"That seems rather ridiculous."Opening my eyes I groggily wondered where I was. Looking about, I saw Rose and her crew and Nogard strapped to a bed. Shalimar and Wynn were fussing over Lord Avondale who appeared to be a little beaten up and Holly who looked like she went through a grinder. Xink, Xangord, and Nissa were missing. As I sat up, I felt the normal shake that indicated Nerissa Altsoba had jumped into slip stream. Yet seconds later, it began to rock and crash about.
Jumping off the med bed, I stumbled a little. Whatever had happened to me had made me a little dizzy. Shaking my head, I headed to command deck--stumbling now only when Nerissa shook uncontrollably from what felt like an inexperienced flier. When one large crash threw me to the floor, I thought,
Draco's tail, did they try to jump a slip fork?! One more incident like that and Nerissa'll be destroyed.Finally making it to the command deck, I demanded, "Who the HELL is flying my ship?!"
"Dragon, you're awake!" Nissa said, turning to look at me as everyone rocked forward a little as Nerissa was taken out of slip stream.
"Didn't you tell yourself I was storming up the hall?" I asked, glaring at the back of the head of the mysterious pilot. Looking back at Nissa, I said, "Nice threads 'n' hair."
Looking pointedly at the pilot, Nissa said, "Thanks. No, I didn't tell myself because I was concentrating keeping myself intact during the flight. The shakes would have been a lot worse than what you felt if I had not cushioned what I could."
"Great," I said, walking over to the pilot chair. "So, mind telling me who's trying to destroy my ship?"
Before I could reach the chair, Tikki and Ikkit grabbed a hold of my legs. As one, they said, "Dragon, wait. We can explain."
Looking down at them, I said, "I didn't think you two talked."
"That will be all you two," the pilot said. "You are dismissed."
Looking at the pilot, Tikki and Ikkit bowed. Looking at me nervously, they scampered off command deck.
"Mind telling me who you are and how you manged to get the two most stubborn of my ABC to obey you?" I demanded.
Turning, the woman looked at me for a moment. "My name is Niphaphone Keophonthepha--you may call me n** as few can actually pronounce
[+1] my name. As for those two....I am guessing it is because of this."
Suddenly, the woman transformed into a huge white tiger with orange eyes.
"Koopa can do that and they don't listen to her," I said as the woman transformed back. "She's a red tiger though."
Nerissa said, "Dragon, I think--"
"This makes the third time I told you not to run that diagnostic on me," n** said, looking at Nissa.
Although I knew she was supposed to be moving inhumanly fast, everything seemed to be moving quite slow. The woman was moving towards Nissa in an aggressive manner. Heading her off, I placed myself between Nissa and n**. Drawing one of the Dinos I placed the tip of it at the base of n**'s throat.
"Let her finish."
"Very well."
"Uh, okay," Nissa said. "Dragon, I think she's more than she seems. I can't get an exact read on her, but her base DNA reads as human...but it's mutated."
"Mind explaining?" I asked n**.
"No time," n** replied.
"Code black!" Nerissa announced through her PA system. "Reavers
[+2] have locked onto our location and will be here in two light seconds!"
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[+2] If you've never seen Firefly or Serenity, Reavers are people that have gone insane and mutilated themselves. When they find victims, they will rape the victims to death, eat the flesh, and sew the skins into their clothing. And if the victim is very, very lucky, Reavers'll do it in that order.