Paper Planes

Everything is fine-

"Y-you saved me...thank you..." Twinkle applauded.
"Of course! That's what we do!" She said and flew around behind Gene and hugged his arms. Frank slipped out of Gene's arms and to her feet.

"The chameleon is pretty beaten up. What do we do?" Ruby asked, kicking the side of the chameleon as Gene went inside and rummaged around. He felt something rough and carefully pulled whatever it was out. The painting. It had a few rips here and there, paint scratched off on the corners. He felt awful. She put effort into this, and he crashed the Chameleon. He walked back out and didn't really know what to say or do.
"Maybe we could walk back to Kingsland and stay there until we're able to fix the chameleon." Alex suggested to everyone who nodded. He placed his hand on Gene's shoulder and shook him a little in a comforting manner.
"We can fix it Gene! Now come on, you must be tired." Gene walked with the others to Kingsland. He kept looking back at the broken chameleon and felt worse each time.

"Prince Alexander! What brings you home so soon?"
"You see father, the chameleon- I mean carriage crashed, so we'll be stuck her for a while until we can fix it."
"Ah I see. That's fine then! More time to spend together!" Twinkle clapped. Gene still looked down about the chameleon which everyone noticed.
"I'll take you to your rooms okay? The girls will stay together, and Gene'll be with me." Alex said as he lead everyone to their quarter rooms.

Gene looked into the mirror from across the room on the bed. His head resting on his hand. Alex was looking out the window at the grounds below, watching a few other knights fighting each other as training. He turned to Gene.
"Oh come on Gene, we'll get it fixed! Trust me!"
"I know, Alex, but it's such a highly technical piece of equipment that it'll take a while to repair. We'd have to get back to Technopolis to get the parts and tools to use to fix it." Gene explained and fell flat on his back onto the bed. Alex walked and sat next to him.
"I don't really know what to say, but this may make you feel better." Alex lay down too and hugged Gene. Gene went stiff, not sure on what to do. He looked at Alex who's eyes were shut. Gene gave in and hugged back, feeling slightly better already by this comforting hug.
"How about tomorrow morning, we get one of Dr X's machines over to take us and the chameleon back to Technopolis so we can repair it."
"Sounds like a plan, I'll contact someone who can send one out to us." Gene looked at his pad -wrist piece- and typed away, but winced.
"Are you okay?"
"Ah- Yes. The burn on my hand still hurts a little, bit no worries." He continued to type -but typing lighter this time- and managed to get a message to someone at Technopolis.

The sun was setting at the two boys hadn't left the bed. The ceiling wasn't very interesting so they both just stared out the open window at the sky and it's magnificent colours. Alex yawned and rested his hand on Gene's shoulder. Gene rubbed his eye and checked the time. There was a knock on the door and then it opened. Princess Lianora walked in. But she stopped when she saw the two lying on the bed.
"Am I interrupting something?" Quickly, Alex sat up, bringing his hands behind him to keep him upright.
"Well, it's dinner time. Father told me to call you and your friends down. So hurry up." She left with a flick of the hair and shut the door. Gene looked at Alex before sitting up himself.
"Well, let's go down. We wouldn't want to keep the others waiting hah." Alex swung open the door and walked out, Gene following suit.

Ruby, Twinkle and Frank were waiting for them outside their door. The 5 plus Alien walked down for dinner, talking the whole way down. There was a long table with food laid out nearly. Princess Lianora was already there with her father and a new other knights. There where 5 open spaces for the rest to sit at.
"Finally! Come and sit down Alexander," the King pleaded and Alex sat and the others sitting too. Ruby stared hungrily at a piece of chicken in front of her.
"Anything interesting going on now Father?" Alex asked, cutting a potato and placing a piece in his mouth.
"Hmm, no nothing that I can think of. Lianora can you think of anything that might be coming up?" Lianora looked up from her plate of food and shook her head.
"Nothings happening father. Unless the Black Baren has something he wants to do..." she mumbled the last part.
"Gene are you alright?" Frank asked him quietly. Gene looked at her and nodded.
"Everything is fine." His eyes drooped a little. He hadn't touched his food, or his cutlery for that matter. Frank frowned and ate a parsnip.
"Eat something Gene, you'll need your energy." Gene sighed, acknowledging what she meant and began to eat.

The stars were bright against the pitch black sky. Gene lay in his bed staring out the window again. Alex was fast asleep, clutching the edge of the duvet and snuggling with it. Gene was exhausted but couldn't sleep, he was too worried about the chameleon to do almost anything right now. He turned over and pulled the duvet closer to his face. He shut his eyes and tried to sleep. But the nightmare he would endure wouldn't be fun.