Some hours later, the three ships had arrived to where the coordinates, yet there was nothing to be seen.
"Are you sure this is the right place?" Little Harlock asked over the com. Fritz smiled.
"Wait and see." He only said, and just as he had said it, a very large gate opened up before them.
"Luviji is a planet hidden from the rest of the universe. The gate will only open to ships that have a Luvijian on board or if the ship have someone with a very special fate." Fritz said as he lead the way through the gate.
On the other side Mayu was amazed seeing the little planet with five different colored moons around it. The planet looked so peace full and welcoming, she was glad to see it. She often heard Lighting tell about his home world and how alike it was the Earth.
As the three ships came in for a landing in the clearing in the Forest land there was no one to be seen.
Fritz sighed as they came out of the ships and saw the light of a rising sun.
"Whats wrong?" Mayu asked coming up to him.
"We just arrived at a bad time. The sun is coming up." Fritz said and nodded to the sun rise.
"And that is bad?" Riki-ken asked as him and Little Harlock moved up to them as well. Yet none of them saw it when something jumped up on the Talon and move closer to them.
"When you are in the night land it is. All of the night land goes to sleep as the sun rises, since the days are shorter here than in the other three lands. They get more done in the night hours than in the day hours." Silvereye sent trying to explain it as simple as possible.
"So now what?" Riki asked looking to Fritz.
"There are always some one that is awake, I..." More he did not get to say when he was thrown into the ground. Landing hard on his stomach, forced down by the weigh of his attacker, and yet before any of the others managed to react, the attacker was thrown of him by Silvereye that had changed midair and used that to slam into the attacker. The two of them now rolling around in the grass in a brown and gray ball of fur.
Mayu aimed her gun to them and looked at them wide eyed. She had believed that Luviji was a welcoming place and had never believed the great wolfs would turn on them. Little Harlock also had his gun drawn as he and Riki moved over to Fritz that stood up. He smiled to Little Harlock and Riki-ken. As he stood fully up, he rested a hand to Mayu's shoulder startling her to look at him. He smiled as he used his other hand to lower her gun.
"It's okey." He said and looked back at the battle in front of them. None of the wolf's were giving an inch to the other, before Fritz whistled loudly. The two wolfs stopped and looked at him, panting. As they had stopped one could now see that the other wolf looked to be the same age as Silvereye, that now was panting hard, his silver grey fur standing on all ends. The new wolf was tawny-brown with black paws and dark blue eyes. Then the new wolf barked and jumped over Fritz again quickly followed by Silvereye. Mayu and the other two just barely had the chance to move out of the way before Fritz were struck to the ground and given and overhaul licking to his face, very helped by Silvereye.
"Okey, okey.. cool it." Fritz manged to gasp in between the laughing, something that made Little Harlock and Riki-ken laugh pretty hard and Mauy had to stifle a slight chuckle of her own. Yet it did not go unpassed Fritz that she laughed and thought to himself
Finally we made her laugh a little. The two wolfs finally ended their little reunion and let their master up. As Fritz stood up, he petted both wolfs over the head and smiled to his friends.
"Little Harlock, Riki-ken.. Mayu, this is my other guardian, Mizu." The brown wolf lowered his head in respect looking at both Little Harlock as well as Mayu.
"Welcome to Luviji." Mizu smiled.
"So what news do you have for us?" Fritz asked not wasting any more time.
"Not much I am afraid. When I told the great leader that you were bringing the missing piece, he asked me to wait til he sent for us.. I am afraid all we can do is wait." Mizu sighed. Fritz nodded yet bit his lip.
"And the swordsmen?" He asked yet the look Mizu gave him was enough of an answer.
"No change." The wolf said. His face pained with both fear and worry. Mayu looked to Fritz and the stone face he had put up to hide his feelings, but his eyes could not lie. She saw again the same pain and worry for his friends that seemed to have left him all to fast.
"So what to we do in the meantime?" Little Harlock asked, both looking to the wolfs and their master.
"There is a place made ready for you and your crews, but you better go to sleep or something, there will be nothing happening in the night land as the sun is up, unless you want to take the short trip over to one of the other lands." Mizu said and nodded to one of the bridges that they could see from where they were standing.
