Chapter One:
Dreams With No Meaning
Yukkarie grasped her husband's hand in her own. She could feel him tense with her touch and looked into his blue eyes for any way of guessing what was wrong.
"Eienno?" she asked concernedly. "Are you okay?"
In reply, he looked into her eyes, "Just thinking about something." He stroked her soft blonde hair and continued to walk down the sidewalk to their house.
"What's on your mind that's got you acting so uncomfortable?" she asked, still concerned.
"I guess I'll have to tell you sooner or later anyway," he mumbled. "I have to leave tomorrow. It's been ordered straight from General Adrian, himself. I'm supposed to be a commander for a special mission to earth. He said that the group of people I'm going with should get to know me and everyone else. According to him, there is only one other person who hasn't shown up yet."
"Tomorrow?" said Yukkarie sorrowfully.
"Yeah," he looked down at his new wife again. "I know we only got married a little while ago, but I have to go." He shuffled through his pockets to find the house key and opened the door, allowing Yukkarie to enter first.
"How long will you be gone?"
"He said about 3 or 4, maybe even 5 years," Eienno looked at Yukkarie as she walked past him. 'She looks so broken,' he thought.
Yukkarie didn't know what to say at that point. She took Eienno's hand again and pulled him upstairs to their room. She took off her jacket, then his and folded them over the edge of a chair. She wrapped her arms around his neck and began to kiss him softly, yet passionately. He kissed back gratefully and held her in his arms, which he knew she would really appreciate. She pulled her lips away a tiny bit.
"I'm going to make your last night here one you'll remember," she began to kiss him along his muscular neck and pulled him towards the bed. Lying down, she pulled him beside her.
Eienno climbed on top of her, knowing that she was hinting that she wanted him one more time before he had to leave. * * *
"Meeko-Bei," said the general, "I want you to tell me whom are going to earth and what their positions on the shuttle were going to be. Then tell me who is here."
"Yes sir," replied a perky woman with golden blonde hair and bright blue eyes. "First, the commanding officer, Major Eienno Kiyoshi, Captain and Doctor Hanna Natsu, both absent so far, Engineering Commander Tomodachi Omonashi, Co-pilot Sebastien Latona, in charge of communications and navigations, we have Karameki Naone, Chikara Akiri is the also a co-pilot and our weapons specialist, Cordelia Daytene. Ms. Daytene has twin sisters working on the moon base who have been selected as nurses that will be picked up when the docking at the moon base is made. They are nurses who are to help Hanna Natsu if she is unable to fulfill any of the tasks she finds are unable to be done alone."
"Thank you, Meeko," he said as he looked through the pictures of the group which came without information. "You might be the clumsiest person I've ever met, but you sure do your job right."
Thank you, sir," she replied cheerily. * * * Hanna looked up at her bedroom ceiling. She loved to find shapes and faces in the little crevasses and falling to sleep thinking about what might happen the next day. She knew it'd be hard to find funny things in a bare ceiling, and she figured that would be the type of ceiling the shuttle would be given.
Like Eienno, she was leaving in the morning and meeting everyone who was there already. She fiddled with her blue hair and pictured what they might look like. The only information the general had given her was there were three men and three other women whose ages ranged from 21 to 23, and then there were going to be two more nurses picked up later.
It took Hanna a while to get to sleep. She kept having the feeling she was missing something. She had checked her bags to make sure she had everything more than twice and was beginning to feel anxious. Slowly, though, she began to drift into a disturbed sleep. ~ ~Dream~ ~ Hanna found herself sitting in the front of the shuttle she had imaged before falling to sleep. Strangely enough, one of the guys she had imagined found his way to her.
"Hi Hanna," he said, "It's our three month today. How do you want to celebrate?"
"There's not much we can do," she replied.
"Why don't we do what we did last month," said the guy again, "get Akeeva to make us some food and have a nice dinner to ourselves."
"Do you remember what happened last month?" asked Hanna miserably.
"Yeah," replied the man, "The jerk ruined it by eating most of the food before we could." He paused, "We can do it differently this time though. I'll make sure he doesn't interfere."
"What I meant to say before was," she felt sorrow and pity build up in her stomach, "I'm pregnant and."
She was cut short by the shocked man, "but we've never done anything but snuggle with one another."
". . .And. . ." she said, beginning to stutter between words, ". . .and it's not your kid."
"Then whose is it?" the man looked like he was getting angrier and angrier as she spoke.
"It's his," she said, expecting him to know who she was talk about.
"Whose?"
"It's his. . .you know?" said Hanna pointing to the major's door.
"Did he force you? Was he taking advantage of his superiority? What did he do to you? Did he threaten you? I'll go take care of it, I promise," said the man as if he did want to think it was a mutual relation.
"No, I forced him," replied Hanna. "He tried to talk me out of it. That's why I'm going to stop being your girlfriend. It's happened more then once. You need a faithful woman."
