Ch. 6
The Arrival
Kaliana's POV
Stepping out of her red Mazda RX-7 Kaliana sighed deeply. She removed her sunglasses and let the breeze flow through her wavy long light brown hair. So this was it. This was where her last days were going to be spent. Look at it; just envision desert dust with a couple cheesy alien themed buildings. It was hot too; Kaliana swept her hand across her damp forehead, the wind only made the humid heat worsen. To her left was where her sister's lover worked, a museum of. Kaliana didn't even want to go there. But to her immediate right.
To her right was the CrashDown Café; it was the place where she would find her sister. The sister she used to sing to sleep at night, the sister who Kaliana cried for when she had lost her innocence to her beloved Zan. The sister who she told first of anyone when she and Evelio had gotten engaged. Her maid of honor at her wedding, Arielle was the queen of Antar. How was she treated here?
"Blah, blah, blah. This is what I'm hearing from you right now." A small petite pixie-like girl said barging out of the CrashDown suddenly.
Kaliana spun around to see the scene unfolding before her.
"Hey I fixed the Jetta good as new! It probably runs better than when you first BOUGHT IT!" The pixie's obviously known boyfriend shouted.
Kaliana knew that voice; she walked up closer to get a better look, "Excuse me." Kaliana cleared her throat.
Both people in front of her snapped their angry faces towards her and scowled, Kaliana winced.
"Who the hell are you?" The guy snuffed.
"Michael! How rude!" The girl slapped at him, "Please excuse this waste of space, I'm Maria how may I help you?"
"Well, Maria. I'm looking for someone." Kaliana said staring at the boy named [I]Michael.[/I]
"Okay, well what's their name? It's a small town I probably know them." Maria laughed.
Kaliana couldn't keep her eyes from this boy named Michael, something about him. "Uh, I'm sorry." Kaliana blushed as Michael stared back at her oddly, "It's just that you remind me so much of someone I once knew." She laughed nervously.
"Yea well I don't remember you so it must be someone else then okay?" He snapped.
"I do know who you are!" Kaliana cried out excited, "Oh my gosh Rath! Rath it's me! It's Kali!" Kaliana rushed into him enveloping him in a tight hug and kiss on the cheek, "Oh my gosh I hardly recognized you with the new look and all! Wow they engineered you quite well! Looking good Rath, looking good!" Kaliana stepped back to look him over.
"Uh, hello! Girlfriend standing here?" Maria said irritated.
Michael grimaced, "Listen lady I don't know what the hell-"
"You don't remember me?" Kaliana aid hurt.
"Did you like, have a one nighter with this chick or something Michael? Cuz I swear if I hear you pulled another Courtney on me I'll-"
"Maria shut up!" Michael barked at her, "I said I don't know her alright?" He snapped at Maria and turned back to Kaliana, "I don't know you [I]okay?[/I] So like get it through your thick head alright? Sheesh lady." Michael growled and walked off.
"Michael wait a minute!" Maria yelled after him.
He turned around, "What?"
"She called you Rath." Maria said as reality hit her.
Michael's eyes widened and he quickly made his way back to Kaliana, "Who are you." He said taking her arms in his hands roughly.
"Michael!" Maria protested, "Michael stop it!" She tried her hardest to pry his fingers from Kaliana's skin. "Michael!"
Kaliana was shocked beyond belief. Why was Rath acting this way? On Antar they were close, they told each other EVERYTHING. Why, Kaliana was engaged to marry his brother Evelio! It was as if Rath hadn't remembered anything from Antar, as if his memory were erased, like all the history between them had never happen. Kaliana was so shocked that when Michael began shaking her she panicked. When she were panicked, she made bad mistakes, her small hysteria caused her this time to scream sending him flying backward away from her twelve feet.
"Oh my god!" Maria screamed running after him.
Michael was down and dazed but stood up with a raised hand.
"Rath no! Not in public!" Kaliana screamed rushing towards him.
"She's right Michael." Maria grabbed on to his arms and brought them back down, she held him tight and watched as Kaliana vastly approached them.
Kaliana was out of breath when she finally reached the couple, gasping for air she spoke, "I. I. I'm sorry.. I didn't mean. You just. You hurt me. and then." Kaliana paused and grit her teeth together, "Oh." She held her stomach in pain, "Oh god." She cried.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Maria tried to help her but was pulled back by Michael.
