Chaos: Extended Siblings
Chapter Three
"Hey! Magdus!" Came a harsh woman's voice.
Magdus, a thirty-year-old man with long elegant white hair and menacing green eyes dressed from head to toe in elegant silk walked over. "Yes?"
"Don't you yes me." Adriel, a sleek woman with the ability to knock whole cities down in her palm said, smooth features crisping into a scowl. "We have important business to attend to, yes?"
Magdus gritted his teeth and came to wonder how he'd come under service of such a woman. He couldn't stand her. She talked to him like he was dirt and insisted he give her a name that didn't suit her at all. "I beg your pardon, lieutenant."
Adriel's features smoothed over again, ebony black eyes liquefying to a beautiful quality. "Good we understand each other, Magdus. Now I want you to find me the girl and if you can't find her get me the Magdalix siblings, especially the sister. She'll either know where the girl is or she can help us find her. You understand, yes?"
"Of course, lieutenant. But it will be slower than calculated, the cross separated us from some of our own forces so we're left with only......Birdie and a few machines and devices, nothing particularly useful." Magdus said, pausing to think what he had available.
"But you are hired to think up ways to get around our shortcomings, Magdus. Now I suggest you go and do your job." Adriel dismissed him with a wave of her hand.
Magdus walked off fighting his anger. Silly little girl playing soldier. Her power games would back fire on her soon enough.
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"Oooooooooooooh so now I'm an idiot? You couldn't think for yourself if you had the ability to actually hold a brain cell in the cobweb zone you call a skull."
"I have more qualifications than you."
"Sorry, I forgot you're also a fully qualified moron. Why don't you take your qualifications, swivel and ram them up your a-"
"That will be quite enough thank you, Pixin." Kiri said, glaring at her.
The two were fighting again. Just great. Gerdi watched the two with Dag in utter fascination. The two sat the exact same way and made the exact same expression of wonder, jaws dropped.
"At least wait until a bell rings and you two get in your corners, ay?" Dag said, grinning.
"The two cannot be fighting *at all* while we're on this mission, Dag." Kiri said solidly.
Dag rolled his eyes. "Yes boss dude."
Hochi walked over to check what they were doing.
They were sat with a tiny makeshift screen dug up from the wreckage that looked like junk but still functioned. The Kiri and Dag sat on the boards they had gotten previously and Pixin was typing away on the computer.
"Damn I hate this place!" Pixin growled.
"It's not this place which is momentarily locking your powers, it's the cross over." Kiri corrected.
"I can't believe I'm forced to actually work with this junk." Pixin moaned.
"I can imagine you probably can't even understand the manual." Dag said, dodging yet another hit form Pixin.
"You keep your mouth shut, little boy. You're limited too don't forget. And for now you can't go hiding yourself."
"Stop it and work, Pixin." Kiri said, authority clear in her voice.
Dag stuck his tongue out at her and Pixin stuck her finger up at him.
Then the screen flashed red.
"Uh.......oh." Pixin said.
"Uh oh? What kind of uh oh is that?" Rittis asked.
"The kind of uh oh that I just found out that a search party is sweepin' for us, and guess who's banner is flyin' on it?" Pixin cried.
"What kinda weapons do they have?" Kiri asked.
"Does it matter? They have a ship! Plus a little artillery!!!" Pixin said typing furiously over the keyboard.
"Oh great, what're we gonna do, if they find us here then these guys'll get pulled in too." Dag said.
Kiri looked to Hochi.
"What's happening?" Hochi asked.
"Trouble's coming." Rittis explained.
"I want you guys to either come with us or hide. I really wish now that we hadn't landed here. But if you stay the evidence of our passing is too clear for you to not know anything, plus we crash landed down and they have ways of getting you to tell the truth. I suppose we can explain to you everything, but until then you have to come with us." Kiri said. "Go get the others and on the way we'll explain everything."
Hochi hesitated.
"C'mon, boss man!" Gerdi yelled "I'll go get em if that puppy fat of your is slowin' ya!"
