Chapter eleven. The beeping noise.
"What is that beeping noise?" Dustil turned to see Paul enter the cockpit. "It's our com. Someone's sending us a message." Rahasha sat in the co-pilot's chair. Den stood behind her while Saz smacked Paul in the back of his head. "Duh!" " Dustil let it through." "Greetings fellow space travellers of the ebon hawk. I have an important message or info for you. It's about who destroyed the planet." Rahasha felt a nervous felling flow through her. " who are you may I ask?" "I cannot tell you who I be, only what I know." Dustil silenced their end of the com. " how can we trust this guy, when he/she won't allow us to know who they are? It sounds dangerous to me." Rahasha looked over at Dustil. " everything about this mission is dangerous. What's a little more going to hurt?" "Good point." Dustil unsilenced the com. "Okay, what do you have to tell us?" "The one who is responsible is very powerful, and is out for revenge. He took the people of the destroyed half of that planet for his own evil plan. For every person he has prisoner, his powers double ten fold. He becomes more powerful each day. So continue to harness your new powers for they will be your only means to defeat him, and protect yourself." the com went dead. "How is it this guys knows so much?" "He's telling the truth!" everyone looked at rahasha "what do you mean? How do you know.?" Rahasha stared out the front. " I can feel it. If he lied I'd know. It's one of my new powers." Rahasha stood and left. Ever her shoulder she said "I'm hungry, I'm going to eat."
Den left soon after, after getting sick of everyone still talking about the mysterious messenger. He walked down the corridors with Rahasha's words ringing in his head. "If he lied I'd know. It's one of my new powers." How many mew powers did she actually have? And why wouldn't she tell me. The questions constantly bothered him all the way to the mess hall. Once inside he finally snapped to and realized where he was. He had walked to the exact place Rahasha said she would be, sitting in a corner eating. He walked over and sat in a chair opposite her. "Hey" Rahasha smiled. "Hey what brought you here?" "My feet! They have a mind of their own lately. My mind was occupied with questions, so my feet took over. Sneaky little devils." Rahasha laughed. What kind of questions?" "Oh just about what new powers you actually have, and why couldn't you tell me?" Rahasha sighed "because I want to control the ones I'm having a hard time controlling first, and trying not to scream out loud." "Who'll be screaming? Cause if there's screaming, count me in!" Rahasha and Den looked up at the smiling Seriston. Rahasha laughed. "Not that kind of screaming Seriston. I'm talking about a frustrated scream cause of my powers." Seriston smiled even bigger. "Oh I know. I know how those frustrated screams will go, but they won't be about your powers, they'll be about your frustration over wanting me."
"You sound so sure of yourself there Seriston, you sure it's not your male ego getting bigger then your dick?" Den laughed and Seriston continued to smile. "You'll see, you'll see." Den and Rahasha watched Seriston walk over to a table full of Aphridite's girls and sit down. Before a word came out of his mouth, the girls upped and left. Rahasha and Den laughed. "So you gonna let me help? You know you could probably use some help." Rahasha looked down at her plate. "I guess I could use some help."
Later Rahasha and Den were in the cockpit talking with Dustil. "Dustil, do you see that planet there?" her finger pointed to the directional map, at a greenish purple planet. "Let's go there for a rest. We could use a stop." Den replied. "Good idea, half of us are getting tired of being cooped up inside." Dustil smiled "there... it is." he plotted course and headed for the greenish purple planet. Once on the planet, everyone decided to go their separate ways but meet at the local restaurant/ bar in two hours. After two hours of fun, relaxation and shopping, the gang met at the local bar. Restaurant. Saz, Rahasha, Paul, Den and many others were sitting sharing a drink and a comfortable conversation. Rahasha and Saz were close together talking about the boys when a young man their own age came towards them from the bar. Saz watched the man approach. "Don't look now, but we got some company. And he's not to bad either." Rahasha looked up just as the young man stopped beside there table. "Hello ladies, the names Jake, and it's a pleasure to meet you." Saz smiled and replied "well hello Jake, what brought you here?"
