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AGE
NATIONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY
HISTORY
QUIRK
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Higashikata "Takahashi" Kumosuke
GENDER
Male
AGE
15 - April 1st
NATIONALITY
Japanese
APPEARANCE
Height:5ft7
Weight:100lbs
Fashion Sense:Hoodies with unique designs and t-shirts with graphic prints and loose fitting clothes that don't restrict movments.
Distinguishing Features: The mask around their mouth, their hair almost over their eyes, their black and white striped chitin.
Appearance: At 5ft7 and 100lbs, Kumosuke tries to be as skinny as possible, along his arms and legs he's got black and white striped chitin similar to spider, the chitin goes from the tip of his finger to his shoulder covering his whole arm and from the tips of his toes all the way up to his upper thighs, along sharp looking fingers and toes he's got tiny hairs used to climb any surface, in the palms of his chitin covered hands he has spinnerets that spray webbing where ever he needs it.
Along his Jawline and bottom jaw, Kumosuke has thin chelicerae on the sides of his face that extend out to inject others with venom or help with him eating, while his lower jaw has a layer of chitin that goes down to his shoulders, despite the length of his chelicerae have they can fit almost under any mask without any discomfort or pain. Kumosuke has deathly pale skin and black hair that hangs low in his face constantly almost covering his blue eyes.
The casual clothes that Kumosuke wears is usually a hoodie of any kind with loose sleeves so he doesn't have trouble putting it on, a simple pair of jeans or other trousers, and no shoes or gloves so he doesn't obstruct his spinnerets or get his hands or feet stuck in gloves by mistake. Lastly is his mask around his mouth and nose covering most of the lower half of his face, a black mask that wraps around their head and covers their mouth so he doesn't scare the faint of heart and a pair of goggles over his eyes.
Appearance: At 5ft7 and 100lbs, Kumosuke tries to be as skinny as possible, along his arms and legs he's got black and white striped chitin similar to spider, the chitin goes from the tip of his finger to his shoulder covering his whole arm and from the tips of his toes all the way up to his upper thighs, along sharp looking fingers and toes he's got tiny hairs used to climb any surface, in the palms of his chitin covered hands he has spinnerets that spray webbing where ever he needs it.
Along his Jawline and bottom jaw, Kumosuke has thin chelicerae on the sides of his face that extend out to inject others with venom or help with him eating, while his lower jaw has a layer of chitin that goes down to his shoulders, despite the length of his chelicerae have they can fit almost under any mask without any discomfort or pain. Kumosuke has deathly pale skin and black hair that hangs low in his face constantly almost covering his blue eyes.
The casual clothes that Kumosuke wears is usually a hoodie of any kind with loose sleeves so he doesn't have trouble putting it on, a simple pair of jeans or other trousers, and no shoes or gloves so he doesn't obstruct his spinnerets or get his hands or feet stuck in gloves by mistake. Lastly is his mask around his mouth and nose covering most of the lower half of his face, a black mask that wraps around their head and covers their mouth so he doesn't scare the faint of heart and a pair of goggles over his eyes.
PERSONALITY
If there was any other way to describe Kumosuke, it's rebellious, uncaring, blunt, rude, foul mouthed, hateful, and spiteful, he believes if you want his respect then you have to earn it but won't directly say it. If he were asked what's the one thing that he hates the most he would say his own quirk for making him look like a freak and giving him freakish abilities and powers without his own choice.
Then he would say he hates his name Kumosuke being after a spider to further remind him of what breed of mutant he is and gotten so angry about that he ask for others to call him a different name. While he may not like himself or his name he won't take someone else bad mouthing him no matter who they are.
One of the few things that Kumosuke actually cares about is his art, while he may be hateful and uncaring he cares deeply about his graffiti art and isn't willing to take others calling it terrible without looking at it lying down, using his creativity he's a quick thinker when not under pressure and observant of others or objects.
Kumosuke can be very heavy handed in a fight putting all of his strength behind of his blows and swings, while he's fighting he puts his webs to use, whether he's using it to get close to enemies or pull himself away from others or restrain other people, despite not liking the university or his future peers he does wish to learn how to use his mutant abilities better.
While Kumosuke isn't one to try to approach the subject of mutants and would rather attempt to avoid it, he heavily sides with mutants since he himself is one. He's not one to say it but Kumosuke is actually a decent cook without following recipes with one of his best dishes being motsunabe that his mother once made but never taught him to make.
Then he would say he hates his name Kumosuke being after a spider to further remind him of what breed of mutant he is and gotten so angry about that he ask for others to call him a different name. While he may not like himself or his name he won't take someone else bad mouthing him no matter who they are.
One of the few things that Kumosuke actually cares about is his art, while he may be hateful and uncaring he cares deeply about his graffiti art and isn't willing to take others calling it terrible without looking at it lying down, using his creativity he's a quick thinker when not under pressure and observant of others or objects.
Kumosuke can be very heavy handed in a fight putting all of his strength behind of his blows and swings, while he's fighting he puts his webs to use, whether he's using it to get close to enemies or pull himself away from others or restrain other people, despite not liking the university or his future peers he does wish to learn how to use his mutant abilities better.
While Kumosuke isn't one to try to approach the subject of mutants and would rather attempt to avoid it, he heavily sides with mutants since he himself is one. He's not one to say it but Kumosuke is actually a decent cook without following recipes with one of his best dishes being motsunabe that his mother once made but never taught him to make.
HISTORY
From birth Kumosuke was in poverty, only his mother was with him growing up in life and while she was quirkless he never knew if his father had a mutation quirk or if his mutation was just random. His mother had Kumosuke at an older age than most women leaving her in her elderly age as he gotten into his teens, as a child Kumosuke was stubborn and hotheaded stealing things from local shops around his way just to be caught later and berated by his mother and the store owners. At times he would face some form or another of racism towards him about how he looked with adults and children being afraid of how his face looks making him hide it around others except for his mother, the only person he feels won't judge him based on his appearance.
While in middle school, Kumosuke's problems with being a mutant didn't really improve, his peers would try to call him a scary monster or mutant freak, or bug man, with each insult getting him into a lot of fights and scuffles in school and out of school. While he was still a pre-teen he didn't stop being a thief but in his own words he just got better at it, taking things when people least expect it and not instantly running away once he got the item he needs most. Soon he was stealing to help his mother, after a check-up at the hospital she told him that she was slowly going blind due to her age, hearing about it Kumosuke asked his mother what he could do to help her but she only told him that it's nothing that he can do it's something she's gotta do herself and something that's gonna happen.
Kumosuke tried his best to find ways to prevent, or slow down her blindness from taking her vision, but like she said, it still happened. With his mother blind Kumosuke tried to take care of her but she prevented him from doing so telling him, he shouldn't spend his life doting on his mother he should be out and about doing what kids do she shouldn't slow him down. Without many friends Kumosuke tried to work with his quirk training with it by experimenting with it the best he could but he soon hit a limit where it wasn't enough for him, he didn't like the idea but he would need help to better learn and develop his abilities, he didn't want to leave his mother alone but he told her what he was going to do he was gonna signup to an academy, while his mother approved she told him to not worry about her and that he's gotta walk his own path.
While in middle school, Kumosuke's problems with being a mutant didn't really improve, his peers would try to call him a scary monster or mutant freak, or bug man, with each insult getting him into a lot of fights and scuffles in school and out of school. While he was still a pre-teen he didn't stop being a thief but in his own words he just got better at it, taking things when people least expect it and not instantly running away once he got the item he needs most. Soon he was stealing to help his mother, after a check-up at the hospital she told him that she was slowly going blind due to her age, hearing about it Kumosuke asked his mother what he could do to help her but she only told him that it's nothing that he can do it's something she's gotta do herself and something that's gonna happen.
Kumosuke tried his best to find ways to prevent, or slow down her blindness from taking her vision, but like she said, it still happened. With his mother blind Kumosuke tried to take care of her but she prevented him from doing so telling him, he shouldn't spend his life doting on his mother he should be out and about doing what kids do she shouldn't slow him down. Without many friends Kumosuke tried to work with his quirk training with it by experimenting with it the best he could but he soon hit a limit where it wasn't enough for him, he didn't like the idea but he would need help to better learn and develop his abilities, he didn't want to leave his mother alone but he told her what he was going to do he was gonna signup to an academy, while his mother approved she told him to not worry about her and that he's gotta walk his own path.
QUIRK
Short Quirk explanation:Spider quirk: Like a spider he can climb walls and ceilings with relative ease, along his body he's got chitin to protect him from most physical damage but it's not something that can stop all damage, in the palms of his hands he has spinnerettes that allow him to fire webs, his finger tips are sharp enough to cut most threads and ropes but not metal.
In depth Quirk Details***:
Strengths:
-Can fire webs from his palms
-Chitin can protect him from most physical damage
-fingers sharp enough to cut skin and thread
-Can scale up walls
Limits:
-Chitin doesn't protect him from bullets or super strength attacks
-In order to "recharge" or "Reload" his webs he needs time for his body to make more and need to eat food
-sharp finger tips can't cut through metals or bone
Strengths:
-Can fire webs from his palms
-Chitin can protect him from most physical damage
-fingers sharp enough to cut skin and thread
-Can scale up walls
Limits:
-Chitin doesn't protect him from bullets or super strength attacks
-In order to "recharge" or "Reload" his webs he needs time for his body to make more and need to eat food
-sharp finger tips can't cut through metals or bone
Quirk Development***:The ability to pick up on subtle changes with the small hairs on his chitin, new ways to use his webbing than just using it to grab on to things and pull them towards him or swinging from it.
OTHERS
Put anything else you'd like in here, but be sure to include what is already listed.
Likes:
-Power metal music.
-Graffiti.
-Cooking especially cooking motsunabe
-Comics.
-Videogames.
-Books on stencil cutting.
-Dogs
-Power metal music.
-Graffiti.
-Cooking especially cooking motsunabe
-Comics.
-Videogames.
-Books on stencil cutting.
-Dogs
Dislikes:
-The normal quirk users that believe mutant quirk users are weird or disgusting.
-Philistines.
-People who take small things too far.
-Cold weather such as snow or just cold air.
-Over complexity
-The normal quirk users that believe mutant quirk users are weird or disgusting.
-Philistines.
-People who take small things too far.
-Cold weather such as snow or just cold air.
-Over complexity
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Once Kris' thoughts settled on a secret plan, she realized that in her moment of deep thought that things had went in a strange direction when she wasn't paying attention. The guy that had decided to help them was then giving himself over as a sacrifice to Macy, Kris moved closer to the twins to get a better look at Arguth and Macy, out of either a queer fascination of brutality or curious of what Arguth has planned.
The scene with both Arguth and Macy was just as gruesome as she figured it would go, the pyre knight let out a scream that to some others would make them cover their ears and try to escape from the sound, but Kris let the sound fall upon her ears and listened to the man's screams of pain and anguish it came off as almost nothing but white noise to the princess as her eyes tried to stay locked onto Arguth.
