Guardians of the Galaxy .6 Dangers of Moatoob.
I was in our old house,how did I get here?I saw a woman sitting in a chair rocking back and forth,a man stood behind her.Both of them were Newmans that had black hair like mine.A young boy stood next to his mother trying to see what she held.It was a baby girl,I relized that the baby was me,the woman was Mother,the boy was Kollam,and the man...was Father.He looked kindly at me -not the baby me.
"Hello Kitten."He beemed at me,I remembered Father used to always call me that.I was his little kitten.
Mother rocked me and was singing.I smiled as I looked at the baby me.Then as I looked back at father my world went blank.I had woke up,I had been having the same dream for some time now,I took a heart shaped locket off my book shelf and opened it.A hologram appered and clearly you could see the family poseing for the shot.I was only a baby when the hologram was made.
Father had his arm around Mother and his other hand was on top of Kollam's small head.I was in a small pink baby blanket as Mother held me close to her heart.
This was a birthday gift Kollam had given me one year,I looked at it longingly when I noticed Raye looking over my shoulder.
I yipped in surprise,I wasn't expecting Raye at that moment."That your family?You do look like that man there."He pointed at my father,Geegee flew over and saw the hologram."Who are those people Minore?"She beeped,she had became a very curious little bot.
"This is a hologram of my family Geegee...I guess I do look like my father..."I slowly closed the locket,turning off the hologram."Geegee,how long till we depart for Moatoob?"I asked her.
"Exactly 5 hours,36 minutes,and 26 seconds.The GUARDIANS president has orrdered that all GUARDIANS are to travle in a group of two or more due to the danger of the dangerious rogue Kyo Harashoe."She informed us both.
"Well we should get ready then.I'll head over to my room and have Zion fix me up some more Trimates."Raye walked towards the door before Geegee flew infront of him."Excuse me sir,but an orrder has bee-"
Raye put his hand up."I know,my room is right next door Geegee.So don't get you wires in a knot!"He teased Geegee as he walked out.
"I think Raye is a little too cogy."Geegee beeped,I giggled as she flew over to me.
"Its cocky Geegee,not cogy."I smiled at her,for a robot she sure had spunk.I walked into my dressing room and changed out of my pj's and into my Gojo outfit,I was lucky that it wasn't ruined when we battled Kyo.
"That is a lovely outfit Minore."I smiled at her,then I heard a knock on my door,The door slid open and both Fuma and Felix were there.
"Yo Minore,how ya feeling?"Fuma waved,Felix winked at me."We wanted to come and check on you.And you look like your doing just fine."He smiled,Fuma tapped his foot."Hey where is Raye anyway?That little scamp better not keep us waiting again!"He shrugged before Raye tripped over him -He had just came out of his room and Fuma was in his blind spot.
"Hey watch it ya big klutz!"Fuma snapped at Raye.
"Nice to see you too Fuma."He said as he picked himself off the floor.Fuma just glared and huffed at him.
"Ok we have a great deal of time to pass,there's a hand-to-hand combat arena here on the Colony for GUARDIANS to use.I was thinking about taking you all there."Felix chuckled.Raye let out a big grin.
"So we fight simulated SEED or stuff like that?Sweet!"Raye always enjoyed fighting,guess its a guy thing.Felix had a sly grin on his face now.
"You'll see when we get there.Its right this way."We fallowed Felix through the alleys,it was like a maze in there!But we soon found ourselves at the enterance of the arena,once inside I a large battle mat in the middle of the room.
"Raye and Minore,go grab a weapon and fight!"Both me and Raye looked at one another.
"What!?Wait,why are we fighting each other?I'm not fighting a girl."He crossed his arms,Fuma laughed.
"Haha!Whats the matter Raye?Your not scared are you?"He nudged Raye with his elbow.
"Am not!I just don't wanna hurt her,thats all."Pathetic excuse Raye,pathetic excuse.
"Raye I am not a weakling!I can take you on!Or are you just scared of getting your butt kicked by a girl?"I smirked,if there's one thing I know about Raye,its that he has one BIG ego.
