A little taste
#1 of Crossing Fates
A little taste
Frey was going around with his friends has usual in Rome. He was 21, wearing a black jacket with a shirt, black too, with the logo of Disturbed, his favourite band, a pair of jeans and black military boots. He also wears free fingers gloves, Harley Davidson style, and a pair of deep blue glasses, like his eyes, that reminds a bit the one of John Lennon's. He was 1,87 meters tall, black a bit spike short airs, moustache and with a lace on his chin. This time, they had in mind to go to the Atlantic, a 9 rooms cinema near the Lucio Sestio metrostop. They were discussing which film to see. While going there, they decided to see Natale A Rio, an Italian comedy. Frey wasn't the type to see such films. He was for films with some action but also politics, sentimental and others. In two words film that tried to let think a bit about something to the one watching it. Everyone was waiting for the bus but, as always, it was late. His patient ends and then he goes to the nearest metro stop, while saying to his friends that he would catch them later. He goes underground and go to buy a ticket. After going trough the automatic doors, he goes down stair taking the corridor that lead to the metro that was going to Anagnina, the direction to take to go to Lucio Sestio from Battistini. But strangely there was nobody, no sounds, not even a whisper or the scratch of other metros breaks. Suddenly it was cold, really cold. It was so cold that his breath was condensing trough the air. He decided that it was a bit to strange for him. He was going to the stairs, rubbing his body with his arms, trying to warm it up. But there were no stairs. Where the stairs should be, now there was a wall. He runs to the second ramp of stairs but also there, there were nothing more than solid wall. His hearth start to bump hard, his sense intensified, looking for everything that could be a treat for him, feeling trapped like a rat. A breeze of air start to flow trough the stop, and then a black metro stop right in front of him. The doors opens smoothly and a skeleton weared up like a controller, step out of it. Frey looks him, paralyzed with his eyes open wide, and telling to himself
"It can't be true! This must be a dream!"
While thinking of this absurd situation, the skeleton was right in front of him asking
"Do you have the ticket?"
He looked confused and blabbered "WHAT?"
"Are you deaf? I've asked if you have the ticket"
Having no response from the boy, the skeleton start to control in his pockets and finding the ticket that Frey bought. At a first analysis, it looked like a normal ticket, but as the skeleton say some words in a strange language, the ticket become black with a silver frame and blue writes. The skeleton rips the ticket and enters in the metro, and then saying
"Come on in"
But Frey stays where he was, not moving an inch, a tempest in his mind yelling ‘WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!'. The skeleton looks straight in his eyes saying
"Look, dude, I don't have all day to stay here waiting for you, and if you wanna stay for the eternity, that's fine for me"
If there was something that he won't, that was staying there, so he reluctantly steps into the metro. The floor was bright blue and the seats blood red, with the ceiling black as the extern. The skeleton take a seat and tap on the one near him, inviting the lad. He slowly take the seat near him, and then the skeleton takes a cigar, and with a snap of his fingers, an ethereal flames start to burn in the air, and he use it to light up the cigar. Frey was a bit curios to know how a skeleton could smoke if he hadn't even lungs. He was to just ask how the skeleton could smoke when he takes another cigar saying
"Want one?"
He looks a bit suspicious to the cigar, but, after a few seconds, he recognized has the same one that he smoke, the Toscano Garibaldi. From a pocket, Frey takes a little box of already cut cigar, because normally the store sell them entirely.
"I have my own ones. So you like Toscan cigars too"
"I think they are the best. Nor to heavy nor to light"
The skeleton uses the magic of before and Frey thanks him, while he lights up his cigar. After some minutes of smoking, he finally relax. Someone that like Toscan cigars couldn't be so bad at all. So he gives his hands, presenting himself
"My name is Francesco Ciriani but my friends call me Frey"
"My name Shikotar Shu'n Gakora. But you can call me Shiko"
And after the presentation, they shake their hands, while continuing smoking.
"So, when we depart?"
"Dude, we already started"
Shiko signs to the widow. As Frey's eyes looks out the metro, he could see only space, stars meteorites, suns and planets that he had never heard or seen before. How could be possible that they take off without creating some blast or even just a sound? His body become white, the conscience going out his body, his sight becoming blurred as the time was passing. Then he faint.
The skeleton looks to the boy, indifferent. He take a long breath and a big cloud of smoke goes trough the air. Then he laugh a bit
"Ihihihih. It's always like this when they see out. At least they don't piss me off with annoying question. Uh.... why I accepted this stupid job"
He stands up and walk to the dead like body of Frey, then he grab it and place it on a seat with the security belt. After securing him, he takes a seat again. He grab a walkie talkie and press the button
"The boy has faint, how much time separate us from the destination?"
