A/N: Okay ya'll, I'm like REALLY sorry it took so long to get this
chapter up. However, I believe you will the think the wait well worth it.
This chapter is easily the longest yet. (hence the reason it took me so
long) It's got all sorts of good stuff in it in...ONE CHAPTER!! The
chapters may start being longer then in the beginning, because I am trying
to wrap this story up. -evil grinz- anyhoo....read and review!!
Raven stirred a bit and attempted to sit up. His head hurt like heck and he was feeling another coughing fit coming on.
"Glad to see you've finally decided to wake up."
Raven turned his head to see Ariana stand up, the two organoids laying down near where she had been.
"What happened?"
"Well, you've been out of it for what's now going on four hours. I'm only assuming, but it's gotta have something to do with that nasty cough of yours."
"I'm fine!" Raven insisted.
"Then you come up with a better reason, but I got to go right now." Ariana tossed on her sweater and pulled the hood up to keep out the chilly evening air.
"Where are you going?" he growled
"I'm going to get a doctor." Ariana replied in an oddly calm tone.
"I don't need a doctor!"
Sighing softly, Ariana turned around. "Lookit, normally I listen to you. Most of the time, I let you decide what we do. And as a general rule, you are the leader and I'm just the follower, the side kick. But it has been made appearant to me that, in this case, you don't know what is good for yourself. Thus, I am going to go get a doctor and you are going to stay right where you are." She stopped for a moment and looked to there ground, staring at the black organoid. Slowly a plan popped into her head and began to form inside. "And Shadow here is going to make absolutely certain you stay where you are."
Upon hearing his name, Shadow stood up and followed exactly what Ariana had said. He stood beside Raven and watched him intently.
"Kid! This is insanity!" Raven objected as he stood up.
"Ah! What did I just say?" she shouted back
"Come o-"
"Sit!"
"But-"
"Sit!" Ariana again commanded.
Shadow followed the arguement, looking first to Raven then to Ariana and then back again. And long last making up his mind, Shadow nudged Raven's chest with his muzzle and the boy gently fell backwords onto the make shift cot he had been sleeping on.
Shocked and confused, Raven stared blankly at the organoid. "What the? Shadow have you completely lost your mind?"
Ariana snickered at the two. "Good boy, Shadow! I'll be back by night fall; think you can keep him under control?"
The organoid growled his reply.
"Good." The girl whipped around and stood in the ever growing shadows. She emitted a soft whistle and the forever loyal Yenti was at her side. A telepathic link between the two was used as the chest panels of the organoid opened and sealed the girl inside. Instantly, the gold organoid took flight, making all haste towards the nearby town.
Looking off into the west Ariana glanced at the sun. It was beginning to sink beneath the mountains and the two moons of Zi where rising. Again, she used a telepathic link to speak with the organoid, so that no one would hear her.
"Alright, we have to find a doctor fast. Play like it's the old theiving days. You see me getting in trouble, you save my hide. Got it?"
Yenti bobbed her head quickly and flew off high into the sky, almost hovering above where Ariana walked.
Within no time at all Ariana found herself in front of a small medical aid building. Taking a deep breath she walked inside and threw off her hood. An older lady sat behind a desk reading a magazine. The girl walked silently towards her and cleared her throat to politely call the woman's attention.
"Oh! Goodness Gracious me! I didn't even see you walk in!" The lady exlaimed.
"It's alright." Ariana replied in an innocent, childlike tone.
"Well, how may I help you?"
"My own dear brother is very ill and I need a doctor to come out and see him as quickly as possible!"
"How tragic! I'll come out to see him immediately!"
"You're the doctor?" Ariana was extrememly confused now.
"Well who did you think I was? The secretary?" the doctor asking in a laughing manner.
Ariana blushed and nodded.
The doctor smiled at the girl and grabbed a bag of supplies. "Well, shall we be off?"
Nodding, the two walked outside and to where the doctor's jeep was, as well as much more medical equipment inside it. The doctor introduced herself as Helena and was surpised to find that, Brei, better known to others as Ariana, had walked the whole way to seek medical attention for her 'brother.'
"These are your zoids, Brei?" Helena asked, more then surprised to find that the Geno Breaker and a customized Saber Tiger was their destination.
"Na, only the Saber Tiger is mine." Ariana replied as if it was something one spoke of over a morning coffee.
"I see..." Helena had begun to believe that she was getting into more then she had bargained for; that this was no ordinary girl and that it wasn't her brother that was ill. There was only one known Geno Breaker in all of Zi, and she knew full well to whom it belonged.