"Luviji is a safe place and if you get lost, it's just to ask for help." Silvereye said looking to the crews of the ships that were coming out. He said it mostly to them and as they got a nod from Fritz some of them headed over to the bridge.
"This way then." said Mizu and lead them towards the city known as Moonlight city.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some hours later some of the crews had returned, others were having to much fun to sit still. Mayu moved silently through the house they were in. The house was silent as every one inside it were asleep apart from her. She too had been asleep when the nightmare had returned and she had found herself bolting up from the bed, panting hard. Her hands started to shake as she thought of it again.
Again the same dream, again the same horrid stench of blood on my hands. Will I ever be free of my fear? She asked herself as she walked on. she stopped as she came to the room Fritz had layed down in. The door where half way open and as she looked in, she saw him asleep in his bed with Silvereye in one arm and Mizu in the other. She smiled as she moved on down stairs and outside into the sunlight.
They seem so tied together. Who knows how long they have been apart... She thought for herself and yet only managed to remind herself over how alone she was, even withing her own head. She was a stranger to herself. She had no idea or even thought about where she was going. Her feet was only following the road, as she thought about what she did remember and what she did not, what she had been told that she had no memories of.
She stopped as she suddenly had come to the roads end and realized that she was far from the nigth land. Around her were a white snow clad field, the road was made of what could remind her of colored glass, that shined in the sunlight. In front of her was what looked like an old cabin, a fireplace in front with some logs to sit at, and something she guessed was an old oven, stood in front of it. The the walls she could see a cloth liner some shirts hang on it.
So humans live here? She thought to herself, moving closer to the door.
It looks so deserted... She thought for herself as she dared to move in to the hut it self, yet had to stifle a scream as she looked in.
On the floor of the hut lay some bundles that in the light of the windows where shaped as humans. It reminded her of pictures she had seen of old Egyptian mummies. there was also some shaped like what she guessed were wolfs and some other stange ones she had no idea what had once been. She dared not to move as she looked over them from where she stood, her mind as frozen as her body.
"It's not as bad as it looks." A female voice said behind her. "They are still alive." Mayu turned and saw a wolf about Silvereye and Mizu's age, she guessed a little younger. Mayu was frozen to the ground again, but this time out of a different reason. The young wolf in front of her were identical to Lightingtooth and his son Fang. The same markings of black and lighter black fur, but she had a white mark shaped as a star across her forehead that shined in the black fur. The wolf smiled a sad smile and her dark blue eyes nearly hypnotized Mayu so familiar they where.
"I came by to to see if there was any change.." The wolf said. "But it has been no change since they passed out a year ago.." The wolf moved past her, not even reacting to the look Mayu had on her face.
"Had it not been for the Wolf riders and their Preservers... I am not sure we could have kept them alive for so long." The wolf kept on talking, yet Mayu didn't not understand much of what she said. Mayu did not know why, yet she bent down and touched one of the mummy like bundles, and pulled her hand back quickly as for a second there it felt like the body beneath it had moved, yet the bundle lay still as she looked at it.
"You look a little jumpy.. Are you okey?" The wolf asked looking strait at Mayu. She sort of shook and then nodded as like she did not know herself, whether she was okey or not. Mayu looked back at the young wolf and looked in to those all to familiar eyes.
"Who are you?" Mayu dared herself to ask. At this the wolf gave her a brite smile.
"I am named Shiro-hoshi, but everyone just calls me Hoshi. My name means..." The wolf started before Mayu finished her line.
"White Star." Mayu said looking into the floor.
"You speak Japanse?" The wolf asked both surprised and glad.
"I was raised in Japan. I am Mayu Oyama" Mayu said short, not really wanting to think that most of her life was away from the earth or something like that.
"How come you have a Japanse name?" Mayu asked, shaking of her sadness, yet not knowing how well the young wolf had felt her sadness.
"Tochiro Jr named me, when I was barely a cub... yet that will not be my final name, I think.." Hoshi said looking around.
"Why not?" Mayu asked and looked at the young wolf confused. "Tochiro is not my true master. Dad told me that I would know who my true master is when I met him or her." Hoshi said and there was a trace of sadness in her eyes. Mayu's eyes narrowed.
"Then who is your parents?" She asked yet as she had a pretty good idea of who it could be.
"I am the younger daughter of Lightingtooth and Angel. Fang is my older brother." The wolf forced out a smile but her eyes told the tale of the sorrow with in.
