Rune Pirate Love
Title: Rune Pirate: The Lost Pages
Chapter:2
Author: Juui-chan
Rating: PG-13. . . .maybe
Disclaimer: I DO actually own these characters! All of them are in fact mine and will/are copyright Juui-chan!! Thats right folks, original characters!!
Notes: This whole story was based on a dream I had that I finally decided to write down and the more I thought about it, the more I liked it and the more notes I wrote on it before I just started writing the whole damn thing out.


She took a step onto the platform that had opened for her automatically when the door opened and waited for her pet to come out behind her so she could close the door. She waited a moment and when he didn’t come out she looked back in to see him hesitating.

“For crying out loud would you hurry up? The longer your in here the less food I’m feeding you tonight!” she cried angrily over the wind. She found that she also tended to have a shorter temper among other things.

The dog like animal gave a small groan under his breath and trotted out into the storm and down the stairs. His fur was a sharp gray color except for the dark brown triangle spots on the tip and bottom of his ears. As well as his back paws and end of his rabbit type tail. The brown shades under his stomach were only visible when he stood up however but also in a triangular shape. The only spot what wasn’t in a triangle like shape was the random brown patch of fur on his head. He also had dark purple colored fur in a half circle under both eyes, covering his front paws and in round patches on each of his back thighs. His body was long like a dog but well shaped almost like a fox, the head most notably was fox like in shape. His ears were shaped like a large jackrabbit while his tail was long and slender like a cat'. The final strange animal mix match was the bird like wings on his back and while they weren’t very big, they were strong enough for him to use if needed. His eyes had a piercing green to them although it was hard to see since he had his protective outer eyelids covering them from all the sand.

Constance watched Kero go down the stairs and once he hit the ground she closed the door behind her and headed down herself. She went as quickly as possible, trying to out power the wind as it blew on her. Once her boots hit the ground, the stairs automatically began to rise back up into their storage compartment on the ship. She watched, making sure they made it all the way up and took one more look at the ship before she began trudging away from it with Kero following close by.

“Lets see, the coordinates said that there should be cliff with a cave near by with the entrance to the temple. . .” she turned toward the left and scanned the area. Without realizing it, Kero had ignored her and had continued moving toward the right. She turned to him when she heard him give a bark telling her “this was the right way, hurry up.”

“Figures you would know where we’re going. . “ she mumbled to herself. “Runemons. . .” she sighed. “Just remember where we parked the ship too!” she screamed back to him. She heard a bark over the wind and took it as him telling her “he would, hurry up!”

Constance had to practically jog to catch up with Kero as he lead the way threw the storm, pausing every minute or so to sniff the air. It was obviously hard to get a good scent with the wind blowing so hard and the sand with it. Finally he stopped in front of a large cliff that Constance hadn’t seen and turned to her and began barking triumphantly at her.” I found it! I found it! Lets find the door and get out of the storm! Hurry up!”

“Good job Kero, “she acknowledged his good work while examining the cliff for the cave’s entrance. Constance walked toward the hot cliff and began examining it for something it seemed only she could see, despite the hard nipping of the wind against her face. The many rings on her fingers seemed to be glistening as she moved her fingers tips softly around the rocks. Finally as she placed her hands side by side in front of her face on the rocks, she began to push forward. Her rings practically blinded her as they found the door and used their powers to open it for her. She smiled a wickedly cocky smile as she opened the door and stepped inside out of the storm. Kero quickly followed her inside and shook himself furiously of all the dust his fur had collected.

Constance looked down and found a large stone and used it keep the door opened just enough so that it didn’t fully lock behind them when she closed it. She sighed and lifted the cover of her cape off her face and shook her head herself of all the dust she had collected. She brushed her light purple bangs out of her face, she flipped her blonde side hair behind her ears and gave a shake to her short brown hair to get whatever dust might be hiding back there. She adjusted her green eyes to the darkness of the room and smiled. This was her favorite part of the job, other then the reward at the end of course.

