Chapter 9. H'sai-de
"Schwar has both entrances completely covered, sir! And we've already lost three men to the auto guns! Our only way in is to use decoys to slowly deplete their ammo supply, but that could take hours!" the first ooman said.
H'sai-de had followed the ooman into a dark room full of machines, where another ooman had been waiting.
"Has he lost his mind? He was already in danger, but now if he survives he'll be lucky if he gets dishonorable discharge!"
H'sai-de had deduced that this ooman was the other's superior, its elder.
"If it's not to much, sir, may I at least know what Schwar is so hell bent on protecting?"
"Denied! You just worry about getting him out before going in!" The elder said.
Although he sounded angry, it seemed that he was trying to cover up fear! Perhaps this elder was unworthy, he thought.
H'sai-de grabbed his glaive. It, like all his other weapons, had been hand crafted by himself out of melted pieces of equipment from their ship's previous owners. He waited for the lower ranking ooman to step a little bit to his left, and threw his glaive right through his stomach!
The superior ooman reached for a burner on a nearby table, but H'sai-de blew it to bits with his plasma caster before the ooman came close to it! The ooman was shocked at first, but then pulled something out of it's clothing! It was a Knife!
H'sai-de smiled. This ooman is certainly foolish enough to deserve this, he thought to himself again. He pulled out his maul, which was a large razor sharp blade with a handle sticking out of the dull side. He walked up to the ooman and deactivated his cloak. The ooman jumped at the sight of H'sai-de, who took it as an opportunity to cut off his prey's head!
The ooman deflected the strike with its blade, but it was hard with such a puny knife! H'sai-de punched it in the chest with his free hand and tried to bring his maul down for the kill! But the ooman managed to roll out of the blade's path, and stabbed at the hunter with a blade of it's own!
H'sai-de jumped back out of the way of the strike, but then the ooman came at him once again, and this time it was a running jab! H'sai-de dodged inward this time, so he was right in front of the charging ooman, and held his maul out for it to run right into! The ooman moved in the other direction at the very last second, only getting cut on it's left arm, and staggered away!
It tripped on the other dead ooman though, and as it fell it got a large gash on its chest from the glaive still sticking out of the deceased oomans ribs! The live ooman managed to get back on its feet, but H'sai-de charged it for the killing blow! Just before it was hit though, the ooman slashed at H'sai-de, cutting through his stomach!
The hunter collapsed in pain at the ooman's knees! The cold, hard object had felt like a hard meat's teeth inside him! He looked up and saw the ooman was about to come down on his head with the pain causing blade! But H'sai-de refused to take its terrible pain again, and used his blade to slice off the ooman's hands, along with its head!
He felt at his stomach. The ooman wound wasn't as deep as it had felt, and would probably be nothing but a big scar in a few days. A battle scar, he thought with a smile. He noticed the ooman's terrified face right next to him! He picked its head and looked carefully, his own head at his shoulder with curiosity. It had put up an amazing fight, for an ooman at least. He decided to bring it as a trophy.
He wiped the blood off his body, pulled his glaive out of the first ooman, and activated his cloakin device again. He ran out into the hall he had come from, but he heard something. Rapid burner fire! He ran down the hall as quietly as he could, and saw a large group of oomans firing in random directions, with several bodies at their feet.
Although the oomans couldn't see them, Hiju paya, Nain-de, and Cetanu were trying as hard as they could to dodge the deadly burner fire!