Danger on Deltor

By Lauren A. Johnson

Published by Lawrence Johnson Sr. at Smashwords
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2010 Lauren A. Johnson

\\:Dajus

The sun rose over the planet of Deltor, from outer space the planet seemed green, but once inside the planetary atmosphere the scene is very much different that it's deceiving outward look.
The Deltorian warrior Dajus woke up, startled and afraid.  That's the way she's been waking up for the past year and a half.  Ever since the alien creatures known as the Skyro attacked Deltor.  Ever since one of the creatures attacked her in battle and in a last ditch effort to survive embedded them self within her consciousness.  While Dajus sleeps the Skyro is very much awake, fighting for power and control over Dajus' body.  Every morning she woke up with a jolt, her heart racing at speeds higher than normal and feeling as that lingering feeling that reverberates inside of you after being shocked or scared out of her mind.
Dajus walked across her lavish apartment, she could hear the other warriors rustling around and getting ready for the day.  She is one of four warriors who have the special, important task of protecting the queen.  She sat down at her boudoir and stared into the mirror, she tried her best to calm her nerves.  She was afraid to tell Dr. Grevar of her jarring mornings but she didn't want to let on that her condition was worsening.
Looking into her reflection into the mirror she checked her body for any abnormalities.  Her golden brown skin, was the same.  She checked her eyes for any hint of a change, but her brown eyes were just as they always were.  The purple sunlight bathed her room in a lavender glow.  Dajus used to enjoy the morning, she liked the still and the quiet of a new day, but lately she's started to learn to hate the morning, she feared what they day may bring.
"Hello, roomie."  Dajus looked into the mirror and saw two versions of herself looking back at her.
One version was her true reflection and the other version was the Skyro using her form to communicate with her.
"Go away." Dajus said quietly.
"No, I told you, we need to talk."  The Skyro smirked.  Dajus looked at the Skyro with disgust, the way she walked, talked and moved was nothing like herself, the Skyro represented everything Dajus was against.
"Talk?  Talking is screaming my head all hours of the night terrorizing me?"  Dajus walked away from her the Skyro who stood with her arms folded.
"Yes, because you won't listen to me.  This Planetary Alliance your precious Queen has signed us up for, they'll kill you."  The Skyro said angrily.  "I didn't take you on as my host just so that I can get killed --again."
Dajus was desperate, "Then take another host."
"It doesn't work like that, honey.  You're it.  Besides, would you really sacrifice another life just so that you can continue on this life of service.  How long do you want to protect your Queen, don't you have any other wants or needs?"  The Skyro walked up behind Dajus and gently grabbed her by her shoulders.
"No, my duty is to protect the Queen so that we can protect the people of Deltor."  Dajus snatched away from the Skyro.  Even though they were identical Dajus felt shorter than the parasite who was impersonating her.
The Skyro laughed, "Dajus, little, little Dajus they are forces at work here, that you know nothing of there are creatures waiting all over space, waiting for you.  You think the Skyro are bad, just because of our particular diet?"
"You eat people!"  Dajus shouted in disgust.
"Yes!  That's how we learn and adapt, but what about the other creatures, the dormant ones, the old ones who are coming.  And trust me, they're coming.  What do you think we were doing all the way out here in the first place?  If Deltor is scared of the Skryo, just imagine who the Skyro are scared of.  I need you to let me take control of you, if you do, with your body, your training I'll be able to keep Deltor safe."  The Skryo stood on the opposite side of Dajus' bed.
"I'm supposed to believe that you have Deltor's best interest at heart?"  Dajus asked.
"No, I'm telling you that you either let me take over that pretty body of yours or you let Deltor and the whole Spiral Galaxy plunge into darkness!"  The Skyro smirked at Dajus.
"No!"  Dajus picked up her favorite vase and threw it at the Skyro forgetting that she was only apart of her imagination.
Hearing the vase shatter the warriors burst into Dajus' room.  Lovo, Trystan and Mallobo rushed into the bedroom, ready to attack who was attacking their fellow warrior.
"What?!"  Dajus snapped at the three of them.
"We thought that you were in trouble, we could hear you shouting."  Lovo said innocently as everyone put away their weapons.