And a metallic voice response
"Another 45 minutes and we are there"
He close the contact waiting patiently to go in destination. After 30 minute, they reach the planet and the metallic voice of before, says
"To all the passenger, we are almost at destination. We are now preparing to enter in the atmosphere of Albergh, the planet in front of us, so secure yourself and mind that the Fate Co. doesn't insure for accidental death, illness, lose of object and what the hell you want to contest.
Thanks to have used our service"
As the voice as finished, Frey wake's up mumbling something. Shiko notice it and then
"Hoy, dude how do you feel?"
"Oh... my head. I must have drink to much yesterday... where am I?"
"Your always here, on the Fate Metro, and yepp your not drunk or ill or dreaming or snap"
Frey slowly remember the nightmare that he was living. Time by time, he regains his mental faculties, as also his body ones. He takes off his security belt and stands up, looking angry to Shiko.
He walks to the skeleton, raising the sleeves and preparing to give the harder punch that he could give him
"You son of a bitch"
"Dude you should take the seat again and fast"
"Shut..."
He couldn't finish the statement, that suddenly the metro take a high, so high speed that Frey was hurl like a toy to the door on the back of the wagon yelling, while the Fate Metro was colliding with the atmosphere of the planet
"WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuu......"
Lidya was hunting for hours in the forest near the "Mountain of The Judgment". It was an extinguished volcano that had as hole a perfect cylinder with a diameter of 15 meters and that suddenly opens to the base, his diameter becoming 25 meters long. The floor as been worked by an unknown civility, that draw a tribal sun with a moon behind it. Then there was a corridor, perfectly shaped, that lead outside. Around the exit some tribal lunar silver rays goes in every direction, going up trough the mountain, until reaching the top. For her people, it was a sacred place. Normally nobody could be there except some high priest/priestess or students of the Kykua University with a special permission. But lately, not even them could access there. But she was an exception. There was a magic dome casted by the priests around the mountain, that protects also the underground, that could frozen every idiot trying to pass by, but it seem that for an inexplicable reason, it doesn't work on Lidya. Thankfully. The war was spreading trough the lands, and their enemies cut off their supply so the people of the city of Kykua were starving. With food becoming lesser with the time added to the grow of the ask, the price of primal goods were unbelievable high. So Lidya was simply doing what her ancestor done before her. She suddenly hear a rustle, so she bend on her knees and start to slowly go where she heard the sound. After a bit, she finally found a big deer. She aim with her bow, stretch the cord and place the arrow. She was just to fire when a big sound, coming from the sky, scared the deer, making him escape. She curse that tremendous sound and then looks up. Something big was falling from the sky, something like a fire arrow, and was going straight down to the "Mountain of Judgment". With her skill, he could hear something from that strange shooting star. She concentrate harder and harder and finally she heard something
"....uuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!"
The shooting star enters perfectly in the mountain and, just a pair of second after, a big boom that made the hearth wave for a while comes from the star collide. She never heard of a talking shooting star. She think a bit and a grin appears. If someone would be there, with a little of commitment, he or she could see the sign of zenith, the national money, in her eyes.
"If I work it up well, maybe I can sell he or she at a so high prize that I could live comfortable for the rest of my life. And if I can't maybe I can eat him"
Her stomach growls, reminding her that wasn't far dinner time
Frey didn't know how could be possible, be he was still alive. The metro had crashed into a sort of mountain, but he wasn't even injured. Before they crashed something like a blue light wraped him, but then he lose consciousness. After regaining himself, he could see that the metro had crashed because he tries to go out from the wrecked wagon by a window and could see that rest of the metro wasn't in better condition from where he was. He try to go further, but his waist was somehow blocked, and even trying to use all of his strength, he couldn't do much for go away. From a window next to him, Shiko goes up from there, this time weared like a sub and with something doing a rumor like a sonar of a submarine. Then he said
"I'm glad that you are alive"
"And you're lucky that I'm stuck, or else...."
The skeleton snap his fingers and a cloud wraps him. After some second, the smoke goes away, revealing the skeleton weared like a doctor.
"Let's control how are you injured"
He gives him a slap
"Ouch!"
"Facial nerves ok"
Then he thrust two of his fingers in Frey's eyes
"Ahia!"
"The eyes are ok, now let's check down there"
The skeleton was charging his foot, when Frey takes literally of, Shiko's arm from the shoulder. Then he use it to slap Shiko's head, that was now spinning like a ball on a finger of an NBA player
"WHaoaoaoaoaoa!!!"
