This is chapter nine for all readers who just came in. I'm so happy that I have made it this far that I will do a happy dance. (Picture drunk secretary dancing with a plant). Okay, now that we have rejoiced at this I will give you a quick summary to those who skimmed the last chapters. Review: Hibiki's gramps was kidnapped and trying to go save him got him and Meia captured on a Castile police ship and they met Lucas Heart face to face. Making an escape went all screwy and made Yuki fight the Berserker himself. At the end, Lucas protected Jura from falling debri and now he is a captive aboard the nirvana. That was the longest summary I ever did. Keep reading fellow fan fic writers. PS. Yuki's name is not Yuki Kashino, It's Yuki Cross. It was twelve at night when writing this so I kind of messed up on that.
I don't own Vandread. If I did, I would make a video game of it!
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Name: Georgia Hummingston
Georgia lived on the planet Trite wich gemnetically altered peoples DNA to help control peixis. She was a guard of the purple peixis and greatest servant to her king. She has eleven siblings in her family and most of the older ones went to become soldiers. SHe on the otherhand stayed on her planet and became a guard. When her planet was attacked she surrendered in hopes that other lives would be spared but its unknown to her what else had happened on the planet. Days later, the pilot Hinoki Cross helped her escape from Castile and they found themselves on the Nirvana. She has most peculiar powers that come from her family such as she can usually see spirits, talk to peixis, feel their pain, and go into that puddle where Bart controls the ship. The rest of her past remains a mystery and I'm not giving it away.
Chapter Nine: Red Wine
Andreia sat upon her throne watching all around her. All seemed to be busily working and she was quite pleased by this. She waited for his arrival so she could bear him the news. He'd probably hate it and attack anyone else who gave it to him so it was best to leave it to the hands of the highest.
"You called me my Lord?" Hikaru asked entering the room and kneeling before her.
"Yes, I have some news for you." Andriea sighed as she stood and moved toward the boy. "Your team has now been counted as three as of five minutes ago. I just got word from the people that escaped the police ship that it was taken over. Lucas has not been found so we can only assume that he has been taken as a prisoner."
Hikaru grinded his teeth together but held his frustration back……the best he could.
"Argh! That drunken fool!" He bellowed so loud that all turned to look. "Why didn't we get a sober pilot instead of him? UGH!"
"Calm down Hikaru." Andreia said putting a hand on his shoulder, "We'll retrieve him. We can't let one of our best officers rot in a prison."
"As you wish, I'll set out once you give out the command."
"Actually I wasn't intending on letting you go." Andria said wich made Hikaru make a look of confusion. "I'm letting Laviene handle this. She has been dying for a chance."
The doors slid open as a girl burst her way through. Her hair swung vailiently and her face showed great joy. She jumped right on the Lodeth herself and began to hug her.
"OH THANK YOU!" She squealed in delight, "Thankyouthankyouthankyou! THANK YOU! You won't regret it!"
Hikaru looked at the girl with as much enthusiasm as any have for whatching grass grow.
"How long have you hid behind that door?" He asked.
"Long enough to know I'm on a solo mission, to save a fellow crewmate and blast a couple of guys while I'm at it! Ooooooh, this will be so much fun!"
"Ehe…..I'm very happy that your content about this Laviene," Andriea said with panic on her face, "But you need to get off me. I don't like people this close. It's kinda creepy."
Laviene immediately scrambled off and went into a salutiong position.
"I'll prepare right now then head out." She informed and ran down the halls to her dread. "This is going to be so COOL!" she happily cried out.
Georgia joyfully carried Kalulah with her trying to keep Pyoro from knowing. She loved how children could look so innocent at this age. Especially her younger siblings were less of nuisances when they couldn't walk or talk.
"How about we get you some food Kalulah? All of this must make you hungry."
She carried the baby into the lunch room where she met with Misty and Esra. They were starring at something with smirks on their faces.
"Hey guys. What's going on?"
"Look over their." Misty pointed to a table. There sat Mar and Sei eating.
"So, I know its such a relief to see that sei has been eating at the mess hall but what's the big deal?"
"Oh. There at it again!" Esra giggled and was given back Kalulah. "They've been doing this all day.
The two boys seemed to mimick every move they did. Fist they grabbed a spoon at the same time and scooped it with food and ate it. All at perfect syncro. They noticed this ant decided to leave their spoons to he side but that failed, they copied eachother on that. They both stared at eachother with irritated faces.
Then they both began to talk at the same time.
"How Bout we…..Errgh….look, I could….ooooh….You do….I do…..ugh!" all at perfect syncro. Then they both scratched their heads at the same time.
"DON"T COPY ME!" They screamed at eachother, "I'm NOT COPYING YOU! YOUR COPYING ME!...ARGH!"
"How long has this been going?" Georgia asked.
"Three days straight." Misty giggled, "They soon give up and eat in different rooms or at other tables."
"Its very peculiar how they can do that." Duero said, "They don't even know that their doing it."
"This happens a lot to kids like them." Yuki informed the doctor while eating his food. "Some twins have this special bond, kinda like ESP. They mimick what the other does." He finaly swallowed the last. "I even hear that some know what's the other's thinking and others can feel each other's pain."
"Interesting."
"But I don't know about those two. You said they were born in a factory so I really don't think that they cant do stuff like that. Scince they are both alike, they probably think alike making them mimick eachother."
"OW! PAIWAY, GET OFF OF ME!" Mar barked at the nurse who was pulling his ear.
"What the hell do you think your doing!"
"Does Sei feel this?" Paiway asked.
Sei was puzzled "Huh? Your hurting Mar not me. How could I feel that?"
"Maybe it works the other way around." Paiway decided and began to pull on Sei's ear instead.
"OW! HEY STOP IT! THAT HURTS!"
"Do you feel that Mar?" Paiway asked.
Mar couldn't believe this girl, "You are so dumb." He said.
"Oh…I was hoping it would work." She sighed. "I thought you said it would work." She whined to Yuki.
"It works on some twins, not all of them." Yuki laughed and then was hit with an apple.
"Arrrgh! Why can't anyone leave me alone!" Both whined, "Hey! Stop copying me!"
"It's like looking in a mirror." Duero said watching the two boys try to not mimick eachother but still failed.
"Hey everyone!" Hinoki said joyfully, "I heard you caught Lucas the other day."
"Yeah." Yuki said. "He's pretty screwy. He almost killed me with his shooting."
"I doubt that." Hinoki said with glee, "Lucas is a pacifist."
"EH?"
"Lucas only uses stun guns and he always buts his laser guns at low power. He detests killing."
"What! I could've beat him!"
"His bullets would probably stun you before you'd get the chance." Hinoki warned. "Where is he anyway? I really want to talk to him. He's not in sick bay is he? He'd try and get away."
"We knew what he's capable of so BC ordered us to put him in the brig." Duero told them, "His recovery is amazing. His cut has almost fully healed."
Yuki laughed at this, "Werent you listening when I told everyone that the tattoos on their skin help make a faster healing process?"
