Iron Dragon 971

"Cypher! Cypher! Yahoo! Watch out everyone! I’m coming through!" A young girl, age sixteen with bouncy, light-brown hair ran ecstatically to Cypher’s side. Her sky-blue eyes gleamed with mischief and delight. Her school uniform whirled around her cheerfully as she lean against Cypher.

Cypher was a quiet girl with a short tomboy cut of golden hair. Only two side strips remained beside her ears, covering them up in the front. Her eyes were a mysterious light green with a slight touch of hidden gold. Although she had a boyish outlook, her soft profile and feminine smile was pure female.

Cypher looked up from her book surprised. It wasn’t like Holly to get this excited even if it was her birthday. Knowing that something must be up, Cypher held her breath.

"Holly?! Why all the excitement? You practically knocked down the entire class!"

"You don’t know! Oh my God! Were have you been?!"

Cypher blinked.

"This! This!" Holly handed her the magazine. It was the new issue of Teen Throb, one of Holly’s favorite, however this time it was different. Instead of one main-page, handsome hunk, there were four, or three, if you didn’t count the chubby one. But what caught Cypher’s eye was the bold print on the bottom.

"It’s a military air show!" Cypher replied.

"Yes! And it’s today for this afternoon! Oh, everyone in town is going! I just can’t wait to meet Darren Warner, the cutest one next to the new models of Iron Dragons known as ARes. My God I could scream!"

"Wait a second. You don’t have tickets."

"Oh yes I do!" In her hand waved three tickets bordered with gold. "And one of them is for you! Anyway, with all the frequent air raids, the school announced that it’d be closing early. So this is our chance!"

"What? Um... I don’t know. I’m not much for air shows and all this military propaganda..."

"Oh don’t be sour! My brother is coming and he can’t wait to see you!"

Cypher blushed. "What do you mean? I don’t have a crush on him or anything... and he’s a college student... I’m only seventeen! What am I saying?

"Oh don’t’ deny it. Anyhow, it’s my birthday, so you better come!"

With a sigh, "Oh, alright... If I don’t go I think you’ll badger me to death during class."

"Oh thanks Cypher!" She kissed her cheek. "You won’t regret it!"

"Oh sit down, Silly." Laughed Cypher. "The teacher is coming." All the students began to scramble to their desks.

"Okay class! Please be seated. Lessons are about to start. Take out your CD-ROM on History and access file Isis, The Founder of Our Nation, on your laptops."

As she inserted the disc and opened the file, Cypher looked thoughtfully at her screen. She touched the three-dimensional, holographic projections of Isis and her glorious stand. Her eyes ablaze and full of confidence and power.

"Isis..."