After the Outlaw Star and Gillium had gone offline, no one had even the slightest clue what had happened. Melfina, Harry, and Jim had stayed at the Outlaw Star trying to figure out what the reason for the mainframe crash was. Jim was on the floor near his seat on the ship typing away on his laptop, which he had plugged into the ship, trying to debug it, but nothing seemed to work. Harry was in the seat Gene would be in, watching him work seeing as how there wasn't anything that would respond except the laptop. Melfina was standing near Harry when she walked over to Jim and crouched down to speak to him.
"Jim," she politly asked, "Do you think that maybe I should try getting in the chamber? Maybe I can fix this." Jim looked up from his laptop.
"I really don't think so, Melfina," Jim said tiredly. "It doesn't seem like the chamber is working either so you probably couldn't get in it, and even if you did this thing could hurt you, too." Melfina frowned and stood back up again and walked over to Harry, who placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, Mel," Harry whispered. "It's probably better that you just stay here. Jim will have everything fixed soon and then we can go home, again. Okay?" he asked with a tender smile. Melfina looked down for a few seconds, the bangs of her hair concealing her big brown eyes, until she looked back up at Harry smiling and so that he could see those beautiful eyes once more.
"Okay," was her sweet reply. "Harry, can I sit up in Gene's seat with you?" she asked him.
"Oh, yeah! Sure," Harry said enthusiastically. Harry grabbed Melfina's hand and helped her into the very high seat. Melfina slipped into the seat and soon realized that it was really only made for one person. Harry and Melfina were tightly seated together in the captain's chair when they both shot their looks toward Jim when they heard him angrily slam his laptop shut.
"DAMMIT!" Jim screamed as he forcefully unplugged the laptop and picked it up, placing it under his right arm. He walked over to where Harry and Melfina were before calming down. "I can't fix it guys. I'm sorry." Harry and Melfina both exchanged rather discouraged faces before Jim spoke again. "But, I do think I know what it is."
"What could it be?" Melfina asked him.
"Well, it seemes that the computer virus also is organic in nature," Jim said, which startled them both.
"Organic!" Harry asked. "One: how can that be? And two: how do you know?"
"I know because my laptop's scanning can detect organic and inorganic lifeforms like when I help Gene out against bounty hunters. It can be because ..." Jim paused for a moment before speaking again."I think it's the disease that you had when Melfina healed you just now."
"What?" both Melfina and Harry responded in shock. "How did that happen?" Melfina quickly asked back.
"Well, I think the ship purges the organic poisons and viruses that you've extracted through a database which can indentify it for future reference. It must have attacked the ship there."
"Great," Harry mumbled. "I screwed up the ship for everyone, then. I'm sure this will be interesting when we tell the others."
"You didn't screw up the ship, Harry," Melfina said to Harry, placing her right hand on his. "You were dying. I did what I had to do, and I don't regret it." Harry looked from her hand to her face to see that small, beautiful smile again.
"Thank you so much for doing it, too, Melfina," he whispered to her. Jim then turned from them and started walked down the hallway of the ship. "Hey, Jim!" Harry called. "Where are you going?"
"Home. I can't fix the ship right now, so I think some sleep and some test simulations on my laptop should help me out a lot in purging this thing." Harry then looked at Melfina again and helped her out of the captain's seat that they were both in. Once he was down as well, he placed one arm around her neck and pulled her playfully close like she liked for him to do and he kissed the top of her head, breathing in the sweet scent that her hair gave off. As Harry delved in his bliss, they walked down the corridor and followed Jim out of the ship and towards the shop.
Night had already fallen over the entire city. There was a clear sky that was evident by the thousands of stars and the huge moon in the sky. Things were dead at the shop. Gene relaxed on the couch as he flipped through the channels with the remote, while Aisha grabbed a soft drink from the refrigerator and threw herself into the bean bag near Gene's seat as she squealed in delight. Gene grew a scowl on his face, seeing as how he really couldn't stand having the ever-annoying Aisha around him that much.
"Hey, Aisha," Gene asked, trying to be polite, "You know where Suzuka is?"
"No, I don't," Aisha said, "Where is she, Gene?" Gene grew a puzzled look on his face at first.
"What do you mean?" he replied.
