Chapter 37: The Third Trial and the Beginning of War
The next morning, Sol didn't sleep last night because of the trial she experienced last night. She saw Ausbilder walking in. "Sol are you ok?" he asked.
"Yeah I'm fine but to see what happened yesterday, why does he have to do it that way?" she asked receiving a tissue from him.
"He sometimes can't control his powers and when something like that happens he have to stop it immediately" Ausbilder replied seeing the photo of Sol's family on the drawer. "How does that guy know about my fears?" she asked. "The master knows everything about everyone. He sees the future and he only tells the others what is only important" he answered and see her stopped crying.
"But if you don't feel well, you can do your next trial tomorrow-" Sol stood up and put on her bear hat. "No I'm ready" she said filled with determination. Ausbilder smiled under his mask. "You are a stubborn little girl aren't you?" he said and she giggled picking up her sword and headed outside. 'She reminds me so much of her mother' he thought.
Sol wore her mother's boots that were warm and soft, she stepped on the deep snow breathing the fresh air while Ausbilder walked ahead. They stopped in the middle of the field of snow and the wind began to pick up. "Why are we stopping for?" Sol said.
Ausbilder turns around and said. "Sol you must stay here and complete your third trial" Sol was confused as he walked away and she heard a growl behind her.
Slowly she turns and saw a ice bear in front of her face. The bear sniffs blowing out cold air, it looks up at Sol's head and saw her hat. The bear started to growl and stands up on two feet raising its paws fixing to strike at her. 'Oh crap' she thought moving out the way as the bear attacked her. She jumps on the bear's back and grabbed for her sword but the bear fell back on the ground and Sol lost her sword in the snow.
She didn't have time to search for it and tried not to get herself killed. 'What's wrong with the bear?' she thought hiding behind a rock, the bear stopped sniffing the ground and was walking toward the rock. Sol can hear the bear approaching and was making up a plan. She made a snowball and threw it across the field.
The bear's ears lifted hearing the snowball hit one of the rocks and turns around. Sol looked at the bear's ears and took off her hat, she played with the ears of the hat and it hit her. "Hey!" she yelled. The bear turned around seeing the girl and walked toward her slowly.
It stopped when she took off her hat and sits down on the snow. "Come here I'm not gonna hurt you" she said as the bear's face was close to her. Sol put the hat on the bear's head and it was a perfect size, the bear licked her cheek happily and she pet its head staring at the bear's goldish eyes similar to Sol's. 'Thank you Sol' a female child's voice said in her mind.
Sol looked around trying to figure out where the voice was coming from. 'Hello I'm right here' she looks at the bear who was staring at her. "Are you talking to me?" she asked and the bear nodded. "What are you?"
'I am part of your emotions Sol' she said nuzzling Sol's cheeks. Sol leaned her head to the bear's forehead and they both closed their eyes. 'If you ever in a bad situation... I will be there to protect you till the very end' the bear said smiling and Sol smiled back.
The bear eventually vanished with the wind and Sol's bear hat fell on the ground. The wind slowed down and Ausbilder walked toward her holding Sol's sword. "I believe you have completed your quest then" he said watching her putting on her hat. "Yep" Sol said smiling and felt warmth inside.
. . .
The assassin was at Jake's house; he looks through a window and found Jenny asleep in the guest room. 'What is she doing?' he thought climbing in and walks to her bed. He noticed bandages were wrapped around her head. 'She must've had an accident'
Jenny was moving in her sleep having a nightmare. He heard movement and climbed out of the window as soon as Jake Jr. ran in her room and shook her up. "Are you okay Jenny?" he said feeling worried. "I'm sorry to wake you up, it was just a nightmare"
He sat on her bed and asked. "Do you remember what your nightmare was about?" she nodded. "I was just a little girl and I was with my parents in a small, then bandits or something attacked the people. My father went with the others to fight back while my mother hid me in a small well far away, she told me to stay here till she comes back" she stopped feeling her throat sore and was fixing to cry. "I been waiting for hours and I was worried about my parents so I climbed out of my hiding spot and found the whole village burned down, then a man walked up to me. He was like me, alone and scared. When I grabbed the man's hand is when you woke me up" she said hugging him tightly and Jake Jr. returned the hug.
