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Chapter 33: Plans
-Meryl-
"They've been in there for over three hours." Aria said, staring at her father's office door, "What could they possibly be talking about?"
I just shook my head in reply, "I can only guess your sister is telling the Governor everything that's happened since she's left."
"I guess." Aria leaned back in the couch and sighed.
The others were all scattered about. Vash had gone off to play with some children on down the street. Knives was sitting out on the porch, quietly thinking/contemplating/planning, whatever it was that he did when he was not giving someone a death glare. Milly, Wolfwood and Shane had gone with Legacy, her parents and Marcus to get a tour of the city. I had been sitting in the living room with Aria, for that past hour just getting to know the twin of Legato.
I can't really tell how different she was from her brother, since I had never known him except when he had people pointing guns and Milly and myself. But she seemed quite different. Personality wise anyway. Aria was a manager at the hydro-electric plant. She and a handful of others made sure nothing got out of hand, and no problems or bugs in the system went unfixed.
Her similarity to him in appearance was actually a little shocking. The shape of her face and eyes was right on. Her hair was different. She wore it cut just below the ears, and her bangs only went down to her eyebrows.
She gave me a pained smile, "I'm really sorry you all had to get dragged into this mess."
I chuckled, "Well with Vash if it's not one thing it's another."
"Oh? Troublemaker, I take it?"
"You have no idea."
She laughed, "Kestrel is an entirely different matter, and if she could manage it, she always avoided conflict. I'm really surprised she even left Lanoth, she's really a wimp."
My brows knitted together, "Why did she leave in the first place? I would think that with the abilities of you people that she would have been safer here."
"Yeah, that's what Dad, Auntie Anna and Uncle Julius said. But she somehow got it into her head that she was better off as far form Lanoth as possible."
"I wonder why..."
Aria shrugged, "I remember the day she left I asked her the same question, she was really cryptic, said something about someone telling her."
The door the Marcus' office suddenly opened and Kestrel and Marian stepped out.
Silently they entered the living room and took seats on the couch on either side of Aria. Kestrel yawned and rubbed her temples.
"So? What's up?" Aria asked, looking at the both of them.
"Kestrel has relayed everything to me that has happened to her," Marian said in a low voice, "I have to now decide what to do about it."
"You'll be staying for lunch then?"
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Marian smiled at Aria, "If it's not too much trouble."
Later that afternoon when everyone had returned to the Bluesummers residence for lunch, we all sat in the living room, listening to Marian speak.
"This situation will become too much of a problem for all of our people if we do not do something now." She said.
"But what is there to do...?" Asked Anna.
Marian let out a slow breath of air, "We have to prevent him from proceeding with his plans."
"How?" asked Wolfwood.
"Kill him, if not incapacitate him."
Vash's eyes widened, "No! No you can't. You can't decide to do that! You can't just decide to kill someone!"
Marian looked up at Vash with tired eyes, "Vash, I have the lives of two million Humans and Plants in my hands. It is my sworn duty to protect them. I can't just let some insane alien to run rampant and attack my people."
"But kill him? You can't do that!"
"Killing him will only be a last resort. If I can't find any other solution." Marian looked down at her hands, "First things first. We will have to do something about him. And when that time comes we will have to have a way to get up to the Fifth Moon."
"Get up to the Fifth Moon?" Milly perked up, "Won't you need a ship?"
"Exactly."
"Where in the world are you going to get a ship?" Knives asked, crossing his arms and leaning into the doorjamb of the kitchen.
"We have a few, but they are damaged. We'll have to fix one of them out of the other spare parts."
"Where are these ships?"
Marian stood, "Follow me."
-Knives-
Marian led us through the streets to a very industrial looking area, and to a squat windowless concrete building.
Entering the building through a steel enforced door and into dark hallways, she led us deep inside the bowls of the building. Finally we reached a small, out of the way stairway that led down into darkness.
Marian pressed a switch on the wall and a pale yellow light illuminated the stairs. And down we went.
It wasn't much longer before the stairs stopped and we entered a pitch black room. I could see a large glass window on the far side of the wall but what was beyond it was also dark.
"Knives?" Marian asked.
"Yes?"
"There's a switch box somewhere over there could you see if you can find it?"
I nodded and felt along the wall till I came across a cold metal box on the wall. I found the switches and pushed them all over into the 'on' position.
A low hum started up and suddenly florescent lights flickered on in the room and out beyond the window.
"Whoa!" I heard the priest say who was looking out the window.
"What are those?" Meryl asked.
I walked up to the window and looked out. There were thousands of small vertical glass tubes, lined up in rows, reaching far back into the cavern-like room beyond. A purple liquid bubbled inside the tubes, making the floor and walls of the room to shimmer.
The tubes were, of course, empty. But there seemed to be a strange sense of life around them. Kind of like what a plant bulb felt like when there was no plant inside, only these were more... human.
I saw Kestrel, out of the corner of my eye, touch the glass window and sigh. I looked at her and saw an odd look in her eye.
"What are they?" I heard Meryl ask in a mystified voice.
"These are the incubation chambers in which Kestrel's people were born." Marian explained, then waved to an adjacent door, "Come, the ships are just a little bit further on."
Finally after four more turns, and three doors, we reached a large hanger bay. Three ships in various stages of disrepair were lied out on the tarmac.
"This is the one in the best condition." Marian said, patting the underbelly of the closest ship, "It shouldn't be much to repair. Just salvage from the other two."
"Well then! Shall we get started?" Asked Marcus.
"Begin as soon as you can." said Marian, "Now I must return to City Hall and speak with the Governing board and my advisors. I have much to consider and plan."
With that she nodded and left with a smile for everyone.
I narrowed my eyes as I watched Kestrel examine the three ships. Yes. Let us get started. I have much planning for the future as well.
-Seldokas-
He silently watched the status of the ships systems.
The situation has changed. He thought to himself, It is time to change to other tactics.
If he could move he probably would have been clenching his claws and pacing the small room. But all he could do was lie in his life-support chamber and wait.... Wait until his new body was completed.
Over the years the life-support chamber wasn't enough anymore to stop the effects of time, and his body began to slowly atrophy.
The one part of his body that could still move, his jaws, moved up in a forbidding sneer, revealing his sharp teeth.
Oh yes. With my new body... everything will change.
Everything.
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