A/N: Getting more and more interesting, isn't it.... *tee hee* this is what I live for! *tee hee*
rant warning....::: my best friend is a girl named Andrea. She may be my best friend, but there are times that she feels like smacking the crap out of me and I want to do the same. I have been watching Elijah Wood since I was ten, I think... it could be since I was eight, but I can't recall too clearly. Anyway... When I saw him in Flipper, I practically drooled over the boy. I had a nice picture of him and all. I showed it to Andrea and she, being more into Leonardo DiCaprio and Hanson, thought he was ugly. Needless to say, I argued with her.
For four years....
When Lord of the Rings came out, she called me up and said that Elijah Wood was a hottie... end of story...
Now read and Review....
Chapter Three
Miss Davenport dictated some notes for the next class. She sat in her chair comfortably with her back straight up against the back of the chair. "Engine repair work is but a skill all need...." she said in her best voice.
Then, the computer blinked at her a message. She put down the compupad she had in her hand and touched the crystal on the control panel. "Incoming message...?" she said.
A picture came up. It was of a large stone head covered in moss and vines. "Interesting... It seems my teachings have NOT been all for naught...."
Then, came a picture of an old, run down building with Harlan standing in front of it waving. "Then again...." she said.
Commander Goddard walked past the classroom where she was. He saw her looking at something and walked in. "TJ...? What are you looking at?"
"Interesting pictures that the students have sent to the ship...." she said. She tapped a crystal and the picture of the stone head came up on the classroom view screen.
Goddard stared at it. He raised an eyebrow. "You know... If I didn't know better... I would say that was taken from in the jungles of India where they have these massive stone heads lying everywhere..." Goddard said.
"Yes... I thought the same.... but they look by far much... much older.... and the shapes are quite a bit different...." She started pointing out the different features of the head. The nose is triangular. The eyes are weathered down like they've been put through millions of years worth of monsoon seasons..."
"It's all very vague...." she finished.
"Are there any others?" Goddard asked her.
"There are other pictures...." She tapped the crystal and another picture came up. It was the picture of Harlan waving. "Mr. Band here is waving from in front of an old building...."
"Typical... he was probably saying 'Cheese' at the same time...." Goddard said with a smirk. He started for the door. "Contact me if you receive any others... I'll be on the command deck..."
Elmira sat in the secluded room that they had all given her. She preferred to be alone. It gave her a chance to think. It gave her time to see.
She thought about Radu. Something seemed to trouble her greatly about the present. She could feel fear emanating from everywhere. She couldn't figure out why, though. She opened her eyes and took a deep breath. She thought she ought to eat something.
She stood up and walked toward the door. Then, she went to the nearest jumptube and went to the galley.
Rosie opened her eyes. She had pain in her head for some reason. She was lying on something. She moved her head and saw that she was laying up against Bova, who was asleep. She sat up and got to her feet.
She suddenly realized that she was caged. She saw the bars in front of her. She walked to the bars and touched them. Her mind was too fuzzy to think properly.
Radu opened his eyes and took a deep breath. He felt cold metal on his wrists. He stared blearily at the manacles. "What...?" he muttered.
He then, noticed that he was standing. He noticed that he had chains wrapped around his chest, stomach, and legs. He was completely tied down.
He heard people far off in the distance. He heard people everywhere walking, talking, and eating. Most of all, he heard two people in the room with him. He saw a flash of red and figured it was the girl that had attacked him.
"He's awake..." she said to someone else.
"Go give him some water... he may be a stranger, but that doesn't mean we can't be at least a LITTLE kind..." said another voice. It was a boy.
The girl came into his line of vision. She had cream colored skin, yellow almond-shaped eyes and short black and red striped hair. She wore a red shirt and black pants with black boots. In her hair, there were red feathers. On her face, there were red symbols around her eyes and in the middle of her forehead.
She picked up a metal cup and shoved it under Radu's nose. She smiled coldly at him. "Want any?"
Radu nodded as best as he could. She tilted the cup to his lips. He felt water graze them, so he opened his mouth and got half a mouthful before she took it away. "Feera.... be nice..." said the second voice.
