Chapter 14
Newcomer
Siren went ahead to the stables where she sent her people to and John was following her because he had some questions. He started when he was walking besides her.
"So officer Calim, why didn't you tell me who you are?"
"I just wanted to see how you are, or would you have acted like you did if you had known that I'm your boss? And by the way, just call me Siren kid, that 'officer' thing is just a formal set phrase. Only when captain Wolferos is around you should do that, he's taking his job very seriously."
Siren was different from the Cerinians he had met yet, on the one hand she wasn't that worried about being all correct and formal, and on the other hand she didn't have a problem with using her 'weapons' like she did with John before.
"What exactly is our mission? I was just told to come here and then I get the rest of the information from officer Calim."
The attractive vixen was slightly bumping her forehead with her hand. "Crap, I almost forgot about that part… so, do you mind losing any body parts?" she asked him calmly.
"What!" John was rather shocked. He didn't expect that his first mission would be a suicide mission.
Siren just laughed again, only John was just able to look at her with a shocked mien. But she just punched him hard at his shoulder and giggled a bit. "Was just a joke. Do you think we would let a newbie die on his first mission? This is just a normal scouting mission, just riding a bit through the forest, enjoying the nature and maybe beating up some Sharpclaw. Don't take everything so serious, I just want to put you on. By the way, have you ever ridden on a Cerinian horse?"
John had to shake his head. "Sorry, not yet."
"Ohhh yeah, you are that 'CloudRunner-Rider'. But don't worry; they are gentle, if you know how you have to tread them."
Just at that moment, the door of the stables were smashed open and a very petulant Cerinian horse ran outside and tried to shake off its rider, a Cerinian soldier, and the beast was finally successful. The soldier went flying through the air and hit the ground hard.
"Ouch that surely hurt." Commented Siren on the fall.
The horse was calming down again and was strutting back to the stables. "That's what you call 'gentle'?" John asked aghast.
"That one was an exception, you'll get another one. Hey, is everything alright with you!" She called to the soldier, who meanwhile was standing up again and holding his hurting head. As answer he just raised his arm. "See? Wasn't that bad! Come on, now we'll get a hack for you."
Once they arrived inside the stables, John quickly noticed that there were two kinds of mounts. One of them was pretty wide and had six thick, short legs and their feet were a mix of hooves and a wide toe on every side of its foot. They were pretty furry and biggest part of their body and head looked very similar to a hippo, even the fact that the tusks were missing and the eyes were more in the middle.
"These are our draft animals." Siren mentioned while they were walking past them.
After that they came to their normal mounts. They had four long, slender legs and at their ends no hooves, but four, strong looking toes, which they could even use well at the uneven landscape of the planet. Most of the time their body was covered in a short, brown fur and they had, like a horse, a long, most of the time white mane, which wasn't hanging down, but sticking out as if they had been electrified.
Their head looked a lot like a horse's, even though it was covered with several dark brown stripes, their muzzle was much more petite and their nostrils were just small slits. Their tails were a bit longer than John's arm. There wasn't much hair, but at the beginning it was wide and it got thinner and rounder the closer it came to the end. Similar like the face of the animals the tail also had several vertical, brown stripes. Many of the animals were just eating green hay which was laying in some kind of watering hole. They almost walked to the end of the stables, where the rest of the group was already mounting up.
Siren went to the side to one of the animals and was petting its muzzle softly. "You'll get this one kid. Come'er and pull yourself up." John did as he was ordered and stepped into the horses stabling. When he got closer he saw that they were indeed related to horses, but they were bigger than them and he tried to figure out how he got on the back of this one.
"Try and use the loops." Siren advised him, who was meanwhile sitting on one of the horses opposite to him. John saw what she meant; at the side of the saddle were several loops, where the horseman could pull himself up, because it was almost impossible to get on their backs without any help.
He needed several tries, which were accompanied by silent laughter of the other soldiers, save for Siren, until he was finally on its back.
"See, it wasn't that hard." She said with a slightly sarcastic tone and then she turned to the other soldiers with a much more bearish tone. "You shouldn't laugh so much, you didn't do a better job than he when you first started." The laughter hushed and then one or another laid back his or her ears in shame.
