Chapter Two: The Style of The Dragon
After fighting the two enemy ships and receiving the fourth sword the Outlaw Star landed on the planet Myray 2. They had tracked the 2nd sword to there. Gene and Sazuka would go check around on the dangerous planets surface while the rest of the crew would stay in orbit and keep tabs on them. Gene went armed with his pistol of course, but he also took the Arctic Slasher, he had been practicing with it and it had kind of chosen him as its next owner. Sazuka chose to go with the Flame Gash instead of her usual wooden sword.
They landed on the planet only long enough for Gene and Sazuka to jump off. From there they continued on to the area were they had detected the sword, there walk was silent.
"Well let's go find this thing" Gene broke the silence
"With our luck so far I think so, but it's too soon to tell," replied Sazuka
"I figured you'd say something like that," said Gene as they continued on in silence. Just after there short burst of conversation a giant creature jumped up from beneath the dirt and growled at the two explorers, the beast barred it's teeth and snapped its jaws at them. Two more appeared to the left and two to the right along with Gwen Khan a former nemesis.
"Erg why did we have to run into you? Are you following us?" Gene spoke in an angry frustrated tone that he usually reserved for Jim.
"Well, I appear to be ahead of you so it would appear that I am not following you, and that in fact you are actually following me" replied Khan. Gene took the comment rather well and simply stared at Khan.
"Now, if you would be so kind, would you hand over the swords" Khan said in almost a friendly voice, but Gene and Sazuka knew he was anything but a friend.
"Ya like I'd ever give them to you, besides you'd try to kill us after we gave them to you. So why don't we skip this foreplay and go right into the fight to the death for the swords?" screamed Gene, as he brought the sword and his pistol up into a ready position. He leveled his gun at the short man that had plagued them almost since they had acquired the ship from Hot Ice Hilda.
"You realize that with a snap of my fingers these fair animals will rip you to tiny pieces" replied Khan
"But of course you realize the swords power will tear them apart faster" Gene yelled back to the scientist.
"You do have a point there but it's not good enough... Kill them," he said as he snapped his fingers. Sazuka drew her sword up into a ready position, though her speed would have allowed her to block or dodge almost anything without being in a ready position. The savage beasts charged teeth barred. Sazuka moved rapidly forwards and sliced the first beast into halves.
Gene, not willing to be out done, ran towards the beast closest to him. The large beast swung first but Gene lopped off its tremendous claw with his sword. The force of his swing kept him swinging landing the sword in the dirt, the beast howled in rage and slashed up with its other claw. Gene raised his sword up and blocked the attack. He looked over to see Sazuka jump up and come crashing down with her sword in a beast's head. The beast that Gene was fighting pushed hard against his sword. Gene pushed off sliding himself and the beast backwards, he positioned his sword behind him, the beast roared in Gene's face as Gene charged towards it and swung with all his might the blood splattered all over his face, as it sliced through the beast.
"Disgusting" exclaimed gene as he wiped the blood off. He whipped his hand in the air to get the blood off of it as well, but he was almost soaked in the strange beasts blood.
Another monster began to hobble towards Gene, Khan had really promoted the beasts as being fast but so far they were overpowered lummoxes
"Take this" Gene yelled as he loaded a number 7 into the sword. He aimed and fired blowing the monster into tiny pieces in one shot. That was 2 for Gene and 3 for Sazuka the only on left was Khan.
"Still want to chance this Khan," said Sazuka in her usual calm tone.
"No I think I'll...oomph" Khan was cut short as Harry McDougle jumped from an edge and pushed him over. Kahn slide in the dirt as Harry looked at the duo from the Outlaw Star.
"Now young man that was quite uncalled for" Kahn spoke to Harry, he quivered when Harry gave him a look.
"Be quiet, I don't want to hear what you have to say" spoke Harry as he pointed his pistol at him.
"You turned at the wrong time, drop the gun Harry" Gene said as he releveled his pistol on Harry's face.
"Don't start with me Gene, you always start with me, please don't start with me" said Harry as he dropped his gun.
