Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin only raised and eyebrow, then completely let go as he slid off the bed, picked up his jacket and went to the door. He stopped before he could touch the door, and pivoted around to face Tabby on the bed. "All I know about you is that you find exotic things attractive, that you're a bounty hunter, and that when I try to make it up to you: all I get is sarcasm, or a blade at my neck, or the anger you just showed a few minutes ago. I realized my issues when you explained them to me, and I am grateful for that. But as far as I know, you have a fetish for people that act like 'fireballs', and you're trying to mold me into someone through a series of trial-and-error tests." his voice was surpringly level and calm, as his posture showed rage.

It was also visible that she was very annoyed at how he suddenly called her out, despite the small pangs that came with knowing there was some truth to his words.

"I just thought the knives were unnessecary for sex, which I doubt you wouldn't be annoyed if I did the same to you."

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie nodded her head in respect, meeting Shivan's gaze warily "I will be fourty four this year..." She spoke matter of factly, as if her growing age was no problem or inconvenience. Tail flicking in mild agitation, she licked her lips, still under close scrutiny by Shivan's piercing eyes...



Blaze gave a wide grin, ducking his head under the edge of the panel to look "Yup... She can strip, re-assemble and polish up any vehicle you care to give her..." He ducked back out, only just dodging a metal ring that rolled away across the hangar deck, clanking on the steel flooring.

"Best Mechanic I ever saw, she Is..." Kneeling down, Blaze ducked back under the rim of the open panel, peering into the murky gloom of the ship's underbelly. He caught a glimpse of Tess from behind, bent over and tail in the air, wrenching hard on a tangle of old electronics... He ducked back out again, a pinkish flush spreading up his cheeks as he attempted, and failed, at nonchalance...

[Entaru]

Nero grinned slightly at the officer.  "You know...I have no clue.  At this point I may just have to start looking myself."  His grin widened to the point where the sides of his face actually tore open...allowing it to go even farther.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The elevator stopped, as the power in that small contained section of the sphere died. The heat seemed to rise, and something formed of white heat began to coalesce. It was growing beside Leo, and he could hear its breath.
"The dark was here," its voice was strained out, but growing stronger as the being formed tighter and denser.





Tabby pressed her paws to her forehead, rubbing down over her eyes.
"You know what? I'm tired of you. I don't want fireballs, I want men, and you aren't that." she sighed, zipped up her top, and then smacked the side of a fist to the wall. She licked her lips and stared at nothing. "Just... get out of my room. Let's get this job done."





Shivan snapped her beak in satisfaction.
"Ahh I see." Smiled and toyed with the wolf's ears. "So you were only a child back then. Nineteen years old, no doubt following orders when you abandoned your career, for a murderer." Her tongue could be seen, sliding up the inside of her upper beak, and then she breathed a sniff of a laugh. "You konw, there is dispute over whether he just killed a lot of people, or whether it was actual genocide."



David gave a little smirk as Blaze caught a glimpse of Tess. He leaned in close and whispered to him.
"So she's not your girlfriend, then, but you want her to be." He grinned wide, but as he turned to look back, he caught a glimpse of the huge fox striding his way.
"Hey David, what's all this?" David almost shrunk, and he struggled with words.
"Errm... we're fixing the ship. This kid's friend is helping us out."  He looked around, eyes darting, searching for escape routes.
"Brilliant, well, I was thinking, maybe we could stay for a little while," Reggie said, and David lock a bemused glance at him. "This place is nice."
"You mean, the people are nice," David replied, making Reggie smirk, which turned into a full grin.
"Yeah, the people are very nice." David sighed, shook his head.
"Alright then, well you go back to your new bed-buddy, and I'll sort this out," he said. Reggie nodded in agreement, then turned to the ship.
"I'm just gonna get some stuff from my room, 'kay?"




The officer seemed to just slightly drop his shoulders, as the possibility of Nero wreaking havoc played in his mind.
"Well maybe you can try different avenues before anything like that is required."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin looked at the clock near the bed, then nodded as he walked out the room. "We are now entering the atomosphere, please have something to grab onto." Was all that Chronin heard before he was sent off his feet and right into the bottom half of the pilot's chair.

Jetho had already grabbed onto the bar next to his bed so he didn't suffer a smiliar fate, not even remotely concerned as to how the other two are doing...