As the neared camp 'Brei' jumped out of the truck, it was only at that time that Yenti showed herself. The organoid landed beside the girl and folded her wings inward. Never having before seen an organoid, Helena jumped back frightfully.
"Wha...what is..." She stammered.
Ariana turned silently and smirked, no longer worried about playing the part of Brei, she had long since given up the innocent little girl act. "Scared of a little organoid?"
Ragaining her composure, Helena grabbed her bags and walked to beside the girl. "No, of course not! It merely surprised me is all."
"Good," Ariana spoke. "Because there's another one with my 'brother.' Right this way, please."
Swallowing hard, Helena followed Ariana to found an again unconcious Raven, Shadow faithfully standing guard.
"My goodness!" Helena exclaimed. "What happened?"
"He fell unconcious again?"
The doctor sighed. "No, I mean what caused this to happen to him?"
"Oh!" Ariana finally realized what the doctor meant. "I have no idea. He was coughing really bad for a good long time and loosing his strength. I finally decided enough was enough, and that's where you came in."
"Hmm, where have you been lately? It looks like you two do a lot of traveling."
Ariana nodded in agreement with her last statement and went on to list everywhere she and Raven had been in recent times.
Listening intently, Dr. Helena figured out what it was. "An extremely fatal virus has been making its way around by Lake Chigoga. The water there was somehow poisoned."
Ariana listened quietly, the discussion of a fatal virus had brought her into a serious mood, especially considering it was something Raven had caught. "Will he be okay?"She asked quietly.
Helena pulled two things out of her bag, but before she could even begin to speak a sort of alarm went off. Ariana immediatly popped up and ran to a scanner, obviously a source of the alarm. "Shoot! There's a large zoid coming this way!" Helena watched quietly while the girl hit a few buttons and studied a picture that showed on it. After a few seconds and extremely large liger showed up on the screen. "That Van!" Ariana shouted angrily. "He has impecibly timing!" Standing she ran off to the Zaber Tiger, Yenti followed closely.
"Brei!" Helena shouted. "Where are you going?"
"I've gotta keep that punk from getting any closer. Do anything you can to save Raven!" Ariana lept into her zoid and sped away as fast as she could. Van was still many kilometers away, but she couldn't have him come in and try a full scale battle with Raven injured. She couldn't loose this battle for anything. She would have to defeat Van, and fast.
"Save Raven" echoed within the mind of Helena multiple times before she turned around to the unconcious man. Ever so slowly, she reached out a hand and carefully brushed away a lock of hair from Raven's face. Her worse fears were confirmed upon seeing the large red mark on his face. Great, so she was helping a bunch of criminals! The most wanted in all of Zi at that! She sighed and sat down. What was she going to do now?
The black organoid growled lightly at the woman. Why was she sitting there doing nothing? The growling brought Helena back to reality. She had forgotten all about the dark organoid. Something inside told her that if she didn't do something for Raven the organoid was certainly going to do something to her.
"Where's Raven?" Van's voice and face on the screen in front of her interrupted Ariana's mumbling about about impecable timing.
"Not here." She stated firmly.
"Just the sidekick today then?" Vann replied smuggly.
"You got it bucko."
"You do know that by defeating you it will then be made possible for us to defeat Raven."
"I find that fairly unbelievable, but one more thing before we fight."
"Yes?" he said.
"Yenti!!" Ariana cried out. The oganoid knew that order. It was used precious few times, only when Ariana was unsure of her battle skills against an opponent.
"You must think your organoid is pretty strong."
"You don't know the half of it." Trying to catch Van unaware Ariana suddenly darted off away from him. She had to dispose of Van fast. Her tactic was mapped out and she needed some space to make it all work.
"I didn't think you were a coward." Van yelled mockingly.
No reply.
"Fine! If you run I'll simply catch you!"
Ariana looked into one of her screens, Van was running at top speed, and catching up fast. She punched in a few buttons beside her and the ion boosters she had installed were mobolized. She slowly began to pull away from Van.
"Fairly impressive, but I'll still defeat you!" Van shouted out. He knew full well there was a large cliff right ahead and they where just in the ravine created by it.
"Don't get too cocky," Ariana advised.
Van smirked, this was all too easy! Carefully Van locked the fleeing zoid within his sights. "Come on Zeke!" He shouted as he fired. His aim was close, it knicked the side of the agile Zaber Tiger as it jumped away. "Gotcha!"
