Chapter 4 Cave of Commitment
Alexander beamed down and arrived at the fairgrounds in Risa. He tapped his badge.
"Alexander to Tari, "
Tari responded over communications, "Come in Alexander"
Alexander looked around. "Where are you?"
:Tari: "Hehe you have to find me."
:Alexander: "C'mon tell me."
:Tari: "I'm in a place I wanted to visit someday"
Alexander realized where she could be and looked toward that area
:Alexander: "Tari! Is that you? Near the Risa Love Caves?"
:Tari: "It's Me Alexander! Tara shouted back"
:Alexander: "I'm coming!"
Alex began running toward the caves upon meeting her, Alex lifted Tari up before being exhausted from his sprint. Tari laughed, lifting her arms into the air.
:Tari: "Haha, now that was definitely the highest I've gotten."
Alex caught his breath. The two began walking towards one of the caves.
While walking, Tari began saying, "You know, Alexander the Great, I've been thinking. I want this graduation trip to be about more than just leaving the academy" Tari grabbed Alexander's hand. "I want today to be my special day. I want to share it with you.
:Alexander: "Are you sure?"
:Tari: "I am if you are."
:Alexander: "Oh, I'm sure I just wanted to make sure you were-"
A Communication began buzzing through to Tari. It was her best friend, asking some last minute questions about her technical presentation tomorrow. Tari answered them and closed the communication.
"The first thing I need to do is disable our communication devices"
Tari takes communication device from Alexander and disables both devices.
Alexander: "Whatever you say, Future Chief Engineer Tari!"
They enter one of the love caves and are astounded by its beauty inside.
Alexander tries activating the combadge "Alexander to USS Enterprise?" After no response he continues "Yep, these communications are definitely off."
The cave began reacting to their words and movements with seductive lights, sensual smells, and erotic sounds.
Tari: "..and this cave is turning on"
They stand facing each other, holding hands, looking into one another's eyes. They both realize what they are about to get into, allowing the sound of the waves to drown out any apprehensions the might have.
"Are you ready for your first real kiss? "Alexander asks. He kisses her on the cheek, and Tari still look into his eyes, partly amused.
"You haven't seen nothing yet", he said, being more serious this time. He slowly goes in for a tongue kiss.
"Wait." Tari says, stopping him. "Before we continue, there's something I want you to do first"
"Sure anything" he replied.
"First, I want a proper Klingon wedding"
:Alexander: "A wedding? Right now?"
:Tari: "Sure, why not. Let's just imagine that his cave is the Chapel, and that the crashing waves is the sound of the crowd cheering us."
:Alexander: "Ok.. ok.."
:Tari: "Now all we need are rings. What can we use? Hmmm."
Tari sees Alex family ring on his finger. "What about that?"
:Alexander: "I don't think you want me to put this on your finger. It has a lot of strange tales behind it."
Alex sees her ring. "What about yours?"
"Oh no," Tari replied "My best friend gave me this ring many years ago. It wouldn't feel right for you to put her ring on me."
Alex notices the remote control wristband from before still on his wrist.
Alexander: "Hmm that's funny. We forgot to return these remote wristbands from earlier. Do you still have yours."
:Tari: "Yep. I'm going to return mine tomorrow morning."
:Tari: "Hey, these can be our covenant wristbands. Let's see if they still turn on."
They turn their wristbands on they begin to cause the cave to strobe in warm colors.
Alexander: "That's amazing!"
Tari: "Beautiful!"
They wave their arms around, causing the cave to glow in different color patterns.
"See" Tari says, "Even the cave knows we were meant to be. And we were meant to be here, today, together."
They embrace each other for a moment, and then Alexander continues.
"So I guess I'm the preacher"
Tari: "Hmm? …Oh right!" Tari gets back into the make-believe wedding that they are about to have. She starts getting excited Alex is getting into it. "Ok ok, I'll go outside the cave and will get ready for my processional."
She picks up some soft gem stones on her way out.
"These gems will be my bouquet. This is gonna be great!"
