Sky was in the engine room before the lights even went out. She just had
the sixth sense for danger. It must have been pulsing through her mind
right about now.
"The engine's fried!" She yelled back.
"Well DUH! That's why we stopped! Just fix it!" I hollered back.
A voice came from outside the ship. It was the ship that was grinding metal with us.
"You are all under arrest! How do you pled?!"
I looked over at Volk. He had the same expression on his face that I did. The 'what the hell' look.
"They're obviously screwing with us. They know we can't respond. They might 'mistake' this for resisting arrest." Volk groaned out.
I stood up on my chair. "Yes!! We are so FRIGGEN guilty!! Please, take us away!!"
Volk laughed. We both knew they couldn't hear us. Might as well make the best of it.
"Very well, if you do not respond we will take force!"
Volk was right. I didn't want to look at him because he would say "I told you so."
I yelled back to Sky. "Sky! Move you ass! They are not taking us peacefully!!"
"Well why don't you help me! You always brag about how you are suuuch a good mechanic!"
"You know this piece of crap better then m-"
I was cut off by a slap to the side. I heard something lock into place. I sighed.
"Crap, they got a hold of us with one of those arms."
Sky's voice came through the silence. "Oh hey! I found the problem!!"
"Hurry and fix it!"
I turned to Volk. "Get ready man, when she gets this thing running we'll be going full-" I was cut off again. But this time by that damn ship. I was getting annoyed.
"We are going to board! Make no attempt to resist!"
Attempt?! Sorry man, but we're going to do more then attempt.When we get power, that is.
I heard another clank, this time it sounded like something stuck onto our door. It must've been their red carpet into our ship.
I sat down and closed my eyes. This was it, my end. All my running and believing for nothing. All for my cause.My hopeless cause.
In the next second everything seemed to happen at once. I heard cutters going to work on the door, I also heard Sky yell "fixed it!" At the same time I saw the bridge around me spark back to life. Finally I felt something. The ship blast away doing up to and over it's max. Sky got it to run AND to kick in the boost. God, I was loving her more everyday.
Everything holding onto my ship was torn away. The grappler arms and the walkway stuck on the door. Hope those guys had suits on.
The sheer force crunched me into my seat. I couldn't move anything, not even my head to see if Volk and Sky were ok. They were probably plastered to a wall or something.
The planet we were heading to came into focus. We were now only hours.Wait no, minutes.Actually, seconds away from it. Damn, this thing can sure pick up speed.
I reached for the steering wheel but didn't even get close. I wasn't going to be able to control this thing when it reached the ground. I was praying we at least hit at an angle so he would slide to a halt.
We entered the atmosphere before I could even blink an eye, and even THAT was getting hard to do.
Flames started to blow by the front of the ship and the whole wreck was shaking so much that I thought we would fall to pieces before we even hit the ground. I didn't even know if our pursuers were still following. Guess we'd find out when we hit the ground, well if we lived through the impact.
Ah! I shouldn't think like that. Every bad thing I think up usually happens, while on the other hand I think about a thousand wong but does that ever pop up out of no where? Nooooooo.
The ground came into view within seconds. I did the only thing I could do, warn my crewmates.
"Brace for impact!!"
Neither of them replied. We hit the ground the same time I yelled. Luckily my wish came true and we did hit at a slant crashing into some trees in front of us.
We kept sliding until we fell off a cliff. Yeah, you heard me. The friggen ship fell of the side of a cliff. We hit into the water below, for a second I wondered what the splash looked like. I shook my head. I gotta stop thinking off topic.
Volk slapped me on the shoulder. "Hey we better get out of here now before we sink too far and can't swim back to the top."
I nodded my head. Better bail now before we got too deep. Volk opened the door to engine room. Sky looked hurt.And pissed.
"Oh my god.If we die in this thing I'll kill you BOTH!"
I laughed. Sky couldn't quite keep her mind together in dangerous situations. It always made for a good laugh. We headed to the door, Volk told us to hold our breaths before he opened it. We agreed and he let the tons of water outside flood in. We all were knocked out of the way but eventually swam through of the door and headed for the top.
