Title: A Future in the Making (Evil Demon Fic) Part 2
Written By: Ellie Wickes
Site: http://ellie.htmlplanet.com
Produced by: The Chittering Little Monkey
E-mail: BOKUwaKAMIdes@aol.com
Rating: PG (this part)
Spoilers: There will be. Many in fact.
Summery: The story of Aeryn and Crichton's kid(also, of what happens to the crew of Moya as a result), many bad things happen, but will it end up happily?
Category: Romance/Drama/Epic
Disclaimers: All the characters from the show ain't mine, never will be, well, maybe never... However, all the characters that were made up are mine, you may borrow them if you wish, but just e-mail me the product when you are done.
Notes: Epic...epic...epic... do I need to say it again? Someone said that the plot sounded like it was a Greek Tragedy(but it does have happy parts). Thanks to Lin-sama and my Mom for beta-ing.
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Chapter 2
Tamashi was pale and drawn; he had never seen Nekina in this state before. She had never been sick, and never been seriously hurt.
In a panic, he opened a communication link to command. "Navigation, halt pursuit, all stop. And get a medical unit to the captain's office now!"
"Aye sir, they are on the way. Sir, if I may make a comment, what about the Leviathan? Perhaps we should keep following it, and reduce our speed.
Tamashi considered it for a moment, 'Dren, I should have thought of that. Guess that is why Nekina is the captain instead of me.' Then speaking, "Good suggestion Kenri, do what you see fit, but don't make Nekina want to kill you when she is able."
"I'll keep that in mind Commander." Kenri said, cutting off the communications link with Tamashi.
At that moment, the medical unit stepped in and rushed to Nekina. They began running scans over her while talking in the medical jargon that Tamashi did not even want to understand. "Do you know what happened to her?" One of them asked, still gazing intently at the hand held device that was making some of the most annoying chirps that technology was able to generate.
Tamashi considered his reply carefully before answering. "She just passed out. I don't think that she has been eating enough lately." A lame excuse, but he knew that if the truth were told, there would be too many questions asked. And some things should never be put out into the open, even if they needed to be.
The head medic, Cain, walked up to Tamashi and gestured him over into a corner. Cain had always been Nekina's ally, and, because of that, Tamashi's. Using the quietest voice he could, Cain spoke, "We need to speak alone." Then he raised his voice so the rest of the medics could hear. "It looks like you were right, but as her Second, you need to make sure that she is taking care of herself. As for the current situation, give her half an arn, and then we will see."
Tamashi eyed the older man carefully, "Very well. If she is not awake after half an arn, should I contact you?"
"Yes." Cain went back to his team. "We can go now." All of the men in the white uniforms departed, except for Cain. He went over to Nekina and used a different scanner, and sighed deeply when he finished it. "The mind-wipe wasn't complete. Crais was in too much of a hurry to allow the doctors to do a thorough job." He stood and walked toward Tamashi. "Instead of the memories being deleted, they were only deeply repressed." Cain paused, then continued, "The ship that you are pursuing, what is it?"
"It's a Leviathan called Moya."
"Moya..." Cain remembered that before Nekina was mind-wiped, she mentioned that she lived on a ship named Moya. "Did Nekina say anything before she went unconscious?"
"Well, what happened was that we came in here so that I could show her something about the people on the Moya. After I showed it to her, I don't really know what to call it, but when she came out of it, she said 'Kara', and I asked who that was, she said 'me', then she passed out." Whenever Tamashi was relaying information, he always seemed to talk too fast, and with many run-on sentences.
"She must have remembered something from her past." Cain looked the younger man over. "Tamashi, I know that you and Nekina share some kind of mental link. Could you try to go into her mind and find the memory, or at least try to find where it's coming from?"
"Cain, I am not a mind-reader. Nekina is the one that started the link. I don't know how to use it."
"But you use it to talk, and I assume that sometimes you initiate the conversations."
"So?" Tamashi was beginning to sound defensive, and Cain knew to back down and get to the point.
"Well, maybe you could use the technique that you use to talk with Nekina. Get into her mind, and explore."
