Yes I'm still alive! Thanks to all of my reviewers who have been so patient with me during this story. Just an FYI, I have completely changed the ending. I was looking at it and thought it was really bad so I completely changed it and I like where it goes! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 9: Fuzz VS Predators
Sara was awoken by a strange roar of anger. Bolting upright Sara jumped off her bed and dashed towards her door tripping and nearly falling flat on her face.
"Graceful," Sara muttered, pushing herself up from the floor and shaking the sleepy-haze out of her head.
As she stepped into the hallway, listening to the strange sounds of something furious, it seemed the taller creature in her father's room was awake and wasn't happy.
Sara stepped into her father's room, moving slowly so she wouldn't scare the creature. The creature stilled and tensed when it saw her.
"Uhhh, hi?" Sara said. The creature shouted something and began to struggle against its bonds. Luckily, it seemed the rope was holding out rather well. Sara ran out of the room, running back down the hallway to her room. After a bit of rummaging through her room she found where she had put the crystal and ran back to her father's room.
The first thing Sara knew she had to do was calm the thing down. She didn't need it to have a heart-attack on her… if these creatures could have heart-attacks. She tried to go into the thing's mind, but she couldn't hear anything legible besides wave after wave of anger and panic. After a while the creature's shouts and struggles got very annoying and Sara couldn't concentrate on how she could communicate with it.
"Will you just cool it?" Sara barked at the creature. However, instead of English, strange growls and clicks came out of her mouth. Sara slapped her hand over her mouth in surprise looking at the crystal; so it could function as a translator too… Sara smiled; maybe she could finally be able to take a foreign language and learn something other than the swear words!
Turning her attention back to the creature, who had ceased its struggles and shouts when she yelled at it. It seemed to look her over once, and then it spoke, the same guttural, growling language that had come out of her mouth.
"How do you speak my language?" Sara was shocked that she understood the creature's words as clearly as if it had spoken English; it was a good thing the crystal functioned as a two way translator. Sara chose not to answer the creature's question, and instead, gave the best introduction she could think of.
"What's your name?" The creature paused, seemingly considering whether or not to answer, then answered.
"Illi'thus."
"Ok, Illi'thus, I'm Sara." The creature repeated her name and tilted its head at her.
There was a long awkward silence, and then Sara blurted out, "What are you?" Sara regretted saying it immediately; it just sounded plain rude.
The creature, however took no offence, "I am a Yautja."
Sara blinked, "A Yautja? Do you live underground or something?"
Illi'thus replied with a quick jerk of his head, "I am not from this world."
"At least that explains why we've never seen anything that looked like these guys," Sara thought. It also explained why the government guys were after them; she'd seen E.T. lots of times.
"So this guy is an alien?" Sara thought, intrigued. Talk about different from the little green guys most people thought of as aliens; this guys was far from looking like those little green dude; heck, he had to be at least seven feet tall! Seeing the alien shift in his bonds Sara realized how uncomfortable he must be; he seemed to have calmed down somewhat nor seemed intent on killing her.
"I'm going to release you, but you can't attack me, kill me, or do anything… destructive. Ok?" With a nod from the alien, Sara, keeping the crystal behind her back, nodded at the ropes, releasing Illi'thus.
Illi'thus jumped up and looked around the room, trying to take in ever detail of this new place, so much different from anything he had seen before. Sara, still curious, asked another question.
"Why were you chasing me?" Illi'thus seemed startled at the question, but answered truthfully.
"We believe you have something that belongs to my race; something of great power and importance."
"You mean this?" Sara held up the crystal. Illi'thus jumped, banging his head on the ceiling, and nodded.
"Yes, that is it. You seem to have found out how to use it."
Sara nodded, "Yeah, I used it a little, but the most stressing thing I've used it for was catching you when you fell off that building last night; sorry about the whole, dropping you on your head thing."
Illi'thus waved away Sara's apology; suddenly, though, he seemed panicked.
