CHAPTER 9 Trace
Disclaimer: Keshi-sama does not own Azumanga or any characters
The girls walked from tube to tube, looking in to see who could be floating in the pale green liquid. They found Chihiro in one near the door, along with many other people.
Eylmey stood against the wall, allowing them to look over these no-longer dead people. He still could not imagine why Kanyl would bring the dead of a people he despised back into the world of the living.
Suddenly, the door next to them eased into four pieces, and two black-clad warriors ran through the opening. Eylmey drew Kaesyn and blocked a knife that flew for his head. Sakaki brought up her arm to deflect a punch from the other one. Minamo gathered everyone else away from the door, and went to join the fight.
Sakaki grabbed her opponent's foot and spun him in the air. The alien super soldier landed on his feet and knocked Sakaki's out from under her. He had no time to react as Minamo brought her foot down on his head. The man fell forward from the heavy blow, unconscious.
Eylmey jabbed Kaesyn at an opening that he found on the other Pyrsi, but he was too slow, and the armored foe moved away from the tip of the blade. He returned quickly with a knife in hand. The prince brought Kaesyn up in a fighting stance before charging at the Pyrsi once more. Eylmey brought Kaesyn in a horizontal cut. The Pyrsi stopped it with his knife, but was knock off balance as Eylmey brought his foot to the side of his head. He slashed down as the Pyrsi began to stand straight again.
The dead body hit the floor with an audible thump. Minamo rushed back over to the rest of the girls after helping Sakaki back up. Eylmey motioned for them to follow as he walked carefully out the open door, sword still drawn.
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Kaorin slipped further back into the shadows as the figure came further down the steps. As it reached the bottom of the stairs, it reached a hand up to its head. Taking a step further, Kaorin began to shiver as the dreaded face of Kimura came into view, pushing his glasses further up his face.
He walked slowly past her not even paying attention. Kaorin waited until he walked to the back of the basement before she ran out of her hiding place and up the stairs. When she had gotten to the top, she ran out of the building.
Kimura was crouched down, still in the basement. He stood back up with a small book in hand. Smiling, he walked back up the stairs.
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Naoko sat with her eyes closed in the back room of her current resting building. Outside the door, two Lyracl soldiers were hardly recognizable with the injuries that they had sustained at the hands of Naoko.
She reached out for any Human mind within her distance. She felt her way across the minds of the animals that go unnoticed, and those even farther than that. Soon, she felt a sentient mind.
Interested, she dug into it. As she soared through the feelings of this creature, she saw that it was a Human. The person's mind was strange. It had massive holes all throughout it. Immaterially, she ran into a wall. Soon after this she was cast from the mind of the person, and all the way back into her own mind.
The force of the return threw her back. Naoko sat back up in time to see the door burst in. She acted on reflex and sprung to her feet. Three Lyracl soldiers stood there with there rifles pointed at her.
She soon ended that threat as she tore each of the aliens' minds in two. They fell to the ground shaking uncontrollably, and holding their head. Naoko stepped over them. She had to find that Human.
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Kanyl watched the reports fly across the flashing screen. The Syralri Kurous had a massive breakout. Every cell had opened at once, and the prisoners were quickly overrunning the ship.
He heard the door open and turned around. Standing in the doorway were two Lyracl soldiers carrying a Pyrsi. They walked forward, sat the Pyrsi down, and bowed to their Emperor Prince. Kanyl looked down at the motionless Pyrsi.
One of the soldiers looked up at Kanyl and said, "Your highness, we bring you the Sur'Pyrs-Ureyli, Iyrael Kastyr. We believed you would be interested in seeing him." Kanyl turned back around.
"M-my lord?" stuttered the soldier. "He has failed me. He shall be given no second chance," Kanyl said to the two Lyracl. They bowed shakily and took the dead Iyrael away.
Kanyl walked back to the screens and continued watching them.
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The girls and their alien protector, Eylmey, ran down the long hallway of the Lyracl ship. Eylmey had said nothing about where they were going. They had passed many fights between different alien races and Lyracl and the lizard men.
Minamo ran up next to Eylmey, who was leading the group through the massive cruiser. "We need to find Osaka," she said to him. Eylmey nodded and turned left at an intersection.
He stopped at a door with another symbol on it. When they walked in front of it, it slid open. Eylmey led them inside. It was a small room with a few tables scattered around it. Before long, they saw Osaka laying on one of the tables.
The group ran over to her. She looked like she was in pain, though there was no injuries on her whatsoever. Eylmey picked her up and motioned to the exit. The girls began to run without question back out the door.
Before they could reach it, the door slid open again. Kar-kazan stepped into the room, lips curled in his peoples' excuse for a smile. Eylmey put Osaka on a table and pulled out the small disruptor again.
He pressed the button and drew Kaesyn.
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Kaorin fell face first on the asphalt of the road. She had used the last of the painkillers an hour ago, and the poison was beginning to take effect again.
Her body resisting to the movement the entire time, Kaorin struggled to push herself back up. Suddenly, her entire body was struck by pain. She coughed before vomiting on the ground in front of her.
She saw blood mixed in it. Wiping her mouth she stood and tried to walk. She walked for ten seconds before she fell against the wall of a nearby building.
She covered her mouth with her hand when she felt the urge to vomit again. Her small attempts against it were useless, though. After three more piles of blood and puke, she fell onto a pile of rubble.
She lay there breathing heavily for some time before her eyes began to close. The last thing she remembered before falling to dreams were footsteps coming towards her.
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Translations: Sur'Pyrs-Ureyli – Grand Slayer-Guard
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Keshi-sama: Short chapter! Two things to look forward to in the next chapter. Thanks to all of you who are reading this story. I am actually running out of names for chapters, so it would be appreciated if you could help me with ideas. Reviews are welcome.