YaY! Happyfulness! If you read my story you will have figured out that it's far from over...



Chapter Nine-continued



The sun rose, chasing the shadows of night away. Small night animals fled before the oncoming dawn, towards the deepest parts of the forest that never saw the sun. The streaming rays filtered in through branches and leaves, dappling the forest floor with light.

In this setting, a more than slightly annoyed rabbit climbed out of the ruin of a smallish ship and surveyed the wreckage. He had been heading for Carrotus when he had been attacked, and had lost control. He had no idea where he was, but he was stranded there.

His green eyes glanced up at the broken branches of a tree and the torn engine that perched there, then flickered to the eroded hill where the tail piece lay, buried. The ship, obviously, was totalled.

Kovu Alec Easgi, who happened to be that rabbit, was resigned to the fact that he had to hike his way out of the dense rainforest before he did anything else. He carefully edged past the sharp hunks of metal that stuck up from the ground, and left the new clearing that he had created.

Kovu, who looked to be about 20, had been in worse situations before, but just then he couldn't think of any. How was he to get off of the planet? Obviously, he couldn't use his torn-up ship. Maybe he could flag down a passing vessel...

Get real, Kove, he thought wryly, like a ship would just pass by like that. Face it, you're in deep this time.

He glanced around, searching for a path, and found a faint trail heading north. He warily began to follow it, hoping that he wasn't heading further in. He could get lost so easily... he banished the thought and, determinedly, began to follow the barely etched line that passed for a trail.

Kovu, unlike most rabbits, was a wanderer. With shining brown fur and black hair, his eyes were a contrasting emerald green. A black jacket and pants added to the image of a dark, secretive rover, as did his longish black cape. His weapons consisted of a golden sword and a blaster, and they looked well-used... used enough that they usually deterred would-be antagonists from attacking him, but his small vessel had not been much to write home about.

Now, as he attempted to trace the gametrail that he was on, he had to admit that he had been pretty stupid to fly through the troops of turtles. That stretch of space was called 'Death Alley,' or 'The Zone of Doom' by the pessimists, and few survived to tell of their experiences in there. The name alone should have warned him, but it had been the quickest route, so he took it. And, ultimately, paid the price.



Kroys was sure that no-one would find him. Lohar was so easy to hide on, he would be able to transport back to one of his sub-command ships by nightfall if he wasn't found. Mentally he cursed the level that his power was at; the fight with the mercenaries had depleted him more than he'd thought it had. If he hadn't tried that attack on the rabbit with the diamond he would have been able to transport immediatly, but for now he waited...





I'll try to get you in soon, Alpha. Tell me if I got you wrong, Kovu... and let the story go on!