Chapter Five: The Future Scouts.
Serena woke up with a start. She was in Rei's Temple with the others. Her hot-pink skin still moist
and sticky from her nightmare. "How long have I been asleep?" she asked looking at the others
sitting around Rei's table. "Not too long. You've had another nightmare, right?" Amy asked. Amy
was wearing a yellow T-shirt and jeans. She wore a necklace with red shiny stones which matched
with her dark-blue skin.
"Yeah, It was the one with the man and the bunny. Only this time he shot himself instead of the
bunny."
"You read too much comics!! That's your problem. Why do I bother inviting you if the only thing you
do is sleep." Rei yelled. She was wearing a long dress with pictures of blue and pink flowers on it.
Her blood-red skin shone in the offensive light seeping in from outside. "Aw Rei, give her a break.
Don't get angry at her for not wanting to play cards." Mina protected Serena. Mina, Amy and Rei
were playing a game called Ging-Gong, Lita had gone in the kitchen to make lunch. The game
bored Serena but she liked being with her friends.
"It's time for lunch. Who's hungry?" Lita came out of the kitchen holding five plates on a big
wooden tray with one forest-green hand.
"Me, me. I'm hungry!" Serena was swinging her hand in the air and sat herself by the table. She
looked over to Mina who was just taking her plate off the tray and asked, "Hey Mina, I've been
wanting to ask something but I always forgot. It's about your Skin-Coat. Why do you have a mixed
one."
Mina smiled and said, "I wanted to be different and I like the look of all these colours intersecting
with each other." Mina's Skin Coat had the colours of the other Scouts covering her enhanced
body. "If you ask me I hate wearing these things. I mean, we don't need it. The bodies given to us
by The Gods can easily cope with the unfiltered rays of the sun." Amy looked upset. She really
hated looking at herself in the mirror. She hated looking at her alien-like skin. She knew the others
thought the same. She wished her race were as advanced as The Gods. For them it would be
child's play to create a new Ozone Layer in a day. At the level the Humans were, they would need
at least a century to accomplish the same task.
They all finished their meals, which had confirmed Lita being an excellent cook. Serena offered to
bake a cake in Rei's Mini-Oven. Thanks to the high-tech oven the cake was done in three minutes.
All Serena had to do was get the ingredients in one bowl. She carried the cake in a little metal case
and they went for a walk in the park.
The park was nice not beautiful but nice.
It had massive trees and a well trimmed lawn, which were genetically manipulated to cope with the
offensive rays. The trees were nice to look at. They were tall and healthy. They could even bear fruit
but if a human ate one of the black orbs they would probably explode.
"It's nice to have a few neutral sections like this park. It' good to just be able to walk outside without
being harassed by some fifteen year old punk." Rei said, playing with a leaf she had plucked from a
AMK1 tree.
"Yeah, I wish we could fight against them but there's just too many. Even with our powers we don't
stand a chance." Amy said looking at a hologram of a ducks swimming in a small, shallow pool.
"Yeah, I'm not even sure our powers still work. The last time we used them it was against that Orak
guy." Lita said walking next to Serena.
The five girls found a place to sit under a LoK4 type tree. It was Serena's favourite tree. It's hairy,
snow-white leaves gave off an aroma which somehow reminded her of Darien. Sitting there made
her think of the others.
She looked up to the sky and asked, "When will Darien and the Outer Scouts get back? They
should have been here long ago."
"Who knows how long the negotiation will take. Those Arneks love to fight. It won't be easy to talk
them into dropping their weapons," Lita said who was also looking up at the sky, almost expecting
Darien and the others to descend from it in their shuttle and land in the middle of the park. Looking
at the sky wasn't always that easy. Today it was clear but on other days the sky could get black.
The darkness in the sky seemed to live. It looked like some animal sucking out the beauty of the
atmosphere.
"Don't worry, Serena they'll be back soon." Rei said, looking more kindly and understandingly then
she normally did. "What do you guys want to do now?" just as Amy asked, Rei's Arm-Link to her
Temple beeped. The little bracelet around Rei's hand said: "Rei, THIS IS THE TEMPLE, THIS IS
THE TEMPLE, I AM ON FIRE, REPEAT, I AM ON FIRE, I WILL DO MY BEST TO PUT IT OUT!!"
Rei looked from her wrist to Serena, she narrowed her eyes and said, "PLEASE tell me you
switched the Mini-Oven off before we left."
Serena's eyes widened as if she had just been stung by a bee and just said, "Oooppsssss..."