Screams like his weren't something new to Kris' ears, being on the battlefield and chasing after her dream lead her to worst sounds, like Scar's sleep mumbling to name one of the few, but knew the cost to take back her well deserved throne, she knew it would take more dead than some of the prisoners here and she knew people wouldn't accept her at first but she would have to force them in time. Suddenly her plans of the future, the heat that the pyre knight was emitting started to make Kris sweat and was enough to make her stand back from them and wipe a large bead of sweat from her forehead.
Taking a moment to compose herself she counted herself lucky she they weren't moving right at this moment and once they were going she good enough to get moving. Kris was ready for the next encounter they had to endure, and unfortunately it was the infected monsters from before; the short time they had fighting against some of the probably last humans they might see almost made Kris forget about the monsters that were here in the prison eating and infecting anyone around them that wasn't one of their own.
Only glancing at the walls told Kris that the beast were using the remains of living beings to make this tower into a hive, the buzzing they encountered only did much to annoy Kris but the second that the pyre knight launched a wave of holy fire at the thin film of fleash, Kris reached out to try and stop him only to be to slow."W-wait stop!"
Once the holy fire was on the ground and kicking up smoke the smell it would make would be the worst possible smell that would touch the group's noses, the smell of burning flesh and hair made Kris gag and cough. The moment that Diana launched a frost shout down way Kris complimented her."Good job Diana."
Suddenly Diana rushed behind of the princess who drew her sword, it was more of them than Kris could count at the moment and she decided that this was gonna get tough even with the floor and walls covered in ice, she hoped that none of those beast would attempt to coat them with the flesh that they use to make their hive like tunnel or if they infected more outside of just the prisoners and prison guards.
\Kris just focused on using her sword, now wasn't really the time to be thinking about things like that, she'd need Hawke to give her a hand with all of this with his sword's length they could knock them back a bit or even even a lot with the wide passageway.
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Hawke's label of a merry band of misfits was nearly on point, just erase the merry part and he'd be correct about our group and how we were escaping from this prison, Kris leaned close to Diana standing on the tips of her toes to begin whispering into Diana's ear but before she could say anything Scar insulted her and slapped her on the back of the head. Biting her tongue for the time being she looked to Scar and glared at him for a brief second then changed to a grin."Oh the camaraderie we have Scar, every little action we share just builds and builds making me wonder how we'd get through all of this if it wasn't for each other." She let out a giggle and kept her smile.
Kris had a slight glance at Macey curious of her condition and how she was with everything that transpired with the Falcons and how she was now, she wondered if that killer instinct could be awoken on cue or controlled to awaken? Kris' grin went from a more innocent spontaneous smile, to a more smug and idea sparking grin. She figured if they would need to they could just let her take the brunt of everything while they secure an escape, but at the cost of possibly scar and even possibly Hawke, but Kris would need to learn how to awaken or trigger this rage that was held deep within Macey.
Suddenly her thoughts were cut short by the girl herself, when Macey handed her some food, instead of handing it off to Diana or even Hawke Kris held the bag of goods in Macey's direction."Eat your fill, you've earned it more than most of us back there, you gotta keep up your strength to keep moving forward." Till Kris could learn how to trigger Macey's rage she would have to pay closer attention to her former Cellmate and she wasn't above starving herself just a little longer, it took almost everything she had in her bones to not think twice on doing this for Macey but she figured that someone her size wouldn't need to eat much even with extra, she kept her same smile from before as she let Macey take a bit more if she really wanted to, she looked over to Scar almost as if she was daring him to say something about feeding his little bloodlust riddled pal.
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The battle with the falcons changed quickly to a bloodbath, they proved to have skills almost similar to lowly thugs holding sabers, Kris witnessed Hawke's brute force and his slab of iron sword. But it wasn't just her and Hawke killing them, Macy had a hand in making them turn against themselves and make it more of a slaughter; once it was all over and we moved to another room we found another person, they had the bodies of the infected bug creatures, unlike the falcons he didn't order them to put their weapons on the ground and submit to them, Kris wiped the blood off her blade with two fingers getting a chill running through her fingers from the elemental properties within the blade.
Diana was the first of us to speak, the dragon woman explained our situation better than Scar would, then the thought of Macy crossed Kris' mind and she wondered if the girl was okay after delving into the blood shed even more than Kris would. Kris then turned her attention back to the knight once the two twins that Scar let live ran past them to the knight."So they did have their use after all." She spoke under her breath. Kris sheathed her weapon and stood close to Diana taking in the form of the new knight, when he spoke he sounded more like some kind of crusader and her thoughts on what he could be ran through her head she stared at him from behind Diana almost as if she was glaring at him with her blue eyes.
Kris brought her gloved hand to her face wiping blood from the corner of her eye as the knight asked of their names, the princess hesitated for a moment questioning if she should tell her actual name or give them a false one. She closed her eyes before giving him a reassuring look."It's only natural in our situation." She responded."My name is Kris DeSilva, one of the remnants of the former mercenary band." Kris told her name only, she felt that some if not all of the others would want to introduce themselves their own way or would feel slighted by Kris introducing them.
The princess stood directly behind Diana speaking to only her."We could use this one to get to the outside." she whispered into Diana's ear past her bright red hair, she then moved to Diana's side standing with her."Getting past those wards won't be much of a problem with the right magics, I'm sure one of us here has some form of getting past them directly, if not that I have an idea but it would be very risky with those infectious insects."
The warmth of the fire started to make me feel lethargic and sluggish and I found myself falling asleep from the comfort of the fire pit. I suddenly snapped awake at the sound of growling and the entire cone shaking, I threw my head back and stood up getting my pistol ready, Verrax some how managed to still stay asleep while the entire cone rocked back and forth, then it abruptly stopped and the growling did as well.
I stepped out with my pistol in front of me and my thumb back on the hammer scanning the snowy landscape, large impressions of paws dotted the snow around our cone hut, judging from how deep they were and the look they had they looked almost similar to terran bear paws but they looked almost three times bigger or heavier. While I was examining the paws I heard Verrax emerge from the cone hut and jump on me from behind pressing her boobs into my back.
"Ash! I thought you abandoned me for a second I bad this weird dream where I was eating a sheep and you were talking about the treasure and I then the sheep turned into a bomb."
I spun around patting the dragon girl on the head, but tried to focus on which direction that guy ran off to."Alright Verrax we gotta get an idea where the guy went off to, then find the others that he mentioned."
She looked like she didn't want to be bothered with that."Come on can we just go back to the ship? This seems like too much work!" She groaned.
Feeling a little bit annoyed by that I pushed here hair up and looked her in the eyes." Come on you aren't just gonna give up on the thing your mother worked so hard for are you?" I asked." You're lucky to have had something that your mother kept for you and to still have her around to give advice." I was beginning to lecture her.
With the sun out it wasn't as cold as it usually was, the warm sunlight coming down on me felt like it was filling me with energy and with all the snow on the ground and not in the air made it better to see, the trees bare and lacking leaves with the nearby almost frozen river. Without all the cold stuff littering the place the planet would be better; suddenly there was an explosion in the distance collecting my attention something gave me the thought that this must've been him, he had to be trying to signal someone for help, it was lucky we are nearby.
The two of us closed in on the area where we heard the explosion, midway there we climbed up a hill and surveyed the little area from above. Unfortunately it wasn't the person we was looking for, but the scene we stumbled upon was a large man clad in power armor fighting several members of what looked like civil protection with only a long sword. Dozens of members were cut to pieces or had their bodies littering the clearing, long red streaks painted the snow, and armor pieces stuck out of the ground like shrapnel.
I quickly checked my pistol ammo and got my knife ready, something in my gut told me that this guy might know something about the prisoner who escaped from us." Ash you aren't thinking about going down there are you?" Verrax asked me.
"I am Verra, he might know something about those prisoners or about the one that got away, hell he could be one."
She looked worried but held back on telling not to go."J-just don't get yourself killed."
Acknowledging the advice she gave me I slid down the hill and almost into the thick of it, with the only thing stopping me being one of bodies from the Civil scouts. Once I was on my feet I noticed the guy was taller than I thought. He stood taller than me for sure maybe a couple more inches taller, his armor I thought to be power armor, was simply metal armor with a lot of dark paint scraped off, his sword looked almost like a great sword.
His back was turned to me as he slain the last civil protection officer, I dashed through the snow as fast as I could and pressed the barrel of my pistol to the back of his head."This ends here!"
In flash, he spun around slicing the barrel of my gun with his sword then with his other hand grabbing my neck and raise me off the ground, I felt the point of his sword against my stomach for a brief second then he sheathed his sword." Oh you're not one of these guys, that's a bit more reassuring."
The hand he was holding me with felt unnaturally cold, like a piece of metal, his right hand and most of his arm was robotic. He dropped me to the ground and pointed his long sword at me." Alright who are you with? Those scum bags with Civil protection or some kind of bounty hunter or merc?"
"Neither, I'm a bodyguard and I'm looking for someone." I told him.
"Looking for who?" He questioned me.
Suddenly the sound of several howels filled the air, and it took our attention away from each other. Just at the edge of the clearing there were almost a dozen sets of eyes on us from what I could guess to be Arx wolves."Damn it the battle drew them!" He yelled out.
He moved fast, rolling and jumping over a number of bodies and tossed me one of the weapons, the multi barreled shotgun met my hands and I quickly pulled myself up on my feet. A pack of large cyclops wolves broke through the brush, charing at me and him, I pulled back on the fore end handle firing at one of the ark wolves. A cold burst of blew on me from the guys position and when I glanced over I spotted him cutting an entire wolf in half with his sword and in the same swing he crushed another wolf into the snow.
Focusing on him I didn't notice one of the wolves pounce on me, the smell of terran blood on the monoeyed creature's teeth. I held back the monster from trying to tear into my neck, right as I could feel it's breath on my neck the guy ran his sword through the wolf's red eye lifted the whole animal on his sword and threw it over his shoulder.
As I got to my feet a number of howls filled the air as the arx wolves retreated into the tree line. I caught my breath and wiped the wolf blood off my chest."Why'd you help me?"
"Because, you aren't civil protection." He stepped over the bodied of the fallen officers and stopped over one wearing a thick coat, he practically squeezed the corpse out the coat and held it in my direction, the hand holding it a retro looking robotic arm."Here take it, you gotta be cold I'm freezing my ass off in this armor."
I reluctantly snatched the coat from him and zipped it up."Now this might not look like it, but it's not as it seems. These "Officers" were beating a kid for answers."
It felt hard to believe that the people protecting the civilians were interrogating a child."That's impossible, Civil protection wouldn't hurt anyone that doesn't have it coming!" A familiar voice roared behind me.
Verrax walked past me puffed her chest out to the towering man, she was being stupid brave and naive."I'm guessing your looking for her?" He asked me.
"Hey! Don't ignore me tiny." Verrax demanded his attention." Civil protection would never harm a child you are lying to try and get away with mass murder, what's your real reason for slaughtering them?"
The guy looked down to the snow as if he was searching for something then pointed to a direction in the trees where small foot prints led into."I told you once already, they were hurting a kid, they were wearing animal furs." He explained.
Verrax crossed her arms."So it's one of those people?"
"One of who?" I asked.
"Junkers, they are dirty scrap people who spend their days drinking animal pee and think anything that's on the planet belongs to them. They are all just savages."