"Well," Aisha started, "You went 'You know where Suzuka is'?" saying Gene's comment in a rather unflattering manner of an imitation. "And, no, I don't know where she is. So tell me, where is she?"
"I asked you." Gene said, realizing the misunderstanding they had just had.
"Ohhh!" Aisha sighed, realizing the situation as well. "Never mind." Just then, the doorbell to their shop rang, making Aisha's ears stand up excitedly. "YES! My pizza's here!"
"Great," Gene said smiling. "Just make sure to pay the guy this time."
"Shut UUUuuuuppp!" Aisha said in a dragging manner. Aisha opened the door to see a very tall man in a black coak which concealed most of himself. From what she could see in the front, he had a sleak, golden, metallic suit. His face was that of a rather young man with piercing liquid blue eyes and short, spiked hair the same color as his eyes. Aisha gave him a look up and down before speaking in her usual careless manner. "You the pizza guy? You look really wierd."
"Speak for yourself," said the mysterious man in a smooth, young voice. Aisha then looked behind him to see the real pizza guy walking towards the door when he saw the rather tall man in the doorway and stopped.
"Uh, uh, ... AAAAHHH!" screamed the pizza guy as he ran in terror, apparently scared out of his mind by the tall man.
"HEY! That's my pizza, asshole!" Aisha screamed at the delivery boy. "What's the big idea scaring my delivery away from me, you loser!" she screamed at the man.
"I have no time to deal with people of your low class," he said as he lifted his palm to Aisha's chest and created an energy ball. Aisha looked at it before it exploded sending her flying past Gene, through Melfina's bedroom door, through Melfina's bedroom wall, and into another building before she stopped. Gene, who had darted back into his seat when he saw Aisha fly by, jumped up from his seat and pulled his caster gun out, loading it as he turned around to face whoever this man was. Gene had no clue what was going on or who this was. He knew, though, that he had a fight on his hands.
"Who the hell are you?" Gene shouted at the man with his caster pointed straight at him.
"Who am I?" he said as he took a few steps into the doorway before dropping his cloak, exposing all of his glistening, gilded armor. "I'm the Tendo King. The one who sent that highly lower classed ingrate Hazanko after you and Melfina." Gene's eyes widened in horror. They had found them, and this guy was probably worse than Hazanko. This was the worst situation he had ever been in, but Gene knew that somehow, someway, his outlaw luck would pull through for him like always. Still, he worried about if they did something to Melfina. "Speaking of which, where is the raven-haired dahlia? I have been wanting to see what my researchers have been talking about for so long." That remark pissed Gene off more than anything.
"How dare you talk about her like she's a doll, asshole!" he shouted at the Tendo King in hatred.
"Strange, isn't that how you seem to treat all women? Like dolls? Worthless, weak dolls you use to satisfy your sexual desires." Gene couldn't believe what he was hearing. He couldn't really say anything back to counter that. What he didn't know was that the Tendo King could see into someone's heart the second he looked into their eyes. He could emotionally exploit their greatest weakness to either send them crashing down to where they were helpless or send them into a rage, which would help him anyway since he could then just have fun with them. "How is one girl like Melfina going to be different to you than anyone else that you've met? Just cause you haven't conquered her she's different to you? I think not. You've been able to take advantage of almost every woman you've met unless they weren't interested in you or you weren't interested in them, and it's usually the latter. Though, let's see how you handle this 'doll'."
As he finished saying that, Gene heard a snapping sound like that of latches being undone. Little did he know that the Tendo King's assistant, Cneajna, had attached her own sleak, violet armor to the tendo kings perfectly with latches. It also helped them out that, because she's so flexible it would seem that she doesn't have a bone in her body, that she could move however easily that the Tendo King moved when she was attached to his back. As she slipped onto her feet, still barely noticable by Gene, the Tendo King jumped into the air effortlessly, flipping behind Cneajna, who was now flying full speed through the air toward Gene with her talon like claws that were built into her armor. She flew so fast that Gene didn't even have half of a second to react. Using her lightweight yet insanly strong body, she flew through Gene's stomach like a torpedo and had her upper half emerge through his back looking at the ceiling. Gene wouldn't have even known that she had gone through him if it wasn't for the ungodly pain that was shooting through his body. He cried in agony as his caster fell from his hand and he grabbed onto Cneajna's lower half trying to pull her out of him, though it was no use. He was already losing energy, and fast. Suddenly, Cneajna raised herself up so that her head rested on Gene's shoulder. She watched his futile attempts to pull her out and then smiled at him as he looked at her face, which was now dripping blood.
