Distorting Star
Gladly she had accepted his invitation to share a seat. Many others might not have the Honor of a Guard to restrain themselves as Bodach had trained himself and his crew to endure.
Having followed her for so long as her personal guard since she was a toddler, becoming the team leader at the age of nine, she decided that their primary mission would be to protect her since she's more ambitious than other females.
Other females are usually kept on certain planets inside of a personalized castle that provides for all the needs a female would ever need as well as the utmost protection.
Many females leave only to find a suitable 'match' for their... Tastes... or plan to have many multiple 'matches' in case one gets killed.
Everyone of the female species, no matter the kind, does this for it is their instinct to do so...
But not Her.
Not since I grew up with her while I trained openly to be a soldier... she would do so in the shadows mimicking the experts as best as she could.
Though I do have to say... The amount of secret hiding places in a child's play sector!!!
She found so many!..
In an extremely security obsessed location it was outstanding!
Though now that I think about it... it was like she was too different from the others...
She would find the most plausible convincing reason to hide...
Like she needed more protection then what was provided... for some reason.
(Little Kyrniz, I will always protect you even if I can't be that person for you. I can judge who is though and help if you need it)
She has this "Buzz" about her... or a distorted aura that doesn't seem like it belongs to her from time to time... As she sits on my lap and I expertly fastens the harness to fit both of us I notice that her body seems like she pushed it too far and needs proper rest.
Placing my hand on her forehead, mainly to feel the frequency of the Buzz to determine her health, pulling her gently and coaxing her into my shoulder (I am a full head taller than her) as I half cradled her body so her head won't snap Incase of an emergency. Taking on the full (not so heavy) dead weight as she finally lost consciousness. Looking towards my team and surveying the Younger ones who kept glancing in our direction but as soon as they caught my eyes they turned around quickly.
Borrowing energy from the uncontrolled Buzz, that only my team can utilize to the fullest, I closed my eyes and saw and heard everything through a different perspective.
Everyone gives off a faint magnetic field and on certain frequencies can it be heard either distorted or musical if you add everything else.
Once secretly trained to be attuned to the music of the Universe via an adapter of sorts to resonate with, you will be able to do it by yourself if you know how.
(I know this state is a form of Tranquility that makes your body vibrate to a different frequency and all your cells in your body are moving and for the first few months is scary and hellish... Until you finally get used to your cells feeling like they are exploding and reforming at a rate faster than milliseconds for periods of time.
-I remember I found out unexpectedly about this state when I had to rescue her and we hid in close quarters with an unknown enemy. Needless to say, she lost control. Being the concerned bodyguard in training.. I ignored her warning and got zapped, hard, by the Buzz that surrounded her and quickly found out after I woke up and started shaking from the vibrations my body was experiencing.)
While syncing to her and helping the raging current to find a flow that surrounded her so she wouldn't be distracted... only made me get distracted...
I heard the whisper of the first few rows as they didn't want to wake her up as well as something odd in the distance where we were headed.
"So how'd you know what to do?"
"I was trained as a hacker before I was able to wield a weapon. Only my family and now the people on this ship know about it. I can also create new things inside existing programs that will never get found out unless I want them too." Pride radiated from the child who had hacked the Shuttle incase of emergencies.
"So what have you already made that is hiding?"
"Fail-safes mostly. I have a small device on me that can scramble signals or take over as my image on cameras so I can move freely. It can also do other stuff if I need it to." He shows his arm that has a strong magnetic field around a specific part in the shape of a keyboard.
"Oh Cool! It's a...it's...a.."
-Whack-
A crisp sound was made as someone was holding their head and pouting just a little bit.
"Tattoo. A tattoo is what it is called, and you say you're smarter than me!"
"That's because I am! SEE!" Paper rustled has a sheet got shoved into another kid's face. "This Mark Here Says So! Doubt You Have It! Because only smart kids get it!"
An arrogant tone sounded as if it was a matter of fact.
"... Well... We'll see about That!" The other kid whimpered in retaliation as he rustled through his bag.
Curious now the young kids all dug into their bags that were attached to the seats for their papers.
"Umm..... So who all has this odd mark on their paper?" The hacker kid asked.
"What's Wrong?" Bruno asked from in front of me to the younger kids who stared at their papers in confusion.
"I purposely failed.." The hacker replied
"I'm not that smart... I'm only good in the physical aspect...." The one who was whimpering just a second ago replied.
"Yea, so?"
"So how come I also have this Mark if it's only for smart kids?"
The sound of fear slowly gripped his voice, heart, and mind.
"!?!?"
