A/N: Just for you all to know, this is my worst story ever and I apologize for that. If you want to read anything better by me I suggest my Card Captor Sakura fics of my Tsubasa fic... all three are better than this one, much better than this one... This fic was pretty much a sudden impulse chapter with no prior idea as to what I wanted the whole plot to be, whereas my other fics I have a general idea of what I want the story line to look like. (I say general because it does sometimes change...)

Disclaimer: I don't own Crest of the Stars.

Claimer: I do own this really cool story that I'm typing to publish in real life!

Previously:

Lafiel looked at him for a moment and then smiled. "You may call me Lafiel!"

Chapter 4: Enemy Territory

They had been traveling for a day now, Jinto still didn't quite understand how she was so easily able to pilot the ship they were in without a control panel sitting in front of them, but hey if she was getting him out of prison all was well... mostly.

"Umm... Lafiel..." he began warily, trying not to set off her fiery temper.

"Yes, Jinto, what is it?" the Abh asked.

"Umm, well, you see..."

"No, I don't see," Lafiel stated bluntly.

"We're out of food."

"Okay, so we're out of fo-... WHAT! WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE'RE OUT OF FOOD!"

"Umm... I mean that I walked into the kitchen area and there was no food left and me being a living being and all- Umm not that you're not one also or anything! -but I do kinda require food to live... And I'm assuming that you do also..." Jinto braced himself, ready to run if she would happen to have another, more violent, sudden outburst. At first he had thought she had taken it well... but that was before she started screaming...

"No food! I'm going to die! What am I going to do?"

Jinto chuckled as he watched the flustered Abh run around the ship panicking. It really was a funny sight.

"And what do you find so funny, Jinto!" Lafiel said accusingly.

"N-nothing!" Jinto hurriedly said. "Do you have a map or something we could use to find the nearest planet or some place that has food on it?"

"Map? Why do we need a map? I know where I'm going!" Lafiel said, suddenly hurt. "Don't you trust my navigational instincts?"

"Well seeing as I still don't know how you manage to pilot this thing..."

The Abh girl pointed up at her headpiece. "This is how I communicate with the ship! I just sorta make it go with my brain waves... it's not that confusing or hard to figure out!"

Jinto slumped down into a chair, being around her made him feel like and idiot. Sometimes he almost convinced himself that he was an idiot... but then he'd end up doing something that Lafiel couldn't and would feel better again... that or he'd say something to the extent of what he now said (but then would go back to feeling like an idiot once he got her response...) "So then, why are you panicking about no food if you know where we're going and such?" he asked, proud to come up with something.

"Because the nearest planet is three days, two hours, twenty minutes and forty seconds worth of non-stop traveling from our exact location here to our exact docking bay there!"

"Oh," Jinto said and was suddenly silent. Suddenly he felt the ship jerk to the right. "What the-"

"Oh no! We're under attack!" shouted Lafiel suddenly as she ran back to the chair that she was previously sitting in while piloting.

"Heh," thought Jinto, "whoever was stupid enough to attack us is in for it. Almost no one can match Abh for fire power and definitely won't be able to stand up to Lafiel in a bad mood..." Or so he though, before they were thoroughly beaten and taken prisoner aboard an enemy ship... and thrown in the prison cells on the ship.

"Why me?" Jinto thought. It surely wouldn't be his first time thinking that, and surely not his last.

A tall man walked over towards his prisoners, a young boy and a feisty Abh. Oh how he hated the Abh. "Welcome," he venomously said, "to the prison cells of my ship. No matter what you try you will not escape them so you may as well give up already."

"Hey, while here would you mind giving us any food?" Jinto asked while suddenly perking up.

"Jinto!" Lafiel whispered, tring to silently scold her friend, who was in the cell across from hers.

"Food, ah yes, of course you may have some. After all to deny you that would make me a bad host." The man snapped his fingers and a rather attractive woman ran to him holding out a plate in her hand. The man took the plate from her and then carefully opened the door to Jinto's cell and set it inside. "Enjoy," came his venomous voice. He need not fear Jinto escaping while opening the door, seeing as both his prisoners were chained up...

"And you," he said, turning towards Lafiel, "I suppose you're going to want to eat too."

The Abh turned her head to the side and made a small "hmph" sound.

"Now, now, is that all that I'm going to get for my kindness? Fine then you won't get any." The man left, apparently angry that he couldn't make the stubborn Abh eat.