"Now get out of the way, we're busy" said gene, he continued to keep his pistol leveled on Harry. Gene inched forward, the pistol stayed pointed in Harry's face. As he got close enough Gene whipped his pistol across Harry's neck dropping him with one hit.
Gene and Sazuka continued in a more careful manner. They finally reached a clearing with a statue standing in the middle holding the second sword: The Air Knife. It was shorter than the others but still looked as well crafted. It's glinting blade shone in the light of the Sun above the planet. They approached the statue with absolutely no caution expecting nothing. Suddenly the statue came to life it wasn't a statue after all. It drew another sword along with the Air Knife and charged.
"I got this one Sazuka," said Gene through gritted teeth.
"OK gene" replied Sazuka " but remember the snake cannot eat the dragon"
"That's fine I got this," said Gene. The monster ran towards Gene swinging the swords madly. Gene jumped up and blocked the swing the beast made with both of its swords, he pointed his pistol and fired. The monster moved slightly to the side but still was caught in the hip causing it to release a beastly roar. It swung with all its might from the rage, even though the shot had probably not hurt it that much. Gene jumped back narrowly escaping being struck by one of the ferocious swings. He continued to dodge the swings until he backed into a large boulder. The monster raised the Air Knife and swung down.
"You can handle this one?" Sazuka said as she stood in front of Gene blocking the attack from the monster. Sazuka then asked, "Do you have a Caster I can use?" Gene nodded and handed it to Sazuka's free hand.
Sazuka let gene run out first, then she pushed off and slashed across the beast's stomach. It bellowed in pain. But this gave Sazuka the chance to load her sword. She slid the caster shell into the chamber of the sword, and then she charged.
The beast swung down too early and caught its sword in the ground. Sazuka used this opportunity to run up the blade a stab right into the monsters head. The Caster shell fired, the magic of the bullet tore the monsters head off and nearly destroyed the body as well.
Gene walked over and picked up the sword. He then hit the button on his communicator that Jim had given him to tell them the\at they were ready to be picked up.
After fighting the two enemy ships and receiving the fourth sword the Outlaw Star landed on the planet Myray 2. They had tracked the 2nd sword to there. Gene and Sazuka would go check around on the dangerous planets surface while the rest of the crew would stay in orbit and keep tabs on them. Gene went armed with his pistol of course, but he also took the Arctic Slasher, he had been practicing with it and it had kind of chosen him as its next owner. Sazuka chose to go with the Flame Gash instead of her usual wooden sword.
They landed on the planet only long enough for Gene and Sazuka to jump off. From there they continued on to the area were they had detected the sword, there walk was silent.
"Well let's go find this thing" Gene broke the silence
"With our luck so far I think so, but it's too soon to tell," replied Sazuka
"I figured you'd say something like that," said Gene as they continued on in silence. Just after there short burst of conversation a giant creature jumped up from beneath the dirt and growled at the two explorers, the beast barred it's teeth and snapped its jaws at them. Two more appeared to the left and two to the right along with Gwen Khan a former nemesis.
"Erg why did we have to run into you? Are you following us?" Gene spoke in an angry frustrated tone that he usually reserved for Jim.
"Well, I appear to be ahead of you so it would appear that I am not following you, and that in fact you are actually following me" replied Khan. Gene took the comment rather well and simply stared at Khan.
"Now, if you would be so kind, would you hand over the swords" Khan said in almost a friendly voice, but Gene and Sazuka knew he was anything but a friend.
"Ya like I'd ever give them to you, besides you'd try to kill us after we gave them to you. So why don't we skip this foreplay and go right into the fight to the death for the swords?" screamed Gene, as he brought the sword and his pistol up into a ready position. He leveled his gun at the short man that had plagued them almost since they had acquired the ship from Hot Ice Hilda.
"You realize that with a snap of my fingers these fair animals will rip you to tiny pieces" replied Khan
"But of course you realize the swords power will tear them apart faster" Gene yelled back to the scientist.