"And to think, Hazanko died trying to get rid of you. What a joke," Cneajna said with a laugh. "You know, didn't Jim say 'Women will be the death of you, Gene'? You should have listened," she added as she playfully slid one of her talon-like fingers down his cheek. It appeared that she could read minds, too. Gene turned his attention back to the Tendo King as he got within inches of his face.
"Strange," the King said in a slightly lowered voice. "For someone to have such a strong ki line, avoid death as much as you did, and have your kind of luck ..." He stopped short of finishing his sentence before placing his hand under Gene's chin and pulling his face close to his so that he could look into his eyes. The King gave a laugh before continuing. "Well, your luck's run out, Gene Starwind." Gene couldn't believe it. This couldn't be how it ends, could it? He was always the one to stop the pirates. He was their weakness. Not anymore it seemed. This time, his outlaw luck had run out. Gene gasped for air as he tried to speak again.
"I swear," he said through his gasps, "If you ... even touch ... Melfina ... I'll ..." suddenly he couldn't speak anymore. He felt a horrible pain go through him again. One that made him want to scream so loud it was deafening. But he couldn't scream. Cneajna had send one of the modified fingers from her armor through his neck, preventing him from saying anything.
"You know, you haven't spoken that much and already I'm sick of you," she said in a scowl. "I can't believe girls actually slept with you." They took their time torturing him mentally as he was fading away. They had been waiting for this day ever since the Leyline slipped from their grasp the first time. "Master," she asked, but was cut off when the Tendo King raised his finger in front of her to silence her.
"Now, now, Cneajna. What is it that I love for you to call me?"
"Sorry," she apologized playfully. "Baby," she said in a more passionite way, "Can I please finish off the dying outlaw scum?" Gene knew that if she pulled out of him now, then he'd surely die of loss of blood.
"Why, certainly, my love!" the Tendo King said loudly. "Though, if you kill him, I want to take the MacDougalls." Cneajna sighed. She couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"But I still want the MacDougall brothers!" she said wantingly. "You said I could have them."
"Yeah. But I want some fun, too. Pick who you want," he said in an offer. After a short deliberation, Cneajna made her mind up. Quickly, she bent backwards and touched the ground with her hands and flipped her legs and Gene, who she was still impaling, over her and onto the ground in a backflip. She then punched Gene until he hit the ground and stepped out of him and towards the Tendo King, still covered from head to toe in blood that was dripping off of her.
"Fine. You get the MacDougalls," she said smiling. "But what about him? By now he's beyond dead."
"I do have an ever devious idea, my angel of death," he replied. He walked over to Gene's now lifeless body and picked it up. He carried him in his arms as he walked back to Cneajna. "I'll have my scientists do what they are best at with him." Cneajna smiled, then looked past his shoulder to the window on the second floor where she saw a sillouette in the moonlight. She wouldn't have known who it was if it wasn't for that recognizable wooden sword. Her eyes grew greatly.
"Master," she whispered as quietly as she could. "The assassin Suzuka is in the window. She's seen us." The Tendo King didn't seemed affected by that response.
"So, kill her, too," he smirked. Cneajna now looked straight at the window as she lept at the same speed as she did to kill Gene towards Suzuka. Being faster than Gene though, Suzuka jumped and Cneajna went flying through the window and landed like a cat on the rooftop of the adjacent building. Suddenly, she saw Suzuka to her side smiling at her as she would before she would kill an enemy. "What are you smiling at? You can't kill me. In fact, I could kill you just as easily as the outlaw."
"Oh, I'm not the one that's going to kill you," Suzuka replied. "She is." Cneajna turned to her right to she a beast-like animal of maddening strength, speed, and endurance snarling at her as she would prey. "And don't forget," Suzuka added, "Her power is amplified by the moon. And it is rather bright tonight, isn't it?" Cneajna looked like she had seen a ghost. She was the most powerful warrior that the Tendo King had, but she couldn't take on Aisha as this, her most powerful form. Suzuka silently jumped off of the building at ran down the street as she heard a piercing cry from the rooftop and the roar of Aisha attacking. I need to find the others, and fast, she thought as she began running towards the station where the Outlaw Star was.
