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TERRA NOVA EPISODE 32

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TERRA NOVA
EPISODE 32
13TH BEASTS

The giant guard, who they now knew as Horatio, opens the next door in the hallway, chatting up a storm, “Never expected him to go loco like that, but he certainly did.”
“Yeah… right… when do we meet this fearless leader?” Chris says, tiring of Horatio’s talking.
“Right now of course,” he opens a green door and motions them inside, shutting it behind them.
The room is filled with all matter of weapons and armor. A single figure garbed in red metal armor looks at them, her body tense enough to draw the tonfas strapped to her sides and attack within a second if need be, “You two are the ones who have taken a mission as a Technode, even though you are clearly NOT. You’ve defeated one of the criminals MY people wouldn’t take on and discredited their honor because of it. You must truly think you’re pretty smart…”
Chris shakes his head, “Intelligence, Bravery, Stupidity, whatever it takes to get the job done.”
The Technode glares from beneath the blonde hair covering her face, “You’re just lucky I’m in a good mood today or else I’d make you eat those words.” She nods over to a door, one that Kara swears hadn’t been there before, “She’s in there, keep yourselves respectable or I’ll make sure your lives come to an end.”
Kara nods and pulls Chris through the door, the darkness of the room is astounding, the single window that is noticeable covered by a sheet of fabric. An elderly lady turns around, clothed in a modest tunic, “I must say that was well done!”
“Pardon?” The female wolf asks, a look of confusion on her face.
“I saw it all! How you jumped you jumped over ol’ Arc’s head and held whatever-it-was-you-had to him. Speaking of which could I take a look at it?” The energetic old lady grabs Kara’s pistol out of her hands and begins to investigate every single facet of the device, “Typical Cardonic design, I just don’t get the firing mechanism…” She pulls the trigger and lodges a bullet in the ceiling, “There we go… impact sensitive…”
“Excuse me…” Kara grabs the gun and places it back in her holster, “I think we may have come to the wrong place.”
“Silly girl you didn’t come to the wrong place… I’m the leader of the Technode, Zarakva Illuminati, and I just get a kick out of new gadgets.” She turns serious suddenly, “but I hear that you have a pendant that belongs to the highest order of our society.”
Kara pulls up on the chain around her neck, taking off the zodiac, “If this is what you mean then yes.”
“Yes, that’s the one…” She studies it, her eyes tracing the deep runes and every figure on the pendant, “Although it seems like it is far more detailed than ours…” She taps the center, a shape of an angel with demon horns, “Ours have never had this shape though… very unusual...”
“What’s unusual about it?”
“Just the fact that you have 13 creatures including this one in the center…” She holds it out to the female wolf, “It’s not of any importance. You’re free to be on your way now.”
“Can we still take on your missions if we need money?,” Kara asks as she takes the necklace back.
“Sure, I don’t see why not, but first I suggest you take a few items from our arsenal, it’s pretty harsh out there this time of year. Iris’ll make sure you get what you need.” She motions to the door they had come from.
*******
“So how do you guys propose we get there?” Jgirl asks, looking at a bulleting board.
“We could check to see if there is a caravan…” Justa replies, seeing a wagon pass.
“Sound like a good idea!” Dixon runs over to one and begins talking to the master of the train. After a while he comes back, “Lucky us… we just have to protect it until we reach our destination.”
“Is that it?” Rob asks, not completely believing him.
“No… we’ve got to take care of the animals as well…”
“Great… cleaning big hairy beasts for a week… fun…”
*******
Chris glances at Iris, the red armored female they had met before, as he pulls a pair of Katana off of a rack. One is noticibly a saka-bato, the sharpened edge reversed to be on the inside towards the wielder, and the other is a regular sword. He notices that etched across both of the center pieces are runes, for what he could only guess, “Could I take these with me?”
“Whatever you want, I couldn’t care less.”
“Thanks, I get the feeling that my crowbar won’t work here…” He grins at the woman, only to feel her cold stare beneath the hair over her face.
Kara looks around for a while then goes over to the door, unable to find anything she can use, “Hey Chris, let’s get going!” In the entire room nothing moves, the place that Chris had been standing is empty, “Hey Iris, Where did Chris go?”
“I don’t know. I was paying more attention to you in an attempt to ignore him.”
“Great… but he didn’t pass by you?” She moves from place to place, lifting up objects.
“Nope, nobody left.”
“Then where did he go?”
*******
“Is the vessel ready to be awakened to what it is once again?”
“Yes, despite previously unforeseen setbacks everything is going according to plan.”
“Proceed…”
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Always wondering why the zodiac and the clock stop at 12...
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Therony's avatar
hmm...the mysterious voices...