Fan Fiction ❯ Angelic Dreams ❯ A Pure Hearted Stranger ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter Five
August 24th, 2001 AD
Galaxy: 407BS2 - headed for 408BS2

*Kaita... I know you're here... I can hear your heartbeat.. I can smell your flesh... I can feel your sweat... I know you're scared... I know where you are... I'm going to get you... I'm going to hunt you down... I'm going to kill you...*
I gasped and sat up, blinking to reality. The voice was echoing in my head, but already, I knew it had been a dream.
I peered at the clock - seven o clock... a reasonable time to get up and take a short shower...
Pulling my simple bed covers aside, I climbed to the cold, metal floor of the spaceship, walking groggily to the bathroom.
"Seri's not awake yet.. shouldn't bug her too much," I muttered to myself, rubbing my eyes and staring at my reflection while undressing.
I shook my hair and glanced at my thin, muscular figure as my pajama pants were set on the short counter, in front of a single mirror.
"I need to work out after breakfast," I murmured as I flexed, seeing if I looked as strong as I did the day before.
Finally satisfied with my body, I stepped into the shower, turning the water on. Almost instantly, it was warm, and I picked up the soap, absentmindedly daydreaming about Earth.
What was so special about this tiny speck in the middle of the universe? What could an anas POSSIBLY do to help us? ESPECIALLY when Earth is so tiny and far away, Geels wouldn't even think of giving the place a second glance in at least another ten years or so.
My mind came back once I dropped the shampoo, and made a loud thud on the hard floor. Finally deciding I had used up enough water, I turned it off and grabbed a towel - wrapping it around my wet body, searching around for a battle suit.

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"Seri! I know you can do better!" I encouraged the struggling girl to get a hit through my quick fists as I thrashed out - blocking all of her attacks.
"I'm trying, but your arms keep blocking," Seri muttered, clasping her hands together in an attempt to bring them down on my head.
WHAM!
"Ow!" Seri clutched her eyes and backed away. "I give up - you win this training session!"
I laughed, but was glad to get a break and stop panting. "So.. you gonna spar with me more in a little while later?"
"No."
"Just a smidgen?"
"Smidgen?"
"Why not?" "No."
"Aaaw!"
I hopped up and down, adrenaline still running wild. I guess my shower had woken Seri up, because when I was finally dressed, she had been eating breakfast at the table. It was now early afternoon, and my friend had given up.
"You shouldn't give up.. it's not fun," I moped.
"Yeah, well - I didn't want to do it anyway," Seri answered, climbing up the ladder to the main floor. "I'll be eating lunch.. you can fight with yourself or something."
"Naw, I need to read over Nai's stuff again," I said, following her.
"Again?" Seri asked.
"Yeah, again! I still haven't looked through the whole Earth book. Besides - I haven't found out what an anas was. Maybe I should give up?"
"I thought you said giving up wasn't fun," Seri said, pulling herself up from the 'basement' floor.
"Yeah, well.. I'll find out when I get to Earth," I said.
"Who will you ask?" Seri wondered, entering the kitchen.
"Um.." I left my sentence unfinished.. I DIDN'T know who to ask! There must have been billions of Earth people.. and.. I didn't know WHERE to find the weapons! Or WHO to ask for them!
"You're gonna need to know!" Seri said, opening the fridge door and shuffling around.
"Yeah, I know.." I grumbled, thinking hard. "Maybe they have a system of government? I could ask their, um.. their -" I ran over to my table of notes and peered at a page in the book. "Their president. I could ask them."
"Where would you find their president?" Seri asked.
"Um.. I could ask someone where they lived?" I answered.
"Don't ask me.. I don't know," Seri said, pulling a few things out of the cold compartment. "I guess we'll just have to look for some sort of landmark or something.."
"This is gonna be a lot harder than I thought," I sighed, closing the fridge that had been left open.
"Well, just think.. it can't get any harder than this," Seri decided happily.
"Emergency! Emergency!" The computer's voice droned.
"Don't SAY that - look - you've just jinxed us!" I called to Seri as I bolted to the control system and main front window.
"That's an asteroid field!" I shouted as Seri leaped to the control panel as well.
"Oh my God!" Seri moaned. "Those asteroids are going to kill our ship!"
"Approaching asteroid field.." the computer voice announced.
"I think it's okay.. the defense barriers are getting up," I said, but was still pretty fidgety. "Computer! Can we avoid it?"
"No," it answered simply.
"Are defense barriers up?!" I yelled.
"Defense barriers will proceed - in - one minute, ten seconds," the computer's voice said.
