Chapter 1
Many know the story of Maya, the great Siren warrior who fought Hyperion and killed the leader of the Order. The woman who lifted the Sheriff of Lynchwood out of the air and shot her with the Sheriff's own pistol. The blue-haired girl who was one of the few people that took down the greatest alien power that the Pandora has ever seen.
Very few people know anything of the stories in between those times, of the people that she met, of the things that she did, and the lessons that she learned about the outside world. This seems somewhat odd, considering the incredible and most notable things that she had done in that time. That story starts here, where she left the Order and went on a search for adventure, truth, and, if she could, maybe a little bit of fun too.
Maya had nothing to pack when she left, she left the comb behind, and brought the gun as an added safety measure. The first thing that she needed to get off of this planet and onto the planet of the vaults was money. The town was happy to give her some supplies, food and some clothes, which Maya put on right away. She was eager to show that she wasn't with the Order anymore, and the townspeople couldn't thank her enough for killing the monk that had leeched money from them.
The first clothes that Maya wore in the real world were jeans that fit well and a T-shirt that was too big for her. The clothes felt strange, then again, she had worn a crudely hand-weaved robe for twenty six and three quarter years. Maya now walked to the nearest city, encountering little trouble along the way. In fact, she was given many gifts, and some people even kneeled or bowed to her. By the time she got to the city, she had been given enough money to rent a room in a motel. It was not exactly the nicest, but it was still strange, sleeping in a real bed, meeting real people. Most of the people would stare, and Maya didn't really know why. Maybe it was the Siren tattoos, maybe it was the effect of twenty seven years of straight working out. Maya had grown to be quite attractive, but of course she had no idea. All that she'd ever seen was bald men, and she'd never been able to look into a mirror.
The Siren's interaction at the motel was interesting enough. She cautiously opened the door, for a moment not sure what it would do. There were no doors in the monastery, just stone archways. When she got the door open, she walked in and up to the front desk, where a woman sat. "Hi, how can I help you?" she asked. The woman seemed nice enough.
"Hello," Maya said. "I'd like to rent a room." She looked rather unusual, not only with her blue hair and tattoos, but also with a large backpack and unfit clothes.
The woman tapped a few buttons on the screen in front of her. "Alright, that'll be sixty dollars a night," she said, standing up and picking up some keys behind her.
"Um," Maya said, taking off her backpack and looking through it. "I can give you bread and some clothes."
The woman stared at her for a moment. "You know that we don't live in a bargaining society anymore, right?" she asked. Politely, though. She looked at Maya's face for a moment. "What's your name?" she asked.
"Maya," said the Siren.
The woman's eyebrows raised. "You're the one who just killed that monk guy that extorted the town, right?" she asked. Maya nodded. "Oh, well, in that case, first night's free, and the next nights are a lot cheaper."
"Thank you," Maya said. She was surprised at how kind people were. The woman led Maya to her room, even opening the door for the Siren.
"If you need anything, I'll be out front," the woman said kindly.
"Thanks again," Maya said. She looked around the room, all of the things around it very foreign to her. She felt the bed, interested at how smooth it was compared to the grass-stuffed mattress that she used to sleep on in the monastery. For a moment, she turned the lights on and off and on again, interested by them. She went into the side room, which she later found out was a bathroom. A mirror was on a cabinet hanging from the wall. At first, Maya flinched, thinking that somebody else had found her way into the room before she realized that it was her face. She felt her face, amazed at what she actually looked like. She had walked by a few other girls on her way to the city, and they had looked so different from her. Maybe it was the blue hair, or maybe there was some other technology that she did not know of.
For a few minutes, Maya stared at herself in the mirror. After some time, she had come to a conclusion. She needed some different clothes. Although she was very grateful for the people's gifts, she realized that they didn't quite go with her look. Not to mention, right now her blue hair was quite long, and it was looking rather odd. She would need to fix these things, but there was no real hurry. Pandora wasn't going anywhere, and she still needed a way to get money to get there anyways.
Maya decided to go and explore the city, maybe try and integrate into the society for the short time that she would be there. She walked out of her room, finding the money that had been given to her along her way there and from the town. The Siren walked out of the room, closing the door behind her. She walked towards the exit, when she heard a familiar voice. "Want some help getting to know the town?" the woman from the front desk asked.
"I wouldn't want to take you away from your work," Maya said.
"Not like there's much business today anyways," she said. She stood from her desk and walked outside with Maya, turning the 'open' sign around so that it read 'closed' from the outside. The two of them walked towards the mall, where Maya would need to buy quite a few things.
"What is your name?" Maya asked the woman.
The woman pushed her hair off to one side, clearing it out of her face. "I'm Madeline," she said. "So, what should we do first?"
