THE BURNING HEART AND SOUL OF A WARRIOR
Location somewhere in the galaxy, crawling though the ventilation shafts on board the Iron Year science vessel.
Blood it moves through our veins like a fire through a tunnel. It fills you and gives as the very energy you need to breathe. Yet loosing your life's blood is a painfully and horrible thought the more you loose the weaker you get. I know Fern's loosing hers right now the bitch! I've still got her bloodstains on my wrist blades. Not that I actuality care or feel guilty for my actions. I know as a human being I should care because I've seriously harmed one of my own species. I shoved by wrist blade right in to her blind side and she no doubt lying on the floor bleeding to death. Still she would've done worse to me if she'd been given the chance since she's no better than Lexington. She's just a murder like he is, and they both try to make out they do what they do because there marines. As if having a gun and a title means your actions are justified. A plasma gun makes harming someone who's chained up and helpless justified! True warriors don't harm the weak or helpless and they show respect for their counter parts.
They are not warriors! They will never be warriors! Their bad-blooded prey which is why I don't care if I have to kill every marine on this ship with the exception of Eddy I can't believe he helped me, I can't believe he let me go. He's probably risked Lexington's wrath. Lexington I hope he comes looking for me. I'm looking forward to turning his head in to a trophy. I want my necklace back as well! That was mine! Jeuki gave me that he made it with his own hands as a gift! I would sacrifice a thousand life times just see that look in his face when he gave it me. He was so thrilled that I'd even take it from him. I should've told him how I felt! I should've told him what he meant to me! I should've said I love you. Why did I just spend so many months in denial? Why did I reject the truth? Oh that's right I believed I was out of mind for loving another species, that it was wrong. It is not wrong, love is love the bounders and appearances shouldn't matter. I mean what was thinking some of human race sleep with the same sex.
People harass them because they think it's wrong or disgusting. All it is, is prejudice from people who are narrow-minded people who can't think outside the bottle. This is no different the only differences is species, and you know what I'm going to be with Jeuki! With him is where I belong and with him is how it's going to stay! Screw what everyone else says! Emma stopped sharply feeling the pain from her wound. She stopped pulling up her left hand tapping the controls so she became visible. She eased her hand around the back of her armour pulling the med kit free. Her gaze wandered she had to stop the bleeding Eddy's syringe had only stopped half of it but she was still leaving a bloody trail. She slowly put the med kit down next to her pushing the button. She watched as the sides pulled open revealing the long syringe and other items. She eased her hand down pulling the little vile blue glowing liquid free. She poured it on her hands rubbing slightly before putting it across the stomach wound she found her self-wincing painfully.
She'd had this done a few times by Jeuki but had never really done it herself. She bit down breathing sharply the worst of this was not over and she knew it. She closed the bottle putting it back her hand slowly wrapped around the long syringe pulling it free. She pressed it watching the clear liquid fly upwards she swallowed. It was just a syringe! All she had to do was take the pain. She eased it down to her midsection. She found herself closing her eyes as she slammed the needlepoint in. The next moments caused agony as her body went in to a spasm only to be followed by her ear-splitting scream which echoed through the ventilation shaft. She jerked the syringe free trying to keep herself focused despite the relenting pain going through her body. She quickly put the empty syringe away pressing the med kit down to close it. Before slotting it back in to armour. She blinked after the second dose of this drug she hadn't passed out. After this dose she probably wouldn't ether. She slowly began to move feeling the pain slowly go numb around her stomach. She just had to keep focused and keep moving. She groaned slowly moving forward watching the shadows move in the low light. They called this a ventilation shaft? It was more like a rabbit hole! She couldn't wait to meet up with the main ventilation!
8
Samantha pushed the door open. Her gaze moved as she pulled up her gun where was Eddy? He was meant to be guarding this door! She slowly looked down noticing something red on the floor. She moved forward turning up light of the marine quarters. She found herself pulling back in horror the huge central table had been turned over. Her gaze moved only to see that the door to the interrogation room was wide open. The huge chains that had held Emma Wingates in place now lay on the floor. What in the hell had happened! How had that woman gotten free? It was impossible those chains where strong metal the strongest around! She turned hearing a groan. She kicked one of the chairs out of the way seeing a pool of blood soaking the floor. She slowly met Fern's glazed eyes the woman was lying in a pool of her own blood clutching her side trying to breathe. Samantha pulled back slamming her fist in to the escape alarm. She listened as the echo went off. In three minutes from now every marine on the ship would know there had been a prisoner break out.