Everyone turned to the kid with worried looks then to each other then to me and the sleeping female.
-Sighing-
I open my eyes and blink a few times to look serious at all of them.
"Raise of hand... who all has this Mark on their paper in the top right corner?"
Everyone's hand goes up, then our eyes drift to the sleeping female. Then mine drifted to the patch job of the Hacker and in my most serious tone.
"Hey! Hacker Kid!"
"Y...yes sir?"
"How confident are you in your fail-safes?"
"._."
Everyone became deathly quiet as the realization slowly made sense to all of them that something wasn't right.
"What's up Boss?" Fred asked from next to the other kid waiting for orders.
"There's something off...and we are headed straight towards it."
The Hacker perks up and his arm lights up as he activates his Tattoo that brings up a mini map of their current trajectory.
"...? It seems we're headed for the sun and are planning to do half a rotation to re-fuel... but that's the only thing that is along our course."
"Does that thing tell what state the star is in, in real time?"
"Of course! I'm not that much of a child!"
"-_-"
"It says it's pretty normal... for... a... giant red star?"
Carlos grew a grin on his face as the younger ones became slowly scared and confused and the other two closed their eyes and tried to resonate with the state to see what I meant.
"Hey! Everyone!"
"???"
"The Bullets Go Through The Heated Shafts! To Penetrate The Enemy Faster Than The Sword Can To Reach The Hide Of Our Enemies'! As They Run In Fear Of Our Might!" He said with enthusiasm and made the oddest of poses with every sentence.
-face palm-
I would throw something at that idiot if it wasn't for the harnesses and the multiple bursts of
*PFFfffft*
They all started to giggle uncontrollably at that simple stupid sentence.
Letting them have this moment I go to sleep in the R.S. so I would be in peak condition when shit hit the fan.
The small distortion slowly came closer as time went on and everyone else also took a nap.
But not until they locked everything down in any case of emergency.
~~~~~~back to the dream ~~~~~~~~
Mist envelopes me as I am embraced and held as every fiber of my being is shaking.
Going down gently into what looks like a crystal clear blue lake surrounded by an emerald green grassy field.
As my body slowly gets submerged into the water as the mist turns into swirling smoke atop the water that coats the surface like a shield.
The sinking sensation stops as I get washed over with a welcoming calming peace.
Even though I still sink and find it hard to control my descent or to ascend as I start to believe that I will run out of air.
But I cannot go up as the light from the surface gets farther away from me as something starts to faintly swirl around me, yet doesn't touch me, but still drags me down either way.
Not being able to see the bottom as the surface now looks like a small sun from a distant planet.
Small and round and I'm now down a watery rabbit hole that is now a darker blue than from the surface.
I feel the swirling water become solid like a shield surrounding me as I stop just before the dark blue water becomes two shades closer to black.
Something large rises up behind me. The feeling of a large predator behind its prey is one feeling that is hard to forget.
Its presence is heavy and lonely as it stays behind my line of sight, but envelopes the shield in a sort of hug.
A voice from the deep abyss resonates from within me from beyond the hardened mist but right behind me.
"You need to wake up before it's too late."
"Why? Here I feel no pain. Here ... I don't feel... broken." I ask in confusion.
"Do you want your friends to be ... Broken?"
"...Who??..My what?" Grogginess washes over me, slowly dulling all of my senses.
"... Ah it seems you are too tired to focus on the little one."
A relaxing feeling washed over me like ripples that felt like a really large heart beat.
"Rest... I will wake you when you are needed ... to deal with the coming explosion." His abysmal voice made my eyes grow heavy as I drifted into sleep.
Floating in a ball surrounded by nothingness in the Watery Abyss.
Delirium was now evident in my voice as I tried to stay away but couldn't help the grogginess, "Hehe it goanna go BOOM! And they don't know. It's gonna go BOOM! Boom! Boom, and POP! Hehehe you're a funny big person. What can a small little me do to something That Large?"
-Chuckle-
"Have you not been taught what you can do?"
"By Whom? Who would want to train a girl to kick arsenic?" I started to pout as my mind began to spin.
"Very Few it seems. When you wake up, take the energy like air and breathe out a lot of pulses. It's the only way to save them. Now rest, little one."
"okay-day." I whine
~~~~~somewhere else ~~~~~~
In the vastness of space a small mainly solar powered shuttle makes it way towards a gigantic ancient and still burning bright star to re-fuel, but little did anyone or any instruments could pick up that under the main flares on the surface of the giant sun the iron core was going through chemical changes that started to slowly collapse in on itself little by little as something that was even more 'Ancient' than 'it' was drawing ever so near.