Raptor One – Chapter 105
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Walking through the snow and trees with leisure while talking with La’mos as we track the direction of the pack colony on this tundra biome we move forward deeper into the forest where howls echo and roars ensue.
Right now I'm taking a break, letting La’mos restore her energy after a full day of walking, the pack we are tracking moved very far this despite their small bodies as a full day of tracking did not help us get to their location, at least not yet.
I sigh and look at the small hole I made for La’mos to sleep, she have eaten before going to sleep on this silent night, I kept myself seated besides the crate, my ears sharp for enemies as I take a more relaxed stance before doing some maintenance on my lightsaber and guns, the lightsaber was very new and hard to understand due to the change made by the Oracle network, but I managed to do maintenance to it with my power and knowledge, the lightsaber is just like the one on my vision, a half black and half white split lightsaber with a krait dragon pearl cleanly split in half, despite being in half, it still works at full power specially when in double lightsaber mode where they are closer to each other, the materials used for the lightsaber can be considered artefact materials as even I with the knowledge of metals don’t know the materials, it’s not even advanced neo alloy...
The two USCM4 however where easier to do maintenance and reload before letting it levitate behind my back, some hand motions and the magazine is easily reloaded and the gun racked, ready to fire at any enemy.
The feeling of silence I’m getting from this forest is not a good sign as I keep my attention sharp to any potential enemy that may reach us, earlier I heard conflict, the sound was the wolfs and some other animal pack fighting each other as they try to dominate or conquer each other territory, the silence make it clear the wolfs lost, just hope they don’t come my way.
As the time pass some more I manage to hear the balance of the forest returning to a flimsy but manageable peace, so I get into meditation, my mind moving deeper into the archonexus but my ears sharp to allow for me to react to potential enemies, even when if I'll be disoriented due to forceful ejection from the archonexus.
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Waking from a tranquil meditation at 6:00am, I open my eyes and feel the power flow on my body, I can feel my psionic capacity reaching it’s end, I'm almost there but some days short of reaching the end before focusing on other skills.
I sigh as I get up, reaching my hand for the untouched crate to remove the snow out of it before opening it to see it’s contents.
It’s untouched.
I nod my head as I see that the egg is incubating like normal with no problem before closing the crate again and looking at the sleeping La’mos, my hand reaching her and softly shaking her off her sleep, something she don’t take kindly for some reason as she reacts very violently, so much I had to coax her with a hug and some patting to the head so she could relax again, after some time she relaxed as I felt her emotions return to normal as she separates from me with a red face.
She chirps some words making me chuckle.
“Niet, don’t worry, I know there would be some trauma on you, I just did not know where.” I say with another chuckle as I pat her head before taking a container of food ration from my cloak before giving her, which she thanked me before eating her fill.
While she ate, I did some rearranging of my inventory, the pouches inside my cloak are big, too big for small items, but better have more space than needed instead of needing it and not having.
10 minutes later La’mos and I are ready so we resume our journey to the avali colony, the tracks are already covered and the smell have already dispersed, but with some knowledge I can get the journey area, despite being nomads we avali don’t stray too far from a given route so with some looking... Aha! Found it.
We can reach the colony by the signals marked on their given territory.
Walking was very uneventful, no howls, no fights, just the sound of wind and the feeling of snow as we move forward for 4 hours before taking another stop to let La’mos take a breath, 20 minutes of resting later we are off again for another 4 hours of walking as we track the pack down with no events.
And to our surprise we finally arrive at our destination as we leave the thick forest and reach a clearing full of white tents and singing and talking at the speed of light...
I forgot avali are very active...
I chuckle after giving a scowl and shaking my head before hushering La’mos forward as we walk into the colony.
We get some interested looks due to being new... And my size, for a normal avali being 1 meter of size is the most they can reach, but here I come with 145cm of size, I'm basically a titan between dwarfs, one that’s carrying a big metal crate as if it’s nothing while not using combat exoskeleton too.
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I ignore the stares as we walk forward closer to the central tent where the pack leader should be, but we are stopped by a angry chirp from behind.
I stop and look at the lil bro that’s talking angrily at me with a white lightsaber in hand, a blank crystal, beginner, probably a padawan or something.
I look at the lil guy and give a grunt as a response to his anger before resuming my walk to the central tent, La’mos that was so chirper deflated due to the angry bird following us so she took refuge under the right side of my cloak as we walked.
My ears twitch at the sound of a lightsaber activating, and I automatically deflect the lightsaber swing with my own as it came in a way that would damage the crate, egg, and hurt La’mos so I finally stop and look at the avali with the lightsaber in hand, my own emitting a dark looking light as the other side of my lightsaber activates, the floating USCM4 on my back making a *KA-CLACK* sound as the bullet enter the chamber of my guns, my hostile stance clear.
I feel him gulp dry saliva as we lock eyes, he understands that I'm not a novice as we enter a tension filled moment, some other avali taking out their coilgun pistols as my anger starts becoming wrath.
Before things escalated to a killing spree another avali walks normally to the side of the young avali and whacks his head before bowing to us.
His chirps of apology releasing my wrath back into it’s custom made prison as I nod with a grunt, my lightsaber deactivating as I holster it back into my side.
