Amasagie
Chapter 2
Authors Note: Yet again I don't own Star Trek, but I do own most of the characters here, Susan, Jewel, Shadow, and many more. :b) Enjoy!
Also, a lot of the stuff like Black Mages and so forth are from the Final Fantasy series, im borrowing them! However those are terms used in the today Magick culture so maybe its something I have to note or not.Oh well, I doubt anyone from Squaresoft would take the time to screw with me anyways, but I'll just make sure! There not fully mine! :b)
I would also like to note I carry a lot of the magick and witchcraft of my own design and apart of the Wiccan religeon, which Susan is a part of! So if you are familiar there you may catch a few things! Enjoy!
Rating: R, definitely R right now. But there maybe NC-17 parts later in other chapters, but I don't consider those to be cheap porn for show! But that will be a bit later! :b)
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" What?! I have no idea what your talking about! " Susan shouted at the person she now identified as commander Riker in front of her, he had the person she now knew to be Counselor Deanna Troy next to her in another of the cold metal clammy chairs. The room she was in was a cold clammy metal place, there were four chairs in it. One in the middle, which Susan sat in and two in front of her with Commander Riker in one and on his right was Counselor Deanna Troy. And in the far back near the wall was another chair with Data in it, he was observing the interrogations. It was the interrogation room of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E.
Commander Riker shot the same question at her, again but in a different form, " Why did the Klingons decided to enlist your help in the workings of the Ground Wormhole!? " He yelled it at her.
Susan was mad now, forget mad, she was pissed and that was the only way you could put it! She had been sucked into a portal by the Demon, and tossed into this new world, and they were more worried about there wormholes and Klingons then they were about that Demon, the Demon of all Demons! " I don't know what your talking about! " She yelled it out, louder then he yelled the question at her and it echoed through the room, but the room didn't echo, nor did the room have wind but it blew through her hair as she yelled.
Commander Riker shot up when he saw her little display of power and tapped his intercom, " Commander Riker to security! " He ordered and after his command two guards came into the interrogation room. Susan glared at him, she was pretty mad right now. " Take her to the brig and bring in an another! " He said this not even looking at the guards.
" Yes sir. " They replied and Susan got up before they could take her arm and walked where they lead her.
Riker turned to Data, " Make a note of that to the captain, he would want to know what it is she can actually do. "
" I will sir. " Data replied still looking at them.
Deanna put her hand on Will's side, " Sit down, your working yourself up. "
Riker turned to her, " Why shouldn't I be worked up! If we don't figure out the other hideout they could just build another machine and continue there experiments, and if they start opening wormholes in space artificially then they could attack and go anywhere they wanted in seconds! Tell me Deanna why shouldn't I be worked up?! " He said as he slammed his body in the seat.
Deanna replied, " Because Will, I don't think they have anything to do with it. As far as I can tell she is telling the truth, and she is more concerned about this Amasagie then she probably ever will be over some renegade Klingons. I don't think they have anything to do with this and im going to tell the captain that I don't think they even know what Klingons are! " She informed him.
Riker groaned, " Deanna you can't seriously believe that she is a Witch, the blue guy is an assassin, the little black boy is a mage and the others are a bard and time mage! You can't be seriously thinking there telling the truth?! " He yelled at her, it was quite loud to.
Deanna gave him a cold stare, " Don't yell at me Will.. "
Riker rubbed his eyes, " Im sorry Deanna. I shouldn't have done that. Forgive me? " He said with a really bad baby face.
Deanna started smiling then laughing, " I forgive you Will! But still, we need to take in that there is a possibility that they may be telling the partial truth. Im a little skeptic on the whole magikcall thing though! However the faery in the book was pretty interesting...o H " Deanna said but was still smiling.
" But still Deanna, we can't believe them.. " He said to her with a worked out look on his face.
Deanna removed her hand from his arm and continued smiling, " I know Will. But we need to be more open minded, they may not be telling the truth but they may be telling parts of it with there story. And how there doing this I don't know, but we need to listen to everything they have to say! " She told him and then turned to Data. " We've interrogated them all, you can go give your report to the captain now. " She said with a smile.
Data nodded and got up, " I wish you all a good evening. " And he turned and walked out of the room.
" Im going to go take a nice sonic shower.. " Riker said as he got up to leave.
" Same here. " Deanna said as she gave herself a nice stretch.
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Susan was escorted into the brig, and as usual when she stepped inside the force field came up. She poked it once and then jumped back, the scientists at Zealot would love to see the technology on this ship. There were about 5 cells in this brig, and only two were occupied. They were separating them from each other. She of course was in one cell and the other occupied cell had Jewel in it. As far she could tell they both had been interrogated by now. Susan tried to look like she was just lying down, which she was but she also opened her mind. She opened her mind to Jewel. /They just finished talking to me, well it was more like yelling./ She said to her in mind speak.
Jewel smiled in her cell and replied back with a thought that Susan easily read, /Yes, Commander Riker seems to have a lot of pent up frustration in him. Probably wasn't hugged enough while he was a child. / Jewel joked, she was sitting down with her back leaned against the wall and her eyes closed, waiting for the responses Susan would give her.
Susan laughed at her joke, outlawed causing the Security Guards to look at her, Jewel however cracked a smile then quickly whipped it off her face, they did not want them to figure out they could talk to each other through thoughts. They obviously had no idea that it was within Susan's limit, which proved they did not believe she was the Witch she said she was.
Jewels mind voice reached out to her, /Susan, can you open a link with the rest of us. I think we need to figure out what we really can do next, and since we've all been interrogated I don't see what else were going to end up having to do so now I think its our best time to start talking!/ Jewel said in a tried voice to her, or what a tired mind voice would sound like.
Susan told her yes and they could both feel the three new feelings in there head, saying a new presence was there to talk. She then shielded them from anyone else as to make sure that only they could hear each other.
