Chapter 9- Dave! Yognau(gh)t

Ok guys, I'm gonna give you the decision, who do you want the group to meet next? Sips and Sjin, Duncan or… Hannah. If you want to chose leave a review and hopefully I won't get banned for 'forcing' you to review… For now it'll have to be a short chapter with life on the ship.

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"Rythian, I'm booored!" Cynda whined unhappily, she had been sat silently for 4 hours now but could no longer keep the silence among the group.

"What do you want me to do sis?" He asked, he was in a similar mood and realised things would only get worse if they stayed silent for too long.

They had left the planet far behind now and were travelling to a planet a few weeks away. The ship itself, thankfully, showed no signs of wear and they had enough fuel to last them until they arrived at the next planet which they hoped would show more signs of life than the last one. Not that the three weren't thankful for the help from Honeydew but they hoped to find somewhere at least with fuel that they didn't have to mine for several hours just to get somewhere.

Xephos had been in a spectacularly bad mood for the last few days and no one could really understand why. Rythian suspected that it was because of the slowly lowering levels of Oxygen in the ship.

"Then why aren't me and Honeydew in a bad mood then?" Cynda proposed; it was a fair point but for every good question, Rythian usually had a good answer.

"Because you and Honeydew need less Oxygen than Xeph and I don't need any at all."

Cynda nodded and continued to stare at the wall with a bored expression on her face, after a few minutes she stood up and began walking out of the main control room where everyone was now sat, "I'm going to find some way of getting oxygen in here. I can't stand to have to be silent for the whole trip." She huffed and walked off.

Rythian turned awkwardly in his seat only to see her walk out, "Well, bye then." He replied absently.

After a while Rythian and Honeydew began getting a little worried that she had gotten herself lost but it was during the argument that she returned carrying a large gas canister. Rythian recognised it from the wreckage left behind from the ship on Arabor and stood up to help her figure out how it works. They both crouched to read what was written on the canister but the only thing that was clear from the instructions was that opening it quickly could cause it to blow up. Honeydew suggested they hunt for another canister, perhaps with more clear instructions on it but Cynda realised they would all be the same. An hour passed and they still didn't know how to use the human air locks to prevent the oxygen from leaking and they were all getting frustrated at the puzzle as an ever grumpy Xephos cleared his throat, standing above them with his arms crossed.

"Can you open it?" Cynda asked daringly, knowing it would probably end in some sort of scolding from Xeph in his bad mood. Suprisingly however he just laughed,

"Of course I can. I'm waiting for you to figure it out." He replied. Rythian groaned,

"Oh don't be like that, please just open it, I'm getting uncomfortable trying to read all this gibberish." He replied, Rythian clearly wasn't in a good mood himself now.

"I thought you liked puzzles." Cynda chirped up giving him a playful punch in the arms.

"I do, but not these kind of puzzles." He replied with a huff.

"So you give up then I assume." Xeph said and put his hand on the canister, about to open it.

"No, I never cared to start with." Rythian replied, he obviously didn't want to give up his pride.

"Sure you didn't." Xeph replied and opened the canister in one swift hand movement over the top if it.

There was a slight hiss before an alert on the control display buzzed.

Oxygen levels restored. It said in a feminine-robot voice similar to something you would hear Siri say.

Xeph held his hand to his forehead, "Slightly, dizzy." He said.

Cynda looked at him worriedly but the other two moved off and back to where they were sitting before Cynda had brought the canister in and almost instantly their bored expressions returned.

"I'm fine Cyn, its just because I'm not used to it." He said and moved off to his position.

The next week and a half they came up with brainteasers and games to play to keep them both mentally and physically occupied. Every now and then Simon would tell one of his often very riveting stories but he would tell only half of it each time, always leaving a good cliff-hanger so they would be brought back to attention the moment he said he would tell the rest. He prided himself on being the oldest member of the group, followed by Rythian then Xeph and then the youngest, Cynda. There was only a few years between them all however and it tended to worry Rythian that if they landed on a planet they might be refused goods or docking for their ship because of their young age, Xeph always said that it was the skill of the pilot they took into account and not the age but Rythian would never accept such a simple answer.

"We'll see." He would always reply which annoyed Xeph especially considering he got them this far, he wouldn't lie to any of them they were the only people he had left to rely on.

Cynda and Honeydew were always pretty easy going and could usually tell when the two were about to argue and would change the subject as quickly as possible. It was clear that of the group most of the jokes and laughs would come from Lewis and Simon's conversations, sometimes they would be mad and generally random and other times they would simply point out the obvious and make an easy joke out of it. Once they were even having a simple conversation about changing ones name and it ended in hilarity.

"So can you just change your name to anything or are there like, rules?" Xephos asked Honeydew.

"I'm not sure but there must be rules against having like, punctuation in your name and stuff." He replied

"It says here your name must not contain numbers and it must be pronounceable."

"So you could have a question mark in it?"

"I guess so."

"I am Dave?"

Xephos laughed and looked at Honeydew.

(note to readers- this is going to get confusing now because I can't accurately describe how Simon is saying Dave? and also because the punctuation will drive me nuts)

"You would always have to raise your voice at the end as if you were asking a question, I am Dave? of Devon." Honeydew said, laughing.

Xephos was laughing to hard to answer and simply responded with a nod. Once he had gotten his breath back he threw in a joke of his own-

"I am Dave! Yognaut."

This time it was Honeydew's turn to laugh and recover.

"That is so a thing now-" He was laughing again, "I AM DAVE! YOGNAUGHT!" He shouted, causing everyone to laugh.