Emeraldas hang life less in the cell, still hanging by her arms. Had she been consensus, she would have been paralyzed by the pain coming from her back.

She on the other hand were long gone. She wandered inside her head, reliving more happier times. One memory became clearer by the minute. The memory on how she had met Angel.

After Emeraldas had once again saved Harlock's life, but had been wounded herself in the process, Lighting had asked her if she would have one of his friends as her guardian. She was first gonna reject but Tochiro had heard them talking.

"You are gonna get a wolf guardian as well? Good, that way I'll know that someone is always looking after your back." He grinned showing of all his white teeth. Emeraldas was not sure what to say.

"If you want to, you can find her living in the sea of souls on Pluto." Lighting said. Tochiro smiled to Emeraldas.

"Pluto?" Emeraldas asked as Lighting left.

Why she had travel to Pluto, she did not know herself. Maybe it had been Tochiro's smile as he heard, or maybe it had been her curiosity that had lead her there, but only a few days after that she had arrived on Pluto. traveling strait for the sea of souls. The flat ice covered land hid the body's of many that had given their bodies up for the eternal life. It angered Emeraldas as she walked over the ice, seeing the hundreds of frozen bodies buried in ice forever.

Why any one how ever come to this place, I don't know. She thought to herself looking over the land. Suddenly there were something moving further up a head, catching her eye. She ran for cover and drew her gun as she sat, still looking at the thing that moved. Who ever it was or what ever it was, it was running trying to find cover in the few rocks. Emeraldas moved closer but stayed out of sight. As she moved to her new place, and looked for the one that were moving, suddenly something ran into her back. Turning around fast, she suddenly saw a young girl. She could not be older than 5 years old. The girl had frozen tears down her cheek and looked at her with fear in her eyes. She was dressed in mostly pieces of cloths and looked like she was cold.

"Hey, what are you doing out her all alone?" Emeraldas asked smiling kindly.

"They took mommy." The girl said and tears came down her cheeks again.

Suddenly Emeraldas heard a familiar sound. The sound of a Mecha police fighter plane. Emeraldas drew the girl close and held her down, hiding her from the plane's view.

"Be quiet young one, they wont get you. That I swear." She whispered and held her gun up. Her emerald green eyes looked to the ship as it landed. Two mechanized guards came out, forcing a young lady to come with them, dragging her.

"Now call your daughter!" The first one ordered, as they threw her down in the snow.

"Please, just let my daughter go. I was the one who stole it. Leave my daughter out of this, please." The woman pleaded to the two guards. The second one stricked out and slapped her over her face.

"Call your daughter." He ordered. The woman cried her wet tears, as she sat up again and looked around.

"Arina!" She called. Emeralds cursed under her breath, seeing the mother give her daughter up like that. To her surprise, the young girl in her arms stared to struggle.

"Mommy! Mommy is calling." She said and tried to get free. Emeraldas held even harder around her.

"Don't." She said and held her close to her.

"Arina, honey! Come home baby!" The lady called. To Emeraldas surprise Arina, the little girl twisted free and ran towards the lady.

"Mommy!" She cried, not seeing the guard that pointed his gun to her. Emeraldas blood boiled, seeing the mother not even looking, as her daughter was about to get killed.

Standing up she shot a quick shot at the mechanized man and took him down. The other one looked at her and turned his gun to the mother and shot her. As the lady fell into the ground, suddenly a part of the snow next to him moved, and a snow white shape threw him to the ground, breaking his neck. The snow white wolf stood over the man looking at Emeraldas. It was the same dark blue color of eyes that Lighting had, but this wolf was just a little different in shape. This wolf seemed slimmer and a little shorter than Lighting. The wolf turned and looked to Arina, as the young girl had came up to her mother.

"Mommy? Mommy, get up. Mommy. Please mommy. I want to go home mommy." She cried. The wolf seemed to be sad, seeing the young girl cry. Emeraldas came up to Arina.

"She cant hear you. Your mother is gone." She said and sat down next to the girl.

"Gone? But she is right here." Arina cried, her grey eyes filled with tears. Emeraldas shook her head.

"No she is not here any more." She said taking Arina close to her, and let her cry into her hair, as she picked her up and took her away from her mothers body. The wolf followed them and stopped not to far from them, and looked at Emeraldas and smiled faintly.

"Is there any one you can stay with?" Emeraldas asked as the girl calmed down. Arina shook her head. Emeraldas sighed. She took of her cape and wrapped it around the girl.

"Stay here, I will be back soon." She smiled and stood up looking at the white wolf.

