A/N: I just found out that # 2 of Cardcaptor Sakura: Master of the Clow is in! ACK! I can't wait to go get it! ::weeps:: I'll have to wait a day before I can retrieve my copy....

I heard that Space Cases will be aired on the Sci-Fi channel at some point. I hope it will be soon! I'm gonna buy a bunch of video tapes and tape it all! ::grumbles:: I haven't seen it since I was fourteen! ::growls::

I just watched that LotR South Park episode. It was funny! Cartman was Gandalf. Stan was Frodo, I think and I don't remember who Kyle was dressed as. When they got into the town with the Two Towers Video Store, they came across a few kids dressed up in black robes and playing Harry Potter. Cartman laughs at them and calls them Fags. I would punch him, but he's not real and I am....




Chapter Two





Rosie walked down the plank and stepped down on fresh green grass. There was a pleasant breeze blowing about. "Come on guys! It's great out here...." Rosie said cheerfully.

Bova came out next. "Too pretty... next thing you'll see out here are a bunch of evil demon dogs out to eat us...." Bova grumbled.

Suzee came up behind Bova. "Oh be quiet, Bova... You're ruining the moment!" she said in that same eerily cheerful voice.

Radu came up behind her. Harlan came up behind Radu and tapped him on the shoulder. "What's up with her..." he hissed.

Freya came up behind Harlan. She glanced around her. "Oh wow! So this is what Earth looks like?"

Harlan stared at Freya for a second. "Uh... in a sense...."

"Hmm... This'll be hard on me..." she said. "My planet is completely covered with water...." she said as she pulled down her collar to reveal the gill slits on her neck.

"A city chick, eh?" Harlan said with a wide grin.

Suzee glared at him. "Can we get a move on....?" she snapped.

"Yes... we ought to go now...." Rosie said.

"Let's go on and split up..." Bova said.

"Fine... I'll go with Suzee....." Harlan said as he assumed the leader position. "Bova and Rosie.... and Radu with Freya...." Harlan walked over to Suzee with a grin. "Let's go and have fun!"

"We o-ought to meet up in an hour..." Radu said.

Harlan and Suzee walked off in one direction. Bova and Rosie walked over toward a lake that was on Rosie's scanners in her compupad. Radu and Freya walked off toward a forest.

Inside the forest, Radu helped to keep the branches out of the way of their path. "Freya... when you said your planet was entirely covered with water.... where did you grow up, then...."

Freya avoided a fallen tree on the ground. She jumped on top of it and then jumped down. "Ah! Well... Selaran's either live under neath the ocean.... or on top of it. I grew up in one of the largest cities on my planet, which is underneath the water. In a sense... your friend Harlan was right..." She jumped off of a rock. "I am a city girl...." She smirked at Radu. "What about you, Radu... what's your life like...."

Radu jumped off of the rock she had gotten off of. "I was the three hundred eighty-sixth hatchling in the cycle for the Andromedans...." He said. He was silent for a few moments. "I'm... about thirteen or fourteen in Earth standard time...." he said.

"That's it? Nothing more than that?" Freya asked in a surprised tone. Then, she narrowed her eyes at him. "You're keeping something from me...."

He gulped. "N-no... I'm not..."

Freya stared at him with those eyes of hers boring into him. He was getting uncomfortable with her staring at him like that. Then, she adverted her gaze. "Fine... let's go..." she said in a tone that seemed a bit lower than her normal range.



Rosie and Bova found themselves inside a forest. "We're lost, aren't we..." said Bova.

"No we're not, Bova, we're just in a forest... I'm sure the lake is around here somewhere...." Rosie said. "It's on my compupad, right here..."

"That doesn't look like a lake to me..." Bova grumbled. Rosie glared at Bova, then rolled her eyes at him.

"Come on... It shouldn't be much further...." she said.



Harlan and Suzee walked along the street that lead them into a broken down city. The buildings were falling apart and the road was coming apart as well. "Man... Something really bad happened here..." Harlan said.

"It's trivial... let's see if any technology is left over in this place....." Suzee said as she pressed on the quest at hand. Harlan was getting worried there was something wrong with her.

He also felt as though someone was watching them. He kept his guard up as they walked around. Suzee had her compupad with her and she was using the scanners on it to examine things.

"The road we're walking on.... it made out of.... rock and wood made into a mulch..." she said. "And metal in here as well... Interesting...."

"Suzee.... I think we ought to turn back...." Harlan said.

"Nonsense.... we're getting close to usable material... I just know it!" she said excitedly. Harlan wasn't comfortable. He followed her, though.



