RIPE & DRAGGERS

CHAPTER 14

"How the hell did Gritt went past your grid defense droids?"

Salamunbi just shrugged at the question.

"Salbi my brother, do you know what a Gloshon is?"

Again he just shrugged at the question.

Bob sighed. "Do you still have the Ahahmar blade?"

Salamunbi snapped his finger and the platform near Bob opened and revealed a Runkan sword with black Ahahmar steel blade. It floated and came near to Bob which he took by his left hand. He slid it to its sheath and sling it to his back as he started to climb to the transport platform that brought him here a while ago.

Salamunbi is instantly by his side and Kai followed him. Bob looked to Rodrick who is not moving and gesturing to them that they should move on without them.

He turned to Kai and said "You should stay here."

Kai raised her brows and just slowly shook her head.

He sighed and signaled to Salamunbi "Let's go."; who in turn just giggled at the couple and said "You two should really get married here."

Bob slapped Salbi in the back of his head.

"Shut up and prepare yourself." he said; and Kai had to bit her lip to keep from smiling at the naughty small guy.

The platform lifted and traveled faster than it did this morning, and in seconds they are in front of a big freighter fighter landing in the desert plain outside the tree-lines.

"Are you sure you don't know what a Gloshon is?"

Salbi shrugged.

"How about you?" he turned to Kai, who also shrugged.

"Great.... I'm being hunted and I'm with a couple of geniuses by my side."

He said shaking his head. "You better notify the tribe armada in case this gets ugly."

"I already did." Salbi replied as Bob always forgets that the Rikish can send telepathic messages from their ear trans-ceivers.

"Ok. Nobody talks, except me." Bob said firmly.

The three of them dismounted the platform almost the same time as the large Gloshon ship made a thud on the rocky ground of the desert region.

The ship is so large that it almost blocks out the other moon on the horizon. After a few bursts of remaining thrusters, the ship's external comm-speakers blurted a large voice.

"Council-man Bobby Pluma, you are hereby hunted and ordered to return with me to my benefactor's camp. Will you comply?"

"And who is your benefactor?"

A moment of silence before the Gloshon answered "Pedro Katana."

"Will you comply?" the hunter repeated.

"Fuck You!!" Salamunbi shouted with his finger in the air and Kai just suddenly bursted into laughter.

Bob's eyes almost popped out of it's sockets at what the little guy just did. Who is now smiling, by the way.

What the fuck?

"What the hell is that?!.... Didn't I just said that I will do the talking?"

Salamunbi shrugged as Kai did her best to stop her laughing, but makes it harder seeing Bob's angry face.

He turned his back from the ship to face them both. "So you think it's funny huh?" he said, as the large ship's cockpit opened from behind him.

Gritt climbed out of the ship and the smiling Salamunbi and the laughing Kai froze at the sight. Their jaws dropped at his gigantic structure. Gritt jumped down from his ship and landed heavily on the ground.