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Shadow, Jackson, and Cait all could feel the openings in there minds. They knew the feeling from the last time they talked, that was a good while ago but they knew what the feeling was. Jackson spoke up first, /Its about time we could talk to each other! I've almost died of boredom!/ He said in an annoyed mind voice.
Yeah right Jackson! I could see from a completely different cell that all you and that security guard did was gawk at each other, and if you look close enough at the security guards pants-/ Cait had to joke but Shadow cut him short of the sentence.
/Lets stay serious now!/ His words shot out quickly and loudly in his stern, yet soft and mind voice. Jackson was blushing to much to say anything else for a short time.
Susan took in, /Anyways you all Jewel and I were talking and she thinks its time we figured out what were going to do. Any suggestions on how to get off this ship.boat. or whatever!/ She thought to other four in a mind voice that said she was thinking in some untapped part of her mind.
/From what I think we can all tell were in the stars, the question of the matter truly is how do we get together, open a portal to wherever and get out of here. Or, can we even open a portal? Do we have another power to do that for five people?/ Cait said in a now serious voice.
Jewel broke in now, /With a level 13 Witch, and the Level 9 Time Mage we have, plus a level 6 Black Mage to must some added strength I think all in all we could open a portal./
Shadow felt he had to add something now, there was no way he was going to let anyone else choose what he was going to do no matter who they were, /We can open a portal without a doubt, but where to?/ He asked the question that nobody else even thought of.
/That's actually a good point./Jackson said after having enough courage to finally speak up.
/Well w-/ Jewel started but was cut off by a feeling, a feeling they all felt. One they knew they each other felt. They were all trained in the arts of sensing demons or monsters, and they all knew what they were feeling now. Every person jumped out of there seats they were sitting in the brig. Each one shouted one word, " Zombies! "
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Captain Picard paced around his bridge as he stood up, he turned to Data and said, " Play it again. " And watched attentively as he had done the last two times.
The screen turned on to show a man, with a women behind him in her mid 40's looking frantic, there was also a boy leaning next to the desk where they were transmitting the distress signal. They all had blood on them and weather it was there's or someone else's they could not tell. The boy however was pale, and cold looking, it seemed as if he kept trying to make his eyes focus as his father talked but was having a lot of trouble doing it. His mother however, or the person they presumed as his mother was pacing behind them with her hand on her head almost panicking.
The man spoke up as his eyes darted to the distress beacon he was talking to, the young man next to him they thought of as his son and the door that was barricaded. " Please, whoever is receiving this, this is the agriculture colony on Pima Visten 4! We need help, something happened! The. the graveyards, the tombstones. The. The dead came to life! They attacked us and have been killing people and eating them! We need help, there strong! The few phasers we have do not even effect them, even at the highest settings! Please, they've killed so many of us! There are more out in some houses and caves and such, but were trapped here in our house. There everywhere! " He said as he rubbed his sweating head with his sleeve.
The boy spoke up to the man giving out the signal, " There Zombies.. " He said emotionlessly. His eyes now however stopped trying to focus after he said this and he slowly raised his head from where he had been looking on the ground and slowly came to look up at the older man.
" Shut up! " He shouted at him in anger and frustration. He then turned to say something back to the beacon but was stopped by the next action the boy took. The young boy opened his mouth and almost gave a loud hissing sound, his teeth changed from there pearly white in an instant to sharper ones that suddenly lined in rows. He then lunged at the older man as he turned around to see him and bite him, hard in the shoulder spurting blood all over the shirt and onto him.
" ARGHHHH! " The man grunted and hit him on his head with his fist repeatedly. The women in the back had her hands on her cheeks screaming in terror. She came over and kicked the boy in the leg and then started screaming louder and crying even more furiously as she backed back up.
The man knocked the kid off of him and he kicked him several times while he was on the ground and he turned back to the beacon, " Please get here soon! " He said and his hand lashed out to hit the button that sent the distress call. The message then ended.
Picard sat down in his chair and ask Data a question he asked about seven minutes ago, " How much longer till were at the colony? " He had much eagerness in his voice, he of course wanted to get there as fast as he could.
Data did not need to look at the computer, he could calculate the time easily. " At our current warp velocity it will take us about 15 minutes. " He said casually and then turned back around to his terminal.
" Lets hope we get there sooner. " Deanna said as she folded her hands in her lap and thought about what could possibly have really been going on.
Riker answered without looking back at her, he just stared at the stars passing them by on the screen. " I agree.. " He said sulkily.
" Number one, prepare the security teams. " The Captain said to his second in command. Riker nodded and got up to go down to security, it was time to get ready for whatever awaited them.
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" Would you please let me talk to the captain for the millionth time! " Susan screeched at the security guard whom she had been arguing with for the last ten minutes.
" Lady, the answer is NO! " He shouted at her, her face red with anger.
Jewel jumped in now. " How can you not let us talk to him! For Joth's sake people will die! I don't care how technologically advanced you are you can't handle the Magickal side of. Of.. ANYTHING! " She threw up her hands and shouted.
Another security guard stepped in, this one was a female. " Listen, if I do report your "concerns" to the Captain your not going to like the outcome! Now sit down and stop this nonsense. NOW! " She shouted this at them with an commanding tone in her voice.
/Sit down Jewel, I can handle this. I hope./ Susan thought to her friend in the next cell to her. They sat down and thoughts raced through Susan's head, she just had to get close enough. Close enough to do something.
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" Entering the system now Captain. " Data said as he pressed buttons on the console he was at. The ship slowed down to a quarter impulse.
Captain Picard tapped his comm. badge on his uniform, " Picard to Riker. Are the teams ready? "
Commander Riker stood without about a dozen security members in the transporter room. He tapped his badge back. " Yes sir, we will beam down in two groups right after the first, one for each town. "
Picard responded, " Be on your way Commander, and inform me of the situation as soon as you get the chance. " Picard said eagerly.
