Been awhile...

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Well...I was just going to say we're ready to ship off, but...well!" Loki stood in the light, Ildi wasn't around at the moment. The Ferret had his hands in his pockets and stood in a rather relaxed and bored pose, but it didn't match the alarm and surprise on his face. "Good...job."

Pyran bent his knees, snarling fiercely, fangs bared and ears pressed back, slowly starting to lean forward over the edge of the platform, ready to lunge.

"You couldn't have at least restrained him though?" Neither Loki nor the soldiers looked happy about having the mass murderer free to roam.

"Touch me and I'll rip your head off, rat."

"Yes...very interesting." Loki shook his head, thinking for a moment. It didn't matter really he supposed. Pyran wasn't getting off the ship now unless he could somehow manage the controls of the teleporter and be on the platform at the same time. There was no getting off by the deck either. Stomach's gave a short drop as a loud hum started up--the ship's power source. The ship was rising. "Still, good work I suppose Hikari... Perhaps Azel might wish to see him. Or...wait, no...Lanza." Hikari was Loki's equal in rank and she was actually stronger than him in a fight, but that didn't stop him from acting like he knew what she should be doing. "He still carries the gem after all. That, at least, might merit her lady's attention."

Another intense growl in Pyran's throat. He didn't know what the heck this guy was going on about, but he didn't like it.

[Shukko]|]

"Th-thanks..." Hikari nodded, taking a step back from Pyran, she had no choice now. Below the platform there was another floor, a storage floor filled with boxes, there were stairs but it just led back up here, there was no way out. "Just do what they say..." Hikari whispered before she moved away from him fully, standing up straight like she was supposed to.

"I could take him Loki... After all, I caught him..." Hikari's voice was back the way it was supposed to be, all serious and commanding, she growled. "Unless you have a problem with that?"

[Pyre]

"Why would I? I'd honestly rather not deal with that thing. Look, just take care of it. We're shoving off here, I need to get back on deck..." It was night, his skills could come in handy. "Just be sure you do."

Loki turned away, out a separate door, some of the soldiers following, the rest staying at the teleportation room where they were posted for the rest of the shift.

"What's he going on about, Hikari?" Pyran hissed to the cat, saying her name with a dark touch of spite. "If you really didn't mean to send me here, fine. But if you lay a hand on me I'm removing your organs." He turned to follow her.

[Shukko]|]

"Lanza's our leader, a gem you have is a personal treasure of hers..." She turned and headed out the door, staying away from Pyran now. There went the whole idea of family, she had lost most of his trust because of an accident hadn't she? Hikari slowly lead him down the hall, through stairwells until the came to a pair of japanese sliding doors.

She opened them and walked forward into the room, on the other end was a curtain, barely see through, you could only see faint shadow's and candle lights, the rest blurred out because of it. This was oddly shaped like a japanese throne room, Hikari bowed halfway.

"Queen Lanza, I've brought Pyran to you... Along with another one of your gems..."

[Pyre]

Pyran walked uneasily alongside Hikari, a black feeling in his heart, but he walked as firmly as a general to his execution. But his ears were still back, thinking about what Hikari had said. Gem?

He was stopping before the curtain now, standing straight, still wearing a poker face while he thought back... Aura had given him a gem. Had that been it?



...Notice the word "had."

[Shukko]|]

"Another one? Then that makes four of my stolen treasure's..." A heavenly voice emitted from behind the curtain suddenly, the they opened and the nine-tailed Kitsune stood there, the true leader of Sky Corp was just right feet away from Pyran now.

"Hello Pyran, nice to meet you for the first time..."

[Pyre]

Pyran staggered back, his heart giving a jolt, much to Pyran's dislike. He didn't like feeling weak for one thing. For another, it hurt when his heart did that.

"Yea...you know, I honestly can't say the same," he said coldly, taking a step back. "Though I admit...it is somewhat of a satisfying idea...that I should be in the same room as the being who made Relka sick, apparently abducted my daughter, nearly annihilated my soul, and has repeatedly tortured me..." His voice rose to a growl.

[Shukko]|]

"Oh... Heh, Relka got sick from her father... So, you can't blame me for that... and Hikari we saved from an explosion, we found her and helped her recover... Now, damaging your soul and torturing you? Well, most of that was Druyin's idea, and you chose to fight... So, we must fight back... You have no reason to make those claims..." Lanza was right, she had found away to pin the blame on someone else and make sure Pyran had no right to blame her at all, there was no way.

"Besides, you can't touch me... There's an electrical field..."

Hikari looked blankly at Lanza. "What would you like me to do with him?"

Lanza just blinked and smiled softly. "If he wants, get him regenerated... No cells, maybe a nice room... But, Pyran... We'll be making sure that you don't wander our ship..."

Hikari bowed again and the curtain closed, blocking out their view of Lanza, she turned to Pyran. "I'm sorry... But lets go, I don't have a choice here..." She said sadly.

