Space Hopper

Chapter 1.2 - Captain What?

Lightfrom the sun woke Gabriel up. He didn't need to wait long before themen came inside and took him by his arms. As he was leaving he lookedbehind him. He was expecting to see the person he talked before withbut nobody was there. Was it just his imagination? Gabriel stood upas they led him to the center of the village. They tied him up likehe did many times before himseft to the others. "I will not runaway. You don't need to do it that tight." said Gabriel when oneof the men struggled with the shackles. "Shut up." hemuttered and then they left. Gabriel then just waited untill thebeast came. He didn't scream when it came. He didn't make any noise.He kept quiet and looked directly in to the eyes of the monster. Hedidn't need to fear anything. This was his his end. He then closedhis eyes when the monster was sniffing him. Then it proceed to openhis mouth and he could smell the awful stench which came from thebeasts mouth. His eyes were shut and he just prepared for the pain.But nothing came. He suddenly heard a cry form the beast and when hereopen his eyes it was gone and in front of him stood someone with asword the person turned around. "Are you alright?" It wasthe woman from the night before! She saved him. "It's you!"he quickly blurted out. "Who? Me?" asked sarcastically thewoman and smiled. She then proceed to pull out a wierd device withpurple end from her pocket. Before he could question her what it isshe put it near the shackles on his right hand and with a buzzingfrom the thing they opened. He smiled as she released his other handtoo. "Thank you, madam." he said. "No problem."she smiled back. "But if you don't mind me asking. What happenedto the monster?" asked Gabriel curious because she couldn't justkill it. There wasn't any dead body of it nowhere near. "Oh, Itrun away but it will come back. We must find it before it's toolate."

"Wait.We?" he asked confused. "Yeah, we, don't you want to gowith me?" she responded back. "No. Uh. I mean, yes. God,yes!" smiled Gabriel. She looked at him and smiled. "Alright,first we need to find out what this beast really is." she saidquickly and stared to move her device across the blood on her sword.It had a weird greenish color. "Can you please tell me yourname?" he asked. She stopped what she was doing and looked athim apologetically. "Oh sorry, I forgot. I'm Captain. You'reGabriel right?"

"Captain?Captain what?" he asked. "Just Captain." she answeredand continued in what she was doing. "Is this why you havethe..." Gabriel pointed at her head. She looked at him. "Ooh.You mean my hat. Yes of course, my pirate friend gave me that."she answered like it was nothing weird. He could now finally lookedher. Her hat wasn't the only weird part of clothing on her. She worea black coat which resembled more a long shirt than an actual coat.Her hair were brown to her shoulders. She didn't have a skirt only ablue leggings and oddly shaped blue shoes with white ends. At herback she had a leather scabbard for her sword which she had now inher hand. It was a weirdly looking woman no doubt. She also confusedGabriel more and more when he continued to asking her. However themost mysterious thing about her was not her clothes but her eyes.They had color like honey. They were calming despite her wholepersona and maybe too old for her. Gabriel didn't know he wasstarring until the buzzing stopped. She then looked at her device inher hand and nodded to something. "What is that device in yourhand?" he asked finally. "That's a sonic pen." Captainreplied like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Accordingto my reading this is something like Pecusbeluas, the creatures wholive on the planet more than twenty light years away. My question is.How did it get here?" she muttered mostly to herself. "Wait.You want to tell me this..this 'thing' is from another planet?"said Gabriel shocked. "Oh yes. Is it really that unbelievable?I'm too and nobody is ever complaining." Captain said and rubbedthe sword off grass to clean it from the blood before she put it backinside scabbard. He was now confused more than before but he let itgo, for now, there were more important things that this. "So doyou now how to kill it?" he asked. "I'm still not suremaybe we wouldn't need to kill it." Captain put away her pen andlooked at him. Until now she didn't notice the three lines he hadacross his forehead. "What is that?" she pointed at thelines. "Uh. I don't know. Stewart always do it to the victim whois chosen." She smudged them with her finger and then put herfinger in her mouth. Gabriel now shown disgust. Did she do thatoften?