Out of the blue the guy grabbed Verrax holding her off the ground." Listen here miss dragon, it doesn't matter if they are savages and drink animal piss, a kids a kid and I'll do the best I can to protect them."
I quickly decided to interject before Verrax got herself cut in half or something, I put the barrel of my new shotgun under the tall man's chin."Listen here, put her down or I'll add you to this massacre."
He turned his gaze upon me and the moment he opened his mouth we heard a high pitched scream like one that would come from a child. Acting fact he dropped Verrax and nearly knocked me over as started running in the direction of the sound. "Hold up damn it!" I yelled.
My mind was racing with the thought he could be one of the tattooed people and just killed the officers to get them off his trail but some part of his story felt true. I took off after him hoping Verrax was behind me, I dodged trees and leaped over exposed roots before finally coming to the edge of the forrest with my lungs feeling like they were in a burning vice grip.
The three of stood at the edge of a small cliff with the heavily armored man staring over the edge, I charged up next to him and grabbed him by the shoulder pad, I was ready to interrogate the bastard before I heard another yelp and looked down off the cliff. It was a child, and they hanging on to a log while moving down an ice river, like he said there was a child and suddenly I was feeling more like an asshole for not beliving him.
He pushed me off him and looked like he was gonna jump in to save the kid, but as he made it to the ledge Verrax yanked him back and down into the snow to stop him."Do you have some kind of deathwish? You're wearing metal armor and gonna jump into a river you don't know how deep."
"I don't see you stepping up to save them Ms.Dragon." he growled at her.
"Why should I risk passing out and drowning for a terrorist child?"
Before the two could bicker any further I dropped my guns and leaped off the cliff, right before I hit the water Verrax's words rang in my head, the words she told that fool earlier."You don't know how deep."
Lucickly it was deep enough, I went in the water deep before coming back up for air and catching up to the child, the cold ice floating in the river nearly made me freeze up and just try to warm myself in anyway, but I knew I had to catch up to the kid. As my hands met the log I grabbed the kid in one of my arms and pulled us to the edge of the river and pulled us out.
The moment we were out I was cursing this planet and Every thing about it, the damned winter and the freezing river and just coming here with Verrax and now I was probably gonna freeze. The kid managed to be okay shivering but he didn't drown, he started to franticly look around and I could tell what he was doing when he grabbed sticks."Starwalker, grab wood or we'll freeze."
I could barely take my arms from my sides, the cold was messing me up so bad, the kid already had several twigs thrown in a small pile."Starwalker, w-we need fire to t-thaw." He was starting to shiver just like I was and their face began to contort to looking really apathetic like he didn't care about the situation.
I forced myself to drop low and get some in one hand and put them on the pile with his, and when he added more to make a suitable fire I groaned, it wasn't out of pain or anger, it was out of how futile our efforts were."D-Damn it w-we could rip the w-whole forest d-down but it wouldn't start a f-fire!"
It was too much to hope for this kid to have a lighter or a book of matches or even a laser pistol, we were done for. Losing all hope, I put my face in my hands before slipping on some thing and feeling the cold snow on my back freeze me just a bit more and the kid gasped."Starwalker, you dropped this thing!"
He almost jumped on me and showed me a silver lighter, I nearly teared up, I took it from the kid and flipped it open, with just a couple tries we had sparks igniting the wood and the fire slowly grew. I slowly took my jumpsuit off and sat back to back with the kid."So kid what's your name and why were Civil protection interrogating you?" I asked.
He looked over to me for a brief second then turned his head back towards the tree in front of him."My name is Wiaat."
"Oh it sounds alot like Wyatt, I'm Koschei."
He grumbled some thing before asking me."Are you gonna ask about those tattooed people like those other people did?"
"Yes, but I won't hurt you, if you don't know anything then that's fine Wyatt."
He went silent and the only thing I could hear was the fire crackling and the water of the river pass by us."I saw one of the tattooed people, he was in the mouth of a Grokisu, it was carrying him off somewhere." He turned to look at me and asked." Why are you looking for him? Did he do something wrong?"
I covered myself with my hand."He is a bad person who went to prison, and he's got something that me and my friend need." I thought on it a second time and told him what I knew."He's got a tattoo on him that will lead to a hoard of platinum, something highly valuable."
"Platnum? You mean the mineral right?" He questioned, when I confirmed it he was surprised."I was told by my grandparents that our people planned on buying the lands and rights to the Starwalker ports, many villages even came together working for the starwalkers and mining the platinum out of our mines and sifting through it in the rivers. They collected more than enough of the platinum and space money to fulfill their mission but then demons arrived to our village slaughtering many of the people and taking the minerals, we later found out they were all starwalkers and my people haven't been the same since."
I thought back to the guy at the bar's story and started piecing things together, Vertex and her gang stole from the natives and mustive hidden the gold on the planet, before getting captured she must have killed her crew and then put the map on the prisoners, but why didn't she just find a different way to get a message to her child.
While I struggled to make sense of all this, Wiatt asked me something to break my concentration."Are you like the guy who helped me? A warrior who sells their body to others?"
I tensed up, not just from the words he used but also from the fact I left Verrax behind with that guy." N-no I'm not like that, I'm a bodyguard."
He stared at me from over his shoulder, looking at me as if I spoke an unknown language." Isn't that the same thing?" He asked.
I began stuttering trying to explain it to him before my antenna picked up on a sound, the soft step of snow crunching under someone heavy foot, and second foot crushing the snow lightly. I shushed Wiatt and turned my head into the direction I believed the sound was coming from; I grabbed the quad barrel from before and aimed it at the brush before a dark metallic hand broke through the bushes.
It was that guy again, his helmet was covered in scratches that Imma guess was given to him by the person behind him. Verrax stood behind the stranger with her licks poked out and trying yo look angry at me. The guy turned his head away from me as they both approached us."What's wrong haven't seen my kind unclothed?" I asked.
He coughed into his robotic hand."N-no I just thought that you'd be embarrassed or something."
Before I could say anything Verrax pushed him out of her way and pouted at me."Ash how could you leave me with this guy?" She asked me."He could've killed me, he could've eaten me, I don't even know what he is."
"I said I wouldn't hurt you!" He tried defending himself.
I groaned."I think I'll jump back into the water and let it freeze me to death." I thought out loud.
"Ash, I'm sorry but I can't have you as a bodyguard anymore, you're fired. B-but you can still be on my crew."
"What!?" I got to my feet staring Verrax down."That makes no sense Verrax, you'll fire me but keep me on your crew."
"Y-yeah because you couldn't do your job while we are looking for this platinum."
"Platinum?" The guy parroted.
I held my face with my chitin hands and groaned again, after explaining it to the big guy around the fire, we all came to some form of an agreement.
"Alright, new plan we find the platinum and return it to Junkers, it belongs to them and if we can take a little bit it would be enough for Verrax's debt." I explained it to them.
"Its fine with me, I don't really want the platinum myself, but my people could use it." Wiatt told us.
"I don't care about any shiney rocks or credits. I'm here to put someone in the ground and since they are one or your escaped convicts I'm willing to help you out."
"Good." I nodded to him, "What's your name?"
"Lynx."
"Alright, Lynx Wiatt. We're going to hunt down this beast and get this skin."
I stepped out with my pistol in front of me and my thumb back on the hammer scanning the snowy landscape, large impressions of paws dotted the snow around our cone hut, judging from how deep they were and the look they had they looked almost similar to terran bear paws but they looked almost three times bigger or heavier. While I was examining the paws I heard Verrax emerge from the cone hut and jump on me from behind pressing her boobs into my back.
"Ash! I thought you abandoned me for a second I bad this weird dream where I was eating a sheep and you were talking about the treasure and I then the sheep turned into a bomb."
I spun around patting the dragon girl on the head, but tried to focus on which direction that guy ran off to."Alright Verrax we gotta get an idea where the guy went off to, then find the others that he mentioned."
She looked like she didn't want to be bothered with that."Come on can we just go back to the ship? This seems like too much work!" She groaned.
Feeling a little bit annoyed by that I pushed here hair up and looked her in the eyes." Come on you aren't just gonna give up on the thing your mother worked so hard for are you?" I asked." You're lucky to have had something that your mother kept for you and to still have her around to give advice." I was beginning to lecture her.
With the sun out it wasn't as cold as it usually was, the warm sunlight coming down on me felt like it was filling me with energy and with all the snow on the ground and not in the air made it better to see, the trees bare and lacking leaves with the nearby almost frozen river. Without all the cold stuff littering the place the planet would be better; suddenly there was an explosion in the distance collecting my attention something gave me the thought that this must've been him, he had to be trying to signal someone for help, it was lucky we are nearby.
The two of us closed in on the area where we heard the explosion, midway there we climbed up a hill and surveyed the little area from above. Unfortunately it wasn't the person we was looking for, but the scene we stumbled upon was a large man clad in power armor fighting several members of what looked like civil protection with only a long sword. Dozens of members were cut to pieces or had their bodies littering the clearing, long red streaks painted the snow, and armor pieces stuck out of the ground like shrapnel.
I quickly checked my pistol ammo and got my knife ready, something in my gut told me that this guy might know something about the prisoner who escaped from us." Ash you aren't thinking about going down there are you?" Verrax asked me.
"I am Verra, he might know something about those prisoners or about the one that got away, hell he could be one."
She looked worried but held back on telling not to go."J-just don't get yourself killed."
Acknowledging the advice she gave me I slid down the hill and almost into the thick of it, with the only thing stopping me being one of bodies from the Civil scouts. Once I was on my feet I noticed the guy was taller than I thought. He stood taller than me for sure maybe a couple more inches taller, his armor I thought to be power armor, was simply metal armor with a lot of dark paint scraped off, his sword looked almost like a great sword.
His back was turned to me as he slain the last civil protection officer, I dashed through the snow as fast as I could and pressed the barrel of my pistol to the back of his head."This ends here!"
In flash, he spun around slicing the barrel of my gun with his sword then with his other hand grabbing my neck and raise me off the ground, I felt the point of his sword against my stomach for a brief second then he sheathed his sword." Oh you're not one of these guys, that's a bit more reassuring."
The hand he was holding me with felt unnaturally cold, like a piece of metal, his right hand and most of his arm was robotic. He dropped me to the ground and pointed his long sword at me." Alright who are you with? Those scum bags with Civil protection or some kind of bounty hunter or merc?"
"Neither, I'm a bodyguard and I'm looking for someone." I told him.
"Looking for who?" He questioned me.
Suddenly the sound of several howels filled the air, and it took our attention away from each other. Just at the edge of the clearing there were almost a dozen sets of eyes on us from what I could guess to be Arx wolves."Damn it the battle drew them!" He yelled out.
He moved fast, rolling and jumping over a number of bodies and tossed me one of the weapons, the multi barreled shotgun met my hands and I quickly pulled myself up on my feet. A pack of large cyclops wolves broke through the brush, charing at me and him, I pulled back on the fore end handle firing at one of the ark wolves. A cold burst of blew on me from the guys position and when I glanced over I spotted him cutting an entire wolf in half with his sword and in the same swing he crushed another wolf into the snow.