"Where is Ven'tise?" he asked, looking around.
"What's a Ven'tise?" Sara asked. For all she knew, this 'Ven'tise' was the box the crystal had originally come in.
"My comrade, who was with me before during the battle." Sara's memory of the other alien clicked in suddenly.
"Oh! He's in the other room." Sara led Illi'thus into the room containing his buddy. As soon as Sara stepped in the room, she knew something was wrong. The other alien, Ven'tise, was breathing raggedly and Illi'thus seemed highly stressed.
Illi'thus ran over to his friend, gently placing his hand on its neck.
"Is he ok?" Sara asked, not liking Illi'thus's reactions.
"No; his neck must have been severely twisted when he fell. It didn't break, but he is probably paralyzed, or he will be soon. He most likely will die." Illi'thus bowed his head and said a silent prayer for his friend.
"I'm sorry," Sara said, truly pitying the aliens. Suddenly, she had an idea.
Sara moved towards the fallen alien, and Illi'thus moved to stop her until she pulled out the crystal. She gently set it on the alien's chest. The crystal quickly began to glow, and the swelling in the alien's neck went down a lot.
Sara and Illi'thus waited for about a minute until the crystal stopped glowing. Illi'thus checked his friend's neck and was visibly relieved.
"He will live; he will be very sore, but he will live." Illi'thus turned to Sara. "Thank you."
Sara smiled and said, "I think we should let him rest," Sara used the crystal again to untied the bonds and led Illi'thus out of the room.
Sara sat in a chair listening to Illi'thus who was on the couch. "So, you guys lost this?"
"As far as the legend of it goes, yes. One of our warriors disappeared with it. A few years ago, it showed up again on your planet but we failed to retrieve it. Now, we've found it again."
Sara was much more relaxed now. She had asked Illi'thus about Zoë and he said that she was alive and well. Sara told him that she would be happy to give them the Sater Kreshebon, or crystal shard, back to them, but Illi'thus seemed a bit worried about that.
Plus, he told her how much trouble he and his friend were going to be in when they met up with the rest of their group; they had snuck away in the night and had planned to be back before dawn.
"What is the whole legend about this?" Sara asked, glancing at the crystal. Maybe Illi'thus could tell her exactly what this thing was capable of.
Illi'thus paused and began to speak, "From what I can remember, a god put its' power into Sater Kreshebon and gave it to a great Yautja warrior. It enhanced both mind and physical abilities to its wielder, no matter what the species. I know that it can't be used to harm other for pleasure. There was also something in the legend about Sater Kreshebon bonding with a being, but I can't remember."
Suddenly, Illi'thus stopped talking and held up his hand to silence any other questions Sara had; he seemed to listen to something. Sara heard it too; it sounded like a quiet growl. Illi'thus looked at the coffee table that was between them and slowly reached under it.
With a shout, Illi'thus pulled his hand out from under the table, leapt back over the couch, and two twin blades popped out from inside the wrist gauntlet that he wore, both looking deadly sharp.
"Get back Sara," he said with a growl, his gaze not leaving the coffee table.
Sara quickly glanced under the table and didn't know whether to get angry or laugh her head off. Instead, she settled for screaming, "Fuzz! You little dweeb!"
"Fuzz?" Illi'thus just stared at Sara, most likely thinking she was insane.
Sara reached under the table and grabbed the hyper kitten holding him up for Illi'thus to see. "Fuzz," Sara stated.
"What is it?" Illi'thus said still standing behind the couch with his blades drawn.
"A cat; he's just my pet. You must excuse him; he is just a little bit… hyper. Most likely he was just trying to play with you." Illi'thus stared at the cat and retracted the blades as Fuzz started purring.
Eventually, Sara calmed Illi'thus down, and let Fuzz go. Illi'thus obviously didn't trust Fuzz. He was probably still suspicious of why Fuzz "attacked" him, or he was just embarrassed that he got scared by a four pound little ball of fur; Sara guessed it was the latter.
