Rebellious
Chapter Eight – Red Zaber Fang
Sapphire; along with Mai, walked along the pathway where soldiers continued to look for the two escaping teenagers. A soldier commanded the group to split up in search of them. The white haired girl and the gold organoid stopped as they both watched the soldiers look aimlessly around. She smirked at their attempts to find them since she knew they were in another direction. However; once the soldiers had split into two groups, the nearest group ran over to her.
"Have you seen a fourteen year old male and female?" a soldier asked her.
"Why? Is the female your daughter that has eloped with a guy that you forbid her to be with?" Sapphire replied sarcastically.
They pointed their guns completely at her and her smirk still played at her lips. Mai gave a low threatening growl which made the soldiers take a step back. Some of them had their eyes quaking slightly; but they didn't back down. Sapphire moved her arm in front of Mai which told her to quieten down. Mai complied and just stood their watching them with her deadly eyes. The soldiers' attention stayed on the human as they did not want to look at the organoid.
"Are you hiding them? If so; hand them over, now" the soldier commanded.
"Why don't you just run along and go play merry-go-round like little insects that you all are" she said mockingly.
The soldiers glared at her for her remark that they took offensively. Her jewelled coloured eyes were sending chills down the soldiers' spines. Their hands trembled as they knew that they were being intimidated. Mai could sense their fear as she growled with happiness. Sapphire tilted her head to the left slightly as she examined their eyes for their fear which had overtaken their courage.
"We're sorry to have bothered you" the same soldier finally spoke.
They all then left as quickly as possible without looking back once. Sapphire gave out a 'humph' before continuing down the road that led to the abyss. Her companion's metallic footsteps were the other noise; besides her own footsteps, that went through the abyss's narrow path. The long narrow path was slightly shadowed in the dark; which only allowed some of the path to be revealed in the sun's light.
It had been several minutes till they had finally reached the other side of the abyss. However; they still continued to walk on, as they were headed for their zoid. Mai kept her senses around the environment; just in case that they both were to be attacked, or ambushed. Sapphire too was cautious around in the open as she knew that it was likely to be attack, mugged, ambush or even murdered.
They walked up a sand dune before walking down the other side of it. They both came to a stop to see that the zoid was actually how they had left it. They closed in on the zoid and the Liger sensed its pilot so the cockpit opened to allow her access. She jumped in her faithful zoid; straight away as she sat down, the hatch closed and she strapped herself in. The controls lit up instantly and now the zoid was in commission.
The Liger stood on all fours and Mai let out a growl before they turned away from the village. They both sped across the plain terrain that stretched for miles in all directions. The gold zoid shone brightly in the sun's reflected light. As soon as they got quite some distance away from the village; someone had shot at them which caused the Liger to skid to a halt as it turned to face the direction of the attacker.
Sapphire was certainly not pleased by being disturbed. Her eyes glazed over in anger as her expression distorted to show her displeasure. Mai gave a very dangerous growl from the sudden attack; she too was certainly not pleased, since her master was the one shot at. Sapphire's and Mai's eyes gazed upon a red Zaber Fang with a black organoid beside it. The black organoid growled loudly with dangerousness; however, Mai replied to it with an even louder growl which emitted more danger.
A communication link opened up and a boy of fourteen years of age appeared with a smirk on his face. Sapphire glared at the male pilot as she wanted to force that smirk off his face. He had dull black hair with violet eyes that held intimidation. Despite that; she never fazed under it, she was always the one to cause more emotions that were not pleasant to experience. A red dot and a red seven were upon his right cheek which was in line with the other.
"Why does a female like you have a powerful zoid?" he spoke mockingly.
"What does an imperial scum bag like you want with me?" she said completely blanking out his question. She emphasised the words 'scum bag'.
"Watch your mouth girl! Unless you want to end up like all the republican zoids I've destroyed" he said angrily.
"Unfortunately for you little boy; it's impossible for me to watch my mouth" she replied with calmness.
"Don't you bother being sarcastic with me girl. Besides it isn't impossible if you cut out your eyes" he replied with anger present in his voice.
"ACTUALLY; it is impossible since if you cut out the eyes; you're dead. The reason being is that you have to go in really deep to cut out the eyes, and by doing so, you die" she replied without showing a hint of anger; but showing a hint of amusement.
He gritted his teeth in anger as he glared daggers at her. She took her hands off the controls as she placed her elbow on her arm rest; she also had her hand cuffed and her right cheek resting against it. A smirk was registered on her lips as she watched the boy that was getting angrier with her.
"You actually expect that glaring daggers will intimidate and chase me away?" she said mockingly.
"How dare you… you actually think I'll let you get away with mocking me?" he said as his temper level continued to rise.
