Lightingtooth were resting in his bed in the captain's room when a voice woke him up. His dark blue eyes looked up as he heard the voice. His white scar across his face glowed in the weak light, in his midnight black fur.
"Lighting, there is trouble." The mind speak was clearly worried. Lighting lifted his head as he recognised the voice.
"What's wrong, my friend?" He asked looking into the wall on the other side with a kind of distant look in his eyes.
"Are you in danger?" Lighting asked.
"I'm okay, but the other two is not." The wolf said. Lighting's eyes narrowed.
"The other two?" He asked feeling his worry grow.
"Do you know a man named Falco Harlock?" The other wolf asked worried. Lighting stood suddenly up as he heard that name. Captain Harlock looked up from his log, that he was writhing on at his desk, as the wolf stood up. His Hazel brown eyes looked at his friend, his hazel brown hair covered the black eye patch over his right eye. As always he was dressed in his black suit with the white skull over the chest. He had taken of his cape as they were settling in for the night.
"Lighting?" He asked but he saw the look in his eyes and knew that the wolf was talking to someone.
"Yes, I know him. He is a good friend of the captain, also a distant relative. What has happened?" Lighting's voice shook a bit as he feared the worst.
"He, his son and the young cub were taken by some hunters on Titan. I am not sure where we are now." The other wolf said.
"Hunters? Human or mechanized?" Lighting asked fast.
"Human... they said some thing about using Falco as bait to get Harlock and young Harlock." The wolf snared.
"Bastards, how did they get him? Wait you said; Where we are... You..." Lighting said as he realised what that meant.
"Yes, leader. There were no way I would let a man that gave up his freedom to save his son, die in the hands of cowards." The other wolf growled angry.
"Blackie... What would I do without you?" Lighting smiled shaking his head.
"Don't call me that, leader. You know I don't like that name, any more." The other wolf sounded so wounded as he said that. Lighting sighed. His friend had already lost two masters and had been morning his late master on Titan alone.
"I am sorry, my friend. Are they alive?" Lighting asked trying to the the conversation back on track.
"For now, but I fear it would not be for long if they get to their destination." The other wolf said.
"Right. Thank you." Lighting said sighing a little.
"Had a feeling you wanted to know that and... Well there is one more thing, leader." The other wolf hesitated to continue.
"You see... The hunters placed electrocution rings on Falco and Fritz. Only Falco got to feel it as far as I know. I did not see any markings on his son. Falco did not look good after the rounds they gave him. I fear it would be fatal if we do not save them soon." As Lighting heard this, his legs gave in and he sat strait down.
"Damn. I hoped we had seen the last of them with Kichigai gone." He cursed. Harlock looked at his wolf friend with worry in his hazel brown eye.
"Thank you, my friend. We will get going as soon as we can." He said standing up again.
"I'll check back with you as soon as I find out how they are doing and as soon as I find out where we are heading." The wolf said, moving out from his hiding place on board the hunter's ship.
"Good, be careful, my friend." Lightingtooth said and shook his head as the long conversation ended.
"What's wrong?" Harlock asked cutting strait to the case. Lighting looked at him and come up to him.
"Falco is in trouble. Blackie saw him and Fritz as well as young Silvereye be taken by some hunters on Titan. It also seems like the hunters have a few of those accursed rings as well. Falco apparently took a good round with it. Fritz also got one around his neck but Blackie did not see Fritz got to feel it... So far anyway." Lighting cursed as he said this. Harlock paled and took to his weak scar around the neck. It stung him as he remembered the pain it had caused him. Lighting growled.
"Human or mechanized hunters?" Harlock asked coldly as he held hard around his glass of wine.
"That's what's so strange. They are human. No human hunters would hunt for someone wanted by the Mech empire. According to Blackie, they plan to use Falco and Fritz as bait to capture you and Young Harlock. Still it is strange.. There is few who know that Falco is a part of your family..." Lighting said growling. Harlock took a good sip of his glass.
"You think Draghund is behind it, don't you?" Harlock said looking angry.
"Who else.." The wolf growled.
"First of all we need to save them... Titan. They were building Mira's new home there." Harlock said, thinking out loud as he lay back in his chair and thought.