"I need new clothes," the Siren said. "Combat attire."
"Alright, there's a pretty good place not too far from here," Madeline informed Maya. She led the Siren a few more city blocks to a store that had a few statues wearing examples of combat clothing in the window. Madeline held the door open for Maya and the Siren entered. A few things caught her eyes, but she didn't really know what to choose. Madeline walked across the store and started looking for clothes for the Siren as well. "How about this?" she asked, holding up a kevlar weaved full body suit with titanium plates built into it.
Maya lifted it up, feeling the weight. "I need something lighter," the blue-haired woman said. The two kept looking. Maya turned down a few more suggestions from Madeline. After a little while, Madeline walked over to Maya with a new type of suit. "How about this?" she asked.
Maya stared at the suit for a moment. In truth, it was quite revealing. It covered the chest and arms, but it seemed to cover only the groin area of the legs. "Isn't it a little, um, un-protective around the legs?" she asked.
"Just try it on," Madeline insisted. She showed Maya to the changing room, where Maya put on the article of clothing. It felt quite nice, and it looked pretty good with her blue hair. The black background thick weave covered her neck, the thicker yellow weave of intricate and tough fibers covered her chest and shoulders. It let her move freely, while still providing some protection. For some reason, it was long sleeved. This provided a rather strange look, but it seemed to serve it's purpose. Maya started to conjure up her Siren energy, but the left sleeve started to heat up. Maya's Siren tattoos heated up when she used her powers, being hottest at her fingertips and cooling down as they went up her arm. Unfortunately, Maya never realized just how hot the Siren tattoos got. The sleeve started to burn at the places where it touched her blue tattoos.
"Uh oh," Maya said. The sleeve burned off, luckily the burning stopped when it reached her chest, keeping the rest intact. Maya looked in the mirror. It actually looked better this way. She was interrupted by a knocking on the door.
"Done changing yet?" she heard Madeline ask.
"Yeah," Maya said she opened the door. Madeline looked at Maya, seeming to enjoy looking at the blue-haired Siren.
"You look great," Madeline said. "But maybe we should get you a razor next," she said. Maya looked down. Her legs were indeed lightly haired with blue. Of course, Maya had no idea that she was supposed to shave her legs, but Madeline would teach her a few things that the monks never taught her. "Alright, well while you were changing, I found you these," said the brunette woman, handing Maya a pair of combat pants and a belt. "I figured that you're going to need more clothing than that if you're going to be fighting."
"Thanks," Maya said, putting them on. The pants didn't quite fit right, but the belt held them fine and she actually preferred the way that they felt.
Now that Maya had some clothes, which Madeline had been generous enough to pay for, Madeline started to bring Maya around the city for the other things that she needed. Madeline payed for Maya's haircut, which she helped the Siren decide to get the back of her head cut short, and part her hair down the middle. Last thing that Madeline wanted to teach Maya for the day was makeup. She took Maya to a few more shops, finding things that she could teach Maya how to use.
Once they got back to the hotel where Madeline worked, Madeline and Maya went back to the room that Madeline let Maya stay in. Madeline set up the many things that she bought for Maya. "Alright, I'm going to teach you how to put on makeup," Madeline told Maya.
"What's makeup?" Maya asked. She was cutting the last few strands of the sleeve off of her combat suit.
"It's things that you put on your face that change how you look just a little bit. Highlight you eyes, put color on your lips, stuff like that. Come over here," Madeline said. Maya walked into the bathroom where Madeline was, looking at the various brand name makeups that Madeline had bought for her.
"What is it?" Maya asked.
"I'm going to teach you how to put it on. Here, I'll do it to you for the first time, then you can try it yourself again later," Madeline said.
Maya looked at Madeline, then at the mirror. There were subtle differences that made Madeline seem slightly prettier, but maybe this would change that. "Alright," Maya said. Madeline then proceeded to apply the makeup to Maya's face. Maya watched in the mirror while Madeline applied the various makeups. Maya learned quickly through observing, and she had to say, she liked how she looked by the end of it. Her eyelashes were fuller, the blue lipstick complimenting her face and hair. Around her eyes was slightly darker, and her skin looking very smooth.
"You look very pretty," Madeline said. Looking at the finished product of her work. "Do you, um, want to go out to dinner?"
"Sure," Maya said, clueless to the fact that she was being asked out. She still was quite clueless as to how people interacted normally outside of her monastery. Basically all that Maya knew about was fighting and some history. One can assume how that would affect her understanding of…anatomy and attraction, along with various other things.
Madeline and her date went out to a nice dinner, where a waiter seated them. Maya looked at the menu, not understanding most of it. "What are these things?" she asked Madeline.