" Riker out. " The first in command said as he tapped his badge. He turned to the men and the man at the transporter terminal. " Lets hurry up! " He said as he and the first team beamed down to the planet.
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/You can do that?!/ Caits mind voice came out and asked Susan.
/Im pretty good in all the Elements, but my best are Earth and Air. I can do it./ Susan thought back to him.
Jackson thought in, /But were in space.You can range that far? His mind voice was eager and attentive, it was as soft as his real voice.
Susan replied, /I can cast a charm on me and the person I take. Once we go out if I cannot reach that far we will simply bounce back! Now lets get down to whom I can take, two people will be enough for me!/
Shadow thought as the others chattered away in his head. He thought in a secluded shield area so as to ensure they could not over hear. No regular level 13 Witch with balance in two elements could blink them out that far. Maybe a level 13 Witch that was skilled in only air. But that however was a maybe. Shadow decided to speak up, /Me and you Susan. No offense to you others but even without my weapons I can take apart anything. All it takes to kill a Zombie is magickal fire and blows to the head and spinal cord which I can do, and as for the fire, well that's something Susan is good at. Me and you sweety. He said the beginning of it seriously and gladly gave the ending sentence a mischievous mind smile.
/Makes sense./ Jewel thought out loud to them.
Susan smiled in her cell. /Babe you couldn't handle me./
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" Security to the bridge! " A female voice shouted through the intercom. Picard almost groaned before tapping his comm. badge. " What is it? "
The female voice was almost frantic. " One of our prisoners are gone! "
The sentence made Picard jump to his feet. " What!? " He shouted as he moved in anticipation. The security guard then explained the fury of crystal like light surrounding the dark haired female and how it moved up her body and she disappeared.
A beep occurred, " Security to the bridge! " A mans voice said.
Picard asked what it was, Deanna leaned forward to hear and Picards face flushed red with anger at the answer. " Send out teams, both of you, find them! " He shouted to the two people.
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White crystals formed near each other in the middle of a clump of trees. They took form of a dark Assasin named Shadow and the Charmed Witch Susan. They took complete form and they both looked over each other, to make sure they were still there.
Susan took a deep breath and smiled then realized her mistake. She didn't look drained, she wasn't drained. Not one bit. Any Assasin would notice that. Especially one such as Shadow. She could feel his eyes on her. He knew, if not the whole truth he knew something of it. " Your no level 13 Witch.. " He said coldly and emotionlessly as any Assasin would, he then cast out his mind. He ran towards the settlement, easily jumping into the air 10 feet and landing on the tree branches, he almost looked like he was flying across the trees. Of course he was just jumping. She picked off to a trot, her black hair blowing in the wind. She raised energy as she went, because she knew she was going to need it. It was time to show these non- believers what a Witch could really do.
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Security team A looked at the surroundings. It was day, and the metallic buildings were deserted. They all were the size of small cottages and each one seemed empty from the outside look of it. Some of them had open doors that were swinging in the wind. This was the village, the other location was a quarter a mile away and that was where the farming took place, the work buildings were there.
William Riker look around, he drew his phasers and the rest of the security detail did the same. He saw something out of the corner of his eye. A shadow, near one of the houses with an open door. He didn't see anything now but he turned and said softly to the others around him, " Split up and set phasers to stun and only to kill if you have to. We want to find out what happened here. " He then raised a hand and pointed to Ensin John Triton. He was a young man, detailed to security and was only 22 years old. He was as tall as William and had black hair, and was pretty muscular to. Not the kind of guy to get in a fist fight with. They walked into the small house. Furniture was strew everywhere, along with long streaks of blood on the walls. But there were no body's, not one body on the floor. But the blood, it was everywhere.
" What. happened? " John slurred out, his entire face went white. That's when he say it. He pointed to it with a quivering finger and almost threw up. Commander Riker turned to look at and his face was as pale as the Ensigns. It was a fingernail, just one fingernail, and it was bloody. Very bloody. " That's what were going to figure out. " He responded back to him.
There was wail. More like a moan and a scream put together they turned to look beside him and a women lunged for John. But. She didn't look right, her teeth were as sharp as Klingons and she was white, very white. Dead looking. She lunged through the air and sank her teeth into Johns shoulder. The man screamed, loud and threw her off. He grabbed his shoulder as Riker pointed his phaser and fired. It hit her as she tried to get up, and it knocked her down. But her eyes were still open, she was still hissing at them. And she assumed trying to get back up. He shot her down again as John moved over to his superior officer, his shoulder was bleeding very nastily. It was cut in quite deeply for such sharp and pointy teeth. The women got up again. The phaser didn't even pierce her clothing, it was just a brown shirt and a brown skirt, it was also as bloody as the walls. She moaned more and crawled towards them. Riker shot again and so did John. She was shoved by the blasts to the floor, but she did the same thing as she did the first time. She got up, and slumped over to them hissing and showing her teeth.
" Set it to kill! " Riker said as he pushed the appropriate buttons. He turned it to her, the setting should vaporize her. He pressed the button, it shot, it slammed into her and tossed her back against the wall. Riker's expression turned from anger to a bit of fright. She was getting back up, again. " Come on move it! " He said as he grabbed John and they headed for the door. He let go of the ensign and shoved his fist into the woman's face knocking her across the room. He then posed the phaser and shot her again, and as usual it had no effect on her, it just pushed her back to the cold floor.