Tamashi was not happy at the prospect of going into Nekina's mind, and he liked even less the thought of what would happen when she woke up and realized what he had done. He had seen her personally execute officers for much lesser offenses, and Nekina's methods were not very pretty. Just because he loved her did not mean that he did not fear her power. "I really don't like this idea." Tamashi tentatively said.
"Don't worry, she won't hurt you. You are her mate, and she is yours. That bond will save you from her anger. Don't worry about what will happen, leave it to me. Now, do what you must."
Looking carefully at the man in front of him, Tamashi nodded slightly then went over to Nekina. "Please don't kill me for what I am about to do."
Tamashi sat down next to Nekina and gently placed a hand on her head. 'Nekina, open your mind to mine.' Abruptly, he felt like he was falling into an abyss. Then, just as abruptly, Tamashi landed on a floor. It was not the usual gray-silver color that the Jigoku's floors were; it was a metallic gold. When Tamashi realized that he was lying flat on his face, he stood up.
The place, whatever it was, was beautiful. Everything was colored with a gold tone, even the accouterments. Tamashi looked up to the ceiling, and saw stars--millions of them--shining down into the cast room. "Where am I?" He said under his breath.
"You are in Kara's mind at the moment, but this room is on Moya."
Tamashi quickly jumped into a defensive position. That was not a voice that he knew. But when he saw the speaker, he felt a calming sensation emanating from her.
"Forgive me for not introducing myself. My name is Pa'u Zotaoh Zhann, however most people refer to me as Zhann. Did you come here for Kara?" Zhann said while stepping towards Tamashi, who instinctively backed away.
"If Kara is the same person as Nekina, then yes."
"You will have to excuse me again, I am not used to her new name. You see, she is here, but wishes to be alone."
"Why are you here?"
Zhann smiled at Tamashi, despite his rank and age he was still a child. "I could sense the pain she was in, and linked with her."
"How?"
"I have my ways."
"Why are we on Moya?" He spat out.
"She wished to come here, "Zhann paused and calmly smiled again at Tamashi, ignoring his annoyance with her. "Nekina knows that you are here, and would like to know why."
"I was worried about her."
"You are not speaking the full truth."
Tamashi looked at the blue woman in front of him. She looked so peaceful, yet there was an undercurrent of death that ran through her, and that was the thing that worried him. "I was told to help Nekina awaken her memories from before the mind-wipe."
"And who told you to do this?"
"Cain."
"Tamashi, that is your name, is it not? You do not need to help; I have the situation under control. We do thank you for the offer, but we must ask you to leave now."
"I...I understand. I will go." Tamashi really despised this woman and the way she talked, but he could accept Nekina's refusal to help, even though he didn't agree with it. Reluctantly, he broke the link. Tamashi slowly stood up and looked at Cain. "There is nothing that I can do for her."
Cain saw the hurt in Tamashi's eyes, and walked over to him. "Son, what happened?"
"There was a Delvian woman, she seemed to know Nekina. The strange thing was that we were on the Leviathan ship."
"What is her name?"
"Something like Pa'u Zotoh Zhann."
Cain began to laugh, and Tamashi considered shooting the old man. "Are you insane? Why are you laughing?"
"I know of this Delvian, a remarkable woman, you have nothing to fear from her. Leave them be, if Zhann is there then she is helping."
Tamashi blinked a couple times, considering his words. "How do you know her?"
"We have met before. It was a long time ago, and I was only a young man back then." Cain sighed and smiled. He had truly enjoyed helping the woman, even if he had been punished for it.
"What should we do?"
"First, set a direct course to Moya. Then we will wait for Nekina to wake."
"Won't they just star burst away?"
"Zhann has probably told them not to."
***** Moya *****
"They are following us now, and making good time. We need to star burst now!" D'argo barked out to whoever chose to hear him in the command center of Moya.
Crichton turned to him; "Zhann told us not to, and because of that we will not star burst unless they attack us. Got it?" Over time, John had become comfortable in chewing out the giant Luxan.
"Fine! But the *microt* they shoot at us, we get out of here!"