Focusing on him I didn't notice one of the wolves pounce on me, the smell of terran blood on the monoeyed creature's teeth. I held back the monster from trying to tear into my neck, right as I could feel it's breath on my neck the guy ran his sword through the wolf's red eye lifted the whole animal on his sword and threw it over his shoulder.
As I got to my feet a number of howls filled the air as the arx wolves retreated into the tree line. I caught my breath and wiped the wolf blood off my chest."Why'd you help me?"
"Because, you aren't civil protection." He stepped over the bodied of the fallen officers and stopped over one wearing a thick coat, he practically squeezed the corpse out the coat and held it in my direction, the hand holding it a retro looking robotic arm."Here take it, you gotta be cold I'm freezing my ass off in this armor."
I reluctantly snatched the coat from him and zipped it up."Now this might not look like it, but it's not as it seems. These "Officers" were beating a kid for answers."
It felt hard to believe that the people protecting the civilians were interrogating a child."That's impossible, Civil protection wouldn't hurt anyone that doesn't have it coming!" A familiar voice roared behind me.
Verrax walked past me puffed her chest out to the towering man, she was being stupid brave and naive."I'm guessing your looking for her?" He asked me.
"Hey! Don't ignore me tiny." Verrax demanded his attention." Civil protection would never harm a child you are lying to try and get away with mass murder, what's your real reason for slaughtering them?"
The guy looked down to the snow as if he was searching for something then pointed to a direction in the trees where small foot prints led into."I told you once already, they were hurting a kid, they were wearing animal furs." He explained.
Verrax crossed her arms."So it's one of those people?"
"One of who?" I asked.
"Junkers, they are dirty scrap people who spend their days drinking animal pee and think anything that's on the planet belongs to them. They are all just savages."
Out of the blue the guy grabbed Verrax holding her off the ground." Listen here miss dragon, it doesn't matter if they are savages and drink animal piss, a kids a kid and I'll do the best I can to protect them."
I quickly decided to interject before Verrax got herself cut in half or something, I put the barrel of my new shotgun under the tall man's chin."Listen here, put her down or I'll add you to this massacre."
He turned his gaze upon me and the moment he opened his mouth we heard a high pitched scream like one that would come from a child. Acting fact he dropped Verrax and nearly knocked me over as started running in the direction of the sound. "Hold up damn it!" I yelled.
My mind was racing with the thought he could be one of the tattooed people and just killed the officers to get them off his trail but some part of his story felt true. I took off after him hoping Verrax was behind me, I dodged trees and leaped over exposed roots before finally coming to the edge of the forrest with my lungs feeling like they were in a burning vice grip.
The three of stood at the edge of a small cliff with the heavily armored man staring over the edge, I charged up next to him and grabbed him by the shoulder pad, I was ready to interrogate the bastard before I heard another yelp and looked down off the cliff. It was a child, and they hanging on to a log while moving down an ice river, like he said there was a child and suddenly I was feeling more like an asshole for not beliving him.
He pushed me off him and looked like he was gonna jump in to save the kid, but as he made it to the ledge Verrax yanked him back and down into the snow to stop him."Do you have some kind of deathwish? You're wearing metal armor and gonna jump into a river you don't know how deep."
"I don't see you stepping up to save them Ms.Dragon." he growled at her.
"Why should I risk passing out and drowning for a terrorist child?"
Before the two could bicker any further I dropped my guns and leaped off the cliff, right before I hit the water Verrax's words rang in my head, the words she told that fool earlier."You don't know how deep."
Lucickly it was deep enough, I went in the water deep before coming back up for air and catching up to the child, the cold ice floating in the river nearly made me freeze up and just try to warm myself in anyway, but I knew I had to catch up to the kid. As my hands met the log I grabbed the kid in one of my arms and pulled us to the edge of the river and pulled us out.
The moment we were out I was cursing this planet and Every thing about it, the damned winter and the freezing river and just coming here with Verrax and now I was probably gonna freeze. The kid managed to be okay shivering but he didn't drown, he started to franticly look around and I could tell what he was doing when he grabbed sticks."Starwalker, grab wood or we'll freeze."
I could barely take my arms from my sides, the cold was messing me up so bad, the kid already had several twigs thrown in a small pile."Starwalker, w-we need fire to t-thaw." He was starting to shiver just like I was and their face began to contort to looking really apathetic like he didn't care about the situation.
I forced myself to drop low and get some in one hand and put them on the pile with his, and when he added more to make a suitable fire I groaned, it wasn't out of pain or anger, it was out of how futile our efforts were."D-Damn it w-we could rip the w-whole forest d-down but it wouldn't start a f-fire!"
It was too much to hope for this kid to have a lighter or a book of matches or even a laser pistol, we were done for. Losing all hope, I put my face in my hands before slipping on some thing and feeling the cold snow on my back freeze me just a bit more and the kid gasped."Starwalker, you dropped this thing!"
He almost jumped on me and showed me a silver lighter, I nearly teared up, I took it from the kid and flipped it open, with just a couple tries we had sparks igniting the wood and the fire slowly grew. I slowly took my jumpsuit off and sat back to back with the kid."So kid what's your name and why were Civil protection interrogating you?" I asked.
He looked over to me for a brief second then turned his head back towards the tree in front of him."My name is Wiaat."
"Oh it sounds alot like Wyatt, I'm Koschei."
He grumbled some thing before asking me."Are you gonna ask about those tattooed people like those other people did?"
"Yes, but I won't hurt you, if you don't know anything then that's fine Wyatt."
He went silent and the only thing I could hear was the fire crackling and the water of the river pass by us."I saw one of the tattooed people, he was in the mouth of a Grokisu, it was carrying him off somewhere." He turned to look at me and asked." Why are you looking for him? Did he do something wrong?"
I covered myself with my hand."He is a bad person who went to prison, and he's got something that me and my friend need." I thought on it a second time and told him what I knew."He's got a tattoo on him that will lead to a hoard of platinum, something highly valuable."
"Platnum? You mean the mineral right?" He questioned, when I confirmed it he was surprised."I was told by my grandparents that our people planned on buying the lands and rights to the Starwalker ports, many villages even came together working for the starwalkers and mining the platinum out of our mines and sifting through it in the rivers. They collected more than enough of the platinum and space money to fulfill their mission but then demons arrived to our village slaughtering many of the people and taking the minerals, we later found out they were all starwalkers and my people haven't been the same since."
I thought back to the guy at the bar's story and started piecing things together, Vertex and her gang stole from the natives and mustive hidden the gold on the planet, before getting captured she must have killed her crew and then put the map on the prisoners, but why didn't she just find a different way to get a message to her child.
While I struggled to make sense of all this, Wiatt asked me something to break my concentration."Are you like the guy who helped me? A warrior who sells their body to others?"
I tensed up, not just from the words he used but also from the fact I left Verrax behind with that guy." N-no I'm not like that, I'm a bodyguard."
He stared at me from over his shoulder, looking at me as if I spoke an unknown language." Isn't that the same thing?" He asked.
I began stuttering trying to explain it to him before my antenna picked up on a sound, the soft step of snow crunching under someone heavy foot, and second foot crushing the snow lightly. I shushed Wiatt and turned my head into the direction I believed the sound was coming from; I grabbed the quad barrel from before and aimed it at the brush before a dark metallic hand broke through the bushes.
It was that guy again, his helmet was covered in scratches that Imma guess was given to him by the person behind him. Verrax stood behind the stranger with her licks poked out and trying yo look angry at me. The guy turned his head away from me as they both approached us."What's wrong haven't seen my kind unclothed?" I asked.
He coughed into his robotic hand."N-no I just thought that you'd be embarrassed or something."
Before I could say anything Verrax pushed him out of her way and pouted at me."Ash how could you leave me with this guy?" She asked me."He could've killed me, he could've eaten me, I don't even know what he is."
"I said I wouldn't hurt you!" He tried defending himself.
I groaned."I think I'll jump back into the water and let it freeze me to death." I thought out loud.
"Ash, I'm sorry but I can't have you as a bodyguard anymore, you're fired. B-but you can still be on my crew."
"What!?" I got to my feet staring Verrax down."That makes no sense Verrax, you'll fire me but keep me on your crew."
"Y-yeah because you couldn't do your job while we are looking for this platinum."
"Platinum?" The guy parroted.
I held my face with my chitin hands and groaned again, after explaining it to the big guy around the fire, we all came to some form of an agreement.
"Alright, new plan we find the platinum and return it to Junkers, it belongs to them and if we can take a little bit it would be enough for Verrax's debt." I explained it to them.
"Its fine with me, I don't really want the platinum myself, but my people could use it." Wiatt told us.
"I don't care about any shiney rocks or credits. I'm here to put someone in the ground and since they are one or your escaped convicts I'm willing to help you out."
"Good." I nodded to him, "What's your name?"
"Lynx."
"Alright, Lynx Wiatt. We're going to hunt down this beast and get this skin."
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"Fine if you think that that you can understand them keep them close to you." Kris told Scar giving him a slight glare, she felt that they couldn't trust anyone here, not after what the warden did to them, and the fact that they were among prisoners didn't help with trusting them either, Kris knew that she would need to be on guard to make sure they wouldn't try anything.
Suddenly Scar decided to rush back into the slowly clearing smoke, not knowing where he was going Kris struggled with wanting to yell at him but held back on bothering doing so. There was a bigger thing at hand, the falcons that were bumbling around in the could now see like the rest of the group, noticing their armor, or bits of it, Kris knew her sword wouldn't be able to slice through their armor, even with it's frost enchantments on it.
The princess held the sword by it's blade, Kris knew she would have to do this the barbaric way, she charged at one of the falcons clubbing him over the head with the cross guard and putting a dent into his helmet, She slammed the cross guard into his head again bringing him to his knees and kicking him to the ground. The Princess finished him off stabbing him with the blade; in while she was finishing the guy off another falcon tried rushing Kris only for her to dodge him effortlessly.
Grabbing her sword by it's handle and keeping one hand on the blade, she precisely struck the back of his knee between the armor plates and making him fall to his knees, she swung her blade at the back of his neck putting a deep wound on his neck before pulling back for another swing and decapitating the guy with the second swing and making his body turn into a icy statue taking out another falcon.
Out of nowhere another falcon grabbed Kris from behind and tried to restrain her, but throwing her head back into his face was enough to make him let go, spinning around quickly, Kris used her momentum and aimed her swing for his knees slicing through his knees as well, the quick slice brought the man to his hands and knees groaning in pain before Kris finished him off by stabbing her blade through the back of his neck executing him. Kris ran two fingers across the length of her sword feeling the cold metal run up through her two fingers.
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Looking to the cloud of smoke and hearing the sounds of combat within it, Kris knew not to jump into it or back into it, She knew Hawke was in that smoke and with that hunk of iron he was carrying around she didn't want to risk getting cleaved, she wasn't crazy like Scar was or acrobatic like Macy or half of something powerful like Diana.
Kris stood at the other edge choosing to wait for any of them that were going to creep out the other end or look for some form of escape from the smoke cloud; some of the enemy stumbled out of the smoke some probably effected by Scar's poisons and feeling the effects, they probably thought of themselves as lucky, then Kris struck.