Gerdi bolted into the house and got the others who soon came rushing out.
Kia's eyes burned into Kiri's. Kiri looked form Hochi to Kia, her glance not wavering.
"Hey! I got my ship, but it won't work to full capacity yet, so if we get attacked we're in trouble." Pixin said. "We need some kind of energy source that could be controlled and fed into it for it to fill up."
"I could do it." Rittis said.
"No, if you do it you'll blow us all up, you can't control that." Pixin snapped. "I er....don't suppose anybody has some concussive power in them do they?"
Ryushi stepped forward. "I do, what kind do you need?"
"Anything that can be channelled through. Kinetic, concussive, you name it." Pixin said.
"Then I believe I could fill that problem." Ryushi said.
Kiri and Kia continued to look at each other.
"We will tell you everything and anything that you need to know, but if you stand there throwing daggers at me from your eyes then everyone will die and the Dominions AND Kirin Taq will be as good as gone." Kiri said.
Kia thought about this and the thought of knowing everything about them seemed more plausible.
"I say we go." Kia said.
"What good is a ship on land?" Elani asked.
Pixin chuckled. "This kinda ship goes on all terrain."
Pixin drew out a crystal and threw it into the air. It slowly grew into a huge space ship with a round done at the front and several huge sharps of quartz shaped curving round from the front to the back making it like an octopus in shape.
Then a black marble jumped from her pocket, fell to the floor and became like a bush of black shadows made solid. Slowly it took the form of a kind of huge cat but with long ears like a lynx and a big bushy tail like a fox. It was formed purely out of black shadow. It had glowing white eyes. It exuded wave after wave of darkness making everyone shiver.
"What is that thing?!" Gerdi exclaimed.
"That thing up there is my ship, this thing here is the ship's mind." Pixin said. "Now go on, get in! We aint got all day ya know!"
The ship door opened and everyone piled in. The ship was huge. The dome part made the piloting deck and the rest of the tentacles made up sleeping cabins, energy pods, storage places, and one had a suiting up unit and some wash rooms.
Pixin took her place at the controls, the ship mind followed in behind her. Everyone edged away form it.
"Katoki, time to assimilate!" Pixin said.
The creature nodded it's head and slipped seamlessly into the floor. The whole ship charged with light.
"Alright, who's gonna be my generator?" Pixin asked.
Ryushi stepped forward feeling a little uneasy. "Me."
"Come with me to the pod room, bud." Pixin said.
Kia stepped forward. "I'm going too."
"Not without me either." Calica said.
"Suit yourself, but I won't kill him." And the three walked over to the room. Once there, Pixin positioned Ryushi in place, putting his hands on two little pads.
"All ya gotta do is channel that power of yours into here, it won't hurt and then you can come back in once the generators are fully loaded." Pixin said.
Ryushi bowed his head and began opening up the floodgates, slowly letting the power seep out. He could feel every fibre of the ship now, by letting himself flow into it the ship swapped data with him and for the first time he realised that this ship was alive somehow. The generator eased him into contact with it and then gently helped him fill it with his energy being sure not to drain him.
The reality smashed painless into him and Pixin was prising his hands off the panels.
"Thanks, bud. I owe ya one." Pixin said grinning.
"That was it?" Calica asked.
"Of course it was. This ship is very responsive. It wouldn't take that long." Pixin said. "Now c'mon, I gotta get it off the ground."
The three ran into the pilot chamber and Pixin stood up taking a joystick and pressing several buttons. The ship lit up several lights each with a strange symbol on it.
Then a great shudder threatening to throw everyone off their feet.
"Aww c'mon!" Pixin yelled. "If I wanted a vehicle that stalled I'd buy a car, now c'mon baby and give me full throttle!"
The ship then began the shudder gently and they lifted up and off.
"Initialising control systems in pilot hull." Pixin commentated as she typed.
As they lifted off nobody felt any of the Gs or the force as they moved, it was like they weren't moving ar all.
"Alllright!" Pixin yelled. "Y'know, Ryushi boy if you weren't spoken for I'd kiss ya now!"
