The Second Master of Wind

Accident?

Aeria's POV

"Someone land the ship!" Lloyd yelled as he grabbed my arm right before I could fall flat on my face as the shaking got worse.

"I'm trying, but the wind's throwing us off!" Cole shouted from the steering wheel.

"Aeria!" Kai shouted to me accusingly.

"It's not me!"

"I got this." Ronin ran out to the deck whistling for Rex and when it showed up, he hopped in and made several grappling hooks come out from all sides and hooked them onto the Bounty to slow its descent to land.

Right as we landed, the shaking stopped and we all were gaining our balance back as Ronin detached Rex from the Bounty before parking it right beside them. Right after we landed, we all breathed a little sigh of relief and I looked down to see Lloyd still holding my arm and he quickly withdrew it with a light blush on his cheeks.

"Uh oh, I think the engine's sputtering again." Nya groaned as she picked up a toolbox that she had stashed by the table.

"We will help." Zane and Xia followed Nya to the engine room before she stopped at the doorway and asked me,

"Hey, can you help us fix the engine? We could use someone with your mechanical skills."

"Um, sure?" I responded with uncertainty.

"The rest of us will clean up and figure out where we are." Lloyd told us and Nya nodded in response before picking up a red tool case and waiting for me so we could head down to the engine room.

When we made it to the engine room below deck, I saw that there were a couple of screws scattered on the floor from where they had popped out from the glowing red hot engine. Nya dropped her tool case in shock before grabbing a rag to fan the engine.

"Double uh oh! The engine's overheating, Zane can you cool it down?"

"Will do." I watched as Zane held out his hand and a stream of icy mist came out and surrounded the engine and when Xia touched his arm with her hand glowing a light blue, the mist amplified and the engine cooled down even faster. I watched as they were able to use their powers without hesitation and felt a wave of embarrassment wash over me.

"It should be safe to examine now." Xia told me and I hesitated before saying,

"Ok, but I'm more used to working with automobiles not...flying pirate ships." I lay on a small, wooden dolly on my back and rolled it to where I could peer up into the engine.

"I think I found the problem." I rolled out with a broken pipe in hand, "It looks like the internal cooling system's been compromised, that's why the engine overheated and almost made the ship shake apart from the inside."

"I thought we had just replaced that part." Nya groaned.

"As did I." Zane agreed.

"Yeah, but the thing is, that this didn't break on its own, it looks like it was smashed in." I pointed a small, circular dent on the side of the pipe right where the cracking began and asked nervously, "You don't think Pythor managed to escape and did this, do you?"

"I'll go call the Warden and see." Nya ran back up the steps from the engine room.

"In the meanwhile..." I started as I tossed the broken pipe aside and got on my back on the floor to check for any more damage.

"Could one of you hand me a wrench and a new pipe?" and Xia handed me a new pipe and Zane gave me a monkey wrench. I rolled back under before securing the pipe into place using the wrench.