Lexington slammed the door open. "What's is going on!" He stopped slowly seeing the horrible site in front of him. Samantha slammed her fist in to the panel then quickly pressed down on the speaker. "This is level fifty marine headquarters! I need a medic now! It's an emergency!" Lexington slowly leaned down looking at Fern. The woman coughed her pale face showing how badly wounded she was. "Fern what happened?" Fern coughed again. "Emma…Wingates." Samantha leaned down. "Sir all the armours gone… she got free." Lexington found himself roaring in anger he turned kicking a chair in to the wall. "That bitch! How is it even possible she was locked up tight!" Fern coughed again. "Ed…" Lexington turned quickly leaning down looking at the wounded marine. "What Fern, what do you need to say?" Samantha watched as Fern's head suddenly hit the floor. Her eyes slowly dimming her bloody hand slipped away ravelling two huge slicing wounds each an inch thick made by Emma's Wrist blades.
Samantha grabbed the fallen woman. "Fern! Fern! No you can't do this!" She shook the other woman trying to gain a response. Lexington grabbed Samantha's shoulder pulling her away from the dead woman. "She's dead! She bled to death!" Samantha watched as the medics burst in around surrounding the dead woman. Lexington pulled up his gun watching as the medics tried desperately to revive the fallen marine. "I'm going to kill her! I'm going to rip out her heart the little bitch!" Samantha eased up her gun. "I can't believe this! Fern she didn't stand a chance!" Lexington slowly followed the wall up noticing a bloodstains leading in to the open ventilation shaft. Samantha looked up. "The ventilation." Lexington watched as the medics stopped as they finally lost there already losing battle with the dead marine. Who despite all there technology they couldn't save. Fern's severe loss of blood had preventing them from reviving her. Despite the blood and stimulates they'd pumped in to her body. Lexington turned narrowing her gaze. "The bitch probably killed Eddy to! I want every marine available posted at the central ventilation shaft! We are going to find her and kill her!" Samantha turned slowly. "I'm right on it sir! I'll see that Fern is avenged!" Lexington felt his knuckles crack; the bitch wasn't going to get away with this!
8
Oran watched the screen come on in his office. Lexington's face appeared on the screen. "What is it?" Lexington looked up slightly. "Emma Wingates has escaped." Oran narrowed his gaze. "What!" Lexington pulled back. "She managed to get free somehow it was when I visited your office to discuss the matter of her armour." Oran slammed his hand down hard on the desk. "Your incompetence is costing me! I need her and I need those codes!" He growled aloud. "Your telling me in the time you tortured her she didn't tell you anything?" Lexington shook his head. "No sir." Oran felt his hand form a fist. "You stupid son of a bitch I would have you killed if you weren't special!" He leaned forward. "You are going to find her, you are going to hunt every deck!" Lexington looked up slightly. "She has that armour on she can disappear with out a trace and that's not counting her weapons. How am I meant to get around that? The scientist down below must know?" He pulled up his gun. "She's already killed one of my men in cold blood!"
Oran growled leaning closer to the screen. "Water! The armour acts like a shield bullets bounce of it, get her soaked she looses her advantage." Lexington turned sharply. "I got you sir." Oran leaned forward. "Take in to mind general she not killing your people in cold blood. She's hunting them your nothing but prey in her eyes." He sighed aloud. "I mean she only going to take the heads of the people who she really doesn't like. Which mean's your is probably on that list." He lit a cigar. "Your enhancements should be more than able to with stand her hunting tactics." Lexington looked up slightly. "Where do you think she's heading sir?" Oran turned sharply. "To find Jeuki you idiot!" Lexington sharply turned hearing something behind him. "I have to go sir! Two marines are down!" Oran watched the image vanish he slowly put both feet on the desk. "Oni Jui!" He watched as the young hunter appeared behind him. "There you are, well since you are heading towards the lower level to mock Jeuki, how would you like to go hunting?"