She typed more and then scanners came on, screens winding round Pixin, some on the lands, others charts and maps and others sweeping charts.
"Where we to?" Pixin asked.
"I'll quickly get us underground where they can't track us." Kiri said.
"I don't think so, sis. You gotta explain to them. I'll do it." Dag said.
"It might impair you a but more...." Kiri said.
"So what?" Dag said.
Then the boy ran off. Pixin turned the ship down as Dag crouched on the floor. He began to rock back and forth glowing red and then Pixin plunged the ship to the floor....and they went into it like it was water, the earth parting and pushing the ship along, moving away to fit it's shape perfectly. They went deeper so above you couldn't see a mole hill type thing.
"What!" Kia cried.
"Is that a first question?" Kiri asked.
"How is he doing that?" Kia demanded.
"My brother and I are a race named Magdalix. We are in tuned with the earth. We can make it do things. However we are forced to ride under the earth not only to hide but because we can't go to high from the ground. We have to be earthed or we can very easily die. We also unleash metal properties which is how we power those boards we own." Kiri explained.
"Who are we running from?" Ryushi asked.
"I told you that there is a little girl loose. She has a great power that can bind world together or possibly enslave them. She's only a young girl who speaks a very odd language that I can only understand because I have a special gift. I am a lingual. This ability instils any language so I can speak, read and understand any language even if I have never heard it before in my life."
Kiri continued with the questions.
They found out that each of them were form a different dimension. Pixin was a space pirate. Kiri and Dag came from the same dimension as the little girl and had been her guardian. Rittis was from a dimension, which was based underwater. He had been banished because of his volatile ability that could shatter the barriers form the water and drown everyone and he had ended up practically in Pixin's lap. The enemies were after the kid; the kid's name was Kayaro. Their main enemy who was calling the shots was a woman named Adriel. She was rich, spoiled and had the idea that she was a lieutenant. But with her came a shuddering power that could lay siege to any city should she choose to unleash it.
The whole time explaining Kiri held nothing back, which Kia admired. She was being as helpful as she could at this time. There was a niggling feeling Kia had as well as Ryushi, Hochi, Gerdi and Calica and especially Elani that there was a familiarity with her.
"Any other questions?" Kiri asked.
"Just one." Ryushi said. "When I powered up this ship I found it was....alive."
Pixin grinned. "It's only alive when the ship mind is assimilated with it. The ship and the ship mind don't work without each other. It means it's more convenient because it doesn't run on fuel. I can separate the ship mind feed that and then slip it in. The only problem we had was energy. We need the generators not to be dry or they won't recharge and crossin' over here screwed it up."
"That explains a lot, about why none of you know anything about the Dominions or Kirin Taq, how you got here and all the strange items and powers you all have." Kia said.
"You aint seen the half of em yet." Pixin warned.
"Crossing over also messed up some of our abilities. Dag's and Pixin's more." Rittis said.
"Guys, I think we lost em, we safe to go up before Dag drops dead?" Pixin said.
Kiri nodded and they came up. They were right in a clearing only just big enough for the ship. They stepped out and Pixin shrunk the ship back down to the shard of crystal form and the creature returned into her pocket as the black marble.
Rittis carried Dag; he was too weak to stand.
"I cannot say how sorry I am for dragging you into this." Kiri said.
"It's okay." Kia said. "We understand. And we'll help you find this Kayaro of yours."
Everyone looked at Kia.
"It's the Dominions and Kirin Taq in danger, we have to keep the peace." Kia explained, daring people to contradict or challenge her.
"I'm in." Hochi said.
"I trust Kia's judgement." Jedda said.
One by one everyone of the Broken Sky crew present counted themselves in. Kiri didn't bother to hide the gratitude in her eyes.
"Thank you." She said. "I have done nothing to deserve your help."
"You were willing to tell us the truth and to protect us. You could've run off anytime in that ship of yours or on those boards. You could've left us to be taken into Adriel's custody but you didn't." Kia said. "That's enough for me."
