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Chapter 3: the hunting party
The sky was blue and the air was clean. In the middle of the forest stood a stargate which was open for the moment, letting 8 people coming through. The eight people stood aside each other debating about what to do. After a couple of minutes they seemed to agree and one of the man started installing some kind of device.
"oke... it wil be online in 3...2...1... now. Can someone dubblecheck that?" Eli asked as he pushed some buttons.
" Eh... Rush responded 'working' so it's working" Scott answered.
"Good then we're all set to go." Eli said as he took the psp from Scott. "luckily I took this one with me"
"Seems someone likes to play games" Scott said as he glanced at the psp.
"yeah but it doesn't only play games, it can access Internet too and after adapting it it can now receive messages from the chat." Eli said as he brightened up.
The other six had already walked away and Eli and Scott had to run to keep up. Eli knew that the military didn't care about his whole chat thing but they didn't know that it was the way to communicate with the Destiny. There was just one problem. The gate had to be open to communicate. For now that was the case and the Destiny kept sending information to them about the air, the surrounding water and what eatable stuff looked like and other ways to recognise it. A kino had also followed Eli but now hovered around the first man. It was a easy mission. Just get the food and get back. Yet you never knew when something was going to happen. the little camera on his psp made pictures too but the Destiny said they were quite vague and so the kino came with them. Eli pointed his psp at one of the plants on the road. Instantly the kino came to him and took a look at the plant. The psp beeped and the chat came online again. Survivalshope send him a lot of data around the plant.
"Hey guys, these plants berries are safe to eat. They should taste like raspberries." Eli shouted at the group soldiers who in responds stopped in their tracks and started plucking them. "told you it would come in handy" Eli said cheery as he scanned the next plant and then a fleeing animal. "Seems we can hunt here. Can't wait to eat meat again." Greers twinkle in his eyes didn't go unnoticed by the rest of the group. "alright, we build up camp here" Scott said, thinking about the next decision again. "permission to hunt, sir?" Greer asked as he looked like a kid in a candystore. "After making the camp you may hunt as much as you like Sergeant" Scott said and Greer rushed off with his tent and spreading it out already as Scott had said his last words.
Rush: Seems you have already found many things.
mathboy: yes we did... your screen-name: of all the things to choose you just put Rush(!)?
Rush: so what if I don't have any good nickname. Anyway Young is wondering how you know about those plants.
mathboy: You mean that he's close to finding out.
Rush: exactly my point. Unless we cover this up.
Survivalshope: you don't have to. I don't see a problem with showing my presence.
mathboy: are you sure? a lot of people will interfere then.
Rush: Not to speak about orders.
Survivalshope: Orders about what? I can't even control my own flightpath. I believe that keeping this a secret would only make you guys look bad.
mathboy: point there.
Rush: Anyway I wanted to discus something else. It seems that this planet wasn't chosen solemnly for supplies. Destiny just told me but I leave the honor to tell you to her.
Survivalshope: thank you. It's true what Nicolas says. There's a second reason.
mathboy: (Nicolas? since when did we start on first name basis) oke and that reason is?
Survivalshope: ( since I have no last name and I don't call you Wallace, now do I? so why should Nicolas being called by his last name?) The reason is...
mathboy: Yes... waiting here.
Rush: people...eh and space craft... don't bicker like two old granny, just tell him. (Rush or ... Nicolas... It doesn't matter alright!)
Survivalshope: alright,alright... The second reason is that there's another presence on that planet and it is in trouble. I believe we should come to its aid.
mathboy: presence? it? Are we talking about an animal here?
Survivalshope: It has a human form like you yet I cannot determine if it's female or male.
Rush: Destiny has made it very clear to me that this person is important. She says she recognised it and it has to be recovered.
mathboy: With other words: get it out of trouble and aboard of the Destiny.
Survivalshope: that's exactly what I'm saying.
mathboy: Alright that the next target then.
Rush: Remember 3 days tops. then we jump back to FTL.
