The People Of Avenir (The Avenirian Series)

Chapter 7: The Avenaros' Plans

     In the morning I was making my way to the bathroom without looking ahead, which made me bump with Lysandre who was standing there in the middle of the hallway. “Sorry Lysandre, I’m still a bit sleepy.” I said while having my hand on my messy hair, which was made even messier when Lysandre ruffled it with his firm hands. He was quite strong, which I never paid much attention to. Lysandre looked at me and said: “Donovan, you slept for quite some time, that’s not usual, and you’re still sleepy. I hope that you aren’t sick.” I made a worried expression for a second, but quickly changed it to a suspicious smile. I really do hope I am not sick at all. As soon as I snapped out of it, I continued my way to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and my hair.

I went down while putting on a red shirt, over a white long sleeved shirt that I was already wearing. My jeans were a bit ripped on the ends, and I was wearing white black socks, but I had my black boots on my hands. I sat down on the end on the staircase and put on my boots, and as soon as I raised my sight, Lysandre was packing some sandwiches and water bottles in a bag as well as two black sets of clothing, which were the ones we used for training. “Ready to go?” asked Lysandre while smiling. “Yeah, I am.” I said while nodding and smiling. We walked outside, and started walking towards the facility.

    As we got there Lysandre asked: “Donovan, want to see what I’ve been working on for a while?” I was felt very curious and excited to finally get to see what he had been working on for such a long time. I obviously nodded as we continued our way, shortly arriving. Lysandre and I went inside the facility and walked towards the lunch room and found Irina, Alex, and Sawyer waiting for us. Sawyer said: “Oh, hey guys!” while smiling. Irina just simply smiled, and Alex let out a weak, forced smile. We all sat on the nearest table and Lysandre unpacked the water bottles and the sandwiches. I looked at the digital clock on wall and it said the hour was 7:21 am, which was very early in fact. We usually came here to train, but Lysandre had planned for us to come earlier today to chat and eat breakfast together. He asked us to send him a message saying what kind of sandwiches we each wanted yesterday, and asked us to arrive sometime between 7:00 and 7:30 am. This was planned yesterday before we all went home.

Each sandwich was in a plastic container, and these, respectively, had our names written on a piece of tape and attached to the container. I had told him to make me a grilled cheese sandwich with ham; Irina had a PB and J sandwich, Sawyer had a sandwich with turkey, lettuce, and tomatoes, Alex had a sandwich with salami only, and Lysandre himself had a sandwich with ham, salami, lettuce, tomatoes, mayonnaise, and cheese. We all thanked Lysandre for the sandwiches which were I assume were very delicious, as mine was great and no one left a single piece. Lysandre then said: “Well, there is something I want to show you all, so if you stay here and wait, I’d be very grateful.” We all obeyed, and after a while Lysandre came back running. He looked very worried and mad as he said: “They’ve stolen it! They stole my weapon design!”

“Lysandre calm down, and tell us what happened.” Lysandre took a deep breath and said: “The door to my office was open, and there was a scale lying around in my office near where my weapon design was supposed to be. An Avenaro must have gotten in and stole it while being in humanoid form.”  Alex looked at me and said: “We must inform both Cpt. Fray and President Aravalli at once. We must split up and talk to each one about the situation.” Irina looked at us seriously and said: “Agreed, this is quite troubling. What would they want with our technology?” She had put a lot of emphasis in the word “our”. “Um, guys, I heard that President Aravalli and Cpt. Fray were supposed to have a union at eight and a half, which is in about 20 minutes from now.” said Sawyer while looking at the digital clock.

We made our way to Cpt. Fray’s office and encountered him along with President Aravalli. Lysandre told them the same that he told us, both of them looked serious and full of thoughts. After a while of awkward silence, President Aravalli said: “We have to careful with the Avenaros, they are not just any creature, they can think, and they’ve stolen from us as well. Measures shall be taken, but Lysandre’s work is important to this situation. Our regular weapons do not harm the creatures in their dragon form, which is the form they naturally use, but we’ve discovered a type of precious material in this planet that is able to affect them. How do we know it affects them? Well, Lysandre had created a naginata which has the material we call Aveniorite, and we assigned the prototype to a certain NEST member, and she successfully fought off one of them, but she couldn’t handle more than one. She is alive and well at the moment, but she was hurt and lost the prototype. The material it had in it, Aveniorite, is quite rare, so we can’t mass produce the weapons made with it. Each sample of Aveniorite is a different color and they each have the same composition, but each have special distinct capabilities separate from each other’s. We shall see what the Avenaros’ plans are and what will they do to us exactly, aside from murder. It is still unclear why they didn’t bother to destroy anything and only killed humans, with the exception of the robbery of Lysandre’s weapon design and other people’s as well. Let’s hope the future treats us nicely.”

I still couldn’t help, but wander about the one we met, the one who talked in an unnatural woman-like voice. She didn’t look at all different from humans except for some strange marks around her body. Would we meet her again? I don’t know, but I wish that next time is peaceful and there is no violence involved. For now I should start working in testing new weapon prototypes along with my partner, Alex, and train in case of any new events that might happen. At least training and working with him will not be as hard as it used to be, since he seems to be slowly warming up to me. I think he might not be so bad after all, maybe he just experienced something bad in his past and he lets out anger on other people. I will ask him if anything happened to him, someday.