"Maybe, but, I want you," said the man as he began to walk away in the direction of his room. He looked at her, "I need you."
Hanna sat down, not realizing there was someone in the room with her. She began to cry regretfully.
"You didn't force me," said a darker, yet more comforting voice.
"Yes I did," she said between oncoming tears. She looked behind her to see another faceless man that was built with a tall and muscular figure compared to the other guy.
"I wanted you," he said. "I can't say I didn't. It's just that I'm married. I didn't want to tell you at all, but you know, now that your.umm.I feel I have to tell you."
"You heard me say that?" yelled Hanna nervously.
"I heard the whole conversation," said the man calmly.
"And?"
"I plan to take responsibility for my actions," he said, touching her lower belly gently.
"Why, though?" she shuttered. "Don't you already have your own family?"
"There's a problem, I never thought of that," he said with a lot of sarcasm staining his words. "I have only the child in your stomach, but I also have a confession to make." He kneeled down beside her and put his arm against the back of the chair, and wrapped his hand around her soft face. "I have lost interest in Yukkarie." ~ ~End of dream~ ~ Hanna's eyes shot open. She had had a friend in the past named Yukkarie and that last part of her dream freaked her out a bit. Even weirder, was how Yukkarie had just recently called from a nearby colony to tell Hanna she'd been married.
She looked at her clock; it was three thirty-four in the morning. Because she had to get up in an hour and a half, she tried the best she could to go to sleep, but was unsuccessful. She starred at the wall and wondered what the dream might mean. She'd never had a dream like that before.
'Why did that dream have Yukkarie in it? She told me she married a Major. Why did it have her in it and why did the guy say he'd lost interest?' a chain of these words ran through her head at a billion miles per minute as she tried to find out what was wrong.
After a while, her alarm clock went off. She groaned miserably and shut it off, even though she was wide-awake from being up for the extra time. She crawled out of her bed tiredly and headed for her bathroom, grabbing an outfit as she went.
As she showered, the thought of being pregnant haunted her. She was still virgin, and couldn't picture herself any other way, at least for a while longer than her dream had demonstrated. She relaxed as the warm water beaded through her hair and down her skin. * * * Eienno was also experiencing a strange dream.
Yukkarie could feel his body shutter and shake as the dream followed through. ~ ~Dream~ ~ His dream began the day the shuttle would be taking off, the day he got there. An absolutely gorgeous woman with blue hair and raspberry coloured eyes walked out of a strange looking room. She was wearing a white skirt with a matching, white overtop and a blue shirt. Then Yukkarie appeared, semi-transparent, beside her. Eienno walked towards the blue and as he did, a little girl with black hair and raspberry eyes began to appear. He looked at Yukkarie, and then continued to walk towards the other woman. Pleasurable and lustful feelings filled his body when he finally touched the woman's hand.
All of a sudden, Yukkarie broke down and began to cry. A knife somehow fell into her hands. She began to cut at both wrists. "You betrayed me," she sighed as tears drizzled down her cheeks. "I still love you," she continued as her face began to pale. "I just hoped you loved me too." Her eyes began to close, causing her body to fall onto knees and then to the floor.
The other woman grasped his hand and snuggled his body into hers. His body started to feel like it was full of rocks that cut and burned his insides.
"I do love you," said Eienno looking at his wife, who was now lying in a puddle of her own blood.
The woman who held him tighter than before pulled him away from her. "There's nothing you can do," said the woman, with her comforting and soothing voice. She ripped two pieces of cloth from her overtop and wrapped them tightly around Yukkarie's wrists, stopping what little blood was still left in her body to attempt to continue. She then picked Eienno off the ground, and held him close to her body. He began to hold her as well and after a few minutes began to feel content.
Yukkarie's eyes fluttered open miraculously. She looked at the little girl that Eienno had seen earlier. She was smiling at Eienno and the woman he hugged.
"Eienno," she whimpered.
Eienno felt cold again. The voice of his wife made him shutter. He pushed the woman away and looked her deep in the eyes. He peered over at Yukkarie and, causing her more pain than she had thought possible, kissed the woman with passion and admiration. Yukkarie rested her head back down on the blood-covered floor, awaiting her death.
The little girl began to move towards the strange woman who still remained nameless. She jumped into the woman belly, making the woman cry out in a strange sort of pleasure. The surrounding environment disappeared, Yukkarie included, and reappeared in the shuttle. The woman's belly still looked as it did before but something was different about her.
"I'm pregnant," she whispered into his ear. "We're having a child."
Eienno watch as her belly grew, slowly but surely, until she grabbed it and began to hyperventilate.
After screaming and crying in agonizing pain, the women finally held a small child. She handed it to Eienno, "this is our angel."
Again, Yukkarie appeared with the knife in her hand. She walked over to the woman and stabbed her in the back, making her fall into Eienno's arms with her baby still cradled in hers. Yukkarie then looked at Eienno with a strange face.
