(a/n): Well, this wasn't such a long delay was it?? Okay, yes. It was a VERY long delay. I'm sorry. I was not feeling too well and the teachers just buried me alive with everything you can imagine; tests, homework, quizzes, projects, etc.
From now on, try to guess who would be the most likely person to believe in or say a certain quote that I usually write right before the question. The quote sometimes might describe a person as well. There is no price or anything but it just tells you how good you know a certain character. Here are some thanks.
Alex: Thank you so much for such a lovely review. I really enjoyed reading it. I'm really glad you like how I make up characters. Yeah, it takes time to think up these characters and now I'm really glad things are turning out fine. Hmm. And about Lostis and Tanya's fanclub…sounds interesting, we'll just see.
Thanks for pointing out the mistake. I see what I did wrong now. I'll try to correct these mistakes in the future, thanks.
Fun: Hello, good old friend!!! Wow, thank you so much. Really. I mean, wow. I'm really glad you think the quote fits Zack because I really couldn't explain the relationship between Tanya and him and then this quote said it all. And yeah, Tanya will be taught a lesson, Lostis being the teacher. ^_~
Slash The Ironman: Thank you for your compliments. I'm glad you think Tanya is tough. Well, she is definitely nowhere near announcing her defeat even though Zack tries so hard to prove her wrong. Oh well, that's Tanya. ^_~. I'm glad you are starting on your "The Assassin." I can't wait to read the next chap.
On the last note.
Enjoy.
Chapter 4 -Ravaging Will-"My resolution's plac'd, and I have nothing of a woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant, now the fleeting-moon no planet is of mine." –William Shakespeare (1567-1616)
The large Hybrid stood in front of me, strong and tall, ready to take my life. I was sprawling on the floor as I felt him grab me by my hair and forced me to look into his eyes. Red alien eyes bored into mine with such vengeance as I felt life slipping from my fingers. He laughed with his voice that sounded like death to my ears, and he threw me against the coffee table, glass splintering into my back causing me to scream from pain.
Heavy footsteps thundered and shook the place. The large Hybrid curled his clawed hands around my neck, fishing me out for my doom. Agony enveloped my body that tangled freely as I hung at his grasp. A sharp cutting sound burned through his chest as he dropped me back into the pile of glass.
My head snapped at the shooter, and saw Dessloch approach with the shock rifle, ready to protect me. I scream his name but nothing was voiced. I reach for him, afraid not to ever see him again. "Dessloch!" I screamed, appearing in my bedroom. "Trinity!" He cried my name as he wrapped his hands around me. "Trish, its me!" He tried to calm me down as I stroke him and tried to run. He caught me before I got a chance to run and whirled me into bed. "Trish, what's wrong with you?" But then it really didn't matter what was wrong with me. He knew who I was. "Menace?" He asked. "Tanya Menace?" My heart raced, as I knew I couldn't let him live with knowing who I really was.
I was a fool as I stroke him with my dagger in his stomach, crying in the process, scared to think that I was wrong.
"Dessloch!" I screamed inside my head, falling to the floor and grabbing my head. "Stop it! Get out of my head! Ahhh!" I screamed in agony afraid of the truth.
"Trish? Trish!?" I looked around the darkness with everything gone.
"Tanichka? Tanya!" Another voice as they were coming together in my head, making me scream in horror. "DESSLOCH!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed for him, I cried for him. I shut my eyes from my throbbing head that I was grabbing and all went dark.
"Trish." A soft voice forced my eyes opened.
"Dess?" My voice echoed with fear. "Dess is it really you?" I asked as I felt him place his hands on my shoulders.
"Yes, it is." Dessloch smiled at me. "I'm here with you."
I hugged him as tears pour down my face, crying unstoppably. "Don't every leave me. Don't ever leave me!" I sobbed, feeling him caressing my hair and responding with, "I won't." "Promise?" My voice faltered as I pulled back to look at his face.
