Chapter 13 – Lucide

Lucide is standing on the bridge of his ship and is looking at the different screens around him. Every one of the screen represents a spyglass in each room of his ship. At this moment he watches at the screen that shows the room of the two Inna females. He is touching the back of his neck. It still hurts where that woman, Ning, had pushed her knees into the soft skin. Apparently they are talking together and he turns up the volume to hear what they are saying…

'I can't believe you actually forced that man into helping us sis', Skun says.

'Well, I had to do something. It was about time that we would make it to Oban. And we saw that if we were even a minute later Eva would have fallen to dead', Ning replies.

'I still think we are lucky that he brought us here, for the same matter he dropped us off on a distant planet.'

'Nah, I don't think so Skun. Back at Allaria I heard the rumour that he may be one of the old lost Race. Those folks were well known of their helpful nature.'

'Have so take a look around on this little spacecraft? You could actually start believing that he belongs to that race seen the technology.'

'Well sister, I will go to bed now, I'm exhausted of bugging Lucide around. Tomorrow another day and we also have to come up with a plan about what to do with the Avatar soon', Ning is yawning.

Lucide groans when he hears the plans of Ning. Tomorrow will be a irritating day again. Curious about his other 'forced-upon-companions' the man is turning his attention towards the other screens. One of the screens is in the large room where the beetle is staying. For a giant, blue bug the creature is amazingly intelligent and even polite. Now G'dar is sleeping deep and he makes a soft screeching sound every time he takes a breath. The poor animal is almost broken when he had to fly through the toxic air around Oban.

The two Earth boys are also fast asleep and so Lucide is skipping to the next screen. It's the room of Don Wei, the father of the young woman, and his ex-racer Rick Thunderbolt. They are clearly arguing about something and quickly he is tuning up the sound…

'….won't approve the king to be alone with my daughter!', Don shouts.

'You shouldn't be so worried my dear friend', the young man tries to calm him down.

'Every moment those two are alone in one room terrible things could happen!'

'And you think kissing is a terrible thing to happen to our little mouse?'

'Kissing? Kissing? They could decide to do much more then just kissing!'

'And you think having sex is terrible thing to happen to our little mouse?', Rick is repeating.

'What? Of course I think that's a terrible thing for her to happen. You saw what her old friend Jordan did to her? What if Aikka is just the same? Next to that is the Nourasian king! They can't do that, you know?', Don Wei is in total panic.

Rick is laughing about the hilarious mood his old boss is in at the moment. He looks like a pissed of bee and the buzzing is unbearable.

'Let's say for a moment do two of them are having sex at this very same moment, what…', rick is cut off when the manager jumps a few feet in the air.

'Are they having sex? NOW?', he sreams.

'I said: LET'S SAY!', Rick yells to be heard by the old man.

Finally Don is calming down and the both of them are sitting down again.

'Why are you against them Don?', Rick is tired of this conversation.

'I think I'm afraid that I'll lose my daughter all over again, Rick, and I don't think I can handle that', Eva's father sights.

When Lucide sees that this little fight is over, he turns towards the last three screens. One of the screens shows the image of the silent, black Spirit. That's an interesting creature the man thinks. He lies now his bed, his white face has retreated in the black fur and the alien is lying perfectly still. You almost think it would be dead. On the second screen he can see Canaan lying on his bed, but with his eyes wide open. He is also very concerned but not about Eva. He is worried about his young pupil and king, Aikka. This brings Lucide to last screen. The screen with the two young lovers.

'Unbelievable that Rush can use magic and cause earthquakes!', Eva is grinning.

'We couldn't believe it ourselves as well. If it wasn't for Spirit we all could be dead now', Aikka says.

'And poor Lucide with Ning… You guys actually had a good time together', mutters the young woman.

The king sees how sad Eva is and he carefully covers her hand with his. Eva can't help to it to back away from his touch. 'I'm sorry it's just my skin…', she comes up with an excuse. But deep in her heart she knows it is not her burned skin that made her back away. Only the thought of getting touched by someone scares her almost to death. Even when hear father kissed her on the cheek she saw the evil and foul grin of her former friend. She felt his lips burning on her cheek and not her loving father. Even now with Aikka se can't manage to see the king. The avatar is all she sees.

'I'm….I'm sorry king Aikka, but I'm really tired and would like to go to bed now', she whispers.

'It's ok my Earth Princess…', Aikka smiles and he walks out of the room.

Now that she is alone Eva starts crying. Why can't she forget the touch of her ex-gunner boy? Why does he has to go through those horrible weeks again? The doors opens again and she just wants to shout that he has to get away from her when she sees Lucide standing in the doorway.

'Is everything alright with you, my dear child?', he asks.