She rode in front of the stabling where John was still standing inside, but before she could say a word John started. "Don't worry, I don't care about what they say, I'm over that."
"You had a hard time, huh?" She asked with a slightly suppressed voice.
"You could say that. Let's just say, I don't want to go back anymore." He said easy.
"Well then, you can get a shoulder to cry the next time." Her sarcasm just got commented by another little smile of herself and another 'Hmpf' of John.
"But now you should listen, or else you'll land on the ground like the other soldier before." She cleaned her throat. "Our mounts, the Pa'li, how we call them, are in fact easy to ride, if you know how to treat them. We use the reins; just take them in your hands." He had in front of him a half round metal belt which was bound with several leather stripes to the head of the Pa'li and he took it in both of his hands.
"When you flick it easily they slowly start to walk, the more often and the stronger you do it, the faster they get. When you pull the belt they slow down or stop totally or even walk backwards. If you want them to change the direction you just have to pull it to the left or the right. That should it be... ah yeah, if you want to go fast as soon as possible just kick their side, but then you have to get a good hold, or else you'll land on the ground like that guy before."
John nodded when he understood. "Alright then, let's see if I got it. Like that..." He flicked the belt a bit and the Pa'li started to walk. Siren had to make space so that the horses didn't bump together.
"Hey, not bad for a rookie and the first time." The vixen congratulated him. "I guess we can go then, huh?" She turned around and winked the other five to her. "We move out folks, the newcomer got it." She turned a last time back to John. "You just attach yourself to the back and try not to cause any trouble." It seemed she had heard about the story of him and the receptionist, he smiled under his helm.
"I'll do my best."
She nodded to him a last time and then she rode on her horse into the direction of the exit and the other five behind her. They rode in single file through the city, but not to the gate John knew; they rode to a small gate at the side of the city. John noticed that his appearance in the armor attracted some attention and again he was now being watched by some people, but it wasn't that uncomfortable as it was at the beginning. The situation was getting better, when he heard a familiar voice.
"Hey John, over here!" He looked around until he found the source of the voice at his right.
"Hey Adaril." He said to the small, blue, and very active fox was with other kids, boys and girls that came to him. John ordered his Pa'li to stop. He took off his helm to get a better look and pinned it under his arm. "And how's your mother doing?"
"Momma is fine. She is just doing her home duty."
John turned to the other children. "Are those your friends Adaril?"
One of the smaller girls was hiding behind her friends, when her eyes and John's met shortly. Adaril noticed that and tried to put her nerves at rest. "Don't worry. He is totally cool. I already told you that he lives at the place of our doctor Sefilia."
The little girl was now coming out from her cover and talked by herself with a silent, small and soft voice. "You always play the nice music at the tree. Will you play again today?"
"Sure. If I'm back and it isn't too late I'll come again and I will play for you."
The girl made a step forward. "Really?" She asked with a bright voice.
John had already opened his mouth when Adaril cut him off. "John keeps his promises as sure the sun goes down and as sure as Sharpclaw are dumb and ugly." The kid fox declared cheekily.
John had to smile a bit by that comment and noticed that his comrades were already out of sight. "Listen guys, I got to go or else I'll getting trouble with officer Calim. So then Adaril, don't cause any trouble for your mum's sake. See ya!" He put his helm on again and rode after the others with a bit faster then the others so not to lose them. He heard several callings of the kids and lifted his hand to say bye without looking back. John just caught up with them, when they had reached the gate.
It was much smaller than the main gate, but still one of the small houses would easily fit in it. It was made up of the same white-blue glimmering metal like the main gate and was also decorated with symbols, which meanings John now knew.
They represented the various professions of Cerinia's people and the royal family. Besides the gate stood two guards and Siren gave them a hand sign, whereon one of the guards went to the gate and touched it so that it opened up. He made way for the seven horsemen and went back to his post.
Behind the gate were the fields he had already seen during his arrival. On one side there grew meters high cereals and on the other side was an endless appearing flower field which was enlightened because of the sunlight in every bright and warm color you could imagine.
