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"Speech"

"Thought"

Song lyrics

Amily watched as Michael cleaned the blood off of his armor

"It's rude to stare at people y'know." Michael said in a slightly annoyed tone

Amily gave a surprised squeak and hid behind a rock, Michael had an amused smirk under his helmet

"There's no point in hiding." He said, while doing his best Albert Wesker impression, "Seriously though, there's not a lot of places for you to hide in; and I'm like…four or five feet away, so there's no point in trying to hide from me right now."

Amily hesitantly came out from behind her rock and sat a couple feet away from Michael, still staring at him

"That wasn't an invitation to keep staring at me." He muttered to himself

Another six minutes pass as Michael finishes cleaning his armor

"And now I wait for it to dry." Michael said as he set down the armor, "Will you stop staring at me; it's getting kind of annoying."

Michael walked over to where his gear was resting and did a quick inspection of everything; after making sure everything was accounted for he cleared the area of small rocks and other kinds of debris, then he did his best to get comfortable as he lay down

"I'm not changing my mind", Michael said before Amily could say anything, "I've got a schedule, so that means I can't wait in this cave for someone to come get you; I have a deadline to meet. Like I said earlier: you can either come with me or you can stay here (not that I plan on leaving you here) by yourself and hope nothing dangerous finds you before whomever you're waiting for does. When I wake up and the storm has cleared up I'm going to leave; so choose wisely."

Amily huffed in annoyance, then slumped in defeat as a sad look crossed her face

"Can you at least tell me what you are?" she ventured to ask

"Human", he said, "I'll tell you some more later."

"She's not going to last long if she stays in these mountains by herself", Michael thought as he rolled onto his side, "hopefully she takes the bait and comes with me; then I can take her to wherever it is Ascad and the others were going…after I get the last of my gear back of course, but that begs the question: what do I do with her afterwards? I could leave her with someone and probably…uhh…Meh now's not the time to think about this, I have to focus on getting my stuff back; I'll cross that bridge when I get to it."

"Well…can you tell me a little more right now?" she asked, "I mean, at least until you go to sleep."

"You heard me." Was his tired response

30 minutes later

"Are you asleep yet?" she asked aloud

She began walking closer to him after she got no response

"This seems like really bad idea…" she thought when she was inches away, while hesitantly reaching a claw out to touch him, "he might react violently."

She gave him a small poke, and quickly backed up as she waited for a response.

"Y̕͢͞͝e͏́͝͠a̴̡̢̧h̨̡;̢̡͟ ̵̶̡͢͡p̀͜͝o̸̕͟k͠͠è͟ ̨̧t͞h̨͢e̢͘͏̧͟ ͘͜ś͡͠l̨̕͟e̶̵ę̡́͞p͟͞ì͢͟͝n̵̢g̸̷̷̡̧ ͏́̀a̸̡͟l̢̨͝ì́͏͢e̕͝n̷̕͏̡,̧͘ ̶̛̀t͏̶͝͏h̴̴̴̕҉ąt̢͘'̴̷̨s̸͞ ̨͞á̡̧ ̷̛͠҉ģ͟o̵̧o̧҉̴͏҉d̶̷̀ ̡̕͢͡i̢͞҉͘d̢̛e̵a̴̸̛͟!̴̶̨" a voice seemed to shout in her head

She fell onto the floor as she felt her head pounding from a migraine

"What was that?!" she hissed as she gripped her head

After a couple minutes she no longer felt the pressure on her head

"Well…now what?" She said as she returned her attention to Michael, then after a little debating, decided to poke Michael again, "He feels…squishy."

"Like I'm one to talk." She thought as she patted her belly, "What did he say he was again? Humus, a ham, humen, hunam?"

She began to look over his body, interested at how alien it was…yet still familiar somehow

"Hmm, his stomach feels hard" She thought as she pressed her claw against Michael's lower torso, "Just like Charka's whenever he finished his exercises."

She went on to inspect the rest of Michael's sleeping form

"Both his arms and legs are thick, he must train on a daily basis in order to be this fit."

She then turned her attention to his head

"Probably a bad idea to take off his helmet…" she muttered, "I never really got a good look at his face earlier when he…killed the death-hound, wonder what he looks like? Maybe he's got lots of warts and scars and burns and stuff, or what if he doesn't even have a face at all!? Wait…how would he talk if he didn't have a face, I mean he wouldn't have a mouth or anything."

After finishing her inspection of his body she moved onto the armor he set down earlier. The first thing she noticed was that there were all kinds of words and symbols painted onto the front and sides of it, each seemed aged and generally worn down from combat; she planned on looking at the back of it, but decided against it.

