And Chapter 1: Thealle
“The Operation won’t commence in another five days” said a dark man walking down a corridor, the darkness steadily covering his face, the stars twinkling lightly in the background.
“We cannot risk making mistakes” said a woman who was walking behind the dark figure.
“Indeed we cannot” the dark man said “how about your friend? Is she reliable?”
“The Lieutenant is nothing to worry about, she will do her job, and I will make sure of it.”
“Good then I bid you good luck on your coming endeavor”
“In this case Admiral … I don’t need luck”
“Then I bid your mission success…” the dark man walked into a room as the door slid closed.
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It was a
slow morning at the capital of Venus, the lone city of
Dylan Thealle was a usually nice person, didn’t talk that much really but he had friends that he adored, accepting the fact he’d always attract attention by being the lead Admirals son. It wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle in life.
Dylan stared blankly out the window, he always wanted to be become a ship pilot, to be in the heart of battle, exhilarating as it was to him, he didn’t like violence all that well.
“How long have you been sitting there?” Dylan heard a voice call behind him, he lifted his head up, and he knew right away who it was. Her delicate face was reflecting off the glass he had looked through. Dylan gave a good smile and turned around.
There standing a little ways away was his younger sister Rogan, Dylan was always protective of her, but they never had their disputes, they loved each other with a great bond. Rogan was a lot more a brighter person than he was, getting high test scores on almost everything and quite popular around the school, even though she hated having so much attention just as her brother did.
“Three hours now” Dylan replied finally as Rogan’s face went soft and she took a seat just across from him. The school was empty at this time, no one dared to wake up so early and classes didn’t start till another 2 hours, but something seemed to have caught Dylan’s attention that had lead him to linger here so early in the morning.
“What’s the matter?” Rogan asked softly. “Don’t tell you saw aliens again”
“Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t” Dylan replied a soft chuckle; he remembered now just why he was here. Dylan had seen something weird, but how could he of forgotten such a thing?
“Great don’t tell me your retarded now” Rogan said with a small giggle.
Dylan dismissed his bad memory and came back into life. “Why are you up so early for?”
“I umm…”
“You saw it too didn’t you” Dylan said quirking an eyebrow.
Rogan shook her head in denial. “Saw what? I didn’t see anything”
“Don’t lie” Dylan pushed with a raising eyebrow and a small grin.
Rogan just shook her head softly and blurted “Well fine… I didn’t want to seem crazy like you are”
“I can read it in your eyes” Dylan said with a chuckle and lying back on the couch.
“You can read lots of things!”
“It’s my perk.”
Rogan giggled under her hand and rose to her feet “Alright, what did you see?”
“What you saw, blinking lights in the air after curfew” Dylan said absently, he was staring out in the hall blankly.
“It went past my window… these things seem to be common occurrences, Thitaya’s been lecturing me all morning about space aliens and how these things are just figments of our imagination that happen cause of loss of sleep.” Said Rogan tiredly sitting beside her brother
“Is that why you didn’t go back to sleep?”
“Who could after that?”
Dylan chuckled as a boy walked over the corner grinning as he approached Dylan and his sister. Too happy about everything and a moron… Dylan said in his mind, the man was the dumpy asshole known as Skye Rylek
“So what would the most popular joint in all of Venouslea doing up so early?” said Skye with a stupid grin, clearly nudging at Rogan. “Rogy?”
“Not this time Skye” Rogan said pushing Skye back with her hand and shaking her head.
“Oh come on! Trying to do something nice!” Said Skye stupidly
“Ahh go back to sleep” said Dylan
“Cavalry’s arrived” said Johnson Carnan, who was coming from the other hall, with Kanya Kijua. Seemed everyone was starting to wake up already.
Johnson was a lover boy, Dylan’s loyal friend and a good pilot; they used to be fly boys back at flight school he with the nickname “Carn”.