"We'll he's probably in a pretty bad mood." Hinoki sighed happily, "He always hates to be sober for too long."
In the cell that Lucas was cooped up in, the pilot seemed to be in a crummy mood. He lied on the cot looking at the ceiling and moaning about not having a drink in five hours. To top that all off, he vomited. Whether from the medication he was on or the alchohol he drank a while ago, it really was uncertain. He put his head on the side of the bed and watched everything from an upside down perspective. He moaned again.
"Well, well." Came a voice. He only saw the person's feet. "A drunk in jail. A common sight to see but in your case it's very odd."
"Hinoki, good to see ya." He said as he sat in the bed and gave her a salute. She was accompanied by two others, a female with silver hair and a man with long black hair. "How's life treating you?"
"Fair, how bout you?" She asked.
"I have a hangover, I can't transform, my back hurts, and I know they put me on some drugs which aren't helping either."
"Sorry to hear that, at least you're alive."
The silver haired woman began to talk. "Lucas, were going to ask you to cooperate with us while you're on this ship."
Lucas just looked at her with dazed eyes and went "Uh huh."
"You can cooperate by telling us about Castile's plan. Especially with the man called Jin."
"Uh huh."
"Castile isn't what you think it is. If you cooperate with us, you will receive something in return."
"….." He just stood there staring at her.
"Something wrong."
"You….y…y…"
BC was confused, "What?"
He pointed at her and yelled, "You're a man."
Duero and BC couldn't believe he found out and Hinoki was in shock.
"How did you know that?" BC asked.
"I know my way around girls." He smugly said.
"What! Sub-commander….it's true!" Hinoki copuldn't believe it.
BC could only sit there. "No one told you yet?"
"After this, I'm not staring at you the same way again."
Lucas was roaring into laughter at this. "HAHAHA! You didn't even tell you ally about you? Oh that just really kills me! Hahahahahahaha!"
BC had to now deal with a girl that was now flipping out at him and a captive who was laughing at him.
"Hmph. I have no time for any of this. I need to know, will you cooperate or not?"
"Sure," He said, "But on one condition."
"Go on."
"…..beer."
"Whu?"
"Beer, liquor, vodka, sake, margerhiteas, anything with alchohol I'll take. If I'm going to be cooped up, I'd like to have something to drink."
"Why that?"
"I feel dead without liquor."
"You'll just throw it up since you're medicated at the moment." Duero said.
Lucas slumped on the bed. "Oh come on….one drink, that's all I ask…" He suddenly felt ill all over again. He immediately turned to a trash bin by the side of his bed and vomited.
"Why does this happen?" He moaned, "The alcohol must have already left my system."
"You drank two whole bottles of alcohol." BC sighed, "I really don't think it would leave your body in such a short amount of time."
Lucas spewed one last time in the bucket and turned to them.
"Fine, fine, just give me the bottle when I stop having this hangover." He said pushing his hair back.
"Why be so generous to us?" BC questioned, "Your willing to give us information and we haven't even threatened you yet."
"I have my reasons." He sighed and went closer to the bars. "I know you'd probably beat the crap outta me when I refuse and I also want a drink badly."
Hinoki wasn't convinced. "This isn't like you at all, you'd certinley put up a fight or in the least bit, try to get more stuff out of this."
Lucas's face became saddened and he scratched his head. "Its became quite a nutty planet when you stopped giving out commands. Everyone doesn't know what to do. Lord Andriea has gone insane, Hikaru only wants to get stronger, Vile's weak and Leviene trys to follow up. I'm getting sick of it." He grabbed his jacket and put it on. "Nobody knows what's right or wrong anymore, just that we live in a world of chaos. If I still lived at the church, I'd probably know what to do."
"And yet you don't." BC said, "It's alright to always think of what if, but that's done and gone. You have to keep up in life and try to make the right decisions now."
"So true." Lucas said calmly with his eyes closed and his back to the audience. "And now I have my chance….to make a brighter future by telling you all the things………"
He tossed something out of his pocket and it slid under the bars. BC held it in his hands and took a good look at it.
"A disc?"
"A map." He informed, "Its of every station, planet, and ship we use. It should point you to the best direction. Problem is that it will only work for a little while longer. Once they find out where I am, they'll disconnect the transmission with it and you'll be as lost as ever."
BC examined it one last time than put the thing in her pocket. "I see, thank you for our time."
An alarm sounded around them warning all pilots to go.
"I'd better be on my way." Hinoki said, "Catcha later." She then ran out of sight.
"We'll be making our leave to." BC informed the man.
"Whatever" he sighed and went back to looking at the ceiling and humming a tune as the others left.
"Is that wise to trust him." Duero asked.
"We have no other choice in the matter." BC sighed, "I'll give it to Parfait and see what she comes up with."
"Looks just like some worn down old ship commander." Amarone told Magno.
"Doesn't look like it can even move anymore." Beldevere also stated.
"Still I would like to check it out and see if there is anyone left in there." Magno said, "They were leaving the same way the castileians went. They could be of much use."
"And I'm not?" Yuki huffed, "I'm from castile and I get no respect."
"Your lucky that we even treat you as a crew member." Magno scolded the resistance captain, "Your people have caused a lot of trouble and you and your sister should be put away for that."
Yuki was silenced by this and let out an embarrassed laugh, "Ehe….yeah…"
Soon the pilots made their way to the ship and Meia made a team to take in. It consisted of the vandread team (go figure) and her counterpart, Amarone's consisted of Barnette, two other women and three men. The two teams soon split up from two different halls. It was dark down all passageways and the walls were rusting.
"Ick." Jura moaned, "This place is a dump. I can't see anyone living in a place like this."
"It was moving though so there must be people on here." Hinoki said.
"Lets just hurry. This place is making me sick."
"Your attitude is making ME sick."
"WHAT WAS THAT!"
"You heard me!"
"Ugh! I cant believe you. Your acting like Hibiki again."
Hibiki jumped by this. "WHAT! I'm nothing like her! How many times must I say it!"
"Hey someone's over there!" A voice cried out, "Halt. Put your hands where I can see em."
"Wait to go Hibiki." Jura sighed, "You can thank your big mouth for getting us caught."
"It wasn't my fault!" Hibiki growled at the blonde.
"All of you shut it!" The voice commanded. His face could not be seen from the lack of light in the room but his voice did sound like he had some accent.
Another ran right after him wih a flashlight in his hands. "Sorry I'm late." He opologised.
"Sorry nothing, examine these trespasers, see if they carry any weapons."
"Aye sir."
They boy made each one empty their pockets of anything that was remotely harmfull. First went Meia's laser ring, then Jura's sword, and of course Hinoki, Dita, and Hibiki carried no weapons on them.
As the man scooped up all of his new belongings, he took a long look at Hinoki.
"Do I know you?" He asked.
Hinoki tried not to look worried by this. "N-no." she replied.
"Hmm….you do look familiar…are you from Castile?"
"What makes you say that?"
"You just look like you come there. But there's something really familiar about you."