"Now I have freed you," she mumbled, "now I'll free myself." She brought the knife to her chest, revealing the scars on her wrists. Quickly, she slid the knife into her own chest. She dematerialized, giving the woman back her life, but for only a few short seconds.
"Keep our child safe," said the woman. "Her name is Azurae. And Eienno," she paused, "I always loved you. Since the moment we met." With that, her eye closed and her chest fell for it's very last time.
He looked down at the dead beauty in his arms and then to the child. 'They look alike,' he thought.
He could feel himself drift off somewhere unknown with the child in his arms.
And faint beep grew as he moved and then bright sunlight engulfed him. ~ ~End of dream~ ~ Yukkarie stroked Eienno's face with a cold cloth. The instant he saw her, his arms wrapped around her as if he had lost control of every bone and muscle in his body.
"I love you, Yukkarie," he said. Her eyes went wide. He had only said that to her once, and only when he purposed to her. "I'm going to miss you and I promise I won't let you get hurt in any way."
"I love you too, Eienno," she said concernedly. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He felt over heated and sweat beaded down every inch of his body. "I'm not going to get hurt."
He pulled away and kissed her lips softly. He unlocked her from him and headed for the shower. His day would start like it normally would and would not be interfered by the dream. He studied the worried expression on Yukkarie's face as he turned on the tap to the shower.
"Come here," he said, gesturing for her to come to him. She came without hesitation. He wrapped his arms around her again and began to strip her bathrobe from her body. He pulled her into the shower with her and just plainly enjoyed being with her. * * * Hanna pulled her button-up uniform shirt over her shoulder. She didn't so much look forward to doing anything at all but still knew she had to do as she was told. She pulled the buttons through their proper holes and did up her necktie. Pulling the skirt up, she zipped it so it fit her figure almost perfectly. Unfortunately she had to pull the jacket on over it to hide everything but the bottom hem of her skirt and her long, slender legs. She pulled her hair into a bun, as it was protocol for women with long hair to have it above her shoulder. She turned on her electric toothbrush and began to scrub her teeth until they were clean and then flossed. Her perfect white teeth only made her already pretty face light up with a joyous gleam.
Grabbing her very small, but very full duffle bag, she took one last glance at her room. She smiled looking forward to the day she would sleep in her bed again.
She closed the door and headed out of her room to the kitchen. She starred at the fridge, trying to decide whether she felt like eating or not. She simply shook her head and walked towards the living room door. Taking one quick scope of the room, she left her house and locked the door behind her.
Hanna climbed into her orange convertible and opened the roof, putting her hat on the seat beside her. She turned on the car and headed for the colony's military headquarters.
When she arrived at the gate, the men in the booth asked her for her name and business, both red in the face.
"I'm Hanna Natsu and I need to go to Colony 170 for a meeting with General Peters," she explained as both men starred at her with wide-eyes.
One of them finally regained control of himself, as he began to type something into the computer. Sure enough, her picture and name showed up on the screen.
"Your birthday, Ms. Natsu?" he said.
"July of 2658," she informed.
"Just for medical precautions, we need you to tell us the date, including the year of your last physical exam," said the other man.
"My last appointment was yesterday, March 20, 2680," she replied. The man shook his head and opened the gate.
She smiled at them and thanked them, then began to drive through the opened fencing. She parked in a spot far away from the building where it would be less likely to get towed. Covering the car and locking it with the compacted remote control that hung from her key chain, she headed into the building and peered over at the desk.
"Hi," she said politely, "I'm supposed to get a quick form of transportation to colony 170."
"Name?" said the old lady in a screechy type of voice.
"Hanna Natsu."
"Go to the tenth floor, the elevators are at the far end of that hallway," instructed the lady, glaring from over the top of her glasses and pointing to a small corridor in the far corner.
Hanna gave a suspicious smile to the lady, not wanting to offend her by ignoring her, "thank you madam." She turned and starred blankly at the hallway she had been instructed to enter. As she walked through it, she noticed how insane they had the rooms made up. The wall were pure white, the floor was pure white, the ceiling was pure white and the only pictures on the wall were of military officials whom had long since passed away and didn't seem to know what a smile was. The thought made Hanna feel almost paranoid. Finally a row of elevators appeared from around a corner. She pushed the up button and waited until one of the doors opened. A set of doors opened, and fortunate for her, had nothing behind them. * * * Eienno looked over at Yukkarie, who was driving at the time, but could feel his eyes starring. She peered over at him.
"What's up?" she said kindly, trying desperately to get her mind off of the inevitable.
"Nothing," he replied in a tone that made him sound almost like he was high. "I'll call you everyday from a satellite phone." He studied the curves on her face and body so her could remember every little bit of her.
"Are there women on the crew?" she asked, the little green monster poking it's ugly face in her eyes.
"Yeah," said Eienno. "I won't get involved with any of them though. I'll make sure of that."
"How?" her voice started to quiver in jealous worry.
