Burian Villages and roads
The Dance was finished, all, including the Burians were laughing as they were out of breath, and returned for more of the Juice and some nibbling of the feast. While they Danced, SO-LN had set one of the older men who wore green-brown robes, away,
There was the sound of of pounding feet, in their soft, yet think footwear, The metal workers, who had Smudges on his face, had his hands behind his back, his eyes darted between The Chief and LC.
SO-LN....Darkshadow... I...I well.. here... he handed a Bundle to Shadow. The LC popped a bit of roast bird-thing in his mouth and opened the sooted cloth. His blade was there, it was bent even more!, there was a fissure in the blade near the Hilt.
Shadow's hand trembled for a bit, , the freehand popped a few berries in his mouth as he regain composure ,,,so? Um... You....couldn't fix it then?
The metal worker shook his head,no? Darkshadow? I..I must confess, i have not worked on inferior metal such as this, since i Frist picked up the hammer.
This is Shefield steel!
he loked at Roy and the Chief , then to Shadow.This fellow Shefield? he would have many dead Burians on his ehad, if they went out to fight with this terrible grade of metal..
Then He Produced another Cloth, this one cleaner, Shadow Un wrapped it, the blade inside was the twin of his damaged blade, save it had the Green steel, and the leather wrap was textured for grip, the Knuckles on the hand guard were of Green steel sent in Normal, Burian steel..
A girl stood behind The Metal worker, she had a box with a cloth over top.
Motag? what does your daughter have there? SO-LN asked. The Girl was streaked with soot as well, she smiled a little as she dared at their visitors.
Motag motioned the girl forward, she was close to 8? maybe 9...though aliens were hard to figure ages.
At my failure.. I have ..brought these for gifts... One for each of your firneds, and You keep My Blade...
There were there straight edge daggers, with blades about 8 inches long, made with green steel and hand poits on the side of the hand guard, the grips were textured...
The Gril handed one each to Roy, Dusk and Shade...
Shade Bleeped a bit.He thanks you for your Gift, and your weapon is grand? I wil use it to bring down many enemies..
takign the scaner from his belt, that he used on the dead occui..he scanned his wrist, then scanned Motag's... Montag said..NO!..I canot take payment for the weapon..I failed to repair yours...
Shadow just waved it off...I am paying for your time, and yoru care of your craft. Not the weapons, the weapons , we accept as gifts.
He hands his old blade to SO-LN.Place this with your tribute to Lady, you will then, always have a bit of me here.
The Little girl loked at the fod, Dusk nudged Shadow.
Please.. sit and finish the feast with us, You and your daughter... you must not have had a chance to take part?
Motag was goign torefuse, but he saw the Look in his daughters eyes and he agreed.
At that time the Robed fellow came back, handing SO-LN a Metal box that made the noise of plastic inside. He opened the box...since you have spent time with us, and may have missed out on Credits for the fleet... I offer you our Villages funds... there is...... The robed fellow whispered, SO-LN smiled proudly,There is almost 5,000 creds in the box, to help you fight the Empire.
Shadow looked at them, they all looked eager, Proud.I could accept this?, But could i ask a bigger gift instead?
they lookked taken aback...SO-LN says,..you have , but to ask, Dark Shadow., if it is possible..it will be done!
We have Burian Ghost tropers on our ship, I have a close friends who is almost as good with a Bow, as a Burian Archer. Would you be able to provide us with Burian Arrows . They have used up the arrows they broaught on board, and my firend has only fired human made shafts?
There were gasps all around,This...This we can do Darkshadow,, we will provide you with many arrows for the Ghost troopers as well as your friend.
He looked down the way a Fellow with a green leather cap on his head, and a cloak around him as he ate.we can gift...right now...1500 arrows, and not leave us empty.
Shadow smiled,That, is more import then Creds. with our archers, that means 1500 dead emopire troops, and even more, if we recover the arrows... I will accept that, you keep your creds to use for your Village as they were meant to...and we take the arrows to kill Empire troops, as those arrows were meant to..
SO=LN Grinned and they shook arms Clasping wrist firmly..Holding his cup of juice high he says,tonight...The Village of Darkshadow is honored to help fight the Empire on far off worlds!... Music played as an older warrior stood, he had green metal breast plate, Baldes on his belt and a Burian side arm on a weapons belt slung across his shoulder.
Darkshadow.. I am Captain ZE-LE. I have a most important boon to ask of you an SM Roy. This, is my eldest Son..
the lad wiped his hands on his leathers and stood, nodding his head to the visitors.
This is Yger..his is son of mine, and wife who passed on. He wishes to fight the Empire...he is good with Bow, but needs more training, he is good with Blade, and is does very well with it, he...is not so go with weapon that fire bullets.. it is his wish to join the Hemres, to fight with Darkshadow and his crewmates..
The lad loked fit enough, reminding the hermites of Jumpig Lion.Yger? as honor among warriors? Is this what you wish, would you not rather protect your Home?
The LAd loked at Roy as he spoke to Shadow, Darkshadow, we have many warriors here, we have killed many empire enemies, brought down , many big beasts. But none of us has steeped into the stars. I wish to be the first , to fight Empire troops, who have yet to stain our world
Shadow sent a COM somewhere... he looked at Roy,Your call, SM? He'll be a trooper. we have the Young Guns runnign around anyway?
To,SO-LN he asks,how many people in your Village...
we have... 205 as i speak,,,,
send word for all of them to gather in the filed to the west...a BU is coming... You are all going to see the stars, and Bura, as you never have, Then we must be going...
...........
with in 10 Minutes the BU was landing in the field, Shadow and friends lead the Village people to the filed, the gasped in awe of the BU...
" it is so big!' a women called out. Shadow just grinned.when they were all on board, Shadow opened the door to the pilots and told them where he wanted to go. then the craft began to take off.. some kids and even adults gasped or cried out, they wobbled a bit as they went through the Atmo....
The first sight the went to was The Hermes dock.. the ramp camp down with the static field activated.
don't go out that shimmering wall? you will die, there is no air to breath, you must have suits on to survive.
Then the people saw The Hermes and Gasped at its size.. The Giant 'winged foot" at the Bow , the dorsal surface, and at the rear, They saw other ships docked as well.and could not get over it, when they saw fighters that looked like bugs compared to the Hermes.
the Craft Pulled around, with the ramp way facing Bura,And there is your world.... the people moved to the static filed gasping as their minds tried to wrap around the Breen Blue, with some mottled yellow.. tears streamed down many of their faces.. " Its...Its. Beautiful!"
It is.. and look here... he grabbed a Lazer pointer from the rack by the controls.. he placed it near a dark green spot in the northern hemisphere.,That is where you home is, just about...
The Pilot beeped Shadow..we have to go back now, My friends and I must get back to our own BU and gather up things to take bake to the Hermes.
The Burian regulars that were stationed at the Village smiled, they had seen it before, but none of the others were able to go to space.
the ramp had to close as they entered atmo, the shaking still caused some cries of alarm, but, for the most part, the people were talking excitedly.
Though it was dark, the feast fires still burned, the ramp opened so the people could see their Village from the air, then it Landed. Shadow thanked the pilots after all the People disembarked.. , Chattering of excitement, as them headed to their Village, with a whole new view of their world
returning to the Village, SO-LN sent people for the arrows. they were Bundled and wrapped with care, and stacked into the van, leaving barely room form Shade and Dusk in the back.
the 4 stood there, Shaking hands as Yger waited to see if Roy would accept him as a recruit , his meager belonging with him in a homemade duffle. his bow in his hand.