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Chapter 6 - Hard Lessons
Clay was charging right at Tausha. "Whoa!" Tausha yelled as she jumped and did a cartwheel out of Clay's path. "Your really serious!"
"Of course I am." He turned and charged at her again. He was very fast, he knew she'd never be able to keep up with his speed so he decided to slow down a little, he'd go easy on her, it was their first sparing lesson after all, he didn't want to make her feel too weak.
As Tausha recovered from her cartwheel she didn't even have time to fully turn around when Clay close lined her, forcing her back first onto the floor, she surprised him as she kicked up on her way down, landing a blow right under his chin. He stepped back away from her and roared with excitement. She was better than he'd given her credit for. He was still close enough for her to land another good hit, she swung her leg as hard as she could, nailing Clay right in the ankle and slipping him.
He hit the floor hard, Tausha could feel the ring shake. She got up and jumped on top of him before he had time to get up, holding his arms and pinning him down with all her weight. "I got you!" She was smiling. Clay started laughing, the ooman actually thought she was winning, he couldn't stop laughing, she actually believed she could hold him down.
"What's so funny?" She noticed he was still laughing uncontrollably, then he reversed her pin, grabbing her arms and rolling her over, him pinning her down. He laughed one last time and said. "I win." She struggled as hard as she could but couldn't get out of his grip. "You won't get free, your too weak." He let her go and stood up. "Good first lesson, we train again some other time. Come now, I show you how to work controls of this ship."
"That was it? You didn't even really hit me." Tausha started getting off the floor, she stood facing Clay. "Let me try one more time? Unless your too worn out?"
She was testing him, he looked into her eyes then said. "I'll let you try again, and this time I won't go as easy on you." He crouched in his fighting position again, but to his surprise she charged at him this time. She placed her hands on his shoulders using the force to help her jump up and get her legs onto his shoulders, she wrapped her legs around his neck, tightening her thighs around his head, within seconds she was doing a back flip, forcing Clay head first into the concrete floor. She released her legs from around his head and jumped up fast, away from him. He was up just as fast, glaring at her, he rubbed his fingers across his forehead and felt the fresh blood seeping from his new wound. Tausha could see his blood was a florescent green color. He smiled, but Tausha couldn't tell, she just thought he was pissed.
"Looks like I managed to make you bleed." An evil grin appeared across Tausha's face. "Want more?" She was getting too cocky, Clay decided he'd put her in her place, he moved quickly towards her, she didn't even have time to move away from him. She ducked, just barely dodging a blow that would have nailed her in the back of the head, but only to meet his knee as it came up and slammed her right in the gut. Clay took a step back as Tausha fell to her knees clutching her stomach. His hit had knocked the wind out of her, it was so hard that it caused her to throw up. She only vomited once, then she placed one hand over her mouth while the other was still clenching her stomach. Clay quickly knelt beside her and started gently pulling her hair back, he held it up so it wouldn't land in the vomit.
"We will stop for now." He whispered to her.
"Good idea." Tausha said as she nodded. Clay helped her stand up then picked her up and cradled her in his arms, while carrying her to the control room, he loved the feel of her warm body against his. He sat her down in the one chair that occupied the room. "Rest here for a while, I will be back." He walked out of the control room and back to the training room. He wanted to clean up the nasty stuff that the ooman had thrown up. It smelled vile and he was intent on cleaning it up right away.
Tausha sat in the control rooms single chair for a few minutes and looked around, there were hieroglyphic looking symbols everywhere, there was a window right in front of her, but it was covered by some kind of weird metallic armor, probably the ships shield or something, so she wasn't able to see out of it. "Why is this ship so small?" She asked aloud, she was really only talking to herself but to her surprise Clay answered. "I am a lone warrior, I chose to hunt alone, to take on challenges by myself. I could have trained other young yautja, but I wanted to enjoy myself while I'm in my prime. I was assigned this ship because it's the perfect size for my needs."
"Oh, I see, so…..it's really only designed for a single passenger. So what were you planning when you brought me along? What, are you just going to drop me off somewhere?" She was having one of her fits again, he could feel the tension in her words.