He glared and picked out a wooden sword,just a regular one,not like the large one he normally uses.I did the same and also took the same weapon."Hehehe this is gonna be good!"Fuma smirked as Felix signaled for us to begin fighting.
Raye ran at me,I side stepped him and blocked his sword as he swung around,then I tried to trip Raye but he backed up before my leg could side-swip his.I lept up and summer-salted over his head and behind him and kicked him in the back,making him stumble but he didn't fall.
He spun around and slashed at me,I dodged it and our swords clashed again.He may have a strangth advantage over me,but I was faster and more agile than him,so I had that much.The fight was fun though.
My body bent backwards as Raye started to use his own power to try and push me over,we got face to face as his sword started sliding down mine.It was hard but I managed to knock him away,back flipped to a safer disance and then lunged at him.
"Slow poke!"I yelled as I side-stepped his attack and knocked his sword out of his hand,then I pointed the tip of my blade at his neck.He took a big gulp,both of us were panting hard.
"AWW C'mon!Maaan there goes twenty bucks!"Fuma whined,Felix had a huge grin on his face,they had been betting on us haven't they?
"Well done Minore!Raye you need to get a little faster,strangth won't get you nowhere if your foe can attack faster than you can."
Raye sighed."I got my butt kicked by a girl...And that girl was Minore!"I giggled,I may not ba able to beat him at an arm wrestle match,but I'm a better swords-woman!
After we had finished fighting,we relized that it was already time to go!so we all had to run to catch the G-Flyer.We boarded the ship.I had the window seat and Raye sat next to me,with only a few more minutes I was exited to be going to Moatoob.
"So whats it like there?"I asked Raye,Fuma and Felix sat a few seats ahead of us,too far for me to ask them.
"Which part?The dessert or swamp parts?""Both.I've never been there and you've lived there.I'm just curious."He smirked at me"Well the swamp area is very lush in conterast to the dessert parts.Wet too,the trees are huge,some grow to 400 to 500 feet.Rarely will you find a dry place,but they are beautiful.Floral plants are very common,except the Moatoob wild passion flower."
That sparked my interest.A Moatoob passion flower is said to be the most beautiful flower in the entire Gurhal system,and the rarest.I've always wanted to see one,but they can't be artifically made,and even if some are,they are never as beautiful as the real ones.
"The dessert areas are very dry and harsh.Large canyons that can be seen all the way from the Colony cover the planet,and rarely will you find any plant life there,and caverns you could easily get lost in.Moatoob is beautiful,but dangerious.Moatoob is a planet rich with minerals that you could easily find and get rich from.Thats why rogues are found mostly on Moatoob."I looked out my window as we lifted off and on our way to Moatoob.
We landed soon,as soon as I left the PPT station the planet looked like it was factory,like a mine or somthing like it.Tall mechinery towered all over the place,crates and boxes were everywhere,just 15 ft away was a large canyon filled with caverns and caves.Clouds filled the air.
"Alright now,stay together and don't get lost."Felix told us all."The reson we are here is because a strange sygnal has been found somwhere in the Dazin Swamps,we don't know what it is and we're being sent to investagate it.It may be a downed satalight,or maybe a distress sygnal.Now c'mon,lets hurry and get to the Flyer base."Felix pointed towards the base and we made our way there.
We were to take a G-Flyer that Felix would be flying,Fuma the co-pilot.Raye started bugging me as soon as we sat down.
"Hey,Minore I hope your not scared of bugs..Because Moatoob swamps are full of them!"I rolled my eyes."I'm not scared of bugs Raye.If I leave them alone then they'll leave me alone."He smirked,what was he thinking of?
"Oh don't be too sure Minore.Leaches are all over the place,they'd just love to hunt you down!"Ewww,there is NOTHING grosser than leaches.
"And boy can they get big!"He got out a leach card(Colector cards can project life-sized holograms of the animal the card depicts)and turned on a hologram of a huge,slimy,black,totally gross leach!I didn't know they could get THAT big!It was a whole two feet long!
Raye pressed a botton on the card,and that stupid thing looked like it was about to jump ON me!I let out a small shreak,I couyld have down right strangled Raye!