The biggest part of the field was covered in the flowers he had seen on the picture in Sefilia's house. They looked like small tulips with a big, round, orange pistil. His amazement just got deflected by a much more majestic view. The white walls of the main city, how they gleamed in the sunlight and emitted a feeling of peace and bliss. He also saw several soldiers patrolling on the wall.
He enjoyed a bit the sight of the environment around him, until something happened in front of him. Siren gave a sign with her hand and the others started to make two rows. The female soldier in front of him made space so that he could ride besides her. At first he didn't react.
"What are you waiting for! Move your ass!" He got snubbed by her then he moved up.
'Stay calm John. It's just an accident that you are always around the women.' He thought when he noticed that his companion didn't look less attractive than Sefilia or Siren despite that armor. 'But still, the way she approached me, I'm not her type at all.'
The two soldiers in front of them started to talk, and it seemed it didn't bother Siren in any way because she took everything pretty easy as he thought.
They just had reached the jungle and entered a dirt rack. John just got bored and started to talk with the Cerinian besides him. "Sooo... Why did you go to the military?"
She acted like she hadn't heard him and instead she picked a purple fruit from one of the trees which were close to the track and started to eat. "Aha, I understand, the silent type."
She swallowed and stared at the back of the head of her mount.
"Do you really want to know, why I am here right now?" She asked with a slightly annoyed voice. John didn't have to give an answer. "Because most of the guys think that war and weapons is their business... And I just want to prove that black is white." She said decided and even angrier than before.
"Pst, hey newcomer!" One of the soldiers before them had turned around, he indeed whispered to John, but he was loud enough to get heard by the vixen. "I'm gonna tell you why she really joined the army. Because she can't cook, clean, or work like a woman, that's why she's doing a man's job." To this statement, he got thrown the soft fruit she just ate, right into his face.
His neighbor just laughed after that and got hit by a fruit as well, which juices ran down his neck, right into the openings of his armor. But he didn't attach blame, because his attacker was already holding another fruit in her hands. When John looked at her, anger was written on her face, because the first one seemed to be right.
"Don't let them tease you. Just kick their asses pretty hard at least once so that they know who they have to deal with."
"And I won't need your help at all!" She chewed John out.
"Hey, I just wanted to help." John replied innocently.
"Did I ask for it! No! So then keep out of my business!"
"Dude!" John started a loud counter defense. "There I go, just wanting to help someone and as thanks she kicks you right in your face." He again turned around to her. "What did I do to you anyways? Could you tell me that! Because I'm different or what!"
"Because you are a guy! You just kiss a woman's ass to get her in your rack!"
"That's why she has no boyfriend." The second one whispered to the first one, before he again got hit by a fruit at the back of his head, but this time not by the vixen. She just had prepared, when she looked to John, who just grinned. "I thought he just should shut up."
The woman seemed even more bugged than before and now shouted at John. "What is your problem!"
"I don't want you to compare me, with guys like him." John pointed a bit derogatively at the first one of the two soldiers. "Not everyone is like those guys. You maybe know Beseril; he sells clothes in a boutique. I guess, he should be the best example. He isn't even attracted to women!" He had to laugh a bit.
"I think I know, who you mean." She laughed a bit with a hand covering her mouth. "You are right there, he is the best example."
"By the way, you are not my type." John commented after that. She looked at him questioning "You are too old for me." He said not to mention the real fact.
"Hey, watch your mouth!" She said sharply but mellow. "Plus, I've got a name!" She added.
"Oh, you too?" John commentated again, with a smile and a slight laughter.
Agitated she reached her hand to him. "My name is Amalia Ashfall!"
John took her hand happily and shook it. "John O'Neil or just John."
"Hey, cut the chatter back there." Siren ordered and lifted her fist. Her ears where twitching sensitively. She had heard something. The others now also raised their ears, John also tried hard to hear something and so he took off his helm. He noticed how the ears of the others where twitching and several moments later he heard something as well. Some kind of humming, more a swooshing, which was getting closer, fast. They looked around; it didn't come from the front, from behind or out of the jungle.