As for Kanya, she was another pilot, one of the aces aside from his class back at flight school. The known crazy butt Thai pilot that would rather ram another fighter rather than shoot it.
Kanya shook her head a smile and pulled Skye off Rogan and shoved him away lightly. “Try someone else for a change Skye”
“Well you don’t look too bad yours-“Kanya stuck her hand up over her shoulder and fingered Skye before he could finish his sentence. A hardy laugh circulated the halls
“Ahh you guy’s suck” said Skye who chuckled and left the room.
“So what are you siblings up to now?” said John.
“Ahh don’t mind us” Rogan said with a chuckle and laid back.
“I didn’t think you two would wake up so early” said Dylan
“It’s not that early” giggled Kanya.
“What’s with all the ruckas?” said a girl in a soft Russian accent. It was Alyona Yetrev the top sharpshooter in the school and a pretty smart butt student in a lot of areas.
She was a good friend of Dylan’s and quite the partners in gym glass. Dylan always admired her for spirit always in the effort to do anything the hardest and best way.
“The more the merrier” said Kanya
“Come and join us” giggled Rogan
Alyona peered out of the corner and laughed at herself. “Jeez what are you guys doing up now?”
“He started it” Rogan pointed at her brother.
“Great” chuckled Dylan
It made Dylan feel great, to be around his buds, his sister. All so loyal yet such a joy to be around, he loved them all, from the moment of his flight years, then to high school. Then maybe off to Command school.
Yes, it was his dream, to be in command of a ship. To be the pride that led to peace. He wanted to become a soldier. He knew the risks he would have to take of command, the stress of orders, the pains of command seemed unbearable to any human being nower days. To put everything on the line, your faith, pride … life, he would gladly do it to save his system from the rule of Leon Justoski the power hungry leader of Jupiter’s people. In his rule it was famine, death, all he every sought was the killing, the take over, he wanted to sweep the nations to his control. Anyone in this age would call him the Hitler of today.
Dylan kept wondering just how evil people can be, to actually be as ambitious and destructive, if human beings where even capable of truly being evil. It made him a bit angered and sad, but what could anyone do? It was life, humans were humans’ evil was… well evil. It made him think, maybe it was just how humans are, randomized figments of a species that were made from a cloud of dust. There wasn’t any religion as far as Dylan was concerned, religion didn’t exist on Venus nor was it ever looked up to anymore, just some stupid hint tale about some major being who creates everything, some fantasy someone made up. But what would he know? He didn’t, his family grew up not believing in any god. Even the fact of were he lived there was no belief and people who did were considered meaningless and stupid.
Dylan felt a little poke at his arm, he had drifted off it was his sister seeing if he was still alive.
“Oh sorry” Dylan replied at last.
“There he goes again into his own world” giggled Kanya
“What do you think about in there?” Dylan felt a little knock on his head, it was John.
“Stuff” Dylan chuckled. He looked at his watch; it had been an hour already. He laughed at himself for just how long he could think, or was he just slow? It didn’t really matter to him anyway.
“So you heard about the new student?” asked Kanya
Dylan answered a bit tiredly but he managed. “Nope”
“She’s
scheduled to be here tomorrow” Kanya explained with a certain interest
“Transfer student from
“Sounds interesting” Dylan smiled.
“Do you know her name?” asked Rogan
“Emi Tayashi” Kanya replied after looking through her book. “Hey she’s assigned to your class Rogan”
“Really?” Rogan looked up a bit.
“Be nice to her” John chuckled. Roan stuck her tongue at him playfully.
“Well I think I’ve lingered here too long, I’ll be going off to get ready to class” said Alyona giving a childish wink at Dylan.
“It’s like an hour till classes, are you crazy?”
“Nope just like to be a bit advanced”
Dylan laughed and stood up beside Alyona “I’ll go too”
“You’re both crazy” Rogan giggled.
Dylan and Alyona left together whispering to each other.
“I swear those two like each other” said John.