"You miss them don't you?" Mayu asked and turned away. Knowing that she may have been the reason why Harlock and the others had left, and had there by left their friends in this sorry mummified state, made it hard for her to met this young wolfs eyes. As she turned and walked out Hoshi followed her.
"Sure I do, but they will come back, I know they will." Hoshi smiled good natured. Mayu looked at her confused.
"How can you be so sure? What if something terrible has happened?" She asked her voice quivering just a hint as again her nightmare flashed in the back of her mind.
"Because they are the most feared in the entire universe. None of them or their masters will be that easy to bring down. It's really that simple." Hoshi smiled as she moved up in front of her. Mayu dropped down on one of the logs in front of the hut. The nightmare seemed even clearer right now and yet hearing Hoshi's words of true trust to her family, made her force the nightmare behind her. Mayu manged a smile and petted Hoshi over the head.
"You are right. I need to have more faith in them. There is no way that they are dead and gone forever." She said and smiled showing a new growing strength in her that reminded of her mother' s renowned mental strength.
"Glad to hear that." Fritz suddenly said as he and his two guardians came up the way to the hut. Mayu stood up and smiled faintly to Fritz.
"Have there been any change, Hoshi?" Mizu asked. The young female shook her head.
"None yet." She said, and surprised Mayu further with how all around happy she was, even with her whole family missing and her other friends either missing or mummified.
A complete opposite of me. I worry and blame it on on myself and she only belies in the strength that lies with in everyone. Mayu found herself thinking, as she looked at the young Wolf. Fritz noticed this and smiled.
"I see you two have already hit the tone with each other." He smiled as he moved quickly into the hut to have a look. Mayu and Hoshi looked at each other, and as Hoshi grinned, Mayu could not hide her own smile. Some how Hoshi seemed to make her forget about the bad dreams and fears she had. As Fritz came back out he looked at her and sat down on a log opposite of Mayu that sat down again as well.
"We woke up and found you gone, I was beginning to get worried where you had gone." Fritz said yet Silvereye looked up at him and lifted a sort of wolf eyebrow at the statement.
"Beginning master? You were nearly frantic." He said yet had to duck as Fritz tried to make him shut up. Mizu chuckled at the face Fritz sat up, yet Mayu only shook her head.
"I'm sorry to have worried you, I just could not sleep anymore." She said with a faint smile.
"Because of your nightmares?" Fritz tried carefully, looking at her. Mayu looked at him, her eyes more sad than he had ever seen them before and he regretted asking.
"You don't need to answer if you don't want to. Just know that I am here to listen if you need it." Fritz said and gave her a way out. Mayu just nodded, she was far from ready to tell Fritz about the dream. Then suddenly Mizu lifted his head and looked at his master.
"The great leader is calling us. We should get going." He said. Fritz nodded as he stood up and looked to Mayu again. Once again she looked lost in her own thoughts and seemed so sad.
"Come on Mayu, lets go see what the Great leader has seen. I am sure he knows where we can find everyone." Hoshi said standing in front of Mayu, her tail waving. Mayu just smiled a faint smile, and nodded as she too stood up. Fritz lead the way away from the hut of the swordsman that had taken up resistance there a long time ago, and still remained in the hut it self with his friends and companions.
"It looks like it did her some good to met Hoshi.." Silvereye sent to his master and soul brother. Fritz nodded faintly.
"To the both of them. I did not want to say anything.. but Hoshi was more and more going silent. You came at the right time. It had been two days since I last heard her speak at all." Mizu said and looked up at his master worried.
"No wonder with all that's been going on." Fritz said and looked over his shoulder to Mayu and Hoshi. Mayu seemed to have pulled back from the dark world she seemed to go into from time to time, and smiled faintly, as Hoshi jumped around her feet telling about the great leader.
I can only pray that the great leader has some good news for us, for all our sakes. He thought for himself, as he still worried about what it seemed Mayu could not bring herself to tell him.
Author's note:
Okey so here is the newest chapter of missing pirates. Sorry it took so long but this would not play making me, running into multiple writers blocks along the way.
Hope this made some sense and I promise that the next chapter will finally give some answers to what has happened to the others.
Feel free to tell me how I did.
Lightingtooth.