"By not letting them in like I let you in," he sighed. "I'm going to act like I did before I got to know you. Just like I do with other women."
Yukkarie took a deep breath. She knew that if his urges became too strong he'd give in to them. 'But then again,' she thought, 'he did keep me out for a long time before he actually treated me nicely.'
Eienno noticed the building approaching and pulled out his ID. It had his name, birthday and ID number on it, making it unnecessary for him to have to be asked questions. He hated being asked questions he didn't want to answer and felt that he did have to answer questions that wasted his time.
The gates opened when he slid his card through the slot. The booth men watched as he drove by. Yukkarie peeked over at Eienno again. He didn't seem to be too upset about leaving her. 'Maybe he'll realize it later,' she thought hopefully. She parked the car at the front of the building in the loading zone and popped the trunk. Eienno climbed out and pulled his rather small bag, which held almost all of his belongings, from its given space.
Yukkarie looked at him with longing eyes. He finally caught on to her desire to be in his arms and put his bag down on the concrete. He looked her dead in the eyes and moved towards her, wrapping his arms around her as he did. She graciously opened herself to his embrace.
"I'm going to miss you," he whispered into her ear. "I'm not going to get into any mischief, I promise."
"I love you," she said.
'Good damned woman,' thought Eienno, determined to just go, 'stupid chick movies she's always watching.'
"I love you too," he said with a small bit of annoyance. He let her go and grabbed his bag, then sped into the front doors, just to get greeted by a perky woman.
"Hi," she squealed. "I'm Meeko-Bei Takatu. General Peters told me to come and guide you to the Colony."
"Don't try anything," he said harshly, looking down on the rather short woman.
"What do you mean?" she squawked again.
"I mean, I'm taken and you're too old for me," he furrowed his brows.
"I'm only 24," she said, the perkiness a little toned down. "Anyway, if you'll just follow me."
"Fine," grunted Eienno. "But don't talk much, you're voice is giving me a headache."
"Oh," she sighed, "sorry."
No words were spoken except the occasional directions and gestures made by Meeko. She could tell that he was intent on being faithful to whomever it was that he was with, so she listened to him and respected his instructions to not try anything.although she found him to be incredibly good looking.
"Here we are," she said after only a few minutes that felt like hours to Eienno.
Eienno ventured into the room and looked around as the lights flickered on. She pointed to the machine.
"Go stand in there and ask whatever questions you might have later," she instructed.
Eienno frowned at everyone in the room. They watched him carefully as he walked fearlessly into the chamber. He shut the door behind himself and waited.
The engines started to rumble and buzz. From his feet to his head, he began to dematerialize. This didn't faze him much until he actually began to feel like he was being ripped apart. He shuttered and closed his eyes.
Hanna could feel her body part from itself. She winced in horror and closed her eyes when her body's molecules separated and began to fly past her head. Then she felt her whole body together again, but it felt strange. She opened her eyes to see something.or someone that she didn't recognize at all.
Eienno starred down at the young woman trapped in the chamber beside him. She was beautiful. He somehow managed to keep his composure; after all, he was scrunched together with an absolutely gorgeous woman, in a very compact area.
"Get your hand off my ass," she said, strong tone in her voice.
Eienno smirked and pulled the hand that sat just on the spot were her back and her butt met.
"I didn't put it there," he said.
"Neither did I, pervert," said Hanna miserably. The door began to crack open. Hanna jumped at the chance to get away from the tall, dark-haired man. She looked at him.
"Do you die your hair?" she asked.
"No, why?" he looked at her like she was just another 'Meeko-Bei' type.
"Your eyes are blue," she replied.
"So? Yours are a stupid purple colour," he smirked.
"They are not purple!" she said, offended at him for screwing up the colour of her eyes. "They're raspberry for your damned information."
Meeko-Bei appeared in the machine and looked at the two, whom now silenced.
"What happened?" she asked.
"You and your moron people got the times wrong," said Hanna. "God, every time I go through that thing, something bad happens."
"What happened?" repeated Meeko, who knew that Hanna had seen and knew how the transporter worked.
"You sent me and him at the same time." Hanna frowned at her, "That means we got all squished together and. . .gross, stuck next to that creep."
"I think you're lucky," said Meeko, peering over at Eienno, who stood blankly, with his arms crossed.
"What?" yelled Hanna.
"He's hot," she began to drool through the corner of her mouth.
"What?" she yelled again. "He put his hand on my ass." She calmed down and frowned at him. 'That was a bad first impression, mister,' she thought to herself. 'No one touches my ass.' She starred him down, glaring at him consistently. 'So offensive to me.' As Hanna's eyes unconsciously grazed up and down his body, something began to look familiar to her, she just couldn't put her finger on it.
He too, felt some sort of weird way of knowing her. Something about her, almost made him want to run from her, even though he was obviously much stronger and faster.but it scared him.
Meeko-Bei watched as the two starred at each other without really knowing it.
"Follow me," she said. "You are going to have to be ready to leave very soon."
