The Major Chase

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"Over there! I can see the edge of the Canyon!" Celaeno felt a smile start to spread on her face, her hand talons were aching from climbing the rocky surface of the cliffs, but it was all worth it.

She was going to make it.

She and her crew were getting out of The Storm Empire's clutches, Escape seemed more than certain.

"Come on!" Mullet, the Eyepatch-wearing Parrot shouted as he pulled himself to the top of the cliffs, grabbing his Captain and pulling her up with him.

"Hold on! I don't have my hook!" Boyle, the one-armed pirate of Celaeno's crew shouted as his muscles burned, using his left-hand claw to do most of the lifting up the cliff before Mullet and the captain pulled him up as well.

"SQWAK!" Squabble yelped, the wall-eyed parrot shuffling up to the top of the cliff before he collapsed to his knees and started hugging the solid ground beneath him.

"Lix, You slowpoke, Do you need help down there?" Celaeno smirked as she looked down to the last member of her crew, The only fellow female on her ship, "Just reach out your claw, and we'll grab you!" Celaeno got onto her knees and extended her claw down to her Friend.

The Fat Pink Parrot cook smiled and reached out to grasp her captain's claw, only to feel a sting at the back of her neck.

Her eyes widened as her claw quickly grabbed whatever stung her and pulled it into eye view.

"...Oh Crackers..." Lix Spittle whispered as she looked at the familiar logo emblazoned on the dart that she pulled.

"Lix, Hurry up!" Celaeno stretched her hand, trying to reach her last crewmate, Her talons almost catching the pink parrot.

"R-r-r-" Lix Spittle tried to speak, her eyes dilating as the claw holding onto the cliff started to slack.

"Lix! There's no time for this!" Celaeno started to panic as her crewmate stopped responding, only to freeze in horror when Lix looked up at her, allowing the Parrot Captain to see the tranquilizer dart held in her talons.

"Get out of here..." Lix managed to whisper before her body started to convulse, Her claws slipping, letting go of the cliff in the process.

"Lix!!!" Celaeno screamed the name in horror as she watched her crewmate fall from the cliff, her hollow bones snapping as her side landed on a protruding rock, the impact dislocating the rock in the process as it too followed the Pink Parrot in her fall.

Celaeno was frozen, the sounds of snapping bones and tumbling boulders ringing out in the canyon, as she watched her crewmate's unmoving body fall into the river at the bottom of the cliff, followed immediately by a small rock slide spelling her cook's certain doom.

"...We need to move." Mullet pat his captain on the shoulder, grabbing her attention as he shifted his eyes briefly to point at a group of approaching figures at the bottom of the cliff.

The Storm King's Army has found them...

"We need to move, Now!" There was no more time to waste, As the hunters down below took out grapples and climbing gear from beneath their armor, The Sky Pirates started to move.

"If we follow this path, we should reach Klugetown by the end of the day, We can slip away from these bastards there before taking another Airship back to Ornithia!" Mullet told the rest of the crew as he ran, his eyes looking over the dunes of red sand and stone that made up the surroundings.

"Will we even be able to reach Klugetown?" Boyle asked loudly as he ran after the rest of the crew, making use of his strong upper body to carry Squabble over his shoulders, "Now that these bastards know where we are, Won't they send an airship and catch up?"

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