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Star Rising
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Chapter 2- Friends
Swift the girl cried out in pain. She began to shift but stopped when bolts of pain lanced through her body. She whimpered - this can't be happening she thought to herself. She heard the babble of excited voices.
"She's waking. Get Captain Flyheit and Captain Schubaltz here at once." Doctor Saslner snapped.
"Yes Ma'am!" the young cadet said quickly saluting her before running from the room.
Leave Me she cried out angrily. Swift Blackness surrounded her. Why couldn't she see? She must be in enemy hands.
"Doctor Saslner you called?" a young masculine voice asked from the depths of the door.
"Indeed I did Captain Schubaltz. The girl awakes." Doctor Saslner said excitedly.
A growl ripped from the girl's throat. They turned to look at the girl.
Swift! Where are you? Swift she cried out.
She's dieing a feminine voice said gently in her mind.
LEAVE ME the girl screamed. Angrily she thrashed trying to evade the mind that held hers captive.
"Oh No!" Doctor Saslner cried. The girl began to scream - long piercing wails. The girl tried to get up but encountered resistance as the tubes inserted in her body pulled taught.
Calm down. She's still alive the feminine voice interrupted her.
LEAVE ME BE. YOU ARE NOT SWIFT she screamed with all her might.
"What's happening in here?" a voice shouted - Doctor Saslner turned blindly to see Colonel Herman standing in the doorway.
"Can't you calm her?" he asked spying the struggling girl.
"There's nothing we can do." She replied wringing her hands.
Ryss Fiona called out.
"Fiona Ryss can't here you." Van said turning to his blonde companion. Fiona looked at Van blushing - she hadn't meant to speak aloud.
The girl gave an agonised scream as she tore the tubes from her body. She scratched at the bandages on her face.
"Stop!" the doctor cried trying to get to the girls side.
The girl pulled them from her face revealing the ugly scar that ran from her eyebrow to the middle of her cheek. The doctor stopped in panic. The girl's eyes watered profusely - she blinked rapidly to clear them.
"LEAVE ME BE!" she screamed reaching out and grasping the glass beside her bed. She threw it at the wall.
"Ryss let her be." Fiona cried out to the blue girl who now lounged against the wall where the glass had hit.
"Your precious Swift is dieing yet you continue to force her live when she wants to go. Such a friend." Ryss sneered down at the girl.
Swift she whimpered. Don't leave me
"Let her die." Ryss said angrily. "Surely she deserves that much."
The girls face contorted into a snarl. She threw the covers aside to reveal badly scarred legs. "Leave us alone!" she growled silver eyes blazing with power. Carefully she got to her feet.
Swift she moaned once as pain wracked her body.
I am here. I need you the voice of her long time friend sounded in her mind softly.
I am coming my friend. Wait for me the girl cried. **********************
A pained growl pulsed through her beak. Never had she felt such pain - the Cliff accident she had once sworn was the worst thing that could have happened to anybody - but she had been proved wrong yet again. She thought smiled grimly to herself. She turned her head slowly towards the small window to watch the dieing sunset.
Oh little one I'm so sorry she thought softly pain lanced through her heart. She knew that a fatal blow had been dealt to her core and that she would leave her young pilot behind her. She had to make her promise. **********************
"Swift?" a voice said softly into the dark of the silent hangar. A growl answered the girl's soft voice. She located the gryphons and ran to her side.
She knelt beside the regal head; tears flowed freely down her face. "I'm so sorry, it's all my fault. Swift." She cried heartbroken. She knew - Swift wouldn't survive - she'd be alone yet again.
Don't blame yourself beloved. We were to too busy doing our job to realise Swift said softly to her human partner.
But I should have kept my sense aware. It's my fault. It's all my fault the girl tried hard not to break down in front of her friend.
Stop it. I won't hear you talk like that. Make me a promise Kelasan the gryphon asked.
Whatever you wish dear heart the girl, Kelasan, answered.
Promise me that you will not blame yourself when I go and give up piloting zoids the gryphon said firmly.
"Swift. No. I can't pilot zoids - look what I did to you." She said shaking with terror as she remembered the accident.
"Don't be a fool. Your zoids right." A condescending masculine voice said. A tall lithe figure detached itself from shadow cast by the downed Lightning Saix. Kelasan drank in the sight of him.
"What would you know? Leave us be." She replied harshly turning away from him.
"I know how you feel. I went through the same thing." His voice stilled as he remembered - images of his black command wolf and his lightning saix flitted through his mind.
"Somehow I don't thing so." She growled willing him to go away and leave her in peace with her best friend. Instead he sank down next to her and let his arms slip around her - pulling her into a hug.