Then Frey finally put out all of his anger in a punch and give it to Shiko. The skull of the skeleton take off trough the air
"YOU ASshol...."
He could hear the skull reaching the ground, some cracking sound coming from where it landed. A grin appears in his face and then yells
"THIS IS FOR RUINING MY DAY AND PERHAPS MY LIFE!!!"
After the statement, Frey tries to liberate himself, using the amputated arm of the skeleton to raise just a few more inch that metallic part that was locking him there. He try harder and harder but without results. Just some second after he give up, but he could hear something coming from behind.
"It's anybody there?"
The only think that he heard, was something approaching him slowly. It made a strange sound, like claws on the metal. It wasn't good. He try to turn around, for see who or what was approaching him, but he was blocked. Then the sound stop. He know that he or she or what else, was right behind him. A bit of fear posses him. Finally he heard a voice. A warm, beautiful, feminine voice.
"Oh oh what do we have here. Seems that someone it's in need of help"
The creature was fortunately speaking English. And thankfully, he had a despotic English teacher at school, so he know enough to put some conversation
"You have a point"
"Why do you have some bones in your hand?"
"Long story and I don't know if you're going to believe it"
"Well, I think it's time to free you"
The creature use a paw to liberate him from the metallic part that was blocking his waist. He stands up, finally, and turns to see his liberator. His eyes open wide. In front of him was standing a beautiful dragoness. Black scaled and red underbelly ones, white stripes on her side and neck, two red burning like fire eyes, Orange long hair, like the one used by some old rockers, and a bit pointed but good looking nuzzle. A long and large tail with back spines. A two pair of horn, one pair longer slightly going down, and the second pair ¼ of the first and going up below them. He wore a black top, hiding her breast from sight, a pair of cargo pants and fingerless gloves. She wore no shoes and had a bow on her back. She was a hot, beautiful goddess to him.
"Whao. I never thought I would ever seen a dragoness in my life"
"A what? Look, here my species is called Ryuzar. Remember it"
"Oh sorry. So where are we?"
"Well you're in the Mountain of Judgment. And the planet it's named Albergh. Know present yourself, shooting star"
"Mhh... I'm not a shooting star..."
"Don't play dumb with me. You just fall from the sky, in a ball of flame. That's for me a shooting star, I dunno how you call it in your world"
"We call it in the same way you do, but I'm not a shooting star. The thing that you saw it's this metro-starship thing"
Lidya looks at the strange snake like metal thing. In that, she couldn't argue. He was just to little to make so much flame in colliding with the atmosphere. She sigh.
"Ok, you're not a shooting star, but then what the hell you are?"
"I don't how you call it here, but in my world my kind is called human"
The dragoness open wide her eyes. Could it be that he was really a human?.
"No he must be joking, or I haven't listen well. It can't be possible that he's a human. Mmhh yeah, as you say. Look I don't have much time, so you're going with me now. Choose, good or bad ways"
Lidya grins at that alien creature. She had to admit that was really good-looking. She could really take some serious money by selling him, and she thought "him" because she could smell it that he was a male. But while thinking at this, that boy was escaping trough the corridor that lead outside. He had made a big mistake.
Frey was running over the wrecked metro, when he saw a corridor and a light coming from there. He jump and start to run like as a demon was chasing him, not so far from the truth. He runs and runs, a little breeze of fresh air coming from outside. He smell it and some little hope invade his body, boosting up his legs. He was at half of the corridor, when something heavy hit his back. He fall on the ground, his face now looking the ceiling. No more than a few second, that the dragoness was above him, blocking his arms and legs with her own. Then she say
"You shouldn't disobey. Now I have to use bad ways"
She puts on his neck a metal ring with a chain. He try with all his forces to rebel, but with no success
"Okay, okay I surrender"
"You're too late, little fellow. This is to warn you for let you see what's going to happen if you try to escape again"
She open his maw and close it on Frey's left shoulder. While the boy was screaming and squirting under her, she taste the alien. She open wide her eyes again. The taste of the raw flesh, the red warm blood going trough her maw, the softness of his body, put it up together was so pleasurable almost like having sex and much better of every drug in circulation. The nerves were so damaged that stop emitting the pain signal and the boy was now just crying a lilttle. After trying to relax his body, the dragoness opens her mouth, murring and then saying
"I have to thank you. If you wouldn't escape, I would never taste you and know how delicious you are. Stupid am I to just think to sell you. Now tell me your name"
He looks straight in the dragoness eyes, fear possessing his body
"Want me to give another bite?"
