Zone of War – The Ship
Okay, these stories set after Cats kingdom, sky kingdom are allied with the human kingdom.
Chapter 1 – The Vacation
The holiday came without notice, everyone had traveled to somewhere else with their family, leaving the Magart (Magic and Martial Art) School surprisingly empty for the first day. During this 1 month school holidays, the general of the human kingdom had invited all the allies' top members to board the newly finished traveling ship, called L.S.M Cruise Ship. Its size is about 800x300x400 meters. It consists of dining hall, swimming pools, audience hall, and a real huge cinema with high quality audio speakers and wide screen. Yes, it's made for top class traveling and sailing. However, the price for the tickets were low since it's is the ship's first sail.
Fortunately, Roy and Jelax's parents had bought the ticket to experience the first class ride on the Mega Ship, while David didn't. They all gather at the port where the Cruise Ship was parked, talking about the excitement they will soon have.
"I never thought I could have the chance to board such a titanic ship!" shouted Roy, "I bet we got lucky on getting the tickets!"
"What are you planning to do then?" asked Jelax as cold as usual. He doesn't even smile a bit. David has been his best buddy to tag along, yet now he wasn't coming; although Roy was okay, but he sometimes really annoyed him. The trip might bore him to death.
"Nah, I haven't thought of it yet," said Roy, "What about you, man?"
"I told you, I can't go," replied David. Roy gave a frown.
"Dude, that's so sad," said Roy, "I mean, shouldn't you be coming with us?"
"I don't have parent to buy me the ticket, okay?" replied David grimly. His friends don't respond to that, as they already know him well. A minutes later, Eternity softly poked David's arm.
"About that, I have something to tell you," said the little girl with her long silver hair tied around her back, "Lady Sapphire said she will be taking you as well," staring lazily at David with her big red eyes, as thought she was reading his mind.
"What?" replied David while bending his head as down as he could, "taking me to where?"
"Oh don't act stupid, to the ship, of course," added Eternity, "Lady said you might be bored having yourself staying at the school dormitory,"
"Really?" said David, everyone's face suddenly sparks with joy and excitement once more.
"Yes, so pack your stuff, we are boarding the ship tomorrow," replied Eternity lazily before excusing herself away, "and don't be late."
"That's great!" shouted Roy with joy as he puts his arm across David's shoulder, "We gonna have lots of funs together!"
"Yeah, just don't get too excited about it," said Jelax, his eyes are fixed upon the huge ship, admiring the scenery of the dock during sun down. It might be the best, but it also might be the worst.
"Hey, what could go wrong, man" said Roy confidently, "It's not like the ship is haunted?" His two friends quickly stared at him.
"Just kidding," added Roy quickly. Then, three of them went back home, except David, whose home is the school its self.
Next morning, all of them were gathered around the port with thousands people of different races, all waiting to board the enormous ship they had ever seen. The port was fully crowded. They seen humanoid female cats taking their skin made bag, they heard the foxen tribes communicate to each other with weird language, and most of all, the Regons and their family. All of them line up patiently to pay the tickets. It is a very long line, and they were in the middle of the excited crowds. Queuing in front of him was a cat warrior wearing long black suit. Her long tale occupied the most of the space between him and the cat. He tried to dodge it as it keeps swinging around. He could hear Roy giggles behind him while he is doing this.
"Shut up," smirked him to Roy quietly. However, the cat heard him, and she slowly peek through her shoulder.
"I know that voicez," said the cat "iz zat you, David?" At first, there is a pause.
"Tysandart?" asked him as he remembers a female assassin cat once he knew. The cat turned around and nod. By all mean, she is much taller than him. Staring at him with her huge green cat eyes, she gave a smile.
They didn't really talk much, as she is a quiet yet deadly assassin. Even if she was never been a quiet person, her job might already change her personality from the loudest to quiet. Under her cloth, he could see two assassin claws hanging at her back; two round bottle of red liquid, and three crystal polygon bottles that contain bubbling blue liquid. When she turned away, he saw a glimpse of another bottle containing green colored liquid.
Its like she is going for war, does she ever trust anyone? He knew what those liquids for; red is explosive liquid; blue is for replenishing stamina while the green one is poison. A light pat on David's shoulder quickly draws him to Lady Sapphire, who wore the long majestic cloth of the highness as the symbol of the elf tribes.
"Now, David," said Lady Sapphire, "You are old enough to take care of your own room, right?" Roy exploded with laughter, his parents was shocked for all that sudden.
"Yes," replied David as he stared at Roy, "Just don't over react." He knows Lady Sapphire has raised him up when he lost his parents at the age of 2. Then, she vanished when he was 5, leaving him alone, with no one to trust; no one to care for years. However, saying this to him when he was at 14 again made him feel …. Warm and welcomed. Even though he once knew Lady Sapphire was a lizard like moving ice sculpture when he first saw her, but meeting her back again after years in a human form was…. Well, hard to tell. She is not really a human though, but an elf with pointy ears stretch out of her hood. She was a reborn, that's all what's clear to him; like turning over a new leaf.