"Believe it or not I have." He said letting his voice drop to a soothing whisper. Kelasan instinctively leaned back into his embrace remembering the warm calming arms of her best human friend Dalnay. Irvine started in surprise - what was she doing? - He thought to himself.
"Back a couple of years ago my friends and I were battling a rebel pilot. He had one of the most powerful zoids imaginable and he was only bent on one thing - the destruction of one of my best friends - Van Flyheit - while taking out a couple of military bases for the fun of it. We had to attack him simultaneously to be able to stand a chance of surviving. This pilot got in a lucky blow, which ended up with me and my zoid being knocked out of the battle - both unconscious. I woke up in a hospital bed with no memory of how I got there. As soon as I had woken up I went to find my bud. When I finally found him I knew. He didn't survive on as the Command Wolf - he was too badly hurt for that - it was a fatal blow to the zoid core. Instead his memory bank was transferred to the zoid I now use today - The Lightning Saix. I know how painful it is to see your best bud lying there without a hope of living. I've been there and done that. You don't have to go through this alone." He gently told the girl waiting for her reaction.
"You must be the Lightning Saix pilot of the Guardian Force, Irvine." Kelasan said dully.
"Yeah. That's me. Are you going to grace me with your name?" Irvine answered with a small smile.
"Kelasan." She said softly.
"Your friend? I believe you and your zoid are on a first name basis?" Irvine said impishly.
"Swift - Star Swift." She replied looking him in the eye for the first time.
"She certainly is a swift mover." Irvine said wincing as the words flew out of him mouth.
"Yeah." She answered proudly, her silver eyes flashing. Swift growled nipping Kelasan lightly.
"I think she's trying to tell us something." Irvine said evenly.
Another growl floated across the air. "What was that?" Kelasan asked sharply.
"I have no idea." Irvine said with a frown pulling himself to his feet. He grabbed Kelasan's arm and pulled her to her feet. "We better find out."
"I can't leave Swift." Kelasan said trying to pull her arm out of Irvine's grip.
Another growl sounded nearby. Kelasan and Irvine looked up to see three pairs of eyes staring at them - green, blue and yellow glowed in the dark.
****************************************************** End of Chapter Two. I think this one's a bit loopy at the mo. I might take it down later and revise it. Sorry if it's a cliff hangar. Tell me what do you think peoples. Please review.
Star Rising
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Chapter 2- Friends
Swift the girl cried out in pain. She began to shift but stopped when bolts of pain lanced through her body. She whimpered - this can't be happening she thought to herself. She heard the babble of excited voices.
"She's waking. Get Captain Flyheit and Captain Schubaltz here at once." Doctor Saslner snapped.
"Yes Ma'am!" the young cadet said quickly saluting her before running from the room.
Leave Me she cried out angrily. Swift Blackness surrounded her. Why couldn't she see? She must be in enemy hands.
"Doctor Saslner you called?" a young masculine voice asked from the depths of the door.
"Indeed I did Captain Schubaltz. The girl awakes." Doctor Saslner said excitedly.
A growl ripped from the girl's throat. They turned to look at the girl.
Swift! Where are you? Swift she cried out.
She's dieing a feminine voice said gently in her mind.
LEAVE ME the girl screamed. Angrily she thrashed trying to evade the mind that held hers captive.
"Oh No!" Doctor Saslner cried. The girl began to scream - long piercing wails. The girl tried to get up but encountered resistance as the tubes inserted in her body pulled taught.
Calm down. She's still alive the feminine voice interrupted her.
LEAVE ME BE. YOU ARE NOT SWIFT she screamed with all her might.
"What's happening in here?" a voice shouted - Doctor Saslner turned blindly to see Colonel Herman standing in the doorway.
"Can't you calm her?" he asked spying the struggling girl.
"There's nothing we can do." She replied wringing her hands.
Ryss Fiona called out.
"Fiona Ryss can't here you." Van said turning to his blonde companion. Fiona looked at Van blushing - she hadn't meant to speak aloud.
The girl gave an agonised scream as she tore the tubes from her body. She scratched at the bandages on her face.
"Stop!" the doctor cried trying to get to the girls side.
The girl pulled them from her face revealing the ugly scar that ran from her eyebrow to the middle of her cheek. The doctor stopped in panic. The girl's eyes watered profusely - she blinked rapidly to clear them.
"LEAVE ME BE!" she screamed reaching out and grasping the glass beside her bed. She threw it at the wall.
"Ryss let her be." Fiona cried out to the blue girl who now lounged against the wall where the glass had hit.
"Your precious Swift is dieing yet you continue to force her live when she wants to go. Such a friend." Ryss sneered down at the girl.