"It would seem that Falco took a ride alone with Fritz, and ended up trapped." Lighting said growling.
"Then we need to get in touch with the Atlantis." Harlock said and pushed a few buttons. Kei's face appeared on the screen on his wall. The young blond girl looked at him with her sea blue eyes. She was dressed in her pink suit with the black makings around her neck and arms. A small white skull and crossbones mark at front of her neck.
"Yes captain?" She asked, her face turned to a look of worry as she saw the look in Harlock's eye.
"Open a com link to the Death shadow. It's urgent." He said biting his teeth hard together in anger.
"Right away, sir." Kei said and went strait to work.
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Young Harlock stood on the deck of the Deathshadow. His light Hazel brown hair covered most of his right eye but his left hazel brown eyes had a wicked look in it. He was as always dressed in his light blue captains suit with the red brim and the white skull and crossbones over his left side of his chest. Around his neck he had the scarf Kei had made for him.
They had just finished of another of the Mech attack ships that had been attacking human ships under the pirate flag. Harlock stood grinning to himself as it had felt good to blow it up. Fang sat next to him shaking his head. Like his dad Fang was a midnight black wolf with dark blue eyes. He had gotten his fathers markings of lighter black fur on his under side. And had he been full grown it would have been hard to tell the difference between him and his dad. But the scar across his father's face, he did not have, making a strong difference between them.
"I don't know if its a good thing that you take such pleasure in getting to blow things up, my friend." he said smiling up to his master.
"Should one not enjoy ones job, Fang?" Tochiro teased the wolf. The young son of the engineer of Captain Harlock's Arcadia, and Harlock's best friend, young Tochiro Jr. looked a lot like his father. The same short body, glasses and round face. Tochiro Jr. did even dress in the same fashion his father had. A big brown cape covering his body and a great big had covering most of his head. A big tell tale difference between the two was that Tochiro Sr. was a master of the Katana as his father had been with his gun.
"Captain, we are reserving a call from The Arcadia." Yattarn the Deathshadow's first officer, said surprised as the message came. The small model maker looked to his captain. He was dressed in a blue and white striped shirt with a blue headband with the white scull and crossbones on his head. His round glasses made his eyes look larger then they were.
Fang looked at Harlock with worry in his eyes. Harlock's eyes narrowed.
"Dad would not call like this if is was not important. Punch it through." He ordered, as he and Tochiro exchanged looks of worry.
"Wait!" Fang suddenly called. Harlock and Tochiro looked at the young wolf.
"Dad just said that it was important that it were just the two of you that where around for now. He wont tell me any thing more." The young wolf whined.
"Okay, punch it up in my room then." Harlock said and took Fang and Tochiro with him into the Captain's room.
Pushing a few buttons, Harlock opened the com link.
The great captain Harlock looked even grimmer than usual as he appeared on the screen.
"What's wrong, dad?" Young Harlock asked worried.
"Falco has been captured." The elder pirate cut strait to the point, but young Harlock knew his dad well enough to see that he was quite shaken.
"By whom?" Tochiro asked surprised.
"Bounty hunters." Captain Harlock answered. Young Harlock exchanged looks both with Tochiro as well as with Fang.
"Human bounty hunters." Lighting cut in before they could ask.
"They also took Fritz and Silvereye. Apparently they used them to make Falco surrender." He continued. Both young Harlock and Tochiro seemed to pale a little hearing this, and Fang whined low.
"How do you know this, dad?" Fang asked looking at his dad confused. For the fist time sine the conversation began Lighting smiled.
"One of our clan where there, when they were taken. One of my most trusted friends and one of my commanders as well. He is even now, as we speak on board the hunters ship, trying to find a way to help them." The trust the elder wolf had in his friend, were glowing in his eyes. Fang could feel his heart relax a bit, but as he saw the new look in his fathers eyes as well as how shocked the captain still was, he whined low.
"What's wrong?" He whined making both Young Harlock and Tochiro worry. Captain Harlock could not get himself to tell them. Lighting looked at young Harlock and at the fresh scar around his neck, it was red but it had healed.