The assassin frowned seeing her cry and thought. 'Maybe I was wrong training her to be an assassin, she is too innocent to be a cold killer like me' he thought. But how can he protect Jenny without telling Me-Mow. He went away trying to come up with a plan while Jenny look back at a window feeling like someone was watching her. "I'm going back to sleep"
"Okay if you need anything just call me" Jake Jr. said leaving the guest room and see Leonard waiting by the door. "You have a crush on her do you?"
"What are you talking about Leonard?" Jake Jr. asked following Leonard to his room where there is a small bed made neatly, few posters of movie films and games, and the head of KD-157 is on a small table with tools and a small torso beside it. "Still trying to get to its memories?"
Leonard didn't respond to his question. "I can tell you love her" Jake Jr. blushed thinking of Jenny. "Okay I like her so what?"
"So you should ask her out on a date" Leonard said raising his eyebrows and Jake Jr. rolled his eyes. "Even if I ask her out what do girls like?"
"Well I guess girls like flowers, some anyway do you know what she likes?" That question made Jake Jr. going into thinking. 'What does Jenny like?' he thought. "How about Sin-ang have a girl chat with her and she'll tell us what Jenny likes how about that?" Leonard said and Jake Jr. nodded.
The rock golem that attacked Jenny saw a piece of paper stuck in his body, he took out the sheet and unfolded it carefully. He read the note and he gasped. 'Oh no I must tell Finn at once!' he thought standing up and was heading to the tree house.
. . .
Aruka and Bruyan were walking inside the temple where there were some people sitting on desks, reading books, or praying to themselves. "So how were you able to find safety after the war?" Bruyan asked.
"Ah that was a long time ago, we have no choice but take the human survivors away from Earth and find a new planet to live on, sadly we didn't have many allies and we were looking for help... until the ancient beings appeared"
"Ancient beings?" Aruka opened his pincers and shows a smile before his pincers closed. "Yes the ancient beings appeared out of nowhere and guided us to this planet, I do not know what they are but one of them told us that they care about all life and didn't want anything become extinct. So after traveling through space they took us to this planet and this became our home ever since"
"Are they still here?" Bruyan asked again and Aruka turned right to a hallway passing by other people. "Sadly no, after we landed here they give us supplies and disappeared. I wish I could see them again" he said standing still in front of the door, Aruka opened the door slightly trying not to make any noise and Bruyan walked in seeing a group of people, humans and aliens alike were sitting on stone chairs in front of his friends. "Who dares to disturb the council?"
Aruka bows slowly. "I am sorry to disturb you but Bruyan the human who traveled with the strangers wants to be with them. The council looked at each other and whispered. "Very well" the head of the council said watching Bruyan standing beside Tanya.
"Now who are you?" A female human said curious of the man. "My name is Bruyan Plilitzkof, I am a scientist working for the United States one thousand years ago" he answered hearing the other council members gasping and started whispering to each other.
A male human/alien hybrid stands up from his chair and asked. "How were you able to live this long?"
"I was frozen in a capsule testing out an experiment not knowing about an infection spreading in a facility at the moon near Planet Earth" he said staring at the other members and raised his robotic arm. "I was soon infected and these three, Tanya, Heavy, and Techa saved my life"
"For you to know Tanya is the daughter of Luton and without Xuata's help we wouldn't be able to find this planet!"
"Luton?" the council gasped talking each other remembering that name. "Could that be really you Tanya?" an old alien who had many scars on his face jumps off from his chair revealing his light blue skin and his bat wings. He looks at Tanya's eyes and he gasped with his wings fluttered to life. "It is Luton's child, after the war I heard you was killed but I could not believe my eyes" he said with tears developing and others were looking at each other.