"No way! I keep forgetting these older models take time to gather the power to put up a defense barrier!" Seri shouted.
"Can we speed things up somehow?!" I asked her.
"No we can't! If we mess with the computers, it will disrupt the process! It would take longer, and we don't want to risk more damage to our ship!" Seri answered back.
"Seri - just.. whatever you do, don't say it couldn't get any worse?" I muttered.
"You believe in jinxes?" Seri grunted.
"Up until a few second ago, no," I answered.
I put my face up to the countdown time.. still forty-nine seconds left?! We weren't going to make it through! I sure hoped we were close to Earth.. no way we could get there if our ship was wrecked!!
"Can we stop the ship?" I asked Seri.
"No.. if we turned the engines off that quickly, they would burn up, and we'd explode! Besides, at the speed we're going, we wouldn't be able to stop fast enough to avoid it!"
"Is there SOME way I could steer through them?!" I screamed.
"No! They're too dense in number - too close together!" Seri moaned as the asteroids came in closer.. closer...
"Thirty-three seconds!" I groaned, pacing the length of the spaceship. "ARGH!"
Closer.. closer..
"Twenty miles away!" Seri groaned as they formed clearer than teeny dots in the distance.
"Thirty-seconds!" I called.
"Fifteen miles!"
"Twenty-seven seconds!"
"Ten miles!"
"Twenty-four seconds!"
"Five miles.. hang on for a bumpy ride!"
"Nineteen seconds! OH NO!" I leapt into a chair, holding on for dear life.. Seri did the same..
WHOOM!
WHOOM, WHOOM, WHOOM, WHOOM, WHOOM!!
"Dammit!" I screamed as the ship lurched like a bucking bronto, and I was flung out of my seat.
"AHH!" Seri was thrown against the wall as blood seeped out of a broken nose. I slid across the floor, but before I could reach the left wall, the spaceship jolted again, sending me flying into the ceiling.
"ARGH!" I yelled, falling hard against the floor - or was it the ceiling? The ship was spinning and lurching so much, I couldn't tell what was what anymore!
WHOOM!
BAM!
The lights went out, and a chair fell loose from the floor, banging against the walls of the spaceship.
"SHIT!" Seri swore as the chair crashed into her, and she was silent..
"AAAHHHH!" I screamed some more - falling around, hitting every hard spot I could possibly come in contact with.. Seri had to be unconscious by now.. I was holding on to all I had... for everything.. I didn't want to land on some doomed gas giant that would burn us to bits once entering the atmosphere.. No, no, no, no!
WHAM!
"NO!" I shouted my mind as something hit me hard in the chest.. the wind was knocked from my lungs, and I felt dizzy, coughing a mouthful of blood. I groaned and hit the window with so much force, that I felt me leg break..
WHOOM! WHOOM!
WHOOM!!
"Damn asteroids.. no fair.." I spat as I tried with much force to keep the chair from rendering me unconscious..
REENK!!
"OH NO!" I cried.. the table was coming loose! The huge, lugging table!
BAM!
The table crashed - only a few inches from my arm!
BOOM!
I couldn't see anything in the blackness of space, but I felt it.. boy did I feel that table hit me dead on the head.. I couldn't mutter anything - I was already out cold.
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Yasuda
Galaxy: 403BS2


It was sunny - if you could call it that. The sky was a red color, and there was a reddish, evil glow, radiating off the whole planet. Yasuda couldn't enjoy it for a moment... the dominant species had been enslaved of course - this planet was now used for building spaceships - so that's what almost three million PASANS were doing. One wrong move, one sign of resting, and the one doing this was to die by a flame-throwing kui gun - and everyone within a five foot radius of the victim, would be burned by the gun's shot as well. That's what the Geels loved so much about these guns - even if someone didn't do anything wrong, they'd kill them anyway. Slaves were worth nothing at all. They were only for the Geels enjoyment, as well as workers.
Yasuda heaved a huge chunk of metal in his arms, sweating in the heat of the sun. His powerful body could take this - but he was reluctant - everything he had, sunk to his feet - his soul, his heart, his feelings... this was pure torture. These ships were being made by his own hands. He was helping the Geels to victory. He was helping the Geels win the war. He was helping the Geels kill innocent people.
"Keep it coming!" A Geel that had been supervising the slaves work, held a whip, and barked out to the tired people. Yasuda stuck out from the crowd of overworked, starved natives. He could take more - so what he was doing looked easy to the Geels. He looked fresh despite the horrible look on his face, and a bit of sweat.
"You there! Come here!" The Geel with the whip ordered. "Why aren't you carrying more?! You're slacking!"
Yasuda said nothing, but the Geel whipped his sides and back repeatedly.
