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Chapter 35: Knives' POV
As the door slides open Hessaar is standing there with the status tablet in his clawed hand, waiting patiently to hand to him. "Wel-come home, epherything hassss been running ssssmoothly, howepher the sssecond bulb hassss been repaired twice for crackssss. Do you need anything ssssir?"

He accepts the status tablet, carefully reading everything before replying to him. I do not, see to the comfort of my guests, take them to the bio-dome and get them what they need. I do not need to remind you to be completely polite as if speaking with me. His tone is commanding as he directs his bidding to the small lizard man. Switching paths to speak with Vash he comments, I have directed Hessaar to take the girls to the greenhouse dome, they will enjoy the garden. Some reason I think you're angry and I would rather not have that conversation with them listening.

Damn straight I'm angry. His brothers replies before his attention is pulled away by temper. The two of them have a quick conversation before the two girls follow Hessaar away.

Turning towards the other direction he heads to his study just off of the lab. When he is done listening to Vash's rant he would most likely be hearing here shortly, he planned to check his notes on the human-plant project to see how much of chapels DNA had been altered and how well he had taken to the altering, that would give him an idea of the strength behind blue-eyes little one's growth, and the possible effects it would have.

As the two brothers silently move through the ship he can feel the anger radiating from Vash. Many of the lizaeri bow low before dodging out of the way, scared looks flickered at his peaceful twin. Once they reach his study, he opens it with a quick slide of his hand across the opener. Kaesa, one of the younger lizaeri pops her head in to inquire if they need drinks before retreating to get them.

"What the hell are they?" Vash demands almost as soon as the door slides shut. "I don't remember there being anything like that on Earth!"

"Because there is not, I made them," he replies, leaning against his desk.

Before Vash can comment, Kaesa returns with a large pitcher of lemonade and glasses on a platter that she carefully sets down before withdrawing. Pouring himself a glass, he also makes one for Vash and hands it to him, waiting patiently for the rest of the rant he is sure to follow.

"How did I not realize that you were playing god? Why would you even try?" he demands before accepting the glass and taking a drink.

Shrugging, Knives replies softly, "Try not to be loud, they have good ears. In answer to your question, I get bored easily, the first time was after we went our separate ways. Occasionally, I do get lonely, though not like you do. So I made myself company that I could tolerate, it took several tries and not all of them were successful, when I finally found a combination that worked, well you see the result. They have been true breeding for almost one-hundred years. Actually they have their own colony and social structure that I did not design within the second bio-dome."

Shaking his head, his twin just stares at him hard. He can still feel the anger but it is beginning to recede in favor of the curiosity over the creatures.

"The next time I played with DNA it was spider DNA to see if I could use them to make more plants like us. That was right after the July incident after healing with Dai, but before I was at full strength. That's when I started playing with the DNA of the various humans I had collected over the years because of Legato." Again he shrugs, watching his brothers reaction, "every human I worked on was able to use a physic power of one type or another, I just increased them. They were all willing to do my will, be experimented on, or anything else I might have demanded of them. The only one in the bunch that had any sort of morals was chapel."

"Chapel?" Vash queries, an edge still present though not as rough to his tone.

"Nicholas Wolfwood, chapel is what his title was, after the one who had trained him." he replies as he moves to the other side of his desk. There he slides one of the drawers open and flips through some files before he pulls one out. Sitting down, he skims through it carefully before putting it back. Kikyo had said the rest of his alters were dead, so he did not feel the need to look into their files. The information was fairly straightforward. He had not taken past the first level of changes, his body had rejected them, so it had been stopped because it was ruled a failure. "Are you done with the temper problem?"

Vash rolls his eyes at him, muttering, "I don't have a temper problem, you shouldn't surprise a guy like that."

Snorting, he gives a shake of his head before standing and heading to the door. "Let's join the girls," he suggests as they step out.

One dirty look later the two of them are heading back towards the entrance and passed it to head to the bio-dome. He observes his twin as he glances at everything with that curiosity that had always gotten him in trouble. When they pass the door labeled stasis chamber, he stops, staring at it in shock. Sighing, Knives stops as well, waiting for him to make up his mind about what he wants to do.

"Is that…?" Vash inquires staring at it.

Pressing his hand to the opener, the door silently slides open, allowing them to step into the cold chamber full of stasis beds. Once the door slides shut, Vash wanders around, eyes wide as he takes in the room with no less than one-hundred stasis sleeping humans in their stasis chambers.

"How…?" he asks, lost in thought.

"Dai," Knives replies, "I shut it down, she reactivated it before any of them died. Did it again, she did it again. So I left them be after that." He shrugs, accepting that it was probably a good thing that he had eventually stopped trying to kill them with the knowledge that he now had. It had not stopped him in other areas, but here, here was a different matter. Dai had wanted them alive, and to please her he had left them alone.

For the longest time it had bothered him that the lizaeri could hear her, but he could not. That he had not understood it and had taken his rage out on whichever one of them made the mistake of mentioning her within his hearing. Eventually they learned to keep it to themselves when they would speak with her which stopped his temper problems with them. Of course by that point everything happening with Vash had also sidetracked him from punishing them for something he could not do.

Brother, are you going to come say hello to me now that we can speak? Dai's soft voice chimes in his mind, sounding much like wind-chimes.

Indeed, my next stop is the bio-dome in order to collect the females and come say hello, I thought you might like to meet our brother Vash, his mate temper, and blue-eyes the human pregnant with a plant child. He replies, warmth coloring his tone. To finally be able to speak with her is a great pleasure.

Yes! Bring them to me, and you too! She commands him, a pleasant joy filling her voice.

Smiling, he glances at Vash commenting, "We're being ordered to come visit, Dai wishes for company." As soon as he says it he stops in place, eyes narrowing as he considers the situation. Mentally he calls out, Hessaar! Come here, I have a task I need completed quickly.

A moment later the small lizaeri appears at his side out of one of the side rooms. "Ssssir?"

Building the image and distance of where Amber's bulb is, he tells him, Have a group fetch this bulb. Her name is Amber, she is in pain from acid poisoning and not the most pleasant mood. Connect her into the third bulb placing next to Dai. Be extra careful with her.

He bows in response, "It issss done."

Vash gives him a funny look, tilting his head to the side and asking, "What was that about?"

Still walking, he replies, "I am having the lizaeri bring Amber's bulb here, she can be connected in next to Dai. That should keep her from being lonely. The lizaeri will care for her, provide her with company. They often speak with Dai, I just did not take that news to well when they told me and lashed out. Since then they do not mention it."

"Oh."

Shrugging, he slides his hand on the door opener for moment allowing the door to silently slide open. Both brothers walk into large bio-dome, though Vash stops to stare for a moment while he glances around to see where the girls are. He is almost not surprised when he realizes that they are making their way towards the bulbs and the second bio-dome.