Crichton was somewhat surprised at how easy D'argo had backed down, but they had been fighting for 24 cycles. 'How the hell did it get to be 24 cycles? Dren, Kara would be...what...21 cycles old by now.' He inwardly laughed to himself, 'I would have taken her to Galena's Bar on her birthday so that she could get drunk for the first time. Well, if we were on Earth I would have done it.'
"John?" A familiar female voice asked him, "Are you okay?"
Crichton ran a hand through his graying hair. "Fine, just thinking."
Aeryn walked up to the desk her mate was leaning on. 'He looks so old. Humans must age very quickly, or at least this one does. But considering what he has been through, it is not all that unbelievable.' "What were you thinking about?"
"Things. Life. Kara."
"Now is not the time to be thinking of her." Aeryn whispered to John.
"It's just...I'm getting a funny feeling about the ship that's approaching. Maybe she is on it or something..."
"We both know that she's been mind-wiped."
"Remember Durka? Isn't the 'mental cleansing' procedure the similar to PeaceKeeper mind-wiping? And didn't he remember what he was supposed to forget?"
"PeaceKeepers learned how to do it from the Nebari, but mind-wiping is much more thorough."
"Well, one can always hope."
"I suppose."
Kara's birth had been a very significant event for Moya and her crew. It gave all of them a chance to pass on what they had learned in their lives. She also symbolized the second generation of the resistance against Crais and Scorpious. Everyone had held high hopes of what she could become, and then Crais had come, and Kara sacrificed herself to save them.
It had been 24 cycles since John Crichton had appeared out of the wormhole, and for the part of space he ended up in it had been 24 cycles of pure and endless change. The powers that ruled shifted, a resistance had begun to form, and Moya had acquired more crew members. However, those 24 cycles were just the opening act for the universe.
Suddenly Zhann exploded into the command center. "John! Aeryn! We must speak immediately!"
***** Jigoku *****
Nekina carefully opened her eyes and looked at her surroundings. Luckily she found the welcoming walls of her office, and Cain sitting in a chair across the room. Groaning slightly, she sat up and leaned against the nearest stable object. "Cain, we can't attack that ship."
He stood up and helped Nekina into a chair. "That may be a problem, since Crais has arrived with 4 other ships."
End Chapter 2
Written By: Ellie Wickes
Site: http://ellie.htmlplanet.com
Produced by: The Chittering Little Monkey
E-mail: BOKUwaKAMIdes@aol.com
Rating: PG (this part)
Spoilers: There will be. Many in fact.
Summery: The story of Aeryn and Crichton's kid(also, of what happens to the crew of Moya as a result), many bad things happen, but will it end up happily?
Category: Romance/Drama/Epic
Disclaimers: All the characters from the show ain't mine, never will be, well, maybe never... However, all the characters that were made up are mine, you may borrow them if you wish, but just e-mail me the product when you are done.
Notes: Epic...epic...epic... do I need to say it again? Someone said that the plot sounded like it was a Greek Tragedy(but it does have happy parts). Thanks to Lin-sama and my Mom for beta-ing.
*****
Chapter 2
Tamashi was pale and drawn; he had never seen Nekina in this state before. She had never been sick, and never been seriously hurt.
In a panic, he opened a communication link to command. "Navigation, halt pursuit, all stop. And get a medical unit to the captain's office now!"
"Aye sir, they are on the way. Sir, if I may make a comment, what about the Leviathan? Perhaps we should keep following it, and reduce our speed.
Tamashi considered it for a moment, 'Dren, I should have thought of that. Guess that is why Nekina is the captain instead of me.' Then speaking, "Good suggestion Kenri, do what you see fit, but don't make Nekina want to kill you when she is able."
"I'll keep that in mind Commander." Kenri said, cutting off the communications link with Tamashi.
At that moment, the medical unit stepped in and rushed to Nekina. They began running scans over her while talking in the medical jargon that Tamashi did not even want to understand. "Do you know what happened to her?" One of them asked, still gazing intently at the hand held device that was making some of the most annoying chirps that technology was able to generate.
Tamashi considered his reply carefully before answering. "She just passed out. I don't think that she has been eating enough lately." A lame excuse, but he knew that if the truth were told, there would be too many questions asked. And some things should never be put out into the open, even if they needed to be.
