A/N Andromeda does not belong to me….but Pearlana does.

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Title: A Flaming Pearl

Author: Fox of the Nova

Chapter 4:

"Getting to know you."

Harper, Beka, and Rev were dumfounded. Harper kept on looking towards the sick bay doors and back to Dylan.

"Wait…a…minute." Beka states as she tries to grasp what Dylan had just said. "Are you saying that she is Vedrian?"

Dylan then shakes his head from side to side. "No, she is not Vedrian. But the language she speaks is half Vedrian."

"How can you be sure that she is not Vedrian?" Rev asks.

"Because no Vedrian has golden eyes, or speaks in a language that is a mixture of many others." Dylan states.

Suddenly Andromeda appears in holographic form in front of them.

"Dylan, if I may, I believe there is a document in my data base discussing the appearance of traders with golden eyes who came to Tarn Vedrian." Andromeda states with her arms behind her back.

"Then let's go to the command deck. From there we can see these files. Maybe this way, we can find out a little more about our young guest." Dylan states.

With that they follow Dylan towards the command deck. In reaching it, they find Tyr and Rommie scanning the debris for anything useful.

"We will continue the search later. Andromeda, open the data base." Dylan orders.

Andromeda appears on the screen and begins scanning her data. Flashes of numbers and strange symbols rushed down the screen as she scans.

"The document is based on the circumstance of Traders coming to Tarn Vedria. They traded for all manner of things, including tundra flowers." Andromeda states in a clear voice.

Then Andromeda showed some pictures of a small group of people trading with the Vedrians. They appeared to be having a friendly chat with the people.

Dylan walked towards the screen and peered closer to one particular trader with golden eyes. In fact, all the traders that were trading with the Vedrians had golden eyes. As Dylan peered closer towards the person, he discovered that it was a young man with spiky blond hair…which seemed very familiar…

"Andromeda, magnify." Dylan asks.

The picture was zoomed in on the person, and all eyes were glued to the young mans features that was as clear as day.

"That's Harper." Beka states as she too walks towards the screen.

Harper was shaking his head from side to side in disbelief.

"Why didn't you tell me you had went to Tarn Vedria?" Beka asks as she turns towards Harper.

Harper just wagged his head from side to side even harder. "That is not me! I have NEVER been to Tarn Vedria! I don't even have golden eyes!" Harper yells out.

Suddenly Andromeda appears in holographic form. "He is right, this cannot be Harper." She states

"Yeah, just his long lost cousin." Tyr states under his breath.

"Perhaps it's just someone who looks like Harper." Rev puts in.

"Not like, looks exactly like Harper. If I didn't know better, I'll say that Harper had a twin." Beka states as she looks closely towards the picture of the young man.

He looked exactly like Harper with his spiky blond hair and smirk of a smile that Beka had known for too long. He even had that glint in his eyes of an already calculating mind. Minus the fact that his eyes were golden.

"It sure does seem that Harper has a twin, but there is just one problem." Rommie states as she walks down the steps and closer towards the screen.

She then points towards the picture. "This trading happened over three hundred and forty-five years ago." She states.

A sound of a body falling to the ground was heard. Everybody turned around to find that Harper had fainted.

Back at sick bay, Trance was showing the girl around. After the girl hugged Harper, she seemed more at ease with her surroundings. Almost like in the child's mind, she thought that as long as Harper is around she is safe.

Trance was more then a little surprised when the girl walked towards one of the consoles and quickly skimmed the surface. She then began tapping a series of buttons. Trance immediately went towards the girl, thinking that she was tapping anything. But she got a surprise when the holographic image of the girl showed up before them.

The girl walked towards the image, leaving a bewildered Trance behind.

The girl then pointed towards her back on the image. Trance walked to stand beside the girl as she was pointing towards the image of her back as well as rubbing her own back.

Looking towards the image, Trance saw clearly three slashed openings on the child's back. Three slashes on either side of the girls back.

Trance new that these slashes were not injuries, but the openings to the childs two extra lungs that was above her storage of oxygen lungs.

She then turned towards the girl and gently placed a hand to the childs back. Something was gently moving in a rhythm sort of way.

"May I?" Trance asks. She only hoped that the girl understood.

The child looked towards Trance. She understood what Trance had just said, even though it still sounded alien to her.

She nods her head once towards Trance.

Trance does a small smile, as she walks the girl towards the bed. As the girl sits on the bed, Trance rolls up the childs pajama from her back.

Trance beholds the sight of ciebis, light gills. The child can breathe anything that is what the second pair of lungs is for. When she stores oxygen, the carbon dioxide is filtered through her ciebis, kinda like a filter.

Trance delicately touches one of the gills, and instantly she hears the child gasp.

"I'm sorry." Trance states.

The girl nods her head in understanding that Trance didn't mean to touch the most sensitive part of her body.

Now, the bed was to the wall and the childs back was facing the door. Trance was behind her, but you could still see one of her gills rhythmically opening and closing in time to the girls breathing.

