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Chapter 11: The Chase

Sara and Alex flew down the road; Sara knew that they were way above the speed limit of twenty five. Luckily, being a small town, there were no other cars on the roads.

She glanced back every few seconds to see if the aliens were following them. Sara wondered how Illi'thus fared with them. Sara shuddered to think of what they could do if they were angry enough.

"Shit!" Alex shouted, taking a sharp turn, nearly jolting Sara from the bike. Sara grasped his jacket tighter in her hands.

"What was that for?" Sara screamed, trying to slow down her heart.

"You didn't tell me that those guys were that fast!" Alex replied. Sara paled; how did they get in front of them let alone know where they were. Sara realized that they must have tracked Illi'thus to her house and knew where she would return.

"Alex!" she shouted above the roar of the engine, "Don't go to my house! Go somewhere… anywhere else!" Alex seemed to understand and he took many turns, eventually riding back in the opposite direction.

Sara tried making them invisible, but she was too nervous, not to mention the fact that she would have to cloak the bike as well. The cloaking merely flickered and died. Sara glanced up and saw a flicker of electricity; they were following them still. However, they were just about to pass the area that Sara had originally meant to fight Illi'thus in; the rocks were still there.

Sara wished she could see better, but dealt with it. Taking her best guess on where the alien was, she calmed herself and used her mind to chuck a rock in the general direction. Although the shot wasn't a direct hit, it sent the alien stumbling.

Sara smiled and got ready to unleash as many rocks at the aliens as she could.

Illi'thus and Ven'tise brought up the back of the group. Once they went in the woods, their group found them and saw Sara. By some miracle, Draka believed they had been trying to help find the Crystal Shard and by staying with the human, delivered the shard nearly into the Yautja's hands.

That was good for them. Unfortunately, Sara and the male she was with were in serious trouble.

After seeing Sara use the shard to launch a rock at Sek'lett, Illi'thus and Ven'tise smiled; maybe she wasn't as nice as she seemed to be. Suddenly, many more rocks came flying at them. Illi'thus and Ven'tise stopped in their tracks, not wanting to enter the barrage.

Sara smiled as the aliens were forced to break up. Alex, however, found a more pressing problem.

"Uh, Sara?" he shouted over the bike.

"Yeah?" Sara smiled as yet another rock made contact.

"How long are these guys going to chase us?"

"I don't know; why?"

"I didn't think we were going to be chased, so there isn't much gas left in the bike!" Sara wanted to punch Alex at that moment. Out of all the times to run out of gas, this had to be the worst time possible in the history of mankind.

"What do you mean there isn't much gas left!" Sara shrieked.

"We have about ten minutes left of gas going at this speed; any suggestions of where we should go?"

Sara's mind raced; where to go? They needed a place to hide, at least for a while. Sara suddenly remembered the construction site. It was big with tons of places to hide. She had lost Illi'thus and Ven'tise when she was there before.

"Alex! Go to the construction site!" Alex nodded his approval and turned his bike in the right direction.

They managed to loose the aliens for a minute, but Sara knew they would find them easily.

Running through the sloppy mud, Alex and Sara looked frantically for the best place to hide.

Suddenly, a loud roar echoed through the night and a spear appeared out of nowhere flying at Sara and missing her, barely.

"Split up!" Alex shouted, pushing Sara behind a building and running off, making a racket so the aliens would hopefully follow him.

Sara, however, wasn't worried now. She was pretty sure the aliens would ignore Alex and come after her, only this time, she managed to calm herself down enough to make herself invisible; it seemed she had to concentrate in order for the Crystal Shard to work and she had been too nervous about what might happen to Alex to concentrate.

Once again, Sara felt as if she had been plunged into a tub of ice-water. She dove behind a pile of dirt, sat very still, and waited quietly.

She could hear the approach of two of the aliens. She knew they would look around the dirt pile only to see nothing of interest and head off.

Unfortunately, from the shadows, Alex watched the whole game play out; to him, Sara still seemed very visible.

Swallowing his fear, Alex jumped out and screamed at the aliens.

"Hey, ugly dudes! Look what I got!" Alex shouted at the aliens. Sara spun to look at him, trying to get him to shut up. The aliens almost ignored Alex until they saw something in his hand.

To the Yautja, it looked like Sater Kreshebon, but Sara could also see it and realized it for what it was. Alex had found a piece of glass roughly the size and shape of the Crystal Shard and, from being in his hand, it looked warm.

The aliens roared and raced after Alex as he sprinted away.

"Damn it," Sara cursed. Why did Alex always have to play the hero? Sara stood up and ran out of the construction site, unsure of what to do. She was covered in mud and was freezing due to the Crystal Shard's invisible shield about her.

She knew that she couldn't go home; the aliens, once they caught Alex and realized the trick he played on them, would go after her there. For a fleeting second, Sara thought about going to the suit guys and ask for help, but she shook away that thought. She liked Illi'thus and Ven'tise; she didn't want them to get capture and have experiments preformed on them.

Sighing, Sara kept running, lost in thought, not even noticing the rain as it began to pour down on her head.

Draka slapped the male human across the face in fury. He could not believe his warriors had been tricked!

Two of his warriors brought the human to him, saying that it had Sater Kreshebon, only to find out the human used a fake to trick his warriors into going after him rather than the female that did have Sater Kreshebon.

And then the human had the boldness to laugh at him! Although it was brave, it was incredibly stupid to laugh in the face of an angry Yautja warrior. The human groaned at the power of the hit Draka dealt it.

Growling at his warriors to take the human back to the ship, Draka though carefully about his next actions. He could have his warriors keep searching for the human, but it would be very unlikely now that they would find it.

But they could not just give up. The Elders had given strict orders to retrieve Sater Kreshebon or die trying. They were so close; they could not let Sater Kreshebon slip out of their grasp again.

Agitated, Draka turned and headed back to his ship, sending a message to the others to do the same. His warriors would rest, and then they would be back, searching for the human.

Zoë looked up as the door to her cell in the alien ship opened. She had been doing stretching exercises, bored out of her mind in the small room.

The aliens had kept her there, giving her food and water. She also had a small bathroom that connected onto the room but that was pretty much it. She had tried to attack her captors numerous times, but never really succeeded in escaping. She was pretty sure she gave one of them a black eye, and she bit another, but after being locked up for a few days those small accomplishments were diminishing.

She was shocked to see Sara's cousin, Alexander, get thrown into the room. She had met him once before, but never really talked to him much. He looked like he had just spent a day rolling around in a mud pit.

Alexander groaned and sat up, watching the alien leave then jerking back in surprise at the sight of Zoë.

"Uhhh, hi. Do I know you?" Alexander asked Zoë. Zoë smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, you do. I'm Zoë, Sara friend." A spark of remembrance showed brightly behind Alexander's eyes.

"Oh, yeah, Sara introduced me to you. I'm Alexander, but call me Alex."

Zoë smiled, "So, how'd you get involved with these guys?"

"Helping Sara; you?"

"Same thing. Well, I guess Sara listened when I told her she needed to do more interesting things; although I was thinking more along the lines of a sport or something."

Alex nodded in agreement. "Sara told me you were going to help her in Math," Alex said, trying to draw his attention away from the fact that he was being held hostage by some rather nasty, killer aliens.

"Yep; her teacher, Mrs. Alen, asked me too, but I didn't tell Sara that because I knew she wouldn't do it."

"Smart idea," Alex agreed. Alex and Zoë continued their conversation, always with the thought that they may not make it out of this alive in the back of their heads.

Well, anyone got an Idea on what gonna happen next? Please Review!