The head medic, Cain, walked up to Tamashi and gestured him over into a corner. Cain had always been Nekina's ally, and, because of that, Tamashi's. Using the quietest voice he could, Cain spoke, "We need to speak alone." Then he raised his voice so the rest of the medics could hear. "It looks like you were right, but as her Second, you need to make sure that she is taking care of herself. As for the current situation, give her half an arn, and then we will see."
Tamashi eyed the older man carefully, "Very well. If she is not awake after half an arn, should I contact you?"
"Yes." Cain went back to his team. "We can go now." All of the men in the white uniforms departed, except for Cain. He went over to Nekina and used a different scanner, and sighed deeply when he finished it. "The mind-wipe wasn't complete. Crais was in too much of a hurry to allow the doctors to do a thorough job." He stood and walked toward Tamashi. "Instead of the memories being deleted, they were only deeply repressed." Cain paused, then continued, "The ship that you are pursuing, what is it?"
"It's a Leviathan called Moya."
"Moya..." Cain remembered that before Nekina was mind-wiped, she mentioned that she lived on a ship named Moya. "Did Nekina say anything before she went unconscious?"
"Well, what happened was that we came in here so that I could show her something about the people on the Moya. After I showed it to her, I don't really know what to call it, but when she came out of it, she said 'Kara', and I asked who that was, she said 'me', then she passed out." Whenever Tamashi was relaying information, he always seemed to talk too fast, and with many run-on sentences.
"She must have remembered something from her past." Cain looked the younger man over. "Tamashi, I know that you and Nekina share some kind of mental link. Could you try to go into her mind and find the memory, or at least try to find where it's coming from?"
"Cain, I am not a mind-reader. Nekina is the one that started the link. I don't know how to use it."
"But you use it to talk, and I assume that sometimes you initiate the conversations."
"So?" Tamashi was beginning to sound defensive, and Cain knew to back down and get to the point.
"Well, maybe you could use the technique that you use to talk with Nekina. Get into her mind, and explore."
Tamashi was not happy at the prospect of going into Nekina's mind, and he liked even less the thought of what would happen when she woke up and realized what he had done. He had seen her personally execute officers for much lesser offenses, and Nekina's methods were not very pretty. Just because he loved her did not mean that he did not fear her power. "I really don't like this idea." Tamashi tentatively said.
"Don't worry, she won't hurt you. You are her mate, and she is yours. That bond will save you from her anger. Don't worry about what will happen, leave it to me. Now, do what you must."
Looking carefully at the man in front of him, Tamashi nodded slightly then went over to Nekina. "Please don't kill me for what I am about to do."
Tamashi sat down next to Nekina and gently placed a hand on her head. 'Nekina, open your mind to mine.' Abruptly, he felt like he was falling into an abyss. Then, just as abruptly, Tamashi landed on a floor. It was not the usual gray-silver color that the Jigoku's floors were; it was a metallic gold. When Tamashi realized that he was lying flat on his face, he stood up.
The place, whatever it was, was beautiful. Everything was colored with a gold tone, even the accouterments. Tamashi looked up to the ceiling, and saw stars--millions of them--shining down into the cast room. "Where am I?" He said under his breath.
"You are in Kara's mind at the moment, but this room is on Moya."
Tamashi quickly jumped into a defensive position. That was not a voice that he knew. But when he saw the speaker, he felt a calming sensation emanating from her.
"Forgive me for not introducing myself. My name is Pa'u Zotaoh Zhann, however most people refer to me as Zhann. Did you come here for Kara?" Zhann said while stepping towards Tamashi, who instinctively backed away.
"If Kara is the same person as Nekina, then yes."
"You will have to excuse me again, I am not used to her new name. You see, she is here, but wishes to be alone."
"Why are you here?"
Zhann smiled at Tamashi, despite his rank and age he was still a child. "I could sense the pain she was in, and linked with her."
"How?"
"I have my ways."
"Why are we on Moya?" He spat out.
"She wished to come here, "Zhann paused and calmly smiled again at Tamashi, ignoring his annoyance with her. "Nekina knows that you are here, and would like to know why."
"I was worried about her."
"You are not speaking the full truth."