"So you calculated your age, finally, eh?" Freya asked as she squatted on a high rock. She glanced around the area. "I smell fresh water around here...."

Radu could hear everything around him. "There's a water fall near here..." He corrected her. "It has a particular sound..."

"It has a particular smell...." Freya said shortly.

They walked along until they found the water fall. It's spray blew into their faces. Radu smiled at the feeling. It smelled and felt wonderful. The noise was way too loud for him though. He tried his best to tune out the roar.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Freya on the ground, taking her boots off. "What are you doing...." Radu asked.

Freya took off her jumpsuit. She was lucky that she was wearing the blue T-shirt underneath and a pair of shorts. "I'm about to take a swim...." she said as she stood back up.

Radu stared at her. She smiled. "Come on... take off that jumpsuit and jump in with me..." she beamed at him.

She jumped into the cold water. She breathed in the water and let it filter through her gills. It was fun to use them again.

"I... I..uh.. I don't feel like going in right now...." Radu stammered. He sat down at the edge of the water, though.

Freya felt the vibrations and heard his voice. Her ears immediately interpreted for her. She came up out of the water. She watched him from the water as she treaded the water. "So you finally figured out how old you were?"

Radu had been lamenting when he caught her words. It took a second for him to interpret. "Ah... uh... y-yeah... in a sense... I figure we've been out here for a couple of years, so far..."

"Oh.... I see...." Freya said. Then, she dove under again.



Rosie and Bova kept wandering. "I'm telling you, we're lost...." Bova said.

"We are not lost..." Rosie said.

"Are too..."

"Are not..."

"Fine... where is the lake that we were going to...." Bova said as she sat down on a rock.

"It should be around here somewhere...." Rosie said cheerfully. "If you weren't complaining, we would find it..."

"Right... as if the lake will suddenly appear because I shut up..." Bova retorted. Rosie glared at him then looked at her scanner again. Bova glanced around. "Besides... I keep getting this feeling we're being watched....."

"You're just being paranoid, Bova..." Rosie sighed.



Freya came up again with a look of concern on her face. "What about your girlfriend, Elmira... wouldn't she have liked to come out?"

Radu stopped pulling up bits of grass. "Hmm? She isn't my girlfriend...." He said as he blushed. "Besides.... she usually likes to keep isolated away from everyone...."

"Hmm.... I wonder why...?" Freya said. "She was in the girls' bunkroom on my first night on the Christa..."

Radu watched her. Her eyes went unfocused for a moment. "She doesn't trust me either......" she said. "None of you really do...." Radu didn't say anything. He just watched her.

"I-It's not because you can get into all of our personal files...." Radu finally stammered out. "Y-you can read our thoughts.... It's enough to make anyone a little nervous, really...."

"No I can't...."

Radu did a sort of double take. He stared at her. "What do you mean..."

"After that last power surge, I couldn't read anyone.... though I still retain my ability to sense feelings...." Freya said. "That's just part of my being Selaran.... we're a race of empaths...."

"Do you know what I'm feeling..." Radu asked.

"Slightly embarrassed at your gumption...." said Freya dismissively.

He blushed. It was true that he wasn't very good at acting gung ho. He preferred to stay the follower on almost everything. "You're very strange.... you know that?"

"I get that a lot...." Then, she dove under the water again.



Harlan and Suzee found an abandoned restraunt. It was grey and dust covered. There wasn't anything that didn't look like it hadn't been through a few hundred years of nonactivity.

"This place is giving me the creeps... I really feel like someone's watching us.... I'm serious!" Harlan said.

"Aw... is widdle Harwan feewing insecure?" said Suzee in baby talk. Harlan glared at her. "Don't worry... we'll be out of the nasty old restraunt in no t--"

Harlan turned and saw her. Her expression was completely blank. Nothing was registering. "Suzee? Suzee... Are you all right?" He snapped his fingers in front of her face. "Suzee? What's wrong...."

Suddenly, she put her hands up to her ears and screamed a high pitched scream of agony. Harlan stepped back as she sunk to her knees screaming at the top of her lungs. "GET OUT! LEAVE ME ALONE! GET OUT!"

Harlan was aware of someone in the shadows behind Suzee. He saw the eyes. Harlan winced in pain as Suzee's screams pierced him. He reached down and grabbed a small wooden pole lying on the ground. Then, he threw it at the person in the shadows.