The council exited their seats and went to a private room to make a decision. A minute later they went back to their seats except the head of the council. "We have decided to welcome you as friends and welcome to your new home"
The others were glad hugging each other and Tanya smiles at Bruyan and he too smiled.
Near the planet Fredama, a large star destroyer was floating by the planet and there was a change of plans, this time Emperor Kluta decided to lead the battle.
Emperor Kluta entered the medical bay where there are multiple of machines surrounding him. The machines took apart his armor revealing his burned skin that is healing slowly, the mask was taken away too and his face was healing well better than the rest. Kluta hated the pain as they attached a dark suit in him, the suit started tightened to his skin and they attached an oxygen mask to his mouth, he began to breathe normally. A small flying machine put a black cape on his back and the other machine backed away fixing to get other stuff to attach to Kluta.
Kluta closed his eyes thinking of his wife who disappeared without a trace. 'I missed you so much Virana' he thought remembering last time he contacted her.
Kluta heard his baby daughter crying in his small home where he and his wife lived secretly because his father never liked his people mating with different species. Kluta met her in battle at Planet Touya, she was of course his enemy and she was a brave fighter. Long tentacle hair, bright yellow eyes, and pale skin.
He lost the battle and she shown mercy to him and healed him. After the battle, they began seeing each other more often and he found out that she was pregnant with his child. He then proposed her and she accepted and they married in secret.
Quarias was but an infant; her father picked her up and gently rocked her to sleep. A receiving transmission was patching through from his room and he put her back in her crib. He went to his room and answered the call showing a holographic image of Virana. "Hello my love, Emperor Larkan commanded me to scout out to a planet and I will be a little late" she said blowing a kiss to him.
"I shall be waiting for you" he responded watching the holographic image ended as he lay on his bed and went to sleep.
The next day he was watching his child trying to walk, he saw a bright light from the sky and it crashed landed in his front yard, he put his daughter back in her crib and grabbed his beam rifle outside, and he waited till the dust cleared up and recognized that it was his wife's ship.
He opened the door and only one man jumped out; he was one of Virana's closest friends who knew about Kluta and Virana's marriage. "Where is Virana what happened?" Kluta said trying not to yell.
The man was deranged at first talking randomly. "They they were everywhere, some of us split up to draw attention but there was still too many" he said bleeding heavily while Kluta was trying to heal the wound but it was no use but to slow down the bleeding. "Where is my wife?"
"She-shes at- Planet M-" he wasn't able to say the planet's name and died. Kluta let go and he heard his daughter crying in her crib.
"Your suit is completed sir" the machine said moving away and Kluta opened his eyes looking at his old armor on the table and he put his sword at his side. When he heard the planet started with a M, he sent mercenaries to find the planets hoping they might have clues or whereabouts of his wife and her crew, but with no success.
He walked in the main area looking through the window showing the planet rotating slowly and his soldiers stood at attention. "The ships are ready to fly sir" an officer said. "Good get me a private ship with my soldiers"
"Right away sir" the officer saluted and walks away.
. . .
At Planet Yaminuru, in Larkan's old room there were three people in a circle all wearing hoodies. "I have news that Kluta found the humans at Planet Fredama" one said. "Kluta is not going to kill them all you know that my brother, he is going to give them a fair trial and let them go" the second said.
"We will overthrow Kluta's throne then and we will exterminate the human race once and for all"
"Agreed" the two said in unison before leaving.
. . .
The crew exited the temple to hear the horns sounding and Bruyan looked up seeing a ship heading toward them. "TAKE COVER!" Aruka yelled grabbing a child out of the way as the ship crashed into the temple.
Only a few people were injured but they managed to exit the building. Some soldiers surrounded the crashed ship as air hissed and the hatch opened revealing Kluta, he stared at Tanya with a smile under his breathing mask.
Kluta's soldiers exited from the ship and fired their weapons at them. "I am Emperor Kluta, ruler of Planet Yaminuru surrender now and your lives will be spared!" he yelled.