"Are you feeling okay, Dajus?"  Mallobo asked Dajus.  Confused and upset Dajus grabbed her head.  She remembered that the Skyro was only in her head, only she can see it, but all everyone else could see was a shattered vase and a breakdown of one of the universe's greatest warriors.

:\\Lovo
The warriors stood and watched as Dajus made her apologies, and gave her vague, unbelievable excuse for throwing the vase.  Lovo, Mallobo and Trystan looked at each other suspiciously before they left the room.  
“Well, we’ll go meet up with the Queen without her.”  Mallobo suggested as the three walked into their shared great room.  Lovo watched as the automatic command on the blinds engaged and the blinds opened a little bit more to let the morning light penetrate through the room.
Lovo sighed, “I’ll catch up with you two later, I have something that I need to do.” 
Mallobo looked at Lovo out of the corner of his eyes, “Like what?”
“Like it’s none of your business, if it turns out to be something I’ll let you know but for now, move out of my way.”  Lovo walked in-between the two gentlemen.  Mallobo began to push the issue about where she was going, but Trystan grabbed Mallobo by the arm and shook his head giving him the signal to let it go.  Lovo walked down the long hall that led to the main part of the palace and made her way to her motor craft.  She made sure she had all of her weapons jumped on to the high tech state of the art bike and drove off.  The motor craft was a gift from the planet of Xanar for their heroic rescuing of Xanar when the Skyro attacked Deltor for the second time and Xanar for the first time.
For an hour Lovo traveled to the small town of Itlo, where the government was rebuilding the small town after the Skyro attacked.  Though it was still early the people of Itlo were eager to rebuild their city.  Lovo got off of her bike and everyone in the town stopped to watch her.  The children ran up to her to greet her.  The people of Itlo were enamored with the lifestyle of the big city, so when one of the highest ranking government officials arrived they were nothing less than smitten.  The people were honored to be rescued by two warriors who have the ongoing mission to protect the Queen.
“Lovo!  Lovo!” the children shouted as they crowded around her.
‘They’re so little.’  She thought as she smiled at them.  Most of them weren’t even tall enough to reach her knees so most of them huddled around her boots.
The whole planet knew of her story and the story of the other warriors, and how all four of them were born at the same night during the same time of a celestial event.  
A man walked up with a little limp walked up to Lovo to shoo the children away.  But they didn’t want to leave.  “Have you ever had to use that?”  One asked pointing at her blade, Lovo looked at the child, she didn’t know how to answer but the man saved her.
“Go, all of you go, help your mothers with breakfast.”  The children scattered and ran away none of them wanted to be in any trouble.
“You called me?  Who are you?”  Lovo asked.
“I’m sorry, but your soldiers found something.  They didn’t contact you directly because they were afraid that your communications systems may be monitored.”  Jovan explained.
“The woman who approached me last night with your message in the palace, do you know her?”  Lovo asked.
But the man shook his head as he led her inside his apartment the sounds and smells of a bustling morning was in full effect.  Lovo can smell the food that the husbands and wives were cooking as well as the sounds of construction workers around the town.  Lovo passed by husbands and wives who said goodbye to one another as the men went out to work in the fields and the women who sent their children off to school for the day while they met with one another to discuss business plans for new ventures to create a new face of Itlo.  
“How many soldiers do you have in your Alhap Unit?  How many soldiers of the Queen are in your charge, Commander?”  Jovan sat down as he asked his questions and pushed over a plate of bread that Lovo declined.
“That information is classified.” 
“I see, well I’m sure you know how many are on active duty right now?  Do you know where the inactive soldiers are?”  Jovan asked stroking his black and gold peppered beard.
Lovo frowned, “My inactive soldiers?”  she asked.  
“Ever since the Skyro came to attack Deltor for the second time, your inactive soldiers banned together to explore the reason behind these visits from the Skyro and they found something.  That information has been passed along to me.”  Jovan explained.
“Why you?” 
“My grand children are in lead of this faction of your warriors they’re under the name Delta L.  They told me to meet them on the other side of Deltor.  In a place called Ti’Kar, do you know it.?”  Jovan asked.
“Ti’Kar is a dead man’s land, no one lives there, nothing ever grows there.  The ground is made up of a mushy soil.  No building can stand there.”  Lovo said, why would they go there?
Jovan shook his head, “That is the message, I do not know why.  But they requested that you and the other warriors come there to meet them.”