Swinging Diin at the gaps in their makeshift armor giving them the freezing effects the sword, before finishing them off by plunging the sword in their necks. Suddenly the sound of something scraping across the floor brought Kris' attention back to the smoke, she wondered who it could've been causing that, the thought of those monsters came to her mind before she got the thought of that sword Hawke was wielding. Going against her better judgement she pushed forwards into the smoke feeling blind as she pushed through the thick black smoke and nearly tripped over one of the dead guys in the smoke.
Once she was over on the other side she noticed both Hawke and Scar, Scar of which was threatening the last of the group."Oh so you wish to stay your hand now?" Kris asked the varmint man."You sure you don't want to just, jump them and slaughter the rest of them?" She continued the questioning."Or maybe throw a fist full of needles at them?" She fixed her hair."It's obvious why they choose to be in the back and didn't run away, they were planing an attack, one of them setting up a defense just in case one of us or all of us go through their little guard, and if I'm guessing correctly one of them is the leader or second in command."
I rubbed my rag deep into the armor left behind in my quarters, staring into my reflection in the helmet old memories began flooding back into my head, my home and it's people, the war that tore it apart, everything that remained afterwards, and how I got here. Squeezing the rag, I closed my eyes reminiscing trying to find something enjoyable from the past but nothing was there that I wanted to see I huffed and tried thinking on the now but it only reminded me of my contract holder and all the debt she's been collecting.
"Koschei!" I heard her voice echo from down the ship's hall.
She soon caught up with her yelling and poked her head into the room hooking her arm around one of my own.
"Come on chitin butt let's go! I want you to see my daddums." She just couldn't contain herself and wanted to her dad, she almost reminded me of a big kid that wanted to run to the candy shop and ran off to the ramp. Slinging my rifle on my shoulder I followed after her to make sure she wasn't overzealous towards anyone or hurt herself.
The second I went knee deep into the snow, the cold wind of Arx kissed my antennae and almost blew them to the back of my skull, the cold breeze and no coat froze me to the bone and I hugged myself in a vain attempt to keep warm, just a little chilly she said, it's not cold this time of year she said. If she wasn't holding my contract I'd probably have a number of harsh words with her.
Among the white snow Verrax my contractor's green wings stood out as she unfurled them and fell back first into the snow and started wiggling on the ground at the space port. I did my best to pull her off the ground and brush off any snow clinging to her before glaring down at her." You said it would be just a little chilly?"
She cocked her head to the side."What? It always gets this cold on Arx, it's like this then spring comes, this isn't anything it's just chilly is all." She turned towards the main street and pointed to the large complex down the snow covered streets; looking around there weren't many people outside and it was probably for the best with how cold it was out here." Alright Let's get to the prison."
"The prison?" I parroted. I noticed the massive complex again, it's what she was was pointing too now and it made me slightly uneasy with how quick she was willing to go into it and how she wanted me to just follow without questioning really." Yuppers, Daddums is in there and has the best prison cell out all the prisoners there." She said it without breaking her smile.
The journey to the prison wasn't a long one, but once inside it felt like hours before we could meet with Verrax's father, the visitation room felt small in a way. Once the guard arrived with Verrax's father I was shocked, the patriarch of her family was a woman and soon my staring was answered." Is staring at people you don't know a part of your people's greeting miss? Because in some cultures it's considered rude."
Her voice was silvery as she spoke but looking deeper into her face she looked like Verrax, but more pale and with a dark vein on her neck, I shook my head and responded to the woman."S-sorry Ma'am, my name name is Koschei Ashari, but most people just call me Ashari or Ash."
The dragonoid woman had a pale smile that looked weak."Nice to meet once of your kind after the whole thing with your people. But my name is Vertex." She turned her attention back to Verrax and looked her daughter in the eye."It's nice to see at least you again hun, your sister Vertrice doesn't bother visiting and your mother practically lives close by."
Verrax practically hugged the glass window to show her affection to her mother."Well I'm trying to get my fortune dad and when I do I'm gonna buy you out of prison so mom can be happy."If I could see them, I would guess she had a confident look in her eye like she would do it.
Vertex's smile somewhat withered before she sighed." Honey bun I don't think I'm gonna be coming out of here, I think this place may be my coffin." She looked away from Verrax briefly and put a hand in front of her mouth then her reptilian eyes focused on me."Verrax, sweet heart if you don't mind could I speak with Ms.Ashari."
Nodding, the childish dragon woman put her hands on her ears, once she began humming Vertex looked me in the eye and her eyes went glassy."I really don't know how many days I got left Ms.Ashari, take care of my daughter don't let her do anything stupid or get herself killed out there in the cosmos, she never was one to do much thinking and always had a big heart."She bit her bottom lip with sharp teeth and held back tears." I'm dying." She told me.
"I got something, from my old crew after I butchered them over a bunch of damn rocks." She swallowed hard and shook her head."Now I'm in here and the ones I wanted to provide for and make a better future for are out there and." She took a deep breath."And I'm afraid, I'm afraid of it all. I'm sorry you wouldn't understand."
I didn't know what to do, I just silently put a hand out on the glass and gave her a look of confidence to reassure the dragonoid parent." I'll protect Verrax, even if I gotta protect her from herself, I promise. You got nothing to be afraid of."
Vertex smiled weakly feeling a bit better I was hoping after getting that off her chest, when she tried to speak again she went into a coughing fit and hunched over the table on her side of the glass, when she looked up several veins had sprouted up on her visage and she collapsed on the floor. Immediately Verrax slammed her fist on the window crying out for her father, the guard on the other side of the glass went to Vertex's aid calling for medics, once Vertex was gone I kept her words burned in my mind. "I'm afraid"
The visit was cut short because of Vertex's sickness getting the better of her, after we got our weapons I escorted Verrax back to her ship through the snow. The second we got back on the ship I was glad we we were gonna be off world in a couple minutes and we were gonna be back to what crazy venture that Verrax had planned for the both of us.
I huddled around the heater in my room trying to get the feeling in my fingers back before Verrax appeared." Ashari there's kind of a problem." She looked unsure to me of what we could do before telling me the problem." We're grounded and can't take off, and there are these scary looking soldiers outside." She had a worried look on her face.
I sighed and cracked my neck before we went to the loading dock and extended the gang plank allowing them on." You're letting them on!?" She shrieked, I put a finger over her mouth and shushed her like a child."I'll do the talking there's nothing to be screaming over." Vertex's words were still fresh in my mind. "She never was one to do much thinking."
"Should've said isn't too brave too." I mumbled as the cold wind froze me stiff.
Suddenly a trio of civil protection officers walked up the plank and into the ship. The one in the middle being their leader she had long flowing black hair as dark as the tunnels on my home world." Ms.Parallex and Ms.Ashari, it's nice to see you once again but I wish it was on better terms."
I was starting to remember this woman, I saw her at the founding party of Civil protection, instead then she was wearing an evening ball dress, she was dressed up in her officer uniform and brown winter coat, she pulled out her badge reminding me of her name and rank.
"We've had sightings of an escapee in the area and we're checking for stowaways on board ships, I'm not doubting you're ability to protect your mistress Koschei." She fixed her cap then looked me in the eye with a different air about her." But I'd rather we conduct a search of the ship."
The way she told me that they were gonna do a search put me on edge, then I noticed she was starting back at me, I think my own non answer was making her and the other two officers tense. I felt could take them but I would need to be quick, my first move could be my last, suddenly Verrax bumped into my back and I knew what we had to do, I chuckled and put on a false smile." Your planet, your rules right?"
She returned the smile back with her own that seemed more smug than happy. "I'm glad you see it that way Koschei." She removed her cap and ran a gloved hand through her curly hair." For your own safety why don't you wait outside or at one of the local places, I'll send one of my officers to retrieve you once we're finished the search."
"Alright captain Zaora, we don't wish to cause any trouble, we'll take some of our stuff and allow you to do your search." I grabbed some of my equipment and let Verrax grab some of her random stuff, the second we were off the ship I had Verrax spin all the way around.
"Verrax take that power thing from out the ship and hide it before we leave."
"Huh?"
"That power thing you wouldn't stop talking about, the supply thing to power down the whole ship."
"But Ash taking it out will just stop the ship from flying is all." She shrugged.
"That's the point, it's just in case if anything happens and they try to steal the ship."
"But why-"
"Verrax just do it." I stopped her from trying to argue anymore and let her scurry under the ship, I heard a pneumatic hiss and soon Verrax was back at my side." Don't worry, they won't be able to find it."
"Alright, let's get somewhere warm before I end up freezing into a popsicle."
As we walked away from the ship I kept wondering if that was the real reason she wanted us away from the ship, I didn't see any of those hologram wanted posters up, but with all the snow covering the ground and how freezing it felt I ended not really caring much about the prisoner but worried more about not catching my death.
Out of nowhere I felt Verrax's wing come around me and cover me, for some reason she felt really warm." Hey Ash how about we stay over there?" She pointed to a bar." I don't care as long as it's not cold."
We strode through the snow to the bar and the warmth of the place almost felt heavenly, I sighed letting it wash over me before Verrax said something."Huh the place is empty?"
I looked around seeing only one other patron and the bartender." Yeah it gets that way when the snow gets pretty high, I use to get some of those guards who'd sneak off for a quick drink and mercs but they'll be here later."
Sauntering up to the bar and sitting on the stool closes to the bartender I noticed the other guy was well working on a bottle of some green alcohol and at the far end of the bar, once Verrax sat down he scooted over making me expect he was up to something before he held up his bottle." You ladies want some? I got ton of credits."
The second I wanted to tell the guy to leave us be, Verrax accepted his offer." Sure! Ash you should get some too it will make the time fly."
I sighed feeling reluctant but the bartender already had a glass for the both of us, and the guy was shaking while pouring out the last of his strong smelling liquor. Verrax quickly gulped down the drink and I reluctantly swallowed down the green liquor and it felt like I swallowed a cup of fire, my head started to spin and my balance on the stool felt wobbly.
The guy cheered telling us." That stuff will put hair on your chest. Bartender! Give us another bottle!" He yelled smacking a credit chit; one, two, three, more drinks and I was starting to feel like I was in another world with a fire burning hot in my gut. The second he offered me another glass I pushed it away noticing how Verrax was doubled over the bar counter passed out.
The guy buying the drinks leaned into my shoulder and glanced over at Verrax."So you ladies bounty hunters? You look the part but not the dragon lady."
"No, I'm just a bodyguard we were visiting her father or Mother, whatever her race has as a sire or whatever."
He looked at Verrax a second time a little more intensely like he was trying to see through her." Is." He let out a hiccup." Is her father a dragon too?"
"Yeah older looking woman, pale skin, green scaly clawed hands and a tail. Why?" The questions were sobering me up.
He leaned further into me and whispered."I'mma tell you a story, I probably shouldn't but I like guys."
The guy let off a soft belch into his fist." That girl's pappa is a bank robber and thief, their crew stole over a billion in physical money, goods, and even ships; they also killed anyone who got in their way, civilians who were too nosy, planet side cops, soldiers and everyone inbetween."
I felt Verrax's father had to do something evil to be sent to this frozen ball in the middle of nowhere. The guy took another swig of his drink and breathed out a heavy aroma of liquor." Vertex's crew finally hit the big score, a chest full of platinum 188."
