The Fever ***First Half***
Disclaimer: This story is 100% MINE! All MDTAS and BMFM Original Characters are Property of their original Creators. Everyone else aka King Ares and Queen Arianna and their children are MINE and no one else's! I absolutely DO NOT own the MIGHTY DUCKS nor do I make a profit off of them in any way shape or form.
Note: In this story, Starlight comes down with a high fever three days before her big tournament but she doesn't know that she's sick and thinks that the problem is that she's doing too much and not getting enough sleep.
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THE FEVER
Nosedive Flashblade & Starlight Maverick
All Characters Other Then The Original Biker Mice and
Mighty Ducks Are Personal Property Made up
By The Original Author! Ask Before Using Those
Characters In Your Own Fics Please!
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It was three days before the big Junior League Championship Tournament and Starlight had been feeling sluggish, tired, weak and slightly off kilter in her game but brushed it off promising herself that she'd go to bed earlier than usual that night and continued to use the last of her energy to finish off the last half hour of practice before Wildwing called it quits for the night.
Wildwing glances at the clock then calls out: Alright guys, times up! Practice is finally over, time to cool down then hit the showers and head back to the house for the night. (Watches as the Timber Wolves took off their helmets and skated off the ice into the locker room where they stretched and changed boys on one side of the locker bank and girls on the other until they came out a few minutes later dressed in their street clothes and had deserted the locker room when he noticed Starlight hadn't come out yet and went in to see if she was alright) Starlight? Starlight you alright? (Goes around to where the girls changed and found her sprawled out sleeping on the bench in her lounging clothes then gently shakes her saying) C'mon, let's go up to bed now, you've had a heck of a time getting some sleep at night. Just leave your stuff the way it is, someone will clean it up later and put it in your locker for the next practice. Since you've been under so much pressure these past three weeks, I'll carry you up to your bunk so you won't get hurt in your exhaustion.
Starlight sits up and yawns then gets up off the bench slipping her feet into her slip on shoes and climbs up onto Wildwing's back to make her life easier since she was too tired to walk a straight line without tripping over something.
Wildwing lets Starlight climb up onto his back and carries her into the elevator that they took up to the living area and carried her to her room depositing her on the bed ontop of the folded down covers then pulled them up around her waist, turned off her light and left her room letting her catch up on the three weeks worth of lost sleep.
Duke comes down the hall and says: How's she doin after three weeks of not sleepin very much?
Wildwing: Exhausted beyond belief. She fell asleep on the locker room bench after changing out of her uniform. I just let her leave her stuff laying on the bench, Tanya usually picks it up and puts it in her locker for her and brings up what ever is laying around that is of value so that it doesn't get lost or misplaced. If Tanya doesn't pick it up, then Mallory does it and brings up the irreplaceable items so that they won't get lost or stolen. Not that anyone would take Starlight's stuff out from her locker and keep it, it's policy to leave her stuff where it is so either Tanya, Grin, Mallory, Dive, Canard or Joey can pick it up and put it away for her.
Duke: Better hope and pray that she doesn't come down with a stress virus, they're hard ta shake especially when things are getting really strange and her work hours are getting longer and longer.
Wildwing: I wouldn't be surprised if she did come down with a virus, it's tough for her to try and figure out what's going on! Starlight deserves as much bed rest as she can possibly get. Now let's move away from outside her door and let Starlight get some sleep, she deserves it the most.
Both Wildwing and Duke leave the hall outside Starlight's room to let her continue sleeping. Meanwhile Tanya had come back from browsing at Lectric Land and went into the locker room, around to where the girls changed to find Starlight had been too tired to put her stuff in her locker and began picking up and folding her jersey and shorts putting them on the top shelf in plain veiw then put her skates on the bottom remembering to put the guards back on then tied the laces together and draped them over the hook on the side of the locker then put her stick on the bottom, her helmet, socks and gloves on the bottom shelf then pulled out her jewelry box and put the jewelry into the safe box then gathered up Starlight's school uniform, street clothes and back pack then snapped shut the combination lock on her locker and left the locker room using the elevator going to Drake 1.
Phil exits the elevator and says: Any clues to WHO the mysterious warrior is?
Mallory groans and shakes her head while rubbing her eyes saying: No, zip zero zilch nada.. no clues
Phil: How can that be?! Are you sure it's not Starlight?
Mallory: Can't be Starlight, the height doesn't match neither does anything else. The eyes, the facial structure, the body nothing matches Starlight! Starlight has black hair and red eyes, this girl has BLOND Hair and BLUE eyes and is 5'11" Starlight's 5'9" tops!
Phil: I don't get it! Who IS she?!
