The S.T.F. Files, Book 4: DIATON

CELEBRATION

Katelynn's POV

"Well then, where the heck are we going?" I sigh, putting my hands on my hips.

"My eyes still hurt!" Sam whines.

"That's what you get for trying to impersonate Theresa," Ulison pokes Sam's forehead.

"Cleo says we should go back to Paris!" Cleo jumps up with joy.

"How about a hospital?" Kiran groans.

"You know good and well why we can't go to a hospital!" Keera yells at him. Oh..that was a first. I've never heard her speak more than two words.

"I'm not going to Paris," Nada rolls his eyes.

"What about Rus-?" Kira smiles at Dimitri innocently.

"No!" Dimitri cuts her off.

"Why don't we just stay here?" Matt plops on the ground.

"Why would we want to stay here?" Titan growls.

"Well then Captain. Where are we going?" Sparta looks at Riza.

"Hm... anyone want to visit London?" Riza shrugs. Everyone looks around at each other.

"I'm fine with that," Al smiles.

Alicia's POV

"So.. what does Riza mean by we're all going head to head?" I ask Aly as I sit in Nada's lap on the plane. It didn't take Riza that long to hijack someone's airliner in the middle of the night.

"Easy. DIATON is alive and not apart of us anymore so we're going against them. Our 'parents' as you would say are against us too. And of course Nature and Time are against us. It's basically a four way war," Aly sighs. Nadie and Zion look at each other and sigh with her.

"I don't want to fight anyone," Keera says quietly.

"Hey.. we're gonna get this over with quickly," Kiran smiles at her. "Right Aly?"

"Uh..." Aly looks over at Damien uncertainly.

"Well, of course," Damien grins. "We're the STF."

"Yes.. STF..." Cleo mumbles, sleeping next to Damien. Everyone laughs. 

A few hours later, everyone was basically asleep except for a few of us. I laughed as Nada nodded off beside me. When I turned around, I noticed a light on and I saw March working on weapons.

"Whatcha doing?" I smile.

"Just technical stuff, you know," March puts her goggles on her face and starts messing with a gun with a screwdriver.

"You're upset about something," I look at her knowingly.

"No I'm not," March doesn't even look at me.

"Yes, you are," Ulison says, waking up across from us. March sighs and puts down her screwdriver.

"What if this doesn't work?" March looks at us seriously. "This is a four way fight. People who are our enemies could be saving us just to beat us and vice versa. It's going to get ugly."

"No one said it was going to be pretty," I point out.

"You're worrying too much. Plus we have two weeks to train anyways," Ulison yawns. "Just sleep. I have a sense tomorrow is going to be fun anyways."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ LATER - MORNING ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Kira's POV

"We're doing what?" I ask Aly as we all got off the plane. After hours being cooped up in that metal death trap, we were finally in London, home of the Big Ben.

"Celebrations," Aly smiles.

"What do you mean?" Riza looks at her. Aly pulls out a long piece of paper from inside the plane and rolls it out on the ground. It was a map of London.

"A birthday celebration of course. We've been in the STF how long and we never once celebrated any birthdays," Aly grins. "So...we're going to group up and have a scavenger hunt. First to get everything and arrive in the Central Park will get a surprise."

She hands me, Al, Samantha, and Matt a map and a credit card.

"Shwiney letters are on the paper! Look moron!" Cleo gets excited.

"They're sparkles on glue Cleo," Damien laughs.

The group names were on the papers. I had Titan, Nadie, and Zion. Al had Riza, Keera, and Sparta. Samantha had Kiran, Cleo, and Damien. Matt had Katelynn, March, and Ulison. Aly had Dimitri, Alicia, and Nada.

"Well then, time limit is three hours, we begin now. The money on the credit cards should be sufficient for everyone. And you may need a car," Aly links her arm with Dimitri's and runs off with Alicia and Nada following. I look down at the paper.

"What's first?" Titan asks me.

"Um..salsa," I look at the list.

"There are no grocery stores around here!" Nadie whines.

"Well then, I guess we should rent a car and start looking then," Zion sighs. Nadie jumps on his back and giggles.

"Onwards!" Nadie orders.

"Let's go," I hold Titan's hand and start walking.