Out came a boy with blue and black hair. He wore black boots, black pants and a black shirt. He walked over to Radu and gave him the rest of the water. Radu smiled and coughed. "Thank you..." he managed to say.
"He gave me a huge bruise on my back...." she growled at the boy. "I have some right in being cruel to him...."
"No you don't, Feera... and you know it.... These are strangers... not the Zeeks themselves...." The boy said. Radu coughed again.
"Wh-Where am I...." He coughed again. "Where is my friend..."
"Your friend had quite the bruise on her jaw.... I hear from Feera that you hit your companion...." the boy said. He had black eyes.
Radu remembered what had happened. He had been hit and whipped around to catch whoever had hit him. In the process, he had hit Freya instead. He bowed his head. "Is she alright?" he asked.
"She will be... as soon as you tell us where you people are from...." Feera said with that cold smile.
"W... We're from a ship...." Radu said weakly.
"A ship? What's that?" The boy said.
Feera growled. "He's lying...."
Radu shook his head fervently. "No I'm not! We stopped here for supplies and that's how you found us!"
"I found you and your friend swimming in our water...." Feera took out the silver badge. "And she had THIS on her...." She threw it at Radu and it bounced off of his dense, springy hair.
"You say that when you hit him the first time, that he didn't even register it?" asked the boy.
"He's very strong...." Feera said with malice in her yellow eyes.
Radu suddenly remembered that he was bound. He wondered if he could break the chains holding him. Feera's smile became wider. "I wouldn't try it, stranger.... Your friends' lives are at stake..."
It hit Radu like a sledge hammer. "Y-Y-You have more?"
"Tobinias brought in two more..." Feera said. "A girl with red skin and a boy with a strange mark on his forehead."
Rosie heard the conversation. She gasped as she realized that Radu was there. Bova was beginning to snore loudly. "Radu! I'm over here!" she cried.
"So... your name's Radu....?" said Feera. "How convenient."
The scary girl with the red and black hair walked over to Rosie and Bova's cage. She opened the door and saw Bova. She glared at him. "Why is he asleep, still!" she growled.
She kicked at Bova, but he amazingly moved his torso away from her blow. The punched at him and his head moved to the side. She punched at him again. He moved his head to the other side. "What is WITH this boy!" she huffed.
Rosie stared incredulously at her companion. "You wouldn't believe me if I tried to explain...." she said.
Someone rustled in the cage opposite of Rosie's. She glanced beyond the bars and grass to see Freya in a very odd position. She was lying with her head next to her feet. Rosie stared at her incredulously. "How can ANYONE sleep like that!" growled Feera as she continued to try to wake up Bova. His legs were up in the air.
"Why don't you try asking that green haired girl that!" said the boy with the blue and black hair. Rosie saw the boy give a great sigh. "Derek will throw a fit if he found out she was up to her old tricks again...."
Rosie walked out of the cage. It was an easy thing to do since Feera was busy with Bova and she had left the door open. She walked over to the boy and smiled. She noticed that he had small blue triangles in the middle of his forehead down between his eyebrows. He was almost as pale as Feera. He looked surprised at her being out. "C-Can you tell me what's going on?"
He stared at her. "I'd like to ask you the same.... our scouts caught you in the forest without any tribal marks...."
"Tribal?" Rosie asked. "What do you mean....?"
"Tribal... As in your tribe... Our marks are part of identifying us all... Feera's are red because she is a scout and hunter.... mine are blue because I'm a healer..." the boy said. "My name is Tavik, by the way...."
Rosie chewed her bottom lip nervously. Then, she smiled at Tavik. "M-my name is Rosie.... That boy is Radu.... The girl with the green hair is Freya and the boy sleeping is Bova... We're part of the crew of the Christa...."
Feera walked out of the cage, huffing as she sat down in a chair from exhaustion. "That boy is like a Dark Skill master or somethin'!" she gasped. Then, she fell asleep.
"Poor, poor Feera... I guess she's not used to being opposed..." Tavik said.
Bova could still be heard snoring. Freya was now beginning to snore. Rosie kept smiling at Tavik. "Could you tell us if you found our other two members?"
Tavik looked startled. "Two more? They didn't bring anymore in except you four..."
"Then.... where could they be?" Rosie asked.