He took one last long look and then realized it. "I know now! Your that bastard of a pilot Hinoki!"
"Hey, who ya calling a bastard you bastard!" Hinoki yelled but was immediately shut up from two guns pointed right at her face.
"You aren't one to make any comments at the moment you berserker freak." The first man insulted, "Do you know how many of my people died because of you? Millions. I'd really wish to blow your head off right now but the boss wanted to meet with any pilots from castile."
"Why?"
The second boy began to talk, "Why should we know, he just pays us to do what were told and we do it. No questions there."
"Maybe he'll let me use you as target practice after he's done with ya." The first man laughed.
'I don't think I'm going to like this guy one little bit' Hinoki thought.
"Sorry but I'm not letting anyone of my crew be taken as a hostage." Meia informed and socked the youinger one with her left sending him crashing into the older man.
Before the first man had time to get up, he saw that he was being halted by a sword pointed right against his kneck.
"Looks like the tables have turned." Jura laughed pushing the sword closer.
"Please, take pity on us." The first man whined, "We only were defending ourselves."
"Y-yeah." The second boy agreed, "We were only doing our boss's wishes. Please spare us."
"I feel sorry for the poor aliens." Dita said.
"What should we do with them Meia?" Jura asked.
Meia looked at them, cringing in the corner, they were usless when threatened. "They don't seem to be a threat to us anymore….." she went to their level and gave commands. "This is what your going to do. You'll bring us to your leader. Sound fair?"
The men were hesitant at first but then seeing Jura's sword helped quiken their decision. "Yes mam." They both said.
"So you found a couple of bandits eh Meia?" The captain asked as Meia contacted her.
"Correct." The blue haired girl said, "Were taking them to lead us to their captain."
Magno questioned this, "Is this certinally wise?" She asked.
"Hey keep movin!" Juras voice boomed in the backround.
"Yes mam." The two men said.
"I suppose you have everything under control. I'll leave you." And the signal bleeped off.
"Here we are." The first man said making a halt right at a rusty sliding door looking as if it couldn't even open anymore.
Meia held up her ring at the door. "When the door opens, we make our attack."
All nodded.
"Hey, what are we susposed to use?" Hibiki groweled mentioning himself, Hinoki and Dita who had bare hands.
"Ugh….use anything" Jura moaned.
"Here" Hinoki handed both Dita and Hibiki some metal rods she found in the corner.
Now all were ready. The elder man put in the key code. All held their weapons close. The code was accepted. Jura grew tense. The door slid open to reveal…..
"Hey! You can put those weapons down its just us." Amarone yelped seeing Meia's ring in her general direction.
All were surprised by this.
"Hey!" The young boy cried, "How'd you get past the other's?"
"Oh it was easy." Barnette assured them. "And you call them your teammates? You guys need a lot of more training."
"Where….where's boss?" The older man asked dumbfounded.
A male pilot took over from here. "Oh, the only guy saying that they were your boss was this kid." He held by the scruff of a young boy's vest the so called boss.
The child looked to be a little older than Sei and Mar. He had tan skin and orange hair which was spiked.
"Lemme go you jerks" The boy cried out kickinjg and waving his hands frantically in the air. "I thought I paid you two to get intruders not to lead them here!"
Both thugs bowed their heads in shame. "Well, that's what you get for getting some third rate mercenaries."
"Ugh! You guys are getting nothing! I'm not even going to pay you a single dime!"
"Wait, their mercenaries?" Meia asked.
"Then that doesn't even make you a real captain." Amarone sighed, and I did all that work."
"You better let me go!" The boy threatened, "I'm warning you!"
"Oh your such a cute little alien!" Dita cried releasing all her enthusiasm to this new alien. "You look just like a little Mr. Alien!"
"Who the hell is Mr. Alien?"
"I look nothing like him dita!" Hibiki yelled at his red haired crush.
The young boy took a good look at Hibiki and then said, "You mean this weirdo? He looks pretty bland to me."
"Hey! I wouldn't be talking right now buster!" Hibiki bellowed at the boy.
"That's enough out of both of you." Meia commanded at the two males who were now making evil sneers at one another. "Take this boy back to the ship for questioning, the rest go to the cells."
And so all orders were followed and Lucas got some company that day with some Castile Pilot haters and the young boy went to Magno to be asked about all he knew.
"So…do you have a name or do I have to keep calling you little one?" Magno asked.
The boy sat at the far end of the table in the conference room. He shook from fear of these people.
"It's alright." BC assured, "Were not going to hurt you. All we want to know is your name."
The boy stuttered as he answered, "My name is Pov….Pov Emiadore. I'm from a generation of wine makers, nothing else."
"So, Pov, where are you and your crew from?" Mago asked.
"I'm from castile. The others are just from some broken down space staion. Who knows if they were born their or not. The fact is that they hated castile soldiers so I paid them."
"But the fact of the matter is why you wanted to hire people that hate your government." BC said, "Is it because you want revenge on them or is it something more."
Prov clentched his fists and seemed to be trying to hold back many tears that were pouring down his face. He sniffled a little and could only find refuge by looking at the table. He spoke in a whining matter of sorrow.
"N…n-no….I just…I just….w-want her back!" He then began to bawl.
"Who?"
"My big sister!" He sobbed out then covered his face in his arms. "They took my big sister!"
"But I thought the law stated that they took the youngest child, not the oldest." Meia fronted.
"There is a way." Hinoki began, "Code 30-b/2 of the second law book states that if a member of the family shows great talent in academic training, they can take the place of the younger sibling in law 29 (which you just said)"
"My family began to do some illegal trading with enemy planets to keep us paid." The boy began, "Profits were low and we were desperate. Lord Nonoku, lord of the flow as they call it, found out and punished my family with treason." His hands clentched harder as he said the next, "And the punishment was for me to go and become one of the royals lifeless drones. But my sister…she persuaded them to take her instead thanks to her flight training. I was such a cowered, I did nothing and I let her be taken. That's why I'm going to fight those bastards and get her back!"
"You won't get verry far with that ship of yours and your crew." Magno sighed, "We've fought the best of them and your men wont be able to stand up to one."
"I didn't ask for your pity, I asked for nothing! If you'll escuse me now, I'm going back to my ship!"
"I think that your going into this whole ordeal blind." Magno said making Prov pause before he got out of his seat. "No one blames you for what happened back there. There was nothing you could do for her. She was just trying to protect you and she succeeded. And I really don't think that she would like all her efforts to be in vain as you are killed in battle."
Prov felt uneasy…..he knew he had not enough strenghth to fight a whole army. He'd be sure to get clobbered, but there was this unsetting feeling in his heart telling him he must go on.
"I know you want to save your elder sister but you cant do it on what you have. Your ship is terribly damaged, at least let us repair it. It will give you time to think about this."
Pov stood frozen where he stood for a second but then slowly turned to Magno and bowed. "Thank you for your hospitality." He replied and left.