"Dess?" I called his name, watching his wide eyes and open mouth. "Dess?" I shook him this time, more tears running from my eyes. "Dess, what's wrong?" I asked, my hand traveling to his face but stopped the minute I felt something warm. My eyes traveled at the wound in his stomach and a dagger in my hands. "Dess!?" I dropped the dagger and touched his face with my bloody hands and I stared at them. "No, no, no!" I screamed, backing away from my loved one's corpse and staring at my hands. "NO!!!! DESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Dessloch!!!!!" I sat up in bed in a quiet room. There was no blood, no weapons, no Dessloch. I closed my eyes and dropped back onto the pillow, thinking of what just happened. No, I haven't killed him I haven't killed Dessloch. It was wrong. He lives; we come here to the Lunar Colonies.
I took a deep breath as my headache was starting to move in. "Dessloch." The name spilled from my mouth again. Strange, and I thought that I was crying. Crying for him. But it is impossible, after all, I have promised I would never cry and there is nothing left anyway. I'm all dried out, and this time it isn't a lie.
"Hey, you okay?" My eyes swung open at the voice and saw a pale, worried face. "Lostis?" I asked as I sat back up and looked at my surroundings. "What happened?" I asked finally becoming aware of the situation. The last thing I remember was us being in a tunnel collapse—no—not a tunnel collapse. Someone was clearing out the tunnels.
"Is Zack alright?" I looked back at him, seeing him nod.
"Yes, you two were very lucky." He put a hand on my shoulder. "Your stats are fine, you're in medical wing, I brought you here. Don't worry everything will be fine."
"What about the launch?" I asked. "Have they cancelled it?" Lostis wore a worried face as he shook his head. "No." My heart dropped. I had to go back to Earth, no, I must go back to Earth. I closed my eyes and breathed a long breath out. "Don't worry." Lostis told me. "Things will turn out fine. I have a plan. You just rest here."
My eyes narrowed down on him. "A plan?" I asked and dropped back. Great, not exactly what I want to be part of. "What kind of plan?" I asked. "I will fill you in later." On that note he walked away, leaving me in question.
I bet it wasn't a good plan at all, probably something about giving myself up to the United Legions or the Liandri. That's a definite no. That guy doesn't know whom he is dealing with, and if he won't be careful enough I'll accidentally blow his head apart.
After minutes and minutes of waiting, I grew tired of lying in bed and just waiting for someone to pop up their head. Feeling frustrated, I stood up from bed and noticed I had Cripton's suit on. The healing ability was active, maybe that's why I didn't need any medical attention, I was glad too. Now, only how to turn it off…
I looked for my gloves that were on the nightstand and I put them on. My eyes fell upon a small button on my right glove on the wristband that was glowing with green. I pressed it carefully and a hologram of functions dimmed across my forearm, and I felt a slight shock on my fingertips of my left hand. I lift my left hand, palm facing me, and saw small electronic pallets on my fingertips that were connected to my gloves.
I figured what to do as my pointing finger went for the button that was labeled "Abl" and the other buttons faded as new appeared. My eyes set upon the blue hologram as a button with a medical cross glowed in green. I pressed the button and the glow dimmed and camouflaged with the blue configuration. When I was done, I pressed an X on top of the right corner of the hologram and the panel disappeared, the button on the wristband losing its light. "Cool." I smiled at the cool technology. I got to admit, no matter how bad Cripton can get, this suit is still nice.
I examined the room, carefully, seeing the gray rock form the walls, ceiling, and the floor. The door in front of me was an electronic one, those types that swing straight into the ceiling. The lights here were flat against the ceiling, giving of a soft radiant of blue light, creating a calm environment.
Too bad it wasn't really working, I am about to go crazy in here. I need to see if Zack is alright with my own eyes, I won't take just an answer from a guy that I just met. Sure Zack and Lostis maybe friends, but Lostis is not MY friend and I was suspicious of him of being a spy. But that's just me making more enemies along the way. What great hobby I have, great way of making friends.