"You should know that by being angry and shouting a lot is bad for the heart" she said as if she hadn't heard his words. "Besides; you let me get away? Don't make me laugh! I'll be able to whoop your ass with ease"
The mockery in her voice made the boy angrier; and it seemed as if soon he wouldn't be able to contain it. She knew the results all ready; he would attack her, she would defend by attacking back. She would surprise him with attacks since he would be blinded by his anger; and then he would lose both the battle and his pride of being a zoid pilot. After all; males hate being beaten by females.
"Who the hell do you think you are? There is no way that a weak zoid pilot like you could defeat me" he shouted.
"Well I'm not Jennifer Lopez that's for sure" she replied with a smile.
"Enough! I've had it with you mocking me" he said trying to gain his calmness.
"Oh! You wanted me to answer you seriously?" she asked him with slight surprise.
He kept quiet as he just watched her; even if he still had hate and anger in his eyes. She could clearly see that she was in his bad book; which means, that she had been put into the book of his main targets. She could also tell that he really had had enough with her; but she had only wanted to get to her true destination without problems, but yet, she had a problem right in front of her.
"If I answer; would you just let me go report my mission?" she asked him seriously.
He looked at her slightly shocked to see that she actually was being serious. He regained his composure just as quick as he was shocked. He smirked as he finally had gotten the other pilot to be serious about this. However; despite what he wanted, her eyes were not showing that she wanted to stay serious. He had not noticed this since he was never good with emotions; or how to spot emotions in others.
"A bargain huh? You're clever; I'll give you that" he replied to her with a satisfied smirk.
"I don't need your compliments. Besides I'm only going to answer that question then continue on my way" she retorted. "My name is Sapphire; and that is the only information that I shall give you"
She cut the communication before turning to the direction she was previously going and walked away from the other pilot. However; after about ten steps, she was instantly stopped by the same red Zaber Fang. She glared right at the Zaber Fang that barricaded her path. But soon after she smirked as she made her gold Energy Liger pounce onto the Zaber Fang's back before jumping back onto the sand. However; that wasn't enough to stop the Zaber Fang from getting into her way again.
The communication link started up again as the boy reappeared. She crossed her arms over her chest as she disapproved of his actions. A smirk was tugging at his mouth as he saw that he had hit a nerve. Now he knew how to tick her off; barricading her path from going somewhere, that was what he seemed to have figured out. Mai looked to the zoid her master was in and gave a sympathetic look before turning back to face the black organoid.
The black organoid was focused on the gold organoid that stood a few metres in front of him. His gaze was slightly deadly; but hers was even more deadly as she seemed to have not wanted this at the moment. A low growl came from his throat as he tried to communicate with the female organoid. A growl came from her as she replied; but hers was an answer filled with deadliness and ready to strike.
"I have not finished with you yet; Sapphire" the boy spoke to the female pilot that was growing irritated.
"Just as your status says; you're an arrogant, hot-headed, bastard that wants everything your way" she said with anger dripping from every word.
"Oh? Does that mean you know who I am? Or do you only know that small piece of information?" he said which had a tint of mockery.
"Why should I waste my time on an arrogant idiot such as you Raven? Even your organoid Shadow knows where his boundaries lye. However; it appears as if you do not, since you are now bothering me. But; since when did you like to interact with others, because I've only been notified on you being a so called lone-wolf that minds his own business?" she replied.
"Shadow listens to what ever I tell him since I am his master. Anyway; what you said is true, I am a lone-wolf and I do not like interacting with others" he replied.
"Then why are you here now interacting with me in a communication?" she asked him.
"Because you interest me; otherwise, I would have just left you to go on your own way" he retorted.
"You're just annoying" she replied as she then cut off the communication.
She controlled the Liger to move around him; but he pounced in front of her barricading it again, as if it was wolf cubs playing with each other. She jumped to the right again but he jumped in front of her again. The Liger was already ready in the position to jump again; but she then made her Liger stand normally. However; The Zaber Fang didn't lower its guard as it stayed in his pouncing position.
"What do you want from me?" she said as she started the communication link.
"Do I need to elaborate that information to you?" he questioned back.
"Of course you do! You're wasting my time" she retorted.
"I would have preferred 'taking your time' since we are spending it together" he replied with a smirk.
"Why the hell would I spend my time with you?" she questioned.
"You tell me? Why are you spending your time with me?" he said twisting the question around.
"I am not spending my time with you. You're wasting my time; now move out of my way" she said trying to keep calm.
"I will not move till you ask nicely" he said as that hit her nerve totally.
She had never once been nice to others but her organoid, her zoid, the emperor and his grand-son. To her; others were not essential for her to provide them with her manners. But she knew that if she continued to delay here; it would mean less time to be able to stay with the emperor. The emperor was like her grand-father that she never knew; he too treated her like his own grand-daughter. The emperor was of a very old age and he had his own grand-son called Rudolph. She was like his older sister that he had grown accustomed to.
"Can you please move out of the way? I need to get somewhere" she replied with kindness; but she hated to say it to others that she doesn't know, or have even gained her respect.
"Say it directly to my face" he said with a smirk.