Chapter Three
"Hey! Magdus!" Came a harsh woman's voice.
Magdus, a thirty-year-old man with long elegant white hair and menacing green eyes dressed from head to toe in elegant silk walked over. "Yes?"
"Don't you yes me." Adriel, a sleek woman with the ability to knock whole cities down in her palm said, smooth features crisping into a scowl. "We have important business to attend to, yes?"
Magdus gritted his teeth and came to wonder how he'd come under service of such a woman. He couldn't stand her. She talked to him like he was dirt and insisted he give her a name that didn't suit her at all. "I beg your pardon, lieutenant."
Adriel's features smoothed over again, ebony black eyes liquefying to a beautiful quality. "Good we understand each other, Magdus. Now I want you to find me the girl and if you can't find her get me the Magdalix siblings, especially the sister. She'll either know where the girl is or she can help us find her. You understand, yes?"
"Of course, lieutenant. But it will be slower than calculated, the cross separated us from some of our own forces so we're left with only......Birdie and a few machines and devices, nothing particularly useful." Magdus said, pausing to think what he had available.
"But you are hired to think up ways to get around our shortcomings, Magdus. Now I suggest you go and do your job." Adriel dismissed him with a wave of her hand.
Magdus walked off fighting his anger. Silly little girl playing soldier. Her power games would back fire on her soon enough.
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"Oooooooooooooh so now I'm an idiot? You couldn't think for yourself if you had the ability to actually hold a brain cell in the cobweb zone you call a skull."
"I have more qualifications than you."
"Sorry, I forgot you're also a fully qualified moron. Why don't you take your qualifications, swivel and ram them up your a-"
"That will be quite enough thank you, Pixin." Kiri said, glaring at her.
The two were fighting again. Just great. Gerdi watched the two with Dag in utter fascination. The two sat the exact same way and made the exact same expression of wonder, jaws dropped.
"At least wait until a bell rings and you two get in your corners, ay?" Dag said, grinning.
"The two cannot be fighting *at all* while we're on this mission, Dag." Kiri said solidly.
Dag rolled his eyes. "Yes boss dude."
Hochi walked over to check what they were doing.
They were sat with a tiny makeshift screen dug up from the wreckage that looked like junk but still functioned. The Kiri and Dag sat on the boards they had gotten previously and Pixin was typing away on the computer.
"Damn I hate this place!" Pixin growled.
"It's not this place which is momentarily locking your powers, it's the cross over." Kiri corrected.
"I can't believe I'm forced to actually work with this junk." Pixin moaned.
"I can imagine you probably can't even understand the manual." Dag said, dodging yet another hit form Pixin.
"You keep your mouth shut, little boy. You're limited too don't forget. And for now you can't go hiding yourself."
"Stop it and work, Pixin." Kiri said, authority clear in her voice.
Dag stuck his tongue out at her and Pixin stuck her finger up at him.
Then the screen flashed red.
"Uh.......oh." Pixin said.
"Uh oh? What kind of uh oh is that?" Rittis asked.
"The kind of uh oh that I just found out that a search party is sweepin' for us, and guess who's banner is flyin' on it?" Pixin cried.
"What kinda weapons do they have?" Kiri asked.
"Does it matter? They have a ship! Plus a little artillery!!!" Pixin said typing furiously over the keyboard.
"Oh great, what're we gonna do, if they find us here then these guys'll get pulled in too." Dag said.
Kiri looked to Hochi.
"What's happening?" Hochi asked.
"Trouble's coming." Rittis explained.
"I want you guys to either come with us or hide. I really wish now that we hadn't landed here. But if you stay the evidence of our passing is too clear for you to not know anything, plus we crash landed down and they have ways of getting you to tell the truth. I suppose we can explain to you everything, but until then you have to come with us." Kiri said. "Go get the others and on the way we'll explain everything."
Hochi hesitated.
"C'mon, boss man!" Gerdi yelled "I'll go get em if that puppy fat of your is slowin' ya!"