Tamashi looked at the blue woman in front of him. She looked so peaceful, yet there was an undercurrent of death that ran through her, and that was the thing that worried him. "I was told to help Nekina awaken her memories from before the mind-wipe."
"And who told you to do this?"
"Cain."
"Tamashi, that is your name, is it not? You do not need to help; I have the situation under control. We do thank you for the offer, but we must ask you to leave now."
"I...I understand. I will go." Tamashi really despised this woman and the way she talked, but he could accept Nekina's refusal to help, even though he didn't agree with it. Reluctantly, he broke the link. Tamashi slowly stood up and looked at Cain. "There is nothing that I can do for her."
Cain saw the hurt in Tamashi's eyes, and walked over to him. "Son, what happened?"
"There was a Delvian woman, she seemed to know Nekina. The strange thing was that we were on the Leviathan ship."
"What is her name?"
"Something like Pa'u Zotoh Zhann."
Cain began to laugh, and Tamashi considered shooting the old man. "Are you insane? Why are you laughing?"
"I know of this Delvian, a remarkable woman, you have nothing to fear from her. Leave them be, if Zhann is there then she is helping."
Tamashi blinked a couple times, considering his words. "How do you know her?"
"We have met before. It was a long time ago, and I was only a young man back then." Cain sighed and smiled. He had truly enjoyed helping the woman, even if he had been punished for it.
"What should we do?"
"First, set a direct course to Moya. Then we will wait for Nekina to wake."
"Won't they just star burst away?"
"Zhann has probably told them not to."
***** Moya *****
"They are following us now, and making good time. We need to star burst now!" D'argo barked out to whoever chose to hear him in the command center of Moya.
Crichton turned to him; "Zhann told us not to, and because of that we will not star burst unless they attack us. Got it?" Over time, John had become comfortable in chewing out the giant Luxan.
"Fine! But the *microt* they shoot at us, we get out of here!"
Crichton was somewhat surprised at how easy D'argo had backed down, but they had been fighting for 24 cycles. 'How the hell did it get to be 24 cycles? Dren, Kara would be...what...21 cycles old by now.' He inwardly laughed to himself, 'I would have taken her to Galena's Bar on her birthday so that she could get drunk for the first time. Well, if we were on Earth I would have done it.'
"John?" A familiar female voice asked him, "Are you okay?"
Crichton ran a hand through his graying hair. "Fine, just thinking."
Aeryn walked up to the desk her mate was leaning on. 'He looks so old. Humans must age very quickly, or at least this one does. But considering what he has been through, it is not all that unbelievable.' "What were you thinking about?"
"Things. Life. Kara."
"Now is not the time to be thinking of her." Aeryn whispered to John.
"It's just...I'm getting a funny feeling about the ship that's approaching. Maybe she is on it or something..."
"We both know that she's been mind-wiped."
"Remember Durka? Isn't the 'mental cleansing' procedure the similar to PeaceKeeper mind-wiping? And didn't he remember what he was supposed to forget?"
"PeaceKeepers learned how to do it from the Nebari, but mind-wiping is much more thorough."
"Well, one can always hope."
"I suppose."
Kara's birth had been a very significant event for Moya and her crew. It gave all of them a chance to pass on what they had learned in their lives. She also symbolized the second generation of the resistance against Crais and Scorpious. Everyone had held high hopes of what she could become, and then Crais had come, and Kara sacrificed herself to save them.
It had been 24 cycles since John Crichton had appeared out of the wormhole, and for the part of space he ended up in it had been 24 cycles of pure and endless change. The powers that ruled shifted, a resistance had begun to form, and Moya had acquired more crew members. However, those 24 cycles were just the opening act for the universe.
Suddenly Zhann exploded into the command center. "John! Aeryn! We must speak immediately!"
***** Jigoku *****
Nekina carefully opened her eyes and looked at her surroundings. Luckily she found the welcoming walls of her office, and Cain sitting in a chair across the room. Groaning slightly, she sat up and leaned against the nearest stable object. "Cain, we can't attack that ship."
He stood up and helped Nekina into a chair. "That may be a problem, since Crais has arrived with 4 other ships."
End Chapter 2