Now to the reviews.

Riot Bunny: I am going to ignore that review because I discovered recently that there's been a person doing random flaming and recently flamed a fellow writer and I knew something was up then because he flamed one of her best stories. So I'm going to overlook it and continue posting.

chadsgirl824: Thank you for your review as well...I was trying to get people all teary-eyed in that one part because..as you'll learn...I'm a sucker for the angst and drama!

Well, on with the show!

Disclaimers are the same...don't own Drom but I do own the non-Drom characters here...like Morrighan and a few more you are about to meet.

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Chapter Three:

I have my things ready and am about to board the slip fighter when I realize that I am missing one key factor...Harper. "Rommie is Harper on his way yet?" I ask but before she can answer I hear the sound of clanging boots.

Harper comes around the corner with his overnight bag. "Sorry, Trance-babe, had to make sure Rommie was up to par while her keeper was away."

"You're not my keeper, Harper, just my creator," Rommie said as she walks through the door.

Harper smiles at her and says, "Same difference," he then looks at me and say, with a sheepish grin, "Sorry to make you wait, can you ever forgive me?"

I giggle and say, "Yes, but it will be a hard task. Come on Harper let's go." He smiles and we board the slip fighter to make our trip to Zyphoria. Without hesitation Harper climbed into the pilot's seat. I may be grown but the crew still didn't trust me slipstreaming.

We are less then ten minutes away when Harper says, "Trance, when we were in Command, you got one of your feelings didn't you?"

I look down at him and say, "Yes, Harper but it was only a feeling and nothing more. I do not believe that we have anything to fear in this trip." This was a blatant lie on my part. I still have a feeling, a bad one. I have what Harper would call a Gut Feeling' that something isn't completely right with this trip, but no matter how hard I try I can't get a solid hold on what is going to happen.

"Are you sure because you never know, I might find my soul mate on this planet," Harper says with a grin. I hesitate a moment as my mind cries, *No, Harper, you will not find your soul mate there because she's sitting right behind you.*

"Sorry, Harper but I don't think you will."

"Now, Trance do I sense some jealousy in my golden goddess." I don't answer because he is right, I am jealous and I have a right to be, but he won't understand.

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We arrive on Zyphoria to the welcome of Morrighan and her council. "Welcome to Zyphoria, Mr. Harper and Ms. Gemini." She shakes both our hands and says, "Those behind me are my most trusted council, except for my personal advisor who will be joining us shortly." Her dress is the same from her transmission but now I can see it fully. It is a briliant shade of violet, her middle lookes to be in a bodice, her chest pushes up, resembling what my warrior armor does to my own. The bottom flows from her waist. She is beautiful and as I look over at Harper I can see he has made the same conclusion.

"So, where are we going to have our talks?" I ask, trying to get Harper's eyes away from a certain part of her body.

"Oh, right this way. I don't believe the negotiations will take all that long because my people are fully ready to join your Common Wealth."

"Well, that's all fine and dandy, Ms. Karasaint, but if that's true why'd ya bring us here? Couldn't you have just made arrangements with Dylan on the Andromeda?" Harper asks. I crack a smile at his bluntness. No matter who he is talking to or how beautiful they may be, he is always himself.

Morrighan lookes at him and says, "Mr. Harper, I brought you two here just for what I told your captain. You two are unique to me and I wanted to show you my planet to prove to your captain that our joining would be in his benefit. My planet has so much to offer for you, Ms. Gemini and your captain."

I look at her suspiscously and ask, "And what would those be Ms. Karasaint?"

She smiled and said, "Call me Morrighan. What benefits signing my planet have you ask? Well, my planet has one of the best defense systems around, well at least we think so."

I look at her and say, "Morrighan we have seen many defense systems, what exactly makes yours so unique?"

Harper smiles and says, smugly, "Yeah, what do you have, a immobilizer."

