The Seventh Member of the Storm Hawks

Fire and Ice

The Storm Hawks were heading to some festival that they had been invited to – it was exciting and a great way to unwind. Nika and Junko had spent most of their time together, her trying to teach him to cook things other than the weird tentacles. Aerrow and Nika had been rather awkward when close to one another but other than that there was no change. "We're here, hopefully the hypothermia will take me quickly." Stork's voice drawled through the speakers, with a smile Junko and Nika joined the others to leave the ship – she was excited, she had never seen snow for herself and the first time that she sees it – there were loads of it! Just pictures that Jor, her brother, brought back to her and for months she could only dream of touching it.

"Wow..." She awed, taking in the cold and view of snow. It was amazing! With a laugh, she ran ahead and started to scoop up some snow making it into a ball. "What's with her?" Finn snorted, not expecting Nika to go all weird over snow. "Finn!" Piper started before Junko intervened, "Nika comes from a warm terra – she has never seen snow." Finn smiled at Junko's answer, before a snowball came into contact with his face making him land on his feet. "Oh, it's on!" He smiled, grabbing snow and throwing it back to the brunette, Junko joined in and owned the pair of them. Aerrow and Piper watched from the side, "So... I heard that someone kissed you on the cheek..." She smiled suggestively, Piper wanted to know how Aerrow felt and convince him to ask her best friend out – they were perfect for each other. Aerrow choked on air for a second before his cheeks flared up, "Y-yeah... So?" He stammered, Piper giggled knowing she got him. "Well, did you tell her?" She pressed, hand on her hip. "Kind of?" He answered, more of a question than anything else, already bracing himself for a slap from Piper. "Aerrow! You need to tell her!" Piper exclaimed, quickly the Sky Knight waved his hands trying to get Piper to stop raising her voice. "Shh! Piper I'm working on it!" He whispered loudly. "Why must I suffer this conversation?" Stork asked, feeling rather sorry for himself. He was cold and fed up already – leaving the Condor for a snow festival wasn't exactly his favourite thing to do. "Lighten up Stork." Piper dismissed, not wanting to listen to his complaints – they were there to have fun. "I'll freeze to death first." He murmured darkly following them.

"Junko!! I give in!!" Nika screamed while laughing, she was lying on the snow trying to stop laughing while he dumped snow on her, she welcomed the cold saying it was nice since she grew up on a warm terra. "Yeah that's what you get for starting it!" Finn smiled, pointing a finger to her, Junko and Nika shared an amused glance before ganging up on him, the sharpshooter screamed and ran for protection from his other friends. "Stop them!" He commanded pointing at a smirking Nika and Junko, who had gathered enough snow to toss over him. Aerrow side stepped putting his hands up defensively, "I'm not getting in the way of that!" He laughed as Finn ran away but unfortunately for the blonde – the Wallop and Yarisian caught up to him. They high fived and left Finn in the snow, he grumbled and kicked some in annoyance before slipping over again. "Hey, you guys must be the Storm Hawks!" A rabbit dude grinned greeting the loud squadron, Aerrow grinned feeling proud of being recognised. "Yeah, we're here for the festival." The dude grinned before showing them some others messing around in the snow with their skimmers. Nika watched in amazement, she wanted to do the stunts too! They were absolutely wild but it looked so fun to the brunette, Piper shielded herself from some driven-up snow. "I know this is supposed to be festival and all but these guys are seriously out of control." She complained, giving a look to Aerrow. "I know, isn't it great?" He grinned, boys – Nika thought smiling. One of the dudes cheering and a thud made Nika cringe, the guy just totalled himself into an ice structure. "That looked like it hurt." She spoke to no one in particular. "Oh yes, how delightful." Stork replied making her jump away. Nika rolled her blue eyes when the dude got up and cheered, prompting his fellow dudes to join in.