Ariana ignored Van and continued on her way, the cliff was just ahead. Just a little more speed! She closed her eyes for a second concentrating on her zoid and organoid. "Yenti please! A little more speed, a little more power!" The organoid roared from within the zoid and pushed her abilities to the fullest.
Van followed swiftly behind in pursuit of the girl. "Don't talk much when battling, huh?"
Continuing to ignore him Ariana kept a close eye on the cliff, only a kilometer away, now closer, closer. Van was just about certain she was suicidal. At the very last moment Ariana lurched the Zaber Tiger forward and jumped onto the cliff, repelling off of it she made a swift turn in the air. The Zaber Tiger and Blade Liger where now looking at a head on collision. Van attempted to get out of the way, but he wasn't fast enough. Upon landing it became appearant to him that something was treacherously wrong with the Liger. A quick look at the Zaber Tiger told him exactly what it was, for held tight within it's mouth was the bottom half of the Liger's right foreleg!
The liger collapsed and Van braced himself for the end. Skyfeather had never let anyone go without destroying their zoid beyond repair.
"And you know what your greatest fault is, Van?" Ariana spoke in a calm manner.
Van made no sound.
"You talk to much in battle. In doing so you greatly under estimate your adversary." Her tone was hard and cold, but there was truth in her words. Pushing a few levers she released the Liger's leg. Pushing a few buttons the Zaber Tiger became invisible. The stealth mode had been turned on so that Liger's sensors would not be able to track her, or find their camp and Raven.
"Adieu." Ariana turned and sped off as quickly as possible.
"Skyfeather!" Van shouted out in anguish. How could he have let her defeat him? Why didn't he see that attack coming? And how come even Zeke couldn't find enough power to stay on her tail? These questions and many others swirled about in his head. The defeat had come hard and it wasn't one he would easily forget.
While Van pondered his defeat Ariana ran back to the camp and Raven as fast as she could. The Zaber Tiger had taken very little damage in the battle, just a little bit of metal scratched off the side from where Van had shot at her. But that little spot of damage was exactly where it had been damaged before, the place where Raven had all but forced her to repair. If Raven had not made her repair that spot earlier the results of the battle could have been very different. Very different indeed.
A/N:Yay! That comes to a total of seven pages! Over twice the amount of a normal chapter! Phew, glad I'm finally done with this chapter! lol Oh, and Red Baroness, you might want to go tape what's left of Van back together seeing as how it wasn't him that was the cause of Raven's sickness...
Raven stirred a bit and attempted to sit up. His head hurt like heck and he was feeling another coughing fit coming on.
"Glad to see you've finally decided to wake up."
Raven turned his head to see Ariana stand up, the two organoids laying down near where she had been.
"What happened?"
"Well, you've been out of it for what's now going on four hours. I'm only assuming, but it's gotta have something to do with that nasty cough of yours."
"I'm fine!" Raven insisted.
"Then you come up with a better reason, but I got to go right now." Ariana tossed on her sweater and pulled the hood up to keep out the chilly evening air.
"Where are you going?" he growled
"I'm going to get a doctor." Ariana replied in an oddly calm tone.
"I don't need a doctor!"
Sighing softly, Ariana turned around. "Lookit, normally I listen to you. Most of the time, I let you decide what we do. And as a general rule, you are the leader and I'm just the follower, the side kick. But it has been made appearant to me that, in this case, you don't know what is good for yourself. Thus, I am going to go get a doctor and you are going to stay right where you are." She stopped for a moment and looked to there ground, staring at the black organoid. Slowly a plan popped into her head and began to form inside. "And Shadow here is going to make absolutely certain you stay where you are."
Upon hearing his name, Shadow stood up and followed exactly what Ariana had said. He stood beside Raven and watched him intently.
"Kid! This is insanity!" Raven objected as he stood up.
"Ah! What did I just say?" she shouted back
"Come o-"
"Sit!"
"But-"
"Sit!" Ariana again commanded.
Shadow followed the arguement, looking first to Raven then to Ariana and then back again. And long last making up his mind, Shadow nudged Raven's chest with his muzzle and the boy gently fell backwords onto the make shift cot he had been sleeping on.
Shocked and confused, Raven stared blankly at the organoid. "What the? Shadow have you completely lost your mind?"
Ariana snickered at the two. "Good boy, Shadow! I'll be back by night fall; think you can keep him under control?"
The organoid growled his reply.