They looked up at the same moment. They saw through the slightly clear treetops how a small fireball broke through the atmosphere and rushing to the surface of the planet.
"What's that, are we under attack?" One of the soldiers asked. John squinted his eyes together to get a better look.
"A ship?"
The others turned around to him. "A what!"
"Are you sure!" They asked him.
"If not, it could be a meteorite. But since when do meteorites do have wings?" Siren again looked up to the fireball before it disappeared behind the trees of the jungle.
"I guess you are right kid. Come on guys, we'll take a look."
Siren and the others kicked their Pa'li in the flanks, whereon the normal so calm animals screamed furiously and started to run along the path with an enormous speed. John did that as well, but followed them on a slight distance, because he still wasn't that sure about ridding these animals.
The group stopped at the side of the path which was totally overgrown, Siren jumped off her horse, drew her sword and started to fight herself through the greens. "We will leave the mounts here; I guess they won't run away." She said while hacking some ropes down.
They changed shifts here and then, so that they could go on fast and not tire out. After about ten minutes of plants and vegetation chopping, they had arrived at the crash site of the ship.
During the crash, the ship had torn a hole into the treetops and lit them up with several small fires around it the crash site. It dragged itself several meters over the ground and because of the uncontrolled entry into the atmosphere it was burned black all over. It appeared that it once had several wings, but now only two were left on each side. They were gently curved and sharp.
"Take out the fires first!" Siren ordered. The soldiers portioned around the wrack and stamped and hit the fire with the wide side of their swords so that the jungle couldn't start to burn. It indeed rained a lot on Cerinia, but they wanted to be sure.
After all fires where put out, John started to climb onto the ship, it was strange that it had almost cooled down though. "Hey, what are you doing?" Siren snapped at him.
"Someone had to fly that thing, didn't he? I just want to know who." He called back.
"Then watch out, a Sharpclaw could be in there!" Siren warned.
'Pretty unlikely.', he thought 'They are way too stupid to fly something like this.'
He now stood over the cockpit of the pilot; it at least looked like one. A round glass dome, which was covered by cracks and splints so that he wasn't able to see the person inside. He only saw a silhouette which wasn't moving anymore. He drew his sword and cut, with the help of the aura, a round hole into the robust glass and threw it aside.
"And, who is sitting inside?"
He was surprised, what he was seeing there in front of him. "It's a cat, a girl, she's unconscious!" In front of him indeed lied a girl.
"A girl!" Siren shouted back asking without really expecting an answer.
She was a petite, pretty cat, with a slightly gleaming pink colored fur in a grey uniform. Her eyes were closed and so presented a blue, slightly blurred mascara on her eyelids. Besides her also lied a weapon, which looked very similar to the ones, which were used in John's world. He stripped of one of his plated gloves and felt the pulse at her throat.
"She is still alive! I need some help to get her out of here!"
"Hey, help him." Siren ordered the soldier with the flame chest armor. He climbed up a bit slowly, but after Siren scowled at him, he started to get faster. After he tried his best not to fall from the ship, John reached into the ship and put the strap of the weapon around his neck.
"Hey, what do you have there?" Amalia asked, after she saw the weapon.
"It's probably a gun. Where I come from we got something similar."
Both of them stood at one side and then they lifted the alien cat, by reaching under her arms, out of the ship. It seemed that the other one didn't want to have any bearing on her. After they had pulled her out of the ship he left John the task to bring her off the ship safely. Because he didn't know if she was hurt or not, he held her like a husband carried his wife and jumped down off the ship.
During that, he noticed that there was something strange with her tail. There was no damage inside the ship, but still her tail was covered in smut. He didn't know why, but he could take care of this later. She wasn't heavy and as far as he could see, she was about twelve inches shorter than him. John had to accept, she was kind of cute. He heard some whistles of the other men, which were ignored by him and suppressed by Siren.
Siren went to the unconscious girl and turned her head a bit to her to get a better look, "She's pretty. You got a good catch there." She said slightly provoking and patted his back, the others laughed again. "We better take her with us and let our doctors check her through. Hey Ashfall, you'll ride in advance and tell the others that we have an injured person...! Hey Ashfall what are you doing to the ship!"