"If you are from Lighting's clan, then you will stay with this girl and keep her warm. Promise me that on the pride of your clan!" She called. The wolf grinned and nodded.

As Emeraldas walked back to Arina's mother to buried her, The wolf came up to Arnia and held her warm with her fur.

As Emeraldas returned, she found Arina asleep and the wolf moved silently away from her. The wolf sat down as Emeraldas picked Arina up and held her warm.

"What will you do with her?" The wolf asked. It kinda surprised Emeraldas as she had first believed the wolf to be male but the voice were clearly female.

"I know of an older couple with no kids, they can take care of her." Emeraldas said taking away a lock of golden hair from Arina's face. The wolf smiled and looked at her.

"Lighting has told me much about you. I never would have expected this." She smiled.

"You speak a lot with Lighting?" Emeraldas asked looking to the white wolf. The wolf nodded smiling.

"He says that there is no none able to bring you down. You are one of the toughest humans he knows." Emeraldas had to grin a a little hearing this.

"What is your name?" She asked. The wolf seemed sad as she looked down in the ice.

"I really don't have one, not one that you can say anyway... The young girl muttered something about a Snow angel before she fell asleep, just thought you wanted to know that." She said before her ears turned behind her. The wolf stood suddenly up and listed.

"Is your ship far from here?" she asked suddenly growling low as she looked to Emeraldas. She stood up holding the sleeping girl in her hands.

"No, not far at all." She said. The wolf looked at her before turning her head behind her.

"Then you better leave now. I can hear a ship coming, and I heard that you had been seen in the area by some bounty hunters." She said and looked shortly to the pirate. Emeraldas nodded and started to walk back to the Queen Emeraldas. She stopped as she saw the wolf was not coming.

"Go, Emeraldas. I'll keep them busy for a while. That is the least I can do for you." The wolf smiled. Emeraldas felt a little bad leaving, but she still walked on.

As she arrived where the Queen Emeraldas stood, she growled as she saw a ship with five hunters wait for her.

They want to corner me. As they block my way the other ship will drive me this way. She growled to herself as she grabbed her gun. She looked down at Arina and smiled faintly.

"Rest here for a little while. I will be back soon." She whispered as she lay the sleeping girl down and wrapped her cape closer around her.

She walked away from Arina and walked strait down to the men.

"There she is!"

"Get her!" The hunters called before they came running towards her. She shot the two fist ones and ducked away from the first bullets that came towards her. Shooting down two more, the last one standing backed up scared.

"Wait, don't shot!" He called. Emeraldas moved up towards him and looked at him angry.

Suddenly she heard a call to her left.

"Emeraldas, Look out!" The white wolf called and struck her, throwing her sideways. A shot were fired and the wolf cried out in pain. Emeraldas landed on her side and saw the white wolf not moving next to her. Turning around Emeraldas saw another of the hunters coming out from the hunter's ship. He stood with a smoking gun in his hand, grinning to himself. Emeraldas eyes narrowed and she planted a bullet in his grinning forehead, before turning to the remaining hunter and shot him as well. She moved over to the wolf.

"Wolf, why did you..." She stopped as she saw the wound on the wolfs face. She had been hit across the face in a strait line. It began shortly from under her right eye and moved just over her left eye.

Just like Lighting. Emeraldas thought as she took of her white scarf around her neck and made a bandage over it. she remembered very clearly doing the same when Lighting got his scar as well. The wolf whined low as she did so and opened her eyes.

"Are you hurt?" She asked. Emeraldas shook her head.

"Why did you do that?" She asked, getting a pained but kind smile from the wolf.

"Do you know why Lighting sent you here to find me?" She asked smiling. Emeraldas shook her head as she had no idea at all.

"Because you and me hate cowards more than anything." She smiled giving Emeraldas her answer.

"Snow Angel!" Arina suddenly called to both of them's surprise. Arina came down to them holding on to the cape.

"Don't go away, Snow Angel." She cried sitting down next to the white wolf.

"Snow Angel?" Emeraldas asked. The young girl looked up to her confused.

"Mommy always said that in the sea of souls, there were snow angels guarding over the bodies, and that as long as they are there, no harm will ever come to those who walk there. She tried to protect mommy and saved you, so she must be a snow angel, right?" Arina said. The wolf smiled kindly.

"Thank you, Arina. I wont go any where but where Emeraldas is." She smiled and forced herself up.

"Angel, don't push yourself to hard." Emeraldas said, agreeing to having the wolf as her guardian. The wolfs eyes widened.