"EEEP!RAYE you get that thing away from me!!"I swated the card from his hand,he bursted into laughter.
"AHAHA I thought you said your not scared of bugs Minore!"He laughed and I glared at him.
"Raye a leach is not a bug!And you know it!"He only laughed harder,I was just about to strangle the life out of him!"Haa!Man you should have seen your face!Eeep!Raye you get that thing away from me!HAHA!"He tried to copy me in a high pitched tone.
"Oh put a cork in it!"And I stuffed my hankerchif right in that big mouth of his!He gagged on it and spat it out.
"Hey don't make me come back there!"Fuma teased,Felix saw what I did and started laughing his head off!Raye kept his mouth shut after that.
While we were flying over the swamps,Raye was right though,this place was beautiful,the trees were so tall,we flew just over them.Then we heard a loud blast on the right side of our ship.
"Rogues!There fighting amongst each other!And we're in the cross fire!"Explosions everywhere,I saw two rogue ships fireing at one another,then our ship started to spiral.
Felix was trying his best to stay out of the deadly lazer beams that came so very close to hitting our ship.I covered my ears as a loud BOOM rocked the ship.
"We've been hit!Every one,get to the escape hatch!"Felix unbuckled from his seat.The left wing had been hit and we started to desend.Fuma opened the hatch and gave us all parashoots.
Felix and Fuma jumped first..but I froze.The land under us was going by so fast,I lost sight of Felix and Fuma.
"Minore jump!"He yelled at me.
"I-I can't!I don't know how to use a shoot!"I was scared,I didn't know what to do ether,the trees were getting closer,very fast.
Sudenly Raye grabbed by my waist and jumped out and let his shoot out.I held on to him for dear life!I had a small fear of hights that now had become a big fear.He had one hand on a rope guiding the shoot and another around me holding me in place,but the fight between the rogues was still on and a lazer blast missed me and Raye,but it hit the shoot and it caught fire.
"NO NO NO!"Raye tried to keep the shoot stabalized but we started falling faster towards the jungle and swamps below.I saw trees fly past us as we fell.The ropes caught a branch and we jerked to a stop,and I fell out of Raye's grip,all I held onto now was his hand.
"R-RAYE!"We hung there dangling high in the trees -which were larger than any tree known to your world.
Raye looked around,I stared him in the face,I was scared out of my wits!"Minore,I'm going to let go!"He told me.
"What?No don't let go!"I yelled at him,I didn't dare look down.
"Minore trust me.There's a limb just a few feet under you."He said calmly,I decided to,so I nodded and he let go,my heart skipped a few beats as I fell,I landed on a limb the size of a one-way street -but not gently- I felt a sharp pain in my right ankle,I yellped in pain as I tried to stand up but fell back on my rear.I look up to see Raye pull out a poket knife and cut himself lose and fell,he landed next to me.
"Minore,you ok?"We both had cuts and bruses all over our bodies."Yeah I'm ok..But I think my ankle is broken."He bent down to take a look,he took my ankle and gently felt along it,when he reached the sorce of pain I couldn't help but flinch at the sharp pain.
"Yeah its broke alright,it must have happened in the fall."He felt it some more."In three places too..My TECHNICs arin't good enough to heal broken bones yet."He softly laid my foot down,my TECHNICs weren't that good ether,bones are different from flesh,they are a lot more comlicated and if the TECHNIC isn't done right it could do more harm than good.
The giant trees that surounded us had bunches of moss growing on the,they looked like greenish gray drapes as they hung.Large vines reached from the tree tops all the way to the bottom of the swamp,some vines I mistook for trees due to thier large width.I looked over the edge of the limb we were standing on and saw the floor wasn't too far down,thirty feet at best.
"How are we going to get down..We have to find shelter before night fall or we'll be sitting ducks out here."Raye stood up and looked around."There.Those limbs and vines look like they are close enough that we could jump down on them safely."He pointed to a tree that had vines wraped tightly around it and the branches that criss crossed one another,somwhat like a ladder,only the branches were about six to seven feet apart from one another.
"Raye,what about my ankle?I'm not even able to stand on this foot,let alone jump!"I said irritably,there he goes again,not thinking things through.