Suddenly the doors opened, and Dylan walked in, dragging a dazed Harper.

The girl quickly turns around and covers her back with her night gown, but not before Dylan saw her gills or the fact that Harper had come to and that he too had seen them.

Harper looks at the girl with shock. "Who are you?"

The girl bows her head as she then turns around, so that she faced the two men. She sighed deeply, and then she looked up to face them.

Trance was beside her, her hand on the girls shoulder. Giving comfort aswell as squeezing it.

"You can do it. It all just takes a little practice." Trance states.

Dylan looked towards Trance and then back towards the girl. Completely comfused at what Trance was talking about.

Slightly hestitant, the girl licks her lips and opens her mouth. "My...name...is...Pear...la...na" She says very slowly, while making sure that each word is properly spelled out.

Harper slowly walks towards the girl and stops when he was right in front of her.

"Pearl?" He asks, since that is all he heard.

The girl inclines her head to the side when Harper spoke. She liked the newness in which he spoke her name. It sounded half of her own name, like a nickname.So she nods her head. Yes, her dementional brother could call her Pearl.

Dylan then walks towards Pearl. "You speak English? So this entire time, you understood what we were saying?"

Pearl looks up towards Dylan. She only understood half of what Dylan said.

With her right hand, she places her pointer finger above her thumb. Making the the sign of knowing only a little.

"Dylan, Pearl only understands and speaks a little English. The same goes for the other languages she knows." Trance explaines.

"You know Trance, you appear to know a lot about Pearl." Harper proclaims.

Trance just gives him her innocence look. "It's just simple to understand that she has difficutly speaking the language.

Harper then looks towards Pearl. He then points towards her back. "What are those?"

Pearl looks behind her and then understands what Harper was implying.

"Ciebis." She stated.

Now it was Harpers turn to be completely confused. "Cibe?" He asks.

Pearl shakes her head from side to side. "No, Cie...bis." She states very slowly, so that Harper can catch the way it was pronouced.

"Cie...bis." Harper states as he tries to copy the way Pearl prounced it.

Pearl smiles deeply when Harper prounced it correctly. She nods her head in yes.

"This is the amazing thing I was going to tell you about." Trance stated. "Ciebis is a type of gill. It is used for breathing anything but the vacuum of space. And this is when her spare oxygen lungs comes in handy. She has her own oxygen filter."

Both Harper and Dylan are completely amazed. Where did this girl come from?" Was the questian that each one was asking themselves.

Suddenly Andromedas voice echoed off of the speakers around them. "Dylan, Tyr and Rev have discovered usefull artifacts and items amongst the debris. They are wondering if you want to get a closer look.

"HELL YEAH!! Of course we want to take a look. Another mans debris, is another mans treasure!" Harper stated with excitement in his voice.

With that Harper practicly ran out of sick bay towards the command deck, without a second glance back.

Pearl inclined her head to the side. But one thing was for sure, it didn't matter what demention you were in. Harper was Shamus. Shamus was Harper. There was no difference between them.

Dylan asked Trance to keep an eye on Pearl. Trance said she would be delighted.

When Dylan left, Trance and Pearl were alone. "I'm sure you must be hungry." Trance stated with a smile. "I'm going to get you something to eat. I'll be right back."

With that Trance left sick bay, her purple tail disappearing as she turned the corner.

Pearl looked around and saw a locker to the far side of the room. Walking towards it she finds a name written in black etched across it.

"Trance Gemini"

"This must be the purple girls locker. Trance right?" Pearl states to herelf.

Walking towards it, she sees that it isn't locked. Opening it, she finds it to be filled with different size and colors of clothing.

She really needed something to wear, so hoping that Trance won't be angry for looking for something to wear, she looks inside the locker.

She finds out , that Trance wears exactly the same size of clothing as herself. She chooses a purple tee with some silver overals. Looking at herself in the mirror, Pearl thinks to herself that this isn't much difference from her own wardrobe.

Remember that voice that spoke out, Pearl knew they were talking about 'The Orions' valuables which is flowting around in space. That's why she was getting ready. She hoped that she can get to this place known as Hanger 4.

She also hoped that at least one of her luggage would be among the debris, fully intack. It would be such a life saver if she found "Nano Langue', at least for the moment.

Pearl looks around for her slippers. Trances boots were a little too big for Pearls liking. After finding them, she walks out of sick bay.

Looking both ways for any sign of Trance, Pearl sees nothing. With a big breath, she walks out.

Choosing to go right, Pearl walks down the ramp and into the maze of the ship Andromeda. Hoping that she would be able to find Hanger 4 and maybe even getting to know a little bit more about this...ship and the people living in it.

Ok, I am right now stuck in Travis AFB California. I hope you like this chapter, since i added some stuff to it.

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Wiccabitch2721 – Yeah, at first I thought of doing a love interest with Harper. But then I thought that he needs to have a sister…a sister that is equally as crazy as him. LOL!!

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