He stared at me and my unchanging face,"Whaaat?! You don't know platinum 188? It's like worth more than space gold, its so valuable that you wouldn't know what to do with the money the second you got it."
He leaned on the bar's counter before continuing the story, not caring about whispering anymore." So they hit it big and got a ton of this platinum from their last job and you know what happened? Take a guess."
I cracked a grin and played along." They got caught and went to jail?"
He shook his head quickly." No no, not yet. I heard that Vertex slaughtered her crew, every member of her ship from the most fucked up members to the Mess cook, then she spaced them and got caught and thrown here." He motioned to the prison in the frosted window.
Just when I thought he was finished the story and done he picked up back where he stopped." Now before she got caught she hid the platinum here planet side."
When he said that I tensed up, and I wasn't feeling as drunk." But Civiees caught her before she could end up hiding, they didn't kill Vertex because word of the platinum spread around even to our little backwater planet. Now in jail they watched all her moves and read all of her letters, checking for any little hint to see if they could find it, but Vertex is smarter than we've thought."
He finished off his drink and wiped his mouth." She had a guy tattoo ou-there bodies in her people's dragonic symbols and runes, they way they did it was by using shitty tools and even more shittier perma body paint."
He started to wobble on his stool and fell over on the floor snoring, I got up and decided to give him a hand, but the moment I grabbed his shirt I noticed a strange marking on his collar bone. With the story still running fresh in my mind I undone some of his shirt buttons and just like the story, he had tattoos painted across his chest, acting fast I closed his shirt up before the bartender could see them.
I immediately stood straight up and grabbed Verrax trying to get her out of the drunken sleep she was in. In the same moment I felt something with my antennae and turned back to see the guy gone from the floor and rushing to the bar's back door.
"Shit!" I grabbed Verrax and threw her on my shoulder taking her with me, the guy ploughed though the backdoor and out into the snow. As the cold wind whipped past my head I wondered what was pushing me to charge like this after the guy for story, then the reason for why wiggled around on my shoulder grumbling about how they feel like they will vomit.
Soon the snow began kicking up into the air and almost becoming blinding, and the feeling of the cold started to get to me, I dropped Verrax and hugged myself and fought the urge pull my hair out."Damn it!"
All I could really do was scream at this point, I expected Verrax to be the one to get us into a situation like this, but now I was gonna have us both freeze to death because of Verrax." Ash why are we this far out into the wilderness?"
The dragoniod pulled her face from out of the snow trying to get a lay of the land." I was trying to help you Verrax, that guy was someone who had a map of your father's treasure. A treasure that would pay off all of your mountain of debt."
"Dad's treasure?" She put a finger on her chin." Ashi we should get out of the cold your getting cold stroke."
"Its heat stroke that effects you in that way, hypothermia that's gonna kill me."
"No you won't." She put her face back I to the snow and pulled her head back up." Nope, there's a creek with trees nearby that hikers use as fire wood." She grabbed my hand and led me along.
"Don't worry Ashari, winter on this planet ends soon, but it always gets to its worst before spring arrives."
I was skeptical to Verrax's whole, "Gets worst before it gets better." Then right before my eyes the shadows of trees came into view and an oddly shaped structure. As we closed in on the small structure it looked like a small cone with a blanket covering the entrance of it.
Pushing our way in we were greeted to a pleasant warmth with only a slight draft, I sat on the floor and felt a fuzzy feeling noticing the floor inside was a patch work of fur, and in the center of the room was a small fire pit with sticks scattered around the dark cone shaped room.
Knowing What Verrax could do I put all the scattered sticks into the fire pit and let her spit an ember into the pit. The entire cone began to heat up the whole cone and I felt my cold numbness melt away." Look Verrax your father didn't do good things, but they are a good person, one of the bad things they did was keep a stolen treasure and that guy that ran from the bar knew about it."
Verrax had her wings covering her body and was silent before cocking her head towards me." So I guess you want to just abandon me and go chase after my dad's treasure?"
"No." I shook my head." I'm going to protect you while we collect what's yours."
"But Ash I don't really want it." She looked away from me." I kinda want my own fortune, not my dad's money."
I groaned." Verrax, it is yours not your father's money, you're just collecting what's rightfully yours from people that would use it for worst."
I grabbed one of her wings and looked her in the eye." This platinum that your father has hidden away it would be enough for you to actually get rid of all that debt you have, to fill up your ship's tank more than just a single flight from planet to planet. You can't sit here and tell me you like saying up all night looking at the numbers and knowing that sooner or later your debt is gonna catch up to us."
She pondered the idea for a moment."O-okay Ashari, let's get that platinum for dad, mom, and even Vertrice."
I nodded and smiled."Good, your mother wouldn't want something she worked hard for to be handed over to those disgusting prisoners."I took a moment to peek outside, all I could see for miles was the whiteout we came in from, the guy wouldn't get far in this when I thought on it again."Once this blizzard passes, we're gonna go after this guy again."
"Koschei!" I heard her voice echo from down the ship's hall.
She soon caught up with her yelling and poked her head into the room hooking her arm around one of my own.
"Come on chitin butt let's go! I want you to see my daddums." She just couldn't contain herself and wanted to her dad, she almost reminded me of a big kid that wanted to run to the candy shop and ran off to the ramp. Slinging my rifle on my shoulder I followed after her to make sure she wasn't overzealous towards anyone or hurt herself.
The second I went knee deep into the snow, the cold wind of Arx kissed my antennae and almost blew them to the back of my skull, the cold breeze and no coat froze me to the bone and I hugged myself in a vain attempt to keep warm, just a little chilly she said, it's not cold this time of year she said. If she wasn't holding my contract I'd probably have a number of harsh words with her.
Among the white snow Verrax my contractor's green wings stood out as she unfurled them and fell back first into the snow and started wiggling on the ground at the space port. I did my best to pull her off the ground and brush off any snow clinging to her before glaring down at her." You said it would be just a little chilly?"
She cocked her head to the side."What? It always gets this cold on Arx, it's like this then spring comes, this isn't anything it's just chilly is all." She turned towards the main street and pointed to the large complex down the snow covered streets; looking around there weren't many people outside and it was probably for the best with how cold it was out here." Alright Let's get to the prison."
"The prison?" I parroted. I noticed the massive complex again, it's what she was was pointing too now and it made me slightly uneasy with how quick she was willing to go into it and how she wanted me to just follow without questioning really." Yuppers, Daddums is in there and has the best prison cell out all the prisoners there." She said it without breaking her smile.
The journey to the prison wasn't a long one, but once inside it felt like hours before we could meet with Verrax's father, the visitation room felt small in a way. Once the guard arrived with Verrax's father I was shocked, the patriarch of her family was a woman and soon my staring was answered." Is staring at people you don't know a part of your people's greeting miss? Because in some cultures it's considered rude."
Her voice was silvery as she spoke but looking deeper into her face she looked like Verrax, but more pale and with a dark vein on her neck, I shook my head and responded to the woman."S-sorry Ma'am, my name name is Koschei Ashari, but most people just call me Ashari or Ash."
The dragonoid woman had a pale smile that looked weak."Nice to meet once of your kind after the whole thing with your people. But my name is Vertex." She turned her attention back to Verrax and looked her daughter in the eye."It's nice to see at least you again hun, your sister Vertrice doesn't bother visiting and your mother practically lives close by."
Verrax practically hugged the glass window to show her affection to her mother."Well I'm trying to get my fortune dad and when I do I'm gonna buy you out of prison so mom can be happy."If I could see them, I would guess she had a confident look in her eye like she would do it.
Vertex's smile somewhat withered before she sighed." Honey bun I don't think I'm gonna be coming out of here, I think this place may be my coffin." She looked away from Verrax briefly and put a hand in front of her mouth then her reptilian eyes focused on me."Verrax, sweet heart if you don't mind could I speak with Ms.Ashari."
Nodding, the childish dragon woman put her hands on her ears, once she began humming Vertex looked me in the eye and her eyes went glassy."I really don't know how many days I got left Ms.Ashari, take care of my daughter don't let her do anything stupid or get herself killed out there in the cosmos, she never was one to do much thinking and always had a big heart."She bit her bottom lip with sharp teeth and held back tears." I'm dying." She told me.
"I got something, from my old crew after I butchered them over a bunch of damn rocks." She swallowed hard and shook her head."Now I'm in here and the ones I wanted to provide for and make a better future for are out there and." She took a deep breath."And I'm afraid, I'm afraid of it all. I'm sorry you wouldn't understand."
I didn't know what to do, I just silently put a hand out on the glass and gave her a look of confidence to reassure the dragonoid parent." I'll protect Verrax, even if I gotta protect her from herself, I promise. You got nothing to be afraid of."
Vertex smiled weakly feeling a bit better I was hoping after getting that off her chest, when she tried to speak again she went into a coughing fit and hunched over the table on her side of the glass, when she looked up several veins had sprouted up on her visage and she collapsed on the floor. Immediately Verrax slammed her fist on the window crying out for her father, the guard on the other side of the glass went to Vertex's aid calling for medics, once Vertex was gone I kept her words burned in my mind. "I'm afraid"
The visit was cut short because of Vertex's sickness getting the better of her, after we got our weapons I escorted Verrax back to her ship through the snow. The second we got back on the ship I was glad we we were gonna be off world in a couple minutes and we were gonna be back to what crazy venture that Verrax had planned for the both of us.
I huddled around the heater in my room trying to get the feeling in my fingers back before Verrax appeared." Ashari there's kind of a problem." She looked unsure to me of what we could do before telling me the problem." We're grounded and can't take off, and there are these scary looking soldiers outside." She had a worried look on her face.
I sighed and cracked my neck before we went to the loading dock and extended the gang plank allowing them on." You're letting them on!?" She shrieked, I put a finger over her mouth and shushed her like a child."I'll do the talking there's nothing to be screaming over." Vertex's words were still fresh in my mind. "She never was one to do much thinking."
"Should've said isn't too brave too." I mumbled as the cold wind froze me stiff.
Suddenly a trio of civil protection officers walked up the plank and into the ship. The one in the middle being their leader she had long flowing black hair as dark as the tunnels on my home world." Ms.Parallex and Ms.Ashari, it's nice to see you once again but I wish it was on better terms."
I was starting to remember this woman, I saw her at the founding party of Civil protection, instead then she was wearing an evening ball dress, she was dressed up in her officer uniform and brown winter coat, she pulled out her badge reminding me of her name and rank.
"We've had sightings of an escapee in the area and we're checking for stowaways on board ships, I'm not doubting you're ability to protect your mistress Koschei." She fixed her cap then looked me in the eye with a different air about her." But I'd rather we conduct a search of the ship."
The way she told me that they were gonna do a search put me on edge, then I noticed she was starting back at me, I think my own non answer was making her and the other two officers tense. I felt could take them but I would need to be quick, my first move could be my last, suddenly Verrax bumped into my back and I knew what we had to do, I chuckled and put on a false smile." Your planet, your rules right?"
