Chapter 28
A unexpected Voyage
I woke back up near the rocky surface, where I was next to a strange so called 'sharptooth' that they were talking about. He was mostly purple, and he was as large as the sharptooths I killed yesterday. I pulled out my knife just in case anything happened to become an indecent, like you know, him wanting to devour me whole. Maybe then I will not be ridiculed by them just because I am part 'Fast biter'. I began replacing these words with what they say I am, assuming they mean the same thing. Excitement came back to me, as I knew I was going back home, and hopefully I will get a task so that I may find my next prey. Fresh, and tender, with a side of profit as well. An excellent combination.
I heard a cry of confusion and fear, as rocks fell around me. I turned around and noticed the sharptooth cowered in fear from who I was. He began saying get away from me, but I pushed too far. Soon, he let out a cry for help, hoping that he could just give everybody a false sense of security. Soon, if they are the targets, I will kill them, and I will make sure they are one hundred percent dead, ensuring the job was properly done, but nobody knew about this except some people and our lab people. Another dinosaur that was kind of dark pink came out with feathered arms and a Mohawk shaped frill. She stood on two legs like me, but her legs bent backwards, and somehow she was fine with it. She gasped and then ran back into the cave before I smelt something funny, rising above me. Then I felt it's warm, but foul breath, picking me up from my back scales. I decided not to do anything before I am continuously exposed to public. I was carried like a longneck child with their parents lifting them over a high edge. I hung over with my head facing the huge horde of angry dinosaurs.
"Feria!?" Tricia screamed.
"Sorry, the purple sharptooth freaked out when he saw me." I retorted. "Tricia, if I go, please do not follow me, I am not trying to get anybody hurt."
"You are going." The longneck that was carrying me from my back said. "You are doing it now fast biter."
"Littlefo-" She cried, but it was too late. He had swung me around, making me dizzy and launched me into the air, over the wall where there was a deep and treacherous canyon. The wind became a huge gust, supporting me from the trip from the great valley into the fabled mysterious beyond. I wished I had the jetpack with me, but since I did not, I was flying through a sight of a long drop, full of mist. Who knows what could be down there. I felt myself beginning to fall and succumb to the thought of death, but when I found a edge, I knew that was probably my only chance of surviving, but at this speed, if I even tried to get onto the platform, I will be having such a hard time reaching the rendezvous. As I fell, I let my claws simulate where the rock was going to scratch against my obsidian hard fingers, and as I fell, I was preparing for another thrill that I loved to feel. The adrenaline pumping through me, the constant feeling of excitement, but at the same time, danger lurks around every corner.
I finally reached the edge, and I clawed onto the pillar of rock to slow down my fall, and suddenly I came to a complete stop. I was hoping for more, but at least I am ready to go for another rock wall. I jumped off and aimed for a nearby pillar which had a sight that blue lava was flowing out of. I knew if the lava was blue, that means that I could not breathe at all. So I activated my oxygen mask, and made sure that it would work even if it was invisible. I slowly crept down as the trail came back to my feet, and all I could see was a pathway to a unknown place. I preferred to check it out, since my radar would love to update on this area of the region. One step closer to knowing each and every part of the world. I mumbled to myself; "Might as well give it a look, maybe something will get me back up to the surface". I began running and not breathing as I knew that oxygen would run out in about 24 hours, unless being recharged by another oxygen tank or taking in the oxygen from the air around me. I ran and ran until I reached a cliff where there was a beautiful sight of a forming cave. The rocks on the top seemed to drip down like the mounds of termites, and the water was glistening even though there was no air. I was still a unarmored raptor, being a open target to anything at all. I know that anything that had fire I could resist, but things can get eerie if it was something else that came through.
Soon, clouds of darkness began filling the atmosphere, following multiple orbs of light, striking down lightning to bring forth robots. They were like Tricia, except their frills were round, and they had one eye. Most of them however were brown and ready to shoot me. I got out my knife, knowing that they must go down or I could have a handful on me. I began running at them, slicing their necks, but it revealed circuits and the ones affected charged at me, shooting a bunch of bombs at me. I felt the impact on when they touched the ground. Those guns meant business, but then I started to think for a moment about them, and if a neck slice would not work, then wouldn't their chests be where they are weak to? I tested that theory and threw a knife at one without the head.
"Perfect" I said while quickly shooting them all with my pistol. They began dropping like flies, as I began picking up their weapons as they all died. I ran ahead so that I may see more, but knowing this, I cannot mess up one bit. I am going to have to know how to get back up, and fast. I held the line rifle in hand, and when I held it with 2 hands, it felt weird, but with one hand, it felt like I was carrying a lightsabre. I pulled out the slap rifle as well, and it was like a nice two edged sword, while at the same time being pointed directly to my enemies. I ran ahead, knowing that there were signs saying do not cross. I disregarded the warning and almost stumbled off a cliff. I sighed in relief, but I smelled really rusty metal right behind me. I tried to turn around quickly, but then I was knocked off the edge by another huge robot. I fell onto my stomach first, but then got back up quickly, seeing that it was a shrine, with strange circular features. Lava started spilling downwards, and it was feeling hot in here. soon, the temple looked like an Arena, one that I would never get in if there was no air.