Lovo got up to leave “There’s one more thing.  You mustn’t bring Dajus with you.”
Shocked Lovo’s heart felt as if it stopped in mid-pump.  “Why not?’  No one knew of Dajus’ affliction unless they absolutely had to, the only ones who knew where the warriors, the Queen, Elder Senex and her doctor.  Lovo had to know how this man came to know about Dajus.
“I do not know, I am only telling you what I was told.”  Jovan said nonchalantly as he started to fix himself a cup of tea.
Lovo felt strange, back in the days of the Great War when the rule of the law was for everyone to look out for themselves, Lovo would have killed a messenger like Jovan, but Lovo clasped her weapon and remembered that the Great War was over and there was no need for her to kill the old man, his death would serve no purpose.  Feeling uneasy Lovo got onto her motor craft and started it.  As she turned on the transportation device everyone watched as it hovered and she glide away waving at the citizens of Itlo.

://Mallobo
Mallobo and Trystan watched as Lovo walked in between the two of them to make her way to her motor craft.  Mallobo snatched his arm away from Trystan, “Don’t ever do that again.”
Mallobo hated being paired with Trystan, mostly because Trystan didn’t say much.  Mallobo felt as if Trystan did whatever Lovo wanted and he hated that.  But he was eager to see his Queen; it was the best part of his day.  Mallobo and Trystan weren’t the average Deltorians; aside from being appointed the only warriors to the Queen they were taller than the regular Deltorian men.  Trystan was even taller than Mallobo and at times Mallobo silently envied that.  The Queen’s handmaidens blushed at the sight of the two handsome warriors, and giggled to one another as they rushed out of the room.  Mallobo adjusted his grey jacket that bore the Deltorian insignia and stood with his hands behind his back as the two waited for their Queen to arrive.  The gentlemen watched as she descended the stairs, she looked around the room and was surprised to see only two of her warriors.
“Where are Dajus and Lovo?”
Trystan who continuously said nothing waited for Mallobo to answer, “Your highness, Lovo had an important meeting to attend to.” 
The Queen raised an eyebrow as she sat down, “More important than our morning breakfast meeting?”  The Queen enjoyed her breakfast time with her warriors, all of her warriors.  Finally Dajus entered the room, “I’m sorry your majesty for running late.” 
‘Why didn’t you teleport?’  Mallobo whispered, but Dajus did not answer, she didn’t know why.
It was no secret to the other warriors that Mallobo was infatuated with their Queen.  To a certain extent all of the warriors were, some admired her beauty, other admired her intelligence, and strength, but Mallobo he respected her for her sense of honor and fairness.  
Unhappy that all of her warriors weren’t present they ate breakfast.  Mallobo could see Dajus staring at Lovo’s empty seat, he knew that she was sick from the Skyro, but he tried to wonder what it would be like to be infected like that.
‘The things she must be seeing.’  He thought to himself.
After breakfast Mallobo’s while the warriors were on patrol his communicator beeped.  He had to put the piece in his ear the Queen did not allow communicators at breakfast.  “Where are you?”  Mallobo spat.
“We have to leave, meet me at the docks.”  Lovo ignored his rudeness because she was used to it.
“Fine I’ll get everyone else.”  Mallobo made his way to Lovo.
“No.  No.  Just you and Trystan.”  Mallobo was standing just feet away from Dajus.
“Why?”  he asked trying his best to not let on that he was talking to Lovo.
“Just do it.  I’ll tell you when I see you.”  Lovo hung up.
Mallobo knew that they couldn’t just leave Dajus without telling her anything.  “Dajus, Trystan and I are going to go back to Itlo to see if we can find anything about the Skyro.  But I need you to cover us and stay by the Queen.”
“Of course.”  Dajus said, but what Mallobo couldn’t see was the Skyro that was constantly in Dajus’ ear.
“He’s up to something, he hates Trystan.”  The Skyro remarked.
Mallobo paused and stared at Dajus for a moment, “You know we’re going to help you.  We’re doing what we can.”  
Dajus was surprised but she nodded and said “I know.”
Mallobo turned the corner and teleported to the other two warriors.  As long as two or more warriors are present at a time the other warriors can teleport to one another.  Trystan was already down at the docks with Lovo when Mallobo arrived.
