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HAPPY HALLOWE'EN!!
Here is the next installment to Iile and more about Kish is revealed! Yay! Ohhh, my roommate just made some garlic bread…..(gets a big piece). Anyway here's chapter nine!
Iile
She was curled into a fetal position, pressed up against a metal wall in one of the corners of the ship. Her breath made small clouds in the cold air and her skin was covered with tiny crystals of ice. Her stomach lurched as the ship tumbled through space, having been damaged during her escape.
"Noooo…" she moaned as she slowly shook her head back and forth in a hypnotic trance. Her clothing was shredded and hung limply off of her shaking frame, the material stained with blood. "Please no!"
Her frantic moans grew into shrieks as she sobbed hysterically in the darkness. She could see them; still hear their screams of pain! The smoke billowing over the palace and the city in ruins as the enemy moved forward, slaughtering everyone in their path. People ran through the streets trying to get away but were cut down by their weapons. She had tried to protect them but found herself overwhelmed by their numbers. She had come across five children, hiding under wooden crates, hoping to not be seen by the evil, but it was coming. She had led them away from the palace, towards the safety of her forests. But the enemy was there, waiting for her. The children were immediately cut down, the energy from the weapons tearing holes through their small bodies, their blood soaking into the ground at her feet. One of the blasts came at her and she just managed to move out of death's way and it hit her in the left shoulder. The force knocked her off of her feet and she hit the ground hard. The blue electricity of the blast swept through her body, burning everything within her. She screamed in pain and rage and managed to get to her feet and cut down half of her attackers, her anger feeding her powers.
She took a stance over a little girl who was still alive, however the child's gasping and the blood running from her mouth showed that she would not live for long. The enemy crowded around the two and she faced them with her weapon held tightly in her hands, its double blades glinting in the sunlight. Suddenly a pair of discs flew from behind her and circled into the enemy, cutting their heads off as they passed. Their bodies crumpled to the ground and warm arms enveloped her and she turned,
"Merilyssis!!!" she cried and fell into her friend's arms, sobbing.
Boba paused as he heard something coming from his father's room. He listened and soon he recognized the sound of crying. He immediately got up from the chair and went into the room and saw that Kish was still asleep. He walked over to her and saw tears running down her face as small whimpers escaped from her throat. Boba gently touched her face and was startled at how high her fever had gotten. She was burning up! He bent down and retrieved the cold cloth and moved it slowly over her forehead and down her cheeks, wiping away the tears.
"Kish?" he asked softly, hoping that he could wake her up from her nightmare. "Kish?"
She shivered as the cold increased in the ship. Her blood had frozen to her body and cracked with every movement. Suddenly she heard a voice coming through the darkness. She jerked her head up and looked around the cockpit. The voice came again and she put her head back down against the metal floor and cried.
"I couldn't save them, Merilyssis! They died, and I couldn't do anything to save them!" She held the little girl's limp body against hers.
Her friend gripped her arm,
"We have to go," Merilyssis told her softly. "There's nothing else we can do for them, not now."
She nodded numbly and laid the little girl on the cold ground. Her fingers brushed across the child's pale face, leaving a white line through her blood. Merilyssis pulled her to her feet and they moved through the forest. Behind them they could hear the shouting of the enemy and the sound of their weapons being fired. They broke into a clearing as a shot rang through the air and she quickly pulled her friend to the ground out of its way.
"They're around us!" Merilyssis cried. They stood up in defensive positions as the beings came out of the forest to them. Merilyssis grasped her hand,
"You have to run, run to safety," Merilyssis told her. "You have to survive. You are our only chance."
She shook her head, "I won't leave you!"
"You must!! Without you we will all perish! We will have no future! Now run!!" With that Merilyssis shoved her away and sent a blast of water energy at the creatures, making an escape for her.
"RUN!!" Merilyssis screamed at her, and turned to face the rest of the enemy and began conjuring spells that ripped through the creature's bodies.
She ran…
Kish thrashed in her sleep,
"Noo, I won't leave you!" she cried.
Boba knelt beside the bed his face creased with worry. Her nightmares were getting stronger; he had to somehow wake her up.
"Merilyssis…" Kish groaned.
She had reached the top of a hill and turned back to see her friend fighting the enemy. Their weapon's blasts rang through the air and Merilyssis blocked them as best she could.
Suddenly time froze as she saw a blast heading straight towards her friend's turned back.
"MERILYSSIS!!" she screamed.
Her friend paused as if in a trance, her white hands moving up and gently tracing across the fatal wound through her chest. Merilyssis turned and looked up at her. Her lips moved silently,
'I love you…'
Then Merilyssis fell. The ground shifted beneath her friend and turned into a pool of water. Her body sank beneath its surface, down into the eternal darkness.
She stared at where her friend had disappeared, the water of the pool turning dark red with her blood.
"No…" she whispered.
The enemy saw her and she turned and ran, hearing Merilyssis' words screaming in her mind.
"RUN!!"
She flew through the streets of the city, desperately running out of time. She turned a corner and suddenly she tripped on something and fell to the ground. She looked back and stared blankly into the face of a boy, no more than two years old. His throat had been slit open and half of his right leg was missing. Her hand shook as she laid it upon the boy's cold face and gently closed his eyes. She moved and hugged him against her,
"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry," she cried, sobs wracking her body.
A shrill call sounded through the air and her head jerked up and she saw the creatures running towards her.
She left the boy and moved further into the city until she found herself standing in front of a large metal object.
A starship! She had read about these in books! It was a way to escape, a way to safety.