Melfina, Harry, and Jim were still in Jim's car driving through town towards the shop. It had been a long day and Melfina had fallen to sleep in the backseat, her head resting on Harry's shoulder as he stroked her hair with his hand. He couldn't stop smiling as he looked at her, ever so peaceful, so sweet. She looked so vulnerable to him at that moment, though he knew that he would never hurt her or take advantage of her like that. He wanted to protect her so much, to keep her safe from everything. He also realized that he needed her. If it wasn't for her, he wouldn't be alive to see her again. Harry took his eyes off Melfina for a short moment to look at Jim, who was driving the car.
"Hey, Jim," he asked. "I'll be glad to help fix the Outlaw Star if you need any help on it. I kinda feel like it was my fault anyway."
"It's not your fault, Harry," Jim said back. "And sure, you can help. I'll probably need it," he said in a laugh. Jim continued driving down the many streets, the neon lights from the signs hitting the front of his car and giving off a aurora effect to the car. Jim looked down one of the sidewalks when something familiar caught his eye. He saw Suzuka running as fast as she could towards their direction when she saw them and came to a quick halt.
"JIM!" she cried out. "JIM! Over here!"
"Hey, it's Suzuka!" Jim said loudly. Harry, whose gaze had gone back to Melfina by this time, looked up and saw Suzuka waving frantically at them trying to get their attention. Jim slowed the car down and pulled over to the side of the road and stopped to she what Suzuka wanted. "Suzuka. What's up? Do you need a ride back to the shop or something?"
"Jim, I have bad news." she said through her pants for breath."Gene's dead."
"WHAT!" both Jim and Harry shouted in disbelief. "What do you mean Gene's dead!" Jim screamed. By this time, Melfina was beginning to stir from her slumber on Harry's shoulder. She was still lightly asleep, but she was quickly waking up.
"I saw it with my own eyes, Jim. There's no doubt," she sadly replied. Jim's head sank down in heartache as he realized that his best friend had just been killed, taken from him forever.
"Well," Harry replied, "What killed him?" After he had finished saying that, Melfina finally woke up from her sleep.
"Apparently, two very powerful individuals. They seem to be Kei Pirates." Melfina, not knowing what was going on, started to grow very worried when she heard about the pirates.
"Kei Pirates?" she said terrified, now fully awake. "What do they want? Why are they here?"
"I think they're here for you, Melfina," Suzuka said to her. The fear in Melfina was immense. She knew what they would do to her if they found her. To them, she was nothing but a key. Though, Harry wasn't about to let them take her. He subconsciously grabbed her slender hand and kept it between his hands as he spoke again.
"Well, what do we do?" he asked.
"I suggest the three of you get off of this planet as soon as possible. I'll try to stop them here. If I can't, I'll catch up with you guys later. Aisha is already taking on one of their members now."
"Aisha is fighting them?" Jim said in shock. "Why aren't you helping her?"
"Because it's a full moon. She should already have killed that person now as powerful as she is," Suzuka replied. She the looked in the backseat at Melfina, who had a look on her face which could only be described as sheer terror. Melfina was probably imagining everything that the Kei Pirates would do if they captured her. Suzuka walked towards the backseat and placed her hand on Melfina's cheek. "Don't worry. Harry and Jim will look after you. Okay?" Melfina slowly began to not be as frightened. Suzuka always had a lot of confidence in her words and was therefore able to cheer her up quickly.
"Okay. I know my Harry will look after me," she said leaning on Harry's shoulder.
"Good. Jim," Suzuka said quickly, "You need to leave the planet and now."
"But the Outlaw Star is down. There's no way to get off this planet." While Jim was in the front seat, argueing with Suzuka about ways to leave the planet, Harry was beginning to devise his own idea.
"Jim, let's go," Harry said in hurry. "I know how we can get off the planet and stay hidden."
"How?" Jim asked.
"No time. Just drive. I'll explain then."