Tanya: I'd better go give her something to eat then we'll decide what's best, but in my opinion, it would be best if we took her back to her family and let them take care of her, we've got ten road games plus with Draganus and lord knows how many other goons out there, we can't leave her here alone especially at sixteen! Starlight's better off being home with her family who can take better care of her then we can. (Heads off to the kitchen and turns on the stove to make soup)
A few minutes later the soup was finished and in Starlight's Panda bowl along with tall cold glasses of milk, water and ginger ale for her throat, once everything was assembled on a tray, Tanya carefully and slowly walked down the hall to Starlight's room and simply opened up a secret panel and pushed the red button to over ride Starlight's security code and walked in to her room to deliver her lunch.
Tanya sets the tray down on it's legs then touches Starlight's touch lamp to dim saying: Starlight, here, come on and try to sit up. (Waits while Starlight woke and sat up then says) You need something in your stomach before we take you home. Then slip your feet into your shoes and put on your sweater coat, by the time you're ready your family will be waiting in Chicago for you to arrive.
As Starlight started to eat her lunch, Tanya slipped out of her room, went down to the sick bay to get the new IR Thermometer then slipped back into Starlight's room to find that she'd finished her lunch and had gone back to sleep and quietly slipped back over to Starlight's side, turned the thermometer on and slid it into her ear and waited then removed it to check the reading.
Tanya: Hmm one oh three. Definitely a fever, definitely something setting on. Oh well, at least she's sleeping it off as best as she can. Guess she prefers to suffer through a cold then to take foul tasting medication for it every hour on the hour. (Gently shakes Starlight awake saying) C'mon and pack your Martian school things, your FF Uniform , boots and helmet, we'll take you home but how will we get your bike in to the garage?
Starlight faintly: Shadow Stalker will listen to my dad or just leave it here and have Coach pick it up and keep it for me.
Tanya Picks up the tray and leaves Starlight's room remembering to reset the security alarm then went back to the kitchen area where she encountered Wildwing and said: Starlight's coming down with something Wildwing, I took her temperature to be safe and it's one oh three a fever up by two degrees. Still a safe temperature nothing too extravagant to be worried about.
Wildwing: How'd I know that this would happen? She was kinda slow during last night's practice, then I just brushed it off thinking she was tired from working the last shift that ended forty five minutes before practice started. Well we'll have to find out from her mother what to do when she gets a fever. Phil, think you can get ahold of either one of Starlight's parents and find out what they do for her when she gets a fever? Is she up?
Tanya: Define 'up' for me. It'd be helpful for us to know what to do for her. Do we let her sleep it off or do we give her something to bring it down?
Phil dials Starlight's home number and is greeted by her mother and says: Oh hi Sierra, it's Phil.
Sierra: What's up Phil?
Phil: Starlight's not feelin too well and the guys have an out of town hockey game tonight and don't want to leave her here. Especially with a stray warrior on the loose whose magic is acting very strange.
Sierra chokes back a snicker and says: You don't say? There's a stray warrior on the loose whose magic is acting very strange?
Phil: Do you know if Starlight has any magic in her blood lines?
Sierra: No, Starlight's not a magic user, no magical lineage in her blood. That's Starlight for you, never one to say die. So what's the problem with daddy's little girl? A stress virus? Nothing new around here, accompanied by a fever? Oh just let her sleep it off and give her some Buckley's Mixture, I know she hates it as does her father and two uncles and their kids, but it works. She'll take it with a bit of a fuss but eventually she will take it holding her nose so she won't have to taste the foulness that it leaves behind.
Phil: Actually, they're returning her to you to be looked after.
Sierra: No problem Phil, I also think it'd be better for her if they brought her home, that way we can keep a better eye on her. You know how her uncles worry when she gets sick, they hate when she's sick and they're not around. Just bring her here and we'll take her on from there. (Hangs up with Phil catching Modo off guard)
Modo looks up from the comic section of the news paper and says: What'd Phil want?
Sierra: Just wanted to know how to treat your ever so stubborn daughter's fever. According to Phil, there's a stray warrior on the loose whose magic is acting very strange.
Modo: A fever?! Is she alright? Are you telling me they STILL haven't connected the dots yet? They STILL don't know OUR Starlight is the exact MIRROR image of PRINCESS Starlight?! That Ares himself asked OUR girl to stand in to ward off the Black Sorcerers? You don't think it's time for Starlight er StarDUST's true magic to finally be passed down do you? She never came into her final stage of magic as no one knew what happened to her highness.
Sierra: No and it took every ounce of self control NOT to start laughing at Phil. Don't worry, it might be just a stress virus that she's caught. It might be time for her to find out for herself who she really is. We've told her all we know, but there's still things she needs to find out for herself, when she's completely over this. After all she takes after the PATERNAL side of the family! All the kids take after the PATERNAL figure in their lives. I figure it's best if they bring her home and we can do a better job of looking after her. When the time is right, Tobias will tell them the truth. Until then it's best for them NOT to know what we all know about some of the kids. It might just be time for Stardust to come into her final set of magic powers after all she was supposed to be married to Blade's mirror image Athros but the marriage never happened. No one found the princess as no one thought to closely examine the baker's 'daughter' who married the Pastry Chef but they had no kids only Tobias's mirror image had children.