"It's a trick." He said positive.
Kaliana looked up at him in agony and surprise, "You can't be Rath. You can't be." She shook her head sadly, "He would NEVER treat me this horrible.. [I]Never![/I]" Kaliana cried heartbroken. She couldn't believe her predicament, Rath treated Kaliana with respect and gratitude, he admired her, he always praised her. Why was he being this way? Evelio would have been enraged at his behavior.
"Michael she's not looking to well." Maria whimpered watching Kaliana gasp and wheeze.
"I don't understand, why am I so weak?" Kaliana spoke out loud to herself clutching her abdomen, "The baby. Ah!" She screamed out again before collapsing.
"Michael!" Maria cried out.
Michael caught the woman in his arms inches before she fell, "I'm still not going to buy any of this shit." He said angrily carrying her over to the CrashDown.
*
Blurry misshapen figures scampered across her eyes. Her vision focused a bit and a huge groan escaped Kaliana's lips. The figures stopped moving and stood before her.
"Who are you." One the male's asked her, authority written in his voice. A smaller gentler female seized at his arm and he drew her into his arms possessively.
Kaliana blinked trying to focus the figures in front of her. The two people from earlier were standing holding on to each other farther back.
"W-where am I?" Kaliana chocked out.
"Here." The small girl that was in the man arms before her handed her a glass of water. Kaliana thankfully accepted it taking the glass from the girl's tiny hands, Kaliana's fingers grazed hers and the connection of past flashes consumed them.
*FLASH*
"C'mon slow poke!"
"I can't Kali slow down!"
The two girls raced each other up the hill.
*FLASH*
"I love him Kali, he loves me. Why can't father just except it?" Arielle cried in her sisters arms.
Kaliana soothed her sobbing sister, "It's okay Elley, he's just scared to let go is all."
"Zan loves me Kali, he's gonna be King you know?" Arielle whimpered.
"I know." Kaliana whispered.
*FLASH*
"Rath told me to tell you he's okay with you and Evelio being together." Arielle came barging into Kaliana's room like always.
"What?" Kaliana asked confused.
"Rath, he's okay with you and his brother being together. He says to give you his best. He's been arranged to marry Zan's sister Valandra you know." Arielle shrugged.
"WHAT?!" Kaliana screamed upset.
*FLASH*
"Congratulations Elley." Kaliana cried joyful.
"You caught the bouquet!" Arielle shrieked happily.
Kaliana blushed and showed Arielle her left ring finger.
"AHHH!!!!" Arielle squealed happy, the two sisters embraced and held on tightly to each other.
Rath watched silently in the back.
*FLASH*
"I'm so sorry baby." Evelio cried reaching out to Kaliana.
"For what?" Kaliana said worried the tears already forming in her eyes.
"Your sister. She's de-"
*END FLASHES*
"NOOOOOOOO!" Kaliana pulled away quickly ending the flashes all at once.
"Oh!" Liz stumbled back to be caught by Max.
"What did you do?" He barked at Kaliana.
Kaliana caught her breath and glanced around her, "Zan." She whispered and pointed at Max. "Rath." She pointed back at Michael, "My sister." Her voice broke as she looked at Liz, "And." Kaliana stood tall, her defensive side rushing out, "YOU!" She charged at Isabel. "They died because of YOU! Because Khivar promised you power! You bitch!" Kaliana screamed over and over being lifted up in the air by strong arms. "I swore to your father that I would bring you back safely but I lied! I wish you'd die Valandra! I wish you never made it to earth!" Kaliana sobbed raising her palm.
"Kali NO!" Liz shouted running towards her. "No!"
Kaliana spun around and graciously accepted Liz in her arms. "I'm so sorry Arielle, I'm so sorry I wasn't there to protect you." Kaliana dropped to the floor crying, Liz went down with her, holding onto her tight.
"It wasn't your fault Kali, it wasn't your fault." Liz rocked her in her arms back and forth.
"What the [I][b]HELL[/I][/b] Just happened here?" Kyle asked looking at the sight before him.
"When you find out can you update my brain please? Cuz it's fried right now." Alex said walking backwards into a chair and sitting down. Taking Isabel into his lap as she rubbed her throat shocked.
Maria, Max, Michael and Tess watched speechless.
