Ever since his first contact with a strange crystal, Aerrow starts hallucinating and has a change of character, all of that while he realizes he may have fallen for a certain navigator. As the time passes by, he grows more and more insane. Will he be able to overcome his madness before he does something actually evil? Find out in Sweet Illusions!
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Sweet Illusions - chapter 1
Chapter I
An Old Abandoned Experiment
In a wide and bizarre dark room, you could hear the sounds of thin fingers touching the gray keys from the storm engine's keyboard. The young Empress in her usual large black cloak with a hood over her head covering half of her eyes frantically typed meaningless codes while staring at the metallic keys. In those years her hair had grown up to the top of her waist, she wore now a black outfit with brown boots that reached her knees, and had started wearing dark eyeshadow. She sailed in deep thought, and was just typing because she was being driven by an almost automatic and involuntary impulse, her mind
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Chapter XIII
A Great Future
Weeks had passed since Aerrow and Piper agreed to be together. They had decided to keep it a secret from the rest of the crew, at least for a while, they didn't want to draw too much attention for them, neither did they want the team to think they'd be distracted by that, nor that the enemies could use that as a weakness.
Oh, and speaking of enemies, everything seemed to be really calm for quite some time. They even managed to fix the Condor without having to worry about the Cyclonians or the Night Crawlers attacking them. It was funny that they didn't find them, not even when they had to leave the Terra on thei
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Sweet Illusions - chapter 1
Chapter I
An Old Abandoned Experiment
In a wide and bizarre dark room, you could hear the sounds of thin fingers touching the gray keys from the storm engine's keyboard. The young Empress in her usual large black cloak with a hood over her head covering half of her eyes frantically typed meaningless codes while staring at the metallic keys. In those years her hair had grown up to the top of her waist, she wore now a black outfit with brown boots that reached her knees, and had started wearing dark eyeshadow. She sailed in deep thought, and was just typing because she was being driven by an almost automatic and involuntary impulse, her mind
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Sweet Illusions - chapter 2
Chapter II
Trap
Minutes later, the Dark Ace entered the room. In four years, the Cyclonian uniform's standard changed, everyone was already tired of the "Christmas tree", so the red and green clothing became gray and black, but the red of Cyclonia's insignia had been kept. The Talon commander remained roughly the same - there was not much to change in a few years since he had already passed through puberty and was an adult - maybe just the exercises he had been practicing lately were making some effect on his body, but nothing too relevant. He bowed while he asked:
"What is your wish, Master?"
"I'm planning something for the Storm Hawks,
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Sweet Illusions - chapter 3
Chapter III
Mission Accomplished
Aerrow was in trouble. In those seconds of darkness, many, many images came into his head. He was stunned, his mind was blurred to the point where he remained paralyzed with a blank stare, just waiting for the imminent end. Suddenly he was able to return to reality by some shady force and, fortunately, his versatility and his habit to take absurd risks saved his life, fatally, but they did: he raised his swords and touched two leech crystals, which absorbed all their energy and went into a state of self-destruction. The explosion caused the talon commander to hit the wall on the opposite side (Aerrow didn't
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Chapter IV
Appearances
Two weeks have passed since Aerrow had fallen into the Dark Ace's trap. The young man seemed to be very well for someone who had suffered a large cut on his head. In fact, he wore only a thin bandage now, his wound was almost completely healed. Since he was very stubborn, he continued exercising hard, and usually did so in secret, until he decided to call Finn for a workout like in the old days, while they were doing a small patrol through the woods of Terra Amazonia.
"Remember when we used to do combat training?" - he began as he bowed his vehicle towards the ground so he could land.
"Yeah. What are you thinking ab
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Chapter V
Above the Clouds
Aerrow was lying on the Condor's roof, with his head in his arms and doing something he rarely did: rest. He had decided to follow Piper's advice in the end. He watched the blue sky for at least two hours. He discovered, at last, some pleasure in this moment of contemplation. Well, relaxing was something rewarding after all. He really needed it.
The sun, shy, hid behind the lush trees. A gentle breeze played with his hair, walking amid the thick red hair, now free from his bandage. The emerald eyes stared admirably at the large, white and fluffy clouds. His mind, that just wandered in many deep and investigating
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Chapter VI
Thirst for Battle
Bangs and tremors shook the Condor. Everything rattled inside. The panic filled the environment. Aerrow looked at the clouds below them through the window and had an idea.
"Stork, fly around the Terra at low altitude and go to the other side." - he ordered.
"Great, another flight in zero-viz." - the merb muttered as he held the helm.
"The others come with me, we'll distract those Cyclonians."
Everyone ran to the hangar, climbed on their rides and flew out, while the ship detached from the rocky arch (the same one which it had been attached to previously) and plunged into the mist. When the five other Storm H
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Chapter VII
A Visit at Dawn
It was night time. The sky was dark, there were only a few stars flickering, the others were hiding in the shadow of the moon that shone brightly. The clearing where the Condor was parked at remained calm and silent, except for some crickets chirping in the grass and bushes. Aerrow was on the bridge, outside. He observed the environment carefully, he wanted to be absolutely sure that there was no danger there, after all, they had never been there before. Until a voice came from inside the ship:
"Guys, come on. It's done." - Piper called the boys.
The young red-haired took a last look around and entered. He walk
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Chapter VIII
Melancholic Memories
The sun rose behind the tall trees. The day was a little cold. Aerrow stood up and sat on the bed with his arms on his knees. He stared at the ground: his eyes were tired, since he couldn't sleep. Radarr shrieked and stretched, then crawled to his friend and greeted him stroking his head against his face.
"Good morning, Radarr. In my case, I don't know if I'm lucky." - he muttered as he rubbed his eyes that burned slightly.
He got dressed and went to the bathroom to wash his face. Fortunately nobody was using it at the time, so he might have some time alone to think about what happened last night. Why was
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Chapter IX
Girl Made of Water
Oh, nothing better than a recon mission to distract your mind. He really needed to remove all those questions from his head, even if for just a moment. Relaxing was rewarding. His friends seemed to be thankful for his company as well, and he felt the same. It was like they drained his worry and removed it from him.
The environment was calm. The trees seemed nice, the ground was gentle with their feet, the air even purified their lungs, in other words, there was no better way to reach immediate well-being at that moment. Suddenly, Aerrow felt a delicious smell, but he wasn't sure where did it come from. Radarr
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Chapter X
Realization and Acceptance
Later, after that incident in the lake, Aerrow was in the bridge, resting his back on a wall and observing while Stork was adjusting a few things on the Condor. The merb kept turning around a ball made of glass with two iron rings inside, as if he were trying to fix something.
"Is there anything wrong, Stork?" - his leader asked.
"No, no... The Condor just got a bit rusty for being way too long near a humid place like this lake. But nothing some oil and daily maintenance can't fix." - the green pilot grabbed an oil can that was nearby on the floor and proceeded to drop some oil on the joints of the meta