He blew out his cigar smoke. "Turn Wingates in to a trophy so you can show her skull to Jeuki wouldn't that be more fun than just mocking him and your weak clan?" Oni Jui narrowed his gaze then flared his mandibles. "With pleasure." He slowly eased on his black helmet with it white gleaming sockets. Oran leaned back. "Good boy." He watched as the hunter tapped the panel at the other end of the room. Causing the wall to move back and an open ventilation shaft to appear which was about his size. Oran knew it was really an escape hatch for himself but Oni Jui had found a good use for it. He watched the black armoured hunter disappear as the wall moved back. He breathed in his cigar. How ironic the hunter was becoming the hunted. Oni Jui would no doubt win this battle he was far more skilled. Emma would never see him coming there was a chance that she might believe it was Jeuki. Only to realize to late that it wasn't. Emma would stick to her honour codes though unlike Oni Jui.
She wouldn't kill children or other human women she would only kill the armed marines. Although Julia, Leo and Carlos would be seen as trophies and no more than bad-blooded prey that she'd hunt because they'd dishonoured her. Lexington was a moron and Emma could get the advantage over him where, as with Oni Jui she couldn't. Her smiled widely. He was so looking forward to seeing how this would unfold. Was Jeuki's teaching better than Oni Jui's? The student was always the way of answering that question. Could she outsmart Oni Jui because she was more focused? It would be interesting to see how many more marines she got through as well. He leaned back turning on the panel listening of the marine's radio waves.
8
Emma looked upwards as she crawled out in to the main ventilation the place was enormous. She could see maintenance workers moving around trying to repair things. They reminded her off her off the guys she used to see working on the iron ore rig back on Eros with their dirty looks and worker helmets although always happy no matter what they did. She could see lifts moving at incredible speed all around her some going upwards while others went down. She pulled the red lens up from her collar putting over her right eye. She loved this little device it was just part of the helmet but it meant she didn't need to wear the helmet all the time. It worked just the same without it and was better than any marine view piece. She moved her right eye watching the infer red shadows move. She pulled up her left wrist changing the site to ultraviolet. One thing the marines might know was that if she was wearing the helmet she'd only use the inferred sight. People could use suits to stop her seeing inferred. She wasn't going to give them that advantage. She slowly went back in to invisible cloak.
Her gaze moved as two marines came in to view both with their guns up. She pressed her spear bringing it out fully. She'd already gotten rid of the two marines who'd tried to crawl in to the ventilation. They weren't even worthy prey. She focused on the marines who raised their guns; she felt the shoulder gun pull up as it focused in on the target. The three beams slowly moved down the first of the two marine's chest plate. He looked up but two late to see the plasma bolt as it fired through air. A wash of red blood hit the back wall as his dead body hit the ground. His companion pulled up in panic firing of rounds three meters from her position. She turned the shoulder gun firing. She watched as the gun fell free from his hand as his hit the ground. Her gaze narrowed that was just as unworthy prey. She watched the workers scatter in terror and panic. Her gaze moved to long drop bellow her there was rigging though, the worker rigging she could just use it to make her way down. There were also platforms and bridges.
She leapt on to the first rig she'd climbed rigs before so this wasn't an issue she used to climb the Eros rig just to see her father. Still going up was one thing going down was another. She leapt of the rig landing on the bridge then leaped off hitting one of rigs bellow feet first. She could do this. So long as she ignored the long drop. She kept going she was doing this for Jeuki. She just had to keep thinking that it was all that mattered. She leapt on to another bridge watching a worker who was drinking alcohol stop and gaze at her wide-eyed. He looked at her moving cloak then back at his drink before up turning the bottle so that the contents spilled on the bridges deck. Emma sighed aloud before jumping again grabbing the lower rig. Poor guy shame he's done that it was perfectly good Jack Daniels whisky. Still if she'd have been in his shoes she'd have done the same thing. She began to work her way down ignoring one of the lifts as it shot by. She was already starting to hate the lifts why was it no one around here used ladders!