[Pyre]

Pyran ignored her pointedly, his red eyes intensifying, his white-tipped tail lashing and his claws extending as he poured out as much malice and hate as he possibly could in a single gaze at Lanza. "I'm not through here yet..."

He took back the step he'd taken away, moving forward now, but to what end wasn't clear. "Okay, let's get a few things straight here, you leg-lifting, butt-sniffing dog. First off, I don't like you. For another thing, it's not like I can exactly get off the ship so I don't see what your problem is. And Druyin had absolutely no part in GUN's latest slaughter-fest of me, now did they? And according to Hikari here, you took her from Relka, which would seem to say that you left Relka to die. Is this not correct?"

His tone grew sharper, more like a bark with every word, his eyes starting to glow and...a power flowing from his sword at his waist. Something he had never felt before.

"So just stop making bloody excuses. Now what's this about a gem?"

((Heh, just putting in a reminder to myself really, but Pyran's about to be interrupted))

[Shukko]|]

There was no answer, just light laughs was the only response to Pyran. Not even Hikari could take this, not from Pyran, Lanza was still her leader and she'd follow her. "Dad! Now! You have no idea what your talking about!" She had ignored his eariler warninig not to touch him, her hand surged with a small bolt of plasma, which she immediantly lashed out for his arm.

"Let's go!"

[Pyre]

"Ah!" Pyran snapped his arm away, but the plasma had already burned through the bandaging on his right hand, or part of it, leaving a blotched bleeding burn. "Hikari, I don't care if you are my daughter, I will--!"

"Saylo, Cyan, or that freakshow dead guy, you there?"

Pyran's eyes went wide, he froze in his deadly stance. The voice, he knew that voice. It came too loud, too close.

"This'd better be good! Oof! AH!"

Another voice. Pyran's eyes moved to his side, slowly going down his body to a bulge in his trench coat. Hesitantly he reached for it as it continued to yell.

"Is he...what is he doing?!"
"What are you doing, retard? We leave you for maybe five minutes and what the heck are you getting yourself into now?!"

Pyran withdrew the black com, and slowly brought it towards his face, his red eyes flashing to Hikari, then to Lanza. He licked his lips, then his frustrated, tormented own voice hissed through the com. "I...HATE...you...all." Why didn't this thing have an off button!? They were going to give themselves away!

"Ah gosh....look...nevermind, we'll talk later. We're in, that's all you need to know. You contact us. Over and out." Kraden had undoubtedly been speaking to Saylo for that part. Now Pyran, who originally had had no part in this, would likely pay for it.

[Shukko]|]

Hikari blinked and Lanza just laughed again at Pyran, he made a mistake now and he was going to pay for it. "So... You and your friends and trying to trick us...? Heh... That deserves punishments..." The lights in the throne room blinked off and the doors suddenly closed, there was total darkness not even the two cat's night vision would help much here.

Suddenly a glowing red band appeared in front of Pyran, about the same size of his collar, it expanded, floated over his head then lowered, shrinking back to normal size around his neck.

Then when the lights blinked on they were in another hall in the ship, Lanza's voice just spoke to the two, sicne she wasn't there. "Do anything wrong Pyran, and you'll suffer..."

[Pyre]

Pyran lowered his stance further, his head snapping around as he heard the doors slam shut. But...he couldn't...

He snapped his head back around to see the light. He didn't even have time to realize what it was before the red metal was tight around his neck, fortunately a thinner band than his collar, nestled right above his own. But suddenly Pyran's breath was frantic, his heart was running, his mind was screaming. No, no, no, no!

It had taken him a split second too long to react and now a wild shout mixed with a hissing snarl ripped from his throat, his hands scrambling against the metal at his neck, at both of them! He wasn't thinking clearly, just rage and panic overwhelmed him and Pyran's claws were digging in against them. It looked almost like he was having a seizure, closer to a panic attack. His neck already had a hole in it, how much more could it take?

[Shukko]|]

Through the red band of metal faded into thin air, becoming invisible and non-exsistant, it was there, but it didn't exsist at the sametime, probably some SkyCorp trick that had been used on Pyran.

"Don't worry, it's gone..." for now anyway... She reminded herself, she didn't feel like talking to Pyran now, she wanted to help him and calm him down, but alot of emotions had blocked those thoughts out now.

"Want me to take you to a room...?"

[Pyre]

Pyran stopped abruptly, his chest still moving frantically up and down, his teeth gritted and his eyes distant. Slowly they fixed on Hikari again. A growl rose up in his throat and he privately vowed never to trust some "great family friend of the future" ever again.

"Yea...sure, whatever. To tell you the truth I almost think I'd prefer the cell. What's the difference anyways? One just has more the appearance of being trapped." He cast Lanza one last black look before turning away towards the door. It was amazing what a simple collar could do to turn a rabid feline into a reluctantly obedient dog.