Yukkarie grasped her husband's hand in her own. She could feel him tense with her touch and looked into his blue eyes for any way of guessing what was wrong.
"Eienno?" she asked concernedly. "Are you okay?"
In reply, he looked into her eyes, "Just thinking about something." He stroked her soft blonde hair and continued to walk down the sidewalk to their house.
"What's on your mind that's got you acting so uncomfortable?" she asked, still concerned.
"I guess I'll have to tell you sooner or later anyway," he mumbled. "I have to leave tomorrow. It's been ordered straight from General Adrian, himself. I'm supposed to be a commander for a special mission to earth. He said that the group of people I'm going with should get to know me and everyone else. According to him, there is only one other person who hasn't shown up yet."
"Tomorrow?" said Yukkarie sorrowfully.
"Yeah," he looked down at his new wife again. "I know we only got married a little while ago, but I have to go." He shuffled through his pockets to find the house key and opened the door, allowing Yukkarie to enter first.
"How long will you be gone?"
"He said about 3 or 4, maybe even 5 years," Eienno looked at Yukkarie as she walked past him. 'She looks so broken,' he thought.
Yukkarie didn't know what to say at that point. She took Eienno's hand again and pulled him upstairs to their room. She took off her jacket, then his and folded them over the edge of a chair. She wrapped her arms around his neck and began to kiss him softly, yet passionately. He kissed back gratefully and held her in his arms, which he knew she would really appreciate. She pulled her lips away a tiny bit.
"I'm going to make your last night here one you'll remember," she began to kiss him along his muscular neck and pulled him towards the bed. Lying down, she pulled him beside her.
Eienno climbed on top of her, knowing that she was hinting that she wanted him one more time before he had to leave. * * *
"Meeko-Bei," said the general, "I want you to tell me whom are going to earth and what their positions on the shuttle were going to be. Then tell me who is here."
"Yes sir," replied a perky woman with golden blonde hair and bright blue eyes. "First, the commanding officer, Major Eienno Kiyoshi, Captain and Doctor Hanna Natsu, both absent so far, Engineering Commander Tomodachi Omonashi, Co-pilot Sebastien Latona, in charge of communications and navigations, we have Karameki Naone, Chikara Akiri is the also a co-pilot and our weapons specialist, Cordelia Daytene. Ms. Daytene has twin sisters working on the moon base who have been selected as nurses that will be picked up when the docking at the moon base is made. They are nurses who are to help Hanna Natsu if she is unable to fulfill any of the tasks she finds are unable to be done alone."
"Thank you, Meeko," he said as he looked through the pictures of the group which came without information. "You might be the clumsiest person I've ever met, but you sure do your job right."
Thank you, sir," she replied cheerily. * * * Hanna looked up at her bedroom ceiling. She loved to find shapes and faces in the little crevasses and falling to sleep thinking about what might happen the next day. She knew it'd be hard to find funny things in a bare ceiling, and she figured that would be the type of ceiling the shuttle would be given.
Like Eienno, she was leaving in the morning and meeting everyone who was there already. She fiddled with her blue hair and pictured what they might look like. The only information the general had given her was there were three men and three other women whose ages ranged from 21 to 23, and then there were going to be two more nurses picked up later.
It took Hanna a while to get to sleep. She kept having the feeling she was missing something. She had checked her bags to make sure she had everything more than twice and was beginning to feel anxious. Slowly, though, she began to drift into a disturbed sleep. ~ ~Dream~ ~ Hanna found herself sitting in the front of the shuttle she had imaged before falling to sleep. Strangely enough, one of the guys she had imagined found his way to her.
"Hi Hanna," he said, "It's our three month today. How do you want to celebrate?"
"There's not much we can do," she replied.
"Why don't we do what we did last month," said the guy again, "get Akeeva to make us some food and have a nice dinner to ourselves."
"Do you remember what happened last month?" asked Hanna miserably.
"Yeah," replied the man, "The jerk ruined it by eating most of the food before we could." He paused, "We can do it differently this time though. I'll make sure he doesn't interfere."
"What I meant to say before was," she felt sorrow and pity build up in her stomach, "I'm pregnant and."
She was cut short by the shocked man, "but we've never done anything but snuggle with one another."
". . .And. . ." she said, beginning to stutter between words, ". . .and it's not your kid."
"Then whose is it?" the man looked like he was getting angrier and angrier as she spoke.
"It's his," she said, expecting him to know who she was talk about.
"Whose?"
"It's his. . .you know?" said Hanna pointing to the major's door.
"Did he force you? Was he taking advantage of his superiority? What did he do to you? Did he threaten you? I'll go take care of it, I promise," said the man as if he did want to think it was a mutual relation.
"No, I forced him," replied Hanna. "He tried to talk me out of it. That's why I'm going to stop being your girlfriend. It's happened more then once. You need a faithful woman."
"Maybe, but, I want you," said the man as he began to walk away in the direction of his room. He looked at her, "I need you."