"Apparently the hunters had electrocution rings... and Falco got a good taste of it." Lighting said after a long silence. Young Harlock did just as his father had done and took his hand up to his neck. Both young Harlock and Tochiro looked pale and Fang whined low.
"And Fritz? Is he okay?" Fang asked. Lighting nodded slowly.
"For now, he too has one of those things around his neck, but so far they have not used it on him. From what my friend told me Falco surrendered to make sure they did not use it on him." Lighting said growling low. Tochiro exhaled slowly.
"Good old Falco." He said slowly, he was quite shaken by these news.
"At least we know that they are keeping them alive, if the hunters want to use them as bait to lure us into a trap. They need them alive." Young Harlock cursed angry.
"Any way we need to save them, and fast, before the hunter change their mind on that." Tochiro growled next to his friend.
"Where are you, as of now?" Captain Harlock suddenly asked breaking his long silence.
"We are not to far from Pluto." Young Harlock said.
"Well good. Then you are closer to Titan, then we are." Captain Harlock said thinking out loud.
"The Atlantis crew does not know of Falco's capture as of now. And we should keep your contact down as short as possible in that area. As we do not know if the hunters are listening." He continued. Young Harlock nodded.
"Then we will head to Titan right away, find the Atlantis, and drag the crew with us. We need to find that hunter's ship as soon as possible." Young Harlock said strongly. Fang barked next to him, feeling his friend's strength and cool starting to come back with a new sort of good anger. Lighting nodded smiling.
"Good, then I will leave that to you then. We will head towards Earth. There seem to be some one on Earth that wants us, and is paying better that the Mech Empire." Captain Harlock said looking grim but his eye had a dangerous shine in them. A look of challenge. Young Harlock nodded seeing that look.
"I will tell you as soon as I hear something from our friend." Lighting said to Fang. Fang nodded. Their mind speak gave them a advantage over the hunters. Fang grinned, he looked forward to showing the hunters that you should not mess with the Harlock Clan.
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Kai fumed of anger. In many ways it was easy to see what family Kai came from. He had the same short body that Tochiro and his son had. He was dressed much in the same form as them as well but his hat were chocolate brown, he had no cape over him. His dark brown hair he had bound up in small ponytail between his shoulders, where most of the hair fell free. His dark brown eyes shined in worry and anger, he had a short scar under his right eye. He was dressed in green pants and a dark brown jacket. Around his waist, he he had one of the Phantom Dragoons he had made, as well as a Katana. He too were a mechanical genius and the Atlantis were his greatest accomplishment. He had trusted his hip only to the Captain he felt were wordy of it, his friend Falco.
The Atlantis could not pick up any signals from the captain or his son. The only thing they had found was the communication watches that they always had. The discovery of the watches confirmed that something had happened but there were no sign of them or what had happened.
"Damn it all, Falco. Where did you go? Please be all right." He cursed as he again came to the clearing where the watches had been found, after following the tracks of Falco.
"What could have happened? If they were taken by anyone on Titan, they would have left tracks or something." Nausicaa, the navigator of the Atlantis mumbled as she came up to him. She was dressed in a white suit, much alike the suit of Kei Yuki of the Arcadia. Her mark on the front of her neck were that of Falco's skull and crossing sabers. Her silver coloured hair waved slowly in the kind wind. Her blue eyes looked worried as she looked around for anything that could help them understand. Kai shook in anger.
"Someone else took him and took him away." Clio said as her blue pupil less eyes looked distant. She was using her special power to sense what had happened. The strange Alien lady's golden hair waved around her back as she moved slowly like in a trace. Her green simple dress made it look like she was gliding over the grass.
"They did something to Falco, something horrible. I can still feel it..." She whispered holding her hand up to her neck. Everyone had been terrible worried as they had come to help Falco find Fritz, when suddenly Clio had screamed out in pain, and fell to the floor, nearly passed out from it. She seemed calmer now but she was still pretty shaken by it.
"I can sense three men, evil men, they took Falco, Fritz and even young Silvereye... Yet I can sense a kind soul as well. More like the soul of young Silvereye. Bur older and wiser." She said.