"You do have a point there but it's not good enough... Kill them," he said as he snapped his fingers. Sazuka drew her sword up into a ready position, though her speed would have allowed her to block or dodge almost anything without being in a ready position. The savage beasts charged teeth barred. Sazuka moved rapidly forwards and sliced the first beast into halves.
Gene, not willing to be out done, ran towards the beast closest to him. The large beast swung first but Gene lopped off its tremendous claw with his sword. The force of his swing kept him swinging landing the sword in the dirt, the beast howled in rage and slashed up with its other claw. Gene raised his sword up and blocked the attack. He looked over to see Sazuka jump up and come crashing down with her sword in a beast's head. The beast that Gene was fighting pushed hard against his sword. Gene pushed off sliding himself and the beast backwards, he positioned his sword behind him, the beast roared in Gene's face as Gene charged towards it and swung with all his might the blood splattered all over his face, as it sliced through the beast.
"Disgusting" exclaimed gene as he wiped the blood off. He whipped his hand in the air to get the blood off of it as well, but he was almost soaked in the strange beasts blood.
Another monster began to hobble towards Gene, Khan had really promoted the beasts as being fast but so far they were overpowered lummoxes
"Take this" Gene yelled as he loaded a number 7 into the sword. He aimed and fired blowing the monster into tiny pieces in one shot. That was 2 for Gene and 3 for Sazuka the only on left was Khan.
"Still want to chance this Khan," said Sazuka in her usual calm tone.
"No I think I'll...oomph" Khan was cut short as Harry McDougle jumped from an edge and pushed him over. Kahn slide in the dirt as Harry looked at the duo from the Outlaw Star.
"Now young man that was quite uncalled for" Kahn spoke to Harry, he quivered when Harry gave him a look.
"Be quiet, I don't want to hear what you have to say" spoke Harry as he pointed his pistol at him.
"You turned at the wrong time, drop the gun Harry" Gene said as he releveled his pistol on Harry's face.
"Don't start with me Gene, you always start with me, please don't start with me" said Harry as he dropped his gun.
"Now get out of the way, we're busy" said gene, he continued to keep his pistol leveled on Harry. Gene inched forward, the pistol stayed pointed in Harry's face. As he got close enough Gene whipped his pistol across Harry's neck dropping him with one hit.
Gene and Sazuka continued in a more careful manner. They finally reached a clearing with a statue standing in the middle holding the second sword: The Air Knife. It was shorter than the others but still looked as well crafted. It's glinting blade shone in the light of the Sun above the planet. They approached the statue with absolutely no caution expecting nothing. Suddenly the statue came to life it wasn't a statue after all. It drew another sword along with the Air Knife and charged.
"I got this one Sazuka," said Gene through gritted teeth.
"OK gene" replied Sazuka " but remember the snake cannot eat the dragon"
"That's fine I got this," said Gene. The monster ran towards Gene swinging the swords madly. Gene jumped up and blocked the swing the beast made with both of its swords, he pointed his pistol and fired. The monster moved slightly to the side but still was caught in the hip causing it to release a beastly roar. It swung with all its might from the rage, even though the shot had probably not hurt it that much. Gene jumped back narrowly escaping being struck by one of the ferocious swings. He continued to dodge the swings until he backed into a large boulder. The monster raised the Air Knife and swung down.
"You can handle this one?" Sazuka said as she stood in front of Gene blocking the attack from the monster. Sazuka then asked, "Do you have a Caster I can use?" Gene nodded and handed it to Sazuka's free hand.
Sazuka let gene run out first, then she pushed off and slashed across the beast's stomach. It bellowed in pain. But this gave Sazuka the chance to load her sword. She slid the caster shell into the chamber of the sword, and then she charged.
The beast swung down too early and caught its sword in the ground. Sazuka used this opportunity to run up the blade a stab right into the monsters head. The Caster shell fired, the magic of the bullet tore the monsters head off and nearly destroyed the body as well.
Gene walked over and picked up the sword. He then hit the button on his communicator that Jim had given him to tell them the\at they were ready to be picked up.
