บท 10: Controlling The Small Space Cruiser

"Targeting complete, do you want to attack?" a metal systematic sound emerged suddenly from the cannon while the opening of it began to change color from black to silver green.

"Blast them all, leave none alive."

Gotar didn't have time to cross half the space towards his hiding place when a pulse strike hit him to blast his huge body to pieces.

He wasn't alone to suffer this fate, but all the rest of his crew here ended just like him. just as James was about to let down his guard, a cry of warning issued from that girl:

"Watch out."

She then used that spear gun to launch multiple attacks which hit nothing at all, but her lousy attack gave James time to turn over as he jumped high in the air while rotating the cannon over its stick in a fantastic acrobatic move.

He didn't wait for his legs to touch the ground as he worked on the canon interface diligently and finished locking up the two incomings, they were the last of Gotar crew.

"Targets are lo…"

"Just hit them.��

He shouted while pressing on the trigger of the cannon. Pulse projectiles hit the last two crew members to blast them like their friends, leaving no living witness on this small massacre except for James and that little girl.

James didn't put the cannon away as he turned it towards that girl, who did the same as she pointed that spear gun towards him.

"Are you going to shoot a little innocent girl like me and complete your ritual?" the girl said.

"What guarantee can you give to me for not trying to kill me from the back and getting your revenge on one of the Ravner of darkness?" James said.

"So you are really the black fog ambassador, then why didn't you kill me back there and complete your ritual?" the girl said.

James gritted his teeth as he had enough of this black fog thing, so he said in a serious tone:

"Listen carefully, beautiful young woman, I only read some old records mentioning this old conflict in the base I came from, but other than this I didn't know even you still exist.

So, I have no relation with that black fog thing and I don't have any relation even with you. Let's just stop this ship and move it back to a safe place where everyone can go separate ways, what do you think?"

James looked straight to that girl as he added:

"If you don't comply here, then I will have to shoot you. You have a mere spear gun and I have a cannon, so it's pretty obvious who has the upper hand here."

The girl seemed to be convinced by James logic, as she lowered her weapon slowly, then she said:

"If you try to betray me, I will kill you."

"The same goes for you too," James refused to show any sign of weakness. The girl then pointed to the cannon as she said:

"How the hell did you get that huge cannon?"

James looked to her as he asked:

"Why do you always use mean words?"

"This the way I speak, don't you like it?"

James didn't know how to reply, but he wasn't interested in this girl as he said:

"This cannon is mine," he then touched it to disappear miraculously like it appeared. The Ravner of light girl looked stupefied to him as she muttered:

"You are a sorcerer, so they grabbed you and thought you were the darkness apostle… that explains everything then."

James looked towards her as if he was looking to a crazy person, he then said ignoring all her wrong remarks:

"Now, let's go to the commanding deck, this ship is heading straight towards the meeting place with your people. If we don't act now, we will find them welcoming us, by the way my name is James."

"Eli."

"Just Eli?" James asked.

"Well, it's Elizabeth, but I like it more as Eli."

James looked at her for a moment before shaking his head, this girl seemed to be more childish than she looked. He then started to move towards the commanding deck while asking:

"Tell me, Eli, have you been on a space cruiser like this before?"

"Why don't you ask me if I can fly this thing instead of playing with words?"

James paused as he glanced over his shoulder towards her, he then moved as he said:

"Fine, can you fly this cruiser?"

"No," Eli replied with an arrogance that nearly made James stumble while walking. He gritted his teeth as he murmured:

"Great, crazy girl that doesn't know how to fly is now my only co-pilot."

"What are you talking about?" Eli said while approaching him aggressively. James didn't even bother to look at her as he said:

"The commanding deck is behind this door, can you blast its lock with your speargun?"

"Sure," Eli said as she raised her gun and pointed it towards the middle of this steel door that stopped in her way. James hurried to say:

"Stop, this isn't the lock, oh god. Ok, you even didn't enter a cruiser like this before, look there, that concave part of the steel door? There is the lock that you need to hit."

"Don't shout at me, no one is allowed to shout at me or speak to me like that," Eli said with the same arrogance while she raised her spear gun towards the lock while saying, "I knew where it was, but you were impatient to interfere before I even pointed my gun towards that lock."

"…" James didn't know what to say, this girl was shameless, more shameless than him.

"Boom."

The sound of the spear gun attack over the lock was followed by slight damage to the body of the door. James moved rapidly as he pushed the door to slide away and clear the path to the two of them. The commanding deck of this cruiser was very familiar to James, very strange to Eli.

There was a semi-sphere transparent doom that was made of a special type of mineral that could withstand the travel through space with some immunity against some types of cannons.

Two comfortable chairs were behind this cruiser's eye, with a long panel full of many keys, switches, alarms, and screens.

The commanding deck wasn't that big, but it had a place for a navigation unit, which was simply made of a huge screen with a smaller control panel beneath and a chair. James looked towards the general control unit as he moved to sit over one of the two chairs as he said:

"Grab yourself a seat as we have to turn around now."