“You know, someone with a black aura don’t mean he’s bad, life is not about black and white, life is about finding what type of gray you are, as you can see, I am a darker type of gray, but I would never attack innocents nor kill those that aren’t worthy.” I say as my mask release a hiss of red cloud before resuming my walk to the center tent.
“You are right...” A soft male voice reach my ears as I walk, a look gives out the person, it’s the veteran jedi. “Despite your black aura, you seem more like a Jedi than a Sith, while you, disciple of mine, looked more like a Sith than a Jedi...-”
I tune out the reprimand of the veteran jedi and focus on my surroundings, there’s avali of all sorts of colors here, most have the size lower than 1 meter as they talk lively with one another, the curious looks never stopped despite the tension less than a minute ago, on the contrary, their curiosity peaked along with their interest on me, if it wasn’t for my no touch no talk aura I would have some avali trying to talk with me.
It does not hinder the daring ones though as the veteran jedi and his disciples called for my attention.
“Chto?” I say in slight annoyance to their continuous calling.
“Cheto? What’s that? A plant? Anyway, how did you get your lightsaber?” The young one ask me.
“One question at a time, I don’t like talking at the speed of light...” I say slight annoyed with a pause. “I got my lightsaber from a deceased force user, twin sister of my love and pack member.” I say with fondness at the memory of Zu.
“So it was from another force user... What happened to her?” The veteran asked.
I shook my head before floating my lightsaber to him, he took the lightsaber and looked at it with confusion.
I gave a sigh. “You should be able to feel it’s memory, it’s inside the oracle network, try to feel it.” I said and gone silent.
“Oracle network? Feel the memory? You say mysterious words which I don’t understand.” The veteran said.
Looks like he don’t have any deep training.
I shake my head before pulling my lightsaber back and placing it on my holster. “You know if the oracle wish for it.” I say with a sigh, the oracle are more active with some, less with others, and not at all with most.
Reaching the central tent at last with a happy La’mos at my side and two force users as escorts I stop to look for the pack leader, normally he’s more decorated than the rest...
After a short sweep of my vision I find no one on my part of the tent that appear over decorated, so I walk further inside.
Further inside I easily find the one I was looking for and walk to his or her from.
Stopping in front of... The female pack leader I give a nod.
“Privet, are you the pack leader?” I ask after the nod, the metal crate still on my shoulder.
“Hello there stranger, yes, I am the pack leader of this small colony, how can I help you?” She say with a smile and a nod.
“I came here to leave this fella here in your care, her name is La’mos, she had a very bad life and was rescued some time ago, she was not this clean and happy some days ago however.” I say with a sigh, my mask releasing a hiss as well.
“What happened?” The pack leader ask me with a serious look.
“Victim of bad people, let’s keep it at that, I also got a fertilized egg that’s hers that need looking, I did some check ups on it and it’s healthy.” I say while placing the metal crate besides me.
She moved to it and tried to open it but did not manage to open it, the other two tried to help but also failed making me chuckle, La’mos chirps calling me strong did not help either.
I decided to open it myself when they looked at me, and with a simple hand movement the metal crate opened to show plenty of nutrient paste, 75 units to be exact and a egg and it’s incubator.
After taking the incubator on my hands and looking at it for one last time I gave a nod and gave it to the pack leader, La’mos looking afraid as it was handled by the pack leader like a heavy thing.
“Don’t worry La’mos, she won’t drop it.” I said and caressed her head, her worried chirps fading as she closes her eyes in contentment.
I give the pack leader a look and she nods at me.
“Don’t worry, I'll take care of the two.” The pack leader nodded at me before calling for help with the incubator.
“Spacibo pack leader.” I say before taking my tricorder and activating my encoded beacon and using my tricorder like a walkie talkie.
“Captain Omega to ICW – Tenacity.”
The moment I said those words the pack leader and the others looked at me with surprise.
“Captain, Commander Zu speaking, pilot Nail just launched and will retrieve you in 10 minutes, how was the send off?” Zu asked me.
“Da, it was a success, La’mos is secure and well received, how’s the ship?” I said while looking at the little ones.
“Boring.” Four voices came from my tricorder.
“Privet devushki.” I say with a chuckle.
“Privet!” They say in unison before I close the connection, I don’t want to hear whining.
“So, I'll be gone soon, thanks for your help pack leader.” I say with a nod before walking out of the central tent and into a open area big enough for the drop module before sitting.
I left the metal crate on the central tent while La’mos followed me and sat besides me.
Her chirps asked me if I was leaving and I nodded before the silent came.
It did not last as soon Nail came flying in grass cutter style before landing smoothly in front of me.
Getting up and shaking the snow off me I gave a sigh, my mask hissing along with it as I walked to the open drop module, Nail was sitting on the open cockpit and waved at me.
“Hello there Captain, need a ride?” She said with a smirk.
“Privet tovarishch, yes I do, let’s go?” I said with a nod as I moved inside the drop module.
La’mos ran to me and gave me a hug and said thanks before letting me go and walking down the ramp.
I gave a chuckle and waved at her as the ramp moved back up before closing.
Minutes later I was back on the ship...