As they came outside John could instantly see everyone backing out of some houses. Another man had been bitten, on his leg. It looked as bad as his shoulder. There was a total of eight men outside now, eight for each team. Riker cursed himself for not bringing more. He tapped his comm. badge. " Riker to Picard, this is getting ugly! Our weapons have no effect on them, literally! Doesn't matter what setting, we have two wounded also! "
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The captain of the Enterprise tapped his badge in response. " Understood, we'll beam out the wounded. If you haven't started trying to kill them do so now if necessary our scans are unable to scan the surface by the same unknown energy around our earlier "guests", we can still beam you out for now but hurry it up and watch your back! "
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Commander Riker watched as the two men were beamed out. He then took back to the phaser and shot the nearest one he could find, it was a man, he was limping horribly on his left leg. He was in an old fashioned over-all farming outfit, it had blood all over it. And just like the women he moaned and hissed as he came towards them, and just like the women again he was only knocked to the ground when the phaser blast hit him.
" This isn't getting us anywhere! " Riker shouted to himself in frustration. He ran to the nearest one and knocked it down with his fist, when the hand connected he could feel the bones crack easily. To easily, like there was almost nothing holding it together. It didn't feel right, that was the only way he could describe it, that and his hairs on his neck stood on end. This wasn't right, not in the very least. The man tried to get up but Riker kicked him in the fist, his head snapped back and his neck with it snapped. He didn't get back up. He allowed himself a small smile. That smile faded quickly when he saw it come at him through the woods. It was a huge beast, and its skin color kept changing, regularly. It went from yellow to purple, it looked like a big lizard, about the length of a small cottage, it had four legs which it stood on and its skin was all scales. The tail that it had however was long and muscular and it whipped around like a snakes tongue continuously. That was not the worst part, it had four heads. Each one with a flickering tongue and they were shifting around in a complete circle randomly. It was coming for Riker, he turned and tried to run.
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" Captain, " Data turned from his terminal to his Picard, the older man was sitting down in his chair and turned towards Data. " What is it? " He asked.
" Sir, the colonies Pima Visten 4 are as I stated early agriculture, and since some animals try to eat there crops they have set camera up all around the settlements for finding what animals are eating them. Then they can find them and kill them in the hopes of saving some of there crops, however the Enterprise can direct the cameras to our ship and we can watch what is going on the surface from here. Do you wish me to redirect the feed? " Data asked it in his unemotional way, his emotion chip was not activated as of now.
Picard was yearning to know what his second in command was doing down there, and you did not need to be an empath to know Deanna was edgy and also was worried. " Make it so. " He responded. Data gave a nod and turned back in his seat, his hands tapped down on his console, the screen went from a picture of a planet to a blank screen. It then flashed to life on a view of one of the taller houses, they could see the men fighting. With there hands, not with there weapons. " Will! " Deanna shot up from her chair, they could all see the four headed creature running at him. And they all saw it turn its whole body and slammed its tall into the commanders legs. Will flew out of the view of the screen.
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Shadow raced across the clearing. Men looked at him in horror as he flew over the air. His legs grabbed onto the nearest zombies head and as he fell he twisted his whole body, snapping the neck with very little effort. As he flew down he reached his hands onto the ground and front flipped into the air. His feet landed on the ground with the a soft thud. He could sense one coming from behind him and he jumped into the air and as he turned he lashed his foot out, knocking the head back and snapping the neck yet again. There's a lot of them, zombies that is. And not near enough people to fight them, even with him included. There coming out of the forest and then he sees it. The almighty commander on the ground, and its obvious. His legs are broken. Shadow moves to him as swiftly as any Assasin moves, he even took the time to dispose of one more zombie on the way before he landed down at the bearded mans feet.
Riker was trying not to scream, but he couldn't move his legs without feeling a lot more pain. He felt hands touch his shoulders and he turned his head, and saw the last person he thought he would ever see on this planet. " You!? " He screamed at him and tried to get up, he then slammed his body back into the ground as he gritted his teeth, it was an involuntary motion and he had tried to move his legs. " How. Did you get. Here?! " He shouted at Shadow. " Wicca. " Was the Assasin's response.
A zombie came at him from behind, Riker moved to get his phaser which told Shadow that something was there, his leg flew backwards and his foot jammed into the undead mans face, snapping the neck and killing it. Rikers eyes watered. Each leg was snapped in half but it was a jagged break, and it of course hurt a lot. Shadow slowly let his hands run up and down his legs. " Susan! " He yelled out.
" Hey! How did you ge- " One of the crewman turned to look at him and started shouting, till one of the zombies slammed its face into his neck, ripping through his flesh and causing him to yell as blood sputtered out. Shadow got up and yanked the zombied woman off his neck by the back of her hair and easily twisted her head into an odd angel, breaking it as he did to the others. He grabbed the crewman, he was a tall man with blonde hair and dark eyes. Shadow put him down by the commander and dispatched another zombied child. He took the mans hands and placed them on his neck, and turned to the forest, " Susan! " He screamed again, she didn't respond but he saw her walk out of the tree line. Her eyes seemed to flare with fire as she scanned the area.
She put her hand out swiftly and opened her hand setting a zombie that was going after a man on fire, it burned quickly and hissed as the fire consumed it and then its remnants of ash fluttered in the wind. A zombie came at her, recognizing her for who she is and she put her right arm out and arked it over her head, as she did the zombie flew in the air and over her entire body, its skull was crushed from the oncoming impact.
She opened her palms and sent two witchlights out, each one flew into a zombie and incinerated it like her first attack. That's when it came at her. The creature with four heads, she recognized it as a Centurian demon and it recognized her as a witch. It bounded over the men's head, most of whom were looking at it and her as they fought of zombies. It even landed on a few of the zombies, killing them and saving her time from having to dispatch them herself. It recognized her for the Witch she was. She stood her ground though, and got ready for it.
