Bond of Hatred

Chapter 3- Loose Ends

It was raining heavily on Solidro. The ship Zeera and Kurata were aboard felt the impact of the weather once they entered the planet's atmosphere. The ship was stuck in the middle of the storm and it kept experiencing turbulences every other minute. Kurata almost fell down due to one of them.

"Keep the ship steady for god's sake!" Kurata yelled at the pilot.

The pilot was sweating profusely. His dripping sweat made the floor slippery.

"I-I'm trying my best! This is a really bad storm!" The pilot replied nervously.

Zeera quickly gave the pilot an evil eye and then once again diverted her attention to the baby. The storm was becoming worse by the second. After some time the ship's radio recieved a message.

"You are currently invading Master Josan Hidel's private airspace pilot. Please identify yourself."

"This is JH-18001 with the 'cargo' that Master Hidel had ordered. Requesting permission to land."

The line went dead and the pilot waited in suspense. Kurata was getting irritated and he kept his hand on his sword's hilt for comfort.

"What's taking them so long damnit?"

"I-I'm not sure. I think they're checking whether we're the ship that was sent or not."

All of a sudden the radio buzzed back to life.

"JH-18001 you have been given permission to land. Sorry about the delay, the storm's interfering with the transmission. You have been given airspace 12."

The pilot sighed with relief as did Zeera and Kurata. They were all glad to be on the ground again. Kurata suddenly got up and went into the cockpit, leaving Zeera to care for the baby by herself. The baby was much better now. Zeera smiled as the baby made a cute noise, which meant that he was all right now. She got up and looked at all the humans in the ship.

"Those of who can fight and or know how to use one of these guns quickly change into these officers' clothes, follow me and my friend, hide your face and do not utter a word. The rest of you will follow us and act as if you are all still prisoners. Got it?"

A handful of the people immediately got up and took the clothes and the weapons off the corpses. Kurata came back inside and adjusted his disguise.

"What were you doing sensei?"

"Tying up loose ends."

Zeera could just barely see the blood on his sword. Now began the most complicated part of their mission. They all exited the ship and were greeted by two officers, dressed in black. They had the greenish purple tinge that all Solidarians had. They were quite tall, considering the fact that the average height of people on this planet is 5 feet and 2 inches.

"Hail. Did you face any complications during the trip?"

"Only the usual." Zeera replied.

"Is it just me or are the number of humans less?"

"Some of them died on the way. You know these humans with their weak constitution." Zeera quickly responded.

"Ah, of course. Never mind then."

"Although we were attacked by a pirate ship on the way which was brought down by an IAWYH ship." Kurata said to change the topic.

"Ah, you were lucky. That ship's crew were on their way to meet master Hidel. In fact, they only arrived a few minutes ago."

Zeera's face twitched momentarily. She was still hoping that her brother wasn't one of the crew members. She had absolutely no desire to meet him. The officers led them to a hangar, which was almost empty. That was advantageous for Zeera and the rest. Once in, the officers closed the hangar door, which was almost immediately followed by Zeera, Kurata and the humans killing all of the officers present. It was a quick and clean killing. Kurata quickly hacked the machine near the entrance and made sure that nobody could open the hangar from outside. At least for a while.