"Angel?" she asked looking up as Emeraldas stood up. The pirate smiled.

"Well like Arina said, you are my guardian Angel after all." She smiled.

"Emeraldas!" The wolf had called happy. As the memory faded away, she could still hear the voice calling in her head.

"Emeraldas!"

"Emeraldas!

"Emeraldas! Please wake up! Emeraldas!" Angel's voice called to her.

"EMERALDAS!" She awoke with a startle, before she cringed in pain. Her back were on fire still and the chains felt like there were spikes on the inside of the cuffs.

Shit. That drug has still not worn off. She cursed to herself.

"Emeraldas! Are you okey?" Angel's voice called in her head. She lifted her head and saw Angel standing next to the hall out of the way for the camera. As she looked at the wolf with her emerald green eyes she believed at first that she was dreaming. She looked at the scar on her head, wondering if it was just another part of her dream.

"Are you hurt?" The wolf asked again, this time coming closer. Emeraldas threw herself forward while trying to tell Angel to stay back, but the scream only turned into a muffled sound, as the gag stopped her. The chains rattled loudly and her body shot up in worse pain than before. Angel stopped just before the camera could pick her up. She looked at Emeraldas shocked. As Emeraldas thrown herself forward like that, her whole body screamed in pain and she gasped for air.

"Emeraldas..." Angel said worried. Emeraldas looked up at her and turned her look up to the camera. Angel looked up as well and nodded.

"Right." She said low and looked down the hall.

"It should start any minuet now." She said with a small smile.

Suddenly there were a lot of sounds coming from further down the hall. Sounds like screaming and fighting. Angel grinned and jumped strait at the panel on the side of the cage, tearing it up with her claws. As the panel fell in pieces and the bars started to slide up, Angel came up to Emeraldas. Jumping carefully up supporting herself to Emeraldas with one of her front paws on Emeraldas stomach, she took hold of the gag with her teeth. Emeraldas growled low, as the mere touch of Angel's paw and the feel of her teeth to her cheek, hurt like hell as the juice made it painful to her. Carefully Angel snapped the leather strap between her teeth and drew the gag of. Jumping down, she threw the gag away.

"Are you okay?" She asked looking worried seeing Emeraldas apparently in pain.

"Just get me down." She said hissing in pain.

"I'm on it." Angel said and took hold of the chain around her right foot. Using her teeth and her strength, she snapped the chain in half. She moved over to the other foot and loosened that as well. Emeraldas took her feet closer together, feeling a sickening feeling in her stomach, as she remembered what Gokai had done to her.

"Hold on." Angel said seeing the look in her eyes. Angel jumped up, taking hold of the chain on her left arm. Snapping it in half Emeraldas fell down hanging by her right arm.

She screamed out in pain as it felt like the arm were ripped of her and burned in pain.

"Shit!" Angel cursed hearing the scream, and snapped the other chain as fast as she could. As the other chain gave in, Emeraldas sunk down on the floor, gasping for air. Her whole body screamed in pain and she could barely hold on to her consigns.

"Emeraldas?" Angel said coming up to her, looking more worried than ever. Emeraldas threw her arms around her neck and just held on to her.

"Emeraldas..."Angel said worried.

"Thank you." Emeraldas said holding on around her neck, shaking. Angel let her hold on for a little while more, before she drew her head lose.

"We aren't safe yet. Let's go." She said and nudged her to stand up. Emeraldas forced her body up, but she had no real strength to speak of.

"Where do we go?" She asked. Angel smiled kindly and yet her eyes had a wicked look in them.

"We go up and out. my new friend told me where we should go. He was the one making the chaos you heard before he was freeing the other prisoners, giving me the chance to free you." Angel grinned leading the way down an empty hall.

"We're almost there." Angel said hearing how hard Emeraldas was breathing behind her. Soon after they came out in sunlight. The exit went strait onto a small forest and Angel led her further into it.

"Rest a little. They will think we fled as far away, as we could." Angel said looking back to where they had come from. Emeraldas sat down on the ground and gasped for air. She was pale and her body hurt, sweat dripped down her forehead.

"Emeraldas?" Angel said looking more than worried. Emeraldas looked up at her.

"What did he do to you?" She asked whining as she lay down in front of her.. Emeraldas did not answerer. She looked to the wound in Angel's shoulder, as her white fur were covered in old blood.

"I thought you were dead." Emeraldas said suddenly. Angel sighed.

"Bastard got a good hit on me. Almost like he knew I would jump up before I did, and were ready long before I decided to. " she snared.

