Yeah I know it's been a long wait but not many people seem to read this so I hope no one minds too much.
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ALL THINGS NEW
Chapter 3: See a Face Light Up with Hope
The relative peace of the council chambers was shattered as Prince Pyrus burst through the doors at almost full speed. Followed shortly afterwards by Femur, Pelvis and Lavas at slightly more restrained paces.
"What have you discovered Tekla!" cried Pyrus, almost yelling in his excitement. Turning from her deliberations with Graveheart, Tekla turned her attention to the young fire prince. "If you take a seat I will tell all of you together in a moment."
Somewhat deflated, but still excited, Pyrus dashed around the table to his seat. Lavas moving around until he was just behind the princes' left shoulder. As the rest of the council took their seats Tekla called up a large scale holographic representation of the system they were approaching.
Immediately the room was bathed in deep red light from the massive red orb that was the system's dying sun. After their eyes had adjusted, however, Tekla zoomed in the image to draw their attention to a number of planets orbiting the behemoth sun.
"This is why I have called you here. This system may not be what we are looking for but these worlds are definitely useful to us," pausing to make sure she had everyone's attention Tekla resumed, "There are five planets in this system, four of them in particular are interesting to us. The final one is completely dead and worthless."
"Excluding the dead world all the planets in this system appear to have world engines, however if there were any previous civilisations on these worlds they have long since disappeared without discovering their world engines. It may seem incredible and unbelievable but there are 4 uninhabited worlds out there just waiting for us to make use of them." The room went quiet for a time while everyone considered the ramifications of this news.
It was Cryos who first broke the ensuing silence that greeted Tekla's words, "Perhaps it would be best before further speculation is undertaken for you to tell us about these planets." Pointing at one at random he said, "Perhaps start with that one."
With a few taps on the control panel the image zoomed in on that one planet and sheets of data appeared next to it. Barren as it was due to the high radiation levels the planet was remarkably suited to life. Judging from their records, which the computer displayed for comparison, it was in fact most similar to planet forest but minus the abundant plant life.
"Well that's clearly got to be mine don't you think baby?" said Femur when it seemed clear that everyone had spent sufficient time looking at the readouts. "Now hold on a minute Femur," said Cryos. However, before he could continue Tekla interrupted. "Actually Cryos, it is my recommendation that the government of Bone be put in charge of dealing with this planet. They have the most experience with growing food and we are beginning to need that more and more as other resources become strained."
Before an argument could be voiced though Tekla entered another command and the remaining three planets zoomed up to dominate the room. The three fiery worlds filled the room and blocked out all other thoughts as the company watched massive volcanic eruptions spurt glowing lava high into the air to create fiery clouds.
Tekla smiled in amusement as she watched the Prince's face light up, both literally and figuratively speaking. He looked at Tekla, "Are you serious about this?" All Tekla could do was smile and nod. "It is a great responsibility though, as the people of fire you could be allowed control over all three worlds but you would be charged with providing for all the alliances energy needs and these worlds are dangerous, you will need to be careful settling them."
"I don't care, finally a new home for my people. That's all that matters now." Graveheart adjourned the council and Pyrus shot off before anyone could even think the word go. As Tekla and Graveheart went aside and Femur left to plan for his new world Lavas quite suddenly found himself alone with only Cryos for company.
Walking over to Lavas, Cryos reached into his pocket and withdrew something concealed within his hand. "Stay close by your prince and hold onto this for the future, he may need it sooner than you might think." Gently clasping hands, Cryos handed Lavas the object and walked out of the room, of all of them he seemed the least surprised by these discoveries…
Clenching the object firmly in his fist Lavas left the council room and ran back to Smoke. His prince was going to need someone to look after him it seemed.
Sorry forgive me! I know I just gave Pyrus not one, or two even, but three whole planets! I just like him soo much and I felt sorry for him. It'll be for good reason later in the story though I promise. :D
I know it's short but this one was supposed to be. (And it's 2 in the morning and I really can't write more :P)
I'm feeling very discouraged at the moment with the lack of reviews though. Do you think I could get just one measely little review. Pretty please? puppy dog eyes