She looked down at Kero who had sat down and was looking at her waiting for her to move forward. “Well, you first since you seem to know where we’re going!” she said motioning for him to go forward. Kero looked forward, then looked back at her, with a confused look on his face. She motioned again in an inpatient manner for him to go and with a groan, Kero began to walk forward into the cave. “Good boy, “ Constance made sure to say with a small chuckle under her breath.

The cave wasn’t as bad as Constance had thought it was going to be. It was obviously dark and dusty with the usually musty cave smell, but other wise it was like a regular cave with the rocks, dust with a few small foliage here and there. They continued walking for about ten minutes before she began brushing aside some vines that were in her way, knowing that if vines were growing inside a cave like this then they must be on the right path. As she walked she heard a crunching under her boot and almost tripped over something. Kero stopped and turned around to see if she was OK while Constance examined the bone that she had crunched under her boot. “Ewe . . .” she pouted. “I hope it didn’t scratch my shoes, I like these shoes too. . .” not really concerned with the fact that she had just stepped on a once living creatures remains. She looked back at Kero and shrugged, “Then again, dead bodies means we are definitely getting closer right?”

Kero ignored the comment and continued to walk forward. Constance stepped over the rest of the remains and made a note to be more careful with what or whom she was stepping on as they continued down the cave. Ten more minutes later Kero stopped firmly in his tracks and made a growling noise under his breath to let Constance know he had picked up a trap ahead of them. She walked up next to him and stopped to examine the corridor in front of them. She looked around carefully with her skillful eyes, looking for anything that seemed out of place. The walls looked old with no real kind of detail about them and the ground continued to be dusty with no sign that any life had been here in a long time. There were no vines or any kind of plant like down the corridor and that to her was a sign that there was something wrong if there was nothing growing here. She looked up at the ceiling and that was still the same as it had been with the rest of the cave.

She did suddenly notice the large amounts of bone remnants on the left side of the wall where as the right side had little to none. She smiled to herself as she took a step to the left to get a better look at the right side of the wall. That too looked like all the other walls of the cave with no distinct characteristics or anything that would make it look like it had some sort of trap to it.

She leaned down without ever taking her eyes off the wall and picked up a small rock by her foot. As she got back up she tossed the rock a couple times in her hand with a playful manner still smiling to herself and enjoying the situation that would have made most normal people very nervous. She finally took the rock and without much effort tossed it out into the corridor. In a fast furry, the rock made it barely halfway before it was nailed with sharp, rusty and very big spikes that flew from all corners of the right wall. They were so powerful that they were actually able to use their force and nail the rock to the other side of the wall. Constance raised her eyebrows and whistled at the sight of a rock nailed to wall made of rocks. She looked at Kero and put her hands on her waist watching his reaction which of course was him just sitting there since he was the one that had pointed the trap out.

“Motion sensors, not bad. Surprised their still in tact really,” she finally said, as she looked over to the right wall again looking for the sensor itself. The wall still looked perfectly fine, no sign that deadly darts had just come out of it or that there was a high tech machine attached to it. “It must have a camouflage devise on it, surprised that’s still in tact too. My how far technology has come. . . . “

She turned around and walked a few steps back down the corridor they had just come from and picked up a large handful of more rocks in all different sizes. When she was satisfied with the amount she had she walked back to where Kero had decided to lay down and rest while waiting for her. She tossed a few rocks in one at a time; all of them of course had the same ending to them. However each one was thrown with different force, some thrown lightly and with little to no real length to them, while some were thrown hard and had the force to almost make it to the end of where Constance measured the end of the death trap. Twice she threw two to more rocks at a time into the corridor and both times had the same ending. Each rock was thrown and Constance paid extra attention to each one, measuring everything she saw in her head. Her hand was almost completely empty of rocks when she finally felt satisfied.

She looked at her hand and counted the rocks she had left and decided that just to be safe, she should probably have just a few more. She picked up a few by her feet and, just to be mean, made Kero get up from his rest and moved him over to pick up some under his feet. When her hand was full again, she took a deep breath and blew it all out in a few short breaths. She cracked her neck and stretched out her knees and finally took a gulp. Kero watched with amusement at his master stalling.