Gerdi bolted into the house and got the others who soon came rushing out.
Kia's eyes burned into Kiri's. Kiri looked form Hochi to Kia, her glance not wavering.
"Hey! I got my ship, but it won't work to full capacity yet, so if we get attacked we're in trouble." Pixin said. "We need some kind of energy source that could be controlled and fed into it for it to fill up."
"I could do it." Rittis said.
"No, if you do it you'll blow us all up, you can't control that." Pixin snapped. "I er....don't suppose anybody has some concussive power in them do they?"
Ryushi stepped forward. "I do, what kind do you need?"
"Anything that can be channelled through. Kinetic, concussive, you name it." Pixin said.
"Then I believe I could fill that problem." Ryushi said.
Kiri and Kia continued to look at each other.
"We will tell you everything and anything that you need to know, but if you stand there throwing daggers at me from your eyes then everyone will die and the Dominions AND Kirin Taq will be as good as gone." Kiri said.
Kia thought about this and the thought of knowing everything about them seemed more plausible.
"I say we go." Kia said.
"What good is a ship on land?" Elani asked.
Pixin chuckled. "This kinda ship goes on all terrain."
Pixin drew out a crystal and threw it into the air. It slowly grew into a huge space ship with a round done at the front and several huge sharps of quartz shaped curving round from the front to the back making it like an octopus in shape.
Then a black marble jumped from her pocket, fell to the floor and became like a bush of black shadows made solid. Slowly it took the form of a kind of huge cat but with long ears like a lynx and a big bushy tail like a fox. It was formed purely out of black shadow. It had glowing white eyes. It exuded wave after wave of darkness making everyone shiver.
"What is that thing?!" Gerdi exclaimed.
"That thing up there is my ship, this thing here is the ship's mind." Pixin said. "Now go on, get in! We aint got all day ya know!"
The ship door opened and everyone piled in. The ship was huge. The dome part made the piloting deck and the rest of the tentacles made up sleeping cabins, energy pods, storage places, and one had a suiting up unit and some wash rooms.
Pixin took her place at the controls, the ship mind followed in behind her. Everyone edged away form it.
"Katoki, time to assimilate!" Pixin said.
The creature nodded it's head and slipped seamlessly into the floor. The whole ship charged with light.
"Alright, who's gonna be my generator?" Pixin asked.
Ryushi stepped forward feeling a little uneasy. "Me."
"Come with me to the pod room, bud." Pixin said.
Kia stepped forward. "I'm going too."
"Not without me either." Calica said.
"Suit yourself, but I won't kill him." And the three walked over to the room. Once there, Pixin positioned Ryushi in place, putting his hands on two little pads.
"All ya gotta do is channel that power of yours into here, it won't hurt and then you can come back in once the generators are fully loaded." Pixin said.
Ryushi bowed his head and began opening up the floodgates, slowly letting the power seep out. He could feel every fibre of the ship now, by letting himself flow into it the ship swapped data with him and for the first time he realised that this ship was alive somehow. The generator eased him into contact with it and then gently helped him fill it with his energy being sure not to drain him.
The reality smashed painless into him and Pixin was prising his hands off the panels.
"Thanks, bud. I owe ya one." Pixin said grinning.
"That was it?" Calica asked.
"Of course it was. This ship is very responsive. It wouldn't take that long." Pixin said. "Now c'mon, I gotta get it off the ground."
The three ran into the pilot chamber and Pixin stood up taking a joystick and pressing several buttons. The ship lit up several lights each with a strange symbol on it.
Then a great shudder threatening to throw everyone off their feet.
"Aww c'mon!" Pixin yelled. "If I wanted a vehicle that stalled I'd buy a car, now c'mon baby and give me full throttle!"
The ship then began the shudder gently and they lifted up and off.
"Initialising control systems in pilot hull." Pixin commentated as she typed.
As they lifted off nobody felt any of the Gs or the force as they moved, it was like they weren't moving ar all.
"Alllright!" Pixin yelled. "Y'know, Ryushi boy if you weren't spoken for I'd kiss ya now!"