"A new emperor?" Aruka said passing the child to their parents and walked beside Bruyan. "We killed Larkan, and that is his son over there" Bruyan said firing back killing one of the soldiers in the head.
Techa looked up and saw ships heading this way. "Aruka do you have any ships to fight back?"
"Well yes but they haven't been used for over five hundred years" he said leading Techa and the others to the ships while warriors charged at Kluta's men who dropped their weapons and drew their swords. "For the emperor!" One of Kluta's soldiers yelled as Emperor Kluta charged forward with them.
Tanya's and Kluta's blades have met and their faces were close to each other. "Hello cousin" he said pushing his sword and she bounced back and their swords met again. "I'm sorry to kill your father Kluta" she said. "He was your uncle Tanya why would you kill him?" he yelled when one of the human warriors tried to ambush him, he stabbed the human and went back fighting Tanya.
Aruka and the others were in the opening of a cave and inside were multiple ships collecting dust. "You think these ships might still work?" Techa asked.
One of the aliens hops in a ship and cranks; the ship came to life and floated in the air. Aruka smiled. "Let's take these guys down" Techa said.
Kluta's ships landed outside the kingdom and soldiers were in formation fixing to attack till they saw human and alien soldiers forming in front of them. "Show them no mercy men for the Empire!" an officer yelled and the soldiers rallied.
Techa and the others were flying out from the cave except Aruka who was teaching the humans how to control the ships. They saw the mass army fixing to attack so they helped out by air support, they drop bombs unleashing cannons at them who were stunned but they charged at the rebels.
"We need to take down the enemy aircraft so that they won't supply reinforcements!" Aruka said and a few ships were standing by to take down the transport ships.
In Planet Yaminuru, a general received a transmission and he answered showing a holographic man wearing robes with a hood over his face. "General it is time to start a new age, we will now return to our former glory. Destroy Kluta and his men that revolts back at us" he said and the general saluted. "Yes sir"
One of Kluta's soldiers was contacted and nodded at his new order. He picked up a rifle and pointed it at Kluta. Kluta looked at the soldier and his eyes widened till Tanya pounced on him dodging the shot. Bruyan snatched the soldier's weapon and punched him across the face.
"STOP!" Kluta yelled, all the soldiers stopped fighting including the rebels. He grabbed the soldier who tried to shoot. "What is the meaning of this?"
"You are no longer leading us Kluta" the soldier responded and laughed. Kluta looked at his other soldiers that are still serving him. 'Who would betray me?' he thought letting go the soldier. He stepped out watching the rebels and his men fighting each other.
The rebels and Kluta's soldiers stood still when they saw Kluta standing beside Tanya and the others. "My brave soldiers we have been betrayed by one of our own and now I am no longer emperor, if you want go and serve the new ruler be my guess" he yelled.
His soldiers stood still letting Kluta know that they will serve as brothers to their deaths. "Kluta two Battle Cruisers are here and we are under attack we need help!" an officer said and Kluta nodded and looks at Tanya who nodded too.
Kluta's and Techa's ships were in space fighting the enemy trying to find a way to destroy the two Battle Cruisers. "Techa cover me" one of the human pilots said and Techa was protecting the pilot till he landed inside the enemy hanger. "What are you doing!?" Techa yelled.
"I'm going to find a way to destroy the shields so you and the others can destroy don't worry about me" the human pilot responded. The hanger seemed to be empty for the human as he took off his helmet revealing his short brown hair, only nineteen years old.
He jumped off from the pilot seat to the hard floor. He walked in a room and see soldiers patrolling the area. One walked past him and found a ship in the hanger. "This unit 2867, we may have an intruder in the area"
"Copy that Unit 2867"
More soldiers walked past him and he went ahead to find the small area empty, he found a map that tells the inside of the ship. 'There the auto turrets should be destroyed... and it's right in front of me' he thought and looked up seeing the auto turret terminal is online. He reached into his small backpack and put a bomb under the machine to make sure no one is seeing it.
