Disclaimer: Just a reminder that Outlaw Star doesn't belong to me, but Kane does!
Author's note: Woah, this chapter is extremely long because of the fact that I didn't want to add another chapter to this story. Dratini, Dratini, Drat, tini, Dratini. (Pokemon translation) So, remember to read and review. Dratini, tini, dratini, drat. Bye-for-now. Drat-ti-ni.
Part 6
It begins in a seemingly peaceful place as two little children that seems to be around the age of six and seven runs around the yard playing a game of tag.
"You're it," a small blonde-hair boy laughs as he tackles the girl to the ground which makes them roll to a stop with the girl facing the boy. Who to his surprise kisses him on the forehead as the two children then began to wrestle.
"Jim," the purple hair girl smiles as the wrestling game came to an end. "Do you love me?"
"Why, do you have to ask me that everyday, Hanmyo," Jim smiles as he kisses her on the lips. "You know that I do, and that once we reach the age of eighteen I will marry you."
"Yeah, but our parents said that we're the youngest couple to fall in love since the old priestess, Kasumi and her mate, Jin." The little girl spoke lowly.
"Yeah, but once a Felopian falls in love it's for forever, so it age doesn't really matter," the boys smiles as he kisses her lightly on the forehead and then jumps up from the ground and runs.
"Yeah!" the girl smiles as she takes off after him. Neither one is aware of the dark shadow that rests over the planet as war slowly resigns itself over the population.
Instead the children began to play a cute game of spinning really fast while they hold hands. Neither one see the missile as it heads toward them until it too late.
"Nooooo," I shout as I awake to the sound of a knocking at my door. Sweat pours down my face as I try to remember where I am.
"Hanmyo," Mata replies as he jumps from the floor to the bed," are you alright?"
"Yeah, just one of those stupid bad dreams just like last time." I assure him as he prepares an illusion for whomever it was knocking at the door. The room at the moment was a total wreck, because of their fight yesterday, and we knew that that stupid manager might try to make us pay for it.
"Yes," I growl as got dress and then open the door to find that stupid manager grinning at me.
"I'm just here to inform you to keep the noise down," he mumbles as he scans the room behind me," I had lots of complaints about it last night."
"Fine, I'll keep the noise down," then without another word I slam the door in his face.
"That boy is making you soft, Hanmyo," Mata purrs as he licks his paw. "You would have normally invited him into the room and them proceeded to rip his head off."
"Well, if I'm going to join the crew of the Outlaw Star," I began," then old BAD habits like that are going to have to go."
"Hmmm," Mata said teasingly," I'm beginning to wonder if Kemi wasn't right about this idea."
"Huh," Kemi butted in as she awoke to the sound of her name, causing Mata and me to burst out laughing.
Suddenly our fun was interrupted by a beeping sound as the boss called me on my watch.
"Hmm, I guess it's time," I smile a little as I took the watch off my wrist and threw it out the window. "Come on, let's go see the captain of the Outlaw Star."
Meanwhile, Kemi just stood there staring at me as I left the room. "That wasn't a very smart move," Kemi remarks as she quickly rush after us.
"So what about the ship," Mata replies as they quickly creep by the manager as we left the building.
"The boss probably had a dozen tracking devices on it, so I guess I'm going to have to leave it." I said sadly. I really loved that ship and regret leaving it behind.
"Not necessarily," Kemi purrs as she got closer to me. "I can arrange for it to be debug if Mata will agree to help me."
Mata nods as he looks up to me and ask if it would be O.K.
"Sure," I spoke lowly as we walk out onto the street," I think I can handle Gene Starwind alone."
So, we separated then and there as the two cats rush back toward the docking area, and I headed toward the place that mechanic had told me about three days ago.
It was nearly noon when I finally arrived at the place. It seems that the people aboard the Outlaw Star don't have a lot of money, because the ship was located on the bad side of town. Not a nice place to be alone at, but I'm the best martial arts in the galaxy, so I really don't have anything to worry about.
"Hello, Hanmyo," a voice sneers at me as I suddenly realize that I had foolishly let my guard down.
It only took me a mil-second to realize whom the voice belonged to. "Hi, Kane," I spat out with the same sneer in my voice."
"It been a while did you miss me? " he laughs as his huge body came into view. All 6"4 of him step out of the shadows as his huge muscular arms flex with every movement. Kane was a Saurian of the meat eating variety, and his ancestor was no other than T-Rex. He is also one of the galaxy's most wanted criminals for his crimes of murder, kidnapping, and illegal smuggling. He smiles at me with his dangerous grin as his spike like teeth come together making a clicking sound.
"Not really, "I also smile trying not to show fear. "I see that you're not wearing a hologram to disguise yourself."
"Well, you see I don't want to get blood all over my nice clean hologram," Kane smirks as he moves closer to me," besides you seem to be able to see through them."