She lookes at him and says, "In fact we do, how do you think we have protected our planet for so long? We have a weapon that, when fired, makes contact with a ship and, regardless of that ship's design, completely immobilizes it. The ship's systems are then put under our control until the enemy decides otherwise. If they refuse to leave peacefully, we turn their ship in on them and our problem is eliminated."

I look at Harper and see his smug look disappear and jaw fall open in surprise. "You..you actually have one?"

"Yes Mr. Harper we do, hence the reason our planet has been safe for all these hundreds of years. It was the decendants of our saviors who gave us the idea. They gave us the original technology and we improved it."

I look at her, there is something that isn't siting well with me. "You said you turn their ship on the enemy, so, how so."

Morrighan lookes at me and says, "If you think we are murdering the ship's crew, you are wrong. At worst only a few members die and by that point the enemy usually decides to leave." I only nod but something still isn't right.

There is a akward moment of silence then someone goes up to Morrighan and whispers something in her ear. She smiles and says, "Ok, negotiations can begin, my advisor has arrived.

Harper is still in shock, jaw still agape, his mind running over the possibilities of seeing an immobilizer up front and personal, so as everyone starts to leave I walk up to him, gently close his mouth and say, "Harper, come on, you can day dream later."

He lookes at me, smiles and says, "Trance, I wasn't day dreaming...I think I'm in love...can you imagine all that I can do if we get our hands on that thing."

I grab Harper's hand and say, "Yeah, but right now we have negatiations to attend and I think it would be proper if we followed them, so come on." With that I pull him along and we follow Morrighan.

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Morrighan leads us into a huge room filled with brightly covered wall hangings which had images on each one. She must have seen me looking at them because she say, "Around us are the family coats of arms of all the past ambassadors from, well, way before my time. Now, as soon as my advisor gets here we shall begin." We sit down at a square table in the middle of the room. Morrighan sits at the head, I am to her left, then beside me is Harper. The bad feeling I am getting before suddenly returns when we walk into the room, so I want to make sure Harper was as close as possible to me in case something was to go wrong. That way, I can get Harper and myself out of there as quickly as possibly.

Suddenly the doors open and a woman walks in. This time it is my jaw that goes down in surprise. The woman has light blue skin, with a tint of purple highlighting her cheek bones and chest, her dress is very similar to Morrigan's only this time it matches the woman's blue skin. Her lavander hair holds the same design as Morrighan's but instead of all the hair being up, like Morrighan's, part of it is flowing down her back. Suddenly the woman's brown eyes lock with mine.

"Ms. Gemini, Mr. Harper, this is my Advisor--"

"Azaelia Falassion," I say standing and interrupting Morrighan.

Morrighan is surprised by my knowledge and asks, "Why, yes, how did you know?"

It is Azaelia that speaks this time "Because, Trance and I, we go way back." I smile and do something no one suspects, I shriek in girlish excitement, run to Azaelia and give her a huge hug.

"Ah, Azaelia! It's been too long, my friend!"

Azaelia hugs me back and say, "That it has Trance and, my, how you've changed....you grew up on me!"

We break our hug and I turn back toward Harper and the others as Harper says, "Trance, umm, I think we're a little confused."

"Harper, this is Azaelia Falassion, she was my best childhood friend. I haven't seen her in years."

Azaelia leans over and whispers, "Now, Trance, who's this quite attractive human of yours...no wonder you stayed on Andromeda for so long."

I giggle and say, playfully smacking Azaelia on the arm, "Oh, stop it! This is Seamus Harper, the Andromeda Ascendant's Engineer and my best friend."

She gives me a look and says, "Nice to meet you Mr. Harper. Now how about we finish negotiations....Trance and I have some catching up to do."

I smile but my smile almost fads when once again that bad feeling returns, but I am too excited to be fazed by it. How am I to know I should have followed this feeling? How wam I to know Harper and my lives might depend on it?

TBC

Well, that's chapter three. Hope you liked it because there's a lot more to come...I already have through Chapter 20 written so there's bunches to come! :-)