"Alright. Thank you, Suzuka. Take care of yourself while you're here," Jim said.
"You too," she replied as she turned from them and ran back toward the shop to see if Aisha needed help.
In reality, it was Cneajna that needed the help. She had been running full speed through the outskirts of town towards a field where her, the Tendo King, and and a few other soldiers had positioned themselves in a dropship. Aisha was close behind her and gaining.
Inside the dropship, the Tendo King was standing over a capsule containing Gene's body, which he was keeping for his own use. Suddenly, as if he suddely just 'knew', his look turned towards the hatch that had been opened for Cneajna to enter through.
"Close the hatch," he commanded the pilot. "NOW!" The startled pilot began lifting the hatch up. Just before it closed entirely, Cneajna leapt through the small opening that was left in the same torpedo-style fashion that she did to attack Gene, then going into a crouch position as she dug her claws into the wall across from the hatch to stop herself because she was moving so fast.
"GET THIS SHIP THE HELL OFF OF THIS DAMN PLANET!" she screamed at pilot, half of her face now missing as a result of Aisha. The pilot initiated the launch sequence as they all began hearing a pounding noise on the other side of the hatch which could only be Aisha. The noise stopped, however, when they launched off of the ground and towards their ship in orbit. Cneajna pulled herself out of the wall and walked towards the Tendo King in anger. "Look at what she did to me!" she screamed as she pointed at the missing half of her face, which did not have blood and tissue, but instead had electronics and wiring exposed from the wound. It seemed Cneajna herself was an android.
"Don't worry," he said smiling at her. "You always get fixed when stuff like this happens. Right?"
"Yeah, yeah. I'm just getting rather tired of that beastly bitch. You didn't tell me they had a Ctarl-Ctarl with them!"
"Well, you like challenges, so I thought you'd like that."
"I didn't," she groaned.
"Well, then. Okay. You can get Ron MacDougall as some consolation." What was left of her face brightened up, finally.
"At last. A chance to take out a MacDougall."
Harry knocked on the door of the apartment building that they had arrived at, waiting for a response. Melfina clung to his side, still terrified about the Kei Pirates, while Jim rubbed her hand to ease her nerves. Harry was getting mad now. No one was answering the door and they had been there for more than five minutes.
"Dammit! He should open this door!" he screamed as he kicked the knob of the door, which easily slid open. Harry looked at the now open door in a puzzled form. "I guess I should have just ... tried it," he said much more calmly. As they entered the apartment, they could see many unwashed dishes, many bottles laying around, basically the signs that a single male inhabited the room. Harry had no time to play games, though. "Ron! Ron, where are you?" he called out. Harry then began walking towards the bedroom door, with Melfina still holding on to him. Harry stopped for a moment and looked at Melfina. "Mel, you might wanna go over there with Jim."
"Why, Harry?" she said in a trembling voice, still scared.
"Because I really don't want you to see this." Melfina nodded sadly and walked over to Jim's side. Jim wondered what Harry was going to do as he walked towards the bedroom door and opened it.
"Ron!" Harry screamed in anger as he entered the room. Suddenly, Melfina and Jim were taken aback by the scream of a woman from the bedroom as a young woman wearing only her underwear ran out, covering her top half with her arms.
"Ron! Who is that?" she screamed back into the room at him.
"You idiot!" Harry screamed at Ron from the bedroom. Melfina and Jim couldn't see what was going on, but could only imagine Harry's rage. "This is why you didn't pick up your phone when I called you? This loose tramp! Grow up! Stop being like Gene!" he screamed as he threw the woman's clothes out of the bedroom and into her. Quickly, she picked up a shirt and threw it on and began running out of the apartment, scared of Harry's temper.
"I'll call you tomorrow, Amy," Ron shouted from the bedroom.
"The hell you will!" Harry screamed as he dragged Ron out of the bedroom in nothing but his boxer shorts. Ron regained his composer and saw that Melfina and Jim were in the apartment as well. Ron was quite taken aback.
"Harry, if I had known you were bringing company I would've cleaned this place up," he laughed as he scratched the back of his head.
"Nevermind that. We need your help," he said more seriously now.
"Sure, sure. If you needed weapons, you could've just taken them without running my girlfriend off."
