CHAPTER 8 Syralri Kurous

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Keshi-sama: I have finally begun his next chapter! Let the story continue!

Eylmey hid behind a turned over car. The captive group was coming past. He looked over the top quickly and ducked back down. There were six Byrten and the seven soldiers he had seen on his scanner.

He brought his multi-laser rifle up to change the setting. Pressing the third button, he turned to the side of the car. He watched as the group got closer.

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Sakaki stumbled as one of the aliens pushed her forward with their gun again. Chiyo had woken up and the aliens had bound her too. Osaka was now being carried by one of the patrolmen. She had fallen down several times, and they were tired of having to pull her back up. Minamo was walking quietly with a gun jammed into her back. Yomi was doing the same thing.

Sakaki began to get back into pace again. Suddenly, a small teal light appeared on her forehead. She ducked quickly as a thin laser shot strait through the place where her head was a second ago.

The patrolman that was guarding her fell to the ground in a slump as the rest of the group drew their weapons and scanned the surrounding ruins. Another laser shot from nowhere and another alien fell screaming.

The alien leader yelled to the other patrolmen in their own language. They began to scour the ruins for the one that was killing them all. Sakaki heard a yell and looked to see one of the patrolmen struggling against another alien wearing a cloak.

The new alien pulled a sword from its sheath on his back and sliced strait through the patrolman. Every other alien rushed over and began to fire at the newcomer.

He dodged every one of the lasers and charged the nearest alien. Cutting through that one, he charged strait through to the leader of the group. The leader pulled his sword out and parried the strike.

Before the new alien could attack again, he had every gun jammed against him. The humans finally recovered from their shock and began to flee.

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Eylmey put his hands up as the soldiers pressed their rifles to him. The leader of the patrol came up to him and laughed, "The young prince shows his face."

Eylmey looked at him and said, "Kill me, Jaryl. I know that it is your objective." Jaryl laughed again, "Your brother put up a reward for whoever brings you in. He wants to see you before you die."

The soldiers bound Eylmey's hands behind his back and began to lead him to the captured Byrten. Jaryl looked at where the captives used to be. "Damn it! Hasyr, Vant, find them, now!"

Hasyr and Vant saluted him and took off in separate directions. Jaryl turned back to the prince. "You will come with me, prince," he said as a soldier began to push Eylmey forward.

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Sakaki, Tomo, Yomi, Chiyo, and Minamo, who was carrying Osaka, ran through the streets of Tokyo. They had been running for at least thirty minutes.

Sakaki had healed from her fight with the alien some, and was able to move with little trouble. Tomo ran next to her. Yomi was next to Minamo, in case of an emergency. Little Chiyo struggled to keep up with the rest of the group.

They ran past a pile of corpses, and Chiyo began to shiver. The invaders had taken to showing off their kills. There were bodies hanging from the tops of buildings.

Tomo held in a sob as she saw her parents hanging from one of them. Yomi tried not to pay attention to the death around her.

They passed another pile of corpses when two of the patrolmen who had captured them came from an alleyway in front of them. The girls scattered and ran from them.

The aliens split up and went after three girls each. Sakaki grabbed up a large alien weapon and turned on the alien chasing her, Tomo, and Chiyo. The patrolman rolled out of her sight and pulled out a weapon of his own.

Tomo and Chiyo continued to run as Sakaki prepared to fight against the alien.

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Yomi ducked as a shot was fired at her head. Minamo, carrying the unconscious Osaka, ran ahead of her to get to the building ahead.

Yomi began to run faster as her sleeve was burnt by another laser from the alien's weapon. She stumbled over an exposed pipe and the patrolman took advantage of it.

He grabbed her as she tried to get back up. Yomi screamed as he put electric binds on her. Every time she tired to move, her body was shocked with half the power of a lightning bolt.

The alien left her there with the binds and went after Minamo.

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Kaorin walked quietly through a ruined house, looking for food. It had been a day since she had last seen any trace of food, and she needed something to help replenish her energy.

She had found a bottle of painkillers in another house that she had searched. She had been taking one or two every hour to keep the pain from the poison under control.

Quietly, Kaorin shoved a miscellaneous piece of ruin out of her way as she made her way into the basement of the house.

Suddenly, she heard a bang from upstairs. She turned towards the door quickly. Still watching the door, she stepped slowly to the nearby shadows. She could not see the door from here

Kaorin watched as a shadow stretched down the stairs. Holding her breath, she watched it move further down the stairs

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Hasyr poked his head around the corner of the wall to see one of the Hur'Byrten standing there with a Devastator. He ducked his head behind the wall again and thought, 'By Kyrcaceyl, she has a Devastator! Hopefully, she doesn't know how to use it,' as he ran across the street. His hopes were shattered as a lightning-like laser struck the ground behind him.

Stumbling from the shock of the hit, he fell to the ground. He looked up to the Hur'Byrten who looked just a surprised as he did. He began to scramble away from her as she recovered from her surprise and aimed the Devastator at him.