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Authors Other Note: Well, what did you think!? Like it? It's a short chapter but I really just wanted to get some in! Tell me what you think of it! Can't wait to hear from you all! (
Authors Note: Yet again I don't own Star Trek, but I do own most of the characters here, Susan, Jewel, Shadow, and many more. :b) Enjoy!
Also, a lot of the stuff like Black Mages and so forth are from the Final Fantasy series, im borrowing them! However those are terms used in the today Magick culture so maybe its something I have to note or not.Oh well, I doubt anyone from Squaresoft would take the time to screw with me anyways, but I'll just make sure! There not fully mine! :b)
I would also like to note I carry a lot of the magick and witchcraft of my own design and apart of the Wiccan religeon, which Susan is a part of! So if you are familiar there you may catch a few things! Enjoy!
Rating: R, definitely R right now. But there maybe NC-17 parts later in other chapters, but I don't consider those to be cheap porn for show! But that will be a bit later! :b)
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" What?! I have no idea what your talking about! " Susan shouted at the person she now identified as commander Riker in front of her, he had the person she now knew to be Counselor Deanna Troy next to her in another of the cold metal clammy chairs. The room she was in was a cold clammy metal place, there were four chairs in it. One in the middle, which Susan sat in and two in front of her with Commander Riker in one and on his right was Counselor Deanna Troy. And in the far back near the wall was another chair with Data in it, he was observing the interrogations. It was the interrogation room of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E.
Commander Riker shot the same question at her, again but in a different form, " Why did the Klingons decided to enlist your help in the workings of the Ground Wormhole!? " He yelled it at her.
Susan was mad now, forget mad, she was pissed and that was the only way you could put it! She had been sucked into a portal by the Demon, and tossed into this new world, and they were more worried about there wormholes and Klingons then they were about that Demon, the Demon of all Demons! " I don't know what your talking about! " She yelled it out, louder then he yelled the question at her and it echoed through the room, but the room didn't echo, nor did the room have wind but it blew through her hair as she yelled.
Commander Riker shot up when he saw her little display of power and tapped his intercom, " Commander Riker to security! " He ordered and after his command two guards came into the interrogation room. Susan glared at him, she was pretty mad right now. " Take her to the brig and bring in an another! " He said this not even looking at the guards.
" Yes sir. " They replied and Susan got up before they could take her arm and walked where they lead her.
Riker turned to Data, " Make a note of that to the captain, he would want to know what it is she can actually do. "
" I will sir. " Data replied still looking at them.
Deanna put her hand on Will's side, " Sit down, your working yourself up. "
Riker turned to her, " Why shouldn't I be worked up! If we don't figure out the other hideout they could just build another machine and continue there experiments, and if they start opening wormholes in space artificially then they could attack and go anywhere they wanted in seconds! Tell me Deanna why shouldn't I be worked up?! " He said as he slammed his body in the seat.
Deanna replied, " Because Will, I don't think they have anything to do with it. As far as I can tell she is telling the truth, and she is more concerned about this Amasagie then she probably ever will be over some renegade Klingons. I don't think they have anything to do with this and im going to tell the captain that I don't think they even know what Klingons are! " She informed him.
Riker groaned, " Deanna you can't seriously believe that she is a Witch, the blue guy is an assassin, the little black boy is a mage and the others are a bard and time mage! You can't be seriously thinking there telling the truth?! " He yelled at her, it was quite loud to.
Deanna gave him a cold stare, " Don't yell at me Will.. "
Riker rubbed his eyes, " Im sorry Deanna. I shouldn't have done that. Forgive me? " He said with a really bad baby face.
Deanna started smiling then laughing, " I forgive you Will! But still, we need to take in that there is a possibility that they may be telling the partial truth. Im a little skeptic on the whole magikcall thing though! However the faery in the book was pretty interesting...o H " Deanna said but was still smiling.
" But still Deanna, we can't believe them.. " He said to her with a worked out look on his face.
Deanna removed her hand from his arm and continued smiling, " I know Will. But we need to be more open minded, they may not be telling the truth but they may be telling parts of it with there story. And how there doing this I don't know, but we need to listen to everything they have to say! " She told him and then turned to Data. " We've interrogated them all, you can go give your report to the captain now. " She said with a smile.
Data nodded and got up, " I wish you all a good evening. " And he turned and walked out of the room.
" Im going to go take a nice sonic shower.. " Riker said as he got up to leave.
" Same here. " Deanna said as she gave herself a nice stretch.
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Susan was escorted into the brig, and as usual when she stepped inside the force field came up. She poked it once and then jumped back, the scientists at Zealot would love to see the technology on this ship. There were about 5 cells in this brig, and only two were occupied. They were separating them from each other. She of course was in one cell and the other occupied cell had Jewel in it. As far she could tell they both had been interrogated by now. Susan tried to look like she was just lying down, which she was but she also opened her mind. She opened her mind to Jewel. /They just finished talking to me, well it was more like yelling./ She said to her in mind speak.
Jewel smiled in her cell and replied back with a thought that Susan easily read, /Yes, Commander Riker seems to have a lot of pent up frustration in him. Probably wasn't hugged enough while he was a child. / Jewel joked, she was sitting down with her back leaned against the wall and her eyes closed, waiting for the responses Susan would give her.
Susan laughed at her joke, outlawed causing the Security Guards to look at her, Jewel however cracked a smile then quickly whipped it off her face, they did not want them to figure out they could talk to each other through thoughts. They obviously had no idea that it was within Susan's limit, which proved they did not believe she was the Witch she said she was.
Jewels mind voice reached out to her, /Susan, can you open a link with the rest of us. I think we need to figure out what we really can do next, and since we've all been interrogated I don't see what else were going to end up having to do so now I think its our best time to start talking!/ Jewel said in a tried voice to her, or what a tired mind voice would sound like.
Susan told her yes and they could both feel the three new feelings in there head, saying a new presence was there to talk. She then shielded them from anyone else as to make sure that only they could hear each other.
