IM BAAAAAACK!

Sorry about the long no-update time I could not start writing, I belive the phrase is 'writers block' and it is a pain in the ass. But I have a week free and I hope to get writing again.

Shiala awoke feeling strangely cold compared to when she had drifted off last night. Looking around she quickly found the reason was Asana, she was gone. After a few seconds the thought pushed a groggy Shiala onto full alert as she frantically looked around hoping to see her somewhere. Having no such luck she looked over Liara and saw a small needle, about the size of her thumbnail sticking into her leg. Shaking Liara and having no success in waking her she made for the needle to try to identify it. She griped it and pulled it out gently as to not leave and mark's on Liara's unblemished skin. Looking over the needle several time's she concluded that it was fired from a distance and had remnants of a subtle sleeping agent specially for Asari in the bottom.

Thinking through her haze she felt a sharp prick from her back, as she reached back she found another small canister with a slightly larger amount, 'I guess they forgot that that I have been trained to be resilient to these types of drugs' she thought with a flicker of annoyance and amusement at whoever drugged her. Standing and stretching she made her way to the edge of the cave and started to look for clues as to who was around, she found a small piece of waterproofing likely used to keep the darts dry and several wet foot prints, an asari by the look of it 'These must be fairly recent' she thought hopefully.

After thinking for several seconds she makes her way back over to Liara's side and reaches out in a meld to try to wake her through the drugs effect, after getting a small effect after several minuets, just as she is about to pull back she feels Liara trying to coax her back in again subconsciously. 'This is a good sign' she thought privately while she urged Liara back into conciousness.

Through the haze of her mind Liara felt a pulling feeling, slowly she latched onto that feeling, as her senses come back to herself she feels cold but not alone, she feels like there is someone with her helping her along. After a moment she realises that she is in a meld, she grabs onto the other person and refuses to let them leave as her only source of anything when her senses are blinded like they are. An idea struck her as she reached over the meld to the other who she immediately recognised as Shiala

Shiala...

Yes Liara?

Do you mind if I...

No, not at all she thought with the equivalent of a mental smirk guessing what was about to happen.

Liara reached out to Shiala's senses and connected herself to them and drew some of it back to her, slowly after several seconds she could clearly see her body and the cave with all the smell's and feelings that would come with the borrowing another's senses, she shivered slightly when the change took full effect.

Shiala, whats wrong, why can't I move Liara started to panic not feeling herself move

You are fine, someone was here and they sedated us

Liara gave a mental gasp as something came into her mind Shiala where is Asana...

Gone, but dont worry when you are up we will go looking for her

GONE... DO NOT WORRY? WHY ARE YOU SITING HERE AND NOT LOOKING FOR HER Liara yelled to Shiala letting the hurt and angry feeling flood from her.

It would do no good if you woke and we were both gone.. Now please get up and we will start searching

Liara gave a weary sigh and disconnected herself from Shiala, as she stood to stretch she could feel her stiff muscles arguing with her to stay still but she persisted and stood fully. After getting motion back to her limbs she started over to where Shiala was crouched, it was by the entrance of the cave and there were several wet foot prints, convinced that these were not Asana's just as she reached to dive she felt a hand on her arm holding her in place, looking around she could see Shiala's guilt ridden eyes taking responsibility for what happened ten-fold as she stopped Liara and signaled her to let her get ready.

"I am sorry for reacting like I did Shiala it is just..." she trailed off suddenly embarrassed, a feeling a small look from Shiala urging her to continue "Asana is important to me and I just wake up not really comprehending anything and learn that she is gone, I am scared for her" she added the last bit in as if she was afraid to say it.

"As am I youngling, but I have confidence that she will make it through before we can find her" Shiala reassured her "And then I can give you two some... Ah alone time" she trailed of teasingly as she had known about the crush for a long time before now even if it was never spoken aloud.

Liara blushed a shade of light pinkish-blue as she stuttered out "No... not like that at all, I mean.. you dont think she? No she does not".

Shiala smiled and shook her head at the oblivious maiden "Ahh, but I think she does. You have been staring at her breasts for to long to notice her staring at you" she teased the truth causing Liara to blush again and turn her head away.

"Can we just leave please, I am uncomfortable having this conversation"

Shiala smiled "Yes, but you did not confront my accusations of staring... I wonder if-"

"YES OK, Oh no I mean no, mabie ok" she stuttered out again after interrupting Shiala with her imagination conjuring up images of Asana driving her crazy before she blushed at what she had said and shrunk as if she wanted to be sucked into the void, away from this conversation.

"And so the truth comes out" Shiala said with a devious smirk as she moved to the waters edge, "Take a breath.." she said a few seconds before she pulled them both into the deep blue-green ocean.

