Author's Note: I don't own Zoids.
"talking"
/thinking/
Chapter 2
A New Enemy?
Van brought Fiona back to her house. She had calmed down, but she was still upset. The blond couldn't help blaming herself for her daughter's death. Van took her to her room so that she could rest.
"I'm going to make some tea. Just rest for a while, I'll be back soon." Van said as he helped her lay down. Fiona only nodded. Van left her side and headed towards the kitchen. He grabbed the necessary ingredients and began making the tea.
He felt bad that he couldn't do anything to change the past. It hurt him as much as Fiona the lost of his daughter. The only thing he could do now was to spend as much time as he could with the one he had left.
Van had thought of moving on with his life, but every time he would get a feeling that made him change his mind. He knew Fiona was the only one for him and yet he couldn't be with her. Van missed her so much. He missed his old life. The one were he was with his family; instead he is in a military base hoping it would distract him enough to forget all of this.
The tea was ready. He grabbed a cup and served some for Fiona. Van got a tray and placed the cup on it and headed for Fiona's room. When he came in he found her asleep. He only smiled. It had been so a long time since he had seen her asleep.
Van put the tray on a table that was in the room and grabbed a chair and sat next to Fiona's bed. Her face was facing towards him so he was able to watch her angel like face. One of his hands reached her hair and gently caressed it. It caused a smile on Fiona even though she was still asleep.
"You have no idea how much I miss you Fiona. I would do anything to have you back." Van softly said so that he wouldn't wake her up. He then heard sounds downstairs indicating that his children were back. Van got up from the chair and went downstairs.
Dan and Padme were in the living room talking when they saw their father coming down. Van walked over to them.
"Where's mom?" Dan asked. He just hoped that they didn't get into a fight.
"She's sleeping. How about if we got ride on the Blade Liger so we can leave your mother to rest?" Van asked.
"Sure!" An excited Padme said. She was already jumping up and down. Both Van and Dan smiled seeing the young girl so happy.
The stranger watched as Van, Dan, and Padme left the house. From what the person noticed they were headed towards the desert. The stranger only smile. This was just perfect.
"You will sure get a heck of a surprise once you return Van Flyhieght." The stranger said. The person was wearing a long brown cape to protect the stranger's clothing from the sand a long with a hat so that the sun wouldn't be much of a bother. The stranger was on a hill with a pair of binoculars.
The stranger jumped from the hill into a zoid. The person activated an invisible shield around the zoid so that no one would be able to see it.
/This is all too easy. Van Flyheight you're going to pay for all the pain that you have caused me./ The stranger thought feeling pure hatred run through its veins.
Fiona began to wake up. She slowly opened her eyes, but found that she couldn't see. All of the sudden she recognized a smell.
/Is it me or do I smell smoke/ Fiona thought. Fiona looked around the room. It seems as a fog had invaded the room, but Fiona knew better. It was smoke. The blond quickly got up from the bed. She quickly made her way towards the door of her bedroom. That's when she noticed that her entire house was cover with smoke.
The smoke wasn't too strong so she knew that it wasn't her house on fire. Fiona made her way downstairs, but found the door blocked. /What's going on? Why is the door blocked/ Fiona thought. She had to find another way out or the smoke will end up suffocating her.
Fiona used her hands to find a wall so that she could guide herself. She had lived in this house for many years now, so she knew this place like the back of her hand. She had to close her eyes because the smoke was hurting them.
/I can do this. If this plan doesn't work there is always plan B./ Fiona thought.
The Shield Liger ran through the desert's sand creating small waves of sand behind it. Inside the cockpit were Padme and Van. Padme was sitting in the front seat while Van sat on the one behind it checking that Padme wouldn't lose control. The little girl was only moving the controls that handled the direction of the Shield Liger everything else like the speed and stuff was left for Van to handle.
"Alright Padme, turn right when you get to the end of those ruins and then I'll lower the speed of the liger so we can stop." Van said. Padme did as her father told her. She came to the end of the ruins and turned right and then the Shield Liger stopped.
Dan was waiting for them outside the ruins with Zeke and the Blade Liger. The Shield Liger belongs to Dan. His father had given it to him a few years ago when he began his training. They were going to start teaching Padme with the Blade Liger, but thought that it would be better if they went with the Shield Liger instead.
The cockpit of the Shield Liger opened and a hyper Padme jumped out from it. She started running towards her brother and began chanting, "I pilot a zoid! I pilot a zoid!"
Dan smile at his little sister, remembering that when he was her age he had done the same thing. "Good job Padme. I see that you didn't smash the Shield Liger into the ruins as I thought you would." Dan didn't really mean what he said, he was only teasing her.