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Shadow, Jackson, and Cait all could feel the openings in there minds. They knew the feeling from the last time they talked, that was a good while ago but they knew what the feeling was. Jackson spoke up first, /Its about time we could talk to each other! I've almost died of boredom!/ He said in an annoyed mind voice.
Yeah right Jackson! I could see from a completely different cell that all you and that security guard did was gawk at each other, and if you look close enough at the security guards pants-/ Cait had to joke but Shadow cut him short of the sentence.
/Lets stay serious now!/ His words shot out quickly and loudly in his stern, yet soft and mind voice. Jackson was blushing to much to say anything else for a short time.
Susan took in, /Anyways you all Jewel and I were talking and she thinks its time we figured out what were going to do. Any suggestions on how to get off this ship.boat. or whatever!/ She thought to other four in a mind voice that said she was thinking in some untapped part of her mind.
/From what I think we can all tell were in the stars, the question of the matter truly is how do we get together, open a portal to wherever and get out of here. Or, can we even open a portal? Do we have another power to do that for five people?/ Cait said in a now serious voice.
Jewel broke in now, /With a level 13 Witch, and the Level 9 Time Mage we have, plus a level 6 Black Mage to must some added strength I think all in all we could open a portal./
Shadow felt he had to add something now, there was no way he was going to let anyone else choose what he was going to do no matter who they were, /We can open a portal without a doubt, but where to?/ He asked the question that nobody else even thought of.
/That's actually a good point./Jackson said after having enough courage to finally speak up.
/Well w-/ Jewel started but was cut off by a feeling, a feeling they all felt. One they knew they each other felt. They were all trained in the arts of sensing demons or monsters, and they all knew what they were feeling now. Every person jumped out of there seats they were sitting in the brig. Each one shouted one word, " Zombies! "
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Captain Picard paced around his bridge as he stood up, he turned to Data and said, " Play it again. " And watched attentively as he had done the last two times.
The screen turned on to show a man, with a women behind him in her mid 40's looking frantic, there was also a boy leaning next to the desk where they were transmitting the distress signal. They all had blood on them and weather it was there's or someone else's they could not tell. The boy however was pale, and cold looking, it seemed as if he kept trying to make his eyes focus as his father talked but was having a lot of trouble doing it. His mother however, or the person they presumed as his mother was pacing behind them with her hand on her head almost panicking.
The man spoke up as his eyes darted to the distress beacon he was talking to, the young man next to him they thought of as his son and the door that was barricaded. " Please, whoever is receiving this, this is the agriculture colony on Pima Visten 4! We need help, something happened! The. the graveyards, the tombstones. The. The dead came to life! They attacked us and have been killing people and eating them! We need help, there strong! The few phasers we have do not even effect them, even at the highest settings! Please, they've killed so many of us! There are more out in some houses and caves and such, but were trapped here in our house. There everywhere! " He said as he rubbed his sweating head with his sleeve.
The boy spoke up to the man giving out the signal, " There Zombies.. " He said emotionlessly. His eyes now however stopped trying to focus after he said this and he slowly raised his head from where he had been looking on the ground and slowly came to look up at the older man.
" Shut up! " He shouted at him in anger and frustration. He then turned to say something back to the beacon but was stopped by the next action the boy took. The young boy opened his mouth and almost gave a loud hissing sound, his teeth changed from there pearly white in an instant to sharper ones that suddenly lined in rows. He then lunged at the older man as he turned around to see him and bite him, hard in the shoulder spurting blood all over the shirt and onto him.
" ARGHHHH! " The man grunted and hit him on his head with his fist repeatedly. The women in the back had her hands on her cheeks screaming in terror. She came over and kicked the boy in the leg and then started screaming louder and crying even more furiously as she backed back up.
The man knocked the kid off of him and he kicked him several times while he was on the ground and he turned back to the beacon, " Please get here soon! " He said and his hand lashed out to hit the button that sent the distress call. The message then ended.
Picard sat down in his chair and ask Data a question he asked about seven minutes ago, " How much longer till were at the colony? " He had much eagerness in his voice, he of course wanted to get there as fast as he could.
Data did not need to look at the computer, he could calculate the time easily. " At our current warp velocity it will take us about 15 minutes. " He said casually and then turned back around to his terminal.
" Lets hope we get there sooner. " Deanna said as she folded her hands in her lap and thought about what could possibly have really been going on.
Riker answered without looking back at her, he just stared at the stars passing them by on the screen. " I agree.. " He said sulkily.
" Number one, prepare the security teams. " The Captain said to his second in command. Riker nodded and got up to go down to security, it was time to get ready for whatever awaited them.
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" Would you please let me talk to the captain for the millionth time! " Susan screeched at the security guard whom she had been arguing with for the last ten minutes.
" Lady, the answer is NO! " He shouted at her, her face red with anger.
Jewel jumped in now. " How can you not let us talk to him! For Joth's sake people will die! I don't care how technologically advanced you are you can't handle the Magickal side of. Of.. ANYTHING! " She threw up her hands and shouted.
Another security guard stepped in, this one was a female. " Listen, if I do report your "concerns" to the Captain your not going to like the outcome! Now sit down and stop this nonsense. NOW! " She shouted this at them with an commanding tone in her voice.
/Sit down Jewel, I can handle this. I hope./ Susan thought to her friend in the next cell to her. They sat down and thoughts raced through Susan's head, she just had to get close enough. Close enough to do something.
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" Entering the system now Captain. " Data said as he pressed buttons on the console he was at. The ship slowed down to a quarter impulse.
Captain Picard tapped his comm. badge on his uniform, " Picard to Riker. Are the teams ready? "
Commander Riker stood without about a dozen security members in the transporter room. He tapped his badge back. " Yes sir, we will beam down in two groups right after the first, one for each town. "
Picard responded, " Be on your way Commander, and inform me of the situation as soon as you get the chance. " Picard said eagerly.