The brown haired woman pointed to the items on the menu, describing them to Maya as she did. "This one's a bunch of lettuce and vegetables, this one is a cut of meat from some animal all the way from the Edens," Madeline explained all of the things, Maya learning and remembering all of them.
When their food came, Maya looked at it cluelessly. She had ordered something called a steak, but she still didn't quite know what it was. "What is it?" she asked Madeline.
"It's a steak," Madeline said. "Are you a vegetarian?"
"No, we had dried meat every now and then at the monastery," Maya said.
"Well," Madeline said. "It's like that, but better." Maya was curious about it now. She cut off a small piece of it and tried the steak. Madeline was most certainly right. It put the bland and repetitive monastery food to shame.
"This is really good," Maya said, eating another bite.
"I thought that you might like real food," Madeline said. Maya would have responded, but she was busy trying all of the things on the plate.
The two of them ate their meal, Maya still oblivious to the fact that it was a date. For that matter, she was also still oblivious to what a date was. After they had eaten and Madeline had payed, they started to walk back towards Madeline's motel. At one point, they stopped and looked at the sky once they were away from the city lights that usually shielded their eyes from perceiving the beautiful stars. "I always liked the stars," Madeline said. She stood next to Maya, who was also looking up at the dots of light, each pulsing on their own time. Madeline looked at Maya, who looked at Madeline, curious as to why she stopped looking at the stars. "Your eyes remind me of them," Madeline said. "So bright and full of wonder, something that I want nothing more than to reach out and touch," she said beautifully. Maya was clueless as to what was going on, but Madeline continued. The brown-haired woman reached her hand up and lightly pushed Maya's chin up, leaning in for a kiss. Their lips met, and Madeline's eyes closed, enjoying the beautiful moment. Maya, on the other hand, had no idea what a kiss was. Her eyes remained open, not sure wether to pull her head back or just let it happen. She chose the latter, especially considering how kind Madeline had been to her, but she still had no clue what was happening. Madeline eventually pulled her head back, keeping her eyes closed for a moment, as if she was reliving the memory over and over again. When she opened her eyes, she saw Maya's confused face. "Was that your first kiss?" she asked, somewhat astonished.
"What's a kiss?" Maya asked. She'd never even heard the word.
"Oh, wow," Madeline said. "Um, it's a thing that people do to show that they like each other. So that was me, showing you that I like you."
"Oh, okay," Maya said. She kissed Madeline again, somewhat awkwardly. "Like that?" she asked.
"Well, I guess," Madeline said. "Wait, so, if you've never kissed anybody, are you still, like, a virgin?"
"What's a virgin?" Maya asked. Another word that she'd never heard before in her almost twenty-seven years.
Madeline started to get a little red. She hadn't expected the kiss to go quite this way, but what can you do? "Somebody that's never had sex before," Madeline said.
Maya nodded, then she realized that there was another word that she was oblivious to. "Wait, what's sex?" she asked.
"Alright, looks like I have to explain these things to you," Madeline said. Her cheeks were most certainly red. Madeline took Maya back to the hotel, where Madeline picked up her computer and took it back to the room with Maya. She opened browser and started to look up a few things that Maya had never heard of. An image came up on the screen that very much confused Maya.
"What's this?" she asked, looking at the moving people on the screen and listening to the moans that the woman was making.
"Okay, this is how a guy and a girl do…sex," Madeline explained.
"Alright," Maya accepted. "But then how would you and I perform this act? Do you have one of those?" she asked, pointing to the male extremity.
"No, I don't have one of those," Madeline said. She was still somewhat amazed that she was explaining the basics of sex to a twenty-seven year old. She opened up a new tab and made another search that Maya didn't understand. This time, two women appeared on the screen, doing a few things that Maya didn't get. "This is kind of how we would do it."
"Is this another thing that we do to show each other that we like one another?" Maya asked naively.
"Well, yeah, but usually it happens later in a relationship," Madeline explained.
"Want to try it now?" Maya asked.
Madeline smiled. "Well, yeah, but you need to do a little bit of research," she said. "I'll leave my computer here. You can learn a few things, then I'll teach you a few more." There was, of course, a layer of seduction in her voice, but Maya didn't recognize it, or even know what it was. Madeline said good night to Maya and left the room. Instead of going right to sleep as she usually did, Maya decided to try and use the computer. A video was already opened, and all that Maya had to do was hit the space bar. Maya watched and learned, but still didn't understand it at all. Maybe Madeline could explain a few of these things whenever she was going to show Maya. After some time, Maya fell asleep, the soft bed making the Siren quite tired.
Across the motel, Madeline couldn't help but fantasize about Maya. Should one have walked by the door, a faint moaning could be heard. Madeline only pleasured herself for a little while, then she realized that she wanted desperately for the new day to come, when she could see Maya's beautiful form again.