Authors Notes: I just want to apologize for taking so long on this one. I just didn't like anything I wrote, until I got this. I am quite satisfied and I hope you are too.
Disclaimer: boring but necessary I own nothing :'C but my story
Alec was just standing there in the clearing right outside the cottage he grew up in. Mai'rin and Lux'thr had already left going back to prepare the ship for take off.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Ga'din asked.
"Yeah... it's just apparently on my mothers side we are all "gifted". She had been born with premonitions. So she already knew everything that was going to happen. She knew I would meet you and I would learn your name. She knew that everything is becoming clearer to me now. She knew that this world was going to end. She knew so much yet... I don't think her gift was able to save her." Alec responded forlornly.
"Come on then. There is nothing left for you here except sad memories." Ga'din said as he grabbed Alec by the arm and pulled him along. Alec just smiled, rolled his eyes, and followed.
When they got back on the ship Mai'rin and Lux'thr were arguing. Explitives were flying everywhere. Mai'rin's vocabulary really startled Alec. He didn't peg her as the type to cuss. The again she is a warrior, and she isn't that girly neither. It's probably different on their planet.
"Just ignore them." Ga'din whispered into Alec's ear causing him to jump slightly in turn making Ga'din chuckle.
Alec just shook his head and walked off towards his designated room. During his time on the ship he had learned how to operate a lot of things.
He walked into the bathroom and was about to take a shower when he caught sight of his reflection. He didn't look like himself any longer. His previously tan skin was now a pale, sickly white. His previously full of life hazel eyes were now a dullish grey. Even his hair looked lifeless and sick.
"Damn I look like hell." Alec said. "It must be all the stress."
As he took off his clothes he even noticed he had lost a lot of weight. Not a little, a lot.
"Now that... is unnatural." Alec said as he poked one of his clearly visible ribs
He stepped into the shower which was quite advanced to anyone who hadn't learned the secrets to operating it. On the wall there was a small switch. When flipped it revealed the knobs that operated the temperature. He set the temperature to a tolerable degree. After a few minutes he began feeling light headed. The his vision went blurry and the pulsing pain in his head began. He fell and he tried to grab something, anything that could stop his fall but he only grabbed air.
Ga'din had been roaming the halls hoping for something to do. Being a hunter he was accustomed to the hunt and the excitement. What he wasn't accustomed to was the everyday drama that seemed to plague the oomans. This applied even more so to his special ooman. He stopped in his track and wondered why did he just call the ooman his? Once again after three trips around the ship he found himself being drawn to the oomans room. He was about to walk away when he heard a muffled 'thunk' coming from inside the oomans room. Wondering what the sound had been he entered the oomans room only to find it empty. He then went to the bathroom. As he opened the door he saw the ooman laying in a pool of, presumably, its own blood. He rushed forward then halted for a swift second seeing the ooman was naked. Thinking quickly he grabbed a towel, picked up the ooman and wrapped it in the towel. He left the bathroom and set the ooman on it's bed when he noticed the ooman was shaking, violently in fact. He didn't know what to do other than try to stop the bleeding so he called for his teammates. Lux'thr and Mai'rin came running in. Lux'thr immediately halted when he saw the state of the oomans attire. Then Mai'rin came back and dragged him in.
Mai'rin with her sire being a doctor had been required to learn about medicine and how to heal injuries. She told them to grab their medical supplies. She examined the wound which turned out to be more than what Ga'din saw. The ooman was extremely thin, therefore didn't have a lot of blood.
"Ga'din..." she started. "I'm worried this ooman is too thin. Remember when we met him a few days ago. He looked completely different. How did he go from that to this?"
"I don't know. I've been watching him lately and he seems to have been fine. Did his health deteriorate that fast?" Ga'din replied worriedly.
They all got even more worried when Alec began convulsing even more furiously.
"What's happening to him?" Ga'din said aloud.
Inside Alec's mind was hectic. Memories were flying everywhere all of them blurry. Then they all began to clear. Picture after picture was getting clearer. Then it all stopped on that single most important moment in his memory. Something he thought he had forgotten had actually been buried at the back of his mind. The memory of the hooded figure carrying him through the woods. The memory showed the face of the figure. She was extremely gorgeous. Her eyes were the same green-hazel colour as his. Her hair a beautiful dark brown. Her skin a gorgeous pale tone. She had very prominent cheek bones that were flush a slight pink colour. He noticed her face was scrunched up as if she was thinking very hard. He heard himself crying which seemed to snap her out of her trance like thinking. She looked down at him and she smiled. It brought warmth and joy just by seeing it. She then said something that startled him. It was in Yautja, but it registered perfectly in his brain.
'Believe in your gifts, believe in hope, believe in love, for without these things Alecae you will never make it.'