" Riker out. " The first in command said as he tapped his badge. He turned to the men and the man at the transporter terminal. " Lets hurry up! " He said as he and the first team beamed down to the planet.
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/You can do that?!/ Caits mind voice came out and asked Susan.
/Im pretty good in all the Elements, but my best are Earth and Air. I can do it./ Susan thought back to him.
Jackson thought in, /But were in space.You can range that far? His mind voice was eager and attentive, it was as soft as his real voice.
Susan replied, /I can cast a charm on me and the person I take. Once we go out if I cannot reach that far we will simply bounce back! Now lets get down to whom I can take, two people will be enough for me!/
Shadow thought as the others chattered away in his head. He thought in a secluded shield area so as to ensure they could not over hear. No regular level 13 Witch with balance in two elements could blink them out that far. Maybe a level 13 Witch that was skilled in only air. But that however was a maybe. Shadow decided to speak up, /Me and you Susan. No offense to you others but even without my weapons I can take apart anything. All it takes to kill a Zombie is magickal fire and blows to the head and spinal cord which I can do, and as for the fire, well that's something Susan is good at. Me and you sweety. He said the beginning of it seriously and gladly gave the ending sentence a mischievous mind smile.
/Makes sense./ Jewel thought out loud to them.
Susan smiled in her cell. /Babe you couldn't handle me./
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" Security to the bridge! " A female voice shouted through the intercom. Picard almost groaned before tapping his comm. badge. " What is it? "
The female voice was almost frantic. " One of our prisoners are gone! "
The sentence made Picard jump to his feet. " What!? " He shouted as he moved in anticipation. The security guard then explained the fury of crystal like light surrounding the dark haired female and how it moved up her body and she disappeared.
A beep occurred, " Security to the bridge! " A mans voice said.
Picard asked what it was, Deanna leaned forward to hear and Picards face flushed red with anger at the answer. " Send out teams, both of you, find them! " He shouted to the two people.
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White crystals formed near each other in the middle of a clump of trees. They took form of a dark Assasin named Shadow and the Charmed Witch Susan. They took complete form and they both looked over each other, to make sure they were still there.
Susan took a deep breath and smiled then realized her mistake. She didn't look drained, she wasn't drained. Not one bit. Any Assasin would notice that. Especially one such as Shadow. She could feel his eyes on her. He knew, if not the whole truth he knew something of it. " Your no level 13 Witch.. " He said coldly and emotionlessly as any Assasin would, he then cast out his mind. He ran towards the settlement, easily jumping into the air 10 feet and landing on the tree branches, he almost looked like he was flying across the trees. Of course he was just jumping. She picked off to a trot, her black hair blowing in the wind. She raised energy as she went, because she knew she was going to need it. It was time to show these non- believers what a Witch could really do.
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Security team A looked at the surroundings. It was day, and the metallic buildings were deserted. They all were the size of small cottages and each one seemed empty from the outside look of it. Some of them had open doors that were swinging in the wind. This was the village, the other location was a quarter a mile away and that was where the farming took place, the work buildings were there.
William Riker look around, he drew his phasers and the rest of the security detail did the same. He saw something out of the corner of his eye. A shadow, near one of the houses with an open door. He didn't see anything now but he turned and said softly to the others around him, " Split up and set phasers to stun and only to kill if you have to. We want to find out what happened here. " He then raised a hand and pointed to Ensin John Triton. He was a young man, detailed to security and was only 22 years old. He was as tall as William and had black hair, and was pretty muscular to. Not the kind of guy to get in a fist fight with. They walked into the small house. Furniture was strew everywhere, along with long streaks of blood on the walls. But there were no body's, not one body on the floor. But the blood, it was everywhere.
" What. happened? " John slurred out, his entire face went white. That's when he say it. He pointed to it with a quivering finger and almost threw up. Commander Riker turned to look at and his face was as pale as the Ensigns. It was a fingernail, just one fingernail, and it was bloody. Very bloody. " That's what were going to figure out. " He responded back to him.
There was wail. More like a moan and a scream put together they turned to look beside him and a women lunged for John. But. She didn't look right, her teeth were as sharp as Klingons and she was white, very white. Dead looking. She lunged through the air and sank her teeth into Johns shoulder. The man screamed, loud and threw her off. He grabbed his shoulder as Riker pointed his phaser and fired. It hit her as she tried to get up, and it knocked her down. But her eyes were still open, she was still hissing at them. And she assumed trying to get back up. He shot her down again as John moved over to his superior officer, his shoulder was bleeding very nastily. It was cut in quite deeply for such sharp and pointy teeth. The women got up again. The phaser didn't even pierce her clothing, it was just a brown shirt and a brown skirt, it was also as bloody as the walls. She moaned more and crawled towards them. Riker shot again and so did John. She was shoved by the blasts to the floor, but she did the same thing as she did the first time. She got up, and slumped over to them hissing and showing her teeth.
" Set it to kill! " Riker said as he pushed the appropriate buttons. He turned it to her, the setting should vaporize her. He pressed the button, it shot, it slammed into her and tossed her back against the wall. Riker's expression turned from anger to a bit of fright. She was getting back up, again. " Come on move it! " He said as he grabbed John and they headed for the door. He let go of the ensign and shoved his fist into the woman's face knocking her across the room. He then posed the phaser and shot her again, and as usual it had no effect on her, it just pushed her back to the cold floor.
