It was as Azul had said; the Sewers had not been touched by the Rakata, and they were perfect to sneak past them.
The small army even managed to find some stranglers down in the sewers, however what people were most surprised of were all the smells down there...
the aliens seemed to be using the toilets they found.
The travel was short, and they found our way through the sewers quickly.
Occasionally a sewer area would be found caved in and impossible to access, but they quickly found another way though.
It was Tyler that had managed find the Exit to the sewers, close to the Island, now the trick was to get to the other side unnoticed.
We swam for as long as we could underwater, only coming up for air when necessary.
Most of the people that snuck in managed to without the need for much air, with the least ups for air being around four times.
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The small group Landed on the South Western side of the isle, and came in smaller groups of four so it would be harder for the enemy to spot us.
Tyler was the Fourth to be sent over, together with Azul as his prisoner, and two other soldiers; with the first group being Jeff and his family, then George, Angel, John and another Soldier as the second, and then a third group of soldiers.
The other troops and civilians came after a while too, but they would have to find Tyler and the others, as the ship would arrive in half an hour and its reinforcements had to be defeated by then...
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The group waited here for three more groups before they made their way to the area where both the remaining Civilians and their guards were waiting for the ship. The Containers on the Island helped with cover, even if many of them were destroyed.
The Rakata had hidden themselves and the prisoners in a Warehouse close to where the ship was supposed to dock.
The small band had to localize where the Enemy Communication center was stationed, so they wouldn't be able to warn the ship before it docked. It was relatively close to a hiding spot, so that wasn't any problem.
The prisoners were held outside, and there were many of them, around two hundred prisoners, guarded by only forty Rakata or Selonians, they didn't have to be many, with the laser rifles they were carrying, would be more than enough to stop all the prisoners, before they got too far...
More and more of our troops surrounded the enemy; soon enough to take out thirty of them before they would even have to react, but it became fifteen minutes until the ship would arrive, and the enemy started to prepare the prisoners to move...
The ones in the Communication center were the first ones to fall in battle, as the troops there threw in hand grenades, killing not only the Rakata, but also destroying the Communicator.
The Troops guarding the prisoners were the next to fall, for while Tyler and the others only managed to kill twenty seven, with three misses, instead of running away, the prisoners ran on the remaining guards, who didn't stand a chance, although this cost them some casualties...
Tyler had managed to suppress the awful feelings that erupted whenever he killed an alien now, it didn't bother him that much anymore...
Suddenly over two thirds of the enemies left inside the warehouse turned on their own, shooting and killing them instantly, before putting down their own weapons and pulled their hands up in surrender.
No one understood why they suddenly turned on their comrades like that, with the exception of Tyler...
They were all slaves...
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It was seven minutes left...
While the commanders wouldn't tell their plans directly, the rest of the people were soon to find out, as many of them were ordered to grab the enemy clothes and gear...
As the last of the troops and civilians arrived, the boat arrived, believing that attackers were their allies carrying prisoners, while their real 'allies' were kept in the warehouse.
The boat opened up for the army, and when all prisoners came aboard, the army stroke...
The front of the deck was claimed first, and rest fell quickly. They had not foreseen anyone trying to trick them like that, and so they were unprepared for Tyler and his group, so they soon found themselves separated from the outside world...
Tyler was battling at the main hall in the ship's front deck, when a sudden realization struck him if they get connection with the Rakata on the Mainland, they could attack us while we are to busy fighting the ships crew!
Most tables had been pushed over the edge on both sides on the battle zone, and a lot of the ships windows have been shattered, there was also stairs leading both up and down, up went to what Tyler believed was the communication center, and down was to the Cargo hold, Tyler believed this because of the heavy defenses on this floor.
Clouds started to gather, and it started to rain. Screams of pain, of fear and death were heard from both sides.
The ship started to move, signalizing that the Humans had managed to take the bridge, yet Tyler knew that it was not safe, especially if the enemy managed to call for help to early...
Without thinking, Tyler Suddenly burst from his position, though the enemy lines, killing quite a few of them as he ran past them, and up the stairs.
Tyler suspicion was right, the Communication room was up there, but inside here he saw all the aliens clearly; there was three Selonians, all female, but there were also two tall creatures, completely covered in Fur, and while they held some distinctions to the Selonians, Tyler could tell that they were of entirely different specie.
There was also four of the Green skinned men Tyler had seen in Swords, but he could see them more clearly now; they had red eyes and had four thin fingers.
There was also a more amphibious looking one, with his yellow eye socket sticking out on the sides of his long nose less head, brown collared and angry.
He had a uniform which seemed to give him high rank, and he was the one bellowing orders to the other races, so he had to be one of the Rakata...