"Easy!I'll just carry you on my back.I grew up in a place sorta like this."I didn't like the sound of that.
"Sorta?"He rubbed the back of his neck.
"Well the trees were a LOT smaller and I had a rope ladder hannging on one tree that I would swing on.But it should be the same thing.Don't worry."He walked over and bent down so I could climb onto his back.
"Drop me once and I'l-"He didn't let me finish before he started running down the branch of the tree very fast,a little too fast considering how high we were!
I grabed his shoulders so I wouldn't fall off."Hold on tight!"Then the idot started jumping down the limbs with out looking!
"Are you trying to kill us both!?"He only smirked at my frantic screaming.
"Don't worry Minore!My Dad taught me this!"And he continued to jump down at a neck breaking pace.
Then Raye lost his footing on the fourth limb from the ground and we fell into the swamp water.
Water rushed up my nose and lungs,it took about two seconds for me to relize I was sinking,I had let go of Raye.The water was so dirty I couldn't see a thing,my body felt heavy,I didn't know which way was to the surface.
I saw somthing swiming towards me,when it was close enough I saw it was Raye,I tried to move but I couldn't feel a thing,except the pain in my foot.He Grabbed hold of me and started swiming back up,I couldn't see how he knew which way the suface was,algie covered the water so much that you couldn't see where the light came from.
Then we bursted through the water,Raye tried to keep me above the water,but I still couldn't breath,hear,or see.I swallowed too much water -and I think I swallowed a small fish too...Eww!
I could feel him lift me up on a giant lily pad -it was about the size of a small car.Then I started coughing the water out of my lungs,I felt like the water was still coming out even when I wasn't coughing.I turned over and started taking large gulps of air,I looked at Raye.
"You ok?"He looked worried,I laid down on my stomach.
"You idot...You could have killed us both!"I was still trying to catch my breath."I'll take that as a yes then."He chuckled,I lifted myself up and shoved him into the water,he went in with a big splash.
"I told you not to drop me!"I smirked,surves him right!He grabbed the pad.
"Ehehe Well I didn't expect to fall!Guess I had that coming!"He climbed back up,I had half a mind to push him again.
"Theres a giant root system over there,we should be able to get shelter there."Raye stated,I looked over and saw at the base of a single tree that looked to be over thousands of years old,hundereds of giant roots the criss crossed like giant arches rising out of the water,it looked like there was no land anywhere there.I wonder how deep the water was at that tree.
"We'll have to swim to it.Think you can make it?"He asked me,I looked at my foot."Maybe..My foot wont stop hurting though."Raye looked at my foot and then at the old tree.
"Looks like we're going to have to get wet again."He sighed,I looked up to the sky and saw the sky was turning orange red.
Sunset..And soon nightfall."We'd best hurry then.Monsters like to hunt at night more than the day,right?"I asked him,he only looked into the water.
"Some do,mainly the more dangerious ones.Lets go."I nodded and Raye went into the water first,then I fallowed him,but when I tried to kick my foot felt like it was on fire!I quickly grabbed onto the lily pad.
"Whats wrong?"Raye swam closer to me."Here,lemme give you a hand."Before I could say other wise,Raye pulled me away from the pad and swam towards the giant tree.
Raye had found a root that was low enough for use to climb up on,it was also under a whole mess of larger roots too,we used that for cover.He started a fire going and then started pushing buttons on his transformer untill he found a Trimate.
"This should heal your foot Minore."A lot of my stuff fell out of my nanotransformer during the fall,all I had left were my weapons,my GUARDIANS gear,and some food.Raye placed the Trimate on my ankle and the photon energy did its work,my foot was healed fully.I let out a sigh.
"This was suposed to be an regular mission..How did this happen."I looked into the fire,it danced and flared as a few glowing red ashes flew into the air,night had fallen and the temprature had dropped.Being a Newman born on Nuediaz I'm used to warmer climate,not low tempratures,I rubbed my arms and legs hard as I shivered,I still was very wet,and I had nothing to lean against so my back was very cold and my front was warmed by the fire.I bit my lip and tried to ignor the chill down my spine -but it was hard to do.