"Just listen," Harry sighed. "The Kei Pirates are here. They are after Melfina again and these guys are a lot stronger then the ones we fought before." Ron suddenly got serious. He knew Harry didn't joke about Melfina at all.
"Well, okay. What do you want to do, Harry?" Ron asked.
"We were thinking about using the Shangri La and getting off of this planet." Ron didn't see why that wasn't a good plan, so he gladly agreed.
"Fine. We'll leave in a few moments. Just let me get some clothes on and get my caster and we'll be ready to take off. Okay?"
"Okay," Harry said, releived that they were about to take off. Ron made his way into his room and put on some pants and reached in the pocket of them to get his cell phone out. After looking through his speed dial, he placed the phone to his ear.
"Hello? Amy?" Ron asked. "Hi, it's Ron. Listen, I'm sorry about what happened. My brother has a temper. Hey, um, could do a big favor for me?"
About an hour later, they all arrived at the dropship for the Shangri La in Jim's car. The ship wasn't capapble of staying at a ship port on a planet, so Ron had left it in orbit and used the dropship to get back and forth. Once they arrived, they exited the car and made their way inside. Melfina and Jim were quite surprised at the size of the dropship.
"Man!" Jim exclaimed, "This is awesome. I didn't think that this could fit in the Shangri La."
"You forget," Ron replied, "The Shangri La is just a little bit smaller than the Outlaw Star. And don't worry, we have rooms for everyone onboard, lots of supplies, though we may have to get some clothes somewhere. I don't think we have anything for you and Melfina." Ron's attention then turned to the outside of the dropship as he heard a car horn go off. As he looked outside, he could see the girl from his apartment that Harry had scared off pulling up and bringing a small suitcase up to the ship with her. "Yes! She's here," he said cheerfully.
"What?" Harry asked in a mixture of confusion and anger. Suddenly, the girl walked into the ship.
"Ron!" she screamed as she gave him a large hug.
"Amy. I'm glad you could make it." Harry was, without a doubt, pissed off.
"Oh no!" Harry said. "No way are bringing her along on this trip. She'll just weigh us down."
"Hey, you're doing this for your little girlfriend, Harry. I'm bringing mine, too, then." Harry understood, but still wasn't pleased as he sat down in the co-pilot's seat.
"Fine. But she needs to sit back and stay away from the controls, okay?" Harry said, a little bit calmer this time.
"Don't worry, man," Amy said, letting go of Ron and taking a seat near the side of the ship next to Melfina. "I wouldn't want to touch anything here anyway. We might crash if I did that."
"That's what I'm afraid of," Harry whispered to himself. Melfina looked to her left at Amy, who she hadn't really gotten that well of a look at at Ron's apartment. She was probably a few inches taller than Melfina, had very tan skin like Ron's, and had obviously had some treatment done to her now bleached hair. Amy looked back at Melfina and smiled.
"Hi! I'm Amy. Who are you?" she said enthusiastically to Melfina in a chipper voice.
"Um, uh, I'm ... Melfina," she replied, still shaken up by what had been going on with the pirates. She really didn't how she could cheer up no matter how nice someone was acting to her.
"Oh yeah! Ron's mentioned you a few times. Something about Harry liking you or something like that. I didn't really pay attention because we were on a date when he was talking about you two. Oh, and yeah, me and him are dating. We have been for like ..." she paused for a small moment during her super fast speech to think. "... oh yeah! Four months! Anyway, he's taken me lots of places on our dates. Movies, restaurants, shopping. We just have the best time. You know, we were actually about to ... how should I put it to you ... do the 'fun stuff' when Harry had to come in and interrupt it!" she exclaimed at the end so that Harry could hear. Harry was liking her less and less by the minute.
"Ron ... remind me again why you brought her?" he moaned sadly.
"Just steer this thing when we launch, okay, Harry?" Ron said, not wanting to hear what Harry had to say about his girlfriend.
"Sure. Just like the old days, right, brother?" Harry said, smirking at Ron.
"Yep. No one can stop the MacDougall brothers." With that, they launched the ship into the air as everyone in the ship was pulled back into their seats. Amy suddenly grabbed Melfina's hand and began sobbing, which certainly didn't seem like her after she had been so cheerful. Melfina looked at her, totally confused as to why she was crying.
