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Chapter 5 - True Feelings
The ooman didn't look half bad in yautja clothes, Clay really wanted to see what she was capable of, he had seen her kill many kainde amedha, but they were only good for killing, the hard meat weren't really tactful. He wanted to see how she would fair against him, a warrior, someone who fought with his brains and skills, not just to kill, but for honor. "We train now."
Clay started to walk past her towards the training room. "Wait!" Tausha yelled. "I still have questions. Like where's my gun? And cell phone? And whose the guy under the mask?
He turned and looked at her. "Your things were lost when I carried you to safety, away from the blast." He pulled two wires off the side of his helmet, they hissed as some air sprayed out of them. He placed his hands on his mask and began to pull it off.
"Blast? There was a blast?" He could hear the anger in her voice. "That thing from your wrist, it was a bomb wasn't it?" She was starting to get annoying. "How big was the blast?"
Clay completely removed his mask and looked into Tausha's eyes. Her eyes were gray blue, he could see them better now without his mask on, he could also see the fear in them as she looked back into his eyes. She only took her eyes off his once, to look at his mandibles, then she just stood silent.
Tausha couldn't believe how strange he looked, he had a crab-like face, with four protruding mandibles and an inner mouth with some sharp teeth. He had beautiful yellowish brown eyes but they were shadowed by his huge forehead. She realized that she was starring at his mandibles now, and she began to feel sick. "I'm sorry!" She quickly looked down. "I didn't mean to stare."
He put his hand on her shoulder. "It's alright, I looked the same way at an ooman the first time I saw one." He placed his fingers under her chin and moved her gaze from the floor back up to his eyes. "I want to see how your skills have grown as you have gotten older. Will you now train with me? Afterwards I will show you how to use the controls of the ship, and how to fight with yautja weapons." She nodded and followed Clay to the training room.
The first thing Tausha noticed was the huge square ring in the center of the room, it looked just like the rings in the world tournaments on Dragon Ball Z, which was Tausha's favorite anime growing up. She noticed three walls were decorated, while one had nothing on it. Two walls were covered with weapons and armor, while the other wall was covered with skulls of many different types of species, the only two recognizable species she saw were bugs and humans.
"Wow, this is definitely not what I expected." She was amazed at how beautifully the room was decorated.
"Those are my trophies." He pointed to the wall that was littered with skulls.
"You mean like a hunter, you take a souvenir after every kill?" She stood starring at the wall.
"Only the most honorable and challenging kills, but sometimes ones that just piss me off." He began clicking his mandibles a little bit, then he noticed the frightened look in the oomans eyes again. This made him nervous, and now his mandibles wouldn't stop flinching. He didn't want her to be scared of him, why was she able to make him feel so nervous, he couldn't understand why an ooman had this kind affect on him. "Lets begin." He pointed to the ring, then hopped up with ease.
The ring was about five feet high, there was no way she'd be able to get up very easily. She was only five feet five an a half inches tall herself, Clay was only able to get up so easily because of his size, he was at least seven and a half feet tall, plus his legs looked extremely strong. Even if she did managed to get up to the ring, there was no chance in hell she was going to last more than a minute against him. She looked up and noticed a clawed outreached hand.
"Need help up?" He asked.
"Yes actually." Tausha nervously took hold of his hand and he lifted her like she weighed no more than a feather. He lightly sat her feet on the rings floor.
"Lets begin." He moved to the other side of the ring then faced her. He crouched in a fighting position then roared.
"Wait! What am I supposed to do?" She was nervous, and didn't really want to fight him.
"Just try to land at least one good blow, try to make me bleed." He sounded excited. "We won't use any weapons, it's just hand to hand. Now attack me!" He began charging at her.
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Mac hadn't heard anything from Tausha for awhile, and the clean up crew hadn't checked in either, something must have gone wrong. He decided to call in a couple more of his agents to go and check out 9th Street. He got Brandy on the phone and filled her in on the situation. "I want you and Mandy to go check everything out, make sure Tausha's alright."
"You got it Mac, I'll get Mandy and we'll head over ASAP! Later!" Brandy hung up the phone and looked at Mandy. "Tausha's in trouble again."
"Great, and my favorite show is on in five minutes, you don't think Tausha had anything to do with that little earth quake we had earlier…… do you?" Mandy asked skeptically.
"She better not have…..we better hurry, I'll drive." Brandy grabbed the car keys and they headed out the door.
When they arrived they couldn't even reach 9th Street, there was a huge crater that stretched at least 30 miles wide.
"Well isn't that lovely?" Mandy was being sarcastic. "Do you think Tausha did this?"
"The company doesn't have any weapons that could do this, it's too big of an explosion, half the city is destroyed. I better give Mac a call." Brandy pulled out her cell and started dialing.
Mandy slid down a side of the crater and started checking everything out. There were pieces of buildings and debris everywhere. She walked a little further and noticed pieces of the companies cleaning crews van everywhere, whatever happened here, no one seemed to have survived. She kicked up a small piece of broken concrete and noticed something that made her sick to her stomach, it was the hilt of Tausha's sword and a few other broken shards from it, Tausha had been here, and she would have never just left her favorite weapon.
"Brandy! Look what I found!" Mandy was holding up the hilt of the broken sword.
Brandy was on the phone with Mac. "Some kind of explosion went off here, and it looks like Tausha was caught in the blast. Mandy just found a piece of her favorite sword, there seems to be no survivors."
"That's too bad, I have to tell Travus the news then, check out the scene, if you find anything interesting let me know." Mac hung up the phone and sat silently for a while. "Tausha was one of my favorites……." He picked up the phone and called Travus. "There was some kind of bomb that was set off, my agent was caught in the blast, no aliens survived, and the surrounding areas were completely destroyed."
"That's too bad Mac, but who set off the bomb? I know you don't have a weapon capable of that."
"We don't know sir, I have a couple of my agents checking it out as we speak."
"Good, I'll send some of mine as well, thanks for the update Mac." Travus hung up the phone then slammed his hands onto the desk. "Dam-it! How could this have happened? Derick! Get in here now!"
Derick ran into the room. "Yes sir, is there something you need?"
"Get a group together, I want you to go check out 9th Street, there are a couple of alien hunters over there, get rid of them." A wicked smile appeared across Travus's face. "Their company ruined my experiment, make sure they die slow, painful deaths."
End of Chapter 5
By Tausha Monroe - dahdtoudi