As he continued to scan the crowd, a glimpse of three familiar figures suddenly stunned him. Among the peoples, he saw Crush, Spike and Lance walked between the crowds. Their position was far, yet very clear. It was them, their former enemies of the states; they were nightmares for all defenders when the attacking armies were leaded by them. Although the peace was signed between them after his kingdom's rebellion, they still remain as skillful as they are. Sort of, when he caught Lance had a blink on him with her yellow dragon eyes (no different to snake eyes). In a split second, their eyes met through the crowds before interrupted by busy workers.
"What are you staring at?" asked Roy and trying to connect his eye to the direction, which led him straight into the buzzing crowds.
"Come on, lets get on board, it is our turn now!"
With the beautiful humanoid bird in his mind – Pekok, Roy dashed into the crowds and vanished, leaving the others on the ship deck, surrounded by high class tourists.
"Hey, I thought he got a plan to do?" said David.
"Leave him, we got other business to deal with," said Jelax, "you got your own room to pack, right?" which gave David a real panic to worry about.
"Oh yes," said Lady Sapphire as she heard Jelax, she walked towards them and gave David a card key, and "this is your room key, it just next to our room, follow me." David gave a goodbye-wave to Jelax before following Lady Sapphire and Eternity. They walked to the living compartment of the ship, where they walk into maze like corridors, but Lady Sapphire seemed to know her way. Then, they reached their room.
"Me and Eternity will be staying at the same room," said Lady Sapphire softly, "If you need anything, tell me, okay?" David simply gave a nod.
"But don't disturb us for having no reason," added Eternity grimly, "I know you don't mind, mom, but I do." David gave a goodbye wave before entering his own room and shut the door tight.
After putting his bags on the wide, water bed; he quickly threw himself next to it, staring at the ceiling full of night stars painting. Eternity was not really Lady Sapphire's daughter, she was found laying on the ruin of an old temple by her. The weirdest part of Eternity is, even thought she looks like a five years old girl, but her acts and ways of talking is more matured, except her childish voice. They did asked how old she is, but she, herself doesn't even know. Other than that, she seems to be reading people's mind, whoever that talks to her that is.
The room is bigger than he has expected, with air conditioners and wide screen television placing in front of the bed, their remotes placing on the glass table next to his bed, and wall of glass as the windows, there is nothing unworthy of this trip. Its gonna be great, those were the words that keep repeating in his mind. Suddenly, he remembers his friends again.
"Maybe they got something to do," said David, hoping for some accompany. He quickly dashed to the front deck of the ship, where he saw many races are actually enjoying their trips. The ship had just departed. Building and housing moved by one by one, a very enjoyable feeling. The female cats warrior are wearing some Roman civilization cloth looking at the ocean; the birds tribe were talking to the Foxen tribes, something about the defense against the eagle tribes; but his friends were no where to be seen. A light pat on his shoulder from the back alerts all his sensors.
"A very good morning to you, Veenix," said Lance hastily. David thought he saw her dragon eyes again, but when he blinked, there were no more, just plain red human eyes.
"Where are your friends, yellow head?" asked Spike, emerging behind his little sister. David only shook his head while Lance eyes are fixed solidly on him.
"We are planning to check out the huge inemca, enema, enigma, or…." said Spike, "what is it again?"
"Cinema?" corrected Crush, standing behind and obviously towering over his siblings, "we heard there is a great movie going on at 1000 hours,"
"Oh," said David with a blink in his eyes.1000 hours… Its like you are heading for a mission in the theatre…
"Want to come?" asked Lance.
"No, thanks," replied David when he saw Jelax coming, "maybe I got some other plan." Lance's smile suddenly replaced by a sad look. Her brothers both stood silently at the back, watching them.
"Maybe you don't," said Jelax calmly and slowly as always as he walked towards them, "Roy is love struck, and I planned nothing yet."
"So I guess movies should be okay," added him again after seeing the others stared at each other for a few seconds. David gave a lazy nod; Lance smiled with excitement; while her brothers are happy too, because they didn't know how to get into the huge screening room called 'cinema'.
"Great," added Spike cheerfully, "let's go see some visual information from the enigma."
"Cinema," corrected them.
Unbelievably, David spent most the time of his day watching movies of actions, adventures and terrors, and romances in which the boys ended up sleeping except Lance. Spike was the worst; he slept with his head inside his huge cup of popcorns. When he woke up, his face was filled with it. To David, this trip is going to have all the best memories and he decided to write it in a diary for the continuing days, for the first time in his live since he had nothing to do before bedtime. Below is what happens at the following days – I want to keep the story short too.
Day 2
It's was fun swimming at the swimming pool, but Jelax didn't gave any interest. Roy, however, was absence mind, probably love sick, thinking about the bird again. Does he ever stop? She is just a humanoid bird – a pigeon, with hands and cloth.
At afternoon, we spend the whole time exploring the lower deck. Actually, I was quite amazed that the lower deck can squeeze in a huge dining hall, a medium sized stadium and a public swimming pool. Wow, imagine that.