Survivalshope: It is close by. You should find it in three days time.
mathboy: yes, yes, I shall take a look for 'it'.
Survivalshope: so shall I and the kino.
With that Eli went offline and letthe gate shut down. the destiny would see the footage of the kino later when he opened the gate again. How the hell would he find this person with the rest of the team on his back. he didn't want to raise suspicion. And even if he could sneak out and find this person than there is still the possible danger this person would be in and needed rescuing from. This wasn't his sort of thing. He was only here to experiment with the chat-application.
"Hey kid, your tent isn't up yet." Greer said as he walked up to Eli who hadn't noticed him at first.
"You know, you can actually scare the crap out of people that way." Eli said as he turned around to face Greer.
"Never seen that in reality... or have I? Anyway, the hunt may only start if all the tents are up." Greers eyes twinkled at the thought of a hunt.
"oh yeah, the hunt... sure, I'll start unpacking in a sec." Eli said as a thought struck him. "Say, are you the only going hunting?"
"nah, Scott comes too and a couple of others. Why you wanna know?"
"just interested... You know seeing everyone in action, bit of social bonding or something, catching something to eat here and there." Eli answered as he shrugged.
Greers eyebrow went up as if he questioned that. "Didn't think you were that kind of guy. Have you ever hunted before?"
"Eh... no, not really but I have a stable hand in games. Never miss my target." Eli said, hoping that was enough to join.
"This isn't game kid. Don't you ... I don't know but something else to do? Something scientifically." Greer said, dismissing Eli from the hunt.
"... I guess" Eli said staring at the ground.
"Look, It's not that I don't think your qualified for this, It's just ... you always have a lot to do and a thousand things at once. Maybe you should work ahead or something. Also you seem to know what save to eat and what not. That's very handy. now , get that tent up and then we take care of our diner." Greer said as he left.
"yeah..."
It was not that the hunt exited him that much but it had been a great opportunity to explore and search for this person. He even would have had backup for this problem that lay ahead of him. But apparently Sergeant Greer had already dismissed him from this opportunity. Was that all? Was that all he could do? Eli thought to himself. There had to be a way. he would search until he had the solution... but what?
As Eli positioned his tent next to the others, forming a circle with in the middle some space to make a campfire and sit around it, he thought about his problem. This also meant that he didn't pay much attention to what he was doing, causing him to struggle with pins, sticks and a hammer. At a sudden moment he even hit his thump with the hammer. That was it! He had enough of this! Just as Eli wanted to throw the hammer into the deep forest Scott came by.
"need some help?" He offered
"please...I could use a hand." Eli said desperate.
"I even have two for you" Scott said joking as he joined Eli and took the hammer from him, slamming the nails into the ground.
Eli smiled a bit. "Thanks...I didn't have a lesson in building up camp in high school."
"pity... the camps were always the funnest part of my vacation." Scott answered. "Making fun with the others and arguing with our camp leaders until they collapsed and we had free play."
Eli looked at him with a questionable look.
"oke... we never went that far but it sure was one of my ideas that time." Scott said laughing, hitting another nail.
"sounds like fun though" Eli answered.
"hé, you could make up for that lost time now... although now I'm the leader. If you let me collapse..." Scott said with a fake thread.
"oh... I wouldn't dare" Eli said with a laugh to make up for the hidden challenge in that sentence.
"so... that's almost done. Greer will be happy." Scott said as he hit the last nail.
"oh yeah, that hunting thing right?" Eli asked innocently.
"yep, He has his eye on the taste of meat again. He says it's irreplaceable. I have to say that I like the idea of some real food too, a nice piece of rabbit or deer or something." Scott said while staring into the distance.
"sure sounds good. Say, need another man? " Eli said as if the thought just entered his mind.
Scott looked surprised at him. "didn't know you had hunting skills. Guess everyone has a sort of band with nature."
"yeah, guess so... so can I join?" Eli said, hoping he had that shine in his eyes that he had seen in Greers eyes.
"eh...yeah why not? Who knows what kind of skills you have been hiding from us." Scott said with a shrug.