Then I felt somthing being draped over my back very carefully,I look to see what it was -Raye had taken his shirt and placed it over me."Your shaking pretty bad."I looked at him and then his shirt.
"Raye..I don't need this as much as you."He only smiled and sat down next to me with a sigh."I'm a Beast,we're used to cold climate.It doesn't bother me."I still didn't know why he had done it,but I pulled it tighter,then I looked up through a hole in the roots,it was a very clear night.
"The stars look so beautiful here...Its so clear tonight."Raye looked up too.The stars shimmered and sparkled.I started thinking about Kollam.What would he do if I died here?I wraped my arms around my legs tightly,I felt Raye put his hand on my shoulder,I looked up at him.
"We'll make it out Minore.Don't worry about a thing."He was worried a little too,I could hear it in his voice.
"How can you be so sure Raye..We lost contact with Felix and Fuma,they could be dead for all we know!We won't be able to send out a flare because of rogues could see us!We coul-"Raye cut me off by grabbing both my shoulders and having me face him so he could look me in the eyes.
"Minore calm down!Felix and Fuma both are fine.They can take care of themselves.Our best chance of getting out of here is to head for the dessert and try to sygnal a ship or somthing,and hope rogues don't see us first...But you need to stop worrying so much."He had a firm but gentle grip on my shoulders and his voice was stict,but soft at the same time,he was probably right though.
Felix isn't a weak old man,he's one of the strongest Beasts I've known so far.And Fuma,well he wouldn't let nothing get him down,I'd bet he'd face a Omagogh by himself if he wanted to.
But I had to worry about the rogues though,after seeing those two rogue ships battling it out,who knows who many more are around here..
Raye relesed my shoulders."My dad taught me all about the Moatoob swamps,he taught me all about what can heal you and what can hurt you..Well make it through,don't worry your little head off ok?"Suddenly he stood up,his ears twitched and he looked around for somthing.
"Wha-"I started,but he quickly covered my mouth with his hand."Stay still.."He got down on his knees slowly,as if he knew somthing was near by as he stared up at a giant root over our heads,it took me a while but I heard a feint clicking -it that sounded like it was made in the back of the throat of somthing,then more clicking.
Raye pulled out a plastic stick that had non-glowing photons in it,then he shook it and lightly tapped it on his knee and a bright flash came from the stick and the faint clicking quickly became loud hisses and snaps.
I like to jump out of my clothes when I saw the whole giant root covered with strange lizard-like animals crawling all over the root,many ran and hid from the light while some acted as if nothing happened.
"Kleko (klee-ko) Lizards..Highly dangerious and fangs are laced with venom strong enough to kill a dozen Koltova,they hunt only at night and in packs."It looked like a Kemodo dragon,but they had frills going down thier backs that started from the top of thier heads and ended at the tips of thier tails,and they had a bunch of sharp teeth,the longest teeth would stick out some giving them a more dangerious look to them,they had huge eyes with slits for pupils,good for seeing in the dark Moatoob swamps.They were grayish in color but thier frills were green with mossy colored spots.
"Why are they not attacking?"I wispered as Raye watched them carefully."Because of the fire.Thier eye site is so keen in the dark it hurts thier eyes.."
One young Kleko jumped down and landed only a few feet away from us,the toxic venom dripped from its fangs as it walked closer,Raye sudenly had put his arm around me in a protective way,which surprised me a little.
The Kleko came a little closer but its head whipped away as the light was too bright for it to handle and it hurried back up the roots with the other strange creatures.Raye held me closer as some started growling,snapping,hissing,and other sounds.
Then a bloody Kleko body fell from the root as many lept down and started to eat the dead corpse.
"Thier canibles?"Raye hid my face in his chest so that I didn't see what happened next,I heard a frenzy of painfull cries,loud hisses,snarls and roars,it sounded like a bloody feeding frenzy had broken out,my stomache turned.
I was glad Raye hid my face,I didn't want to see all the terrible carnage,I would have probably screamed.
"Minore listen...They wont attack us..not with this much fresh meat now.We're safe for now."I nodded."Although you could smother me a little less.."I muffled,he jumped a bit and losened his grip,but he still didn't let go,I managed to catch a glimps of the on-slaught.
