Name: Natera.
Age: 20.
Eyes: Gray/blue.
Hair: Brown.
Description: Natera wares a black cape covering her black paints and long sleeved black shirt, on the shoulders of her shirt is a badge showing her rank in the "army". Under the cape are two guns and a sword (if she gets close enough she will use it)
Chapter one.
Natera walked on to the cargo transport ship. Her eyes scanning the people that had been killed "damn" she said quietly to herself.
"If only I was ready sooner, then I would have stopped this…this…massacre!" She said eyeing each and every body that lay on the ground.
'Yeah but you had to…' a voice near her said
"I know, I know" She interrupted.
"It was my fault. I did not know that they would be back anytime soon" She said still looking at each of the victims.
Natera walked by a woman, about 40, and stopped, turning toward her. The long cape making a graceful sweep and she turned and knelled down beside the woman
"She's still alive" she whispered looking at the tag that everyone needed to ware in these times. She read it making sure she did not miss a detail.
"Name: Prof. E. William" she read out in her mind as she went down to the next row of the I.D tag.
"Wait" she said looking at the name again her mind buzzing "The professor is still alive, but barely" she said watching her chest rise and fall slowly.
'Miss. Natera, if you don't mind I feel like there is something watching us, and its life force seems evil.' The voice said. It was male and seemed to be worried about his 'owners' safety. It was a ghost, a ghost of an assassin and Natera's beast friend.
Natera looked around eyeing every dark corner of the ship.
"Let's go" She said picking up the professor.
For being so small thin and a little small she was strong and a great fighter.
"Cover us" she said to the ghost that floated by her side.
'Right' He said looking around.
Natera pulled out one of her guns from under her cape as she carried the Prof. down long grey halls to the loading dock where her ship was sitting waiting for them under an invisible shield.
A ringing sound came from her wrist. "A phone call from the media" She mumbled looking down at her left arm.
On her arm was a silver, black and yellow arm band. It reached three quarters up her arm, and had a whole array of buttons on it.
Natera set down the Prof. and hid her with her cape and pressed a button on her arm band.
A small see-through light green screen came up. "Caption Natera here" She said looking into the face of a few reporters
"Caption, could you tell us what happened here?" one of the media reporters said
"I really don't know. I just got here myself and there are no clues to what happened" Natera said her voice low.
"Then what do you think happened?" said another voice
"I'm not quite sure but it might have been an attack" Natera said. 'Should not have said that' she thought to herself.
But before anyone could ask more questions a shot rang out among the metal walls of the ship.
Natera pressed the same button that called up the screen and it vanished.
Natera felt a sharp pain in her side. She had been hit but was not badly wounded.
She got up and pulled out her own gun and dragged the Prof. so they could hide in the shadows. She looked around ready to shoot, but the attacker seemed only to fire a warning shot and was now gone. She looked at her side.
It was bleeding but not to bad
"Miss! are you alright?" Her ghost said in a worried tone.
"I'm fine" Natera lied. She had to get to the ship now!
She picked up a cloth from a nearby body and wrapped it around her waist
'That will hold for now' she thought.
Then Natera picked up the Prof. and walked quickly toward her ship. She only got to the loading dock and then she realized what had happened.
It was just like the war 12 years ago. The one that took her ghosts and her parent's lives parents as well and almost hers.
She got to her ship and quickly loaded the Prof. into a fold away bed
"Force field on" she said and a light blue bubble covered the Prof.
'That way she won't get hurt' she thought. She stepped over to the controls
"Miss Natera…" Zingro (her ghost) said.
"Not now" she said as she quickly set some controls.
Then they were flying, the shield that protected the ship was almost gone.
She quickly set a course for there home base. Then sat down in a chair that faced the control panel.
"Sorry, I just figured out who it was who did this" She said to Zingro.
"It's alright" Her ghost said. He was floating by her side looking down at her. Natera's eyes seemed blank.
"Anything the matter?" her ghost said.
"Nothing" She said her voice seemed far off. As if she was concentrating on some long forgotten memory.
"Do you remember when we first met?" She said still looking down at the floor of her ship.
"I do" Zingro said looking at her still.
"The war was just beginning and you were thrown into the middle of it because your parents where the head of the fleet and they knew you would die if you did not have protection, so they hired me" Zingro said.
"Yes, and you thought I was strong enough to fend for myself for a few hours while you went to find a safe shelter for us" Natera said.
"I was strong but I also had fear in me and that is what took over me in the end. The fear of dieing in the hands of the enemy" Natera said. A small amount of feeling in her voice.