Dreaming of Stars

Dreams of Flowers and Friendship

"How close are you?" She asked as he came closer to me.

"Close but not as close as you are to me!" I shouted as I pushed her away.

"Oh come on! You can tell me Vela!" Aquila begged as she tried to sneak a look at my papers.

"No Aquila! You might be my best friend but that doesn't mean I can disclose this information to you!" I shouted as I picked up my mess of papers and started to walk towards the exit of the room.

"Eventually someone will find out! You won't be the only one to know forever!" Aquila shouted as she stayed put wishing that I trusted her enough to let her follow.

"But I must keep it that way, the way it was meant to be until the flowers found me." I answered as I looked up at the transparent ceiling and glanced at the beautiful flowers growing in the darkest parts of the universe. "You know some times when you are looking at a flower it might not even exist, it could have died years ago you are just seeing the extra light it had given off."

"Really?" Aquila answered as she cautiously walked over to me and looked up at the glowing flowers with me. "They are so beautiful it almost seems like they are meant to hold something." she said as she looked at me with an all to knowing look on her face as her eyes darted from me to the papers and finished back at me.

"No Aquila! Haven't I told enough times!" I shouted as I clutched my burden closer to me.

"Come on! At least follow me so I can take you somewhere safe." she said as she walked through the transparent piece of wall the allowed organisms to flow through it.

"What safe place?" I asked as I followed her through the hallway wondering how anywhere could ever get us away from all of the others.

"My father's abandoned company had a special defense system that I can get off line if I use the external power source." Aquila said as she walked towards a single shuttle port door.

"Wow, I would have never thought of doing that." I answered as I walked through the door with my only friend that I still couldn't completely trust. We both slipped into our cushioned rocket chairs as Aquila took the controls and I sat behind her in the double person rocket that was conveniently still here instead of the usual single person rockets.

"Ready for my driving?" Aquila asked into the screen that showed me and had a camera so I could see her dare devil look.

"Are you sure you don't want me to fly?" I asked as I quickly grasped the two seat handles on either side of me after buckling myself in with the unnecessary all three straps.

"Too late!" she screamed as she clicked the ignition button and the rocket blasted off through the universe in a blast of smoke.

"Oh great! It's an old rocket too!" I shouted as I closed my eyes and tried to block out the sad puttering noise coming from the rocket's boosters.

"It's fine Vela! The place isn't that far!" the little girl shouted through the sound of the dying contraption we were in. "Actually, we're here." she said before I could say anything about her answer.

"Ok so where should I go?" I said as soon as the top of the silver rocket popped open.

"Follow me." Aquila said as she walked towards the solid looking door of the building. She simply placed her thumb on a panel and then walked in through the solid wall after waving for me. Soon we were both inside a ginormous dark room with no sounds to greet us other than our own footsteps echoing off the grey walls.

"Where do you turn on the power?" I asked as Aquila suddenly pressed a few different colored buttons and flipped a few levers and soon we were both alone in a ginormous lit room with only the sound of the light's flicking echoing off the walls.

"So should we just stay in here?" I asked as I turned around to Aquila after looking around us.

"No, we should go over to th..." Aquila never finished as she was interrupted by the crash of a laser crashing right into the wall behind her.

"You aren't finding the flower's home without me are you?" a tall slender man asked as he looked at us creepily with two lasers in his hands pointing at both of us. "Or were you little girls?" he asked again as he walked closer.

"How did you get in here and what do you want Corvus?" Aquila shouted at the man dressed in a formal black suit as she walked out of the gun's aim only to be put back in it.

"None of your business little girl!" he shouted as he clicked the trigger and a bright blue light flashed towards Aquila shining brightly through her unsuspecting childish eyes. She soon turned her head to look towards me for the last time as she said one last thing before the laser quickly met up with her body that would never be able to move away in time. "Never let the..." she was cut off as the blue light forcefully connected with her chest and knocked her away sliding across the slick gray floor until her head connected with the wall and her limp body stopped its last movement.

"Now give me those papers girl!" Corvus shouted as he aimed both of his guns towards me now.

"No! I will never give away the secrets!" I shouted as I turned and ran towards Aquila's body.

"What are you doing? Can't you tell she's dead!" he shouted angrily as he slowly walked towards me.

"Can't you tell what you're doing?" I shouted back at his blurred body as my tears started to fade out my last sight.

"Give me those papers!" He shouted as he still walked closer. Soon I quickly shoved the papers under Aquila then ran towards the door but I never made it. Something exploded on my back as everything turned as black as the universe without it's flowers that I would never be able to protect now.