Dawn of a New Age

Chapter Thirty Two

Chapter Thirty Two

"Piper, please, too loud." Aerrow groaned.

Piper completely ignored the Sky Knight. "What happened to you guys? We found your skimmers and weapons, but not you. We were so worried!"

"Dark Ace showed up." Canada said. The red head groaned sitting up slowly and rubbing his temples. "We were surrounded and outnumbered."

"They took you back to Cyclonia?" Junko asked. Aerrow and Matthew nodded. The nation climbed to his feet and offered a hand to Aerrow. The red head took it and Canada pulled him up with his good arm. Radarr ran up to his best friend and climbed onto his shoulder.

"You guys are okay?" Aerrow asked worriedly.

"You're worried about us, dude?" Finn asked with a small smile. "We're fine, worried about you guys more than anything."

"Arygyn, how did you find them?" Stork asked crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.

"I have my ways." The purple haired man shrugged. "Anyways, I have business to attend to on Terra Neon."

"Wait," Piper called and Arygyn paused. "Do you know anything about the dimensional discord crystal?" Arygyn just shrugged with a smirk before disappearing. "Guess not."

"Can we have pancakes now?" Aerrow asked. "I'm starving."

"Yeah, just let me change." Canada said and the Sky Knight bounced excitedly. "And change these too." He gestured to his arm. Aerrow nodded and started to head to the kitchen Radarr still on his shoulder.

Matthew started to walk to his room. Piper followed him. "Hey, Mattie!" The amber eyed woman called. Canada paused and waited for her to catch up. "Your phone was yelling quite a bit earlier."

"I'll check that." The nation said with a smile. He had forgotten that he left it charging in the window.

"We left your weapons in your room. Oh! And your skimmer is in the hanger." Piper said. "We couldn't fit that into your room obviously."

"You could have glued it to the ceiling." Matthew suggested sarcastically. Piper smiled and rolled her eyes.

"Glue would rip the tiles off. Bungee cords hooked onto the rafters would be easier to get down and cause less damage." Piper said with a sarcastic smirk.

"Or, to be more cost effective, we could just leave it in the hanger." Canada said with a shrug.

"Very true. We'll go with that then." Piper nodded with a laugh. "With all the money we save, we can actually buy you some new clothes." She teased.

"It's been like three years. I'm surprised they've lasted this long. Few holes here and there, and patched too." Matthew said. "This one's going to need a pretty big patch."

"That's a bit of an understatement." Piper muttered shaking her head. "What exactly happened to you guys?"

Matthew started to explain what happened as they walked to his room. He got about half way through before they got to his room. Canada quickly changed his sweater and grabbed his phone. He continued the story as the pair started towards the medical room. Piper asked questions here and there as they walked.

"There really was no way for you guys to get out of there, huh?" Piper sighed shaking her head. "What would you have done if Arygyn hadn't shown up?"

"We discussed trying to get away in the morning when the talons came." Matthew said with a shrug. "We didn't have any solid plans. Just going to roll with it."

"You were in a life or death situation and you were going to 'roll with it?'" She asked in disbelief. The nation nodded as they entered the med bay. "You're crazy." Piper mumbled watching Canada clean and properly dress his cut. "Is your wrist and shoulder okay? They look pretty bad."

"The burn is mostly healed. It still sore though. The cut will take longer to heal; it's more serious because it is deeper. It will take a lot of sleep if I want to heal quickly." Matthew said as he finished wrapping the cut. "I lost quite a bit of blood too. It should have been stitched earlier, but I didn't exactly have the supplies."

"You're not going to do it now?" Piper asked following him out of the room.

Canada shook his head. "No point now, it's past the point where it needed it. It will heal mostly fine without stitches"

"Mostly?" The woman asked concerned stopping in her tracks. She crossed her arms. "What does that mean?"

The nation stopped as well. "It will just be a bigger scar, nothing major." He could see tears welling in the corner of her eyes.

"You guys really scared us, ya know." She said wiping the tears away. Matthew pulled her into a bear hug. "Don't you dare do that again." She said as he pulled back. "Next time you guys might not be as lucky."

"I don't plan on it." The Canadian said with a soft smile. "There won't be a next time."

Piper started to walk again. "Good because I don't know if Stork's nerves could take that again."

"I don't think anyone's nerves could take that again." The nation said catching up. They continued in silence the rest of the way to the kitchen.

"Finally!" Aerrow said from where he was at the island as soon as they entered the kitchen. Finn was there as well and from his shy smile, Canada guessed they had made up. "Pancakes?"

"Yup, better start cooking, eh?" Matthew said pulling the ingredients out of the cabinets to prepare a huge meal of pancakes.

-❄"I wish you weren't so fucking awkward bud."❄-

Later in the night after everyone had ate and gone to bed, Canada was still up. He had crawled into his spot above the pipes in the hanger again. He hadn't checked his phone yet and decided now was a good time. He had a missed call from Alfred and a couple of texts. The nation was surprised to see America's call. It had been ages since his last one. He immediately dialled back.

"Hello!" Alfred said sounding surprised. "Mattie, where were you?"

"Sorry, was a little bit busy." Canada said with a smile.

"We found the spell that sent you there." America said. "It's a spell that England had used before, but he mispronounced a word or something."

"That's good." Matthew sighed.

"But we still don't know why it sent you there and we're still looking for the reverse spell." Alfred grumbled. "England got a hold of Scotland and Norway. Both of them are looking into it too."

"Have they found anything?" The blond asked.

"Not yet." Alfred sighed. "You'd think after almost two and a half months of reading they'd find something. How long has it been for you there?"

"I think it's getting close to three years? Maybe three and a half?" Matthew said thoughtfully. "We really haven't tried anything with the crystal."

"You still don't want to come back do you bro?" The American asked disappointed.