Whispers flooded the room and thoughts flooded everyone's head about who was this mystery girl and was she brainwashed like so many others. Of course, one who wasn't thinking of this was Hinoki, leaning on the wall. Whe looked at her feet and rewound memories of her and her brother. She remembered all that her brother did just to get her back. She knew how strong a bond was between siblings.
Hibiki sat behind the room accompanied by Dita listening to the conversation in the conversation room. Once the door opened they immediately took places as if they were miraculously there by mistake and going on with their buisy lives. Of course only Pov had came out and paid no attention to them as he left to his ship. Dita immediately ran up to him in hopes of conversation.
"Hello again little alien." SHe greeted cheerfully,
"Little alien? What the hell makes you think that I'm an alien?" Pov asked in an annoyed tone.
"She just thinks that all guys are." Hibiki said, "She calls me Mr. Alien. You'll get used to it."
"We'll my names not Little Alien," Pov informed, "Its Pov."
"Pov?...What does Pov mean?" Dita asked.
"I dunno, what does Dita mean?"
Dita began to think about this really hard but no solution came to mind.
"You idiot, he was just kidding." Hibiki groweled at the confused girl.
Pov began to hawl in laughter at this. "I can't believe how dumb your girlfriend is!"
"Grrr...First of all, she's not dumb, second, she's not my girlfriend!"
"Then why are you so protective over her?"
"That's it!" Hibiki began to grind his fist in the boys skull as the boy furiously pulled his hair.
Dita curiously whatched this as Barnette came from behind.
"What on earth is going on here?" Barnette asked.
"Mr Alien is fighting with Little Alien." Dita explained.
"Dita! Don't defend this nwerp!" Hibiki growled.
"I knew she was your girl friend!" Pov laughed and got another beating.
"Alright, that's enough out of you two." Barnette proclaimed as she split them up. "Why don't we all just go to the mess hall. Its lunch time anyway."
"I cant eat food with him around." Hibiki huffed stiking his head up hiugh.
"Not even for my rice balls?" Dita asked in a cute manor that made hibiki's mouth drool.
"Ummm…..we'll I guess I could make amends." Hibiki said swallowing his drool.
Soon all found themselves at the mess hall. Hibiki was chowing down Dita's food, Barnette was talking to Jura and Pov ate what was on his tray with whatching eyes darting his way.
"So what's with that boy?" Jura asked her lovely companion.
"His name's Pov, and as I hear he comes from a respectable family of wine makers."
Juras eyes light up as her thoughts raced through her head. "So he knows good wine?"
"I guess." Bartnette took a quick sip of her tea then noticed what she had done. "Don't tell me that your…"
"No time to stop Barnette. I need to see If he's the real deal." Jura then slumped under her seat and disappeared.
"I hate when she acts this way." Barnette moaned.
Pov already had too many problems to handle, like eating his food in peace. As soon as he took a bit out of something he was startled by a greeting of "Ribbit ribbit!"
"Oh hello" Pov greeted the young nurse Paiway.
"Hehe. Hiya there." She went back. "You look verry suspicious. I haven't seen you before."
"Be nice Paiway." Dita scolded, "He's just visiting the ship so we should be on our best behavior for our guest."
"Paiways never on her best behavior." Mar moaned emerging from the bottom of their table, "SHe's just creepy."
"Ribbit, am not!"
"Man, you have a lot of people on this ship." Pov groaned, "Most of them annoying."
"What! I'm most certainly not annoying!" Mar yelled. "There are more annoying people than me. Jura's the most annoying! SHe's always nagging to have a baby and she whines when she doesn't get her way, and she's an ugly hag." He suddenly felt a cold chill down his back and ssaw all the frightened faces. He turned to see that woman glaring at him with evil eyes and sharp teeth.
"YOU BRAT! WHERE DO YOU GET OFF CALLING ME NAMES?"
"Eyah run everyone! SHe's goanna suck your blood out!" He tried to make a dash for the dorr but he was already flailing in the air by Jura.
"How about being a live piñata? We'll see if any candy comes out of you!"
"I have no clue whats a piñata, but it sounds scary and I don't think I'm going to like it!"
Prov turned to the blonde and gave her a blank stare "SO you must be Jura."
She immediately dropped the boy and began to shower herself with praises. "I see that even strangers know the name of the most beautiful dread pilot."
"No, that kid was just telling how stupid you were and was pointing you out."
"Argh MAR!" Jura was about to throttle the boy a second time if it wasn't for barnette.
"Jura weren't you going to ask Pov something." Barnette urged.
"Oh that's right." Jura slammed a bottle on the table. It contained a red liquid. SHe gave Pov a warm glance then said, "Try some, it's the best brand in all of Mejere."
Pov held the bottle up to the light and gently turned it. After a few times of doing this he came to a conclusion.
"Hate to say it but if this is all Mejere has to offer I'm not buying a single drop."
"WHAT! I paid a bundle for that one bottle!"
"Then you were ripped off. It's too young to drink, it also hasn't been turned right, and look, there's a crack. It's spoiling the whole thing."
Jura looked at her bottle with whining tears. She could barely see the crack but this boy seemed to have an eye for these things.
"B-but…but I"
"Look, If you really want some high quality wine you got to get the stuff that's even older than the pioneers that colonized the planets." The boy said whith a gleam in his eye. "And that stuff isn't verry common to come around to. You got to go to Castile for that .kind of high quality."
Jura stared at the bottle again. "How can this be! I spent months looking for something like this and now I come to find that there's far more grater drinks than I had desired! ITS UNFAIR!" SHe began to whine uncontrollably on the table. "First no baby, now this."
"Oh cheer up sweetie." Came a familiar males voice as a hand grabbed Jura's wine, "This stuff should still be good…glp…glp…yup, still nice. Not the highest quality but your asking for something really good drinking outta this bottle."
Jura picked her head up from the tabl, "Really?"
The man put his face to jura's level revealing violet hair and silver eyes. "Yup."
All looked at him with glaring eyes. It was none other than the prisoner lucas. He seemed to not understand what prisoners do.
"Ehehe…what's with all the faces?" He asked in a nervous tone.
A sudden hit from a tray to the back of his head sent him to the ground. Hinoki revealed as the one running right over and shaking him furiously.
"Dam you!" SHe screamed, "Why can't you stay in your cell. Your making all of us good Castilians look bad!"
"I'm not staying in a cell with those nut jobs! They hate me. They talk about gutting my insides with their own hands! How creepy is that!"
Pov seemed interested in this and began to speak with this man. "So you're a Castilian pilot?"
Lucas looked at the boy with peculiar eyes and then said, "Yeah, what about it?"
"I wanna know where your comrades are!" Pov jumped on the table and then began to shake his fist in the man's face, "Tell me! Where's my sister!"
"Sister? You haven't even told me her name yet. And there's about 500 pilots for the Castile army, I can't possibly know them all and if I did, I'd be drunk." He moved a bit closer to the boy and gave him his evil smirk. "Ya know, there is no wine making family by the name of Emiadore at all."
Pov made a slight growl under his breath and clentched his fists till they were white.