Soon, an beam of light shot up from the center, sending a boulder flying up into the air. I knew that was my way out, so I ran towards it. I found it after 2 hours... it was now me going back up to the surface. Although I began to hear distorted machine sounds heading my way. In front of me, came a giant floating triangular head that had a pointy neck, and on it came six arms that looked like they were going to disassemble me right away. I knew that I had to get out of here, so I jumped up and bit him at his eye, and he did not get staggered. Instead, he spun two pairs of arms around, and then sent me back with full force. The pain that resulted with the impact gave me a sharp pain that I was beginning to feel, but then slowly it got better by the second. I scoffed and pointed my line rifle at him, but then it began shooting the same purple bombs at me from earlier. I began rolling and rolling to evade each one, but the bombs got faster and faster, until it finally hit me on the head. I was sent back again, but this time I had a little headache, with the giant head constantly shooting at me, making the bombs shake the ground around me with extreme quaking. I began to develop resistance to that as well, and I walked towards him, covering my face before he would hit me with another one of those. I gone and rolled again, this time charging the line rifle myself. It charged up and fired a straight, concentrated shot that looked like pixels flying through the air.
It hit him right in the eye and it made the corrosion start melting him faster. At this rate, with the increased exposure to healing and other things, my life support gone from 21 hours to 5 real quick. I knew that if I was to live, I would have to destroy it and without being hit. I started running and gunning with one rifle as the floating head kept on shooting bullets at me. I kept on shooting mine, and constantly he was staggering. I then bit him with my teeth, and kicked off of him, dodging his forcing attack. The corrosive damage was spreading quicker as the eye began to not glow anymore, and shields began growing and growing. I tried to shoot at it, but it only stopped the line rifle. I decided to wait and run from him before he would reveal his head again. I found the chance when I peeked out for the fourth time, and began shooting and running the direction the shield was going to. The corrosive saliva then shut it down completely all of the sudden and it was blasted back. This gave me about one more minute to grab my stuff and get going. The exit was about a canyon high, and it would take a long time. I felt my breath start to short out, as I transmitted the destroyed machine, and holstered the stolen weapons. I ran towards the pillar of light as I was desperately trying to hang on and not breathe, as I knew death was almost here. I was flying so fast that I practically shot out of the ground into the sky where the clouds were.
I felt air coming back to my oxygen device coming back, halving the amount for me and the machine to recharge. I saw down below and I landed into water, which slowed down my fall, and at least made it less painful, much less a slap to my whole frontal. I swam out of the river and told the team to pick me up where I was at. They responded back saying that they have already changed their route as they were flying through space. I then closed the transmission and slept for the night. I then smelled another strange scent, but this time it was very close, like it was just right next to me. I then quickly rolled out of the way of the bite, and I shot it with the line rifle I stole. Soon it then tried to cover it's eyes, which gave me a perfect chance to put it out of it's misery. Who said you needed weapons to end a life? I then pounced onto the sharptooth and bit it with my corrosive saliva, with the sharptooth beginning to pass out. I waited until he fell down and then feasted on it's flesh.
I was so busy eating the bloody meat that I almost forgot they just messaged me about them arriving in a few minutes or so. By then I would probably had eaten off the flesh and left no evidence of the skeleton. I ate quickly and faked like I was just sleeping as they were going to be here shortly. Soon, I felt a bright light shining on me, as I warmed up through the cold night. Soon a rope was hanged down and the person I liked to see came down and picked me up, but I pushed his hand away from me, and grabbed the rope myself. He shrugged for the whole remainder of the time as he was closing his eyes and wrapping his arms around me and my head, but I warned him about my corrosive spit, so he backed away. Soon he stared at my face as he knew I just broke a promise.
"Ukona, have you been eating like a carnivore recently?" he asked.
"oops sorry, I love to do that." I embarrassingly responded.
"Whatever, lets just get back, I heard you were in a very tight situation." He stated.
My eyes widened as I heard him say a tight situation. It was like they were always here and never bothered to show up. "How did you-" I asked.
He pulled out a camera footage from right here. I saw his face as I pointed straight to him. "We have one of your scales on your hands that has a hidden camera so that we always know about you and may send help at any time." He answered.
I shivered intensely. I could feel the chill strike down my spine as I knew they were spying on me again. "But what if I wanted to be alone? Like, Completely?" I complained.
"Then we would just turn the camera off. It is not a big deal, as it is not attached to you like your cord when you were little." He restated a old fact.
"Arrghhh.. please not now will reminding me of that age. Very painful and mournful days." I groaned.
"Alright." He reacted. "How about-"
"Please, no more, I had enough for today. My head is beginning to throb so hard that it feels like it is being swung with a hammer." I interrupted. "If you were really stalking me for my whole life, why didn't you just tell me sooner?"
"We show it to you if you were young, and your mother would kill us." He answered. "If we did it while they were gone, you would've been depressed, knowing that every single thing that you done could be replayed and played backwards."