I sighed inwardly and came up to the door that swung up and a large hall was revealed, covered with rock. I went inside, realizing that this was still a medical wing. There were tables, accessories, a scrub-tank, and monitors around this large room. My eyes quickly lay upon a berth that was occupied by a blonde-haired man.
"Zack?" I asked as I came over to my friend, seeing his calm expression with closed eyes and a white bandage around his head. He was plugged into the machinery, his breathing was slow but steady.
"He hit the ground pretty hard from the explosion." My head snapped at the clam voice behind me. Lostis' tall frame stood before me. "The ground?" I asked, looking back at my friend. "I pulled the two of you outta there into a concave dent that was in the tunnel, but the explosion was too strong. Zack's temple met with the ground pretty hard."
"What about me?" I looked at him with suspicious eyes. "You were pushed against me." He sat in a chair near Zack's bed and lowered his head slowly. "I was the only one left conscious so I tried to find a way out. Before I went for help, the wall happened to be an access door to this place. I figured what the heck and pulled you guys in and asked if anyone could help. They put you in medical beds and didn't bother me at all." He finished, but I had a feeling he had more to say; he just didn't want to say it. I couldn't blame him though; this Necris doesn't exactly feel like he's at home or with a family.
I put a hand on Zack's forehead, looking into his closed eyes. "Thank you." I whispered to Lostis, feeling that it has sounded strange when it spilled out of my lips. I saw him nod and he said, "He should wake up soon." I felt a hand pat my shoulder and Lostis turned to walk away.
"Where are you going?" I asked, stopping him in his tracks, but not for long. "You'll find out soon enough." He said again with his mysteriousness. "Be careful with the crew here." He called out. "They aren't practically a friendly crowd. Keep your head down and watch your back." Lostis walked out of the medical wing, leaving me in even more questions.
I'll never know if I will ever figure Lostis out. To me he seems so mysterious and creepy in a certain way. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel that HE is not a friendly material himself. I do like one thing about him; his cautiousness. What really bugs me is that he reminds me of myself. I know I'm not the best person out there; especially with my attitude, but I really don't like people that are like me. There are not a lot of them, but I don't meet many of them. Whoever Lostis really is, he knows what is going on here he is just not ready to talk, not yet anyway.
I felt a hand grab mine, my eyes traveling to Zack's. He was looking at me with his soft blue eye and a mechanical one. I bore my gaze into his good eye, baby blue eye that reflected a light soul and yet a not so happy life. I couldn't blame him, a life is not always such a perfect gift, especially during Zack's time. A man of 37, born in the year of the Great War, and yet he is still normal than most of the people his age. I was actually kind of glad that the tournament hasn't changed him, and I'm even gladder that the War hasn't killed him or his spirit.
"Welcome back." I whispered, making him smile and rub my hand. "Good to be back." He answered back with sparkle in his eye. "I guess we are in the Albategnius Crater." I started, looking around the rock formation of the walls. "Maybe even in the Albategnius Space Station." I saw him nod. "Yes," He said as he closed his eyes. "I've been here before, they are not exactly what you would call welcoming but they are good professional pilots." I looked at him. "Lostis said the same. I don't know but he is creeping me out. I'm starting to think that everything he says that bad is going to happen, he's always right." Zack chuckled. "Oh, don't be too sure. He's just precautious."
I heard the door slid open into the medical area we were in and a man in a lab coat filed in with Liandri behind him. "There they are." The doctor pointed towards us as the Liandri solders trained their weapons. "Just precautious?" I asked Zack, as he seemed as surprised as I was.
"Tanya Menace and Zack Vicklair." The troop started in front of us. "You are to be escorted back to Earth and into jail." Whoever the soldier was, he had perfect English. Either he is a human like I am or he is one of Lostis' buddies. "And what if we refuse?" I asked, trying to buy us time as Zack started to get up. "We have orders to shoot you down, then." He's a human; my mind told me, meaning this would be a peace of cake.
