THEMAKEROFLIGHT: i hope you all enjoyed my last chapter and all the reviews make me fell like carrying on early.
chapter 2: the island
Torn, Ashelin, Keira, and Jak were all gathered in the control pinnacle of freedom tower, the glistening blue spire was the perfect visualisation of the new Haven city, ever reaching to new hieghts of freedom and justice, if the Baron had been there he probably would have killed himself at the sight of all the justice that was happening, most of the Freedom League was now used just as help to get the people of Shassa back on their feet, since Shassa had never been invaded by the metal-heads, and the only other country touching it was Mamoron, their greatest ally, the Sfassans never saw the need of walls, they soon learned different, Havens main prioritys were, 1)protecting Shassa, 2)investigating the roumors that another country was about to join the marauders in their never-ending fight against reason, and 3)exploration, there is still uncharted land out there.
Torn was the first to break the akward silence between the two couples, "So was there anyone worth saving out in the wasteland Jak, reports say that there was movement out there."
Jak shook his head,"No, theres no one out there but lurkers, we've been negotiating with their leaders, and they're sending an ambassodor to work out the technicalities of the treaty, they're still not too happy with Haven because of the whole 'slave' thing," said Jak witheringly, he had already tol 3 officials, 2 ministers, 4 members of the council, 2 commanders and the town drunk who could well have been a descendant of boggy Billy.
"Well what about when you and Keira here went out to east of Sejun(pronounced sayun), did you find any land out there, we need more land to fill, more and more of the eastern land is being sucked dry of eco, and we can't afford to fall behind the Jonses."
Jak looked over at Keira, they both knew very well that there was land out there but the inhabitants of Draes didn't want to be identified, because they were convinced that word would eventually lead back to the metal-heads, and if that happened then they're relative peace would be destroyed, so Keira simply said, "We saw nothing but a few rocks pocking up, nothing habitable, anyway, i thought there were still plenty of drilling platforms in the Cataenas ocean, arn't they enough."
"They dont survive the eco storms long enough to get anything substantial out of the water, sometimes I think the metal-heads must control those things, now what about the ragles, have they agreed to your conditions, we need more air units than just Hellcats, we need something with capability of flying without fuel, and with much much MUCH more steering power."
"The Old Ragle has agreed on one condition."
"And whats that," queried Ashelin.
"That he and his people are allowed the Spargus wasteland as nesting grounds," replied Jak, and braced himself for the explosion from Torn, he wasn't disappointed.
"WHAT! THATS PREPOSTEROUS, FOR ONE WE CAN'T SPEAK FOR SPARGUS, TWO THOSE CLIFFS ARE ALLOCATED TO THE LURKERS, AND FOR THREE, THEY'RE BLOODY ANIMALS!
Before he could go on and work up a good head of steam Keira cut him off short,"For one we have already asked Sig and he has agreed heartily,"she said quickly, not letting Torn get a word in edgewise,"For two the lurkers only use the caves and the old marauder fortress, and for three they are every bit as smart as a human and should be treated as such."
Torn struggled and stuttered to find a flaw in her logic, but eventually gave up and walked away, too annoyed to grill Jak for answers anymore, but he didn't get further than the door as it burst open and hit him painfully on the nose, the private standing there nearly shat himself at the look on Torns face, "C-c ommand-der T-t-t-torn, w--we n-n-n-n-..."
"WHAT IS IT MAN, SPIT IT OUT!"
"Theres a ship arriving in port, theres only one man left, and a few bodies, hes barely alive, he wants to speak to you, his highness, the Governer, and the Lady Keira s-sir."
Without even saying a word Jak swept out his customised JET-board, swung Keira up onto the back, and sped off towards the harbour in turbo mode, Keira had never experienced a ride on Jaks JET-board before, and all she knew about them was that the people that came out of it unscathed were usually the unlucky ones, cos if you didn't get hurt then the chances were that you came out of it a nervous wreck, now she knew why.
When they arrived at the harbour the ship Destiny was waiting for them, the two sped up the gangway and into the bridge.
The entire ship was covered in dark eco stains, usually the sign the she had hit a storm, but that couldn't have happened here, Jak thought, no ship has ever survived a storm without having to be pulled off the ocean floor.
"They must have travelled too far east," whispered Keira at the sight of the mangled bodies that had obviously been scorched by eco.
"Negative miss, they're ship was headed west, and the cruiser led them in from the west, the driver and the ship were floating just off Kras, they citizens recognised the Haven insignia and got a cruiser to tow her here."
Both Keira and Jak turned to see commander Kun walking towards them, his pitch black sleeked down at the front, perfect helmet hair, thought Jak, Keira and Jak both liked Kun a lot, not just because he had saved they're asses during the driving of the marauders from the wasteland, but because they both saw a loyalty and honesty in his eyes and his manner, and Jak liked him because he was the only person who hadn't tried to make a move on Keira before finding out she was engaged.
"Hi Kun, so whats the story with the blackened corpses if it wasn't a storm then, the only reason I can think of is if they managed to find Dei Dailan Ok Eco(A/N this translates as, the land of eco, and is where eco is too rich for anyone but Jak to enter) and went ashore without realising where they were."
"I think you should listen to the survivors story before he cops it too, they took him to Haven medical because of his bad case of eco poisoning, but there was nothing they could do."
When they arrived at Haven medical everyone sort of cowered away from Jak as he passed by, he had unintentionally gained a reputation as an angry destructive people hater, and he was doing his best to live it down by being as kind as possible. They reached the eco poisoning ward too late, the patient had died not minutes beforehand, "Did you hear his story first, "said Kun to the doctor.
"Yes i did, he said that he and his crew were sailing west in search of more eco mines, they ran aground at an unknown location, they could see a great structure on the cliff above they're ship, and some of them wanted to investigate it, but he and three others argued against in, eventually the rest of them left to enter the craft, they didn't come back for hours do the ones who had stayed went looking, they came to an opening in the wall and saw shapes moving in the darkness, the other two thought it was they're comrades and went in a little bit, but before they got very far there was an explosion of eco, and the men got blasted out, they crawled back to their ship, pursued by dark creatures, the other two died on the journey back, thats all he said."
that simple horror story meant nothing to the rest, but everything to Jak, he knew what it was, the dark maker ship had survived the crash.
THEMAKEROFLIGHT:i hope you enjoyed that little twist, keep the reviews coming, and rememberi officially have a copyright on Kun, and any other characters that i will introduce in the future.