Kaliana's POV
Stepping out of her red Mazda RX-7 Kaliana sighed deeply. She removed her sunglasses and let the breeze flow through her wavy long light brown hair. So this was it. This was where her last days were going to be spent. Look at it; just envision desert dust with a couple cheesy alien themed buildings. It was hot too; Kaliana swept her hand across her damp forehead, the wind only made the humid heat worsen. To her left was where her sister's lover worked, a museum of. Kaliana didn't even want to go there. But to her immediate right.
To her right was the CrashDown Café; it was the place where she would find her sister. The sister she used to sing to sleep at night, the sister who Kaliana cried for when she had lost her innocence to her beloved Zan. The sister who she told first of anyone when she and Evelio had gotten engaged. Her maid of honor at her wedding, Arielle was the queen of Antar. How was she treated here?
"Blah, blah, blah. This is what I'm hearing from you right now." A small petite pixie-like girl said barging out of the CrashDown suddenly.
Kaliana spun around to see the scene unfolding before her.
"Hey I fixed the Jetta good as new! It probably runs better than when you first BOUGHT IT!" The pixie's obviously known boyfriend shouted.
Kaliana knew that voice; she walked up closer to get a better look, "Excuse me." Kaliana cleared her throat.
Both people in front of her snapped their angry faces towards her and scowled, Kaliana winced.
"Who the hell are you?" The guy snuffed.
"Michael! How rude!" The girl slapped at him, "Please excuse this waste of space, I'm Maria how may I help you?"
"Well, Maria. I'm looking for someone." Kaliana said staring at the boy named [I]Michael.[/I]
"Okay, well what's their name? It's a small town I probably know them." Maria laughed.
Kaliana couldn't keep her eyes from this boy named Michael, something about him. "Uh, I'm sorry." Kaliana blushed as Michael stared back at her oddly, "It's just that you remind me so much of someone I once knew." She laughed nervously.
"Yea well I don't remember you so it must be someone else then okay?" He snapped.
"I do know who you are!" Kaliana cried out excited, "Oh my gosh Rath! Rath it's me! It's Kali!" Kaliana rushed into him enveloping him in a tight hug and kiss on the cheek, "Oh my gosh I hardly recognized you with the new look and all! Wow they engineered you quite well! Looking good Rath, looking good!" Kaliana stepped back to look him over.
"Uh, hello! Girlfriend standing here?" Maria said irritated.
Michael grimaced, "Listen lady I don't know what the hell-"
"You don't remember me?" Kaliana aid hurt.
"Did you like, have a one nighter with this chick or something Michael? Cuz I swear if I hear you pulled another Courtney on me I'll-"
"Maria shut up!" Michael barked at her, "I said I don't know her alright?" He snapped at Maria and turned back to Kaliana, "I don't know you [I]okay?[/I] So like get it through your thick head alright? Sheesh lady." Michael growled and walked off.
"Michael wait a minute!" Maria yelled after him.
He turned around, "What?"
"She called you Rath." Maria said as reality hit her.
Michael's eyes widened and he quickly made his way back to Kaliana, "Who are you." He said taking her arms in his hands roughly.
"Michael!" Maria protested, "Michael stop it!" She tried her hardest to pry his fingers from Kaliana's skin. "Michael!"
Kaliana was shocked beyond belief. Why was Rath acting this way? On Antar they were close, they told each other EVERYTHING. Why, Kaliana was engaged to marry his brother Evelio! It was as if Rath hadn't remembered anything from Antar, as if his memory were erased, like all the history between them had never happen. Kaliana was so shocked that when Michael began shaking her she panicked. When she were panicked, she made bad mistakes, her small hysteria caused her this time to scream sending him flying backward away from her twelve feet.
"Oh my god!" Maria screamed running after him.
Michael was down and dazed but stood up with a raised hand.
"Rath no! Not in public!" Kaliana screamed rushing towards him.
"She's right Michael." Maria grabbed on to his arms and brought them back down, she held him tight and watched as Kaliana vastly approached them.
Kaliana was out of breath when she finally reached the couple, gasping for air she spoke, "I. I. I'm sorry.. I didn't mean. You just. You hurt me. and then." Kaliana paused and grit her teeth together, "Oh." She held her stomach in pain, "Oh god." She cried.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Maria tried to help her but was pulled back by Michael.