Hanna sat down, not realizing there was someone in the room with her. She began to cry regretfully.
"You didn't force me," said a darker, yet more comforting voice.
"Yes I did," she said between oncoming tears. She looked behind her to see another faceless man that was built with a tall and muscular figure compared to the other guy.
"I wanted you," he said. "I can't say I didn't. It's just that I'm married. I didn't want to tell you at all, but you know, now that your.umm.I feel I have to tell you."
"You heard me say that?" yelled Hanna nervously.
"I heard the whole conversation," said the man calmly.
"And?"
"I plan to take responsibility for my actions," he said, touching her lower belly gently.
"Why, though?" she shuttered. "Don't you already have your own family?"
"There's a problem, I never thought of that," he said with a lot of sarcasm staining his words. "I have only the child in your stomach, but I also have a confession to make." He kneeled down beside her and put his arm against the back of the chair, and wrapped his hand around her soft face. "I have lost interest in Yukkarie." ~ ~End of dream~ ~ Hanna's eyes shot open. She had had a friend in the past named Yukkarie and that last part of her dream freaked her out a bit. Even weirder, was how Yukkarie had just recently called from a nearby colony to tell Hanna she'd been married.
She looked at her clock; it was three thirty-four in the morning. Because she had to get up in an hour and a half, she tried the best she could to go to sleep, but was unsuccessful. She starred at the wall and wondered what the dream might mean. She'd never had a dream like that before.
'Why did that dream have Yukkarie in it? She told me she married a Major. Why did it have her in it and why did the guy say he'd lost interest?' a chain of these words ran through her head at a billion miles per minute as she tried to find out what was wrong.
After a while, her alarm clock went off. She groaned miserably and shut it off, even though she was wide-awake from being up for the extra time. She crawled out of her bed tiredly and headed for her bathroom, grabbing an outfit as she went.
As she showered, the thought of being pregnant haunted her. She was still virgin, and couldn't picture herself any other way, at least for a while longer than her dream had demonstrated. She relaxed as the warm water beaded through her hair and down her skin. * * * Eienno was also experiencing a strange dream.
Yukkarie could feel his body shutter and shake as the dream followed through. ~ ~Dream~ ~ His dream began the day the shuttle would be taking off, the day he got there. An absolutely gorgeous woman with blue hair and raspberry coloured eyes walked out of a strange looking room. She was wearing a white skirt with a matching, white overtop and a blue shirt. Then Yukkarie appeared, semi-transparent, beside her. Eienno walked towards the blue and as he did, a little girl with black hair and raspberry eyes began to appear. He looked at Yukkarie, and then continued to walk towards the other woman. Pleasurable and lustful feelings filled his body when he finally touched the woman's hand.
All of a sudden, Yukkarie broke down and began to cry. A knife somehow fell into her hands. She began to cut at both wrists. "You betrayed me," she sighed as tears drizzled down her cheeks. "I still love you," she continued as her face began to pale. "I just hoped you loved me too." Her eyes began to close, causing her body to fall onto knees and then to the floor.
The other woman grasped his hand and snuggled his body into hers. His body started to feel like it was full of rocks that cut and burned his insides.
"I do love you," said Eienno looking at his wife, who was now lying in a puddle of her own blood.
The woman who held him tighter than before pulled him away from her. "There's nothing you can do," said the woman, with her comforting and soothing voice. She ripped two pieces of cloth from her overtop and wrapped them tightly around Yukkarie's wrists, stopping what little blood was still left in her body to attempt to continue. She then picked Eienno off the ground, and held him close to her body. He began to hold her as well and after a few minutes began to feel content.
Yukkarie's eyes fluttered open miraculously. She looked at the little girl that Eienno had seen earlier. She was smiling at Eienno and the woman he hugged.
"Eienno," she whimpered.
Eienno felt cold again. The voice of his wife made him shutter. He pushed the woman away and looked her deep in the eyes. He peered over at Yukkarie and, causing her more pain than she had thought possible, kissed the woman with passion and admiration. Yukkarie rested her head back down on the blood-covered floor, awaiting her death.
The little girl began to move towards the strange woman who still remained nameless. She jumped into the woman belly, making the woman cry out in a strange sort of pleasure. The surrounding environment disappeared, Yukkarie included, and reappeared in the shuttle. The woman's belly still looked as it did before but something was different about her.
"I'm pregnant," she whispered into his ear. "We're having a child."
Eienno watch as her belly grew, slowly but surely, until she grabbed it and began to hyperventilate.
After screaming and crying in agonizing pain, the women finally held a small child. She handed it to Eienno, "this is our angel."
Again, Yukkarie appeared with the knife in her hand. She walked over to the woman and stabbed her in the back, making her fall into Eienno's arms with her baby still cradled in hers. Yukkarie then looked at Eienno with a strange face.