Jake smiled back, "well I thought it would be a good idea to come for a drink and meet some pretty ladies." Saz looked over at Rahasha "oh really well you found some but hopefully we're taken." Rahasha watched the disappointment grow across his still smiling face and knew something was wrong. She continued to watch Jakes expressions, and transferred her thoughts to Saz 'Saz something not's right. I can feel it. Something really bad is going to happen and he's a part of it.' Saz looked over at Rahasha in the same way she did before and not give herself and Rahasha away to Jake. 'So what should we do?' Rahasha thought for a minute. 'Keep him busy, and talking, I'll let the others know, and to keep there eyes open.' Saz slowly nodded enough to show Rahasha know she understood, the went back to keeping their new friend Jake talking. 'Den!' Den looked across the room towards Rahasha. 'Yah?' Rahasha glanced at him once the returned her gaze to her glass 'we have a problem. There's something wrong here. This guy has bad vibes coming off him. Something's going to happen and it's not going to be good.' 'Don't worry we'll keep our eyes open. Just stay calm.' 'Okay' she turned back to Saz and Jake and concentrated on there conversation. Den leaned on the bar, and trying to make it look like he was interested in his drink, while he silently surveyed the bar with his senses powers. He couldn't find a thing wrong, till he noticed the dark ora around the fellows talking to Iesha. He decided to keep a close eye on that, when Paul found his way to the bar. Cheering was heard from the back table for Paul. "Hey Den. I finally found the bar. So what's up?"
Den smiled "yes I can hear that. I'm proud of you. But anyway why did you need to find me for?" Paul took the stool next to Den. "Well just asking the ever popular question about what's between you and Rahasha? Don't worry nothing goes any further then these goods ears, as long as my secret goes no further then yours." Den sighed. "You could have just asked. You're my friend. I tell you everything. My relationship with Rahasha so far is basically just a friendship right now. I really like her, but I can't show how I feel and neither can you with your feelings about Saz." Paul turned his head so fast he forgot about the drink he was about to drink and hit his mouth off of it. "You know? But how?" Den laughed. "I know you man. Its always written on your face, you should watch that." Paul took a mirror out of his pocket "watch what I don't see anything out of the ordinary! I don't see any differences, by the way what are emotions supposed to look like?" Den shook his head. "Never mind." that's when Den felt it. He straightened and looked more closely around the room. His instincts pulled him towards the dark ora. But he was pushed off his feet by an unseen force. Rahasha felt the force flowing through the room, and turned to watch Den fly backwards into the bar, knocking him out. She was about to go check on him, but Jake grabbed her arm. She looked back at him with confusion in her eyes, and curiosity as to why he was holding back her as well as Saz. She used her powers to free Saz and herself but was to late. iesha was gone, Den was still unconscious, and Jake and the two other boys disappeared leaving three guys standing by the bar behind a girl, all standing and facing her, Saz, Paul and the others. "Where is my friend?" she waited for an answer only to have Jake walk right passed her to stand beside the girl.
"What friend we didn't do shit." the girl held up her hand to silence them. "We don't know what became of your friend. However we can tell you that the smart one to destroy that planet is not you main concern. That would be us. The names Veronica. This as you may already know, is Jake, and these three you don't are Prometheus, Aries, and Steve." Paul laughed "Steve? You've got to be kidding." he turned to the one named Steve "is she serious that your name is Steve?" the guy named Steve nodded with out a smile. Paul lost his. He turned to Veronica "does he smile much or at all?" Veronica shook her head. "No he's a killer. Killer's don't smile. At least none that I have seen." Rahasha shushed Paul "why do you think we would actually worry about you, and not someone who is a hell of a lot more powerful then you , and who can destroy planets that we have been appointed to protect?" Veronica smiled "good point, but we have our reasons which you will soon find out." just then Frayak, spoke up.
"Rahasha shouldn't we be looking for Iesha and not wasting our time arguing with this misfits?" Jake spoke up. "We're not misfits." he was about to step forward, when Veronica stopped him yet again. He looked down at her in confusion and disappointment. Before anyo of the others had time to do anything, Rahasha summoned her powers and sent them all out the door. Frayak began looking, while Rahasha rushed over to Den, "Den?" "Yea, I'm just resting." RAhasha sighed. "Jeez you need to have your issues checked." "Oh be quiet and help me up please." Rahasha slipped her arm under his right arm and helped him to his feet, to come face to face with an angry Frayak. "Frayak, we need to keep our anger in check okay? Being angry is not going to help us find her. So relax. I will do everything in my power to help find her." she saw Frayak calm inside and Den patted his shoulder. "We didn't find a thing out there. But Why her? Why would they want her? What did she do?" Rahasha shook her head. "I really don't know." Frayak nodded and walked over to the others. Den calmly asked. "So what did I miss?"