I sat on a couch in a spaceship as my girlfriend, Ace, and I listened to the whirring of the motor. It was quieter than a car even though the ship itself was a good 20 or so square feet larger.
"Ka ju kivox waccai ti kalay vo zax?" my dad called from his place in the cockpit or playo(pla-E-o), as Ace and my dad would call it.
"Sanni, tao kazon bi gauna,"(Yeah, that would be nice.) Ace called up to the front when I nodded. We fastened our seatbelts when my dad went to land at a sort of pit stop. We went inside and my gut feeling told me to get out of there. I should've listened to myself.
We sat down in a booth that was red and rested our feet on a carpet that was red. I mentioned the fact that red was getting on my nerves to Ace. She laughed. I loved it when she laughed.
"Ry?"(Why?)
"Hanna ent Eearthling ji deki der ma mia tal vo nivan lo ta mia tal vo rean. Lo ji waccai ti deki ji gami!"(Because on Earth we see red as the color of blood and not of peace. And I want to see my home.)
In the year or so I was on Haxe I had developed a good sense of the language and culture. And I had taught the people I spoke to a good sense of mine. I was still homesick.
I glanced around the room as we waited for our food. It seemed somewhat normal. Or as normal as it could get given that I was hanging out on a distant planet with my alien girlfriend and alien dad. Other than my gut feeling little was out of the normal. Except the familiar blonde specks of hair. Seth and Sara. And their friend- my ex-girlfriend- Lia.
"Argo kalay, Ryan?"(What sup wrong, Ryan?) Lia asked noticing my darkened look. I shook my head. Her Sapphieran idiom wasn't lost on me. But, I wasn't going to tell her that I saw the three people we didn't quite get along with in a place they had no reason being. Unortunatly, she saw them too. "Cacuzon mia identox lo Lia?"(Is that the twins and Lia?)
I nodded. We hid our faces and didn't acknowledge their presence. And hoped that'd they wouldn't notice ours. Sometimes Fate has a better way of toying with your emotions than even you do.
"Ka ju waccai postra"(Do you want desert?) the waitress asked when we were finished with our meal. I nodded and shared chami chipo with Ace and my dad. We stood up to leave but before we could a group of roughly six adult males walked in and blocked the doorway.
"Ceran. Me Ciabaci!" What appeared to be the leader stated. And younger man whispered something in his ear and showed him a sheet of paper. "Serina ji hiazon Thiabachi."
His accent made Kiabachi sound more along the lines of The-a-ba-KEY.
I'd love to tell you that I stood up to the scary bad guys, fearlessly protecting my dad and Ace. That would be a lie. What actually happened? I don't know. I fainted and was out cold for all of it.
Ace
Acsedorra was okay with her boyfriend fainting. He wasn't used to things like this. She was used to curses and violence and solitude. Ryan helped fix her loneliness. She loved him even if a group of guys made him faint.
The Kiabachi managed to take prisoner a few people in the restaurant. Mr. Karteyo, Ryan, Seth, Sarah, and Lia.
They got on the Shuttavox[spaceship] and were put in the underdeck. They could hear the Kiabachi until the sound-proof door was slammed shut.