Swift she whimpered. Don't leave me
"Let her die." Ryss said angrily. "Surely she deserves that much."
The girls face contorted into a snarl. She threw the covers aside to reveal badly scarred legs. "Leave us alone!" she growled silver eyes blazing with power. Carefully she got to her feet.
Swift she moaned once as pain wracked her body.
I am here. I need you the voice of her long time friend sounded in her mind softly.
I am coming my friend. Wait for me the girl cried. **********************
A pained growl pulsed through her beak. Never had she felt such pain - the Cliff accident she had once sworn was the worst thing that could have happened to anybody - but she had been proved wrong yet again. She thought smiled grimly to herself. She turned her head slowly towards the small window to watch the dieing sunset.
Oh little one I'm so sorry she thought softly pain lanced through her heart. She knew that a fatal blow had been dealt to her core and that she would leave her young pilot behind her. She had to make her promise. **********************
"Swift?" a voice said softly into the dark of the silent hangar. A growl answered the girl's soft voice. She located the gryphons and ran to her side.
She knelt beside the regal head; tears flowed freely down her face. "I'm so sorry, it's all my fault. Swift." She cried heartbroken. She knew - Swift wouldn't survive - she'd be alone yet again.
Don't blame yourself beloved. We were to too busy doing our job to realise Swift said softly to her human partner.
But I should have kept my sense aware. It's my fault. It's all my fault the girl tried hard not to break down in front of her friend.
Stop it. I won't hear you talk like that. Make me a promise Kelasan the gryphon asked.
Whatever you wish dear heart the girl, Kelasan, answered.
Promise me that you will not blame yourself when I go and give up piloting zoids the gryphon said firmly.
"Swift. No. I can't pilot zoids - look what I did to you." She said shaking with terror as she remembered the accident.
"Don't be a fool. Your zoids right." A condescending masculine voice said. A tall lithe figure detached itself from shadow cast by the downed Lightning Saix. Kelasan drank in the sight of him.
"What would you know? Leave us be." She replied harshly turning away from him.
"I know how you feel. I went through the same thing." His voice stilled as he remembered - images of his black command wolf and his lightning saix flitted through his mind.
"Somehow I don't thing so." She growled willing him to go away and leave her in peace with her best friend. Instead he sank down next to her and let his arms slip around her - pulling her into a hug.
"Believe it or not I have." He said letting his voice drop to a soothing whisper. Kelasan instinctively leaned back into his embrace remembering the warm calming arms of her best human friend Dalnay. Irvine started in surprise - what was she doing? - He thought to himself.
"Back a couple of years ago my friends and I were battling a rebel pilot. He had one of the most powerful zoids imaginable and he was only bent on one thing - the destruction of one of my best friends - Van Flyheit - while taking out a couple of military bases for the fun of it. We had to attack him simultaneously to be able to stand a chance of surviving. This pilot got in a lucky blow, which ended up with me and my zoid being knocked out of the battle - both unconscious. I woke up in a hospital bed with no memory of how I got there. As soon as I had woken up I went to find my bud. When I finally found him I knew. He didn't survive on as the Command Wolf - he was too badly hurt for that - it was a fatal blow to the zoid core. Instead his memory bank was transferred to the zoid I now use today - The Lightning Saix. I know how painful it is to see your best bud lying there without a hope of living. I've been there and done that. You don't have to go through this alone." He gently told the girl waiting for her reaction.
"You must be the Lightning Saix pilot of the Guardian Force, Irvine." Kelasan said dully.
"Yeah. That's me. Are you going to grace me with your name?" Irvine answered with a small smile.
"Kelasan." She said softly.
"Your friend? I believe you and your zoid are on a first name basis?" Irvine said impishly.
"Swift - Star Swift." She replied looking him in the eye for the first time.
"She certainly is a swift mover." Irvine said wincing as the words flew out of him mouth.
"Yeah." She answered proudly, her silver eyes flashing. Swift growled nipping Kelasan lightly.
"I think she's trying to tell us something." Irvine said evenly.
Another growl floated across the air. "What was that?" Kelasan asked sharply.
"I have no idea." Irvine said with a frown pulling himself to his feet. He grabbed Kelasan's arm and pulled her to her feet. "We better find out."
"I can't leave Swift." Kelasan said trying to pull her arm out of Irvine's grip.
Another growl sounded nearby. Kelasan and Irvine looked up to see three pairs of eyes staring at them - green, blue and yellow glowed in the dark.
****************************************************** End of Chapter Two. I think this one's a bit loopy at the mo. I might take it down later and revise it. Sorry if it's a cliff hangar. Tell me what do you think peoples. Please review.