[KittKat chunky~]

Frowning, Annie watched Shivan with growing concern, the tip of her tail flicking with anxiety "I am not sure quite what you mean, miss... What murder would this be?"



Blaze grinned, rubbing a paw across the back of neck bashfully "Eh... Every guy has his dreams I guess..." He watched as Reggie strode over, keeping quiet as they spoke... At the mention of the people at the carrier being nice, Tess leaned out of the open panel, giving a cheery thumbs up at Reggie... Her smile faded however, as he walked towards the ship, especially when he mentioned 'his stuff'... She cringed, quickly scurrying back inside the ship's underbelly....

[tangletail]

Leo blinked when the elevator stopped pressing the button again growling to himself "Ugh, What a tease, just left quarentine now this?!" before he could do anything else the power went out along with the lights, now slameing his head on the door a few times before noticeing the change in the heat then the voice. Now startled he turned around wandering if another one of the extra ordinary beings made its way inside. Nervoulsy pullign out his flash light flicking it on he was hopeing that he was just halucinateing from stress only to prove himself wrong as his face shrivled into a dreadful frown "The... dark?" he asked nervously.

[Entaru]

"And what avenues do you suggest...that don't involve waiting.  I am a very impatient creature and the longer I stay put without something in my agenda getting done, the antsier I get."  Nero glared at the officer impatiently.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin couldn't tell if they landed, as his sight only covered the area he just slid along and the hallway he was just in. Luckily, he was able to get up and notice that his ship landed on a thankfully flat plateu that decended only a good ten feet before leading towards a mountain range that was covered in jungle growth. Going from a swamp to a jungle, well at least its habitable he mumbled before opening the landing ramp and opening both doors.

"Jetho, 'Tabbs', we're all moving out. Anyone who has a problem with that will be left behind when we take off." He went down the ramp and leaned against the nose of the ship as Jetho got off and made his way down the plateu, stopping just far enough so the others can catch up. It took him a few moments in his near-emotionless haze to realize that he was in some pain. He reached towards the source of pain, and felt two knives sticking out of his jacket while the cuts they left were a milimeter deep at best.

"Ma'am, I believe these are yours." He slid the knives out of his jacket and handed them to Tabby, who was apparently still sour at him, but took the knives back. She then nudged Chronin to move, but found that he was not moving in the slightest simply because he was weighed down by nearly two-hundred pounds of armor. She growled under her breath before going down the plateu to join Jetho, and only then did Chronin finally move to jump over the decent and end up in front of the two.

"There are three peaks we have to inspect, our targets could be hiding out in any of them. Hope you can keep up..."

[x]

Stars fell to dust, and passion to nil. Chassity and her love, forever unrequited, grew cold over the next day, despite her not even knowing the definition of cold emotion. All she knew was that something was wrong, and she didn't like it. As she filled the day cleaning and organizing the furthest edges of the ship, to avoid him, he similarly tried to avoid her. Locked up tight in his study, set to a chilling temperature of 45 degrees, he read. He read about places he had already been to, and places he newly would like to venture to. They were all marvelous ventures in memory and imagination, but there was one certain 'tourist attraction' that caught his eye most of all.

Something called the Everflame.

Where it was...

Who owned it...

How it came to be...

He did not know. But at the moment, it sounded like the most satisfying destination he'd ever heard of.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Shivan's smirk fell into a sharp stone beak
"You know exactly what I'm talking about, Miss Yantova. The entire squad went into hiding over it. Two of your squadmates deied, and your commanding officer was injured and arrested." She was vicious, and looked almost ready to leap at Annie, giant talons bared. "I'm talking about the events on the GA Demolition, where you aided in the escape of Daray Mabaton and his accomplices."



David winced as Reggie disappeared into the ship. He grabbed Blaze by the arm.
"Okay, first, that girl in there is not a dream, she's reality. If dreams were reality I'd be a happy man because that fox who's banging your mum is gonna charge out of that ship and kill me." He looked the boy in the eyes. "I need you to distract him, please," he said, gripping Blaze's shoulders.



"The dark," said the voice. "The opposite, the shunned fool." There was almost laughter, flowing out of the walls, until it focused and Leo could light gathering beside him into a bestial form. "I can feel him." the breath was made of fire.



The officer frowned, trying to gauge Nero. "Well sit a little tighter and we will probably help your agenda when we can."