"The only wine family that possibly has a daughter in the army is…" But lucas was cut short that time by the knock out blow of a eleven year olds enraging fists hitting him with all of it's might sending him for a second time colliding with the tile.
Hinoki grabbed the man and hoisted him on her shoulder.
"At least he's more quiet now." Hinoki sighed but turned to stare at the upset boy, "Hey Pov?"
"Yeah."
"Do you think that….your sister….do you think she still want's to come back?"
"OF COURSE SHE DOES! Who want's to join the stupid army anyway!"
"Alright alright, I get the point." She turned back to the door and departing, she met up with a familiar face.
"My, what a strange bag your carrying there." Yuki teased but saw the worried look on his dear sister's face. "Is there something wrong?"
"Yuki….Do you think….that all bonds….like yours and mine….are as strong as others?"
"Hinoki…each bond has a different strength. Some are weaker than others and others are tougher to break."
She felt a pain in her heart at this. "I see….I guess I better go…" But before turning around she felt the grasp of her brother's hand on her wrist.
"…I wasn't finished." He began, "If Pov's bond for his sister is as strong as he says it is, theres nothing to be afraid of."
Her face gave off a smile and with thanks she left for the cells. Her brother whatched as she did this with Meia leaning against the door.
"That was verry considerate of you." Meia began.
"You heard?"
"I caught on at thed last second."
"Athena, such a spy. Never knew."
"You know that even if Pov really want's his sister to come back, it doesn't mean she will. Just like the other's she could consider the army as her only family."
Yuki put a hand on her shoulder and just smiled. "A bond for one so close stays forever. And here I thought you would know something like that." His hand slipped from her shoulder as he walked away.
Meia wasn't mad at this comment. She would have but something was different. But what?
The light of the alarm flashed as the transmission sounded. "All pilot's launch! Were under attack!"
"I was beginning to get bored." Hibiki said in his usual smug way with Dita chasing after.
"Will you combine with me today Mr. Alien?"
"Sure why not? I'm feeling pretty good today."
Dita was surprised by this and turned red. "Thank you."
Hibiki then began to turn red himself. "Well it's not like I know if I'm going to combine with you today."
With that snotty attitude, Dita made a giggle.
Amarone began to give out orders once outside. "Team C and D follow my lead while A and B follow Meia"
As all said their rogers they were blasted into the battle unknowing to them it was another trap.
"Seems like they took the bait." One enemy vanguard pilot chuckled, "Everythings prepped for you Laviene."
Laviene was shaking with delight, she made little squeals of joy. "Oooh I can't wait to show Andriea the good job I'll do. She'll be so happy!"
"Lord!"
"Whu?"
"Lord! If you say her name, at least say it with Lord. Its proper."
"Whatever." She held on to her controls lightly, messing this procedure would mean the end of her. "A team, you follow me….all others…..ATTACK!"
"YEARGH!" The battle cries were hollered out as they all went for an opponent.
"I have no time for anyone of you!" Hibiki yelled beating three with his sword, "Where's that Hikaru guy!"
"Mr Alien, why don't we combine!" Dita cheerfully said ramming her dread in the vanguard.
"Alright, now lets get the party started."
"And after you'll see my room right?"
Hibiki seemed to sweat hard from this "Uhh….wait! We have a battle on our hands at the moment. I can't think about that!"
"Right." Dita said in a sad sigh.
They began to beat a tremendous amount of enemies at their disposal. Leaping from one to another without any difficulty.
"And now for the finish!" Hibiki hollered as the two cannons came out of the vandread's back.
Seeing this, one of the enemy vanguards pulled out a gun and shot a beam straight a t them. The cannon charge suddenly stopped.
"WHa! We cant fire!" Dita cried.
"I know that!" Hibiki groweled back, "How in the hell could this happen."
The enemy vanguard pilot's face went on screen, "Its cald an EMP Peixis pulse. Your friend Hikaru was so generous to let us use his backup model."
Hibiki clentched his teeth, "Where is he!"
"Not with us. Didn't feel like joining the party. Of course he said that we could finish you off for him." And with ab single gesture of a robotic hand. Dosens of enemy vessels swarmed around and fired countless bullets making the vanguard split in two.
"Commander, Vandread Dita has been split." Amarone announced, "And all are taking heavy enemy fire."
"Sheilds are down to 85 percent." Misty also pointed out, "At this rate in a matter of minutes, they'll be down to 15."
All she could do is growl and do the next thing. Yell at bart. "What are you doing in there!" SHe bellowed at them, "Start firing."
"I'd love to but I can't target them. They aren't harvesters and it makes it more difficult to pick them our from ours."
"We need some way of getting the information faster." BC muttered.
"Like when that girl lead us to Meia and Hibiki?" The commander suggested and all heads looked at Georgia with sly stares.
Georgia knew that she wasn't going to like this. "I DONT WANNA GO IN THERE!" But in her most whiny efforts she had failed for they hoisted her and threw her in by force. And once in there wasn't the best thing eithier.
Bart noticed that he had company again and tried to calm her down. "Ehe….Just keep your eyes on work and you'll forget your…."
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!" The girl cried, "Why the hell do I have to be nude in a place like this!"
"This is no time to cry, we need you to get our shots out quicker." BC scolded.
The girl nervously started chanting her words trying to ignore the fact that she wasn't alone. After a few mor secons all targets were locked.
Bart made a smug smile. "Alright! Now lets party!" He immediately let out the arsenal and shots fired everywhere blasting all in its path.
"Alright," Georgia whined, "I'm done! I'm leaving!" But she took a moment to pause. "….wait….HOW DO I GET OUT OF HERE!"
"Ugh…there she goes again…."
"Heh, looks like we now have the advantage." Hibiki laughed as he began to charge all he saw.
"Hey Hibiki," Hinoki cried chasing after him, "Why don't we combine?"
"Sounds good to me." Hibiki cried back smacking his vanguard into the dread forming the beast like robot, Vandread-Hinoki.
"Now lets show them what were made of!" Both cried out at the same time….and suddenly realized this.
"Hey! STOP THAT!"
The battle seemed to be turned to the Nirvana's favor but oh were they mistaken. Little did they know that once again, they were being attacked from the inside. But this time with an army.
"Hey, I could use some repairs." A pilot cried to the engineers on their intercomm, "You have to let me in."
"Before we do, you need to tell us the password." A female engineer said.
"Oh that's easy, SMILE!"
"Alright, let her through," a male engineer announced.
The dread was slowly brought in for repairs. As the cockpit opened, they found a badly beaten up pilot.
"Oh, thank you so much." The woman tried to stand but fell at the weight of her own injuries.
A man grabbed her just before she fell, "Don't worry, we'll get Paiwaiy to look at you."
Her eyes seemed to be in a daze but she went close to him and softly said "Thank you but I wont be needing any of it." Her eyes glared with red and fangs began to grow, the man stood in front of a berserker.
"AH! Everyone a…" but the man's cry was cut short from a devastating blow to the head.