"Good." The girl whipped around and stood in the ever growing shadows. She emitted a soft whistle and the forever loyal Yenti was at her side. A telepathic link between the two was used as the chest panels of the organoid opened and sealed the girl inside. Instantly, the gold organoid took flight, making all haste towards the nearby town.
Looking off into the west Ariana glanced at the sun. It was beginning to sink beneath the mountains and the two moons of Zi where rising. Again, she used a telepathic link to speak with the organoid, so that no one would hear her.
"Alright, we have to find a doctor fast. Play like it's the old theiving days. You see me getting in trouble, you save my hide. Got it?"
Yenti bobbed her head quickly and flew off high into the sky, almost hovering above where Ariana walked.
Within no time at all Ariana found herself in front of a small medical aid building. Taking a deep breath she walked inside and threw off her hood. An older lady sat behind a desk reading a magazine. The girl walked silently towards her and cleared her throat to politely call the woman's attention.
"Oh! Goodness Gracious me! I didn't even see you walk in!" The lady exlaimed.
"It's alright." Ariana replied in an innocent, childlike tone.
"Well, how may I help you?"
"My own dear brother is very ill and I need a doctor to come out and see him as quickly as possible!"
"How tragic! I'll come out to see him immediately!"
"You're the doctor?" Ariana was extrememly confused now.
"Well who did you think I was? The secretary?" the doctor asking in a laughing manner.
Ariana blushed and nodded.
The doctor smiled at the girl and grabbed a bag of supplies. "Well, shall we be off?"
Nodding, the two walked outside and to where the doctor's jeep was, as well as much more medical equipment inside it. The doctor introduced herself as Helena and was surpised to find that, Brei, better known to others as Ariana, had walked the whole way to seek medical attention for her 'brother.'
"These are your zoids, Brei?" Helena asked, more then surprised to find that the Geno Breaker and a customized Saber Tiger was their destination.
"Na, only the Saber Tiger is mine." Ariana replied as if it was something one spoke of over a morning coffee.
"I see..." Helena had begun to believe that she was getting into more then she had bargained for; that this was no ordinary girl and that it wasn't her brother that was ill. There was only one known Geno Breaker in all of Zi, and she knew full well to whom it belonged.
As the neared camp 'Brei' jumped out of the truck, it was only at that time that Yenti showed herself. The organoid landed beside the girl and folded her wings inward. Never having before seen an organoid, Helena jumped back frightfully.
"Wha...what is..." She stammered.
Ariana turned silently and smirked, no longer worried about playing the part of Brei, she had long since given up the innocent little girl act. "Scared of a little organoid?"
Ragaining her composure, Helena grabbed her bags and walked to beside the girl. "No, of course not! It merely surprised me is all."
"Good," Ariana spoke. "Because there's another one with my 'brother.' Right this way, please."
Swallowing hard, Helena followed Ariana to found an again unconcious Raven, Shadow faithfully standing guard.
"My goodness!" Helena exclaimed. "What happened?"
"He fell unconcious again?"
The doctor sighed. "No, I mean what caused this to happen to him?"
"Oh!" Ariana finally realized what the doctor meant. "I have no idea. He was coughing really bad for a good long time and loosing his strength. I finally decided enough was enough, and that's where you came in."
"Hmm, where have you been lately? It looks like you two do a lot of traveling."
Ariana nodded in agreement with her last statement and went on to list everywhere she and Raven had been in recent times.
Listening intently, Dr. Helena figured out what it was. "An extremely fatal virus has been making its way around by Lake Chigoga. The water there was somehow poisoned."
Ariana listened quietly, the discussion of a fatal virus had brought her into a serious mood, especially considering it was something Raven had caught. "Will he be okay?"She asked quietly.
Helena pulled two things out of her bag, but before she could even begin to speak a sort of alarm went off. Ariana immediatly popped up and ran to a scanner, obviously a source of the alarm. "Shoot! There's a large zoid coming this way!" Helena watched quietly while the girl hit a few buttons and studied a picture that showed on it. After a few seconds and extremely large liger showed up on the screen. "That Van!" Ariana shouted angrily. "He has impecibly timing!" Standing she ran off to the Zaber Tiger, Yenti followed closely.
"Brei!" Helena shouted. "Where are you going?"
"I've gotta keep that punk from getting any closer. Do anything you can to save Raven!" Ariana lept into her zoid and sped away as fast as she could. Van was still many kilometers away, but she couldn't have him come in and try a full scale battle with Raven injured. She couldn't loose this battle for anything. She would have to defeat Van, and fast.