"cool" Eli answered as he smiled in his thoughts. This was going to work.
"Alright, I'll inform Greer that the hunting can start. We are going to head north. Join us in a moment oké. Oh and ... take what you need for the trip. It could be that there's not drinkable water there." Scott said already taking his leave.
"Alright" Eli said as he looked at his tent, finally standing.
The tip of the water was a good one. It was not that there was no drinkable water but all the footprints of possible animals lead into the deep jungle and thus away from any water. On top of that hunting was a sport which was underestimated by Eli. The military personnel was trained to walk at a high speed for an hour or so before being tired. Eli was sweating all over and he didn't feel his legs anymore, which was probably better than what he was going to feel the next morning. When Greer had seen a sort of deer jump away into the wilderness the tempo was even raised higher causing Eli to fall back. He tried to keep up but he just couldn't get enough oxygen to his muscles to get the job done. He then heard a couple of shots and a few seconds after that a roar and a laugh.
"We actually caught it!" It was clearly a shout of happiness and judging the voice it was Scott.
Eli finally got to the other people, who all stood around the shot deer. Greer was smiling with that scary 'I did it, don't even try to get me down' look.
"Told you that it was our dinner running there" Greer said, apparently answering Scotts shout."alright let's go find another one of those or a whole herd." Greer said, clearly excited.
"eh, guys... What about this one? Are we going to drag it along?" Eli asked sheepishly.
"guess not...Let two people get back with it to the camp." Scott said. "any volunteers?" he asked after that and it seemed to Eli as if he was targeted.
"hé, can we walk another way. My water is almost up." Eli said.
"We go were our prey goes and that isn't the water" Greer answered looking Eli strait in the eye, challenging him to say otherwise. "perhaps you should head back to the camp with that one. You can choose how you go back."
"Alright then but I'm making a detour towards the river." Eli said.
"Alright who joins Eli?" Scott looked at all of his people in the eyes, checking there readiness.
"Sir, I'll head back with Eli" Darren Becker, the cook of the Destiny and soldier under Scott, stepped up.
Scott nodded "very well. Make that dinner we spoke of" He said with a smile.
"Sir, yes sir" Darren posed, also with a smile on his face.
Darren gave his rifle to Eli and then lifted the deer onto his shoulders. "Be careful with that, alright, can't carry both." He said to Eli with a nod, pointing at the rifle. Eli nodded and together they began on their way back to the camp with a detour. Darren seemed to be good at finding tracks as they had to use them to find their way back. When they reached the river Eli filled his flask, masking the fact that it wasn't really empty. He just wanted to cover more ground to find this person that would be in trouble.
"let's follow the water back to the camp" Eli suggested.
"alright... eh Eli, the camp is that way." Darren said as he turned Eli around.
"eh...right, I knew that." It seemed to Eli that the kino shot the whole action with pleasure.
As they walked along the river in silent the two of them made some small talk. They never really talked to each other but it seemed that Darren was quite a nice person to talk too. He didn't go that much off-world and he was glad that he had accompanied this team to this planet. It sure was a nice planet and it reminded him of his camps in his past.
"what's this about camps today? You're already the second person who talked about that today." Eli exclaimed.
"Surely you agree don't you. The forest, the campfire, the surviving... it's all here as it is on camp." Darren said with a huff. "Eli, do you mind making a break for several minutes." He tossed the deer on the ground.
"oh right, yeah ofcours... I have never camped before so I wouldn't know" Eli went on as the seated themselves on the grass.
"Guess that not everyone likes it." Darren said with a shrug.
"oh, no it's not like that. I just didn't have the time or the opportunity to go on a camping-trip." Eli explained.
"so, it's your first time? Well, at least you choose a good planet to do it on. I mean now we can properly introduce you to nature." Darren smiled as a thought seemed to come to his mind but he didn't share it.
"guess so. Say, did you actually have a different training to be cook?" Eli asked. He had wondered about that for a long time now.