When it all began to fade away Alec was left with a feeling of hollowness, but before he could think his vision shifted to a another picture this one never seen before. He saw a planet. A planet completely foreign to him. It's forests made Earth's forests look like trees in a yard. They were expansive. They looked to cover several million acres. The planet itself made Earth look like a marble. The oceans covered nearly half of it, but from the colour of the water it was definitely deeper than any ocean on Earth. The picture zoomed in on animals that, most of which, he had no name for. Some looked like beefed up rhinos, while others looked like mixtures of many animals. He then saw the race he knew he would meet one day. The Yautja. They looked most at their element here. Their landscape was much like the smaller cities on earth but the size of the cities was as big as some states. Once again his vision began to zoom out. This time though it continued.
The Yautja had been watching the ooman for a few minutes when they noticed a change. Alec's skin had began to increase back to their normal size. His skin resumed the tan colorization. His hair, too, had recovered. Then Alec opened his eyes. For the first time Ga'din really looked at them. They were quite different from any Yautja's, but gorgeous nonetheless.
"Oh, thank Paya!" Ga'din exclaimed.
"What happened?" Alec asked confused.
"You apparently passed out. Your body is quite strange Dachande ." Mai'rin stated. "It went from sickly pale and nearly dead to full of life and obviously not dead."
"I noticed that in the mirror. It honestly scared me, because just a few days ago I was fine and looked like this." Alec said.
Mai'rin then noticed something incredible. Alec's wound which had been substantial was shrinking. She grabbed his hand, which startled everyone then dragged Alec into the bathroom and showed him the wound. Ga'din and Lux'thr walked in too. They all watched the wound on the side of Alec's face shrink until it was gone. Alec rubbed the spot where the wound had been. It had looked like it would scar but upon examination not even any raised skin. This scared Alec who turned to Mai'rin silently asking for any answers when she had none Alec didn't know what to do, and that infuriated him.
"Now that even I can't explain." Alec said. "I've always been a fast healer but that... that was just unnatural."
"It's definitely different." Lux'thr agreed.
Frustrated Alec got up and began walking.
"Where are you going?" Ga'din asked worried.
"I don't know. I'm just going." Alec responded.
Alec went to the loading bay and lowered the draw bridge. He then stepped off of the ship and began roaming the forest with Ga'din by his side.
'For such a small ooman he sure can move.' Ga'din thought to himself immediately taking note that it was getting dark.
"Whenever I get angry..." Alec began. "I get up and begin walking. Sometimes I walk for hours. I remember this one time I got so angry I walked for so long that when I stopped I was in the next state over. For me walking is a way to eliminate stress. Especially when I walk in the forest. The scenery just calms me down a lot. It nearly got me killed though. I remember back at my house the surrounding woods are quite expansive. One night I got angry at a friend who was staying over and I walked out of the house. I just walked and walked and then I came across two bear cubs. I didn't see their mother right close by but she got up behind me... very nearly killed me. If I hadn't heard her when I did I wouldn't have been able to dodge her charge and be able to take off running."
This angered Ga'din he understood the bear's motive but it was still unnecessary. He was pretty sure Alec wouldn't have hurt her cubs, but that is the way of nature.
Then they came across this beat down path and Alec the area it lead to. It was this really nice spot he liked to go to when he was angry.
"I wanna show you something." Alec said beaming.
"Okay..." Ga'din said cautious.
Alec grabbed his hand and began pulling him down the path. They walked for a while until finally they came upon a clearing. By the time they got there the moon was almost completely overhead. Upon sight Ga'din was overwhelmed with a feeling of peace. The clearing wasn't really big but it was spacious. There was no trees above as to show the night sky. A small river ran through it giving life to everything around it. In the center was a big oak tree. There were closed flowers planted all around the tree as if casting a barrier. There was also a lone Iris.
"I found this when I was five. I planted all those flowers, called Moon Flowers there because when it's night the moon comes right over this. The other flower called an Iris, I don't know where it came from. They're called Moon Flowers because they only open at night. So imagine at night the moon coming right above and all the flowers open at the same time. " Alec said looking up.
"Just watch." Alec said as he grabbed Ga'din and sat against the tree.
As the moon reached perfectly above head all the flowers began to bloom. The moonlight casting it's reflection on the river straight ahead making the clearing all the more beautiful. Alec then reached over to the Iris and grabbed a few seeds with a delicate hand this action repeated with the Moon Flowers before putting them in his pocket for safe keeping. Next thing Ga'din knew was Alec had fell asleep. He sighed as he picked the little ooman up walking back down the path out of the clearing and began heading towards his ship.
Authors Notes: I hope you enjoyed this chapter if so leave a comment and tell me why ^^
Translation
Dachande - Different Knife