I emitted a low growl, becoming slightly annoyed and a bit down. I was afraid that they were going to try and make be forget it, but he knew me. If it was one thing that happened, even slightly, I could remember it well enough to restate it in a orderly manner. I was not lying when I said my head was throbbing. stupid purple bombs messed around with my head, and I could barely even stand up straight. I tried to lay down on a very soft cushion to lay my head down, but the headache was still there, pounding within each second, slaughtering me from the inside. At least I am going home, but I would've never had this excruciating pain if it weren't for that purple sharptooth. I would kill him, but then again, we are talking about at least hundreds of dinosaurs, ganging up on me to expel me or snap my neck. With the headache in mind, I closed my eyes and went to sleep.
Ironically, we were there after three minutes of sleeping, which of course did not help. I usually never slept well, because I had to keep a close eye out. Reports of unknown thieves broke in and cut off all communication devices that usually get out our distress calls. Now every transmission had to be a web, one connected to another. It did not matter who we called now, since we state our message, then they relay. We landed, and I was escorted out, and saw doubles of everything and began to feel dizzy, until I passed out while I was at the door.
Somehow I could hear them, even though almost everything shut down for me, the audio systems seem fine, as the artificial ones can mimic the natural. Everything was replaced with a dark void that almost seemed like a dream, but a eternal night was not here until 13 years, and the Lunar desolation is about five months away.
"She is absolutely wonderful sleeping." the person carrying me said. "Wish I could be in there with her."
"Get real. It is a suicide mission if you try." the other person said. "She wakes up and bites you, and you are done for."
"I know but, I really do feel sorry for her." He said. "She is one of a kind, and she is being treated like a personal treasure. Most likely a Child's toy at this point."
Soon my sight was back, but I was completely paralyzed for now, and I could not even say one word to them before they closed the casket. The feeling of being so hopeless, yet your potential is a break of dawn. I tried to look at them as they were peeking through the casket as they closed it.
"Good night Ukona. You are on a important assignment tomorrow. This is something that all of us, even our enemies do not want, and are begging for someone to do it. Rest up and recover well." He said while shutting the casket tight.
I gave up on not sleeping and began doing it. Tricia was actually very good for a stealthy triceratops. Maybe they should try her next? No, if they did they would make her suffer a worse year than mine ever was. I know she does not want to be watched every single freaking second.
So where am I going tomorrow? He said everyone is begging for someone to try and do it, and it was even wanted by our most hated enemy. I could make one guess, but we just call it the land of confusion. Some of us just call it earth. At this point every planet has a lifeform that can take over its own planet by itself. I began dreaming about a very strange thing as it seemed real.
"Great, I am stuck again, forever. they are keeping us prisoner? why?"
I was already almost a slave to these people, as I was having to serve them or I would not go out of the tube. It brings back very horrifying memories, and me being embarrassed as a lot of people just stare at me. They said that I had powers as well, but I need to know how to do them without BACKFIRING every time. Worst case scenario, they could then try and send a project to find all of us, after we did so well at hiding from them. Really although, we never wanted to hurt them, we just wanted to be in peace. You keep in your distance, we will keep out of yours. but some telescopes never point away from us, like the triangular robot I just faced. It loved to look and shoot and piss me off.
When I felt a warm sense of morning shifting through the doors, then I was almost ready to wake up. What they were going to do was put me in a pod and shoot me to the land of confusion, then if I need a quick pickup, they would get a stealth module and come in there, taking me back in. I was not surprised anymore, as the headache was dying down, and I could feel my muscles pulsating with energy. I liked the feeling, and I decided to kick the casket door, but I forgot that it was locked. I tried again a few more times and I landed hard on the edge of the casket that I was still in. I assumed that they were going to unlock the casket so i could wake up properly, but then once I thought I was going to nap for a little bit, I heard a door creak in my room, and a moment later I saw his face through the casket.
I stood up feeling funny and judging by my dorm at this place it was very suitable for my age still, even though there was still things in it for like when I was young. They held my hand as if they thought I was still having the horrible headache along with me, but i should really tell them that its almost gone now. Although I liked it, escorting a lady through the base, made me feel like a special girl, consumed with herself. Once I made it through the door, the air was damp and moist like what I used to be exposed to when I was above the cavern myself, and the misty air was surprisingly warm as I was left alone for a while. I kept on going and i soon realized that I was walking in a pool of lukewarm water. I could feel sizzling pulsating through my feet, and it did not hurt, since I am lava-proof anyway. I slowly slipped in calmly for a few minutes and tried to relax before I was sent to disable the observatories, and possibly kill anybody in my way. I moaned for a second, and then made my way out the door and shook the liquid off of me.
I finally exited the steamy environment and gone through a different door, one that was kind of metal, but it was nothing too eerie about that. I pushed the button and the door opened with the crack going separate ways. He was just standing there, asking if I was ready to go. Then he added another question consisting of why I did not have any weapons on me, but what I had was a line rifle, invisible and ready for sniping. I told him that I was going to try and act like a normal raptor-like creature, and hopefully nobody sees a difference. He stated that I had a short snout, but it was acceptable. So he led me outside where we had all of the machines.