With a fast and graceful movement, she flung her empty hand in front of her and out of it came a stream of fire flew out of it as if by magic. On her hand a red ring glowed brightly in her face and she felt the heat on her hands as she maneuvered it with her will into the corridor. When she was satisfied she lowered her arm and she raised her other hand and threw the rocks in with a large stream of water following behind them, on her hand a blue ring glowed brightly in her face. As the elements met not only did they create a strong mist in front of her, but also with all of the action, it threw off the sensors. With lightning speed she threw her hand down and ran forward into the corridor behind the rocks and the thick mist that made it practically impossible to see. She heard the darts swishing in the air around her but continued to push herself forward without any thought of even trying to avoid being hit. At one point she felt a strong force on her cape pull her back practically ripping her it off her back and she almost tripped. But she regained her self and simply continued forward.

When she reached what looked like the end of the corridor she abruptly stopped and took a minute to breathe. She looked back down the corridor as the mist faded to see how bad the damage was. All the rocks that she had thrown in had been hit with darts and while some were clumsily nailed to the wall, some had actually managed to hit the floor with only a few scratches. She smiled at how superior she felt and began to dust herself off and noticed a dart still attached to her cape. She pulled it off and realized that it was the reason that she had been pulled back while she ran. She examined it in her hand and realized that it wasn’t as high tech as she expected. Just a regular old fashioned dart she had once read about that they used in the old days. She looked back at the wall and saw the sensor sitting on one of the rocks, the small red light giving itself away at this angle, and threw the dart at it with all her force.

The sensor broke easily and gave off a spark as its life ended. She noticed out of the corner of her eye that Kero still hadn’t moved from his spot. She grunted when she realized why he was still sitting there instead of running with her threw the trap. “Ok its safe for you now!” she screamed back at him sarcastically. With that Kero got up and trotted down the hall, not worried about being hit by any darts and when he got to Constance’s side he purred in appreciation.

“Your welcome.. . .”she groaned as she ripped off the rest of her cape deciding that it may not be safe to have the extra clothes on if the rest of the traps were going to be like that.

Kero took it as a sign to keep walking and with that he did with Constance this time keeping up at his side. As they walked farther down, the cave continued to stay the same as far as not having any defining characteristics to it. Constance noticed the plant life come back as they got farther away from the trap and the vines returned as well. The only real difference Constance felt was the change in temperature for it seemed to get colder the farther they walked. She began to regret leaving the cloak behind but felt that it was probably for the best safety wise. She took the hand that she had used to create fire and rubbed it on her other arm to warm herself up since her hand had the remnant heat of so much fire still left on it.

When she felt her arm get warm she moved her hand to her stomach since it had no protective clothing on it and was beginning to get a little shaky from the cold. She held it there for a moment while she walked and used the rest of the warmth left to calm her stomach. When she felt satisfied that it would be ok she took her hand off, brushing the dark purple rune on her stomach as a way of calming herself. She felt the heat from the rune and it comforted her as her stomach turned strong and had its armor strength run threw her. She brushed her long sleeveless coat back out of the way of a rock she almost walked into and instead it very gently hit her holster, holding her gun. She held her breath hoping that it didn’t trigger it on or anything and when nothing happened, she sighed and shook her head. She felt she was getting anxious in the cave and that was a bad sign when there was so much left to go.

A few minutes later Kero stopped abruptly again, this time in front of a large hole. Constance stopped as well and looked down into it with him. Expecting to see spikes or movement down there, Constance was pleasantly surprised to see nothing but an empty darkness and a cold breeze come from below. She realized that was the source of so much cold air in the cave. When she was satisfied with that she looked up and noticed nothing on the ceiling, she turned toward both walls and saw nothing out of place there either.

“Well, this should be easy, “ she chuckled, feeling calm. “But just in case,” she felt a little uneasy deep down though after how peaceful the other trap had looked. She took a rock from the ground and threw it over expecting to see it shatter into pieces once it was thrown over. Instead the rock flew over the pit and landed on the other side unscathed.