She returned the smile back with her own that seemed more smug than happy. "I'm glad you see it that way Koschei." She removed her cap and ran a gloved hand through her curly hair." For your own safety why don't you wait outside or at one of the local places, I'll send one of my officers to retrieve you once we're finished the search."
"Alright captain Zaora, we don't wish to cause any trouble, we'll take some of our stuff and allow you to do your search." I grabbed some of my equipment and let Verrax grab some of her random stuff, the second we were off the ship I had Verrax spin all the way around.
"Verrax take that power thing from out the ship and hide it before we leave."
"Huh?"
"That power thing you wouldn't stop talking about, the supply thing to power down the whole ship."
"But Ash taking it out will just stop the ship from flying is all." She shrugged.
"That's the point, it's just in case if anything happens and they try to steal the ship."
"But why-"
"Verrax just do it." I stopped her from trying to argue anymore and let her scurry under the ship, I heard a pneumatic hiss and soon Verrax was back at my side." Don't worry, they won't be able to find it."
"Alright, let's get somewhere warm before I end up freezing into a popsicle."
As we walked away from the ship I kept wondering if that was the real reason she wanted us away from the ship, I didn't see any of those hologram wanted posters up, but with all the snow covering the ground and how freezing it felt I ended not really caring much about the prisoner but worried more about not catching my death.
Out of nowhere I felt Verrax's wing come around me and cover me, for some reason she felt really warm." Hey Ash how about we stay over there?" She pointed to a bar." I don't care as long as it's not cold."
We strode through the snow to the bar and the warmth of the place almost felt heavenly, I sighed letting it wash over me before Verrax said something."Huh the place is empty?"
I looked around seeing only one other patron and the bartender." Yeah it gets that way when the snow gets pretty high, I use to get some of those guards who'd sneak off for a quick drink and mercs but they'll be here later."
Sauntering up to the bar and sitting on the stool closes to the bartender I noticed the other guy was well working on a bottle of some green alcohol and at the far end of the bar, once Verrax sat down he scooted over making me expect he was up to something before he held up his bottle." You ladies want some? I got ton of credits."
The second I wanted to tell the guy to leave us be, Verrax accepted his offer." Sure! Ash you should get some too it will make the time fly."
I sighed feeling reluctant but the bartender already had a glass for the both of us, and the guy was shaking while pouring out the last of his strong smelling liquor. Verrax quickly gulped down the drink and I reluctantly swallowed down the green liquor and it felt like I swallowed a cup of fire, my head started to spin and my balance on the stool felt wobbly.
The guy cheered telling us." That stuff will put hair on your chest. Bartender! Give us another bottle!" He yelled smacking a credit chit; one, two, three, more drinks and I was starting to feel like I was in another world with a fire burning hot in my gut. The second he offered me another glass I pushed it away noticing how Verrax was doubled over the bar counter passed out.
The guy buying the drinks leaned into my shoulder and glanced over at Verrax."So you ladies bounty hunters? You look the part but not the dragon lady."
"No, I'm just a bodyguard we were visiting her father or Mother, whatever her race has as a sire or whatever."
He looked at Verrax a second time a little more intensely like he was trying to see through her." Is." He let out a hiccup." Is her father a dragon too?"
"Yeah older looking woman, pale skin, green scaly clawed hands and a tail. Why?" The questions were sobering me up.
He leaned further into me and whispered."I'mma tell you a story, I probably shouldn't but I like guys."
The guy let off a soft belch into his fist." That girl's pappa is a bank robber and thief, their crew stole over a billion in physical money, goods, and even ships; they also killed anyone who got in their way, civilians who were too nosy, planet side cops, soldiers and everyone inbetween."
I felt Verrax's father had to do something evil to be sent to this frozen ball in the middle of nowhere. The guy took another swig of his drink and breathed out a heavy aroma of liquor." Vertex's crew finally hit the big score, a chest full of platinum 188."
He stared at me and my unchanging face,"Whaaat?! You don't know platinum 188? It's like worth more than space gold, its so valuable that you wouldn't know what to do with the money the second you got it."
He leaned on the bar's counter before continuing the story, not caring about whispering anymore." So they hit it big and got a ton of this platinum from their last job and you know what happened? Take a guess."
I cracked a grin and played along." They got caught and went to jail?"
He shook his head quickly." No no, not yet. I heard that Vertex slaughtered her crew, every member of her ship from the most fucked up members to the Mess cook, then she spaced them and got caught and thrown here." He motioned to the prison in the frosted window.
Just when I thought he was finished the story and done he picked up back where he stopped." Now before she got caught she hid the platinum here planet side."
When he said that I tensed up, and I wasn't feeling as drunk." But Civiees caught her before she could end up hiding, they didn't kill Vertex because word of the platinum spread around even to our little backwater planet. Now in jail they watched all her moves and read all of her letters, checking for any little hint to see if they could find it, but Vertex is smarter than we've thought."
He finished off his drink and wiped his mouth." She had a guy tattoo ou-there bodies in her people's dragonic symbols and runes, they way they did it was by using shitty tools and even more shittier perma body paint."
He started to wobble on his stool and fell over on the floor snoring, I got up and decided to give him a hand, but the moment I grabbed his shirt I noticed a strange marking on his collar bone. With the story still running fresh in my mind I undone some of his shirt buttons and just like the story, he had tattoos painted across his chest, acting fast I closed his shirt up before the bartender could see them.
I immediately stood straight up and grabbed Verrax trying to get her out of the drunken sleep she was in. In the same moment I felt something with my antennae and turned back to see the guy gone from the floor and rushing to the bar's back door.
"Shit!" I grabbed Verrax and threw her on my shoulder taking her with me, the guy ploughed though the backdoor and out into the snow. As the cold wind whipped past my head I wondered what was pushing me to charge like this after the guy for story, then the reason for why wiggled around on my shoulder grumbling about how they feel like they will vomit.
Soon the snow began kicking up into the air and almost becoming blinding, and the feeling of the cold started to get to me, I dropped Verrax and hugged myself and fought the urge pull my hair out."Damn it!"
All I could really do was scream at this point, I expected Verrax to be the one to get us into a situation like this, but now I was gonna have us both freeze to death because of Verrax." Ash why are we this far out into the wilderness?"
The dragoniod pulled her face from out of the snow trying to get a lay of the land." I was trying to help you Verrax, that guy was someone who had a map of your father's treasure. A treasure that would pay off all of your mountain of debt."
"Dad's treasure?" She put a finger on her chin." Ashi we should get out of the cold your getting cold stroke."
"Its heat stroke that effects you in that way, hypothermia that's gonna kill me."
"No you won't." She put her face back I to the snow and pulled her head back up." Nope, there's a creek with trees nearby that hikers use as fire wood." She grabbed my hand and led me along.
"Don't worry Ashari, winter on this planet ends soon, but it always gets to its worst before spring arrives."
I was skeptical to Verrax's whole, "Gets worst before it gets better." Then right before my eyes the shadows of trees came into view and an oddly shaped structure. As we closed in on the small structure it looked like a small cone with a blanket covering the entrance of it.
Pushing our way in we were greeted to a pleasant warmth with only a slight draft, I sat on the floor and felt a fuzzy feeling noticing the floor inside was a patch work of fur, and in the center of the room was a small fire pit with sticks scattered around the dark cone shaped room.
Knowing What Verrax could do I put all the scattered sticks into the fire pit and let her spit an ember into the pit. The entire cone began to heat up the whole cone and I felt my cold numbness melt away." Look Verrax your father didn't do good things, but they are a good person, one of the bad things they did was keep a stolen treasure and that guy that ran from the bar knew about it."
Verrax had her wings covering her body and was silent before cocking her head towards me." So I guess you want to just abandon me and go chase after my dad's treasure?"
"No." I shook my head." I'm going to protect you while we collect what's yours."
"But Ash I don't really want it." She looked away from me." I kinda want my own fortune, not my dad's money."
I groaned." Verrax, it is yours not your father's money, you're just collecting what's rightfully yours from people that would use it for worst."
I grabbed one of her wings and looked her in the eye." This platinum that your father has hidden away it would be enough for you to actually get rid of all that debt you have, to fill up your ship's tank more than just a single flight from planet to planet. You can't sit here and tell me you like saying up all night looking at the numbers and knowing that sooner or later your debt is gonna catch up to us."
She pondered the idea for a moment."O-okay Ashari, let's get that platinum for dad, mom, and even Vertrice."
I nodded and smiled."Good, your mother wouldn't want something she worked hard for to be handed over to those disgusting prisoners."I took a moment to peek outside, all I could see for miles was the whiteout we came in from, the guy wouldn't get far in this when I thought on it again."Once this blizzard passes, we're gonna go after this guy again."
The first circle
Once Ash gave her answer, I stared at the doctor giving him one the most intensive stares I've given to anyone before, while I was looking cool locking eyes with the combat medic, I was really trying to form up a plan to do all this without getting my brains eaten by those myr women down below, if they even ate human brains; after coming up with something I put my feet down and stood up, I pointed to Ash first."Ash you're gonna play defense on board the ship, I can't have you going down there with us and risk you getting eaten or ripped apart by those Myr. I also can't risk you getting infected and eating Ven's brains like your third lunch."
"Hey!" The blue haired dog woman yelled."I'm sitting right here!"
"Yeah so what?" I asked
"Ass."
I then turned my attention over to Ven now," Vennashire, you're gonna keep the engines warm for us just in case we gotta run off and escape fast." The Ausar let out a sigh of relief before I continued." Also it's because your a big pussy when it comes to insects and anything that has chitin and more than 2 legs." Her face twisted from relived to anger before she could yell at me I pulled on one of her wolf-like ears to shut her up and got a bit more serious." Go over the start up process with Yan a couple times and memorize it correctly so we don't take off only to nose dive into something."
Ven nodded before I pointed to Rika, before I could say anything Rika already had some form of a plan or idea of what I wanted her to do, the mummy girl had sat herself on the floor surrounded by a number of homemade molotovs." Rika I-" She cut me off by putting a bandaged hand up and playing her tape recorder." Crowd control. To first control the star ship, one must first use the proper start up sequence." She pressed the stop button. I thought about it and figured we would need the outside cleared when we got back outside and agreed with the little pyro."Y-Yeah roast a shit ton of them Mummy."
I spun around to Yan pointing at him with both hands."Yan get use to that shovel and grab your boomstick, you're coming with us and killing some of those deadites."The subhuman man sighed and rolled his eyes." Gaz this isn't some ancient b rated movie, we fuck this up, we're all dead and I don't know." He shrugged.
I got serious and looked him in the eye." Yan, you are the only one who've fought these things besides the good doctor here."I motioned my head in their direction, I pulled him in close to me and whispered." Plus, I don't see these guys as extra lives to a House of Zed videogame man, I really want to make sure we all get the hell out of here together. Also this is a bit more honorable than robbing a bank." Yan looked down at me and gave me a nod, he didn't want to go back out there, but he was willing to do it.
Once most of the others had an idea of what they were doing, Noi nearly jumped on me asking me what she could do even giving me a salute as her roller blades struggled to stay still on the floor plates, gave it some thought before snapping my fingers." Easy, you're coming with us and keeping the doc safe, if it comes to it Noi bite'em, we can always get another crazy cat girl from a pirate group." She spun up her saw ready with an excited grin.