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Tyler had already taken aim to his head, and before the Rakata had brought out the Gun he had in his pocket, Tyler shot him in the head, killing him instantly.
The rest of the Aliens looked both surprised and joyful over the Rakata being dead, but realized quickly that they should surrender, holding their arms up in surrender...
Tyler shoot the Communication equipment, and the weapons inside the room were gathered in a pile away from the aliens, although Tyler had a feeling that it would not matter.
Tyler then faced the door with his rifle, and prepared for any Enemy attack...
It seemed that the assault he had made did the trick, for the ones that came in were Henrik and Jeff, as well as a few other soldiers...
"Sir!" Tyler Said loud, and Surprised over his sudden outburst, he was starting to sound like a soldier
"Stand down soldier" Henrik said proudly, grabbing Tyler om his shoulder, although not hard...
"your little stunt gave us the edge we needed to take the ship" He added at the end, his Grin full of hope for those that were aboard the ship.
Tyler looked down on the dead Rakata, blood pouring from its wound. Tyler didn't feel any remorse for killing this... creature. The Rakatans deserved this, and more, he felt, although he couldn't understand why he felt like this, he only knew that it was true...
Jeff approached him "You have never been able to run that fast before..." he said
"I barely saw you leave before you were almost at the top of the stairs." He paused, and Tyler looked at him. As Tyler thought about it, he realized that Jeff was right, he had run fast up to this room, and it seemed like the others had gotten slower in the process.
"What happened to you?" Jeff asked.
"I don't know" Tyler answered. He felt that his body was changing much lately, and not through puberty, that he had already started to go though in fifth grade, he felt an uneasiness all the time; like he felt all the people that lost their lives, or were in deep pain because of it...
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"What do you mean with the Ship's gone?" Gru Gul asked furiously to his second.
Gru had been put in charge of the town of Holyhead's defenses during this war, as well as the prisoners on the Cruise ship, and now they have gotten away.
"Where did they go!" he asked both furiously and desperately, knowing the penalty of loosing prisoners, but Hdo Hgo, his second in command didn't know the answer to this.
"We could still catch them if we look sir" Hdo said, but Gru dismissed the thought as soon as possible.
That would mean asking the front for assistance, and they would take it straight to Hod, and that would mean Gru's death.
"We'll just say that the ship never arrived, and that the prisoners tried to oppose us" He said to his loyal second, who went to do as he was told...
We will just pretend that it never happened. Gru Thought to himself...
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It reached night again, and I went to bed, as I fall asleep, the smell of wet sand disappears, the sounds of the ocean are silenced, as well as the rain, and again the Spring Breeze turned much colder.
I open my eyes to find myself floating in a white place...
There was nothing inside this place, only the white, as far as I could see.
I feel something breathe me in the neck, I look behind me, and gaze into a set of Large, pure blue eyes.
The being was large, seemed to be over a hundred meters long.
It had a serpentine body, and each of its body segments had a set of insect like feet, except on its last body segment, were it was a set of insect like hands.
Its scales were pure blue through, and it had large Wings on the back of the front segment. Its face was that of a crocodile, and its ears had a direct resemblance to that of a Deer.
It breathed heavily, like it was on the brink of a painful death, but what I believe was its smiling face gave the impression that it was content.
I felt scared of what this thing was gonna do to me, was it gonna eat me, was it gonna rip me to pieces, or something even worse.
Yet it didn't harm me in any way. It only bowed down and said "The force is with you..."
The words came slowly, with pauses between almost every word, but Tyler was still shocked that the thing Knew English.
The great beast noticed this but continued nonetheless "Use it well, and do not fall to the temptations of the dark side..."
And with this I woke up...
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Tyler once again woke up from bed, but this time didn't go up in sitting position, he had gotten used to the Visions, although this one was creepy, it still was like any other Vision.
He stared up into the roof, sighed, and then stood up from bed, got dressed and went out of the bedroom.
It had rained a lot yesterday, and had not stopped today; though you could see a few parts of the blue sky above in certain areas.
The battle had been even more radical after the Communications center had been taken, and many had lost their lives, as well as having tons of damage to the ship itself...
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The ship was still two hours from Scotland, and while the group believed that Scotland must have been overrun long before the group got there, it was the only way, as the ship could sink at any time, and the Isle of Man would have to be taken for England to be truly invaded.
The ship would land close to Monrieth Bay, from there the people would go to Edinburgh, and hopefully get an evacuation ship to a safer place, although to where, not even god would know...
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Tyler went to the room the group had made into an eating hall, the same room Tyler had aided in taking, were he took what they had to eat; gruel and liquid looking like alien drool.
The food tasted awful, and many of those eating puked after the first bite or sip of liquid.