The berserker stood letting her wavy orange hair flow beautifully. And her red eyes fixed on all. She lifted her hand in the air and the strangest thing began to happen. Everyone's bodies felt heavy and they began to colaspe on the ground. Their hands could barely move from the weight.The woman looked at them with a gleam in her eyes.
"All remember my name and remember it well," The berserker cried, "My name is Laviene Entoia, I'll be taking my so called colluige back now."
She suddenly began to check out the controls for the hangar and finally got it to open.
"All A units land immediately." She contacted with a strange communicator around her wrist, like a bracelet. "We'll take them by storm."
"Captain, the hangar doors are still wide open." Celtic cried, "No one has shut them and it seems that enemy vessels are making there departure inside."
"What's happening down there?" BC asked.
"Its unknown," Esra said in a worried tone, "All communications with everyone down there are gone."
"It seems that their trying to flush us out." The captain said, "Everyone, don't let those ships get inside."
"ROGER" all pilots cried and made their way to stop them.
"How about a taste of this!" Hibiki cried letting them be blasted away by the sonic blast. "Heh, this is almost to easy."
"How about we step it up a notch then." Came the sinister voice of someone he knew well.
"Grrr….Hikaru," Hinoki groweled, "Where are you, show yourself!"
Before they even had a chance to look around, Vandread-Hinoki was gunned down making it split in two.
"You've become weak Hinoki." Hikaru spat, "You can't even dodge a simple attack."
"SHUT UP!" She was blinded by this and went looking for him accompanied by Hibiki.
"Hinoki, Hibiki, get back here!" Miea yelled at them, "We need to protect the Nirvana.
"BUT.."
"THATS AN ORDER!" Meia hollered wich did get them back to position.
"You know, I do hate to be ignored." Hikaru sighed, "Oh well I bet I can have fun with it." A sudden blast was hit at Dita's dread and more and more were fired.
"Eeeeeyyaaah! MR ALIEN!"
"Leave her alone!" Hibiki hollered but a laugh was the only reply.
"Fine I'll just do someone else." He then began to randomly hit everyone. All were useless from letting the invasion inside.
"Grrr….STOP IT!" Hibiki commanded running to where the shots were coming from. "I know you're here!"
"Correct." Came a silent wisper as a robotic arm grobbed Hibiki's vanguard by the kneck. "Now to face your fate."
"Put him down now!" Meia yelled charging her dread at his.
Hikaru immediately let go of his captive. "All these nuisances. Can't I have at least one battle with you without your friends coming to your aide." He immediately straightened up himself, "We'll if you still want a fight, a fight you all shall have."
Inside the Nirvana, Laviene was having her fun. No one could touch her thanks to her strange power and all were running out of time. She and her gang were getting closer to the Captain and the others.
The last of the crew sat guarding the door to the main room. And it would just so seem that Laviene was coming close. All pointed their guns straight at her, but with just a lift of the hand they all fell to the floor.
"Oh no! The last force has failed!" Beldevere cried looking at the security camera's footage.
"There's nothing stopping them now!" Amarone whined.
"Maybe not." Yuki said, "You see, I heard something about laviene and I think I know how she's doing this."
"How?" BC asked.
"She controls gravity. As I hear it, she can even make gravity go in reverse or left to right."
"SO what your trying to tell us is that if there was no gravity, we'd probably have an ace in the hole." Magno suggested.
"Of course."
Laviene made a sigh of relief, "Finally, were here, how bout we finish early and get back home. I bet that Lord Andriea will be so pleased that she'll give us all a yummy paycheck."
"Hurrah!" All went with their guns in the air.
Laviene gave a cherrie smile, by her teammates enthusiasm. 'This is going to be fun.' She thought to herself just before she blasted down the door. The castilian's scattered everywhere in the room, each pointing a gun at someone's head. Laviene walked straight up to the Commander and gave her a cold dead smile.
"You must be the wonderous captain of this ship, am I right?"
Magno slightly stared at this woman and gave her the same cold dead smile. "Correct."
"Well then, I guess you could accompany me and my crew while we go in search of the missing pilot. I'd be much obliged to."
"I'm sorry but I'm not going anywhere." The said with a cold smile.
"Huh?"
"Parfait, start the plan."
"Right!" Went pairfait in the peixis control room. "Here goes nothing." She pulled a huge lever wich becan to make a strange noise. As the noise finally scilenced she began to float.
Everything was floating all around the ship. Everyone had to hold on to their seats just to stay in position. This didn't amuse the Castilian's for a minute.
"Heh, you think this can stop me?" Laviene asked, "You are sadly mistaken." She lifted her hand up in the air again…….it seemed to have no effect.
"What!" SHe said franticly, "B-but, this should be working!"
"Didn't anyone teach you anything about physics or spacecrafts?" Yuki laughed, "Every ship has a gravity controller. Turning it off means turning off the gravity and without it you have no power."
"Ergh! I know you! Your that resistange group leader, Yuki Cross!" She groweled, "Hey where's your friend's, oh yeah, that's right. WE BLEW THEM STRAIGHT TO HELL!"
"…….."
"Aww to shy to even talk? How about we spice up the time a liitle bit? ALL TROOPS FIRE!"
Doesens of lasers shot everywhere from up high. The Captain ordered all remaining guards to fight while the defensless escaped.
"Ahaha! Run all you want, we'll just catch you later!" Laviene laughed, "This ship shall belong to Castilian rule soon and there will be nothing you'll be able to do."
"We'll see about that." Yuki made his hand a fist and it began to glow, "Your power may not work here but mine works fine!"
He made a blast right at her stomach making her float svereal more feet in the air untill she hit the ceiling. She grasped her feet on the top of the ship and began to kneel.
"What does she think she's doing?" one soldier asked.
"I think she may have found a loop hole." Yuki said in a worried tone.
Laviene then blasted herself off the ceiling and made a land on the floor. Before she even had a chance to float back up, she held on to a chair with her left hand and started shooting with her right.
"HA! I'm not losing this fight! Not with everything on the line." Laviene told herself as she blasted a couple of the front troops. She moved her head up to look upon her troops, still stuck up on the ceiling, "WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE SIX LORDS ARE YOU DOING! Get them!"
"Sir!" All sauluted.
The battle outside was still going on too. All units had their hands tied with at least five or six dreads or vanguards and Hibiki, Dita, Hinoki, Jura, and Meia were waging war with Hikaru.
"This isn't quite a fair battle" Hikaru whined, "I think we should do this more evenly."
"What? The enemy doesn't get to have any requests." Jura roared, "You have to fight us all."
"How bout if I join the fight!" came a screech of a joyful child as a dread stoped near the red vanguard.
"Ah, glad you could make it vile." Hikaru said, "You attack any of the dreads, Hibiki's mine."
"Yay! This is going to be fun." She yipped as she chased the dreads around in a circle.
Hikaru aimed his weapon right at Hibiki, "So, are you just goanna stand there and gawk at me all day or are we going to battle?"
"Alright then," Hibiki said removing his sword, "LETS GO!"
Both went into a swinging frenzy as they tried to land a blow at one another but no use.