“How’d you get here so fast?” he said to Trystan who only said nothing in return.
“You called him first didn’t you?”  Mallobo complained to Lovo.
“Calm down and listen to what I have to say.”  Lovo explained her whole trip to Itlo and why they had to go to Ti’kar.
“Oh.”  Mallobo nodded.
“Oh, all you have to say is oh?”  Lovo asked.  “I know why he doesn’t look surprised he never looks surprised.”
Mallobo smirked.  “His ass sure looked surprised when that Vadarian agent was on his ass.”
Trystan folded his arms, “What are you going to do about it?”  Mallobo taunted him get on the water craft.
Everyone boarded the water craft and made their way to the island of Ti’Kar.  On the way there Mallobo explained his lack of surprise.  “I’m the one who told your Alhap team to go to Ti’Kar.”
“What?!”  Lovo shouted.
“Calm down.” 
“What do you mean you’re the one, why didn’t you just…”  Lovo started to argue with Mallobo as she set the course for Ti’Kar.
“They’re not in direct contact with me, not since the attack on Itlo.  I didn’t mean for them to use their vacation time to do it, you must be a real slave master that must be their only time to investigate.”
“Investigate what?”  Trystan asked.
“Oh, you’re talking to us now?”  Mallobo answered Trystan.
“Investigate why the Skyro keep returning, they’re supposed to find out why they keep returning here.”  Lovo explained.
“I hope you didn’t think it was a random coincidence.”  Mallobo said to Trystan who only reclined his seat and closed his eyes.
Mallobo closed his eyes and slept as well, the trip to Ti’Kar would be awhile and he wanted to be ready for what lay ahead for him and his friends.  Mallobo woke up in the middle of the Kitnar Sea, he didn’t know how he got there, he looked up into the sky and saw fighter jets shooting at one another, loud explosions and laser fire could be heard in the distance.
When Mallobo woke up again, he was facing Lovo, “Don’t speak, say nothing, do you understand me?”
“You are a powerful warrior Mallobo, but the empire is at stake here, do you understand.”  Lovo said strongly to him.
“This is the future, Mallobo, all because of your innocent Planetary Alliance, they’re preparing for a war, why do you think they’re gathering as many powerful planets as they can?  There is a hidden base of soldiers, old Deltorian warriors, not as strong as you but strong nonetheless.”  Lovo continued to talk, it took Mallobo half a second to realize that this was not the real Lovo but someone using her form.
“Why her form?”  Mallobo asked.
“This was the last form, you saw before you feel asleep.”  The being that took on Lovo’s form looked shocked.  She grabbed onto Mallobo’s grey jacket and held up his left hand that bore the Deltorian insignia.  “Something’s wrong.”  Lovo put her hand over his and she looked as if she were reading or computing something in her mind.  “You have to tell your Queen.  You won’t be alive to stop this.  Not unless she interferes.”
“Who are you?”  Mallobo asked.
“The Spirit of the Sea, you warriors guard the Queen, well, I guard Deltor.  I am warning you, about the Planetary Alliance.  Something is wrong.”  The Sea Spirit warned Mallobo
“The Planetary Alliance, I thought Dajus…”  Mallobo began to ask.
The Sea Spirit looked to her right, “She’s here too.”  
“Dajus?”  Mallobo asked.
“Yes.”
“Why have you come to me?”  Mallobo asked.
“You sense me first; you were easier to talk to.”
“How do I know…”
“That I’m not a trick?  You can’t afford not to.”  
Mallobo woke up, “Check the water for anyone following us.” 
Lovo was now sleeping and Trystan was at the helm.  “There’s nothing there.  But I can sense something.” he reported.
Lovo woke up and joined the conversation, “Did you turn our frequency?”  
Trystan shook his head no.  “Well someone did.”  Lovo flipped a switch and in front of them was a fleet of underwater creatures, but behind them was one vessel speeding behind them that fired.
“Isn’t that Dajus behind us?”  As soon as Lovo asked they were hit by a laser beam.
Water began to flood the ship Mallobo, grabbed onto Trystan and Lovo and tried to teleport but couldn’t.  “You can’t we don’t know how!”  Lovo grabbed Mallobo’s hand and tried again, but nothing happened.
