Pairings: Dark Ace/Master Cyclonis & Aerrow/Piper
So well here we go
Falling For You
By: StarUchiha
Chapter 1:
It had been a week that day, a week that day that Ravess had turned all of Cyclonia against her. Cyclonis sighed before tightening the hold on the black, cotton blanket over her slender shoulders.
"Stupid Ravess," she muttered underneath her breath.
The night around her was calm yet reckless everywhere her violet eyes seemed to roam. Small animals fought with each other cloaked in the shadows of the evergreen trees while the lake in front of her seemed so calm, almost like it pause time itself.
Dark, light, calm, reckless, opposites to each other and yet they were so the same. One couldn't live without the other for with out one the other could not exist. There could not be the dead without the living nor could a bee survive with out a flower. Life would be unbalanced, incomplete. It was as they say "Opposites attract", and it was all that simple.
Problem is that it's never that simple, nothing is anymore. It seemed even a simple flower could be such a complex thing to her.
Cyclonis herself was a flower, a rose. A beautiful being, but every rose has thorns and she had many.
The fingers on her left hand slowly dug into the grass beside her, kneading it into a fine soil. She quickly retracted her hand and wiped the excess earth from her fingers onto her blanket.
She gasped slightly as and unexpected purring emitted out of the darkness and a small kitten emerged from under her blanket.
"Well what do we have here," Cyclonis asked her self before picking up the kitten from the ground and held it up in front of her face.
The kitten looked at her with big watery golden eyes and let out a small noise almost like a whine. Its black fur was knotted and coated over with a thin layer of dust.
Cyclonis gently pulled the kitten toward her chest and held it like a small infant. The kitten looked up and her before making itself comfortable in her arms. Taking her blanket in one hand sheet started to brush the dust off the little creature in her arms and onto her source of warmth.
Cyclonis almost smiled as the small feline let out a sound of content and rubbed itself up against the area just above her breasts.
Many names ran through her head of what to name this adorable creature. Whether she would admit it or not Cyclonis had always had a soft spot for all members of the cat family. Oh how her "roomy" would not like this.
"Master?"
His voice made her jump slightly and almost drop her newly found friend. Slowly she turned to face her only loyal servant her eye giving the kitten a quick look to make sure it was concealed under her blanket.
"Don't call me that anymore, Dark Ace."
"Then what am I supposed to call you? I took an oath to protect your family when your father was reigning over Cyclonia. I am always to refer to as Master," he stated sitting down beside her.
"Just call me, Cyclonis when were in private but Lark anywhere else, I guess. Atmosia probably still thinks I'm in rule over Cyclonia now."
"As you wish Cycl-," Dark Ace stopped suddenly before going into a sneezing fit, "Is there a cat near by?"
"No," Cyclonis lied, "Why would there be a cat around here? Your not allergic to them, are you Ace?
"No of course not I jus-," Cyclonis quickly brought her hand to her mouth to suppress her small giggles when the Dark Ace silenced himself with yet another sneeze.
Cyclonis cocked an eyebrow playfully at him, "You sure about that?"
"Okay, maybe I'm slightly allergic to cats."
"Slightly?"
"Okay I surrender! I'm allergic to felines! Is that what you want to hear," He asked her.
"Yes but I lied. This little one," Cyclonis confessed pulling the kitten out from under her muddy blanket, "is what's causing your allergy attacks. It came waddling up to me a while ago with these big yellow eyes and well I just had to pick it up."
"It?"
"Well if you're so smart why don't you figure out its gender," she said handing the small fuzzy feline to him.
The Dark Ace resentfully took the small black fluff-ball from Cyclonis giving her a second glance of disgust. Cyclonis just cocked an eyebrow at him hope that would shut him up.
She was wrong.
"Are you serious," He asked her unsuccessfully trying to cock an eyebrow back at her.
"Yes," she answered with a slight tone of demand in her voice.
"You have got to be kidding."
"I'm not so suck it up you wuss and tell me its gender? Unless your little allergies have made you afraid of cats?"
She knew all to well that she had hit a tender spot, the look and his face was priceless.
"I am not afraid of a stupid little kitten," He growled at her then brought the fuzzy creature up to his face.
The kitten started struggling trying to break free from Dark Ace's grip, Giving him a quick bite on the finger before wriggling out of his grasp and jumping into Cyclonis's lap. As the kitten landed Cyclonis let out a barley audible gasp of surprise. The creature looked up at her then turned and hissed at Dark Ace. Turning back to Cyclonis it gently rubbed up against her stomach area and curled into a small ball of black, yellow-eyed fluff.
Cyclonis slowed stroked its back while it let out a small yawn and fell asleep. She raised her half-lidded gaze to the great Dark Ace who just so happened to be allergic to cats.
"You're pathetic," She giggled at him.
"That thing is pathetic," He growled pointing at the sleeping kitten in her lap.
"Ace, why did you refuse to stay in Cyclonia with Ravess and Snipe," she asked quietly, her half-lidded still on the fluff in her lap.
He almost choked on his spit, that question had definitely caught him off guard.
