Chapter Seven: Dragon

[Leo]

"...get as far away as you can."

Shan remembered when Leo got off the fighter that Kurt was flying two years ago. He took one last look at Shan and vanished off the ship. She tried focusing flying the ship, but her thoughts kept going back to Leo. For the past two years, she had tried figuring out what she could have done different, what she could have done to make sure Leo didn't have to die for all of them. Maybe if she wasn't so girly she could have been able to stand up and help him, protested that there had to be another way. But Gwen always told her there was nothing any of them could have done.

Gwen had been affected the most after her father sacraficed himself for the greater good. For weeks after we were cleared from the Order, she refused to talk to anyone but Shan. Day in and day out she would confess her deepest feelings about what had happened to her. After a while, Gwen managed to regain her composure and from then on lived with Shan at Kyoto. She showed great interest in learning to pilot a fighter and had great abilities with them...a "natural" everyone always said at her training flight lessons. Shan found some kind of sisterhood with Gwen from the moment she began living at Kyoto, but Gwen called it a "mothers instinct".

The ship bounced off a rock and the shields reacted to the impact, dropping them by a bar and a half.

"Pay attention. I'm the rookie and you're flying like you're piloting with your feet." Gwen said across the comms

"I know...I'm a little shaken, that's all."

"It's ok, we're still not all back to normal, you included. Any hints to how you're still able to change?"

"Nota, the Order are clueless."

After Leo sacraficed himself, all those with the Nomad implants lost their abilities, including Gwen and Takashi. However, Shan regained hers. She could still go Nomad, she could still use the implants to help her in her everyday life, and her eyes could still look just as Leo's has all those months ago.

"There's a ship, it's moving fast. Lets intercept it." Gwen said.

"Copy."

"Ho ho ho! Hold it you two! I'm friendly." said a voice and Shan smiled. It was Kurt, Leo's brother. After Leo's death, Kurt remained distant as well, only recently had he been coming around again, Rag too.

"Hey Rag, hey Kurt." Shan said.

"Hello Shan."
"Hello Shan" they both said at once and laughed.

"I trust you both had a good flight..." Shan said and trailed off. There, near Kurt's ship was a ship piloting at a very fast speed. On the side was painted something...

"You're not alone..."

"Gwen are you picking up any ships?" Shan said quickly and not taking her eyes off the ship. It faded away as it if was never there.

"No, why?"

"Just a glitch in my sensor array, I'm going to have to look at it later. So Kurt, what brings you to Kyoto un announced?"

"I have news...

"Leo's alive."

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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.

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