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Sakaki surprise lasted a short time before she took aim once more. The alien looked to be afraid of her with this weapon. She pressed the small button under her thumb when her target stopped moving behind a turned-over car.

A massive bolt of energy burst from the barrel of the cannon thing in her hands to completely destroy the car. The patrolman yelled in fright as he was thrown seven meters from the blast.

Sakaki recovered from the after-shot shock and took aim once more. Before she could fire the final shot, however, something hard hit her head and she fell to the ground. As she began to pass out, she could hear two voices speaking in the aliens' language.

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Minamo ran as fast as she could to the mall up ahead. She had to make sure that Osaka would be alright. It would be unbearable if another one of her students were to die.

She could hear the alien chasing her. Passing through the door into the mall, she began to look for a hiding place. Before she could find one that would be good, the alien blew the door to pieces with his gun.

He entered the large shopping center with one of the military movie room checks. Minamo fell behind one of the counters of a shop. The alien crept pass her hiding place with another military movie style, the crouch-walk.

When she could no longer hear his footsteps, Minamo looked above the counter. She could not see him, so she left the store and headed for the exit. Suddenly, a large shadow appeared outside the door.

Minamo jumped through a broken window near the door, and hid behind a large block figure in the store. She listened as the figure stepped into the mall. Osaka chose this time to moan in her sleep.

Minamo clamped her hand over the teenager's mouth and looked worriedly to the door. There was nothing there, and she could hear footsteps further down the hallway. Sighing with relief, she turned back behind the giant model toy.

"No hiding from me, pathetic creature," said a large tiger-like creature that stood on two legs with a more cat-like face. It wore a dark cloth outfit the covered most of its arms, legs, and its entire torso. A small metal rod came up from the back of the suit.

Minamo screamed as she saw it standing in front of her. Osaka began to groan again and move more. The alien pulled its lips up as its race's excuse for a smile and said, "This one's mind is interesting, I will explore more once we arrive on the ship," as it grabbed Minamo's arms and yanked her to her feet.

The patrolman arrived after the tiger-alien forced her into the main hall. "You got her, Kar-kazan. Not bad for a prototype," he said as he came up to the tiger. "She let her mind lay open to me, and the one that sleeps also thinks to freely," replied Kar-kazan.

"We need to hurry and get them to the ship. The Emperor Prince is expecting plenty of sacrifices at the release," said the patrolman as he led Kar-kazan out the rotating door.

Minamo tried to close her mind by thinking of a brick wall, but the psychic tiger-alien pushed into her mind. 'You have spent to long with an open mind. You cannot close it from me'. Minamo held her head as the thought pierced through her head. She could do nothing as the two aliens led her away.

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Tomo held Chiyo's hand as they ran through a crumbling building. They had given up waiting on Sakaki, though Chiyo did so reluctantly.

A small pillar finally gave way to the weight of the ceiling as it began to crash down on them. Tomo grabbed Chiyo in her arms and rolled away from the collapsing part of the building. They just managed to escape their deaths as they rolled out of the now pile of rubble that once was a building.

Tomo let Chiyo stand again as she stood up herself. She looked up to the sky to see the clouds gathered for rain. It began to fall soon after. Tomo closed her eyes and let the rain wet her face. She began to cry for her parents, and for Kagura. Silent sobs shook her as the rain disguised her tears. She would not let anyone see her crying.

When she finally calmed, she smiled at Chiyo and said, "Nothing better than rain to wash away your cares."

Chiyo said nothing and walked over to shelter from the rain that was growing steadily into a downpour. Tomo lifted her face to feel the rain one more time before following Chiyo. The girls both sat under a door lying on a large slab of concrete.

Tomo sat and forced her feelings down once again. She had finally subdued them when Chiyo began to cry. Tomo turned to her and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chiyo looked up at her before looking back at the ground and shaking her head. Tomo shrugged and said, "Whatever it is, it's not gonna get better by keeping it all locked up inside." She knew that from experience, and she still regretted keeping them forced into a corner in her mind.

Chiyo just shook her head again. Tomo sighed, "If you really don't want to talk about it, I guess I can't force you."

They sat there for a while longer, and Chiyo's crying began to calm. Soon, Tomo was supporting a sleeping eleven-year-old. She looked down at her and smiled one of those rare, true, smiles.

The moment was shattered by a laser shot flying right by Tomo's head. Chiyo woke up from the noise of the shattering door and Tomo grabbed her and protected her from the shower of splinters.

Chiyo looked up at Tomo and Tomo smiled down at her. A small trail of blood was beginning to find its way out of her mouth. A hissing laugh could soon be heard. Chiyo turned her head quickly to see what had laughed. Standing next to the pile of wreckage was a large lizard man. He wore torn pants made out of leather like fabric. His nose had a small bone sticking from the top of it. He stood nearly two meters tall and looked twice as strong as any human.

His laugh sounded like a snake hissing through a sound muffler. Tomo rolled off of Chiyo as the creature spoke. "To easy," he said with another inhuman laugh. He walked over to them and pulled out a pair of electric binds.

