A/N: Ok here is chapter two. Hopefully I might get a bit more reviews this time though…but I would also like to thank anyone who read the first chapter! Thank you muchly Kae-she!
Disclaimer: I own Jabez, Dr. Melves, Shiva, Ty-thena, and Xentez.
Uh and any unimportant agents and guards.
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Small whispers in the hall made the girl look up. There were a few tall figures and two of them were talking. Tears threatened to fall from her eyes.
"She is the last…" a cold voice rang in her head and she started to cry. "Shit! You made her cry!" Another voice shouted.
The girl started to scoot back with tears running down her cheeks. Something very hard hit her in the stomach then slapped her across the face.
She immediately stopped crying and hugged her hurt stomach. "Better." Was the cruel reply to her whimpers of pain. "Pla dazumta Merish!" the little girl hissed in her own language.
A fist met hard with her face and she blacked out.
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(Next day)
Jabez stared at the ceiling for the longest of times trying to ignore the pain that coursed through out her body. She was strapped down to the bed by her wrists, upper arms, neck, chest, waist, upper legs, and her ankles.
'They might as well just put me in a full body cast.' Jabez thought and glared at the air.
The new door to her room opened a bit and a young girl poked her head into the room. "Jabby? Are you ok?" Jabez lifted her head as far as she could to look at the little girl. "I'm fine. Quick…come in before you get caught out of your quarters." A tiny figure walked into the room and closed the door.
The little girl was chalk pale and had long blonde hair. The white dress robe she wore almost matched her skin. She had big bubbly looking blue eyes and a little bit of red on her cheeks.
Jabez did her best to smile at the girl's worried face. "Don't worry Shiva, I'm fine really." Shiva made a small pout with her lips and crawled onto Jabez's bed. "Can I unlock these for you?" Jabez noticed the key chain in her little hand and nodded her head.
As Shiva unlocked the straps, Jabez remembered the first time that she had met the little child.
It had been one of her first memories. A little girl had come to her and asked if she was ok. After that she introduced herself as Shiva. Jabez had asked her why a child as kind as her was in this loony bin. Shiva had stayed quiet for a bit but then explained that she could 'see' things. And when her parents found out about it, they only thought that she was crazy, so when they heard of the Gama-77 they immediately had a ship come and get her. Jabez and Shiva had been friends ever since.
"Done!" Shiva piped up happily. Jabez shook her head and sat up slowly. Shiva then crawled into her lap and stared up at her with big eyes.
A long silence filled the room as Shiva examined the bruises on Jabez's arms.
"Someone is coming to get you…" she suddenly whispered as her eyes glazed over. Jabez recognized this as her gift and waited for it to end. After a while, Shiva blinked and cuddled up to Jabez, burring her face in her chest. Jabez started to pet Shiva's hair and slowly rocked back and forth. "What did you see Shiva?" The little girl looked up. "Someone's coming to kill you…"
Jabez didn't like the sound of that but decided to ignore it. "Shh…Its ok, I'm still right here." She crooned as Shiva started to sob.
The door swung open making Jabez and Shiva look over startled. Standing there was Dr. Melves with a few guards.
"What the…What the hell is she doing in here?" One of the guards grabbed Shiva harshly out of Jabez's arms. Dr. Melves looked at the frightened little girl. "Take her back to her room…and make sure she only gets a little bit of water tonight…nothing more."
Jabez was on her feet in seconds and tried to run after Shiva. The other guards stopped her and she tried to get past them. "Shiva!" she cried and reached out her arm.
The little girl had tears in her eyes and she was trying to get back to Jabez. "Don't let them take me! Please don't let them take me!" Shiva sobbed as the guard picked her up and walked down the hall.
"NO SHIVA!" Jabez screamed. She couldn't lose a friend…she wouldn't lose her only friend.
"Don't you dare do anything to hurt her!" She screamed in Dr. Melves face.
Dr. Melves grinned. "Oh don't worry your little alien head off about that psycho child…besides it's your evaluation time." He stepped aside to reveal a moving table. Jabez struggled harder against the guards.
"NO!" They lifted her up with some difficulty and set her down onto the table and swiftly strapped her struggling form in. "NO!" She screamed again as they started to move down the hall.
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Shiva hugged her knees and looked around her room with a small whimper. She didn't like being alone.
She shivered in fear and crawled into the pile of blankets that was her bed. Shiva wrapped one of the blankets around her body and looked around again, letting her eyes stop on a shimmering figure.