It was a lot longer away then I thought. I swam with all my might but I was running out of air. I held it for as long as I could, sadly I couldn't stand it and I breathed out. I didn't dare breathe back in, I just kept swimming. I thought I was going to drowned right there and then yet miracle of miracles happened and my head broke the top of whatever body of water we were in.
I gasped for breath, loving every square inch that entered my lungs. I was so exhausted, Volk has to drag me up to the shore. All three of us lied there on some kind of beach to catch our breath. Sky looked in her pouch that she always kept with her. She threw me my shining sliver 9mm which had the words "Quick Silver" etched into the sides and handed Volk two of the biggest rifles I've ever seen him carry. They were custom-designed just for him. Finally she took out a glowing orange orb. The thing everyone was after. I sighed. I didn't know what was so special about it, I just figured it must cost a lot. Why else would all these people be after it? Well..There was another reason, but it was just some stupid myth. From what I've heard the Leyline never existed.
We got up and walked up the beach to some broken road. We followed it until we got to an equally broken down town. I saw ten cars pass us and not one of them stopped. I would have been mad but Volk looked pretty intimidating with those rifles strapped to his side.
The place was deserted, we screamed out to see if anyone was still here but all we got was silence. It was eerie, I've never been in a ghost town before.
We sat down next to a busted up wall and talked about what we should do now..Well actually Sky and I talked, Volk was looking out for any attackers. Good luck with that, I thought.
She ran her hand through her hair and looked at me.
"Well, what now?"
"First we need to find out where we are, then get a ship and get the hell out of here."
"Easier said then done."
"Pfft, we've been through worse. Remember that one time on Sentinel 3?
Volk cut in. "As I remember correctly we decimated half of the place for.One shell?"
I growled. "It was a caster shell," I reached into my pocket and took it out as I talked, silently thanking God it was still there, "it's the first one I've ever seen in my life. I couldn't just let it sit there."
Sky spoke up. "You don't even have a caster. Why do you need it?"
My response was low. "My hero had a caster.I thought I could be more of an outlaw with it by me. Y'know, like a good luck charm."
Volk smiled. "C'mon, man. That guys gotta be like 60. He had to have lost his edge by now."
I sighed. "So what? He's still the baddest guy out there. If anyone could stop this war between the Ka-shinta and Space Forces, it'd be him."
We all fell silent and listened to the wind. Nothing was going to happen if we just sat there, I stood up and dusted myself off.
"Ok, let's get out of here."
My command didn't even go into Volk's thick head. He had his eyes fixed on something else. I turned to what caught his attention. My jaw almost hit the ground. There was a group of pirates standing right in front of us.
I didn't know what to say, was stunned into shock, I guess. I didn't really have to say anything, one tuff-ass locking pirate spoke up.
"Well, looks like I found you. My master we be most pleased.Now.If you please, the orb."
He had his hand stretched out to us. Sky looked at me and placed her hands on her pouch, I quickly shook my head no. If they wanted this things so badly, I wanted to know why.
"What's so good about this rock, huh?!" The man laughed. "Oh, my boy. That thing has powers only your most wildest dreams could imagine."
"That didn't tell me anything important about it. What kind of powers?"
"Give me the orb and I'll show you." He grinned evilly.
That did it, I made up my mind. There was no way in hell that bastard was getting it now. I looked over at Volk and blinked my left eye twice. This was our little code that a gun fight was about to begin. We had to have things like this because we always ended up in these kind of situations.
I turned back to the man and said my personally favorite line.
"Go to hell."
Volk and I pulled out guns simultaneously and let off a wave of rounds. The man calmly stood there and chanted.
"Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa."
A wisp of blue light emanated from his body and swirled around him and his comrades. The bullets hit the aura then slid to the ground, not doing any damage the man or his makeshift force-field. It was around this time I started to really hate Pirate Magic.
Volk growled and starred at the man but talked to me. "Hey, you and Sky get out of here, I'll take them on. You guys just get that little gem to safety."