"What's wrong?" Melfina asked her.
"I've never been into space before! I just realized ... I'm gonna die, aren't I?" she screamed. There was no turning back for the group now. They launched straight into the atmosphere as they saw the planet below them begin to get farther away. After a few mintues had passed, they suddenly slowed down.
"All sysytems green so far," Harry said. "I still can't believe this thing works like new."
"Yep. She's one of a kind," Ron told him. "Hold on and I'll steer this baby into the Shangri La." Ron tunred the dropship to it's far right, pointing it in the direction of the ever recognizable Shangri La, glistening in the light from the sun. Ron quickly flew the dropship toward the main ship with precision and slipped it in from the hatch underneath the Shangri La. Once inside, the hatch closed. Ron then landed the ship on the closed hatch before getting up from his seat and turning to Harry. "Well, we're home, Harry."
"Yes! I so get my old bed," Harry replied. They both turned and looked at everyone else when they heard a loud panting noise coming from behind them. Amy was almost hyperventalating, she was sweating profusly from her fear of flying,and she continued squeezing Melfina's hand, who was now whincing in pain.
"Um, Amy," Melfina said in pain, "We've landed. You can let go of my hand now."
After they had docked with the Shangri La, the girls decided to go check out their rooms while the guys launched the ship. Obviously, Amy was staying with Ron and Melfina was happily staying in Harry's large bed he had in the ship. This cheered her up a lot. On the bridge, Harry and Ron sat in their usual seats for takeoff, while Jim grabbed an empty control seat to the side.
"So, Harry, where do wanna go to get away from these guys?" Ron asked. Jim interrupted, though, with an idea.
"I know!" Jim said. "How about Blue Heaven! Me and Gene have some ..." Jim had just remembered Gene and what Suzuka said to them. He grew quiet after that and didn't finish his sentence.
"What?" Ron asked. "You and Gene have some what?"
"Ron," Harry said, "Um, we need to tell you something, but don't go spreading it around, okay?"
"Sure," Ron said quietly, "What is it?"
"Gene's dead," Harry said in a whisper, not knowing if anyone else could hear. Ron's eyes grew into a stare.
"What the hell? How did that happen?"
"We don't know, but Suzuka told us that he was killed. I don't think Melfina heard it, though, cause she was asleep on my shoulder when Suzuka told us. Don't tell her for anything. I'll tell her later when she's calmed down. If you tell her now, she'll just break down."
"Sure, Harry," Ron acknowledged. "I won't tell her. I'm not telling Amy either. She'll just kill me then." Ron then assumed launching the ship again, though he still didn't know where they were going to go. "Hey, Jim. You still wanna go to Blue Heaven, right?"
"Yeah. That would be the best place," Jim said again. "Sorry I stopped talking just then, but I wanna go there cause me and Gene have some friends there who could help us out a lot. Trust me, we'll be safe there."
"Yeah," Harry said. "And don't forget. Blue Heaven has that ceasefire law where you can't use guns. With me and my brother and some of the tricks we have, we'll have the advantage."
"That's good," Jim said. "Even if Gene's gone, we still have to look after Melfina."
"Yeah, that's for sure," Harry replied. He knew it was just them now. They had left Suzuka and Aisha on the planet still to hold back whatever Kei Pirates there were that were looking for them, but Suzuka had assured them that they would meet up again. Even so, Harry had always looked at Melfina's safety as his responsibility. He knew it would be hard, but he was going to make sure she was safe and happy, no matter what he had to do.
Whew! That was a CHAPTER, huh! Yes, I know what I did. I killed Gene off. So what? I never liked him anyway. And no, I don't care that I killed him off just like that like he's supposed to be important or something, CAUSE HE'S NOT!And besides, this is Harry/Melfina. There's no room for that loser in this. XD Anywho, so now we have Gene dead, the pirates after them, Harry left to look after his princess, Melfina, and a very pivate setting on board the Shangri La. What does that mean? Yes, I've done all of this to get to this ... TEH LEMON WITH HARRY AND MELFINA! WOOOT! Next chapter, people! I SWEAR it's the next chapter! Til then, read and review and praise my elimination of Gene. You know you want to.