Chapter Seven: Dragon

[Leo]

Retribution Part II
Chapter Seven: Dragon

Two Years After the end of Retribution Part I

"Trainee Gwen! You are a failure to the squad!" screamed Shan standing infront of Gwen.

"I am sorry ma'am! It will not happen again!" Gwen yelled back.

The group around them laughed and Shan looked at the other with a smile. "And that's not the half of it. The damn girl goes off and flies the commanders ship into the side of my gunboat as retilation."

"I felt it was nessicary." she smiled.

"Even to the point where you had to help me fix the ship on your free time?"

"I like working on ships. Gave me a chance to work on your gunboat."

"Regardless, Gwen Uzamaki, I award you with your pilots wings. Congratulations. Welcome to the squadron."

The group around them cheered as Shan pinned her wings to her collar.

"Thank you Shan." Gwen replied and bowed.

"Your father would be proud." she said with a smile. The group around them dispersed and began to talk amongst themselves. "You miss him as much as I do?"

"Yeah, but I know the reason he died...he died to save us from certain doom..." Gwen replied looking at the others. "Do they have nothing else better to do?"

"Apparently not. Commanders don't ever do anything, you will learn that eventually...even when you start flying more. Speaking of which, our patrol is in fifteen minutes, we need to prep." Shan turned to the others at the party. "We have to begin our patrol folks, sorry! Please enjoy the snacks!"

The two walked down the hall towards the room they shared and both changed out of their dress uniform and into their fighter suits.

"The Dragons are more Formal than I thought." Gwen said aloud.

"It's not every day a 11 year old girl gets her wings. And her first try no less, you're doing as good as I was at your age."

"Thanks..."

The two walked to the pad and Gwen walked to her new Raven and began working on the ship checking the systems. Shan looked around the pad and up to the hole in the asteroid to the docking door outside Kyoto and noticed someone standing on the rock formation just above that, staring down. Shan squinted and couldn't make out who it was. She grabbed her headset and zoomed in to see Leo standing there staring down at her. She gasped and dropped the helmet.

"Gwen! It's Leo!"

Gwen ran over and when Shan looked back up...no one was there.

"He was there a second ago..."

Gwen patted Shan on the back and nodded.

"The stress of talking about him is getting to you, lets do our patrol..."

"Yeah..." Shan said trailing off.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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