"Go back to the pile, and get MORE!" The Geel raged, shoving Yasuda. It really didn't do anything - a small shove.. though Yasuda could do nothing about this, and hurried back to the piles of metal, each step he took with more pain and effort than anything he had done all day.
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Human
Galaxy: 408BS2


He had been walking for a while now... not quite sure where he was going. His legs were just leading him to wherever they felt like it, and where they went, he would follow. Though, to put it another way - he was simply lost.
His mind had been wandering off for some time, until he heard a noise, and saw a speck in the distance. Peering at the evening sky, the object was very bright - and was coming down pretty fast.
"What the-?" The boy stared quizzically at the 'thing' that was plunging faster and faster to Earth's surface. He wasn't scared - mostly kind of airheaded-feeling. He snapped out of his awed trance when the object became a lot clearer, and it had seemed that the boy had misjudged the distance from where he stood to the UFO, because instantly, he started to try to outrun the crashing of it.
"AH!!" The boy took off over the sandy hills of a desert, leaping, desperately trying to get away from the approaching object.
BAM!
The UFO came in contact with the Earth, shaking the ground the boy had been walking on. He lost his balance and fell, diving over a hill.
Then... there was silence.
He finally took up the courage to peek over the safety of the hill, the 'thing' only a few meters away.
From all the dents it had, it reminded the boy of an oversized golf ball.. he wondered if it was supposed to be that way.
"What IS that thing?" The boy asked himself, climbing unsteadily to his feet. "Looks like an alien spaceship or something.." He hoisted himself over the other side of the dune, stealthily nearing the ship.
"Hello? Is anybody in here?" The boy knocked on the side of the large, round spaceship. He wasn't sure if he was being stupid, or brave, but he wanted to find out what this was, and if anyone was inside of it.
PWOOSH!
The boy jumped, and suppressed a cry as an automatic door opened... and he could see that the thing had unintentionally crashed, for the door was opening out of the ground.
He walked to where the door had opened - it had forced itself out of the sand, creating a ditch to where the opening lay.
"I think.. I want to explore a little," he told himself, dropping to his hands and knees, crawling through the once large enough opening for a tall man. It was now a small hole, that he could hardly squeeze through.
"Hello?" The boy's voice echoed across the large spaceship as the opening widened into a room, which then he stood up. It was at a slope, and a lot of things were cluttered near the front entrance. He couldn't see very well - the only light source being the outside light that leaked into the room from the door.
"Weird.." He scanned the perimeter of the ship - and saw something that caught his eye. "What is this?" The boy instantly climbed over a fallen table, to see a person on the other side. "Whoa!" He shouted, but clasped a hand over his mouth - the person wasn't moving.. oh damn...
"Hello?" He asked the alien, worried that they were dead - they looked very bloody, and didn't seem conscious. "Oh my.."
It was a girl - he saw - with a delicate figure.. she looked no more than fifteen - his own age - and she had beautiful, short hair - it was black from he could tell, and she was very lovely for a human. But... WAS she a human? She looked it enough...
"I'm going to get you outta here," the boy said to the girl, reaching for her body, but stopped as he saw ANOTHER person. "Oh - how many of you are there? I'll be right back.." he pulled himself back over the table, climbing towards the right wall.. a chair was fallen on top of this one - and as the boy pulled it aside, it was yet, another girl.
"Whoa.." the boy muttered as he saw the other alien child.. she was just as bloody as the last, and was unconscious as well. She looked a bit more muscular.. with blood red hair that lay about chin-length.. but he couldn't really tell, for it was fallen all over her face, and matted to her injured head.
"You guys are coming to my place," the boy said, thinking of his river-side home not too far from here. "My parents are away for the week - so you'll be okay."
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I awoke slowly... where was I? I wasn't confined in the walls of a spaceship anymore - I was lying... in a bed... moonlight pouring into the room through a window.
I sat straight up.. where was Seri? Where was I?!
I tried to jump out of bed, but my legs collapsed out from underneath me, making me swear loudly... my host must have heard me...
The door was cautiously opened - and I peered at a young boy.. he was dark, with brown, almost black hair. His eyes were a bright, blue color, and we just looked at each other - stunned.. not a word came out...
"Who are you?" I broke the silence. The boy jumped, but didn't answer my question.. instead - he talked to me in some language... "Hold on," I said, motioning from my battle suits pocket. Pulling out a gun-looking object, the boy burst out into furious sentences, starting to back out of the room.
"Stop!" I shouted, motioning for the boy to stay where he was. He hesitated as I tried to tell him it would be okay.