8
Carlos watched as the worker slowly pulled up the controlling device with chains. He tapped the panel watching the bounds around the Xeno queen tighten. She hissed angrily trying to struggle. His gaze moved as the Scientist on the crane grabbed both sides of the device slotting it on to her upper crest he smiled as the clamps grabbed her lower neck tightening. The scientist moved the crane back watching the queen thrash and struggle. Carlos tapped the panel bringing the bound back to there normal tension. He watched as Julia folded her arms. "Are you positive this will work? I mean it didn't work on Callisto Emma Wingates stated that it didn't." Carlos raised an eyebrow. "This isn't Callisto Julia!" Leo looked at the ugly alien. "Gee and I thought Jeuki was ugly, she's far uglier." Julia sighed aloud. "Please shut up Leo! I gave you the tour you've seen what goes on down here. Now be quite we are trying to work down here." Carlos grunted aloud. "Callisto was a failure because Utro didn't make the waves that control the brain strong enough."
He watched the queen try to move with the device, which was now clamped solid to her head. "I've compensated for it by making the waves three times stronger! This won't fail it will be a success, the greatest success in human history!" Julia rolled her eyes. "You know no offence but you need to test it before it becomes a success." Leo folded his arms. "She has a point." Carlos turned sharply. "Are you just here to be a smart ass? Or are you here to do something useful?" Leo leaned forward. "I'm here not to be bossed around by you, since I'm at your level now." Carlos raised his eyebrow. "You don't even have the skill!" Julia coughed slightly. "He does now thanks to Oran." Carlos growled aloud. "Well that's nice Leo, go help the scientists who are looking after the hunter pens." Leo smirked. "With pleasure." Carlos watched him go. "Smug little asshole, I can't believe you had to work with him." Julia picked up her electronic note pad. "It was your idea that I had to work with him, and frankly he pulled off our little charade quite well."
She put a hand behind her back. "Lucy and Marcus really believed in him, he's best liar I've ever come across." Carlos looked at the queen as she hissed through her mouthpiece. "True but he's still annoying plus I don't know why Oran picked him. I mean he has no skills yet the man has had his level raised twice now thanks to his loyal service." Julia looked at the hunter pens in the other room. "I just want to know what he did to get paid." Her gaze drifted to Jeuki who was looking through the pens glass staring out in to space. The three other hunters were silent behind him the elder was watching quietly, while the other two very young hunters were looking around them. Carlos turned sharply as his electronic note pad began to beep loudly. He picked it up slowly it up pressing a couple of the buttons. "Hello Carlos speaking." He pulled back as Oran's voice hit the air. "We have a little problem." Carlos raised an eyebrow. "We do and what might that be sir?" Oran's voice hit the air again. "Emma Wingates is loose."
Julia found herself almost spitting out her coffee. "What! He's kidding right?" Carlos blinked. "How in the hell did she manage that? No ones ever escaped from marine confinement." Oran's angered voice hit the air again. "Lexington's incompetence means she's escaped. So far she killed six marines and is slowly moving towards your position." The voice went lower. "It seems like she's hunting and isn't going to let any marine get in her way." Carlos swallowed slightly. "Please tell me she's not in her full armour?" Oran's voice spoke up again. "Unfortunately she is, I've sent Oni Jui after her. Saying that she manages to allude him get Samantha and full unit to your position." Julia looked up sharply. "He doesn't serious believe she'll get past our boy does he?" Carlos raised his hand. "I'll do that regardless sir I'd rather be safe than end up a trophy. Tell me though why not Fern? Fern is normally the squad leader." Oran's voice hit the air again. "Fern is died, she died almost three quarters of hour ago from sever blood loss caused by Wingates wrist blades."
Julia slowly met Carlos's horrified gaze. "Oh my god." Oran's voice hit the air. "There is also a missing marine who we can't find. Eddy Ida vanished after Emma escaped we believe his dead body is hanging up somewhere but we can't locate it. No doubt he was a trophy." Julia put a hand on her mouth. "Screw Samantha lets get Lexington down here." Carlos covered the talk piece. "He's probably following Emma he'll come down here anyway." He pulled the pad back up. "What about the experiment sir the queen is ready." Oran's voice broke the quite. "Begin regardless, Emma won't be a issue, I want the queen test to go ahead on schedule." Carlos breathed in deeply. "We'll begin in half an hour." He turned the note pad off meeting Julia's gaze. "Get everything ready."