As they came outside John could instantly see everyone backing out of some houses. Another man had been bitten, on his leg. It looked as bad as his shoulder. There was a total of eight men outside now, eight for each team. Riker cursed himself for not bringing more. He tapped his comm. badge. " Riker to Picard, this is getting ugly! Our weapons have no effect on them, literally! Doesn't matter what setting, we have two wounded also! "
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The captain of the Enterprise tapped his badge in response. " Understood, we'll beam out the wounded. If you haven't started trying to kill them do so now if necessary our scans are unable to scan the surface by the same unknown energy around our earlier "guests", we can still beam you out for now but hurry it up and watch your back! "
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Commander Riker watched as the two men were beamed out. He then took back to the phaser and shot the nearest one he could find, it was a man, he was limping horribly on his left leg. He was in an old fashioned over-all farming outfit, it had blood all over it. And just like the women he moaned and hissed as he came towards them, and just like the women again he was only knocked to the ground when the phaser blast hit him.
" This isn't getting us anywhere! " Riker shouted to himself in frustration. He ran to the nearest one and knocked it down with his fist, when the hand connected he could feel the bones crack easily. To easily, like there was almost nothing holding it together. It didn't feel right, that was the only way he could describe it, that and his hairs on his neck stood on end. This wasn't right, not in the very least. The man tried to get up but Riker kicked him in the fist, his head snapped back and his neck with it snapped. He didn't get back up. He allowed himself a small smile. That smile faded quickly when he saw it come at him through the woods. It was a huge beast, and its skin color kept changing, regularly. It went from yellow to purple, it looked like a big lizard, about the length of a small cottage, it had four legs which it stood on and its skin was all scales. The tail that it had however was long and muscular and it whipped around like a snakes tongue continuously. That was not the worst part, it had four heads. Each one with a flickering tongue and they were shifting around in a complete circle randomly. It was coming for Riker, he turned and tried to run.
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" Captain, " Data turned from his terminal to his Picard, the older man was sitting down in his chair and turned towards Data. " What is it? " He asked.
" Sir, the colonies Pima Visten 4 are as I stated early agriculture, and since some animals try to eat there crops they have set camera up all around the settlements for finding what animals are eating them. Then they can find them and kill them in the hopes of saving some of there crops, however the Enterprise can direct the cameras to our ship and we can watch what is going on the surface from here. Do you wish me to redirect the feed? " Data asked it in his unemotional way, his emotion chip was not activated as of now.
Picard was yearning to know what his second in command was doing down there, and you did not need to be an empath to know Deanna was edgy and also was worried. " Make it so. " He responded. Data gave a nod and turned back in his seat, his hands tapped down on his console, the screen went from a picture of a planet to a blank screen. It then flashed to life on a view of one of the taller houses, they could see the men fighting. With there hands, not with there weapons. " Will! " Deanna shot up from her chair, they could all see the four headed creature running at him. And they all saw it turn its whole body and slammed its tall into the commanders legs. Will flew out of the view of the screen.
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Shadow raced across the clearing. Men looked at him in horror as he flew over the air. His legs grabbed onto the nearest zombies head and as he fell he twisted his whole body, snapping the neck with very little effort. As he flew down he reached his hands onto the ground and front flipped into the air. His feet landed on the ground with the a soft thud. He could sense one coming from behind him and he jumped into the air and as he turned he lashed his foot out, knocking the head back and snapping the neck yet again. There's a lot of them, zombies that is. And not near enough people to fight them, even with him included. There coming out of the forest and then he sees it. The almighty commander on the ground, and its obvious. His legs are broken. Shadow moves to him as swiftly as any Assasin moves, he even took the time to dispose of one more zombie on the way before he landed down at the bearded mans feet.
Riker was trying not to scream, but he couldn't move his legs without feeling a lot more pain. He felt hands touch his shoulders and he turned his head, and saw the last person he thought he would ever see on this planet. " You!? " He screamed at him and tried to get up, he then slammed his body back into the ground as he gritted his teeth, it was an involuntary motion and he had tried to move his legs. " How. Did you get. Here?! " He shouted at Shadow. " Wicca. " Was the Assasin's response.
A zombie came at him from behind, Riker moved to get his phaser which told Shadow that something was there, his leg flew backwards and his foot jammed into the undead mans face, snapping the neck and killing it. Rikers eyes watered. Each leg was snapped in half but it was a jagged break, and it of course hurt a lot. Shadow slowly let his hands run up and down his legs. " Susan! " He yelled out.
" Hey! How did you ge- " One of the crewman turned to look at him and started shouting, till one of the zombies slammed its face into his neck, ripping through his flesh and causing him to yell as blood sputtered out. Shadow got up and yanked the zombied woman off his neck by the back of her hair and easily twisted her head into an odd angel, breaking it as he did to the others. He grabbed the crewman, he was a tall man with blonde hair and dark eyes. Shadow put him down by the commander and dispatched another zombied child. He took the mans hands and placed them on his neck, and turned to the forest, " Susan! " He screamed again, she didn't respond but he saw her walk out of the tree line. Her eyes seemed to flare with fire as she scanned the area.
She put her hand out swiftly and opened her hand setting a zombie that was going after a man on fire, it burned quickly and hissed as the fire consumed it and then its remnants of ash fluttered in the wind. A zombie came at her, recognizing her for who she is and she put her right arm out and arked it over her head, as she did the zombie flew in the air and over her entire body, its skull was crushed from the oncoming impact.
She opened her palms and sent two witchlights out, each one flew into a zombie and incinerated it like her first attack. That's when it came at her. The creature with four heads, she recognized it as a Centurian demon and it recognized her as a witch. It bounded over the men's head, most of whom were looking at it and her as they fought of zombies. It even landed on a few of the zombies, killing them and saving her time from having to dispatch them herself. It recognized her for the Witch she was. She stood her ground though, and got ready for it.
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Authors Other Note: Well, what did you think!? Like it? It's a short chapter but I really just wanted to get some in! Tell me what you think of it! Can't wait to hear from you all! (