He put one on Chiyo and Tomo, threw Tomo over his shoulder, and grabbed Chiyo under his arms. "The Hakt named Kanyl said he would pay Takrsat many shulks for pink-skinned Hakts," Takrsat said as he carried them away.

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Yomi looked around at the intricate designs of alien creation as the leader of the patrol that had captured them led her through the ship. "Hur'Byrten, you all 'r just so barbaric." He spat at Yomi's feet after he finished speaking.

He stopped at a large door with a runic symbol in a circle on the door. He pressed a small plate on the wall and the door opened. Following the man as he stepped in, Yomi began to examine her current surroundings.

Energy gates stood blocking entrance or exit of the cells the guard. Some cells held Humans, and others held aliens of the same race as the one leading her through the prison block. Most of the cells, however, had many different aliens that she had never seen before.

The patrol leader led her to an empty cell, pressed a small plate next to it. Yomi watched as the energy gate powered down. The alien pushed her into the cell and pressed the plate again.

Yomi's energy binds dissipated as soon as the gate came back up. Feeling soon returned to her hands, and she looked out through the gate. She saw the alien who had first saved them in the cell across from hers. He noticed her and sighed.

Yomi turned her attention away from him as the door to the room opened again. A tiger-like alien stepped through carrying Osaka with Minamo in energy binds. He put them in nearby cells.

Minamo looked through the energy gate to Yomi's cell. "Where's everyone else?" she asked. Yomi shook her head, "I don't know."

After she said that, the door to the room opened once more. A lizard-alien and one of the patrolmen came in. The lizard man carried Tomo over his shoulder and Chiyo under his arm. The patrolman had Sakaki, unconscious, on a hovering bed.

Yomi looked back at Minamo and said, "There they are." Tomo and Chiyo were put in a cell next to Yomi, and Sakaki was taken to one near the back of the room. Tomo sat and comforted a crying Chiyo. Yomi saw the tiger-alien come back into the room.

He pressed the plate to open Minamo and Osaka's cell. Grabbing Osaka, he said, "I have been given permission from Emperor Prince Kanyl to further explore her mind." He left the cell, closed it again, and left the room.

The cloak-wearing alien looked at her, "It is almost time, prepare yourself." Yomi just stared at him. The alien pulled out a small object. He pressed in the top and set it on the floor of his cell.

The part that he pressed began to flash short lights. He leaned against the wall and looked at it. Yomi still stared at him. Suddenly, the object radiated a bright blue light, and all of the energy gates powered down.

All of the captives began to charge to the exit. Alarms began to go off when they got to the door. Hundreds of different people ran through the door into the hallway. Yomi stepped slowly out of her cell. Tomo and Chiyo were already out of theirs.

Minamo ran to the cell that Sakaki was in as soon as she got out of hers. The alien who had disabled the gates stepped up to them. He gestured for them to follow him when Minamo returned with a now awake Sakaki.

Figuring they had no better idea, the girls followed him. They left the holding room to see another lizard man losing a fight against three small rat-like aliens. As they ran down the hallway, they saw an insect alien pull its scythe-like hand from the corpse of an alien of the same race as the patrolmen.

Soon, after they had ran through many other fights, they ran into a large corridor with many transparent tubes on the walls. The alien held up his hand and said, "We should rest here." Minamo went over to one of the tubes. Tomo walked over to the alien who had his eyes closed and was lent up against the wall, yet again.

As she approached him, the alien opened his eyes and looked at her. She stepped slightly closer and asked, "Who are you?" The alien lowered his head and replied, "Eylmey Synrlasti, former Lord Prince of the Lyracl."

"If you're one of them, why did you help us?" Eylmey sighed and looked back up, and he explained the story behind the Dryka Mirkat. Tomo stood there after he was done. Minamo walked up to him also. Shaking, she said, "What else has your brother done?"

Eylmey looked to the ceiling, and said, "He used to take specific individuals from races he defeated. He still takes several corpses of people his soldiers felled during the invasion. I do not know why he does this, however."

Minamo pointed back to the tube she had been at earlier and said, "There are people who I saw die in those." Eylmey stood straight and walked over to it. Looking in he said, "Her body is regenerating, so she is going to be whole again. Why would Kanyl want that?" After he said that, everyone came over to look.

Their reactions were all different, but they were all about the same thing. Inside of the tube, was Kagura.

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Translations: Syralri Kurous – A massive Lyracl planetary invasion vessel. Syralri means hopeful, Kurous means stream

Jaryl – Wonder, name form. Natural form – Nyran

Hasyr – Forever loved, name form. Natural form – Lyrsan Neri

Vant – Watcher, name form. Natural form – Rylsay

Kyrcaceyl – First Emperor of the Lyracl

Kar-kazan – Man who hunts

Hakt – Little One/ Hakts –Little Ones

Takrsat – Slither through the grass

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Keshi-sama: Updated, finally! I took the vaas from Eylmey's name because vaas indicates close affiliation with the Imperial Family, and Eylmey has disowned them. Reviews are welcome.