I saw a couple of bipedal machines, that were also going to be used for the pod. The pod looked like a cone, and it was actually quite large for a escape design. Meanwhile, the cannon was still adjusting, scanning the position on where most preferably have to land so that I most likely wont get detected by the earthly humans. From what I heard, some of them kill for no reason, some for, and some are innocent, being murdered by the crazed. At this point, if any of us outside of it's orbit was angered, we could take over, and enslave them forever, but from what I could tell, this is more like a disable and extend our peace offering type of mission.
"Oh yeah, and who attacked you was named Sekrion."
A voice was heard through the communications, saying; The Nexus Mind is still here? It was like someone hacked into the audio device and was just listening in to what I had to say, and creeping me out even more. I never knew that I was so vulnerable, knowing that a secret cannot be kept secret, just because of a few augmentations. I asked him if I could take the bipedal machine for a spin, wanting more experience trying to operate it. He said sure although he stated that it would be at the training grounds, where our unknown troop gets what they need. Soon I teleported there, and there it was, towering over me with a laser cannon and something similar to what Sekrion was shooting at me. I jumped off the wall with grace and landed on top of the cockpit, and opened the hatch. I jumped in and I saw a helmet that I was supposed to put on. At this rate, size did not matter, since it was needed to control it. I saw something coming from the distance with smoke trailing out of it, as I knew it was a rocket. It was coming straight towards me, and I was trying to command the Mech, using my mind. Soon, when it got close enough it shot a tiny laser beam that exploded the rocket within a range. I knew it was not the laser beam, since it would've been bigger, and it would've vaporized it. This machine had a nice self defense mechanism that I was dying to see. Soon a bunch of bullets started shooting and the mechanism knocked away or stopped bullets within midair, with extreme precision.
I then thought for the bipedal to start walking and both of it's legs responded to it. First the right leg gone forward, and then the left leg, and soon the machine was moving to my will. I tried to make it jump, but when I tried, it only came about a short height. How come? I kept on walking through the green grid hall, and this time, when I walked, I tripped over a black block that I was confused about. The machine tumbled over with a horrible thud, shaking me very hard. It then got back up immediately as it used a stasis field to start rotating and turning the machine. Soon the bipedal's legs were upright, ready for action once again. I thought about if there was a booster function on this one. I noticed the feature on some of the machines we already have, like a strange spider tank with a crane for a connector to about probably a thousand cannons, being covered by it's chassis. It was a rotating cannon, and it had a booster concealed on the bottom of the machine. With ease, I thought about the boosters activating and sending me through this course without hitting any walls, and with no surprise at all, I was rising, but it gradually moved forward faster as time went on. I knew it was going to be bad if I hit a wall at that speed, so I made it stop. I then was teleported back somehow and he recorded my results. Mine shown that it was still about 2 minutes which meant null on the other column.
He yelled out and told me to come out of the cockpit and exit the vehicle, but I slowly climbed out and sat on it instead. He angrily kept on calling me down, but I kept on answering that I wanted to stay up there. He began to become furious and then slapped his hand on his forehead, trying to contain his anger. He finally said to try and direct the vehicle into the pod and exit from there. I agreed and gave it for a spin one more try. I walked faster, and I knew each control a bit better as I tried them out, then a guide appeared in front of my eyes on the top right corner of the screen. It shown commands that the brain thinks about to use the machine properly, but there was also the 'Old ways' command that simply made it manually controlled. I then thought of it, and the controls popped up and sprung like the springs on some shoes. My arms were shaking in anticipation, and I then held my two claws on the levers, and pushed one forwards and one backward. I did this in succession and successfully walked forward, as the helmet registered my head angle so that I could turn. Soon I was inside the pod and inside was a couple of weapons that I used and my suit which I never actually use unless it is for a very dangerous task. I shut it down with the button on the top, and opened the hatch. I climbed out of it, as he nodded in agreement that it was a working prototype. He also told me that he used the thing I transmitted earlier and modified the machine that was for you. He explained that the machine was a present for me on my fifteenth birthday. I got giddy and rapidly jumped up and down, being in a cheerful mood. Another guy came in and notified him that the cannon was ready, and I prepared myself for trip to a very special, but confusing place.
Within minutes, I could hear gears cracking and turning, working it's thing to try and aim for the land of confusion, and I spent my time in the pod, locking everything down that I had in there, including the line rifle. The way that I was moving during the launch sequence was a very frantic, yet coordinated run, that made me rush about three times faster than what I usually do. At this time, I sat myself down and strapped myself down to the seat, knowing what was going to happen next. In a computerized voice I heard 3... 2... 1... as they said zero, I felt myself feeling zero gravity, as I was being launched at a very high speed. I was feeling the force now, and it was becoming one of the most thrilling experiences of my life, along side me clawing down the cavern when I was falling from probably a thirty two mile range. Soon, the rush of adrenaline ended and I was able to start going and freely flying inside the pod. I then gone inside the machine, and found inside the cockpit, guidelines.