Elsewhere in the reef

Asana came too groggy and disoriented, but as soon as she felt the warmth of the other two missing she snapped to attention, something Shiala had drilled it into her after years of training. She looked around with swimmy vision and could see she was inside some sort of metal room, but when she looked out of a window she judged she must still be underwater and that would aid her escape greatly, she was just about make out two voices, one obviously an Asari and the other had to be salarian by the speed at which he talks

"... no we cannot do that, the broker wants the brats body intact not for you to play with it" the Asari stated with an almost growling property

"But think of what we could gain by taking it for ourselves.." he tried to perswade before Asana heard a dull thud "I. SAID. NO" She yelled at who she assumed was her partner as she heard what sounded like a fight coming from outside.

Deciding that this was her chance to escape she dragged her body from her cell and stumbled over to the door, after several seconds of fiddling she got an idea, she took one of her hand's and put it past the bars and on the other side of the lock and put her hand on the lock on the inside, she could feel the cold hard metal in her palms as her body drove itself from her slumber. Asana had a crazy idea, and by crazy she meant crazy, she was going to cut her hand on the lock and then she was going to try to bioticaly force a small hole into the sub and to hopefully attract something larger than the sub.

The only reason she could not just rip the sub apart with her biotic's was because there was a dampening field in her cell, this was designed to make biotics useless with weaker biotics, but with stronger biotics it could only make them weak to the point of non-lethalaty, though she could still generate a warp strong enough that she could make a hole large enough to fit a bloodied hand.

After several seconds of grinding her hand on the lock she saw a small cut, it was only several centimetres long but it would do. Pulling back her hand's she summoned all her biotic power and built it , it left her with a tingling feeling at all of the pent up dark energy begging to be released. Then she went through the motions just like Shiala had taught her and released a warp that started to grind through the cell, after waiting a few seconds she could tell that most of the power of the warp was being absorbed by the room, but she kept feeding the warp with more and more of her will desperate to break the shell of she sub.

After a minuet of trying she saw the slightest crack and water being held back by the ships kinetic barrier's, getting new hope she poured all of herself into the warp and tore a large head sized hole in the side of the sub and quickly thrust her bloodied hand out into the stinging but cool water and watched as her blood floated away to alert the biggest and baddest thing around.

After this all she could think about was resting and sleeping, she kept herself awake by being desperately scared of her situation, she was not scared of the prisoner situation as Shiala had taught her all she needed to know about it because she was such a high-profile target. But instead she was scared to death of being in a metal box of death when the firaxon arrived and then having to escape in her weaken state to fight the firaxon without Liara and Shiala.

She put her head down as she heard the fighting subdue in the other room and pretended to be asleep while she silently prayed to the goddess for their protection if she could not protect them herself.

Shiala and Liara near the chosen spot to fight the firaxon

Shiala saw it first, the massive and distinctive grey fin of a firaxon, after it swam into better light Liara turned and gasped at what she saw before her. There it was, a firaxon, the massive 50 foot creature that weighed over 15 tonnes and had skin like sand paper made out of sharpened knives. Its teeth were about as long as Liara's legs and it's mouth was a over 2 meters wide hosting an array of hundreds of teeth while it's strong muscular fins reaching out over 13 feet swayed side-to-side angrily as it sped past them like it was on a mission.

Liara reached over and started a shaky meld W-We are h-hunting that

Yes she replied calmly trying to sooth the nerves of the bedazzled Asari to her right

But..I...HOW Liara stuttered out

You must use guerilla tactics, hit and run, like the push and pull of the ocean, coming in fast and striking hard and then retreating back to do so again when the risk is minimal

I..I am skeptical that this will work whatsoever

I was on my first time too, but I wonder where that firaxon was going in such a hurry. The only time you see them so active is if their has been a large whales death or it senses Asari...blood

ASANA They both cry out at the same time as they severed the meld and made with as much haste as possible in the direction of the shark. When they arrived they were greeted by the area there Shiala had decided to fight the firaxon 'Fate or what?' she asked herself mentally before she noticed the shark circling what looked like a small metal sandwich with a curved top and bottom before it lashed out at the metal construct. As it did they both felt something full on the strings of space and time as they could feel Asana and her panic every time the shark hit the hull.

After a second Shiala had to stop herself from gasping in surprise, a maiden doing a long-range meld while out of sight, it did not happen. Shiala thought about this before the lightbulb suddenly snapped on, 'Asana is in there' she mentally screamed to herself as she made a dash for the rig as it was thrashed again. And just as the shark was about to come around for an attack, she saw Asana and her newly aquired cut, flee from the crushed vessel trying to use her biotics to lower her mass and keep the blood from spilling any further and attract the sharks attention.

Just as Asana felt she reached safety, she felt a tug on her mind and was reminded of her situation and as she spun around she came face-to-face with the 50 foot killing machine bearing down on her at full speed with it ravenous maw closing in on her swirling with blood from the other crew of the sub...

Aaaand FIN. Sorry for the cliffy ending but I could not wait to release this chapter any longer as I finally seem to have gotten over my 'writer's block' and I needed to reward those of you who stayed faithful throughout my absence.

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