Amalia was checking a spot at the side of the ship and smeared a bit of the grime from the ship.
"Hey, what's that?" She said when she had found something.
The others went to her and left John with the unconscious cat on his arm. They stared at the spot where Amalia had removed the black dust, but you could see in their faces that they didn't know what it was.
Siren winked him to them. "Come here kid, maybe you know what this is." He went to them and they made some space. The place which was cleaned showed a green planet and something that was written underneath.
"Venom..." John replied.
"What is this supposed to mean?" The soldier with the wave armor asked. He was one of the two who had bullied Amalia during the ride.
John remembered his voice. "That's the place where the ship came from." John said gruffly.
"Fine and where is that?" The one with the tree armor asked.
John shook his head. "Don't know, but we can ask her when she's awake again." He pointed at the cat, which he was still holding in his arms, unconscious.
"Ok guys!" Siren said in a commanding tone. "Ashfall! Go ahead and get a sani, the rest of you, follow me!" She barked. The rest of the team saluted but John, who had to carry his package the feline, and Amalia who started to run back to the mounts. The rest of squad prepared to leave; only Siren stayed a short time at the ship and placed a crystal at the bottom side of the pilot consol. Despite his big liability to Sefilia, John couldn't resist to examine Siren carefully while she was bowing down and doing something inside the ship.
"What was that?", John asked slightly confused and innocently, when Siren was jumping off the ship.
"That's a detection crystal, with the help of that thing; we can find the ship easier again later."
The others went ahead and prepared the Pa'li to ready them to march. When John finally got out of the bushes, Siren was already sitting on her Pa'li in front of him. "I'll take her from here on to the city; I don't want you to get any wrong ideas with her!"
John was glad not to carry the girl anymore, despite the strange fact that she smelled slightly like cherries, that made her even cuter in John's eyes. Every time John had thoughts like that, he kicked himself mentally to get a clear mind again. He had Sefilia; they loved each other, over and out!
She laid on one of the couches and just started to relax after that pain she just had suffered. There was a pack of ice on her forehead. Beseril was still with her because he was afraid it could start again, then somebody knocked on the door.
"Relax, I will go." He said, calming her down and stopping her when she just wanted to stand up. Instead she pushed her slightly off-centered ice pack back on her forehead.
Beseril opened the door. An acutely subtle garish Cerinian stood behind it, he was a courier.
"I have a message for Miss Wolferos."
"She is manqué at the moment." He lied. "I will give her the news, when she is back again." He again said emphatic, when he denied the try of the courier to get inside.
"Tell her that one of our patrols had to come back earlier than planned. The patrol of officer Calim. Something happened and somebody got hurt."
"Tell them that I will be right there!"
It was Sefilia, she had heard everything and was terrified about the thought that something had happened to John. She had gathered new power. Both were surprised to see her. The courier threw an angry glare at Beseril and then left. He hadn't seen the sweat where she was drenched in, but Beseril did.
He tried to get her back to saneness. "Sefilia, you really should lay down and sleep!"
"John was in Calim's team, something could have happened to him!" Her head started to hurt a bit again, but the thoughts what could have happened to him didn't let her rest.
Please take care of our three little friends as long as I'm gone."
Beseril shook his head. "You are and always will be a bulldog, sweaty. You really would do anything for him, would you?" She just took on her jacket and didn't answer, because he knew what she would say. He gave up. "Alright. I will get you there so that you don't tumble down on your way. Your fluffy friends are sleeping; they are alright at the moment."
"Thanks Beseril."
"No problem." He sighed.
It took them a while, until they had reached the hospital. At the same moment the patrol arrived. Instantly she looked around. She just wanted to know where John was and if he was alright. Her heart jumped when she saw him, unhurt.
"Where is the injured one?" She asked before falling into Beseril's arms.
"She is with me!" Calim appeared out of the small team of Pa'li riders, with the unconscious, pink cat in the grey uniform, who sat in front of her.