At this moment, things were feeling suppressed, and locked to something, like a bond. The pod itself, as I knew was going way too slow. I grabbed the guidelines and soon it disappeared in my hands. I then thought this was just a prank from one of our friends, but then I realized that it was a complicated gimmick. I put on the helmet, and within the HUD, it then shown the rules and tips.
If you are reading this, this is how to operate a black Noroln prototype, made by Terrace industries TM. Go to page 13 If you do not care about reading the terms of service.
I never want to read the legal rights and terms of ownership anyway. I turned the page, looking for ways to operate the machine more effectively.
1. This Noroln is a state of the art bipedal robot. It has a internal computer that processes about a million operations per second, and a hidden anti-projectile gun.
2. To operate, simply let the headpiece read your mind. This is how you can alter and act through the machine.
3. Do not try and alter it in any way. Mindless alterations can result in a broken vehicle. Please, for your own sake never try this for yourself. It is common sense to know how to use equipment.
That is the condensed outline. Now turn on for a more detailed description. No I am not going to do that. I then took off the helmet and kept on looking around to see if there was anything useful. There however, was not much. There were too many buttons ever since I thought about that old version thing anyways. I hopped out of the cockpit and gone back to the seat where I first went to when I entered this escape pod.
Soon I heard horrible shaking, and loud crashes all around me, like an earthquake in space, although my ears began to hurt, and that was when I knew I was about to land. I braced myself, as the pod fell. I was almost certain the padded cushion was not going to serve well in this situation, and I was ready to say goodbye, but the strangest thing happened. The pod shook like it was on ground during a earthquake, but it felt like it was suddenly slowed down by something. I heard splashes, and it did not take me long to get up and get back on my claws again. I tried to practice getting used to this gravity, and then I gone on my hind legs, trying to look like I was a real raptor. I know it would not make sense for a hybrid to act like one of it's own, but still, if it is part of this world, then that could really save the other nations a lot of trouble. I opened the door and found water flooding in, and when I exited, the escape pod made itself invisible. I then held by breath and swam up to the surface, which was very dark, and when I was nearing the surface, something tried to drag me down. I then pulled out my line rifle and quickly shot it in the face so it may release the grip. I was still starting to feel queasy, with me practically flying through the water, I was not that sure it was very safe. I then found a crack in the wall underwater, and I decided to speed through it so that nobody or any living thing could see me. I kicked my feet and let my arms be like paddles, as I gone to the low area.
Resistance began pushing me a bit far away from where I intended to go, so I gone back up and jumped onto the coarse grass. It felt so prickly, and then again very fuzzy for this type anyways. I holstered my weapon, rendering it invisible, as I gone back to my original objective. I then realized I did not know where the observatory was in this area. I tried to reach out to them, but they couldn't pick up, all I got was a very static noise that almost gave away my position. I gone back onto my hind legs with my tail being long and almost stiff, and strangely free. With my arms bent, it made my claws look like min scythes. Somehow, I felt so different all the sudden, my senses heightened, and suddenly I smelt things from a half mile away. So much burning and saltwater. I jumped up to the branch, but I only gone on since I did not jump high enough to get on there for my whole self to get onto the branch. I clenched the branch with my short and semi-blunt snout that surprisingly swung me up on top of the piece of wood. Not bad for a first time, I reminded myself.
I attempted to jump from branch to branch, successfully landing each one, as my feet were the only thing that I could depend on to land. Each time I did a successful jump, I would end up almost falling off if I were to stay for a time. Soon, I began hearing some bellowing and I then gone for the noise. I was eager to find out what I was going to find out or use to help me do my objective, but it was a very nice sight. The silver ally sleeping on the coarse grass that was almost entangling his tail as he laid on her side and with her feet stretched out. Her arms were laid down like she was posing or something. Her body was silver, and it was almost shining too. I knew who it was after I saw her harness on the floor. It was Ytrian, the queen of the Sevawings resting on the land of confusion. She seemed tired, and unable to move, as her legs were already being tied by the vines. I jumped down to the ground, as I curiously walked towards her. This was a risky move, as she always said to me when we were talking to each other; "If you go to the land of confusion, make sure you do not got a tiny tracker beneath your scales or such". Who knows, maybe the humans already found her here, and is tracking her right now. If she leaves orbit with it, then it's game over, their world will open eyes to ours, and we will destroy their planet in the process. We felt like it was kind of our fault for being here, but we were scattered. I tried to get my sharp and jagged claws under her impenetrable scales. Each one I checked under was either having a piece of dirt that was loosely under it, suggesting that she might of crashed. There were no unusual objects stuck to her, and when I tried to scan her scales for the object on the exterior, she then rapidly turned around, breaking the grass and calling me human. She was angry for a moment, then when our gaze met each other, we knew each other like sisters.
"Ukona?" She called.
"Ytrian?" I asked.
We were very surprised that we were on this forbidden land, and were asking ourselves, are we aiming for the same objective? She then told me that she was looking for her son as she had a suspicion that was aiming for a theory that the humans kidnapped him. I told her it was not possible since your guards can easily dispatch a human and were highly aware of the surroundings.
