Adrift In Space
Chapter 3 Waking Up to bad news
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He's eye's open slowly, First thing he notice was that he had something on his forehead. As he started to remove it there came throbbing pain coming from the back of his head. he quickly let the device settle back down on his head soon the pain subsided.
"What happened?" Groaned Tenchi as he tried to remember what happened to him.
Last thing i remember was jumping after Ayeka.....wait! where is Ayeka! Before Tenchi could panic about the where the Princess was, The woman in question came into the room.
"Lord Tenchi! you are awake!" On spotting that Tenchi was awake she rushed over to him. She stopped him from sitting up. "Please stay still Tenchi, You suffered a blow to your head from the fall into the water"
"How long was i out for?" He asked as he land back down. "A round four hours" Ayeka replied. Tenchi's eye's got bigger to what Ayeka had just said. "Four hours!?" Ayeka nodded back in reply. "How did i get here? And where is here? And what happened?!" Question Tenchi as he notice that he was in a room he had not seen before.
"To answer your first Question. I carried you here on my back. And before you ask,
How soon you forget that i was trained by my Mother, So carrying you was easy compared to what Mother made me carry when she took me off on one of her week long hicking trips! My poor feet had blusters on top of blusters!" Ayeka realized she had gone off currant topic.
"Sorry Lord Tenchi that was not the best time to bring that up. Anyway to answer your second Question we are in Ryu-Oh's medical room" Tenchi looked round the room. In it was five more beds similar to the one he was laying on. He notice that there was little else in the room apart from the machine next to this bed that seemed to have some sort of read out on it. It must be connect to the thing on my head Thought Tenchi.
"So what happened Ayeka?" Ask Tenchi.
Ayeka sat down on the next bed from Tenchi. "Ryu-Oh was hit by a Meteor storm and Ryu-Oh failed to detect the storm" Ayeka looked down at her feet.
"I don't understand why didn't Ryu-Oh spotted the meteors? What happened to the shields and the senors?" Tenchi was puzzled as to why one of the most powerful ships in the Juraian fleet failed to spot the storm.
"Ryu-Oh was asleep" Said Ayeka who looked away.
"Asleep! I didn't think tree's slept" Questioned Tenchi. "Almost all living things sleep Lord Tenchi, But usually Royal tree's only need to sleep after a long journey but never in space, Only when they reach a safe port do they do so"
"So why did Ryu-Oh pick that time to take a nap? Why not when we where on Shelmaru?" Tenchi was looking confused. "Please forgive me Lord Tenchi i should of ordered Ryu-Oh to rest but it wanted to watch everything that was happening at the celebration." Ayeka purse for a second before continuing.
"You see because Ryu-Oh still young it is like a small child that wants to stay up late and watch television, And like all children Ryu-Oh couldn't keep it's eye's or in this case senors open to detected the storm." Ayeka's eye's went back to focus on the ground.
In was then Tenchi notice that Ayeka was crying. "Ayeka don't blame yourself or Ryu-Oh for this" Ayeka looked up to Tenchi. "That's not why i am crying Tenchi" confused Tenchi then asked "Why are you crying then?"
Ayeka touched a green triangle on the wrist of her kimono and up popped a small window.
"This is why i am upset Lord Tenchi" On the screen was Ryu-Oh's space pod. Well what was left of it. There was one large hole at one end and a number of smaller holes dotted around. thankfully the part that housed Ryu-Oh it self was undamaged as far as Tenchi could see.
"So how bad is it?" Ask Tenchi who was shocked and the damaged to the ship.
The screen changed and a list of damages ran across the screen.
"The engines where destroyed along with part of senor array which has left us with short rage senors only, But they are only working at lease than 30."
"Can we at least call for help?"
"No i am afraid not Tenchi. You see the communications array was build in to the senor array" replied Ayeka.
"No problem then we will just have to wait for them to find us" Tenchi then watched as a look of panic was spreading across Ayeka's face.
"There's something else i must tell you" the screen changed again to show a map.
"Here is where we were and the course we where on" Tenchi watch as a small line made its way across the screen. "Around this point here was where the storm hit us" Ayeka was pointing to a spot about halfway on the screen.