“Humph. Nice. “ she laughed. And looked at Kero who had sat down but seemed to refuse to take it as everything was ok. “Well?” she motioned. He didn’t move and gave her a look and under toned bark that said “you first Master”.

“Fine” she grunted.

She walked a few steps back to get a good running start and without any hesitation ran toward the whole with all her might and took a powerful jump forward. As her foot hit the ground just before she leapt in the air, she felt a clicking noise underneath her and the ground shrink under her foot as it left the ground. She realized in the air that she had tripped something off and ducked her head down as she heard the rumbling of spikes from above her came crashing down. She avoided them all just barely by only a few inches. She hit the other side hard and off balance from trying to avoid the spikes and as she rolled onto her back, she heard another trip go off and the ground below her began to give the same rumble. She rolled onto her stomach and looked up just as a spike came up and missed her face by less then an inch. She held her breath in shock and felt her eyes almost jump out of their sockets staring at the spike that just nearly ended her life. In her panic she rolled onto her feet, trying to get up and rolled to the side, missing another spike from below by only a few seconds. She slapped the ground in anger and got up fully and ran forward avoiding spikes at all turns, making her look like a clumsy ballerina the way she danced from side to side trying with everything she had not to fall. Before she realized it, she was face to face with a large wall. As she was about to fall into it for safety, she saw from the corner of her eye the motion sensor light go on. She immediately let herself fall into a full split and threw the rest of her upper body down avoiding the flying darts. They whizzed by her head and she felt the wind from them go by her as she covered her eyes in fear.

She waited a moment in silence trying to catch her breath and when nothing happened, she opened her right eye and looked around, expecting something else to happen. When nothing did, she opened her left eye and took a long breath out. She turned her head as slow as possible to the motion sensor on the wall and noticed that not only was it still on, but blinking a red light looking to see if anything had survived all that. Anger filled her very being as she looked at the machine and with lightning speed, pulled out her gun from its holster on her right hip and took a shot at it. As she did, she swung her legs out from their position in the split towards each other in a straight line. As her finger pulled the trigger, she fell back to the floor in a backward motion, making sure that she was completely flat on her back. The movements were picked up by the sensor just as it was blown into bits by the bullet and a few darts flew threw the air past Constance’s body, just missing her large breasts, as she hit the ground hard. The sensor blew up, this time with a bigger force then the first one and the force actually made it light itself on fire.

Constance watched and finally let out a huge sigh of relief. She felt her body unwind itself then begin to feel for any damage. When she felt nothing she put her gun back in its holster on her hip and when it was securely in there she began to get up. She sighed again as she dusted her clothes off and checked for any small scratches. She moved her long, black bladed sword around checking for any damage there and when everything looked fine; she sighed another big sigh again in relief. She looked at the wall she almost ran into and then looked back to see the damage. She scoffed when she realized that not only had all the spikes gone back down but that at the other side of the pit, Kero was still sitting there.

“You little son of a . . .” she yelled at him with anger.

Kero barked back at her as he got up and backed away from the pit. “Very funny. .” Constance groaned to herself wondering why she even bothered to let him come with her. He took a running start as well and when he jumped he made sure to avoid the trip as his wings spread out to help him glide over the pit with more agility and grace. He landed on the other side and trotted proudly toward Constance without any spikes coming up from below him. “What a show off “ Constance scoffed again

He stopped in front of her, looked up directly and barked again.

“Your welcome” Constance retorted throwing her hands in the air in a sarcastic manner. She looked at him for a moment, putting her hands on her hips and evaluated the situation. “So do you think that counted as 3 or 2?” she finally asked him.

Kero thought about the question and barked twice.

“Damn it” Constance groaned. She blew a breath of hot air out and sighed. This was becoming a pain and not fun for her anymore. Then she pointed forward and made an angry face at Kero and with an even angrier voice said “Well get going will yeah?!”

