked like a kind, female version of the stay puft man, was always ready to bring cheer and joy to the people who come to the library, and just by seeing his face she knew what he wanted.

"You have to be the only person who would still need that thing, it's so obsolete me just giving it to you completely would be a weight off my shoulders." She said with the attitude of a teacher trying to chastise their student but was secretly trying to hide a smile from the one that was creeping up his face.

"Can I really keep it." Hikaru said, his eyes full of hope.

"Yeah, now scram before I change my mind." She said with an air of finality.

As Hikaru was walking out, three people were watching him from the top of the library.

"So boss, what's so special about this one, is he some kind of master genius that's brimming with talent?" said the one on the right.

"Well, not so much talent as it is determination, at least from what I could gather from his eyes that blaze for purpose," the 'boss' said with a sage-like wisdom, then proceeded to ruin it by saying "also did you see the way he ran to the reception desk, slap some A-T's on him and he's probably like greased lightning going down a water slide filled with butter."

"Uh, sure," said the guy on the left "by the way, he's getting away." He said, pointing to the running figure of Hikaru growing smaller by the second.

"Then what are you doing here sharing recipes, after him!" the boss said, standing up.

The three storm riders started sprinting towards him, easily overtaking him and landing from the nearby buildings in front of him.

"Hey there brother, where do you think you're going?" The boss said in an ominous voice.

"Y-you're…," Hikaru says as the screen fades to black and minimizes to commentator Hikaru hitting the monitor with his mic.

"Eh, technical difficulties, tune in shortly for the continuation of the unraveling story." He said, going back to hitting the monitor with the end of the mic.

I'm not sure how well this will go, considering not many people really know air gear to my knowledge.

But if there are people out there, I have high hopes this will work. And if it doesn't I guess I would be wrong.

PS. Most of my uploads will either be really early or really late, and the next chapter new wave of UA will probably be the longest one I write (also I'm lazy) so bear with me.

This is Rubyashes and I'm on fire.