8
Lucy pulled on the chains again she tuned slightly. "Marcus do you have any suggestions as to how we can get out of these chains?" Marcus sighed aloud. "A bolt cutter." Lucy rolled her eyes. "I'm being serious." Marcus grunted aloud. "So was I." Lucy breathed in deeply. "Okay is there anything in this room that can melt them?" Marcus looked at the two up turned tables with there contents spilt over the floor, his gaze. His gaze drifted to one of the red glass bottles near by. "That will." Lucy raised an eyebrow. "No offence but can you be more specific I'm a cell scientist." Marcus looked at bottle. "The red one it's got a really strong acid in it…" He grinned slightly. "It's called…" Lucy pulled up sharply. "You know I don't care what it's labelled as, how strong is it?" Marcus blinked "It's strong it can burn your hand off and it can melt through thick floor plates. It was something Julia was working on she said it was the product of some animal's blood which she made in to a lighter acid that could be bottled."
Lucy shrugged looking at the red bottle. "That's good enough for me, not that the idea of animal with acidic blood is thrilling but I'm up to try anything." Marcus laughed slightly. "You're insane you know full well this could kill you and me." Lucy grunted watching as Marcus tried to reach the bottle with his foot. "Look we are not going die here." She watched as he flipped the bottle. "I want that dream of going through space with you flying the ship." She watched as he managed to move the bottle a little closer. "I think you'd like the same thing so I say it's worth the risk. " Marcus tried to move the bottle with his foot. "You correct it is worth the risk better to try to get out than to by killed by Oran's henchmen." He grunted pushing the bottle closer to her watching as she got her foot around it pulling it closer to her body. "I mean this ways quicker if we screw up anyway." Lucy grabbed the bottle with her legs. "I just need to get this into my hands then I can pull the top off." Marcus looked at her. "You make it sound easy."
8
Emma slammed the spear in to the shocked marine watching as his gun carried on firing through the air. She turned striking the other across the stomach with her wrist blades as she came at her cloaked form. The wounded female marine pulled back trying to fire only to be thrown backwards as she kicked her in the face she yanked her spear free watching the dieing marine hit the floor as the other tried to scramble away on her hands and knees. She moved towards him slamming her foot in to his back so the female marine hit the bridge face first. She tensed then slammed the spear in to the woman's back. She pulled it out sharply before walking away. Her gaze drifted to the rigging as she jumped on to it carrying on downwards. Her gaze moved slightly as a clicking sound hit her ears, she stopped still looking around she couldn't see anything but she knew that sound. It was mandibles clicking angrily. She listened hard as it came again. It wasn't Jeuki the upper left mandible wasn't clicking more than once.
Jeuki always clicked that mandible when he was frustrated and because he clicked it in this way, when he angry that mandible tended to click more. There was another Yautja here! She turned putting her arm around the rigging while using on hand to change her eye viewers site. She moved through the sites looking around she couldn't see him! She stopped suddenly she was looking up and around what if he was right in front of her! Or bellow her! She slowly moved her gaze letting it travel bellow she couldn't see anything. She looked up slowly. Her gaze widened as she caught sight of a something hanging from the bridge she'd walked over were the two died marines were lying. She changed the site quickly seeing the large shadow Yautja, which was holding one of the bridges railings. It had propped it's self up on one so it was kneeling. It looked up realizing she had seen it with her normal sight she watched the glowing white eyes flash. She didn't think as she clicked the spear out to full again.
She flung herself of the railing as a plasma bolt hit where she'd been. She knew the landing was going to hurt since she would hit a bride bellow with marines on it. She fired her shoulder cannon feeling it force her body in to recoil as she flew through the air. She could here the screeching as it hit close to the other hunter. She watched the hunter jump in his cloaked form coming down after her. She narrowed her gaze ignoring the sudden commotion from the marines on the bridge bellow. This was going to hurt! She had to grab hold of something! She slammed her wrist blades in to the wall ignoring the sparks as the rigging broke with the force of the blades.
End of part 13
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