"DAMMIT ALL!" I screamed over the loud noise of the waves crashing about and the downpour of rain as I was trying my damndest to keep my bike up over the waves. I was being rocked side to side as my monitor was going nuts, everything was going red as I felt myself going sideways towards the water, making me try to level it again. I was beginning to wonder what crazy idea I had to ride my bike out over the ocean away from home, in this weather!

It was too late to turn back now! I wasn't going to let her win this! I gripped the controls as I saved myself from turning over again, another wave broken through. I had to get away. I wanted to see what lies beyond the island, beyond what I ever thought possible. I tapped on the console, making it a bit easier for me to keep things

“Okay… Okay! I got this! I just need to keep things as is and I’ll be alright!” I said with a smile as I continue on before I saw something coming at me. I looked up and saw that… there was a giant tidal wave coming right at me. “OH COME THE FUCK ON!!!” I tried my best to get out of the way but it was like a mile long and it over came me. “... fuck.” was the last thing I said before it crashed down around me.

Several Days earlier.

I was humming to myself as I was tuning up my bike, giving her a well needed upgrade. I worked on the mechanical bits on my bike before making a holoscreen to check to see if the systems were all working as intended.

"Mmm… everything looks good, the new parts should take a bit for a full scan…" I said to myself as I took the holoscreen and tapped on it, causing more screens to appear.

I skimmed through the available data, watching it process through all screens before the screens showed a several hours long time limit on when it'll finish compiling. I sighed as it unfortunately left me with time to kill and I threw my head back, groaning as there was nothing else for me to do!

"Damnit, I should've had something planned to keep me occupied for this." I grumbled to myself as I glanced over to my window to see it was a nice day outside. I frowned at this as I don't really have anything to do outside… no one to talk to or hang out… though I do have friends… I could count them on one hand but I have friends!

Just… none of them are into the stuff I'm into. Out of my group of friends, I'm the techy one. I sighed as the nearby holoprojector activated, showing my virtual assistant. She had no discernable features, just a womanly shake.

"May I be of assistance?" She asked, bowing her head at me.

"I don't know… I'm just bored!" I groaned before slamming my head against the desk in front of me and staying there for a few moments before pulling myself back up. "There's not a lot to do as I wait for everything to be done!"

"Perhaps I could make a suggestion?" She asked me, suddenly appearing right beside me with her head tilted for my well being.

"And what would that suggestion be?" I asked, sounding somewhat hopeful for some kind of activity or… something I could do to pass the time. Maybe I could resolve that puzzle for the twentieth time?

"Your mother has requested another check on the weather cannon." My holo assistant brought up which made me slump my shoulders… right. That.

"Ugh… again? Wasn't it already checked like… a day ago… don't answer that." I said as I pushed myself up. The dang weather cannon has to be checked every so often to make sure it doesn’t fire out a blank shell… or explodes. It's not the most fun job to do but it's something better than nothing. "Aren't there other people that can do this?" I asked myself.

"Your mother prefers that you be the one to do it." My assistant said as I grumbled… at least my mom actually wants me to do something that I'm good at.

"Yeah yeah…" I said half heartedly as I got up and began to make my way towards the cannon. On the way I was left with my thoughts, mostly on my mother. The two of us were nothing alike, she's strong, brave, and if she wanted to she would take on the whole world with ease, things I am not. I'm no Warrior, I mostly deal with gadgets and gizmos, not really one to fight unless I have to which my mom had to make me learn. Honestly, if it wasn't for how much we look alike one would think we weren't family. Hell, just looking at the two of us I'm tiny to her! Like, she's huge!

As of late, she's been trying to get me to do these lessons of hers. How to lead the tribe, how to handle a crisis when in charge, all that crap. She wants me to follow in her footsteps and be the next chieftess but… but I don't want to!

I don't want to lead the tribe! I don't want to follow my moms footsteps! I don't want to be the next chieftess! It's… it's not for me damnit! I let out a sigh, I love my home I really do but sometimes I just want to leave, get away from it all and just… I don't know.

I let out a sigh as I walked out my workshop, hearing the hums of hover cars and bikes above me soon afterwards. The marvels of Amazon ingenuity, us Amazons are an advanced people… and very isolated as we lived on a single island, cut off from the rest of the world. And to keep it that way? A never ending storm surrounding the island, destroying any vessel brave enough to cross it.

Ugh, I've always thought the way they wrote that in datapads was so smug. What do we have to be smug about!? We're a bunch of isolated islanders with tech that, if my mom says is true, is eons ahead of the outside world!

I continued my walk through the pristine walkways of the city, occasionally taking some stairs up a level or two. It wasn't a short walk but when I arrived at the doors to the weather cannon control center, I let it scan my eye before the door opened to let me in.

“Alright, let’s get to work.” I said to myself as I make my way inside the building. “I need a diagnostics report on the state of the weather cannon, from the last check up to now.” I said out loud before a nearby holoprojector activated and out came The Assistant.

