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Chapter 7: Plans
Sara ran into her home, locking her door as fast as she could. She didn't see or hear those things after her, but she wasn't taking any chances.
Sara didn't sleep at all that night. Every second she expected those creatures to come flying through her window. What were they? Some sort of lizard monsters? And where in the world did they come from?
Sara grabbed Fuzz who was sleeping in his basket by the kitchen and carried him into her room; she couldn't help but feel safer around him, though Fuzz attacking one of those beings was like attacking a T-rex with a stick.
After running into her room and locking her door, Sara took out the crystal and threw it in her desk drawer as if it was going to bite her.
"At least I know what they who they are and what they want," she told Fuzz, clutching him to her chest as he began to purr. She had recognized them; they were the creatures from the symbol on the box the crystal had been in; Zoë was right.
"And what about Zoë? Was she ok? Or did more of those creatures come after her?" Sara asked Fuzz, suddenly alarmed.
"No," Sara thought, telling setting Fuzz down. "She's fine. She's probably asleep right now." Sara resisted the urge to grab her phone and call Zoë immediately. It was past ten o'clock and she knew that both of Zoë's parents went to bed early being they both worked; disturbing them would be rude.
Sara settled for grabbing a book and trying to read to take her mind off of the fact that those things could find her at any moment. She knew worrying about it would not help and only make her more edgy.
After reading the same page in her book three times and not absorbing a word, Sara set down her book and tried to sleep; with the lights on of course.
By the time dawn broke, Sara was exhausted. She had not gotten even a wink of sleep. She had been wondering the whole night whether Zoë was ok or not. Sara hadn't gotten any horrifying calls which started with Zoë screaming from help only to have the line disconnect at the last moment.
Sara jumped when Fuzz sat up abruptly, yawned and stood shakily, only to wobble and plop back down on the bed.
"At least you got a decent night's sleep," Sara commented, stroking Fuzz and wishing she could be that carefree. Sara hopped out of bed, got dressed, grabbed the crystal out of her drawer and headed down the hall, Fuzz following at her heels. Sara walked to the kitchen, filling Fuzz's bowl, and getting a piece of fruit to eat.
She glanced at the crystal she had brought down with her. Where did it come from and what where those creatures? Sara almost wished the crystal had the ability to answer her questions.
There was one good thing though. They didn't have school on Monday; it was an in-service day.
"Yeah, one more day for those things to chase me around," Sara thought. She glanced up at the clock. It was seven. She couldn't call Zoë for at least two more hours; she felt bad enough when Fuzz woke her at nine to feed him, what would it be like for Zoë at seven?
Sara wasted away the two hours watching TV and playing with Fuzz. Finally, nine AM was there.
Sara quickly dialed Zoë's phone number. The phone rang once, twice…
"He…Hello?" said an older female voice.
"Hey, Mrs. D," Sara said brightly, realizing she was talking to Zoë's mother, "Is Zoë around?"
Sara expected Mrs. D. to say, "of course honey," and pass the phone to Zoë who would quickly calm her and tell her she was find and she had gotten rid of the box…
"Oh… Sara… she's… she's gone! We don't know where she is!" Mrs. D. sobbed on the line.
Sara slammed the phone on the receiver, grabbed the crystal and her jacket, and ran out of the house headed the Zoë's home.
Leader Draka was frustrated. No, not frustrated… more furious. The stupid human refused to tell him where Sater Kreshebon was! He paced in his quarters, trying to think of a way of finding Sater Kreshebon, now that their only lead was gone.
At first, the human female seemed terrified. They had hoped she would relent quickly and tell them the location of Sater Kreshebon. But slowly, she began to realize the Yautja couldn't kill her, unless they didn't want Sater Kreshebon back.
They had retrieved the container that was supposed to hold Sater Kreshebon, but it was empty. Obviously the human had given the Crystal Shard to another and tried to dispose of the container. Tricky little creatures.
Now, she sat in a locked room, refusing to speak or even acknowledge the Yautja.
Leader Draka had considered using interrogation techniques, not providing the human with food or water, but that would be unhonorable. He had to figure out some way to either get the human to tell him where Sater Kreshebon was, or find it on his own.
Illi'thus and Ven'tise sat thinking about the human they had encountered. He wondered what happened to it after they had let it go. Plus there was a rumor going around the students that they had not found Sater Kreshebon.
And Illi'thus thought he saw Sater Kreshebon in the possession of the human.
If it was Sater Kreshebon, how were they going to find the human now? Illi'thus had only told Ven'tise of his suspicions, and at the moment, was mentally kicking himself for not going after the human.
"Why don't we look for the human?" Ven'tise asked.
"And have Leader Draka rip our heads off when we tell him why? I don't think so," Illi'thus answered.
"Well, we don't have to tell him. We can sneak out."
"Have you gone insane? They would kill us once they found out we were gone."
"But what if we found Sater Kreshebon? I don't think they would kill us then." Ven'tise argued.
"What if we didn't?"
"We'll come back before they notice that we're gone. Why don't we go tonight, while everyone is sleeping? We can go back to where we originally saw the human and see if it uses the same route."
Illi'thus sighed; he couldn't defeat Ven'tise's idea; plus the sooner they got off this world the better. "Fine. We will go tonight."
There were two police cars parked outside of Zoë's house when Sara arrived. Sara ran inside and quickly found Zoë's mother in tears, sitting in a chair.
