Chapter 6: Checkmate
Sometime after Captain Anywek and Raelynn left.
"So, this is what Anywek tought ya" Skølldir said as Ayla in the talking room, "yeah, Anywek love this game, and he told me everything about this game," she said when she finished setting up all the pieces, "it's called chess" "yeah, I heard of this human game, but I think it's a lame and boring game, the type of this game even has the word "board" in it" but before the game begin, Ayla left the table where they was at and grab another of Captain Anywek's toys. "whats that?" Skølldir asked, "it's just a thing of a jig that can able to free me from these locks, but I don't mostly free them since I like wearing this arm locks" she explained as she use the device to unlock the locks that trapped her arms, she's ready to play. when they begun the game of chess, Skølldir takes the first turn, "I hope my fighting in battle experiences could make me win this lame chess game" he said as he move the pawn in front of the right bishop once, then Ayla made a chuckle, "okay, time to make those chess matches with Anywek count" then she move her prawn that is in front of the king, after Ayla's move, Skølldir put the left knight send in a L shape movement, "guess what? checkmate" she said as she move her queen diagonally to her left. "What!" Skølldir shouted in anger, "it's a checkmate, no matter what you move, I still have your king, so that mean I won that match" Ayla said, but Skølldir was angry of the fact he lost within seconds he played he make a fist on his hand and bash the table and shouted "I demand a rematch!"
meanwhile, Anywek and Raelynn finally landed on another planet, however, Raelynn still don't know what surprise what Anywek had, but as she came out of the air ship she saw interesting things, dusty solid dirt, the tumbleweeds moving from the winds, and there is some sort of small town on the horizon, "what is this place?" Raelynn asked, "this is wested, a planet that sort of fells like the earth's 18th century, the wild west," say Anywek as wears a black jacket, "come on, lets meet that fox" he said as he and Raelynn walks towards the town.
"Checkmate" Ayla shouted for the third time when Skølldir lost again, "how in the world can you beat me?" he shouted, but all that Ayla did was a queer smiles, "I want a rematch again!" Skølldir shouted for the fourth time, "alright, but you will lose again."
Once Anywek and Raelynn reached the town, they found out that it was a very small town, only had seven buildings, all of them made of wood, stone or metal, the buildings lined up from face to face then a seventh building would be at the end of the town, "there is only one place where she could be" the Captain said as he walked away into on of the building, then Raelynn notice and catched up behind him to enter the building that's called, a saloon "now Raelynn, these folks around here be a bit... violent, so just stick with me and try to not get into a fight, all right" then Raelynn nodded, as they enter the saloon, the place's crowded by different races of creatures, some was humans, some was robots some are other aliens, all of which wore either a cowboy hat, a dusty coat or western style boots. most of them would properly be drunk because of whiskey, most would gamble at poker or 21 no more, as Captain Anywek walk towards the bar where a five arm bartender was making a drink while cleaning a glass, "howdy" said Anywek in his best western accent, "how do you do stranger, what could I get ya" the bartender said, "well let me think, you see I am looking for someone who might be here, here's what she looks like" Anywek said as he put out a picture of a face of a fox, "oh yeah, she just over there by the dark corner" say the bartender when he pointed one of his hands at the dark corner.
at the dark corner at the saloon, there was a person, it was a female, but the looks of her make her look like a man, she wore a red poncho and a cowboy hat so she could blend in with the people in the saloon, in a closer look she had a scar on her eye, her race is known as a fox, she is fully form of a fox, a creäture with a fur of orange, fox ears an orange tail with a white fur at the end and has a strong sence of smell.
"so, you must have been the fox" Anywek started once he was next to her, "it just depends what type of fox you are talkin' about" the fox noticed, "and who am I'm talkin' to?" the fox asked as she takes a sip of her glass, "I'm Cody Anywek, and this is Raelynn, élite member of the E.L.F skyhawks, and I know that you are a collector" then the fox smiles and make a small chuckle, "you don't know me, I'm just a regular fox having a drink, if you know more about me then tell me more" "well, maybe if you could tell me how you got that hand from a ship that called Starstorm" Anywek said, then the fox gasp and her face begin to grow anger, "alright, what do you want" she said as she put her hand on her gun, "information, but we need to speak in private."
Later on, Anywek and the fox went to the fox's rented room while Raelynn waited outside the door, the minute Anywek entered the room, he saw a lot of interesting things, there was jars of strange things, "you do have a strange hobby don't you?" Anywek said as he looked at some of the jars, "yeah, don't touch them, they all are very rare and they came from this wasteland of a planet" the fox said, "so Cody, what do you want?" then Aywek came to a table that was in the room and placed the pellet on the table, as he put the thing on the table, she felt surprised and take a look at the strange pellet, "so miss fox, could you tell me about this" Anywek asked, then the fox grab the jar where the pellet was inside and explain what it was,
"well, this looks an interesting thing, a pellet with a power inside, however this could be any type of power since nobody had ever study these things before, this could able to make you powerful or immortal or weak, or even the worst thing that could happen to you" Anywek looked at the fox as she holds the jar for a long time, "can I have it back please?" Anywek finally said, then the fox gave the jar back to him, "if you would please, I collect strange object and relics like this one, and I would like it if I could buy this off ya" then Anywek looked at her once again, and then sigh, "well if you want this be taken off me, then how much?" "I think I would invest this about five hundred thousand soldars, deal" than as Anywek looked at the fox's metal hand, he grab and went near the door, "thank you but this pellet is not for sale" he said before he open the door and exited out of the fox's room.
as he left the room, Raelynn asked, "what now?" Anywek became silent for second before he started to say, "fancy a drink?"
be continued on chapter 7: the foxy