"Now I have freed you," she mumbled, "now I'll free myself." She brought the knife to her chest, revealing the scars on her wrists. Quickly, she slid the knife into her own chest. She dematerialized, giving the woman back her life, but for only a few short seconds.
"Keep our child safe," said the woman. "Her name is Azurae. And Eienno," she paused, "I always loved you. Since the moment we met." With that, her eye closed and her chest fell for it's very last time.
He looked down at the dead beauty in his arms and then to the child. 'They look alike,' he thought.
He could feel himself drift off somewhere unknown with the child in his arms.
And faint beep grew as he moved and then bright sunlight engulfed him. ~ ~End of dream~ ~ Yukkarie stroked Eienno's face with a cold cloth. The instant he saw her, his arms wrapped around her as if he had lost control of every bone and muscle in his body.
"I love you, Yukkarie," he said. Her eyes went wide. He had only said that to her once, and only when he purposed to her. "I'm going to miss you and I promise I won't let you get hurt in any way."
"I love you too, Eienno," she said concernedly. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He felt over heated and sweat beaded down every inch of his body. "I'm not going to get hurt."
He pulled away and kissed her lips softly. He unlocked her from him and headed for the shower. His day would start like it normally would and would not be interfered by the dream. He studied the worried expression on Yukkarie's face as he turned on the tap to the shower.
"Come here," he said, gesturing for her to come to him. She came without hesitation. He wrapped his arms around her again and began to strip her bathrobe from her body. He pulled her into the shower with her and just plainly enjoyed being with her. * * * Hanna pulled her button-up uniform shirt over her shoulder. She didn't so much look forward to doing anything at all but still knew she had to do as she was told. She pulled the buttons through their proper holes and did up her necktie. Pulling the skirt up, she zipped it so it fit her figure almost perfectly. Unfortunately she had to pull the jacket on over it to hide everything but the bottom hem of her skirt and her long, slender legs. She pulled her hair into a bun, as it was protocol for women with long hair to have it above her shoulder. She turned on her electric toothbrush and began to scrub her teeth until they were clean and then flossed. Her perfect white teeth only made her already pretty face light up with a joyous gleam.
Grabbing her very small, but very full duffle bag, she took one last glance at her room. She smiled looking forward to the day she would sleep in her bed again.
She closed the door and headed out of her room to the kitchen. She starred at the fridge, trying to decide whether she felt like eating or not. She simply shook her head and walked towards the living room door. Taking one quick scope of the room, she left her house and locked the door behind her.
Hanna climbed into her orange convertible and opened the roof, putting her hat on the seat beside her. She turned on the car and headed for the colony's military headquarters.
When she arrived at the gate, the men in the booth asked her for her name and business, both red in the face.
"I'm Hanna Natsu and I need to go to Colony 170 for a meeting with General Peters," she explained as both men starred at her with wide-eyes.
One of them finally regained control of himself, as he began to type something into the computer. Sure enough, her picture and name showed up on the screen.
"Your birthday, Ms. Natsu?" he said.
"July of 2658," she informed.
"Just for medical precautions, we need you to tell us the date, including the year of your last physical exam," said the other man.
"My last appointment was yesterday, March 20, 2680," she replied. The man shook his head and opened the gate.
She smiled at them and thanked them, then began to drive through the opened fencing. She parked in a spot far away from the building where it would be less likely to get towed. Covering the car and locking it with the compacted remote control that hung from her key chain, she headed into the building and peered over at the desk.
"Hi," she said politely, "I'm supposed to get a quick form of transportation to colony 170."
"Name?" said the old lady in a screechy type of voice.
"Hanna Natsu."
"Go to the tenth floor, the elevators are at the far end of that hallway," instructed the lady, glaring from over the top of her glasses and pointing to a small corridor in the far corner.
Hanna gave a suspicious smile to the lady, not wanting to offend her by ignoring her, "thank you madam." She turned and starred blankly at the hallway she had been instructed to enter. As she walked through it, she noticed how insane they had the rooms made up. The wall were pure white, the floor was pure white, the ceiling was pure white and the only pictures on the wall were of military officials whom had long since passed away and didn't seem to know what a smile was. The thought made Hanna feel almost paranoid. Finally a row of elevators appeared from around a corner. She pushed the up button and waited until one of the doors opened. A set of doors opened, and fortunate for her, had nothing behind them. * * * Eienno looked over at Yukkarie, who was driving at the time, but could feel his eyes starring. She peered over at him.
"What's up?" she said kindly, trying desperately to get her mind off of the inevitable.
"Nothing," he replied in a tone that made him sound almost like he was high. "I'll call you everyday from a satellite phone." He studied the curves on her face and body so her could remember every little bit of her.
"Are there women on the crew?" she asked, the little green monster poking it's ugly face in her eyes.
"Yeah," said Eienno. "I won't get involved with any of them though. I'll make sure of that."
"How?" her voice started to quiver in jealous worry.
"By not letting them in like I let you in," he sighed. "I'm going to act like I did before I got to know you. Just like I do with other women."