"Save Raven" echoed within the mind of Helena multiple times before she turned around to the unconcious man. Ever so slowly, she reached out a hand and carefully brushed away a lock of hair from Raven's face. Her worse fears were confirmed upon seeing the large red mark on his face. Great, so she was helping a bunch of criminals! The most wanted in all of Zi at that! She sighed and sat down. What was she going to do now?
The black organoid growled lightly at the woman. Why was she sitting there doing nothing? The growling brought Helena back to reality. She had forgotten all about the dark organoid. Something inside told her that if she didn't do something for Raven the organoid was certainly going to do something to her.
"Where's Raven?" Van's voice and face on the screen in front of her interrupted Ariana's mumbling about about impecable timing.
"Not here." She stated firmly.
"Just the sidekick today then?" Vann replied smuggly.
"You got it bucko."
"You do know that by defeating you it will then be made possible for us to defeat Raven."
"I find that fairly unbelievable, but one more thing before we fight."
"Yes?" he said.
"Yenti!!" Ariana cried out. The oganoid knew that order. It was used precious few times, only when Ariana was unsure of her battle skills against an opponent.
"You must think your organoid is pretty strong."
"You don't know the half of it." Trying to catch Van unaware Ariana suddenly darted off away from him. She had to dispose of Van fast. Her tactic was mapped out and she needed some space to make it all work.
"I didn't think you were a coward." Van yelled mockingly.
No reply.
"Fine! If you run I'll simply catch you!"
Ariana looked into one of her screens, Van was running at top speed, and catching up fast. She punched in a few buttons beside her and the ion boosters she had installed were mobolized. She slowly began to pull away from Van.
"Fairly impressive, but I'll still defeat you!" Van shouted out. He knew full well there was a large cliff right ahead and they where just in the ravine created by it.
"Don't get too cocky," Ariana advised.
Van smirked, this was all too easy! Carefully Van locked the fleeing zoid within his sights. "Come on Zeke!" He shouted as he fired. His aim was close, it knicked the side of the agile Zaber Tiger as it jumped away. "Gotcha!"
Ariana ignored Van and continued on her way, the cliff was just ahead. Just a little more speed! She closed her eyes for a second concentrating on her zoid and organoid. "Yenti please! A little more speed, a little more power!" The organoid roared from within the zoid and pushed her abilities to the fullest.
Van followed swiftly behind in pursuit of the girl. "Don't talk much when battling, huh?"
Continuing to ignore him Ariana kept a close eye on the cliff, only a kilometer away, now closer, closer. Van was just about certain she was suicidal. At the very last moment Ariana lurched the Zaber Tiger forward and jumped onto the cliff, repelling off of it she made a swift turn in the air. The Zaber Tiger and Blade Liger where now looking at a head on collision. Van attempted to get out of the way, but he wasn't fast enough. Upon landing it became appearant to him that something was treacherously wrong with the Liger. A quick look at the Zaber Tiger told him exactly what it was, for held tight within it's mouth was the bottom half of the Liger's right foreleg!
The liger collapsed and Van braced himself for the end. Skyfeather had never let anyone go without destroying their zoid beyond repair.
"And you know what your greatest fault is, Van?" Ariana spoke in a calm manner.
Van made no sound.
"You talk to much in battle. In doing so you greatly under estimate your adversary." Her tone was hard and cold, but there was truth in her words. Pushing a few levers she released the Liger's leg. Pushing a few buttons the Zaber Tiger became invisible. The stealth mode had been turned on so that Liger's sensors would not be able to track her, or find their camp and Raven.
"Adieu." Ariana turned and sped off as quickly as possible.
"Skyfeather!" Van shouted out in anguish. How could he have let her defeat him? Why didn't he see that attack coming? And how come even Zeke couldn't find enough power to stay on her tail? These questions and many others swirled about in his head. The defeat had come hard and it wasn't one he would easily forget.
While Van pondered his defeat Ariana ran back to the camp and Raven as fast as she could. The Zaber Tiger had taken very little damage in the battle, just a little bit of metal scratched off the side from where Van had shot at her. But that little spot of damage was exactly where it had been damaged before, the place where Raven had all but forced her to repair. If Raven had not made her repair that spot earlier the results of the battle could have been very different. Very different indeed.
A/N:Yay! That comes to a total of seven pages! Over twice the amount of a normal chapter! Phew, glad I'm finally done with this chapter! lol Oh, and Red Baroness, you might want to go tape what's left of Van back together seeing as how it wasn't him that was the cause of Raven's sickness...