"You really shouldn't be so stubborn, Lafiel," Jinto said while eating.

"And to accept from those who are enemy and capture me is beneath me!"

"Yes ma'am!" Jinto said, not wanting to provoke her temper any more than he already had.

"Are you really an Abh?" asked a small voice from a small girl that came and stood in front of Lafiel's cell. The girl was small, apparently still rather young, probably no more than five years of age, and she had raven black hair, piercing but captivating blue eyes and very pale skin.

"Yes, now go on, you're supposed to hate my type!" Lafiel said, barely able to keep herself from yelling.

"You're beautiful, just like the pictures in my history book."

Jinto stared at the girl, how was it that someone taught from birth to hate the Abh would now so friendly talk with one and call her beautiful, was it a trap?

Lafiel herself was equally as surprised as Jinto and stared at the young girl. "Would you help us get out then? Would you side with us?" she asked suddenly, while smiling a kind and sincere smile.

The little girl nodded. "I could get him out but he would have to go and get the key for your door, it has a special lock on it and only that man that was here earlier has the key. The chains on him should react to this key, and the chains on you should react to the same key as your lock."

The girl then ran over to Jinto's cell and put the key in the lock and then turned it, the lock clicked and the door opened. The girl walked over to Jinto and undid the locks to the chains on his ankles and wrists.

"You need to go down the hallway, to the left, straight for twenty more yards, through the big door with the tree branches painted above it, down the hallway it leads to to the very end and then through the door at the end on the left side. That should lead to his bedchamber where he should be taking his daily nap. You then have to fetch the keys from the pocket inside of the royal vest that he's wearing," the young girl explained so it all sounded very simple. "Oh, and you have to hurry so no guards come and find you missing. And you can't let the guards in the hallway see you."

"Why me?" Jinto complained to himself. He was following the girl's instructions as best he could, but she never mentioned the mass amount of guards that were standing watch. In the end one had seen him and he had to knock him out. So he knocked the guy out, threw him into a room into a closet and stole his outfit. Jinto was now wearing a guard uniform over his regular outfit and was trying not to act suspicious as he walked down the hallway. "Just a bit more, just a bit more," he silently repeated to himself. He was most of the way there and then suddenly was in the man's bedchamber. "Why me, why me, why me?" he thought as he crept over to the sleeping man and slowly pried the covers down. He then began to carefully unbutton the man's vest and then open it up so he could see the inside. There was a small pocket that had a zipper on it. Slowly he moved the zipper, hearing the faint noise what sounded like ten times louder than it should be. He carefully reached his hand in and grabbed the metal key from inside.

"Hmm... if I leave everything like this he'll notice when he wakes..." he thought while taking a copy of his old house key out of the pocket of his outfit beneath the guard uniform. He slipped that key into the man's vest and yet slowly sipped the pocket shut. He then carefully re-buttoned the vest and then placed the covers over the man again. He then quickly crept out of the man's room and it took all of his will-power not to go skipping the rest of the way shouting that he did it. Finally at long last he reached the prison cells again.

"I did it!" he whispered to the girl as he reached her.

"Good," she said, "now once I unlock the Abh you're going to have to go put it back."

"What!" Jinto silently complained.

"Kidding."

"Give her the key so she can let me out already!" Lafiel said.

"Now then, here's what you two are going to do. The hanger in which your ship is in is near the kitchens. You're going to go to the kitchen area first. Then, boy, on that uniform clipped to the right pocket is a communicator. When you get close to the kitchen hide yourself and say code 3114 emergency that the prisoners escaped and are headed towards the bedchamber of his highness Lyrel. Then once the area is clear go to the kitchen, get you food, get on your ship and by then I'll be around to give you the docking clearance to leave."

"Easier said than done," Jinto complained. "And Lafiel will really stick out..."

"Just knock out another guard and disguise her. Make sure it's a female that you knock out, the uniforms are different, and make sure her hair is tucked up in the uniform hat."

A/N: Well I suddenly got many more ideas while typing for future chapters. But for the moment I need to leave, I need to get out of my pajamas, put on real clothes, and help clean the house because my older sister is having a friend come over. (And I've still gotta update my Card Captor Sakura story Takarin today also... (Maybe I'll be able to pull off updating more too if I'm lucky!)

Nanie-san: Next chapter will be good, and will be better than this, continuing from the end of this one though... It'll be a great escape, especially because nothing can go right for Jinto and Lafiel...