Yukkarie took a deep breath. She knew that if his urges became too strong he'd give in to them. 'But then again,' she thought, 'he did keep me out for a long time before he actually treated me nicely.'
Eienno noticed the building approaching and pulled out his ID. It had his name, birthday and ID number on it, making it unnecessary for him to have to be asked questions. He hated being asked questions he didn't want to answer and felt that he did have to answer questions that wasted his time.
The gates opened when he slid his card through the slot. The booth men watched as he drove by. Yukkarie peeked over at Eienno again. He didn't seem to be too upset about leaving her. 'Maybe he'll realize it later,' she thought hopefully. She parked the car at the front of the building in the loading zone and popped the trunk. Eienno climbed out and pulled his rather small bag, which held almost all of his belongings, from its given space.
Yukkarie looked at him with longing eyes. He finally caught on to her desire to be in his arms and put his bag down on the concrete. He looked her dead in the eyes and moved towards her, wrapping his arms around her as he did. She graciously opened herself to his embrace.
"I'm going to miss you," he whispered into her ear. "I'm not going to get into any mischief, I promise."
"I love you," she said.
'Good damned woman,' thought Eienno, determined to just go, 'stupid chick movies she's always watching.'
"I love you too," he said with a small bit of annoyance. He let her go and grabbed his bag, then sped into the front doors, just to get greeted by a perky woman.
"Hi," she squealed. "I'm Meeko-Bei Takatu. General Peters told me to come and guide you to the Colony."
"Don't try anything," he said harshly, looking down on the rather short woman.
"What do you mean?" she squawked again.
"I mean, I'm taken and you're too old for me," he furrowed his brows.
"I'm only 24," she said, the perkiness a little toned down. "Anyway, if you'll just follow me."
"Fine," grunted Eienno. "But don't talk much, you're voice is giving me a headache."
"Oh," she sighed, "sorry."
No words were spoken except the occasional directions and gestures made by Meeko. She could tell that he was intent on being faithful to whomever it was that he was with, so she listened to him and respected his instructions to not try anything.although she found him to be incredibly good looking.
"Here we are," she said after only a few minutes that felt like hours to Eienno.
Eienno ventured into the room and looked around as the lights flickered on. She pointed to the machine.
"Go stand in there and ask whatever questions you might have later," she instructed.
Eienno frowned at everyone in the room. They watched him carefully as he walked fearlessly into the chamber. He shut the door behind himself and waited.
The engines started to rumble and buzz. From his feet to his head, he began to dematerialize. This didn't faze him much until he actually began to feel like he was being ripped apart. He shuttered and closed his eyes.
Hanna could feel her body part from itself. She winced in horror and closed her eyes when her body's molecules separated and began to fly past her head. Then she felt her whole body together again, but it felt strange. She opened her eyes to see something.or someone that she didn't recognize at all.
Eienno starred down at the young woman trapped in the chamber beside him. She was beautiful. He somehow managed to keep his composure; after all, he was scrunched together with an absolutely gorgeous woman, in a very compact area.
"Get your hand off my ass," she said, strong tone in her voice.
Eienno smirked and pulled the hand that sat just on the spot were her back and her butt met.
"I didn't put it there," he said.
"Neither did I, pervert," said Hanna miserably. The door began to crack open. Hanna jumped at the chance to get away from the tall, dark-haired man. She looked at him.
"Do you die your hair?" she asked.
"No, why?" he looked at her like she was just another 'Meeko-Bei' type.
"Your eyes are blue," she replied.
"So? Yours are a stupid purple colour," he smirked.
"They are not purple!" she said, offended at him for screwing up the colour of her eyes. "They're raspberry for your damned information."
Meeko-Bei appeared in the machine and looked at the two, whom now silenced.
"What happened?" she asked.
"You and your moron people got the times wrong," said Hanna. "God, every time I go through that thing, something bad happens."
"What happened?" repeated Meeko, who knew that Hanna had seen and knew how the transporter worked.
"You sent me and him at the same time." Hanna frowned at her, "That means we got all squished together and. . .gross, stuck next to that creep."
"I think you're lucky," said Meeko, peering over at Eienno, who stood blankly, with his arms crossed.
"What?" yelled Hanna.
"He's hot," she began to drool through the corner of her mouth.
"What?" she yelled again. "He put his hand on my ass." She calmed down and frowned at him. 'That was a bad first impression, mister,' she thought to herself. 'No one touches my ass.' She starred him down, glaring at him consistently. 'So offensive to me.' As Hanna's eyes unconsciously grazed up and down his body, something began to look familiar to her, she just couldn't put her finger on it.
He too, felt some sort of weird way of knowing her. Something about her, almost made him want to run from her, even though he was obviously much stronger and faster.but it scared him.
Meeko-Bei watched as the two starred at each other without really knowing it.
"Follow me," she said. "You are going to have to be ready to leave very soon."