"Greetings, Miss Malkun." Said the assistant, her appearance was exactly the same as my own back at the shop. The reason for that is simple, she is everyone's assistant. She's apart of every bit of tech this island has. I still can't really fully understand it myself as her creation was nothing short of a miracle from what I've been told. "The reports show no changes since you last ran a check." She said to me as I walked up to the control panels and inspected the ammo, seeing that everyone was normal. This is a waste of time… I sighed as I shut off the console after finishing.

“Well, everything is in order… even though I don’t think I needed to check on it in the first place… again.” I said which turned into a grumble. It’s not like I mind checking on the reports of the weather cannon, it’s mostly that I'm annoyed that there are many others that can do the exact same thing without issue. Why does mom always send me out to do the check ups?

I groaned as the holo assistant looked at me curiously before I waved at her dismissively. She vanished soon afterwards and left me alone once again as I began to head out once more, hearing the colossal sized mechanical hums of the cannon powering up as it was time for the monthly shot.

Maybe I should talk to my mother… finally ask her these things and tell her how I feel. But how? How do I go about saying this? 'Hey mom, turns out I don't want to be chieftess afterall. Surprise!' Ugh! I frowned a bit as the mechanical hums grew louder and soon the loud thud of the cannon firing went off. I hummed a bit as the sounds and hums grew quiet and all there was was the steady hum of everything. I like that sound, it somehow calms me down… oddly.

I shook my head and focused on my earlier thoughts. If I tell her that then she would go on that all she has done for me was all for me and… stuff. Ugh… just thinking about it makes my head hurt. I decided to take the long way so I could think of something better than being as blunt as possible. Honestly, I’m kinda worried that she would throw me in a dungeon for thinking like this… or something. Hope she doesn’t go down the ‘Trial by Combat’ idea, nooooo way I can beat her like that! Honestly, she could cleave a mountain!

I shook my head at this, I doubt she would do that to me but I bet she was going to be upset at me. She'd probably even call me a disappointment… like I've always been. I've always been a disappointment in the eyes of others.

With a sigh I continued on down the path, trying to keep my mind busy with other things. After five minutes I already have in mind some blueprints of a little drone that flys around. Sure it’s nothing new but with some modifications it could be use for other things that would be useful. It wasn’t long before I got to where I was heading, my home. I stared up at it, seeing it tower over every other building. With a sigh I headed inside and made my way towards where I believed where my mom was.

Our home was practically a mansion. Huge enough to house a small garrison of troops. And aside from being our home, it was also where my mother worked. Making huge decisions that would affect our people, all that important chieftess stuff.

Upon reaching the throne room, I heard my mothers voice through the large doors. She was already in the middle of a meeting. I stood in front of the door, unsure what I should do. Go in and interrupt her meeting, though if I do that I’ll just be more of a disappointment. I just… stood there, listening to the voices and waited for everything to finish up before I could talk to her.

After what felt like forever, the voices died down and I was allowed to peek in to see what’s going on in the room. Inside was my mother sitting upon her throne, eyes closed and deep in thought before she opened them.

"Double the wave makers strength. I do not want a repeat of this." She said in authoritative tone towards the person below her. Another woman, donned in armor as she was on one knee.

“Yes my chiefness. Right away.” the armored woman said with her head bowed. If I’m right she was the chief of defense… What was this about making the wave makers double their strength? I didn’t say anything before the chief leaned over to another guard and whispered something, causing the guard to nod and headed out quickly. I moved out of the way when this happened as I continued to watch and listen.

"I fear that the conflict of the outside world will soon finds its way to us." My mother said with a deep sigh before continuing. "I want my soldiers to be at their absolute peak." She said down to the chief of defense. "And make sure our stockpile of Ragnarok rounds are at full capacity." Was the last thing she said to the chief of defense.

“Right away Chiefness. I’ll see to that personally.” The Chief said, I believe her name was Amari? With that said she stood up and headed out of the room quickly, on the way out I saw her turn towards me and I could feel her glare at me, I tried really hard not to simply shrink away from that. The fact that mom asked to make sure we have enough Ragnarok rounds and they are full capacity is something, this was very serious.

Honestly, I’m a bit glad mom wanted them for defence. If it were Amari in charge, she would have them used as a bombardment weapon onto the outside world. Though I doubt she would do that, she was loyal to Mom and would do anything for her and just her.

I think she doesn’t even bother to notice me when we’re in the same room… or that she doesn’t like me because of how different I was to mom. It didn’t help that with the way she looks at me… as a disgrace to my family's name… I’m starting to believe she might be right…

Shaking my head at this I look towards my mom before walking forward. Gulping as I soon spoke.

“Hello… mom.” I greeted her, keeping my head low as I looked up at her. She turned her head to look down at me, again making me feel even smaller than I already felt like.

"Viri… what can I do for you?" She asked down at me as she stood up from her throne and made her way towards me. Okay… I can do this. Come on!

“Uhh, well I just came from the weather cannon, everything is working perfectly normal. No duds or anything.” I said to her, gulping again as I saw her slowly nod at me. I blushed a bit, I want to say what I wanted to say but… the words just weren't coming out of my mouth! My mother hummed at this before speaking.