"Do not scare me like that or I will get my guards to endlessly torture you for the rest of my life." Ytrian threatened.
"I am sorry for that. Remember, this is the land of confusion! They will probably put a tracking device on you, and they will find your tribe and our whole secret that we have been keeping so well!" I explained loudly.
"Shh. Humans have some sensitive ears you know." She reminded me.
"Oh yeah. Right." I changed my volume. "So, what was been going on with you?"
"I was flying and searching for him for about three days straight and still I cannot find him. I know that one of my advisers said he was kidnapped by humans a long time ago, at this rate, he might be dead already." She explained. "I then felt so weak after doing this for so long, and then I crashed down into the forest with almost no trees being knocked down."
"Do you know by any chance a observatory is?" I asked.
"Well, you can ride on me, but make sure you are ready for me crashing down into things. I am not really someone who gets off the ground a lot for a omega." She answered with a silent tone. "Make sure you do not become overwhelmed by my recoil, I get uncomfortable with somebody's behind pounding on my back."
"Alright. Thanks your majesty." I said.
Without warning, she moved her tail around and easily broke the foliage wanting to snag her into a place. He then got back onto all fours, forcing her head below the canopy. When I saw the harness she left, I asked her about that as well. She answered back that If she was going to put that back on, she would have to take the time to scan it's structure for any trackers on it. Regardless of what I was going to say, she rushed back, without making too much noise and sat down, sliding her hand across the necklace.
"What is that thing anyway?" I asked.
"It is a harness used for changing our way that we can attack." She said. "Before, we were forced to work for another omega that was like a Tyrant, assassinating the king as well as taking the throne himself. Nobody, under any claw stood a chance against him, until some of the miners found gems that made ourselves have something else instead of lasers. We all fought when we gone to his throne, and when he saw us, he laughed, but when we put all of our forces together, He died a long and painful death. Since I was the son of the king, I was chosen to lead, as well as another one who I picked."
"I remember having that on, Remember when I tried it on that I did not even fit it, and somehow I was shaking the temple harshly?" I giggled while saying it.
Ytrian laughed while laughing and pushing a weak branch. "Yeah, that was funny how you fumbled, and managed to anger my adviser. He was going full throttle on his anger issues on you!" She stopped afterwards, and her scales shot up from her body.
"Stand back. make sure you stay still and act like you are a sign that tells a direction." She said while pointing to the sky and looking like she was just frozen by a nuclear winter. I also followed along in her footsteps, and pointed the opposite way, also turning around a bit to make it more believable. Soon a man walked through the large leaves with a machete, and began trudging our way. He did not seem to even care about us, as I assumed he bought the bait. He wheezed and looked up at us, seeming very suspicious on how we looked right now. Fear immediately shot through my heart as he took a step closer. I tried to keep the pose and made sure that he wouldn't see that I was a actual raptor. He then got so close, that he looked me in the eye and shoved me to the ground. I fell down almost like I was a statue, but my toe-claw was moving a bit. I hoped he did not notice it, and he walked away until we could not see him anymore.
Ytrian then gone and quickly hid behind a nearby tree. I followed and she placed her tail under me and smacked me up into the air, so hard that it was aching like it was being smacked a thousand times. I finally landed on her top section where she had the harness wrapped around her neck. I groaned in pain as I asked her why she had to do it so hard. She responded back to me saying that it was to ensure that it would let me land on her back correctly. I held on tightly onto her harness, thinking that she was going to take to the sky now, but she reminded me that if she did right now, it would raise a ton of alarm, and she kept walking in between the trees. I liked how her back moved as she lifted one arm and another leg, in succession. It was more thrilling than the Noroln prototype, and the best of all she was my best friend. Strangely, there were times where we would get a bit too fed up with ourselves, and instantly become bitter rivals, but the actions were friendly, and the fights did not go for the kill.
She finally found an opening, and ran for about a second, and quickly lifted up into the air with her wings spread out. She then started flying east of where we were previously facing , and we were up to the point where we would be inhaling clouds. the water would sting my eyes, and my nose would be going crazy at the speed we were going at. The clouds were so thick that it would occasionally blind me from my own face, and that usually meant that the fog was unbelievably heavy. I was begging Ytrian to lower or ascend as the clouds were starting to fill up my nose with dust contaminated liquids. She then rose up into the sky, scanning through the clouds to where I was supposed to be at. Soon she saw it and swooped down with grace. As she dove down, I noticed her wings were not correctly folded. She was however winging it to the best of her ability, making a tight turn and spreading her wings quickly enough to let her land softly. I jumped off of her back quickly and saw myself still intact. I blew the liquid out of my nose, and it exited like I just sneezed. I then bent my legs and arms just like a regular raptor was going to do.
"Alright. Make sure you can hurry, I know this place has regular security checkups daily. If they found me, I would surely be ganged on by the militia that they have. You know I cannot handle so much smoke right?" She explained.
"Do not worry, you winged it, now I will sabotage the telescope so it will not investigate us any further." I promised.