"That's an interesting girl." Beseril commented, when he examined her. "I wish, I had such a wonderful fur." He rhapsodized full of friendly jealousness.
Most of the people overheard that. "Hey kid, help me with her." Sefilia was a bit surprised when John jumped off his Pa'li and took the girl from Siren.
Sefilia had to concentrate now, she still had headaches, but she had to ignore them for the time she had to take care about the girl.
"She is not from here." She declared when she saw her fur and her appearance. "What happened?" She asked slightly interested, when she made the first checks, while the girl was lying in John's arms. Sefilia lifted her eyelids, which uncovered two blandly blue eyes and looked for her pulse.
Siren nodded over to John. "He will explain to you everything. I have to make a report and take some support with me. Ashfall, take his Pa'li with you. And kid, you can take your stuff with you, you are signed off for today. You'll get a message for the next mission."
Siren rode in a steady speed with the rest of the troop back to the quarters, while Amalia attached the reins of Johns Pa'li at her own and then followed them as well. John didn't know if he just had imagined that or not, but while Sefilia had checked the cat she might have winked at him.
"Alright, bring her inside." Sefilia said, after she had finished the pre-checking. "Thanks for your help Beseril." She said to Beseril for goodbye.
"No problem darling. I'll go back and keep an eye on your friends."
They walked through the same hallway John had walked through the first time they had met. The walls and the roof with the black linings on white ground were just too familiar.
Sefilia took the word after a few moments.
"The armor fits you well John." She said friendly.
"Thanks." He answered her as friendly back. "What happened? Where did you find her?"
"She crashed with a spaceship in the jungle."
"A spaceship? She is pretty young for being a pilot." She said while she was shortly running her hand through the hair of the unconscious girl.
John got a bit curious. "And where did you find Beseril?"
"I went shopping and met him during it. I bought some nice flowers to decorate the house a bit and Beseril helped me to carry it back to it. As thanks I invited him to a cup of tea." She explained.
"And why did he come with you?"
"Because he..." When she was about to start talking about her headaches she just forged something. "You know how Beseril is. He was just curious and when I told him that you were in that troop, nothing was able to stop him."
John just had to shake his head and laughed a bit for himself. "That Beseril."
After a short walk, they reached the room, which John memorized as well. He put her on the bed with the scanner and sat down besides her. He put the weapon, his sword and his helm on one of the shelves around where nothing was put on already. He sighted. "That's the moment when memories are coming back, huh?"
Sefilia just concentrated herself on the machine, which was adjusting the scanner. "Sorry, what did you say?"
"That's the place where we met the first time. Did you already forget?" He looked at her, although she was still busy with the machine.
"No, I did not..."
Suddenly Sefilia's headaches came back and this time they were almost stronger than before. She breathed heavily and backed herself on the controls of the scanner. John noticed that something was happening. "Sefilia, what's wrong?" He got up and went to her.
"Something happened. Maybe it has to do something with the girl." The pain got more intense. "It was like, I feel suddenly the pain of hundreds of people inside my head... and it's starting again!"
John didn't know what he should do. Every single hair of her body, even her tail suddenly shot straight up and ruffled every single hair.
"It feels like a nail is drilling inside my head!" She shrieked in pain.
"Damn! I'm getting a doctor!" John said hectically and ran against the door, but it didn't open. "Bloody hell! Open up you fucking door!" He rammed himself again against the door, but it didn't move an inch. His shoulder hurt, but he didn't care. He wasn't able to get outside this way.
Meanwhile Sefilia had slumped down to the ground and screamed. He had to act. He got his sword from the shelve and cut, with the aura, through the white door with the black markings and got on the hallway.
John shouted for help. "We need her a doctor, now!" Someone ran from behind the next corner, a doctor whose doctor's overall fluttered hectically through the air, a nurse and a soldier. It that moment time passed that slowly for John that it almost didn't exist. That soldier had grey fur and his arms moved strange... as if he were hurt.
"Over here!" John shouted and motioned them into the room with the destroyed door before he went in himself and taking care about Sefilia again.