She typed more and then scanners came on, screens winding round Pixin, some on the lands, others charts and maps and others sweeping charts.
"Where we to?" Pixin asked.
"I'll quickly get us underground where they can't track us." Kiri said.
"I don't think so, sis. You gotta explain to them. I'll do it." Dag said.
"It might impair you a but more...." Kiri said.
"So what?" Dag said.
Then the boy ran off. Pixin turned the ship down as Dag crouched on the floor. He began to rock back and forth glowing red and then Pixin plunged the ship to the floor....and they went into it like it was water, the earth parting and pushing the ship along, moving away to fit it's shape perfectly. They went deeper so above you couldn't see a mole hill type thing.
"What!" Kia cried.
"Is that a first question?" Kiri asked.
"How is he doing that?" Kia demanded.
"My brother and I are a race named Magdalix. We are in tuned with the earth. We can make it do things. However we are forced to ride under the earth not only to hide but because we can't go to high from the ground. We have to be earthed or we can very easily die. We also unleash metal properties which is how we power those boards we own." Kiri explained.
"Who are we running from?" Ryushi asked.
"I told you that there is a little girl loose. She has a great power that can bind world together or possibly enslave them. She's only a young girl who speaks a very odd language that I can only understand because I have a special gift. I am a lingual. This ability instils any language so I can speak, read and understand any language even if I have never heard it before in my life."
Kiri continued with the questions.
They found out that each of them were form a different dimension. Pixin was a space pirate. Kiri and Dag came from the same dimension as the little girl and had been her guardian. Rittis was from a dimension, which was based underwater. He had been banished because of his volatile ability that could shatter the barriers form the water and drown everyone and he had ended up practically in Pixin's lap. The enemies were after the kid; the kid's name was Kayaro. Their main enemy who was calling the shots was a woman named Adriel. She was rich, spoiled and had the idea that she was a lieutenant. But with her came a shuddering power that could lay siege to any city should she choose to unleash it.
The whole time explaining Kiri held nothing back, which Kia admired. She was being as helpful as she could at this time. There was a niggling feeling Kia had as well as Ryushi, Hochi, Gerdi and Calica and especially Elani that there was a familiarity with her.
"Any other questions?" Kiri asked.
"Just one." Ryushi said. "When I powered up this ship I found it was....alive."
Pixin grinned. "It's only alive when the ship mind is assimilated with it. The ship and the ship mind don't work without each other. It means it's more convenient because it doesn't run on fuel. I can separate the ship mind feed that and then slip it in. The only problem we had was energy. We need the generators not to be dry or they won't recharge and crossin' over here screwed it up."
"That explains a lot, about why none of you know anything about the Dominions or Kirin Taq, how you got here and all the strange items and powers you all have." Kia said.
"You aint seen the half of em yet." Pixin warned.
"Crossing over also messed up some of our abilities. Dag's and Pixin's more." Rittis said.
"Guys, I think we lost em, we safe to go up before Dag drops dead?" Pixin said.
Kiri nodded and they came up. They were right in a clearing only just big enough for the ship. They stepped out and Pixin shrunk the ship back down to the shard of crystal form and the creature returned into her pocket as the black marble.
Rittis carried Dag; he was too weak to stand.
"I cannot say how sorry I am for dragging you into this." Kiri said.
"It's okay." Kia said. "We understand. And we'll help you find this Kayaro of yours."
Everyone looked at Kia.
"It's the Dominions and Kirin Taq in danger, we have to keep the peace." Kia explained, daring people to contradict or challenge her.
"I'm in." Hochi said.
"I trust Kia's judgement." Jedda said.
One by one everyone of the Broken Sky crew present counted themselves in. Kiri didn't bother to hide the gratitude in her eyes.
"Thank you." She said. "I have done nothing to deserve your help."
"You were willing to tell us the truth and to protect us. You could've run off anytime in that ship of yours or on those boards. You could've left us to be taken into Adriel's custody but you didn't." Kia said. "That's enough for me."