I gone into it, and what I saw were only part of two officers trying to guard the structure. I silently walked right behind them and spread out my arms, and when I seized their heads, I crashed both of their heads and made them pass out. I thought to myself Oh my god. These arms can pack a punch for their size. I began trying to find a way towards a little small electric box so that I could cause a blackout for the whole building, and maybe shut the machine down. I was hearing nothing, only the dome moving as it began scoping everything. I liked how the air was no longer scorching, and more like a tropical place than a deserted wasteland. I continued on and I noticed what could possibly be the strangest thing I have ever seen. Stairs are upside down as well, and doors have it too. It is like the room is one big mirror. I am aiming for doors saying do not open, since it has a higher chance of leading me to the machine I want to go to. I jumped onto the railing and vaulted over, retaining my pose so that it might make me look like just a raptor randomly looking around Just in case a human decides to jump in and stop the party. Then I heard footsteps, racing towards me, and then i was grabbed by my torso. I frantically tried to look around as the human picked me up. Then I finally got a glimpse of him, slamming me to the ground, Putting my hands around my back and putting handcuffs on my arms.
"I do not know who or what you are, but I am afraid we are going to have to ask you some questions." He said.
I tried to fake him out by letting out a low growl indicating that I am about to attack. I do not need arms to cause collateral damage. He tried to shock me, but it did not work, only bringing the pain. It was very intense, and I was screeching loudly, and that is when I heard Ytrian coming. I looked at the door, and she was warding off the visitors and staff by his mere presence. She then breathed a stream of fire towards the human on me, and when the flames hit him, he was burning. I could smell the sizzling coming off his suit, as it started melting his skin, finally becoming nothing but ash and bones. I thanked Ytrian and then continued on my objective. I opened each door as I came across a storage, some strange kind of machine and very empty space. I knew the strange machine was not the one, but was very close, so I decided I walk through the first door. I lifted myself over the balcony and looked around. I also looked up, and there was the scope, turning and turning to see more about our little homes.
Strangely, I did not think that a scope could go that big and you could see things from probably light years away. I thought it was kind of cool, but with the task at hand, I need to stay focused. I checked each room from a distance, and finally there was a door that had 'DO NOT TAMPER WITH' engraved into the metal door. I ran over and tried to open it, but it was locked. I knew what to do, and leaned my head close to the door, and lashed out my tongue that was imbued with corrosive properties. When it hit, suddenly the corrosive was melting the walls and I spit more onto the door, trying to quicken the process. Soon I was able to fit through, and I jumped in. Then I saw the high voltage machine, one that I could instantly sabotage without any effort. I spit my saliva onto the machine and the corrosive kicked in, leaving a hole outside the machine. Then I tried doing it again, but this time damaging the internal circuits. I decided to run before the machine exploded since it was making strange noises and was beginning to shake. I ran through the door where I came in from, and vaulted over the first balcony, running out before the dome exploded and was launched high into the air. When I got outside, they got a whole team full of soldiers that were named the S.W.A.T after I saw the APC. They already had plasma guns that were aimed at my head. I tried and lunged at them, but with the line rifle I had, that would make me a alien as they called it, but when they found Ytrian, they also called her an Alien since we were not from this world.
Soon they were all shooting at me, while I was speeding to take each of them down. I ran at one guard and spat the corrosive liquid into his helmet and quickly chose my next victim. One plasma gun shot me in the back, and the impact began making my body feel like it is being rapidly pounded by a sledgehammer. I had to slow down if I wanted to make it seem like it actually affected me, so I slowed down intentionally. They kept on shooting me in the head while I was slicing off a S.W.A.T's Head, stealing his weapon. When I picked it up, they stopped firing so drastically, and instead ran and shooting me. I was being shot by a barrage of searing heat and pain, and it was not pleasant. When a soldier missed, the round gone straight to Ytrian who was apparently faking being asleep. I saw his stomach move, and he was breathing. Hopefully he was not being shot with a ton of the lasers. Soon, a whole salvo of missiles came our way, and I knew I could not stop them. Then we were exploded by each missile, constantly breaking the ground and whiffing up dust.
When It was over, Ytrian stood up and saw that aircraft was coming our way. When a bunch of reinforcements started shooting her, she roared, and forcefully slammed the floor with her rear leg, causing the rocks to spike up and impale the aircraft or make it crash into the piece of the rock. Then she filled the ground with a intense heat, melting the rock beneath it, and I jumped onto her leg to make sure I was not touching any lava. I personally believe even though that I am resistant to magma, her fire would be killing me instead. Then we heard screams of melting men and the rupture of a nuclear bomb that was going to us. We could not see the nuke coming, but when it did, it weakened us even more than anything that they threw at us.
After the nuke stopped exploding, there was nothing left more than a hole and poisonous air coming from above us, as we laid down in the crater that the nuke created, and we were lying down, exhausted.
"See, and that is why we do not go when I flew 3 days straight and became unconscious." Ytrian annoyingly said.
"Well, at least they cannot find our homes anymore." I stated. "Right?"
"Oh ho ho ho. You really thought they have only one? This is one out of hundreds that are around the world. You only did a small portion, and look where we are right now." She said.
