Rogue Of The Raza ( Five Love )

1 ~ Rogue

*Pic of Five up top

It was after the miner's incident and Five was crawling around the vents again. She paused for a second, thinking she had heard something.

"Mmm, its probably nothing..." she whispered with a sigh, and carried on. Her breathe echoed around her before being muffled under a different sound, similar to that of a growl. Five's eyebrows creased as she frowned. She had crawled these vents before and hadn't heard a sound. She shrugged and wrote it off as the air conditioner acting up again. Pressing on, the sound cut out after a bit. As she wiggled along she found a wider, bigger area where, it seemed, the vents connected. Smiling about her discovery she sat back to look around. Five's wide grin slowly slid off her face as she found drops of blood, small puddles too, some with lines streaking from them. Fresh, almost as if they'd had to drag themselves. Red eyes shone in the dark.

She screamed.

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All the crew members were going around doing their job. One and six, inventory. Three, weapons check. Four, kitchen duty. Two and android, systems check. They all froze as they heard a scream, knowing only one person aboard the ship who sounded like that.

"Five..."

"Everyone get to the bridge now!" The urgency and worry could be heard clearly in Two's voice and within a minute everyone was on the bridge.

"Where's Five?" Two asked.

"Kid wasn't with me." Three shrugged.

"I-I don't know!" One stammered.

"Neither was she with me." Four added

"And I was with One." Six said.

Two paced up and down the bridge obviously more than a little worried. Android came up to them.

"I could track her comm and find out where Five might be." She suggested. She wished for Five to be okay, as she was a member of their crew, the humans of which she looked after. Immediately they all agreed.

"She seems to be located up in one of the vents, near the cargo hold." Stated Android. Everyone rushed to the cargo hold, still on edge about what they may find. Standing underneath a vent grate, Two called up.

"Five? You up there? Are you okay?"

Five looked for the sound of Two's voice, coming from a vent only a couple inches away.

"Yeah, I-I, um, I think..." Five called out, eyes still holding contact with the red ones peering back at her.

"But, um, guys? I think we might have a problem." She said

Two and the crew exchanged worried glances.

"Five, can you come down?" Two asked

"I think...but I don't know. There's someone up here." She calls back. Five slowly inches her way to the vent grate before a growl stops her.

"Umm, guys?" She says.

Three raises his gun, hearing the growls, along with four and his sword.

"It's okay just keep moving we're right below you." Two tells her.

Five nods to herself and opens the grate, lowering herself down, as the figure begins to creep closer. Almost out, she jumps down just as the figure in black lashes out with a howl and falls through the open vent too.

Five dashes behind Two who has her hand stretched out to her.

"What the hell?!"

Three shouted as Four stood by him, silent as always.

"..."

Even without words you could tell Four was wary of the person standing before them. Cautiously One took a step forwards, his gun still aimed at them.

"Who are you?"

They did not answer, only raising slightly from their crouch as the breathed in. Two raised her hands slightly, palms facing the figure who was still crouched.

"What is your name?"

Their eyes strayed a little towards Two's voice but no other move was made.

"I'm not sure about this..."

Six shook his head as he talked. The figure shifted slightly on their feet drawing a hand closer to their body. Almost simultaneously they had their guns raised and ready to shoot at the mysterious figure.

"Wait!"

The crew of criminals paused at Five's plea, giving enough time for them to see the palm once pressed to the figure's body peeling away, as if to look at their hand. The palm now covered in red shook, droplets of crimson, shimmering, as they rolled along their fingers and fell from the tips. Five took a step towards them and they growled, a warning.

"Hey, I won't hurt you! Let me take a look at that..." Five spoke quietly and softly.

Five took a couple more steps, ignoring the warning sounds emitted by the figure. Five reached out her arm, only a few inches away from the strange being. A loud clang was heard, One had tipped something over, and the strange unknown entity jumped, scared of such a noise. Five figured this out fast enough and crouched down closer to the mysterious being.

"Hey, hey, shhh. It's okay, just something that got knock over, alright?" Five reassured them.

They settled and this time did not growl as her hand came closer. Stopping just before touching their arm, Five gave them a questioning look. They nodded and held their breathe as Five's small hand made contact with their cloth covered arm.

"Umm Five? Are you sure you should be that close?" Six questioned.

Five ignored him as she held her breath, waiting for any sign from the person before her. They growled at her as she reached for their hand. She ignored it and cradled their hand in both of her own. She looked carefully at their mostly covered face.

"Can we take you to the med bay? I can patch you up there." Five asked and the figure nodded their consent.

Five stood and the figure stayed behind her, still mostly crouched, still holding her hand, as if in reassurance that they wouldn't be hurt. Slowly the rest of the Raza crew moved aside, allowing Five to pass, eyeing the stranger aboard their ship. The stranger made small, cautious steps as they made their way to the med bay.

"Hey, what are you? Like girl or guy or whatever? Cause if you're a girl I don't think you want the guys around, do you?" Five suddenly asked.

The figure paused before answering, "Girl" she said with an almost masculine but still identifiably feminine, croak.

Five smiled, happy that they were making progress. Entering the med bay, Five directed the stranger to the table in the centre.

"Do you want they guys out?" Five inquired.

"S'okay with me if they stay or go." The other girl replied

The guys decided to stay incase Five needed help or the other girl decided to get nasty. The injured stranger shucks her shirt off and pauses before speaking.

"Um, can I have some bandages, tweezers, a towel, alcohol and a bowl of hot water please?"

Five nods for One and Six to gather the aforementioned items. Returning swiftly they hand over the objects. The injured girl mutters a thank you before getting to work but pauses when she can't get the wound on her back. Five notices and asks her, "Do you wants some help with that?"

The mystery girl nods her affirmation. As Five takes care of her back she can't help but notice the many other scars along her back. Finishing up she puts away the unused bandage and alcohol.

"Well now that that's done... What's your name?"

"Rogue."