Chapter Two:
"What is it you're going to do to Trance?" Harper asked.
"I will explain it after I'm done. First of all I'll have to examine her to see exactly what is wrong with her." Aikera said, obviously avoiding what she was really going to do. Dylan nodded and pulled Harper into the waiting room.
"Mr. Harper. Harper! Calm down. You want Trance better?" Dylan asked, Harper nodded, "Then you need to get a hold of yourself and let the doctors here do their job. For them to do that you need to get a hold of yourself and let them be to do their job." Dylan said holding Harper against the wall.
"Ok. I'm better. Sorry I shouldn't have done that." Harper said relaxing. Dylan let him go. Dylan sat down and Harper paced in the waiting room.
"Hope you're still in there Trance." Aikera whispered as she touched Trance's temples. She entered Trance's mind and noticed it looked like a spot only her and Casey knew about. Trance approached her.
"Trance Gemini I presume?" Aikera asked.
"Princess Aikera I presume, it's a pleasure to meet you at last. I've heard so much about you." Trance said.
"From who?"
"Casey and other sources Sources who tend to talk in their sleep and all but one have been killed once the information needed was given." Trance said.
"How do you know-" Before Aikera finished her sentence Casey appeared.
"You have forgotten my trick so soon my friend. Also I have not been brought back into the universe as what I have wanted to be yet." Casey said.
"You never told me what you want to come back as." Aikera said.
"But I have told you that you will know what it is once I have come back in that particular form. I think you'll like it when I do." Casey said disappearing. Aikera and Trance both came out of Trance's mind at the same time. Navia gave Trance a quick examination while Aikera went to talk to Harper and Dylan.
"Captain Hunt, Mr. Harper. Trance is fine and awake you may go see her now." Aikera said. Harper immediately went in almost knocking Aikera down.
"Please excuse him, she is his best friend." Dylan said.
"It is ok Captain Hunt. I know the feeling of almost losing a friend, and the feeling of losing two other of my close friends. It is something that is not that easy to deal with. You know that the worst feeling in the world is right?" Dylan shook his head no. "The feeling of being alone. May I look at your hand?" Aikera said walking over to him.
"Sure." Dylan said. Aikera un-wrapped his hand and looked at it. She handled his hand with delicate touches. He felt his hand begin to tingle than notice that he could feel his hand.
"Ok there, it isn't numb anymore is it?" She asked.
"No, its not. How did you know it was numb?"
"Because I can feel what you can't. Besides that was on the house for pulling Mr. Harper out of the room so I could help Trance." Aikera said walking into Trance's room in the hospital. Dylan nodded once before following her and saw Trance and Harper in some weird, rapid paced conversation.
"You seem to be doing a lot better Trance." Dylan said.
"Quite better. Thank you Aikera, we must talk again soon." Trance said standing up.
Aikera nodded and walked out of the hospital. Dylan, Harper and Trance followed her. They were in fact there to talk to Aikera's father the king. She said that she would take them to the palace. Only Trance knew Aikera was the princess. Once there, Aikera headed for the stairs when she heard her father say daughter. He never referred to her by her real name unless if he had to.
"Good morning father." She said.
"That's her father?" Harper whispered to Trance.
"Harper be good." Trance said elbowing him lightly in his side.
"What?" He asked looking at Trance.
"How is your patient that you received last night?" Aikera's father asked her.
"Better." She motioned Trance over, "Trance Gemini meet my father and king of the planet, King Darien."
"Nice to meet you sir." Trance said. She had this semi-tough tone in her voice.
"And same to you. And you are Captain Hunt I presume." King Darien said.
"Yes. You must be King Darien. You requested to see me." Dylan said stepping forward shaking the king's hand.
"Shall we go to the dining hall for some breakfast, I'm sure you and your crew must be hungry." The king said. "You may call me Darien." They went and ate breakfast.
"You'll sign just like that?" Dylan asked. Darien nodded.
"The catch is my daughter goes with you." Aikera groaned at her fathers' request.
"There's always a catch." Dylan said.
"Dylan!" Trance said. Dylan looked at her.
"It's ok, my daughter needs a change of scenery." Darien said.
"Father do I have to? I mean I am more needed here than on some ship." Aikera protested.
"Needed for what? Navia is a good doctor, and you won't be needed around the castle, you never are here anyway." Her father said back.
"If you wanted me out or gone I would have gone to my birthplace which certainly isn't here." Aikera said walking away. Dylan's comm. link beeped, he got up and answered it.
"Yes?" He asked.
"When shall you be returning?" Beka asked angrily.
"When I can, I'll contact you when we leave." Dylan said cutting off the conversation before it went any further making Beka even angrier. After breakfast Dylan, Trance and Harper boarded the Maru along with Aikera. She wouldn't look at Dylan.
"What's the name of your planet again Aikera?" He asked. His answer was a 'humph' "Lovely name. I love the name. What about you Trance, you like the name too huh?"
"Dylan, she won't answer because she feels as if you had something to do with her father making her come along." Trance said. Dylan looked at her with the 'how do you know, wait don't tell me' look. "Good because I wasn't going to tell you. Goes against my promise I made with her." Trance answered his look. He sighed deeply.
"This is going to be one long trip." Dylan mumbled.