"After getting hit, I passed out but came to as they had just left. I followed behind them and snuck on board their ship." She said looking to Emeraldas. Emeraldas looked like she was about to pass out. Angel stood up again and lay down behind her. Emeraldas laid down resting her hurting body in the grass and her head on Angel's stomach.

"How are we gonna ge away from this place. It will not be long before they will come for us." Emeraldas said. Angel looked at her with a small grin.

"Lucky, help is on the way then" She smiled . Emeraldas looked at her.

"What do you mean?" She asked. Angel smiled and shook her fur, making the collar wave.

"Did you forget? Tochiro took a tracker on the back of the medallion like with Lighting's. When the ship landed here, I activated it. They should all ready be here soon."She smiled. The red kite shaped gem, with the silver skull and crossbones over it, seemed to shine red. Emeraldas shined up as she relished what Angel had done. Her love Tochiro had made a special tracker, that only the Arcadia and now her ship the Queen Emeraldas could pick up, and now as Angels tracker had been activated. The two Ships would be on their way to pick them up. The tracker had Saved Harlock's life when he had been captured by some bounty hunters not long ago and now it would save her as well.

"Tochiro." She smiled, and smiled for the first time since her capture. Angel grinned.

"Angel, you are a genius." Emeraldas said.

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Not long after, feeling a little more refreshed by the mere thought of help coming their way, Emeraldas were lead further into the woods by Angel. Most of the prisoners had gotten out to the the outside, and it would seem that there was one man in the lead of the prison rebellion. Emeraldas got just one one quick look at him. He was a tall, lean man, dressed in white with a red headband waving in the wind. She had smiled, seeing his determination to do as much damage to the men that had held him there, and where doing just that.

Angel lead her away from the battle, knowing that her master was far from fight capable at this point. Even now Emeraldas was breathing hard and looked terrible pale. What really worried Angel, was the fact that Emeraldas seemed to just be getting worse, the longer they walked.

Did the bastards poison her or something? She is just getting worse. She whined to herself, trying to lead Emeraldas to a safe place, where they could wait for their friends.

"Lighting, where are you? Why can't you hear me?" She cried out in mind speak to her life mate. She turned to see how Emeraldas was doing. The pirate was supporting herself to a three, gasping for air. Her body hurt like hell and she shook in pain.

What is going on? Why is that drug not wearing of? It feels more like my body is being slowly killed. Emeraldas cursed angry. She looked up and saw Angel's worried face. She smiled faintly to reassure her friend.

Suddenly from the prison, they could hear a rain of blast fire and the cries of the prisoners.

"Shit, seems like the prison guards had some kind of super gun." Angel cursed angry. Emeraldas could feel her blood boil, as she could nearly see the men getting shot down like flies.

"Let's go," She cursed and forced her body on. They came out into a small opening in the woods, and as she came to the middle.

Then suddenly her body gave in, and she landed down on the grass, gaping for air. In a flash, Angel was up next to her and whined.

"Emeraldas? Whats wrong?" She cried to her friend, before she suddenly saw the metal ring around her neck flash. Emeraldas growled in pain and gasped for air. Angel shook in anger, as she realized that she had not seen it before, and that right now, some one was torturing Emeraldas and there was nothing she could do.

Suddenly Angel's ears picked up the sound of a small ship coming towards them. She growled as the ship landed in front of them blocking their way. Angel stepped in front of Emeraldas, and growled with her head low, and the white fur on her back stood strait up. Out from the ship a man with gray hair and gray eyes stepped, followed by two body guards.

"Gokai." Emeraldas cursed seeing the man. Angel turned on one of her ears as she heard Emeraldas speak. She growled angry towards the man.

So this is the creep that has done this to her. Bastard. Angel cursed angry.

"There you are, my Queen. I was afraid I had lost you." The man spoke. Angel growled hearing that voice call Emeraldas his queen.

"And there is your ever faitful wolf companion. I knew I should have planted a bullet in your head back then. Guess I underestimated you." He laughed to Angel. The wolf growled angry and if her anger had not overpowered her senses she would have heard the sound of a very familiar ship blasting into the atmosphere.

Author's note:

So here is the next bit of this story as well this time covering a little on Angel's past and also how Emeraldas go out of the prison. All that left is to get her out of Goka'is claws. Hope you liked this part and Gemini has another part of this story coming up in her Youth in Arcadia, so read that as well, to get the whole picture, before reading my next bit, that will be coming soon.

Also I put in a homeage to her story Warrior souls, giving of a little foreshadowing to it.

Feel free to tell me how i did.

Lightingtooth