Harlan was slapped awake. He had pain everywhere in his body. He especially had a nasty headache. He opened his eyes and saw some strange girl about his age grinning maliciously at him. She had half of a metal mask on that covered around her right eye. She had green eyes and long black hair with green braids in it. On the visible side of her face, she had black marks around her eyes. "Good day, sleepy head..."
"H-How do you know how to speak m-my language...." Harlan managed to say through the haze in his mind.
She glared down at him. "What do you mean! This is how everyone speaks!"
"Only if the writer can't figure out a new language...."
"What did you say?!"
"I said, why am I here!" Harlan growled.
"You were in our city... anyone who doesn't wear our tribe's marks gets caught and brought in for questioning..." The girl said.
"Such WONdeful hospitality.... really.. You ought to tell your people to make this a vacation spot..." Harlan said. The girl punched him. When he finished spitting the blood out of his mouth, he saw that she was wearing black leather gloves.
She cracked her knuckles. "Zanathos is waiting for some info, so you might as well cough it all up now..." She leaned in close to Harlan and spoke lower. "Before I have to get rough with you...."
"You mean you aren't rough now? Geez... you better have a talk with you psychiatrist...." Harlan said with a smirk. The girl gave him a cruel smile.
Then, she punched him as she spoke, as if to emphasize what she was saying. "Wrong (Punchety)... Answer (Punchety)... Boy!(Punchety)."
Harlan leaned his sore head back against the chair he was shackled to. Blood seeped out of his mouth and he had a black eye. He coughed and tasted more blood come into his mouth. He wondered briefly where Suzee was.
A door opened. In came a tall male that Harlan could only see hidden in shadow. He sounded amused. "Continuing with your exorcizes, I see, Treya..." he said.
"Yes, sir!" she said gleefully. "It won't be much longer... He looks like he's willing to tell us where his tribe is..."
Harlan felt the girl grip his head and pull it up into the light. She smiled down at him cruelly. "Sooner or later...." she laughed. "He will tell us... and then we will eradicate them!"
Then, Treya kicked his face with her knee. His head flew back and his nose bled. She punched him in the stomach. She brought her hand around and broke his arm. Harlan then blacked out from the pain.
rant warning....::: my best friend is a girl named Andrea. She may be my best friend, but there are times that she feels like smacking the crap out of me and I want to do the same. I have been watching Elijah Wood since I was ten, I think... it could be since I was eight, but I can't recall too clearly. Anyway... When I saw him in Flipper, I practically drooled over the boy. I had a nice picture of him and all. I showed it to Andrea and she, being more into Leonardo DiCaprio and Hanson, thought he was ugly. Needless to say, I argued with her.
For four years....
When Lord of the Rings came out, she called me up and said that Elijah Wood was a hottie... end of story...
Now read and Review....
Chapter Three
Miss Davenport dictated some notes for the next class. She sat in her chair comfortably with her back straight up against the back of the chair. "Engine repair work is but a skill all need...." she said in her best voice.
Then, the computer blinked at her a message. She put down the compupad she had in her hand and touched the crystal on the control panel. "Incoming message...?" she said.
A picture came up. It was of a large stone head covered in moss and vines. "Interesting... It seems my teachings have NOT been all for naught...."
Then, came a picture of an old, run down building with Harlan standing in front of it waving. "Then again...." she said.
Commander Goddard walked past the classroom where she was. He saw her looking at something and walked in. "TJ...? What are you looking at?"
"Interesting pictures that the students have sent to the ship...." she said. She tapped a crystal and the picture of the stone head came up on the classroom view screen.
Goddard stared at it. He raised an eyebrow. "You know... If I didn't know better... I would say that was taken from in the jungles of India where they have these massive stone heads lying everywhere..." Goddard said.
"Yes... I thought the same.... but they look by far much... much older.... and the shapes are quite a bit different...." She started pointing out the different features of the head. The nose is triangular. The eyes are weathered down like they've been put through millions of years worth of monsoon seasons..."
"It's all very vague...." she finished.
"Are there any others?" Goddard asked her.
"There are other pictures...." She tapped the crystal and another picture came up. It was the picture of Harlan waving. "Mr. Band here is waving from in front of an old building...."
