Opet and the Tales of Heroes

Chapter 10: The Ninth Day of February 2349

It had been almost two years for Raavi since he stepped aboard the UHN Opet. He walked down the long passageways. He had gotten the word and updates that were going on in the United World's Alliance. His heart was filled with worry and concern. The sense of powerlessness was profound. It was something that he kept inside of himself. It was unthinkable, and he wondered what the New Olympians were going to do about it. Walking beside him was Neb Petti in her true form. Her hair was a little bit different in that it was longer and wavier than it was two years ago. Her clawed feet would tap the floor, making little tapping sounds as her tail would swish around. Raavi wore blue sweatpants and a red t-shirt as he trotted down in his new sneakers.

"I still think that you are a little worried about it," Neb Petti said in her deep feminine voice.

"Why?" Raavi commented. "I am just worried about my home planet getting wiped out, that is all."

"The Itreans will not conquer the human race. They have proven to be resilient in the past."

Raavi shook his head. "I don't know about that. I know my home. Three Itrean ships managed to conquer Eutera with a single blow. Aphadus has what? Two......three warships protecting it. The base is huge, but I doubt it could stop a big assault."

"And you think that we can do anything about it?"

"I have been in orbit with my wife for two years, Neb," he said to her annoyance. "I have been watching this fleet just sitting idle doing nothing. You have a fleet that can easily protect everyone else."

The four-legged hybrid creature shook her head as her hair waved around. "You have been on this ship more than long enough to know our reasons for not getting involved."

Raavi simply shook his head again. "I just can't accept it. The Itreans are going to conquer and wipe us out. I am sure of it."

"They won't take New Olympia."

"I just have to talk to Opet or somebody up the chain of command."

"That is the second time you have said that. I know that Fumi Yuki cares, but I think you will have a hard time with it regardless."

Raavi sighed. "I know......yeah......I know." He stopped walking as Neb Petti stopped and kept her gaze on him.

"We have our reasons, Raavi......it is a perfect reason."

"I have heard it before.....it's just......I remember them putting down the colony when I watched it on the UWAN. Eutera was the first time they actually put a colony down for the UWA in over ten years. Before that was Cipra."

"I am sure that things will be alright. The Itreans will never break through this fleet."

"You say that with such assuredness..."

"I just know that they want to get through. It will be very difficult."

"I don't know."

Neb Petti seemed to sigh a little bit. She turned around and began to walk forward to the bow section of the ship. Raavi began to walk again to stay up with her.

"I don't know what to say, Raavi," the female goddess told him. "We have a long history of doing what we need to do. Things find a way to get through."

"Yeah....." he said. He tried to keep his emotions in check. He tried to shake away his thoughts. "I can't believe it has been almost two years."