We stopped talking to each other, and made it seem like we were down for the count. Although I was thinking of a surprise attack when they try and come to get us, but Ytrian made it seem like she wanted to be taken by them, someone that is way lower than her. Think happy thoughts and hope that they do not know where we are... I thought to myself.
Soon they were upon us, and we were thinking to ourselves it was almost over, and the torment could end or start just by how this goes. All of the sudden one shouted 'velociraptor' at the top of his lungs. They gone down and hung me by the legs and arms, making sure I could not do anything. Soon Ytrian was swiftly picked up by a huge helicopter that had a giant hook. When they took me, I was wondering what was going to happen, but as soon as I was placed in the truck, while being tied even more, I realized that this will not end well. One of them with a very tight armor dropped down to me and questioned who I was. I growled again, but when he heard it, he tried to rip off my skin, thinking that I was a impostor, but I was actually what that soldier said.
"Impossible. A raptor alive at this time... They were extinct millions of years ago, how!?" He angrily questioned.
"At this time, we may as well get him or her comfortable before we conduct some tests so that we may find out if he is really a Velociraptor like he said, but the other living thing we are going to investigate further." The other person said. "Who knows, it might be a mythical beast."
I think I am going to take the high risk and try to escape at the facility. Right now who knows how many guns is pointing at my head, waiting to shoot and neutralize me at movement. I really do hope that they do not try doing something that might include when I was born, or I am going to kill them all. I was told never to try and kill a human on this land, only when you absolutely have to. I was starting to hate that rule.
-Ytrian-
"Nice try concealing your secret. Now, tell us what you were doing." He was saying.
I roared weakly in response to his tone. I was really not joking around with these boys around here. I was itching to take their heads in my grasp, and crush them with full strength. I knew however, that they were trying to talk me out of being so silent for words. Somehow they saw me, and I want to try and make them believe it was all in their imagination. If I used a offensive ability right now, I would be hunted, and who knows what would happen if they decide to follow me into orbit. That would be making me so angry, and possibly someone has already injected or stuck a tracking device on me, one that could not be destroyed easily.
"Do not try and play with me." He scowled at me. "We all saw and heard you. Do not try and fake it."
He walked to each of my limbs, tightening each bond that was cast on me, as it was squeezing me tight. My mind says to breathe a nice little flamethrower at him, but if I did that , they were surely to instantly tie my maw. So, I fell silent, being defiant to his orders. I was a higher position to him, so he should be bowing down to me. Our whole alliance would bring this planet to it's knees if they heard about it. Play it well and they might forget this whole thing. I thought to myself. He walked away from me, but something was off. Instead of leaving permanently, he turned back with a lethal injection.
"TELL ME NOW WHO YOU ARE!" He angrily yelled.
Like that thing is going to hurt me. They do not notice that my scales are impenetrable. I made a cocky grin at him to try and intimidate him and he said he had enough. So he ran up to me, and with all his might, attempting to inject what was supposed to hurt me, but with the scales protecting my skin, it broke the sharp edge. I was officially yawning with boredom, and with my restrained tail, I pushed out my stinger, that only made my tail go longer by about a length of a hand, and stung him with my venom. He fell down, gasping for air and crying out loud. I was laughing my butt off when I saw his face, knowing that my venom would turn a disobedient wretch into one of my servants in less than a minute. He was really yelling so loud that he was cursing so much, so I retracted my stinger, and I gone to sleep, pretending I did not see any of this.
"WHAT THE F***!?" He yelled out.
I chuckled even when I was asleep. I could remember when I used to do that to Ukona, who had a similar reaction to when we fought. It sure brings back old memories. After a few more curse words trying to accuse me of trying to murder him, a few people came in and laughed harder than what I used to ever see in a young one. I opened my eyes and laughed with them, masking my voice and replacing it with short, separated grunts that was kind of similar to theirs.
"F***ING HELL!" He outrageously said. "SOMEBODY PLEASE ALREADY KILL HIM!"
They stopped laughing and I quickly fell asleep again, hoping that there was no weak point that could jeopardize my life force. They tried to stab it in me so many times, that I say it almost felt like a dull blade smashing onto me. I suddenly thought; Why am I even lowering myself and exposing myself to them!?. It felt so embarrassing that I immediately bit off each chain and sling that was wrapped around, and I glared at each and every one of them. They were reluctant to even bother me when I exposed my teeth at them. Each tooth reminded them that it could pierce through each of their armor in a quick second. I roamed around, seeing that there were a few places where I could rest up before I escape and check on myself, and possibly rescue Ukona which would've probably ran out and melted holes in people's faces and walls.
I hope that everyone back on Jupiter listen to Mideran when I am gone. Hopefully the rulers of the alliance do not know I am missing, because if they do, then I would feel bad for whoever was stuck on the land of the confusion. I know he is a very great alpha and leader, and if I was to discover that everyone is dead, I am hunting each person who was responsible, and I am going to tear them apart limb, by limb.
(And there we go, a 10k word chapter done, finished and finally, you will see more chapters from me. Oh boy.)