"Not really," I inch away from him," its just that I'll seen that hologram before, when you first capture us!"
He glares at me after those words," yes, well after your little escape I had to make cut backs in other to pay for the damages." "Damages that I would love to share with your boyfriend." His glare then turns into an easy going smirk," as well as with you," then he opens up his shirt to reveal the scar that I had given him.
"You shouldn't have tried to rape me," I sneer back.
"Are those your final words?" The reptile laughs," you two cost me everything my ship, my fortune, my reputation." "Yet that isn't enough for you," he growls," you want to take my life as well, so you attack me." "And now you just expect me to let you walk away," he spoke coldly as he walks toward me. "No, this time you will pay for your crimes against me!"
"Crimes against you," I scream at him as I quickly reach behind my back and equip myself with the glove claws as my tail twitch into existences at the slightest thought of a fight. "You're the one who started this by killing both Jim's and my family, but I will be the one to end this, with your death!"
"Its good to see that somethings haven't change," he then pulls out a gun and points it at me," but I'm not as stupid as I was then."
"Neither I'm I," I roar as a charge him reflecting the bullets he shot at me with a quick swipe of my claws. "Die Damn you!" I shout as I miss a slice to his stomach as he quickly side step me and brings the gun's hilt into the back of my head sending me heavily into the ground. I quickly roll away as his foot replaces the area where my body once was.
"You have improved," Kane grins as his red eyes glow with intense hatred.
"I see," I pant out the words," you have too.
Meanwhile the people around us quickly disappeared into afternoon air. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary for them to see two people fighting in the street. Too be honesty it was probably a normal occurrence for them, so as usual they simply went back to whatever place they had come from and waited for the fight to end.
I charge at Kane again, this time managing to sink my claws into his chest as he stumbles at his attempt to sidestep me again.
"Damn," he yells as he looks down at the five crimson lines that rakes down his chest next to the scar I had given him, "you'll pay for that."
"You keep saying that, but whose going to make me," I sneer as I couch down into my favorite fighting position," definitely not a corpse."
"You talk too much," he smiles as he muscles become relax and he beams down on me.
"Oh man!" I stammer I was in deep trouble. "The only time Kane would relax with me in this position is if he had me some how," I thought. Then for some reason or another a thought hits me as stared into his eyes looking for the big secret. "He had been waiting here for me, because he knew that I would eventually come here, but there is no way he could have known I would come alone!"
So I of course immediately whirl around just in time to face my attacker as he smacks me across the face with a metal pipe. My world sinks into darkness as I fall to the ground. I knew without a doubt what was going to happen to me as laid on the ground unconscious, and I pray to God for a miracle as I was consume by a feeling of numbness.
"Hanmyo," a voice calls out in my dreams. As a little boy about the age of seven rushes to my side as the saurian, Kane curses at me as he holds his injury private. I was six then and this had been the second week in a row he had tried to rape me, but at ever twist and turn Jim had stop him. So as a new approach to the matter he had chosen to make Jim work in the kitchen while he did the deed. But as I had told him before, I didn't need Jim's help to deal with him. The saurian slam the door behind him as he yelled at the guard for bring Jim back so soon and then turns on us as he threatens us with empty promises about our demise. He wouldn't harm us that way; we knew that his employer needed us to be in good physical condition. Felopians are very intelligent creatures that are capable of building massive weapons of destruction, which is part of the reason the Federation had chosen to get rid of us, and why we are so valuable.
"Captain," one of the human guards approached Kane," we will be arriving at the pick up station in four minutes, sir."
"Good, I want you to take the boy out of the cell and strap him down for the erasing ceremony." "Our client wants them without any memories of their past." Kane growls as he hobbles away.
"Ok, boy, its time," the guard quickly unlocks the door and reaches for Jim.
"Hanmyo, remember your promise." Jim smiles as he backs up against the wall of our cell.
"Yeah, I do," I whispers and then just as the man reaches for Jim, I suddenly plow into him knocking him down as we rush out of the cell. That man was the same guard whom just the day before had taken off our shackles something I bet he was regretting now. We made our escape and then ran down the hall toward the elevator. This floor was full of guards unlike the lower deck, so it was our best bet. As we ran for it we just happen to run past another set of guards whom just happen to be heading for the same elevator. They sounded the alarm before chasing us.
"Hanmyo, do you remember the room where they took our weapons and eggs," Jim asked me as we barely escape another group of guards whom suddenly appeared at the end of the hall, causing us to make a detour into another hallway, as they reach down to grab us.
"Yeah, it's just to the east of here just down the elevator," I panted as we somehow manage to double-back and were now once again racing toward the elevator just ahead of four very angry guards.