"Typical... he was probably saying 'Cheese' at the same time...." Goddard said with a smirk. He started for the door. "Contact me if you receive any others... I'll be on the command deck..."
Elmira sat in the secluded room that they had all given her. She preferred to be alone. It gave her a chance to think. It gave her time to see.
She thought about Radu. Something seemed to trouble her greatly about the present. She could feel fear emanating from everywhere. She couldn't figure out why, though. She opened her eyes and took a deep breath. She thought she ought to eat something.
She stood up and walked toward the door. Then, she went to the nearest jumptube and went to the galley.
Rosie opened her eyes. She had pain in her head for some reason. She was lying on something. She moved her head and saw that she was laying up against Bova, who was asleep. She sat up and got to her feet.
She suddenly realized that she was caged. She saw the bars in front of her. She walked to the bars and touched them. Her mind was too fuzzy to think properly.
Radu opened his eyes and took a deep breath. He felt cold metal on his wrists. He stared blearily at the manacles. "What...?" he muttered.
He then, noticed that he was standing. He noticed that he had chains wrapped around his chest, stomach, and legs. He was completely tied down.
He heard people far off in the distance. He heard people everywhere walking, talking, and eating. Most of all, he heard two people in the room with him. He saw a flash of red and figured it was the girl that had attacked him.
"He's awake..." she said to someone else.
"Go give him some water... he may be a stranger, but that doesn't mean we can't be at least a LITTLE kind..." said another voice. It was a boy.
The girl came into his line of vision. She had cream colored skin, yellow almond-shaped eyes and short black and red striped hair. She wore a red shirt and black pants with black boots. In her hair, there were red feathers. On her face, there were red symbols around her eyes and in the middle of her forehead.
She picked up a metal cup and shoved it under Radu's nose. She smiled coldly at him. "Want any?"
Radu nodded as best as he could. She tilted the cup to his lips. He felt water graze them, so he opened his mouth and got half a mouthful before she took it away. "Feera.... be nice..." said the second voice.
Out came a boy with blue and black hair. He wore black boots, black pants and a black shirt. He walked over to Radu and gave him the rest of the water. Radu smiled and coughed. "Thank you..." he managed to say.
"He gave me a huge bruise on my back...." she growled at the boy. "I have some right in being cruel to him...."
"No you don't, Feera... and you know it.... These are strangers... not the Zeeks themselves...." The boy said. Radu coughed again.
"Wh-Where am I...." He coughed again. "Where is my friend..."
"Your friend had quite the bruise on her jaw.... I hear from Feera that you hit your companion...." the boy said. He had black eyes.
Radu remembered what had happened. He had been hit and whipped around to catch whoever had hit him. In the process, he had hit Freya instead. He bowed his head. "Is she alright?" he asked.
"She will be... as soon as you tell us where you people are from...." Feera said with that cold smile.
"W... We're from a ship...." Radu said weakly.
"A ship? What's that?" The boy said.
Feera growled. "He's lying...."
Radu shook his head fervently. "No I'm not! We stopped here for supplies and that's how you found us!"
"I found you and your friend swimming in our water...." Feera took out the silver badge. "And she had THIS on her...." She threw it at Radu and it bounced off of his dense, springy hair.
"You say that when you hit him the first time, that he didn't even register it?" asked the boy.
"He's very strong...." Feera said with malice in her yellow eyes.
Radu suddenly remembered that he was bound. He wondered if he could break the chains holding him. Feera's smile became wider. "I wouldn't try it, stranger.... Your friends' lives are at stake..."
It hit Radu like a sledge hammer. "Y-Y-You have more?"
"Tobinias brought in two more..." Feera said. "A girl with red skin and a boy with a strange mark on his forehead."
Rosie heard the conversation. She gasped as she realized that Radu was there. Bova was beginning to snore loudly. "Radu! I'm over here!" she cried.
"So... your name's Radu....?" said Feera. "How convenient."
The scary girl with the red and black hair walked over to Rosie and Bova's cage. She opened the door and saw Bova. She glared at him. "Why is he asleep, still!" she growled.
She kicked at Bova, but he amazingly moved his torso away from her blow. The punched at him and his head moved to the side. She punched at him again. He moved his head to the other side. "What is WITH this boy!" she huffed.