"Such a shame." I said, finally seeing Zack on his feet. The soldier raised his weapon at me, but before he said anything else the ground below us rumbled. "What the hell?" One of them asked as a sound of an engine was heard. "Somebody fired up the Lunar Streak!" The doctor exclaimed over the loud noise.
Two rockets blasted through the wall behind us, revealing another room with a spacecraft floating right above the ground. "Come on!" The voice through the intercom boomed. "Are you coming, or what?" Zack and I turned towards the jet and up a ramp that opened for us.
Fire zipped behind us, but because the craft was near; it was no problem getting on it. The spaceship's doors closed and I was in a cabin with Zack. "You okay?" I asked as I watched him get up. He nodded and smiled at me. "Never better."
Another blast was heard and the ship shook, forcing me into Zack's hands and him into a wall. I tried to get up from Zack but another explosion shook this place. "They must be retaliating!" I raised my voice over the crackling noises and explosions. Zack stood up and helped me up as well. His hand quickly grabbed hold of a handle overhead. "We need to get to the cockpit!" Zack yelled over the noises as he helped me walk through the room.
Getting to the cockpit was not as easy as it sounded. It was like Lostis was fighting a war with other space fighters, but things settled down after a while—when we were right behind the access door of the cockpit—yeah, real useful, would have been better if things quieted down a little earlier.
Zack opened the access door, seeing the back of Lostis' head sitting behind the controls. I quickly sat in one of the passenger seat as Zack sat in the co-pilot seat. "Everything okay?" Lostis asked in his calm, smooth voice. "We're fine." I sounded grumpy as I examined my wounded elbow. I really didn't care if I was hurt, it's same thing as a sting from a bee, what really bothered me was it was LOSTIS' fault and I hate everything about him. "Ow." I quietly said as I touched the light wound with my finger and felt it burn. "Don't worry." Zack said as he looked at me with a smile. "It'll heal before the wedding." My eyebrows knotted in a serious way, which made him chuckle and stick his gaze into open space.
"So." I decided to start the conversation, silence boring me. "Who called the Liandri? How'd they know how to find us, Lostis?" My tone was dark and serious and Lostis caught on quick. "You sound like it was my fault." He didn't look at me as he piloted the craft. "Well, how else did they know? You are the only contact they have that is with us? You sure you have no trackers on you? Who knows, they might have bugged you with some device." I said, not changing my tone and keeping a serious face. I was suspicious of Lostis and I don't care anymore that he is Zack's friend any longer. "I'm fine, end of story, Menace. If I would have called them I would've helped them arrest you." His tone darkened, as it still stayed smooth.
I looked out of the windshield and saw a tiny globe that used to be my home once. Earth, what a beautiful place it used to be, now it's nothing but a big humongous prison for humans. All my life I lived on Earth, accepting the bad things and good things with it. People used to be so strong and yet weak in some perspectives. Countries waged wars against one another, territories taken over, resistance groups, and terrorists were all part of what Earth used to be. Now, humans had put aside their difference, terrorist or law enforcement, it didn't matter anymore. Nothing mattered but on the fact of staying alive and getting these aliens off our home planet.
"Lostis, I don't think we should just go in like this. They'll spot us." Zack said as he was scanning a hologram map. "Don't worry." Lostis said with reassurance. "I don't steel often, but when I do I make sure I steel the best, the hottest, the newest." Lostis shot a look at Zack and quickly back in space in front of him. "This baby has a stealth capability. Don't worry, they won't know we're here." Zack seemed to nod, as he seemed to relax his shoulders.
I didn't know what to think, but if Lostis will get us there undetected my appearance at the tournament would be more unexpected. I had to find Dessloch, and I'll do anything to find him. Him and I have made a promise and if he cannot keep that promise, I will make sure I will keep it. Dessloch, I will find you. I promise.
(a/n): Well, what do you think? Think Lostis is as dark and mysterious as Tanya or he's really extreme? Updates will be slow, thanks to classes.
The quote is from Trinity's point of view.