I stood there, not moving.
"No way am I leaving you here to fight alone! This isn't some fairy tale were the good guy fights a mob of angry villagers and comes out alive!"
"Hey.Who said we were good guys?"
I looked at Volk. He was a tall and very well built man. Muscles were on top of muscles, he always was our leader in battles, tearing everyone in our way to pieces. He was a human tank.but it didn't matter, we were up against magic now. No way would he survive.
I was about to rip his head off but Sky grabbed my arm and ran around the corner.
"Sky! Why are you dragging my away! Volk isn't going to survive without us!"
She stopped and glared at me, her eyes were slits.
"I'm just as pissed as you but he's trying to buy us some time to escape. If we all fought, then we all would fall. Game over. This way we MIGHT live. Got it?!"
I was so close to argue my case further but tears built up in her eyes. She was only trying to hide her sadness behind anger. She felt the same thing I did.Damn.
We heard Volk's rifles start up again. The sounded more like chain-guns then normal rifles. We ran down the road, the further we got the less we could hear gun fire.But then, it suddenly stopped. We skidded to a halt. He's dead, I thought. I was going to break down right there, Volk helped raise me. Him and Sky were both around thirty, I was a measly eighteen. They weren't married or even romantically involved, they just stuck together.For me and my cause.My hopeless cause.
Sky started crying way before me. To her it was like loosing a brother, just the same as it was like loosing a father to me. I started to shake and almost fell to my knees, luckily Sky caught her composer before I did.
"Wait are we standing here for. We have to go."
I silently agreed and we both ran out of the city's limits. Away from the pirates and away from Volk. The man who went down fighting to protect us.
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Author's note: Hello everyone! I hope that told you a bit more about the story. It's taking longer then I thought to get to anything that might explain why the HELL they're running. I just hope you bear with me and read the third chapter. No matter HOW long that gets, It WILL explain something! Yee haw!! Oh..And let's have a moment of silence of Volk. He will be missed..
Oh and can someone tell me if I spelled "Paguwa-sunfa" right?
"The engine's fried!" She yelled back.
"Well DUH! That's why we stopped! Just fix it!" I hollered back.
A voice came from outside the ship. It was the ship that was grinding metal with us.
"You are all under arrest! How do you pled?!"
I looked over at Volk. He had the same expression on his face that I did. The 'what the hell' look.
"They're obviously screwing with us. They know we can't respond. They might 'mistake' this for resisting arrest." Volk groaned out.
I stood up on my chair. "Yes!! We are so FRIGGEN guilty!! Please, take us away!!"
Volk laughed. We both knew they couldn't hear us. Might as well make the best of it.
"Very well, if you do not respond we will take force!"
Volk was right. I didn't want to look at him because he would say "I told you so."
I yelled back to Sky. "Sky! Move you ass! They are not taking us peacefully!!"
"Well why don't you help me! You always brag about how you are suuuch a good mechanic!"
"You know this piece of crap better then m-"
I was cut off by a slap to the side. I heard something lock into place. I sighed.
"Crap, they got a hold of us with one of those arms."
Sky's voice came through the silence. "Oh hey! I found the problem!!"
"Hurry and fix it!"
I turned to Volk. "Get ready man, when she gets this thing running we'll be going full-" I was cut off again. But this time by that damn ship. I was getting annoyed.
"We are going to board! Make no attempt to resist!"
Attempt?! Sorry man, but we're going to do more then attempt.When we get power, that is.
I heard another clank, this time it sounded like something stuck onto our door. It must've been their red carpet into our ship.
I sat down and closed my eyes. This was it, my end. All my running and believing for nothing. All for my cause.My hopeless cause.
In the next second everything seemed to happen at once. I heard cutters going to work on the door, I also heard Sky yell "fixed it!" At the same time I saw the bridge around me spark back to life. Finally I felt something. The ship blast away doing up to and over it's max. Sky got it to run AND to kick in the boost. God, I was loving her more everyday.