Rosie stared incredulously at her companion. "You wouldn't believe me if I tried to explain...." she said.
Someone rustled in the cage opposite of Rosie's. She glanced beyond the bars and grass to see Freya in a very odd position. She was lying with her head next to her feet. Rosie stared at her incredulously. "How can ANYONE sleep like that!" growled Feera as she continued to try to wake up Bova. His legs were up in the air.
"Why don't you try asking that green haired girl that!" said the boy with the blue and black hair. Rosie saw the boy give a great sigh. "Derek will throw a fit if he found out she was up to her old tricks again...."
Rosie walked out of the cage. It was an easy thing to do since Feera was busy with Bova and she had left the door open. She walked over to the boy and smiled. She noticed that he had small blue triangles in the middle of his forehead down between his eyebrows. He was almost as pale as Feera. He looked surprised at her being out. "C-Can you tell me what's going on?"
He stared at her. "I'd like to ask you the same.... our scouts caught you in the forest without any tribal marks...."
"Tribal?" Rosie asked. "What do you mean....?"
"Tribal... As in your tribe... Our marks are part of identifying us all... Feera's are red because she is a scout and hunter.... mine are blue because I'm a healer..." the boy said. "My name is Tavik, by the way...."
Rosie chewed her bottom lip nervously. Then, she smiled at Tavik. "M-my name is Rosie.... That boy is Radu.... The girl with the green hair is Freya and the boy sleeping is Bova... We're part of the crew of the Christa...."
Feera walked out of the cage, huffing as she sat down in a chair from exhaustion. "That boy is like a Dark Skill master or somethin'!" she gasped. Then, she fell asleep.
"Poor, poor Feera... I guess she's not used to being opposed..." Tavik said.
Bova could still be heard snoring. Freya was now beginning to snore. Rosie kept smiling at Tavik. "Could you tell us if you found our other two members?"
Tavik looked startled. "Two more? They didn't bring anymore in except you four..."
"Then.... where could they be?" Rosie asked.
Harlan was slapped awake. He had pain everywhere in his body. He especially had a nasty headache. He opened his eyes and saw some strange girl about his age grinning maliciously at him. She had half of a metal mask on that covered around her right eye. She had green eyes and long black hair with green braids in it. On the visible side of her face, she had black marks around her eyes. "Good day, sleepy head..."
"H-How do you know how to speak m-my language...." Harlan managed to say through the haze in his mind.
She glared down at him. "What do you mean! This is how everyone speaks!"
"Only if the writer can't figure out a new language...."
"What did you say?!"
"I said, why am I here!" Harlan growled.
"You were in our city... anyone who doesn't wear our tribe's marks gets caught and brought in for questioning..." The girl said.
"Such WONdeful hospitality.... really.. You ought to tell your people to make this a vacation spot..." Harlan said. The girl punched him. When he finished spitting the blood out of his mouth, he saw that she was wearing black leather gloves.
She cracked her knuckles. "Zanathos is waiting for some info, so you might as well cough it all up now..." She leaned in close to Harlan and spoke lower. "Before I have to get rough with you...."
"You mean you aren't rough now? Geez... you better have a talk with you psychiatrist...." Harlan said with a smirk. The girl gave him a cruel smile.
Then, she punched him as she spoke, as if to emphasize what she was saying. "Wrong (Punchety)... Answer (Punchety)... Boy!(Punchety)."
Harlan leaned his sore head back against the chair he was shackled to. Blood seeped out of his mouth and he had a black eye. He coughed and tasted more blood come into his mouth. He wondered briefly where Suzee was.
A door opened. In came a tall male that Harlan could only see hidden in shadow. He sounded amused. "Continuing with your exorcizes, I see, Treya..." he said.
"Yes, sir!" she said gleefully. "It won't be much longer... He looks like he's willing to tell us where his tribe is..."
Harlan felt the girl grip his head and pull it up into the light. She smiled down at him cruelly. "Sooner or later...." she laughed. "He will tell us... and then we will eradicate them!"
Then, Treya kicked his face with her knee. His head flew back and his nose bled. She punched him in the stomach. She brought her hand around and broke his arm. Harlan then blacked out from the pain.