"nah... they chose me because I always did my own cooking even when I was still in training. I like to cook, don't know why though." Darren said with another shrug.
"and... wait do you hear that too?" Eli just wanted to ask his next question as a sound distracted him.
"hear what exactly?" Darren said although he seemed alerted. He motioned for his rifle and Eli handed it to him.
"it's... humming or singing... yeah, singing." Eli said as he searched for the source. "there! It's a girl" Eli said as he pointed down the river.
A girl, around 17 or 18, came towards the river and putted off her shoes and began washing her feet. She was singing something in a foreign language. Her hear was half-long and brown and curly. She wore a light-green top and a darker green skirt. She also seemed to have something that looked as a bag, made out of some animals fur. She opened it and took a coconut-like fruit out it. She opened easily and it was hollow. She took some white creamy stuff out of it and smeared it on her feet that she had token out of the water. Then she took a long leaf out of the bag and a piece of rope and bound it both around her feet, over the stuff. She stood up but didn't put any pressure on the foot.
"she's hurt" Eli whispered "and she doesn't seem like a thread. She's...human."
"yeah, or at least human-like." Darren said to Eli as they slowly approached, hidden by some trees.
"look, she gather some fruits from those bushes. She knows the plantlife around here. An inhabitant?"
"possibly, question is: is she friendly or not?" Darren said as he stopped moving for there were no more trees or bushes to hide behind.
"Maybe we should try to communicate." Eli suggested.
"I didn't understand a word from what she was saying earlier on." Darren said "and thereby maybe she's hostile."
Eli wondered if this was the person he was supposed to find. He tried the chat but the gate was closed so there was no connection. 'damn' he cursed.
"were did she go?" Darren said, breaking Eli's concentration and so he looked up. She was indeed gone.
Suddenly there was a yell and the girl came back in view. She ran swiftly and took her bag, yet she tripped and fell. Behind her two familiar blue creatures out of the woods. They hissed at her are turned their weapons at her. She hissed something back but it only seemed to anger the two others. They came closer to her and she spit at them. The two took a step back but approached again. The girl took something out her bag and threw it at them. It opened and whatever it was containing flew over one of the creatures. It screamed and seemed to melt into a puddle blue goe. The other one fired at her but she jumped away, causing her to land into the water. "Natah, jeto noe matha" she yelled as she stood in the river, ignoring the current of the water dancing around her feet.
"wait a minute. That was ancient!" Eli almost shouted it.
"be silent you" Darren hissed as he putted a hand on Eli's mouth.
Eli nodded and Darren took his hand away. "she just warned the blue one. She said: don't, You will be killed." Eli whispered.
"your saying she an enemy of them?" Darren asked.
Eli nodded.
The blue alien laughed with a cracking sound in it. Suddenly more of those aliens appeared out of the wood. They looked at the puddle and didn't seemed pleased. Most of them target the girl with their guns. She jumped away and ran then towards Eli and Darren. The aliens came after her, releasing one shot after another.
"oh oh" Eli said as he saw the scene coming closer and closer. "what do we do?"
"I believe there's that phrase: the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Darren said as he pointed his rifle to the blue aliens.
"alright... what do I do?" Eli now asked and Darren tossed him his handgun and bullets.
"six shots, then reload and put the safe off and shoot six times again." Darren explained quickly.
"eh...oke"
"on three...one, two , three, now"
ho... cliffhanger! (I know, I'm mean)
a fight is approaching. Soon there will be more (the more reviews, the faster. so hit that button... pretty please)
oh and a list of ancient will be putt down here, although now there wasn't that much ancient now. It will be update with each chapter (put it under each chapter). It contains words that I haven't used yet but anyway here it is:
Ancient - English
Natah - no
jetoe - you
matha - dood
adirent - help
compradi - understand
Oda - yes
qouta- ask
metoe - me, I
aqcepto - comply
danura - welcome
monta - now
neghu - never
eghu - ever
jurne - today
pero - talk
lac - like ( you talk like me)
fetas - female