Tyler didn't eat much, as he lost his appetite after a few bites and seeing some puke from the food and liquid. He instead decided to go to the prisoners and make his own interrogations.
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The interrogation room was one of the ships upper bedrooms, were the mattresses were moved to one of the lower floors, and the Translator was put on one of the empty beds.
The interrogators were Henrik and George; the interrogated prisoner, apparently a Wookie, was, like the Selonians, also a slave of the Rakata race.
Their planet was caught apparently twenty earthly years before the invasion of earth, and many of them still remembered the traditions of their ancestors still...
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Outside in front of the window where Tyler stood Jeff was standing on the right side of him him, looking at the interrogation, even though Tyler and Jeff couldn't hear it, they could see that George was not pleased with how the Interrogation was going...
It took half an hour before the interrogation ended, and the Wookiee was escorted back to the cargo room.
Tyler suddenly felt a presence on his left side, something big, and yet familiar.
Tyler looked to his left, but saw no one, but he felt like there were someone there, looking back at Tyler, perhaps even smiling at him...
The presence vanished soon after, and Tyler, although confused, decided to ignore it, and walked towards the Prison room.
Tyler had been permitted to interrogate Azul and one of the Wookiees, although Jeff for some reason decided to join Tyler in the interrogation, he permitted it.
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It was one hour and fifteen minutes before the ship landed, so this time they had more time to interrogate Azul.
There had been erected two chairs for the prisoners to sit in, and they did so, mostly because they had been ordered to do so.
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Jeff walked around in the room, waiting for Tyler to start to talk.
"Good day Azul" Tyler began, scaring Jeff and the wookiee at his politeness.
Azul however had already gotten used to it and merely answered back "good day Tyler..."
Tyler introduced Jeff, who asked irritated "I thought this was an interrogation, what's up with that man?"
Tyler decided to ignore the question and continued his questioning...
"and who's big guy?" he asked.
"Trokhuul" the wookiee said with a growl on his language, paused, thinking about something, and then said with a sad heart "a supposed to be tribe chieftain of the Woodclaw clan"
Tyler noticed the pain Trokhuul had to go through at the thought of his people, so Tyler would try to avoid further questions about his tribe...
"by the way" Tyler said thinking of his main questions "why did the Rakata decide to invade Earth, and which nations were targeted, except…"
Tyler stopped, thinking of both his captured friend Simon and His torn up mother. Azul started to explain
"they want to do the same thing to your planet as they did to my home world Selonia, Trokhuul's home of Kashyyyk and many other planets…"
She paused, thinking of the sorrow of her home world, but before she could say something more Trokhuul broke in
"to Dominate" they both paused, clearly thinking to let it sink in.
"They started in one nation on each continent, Brazil in south America" Azul told, waiting to hear what Trokhuul had to add " a continent that has been entirely overrun, together with Central America from Northern Mexico"
he paused to let Azul speak "Chad in Africa, China in Asia..." she went silent to let Trokhuul tell the status of the two nations
"Unlike China, Chad managed to force the enemy out, while Asia has lost most of its territory, and of course New Zealand to Australia, which also was used as a landing point..." he finished, allowing Azul to figure out the rest
"then there was Ireland" she said. The silence that came then, felt good for Tyler, as he felt pain whenever Ireland was mentioned.
"Because of Volcano Activities, Iceland surrendered to us" Trokhuul said, pausing before continuing
"And the entire Middle England was taken, separating the slave nation of Scotland from London..."
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After shaking the news of they started to talk about each other, and all four ended up becoming good friends, even Jeff, who had wondered about Tyler's tactic since the three first words...
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Suddenly under the conversation Azul came to ask about Jeff's little sister "by the way…" Azul said, pausing before continuing...
"the little girl in your group, eh" she thought a little about her name
"Maria, I noticed that she hadn't spoken ever since I got captured, what's her problem?" she ended up asking, clearly just curious, but the tone gave a hint of insult.
Jeff answered with a smile
"It was an accident at birth; sis can't really talk..."
he told, trying to think of what happened
"I don't really remember what happened, as I was only four, and weren't really paying attention" he explained...
While there were other questions about the silent sister, they were soon forgotten in all the talking...
It went over an hour before the conversations were disrupted by Henrik, who ended the Interrogation.
We then had to start preparing for landfall...
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Since the ship was too big to land in, so we had to use the life boats to get to the beach.
Each boat was to take six persons and two aliens, and carry them to the beach, where they were to contact the humans in the area, and get some real food to eat, and get help.
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Trokhuul and Tyler were paired together with a green skin, and another three soldiers, while Jeff was, as always, with his family, and this time, together with Azul.
Tyler and Trokhuul were to be one of the last persons to get of the ship, while Jeff and his family, as always, went first.
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Tyler watched as group after group went to the land.