Kero put his ears back in a fearful manner and trotted toward the side of Constance in a hurry. Constance followed behind him a little upset that she had yelled at him but this was important and all the traps were beginning to get bothersome to her. As they walked, Constance noticed that the
cave was beginning to regain its warmth the farther they got from the pit.
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Suddenly, there was a clicking noise as Kero stepped forward and he stopped dead in his tracks realizing that he had just tripped something. Constance stopped as well when she heard the noise of familiar rumbling above them. He froze in fear as Constance jumped forward grabbing her pet and rolling onto her back and away from the large stone wall that fell on top of where Kero had just been standing. She held him tight as she continued to roll forward and stopped just as another wall fell to the ground, inches from the couple. She could hear more walls falling in the distance, in case whoever set the trap had somehow managed to make it past the first two. She counted at least three more thuds in the distance and finally it stopped.

She looked at Kero who was shaking in her arms and clung to her tightly with his claws. Constance let him go and smiled. “Way to go Kero” she joked, “You found number 3, saves me the trouble.”

Kero opened his eyes and retracted his claws from Constance’s coat and body. He looked around at their surroundings and leapt off of Constance. She got up and dusted herself off making a mental note that she was going to need a really long bath after this. The two examined the area and found that they were trapped between the two rock walls with luckily, no motion sensors.
Constance put her hand to the wall in front of them and tried to get a good feel of it. It had no presence of power to it and appeared as an ordinary rock wall. Constance smiled wickedly and chuckled. She looked at Kero who was still obviously shaken by almost being flattened.

“This is an easy one honey. Just stand back a bit so you don’t get hurt” Constance said taking a step back herself.

She put her hands together and made some cracking noises with her fingers while twisting her wrists in a circular motion. The motion also caused cracking noises to echo in the air. But this made Constance feel much better. She reared back and with a powerful blow, punched the wall in
front of her causing it to break into an almost perfect exit. She felt the rocks fall on her hand as it went threw the wall but felt little to no pain as her fist connected with the rock. She paused a minute to make sure that the force wasn’t going to make the cave collapse. When nothing
happened, she put her hand down and walked threw the hole. She stepped into the next tight space between the two walls and did the same thing. She threw her fist back and with another powerful blow, punched a hole into that wall.

She did this non-stop two more times, never losing speed or power on the punches. Kero followed behind her slowly and cautiously threw the holes. He made sure to watch were he was stepping and avoided the fallen rubble created by his master. When she made a whole threw the last wall she stepped through and threw her arms back to stretch.

“See, that one wasn’t so bad!” she exclaimed. Kero stopped beside her and suddenly made a quick head jerk ahead of them. He sniffed the air for a moment and began barking excitedly again. Constance looked forward to see what Kero had found and smiled when she saw it was a door. This one not hidden by anything, but in fact, decorated from corner to corner with markings and jewels.

She took a few cautious steps forward and examined the door. No lock. Lucky her. She placed her hand on the cold doorknob and turned it slowly opening the door. As she opened it, the bright light from inside the room took her back as she had adjusted to the darkness of the cave. When she opened it fully, she walked in with Kero behind her, both in awe.

The room was filled with treasure. Gold, jewels, satin fabric, the whole works. There were a few lamps still with fire glowing in them, which made the room glow a golden color. Constance was more interested with the heat then the gold.

“Looks like we hit the Jackpot Kero” she said never looking at him. She examined the room and licked her lips. Kero sat down and looked around in awe as well, so many shinny things. Finally, Constance took a few steps forward into the room and began looking for something in particular.

She placed her pointer finger and her thumb on her earring and pressed against one of the jewels. “JC, can you hear me?” she said loudly.

There was a pause before a male voice answered her. “Yeah Constance, I can hear you.”

“We’re in.”she giggled.

“Good job, what’s it look like?” he asked curious.

“Shinny.”

“Remember, don’t touch it, the whole place is probably rigged. “ he warned.

“I know, I know,” she said sarcastically. “Besides, as much as I like shinny - ” she paused for a minute and smiled to herself. “And I do like shinny - there’s something much more valuable in here we’re looking for. Right Kero?” she turned back to her pet who was also examining the room. He perked his ears up and ran forward, dodging the piles of chests and rare treasures.

