Blue Synergy
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except Kara and her race, the Sh'ahrn.
Warning/s: Violence, blood, language and future slash(don't worry, there's Het too)
A/N: Okay, here's chapter one of Blue Synergy, I decided to do a little more chapters IN Tarsus, to save myself the trouble of lengthy Flashback-CHAPTERS. Please read, enjoy and REVIEW! (All FLAMES shall be used to roast Twilight books and Edward with his Sparkle-itis Syndrome)
EDIT: Yeah, I posted this chapter too soon, I didn't get to edit it, but I was half-awake at 1 AM in the morning, please read the edited version, AKA: THIS POST!
Translation/s: (Sh'ahrn to English)
Kh'reehling/s – small child, infant, child, or children
Sckin'gfkraa'hv – 'short' song composition, to Sh'ahrn it is comparable to a children's ditty, but to humans and all the other Federation species, it sounds like a one-person symphony with half a full orchestra
Shh'iihinhv'reh – shiny, pretty
Krxh'oohiir – intruder, doesn't belong
Chapter 1: Hell Starts In a Quarter Mile
Kara was frustrated!
Not one of these beings could pronounce her name correctly, hers was one of the simplest names! Why couldn't they pronounce it? Her Father could, even the youngest Kh'reehlings could say her name!
Oddly, the only being she could stand to be around for any period of time was Jim. He had yellow-gold hair, which Kara tried to preen frequently, though she didn't have a clue as to why he kept moving when she tried to preen his hair.
The other reason she didn't mind anything Jim did was that his Aura was comforting, it was dynamic! Interesting, mesmerizing…
The Sh'ahrn-Human hybrid was actually in the middle of composing a Sckin'gfkraa'hv, a kind of short song form of poetry about Jim's Aura and his yellowy hair that fascinated Kara so much…
"Kara!" It was Jim again, he had more of that delicious fruit. He had a carried an object that Kara was unfamiliar with, it was a book.
For the past two months, Jim had been trying to teach Kara basic Standard. Progress was iffy, Jim found out about Kara's extendable mouth and her two other sets of teeth when she threw a fit over the fact that she couldn't get the pronunciation of 'Green', after fifty plus tries.
Kara in turn used her extendable mouth to shred the computer paper Jim was using.
Jim's tone was one of bereavement as Kara calmed down.
But other than her occasional temper tantrums, Kara was learning, though she had much trouble with 'ch', 'n' and 'th' sounds.
Jim had taught her the names for basic colors, shapes, and different foods. He was teaching her the names of things, trees, flowers, vegetables, and kitchen appliances.
Kara had a habit of walking on all fours, having a tendency to hop and move forward like a gorilla or a chimpanzee would, only at a far more awkward gait.
Jim seemed to make amused sounds, laughter, when Kara tried to copy him and walk upright, though she still stumbled and knocked things over a lot.
But she was learning, Jim was teaching her many words, and he was reading her books.
Kara would also help Jim and his Aunt when they'd work in the garden, it fascinated Kara that they grew their own not-meat food, instead of scavenging or foraging for it. She loved to water the plants, it was her favorite job of all the gardening.
She had just been filling a watering can from the sink, when a… Shininess, distracted her…
A reflection on a surface, yet so shiny… A square-shaped device with a shiny metal surface…
"Shh'iihinhv'reh…" Kara muttered, dropping the watering can, letting water spill all over the floor, forgotten in favor staring at the mesmerizing object.
"Kara!" Jim called her, running into the kitchen. Jim was greeted by the sight of Kara staring at a toaster…
Then, he slipped on the spilt water, and his left foot crashed into Kara's ankle, who was poorly balanced in the first place, causing Kara to fall face first onto the slippery kitchen floor.
Kara had attempted to balance herself by grabbing the counter, but had only succeeded in knocking the still plugged toaster onto the floor, which-
Kara screamed.
Jim did to.
They were being electrocuted, and it HURT.
Then Kara felt something like a stabbing sensation rip through the back of her skull, down to the innermost part of her brain…
Yellow eyes met blue, then all went dark…
OOOOO
Later…
The two children came to about three days later, staring up at a ceiling of their temporarily shared room.
Shock, pain, ache…
Both of them groaned as both their worlds came slowly into focus…
Confusion.
One James T. Kirk put a hand to his temple, trying to assuage the quickly forming headache that was currently throbbing in his brain.
Concern.
'Wait a second, what?' Jim thought in confusion, concern? Concern about what?
Curiosity-concern-worry, apology…
'Okay seriously what the hell?' Jim ranted mentally, it was a an odd, slightly uncomfortable feeling, like something was poking the inside of his brain.
Apology, sad.
Kara, at this point had hopped out of bed, her tail catching and tangling with the sheets, those of which had trailed behind her as she had crossed the room to peer at Jim apologetically.
"Wait a minute," Jim said with a dawning look on his face, "is that you poking the insides of my skull?"
Apology, curious/concerned-poke.
"Okay, this is officially weird." Jim muttered to no-one in particular as the prickling in his skull and random parts of his brain seemed to increase and decrease at random.