"It's a trick." He said positive.
Kaliana looked up at him in agony and surprise, "You can't be Rath. You can't be." She shook her head sadly, "He would NEVER treat me this horrible.. [I]Never![/I]" Kaliana cried heartbroken. She couldn't believe her predicament, Rath treated Kaliana with respect and gratitude, he admired her, he always praised her. Why was he being this way? Evelio would have been enraged at his behavior.
"Michael she's not looking to well." Maria whimpered watching Kaliana gasp and wheeze.
"I don't understand, why am I so weak?" Kaliana spoke out loud to herself clutching her abdomen, "The baby. Ah!" She screamed out again before collapsing.
"Michael!" Maria cried out.
Michael caught the woman in his arms inches before she fell, "I'm still not going to buy any of this shit." He said angrily carrying her over to the CrashDown.
*
Blurry misshapen figures scampered across her eyes. Her vision focused a bit and a huge groan escaped Kaliana's lips. The figures stopped moving and stood before her.
"Who are you." One the male's asked her, authority written in his voice. A smaller gentler female seized at his arm and he drew her into his arms possessively.
Kaliana blinked trying to focus the figures in front of her. The two people from earlier were standing holding on to each other farther back.
"W-where am I?" Kaliana chocked out.
"Here." The small girl that was in the man arms before her handed her a glass of water. Kaliana thankfully accepted it taking the glass from the girl's tiny hands, Kaliana's fingers grazed hers and the connection of past flashes consumed them.
*FLASH*
"C'mon slow poke!"
"I can't Kali slow down!"
The two girls raced each other up the hill.
*FLASH*
"I love him Kali, he loves me. Why can't father just except it?" Arielle cried in her sisters arms.
Kaliana soothed her sobbing sister, "It's okay Elley, he's just scared to let go is all."
"Zan loves me Kali, he's gonna be King you know?" Arielle whimpered.
"I know." Kaliana whispered.
*FLASH*
"Rath told me to tell you he's okay with you and Evelio being together." Arielle came barging into Kaliana's room like always.
"What?" Kaliana asked confused.
"Rath, he's okay with you and his brother being together. He says to give you his best. He's been arranged to marry Zan's sister Valandra you know." Arielle shrugged.
"WHAT?!" Kaliana screamed upset.
*FLASH*
"Congratulations Elley." Kaliana cried joyful.
"You caught the bouquet!" Arielle shrieked happily.
Kaliana blushed and showed Arielle her left ring finger.
"AHHH!!!!" Arielle squealed happy, the two sisters embraced and held on tightly to each other.
Rath watched silently in the back.
*FLASH*
"I'm so sorry baby." Evelio cried reaching out to Kaliana.
"For what?" Kaliana said worried the tears already forming in her eyes.
"Your sister. She's de-"
*END FLASHES*
"NOOOOOOOO!" Kaliana pulled away quickly ending the flashes all at once.
"Oh!" Liz stumbled back to be caught by Max.
"What did you do?" He barked at Kaliana.
Kaliana caught her breath and glanced around her, "Zan." She whispered and pointed at Max. "Rath." She pointed back at Michael, "My sister." Her voice broke as she looked at Liz, "And." Kaliana stood tall, her defensive side rushing out, "YOU!" She charged at Isabel. "They died because of YOU! Because Khivar promised you power! You bitch!" Kaliana screamed over and over being lifted up in the air by strong arms. "I swore to your father that I would bring you back safely but I lied! I wish you'd die Valandra! I wish you never made it to earth!" Kaliana sobbed raising her palm.
"Kali NO!" Liz shouted running towards her. "No!"
Kaliana spun around and graciously accepted Liz in her arms. "I'm so sorry Arielle, I'm so sorry I wasn't there to protect you." Kaliana dropped to the floor crying, Liz went down with her, holding onto her tight.
"It wasn't your fault Kali, it wasn't your fault." Liz rocked her in her arms back and forth.
"What the [I][b]HELL[/I][/b] Just happened here?" Kyle asked looking at the sight before him.
"When you find out can you update my brain please? Cuz it's fried right now." Alex said walking backwards into a chair and sitting down. Taking Isabel into his lap as she rubbed her throat shocked.
Maria, Max, Michael and Tess watched speechless.