"That's… great! That's amazing to hear as always." She said awkwardly with a similarly awkward smile before she saw my conflicted look. "Do you have something on you mind, sweetie?" She asked me softly. I gulped at this, trying to summon the courage to say what I want to say. Just… just say it damnit!

“It’s… it’s just… you know about everything you tried to teach me for being the next chiefness right?” I asked her which she simply stared and nodded. “Well… I just…” I stuttered a bit before groaning. “Damn it, Mom I know what you’re trying to do but… I don’t want to be the next chiefness!” I yelled which surprised her as I kept going. “I hate each of those lessons! I’m bored of each and every one of them! I don’t want to lead the tribe! I don’t want to do any of that! I want to make things! I want to go out beyond the storms and see the world! I’m sick of it all!” I yelled out, okay I wanted to say what’s on my mind but not really scream it out. Tears are actually streaming down my face. “I… I just… it’s not for me… I hate it, I really just… I don’t want to be an even bigger disappointment than I am now.”

"D-disappointment?" She repeated, as if questioning if what the last thing I said was actually said. "Viri… you're not a disappointment… you never were." She said to me, most likely to cheer me up. But was it even true?

“Please, I’ve seen how others see me. They all see me as a failure. I’m not some warrior princess or anything! I just… I can’t… I just can’t… And don’t lie to me, I’m… I’m nothing like you.” I said before shaking my head. “Mom is so great and strong! Why can’t her daughter be like her instead of being in her workshop tinkering with things!” Tears was falling down my face as everything I was holding back was pouring out of me.

"Viri…" Was all my mom could say… before suddenly wrapping her arms around me and pulling me close to her, hugging me tightly as she softly spoke to me. "You're my treasure. The light of my life, the very reason I get up in the mornings." She whispered down to me before she added. "I didn't care that you were different. You're my baby, and I'll never, in my lifetime, ever call you a disappointment." She said to me. I didn't know what to say. She… didn't think I was a disappointment? I was so shocked I didn't notice that I was crying my eyes out and hugging mom back. I honestly didn't want this moment to end, because in the moment she wasn't the chiefness of the Tribe, but my mom.

"I know what it's like… to have these feelings of wanting to leave the island." She whispered down to me when I had eventually quieted down. "I was around your age when I began to be as rebellious as you. But my mother forbade me from doing anything remotely close to leaving the island." She said down to me before looking down and adding. "But I'm not my mother." She whispered softly and finally finished with. "Give me a few days. I'll figure something out." My eyes widened.

"You… you actually are… what?" I asked in shocked, wiping my tears away as I stared at her. This was surprising to me… mostly on the idea that my mom was actually rebellious and she was actually going to let me go!

"Shh…" She shushed me before whispering. "I'll think of a way to get you out the island. I just need time." She said to me, making sure to not be heard from anyone nearby but us. I mean it didn't seem necessary as there was no one else in the room but who cares! My mom is helping me!

"O-Okay mom." I whispered back with a smile on my face before giving her another hug, allowing her to hug back as well. We stayed like that for some time before pulling away. With that I soon left the room as my mom had other things to do, though I left the room in much higher spirits than when I entered, heck I was even skipping down the hall. Today was a good day.

present time.

I thought I was dead. I was dead, on the bottom of the seafloor to never be seen again. But in truth, I opened my eyes to see… a roof? I didn't recognize it before seeing that I wasn't back home, I'm someplace else. I groaned a bit as I put a hand on my head, feeling something on my head. A cloth?

I tried to push myself up, feeling my body stiff and sore as I did this which got a few groans from me as well.

"You should rest and thank whoever was looking out for you." A voice spoke out, unlike I've ever heard before. My eyes widened before I looked towards the door to see… a man… an actual man!

I stared at him wide eyed… a man! An actual man! Oh my… this is just… Whoa! Wait, if I meeting with a man… that means I got out of the Storm Wall! I'm actually off the island and on a new one! Ooo this is so exciting!

"Well… yeah umm… hey, who are you? And are you… a man?" I asked the person, making him arch a brow at me. I have to make sure! "Hey, I was probably out on the sea in a storm, I'm just asking." I said to him.

"I'm Indigo… and yeah… I'm a guy?" He said practically confused, no doubt about having to say that he was a man. So many questions!

"That's… wow…" Was all I said as I stared at him for a few moments before shaking my head. "Ah, I'm Viri by the way, and Uhh… I'm guessing you found me?" I asked him. As I stared at him I took note of his form, short black hair, sharp features, a well tone, muscular body. I couldn't help but stare at him for a bit before I heard him clear his throat.

"Yeah. I was out on my boat, saw you out from the shore drifting on some hunk of metal." He said to me as straightened up from leaning against the doorway. "Whatever you went through overseas must've left you exhausted. Rest up some more, I'll get you something to eat." He said to me as he left me in the room to myself.

I laid back down in the bed, sighing as I stared up at the roof of the place. I'm actually here… I'm really here! I'm so excited about this, to see new things and people and- wait.

"WHAT YOU MEAN, HUNK OF METAL?!"

Author's Note

We're at this again friends! This time Viri has a Bike!... kinda.

Any mistakes? Please leave them down in the comments. It would be greatly appreciated.