Padme stomped on his foot and said, "I would never smash it!" While Dan was massaging his injured foot, Van was laughing his head off seeing his to children fight. Padme stuck out her tongue towards Dan and then went to Zeke.
"I swear that kid is worst than Samira when she got mad." Dan said to himself, but his father heard him.
"I wouldn't agree. Padme may have done a lot of things to you, but at least she has never dumped cold water on your face while you were sleeping." Van said as he chuckled a bit remembering that.
Dan remembered now and said, "Ok so I take it back. Samira was much worst, but if Padme keeps going this way sooner or later she'll be the worst. Trust me dad, I'm the one who suffers this so I would know."
Van laughed at his comment. Suddenly bomb explosions shut him up. Both Van and Dan turned to find the origins of the sound and realized that it came from the town.
"Mom," was all Dan said. Van took towards the Blade Liger and got in.
"Padme, stay with Zeke. Zeke protect her and if things gets worse you know what to do." Van said as he took of. Dan got in the Shield Liger and followed his father.
Padme just stared at the two zoids leaving. She stood next to Zeke for she felt safer being next to him.
Fire surrounded the entire Wind Colony. No one could get in or out. It seem as the fire came out of the earth. Not a single building was on fire only the earth. Villagers tried to put out the fire, but it seemed as the water had no effect on it.
Suddenly two powerful zoids appeared. Everyone sighed in relief as they recognized the zoids.
"Dan put out the fire. I'll go find the one that caused this." Van ordered like a true soldier. "And make sure your mother is ok." He added but this time like a worried man would.
"Yes dad." Dan took of to the direction of his house. Once Dan was gone Van began to look around.
"Alright show yourself!" Van said. He kept watching carefully everything around him. Suddenly a zoid jumped out of nowhere and attacked the Blade Liger. Van had expected this so he easily dodged it.
The zoid was like nothing Van had ever seen before. It looked like a panther. Its color was red with black stripes. The tale of the zoid ended with a sharp arrow that looked as it could pierce into anything.
"Who are you? Why have you attacked this town?" He asked, but there was no answer. He didn't like this. "I'll ask again, who are you?"
"Believe me, you wouldn't want to know." It was a voice of a woman. All though Van couldn't recognized it. The zoid launched it self towards the Blade Liger, but once again Van dodged it.
"You have to do better then that to lay a scratch on me." Van said. The woman didn't answer. She just kept attacking. Van dodged every single attack. He was really getting annoyed. Either this woman was a terrible zoid pilot or she was up to something.
"I'm starting to believe that you really suck at being a zoid pilot because you can't seem to hurt me." Van said hoping the woman would at least say something.
"You're a real idiot. Who said I was trying to hurt you." The woman said. Van then realize what she meant. She was distracting him! That was when he saw smoke coming out of Fiona's house.
"Fiona!" Van yelled as he turned the Blade Liger towards Fiona's house. He had to get there in time. He couldn't lose her!
The other zoid stood there watching him leave. The woman laughing as she knew what was his biggest fear now. /You'll pay for everything. Trust me, when this is over you'll have wished you met Alisi./
Van arrived to Fiona house and found her and Dan in the Shield Liger. "Fiona are you alright?" Van asked. He was truly worried.
"I'm fine. I bit spook but nothing else." Fiona said although was thinking about something but decided to tell Van later.
"Dad, have you notice how the fire suddenly disappeared?" Dan asked. Van looked around and realized that Dan was right. The fire was gone and also the woman that had started it.
"It seems as a new evil has show up," was all Van said. All though he had a feeling that something wasn't right.
"We should go get Padme. I know she's with Zeke but I think it would be better if she's here with us." Fiona said.
Dan nodded and said "We'll go get her dad. You stay here in case the attacker returns."
Van nodded. He looked around the village but everything seemed fine. /I wonder what the true motive here was. Why was Fiona's house the only one that had smoke coming out of it/ Van asked himself. He got out of the Blade Liger and decided to check out the house.
The house seemed fine until he went into Padme's bedroom and everything was torn apart. It was a complete mess. He went downstairs but something caught his eye. Van went inside the living room and found a picture of Fiona, Dan, Samira, and himself on the floor. Although where Samira's face was it was completely cut off. In Fiona's it just had a huge X and with him it said DIE. Dan's was the only that was fine. Van didn't get it. Was this new evil after them? But why? What had they ever done to them? Van was sure of one thing, no one worked alone so that meant that there was someone else in this.
A/N: Ok so I was suppose to update this a week ago but with Mother's Day and all things just got to busy over here. So does anyone have an idea of what's going on? Nope? Well I'll put more clues on the next chapter. See ya!