The saw almost gave me the idea of replacing my hand with it and taking it from Noi, but seeing how she's gotten attached to the thing it would almost be a sin to do it, plus it would probably cramp my style walking around with a saw for a hand. With my little dream team together, I figured we could do this, or die horribly trying to do this and have the planet risk being nuked, yeah no pressure no pressure at all.
Before we opened up the cargo bay to get into this mess, I asked the combat doctor if the we could get infected, excluding Ash from the group." Well from what I know, it won't infect us, or has enough time to adapt to infect us, yet. I wouldn't suggest eating the mushrooms we find down there could have...Side effects."
"So, don't eat anything." I looked at Noi.
Before I hit the cargo bay doors, Ash tried running to catch up to us and put her hand on my shoulder huffing and puffing."Gaz take this." she handed me her old revolver and tried to tell me something but it was hard to under stand her with all the huffing and puffing she was doing. The red Myr took a knee trying to catch her breath before we opened the cargo bay doors. I looked at the revolver Ash gave me, it looked like a real hand cannon unlike those other revolvers that I've seen on Myrellion, I spun it around my trigger finger catching the handle in my palm and looking down it's iron sights." Damn, you might not get this back Ash." I shoved the gun into the back of my pants before we started heading down.
When our feet hit the metal plating of the ground, it was like a dinner bell, groups started to coming towards our position, Rika acted quick igniting and throwing her molotovs at the groups setting them on fire before they could get close. The smell of roasting Myr filled my nose and nearly made me gag, it was an indescribable smell, actually, it was something close to having a bowl of bugs on fire along with a pot of flesh, I nearly puked from it but held off the urge when a couple of them stumbled through the flames.
I pulled out Ash's revolver and kept it at the hip squeezing the trigger as I eyeballed my shot, when I fired my first shot I twisted my elbow best I could as my shot connected with a Myr and half the zombie soldier's head exploded; I began thinking to myself that this is kinda like house of the Zed right now, one shot to the head and nearly their whole head explodes. But before I could yell about it to Yan, the combat medic grabbed my shoulder and fired on a couple more of the red and gold Myr dropping them and pulling me with him to the main building.
When we got to the doors, I ordered Noi to cut'em open as Rika began using her molotovs and flamethrower to roast the Myr, she broke away from us and started climbing up on several of the Mushrooms catching their attention."Rika has the horde's attention, we gotta be quick so she doesn't run out of fuel."I told the others before the door broke down in on it's self.
Suddenly gunfire came from above down on the horde, it was Ash gunning down most of the other Myr I could see her light machine gun spraying down on them, she then stopped and with her barrel going hot red and reloading. The Rest of us headed inside where more fungus was growing off the walls and some of the corpses strewn about the main hall and front desk. The atrium inside this place was massive with mushroom caps lining most of the ivory walls and floor, bodies of humans, Ausar, and a couple lizard people were thrown over the front desk attached to the walls and I think there was an Ausar arm attached to the ceiling; how these fuckers attached one of the dog people to the ceiling made me wonder if the bothric were.
Soon my thoughts were answered, by the elevator at the other end of the hall there was a Quadomme botheric covered in the shit colored fungus, making a clicking noise with their mouth. All of us dived for the front desk taking cover behind it, I glared at the combat medic." What the hell man? I thought you said."
"I never said anything about the Bothrioc, they were contained along with the Quadomme, they joined of their own free will." He tried to cover for himself.
Yan looked over the desk before sharing his own thoughts."The more I hear about all of this, the more I hate about all of this."
"Same Bud." I agreed.
"Listen we did this in the name of science and furthering the races on this planet, don't judge me because of this outbreak" He tried to defend himself.
" I think it's blind we could walk right by it if we're quiet enough, or lure it away from the elevator." Yan explained.
" Throw'em the doc." I suggested." They'd be more pissed off at him than they would be at us."
" Your crew mate was right, you are an ass."
I chuckled before pulling out a one of my hammer pistol clips, I thumbed out one of bullets and flicked it over the desk, when I heard it land and the sound of the Quadomme's feet across the floor I wave the others to follow me as I crawled along the floor heading towards the elevator. I felt a bit more relived when we made it to the elevator but when I hit the button for it and the machine dinged to alert the Quadomme I groaned as it shrieked at us.
"Shit's really dim sometime."
Once Ash gave her answer, I stared at the doctor giving him one the most intensive stares I've given to anyone before, while I was looking cool locking eyes with the combat medic, I was really trying to form up a plan to do all this without getting my brains eaten by those myr women down below, if they even ate human brains; after coming up with something I put my feet down and stood up, I pointed to Ash first."Ash you're gonna play defense on board the ship, I can't have you going down there with us and risk you getting eaten or ripped apart by those Myr. I also can't risk you getting infected and eating Ven's brains like your third lunch."
"Hey!" The blue haired dog woman yelled."I'm sitting right here!"
"Yeah so what?" I asked
"Ass."
I then turned my attention over to Ven now," Vennashire, you're gonna keep the engines warm for us just in case we gotta run off and escape fast." The Ausar let out a sigh of relief before I continued." Also it's because your a big pussy when it comes to insects and anything that has chitin and more than 2 legs." Her face twisted from relived to anger before she could yell at me I pulled on one of her wolf-like ears to shut her up and got a bit more serious." Go over the start up process with Yan a couple times and memorize it correctly so we don't take off only to nose dive into something."
Ven nodded before I pointed to Rika, before I could say anything Rika already had some form of a plan or idea of what I wanted her to do, the mummy girl had sat herself on the floor surrounded by a number of homemade molotovs." Rika I-" She cut me off by putting a bandaged hand up and playing her tape recorder." Crowd control. To first control the star ship, one must first use the proper start up sequence." She pressed the stop button. I thought about it and figured we would need the outside cleared when we got back outside and agreed with the little pyro."Y-Yeah roast a shit ton of them Mummy."
I spun around to Yan pointing at him with both hands."Yan get use to that shovel and grab your boomstick, you're coming with us and killing some of those deadites."The subhuman man sighed and rolled his eyes." Gaz this isn't some ancient b rated movie, we fuck this up, we're all dead and I don't know." He shrugged.
I got serious and looked him in the eye." Yan, you are the only one who've fought these things besides the good doctor here."I motioned my head in their direction, I pulled him in close to me and whispered." Plus, I don't see these guys as extra lives to a House of Zed videogame man, I really want to make sure we all get the hell out of here together. Also this is a bit more honorable than robbing a bank." Yan looked down at me and gave me a nod, he didn't want to go back out there, but he was willing to do it.
Once most of the others had an idea of what they were doing, Noi nearly jumped on me asking me what she could do even giving me a salute as her roller blades struggled to stay still on the floor plates, gave it some thought before snapping my fingers." Easy, you're coming with us and keeping the doc safe, if it comes to it Noi bite'em, we can always get another crazy cat girl from a pirate group." She spun up her saw ready with an excited grin.
The saw almost gave me the idea of replacing my hand with it and taking it from Noi, but seeing how she's gotten attached to the thing it would almost be a sin to do it, plus it would probably cramp my style walking around with a saw for a hand. With my little dream team together, I figured we could do this, or die horribly trying to do this and have the planet risk being nuked, yeah no pressure no pressure at all.
Before we opened up the cargo bay to get into this mess, I asked the combat doctor if the we could get infected, excluding Ash from the group." Well from what I know, it won't infect us, or has enough time to adapt to infect us, yet. I wouldn't suggest eating the mushrooms we find down there could have...Side effects."
"So, don't eat anything." I looked at Noi.
Before I hit the cargo bay doors, Ash tried running to catch up to us and put her hand on my shoulder huffing and puffing."Gaz take this." she handed me her old revolver and tried to tell me something but it was hard to under stand her with all the huffing and puffing she was doing. The red Myr took a knee trying to catch her breath before we opened the cargo bay doors. I looked at the revolver Ash gave me, it looked like a real hand cannon unlike those other revolvers that I've seen on Myrellion, I spun it around my trigger finger catching the handle in my palm and looking down it's iron sights." Damn, you might not get this back Ash." I shoved the gun into the back of my pants before we started heading down.
When our feet hit the metal plating of the ground, it was like a dinner bell, groups started to coming towards our position, Rika acted quick igniting and throwing her molotovs at the groups setting them on fire before they could get close. The smell of roasting Myr filled my nose and nearly made me gag, it was an indescribable smell, actually, it was something close to having a bowl of bugs on fire along with a pot of flesh, I nearly puked from it but held off the urge when a couple of them stumbled through the flames.
I pulled out Ash's revolver and kept it at the hip squeezing the trigger as I eyeballed my shot, when I fired my first shot I twisted my elbow best I could as my shot connected with a Myr and half the zombie soldier's head exploded; I began thinking to myself that this is kinda like house of the Zed right now, one shot to the head and nearly their whole head explodes. But before I could yell about it to Yan, the combat medic grabbed my shoulder and fired on a couple more of the red and gold Myr dropping them and pulling me with him to the main building.
When we got to the doors, I ordered Noi to cut'em open as Rika began using her molotovs and flamethrower to roast the Myr, she broke away from us and started climbing up on several of the Mushrooms catching their attention."Rika has the horde's attention, we gotta be quick so she doesn't run out of fuel."I told the others before the door broke down in on it's self.
Suddenly gunfire came from above down on the horde, it was Ash gunning down most of the other Myr I could see her light machine gun spraying down on them, she then stopped and with her barrel going hot red and reloading. The Rest of us headed inside where more fungus was growing off the walls and some of the corpses strewn about the main hall and front desk. The atrium inside this place was massive with mushroom caps lining most of the ivory walls and floor, bodies of humans, Ausar, and a couple lizard people were thrown over the front desk attached to the walls and I think there was an Ausar arm attached to the ceiling; how these fuckers attached one of the dog people to the ceiling made me wonder if the bothric were.
Soon my thoughts were answered, by the elevator at the other end of the hall there was a Quadomme botheric covered in the shit colored fungus, making a clicking noise with their mouth. All of us dived for the front desk taking cover behind it, I glared at the combat medic." What the hell man? I thought you said."
"I never said anything about the Bothrioc, they were contained along with the Quadomme, they joined of their own free will." He tried to cover for himself.
Yan looked over the desk before sharing his own thoughts."The more I hear about all of this, the more I hate about all of this."
"Same Bud." I agreed.
"Listen we did this in the name of science and furthering the races on this planet, don't judge me because of this outbreak" He tried to defend himself.
" I think it's blind we could walk right by it if we're quiet enough, or lure it away from the elevator." Yan explained.
" Throw'em the doc." I suggested." They'd be more pissed off at him than they would be at us."
" Your crew mate was right, you are an ass."
I chuckled before pulling out a one of my hammer pistol clips, I thumbed out one of bullets and flicked it over the desk, when I heard it land and the sound of the Quadomme's feet across the floor I wave the others to follow me as I crawled along the floor heading towards the elevator. I felt a bit more relived when we made it to the elevator but when I hit the button for it and the machine dinged to alert the Quadomme I groaned as it shrieked at us.
"Shit's really dim sometime."
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