"My name is Francesco Ciriani, but friends call me Frey"
"Ok, Frey, now stand up"
The boy do what as been told, and follow her reluctantly, hoping that a miracle could save him. Lidya take a red stone from her right pocket. The stone was a little disc with some strange signs on it. The dragoness says some word in a foreign language, that was similar to the one spoken by Shiko. The stone start to illuminate, then another voice comnes from it
"Hey what's up Lidya?"
"Hi Eyanah. You will not guess what have I found today"
" I have to come to dinner at your home, haven't I?"
"Yepp, and trust me you won't regret it"
"Ok, ok. Then see you at dinner"
The stone retakes it's previous form and Lidya put it again in her pocket. She stop, and Frey do the same. The dragoness look again at the boy, and ask
"Any last wish?"
"I would like to live"
"Sorry but I can't"
She gave a sensual lick on his cheecks, tasting him again. After some little unarming bites, she could see that the boy face was getting red.
"Hey, are you ok?"
"Who cares you're going to eat me"
" But I would like to eat something that is not gonna left me sick"
Frey thinks a bit, and try to use his embarrassment to his advantage.
"Well yeah, I'm sick and if you eat me, the poison in my body will kill you. When my kind is under pressure, like in this situation, our body start to create a deadly venom"
"If you had some venom in your blood, I would already smell it"
"Then why my face is so red?"
"Well that's because... Oh, ooohh"
The boy face had becoming red right after the licks. To see if her hypothesis was right, she blocks him, and give some other sensual, and this time, slow licks. After some seconds, she decide to give a gift to him. She stop, then look straight in his eyes. They were really beautiful blue eyes. And for finish, she gave him a deep kiss. At the beginning, the boy was resisting, but no more than two or three seconds, that he surrenders and kiss her as well. After something like 5 minutes, Lidya broke the kiss.
"Let's go on"
Frey was a little confuse. She was going to eat him, but strangely, he felt something when she kiss him. It was... good. The sensation of the scale around his lips, her warm breath in his mouth as for the tongue twisting in it. If only it last a bit more. And he was starting to be infatuated of Lidya. Her beautiful eyes full of life, her scale glowing a little at the sun, her sensual body, and the beautiful face. For him, she was really a goddess. If only she didn't want to eat him. At least he could say to have seen a real dragoness in his life
"You're silent"
"Well, this is my last day. You're going to eat me"
"I don't think I'll eat you all up. I think I will just use one of your legs"
"Geez thanks"
"Your welcome"
"Hmm Lidya, I was sarcastic"
"I know, but come on, your not gonna die today. Well I can't say that you will have a long life"
Frey sigh
"At least can I hear some music?"
Lidya things a bit and not seeing something bad, she agree
"Ok that's fine for me, but how are you going to listen music"
Frey take his mp3 player from his pocket and turn it on, and picking up a random song from his favourite band: Disturbed. Just a few second and the music start to play from the headphones. The dragoness could hear just a bit of the song, but she find interesting so they stop and ask gently to the lad if she could hear the music. He pass his headphones and she place them in her ears. After a bit, she close her eyes and her tail start to swing with the rythem
"hey they are good!"
"So you like it?"
"Never heard such a music. And I like that instrument that sound like a thunderbolt or something similar"
"It's an electric guitar"
"A what?"
"A guitar. It's an instrument composed of a long bar of wood with six string that runs over it, and the sound change as how you put the fingers on those string"
"Sound something difficult"
"Not everybody has the skill to play that and instrument and also make good music"
"But I hear also other instrument"
"That's because there other men that play with different instrument. The group of people that plays together is called band. And this band is called Disturbed"
"Well they are good. Now let's go home"
So they departed to Kykua city, listening the music while going there, and Frey explaining something about the rock world when Lidya asked.
Shiko was trying to guide his body to him, but with poor result
"Come straight... now turn right no no my right not your! Geez! Look out for the hole!"
He couldn't say it in time, and his skeletric body fell into the hole on the top of the train. There was the sound of something hitting a metallic body then follow by the sound of machine turn on. Then the wagon explode surrounded by blue flames, when a black robot walk trough the flames, carrying Shiko's body
"Oh Aren, you finally got up"
"Sorry. With the collision my inner circuits where badly damaged for the g-force impact. So I had to repair myself"
"I know, I know, now if you please put my head on my body"
Aren does what the skull ask, and watch his friend regaining control over the bones that was his body. He test if the head was well insert in his spine
"Ah finally. Geez I hate when it happens"
"And where is our client?"
"A dragoness took him, and it seem that is goal is to make a sandwich with the lad as meat"
"Then I think we have to rescue him"
"Ok, then to Kykua city"