“Kero’s got a scent” Constance said and ran after him.

He only ran for a moment before coming to the end of the room in front of a large stone pillar. Constance stopped and looked at the table and finally felt overwhelmed with what she was looking at. “There it is.”

“You found it?!” JC said excitingly into her earpiece.

“Yup.” Constance sighed.

She walked toward the pillar, which was a bit over waist high and held a large book on it. Constance held her breath as she walked toward it. She felt both excited and nervous as she finally stopped in front of the book. It looked as though it had no sign of aging to it at all. It was thicker then she imagined and was being held up by a small tablet behind it. She put her hand to her mouth and let out a deep breath from her nose.

She whipped her mouth and then began to examine the pillar for traps. She studied it carefully, looking for anything that might trigger a trap. When she felt satisfied she knelt down slightly and very slowly began to reach for it. She stopped just as she was inches from touching it and for a
moment had second thoughts. She held her breath and clasped her hands into a tight fist.

“Fuck it” she finally said and grabbed the book. She waited for something to happen and when nothing did, she laughed at herself and began to walk away from the pillar. Kero waved his tail happily at her as she came over with the book in her hand and the two of them began to walk out of the cave.

“Did you get it?” JC asked cautiously.

“It’s in my hands as we speak!” Constance said proud of herself.

“Good cause you may want to get out of there now. “JC said sounding nervous.

“Why? Is the storm getting worse?”

“No, I just picked up a signal from another ship landing close by” he said now very nervous.

“How far are they?” Constance said putting the book in a safe place inside of her coat as she opened the jeweled door.

“About a mile from the cave” he said after a pause.

“So how long till they make it to cave?” she said stepping threw the holes she had punched with Kero trotting in front of her, eager then ever to get out of the cave.

“Ahh, about 10 minutes. . “

“WHAT?”Constance screamed and stopped as she was about to punch a hole in the wall that Kero had tripped, feeling stupid she didn’t punch it earlier. “And when the Hell were you planning on telling me this?”

“I’m sorry!” JC retorted. “I just picked them up a minute ago! They must have a jamming system on their ship. . “

“No, you have the best jamming system in the galaxy. I know, I stole it for you for your Birthday!” she said putting her anger into punching a large hole into the wall.

“Well, they must have gotten a better one from Santa” JC joked cautiously.

“Then remind me to convert when we get back to the ship” Constance sprinted threw the cave as fast as she could with Kero right behind her.

The jumped over the pit with ease and threw the corridors as fast as they could trying not to trip. They were also just hoping that when they reached the end no one would be there to meet them. Constance didn’t even care when she continually stepped on bones as she sprinted toward the exit. As they ran, Constance saw the light from the entrance and cautiously slowed down before she finally reached for the opening. She opened the door and peeked out. When she didn’t see anyone she stepped out of the cave with Kero practically tip toeing behind her.

The storm had ended so it was easy to see the world around them but it was hard adjusting to the bright light of the hot sun. The door behind them closed with a thud and both of them jumped forward in surprise. As they did, Constance heard shouting coming from her right and when she looked over she saw a group of men not far from her. They saw her as well and began running
toward her, and worse, pulling out weapons.

“Oh shit. . “

Kero bolted before she even started her sentence, and Constance followed behind him making a funny, frightened face. Kero ran with all his might not worrying about his master, while Constance ran not far behind him. Constance was well known for her speed and this was no exception. She felt the runes on her legs kick in and that gave more power to her legs as they sprinted with little effort threw the terrain. She heard the people behind her losing speed as she ran and had to turn back to see how far away the were. She was shocked to see that one of them, a figure in a black cloak, was close behind her. In fact, they were catching up.

Impossible! No one can catch up with me, no one’s that fast! she thought, panicked for a moment. With that thought, she turned back and used all her will to activate the runes on her legs to their full strength. She could feel herself almost flying with speed away from her chasers. She made
sure to run just slightly behind Kero, since she couldn’t remember where the ship had been parked.