I saw mangled limbs and dead bodies laying around as larger Klekos killed the smaller ones,they were ruthless to one another.Some of the torn limbs still moved even though they were no longer on the body,blood shimmered in the fire light like a red river,some trickled to where we sat and onto my hand.
I felt the warm dark blood pour past my fingers,I quickly snapped my hand away and stared at the red stain on myhand.My heart wrenched,why are they killing thier own kind?Their like senceless monsters with no other instinct other than to kill with no given thought about it.
I could feel Raye clench and grind his teeth from his bare chest.He was uneasy as I was.I prayed that this nightmare would end soon.But the night was young and I had no such luck,I burried my face in Raye's chest,I felt like crying,I just wanted it all to stop!
Morning had come now and the sickening stench of death and decay hung thick in the morning air.I must have fallen asleep at some point last night,after all the horrible screaming had stopped.
A pile of bones and half eaten corpses littered the place.I thought I was having a nightmare untill I saw Raye,He had also fallen some time after I had.
"Raye..Raye wake up its morning now."I tried to wake him up by taking his shoulder and shaking it gently,he maoned and turned over,this was going no where,and I didn't want to be alone with a bunch of dead Kleko bodies while Raye was in dream land.I shook him one more time and he woke up,well more like jumped up and knocked me over,I was about to fall off the edge when he caught me.
"Sorry about that!I guess I'm still not over what happened last night."He helped me back up,and then looked at the mangled mess of dead corpses
"Why...Why do they kill each other like that?I just don't get it.."Raye looked at me,I still had dry blood on my hand,he sighed.
"Survival of the fittest..And the crulest.Its kill or be killed here,its the natural law of Moatoob..A very terrible law though.."He sighed heavily and looked around for a moment.
"We can't swim now,not with all the blood in the water.Bigger beasts and monsters are probably swiming right below us now,drawn by the smell of blood and the hopes of an easy meal."I glanced at the water for a moment,still unable to see in the filthy murk,then I jumpd back as I heard a loud growl,not like what we heard last night though.I looked around and heard it again.
"Did you hear that?"Raye rubbed the back of his neck as anouther growl was heard.
"That would be me.We didn't eat a thing remember?"I sighed,well at least it wasn't a monster,unless you consider Raye's apitite to be one.
"Well lets get going then..Oh and Raye..Thanks.."He looked confused."For what?"I saw a great blue butterfly fly over and land on his noes,I giggled as it slowly flapped its wings in his face,when it did open its wings,it looked like Raye had another set of eyes!
"For helping me,when we fell into the water..I almost drowned."The butterfly flew from his noes and landed on my finger tip."Aww its nothing really..My mother was in the GUARDIANS medical unit and had taught me how to expell water out of a persons lungs useing a special TECHNIC."He smiled at me,I had never heard of TECHNICs being able to do that before."Well..We best get going before more monsters show up.You ready Minore?"
Minore:ShuddersFirst I get lost on Moatoob with Raye,then I nearly drown(Which was who's falt?)and then kleko feeding freanzy!This is getting to be too much pressure!
Raye:Aww don't worry,things are gonna get better,I mean look at me,I had Fuma swipe my clothes in the last chapter!...I HATE FUMA NOW!
Minore:Now that was funny,come to think of it,what was with those..cough things?
Raye:SighBirthday gift from my great Aunt...and the only pair I had that day..
Me:Well..I don't know what's a worse gift,underwear or getting a bogus lottery ticket thinking it was real.ANYWHO!Review or I'll put a larger-than-life picture of your hairest Uncle -in boxers wih all his back hair,leg hair,arm hair,bald headed glory on your lawn outside your room window for when you wake up!THAT'LL GIVE YA NIGHTMARES!
Minore:...Ok..How come on Deviantart your perfectly sane,but on your a psychotic,insane,off the wall,imature,and dare I say just plane creepy person?
Me:SighBecause I've been to someone elses FanFiction site..What can I say I'm making people laugh,which I don't nourmally do on DA.REVIEW!!OR UNCLE WILL BE ON YOUR LAWN!!