Chapter Three: Ignition

[Leo]

OORP: I havn't posted in a while and I'm sorry for slacking, I assure you, it won't happen again.

~Leo

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We arrived at the hotel at dusk and people were coming in and out of the hotel. Men in suits rushed around, a few were sending their mistresses home quickly because their wives were coming for a "suprise" visit. I could only imagine what the others were doing. Several talked on their phones, yelling at the person at the other end who obviously messed up somewhere and lost them a few million. Crime lords left and entered, opposing factions glared at each other as they passed by, drug cartels drove past in expensive hovercars.

And here, little old me stepped out of a taxi, the irony. I checked into the south penthouse and plopped down on the sofa, staring out at the sky. Ships came and went, dissappearing into the night sky, transports landed on nearby landing pads and offloaded their cargo, then reloading and taking back off into the sky. Police chased criminals as they flew past at break neck speeds. "Lineburners." I thought with a smile. The equal to 20th century Earth street racing. These were the small time racers, still planet side and unable to get into space because of lack of credits.

I heard laughter in the penthouse across the hall. Small children playing with new toys. They screamed with delight as their parents tried despiratly to quiet them down. I smiled as I looked at the closed door, straining to see through it. Had my parents loved me? For the life of me, the only person I could remember was my mother, and those were shattered and broken memories. I knew she cared for me, I could feel that much. But what happened to her? Did she die in some tragic accident?

What about my father? I had no memory of him. But she had clearly mentioned him from what I could recall of the memory. Something about we were going to daddies, and then...

The ship shook violently and my mother screamed in pain. She turned around and released me from my child restraints, I was crying. I didn't understand what was going on, it was all a blur.

"Kyoto! Come in Kyoto! This is Ann Uzamaki! I'm ejecting my child to space. He needs a home, my ship is becoming damaged severely!"

"We hear you Uzamaki, we're dispatching a wing of fighters. We're picking up a few battleships and a wing of bombers and fighters. We're sending the fleet to destroy the infidels, hold in there!"

My mother kissed me on the forehead, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"I will see you soon Leo."

A woosh sound and I was floating in space in a pod, the resulting explosion made me start to try, I had lost my mother.

I came out of the memory crying. My mother had been shot down by the bastards. I grabbed the closest thing to me and hurled it across the room, hitting the forcefield window and bouncing off it like nothing happened. I got to my feet, more somber than I was before. I looked at the mirror in the room, and got one of the first real detailed looks at myself.

Jet black medium length hair, slightly muscular. A neat scar from my lower ear to my throat. My eyes were what shocked me the most. They were amber colored, almost golden. So golden they looked like they could almost be glowing all by themselves. I looked at my hair, a mess naturally. I rubbed my hand through it and found it gritty. Had I taken a shower in the past few days? I couldn't remember. I had been wearing the same clothes for a few days too...but I didn't have any more clothes. I took off my clothes and put them in a basket. I set the basket at the elevator that led into the penthouse and called the front desk. I informed then that I had some clothes that needed washed and they told me they would take care of it.

I relaxed in the large tub for what seemed like hours and reviewed the information that I had collected a few more times before draining the tub and putting the newly cleaned clothes on. I went to the lobby and purchased some new ones. I bought something called a portable closet. It locked on to my clothes, shrunk them into data and loaded it into a small handheld clip that hooked into my datapad. Whenever I needed a change of clothes, I would have it. I got fitted for a suit and bought it then and there. Hell it was time to treat myself. I went to dinner, ate more than my share, and left for the club downtown.

The club was really hopping tonight, the bouncer let me in when I rolled up in the rented sportscar and when I entered the club, I proceeded to dance, but was stopped by a tall man with a military cut. I was shocked to be looking at Commander Jadyn in the flesh.

"I'm not here to kill you Leo. The bounty has been made null and void for what they are doing...we need to talk."

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.
The Banished Legion | Astral