"It's feels hard, yet somehow still kind of soft." She stated, while rubbing and pressing on it, "wait…what did he say it was made of earlier when he fought the death-hound; Illuminated cat-lard? What is that anyw-"

Her thoughts were cut short as she heard Michael moving behind her, mumbling about needles

She quickly ran over to the other side of the cave and hid behind a rock

"Please be asleep, please be asleep…" she nervously muttered as she looked at the sleeping human, "oh good, he's still sleeping…I wonder how he would react to me messing with his stuff? Probably in a really bad way…"

She thought over what to do now…and immediately decided to look at the rest of his stuff

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained…" was her only thought as she walked over to the bags and assorted items

The first bag she looked at had…some stuff, most of them were vine like items, with one thicker object that seemed pretty thin

"Hmm…there's a crease in it; not going to split it though, it'll probably kill me or do something weird." She said as she put it back into its bag

She looked through the other bags and found other kinds of stuff, most of which she really couldn't identify as anything she knew of. One of the bags was full of small items that she saw Michael put into his other stuff

"What did he call this again; ammunation?" she wondered as she inspected a shotgun shell, "Wonder what's so important about these since he seemed so concerned about them."

She moved onto one of the items she saw him put the ammo into. The first one she inspected was painted red, with various symbols carved and painted in yellow; the image that stood out the most was a hammer crossed over a curved blade of some sort, with all sorts of writing surrounding it

"I should ask him what the symbols mean when he gets up."

The next one she looked at was pure white on most of it, the part she saw Michael holding onto had a picture of…a human(?)…surrounded by a holy light, something about looking at the image made her feel calm for some reason; she also noticed some kind of writing running along the sides of the long part.

"μπορεί το φως του θεού καθοδήγηση και την προστασία μου στην σκοτεινότερη ώρα μου…What the heck does that mean?!" was her only thought as she set it back down

The last object was black like the night sky. The only color variations she saw on it were where Michael would hold it, and along the long bit of it. She pushed on the side and it fell out of its connection to the rest of it, she panicked at first but calmed down when she pushed it back into place. The end bit of its handle had some sort of flap that she tried to pull on, but she wasn't strong enough. Something about holding it made her feel very uncomfortable; she couldn't explain why, but it felt very evil.

She shivered as she put it back down

The last thing she saw was an axe…

"Why does he have that!?" she thought as her fear began to rise, "he said he was in the woods earlier…was he there when…no, he couldn't have been, he wouldn't of hesitated to kill me if he was with them. That doesn't explain why he has that axe."

She set all of his stuff back the best she could so none of them looked like they were moved or tampered with in any way.

"Fuggin' bidch." She heard Michael mumble in his sleep as he rolled again

She went over to the other side of the cave and did her best to get comfortable

"Not much to do now I guess." She said as she yawned while looking over at Michael, "I hope Terra gets here soon."

She went to sleep after a few minutes

4 hours 22 minutes later

Amily woke up feeling well rested, which surprised her; normally she would just feel tired whenever she woke up, yet strangely she felt rested and ready for the day. She turned her attention to Michael; who was tossing and turning in his sleep, mumbling about corporations (whatever that meant) and doctors

"Fuck you Horrigan…" Michael semi-shouted as he shot upward

Amily stared at Michael panting heavily from his seated position; his breathing began to slow as he calmed himself down

"You're fine Michael; they're dead, you're not, they got what was coming to them", he said to himself while gripping his head, "Smith, Young, and Horrigan all got what the-…were you watching me sleep the whole time?"

Michael cut his rant short as he noticed the dragoness staring at him

"Look, I know you're curious about me…but…its…uh really creepy to just stare at me while I'm sleeping."

Amily sputtered a few counter-arguments, but they fell on deaf ears as Michael went to look at the outside of the cave

"It's stopped raining for now." Was all she heard as he began walking back in

Amily slumped sadly because Terra hadn't found her yet, and Michael would be leaving soon

"Hopefully I can get to the next beacon before anything bad happens", Michael said as he began walk towards his gear, "Alright double count all of it to be sure."

He began to look over his gear again, making sure they're properly maintained and that he didn't lose any of it somehow

"Ar-are you going to tell me more about what you are now?" Amily asked, "You said you were going to tell me more earlier."

"Yeah, but I'm gonna have to keep it short though", he said as he began putting ammunition into his guns, "Let me just tell you: human beings are scary. We breathe a corrosive gas and drink one of the most potent solvents"

After he finished loading his guns he moved onto putting on his body armor

"Our preferred method of hunting was persistence hunting, where we chased animals until their bodies simply gave up and died."

He began putting the guns into their holsters

"We can eat just about anything we find, which means that we don't need to stop for food when chasing out prey."

He walked over to his bags

"If we can't find food, that's fine." He said as he slung his medical supply bag over his shoulders onto his back, "Our body will simply begin eating itself sot that we don't have to stop chasing out prey"

He put the electronics bag over his right shoulder

"We walk upright, we sweat, and we don't have much body hair; which allows us to radiate away our body heat. This means that excessive time or extreme environment won't stop us."