The shield generator is only three rooms away from where he's at. A soldier discovered the human and tried to get backup but he was shot in the head. "Sooner or later someone is gonna find the dead body I need to be quick" he muttered running to the shield generator to disable it.
Kluta and the rebel soldiers saw enemy transport ships landing on the ground and soldiers charged out toward them. Kluta and Tanya were in front of the army and they were prepared. "Charge my brothers and show them who they are facing with!" he yelled and the army charged as the enemy soldiers got in formation pointing their rifles.
The general leading the battle stood in front the soldiers raising his sword in the air. "Ready. Aim. FIRE!" the general yelled and the soldiers fired once. Kluta's soldiers and the rebel's soldiers in the front fell forward and the others continue charging causing the enemy to demoralized when they hit them.
Kluta cut off the general's head in one blow and the head landed on one of the soldier's hand before he was killed by another soldier.
"I got an enemy fighter on my six!" Techa yelled trying to lose him; one of the ships opened fire and destroyed the enemy fighter. "Thanks"
"No problem" the other pilot said flying off. The shield protecting one of the Battle Cruisers turned off and Techa thought. 'He actually did it that son of a bitch'
"Fire your missiles at that that Cruiser!" Techa yelled firing all his weapons at the engines that was destroyed completely.
The human pilot in the Battle Cruiser destroyed the shield generator and the auto turret terminal; he fell down feeling the impact of the explosions. 'I got to get the hell out of here' he thought running away back to the hanger.
"Prepare for evacuation!" the speaker said throughout the ship and the human was caught by two soldiers. "He sabotaged our ship kill him!" one of the soldiers yelled firing his rifle at him while the other one was chasing him with a sword.
The human made it to the hanger then a group of soldiers pointed their weapons at him. He raised his hands before he was shot in the leg by one of them. "Lets kill him when we have a chance-"
The ship leaned sideways and the soldiers fell down and the human's ship was sliding toward him slowly and he tried to reach for it. He managed to hold on to a handle and climbed himself up into the pilot seat. The glass case closed seal shut and the human pressed a few buttons turning the ship back to life. "Here we go!" the ship exited the hanger and pushed the speed faster before the Cruiser exploded causing the other Battle Cruiser to move away slowly and turned back around.
"They're retreating yee haa!" one of the alien pilots yelled out through the com and others were cheering too including Techa. "Alright lets head back and help out our friends" Techa said turning the ship back to Planet Fredama.
He see the enemy soldiers retreating and the transport ships were leaving causing the rebels and Kluta's troops to cheering raising their weapons until Kluta dropped his sword and got on his knees. 'My daughter is at Planet Fredama, I can't go back home... but wait I know someone who can help'
He took out a small round device and shows a holographic image of Quaria's guard and friend standing in front of her room door. "Yes my lord?"
"I am no longer emperor, someone is trying to overthrow me but I want you to take my daughter and escape the planet. I'll give the coordinates when you contact me back" Kluta said and the guard nodded. "I'll get the others and I will try my best"
The hologram turned off and Kluta's guard opened the door while calling some other guards. "Hey Tanu can you play with me?" Quarias asked holding her doll. "Not today but we're having a little field trip" he said hearing her giggling and she was packing some stuff in her backpack. "Yea field trip!" she laughed.
Tanu and the other royal guards were escorting Quarias out of the room to the hanger so they can escape the planet safely. But soldiers were ordered to capture Quarias and kill anyone that is helping her escape.
One of the royal guards was shot and Quarias screamed in terror. "Tanu, Gotse, and Routa you guys go ahead we'll hold them off!" the guard yelled and they nodded running ahead to a ship.
Four more guards got in the ship but the rest were still fighting off the soldiers. "Go leave us!" another guard yelled throwing a grenade. Gotse took control of the ship and left the small hanger while Tanu and Routa were putting seatbelt on Quarias. "Why are the bad men trying to hurt us?" she asked looking at the other four guards who put on seat belts themselves and looks back at Tanu.
"I don't know Quarias but we're fixing to see your father soon" he said sitting beside her.