"Ok," Jim growls as we slip into the elevator with the guards behind us. "Let's take care of our little problem!" His white tail twitches as the guards suddenly realize that they was in trouble and tries to get out of the elevator before it closes, to no avail.
A short while later, we arrived at the lowest deck of the ship, we step out of the elevator leaving the unconscious guards behind us.
"Now lets go get our stuff," I laughed as we stroll down the hall and into the room with our stuff.
"Good its all here," Jim smiles as he hands me my glove claws and my single egg.
I then put both things into the void as Jim grabs his sword and egg. "Hanmyo," he says surprising me. "I need you to do me a favor," he remarks as he puts his things on the table and hugs me. "I want you to keep my egg until we meet again."
"Meet again?" I look at Jim with a puzzle expression on my face as he shoves the egg into my hands.
"Yes, now the escape pods are to the west of here," Jim smiles. "Good luck!" He then pushes me out of the door quickly and locks it to my surprise. I then put the egg into the void and started to bang on the door cause attention to myself.
"You can come out, Kane!" I heard Jim yell as the saurian's voice snickers at him. I didn't have time to hear anything more as the guards try to seize me, and I quickly find myself fleeing to the room with the escape pods.
Five guards later, I reach the room with the escape pods and to my surprise I find one with the keys still in it. It was strangely colored. It was orange in the middle and green on one end and blue on the other, but I couldn't complain. So I took that one and escape just as the ship explodes and crashes to the planet surface below. As I began to fall asleep in that pod (thanks to the auto-survivor system) I looked down at the planet and whispered its name," Sentinel II."
I slowly awoke sore and wet as the rain fell all around me. I sat up slowly to discover that I was completely naked, but I haven't been volatiled. Kemi and Mata, now the size of two Bengal tigers laid at my feet with someone between their paws. It didn't take me too long to recognize Kane's body as Mata lazily bite down on the creature's mash head. The other person I guess was the man that had attacked me with pipe.
"Hi, guys," I replied lowly.
Mata turns his attention from the pitiful body between his paws and look up at me with a sadness I had never seen in his eyes. "Hanmyo look beside you." He said simply as he got up and trots next to me as Kemi follows his example and do the same.
I slowly turn my head to the side to see Jim laying beside me blood flowing freely from wounds all over his body. His head looked as if someone had tried to crush it as the blood seeps from his hair and many other cracks in his skin. His breathing was badly labor as he struggled to force air into his lungs.
"No," I cry as I hug his limp body to me. "It's not fair." "After everything that has happen I'm still going to lose you," I wail.
Mata and Kemi simply turn away from me as the rain begins to pour down harder.
"I had so many plans for us," I lay him back on the ground as I swept my fingers through my hair and pull out the single pink rose with the crimson spots, and lay it beside him. It was then that I notice Jim's tail stretching out beside him and his sword a few feet away.
A smile stretches across my lips. "Jim had turn into his true self," I laugh outloud as Mata and Kemi stares at me like an idiot. "I can save him!" I thought to myself, so I bent down and kiss him on the lips as Mata finally realizes what I was laughing about.
"Hanmyo, you can't," Mata yells as he turns to face me as I begin to work my magic on Jim's wounds as our tails intertwine. The spell I was working was quick and effective as I began to feel the warmth leave my body and flow into his. I could only guess what Mata was seeing as I began to disappear from right in front of him and Jim's wounds began to magically heal. Soon I was gone as he look on with a stare of complete disbelief as his twin sister finally looks up from the ground to see what her brother had been talking about.
"Huh?" She questions her brother as she looks up to only see Jim laying on the ground. He wordlessly drops his ears to his skull in a manner that could only represent grief, and so without a word being spoken Kemi understood. "H-Hanmyo," Kemi stammers as she looks at the place I once was," what have you done?"
A few seconds later, Jim got up off the ground without a mark on him and looks around in confusion at the two cats. "Guardians?" His memories had been return to him and he finally recognized what the two cats really were. He then asked the one question, Mata had hope to avoid," Where's Hanmyo?"
"Inside of you," Mata whispers to himself as a single tear streaks down his face and vanishes before it touches the ground. "Inside of you," he repeats loud enough for Jim to hear him with a clear yet bold face. "She has merger with you in order to save your life."
Jim stares at him in shock now fully realizing what had happen and whom these guardian belong to. "What about my egg," he said sadly as he stroke the ground with his fist. It was the end of his mate and his race, but at least he can save Mata's and Kemi's.
"She had it inside of the void," Kemi eyes grow huge with the realization. Without Hanmyo to open her space in that void there was no way to get to the egg, and that meant that Jim couldn't awake the creature within, so both races were doom.
Meanwhile the single pink rose beside Jim disappears into the ground as a single white egg replace it, and a small almost inaudible voice whispers into the night," I wish there could had been another way."
THE END