I pointed at the gun, then at my mouth.. I wasn't that great at this translating thing, was I?
"Now just hold still.. STILL," I said, aiming the gun at him. Before the boy could object, I fired the gun, and a greenish glow erupted from his skin.
He winced, but once he realized it didn't hurt, he relaxed a little bit.
Once the glow faded from his skin, I pulled open a side compartment from the gun, taking out a small shot needle.
I injected the thing into my arm, and put it back... this was the first time I had ever used this thing - a translating gun... would it work?
"C-can you understand me?" I asked the boy. He jumped, and nodded slowly. "It's okay... you can talk," I said.
"Um... hi," the boy answered.
"Where is my friend?" I asked him slowly.
"You're friend.. is in the other room..." he said. "You guys crashed, and you're pretty badly beat up.."
"NO, REALLY?!" I shouted unexpectedly. "Now, thanks to some damn asteroid field, we're completely off course!!"
"Calm down!" The boy urged. "Just relax.."
"Look, boy - you have NO idea what you're telling me to relax for," I growled at him.
"If you would TELL me.." the boy muttered.
"I would, but I have more important things to do than interfere in the life of a.. a - whatever you are!"
"I'm a human," the boy said, "And besides.. you should be thankful! If it weren't for ME, you wouldn't have been ALIVE to GET off course to wherever you were going! So I think you should be a little more respectful-"
"Don't mess with me!" I interrupted. "Now, tell me which way Earth is, or I'll.. I'll.. shoot you!"
Instead of nodding, terrified, the boy started to.. laugh..
"What's so funny?!" I demanded.
"Earth? You're not far from Earth.." the boy smiled weirdly, and continued. "You're on Earth right now!"
"I.. I am?" I muttered as the kid continued to laugh. "Stop it! Stop laughing at me!" I shouted, becoming irritated.
The boy stopped his small laughs immediately. "Sorry. So... where are you from?"
"I'm.. from out of the galaxy.." I said.
"Well.. I'm from here," he replied happily. "Um... Earth.."
Suddenly, the boy was shoved into the wall.
"What the-?!" He objected as he looked behind himself at the other girl, awakened.
"Seri!" I shouted. "What are you doing? He's not hurting anything!"
"I thought he was hurting YOU," Seri mumbled sheepishly. "Oops.. I think I dislocated my shoulder with that one.. Kaita - where are we?"
"We're on Earth, Seri!" I cried happily, "Isn't this lucky?!"
"Hey, um.. hello," the boy said to Seri, interrupting. Then he looked at me. "I can't understand her.. you know that - right?"
"Oh.. hai - Seri - inject this in your arm," I reached into my gun, pulling out an extra shot. Seri did as she was told - now able to understand the strange boy.
"Hey, Kaita? You think this guy can tell us where to find the 'peace-making' things?" Seri suggested, looking at the boy, who was still pretty awed that we were here.
"Oh, yes.. um excuse me.. are you a president of some sort?" I asked.
"No... and you're not blowing one up, either!" The boy said offensively.
"Why would we want to blow a president up? Did he do something to offend us?" Seri asked. She looked at me, and I just shrugged.
"No.. we want to see your president to talk to him about 'peace-making' tools," I answered.
"Peace-making tools?" The boy asked.
"He sure is dense, isn't he?" Seri said to me. Then she directed her talk to the boy. "Don't ask stupid questions."
"What do you want peace-making tools for?" He asked, ignoring the comment.
"If you must know.." I sighed, rubbing a bandaged shoulder. "Our galaxy is under attack, and we need to save it.. and Earth, apparently, has some things we need to destroy the bad guys with."
"Oh.. like what?" The boy asked.
"Um.. nuclear warheads, uzi's.. and.."
"-anas's!" Seri finished.
The boy stared at us. "You DO know... that Anas is an Egyptian NAME.. right?"
"A NAME?" I asked.
"An EGYPTIAN name? Huh?" Seri asked, our attention now fully on this boy.
"Yeah... Egypt - a country on Earth? ACTUALLY.. THIS country is Egypt," the boy said.
"It is?" Seri asked, looking shocked.
"Do you know anyone named Anas?" I demanded.
"Actually.. yeah... I only know one," the boy said thoughtfully, staring at the ceiling.
"WHO?! Where is he?" I asked, raising my voice impatiently.
"You're looking at him," the boy sniggered at the look on our faces... was this a joke?
"A-Anas?" I stuttered.
"Hello," Anas greeted. "Kinda unexpected isn't it?" He glowed. "I'M a peace-making tool! Little old me.. heheh.. I'm going to be sticking around a lot longer than you thought, huh?"