Just as Kero was about to turn toward the left toward the ship, a huge blast flew in front of Constance. She barely jumped out of the way to avoid it. She landed hard on the ground and rolled away for a second from the impact, dust flying everywhere. She looked up at her pursuers
and realized that they were firing at her.

“Eep, “ she cried under her breath in a high pitched voice. She turned back to Kero, who had disappeared from her sight and realized that she herself should probably not stop either. She got up with full speed and force and began to run away from the ship, realizing that she really had no
idea how she was going to get back to it. She prayed under her breath to be able to think of something clever enough that would help her get back there.

Constance didn’t know the planet other than most of it was deserts and rocks, as was apparent as she ran faster and faster away. She could hear the blasts from their guns and a few of them even managed to get close to her. Without any hesitation, she pulled out her gun. Without stopping or even looking behind her, she settled her gun on her shoulder and took two shots.

She heard a moan and a thud behind her as she used her shoulder to cock her gun before she took two more shots. Another moan and another thudding noise followed them. As she was about to take another shot, she realized that she was running toward the edge of a cliff. She used all her effort to stop herself without slowing down and practically tripped off the cliff. She
stopped just in time to get a good look at the long way down to the bottom and panted frantically.

She heard her pursuers behind her also stop a few feet behind her, knowing that they were aiming their guns directly at her. This time, they wouldn’t miss.

Constance smiled and turned toward them, putting her gun back in its holster and held her hands up. “Well boys and girls, looks like you got me” she chuckled trying desperately to think of how the hell she was getting out of this one.

The gang of brutes that had chased her did not look the least bit interesting to Constance. They looked more like Guns for Hire then anything else. It made her wonder if the price of her head had gone up again. It seemed like she was constantly on and off the Most Wanted List. A figure stepped forward, the one in the black cape that had almost caught up with Constance. It was difficult for Constance to see the face, but the figure was obviously female. “Your coming with us Constance Starlavigne” the female figure sternly shouted.

“Captain! Captain Constance Starlavigne” Constance said pointing her finger at them. “Just to be proper!” she said trying to contain her laughter. Why she was having fun being cornered, she didn’t know. But it certainly made her feel better.

The female figure sighed in anger. “Fine. You’re coming with us Captain Constance Starlavigne” she said, making sure to put an emphasis on the word “Captain”.

Now Constance was laughing and she looked at her capture sternly in the face. Even though Constance couldn’t see her eyes, she new she was looking straight at them, and they were looking straight at her. “Sorry but, I would rather jump off a cliff.”

And with that, Constance took a step back and let herself fall backwards off the cliff making sure go give wave and a smile as she fell.

The men gasped with shock and some even took a step forward to see if she had actually gone down. The female simply stood there, the wind blowing on her cape until she finally decided to take a few steps toward the edge herself. Just as she was about to reach the edge a huge blast of wind from below blew her back, and in front of her hovered a huge gray dragon like creature. Its head was large and fox like and the ears were shaped like a jackrabbit, while the rest of its body was long and dragon like in every way except for the feather like wings. Riding between its long neck and its wings Constance sat there rather proud of herself. The men jumped back in shock and began pointing their weapons at the creature. Before they could take a shot the creature opened its mouth a string of purple lightning shot out at them. They managed to avoid it clumsily, and all of them cowardly ducked for cover. The female never moved a muscle.

The dragon creature made a few flaps with its wings and rose higher off the ground. He began to fly away from the group. Its speed was impressive for such a large creature, and its’ agility was amazingly accurate. As they flew toward the ship, Constance couldn’t help but look back at the Lead Female, and saw that she was looking back at Constance as well. Constance smiled wickedly and waved as she and Kero flew out of sight toward the ship.

The men got up as they watched them fly away. One man got up and headed toward his female leader. “Do you wish us to follow them?” he asked hoping that the answer would be no. Anara pulled her cape back, still watching Constance fly away in the distance. Her eyes adjusting to the bright light.

“No, not yet. We’ve got the tracker on them. That’s enough for now.,” she said sternly.

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