"No, your small enough to stay with me." Clay began to explain.
"You know there's only one bed, what were you going to do about that?" She stood up and was in his face now.
He leaned down so his mandibles were in her face, almost touching her. "Your sleeping on the floor!" He yelled at her then stormed out of the control room he kept growling and making clicking noises as he stomped away.
"Oh yeah! Well screw you too!" Tausha yelled as Clay turned the corner. She couldn't understand what his clicking and growls meant, but she was sure it wasn't anything nice.
Tausha set back down in the chair and thought for a while. What was I thinking, why did I get in his face like that. He didn't want to get rid of me, he wanted me to stay here with him. He's been so nice to me, and what do I do? I yell at him over a bed.
Clay stomped into the bathroom and closed the door behind him. He started filling a tub with warm water, he figured a nice warm bath might actually help him relax his nerves. He kept thinking how stupid the ooman was, if he wanted to he could slice her head off with one blow, killing her without any effort. But every time he thought about her blood spilling he got sick, he couldn't understand it, he cared too much about the female to let any harm come to her. He removed his armor and mesh and got into his warm bath, he closed his eyes as he leaned back to relax. He heard a noise so he opened his eyes and looked up. Tausha was standing above him looking into his yellowish brown eyes.
"Clay……I'm sorry I yelled at you." She dropped down and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I don't want you to just drop me off somewhere, and I don't want to sleep on the floor. I appreciate everything you've done for me, and I want to stay with you." Just hearing her say those words made Clay feel much better, he wasn't even mad anymore, he looked into her light blue eyes and said. "I'm sorry too….for what I'm gunna do."
"What?" Tausha asked, but just as she finished Clay grabbed her arms and pulled her into the bath with him, armor and all. She was completely soaked, she struggled and tossed around a bit until she got her knees placed firmly on the floor of the tub, she wiped the water and hair out of her eyes then looked up, she was face to face with Clay. He was sitting back all relaxed and watching the water drip off of her. "Why did you do that?" Tausha asked.
"I said I was sorry." Clay started laughing a little bit.
"I can't believe you." Tausha started trying to get out of the bath, but slipped and fell back into Clay's chest, she started giggling.
"What are you so happy about?" Clay asked as he started to wrap his arms around Tausha.
"I don't know." She snuggled up close to Clay and they sat with each other for a long while, just relaxing and enjoying each others company.
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Derick had his group all together now., it was a highly trained group of 5 people including himself. The other 4 people were Steven, a young man of only 19 who had a big mouth and no respect for the opposite sex. Chris, who was 24 and a lot smarter than the rest of the group, he could solve any problem he was faced with, but he was a total asshole. Kelley, she was the only female, she just loved guns, and killing things. Last but not least was Jason, he was one of those guys that was just a good shot, he never missed his mark, he also had that attitude of " I'm hot and I know it."
Derick briefed the team on the mission and got them all into a black unmarked van, they started heading for what's left of 9th Street. "Alright guys, when we get there I don't want any mistakes, kill the two agents and dispose of the bodies. Leave no witnesses. Got it?" Derick asked.
"Yes sir!" They all said at once.
Steven kept looking at Kelley's breasts. "When are you getting a boob job? What are you, like an A cup?"
Kelley glared at him. "Go to hell Steven!"
"I'm just being honest! Come on! What does it take to get into your pants!" Steven started laughing.
Jason bluntly says. "Steven, you're an idiot."
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Brandy slide down the side of the crater and met up with Mandy at the bottom. They both looked at the hilt of Tausha's sword.
"I can't believe she's really gone." Mandy looks up at Brandy and hands her what's left of the weapon.
"I know." Brandy was fighting back the tears that wanted to fall. "Mac wants us to check this place out, we might actually find a clue about what set off this explosion. And when we find out who did this……we will get revenge for Tausha."
Mandy nodded. "Yes……we will." They split up and started checking out the entire area, looking under every piece of debris they could lift. It was early in the morning so they had plenty of time to check out the whole scene. They looked for hours, but couldn't seem to find any leads.
End of Chapter 6
By Tausha Monroe - dahdtoudi
