Chapter 6 : If I Had Claws
Heero contacting me was the last thing I expected. Even more unexpected was him asking me to come. Telling me that Quatre was involved with something very interesting. and that he had made friends with some people that had great potential fighting abilities. A race he calls the Azsai'A'Chir. Im curious to see what he's talking about.
"So you contacted Trowa?" Ka'Tra looked at him, a smile creeping onto his face. "Raan'Ne'Chanu'A'Fye. that's got to be Trowa."
"I would have contacted Wufei, but I don't have a way to contact him." Heero looked at Ka'Tra. "So, any new developments?"
"We'll reach Azsai'Ter within 30 minuets."
"Why do you believe this whole prophecy thing?"
"Because I feel so much of it. The claws, especially." Ka'Tra looked distant.
"Claws?"
"I've got them." He closed his eyes, focusing on the burning sensation in his forearms. Asking it, looking for a sign that they were ready. He knew the time was coming. He could feel them almost all the time, now. "I can feel them almost constantly.."
"You've got Claws?" Heero was incredulace.
"Sort of. They're in my arms. But I can't use them yet." Ka'Tra laughed. "Irony, isn't it? But I will be able to someday."
"It's hard to believe."
"Most of it is." Ka'Tra nodded.
"Why'd you change your name?" Heero looked at him. "It was fine the way it was."
"It felt right. To change it. Now I'm Ka'Tra. Tra'A'de'Azsa'Eyn Azsai'A'Chir Binnu'Chir." He smiled. "Burring Claws. That's what they do. They burn. You feel them, wanting out."
"is that the last part? Burning Claws, Binnu'Chir?" Heero was still studying him. "What's the rest mean?"
"Azsai'A'Chir is the Race. But, Tra'A'de'Azsa'Eyn is Chosen of the Child's Eyes." He looked thoughtful. "Kit'Su said I've got the eyes of a Child."
"Do Kit'Su and Chir'Ki have longer names like that?"
"'Su'A'Kit'ni'Raan and Raan'Ne'Chir'Ki." Ka'Tra folded his legs underneath him on the chair, resting balled fists on his knees. "All Azsai'A'Rah have a long given name. Then a short given name. Some even take a second short name, maybe a Nickname or two."
"Like Chir'Ki calling himself Chir'Ne?"
"Exactly like that. Kit'Su has called me Caan'Eyn a few times, too. Means Blue Eyes." He closed his eyes. "So Trowa said he was coming?"
"Yeah. I told him that the Azsai'A'Chir have great potential fighting abilities."
"Not far from wrong. I saw what Kit'Su did to that guard." The blond grimaced. "Was not a pleasant sight."
"If they can all do that, then we've got something that could take down Oz for us." Heero shook his head. "I'm not sure if I should buy into this whole prophecy thing."
"Would you believe it if I had claws?"
"I wouldn't' be able to deny it anymore."
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Kit'Su nodded, then watched Ka'Tra walked through the door before
turning back to Chir'Ki. "Do you think Anubis will be
glad to see us?"
"He didn't want use to leave in the first place. Not with the way things have been going with the council." He shrugged. "We're what holds him in power right now. Because we're proof of the prophecy."
"True enough, Chir'Ki, True enough."
"Would you stop calling me that?"
"You parents gave you the name." She laughed, obviously trying to push the other Azsai'A'Rah's buttons. "Why not just give up and realized it's not going anywhere?"
"Because I am NOT little!" Chir'Ki was snarling and had both fist balled. "I don't care if I was little. I am NOT little now."
"A little Tense, huh?" She glanced at her seething friend only briefly before turning to face the whoosh of the door that separated this cabin from the cockpit in time to see Duo slip in.
"What's got Spike's tail in a knot?" The braided boy looked curiously at them.
"His name." Kit'Su Laughed. "Just can't deal with being called little all the time."
"I AM NOT LITTLE!"
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