Everything holding onto my ship was torn away. The grappler arms and the walkway stuck on the door. Hope those guys had suits on.
The sheer force crunched me into my seat. I couldn't move anything, not even my head to see if Volk and Sky were ok. They were probably plastered to a wall or something.
The planet we were heading to came into focus. We were now only hours.Wait no, minutes.Actually, seconds away from it. Damn, this thing can sure pick up speed.
I reached for the steering wheel but didn't even get close. I wasn't going to be able to control this thing when it reached the ground. I was praying we at least hit at an angle so he would slide to a halt.
We entered the atmosphere before I could even blink an eye, and even THAT was getting hard to do.
Flames started to blow by the front of the ship and the whole wreck was shaking so much that I thought we would fall to pieces before we even hit the ground. I didn't even know if our pursuers were still following. Guess we'd find out when we hit the ground, well if we lived through the impact.
Ah! I shouldn't think like that. Every bad thing I think up usually happens, while on the other hand I think about a thousand wong but does that ever pop up out of no where? Nooooooo.
The ground came into view within seconds. I did the only thing I could do, warn my crewmates.
"Brace for impact!!"
Neither of them replied. We hit the ground the same time I yelled. Luckily my wish came true and we did hit at a slant crashing into some trees in front of us.
We kept sliding until we fell off a cliff. Yeah, you heard me. The friggen ship fell of the side of a cliff. We hit into the water below, for a second I wondered what the splash looked like. I shook my head. I gotta stop thinking off topic.
Volk slapped me on the shoulder. "Hey we better get out of here now before we sink too far and can't swim back to the top."
I nodded my head. Better bail now before we got too deep. Volk opened the door to engine room. Sky looked hurt.And pissed.
"Oh my god.If we die in this thing I'll kill you BOTH!"
I laughed. Sky couldn't quite keep her mind together in dangerous situations. It always made for a good laugh. We headed to the door, Volk told us to hold our breaths before he opened it. We agreed and he let the tons of water outside flood in. We all were knocked out of the way but eventually swam through of the door and headed for the top.
It was a lot longer away then I thought. I swam with all my might but I was running out of air. I held it for as long as I could, sadly I couldn't stand it and I breathed out. I didn't dare breathe back in, I just kept swimming. I thought I was going to drowned right there and then yet miracle of miracles happened and my head broke the top of whatever body of water we were in.
I gasped for breath, loving every square inch that entered my lungs. I was so exhausted, Volk has to drag me up to the shore. All three of us lied there on some kind of beach to catch our breath. Sky looked in her pouch that she always kept with her. She threw me my shining sliver 9mm which had the words "Quick Silver" etched into the sides and handed Volk two of the biggest rifles I've ever seen him carry. They were custom-designed just for him. Finally she took out a glowing orange orb. The thing everyone was after. I sighed. I didn't know what was so special about it, I just figured it must cost a lot. Why else would all these people be after it? Well..There was another reason, but it was just some stupid myth. From what I've heard the Leyline never existed.
We got up and walked up the beach to some broken road. We followed it until we got to an equally broken down town. I saw ten cars pass us and not one of them stopped. I would have been mad but Volk looked pretty intimidating with those rifles strapped to his side.
The place was deserted, we screamed out to see if anyone was still here but all we got was silence. It was eerie, I've never been in a ghost town before.
We sat down next to a busted up wall and talked about what we should do now..Well actually Sky and I talked, Volk was looking out for any attackers. Good luck with that, I thought.
She ran her hand through her hair and looked at me.
"Well, what now?"
"First we need to find out where we are, then get a ship and get the hell out of here."
"Easier said then done."
"Pfft, we've been through worse. Remember that one time on Sentinel 3?
Volk cut in. "As I remember correctly we decimated half of the place for.One shell?"
I growled. "It was a caster shell," I reached into my pocket and took it out as I talked, silently thanking God it was still there, "it's the first one I've ever seen in my life. I couldn't just let it sit there."
Sky spoke up. "You don't even have a caster. Why do you need it?"