All three tried to teleport together this time and this time It worked.  The three struggled on the sinking sands of Ti’Kar.  Every time they tried to stand the fell deeper into the island.  Trystan fell through to the bottom while Mallobo and Lovo called after him.  The two tried to teleport after him but could no longer sense him.  The two looked at one another as they fought not to sink an air craft hovered over the two of them and teleported them onto their ship with a beam of light.
Mallobo looked from out of the window for his friend before turning to the man who rescued him and Lovo.  “Lieutenant Julen, at your service.”  The solider saluted Lovo and Mallobo showing his insignia of Deltor on his right hand.
Trystan shook the sand off of him, he was grateful for his ability to see in the dark, he had fallen into a deep cavern.  A place on the Island of Ti'Kar that no one knew existed.  

://Trystan
Trystan woke up in the underbelly of the island above him the sky looked as if it were made up of sand but beneath him the ground was made up of Sapphire.  
“Come closer boy.”  A woman called from the end of the cavern.
Terrified, Trystan asked, “What are you?”
“We have to go back for Trystan.”  Mallobo commanded Julen.
“Under your orders sir, we are not to deviate from the mission.  Our forces have the island surrounded.”  Julen said sternly.
“Forget the mission, I was wrong, we have to go down there.”  Mallobo was certain.
“I’m sorry, but our mission is more important than Captain Trystan, I’m sure you’ll understand once I brief you sir.”  Julen continued.
Trystan looked onto the woman trapped inside the blue sapphire rocks.  “I’m glad it was you Trystan of Kitnar.  It didn’t have to be you but you’re my favorite.  My name is Vhar.  I fought in the Great War, your soldiers have discovered something that Deltor learned to forget about.  The creatures that walked the Earth, they’re coming back.”
“So I’ve heard.”  Trystan said calmly.
Dajus snapped back from her controls, “What did I do?  What did you make me do!” she yelled at the Skyro.
“I made you fire on your friends.”  The Skyro smirked.
“Why?”  Dajus cradled her hands.
“I needed one of them to light the path to the hidden soldiers.”  The Skyro smirked again.
“Tell me about the hidden soldiers.”  Dajus said as the ship continued its way to Ti’Kar.
“The hidden soldiers “ Vhar continued. “Were a group of regular soldiers who wanted to undergo enhancements to fight the creatures who constantly attacked this planet.  The problem was the mental side effects, sure they were fast and stronger like they wanted to but what the scientists did not anticipate was the hunger for bloodlust.  They craved blood.  So much so, they began turning on their own Deltorian people.  Yes, yes…it was a nasty time, but…”
“But it did not change the fact that they were extremely powerful.” Julen continued explaining.  “The people of Deltor didn’t know how to solve the problem or how to defeat them.  But the properties of Sapphire slowed them down.  Once the war was over they captured one of the enhanced soldiers and hooked them up to a machine, and turned on the machine.”  
“I am that machine, my brain waves went out to all of the enhanced warriors all over the planet, they came here where they are now trapped and incased inside the poisonous Sapphire.  Anyone with strong mental capabilities can easily take over my mind and control the enhanced Deltorians for themselves.”  Vhar explained.
“A built in army.”  Trystan noted.
“You got it kid.”  Vhar snickered.  “It’s so good to see another person; it’s been hundreds of years.”
“What do you need us to do?”  Trystan asked.
“You want an army of vampires?”  Dajus was shocked at what she was hearing.
“Well, who doesn’t?”  The Skyro retorted.  “You might as well go along with this with me, your friends know that you’re the one who fired on them.”
Dajus ignored the Skyro and got out of the ship, she can see the aircraft that Mallobo and Dajus were one hovering over the island, Dajus teleported to her two friends.
“I know what’s going on?” she held her hands up in surrender as the Alhap soldiers drew their weapons on her.
“Why did you fire on us?”  Lovo demanded to know.
“I wanted to stop you from coming here, this place is dangerous.”  Dajus tried to defend herself.
“Who’s protecting the Queen?”  
“I left the Magma and the Ebta teams in charge.  I came to help you.”  Dajus tried to convince her friends.
“What I need you to do is to sink the island before that Skyro gets here.”  Vhan told Trystan.
“I’m sure we have cures for you for all of you.”  Trystan said as he looked around the cavern.  He can see the different enhanced warriors trapped within the Sapphire.