Shiva blinked a few times. "You're the one who came here to kill Jabez…aren't you?" There was a sharp crackling sound and the shimmer became a solid figure. "How did you know I was here ooman?"
She smiled up at the figure. "She's going to kill you first."
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Jabez felt so light headed from the sedatives that they had been consistently giving her. There where bands around her stomach, arms, and legs which where keeping her to the chair.
Dr. Melves was sitting in a chair across from her. "So…can you tell me how old you are?" Jabez gave him a 'look' and closed her eyes. "I don't know…but if I go by how long I've been in this hellhole then I'm 2 years."
Small laughter came from one of the guards and Dr. Melves glared at them.
"So you're telling me you don't know how old you are. Can you tell me who you are? Or what day today is?" Jabez rolled her eyes. "You ask me this every month and its always going to be the same answers!"
Dr. Melves was about to say something when there was a loud crash and screams out side. "We'll be right back…come on!" He said and left the room with the guards.
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Shiva watched the figure for a second. "So…there are more of you." There was a soft snarl. "Yes…but why would a child like you care?" Shiva blinked and smiled. "You will like her-"
There as a loud crash and Shiva looked at the door. It burst open and some men wearing suits came into the room. "Grab the girl and subdue that monster!" the one in front barked and more men came into the small room.
Shiva started to scream as a man picked her up and slung her over his shoulder. "JABEZ!" The alien that was talking to Shiva roared and charged at the men. Two sharp blades jumped out from a gauntlet on its arm.
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"JABEZ!" The scream echoed in her ears and she looked up sharply.
"Shiva…no…" Jabez looked at her bonds and started to pull at them with all her strength.
They didn't budge. Jabez snarled and tried again. Still nothing happened. She sobbed and went limp. Hearing a roar she felt her determination return and she pulled with all the strength that she believed posible. There was a small ripping sound then one of her arms came free. A smile spread across her face and she shook the band off. Using her now free arm she pulled off the other straps and stood up from the chair.
Jabez walked over to the door and put her ear to it. There were loud shouts and gun shots. "What the fuck is that thing?" someone screamed and more gun shots went off.
She pushed the door open and stepped out. The hall way was in ruins and there were bloody body parts everywhere. Jabez heard someone scream and looked down the hall. One of the guards was shooting his machine gun wildly at nothing.
A spear was then pushed through his abdomen and blood spurted out of his mouth. Jabez stared horrified as an invisible handcaught the body and then ripped out the mans spine.
"Oh my god…" Her eyes widened as something materialized in front of her.
It was 7'9" and was female. She had waist length dreadlocks and pale red skin. She wore a weird looking cut tank and a loincloth that stopped at her knees. Her mask had spikes on the forehead and was a goldish color.
Suddenly her head snapped in Jabez's direction and a low growl hit the air.
Jabez gulped and slowly started to back up. "Eheh…Hi…er…bye!" She turned sharply and made a run for it down the hall. There was a loud roar and Jabez heard the sound of running feet behind her.
'Man this is not my day!' She screamed mentally as she turned corner after corner and then burst into a room. Breathing hard, Jabez ran to the other side, and opened the door into a different hallway.
Jabez closed the door sharplyand started to back up. Her back hit something soft and she turned around…to see an unknown man hung upside down without his skin. Jabez took a deep breath and tried tohold down the bile that was threatening to come out of her stomach. "Ok girl…deep calm breaths, deep calm breaths…"
She slowly turned to the left and started to walk away from the man and the door.
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Ty-thena looked from side to side, scanning behind the walls of the room but there was no sign of the…uh…'thing' that escaped her. Its heat signature was different from the Pyode Amedha.
She hissed and looked around again before opening her communicator. Someone wasn't telling her something but she wasn't going to let that thing get away...period!
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Jabez noticed that she had walked out to the docking bay. Seeing a group of 'agents' running towards a new ship, she headed in that direction. Jabez hid behind some barrels and got a closer look. In the middle of the group was a man with Shiva slung over his shoulder.
She was crying and pounding her fists on his back. "LET ME GO!" Jabez watched and couldn't take it. Jumping out from behind the barrels she screamed and charged into the group. No one hurts Shiva and gets away with out something broken or cut off.
All of the men turned to look at her and she hissed. Jabez knew she was too drugged to turn her hair but she knew she could still fight. Suddenly another figure appeared at her side. Jabez stared at it startled. It was the same species as the female that she had been running from earlier.
