Planet of the Stars

Chapter 3: Kira

I had travelled there many times before, so I knew the best route to take. I reached the ship that was piloted by Lincoln and Kira. Kira opened the hatch for me, and I headed in. She closed the hatch behind me. When I was in I took off my jetpack, and my armor. Kira smiled at me I smiled back at her.

"Nice of you to join us." Kira says.

"Nice of you to invite me." I say.

Kira smiles, and we hug. When she pulls away she looks at me more closely.

"You haven't been sleeping have you?" Kira asks.

"I'm fine." I say.

Kira doesn't believe me, but she doesn't push it.

"Whatever you say." She says.

"So where is the husband, and your baby?" I ask.

Kira breaks into a smile.

"Lincoln went to get Eva from her nap." Kira says.

"Oh good I'll have her when she's just woken up." I say.

Kira rolls her eyes. I hear someone coming down a hallway. I turn to look at them, and see Lincoln walking down the hallway with a bundle in his arms.

"Oh there they are." Kira says.

Lincoln heads towards me. He gently hands Eva to me. I take her, and cradle her in my arms.

"Hello little Eva." I coo. Eva was still waking up and she just looked at me confused. I giggle.

"Hello Skye." Lincoln says.

"Hey Lincoln." I say.

Lincoln headed to stand over by Kira. I cooed and bounced Eva. Eva had the start of dark chocolate curly hair like her mom, and stunning blue eyes like her father. She looked more like Kira. A crystal rested on her chest, but it wasn't red-yellow, or blue-green.

Hers was purple. Eva had gotten her crystal on the second day of her life in this world. I had been there when she got it. It was on this ship, and Kira had laying in bed. Lincoln was by her side.

Eva was in a incubator. I had been sitting outside the room. I heard a tap on the window. I looked towards it, and headed toward the sound. I looked out the window, and obviously there was nothing out there.

I turned back around, and a Huli Jing was sitting in the middle of the hallway. I headed towards them. When I reached them I saw there was something in their mouth. I held my hand out. They dropped something in my hand, it was a purple crystal.

I looked into the room, then back at them. They nodded, then disappeared. I headed into the hospital room. Kira and Lincoln looked at me expectantly. I headed over to Kira, then dropped the crystal in her hand.

"Is this hers?" Kira asks.

"Yeah." I say.

"Lincoln look at our daughters crystal." Kira says, then showed Lincoln the crystal.

Lincoln took the crystal and stared in awe at it.

"This is our daughters?" Lincoln asks.

I nod.

"Kira, we made a powerful crystal user." Lincoln says.

Kira smiles.

"I knew we would." Kira says.

I snapped out of the flashback. I turned my attention back to Eva. She was rubbing her eyes. I smiled, and gently bounced her. Eva giggled and I smiled. I turned to look at Kira and Lincoln. I sigh.

"Alright what do we need to talk about?" I ask.

Kira and Lincoln sigh, and gesture for me to follow them. I do, and hold Eva closer to me. Lincoln heads over to the table that projected a hologram. He presses a button, and something comes up to show. I get closer to it, and I look at it.

"What's the problem?" I ask.

"This planet is where we stole Daylight from. They sent out a distress signal. They need help." Lincoln says.

I hesitate.

"We have one job, and that's to get to the crystal planet." I say.

"We know, but does that mean we turn our backs on people who need us?" Kira asks.

I bite my lip. I wanted to help people.

"You know I want to help, but how do we do that? We're kind of on a tight schedule." I say.

"Helaina knows the way. You have it in the Nav computer. Just let her keep going. This ship is piloted by Lincoln it can stay behind." Kira says.

I sigh. I look down at Eva in my arms. She was wiggling around in my arms.

"Alright. Just let me tell my crew, so they know what's happening." I say.

Lincoln and Kira nod. I gently hand Eva back to Lincoln, then head to the hatch. Kira opened it for me, and I got off it, then Kira closed the hatch. I turned on my jetpack and headed back towards my ship. When I get there I got on. I head to the cockpit. Helaina and Efren were there.

"How was meeting with Kira, Lincoln, and little Eva?" Helaina asks.

"It was good. There's a distress signal coming form the planet below Kira, Lincoln, and I were going to check it out." I say.

"No you're not." Efren says.

"What do you mean?!?!" I ask.

"I mean you're not going alone." Efren says.

I smile.

"What about Eva?" Helaina asks.

"Lincoln and Kira have people in place to watch her." I say.

"What are we going to do? We can't just stop." Helaina asks.

"You won't. Where we're going is already in the Nav computer you keep going. Lincoln is piloting his ship so it can stay behind." I say.

Helaina didn't look happy about it, but she agreed. I held my palm out and the bracelet showed a hologram.