"Because of the impact and the fact we have no engines we have been thrown of course" Tenchi watch as a second line appeared on the screen which was heading of in a completely different course from the first. "By the time anyone has notice that we are missing we will be adrift deep in space" Ayeka broke out crying again. Tenchi got up and put his arm around her to try and comfort her. She proceeded to bury her face in to his chest as she weep slowly.
"Shhh Ayeka its going to be ok they will find us you see" Ayeka put away from him.
"You don't seem to understand. We have no way of letting anyone know where we are.
Think of Ryu-Oh as a very small life boat at sea in a very large ocean with no radio or flares, it would take a miracle for anyone to find us!" Tenchi looked at her he could tell she was serous about this.
"Ayeka you must not give up hope so soon, You must believe that we will be found" Ayeka looked back at Tenchi her eyes where red from where she had been crying.
"Tenchi, I will try to believe they will find us but i cannot help but worry that we will never be found"
Tenchi couldn't help but think Ayeka was right though. I hope she is wrong, But what will happen to us if she's right?
Some time later back on Earth..........
Ryoko was starting to worry, Both Tenchi & Ayeka where dew back days ago. First she thought that Ayeka had kidnap Tenchi and was even now forcing him to submit to her. She had heard the rumours about Juraian woman in the Royal household. She felt a shiver run down her spine as she pictured Ayeka with whip in hand standing over Tenchi who was tied up. Ryoko shock her head to get rid of the image.
Dam it where are they? Thought Ryoko as she looked up to the stars. It was early evening and Ryoko had left the others back in the house and took to the roof. She laid back down with her hands behind her head.
Ayeka wouldn't do that. She maybe a stuck up Royal pain in the ass, but she has more class than to do that sort of thing. But were the hell are they? She continue to watch the stars. It was then she spotted one star brighter than the rest and the fact it was moving. Ryoko sat up and had her eye's fixed on the star.
"That's no star that's a ship!" Ryoko teleported in to the house where we find Washu Sasami along with Mihoshi and Ryo-Ohki in child forum sitting in a circle playing 'Go Fish'.
"There back! finally Tenchi is back!" Ryoko cried out before disappearing again. everybody else looked at each other before then jumping up and running to the door.
When they got outside they looked up to see a ship coming down in the night's sky. Washu walked up and stood next to her daughter, It was then she notice the look on her face. It was one of disappointment. "What's wrong Ryoko? I thought you would be happy Tenchi is home?"
"I would be if that was him" Said Ryoko who didn't take her eyes of the incoming ship.
Washu looked up to see what Ryoko meant by that. Then she spotted why, It was a Jurai ship, but it was not Ryu-Oh. It was Mizuho & Karin, The twin Tree ship belonging to the Queens of Jurai Funaho and Misaki.
"What is Mother doing here?" Question Sasami. Ryo-Ohki could only meow in reply.
Soon the ship was hovering over the lake. By this time they had been joined by Katsuhito. Soon to beams of light appeared from the ship and descended towards the deck where they disappearing leaving Lady's Funaho and Misaki standing there. Ryoko along with Katsuhito and Washu couldn't help but notice the distress look on Misaki's face.
"It's good to see you all again, But i wish it was not like this" Said Funaho who then placed a hand on Misaki's shoulder. the normally bubbly Queen was almost in tears.
"Mommy what's wrong?" Ask Sasami who was worried as to why her mother was so upset. "Ooh Sasami my daring Sasami!" Misaki bent down and pulled Sasami in to a loving hug. "What's wrong Mommy?" Sasami was starting to get scared at her mother's behaviour.
"It's Tenchi right?" Question Ryoko "Something has happened to them!" Ryoko had a look of dread on her face.
"Yes, I am afraid so, Yesterday a GP ship reported coming across wreckage from a ship. From what they found it was confirmed the wreckage as from a Juraian tree ship. As of this time we have lost all contact with Ayeka's ship. They completed a senor scan of the nearby area but came up with nothing"
The shock of the news was clear to see on everybody face. Sasami's eye's started to water up before she buried her face into her mother's chest. Mihoshi broke out in tears and was comforted by Katsuhito, Washu just looked stunned as Ryo-Ohki ran to her crying.
"Your Lying! It's Not true! It can't be!" Ryoko was shaking her head before dropping to her knees.
"I am sorry Ryoko I wish it wasn't true but it is. Tenchi and Ayeka are missing" Replied Funaho.
Hi hope you like this latest chapter.
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