Sara gave the woman a hug and asked her what happened to Zoë.
"I… I don't know," she said between tears and sobs, "She told me that she was going outside for something and when she wasn't back I got nervous and went looking for her. But, she was just gone!" Zoë's mother broke into sobs again, which nearly overwhelmed Sara with guilt.
It was her fault. Those… things went after her, but they found Zoë. Now she didn't know what to think. Was Zoë dead? Were they torturing her? Sara decided to go to Zoë's room to see if the box was still there.
As Sara expected, it was gone. The police were taking picture of the place and trying to find clues of where Zoë was.
However, there were three men in suits who looked out of place. They had some sort of scanner and where seemingly scanning every inch of the room. Sara turned to leave and nearly bumped into a fourth guy, wearing a similar suit.
"What is this? A contest to see who looks like an agent from the Matrix?" Sara thought, giving the guy a curious look.
"Are you the girl's sister?" the man asked her.
Sara gave him an annoyed look, "The girl's name is Zoë, and no, I'm a friend." The man gestured for Sara to sit down in a chair.
The man raised a brow, "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" the man pulled out a small notebook and pen.
"Ok… what kind of questions?" Sara asked. She just hoped that she didn't let something slip and end up being dragged off to the funny farm.
"Just some simple questions so we can best guess where Zoë may be."
"Alright," Sara said, calming herself down and trying to keep her breathing even so she wouldn't make the guy suspicious.
"Well, what your name?" the man asked, pen at the ready.
"I'm Sara Kramir."
The man scribbled her name down, set down the pen, and held out his hand, "I am Officer Hart." Sara hesitated, but finally shook the man's hand; it was rough with calluses.
"Now, how long have you known…Zoë?"
"Elementary school I think." Sara felt nervous around this guy, not to mention the crystal warmed in her pocket.
"Alright; has she shown any odd behavior? Not eating, being very quiet?"
"No, nothing." The man scribbled more things down in the notebook. Sara had to admit that this was, in a way, kind of funny. Here she was answering some government dude's questions about where her best friend was when she knew the answer.
Sara held back a laugh when she though of what the man's reaction would be if she told him that she thought Zoë was kidnapped by huge monsters who wanted a magical crystal that she happened to have in her possession at that very moment.
"Have you noticed anything strange going on in the neighborhood? Anything, just plain weird, going on?"
"Yeah, a bunch of invisible monsters have been running around, but that happens in every town eventually," Sara thought. "No, nothing that I've noticed in particular." Sara knew that she must have hesitated because the man was giving her a piercing look.
Eventually, the man sighed and dismissed her. Sara was glad to leave; she really didn't like that guy.
After Sara left, the man turned to one of his fellows. "Keep an eye on that one; I think she might lead us to something."
Sara left the house with another hug and a goodbye to Zoë's mother. As Sara walked down the streets, she thought of all the things that had happened because of the crystal, especially Zoë's disappearance.
She highly doubted that Zoë was still alive… those things didn't seem like the most friendly creatures in the world.
As tears began to fall unbidden down Sara's cheeks, Sara turned into a small alley, not needing anyone to see her cry.
Sara stood in the alley, wiping away the tears and felt some pent up anger gripping her. Why did this have to happen to her? What did she do? And why was Zoë taken? She hadn't done anything!
With a wordless cry of grief, Sara threw the crystal as hard as she could away from her. She expected to hear the crystal shatter on the ground, but was surprised to see it bounce away silently, not so much as scraping the ground.
Sara walked silently over to the crystal. She had decided that it was too dangerous to be left intact. Who knew what those creatures would do if they got their hands on it? Not to mention what may happen if some cruel person got it.
She was going to destroy it. She couldn't save Zoë, so she was destroying this thing so that no one else would be hurt. She knew that the crystal, for all of its power, may create a small explosion, possibly killing her and if it didn't, surely the creatures that originally owned it would. But she knew that she had to destroy it.
When she found a decently large rock, she set the crystal down and took aim. She threw the rock down at the crystal as hard as she could, waiting for the sound of the crystal shattering.
But it was not the crystal that shattered, but the rock. The rock crumbled as it hit the crystal and Sara stood in shock. It can't be destroyed. Sara stooped down and picked up the crystal only to sit down and lean against one of the buildings.
Tears ran down her cheeks; she couldn't even get rid of the thing that caused so much trouble. A small breeze blew though the buildings, pushing a stray tin can rolling into Sara's leg.
Sara took a half-hearted swipe at the can, not coming close to batting it away; but the can flew away as if she did hit it.
Sara glanced at the, now glowing, crystal. Glancing at another, decent sized rock, she imagined it coming to her. She gave a shout of surprise and shock when it did just that.
"Now this thing gives me telekinetic abilities," Sara said shaking her head. Suddenly, an idea popped into her head. Maybe she could find the creatures and have them give her Zoë back; and if it was too late…
"No… she's still alive," Sara thought stubbornly. Zoë was alive, and the crystal seemed to be providing the only way to get Zoë back safely.
Sara thought briefly about fighting against the creatures. She had never considered it before, thinking that they would kill her in a few seconds, but now nothing could seemingly harm her.
Sara smiled when she knew where she could find them. She would go back to where she had met them the last time and confront them. They must be intelligent if they had holograms. Heck, the only holograms humans had where the Christmas light ones on Star Trek.
Sara picked up the crystal and headed home; she was going to need some practice.
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