Tabby leapt off the ship, and jogged in front of them all, staring from one peak to another.
"Wait... three peaks?" Lights seemed to blaze in her head, more and more, one by one. "Holy heck, I know this place!" She started to run, but stopped, eyes wide. "I know where they are." She turned around, but was bouncing enough, needing to move, needing to run. "They're not on the peak, but they're close to it, and they're not hiding, they're visiting. Follow me!" She bounced and charged through the foliage, flinging herself past thick bush and forest. her lithe body weaving easily through it all.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin was at a loss for words, she apparently knew where they are, who these people are, and where they would be found. He chased after her, but kept his rifle at the ready in case Tabby was going to get ambushed. He did not realize however, that Jetho was not following either him or Tabby as they went through the jungle...

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie frowned, but kept a calm resolve as she met Shivan's viscous stare "I believe you must be mistaken... If you would check my Mechanicus files, as I am sure you have, you will see that I joined the company less than twenty years ago on Solar ViracusII. Before then I was working with my late husband on a mining barge..."

 Her chest rose and fell rapidly, the only sign of the building tension encircling her mind "You must have me mistaken for somebody else, for my records show no military service Miss..." Thoughts tumbled through Annie's mind as she spoke, all overlaid with a voice from the past, her father reciting an old saying "You may run as fast and for as long as you wish, but the past catches us all in the end kid..."





Blaze looked from David's pleading gesture, to the maintenance hatch of his ship, to the entrance where Reggie's tail had just disappeared around the corner. He groaned, pulling out of David's grip "Fine... Fine, but I reckon you owe me one after this..." With that he broke into a run towards the ship, tapping away on his wrist-datapad.

"Hey Reggie!" Finally Blaze caught up with him, panting and between the fox and his room "My mum just sent you a message... Sorry, I already read it.." He handed over a thin data-pad with the message on:

---Annie Yantova, Mum---
--- Had to send this thru Blaze, meet u at mess hall for some lunch, then we can continue what we left off ;-)  Blaze can show u where the hall is, Cya ---

Blaze shrugged, looking up at Reggie "I'l show you where the Mess hall is then... Sounds like she wanted to see ya real bad..." He grinned slyly, resisting the urge to wink...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Tabby dove past trees, and bounded across the hills with a smile on her face. At times she'd stop, climb to the highest point on a nearby tree and get her bearings before leaping to lower branches of other trees, heading to the northern most peak. Jumping down to the forest floor, she set to running again, until the ground gave way to something soft, something that moved. The smile went. She grabbed her guns, and leapt back to climb the tree.
"Get off the ground!" she yelled to Chronin.





Shivan's talons on the end of her hands crushed the dead wolf's skull, leaving it torn and mishapen. She looked down at it, then at her hand, and seemed to calm. Her face relaxing, her hand stroking the broken wolf.
"I'm not here to arrest you, though I could convict you simple for lying to me. You're a good person, and I don't like imprisoning good people." She looked up in Annie's eyes, holding her to the spot with her stare. "I'm giving you an opportunity. You can let me arrest you for aiding the escape of one of the worst criminals in the galaxy, or you can help us catch people who truly deserve punishment."




David gave a smile of relief and turned to Tess.
"Yeah if you could finish that asap, that would be great. I'm off to hide for a little while." He pulled out a datapad, and laid it beside her. "Here's how to call me when he's gone, see ya!" He waved and ran across the hangar.

Reggie looked back at the boy, then at the pad.
"Huh, okay then. Well I've just gotta go check and get something from my room. Tell her I'll be there soon." He winked and headed onwards through the ship.

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie sighed, her shoulders visibly loosing their military-drilled posture. Her tail flicked one as she glanced from the abhorrent  wolf-skin, and then back to Shivan. She sighed again, paws still held sternly behind her back "Fine... You have me listening..."





Tess frowned, looking from David to the datapad. She shrugged "Sure... I call you when the heat dies down..." With that she turned back to the ship, kicking RUST-E  as she went "C'mon you bucket of bolts, lets try and get this thing fitted..."



Blaze blanched, grinning and jumping in front of Reggie again "You sure you cant come now? I just kinda wanted to meet someone myself, an' I'm kinda late as it already..." He looked up at Reggie, internally gulping. If it came to trying to physically stop the fox from getting into his room, he didnt have a gnats chance in space...