"You've gotten better scince the last time." Hikaru grinned.
"I've been practicing with my partner."
"Ha, you talk about it like it's a living being. You are such a fool."
"How am I a fool for caring about my partner?"
"Honestly, its just a hunk of metal. It has no feelings whatsoever! It shows no compassion or love. All its good for is war. And once your done with it you get a new one."
"It sounds like your talking about yourself." Hibiki laughed, "You lack compassion to others, your powerfull, and the best thing to use you for is war and once there done with you they move on to something better. Your better off being a bucket of bolts than that machiene."
Hikaru was furious by these words. He was far more greater than just a machiene. "Ergh! You fool, you shall pay for that remark!" He groweled as he blasted another blow wich was blocked by Hibiki.
"Activate maneuver 3-96/ pattern!" Laviene commanded.
They saluted again and then one soldier tossed out a strange bomb when activated it gave off a huge ball of light blinding the Nirvana crew.
"Ack, it's too bright!" one crewmember howeled, "How can we aim when we cant even see!"
"It's a sun bomb," Yuki explained dodging a laser bullet, "They're used to blind the enemy and create a distraction."
"Rrgh, how do we turn it off without getting shot!" Another yowelled.
And just so it happenes, someone heard this and answered his question by shooting the bomb with a laser imediatley making a jiant explosion.
"I think that's how." Yuki said ducking behind a chair.
"Am I late?" Cried out a smug voice from the Violet haired man Lucas, "The calvary has arrived everyone!"
Laviene turned her head to the silver eyed man to show great relief to him.
"Thank gawd you're here!" SHe said, "Now we can finally get out of this god forsaken place."
Lucas just gave her a keen smile and then said, "Who said anything about leaving?"
"WHAT! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT TO STAY?"
"Ah, I just like it here."
"You just like it for all the women." Laviene huffed.
"Your just jealous. Now you'd better be off before the crew takes you as a captive."
"Sorry but my directives were clear. Return the captive back to the main ship with no member loss whatsoever." She then pulled out a gun and aimed it right at his head, "Now, do I need to say any more or do I have to bring you in by force?"
"Like I said, I ain't going anywhere."
"Fine, all troops, aim at the target immediately!"
Guns from all directions of the sky were pointed at him. There was a slight click from each one telling him that they were fully loaded. He was inches from the door but even a slight step back could result in failure. The only thing he could possibly do was follow orders.
"You don't make anything easy for me." Lucas said with a deep sigh.
"Heh, I'm not in the mood for antics, drop your weapon and come with us."
"Hmmmm…….nah!" Lucas grinned and pointed his weapon straight at the woman.
"Are you insane! I'm not afraid to shoot!"
"I know, I just enjoy a good fight!"
"What the hell are the talking about?" a nirvana crewmember asked, "There just acting like madmen."
"I may not be able to kill you," Laviene snarled, "But I can shoot all I like till you are a cripple!"
Before she could fire her gun at the nutcase, it was blasted right out of her hands. And hearing another round of shots fire her colliuge's weapons floated out of there hands too. And appearing right before her, behind Lucas, came the crew of the beaten up ship that the nirvana took in.
"It's goanna take more than that to defeat us girlie," a chubby man said.
"Huh! Where-where in hell did you guys come from?"
"Oh I just had a run in with these men and asked then to tag along." Lucas sneered," They really hate us Castile pilots, they'll probably kick your asses out of this ship and into the cold reaches of space."
"Egh!"
"You wanna give up now sweet heart or do we have to deal with ya the way we like." Another mercenary laughed.
"Go ahead, kill me. I still have my dignity and I'll keep it. So finish me quick."
"Well you heard the lady." Another mercenary grinned.
"What? Have you no faith?" Lucas growled at the cold hearted men, "This is a human being! You have no right to kill her!"
The men just gave him a cold look and pushed him out of the way.
"It's nice that you care that much to spare lives but were mercenaries and we kill for money. We don't need any of your preacher crap anyway. Your kind destroyed our homes and burned our families, does that sound peacefull to you? The bitch must go."
"Stop it." Commanded one of the mercenaries and all halted.
"Hey, your that kid" exclaimed Lucas.
"I have a name." The boy growled.
Laviene seemed to be in shock by just looking at this boy. Her mouth seemed to barely move as she uttered his name. "Pov?"
"Lavi," He said, "I've been searching the whole galaxy just to find you. And recue you from your imprisonment."
"Improsonment?..." She was shocked at this, "Pov, I have no intention of going back, this is where I belong."
"What!"
She looked at her brother with cold glaring eyes, "I'm content where I am, I'm not going to join your little….whatever it is. I'm gratefull being a soldier. And as such I will accept my execution."
"!"
"What's the matter? Your against Castilian military you know what you have to do. Go ahead, shoot."
The boy pulled his unsteady gun from his hands and aimed it right at his sister. All watched him with horror and delight. Pov could only whatch flashbacks in his head of her and him. How she would always help him, keep him safe, protect him from all. How could he be doing this. And with that though flooding his head, he dropped the gun.
His sister only gave him the cold stare, "Fool, you should kill me and do it quickly." And she grabbed him tightly around the kneck but with a gun to his head. They now floated aimlessly in the sky.
"Turn on the gravity now!" Laviene threatened the nirvana crew, "Or do you want a death on your hands.
The boy looked at her with furry in his face. "You've changed!"
"Hmph. I just learned the greater way to live."
"Does it have anything to do with slaughtering innocent lives because that's all I heard you guys are doing. And doing a pretty good job at it."
"Don't forget I hold your life in my hand." She teased poking the gun, "TURN ON THE GRAVITY! You simpletons!"
"Your orders?" Yuki asked the captain on his communicator.
Magno was silent for the moment collecting thoughts then said, "Parfait turn it back on."
A low hum sounded each room as now the people fell back to the ground. Laviene stood with her captive still in her hands making a low but hearable laugh. She then hurled he boy at one of his mercenaries making them tumble to the ground. And before anyone could even shoot her, she maximized the gravity in the room.
"Ha. Foolish. So terribly foolish. You were verry close to your goal but still not close enough. Now I'll be taking Lucas and your commander as casualties of war."
Another clash of their swords went together.
"Is it just me or are you weakening hibiki?" Hikaru snorted at his foe.
"Heh, you must be dreaming. I never get tired." Hibiki swung his sword but was countered with Hikaru's.
It seemed to go on like that endlessly. While the other's were having troubles of their own.
"Ah, hey! Stop spinning around me!" Jura howeled, "Meia, this is your copy can't you just fight it!"
"Ergh, I'd love to but I'm still have my hands tied with the third rate copies.
"Thirdrate!" One dread pilot cried, "I'll show you!" and began to blast poor Meia makig her run off like a fox being chased by hounds.
"Ugh! Were useless in this situation!" Hinoki cried out.
"Haha, I would have never guessed that you were so weak Hinoki." Hikaru snorted, "If you surrender maybe Lord Andriea will pity you and just let you rot in a dungeon.