Fuzz however, thought this new visitor was a very fun toy. If Sara didn't know better, she would think that Fuzz was purposely teasing Illi'thus to see how many reactions he could get out of the high-strung alien.
Fuzz would pace back and forth just out of Illi'thus's reach and never take his mischievous eyes off of the alien. Illi'thus, Sara could tell, was getting very annoyed. At one point, Fuzz seemed to have given up on his game and left. However, the little sneak crawled under the couch and proceeded to swat at Illi'thus's leg, nearly giving him a heart attack.
Fuzz met his downfall however, when he felt he wanted a go with Illi'thus's dreadlocks. Illi'thus played stupid until Fuzz was in range and with lightning fast reflexes, reached out and grabbed the kitten. Holding Fuzz in front of his face Illi'thus issued a strange clicking growl. Fuzz responded with a high pitched mew and whacked Illi'thus square in the face, causing Illi'thus to drop him to the floor.
Fuzz, now taking his leave, proceeded out of the room in search of something more entertaining.
Sara finally finished laughing at Illi'thus and Fuzz's little episode, asked, "What do you really look like?" Illi'thus seemed confused so Sara elaborated, "Under your mask; at least I think it's a mask.
Illi'thus, having no idea whatsoever of how incredibly ugly Yautja seem to humans, took his mask off quickly.
This time, it was Sara's turn to jump over her chair with a shout. Illi'thus was confused until Sara said, "Jeez, you could've warned me!"
"Warned you of what?" Illi'thus asked.
"Well, not to be rude, but in a human's perspective, you are ugly."
Illi'thus raised a brow, "And you don't look too… appealing in a Yautja's eyes."
"Thank God," Sara thought, come out from behind her chair. Illi'thus put his mask back on, both for his comfort and the human's.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang and a yell. Illi'thus jumped up and ran into the room Ven'tise was in, Sara close behind him.
Ven'tise stood in the middle of the room looking around frantically. "Where is it?"
"Where is what?" Illi'thus asked, wondering if the fall had damaged Ven'tise's brain.
Suddenly, a too familiar ball of grey fur shot out from under a desk and took a swipe at Ven'tise's leg, causing the Yautja to positively freak.
"Fuzz!" Sara screamed trying to catch the kitten who was trying to attack this other visitor. Sara eventually caught the kitten as it tried to race past her legs. Sara quickly took the kitten out of the room, going to lock it in her bedroom while Illi'thus calmed his friend.
"That is enough from you!" Sara barked angrily at the kitten. She was actually glad the alien hadn't killed the kitten. Sara quickly left the kitten and ran into the room where Illi'thus was still trying to calm his friend.
"I woke up and it was sitting on my mask staring at me! How was I to know it was harmless! Kainde Amedha carriers don't look too imposing but look what they do!"
Illi'thus, realizing that if he couldn't calm his friend down he may hurt himself, slapped Ven'tise.
Shaking his head Ven'tise seemed to come to his senses, "I'm fine now. I was just startled." Ven'tise saw Sara standing in the doorway and jumped backward in surprise. Then, confusing Ven'tise even more, the human spoke to Illi'thus in Yautja tongue.
"Is it safe to come in or should I wait out here?"
Illi'thus beckoned Sara into the room and said, "Ven'tise, this is Sara, the human that possesses the Crystal Shard." Illi'thus also explained how they came to be here and what Sara had done for Ven'tise, who promptly thanked her.
"What was that… thing?" Ven'tise asked. Sara left the room and came back holding Fuzz. "This is my pet Fuzz. He was playing with Illi'thus and found you, figuring that you would be another form of entertainment."
At Ven'tise's request, Sara let him hold Fuzz. She had to admit that seeing a creature as powerful as one of these guys holding Fuzz was pretty cute in a way. Fuzz seemed to like Ven'tise as well, but kept his eyes on Illi'thus, undoubtedly imagining what other torments he had in store for him.
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