Til we part ways (You will be Mine)

Til we Part ways

Ariya hadn't planned on being found. She didn't know where she was in the universe but it didn't stop her desire to find her way back home. The people were standing in front of the house she was currently hiding in. Dressed in protective gear, holding grapples and other gadgets she was unsure of how they worked. They hadn't caught wind of her presence just yet. It would only be a matter of time. She knew the place she found herself in was void of any intelligent human life. Seeing the people surrounding the rickety house she was in made her question if it was the truth. Maybe she was still on her home planet, maybe it would only take her a few days to trek through the forest to a proper civilisation so she could go home. Even if the people outside were here to cause harm, there would be no way for Ariya to disappear. She could only close her eyes and hope they were here for something else. Not her. If Ariya strained her ears, she could hear shouting coming from the outside. Most likely orders of what they were to do.

Ariya scrambled away from the window she was using to observe the people who had appeared out of nowhere. She had locked eyes with one. They would now know that someone was in the building. Her eyes flitted around the room she had been holed up in for the past few months. She had nothing of terrible importance and it was obvious when looking at the minuscule items she had scrounged up from the different abandoned houses in the area. Bits of clothing and some imperishable food. She had been shocked to find large amounts of precious items that had been believed to be lost to time itself. Ariya had entertained the idea of grabbing a few items but ultimately decided against it. She had no use for the items as her current predicament stood. A rather loud crash startled Aryia from her thoughts. Abruptly reminding her of her impending doom if she didn't try something. Her gaze landed on an elegant necklace decorated with a beautiful pure black gem. It had been the only thing on her that she had managed to not get taken from her. Her mother's keepsake that she had given to her only daughter before she passed. Gems like the one before her possess strange powers that her home had learned to harness and use for themselves. She had never been taught, having been too young at the time, it had been a few years since then. She was now old enough to use the gem.

Her plan didn't have a chance to come to fruition. Ariya had spent too long deliberating on what she should do after being discovered.

"Well, what do we have here?" A soft voice hissed. Ariya looked and came face to face with a woman. She was tall. That's the first thing she noticed. The next was that she was holding her mothers necklace aloft, holding it in the light, allowing the black gem to shine in the light of the sun. Ariya hissed and made a grab for the necklace, failing to do so as the woman laughed and moved the necklace out of reach. "Is this your's kitty?" the woman laughed again as Ariya made another leap to get the necklace back. Failing for a second time as the woman moved the necklace away again. Ariya hissed again, and the woman laughed, a loud boisterous one that put Ariya on edge. It confirmed one thing about the group she was with. They didn't know how dangerous this planet was. There was no human on the planet, they had tried, but the monster that lurked in the shadows was waiting. For an opportunity. Noise is what draws it to its prey, Smell is what confirmed its meal. And sight gave them the location of each and every morsel of food they would be snacking on. Ariya had only managed to escape captivity with the help of it, and she wasn't delighted to see it again. Surely it would mean death on her part. And every other clueless human that deigned to come to this forsaken planet.

The woman was looking at Ariya with a frown. She knew her silence was off-putting. Ariya had yet to speak. At the moment she wasn't too fond of making any more noise than what had already been made. Ariya locked eyes with the woman then snarled quietly, bringing her finger to her lips, hoping that she would understand. She heard crackling, and the woman brought her free hand up to her ear and listened to something before going pale and dropping the necklace to the floor as she turned around, pulling out a gun that she had in her holster. It seemed her warning was too late. Ariya didn't let that bother her. She dived for the necklace and brought it to her chest, cradling it like it was a baby, she could feel the faint pulse of power thrum through her fingertips and she sighed in relief, it hadn't been broken. Without hesitating the unclasped the necklace and placed it around her neck and did it up once more. The Gem pulsed even more and it took a second for her to realign herself with everything. She hadn't expected the sudden change once the necklace was placed on her but it was welcome. Her vision was sharper, sounds were clearer. They were the most obvious effects. Without letting herself dwell too long on what else had been enhanced with the gem she stood up from the ground. The monster that hid in the shadows was something she never wanted to see again, but something in her screamed to go and help. To go save the woman and her group from the gruesome death that was awaiting them.