"Two reasons mostly I guess, one there was no was in hell that I would take any orders from Ravess never mind Snipe," He sneered.
"And the second?"
"I already told you, I made an oath to your father to protect him and his family for as long as I live."
"Oh right, the oath." Her voice was hoarse and dry, with a slight dab of disappointment
"By the way before I left I kind of left some hair dye in her and Snipe's shampoo bottles," He said after a somewhat long period of silence.
"You did what?"
"I turned Ravess's hair custard yellow and Snipe's bright pink."
She chocked on her spit doing her best to hold back the laughter trying to force its way up her throat.
"You know," she said trying to fill in the silence, "Ravess is probably going to add 2000 to reward for your capture."
"Yes, but it was worth it. If only I could see their faces when they find out."
"Sorry but I'm not much of a help there."
"Too bad the looks on their faces would have been priceless."
"Ahh, yes wouldn't it have been nice?"
"Oh yes it would have but there is no way so I guess we can't see them freak."
"For all we know they could all ready have yellow and pink hair already."
"Yes, yes I suppose your right."
Lark continued to stroke the kitten's fur while it slept not knowing what to say next. She slightly pleaded for the silence to stop for what seemed like an eternity but was only a few seconds.
"So what do we do now," He asked snapping the unbearable silence in two.
"I, I don't know Ace. We can't go back to Cyclonia or into any terra for that matter. We have no where to go Ace, absolutely no where."
"I know," He said bluntly, "but we can survive, trust me."
"You were the only one I ever did trust Dark Ace, I trusted you even more than I trusted my own family."
Her violet eyes searched his hoping to see something, any emotion at all while his scarlet ones couldn't help but stare back. His blood red eyes hypnotizing her every move. Not noticing how dangerously close their faces were he gently brought his hand up and cupped her cheek bring her face even closer to his.
After a few moments of processing, Cyclonis realized what was happening and immediately pulled away. A heavy maroon blush covering her cheeks as she opened her mouth to talk, only a scrambled hacking noise emitted from her delicate mouth.
The Dark Ace shot up from his sleeping bag, beads of sweat rolling down his masculine face. The dream paralyzed his mind sending tainted images though his mind.
He slapped his forehead in a frantic attempt to clear the images of him and his master doing things he had rather not think never mind talk about.
From the corner of his sleepy gaze he watched her fling her arm over her head in her sleep and mention something about "Karayan-Salome".
As disturbing as that dream was he unfortunately every day for the last week had woken only to find that the greater amount of his nightmare was true, everything but the almost kiss.
In the end he did end up finding out the fur balls gender. It's seemed the little fuzz ball ended up being a girl, but for him that did not change his harsh feeling toward the little creature. Lark on the other hand had the little creature following her everywhere after she named it.
"Karayan, go to sleep please," Cyclonis mumbled in her sleep attracting a few seconds of the Dark Ace's precious pondering time.
Yes, Karayan, Karayan-Salome, what a ridiculous name for a cat. Lark had mentioned something about it meaning dark asking of God or something or other. He'd ask her later and hope to get a straight answer. He let out a small grunt and he got out of his own sleeping bag and walked out the front of the tent.
Cyclonis cracked an eye-lid open just in time to see her only loyal servant leave the tent they, much to her dismay, had to share. Closing her eyes and sighing she picked up the sleepy form of Karayan-Salome. Gently she struggled to pull herself into an upright sitting position.
Karayan let out a yawn her black fur shining in the little sunlight the tent let in. Looking up at Cyclonis she gently gave a small lick on Lark's face. Cyclonis smiled a little no caring what slightly painful sensations the small creatures tongue left on her cheek. Giving Karayan-Salome a small peck on the top of her head Lark put her down and slipped out of her sleeping bag. Getting up from the hard floor she stopped to pick up Karayan once again. Holding the kitten like a small infant she left the tent and joined the Dark Ace outside.
"I see you're awake," He said bluntly while setting up the preparations for breakfast.
"Yes," She replied with the same blunt tone, "I do believe I am, unless of course I am still dreaming which I find highly unlikely."
"Yes well it seems we are extremely low on supplies, food, water, food."
"You mentioned food twice," she said walking over to him, Karayan in hand, and sitting beside him.
"Did I? Well as you probably already know I'm not much of a morning person."
"Yes, well it's not exactly hard to tell as you do make it quite obvious."
"You think I'm obvious now? Well you've never seen me with a hangover."
"And I'm glad I haven't," She said confidently, "if you're even more of a bore with a hangover than you are now I think that I would die of boredom."
"I'm not a morning person."
"We've already established that, or well at least I have. I think the only thing that could get though that thick skull of yours is if we were ambushed by the Storm Hawks."
"If that was an insult, well try it on me when I'm not half asleep," He stated pouring the last of the bacon on to a plate.
"This is going to be a long day," He mumbled as he devoured a piece of bacon, tearing at it with his teeth like some kind of dog.
After gently taking a piece and feeding it bit by bit to Karayan-Salome she replied, "Yes, yes it is."