She had curled up herself and still screamed. He kneed down to her and stroke her gently, "Help is on the way Sefilia! Hang in there!" Shortly after that the doctor and the nurse entered the room. The doctor pushed John aside and checked Sefilia, while the nurse asked John the specifics.
"What happened?"
John was that much afraid about Sefilia that he almost couldn't think too clearly. "She-she said that she felt pain of other people, of many people. It got stronger, until she collapsed."
"Nurse, get me a strong depressant in a syringe at once!" The nurse nodded and searched in Sefilia's shelves for syringe and the right remedy.
It was the first time that John's eyes spotted the soldier who had accompanied the nurse and the other doctor. All the time he stood at the door and watched what had happened. John knew who he was and he would rather punch him right into his face, but he had to take care of Sefilia. He couldn't help by supporting the doctor, but he could be with her in his thoughts and hope that she heard his voice that she fights against the pain and won't give up.
"Hang in there Sefilia, it will be over soon."
He just stood there, crossed his arms and just watched the occurrence with a serious look.
The nurse had found everything and handed the doctor the syringe. "Hey you, help me here!" The doctor postulated of John.
"Huh? What should I do?" John went to the doctor and the still suffering Sefilia, but he didn't know, what he could even do.
"You have to hold her arm, or else the needle could break of or I could miss the vein."
"Alright."
The nurse moved aside. Sefilia was still trembling heavily and John tried hard not to hurt her even more. He felt very clearly how her pulse was racing, that worried him even more. But he controlled her arm allowing the doctor to jab the needle into her veins and press the liquid inside. John didn't see that, because he never was a big fan of needles and syringes. He looked down again when the doctor said that he could let her arm go. John also felt how her pulse was slowing down and more regular and she stopped fighting and resisting against her helpers.
"Her condition has calmed down again, she will be alright soon. Bring her into the next room the nurse will open the door for you." The doctor said to calm John down, because it was clearly visible that he was worried.
It was the first time the doctor looked up and saw the unconscious, young cat. "What about the girl?" John put the weapon of his visitor around his neck and was just about to take Sefilia in his arms like the cat before.
"Sefilia had just checked her data. They still should be in the machine. Would you please finish the checkup?"
The doctor nodded. "I'll take care of it. Nurse, would you please bring the young man and my colleague into the next room please." The nurse nodded. "Oh, yeah, before I forgot, bring her, to us when she is awake please. She'll surely speak no word Cerinian." John added.
"Very well, I will." He took a short look on their guest's data. "She was lucky; she doesn't seem to be hurt. She just got some scratches."
"That's good." John responded.
John just prepared himself with a verbal conflict with Sefilia's brother. However to his surprise he was gone. He left without getting any info about his sister's well-being. John couldn't do anything than despise that man.
"What wanted Wolferos here anyways?" John asked without sounding angry. "Captain Wolferos wanted to talk with the girl you found." He said and accented the 'captain' notably. "But it seems that he has left already."
"Please follow me Mr. O'Neil." The nurse said and wanted to bring him and Sefilia into the other room. John nodded and followed.
Actually the room was just the one next door and it looked like Sefilia's room. There was a bed, a shelve, and several medicines around. Only the scanner was missing. John knew what he had to do and placed Sefilia on the bed softly. Then he took the weapon of the girl and his own down and put them on the shelve aside.
He sat down besides her. "I'll keep an eye on her until she is awake. Just let the door open that I don't have to kick it open again when there are any problems." The nurse smiled a bit and let the door open so that the lock didn't close and that he could simply push it open.
John was slightly running the back of his hand over Sefilia's cheek and let it also run through her soft, silky, blue hair. Despite the circumstances she was lying in front of him, and to him she looked like an angel who had come from heaven to save him from his pain. He had to be alert so that he didn't get caught as he bent over and kissed her slightly on her cheek and smiled.
Authors Notes:
So the next chap is up and I hope 15 will be soon too. Being the fair person I am I repeat, what I have already mentioned in my interview FFSF (if it's even up already).
There will come a climax in this story soon and it will start with the end of chap 18 so stay tuned.
Spell-checked and Beta-read by XxSanitariumxX, despite his trouble he had the last few days.
Thanks dude.