Serena woke up with a start. She was in Rei's Temple with the others. Her hot-pink skin still moist
and sticky from her nightmare. "How long have I been asleep?" she asked looking at the others
sitting around Rei's table. "Not too long. You've had another nightmare, right?" Amy asked. Amy
was wearing a yellow T-shirt and jeans. She wore a necklace with red shiny stones which matched
with her dark-blue skin.
"Yeah, It was the one with the man and the bunny. Only this time he shot himself instead of the
bunny."
"You read too much comics!! That's your problem. Why do I bother inviting you if the only thing you
do is sleep." Rei yelled. She was wearing a long dress with pictures of blue and pink flowers on it.
Her blood-red skin shone in the offensive light seeping in from outside. "Aw Rei, give her a break.
Don't get angry at her for not wanting to play cards." Mina protected Serena. Mina, Amy and Rei
were playing a game called Ging-Gong, Lita had gone in the kitchen to make lunch. The game
bored Serena but she liked being with her friends.
"It's time for lunch. Who's hungry?" Lita came out of the kitchen holding five plates on a big
wooden tray with one forest-green hand.
"Me, me. I'm hungry!" Serena was swinging her hand in the air and sat herself by the table. She
looked over to Mina who was just taking her plate off the tray and asked, "Hey Mina, I've been
wanting to ask something but I always forgot. It's about your Skin-Coat. Why do you have a mixed
one."
Mina smiled and said, "I wanted to be different and I like the look of all these colours intersecting
with each other." Mina's Skin Coat had the colours of the other Scouts covering her enhanced
body. "If you ask me I hate wearing these things. I mean, we don't need it. The bodies given to us
by The Gods can easily cope with the unfiltered rays of the sun." Amy looked upset. She really
hated looking at herself in the mirror. She hated looking at her alien-like skin. She knew the others
thought the same. She wished her race were as advanced as The Gods. For them it would be
child's play to create a new Ozone Layer in a day. At the level the Humans were, they would need
at least a century to accomplish the same task.
They all finished their meals, which had confirmed Lita being an excellent cook. Serena offered to
bake a cake in Rei's Mini-Oven. Thanks to the high-tech oven the cake was done in three minutes.
All Serena had to do was get the ingredients in one bowl. She carried the cake in a little metal case
and they went for a walk in the park.
The park was nice not beautiful but nice.
It had massive trees and a well trimmed lawn, which were genetically manipulated to cope with the
offensive rays. The trees were nice to look at. They were tall and healthy. They could even bear fruit
but if a human ate one of the black orbs they would probably explode.
"It's nice to have a few neutral sections like this park. It' good to just be able to walk outside without
being harassed by some fifteen year old punk." Rei said, playing with a leaf she had plucked from a
AMK1 tree.
"Yeah, I wish we could fight against them but there's just too many. Even with our powers we don't
stand a chance." Amy said looking at a hologram of a ducks swimming in a small, shallow pool.
"Yeah, I'm not even sure our powers still work. The last time we used them it was against that Orak
guy." Lita said walking next to Serena.
The five girls found a place to sit under a LoK4 type tree. It was Serena's favourite tree. It's hairy,
snow-white leaves gave off an aroma which somehow reminded her of Darien. Sitting there made
her think of the others.
She looked up to the sky and asked, "When will Darien and the Outer Scouts get back? They
should have been here long ago."
"Who knows how long the negotiation will take. Those Arneks love to fight. It won't be easy to talk
them into dropping their weapons," Lita said who was also looking up at the sky, almost expecting
Darien and the others to descend from it in their shuttle and land in the middle of the park. Looking
at the sky wasn't always that easy. Today it was clear but on other days the sky could get black.
The darkness in the sky seemed to live. It looked like some animal sucking out the beauty of the
atmosphere.
"Don't worry, Serena they'll be back soon." Rei said, looking more kindly and understandingly then
she normally did. "What do you guys want to do now?" just as Amy asked, Rei's Arm-Link to her
Temple beeped. The little bracelet around Rei's hand said: "Rei, THIS IS THE TEMPLE, THIS IS
THE TEMPLE, I AM ON FIRE, REPEAT, I AM ON FIRE, I WILL DO MY BEST TO PUT IT OUT!!"
Rei looked from her wrist to Serena, she narrowed her eyes and said, "PLEASE tell me you
switched the Mini-Oven off before we left."
Serena's eyes widened as if she had just been stung by a bee and just said, "Oooppsssss..."