Shame, many apologies.
Kara's face fell along with her drooping shoulders, and chirped apologetically.
"Hey, I didn't mean anything bad by it!" Jim exclaimed suddenly, he did not want Kara going into kicked-puppy-mode, again.
Kara turned at her yellow eyes to stare at Jim again, as she had started to look at her unshod feet.
"It's fine really," Jim had smiled as he said this, Kara sensed no anger from his aura, "you're probably some sort of telepath or someth-"
Happiness, joy, playfulness! Relief, not-hurt-
Jim clutched his head as the sudden onslaught of projected emotions were basically dumped into his brain, causing the prickling to ascend to a violent throb akin to a jack hammer smashing into his head.
"Ow!" Jim had exclaimed in surprise and pain at the instant-migraine.
Apology.
"No, no, it's fine." Jim said, even with the knowledge that Kara didn't understand a word he was saying.
The children then became aware of the voices coming from downstairs, Kara was certain that she'd never heard their speech patterns before… From what the young Sh'ahrn-Human hybrid could pick up, there was the Head Male and Head Female, Jim's fellow clan-relatives, speaking to at least five strangers…
The strangers didn't sound friendly…
Curiously, Jim sat up and got out of bed, keeping good check on his own balance, he led Kara to the top of the staircase.
Kara of course, couldn't understand the words that were being said, only a few here and there.
The Head Male was being cowed, he was backing off…
Kara was curious, and felt a bit scared at the same time, Head Males of a dwelling weren't supposed to back off, they were supposed to defend their current place-spot.
Suddenly, Jim was leading Kara back towards the room they had woken up in.
Kara was apprehensive, what made Jim nervous? Jim wasn't afraid of anything.
Kara tried to nip his hair, maybe a little grooming would make Jim feel better, that was what her Father did when she needed cheering up…
Jim pushed Kara's head away and grabbed a bag, throwing several objects into it hastily, then pointed to the containers in the far corner of the room and bag to the bag, before shoving it into Kara's arms as he dashed out of the room.
Kara felt a little hurt, but she could sense to danger, and urgency rolling off Jim in waves. So she set out to do what she assumed Jim wanted her to do…
Put body-coverings into the bag…
…
An odd noise, like a sizzling sound, screaming… A coppery smell assaulting Kara's sense of smell, and the acrid smell of briefly burning flesh… All these things, originating from downstairs…
Then there's Jim shouting, and the younger one is crying…
Kara can only sense three friendly lifeforces downstairs, the scent of death is quickly in the air…
Without thinking, Kara drops the bag and rushes downstairs on all fours, to the kitchen. Flashes of what Father had conveyed to her over migratory periods, of many periods of his life fraught with violence and despair…
The need to protect…
Another scream, another strange noise, another thud of something hitting the ground, another lifeforce snuffed out…
When she came to the kitchen she saw five, strangely dressed males, she could tell by the smells. They were holding oddly shaped metal things, they spoke words she did not understand.
On the floor lay the two bodies of the younger human's parents, the Head Male and the Head Female of the dwelling, dead, bleeding out onto the tile.
The youngest child was crying, Jim struggled in the hold of one of the dangerous strangers.
The three unoccupied strangers approached Kara, pointing their metal-branch things at her, saying more phrases she couldn't understand.
But all that anger radiating off of Jim, all the defiance, it comforted her, the small child's fear, it spurred her…
What would her Father have done? What would any self-respecting Sh'ahrn of her clan have done? The answer was clear as day.
A flash of information, things her Father had conveyed into her memory over migratory periods that seemed to go on forever. A specific memory, it didn't belong to Kara herself, but it felt… Natural…
How dare these krxh'oohiir come here and threaten them?
It was like a boiling in her blood, a call to action, as Kara had suddenly leapt forward at the nearest dangerous-Stranger, and bit down on his throat as hard as she could.
As the target fell, Kara went with it, barely feeling the burning lance that seemed to graze her shoulder, but screamed at it suddenly felt as if she'd been set aflame…
The burning sensation had reached a small portion of her right wing, which contained very sensitive nerve endings…
SMASH!
A sudden reflex, in response to the pain Kara had extended her club-like tail into its five-spiked extension and smashed it into the second stranger's legs and jerking it back violently, and in doing so tearing at both the muscles, and smashing the man's kneecaps.
The man dropped his weapon and screamed.
Using the distraction to his advantage, Jim slipped out of his captor's grasp and pointed the rifle that had slid towards him that Kara's first victim had dropped, right at the man's head.
Ppppssshhhhhhhwww!
To Jim's advantage, the rifle was heavy, so his aim had been at an angle, it went straight through his former-captor's chest and straight into his cousin's captor's head.
The final intruder, was pointing his weapon at Jim, speaking more phrases Jim had not taught Kara yet.
Despite to pain, with all the emotional turmoil and clashing auras all over the place, and Kara's sensing Jim's righteous anger and the large flow of adrenaline rushing through Kara's system, she did the one thing she could think of.