He was 7'7" and had a yellowish skin color. He was also wearing the weird leather armor and some metal armor. He's dreadlocks were down to his shoulder blades. There was a sword strapped to his hip and his mask was a dusty grey color with spikes on both sides of the forehead.
He roared at the men who all pulled out guns, except for the ones that were running to the ship. They started to shoot at him and ones without guns ran at Jabez.
Jabez grabbed one by the throat and squeezed until she heard a snap then lifted him by the neck into the air and slammed him full force back onto the ground. Another charged at her and she ducked his punch. Jabez countered by hitting him in the gut and hitting him in the face until his skull cracked. Someone's arm wrapped around her neck as the other body fell to the ground and she gagged. Jabez grabbed the arm around her neck andflippedwhoever it wasover her back. Jabez turned his back to her and sunk her nails into the skin on his chin. Not even thinking about what she was doing, she pulled up, ripping the skin off of the mans face.His pain filled scream hit the air, telling her that he was still alive. Jabez then crossed her arms over his torso, grabbing his hip and shoulder. With unknown strength, Jabez roared and twisted his upper body until it ripped, snapped and faced her. The mans skined face gapped at her.
Her eyes widened at what she had just done a few seconds later and dropped the body .
Looking over at her 'assistant' she saw him already surrounded by dead bodies…one of them without his spine which was slung over his back and he was cleaning his sword.
"JABEZ! DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE!"
Jabez turned and saw the ship starting up. "NO!" she shrieked and tried to run for the ship. A strong arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her back. Jabez struggled, "NO SHIVA!" Red tears started to run down her face. "There's nothing you can do!" The male that held her said harshly.
She ignored him and continued to struggle as the ship left the bay. "SHHHIIIVVVAAAA!" Jabez sobbed and stopped struggling as the bay doors closed.
"There was nothing that you could have done." Jabez turned around in anger and started to beat her fist on his well muscled chest. "Yes I could have done something!" Jabez sobbed. Her red tears fell down her cheeks.
The male sighed as Jabez weakly continued to beat her fists on his chest. "Who are you and what do you want with me?" her voice cracked. Jabez could feel his eyes drilling into her although she couldn't see them behind his mask. "I am Xentez. And you are the last of your race." He brought up a hand a brushed it across her tears. "Such a weird thing…even compared to ooman tears."
Jabez looked at him surprised. The last of her kind…what did that mean?
"Let go of me!" She suddenly hissed and broke out of his hold. Turning around swiftly she walked over to open of the control panels and started to type in the access code. Xentez watched her carefully. She was considered prey but he had watched her as she tore that one oomans face off and snapped his upper body into the other direction.
Xentez heard his communicator beep for the second time today and opened it swiftly. An image of Ty-thena popped up and she looked pissed.
"What have you been doing? I thought I told you that she got away from me!" the female hissed. Xentez sighed, and shook his shoulders. "I will keep in touch with you but right now I am going to follow her."
Ty-thena paused, "Just don't get attached…then you might get our clan disgraced."
Behind his mask, Xentez rolled his eyes. Why would he want to get attached to her? He shook his head in reassurance and closed the communicator. Loud swearing brought his attention back to the female. She was still standing at the control panel but by the look of her heat signature, she hadn't been able to do anything.
"What are you trying to do?" Her head snapped in his direction. "I'm trying to get a ship, care to help?" she snapped.
Xentez glared hard at her and slowly advanced on her. Her eyes widened and she started to back up. He watched her heat signature drop quiet low. "You will do well, if you don't do that again." He hissed threateningly.
"I…I don't care…just as long as I get Shiva back…" her whisper chipped off a bit of his anger but not all of it. Xentez stopped advancing on her and stared at her a bit longer. "I have a ship, now come." He turned and she stared at his back.
"Jabez." He tilted his head and looked back at her. "I'm Jabez." Xentez frowned under his mask. He had studied a little of the ooman culture and found that name which meant sorrow. 'But why would she have an ooman name…unless…'
"Very well Jabez." Xentez said and stared to walk again. Jabez watched him for a second, wondering if she should follow him. He waited for a while then snarled impatiently and Jabez slowly started to follow after him…questions flying through her head at light speed.
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A/n: Please read and review. Oh and if you have read my other fics beware…this is a bit darker then them.
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