“No, it’s too late for us.  We have to make sure no one frees them.  It would cause a galactic massacre, and once the other planets get word, this planet would become a graveyard.”  Vhan explained.
Dajus convinced the others to go look for Trystan; the Skyro was whispering in her ear about having her own army and being able to take over the entire universe and not have to worry about betrayal from the Planetary Alliance.  The offer seemed appealing to her, so slowly but surely she went along with the task.
Trystan teleported back to the ship to meet up with his fellow warriors, they all decided to follow Trystan’s advice to sink the Island of Ti’Kar.  They alerted the Queen and informed her of the ordeal.  It was late afternoon and evening was approaching fast.  The purple moons of Deltor could be seen rising in the distance as Dajus fell into a trance.
Lovo kept an eye on Dajus; she didn’t know what she was doing.  Trystan noticed and walked over to Dajus, “What are you doing?”   he asked her.
“Where is it?”  A sickly Dajus asked.  “I can either find it myself or I could just…”  Dajus grabbed Trystan’s arm and searched his mind for Vhan the central control of the Sapphire device. 
Dajus passed out and the Skyro made their way down to Vahn.  “Oh no.”  Vhan rolled her eyes.  “What do you hope to accomplish from this Skyro?”  
The Skyro stood in front of Vhan still without its body but with its mind and psychic abilities reached out to Vhan disabling the Sapphire system.  The crystals began to melt at an alarming rate and the Skyro returned to Dajus.  With the Skyro’s mind combined with Dajus’ the two attempted to control emerging vampires, but it did not work.
“What happened?”  Julen asked as the alarm systems went off.
Trystan jumped out of the ship and back down into the caverns, where the vampires were ready to attack.  Mallobo and Lovo followed, while Dajus continued to try to gain mental control over the creatures.
While Mallobo and Lovo fought the pale Deltorian creatures that emerged from the sapphire prisons Trystan made his way over to Vhan who was also free.  He looked into her face and her face was no longer normal but her eyes were blood red and her skin was as pale as snow.  She gripped on to Trystan’s shoulder pushing him up against the nearest wall.  She turned her head to the side and revealed her mutated mouth.  Her mouth was full of ferocious fangs and she screeched at Trystan.  “It has been so long since I’ve had a taste.  I just want one taste.”  
“I’m sorry.”  Trystan said.
He plunged his Ruvo blade into Vhan as she cried out in pain.  Still disfigured and deformed, she looked up at Trystan, “Thank you, but it won’t stop the coming dangers, you’ve only prolonged it.”  Vhan put her hand on Trystan’s hand.
Mallobo and Lovo with the help of her Alhap soldiers fought the creatures that freed themselves from the Island.  They tried their best to keep the creatures from biting and infecting them, a few did not make it.  As she fought Lovo could see them transform and become like the creatures they were fighting.
Julen made it to the computer system and shut everything that kept the Ti’Kar running.  Not only did the island began to sink but it began to refreeze in Sapphire to imprison the enhanced soldiers.  “We gotta go.”  He shouted and ran for the entrance; he stopped along to way to see his fallen comrades. 
Mallobo ran up behind him, “Keep moving.”  Leading Julen and the other warriors to the exit.
Trystan knelt beside Vhan, who smiled at him with her terrible face, “You should go.”  Trystan took his weapon and left with the others.  They were all chased by the creatures as soon as everyone was behind him Mallobo held out is Nilo Blade and converted it into a shield.  The shield released a bright light that the creatures tried to hide from, just long enough for everyone to get away.  The island began to sink faster than everyone thought and the Sapphire started making its way towards them.  The creatures were getting closer and closer.  Lovo and Trystan waited for him at the very last minute the three jumped into the Kitnar Sea.  
Lovo, Trystan and Mallobo got caught up in the undertow and tried their best to find the surface.  Lost and scattered each of them saw a face in the confusion of the water, it grabbed the Sapphire rock and drug it to the bottom of the ocean and then pushed the warriors to the top of the surface.
In that moment Trystan had a flash of a memory he’s never experienced before, he was standing with his hand tied behind his back, facing a firing squad.  He could hear Dajus and Mallobo shouting in the distance and he remembered Vhan’s words.  “You’re only prolonging the inevitable.”
