"I'll be right back," Dren assured Zoey as he quickly followed Tarb out the door. Zoey sighed and just lay there on her bed, just loking up at the ceiling. "Home..." She thought, she'd actually get to go home, for at least a bit and let her family and freinds know that she was alive and well. Just then the door opened.
"Hm?" "Oh...hello there," "Hello, who are you?" "I'm Icharu, and you are?" "Ah...Elliana..." "Ah, so you're the new recruit?" "Ah...yeah, thats right." "Well, you're certainly a cute one, but come now, I've seen Elliana before and you are not her, considering you are a human and she is not." "Ah..." "i get it, you're the girl that was at Koji's place arent you?" Zoey sighed and nodded, "Yes, I am..." "You can throw really far and really hard you know that?" "I'm sorry about that whole thing...please, please don't let Koji know I'm here." "Ah...hm, don't worry, I don't like that way he treats women, so I wont say a word. Have you found..." At that last sentance Dren returned.
"Alright lets go...Icharu?" "Ah, well that answers that question." "Why?" "Just saying hello to the lady Dren, no harm done. Oh, this I think belongs to you as well." Icharu handed Zoey her pendant. "Oh! Thank you so much! I thought I'd lost it!" "No, you see it also ended up hitting me in the head." "Again, I am sorry," "No need to appologize, you were angry, that is understandable." "Huh? Ichrau what are you talking about?" "Well..." "I told him about Koji already." "Ah, well then I believe that Koji is in a heap of trouble," "Hm?" "This girl, Zoey, Koji was being his overly possessive self again, treating her like a thing. She got so angry at him that she locked herslef in the room that she'd been given and refused to come out. Koji had been trying to pressure into marriage, but she said no," "Ah ha," "Reason being is that she said that..." Zoey knew what was coming her face was already getting red. "She said that she was searching for you, and that she indeed wished to marry you." Dren took a moment to take in what Icharu had just told him, then a giant smile crossed his face. "I suggested to Koji to tell you that she was at his place, but he made me swear to keep it secret. Sorry Dren." "Ah huh...well thank you for telling me this now Icharu and you're right Koji is in a heap of shit!" "Dren," "Hm?" Zoey touched his arm. "Please leave Icharu's name out of it." "Alright kitten, for you anything."
"If I may, how did you get into the base?" "Thats all thanks to old man Fern. He brought me here dressed as a boy and I enrolled, all so I could find Dren." "Awww! Is she not the cutest?" "Very cute, and I hear she made quite the impression on Kinji." "That she did, he's not rude anymore, not that rude anyway." "Huh, very interesting," "Well, I should be getting Zoey back to Earth..." "Not again! Dren!" "Its alright, Tarb and Sardon are on duty and I've already informed them." "Ha...well as long as someone knows this time...I take it Zoey was the reason the last time too?" "Of course." Icharu sighed, and set a hand on Dren's shoulder, "Good reason." "Thanks, I'm just lucky that Tarb and Sardon were on duty then too." "thats for sure, well, bye Zoey nice meeting you..." "Yeah, nice meeting you, lets go Dren." "See ya later Icharu." "See ya..." "Yep we both will." "Huh?" "Didn't I tell you? Zoey's coming back with me after saying hi to her family and friends." "Ah, well then see you when you both return." "See ya." Dren and Zoey headed down the hall.
"You were certainly able to fool us, you know." "Ah...that was what I was trying to do..." "This had better not be some kind of trap or trick." Zoey sighed, "I assure you it's not..." "Considering who you are, thats not very assuring." "Ah...course, it wouldn't be would it." "No." Zoey sighed as she waited for Dren and Tarb to get back from setting everything up.
"Alright, all set to go." Dren exclaimed when he and Tarb returned. Zoey smiled and latched onto his arm. "Lets go then," "Whats the ruch kitty cat?" "The sooner I let everyone know that I'm alive, the sooner, we can come back here." "Oh...I get it, alrighty then, lets head out."
Dren led Zoey to the human ship. "How did you get a human ship anyway?" "Ah...yeah well you see, while I was on Earth the first time, I decided that I'd get out of the atmosphere better if I used a human ship. I was right, I did get out safer, but then got in shit when I tried to get back in here." "Ah."
"Well, what did you expect Dren? To show up in a human space craft, and not get in trouble?" "I was hoping that only you guys would've been on wacth duty that day, but no, you two had to have a shift that day with Girol, the most strict of all the elders." "How were we supposed to know that we we'd have to try to get you in undetected?" "Ha, oh well, thats in the past, now lets get going kitty cat." Zoey nodded as the ship doors closed.
They were strapped in, and waited for the okay. Zoey sighed as she looked around the ship. It looked like the shuttle she'd been on several months ago. She remembered Lila, the girl who had been around her age, and the girl's parents and the cute guy that Lila had pointed out. She remembered going to the cockpit and finding the captian and his co-captain had been sucked through the window and had died while floating in space.
"What was it like?" "Hm? What was what like kitty cat?" "When you went to Earth, a few months back...what were people like?" "Sad." "Hm..." "That right now is the best way to describe the aura." "Hm...Then...it'll be good to see them...and to change the way the aura was." Zoey said and just sat back in the seat.
"Alright, cleared for take off, and 5,4,3,2,1 and push the button Dren." "Will do." Dren pushed a green button that started the engine. Then he did a bunch of other stuff, like push buttons, flip switches, until finally they were out in space.