"Nani? What does that mean?" The first officer Al wondered, looking at the strange alien lady. He was dressed in a grey striped shirt. His round glasses looked to Kai worried. The grey head band around his head with the scull and crossing sabers mad it very clear that ship he belonged to.
Suddenly Kai's belt made of a sound. Kai took up the com link and answered it.
"Sir, the Deathshadow is calling us. They say they know something about Falco, sir." One of the pirate crew said on the other end. This got a lot of confused looks from the pirates, but Kai got a shine is his eyes of hope.
"We are coming." He said and the crew made their way back to the ship in a hurry.
Not long after they were back at the bridge of the Atlantis.
"Where are they?" Kai asked. Nausicaa ran up to the radar.
"They are just above us in the atmosphere, sir. They are still calling." She said and looked to the small maker of the Atlantis.
"Right, put us through." Kai said looking up to the screen in the roof.
Young Harlock as well as Tochiro and Fang appeared over them. Young Harlock grinned.
"I hear Falco has disappeared?" He asked. Kai looked shameful.
"Well I can at least tell you that he, Fritz and Silvereye is still alive. He is being held by some human Bounty hunters." Harlock said but this time is smile was gone and his eyes had a hard look in them.
"Human? But why would they be after them?" Al asked out of turn.
"It would seem Falco fell victim for a trap meant for me and dad. Falco will be bait to capture us." Harlock explained.
"How do you know this?" Kai asked confused.
"The other presence I sensed. He is like Fang." Clio said suddenly coming slowly forward. Fang nodded.
"One of my dad's friends were on Titan and saw Falco being captured. He is one of my clan, so he notified my dad by the mind speak and let us know as well. He is on board the hunters ships as we speak now. Dad said that as soon as he finds out where they are going he will let us know." Fang answered. Kai exhaled relived.
"No time to relax my friend. Remember that I told you about the torture ring that young Harlock had around his neck during his captivity at that mad man Kichigai? Apparently the hunters have put one on Falco and Fritz as well. And according to the wolf, Falco got a real round with it as well." Tochiro growled. Clio shook as she realised what she had been feeling. And Kai paled hearing this.
"No, don't say they did." Kai cursed shaking in anger.
"What about Fritz?" Nausicaa asked shocked.
"So far the hunters have not hurt him. No they'll use Fritz to keep Falco quiet."
"Bastards. Then we need to save them soon." Kai cursed again.
"Dad said that most likely the hunters where hired by someone on Earth. So he is heading that way. We should be heading that way as well." Young Harlock said. Kai nodded.
"Right we will be taking of right way. Wait for us." Kai said as the screen went dark.
"Nausicaa got hold of Mira. Say that we will go get Falco and Fritz back. Tell her not to worry, we will bring them back." He said. The young girl nodded and sat down in her chair and called the newly build house where Mira now lived.
"Al, make her ready." Kai said. His eyes were hard as steel as he looked out in the woods out side.
"Attention all crew, we have gotten word from the Harlocks that Falco and his son has been taken by some hunters. We will set out now and get our Captain back. Those hunter creeps will feel the Shadow of the Atlantis fall over them." Kai called over the ship. As the crew heard what had happened to their Captain, it was like someone had lighted a wild fire. The crew were enraged and the Atlantis took sooner of than anyone could believe it was possible.
Author's note:
okay so here is the Next part of the Falcon's Flight.
I forgot to put in the author's note on the first chapter so I say what I meant so say there.
Falco, Fritz, Silvereye as well as Kai are all Gemini's OC's so I do not claim to own none of the Characters in this story, except form Lightingtooth, Fang as well as the new Wolf. Steal them and die. Also it was Gemini's idea to use the French names for the ship and Crew of Falco.
Big thanks to Aerandir Linawen for help with getting the French names rigth.
I was asked by Gemini to do a ring story for Falco. Hope this was kinda like you wanted it Gemini.
Not the most interesting chapter, as it mostly just talking but I had to put the Harlocks into this story some how. As well to let the Atlantis know what had happened to Falco...
hope it sounded okay so far.
I expect to do at least two more chapters but it will probably be longer.
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