:\\Queen Lora 
Dajus stood and watched the carnage with her mind.  “Crap.”  She snickered to herself a little.  “Looks like you won’t be getting that army after all.”  She looked at the Skyro across from her.
“Well, this way no one else does either.”  They Skyro remarked.
“You have a good point.”  Dajus folded her arms.
By nightfall the warriors had returned home, beaten, bruised but still alive.  Not everyone was so lucky.  “I lost some of my people today.”  Lovo sat next to Mallobo.
“I know, I’m sorry.”  Mallobo said to Lovo.  
“It’s not your fault, they died with honor, they died protecting Deltor.”  Lovo put her hand on Mallobo’s knee.
“They died fighting against one of their own.”  Mallobo looked up to Dajus.  “This whole thing started because Vhan sensed that she was coming for her.  We were drawn there to sink the island.  Those people are a lost gem in the ocean now, what do you we do?”
“We’ll take her to Tygalon, there isn’t anything else that we can do for her.”  Lovo bowed her head down.
Later that night Mallobo was summoned to the Queen’s quarters, he was nervous an emotion that was rare for Mallobo to experience.  The Queen was still dressed in her fancy extravagant gown.  Mallobo kneeled in front of her.  “You called for me your majesty.”  
“I need to know what happened regarding Dajus, Mallobo.”  
Mallobo looked up to his Queen, he didn’t want to turn Dajus in but he didn’t want to lie to the Queen either.  “Your majesty, you know that with your life, you can depend on me.  But I don’t know that I can.”
The Queen shook her head, “Mallobo, you know that I can force you to tell me, because I am the Queen.  But I am coming to you as one of my closest friends, and I am telling you right now that I love each and every one of you.  But I cannot and will not put the lives of my warriors over the lives of my entire planet.  They’re counting on me.  I know you have a fair and good heart, and I know about the bond you have to your fellow warriors but as the voice for the people of Deltor I must know everything and all that has happened.”
Upset Mallobo told his Queen everything that he knew about Dajus, how she fired on them, and how suspicious she was behaving.  The Queen listened and Mallobo swore that he wouldn’t tell anyone of their discussion.  Mallobo left, with a ton of guilt on his shoulders.  He knew that he had to tell the Queen, he knew that he should have came to her sooner, but when it came to a fellow warrior, he couldn’t bring himself to do it on his own.  
“Did you get all of that?”  The Queen asked.
“I did.”  A man emerged from the shadows to reveal his face.
“Elder Senex, these warriors are my friends, I don’t want any harm to come to them.”
“Then we need to get to work.”  The Elder responded.
“Mallobo told me that these creatures were infected the same way as the Skyro were trying to infect the people of Itlo the last time they were here.  Is it what I think it is?”  The Queen turned to look at her advisor.
“Yes, your majesty I believe it’s the same virus.”  The Elder stood with his hands behind his back.
The Queen looked out over her balcony, “The return of the Silva Virus.  How did the Skyro get a hold of it?”
Mallobo sat quietly thinking about everything that’s been happening and everything that he’s seen.  He didn’t know if this trip to Tygalon would be a help or a hindrance to their cause to help Dajus.  But he and the other warriors knew that they had to try.  They have been through a lot.  They made it through the Great War, the attacks from the Skyro, the attempts from the planet Vada, and even the Revkar.
The Queen sat as she seemed to enjoy the annual performance from famous Deltorian dancers.  Mallobo, Trystan, Dajus and Lovo stood guard.  They knew it would only be a matter of time before Dajus had to answer for her crimes.  They knew the Queen would only be able to protect them for so long.

://Koto-Ryin
Many years into the future, after the Deltorian Warriors have long been forgotten a young woman drops a book she was carrying.  An older version of Elder Senex turns to face the woman, “Is everything alright Koto-Ryin?”  
“Yes, Elder Senex, I just…I had a headache.”  Koto-Ryin held her head.  Her jewelry jangled as she collected her things and stood up.
“Very good, I’m pleased that I was able to acquire you as one of my assistants.  You’re one of the best out there.”  Elder Senex walked across the room with the aid of his cane.
Koto-Ryin didn’t know it, but she would later learn that the images she started to receive are more than just dreams.  They were visions of the past and predictions of the future.  She didn’t know just how Elder Senex’s role fit into the grand scheme of things; she would spend her time looking for someone that she could trust.