She paused; the thought of leaving behind her home was devastating. Suddenly a burning pain flooded her. She gasped and looked back in the direction of her forests. They had set them on fire! She took a step towards them but knew that it was a trick to get her to reveal herself, to get her to go to them. Instead she slowly inched towards the ship, unsure of how it worked. She pressed her hands against its metal hull and concentrated and soon the knowledge of its operation filled her mind. She ran over to the hatchway and pressed the control button for it to lower. It seemed to take an eternity and she glanced around wildly for any danger. Finally she was able to get inside and she went up to the cockpit. There she placed her hands against the console and the ship told her exactly what to do. Her fingers flew over the buttons and she pulled on the vertical throttle and sent the starship up into the sky. She quivered in exhaustion and fear and slowly slumped into the pilot's chair as she watched her city grow smaller and smaller in the view port. It lay almost entirely in ruins now and the forests surrounding it were being consumed by the fire.
Kish moaned in her sleep as Boba placed the cloth back on her forehead. He looked around the room for the vial his father had used to wake her and spotted it over on the nightstand.
Now she lay on the floor of the ship, the ice forming all around her. She had been unable to save them and she had cowardly escaped from the destruction while everyone she knew was slaughtered. The shame was overwhelming, churning within her belly forming into a black pit of despair. Already she could feel herself changing as her powers became weaker the further she got from her home. She looked down and saw the wounds she had received had failed to begin healing. Her blood continued to spread across the floor, slower now because of the cold.
The ship continued on its random course and she wondered how long it would take for her to die…
"Survive," echoed Merilyssis' words in her mind. "You have to survive."
"Merilyssis," she whispered into the dark. But her friend was dead; they were all dead.
Another wave of tears slid down her cold cheeks and dropped to the metal floor, forming new tiny crystals of ice.
"Kish…"
The voice came again and she jerked and moved back in fear. Where was it coming from?!
"Kish wake up!"
A strong unpleasant odor surrounded her and she coughed violently. Her blood flowed faster now, leaving her...
"Kish!"
Her eyes flew open and she gasped in shock at being pulled from the feverish nightmare. She faintly saw Boba standing over her.
"B…Boba?" she rasped, her voice strained and weak.
He nodded slowly as he stared down at her in astonishment. Her dark blue eyes had changed to green, and not just a slight change, they had become a deep forest green that seemed to pull him into their depths…
He shook his head and pulled back away from her. Kish rolled onto her side, not noticing his amazement and slowly sat up in the bed.
"I need a shower," she whispered. "I'm too hot."
Boba nodded and helped her to the refresher. She immediately began stripping off her clothes and he quickly went out of the room and stood against the wall on the other side of the open door. He didn't shut it incase Kish suddenly needed help so he waited there patiently as he heard her turn on the shower and get in.
He tapped his fingers against the wall as the minutes passed. He began to grow worried when she didn't make a sound and wondered if she was okay.
I'll just make sure she's fine that's all, he thought. Just a quick check. He slowly looked into the refresher and through the glass of the shower unit he saw her, her head against her arm as she leaned against the shower wall, her back to him. He tried to keep his eyes up but found them following the path of the water as it ran down her body. Her skin was a creamy white, flushed by her fever. She had a more athletic body than Zam's, with taunt smooth muscles running beneath her skin, flexing with every movement. The only mark on her was a single scar on the top of her left shoulder.
His eyes trailed down her backside to her long slender legs then back up to her head. He cleared his throat,
"Are you okay?" he asked, his voice sounding slightly tense.
Kish sighed as the cold water poured down over her heated body,
"I'm fine, Boba," she reassured him. Kish reached over and grasped the bottle of soap from the holder and applied a large amount to her hair. Boba resumed his position on the other side of the door as she lathered her entire body, washing away the built up scum that had accumulated on her during the day.
Finally she turned off the water and stepped out of the shower and wrapped a large towel around her naked form.
Boba looked up as she came out of the refresher and had to keep his mouth from dropping open. Her wet hair was the colour of amber and gold and her lips were a full red. Tiny droplets of water clung to her exposed skin and her eyes had turned back into their normal dark blue, a blue which reminded Boba of the seas of Kamino during a storm. Kish went over to the table and sat down in one of the chairs, leaning her head against her hands.
He went into the refresher and picked up her discarded clothing and put them in the cleaner before joining her at the table. She looked up as he sat down and gave him a small smile.
"Are you feeling better?" he asked her.
"Yes," she told him softly.
"Do you want to go back to sleep?"
She shook her head and sighed. "No. If I fall asleep again I don't think I'll be able to get up." She stretched and yawned. "The only problem is that I need to find something to keep me occupied. Do you have a pack of cards by chance?"
"Uh-huh."
"Do you want to learn some games?"
He nodded and retrieved the pack from a drawer in the room. He watched as she sorted out the cards into piles.
"I'll teach you some Double Sabacc first. Now, the object of this game is to get your cards to equal or get as close to twenty three as possible…"
***Bwa ha ha!! The End!!.......of this chapter!!! I found this chapter VERY hard to end so I thought the fading away thingy fit it pretty good.
There you guys go! More about Kish! Kind of tells you where her cold attitude and stuff comes from and all. Ack! I want lemon in my story!! I'm being deprived of lemon!! (sigh) I guess I'll just have to wait until those chapters finally come up (in which Boba is of age of course :P). Yummm Boba (drooollllll). Oh yeah, Double Sabacc is just like regular Sabacc only the deck of cards doesn't shift every now and then and you can only play with two people, kind of like twenty-one. PLEASE REVIEW!! ;)
(goes off to dance to the Monster Mash, hehehe)