My response was low. "My hero had a caster.I thought I could be more of an outlaw with it by me. Y'know, like a good luck charm."
Volk smiled. "C'mon, man. That guys gotta be like 60. He had to have lost his edge by now."
I sighed. "So what? He's still the baddest guy out there. If anyone could stop this war between the Ka-shinta and Space Forces, it'd be him."
We all fell silent and listened to the wind. Nothing was going to happen if we just sat there, I stood up and dusted myself off.
"Ok, let's get out of here."
My command didn't even go into Volk's thick head. He had his eyes fixed on something else. I turned to what caught his attention. My jaw almost hit the ground. There was a group of pirates standing right in front of us.
I didn't know what to say, was stunned into shock, I guess. I didn't really have to say anything, one tuff-ass locking pirate spoke up.
"Well, looks like I found you. My master we be most pleased.Now.If you please, the orb."
He had his hand stretched out to us. Sky looked at me and placed her hands on her pouch, I quickly shook my head no. If they wanted this things so badly, I wanted to know why.
"What's so good about this rock, huh?!" The man laughed. "Oh, my boy. That thing has powers only your most wildest dreams could imagine."
"That didn't tell me anything important about it. What kind of powers?"
"Give me the orb and I'll show you." He grinned evilly.
That did it, I made up my mind. There was no way in hell that bastard was getting it now. I looked over at Volk and blinked my left eye twice. This was our little code that a gun fight was about to begin. We had to have things like this because we always ended up in these kind of situations.
I turned back to the man and said my personally favorite line.
"Go to hell."
Volk and I pulled out guns simultaneously and let off a wave of rounds. The man calmly stood there and chanted.
"Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa, Paguwa-sunfa."
A wisp of blue light emanated from his body and swirled around him and his comrades. The bullets hit the aura then slid to the ground, not doing any damage the man or his makeshift force-field. It was around this time I started to really hate Pirate Magic.
Volk growled and starred at the man but talked to me. "Hey, you and Sky get out of here, I'll take them on. You guys just get that little gem to safety."
I stood there, not moving.
"No way am I leaving you here to fight alone! This isn't some fairy tale were the good guy fights a mob of angry villagers and comes out alive!"
"Hey.Who said we were good guys?"
I looked at Volk. He was a tall and very well built man. Muscles were on top of muscles, he always was our leader in battles, tearing everyone in our way to pieces. He was a human tank.but it didn't matter, we were up against magic now. No way would he survive.
I was about to rip his head off but Sky grabbed my arm and ran around the corner.
"Sky! Why are you dragging my away! Volk isn't going to survive without us!"
She stopped and glared at me, her eyes were slits.
"I'm just as pissed as you but he's trying to buy us some time to escape. If we all fought, then we all would fall. Game over. This way we MIGHT live. Got it?!"
I was so close to argue my case further but tears built up in her eyes. She was only trying to hide her sadness behind anger. She felt the same thing I did.Damn.
We heard Volk's rifles start up again. The sounded more like chain-guns then normal rifles. We ran down the road, the further we got the less we could hear gun fire.But then, it suddenly stopped. We skidded to a halt. He's dead, I thought. I was going to break down right there, Volk helped raise me. Him and Sky were both around thirty, I was a measly eighteen. They weren't married or even romantically involved, they just stuck together.For me and my cause.My hopeless cause.
Sky started crying way before me. To her it was like loosing a brother, just the same as it was like loosing a father to me. I started to shake and almost fell to my knees, luckily Sky caught her composer before I did.
"Wait are we standing here for. We have to go."
I silently agreed and we both ran out of the city's limits. Away from the pirates and away from Volk. The man who went down fighting to protect us.
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Author's note: Hello everyone! I hope that told you a bit more about the story. It's taking longer then I thought to get to anything that might explain why the HELL they're running. I just hope you bear with me and read the third chapter. No matter HOW long that gets, It WILL explain something! Yee haw!! Oh..And let's have a moment of silence of Volk. He will be missed..
Oh and can someone tell me if I spelled "Paguwa-sunfa" right?