No signs of battle or anything ensured that the site was still human controlled land, making Tyler breathe much easier, something he had not done since the Rakata started the Invasion.
he finally could relax...
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Suddenly, an all too familiar sound came from the ocean behind them.
Tyler ran to the other side of the ship, and gazed at the same kind of small spaceships that had bombed his home, headed right for the ship.
Tyler's feet reacted instantly, and he sprang towards the other side of the ship to jump in the sea and swim across the water to the beach.
He was to late...
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Tyler heard a big explosion, but couldn't see what happened, as he was flung of the deck.
Tyler felt deep wounds and burn marks in his flesh, and he felt blood pour from his wounds, although his limbs and most of his bones seemed whole.
He landed in the sea, with a splash, the salt water burning his wounds, the burning pain from his wounds so strong, that he again fainted...
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From the burning wreckage of the ship, where screams of dying and drowning people was almost ear piercing, a tall, lone shadow emerged; it swam for its life towards the unconscious child named Tyler.
Trokhuul had seen kindness in the young human's heart, something the Rakata had not shown him ever since the occupation of Kashyyyk...
The child had freed him from slavery, and he had, as Azul apparently had earlier, pledged a life debt to the child, so now Trakhuul would to save him...
Trakhuul swam and swam, trying to reach the child, but the sea seemed to be against him.
The tides hit him hard, trying to make him turn around, but he wouldn't, the child's life being more important than his own...
Finally Trakhuul managed to reach the child, carrying his head above the rough sea, until they both finally reached the beach...
Trakhuul was greeted by the local troops, who took Tyler from him, and escorted Trakhuul to a transport, but Trakhuul didn't know where to...
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As the pain forces me into a new dream, the sound of fire and waves, as well as the screams of dying people, vanishes.
The floating feeling vanishes as well. The pain was still intense, so intense that I couldn't move...
Suddenly I start to hear a familiar voice
"Young one..." it said, pausing before continuing
"feel the flow of the force, feel its strength merge with you, healing you, repairing your bones, erasing the pain..."
I didn't quite understand what it was about, but I gave it a try, eventually finding some sort of numbing flow trying to escape my body.
I forced it back, sending it around my body, easing the pain more and more, until I didn't feel it any more.
I opened my eyes, and gazed into the same pure blue eyes as I had seen before.
The large reptile seemed like it was happy over what had happened, although how I knew that was a mystery.
"Remember that flow young one" he said
"it could save not only you, but others as well" he finished.
Suddenly the scenery changed again, and I dream regularly again...
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Azul watched as the ship burned to the ground, and her new master, and friend with it.
She felt the sorrow over loosing one of the few that treated her with respect, and she just wanted to jump in the sea after him, but couldn't.
She heard the screams of sorrow and surprise over the burning ships, but she only thought of her master.
Suddenly she saw something come up on the beach, it was Trakhuul, carrying something that leaked, she took a closer looked, and saw Tyler.
He was heavily wounded, and it seemed that if the bleeding wouldn't stop, then he would bleed to death.
Tyler was brought to a hospital close by, while both Azul and Trakhuul was to be jailed in what was known as Edinburgh, and while she didn't like the idea, she knew she had to do it.
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Tyler woke up again, in a white, dark room.
Tyler could see two other beds in front of him, one containing a person looking sick, and another that seemed to be close to death from both wounds and lack of blood.
This reminded Tyler of his own wounds, and looked at his body.
It looked like he had only minor injuries, with no scars after the larger ones, and the burns having vanished completely...
The dream he had really was not ordinary...
Tyler took a peek on his left side, and saw John, dying in the bed.
His right eye was bandaged, as well as the top of the head.
His left arm and leg were torn of, and he had only his pointing finger and thumb left of the right hand.
There were nothing left of his right foot, and he had suffered many other damages as well, his heavy breathing indicating that he would soon die.
Tyler felt sorry for him, but then he remembered what the reptile from his dreams had told him, and grabbed John's right hand, and did as he had been told, except instead of forcing it back, he let them through his hand, letting the calming sensation flow into John...
It was a miracle, the wounds Tyler could see disappeared into the bandages, and John's breathing seemed to become much calmer, and where it started to bleed, stopped immediately, and after around five minutes, it seemed as though John only needed a few more days before he could be let out.
Only mere scratches remained from what was gaping wounds, and there were, as with Tyler, no scars, except for the areas where he lacked body parts, where large scars were located...
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Tyler heard whispers in front of him, and turned to look at both a surprised nurse, and a shocked doctor.
Tyler wanted to explain what he did, he really did, but he didn't know really how he did it, so he just lay there, as speechless as the Doctor and nurse in front of him...
It took no longer than ten minutes before Scottish troops stormed in and arrested Tyler...