She extended her second mouth and took a chunk out of the male's lower calf muscle, well, she tried to but it wouldn't give on the first bite due to Kara's odd biting angle from the floor as she was perched on top of her first victim.
The last enemy screamed in pain and anger, suddenly slamming the front end of his weapon into Kara's skull repeatedly, forcing her to let go as the blows to her head started to make her vision blur a bit…
Suddenly she was face to face with the front end of the weapon pressed against her forehead, and even though she was not familiar with the weapon, she felt like her death was near…
Pppssssshhhhheeww!
Then a thud as a body hit the floor, and Kara stared dazedly at the bleeding body of the dangerous-stranger, dead…
The threats were dead now…
Kara felt relief, and horror roll off Jim as he dropped fumbled with the stolen weapon slightly…
Jim carefully helped his weeping cousin around the seven bleeding corpses that now littered the floor, and paused to grab Kara by the arm, and hoist her up, not even paying attention to her blood-smeared hair or mouth as her second-mouth retracted.
Kara didn't understand the situation really, though it was nice of Jim to run the shower for all of them, Kara really didn't comprehend why Jim was still nervous… Why did she still feel apprehension rolling off him in waves?
Curiosity.
"Not now, Kara." Jim said soberly as he tried to wipe his cousin's bruised face clean of blood flecks with shaky hands.
Jim made Kara wash the bleeding gash that ran from the top of her left shoulder and the cut on the upper part of her upper left wing. Then he poured a clear, strong-smelling liquid onto it-
"Kreeeharrrwwrr!" Kara flinch violently as her entire body spasmed as the rubbing alcohol burned at her sensitive nerve endings.
"Hold still," Jim said as he basically sat on Kara in order to hold the much stronger alien hybrid child down, "I know it hurts…"
Jim used rags to staunch the bleeding, the broke out a rather small first aid kit hidden under the bathroom sink, and proceeded to bandage Kara's shoulder. Jim still had to hold her down, due to her spasming every time the bandages brushed the injured part of her wings.
And those words, Kara did understand… Well, somewhat, but Kara nodded as she began washing to blood off of her face and out of her mouth and hair…
But Kara wasn't worried, she was well-aware that Jim saved her life back in the kitchen-room, Jim would keep them safe…
A/N: Yeah, we all wish that we could believe wonderful things like that, okay so tell me, do you guys want, say three of five Tarsus chapters(including rescue by Starfleet)? Or do you want maybe two more Tarsus chapters(a middle, and an end), then the movie? Please vote, and tell me what you think.
NOTE: Kara doesn't actually KNOW how to fight, it was simply a reaction to all the emotions and unfriendly auras causing her stress and causing her adrenaline levels to spike violently. Kara is greatly influenced by her environment, especially emotions. And let's not forget, even though she looks like a nine to eleven year old child, by Sh'ahrn standards she is still a baby. While her human side makes some parts her mental growth mature quicker, she's still a bit of an infant in some cases.
ANOTHER NOTE: Oh, the connection between Jim and Kara is not a "bond" or anything like that, it's more like an emotional phone line for young Sh'ahrn to communicate with their clan members before they learn to speak. It's actually supposed to be grown out of, and make way for telepathic abilities, but Kara, being half-human actually messes up the cycle and she doesn't outgrow her empathy stage, which hinder her ability to use her telepathic abilities that she will develop later, greatly(no telekinesis, or reading EVERYONE'S mind, or switching bodies, I won't spoil the surprise). Kara WILL have some telepathic abilities, but the parts of her brain that are still wired for empathic abilities don't recognize the signals from the information sent by the parts of her brain that are wired for her telepathic abilities(which will be specified later, actually, hell, I'm not even sure if it's a telepathic ability…)
MORE NOTES: Why is Jim taking this so calmly? He's something around the age of 9 or 10, he's actually not taking this too calmly. Jim's nervous, and the adrenaline is just wearing off, but Kirk knows that his younger cousin is scared and Kara doesn't understand what's going on, so he has to take charge. Even at that age, I think that the James T. Kirk of the J.J. Abrahms movie-verse has a very survivalist mentality.
ONE MORE IMPORTANT NOTE: The reason that Kara can only project her emotions to Jim is very simple, for most of her life her clan ostracized her, thus she was never communicated with except by her Father. The only reason for being able to project her emotions to Jim are because when they were both electrocuted, the electricity stimulated a part of Kara's brain, physically forcing her to project her emotions in an amplified wave. The problem is, is that all non-telepathic and non-empathic species require a stronger projection(telepathic or empathic) to be actually noticed. So getting electrocuted was kind of like a boost to certain parts of her brain, like an on switch on some of her stubborn hormones that were really late on release(if people took some science or a little biology, or at least has seen the inside of a Human Anatomy book, you'll know what I'm talking/typing about).
PLEASE REVIEW! Tell me what you guys think! I know, I'm sorry for taking so damn long to update, I actually have another profile with about 8 unfinished fanfics to finish(this one is for all my slash fics and other things I don't want people I know reading), please forgive me! I'll try to update a little quicker for the next chapter. Until then, PLZ REVIEW! =)