Tinara had no choice but to leave
her dear Antri behind as Qopporhed and the guards clawed their way up and out
of the ventilation shaft after her. Disoriented, she found herself
in a dock bay of the Ark transport ships. Frantically she hobbled behind a
storage bunker. She covered her mouth so the chasing reptiles wouldn’t hear her
heavy breathing, but she could hear them.
“Split up!”
commanded Qopporhed. “That human could not have gone far. I can still smell
it!”
Blood
dripping from her palms made her realize that she left a trail of bloody footprints.
Tall shadows came closing in.
“I can’t out run them!” she thought, “If I have any chance to make it I won’t be
able to stay behind this bunker for long! Please, God, don’t leave me!”
She made a run for it!
“There is
the human! After it!”
Desperate
times called for desperate measures. Up ahead, Tinara noticed that an Ark was
left with its cockpit open. It never crossed her mind that she had never flown
one before, so climbing inside and madly punching the buttons on the control
panel was like second nature to her. Knowledge of Melonite hieroglyphics
allowed Tinara to at the very least understand which buttons did what. Before
she knew it, the Ark’s engines fired up and it began to drift forward.
She steered
it to the landing strip, but not before Qopporhed and the Venom guards jumped
on top. Tinara never figured out how to close the cockpit hatch, but with her
desperation possessing her every thought, she pushed the throttle until it
could go no further. The Ark shot to the sky in seconds. The Venoms couldn’t
keep their grip and one by one they were flung to their demise.
Now that
she had a moment to breathe, Tinara figured out which button closed the cockpit.
She had no idea where she was going, but she was going somewhere and that’s all
that mattered.
It hit her like a ton of bricks;
Tinara saw her caretaker for the last time.
Tears spilled over.
“I’ll come back for you, Antri. I
prom―”
The cockpit’s cargo door opened! Qopporhed
barged in and unloaded upon her a vicious bare-knuckled assault. Tinara fended
him off the best she could, but the Venom quickly made it apparent that her
arms were too short to box with the Devil. She kicked him and then she kicked
him again. His hands were reduced to shields that failed to protect what was
left of his now forever damaged reproductive organs. One last scrotum buster
knocked him into the control panel. Qopporhed must’ve hit the throttle in the
process, because in a matter of seconds, the Ark shattered the sound barrier.
As they turbulently blurred
throughout Melonite airspace, the furious Venom tangled his scaly mitts in her
dreadlocks. He easily could’ve ripped her hair out if he wanted, but instead,
Qopporhed rammed Tinara into the control panel over and over again until her
fight was over.
He tossed the inanimate escapee to
the floor, activated the Ark’s wyspor, and then patched through to Dirge.
“I have
apprehended the human,” he said in obvious pain.
“Well, it
is about time!”
“What should we do now?”
“Take her
to King Venomous,” said Dirge. “He will know what to do!”
“There is
no time. Murderar’s ordination will begin in any moment.”
“Precisely…”
Concussed
and bloodied, Tinara felt the Ark turn around, and then she passed out.
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