The Seventh Member of the Storm Hawks

Jinxed It!

Nika and Aerrow walked back into the bridge together, not making it obvious they had confessed their feelings as they laughed about memories of home. Piper immediately bounded over to Nika, practically jumping onto her and dragged her off. "What was that about?" Aerrow asked, looking confused. "Piper wants 'details' from her. Whatever that means. Anyway, how'd it go?" He explained before smiling at Aerrow, the three boys and Radarr shared a look, Finn was doing the exact same thing. "Uh fine?" Aerrow replied raising an eyebrow, he and Nika had agreed to keep their relationship secret mainly to see who'd notice first. "And....?" Finn pressed trying to get Aerrow to spill what happened on the roof, "We just talked, that's all." Aerrow replied steadily, Finn sighed and fell on his back, "Come on! You mean to tell me that NOTHING happened?!" He shouted with his hands in the air, Junko raised his eyebrows at Aerrow waiting for an answer. "Well... we just spoke about home and I hugged her-." Aerrow began before Finn sat up and pointed a finger at him, a victorious look on his face. "Ha! In knew something happened!" He exclaimed, Stork pressed corks into his ears – it was the last thing he wanted to hear, Nika and Aerrow. "Nothing like that." Aerrow dismissed waving his hands in front of him.

"Oh my gosh! It worked didn't it?! You two are so cute together!" Piper blabbered quickly, taking Nika by the hand to the hangar, Nika raised an eyebrow – either Piper had too many sweets or she was extremely happy about the idea of Nika being with Aerrow. "Slow down, wow." Nika laughed, slipping her hand out of Piper's grip. "I know! But tell me everything!" She squealed, stopping when Nika blankly looked at her. "Oh no, did you two not-?" She began and stopped herself, Nika just shrugged. "We just talked about home, I think we're getting there though." Nika smiled, feeling confident – well she didn't exactly lie, they had talked about home – well Aerrow making sure it was ok for them to be together, but it was still home, and the pair did hug. "Piper?" Nika asked, the navigator was grinning and quietly squealed. "My plan worked!" She laughed, hugging the brunette tightly. "I can't wait till you two get together!" She squealed whilst leaving the room, Nika quickly left and got changed into her regular clothes – twirling when she was free of the dress. "If only you knew Piper." She whispered with a small laugh.

Stork glowered at Aerrow, he couldn't help it – Nika was the first girl he liked and she wasn't to be his. Aerrow was a nice guy and could have anyone but Stork was just a crazy loner who would struggle to find someone. It didn't take him too long to start liking her in the first place, how he hated it. When the chattering was over, he took the corks out of his ears and sighed happily – no longer having to listen to the teenagers. A small smile appeared on his scowling face when Nika skipped up to him and leaned close to him, mainly to annoy him – once he registered he did indeed freak out and jumped away from her. "If you want to live then do not do that again!" He exclaimed, Nika shrugged and skipped away from him and jumped onto Junko's back. "Onward my trusted Wallop!" She laughed, he held her legs while Finn Jumped onto Aerrow's back shouting about a chicken fight. Thanks to having Junko, Nika won and received a chase from Finn – resorting to flying around the Condor, losing him outside and locking herself in her room. "I swear, all of you have too much energy. It's like I'm your babysitter." Stork commented slouching his back, feeling rather sorry for himself, shaking his head as his eyes looked at the ceiling. "Well you are the oldest out of all of us Stork." Aerrow commented whilst sitting down, Stork turned to him. "But you are the leader, you are supposed to look after everyone!" Stork pointed out, Aerrow tilted his head with a sigh of agreement. "Hey, isn't it weird that the Cyclonians haven't attacked us today?" He wondered aloud, Stork tensed at his post, today was not his day. "Don't jinx it!" With that statement, the alarms went off making Stork hunch over in despair. "Too late, you know what I don't care. I don't care, I'll just die." He grumbled quickly to himself, Nika bounded into the room with a grin on her face, she had obviously heard Stork through the communications. "Does that mean we can scratch the Condor now?!" She asked excitedly, Stork's eye twitched – scratch – his – ship?! "Get out there and defend my ship!" He screamed, Nika saluted and ran to the hangar with everyone else following. "Nobody scratches my ship." He grumbled as he dodged the Talons and made sure not to accidently hit anyone.