They disappeared. Harlan reached down to take one of Suzee's hands which were grasping her ears tightly. "GET OUT! LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed even louder. Tears were falling from her tightly shut eyes.

Then, he felt pain. There was a bright light and stars in his eyes. Then, everything went black.



Rosie and Bova walked along some more. They climbed up a particularly large rock. "This is ridiculous....." Bova growled. "We should've been there by now...."

"Bova... We'll get there at some point... maybe we ought go back to the ChristaaaAAAAAAAH!" Rosie screamed as she fell down off of the rock. She landed hard on her rump.

Bova looked over the edge of the rock. He saw Rosie sprawled over a few small rocks and green grass. "Rosie... Are you all right?" Bova called down.

"Yeah... I'm fine..." she grunted as she got to her feet. She looked down at the compupad in her hand. "And so is the compupad..."

"Well, that's good... maybe with that, we can get back..." Bova said. He started to walk off and find a way down when Rosie gasped. He ran back to the edge and looked down. "What's wrong!"

Rosie was gazing up at the large rock he was perched on. "Look! Look at the rock!"

Bova looked down at the edge of the rock. All he saw was a rock. "What are you talking about... It's just a rock!"

"No! Bova... come down here!"

Bova sighed and rolled his eyes. Then, he looked around for a way to get down. He finally settled on closing his eyes and dropping down like Rosie. He ended up sliding down.

When Bova opened his eyes he saw Rosie smiling down at him. He took her hand and she helped him up. Then, she pointed at the rock. "See? Look!"

Bova turned. What he saw was shocking to him. He saw a massive stone head lying on the ground on it's side. The face was weathered. It was covered by moss and vines. "Wow..." was all that he managed.

"I'm taking a picture of this to send back to the Christa..." Rosie said gleefully. She put the compupad up and punched a button on it. The minute camera on the pad took the shot and made a beep when it was down. Rosie brought the compupad back.

Bova looked at it. It was a good picture. "It's alright..." He said.

"Okay... now to send it...." She punched a button and it made another beep at her. "There... it's done..."

Suddenly, a net went over their heads. Bova tried to focus an electrical shock, but realized that he would probably hurt Rosie in the process. Then, something hit his head. He saw stars for a moment, then everything went black.



Radu heard something. It sounded as though someone screamed, but it was very far away. He felt uncomfortable now. He swore that someone was watching them. Although, he couldn't hear anything from the deafening roar of the waterfall.

Freya had not come back up, yet. She was still underneath the surface, swimming around peacefully. He nervously wondered how long she would stay under there.

Freya felt Radu's nervousness. She felt as though someone were watching. She felt everything that Radu was feeling at the moment. She swam through the water. She saw something glinting in the sunlight.

She got over to it. It was a badge. It was of some configuration that was unknown to her. It was a triangle with the letter Z on it. She put it into her shorts pocket and swam back toward the surface.

Radu stood up. He still couldn't get past the roar of the waterfall. It was blanketing his hearing. He tried desperately to hear where the something was that was watching him.

Then, Freya jumped out of the water. Radu jumped and fell when she landed on the bank. She was dripping with water and her gills were flared. She gasped to catch her breath as she was converting back into breathing actual air again. "I.... I found something..."

Her gills finally flattened out against her neck as she put her jumpsuit on. She took out something bright silver and triangular. He took it and stared at it as she zipped up the suit. "It has a Z on it... I wonder what it means...." she said.

"That's not the only thing suspicious out here...." Radu said as he got to his feet. "Someone is watching us...."

"Can you pin point where they are?" she asked him.

"No... I can't hear anything beyond this waterfall." He grunted.

Freya glanced around. She too couldn't hear anything beyond the waterfall. Her hearing wasn't as good as Radu's, but it was still rather sensitive. "We need to get back to the Christa...." she whispered softly.

"What?" Radu asked. It was the first time that he couldn't hear anything properly.

"I said..."

Suddenly, there was a pain in Radu's head. He saw stars for a moment, but stayed conscious. His dense and springy hair took most of the blow. He lashed out with one hand and hit Freya across the jaw. She flew back into the water.

"Freya!" He shouted. She didn't move. She was half submerged on the bank.

He caught someone's foot against his chest. He had not seen anyone previously. He turned just as soon as a girl dressed in red hit him with the heel of her hand on his nose. It threw his head back.

He punched at the girl and she dodged. Her red and black hair flew past him. She grabbed his hand and kicked him in the stomach. Then, she kicked him with all her might across his jaw.

Radu saw the twinkling stars again. They were brighter this time. Then, he knew no more.