"SHUT UP!" She cried out as she tried to chase him but to no avail. The other ships just held her back.
Hikaru went back to his quarrel with hibiki, "You know you would make a wonderful Castilian pilot Hibiki. If you team up with us, there will be a guarantee that your friends will be protected."
"My friends can take care of themselves."
"Oh, like when your red headed friend met the taste of my laser gun, Ha, how foolish."
Hibiki made a low growl by this.
"She was protecting you if I'm not mistaken. And look what you did, you got her hurt. Some friend you are."
Hibiki was furious with rage not even the words of dita crying "Don't listen Mr. Alien!" Did not reach him. He was in a struck of fury that made him go full throttle.
"YOU"LL PAY!" Hibiki cried out chasing after the boy.
'Perfect,' Hikaru thought, 'I'll let him expect that he's got the advqantage and wen he gets close enough, I'll blast him with the peixis soul cannon 2'
A slight smirk was shown on his face as he thought of this as Hibiki ran to cut off his robot's head.
"He'll pay." Hibiki muttered and then heard the cry of the voice he heard scince he met these Castilians.
'Remember the past to save them…remember Hibiki…'
"You again! What are you saying! I'm susposed to save this bastard! And all he's done! Sorry but he's gone for good!" And with that, Hibiki raised his sword over hikaru's head as the barrel of Hikaru's gun faced the chest of his vanguard. But before anything could be done a great green light shined between them that enveloped all.
'Remember….' The voice said again.
Hibiki opened his eyes to see flashbacks rolling in his head. There were always two boys in the flashbacks too wich he immediately knew. Hikaru and himself just younger.
He was flooded by many memories that he never knew. He saw his mom and dad with them, Hikaru's parents too, his sister, and this dog. Memories of Hikaru and him seemed to be ongoing untill a giant flash of light came over him and he returned back to the battle.
"What…..what was that!" Hikaru yelled, "I demmeand to know!"
'Hikaru saw it too?' Hibiki thought.
"Why were thos images in my head!" Hikaru bellowed pointing a gun at Hibiki, "Was it you! You did it didn't you! My parents are dead! That was not me or my family!" but even as he said this he could not pull the trigger on his rifle. He looked at hibiki with sadness in his face and all he could see was that little boy from long ago. "DAMN IT ALL!" He tossed the gun away and burst into space.
"All units retreat! NOW!"
"B-but we just."
"NOW VILE!"
"Awww your no fun." She whined as they all darted off.
Dita rubbed her eyes trying to get the sting from the brigt light out. Once she could see again a darting ship stipped right by her and cried out….
"Catcha later red! You better get ready cause I'm going to beat you to a pulp….next time." And then darted to the enemy fleet.
"Huh?" Was all dita could grasp.
"Wasn't that Laviene?" Hinoki said, "Its not like her to run off."
Back in the nirvana, all had just revived from the green lights side effect. Looking through the room they had realized that the enemy had escaped.
"Shoot! They got away!" a guard groweled.
"And now they have Lucas back." Yuki said with a sigh.
"No I'm here." The silver eyed man said drinking from a wine bottle.
"They had no time. All they could do is run." the captain said going back to her seat.
Pov sat on the floor teary eyed from all of this. He really was hoping to get his sister back but she seemed to have made up her own mind and left him in the darkness.
"I thought she really cared about us." The boy said quietly, "Its was like I was some criminal. It didn't matter to her that I lived or died."
BC gave the boy a grin and then replied, "If that's true, what did she put in your pocket." He motioned toward a fat poket on the side of the boy's jacket.
Pov imediatley grabbed the parcel reavealing it to be a small vile of liquid and a note attatched to it. The note went like this:
Dear Pov,
Please do not come after me. I can't go back after all that I've done. Give everyone my wishes (if they still care that is). I miss you everyday. From, Laviene P.S. your clothes reek of wine wich means that you haven't been washing up. For shame. Theres a bottle of cleaner attatched to this note. USE IT!
Pov became all teary eyed again and then sobbed in joy, "SHE DOES CARE! She really really does!"
"So, are you still going to go look for your sister?" Lucas asked.
"No way!" The boy said in triumph, "I'm going to go back to the winery. Some one's gotta look after it."
"Hey, there's still the part about our pay right!" One mercenary said to him.
Pov gave them an evil grin and then hummed, "Your job was to bring back my sister but all you did was let her get away, but…..I could always use some help at the winery."
The men seemed to be extermly angered at this but gave in and Lucas also tried to get hired but he was then dragged right away to his cell. Two days later after all repairs were done with Povs ship, him and the mercenaries sailed off into space. Just like Laviene would want them to.
The enemy fleet finaly arrived back at the Castilian ship Beast. And as it was her duty, Laviene would tell her report to lord Andriea. The room was lonely at that sort of time so no one would hear what they disscused behind the metal doors. Laviene looked at her lord with saddened eyes.
"You failed?" Andriea asked.
"I'm sorry my lord."
Andrea gave her a strange look then replied, "…..no matter, as Hikaru said, he wqas a drunk fool. I'm not going to let punishment go for this one. I'm sorry things didn't turn out the way you planned."
Laviene looked at her with joy and gave her an embracing hug. "OH THANK YOU!"
Andriea looked at her with a smile, "That's quite alright, but I'd really like it if you'd let me out of your death grip."
Laviene immediately did so and with a salute she was happily running out of the room. As she wandered the dark halls till she came upon three shadowed figures.
"Hey, its late." She informed them, "You'd better get back to your rooms."
But only the reply of laughter was heard.
"Whats so funny?" Lavieve quivered as she felt a cold chill running from her spine as she asked this.
"We've been waiting for you." The first said.
"We've been sent to get rid of you." The second said.
"You're not useful to us anymore." The third said.
Laviene was frightened by these figures even though she couldn't see them, she knew she was up against three and she'd never win.
"People who fail will be punished…" The first said.
"….and will be dealt with as soon as possible" the second one said.
Laviene suddenly felt something tying around her legs. It quickly pulled, smacking her into the ground.
"Your just one of those people. Sorry, but thank you for all the work you have done in these past few years." The third said and now Laviene felt the thing on her legs pulling her to those three characters.
She reached out her hand and grabbed something. It felt like a shoe. It was a shoe from the lord Amith. He looked at her on the floor with his humble smile.
"Lord Amith!" Laviene cried in relief, "Call someone, we have intruders."
He looked at the figures who sat in the darkness laughing and then said to the poor girl.
"All I see here are three of my cadets getting rid of someone that couldn't do there job."
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"I'm sorry but it must be done."
"You cant! Lord Andriea gives out those rules!"
He looked at her and made an evil grin, "There are a lot of things you don't know about the royals."
And then the thing pulled her into the darkness.
FINALLY! IT IS DONE! I can't believe it. It took me forever!...and I kinda went and took a break. Next time I get major writer's block, I'll be rewhatching my vandread dvds. Next chapter: Finally Hikaru gets what he wants. A battle with Hibiki! And without Hibiki's friends beside him what will happen?