He put his ammo bag over his left shoulder

"If the animal fights back against us, we can take massive damage to our extremities and lose half out blood and still live."

He walked over to his axe and picked it up

"I guess that's all the time I have", he twirled the axe and began walking towards the cave entrance, "This where we part ways huh kid?"

Amily sat there in silence, just staring at wall ahead of her; thinking over her two choices as Michael stood at the cave entrance

"Well, best of luck to you." He said as he stepped out of the cave

Amily just sat and debated within herself on what she should do next

"Should I go? I mean, there's a chance he might take me to Warfang, but he might leave me to die somewhere. What about Terra? What if she finds the cave and I'm not here, what if she's dead?!"

She heard some music coming from outside of the cave

"What if another death-hound finds me before Terra does, and she just finds my scraps? What if Terra decided to go to Warfang without me, and just abandoned me?"

She felt depressed as her thoughts continued, she continued debating on what she should do; after a few minutes she made her choice

"N-no more crying, I've got to be strong", she said as she held back her tears, then began running out of the cave

She stopped after she got out, blocking her eyes from the harsh light of the sun; after her eyes adjusted she looked for Michael

"Come on, he couldn't have gotten far", she quietly said to herself, "there's no way he could've gotten that fa-there he is."

She broke into a full on sprint as she ran to catch up with Michael

"WAIT, WAIT UP!" she shouted, "I'm coming!"

Michael stopped walking and looked back towards Amily

Danger is lurking around every turn, trust your feelings, got to live and learn

"I knew I'd see you soon." He shouted to her, "So you're coming with me then?"

She didn't respond and just kept running towards him

"You might want to slow down kid, this area is pretty steep…" Michael shouted, but his warning fell on deaf ears as Amily continued running towards him, eventually tripping on a rock and rolling towards Michael at a fast speed

Michael side stepped and watched as Amily hit a rock, breaking it into 3 pieces

I know with some luck that I'll make it through

Amily picked herself up and shook her head, recovering from the impact

She heard Michael doing his best not to laugh, but broke out into a hearty laugh anyways

"That's not funny!" she shouted at Michael, but began laughing as well

"You really stuck that landing huh?" Michael said in-between laughs

Got no further options, only one thing to do

After sharing a good laugh the two of them just stood there in silence, gauging each other

I don't care what lies ahead, no time for guessin', follow my plan instead. Find that next stage no matter what that may be

"So you're going to travel with me?"

"It's better than just staying in a cave with the possibility of never being found."

"Who'd you say you were waiting for again; Tarma or something like that?

"It's Terra, TER-RA. I was hoping she would find me, but I guess she might've gotten lost or something." She said sadly, "I hope she's okay."

"I'm sure she's okay, wherever she is." Michael said as he began walking, "Come on, we're burning daylight."

"Are you going to Warfang?" she asked

"I guess I am, but I have some things to do first; so we're going to have to take a detour before we get there."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm missing some of my stuff, and I've been using this", he pulled out the tracker, "to find them. I'm still missing two things; after I get those back we can go to this "Wang-fair" you mentioned."

"Warfang"

"Whatever", he replied without stopping, "Come on kid."

"My name's not kid." She said as she caught to him

"You know…you never told me your name actually."

"Oh", she said as she felt a little flustered, "Its…uh Amily. What's your name?"

"Michael. My name is Michael."

"Mickle?"

"Michael. or you can just call me Mike." he said as he pulled the iPod out of his pocket

"Well...Mikle, shall we get going?"

"It's Micha- forget it, let's get going"

You'll never take us ali~i~ive , we swor-

"I hate this song." Michael said as he hit the skip button on the iPod, skipping several other songs

Hey kid! (Hey kid) do I have you- *skip* FALL to your knee's acom- *skip* Well, he was the sax man- *skip*

"You always had shit taste Dom." Michael muttered to himself

An electronic beat began to play

Reach for the sta~a~ars, whoa Yeah

"Eh fuck it." he put the iPod back into his pocket

You stand on a distant planet: skyline of red plateaus, strange arid vegitation

"How does that little thing play music anyway?" Amily asked, "Is it some form of magic?"

"Well no", Michael began, "its...uh...its a long story. I'll answer any questions you have while we're travelling"

"Any questions?

"Any questions you want answered."

YOU'RE A WINNER

"Good, I've got a lot of them."

"Why did I say that"

Welcome to the space Olympics 3022

And so their journey together begins

End of chapter 6

Michael's equipment: unchanged

Amily's equipment: empty

μπορεί το φως του θεού καθοδήγηση και την προστασία μου στην σκοτεινότερη ώρα μου (this is written on the side of Maria's barrel) (have fun translating)

Red curtain has a hammer and sickle painted onto its stock