• Freedom. Its all a man can ever want in his life. The pursuit of his destiny, and be free from the law. That was my dream. The dream that I knew might not be possible. I felt all of us already had freedom. It all came crashing down as soon as 'They' came. -Sid

    Scarlet's Treasure: The Search for Freedom
    Chapter One, Delay


    If I knew it'd come to this, I probably would have not been at the Space Port in the first place. I really just wanted to have a nice flight to Lunaris, where my friends were reuniting for the Festival of the Estrey. I even brought my long time crush. The plan was almost fool proof.

    What could have gone wrong you ask? Hijacking. If I knew this was going to happen, I'd choose a different flight, or not gone at all. I just sat in my chair, eyes shut tightly, my lungs breathing heavily, and just small tears flowing down my cheek. Would I meet my friends again? Should I confess my feelings to my crush right now? I felt I had to, we might not make it out alive; Sadly, I just couldn't come out with the words. I just stayed silent like all the others in this hopeless flight.

    "ALRIGHT!!!" A hairy beast man yells at the top of his lungs. "This is a hijacking. We want to use this e're ship to get to Tyranos. Anyone got a problem with dat and I blow de're heds off"

    'Crap. Why was it going to end like this.'

    Recently in human history, humankind was greeted by visitors from far reaches of space. These visitors came to humans and asked for peace. These visitors called themselves Deva's of the Republic of Shaiyu. After a few months after their arrival, the world leaders met at Rome. There, the Deva's and another race calling themselves Mannas came, the first human and Extraterrestrial treaty was signed, and Earth now joined the Republic. With this assimilation, humanity was given advanced technology, medicines for many diseases, and all of humanity learned to settle their differences. Despite all this change in such short time, humankind were to follow the laws and rules of the Republic. What was not mentioned was that the humans were now involved in a long war with another alien race, calling themselves Tyr's. Ten years have passed since humanity joined the fight, but no end to the fighting.

    "Phino, whats going to happen now?" Yllesia aks, her eyes filled with tears. I had no response. To me I knew that we were all going to die before we made it to the capital of Tyranos, all for the cause of their 'Honor'.

    "Calm down people, you'll be fine if you cooperate with us. So shut your mouths and live." another Tyr says, with much more intelligence. Then again, not all the Tyr's were savage.

    Three minutes passed quietly until there was a loud uproar between the terrorists.

    "Oi Oi! Sit back down filth!" one of the terrorists spat out. I peeked from the seat in front to see what was going on. The cause was one man with a whiskey bottle in his left and an ivory cane with the handle made of pure jade. The man wore lavishly a white shirt and leather jacket as well as pants. It almost seemed as if he was an aristocrat from the movies when I was a child. The only thing that threw him off was his brown hat that made him look like a pirate from the Caribbean in those Hollywood movies.

    "Hey. I am not waiting three freaking hours to make it to the capital. I am going on course to the Festival. So if you excuse yourselves from this ship then we can all go in peace." said the man, flicking his hand back and forth, shooing them away. Out of all of us, he was the only one dumb enough to confront a more stronger and heavily armed race.

    "Dis one sure is stupid. Aint he boss!"

    "Shut yer yap. So ye're willin to die. I am 'Krone da Hammer of Tyranos', show some respet."

    "Ey. I don't care if your the Emperor himself. All I want is to go to the Festival and drink this here bottle. All I'm pointing out is that your going the wrong way, the moon is that way." says the man, pointing to the passing moon. The terrorists just stared at the fool, furious.


    "Just shut dis ere human." demands the Hammer. His cronies just took out their weapons and aimed.

    "I wouldn't do that in here. Those blasters are military weapon core technology with each round fired has a high class heat core that can melt a hole in this ship. You fire, we all die here in the cold airless reaches of space." the man replies, with a grin on his face. After realizing this, the terrorists just threw their weapons and rushed to get him. One of them threw a left punch at him, but the man just leaned back and smacked him with his cane. The second one went to grab him, but the man falls on his back and evades the attack before flicking his cane up and hitting the attacker away. As the cane returns the man grabs the handle and gets back up.

    "Dis here is annoying. I have to do everyting." Hammer says. As the man gets up again, he kneels down and picks the old hat and puts it on his head.

    "Don't be too sure, its not everyday that someone like you comes along and takes the flight of Scarlet." the man says, mumbling to himself. Hammer rushes to the dumb fool, hurling his fist to his face but the man ducks and stares down at the ground.

    "Ah! Finders keepers." the man says as he picked up some loose change on the ground, causing Hammers punch to miss. The fool lifted his cane, but it got stopped in the beasts crotch in an attempt to twirl his cane around. "Oh... My bad, I didn't see you there."

    "Agh! MY CRAWT! GAH!!!"

    "Hmm...hey, how bout i make it up to you with a drink." the fool says, lifting his bottle of whiskey. Hammer tried reaching out to get him, but his fist impacted with the bottle, shattering it. There was only silence as the man stared down at his broken whiskey bottle.

    "What is going on Phino? I can't see a thing from here." Yllesia asks, not being able to see, her eyes still teary eyed.

    "I... Don't know..." I stutter finally. I continued starring out at the two, unaware of what was to happen next.

    The man just threw down the rest of the bottle to let it shatter. "...you know...that was some good s**t... Extremely good." he says. His left fist impacted Hammers face, a loud crack was heard as Hammer fell backwards from the blow. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT I WAS PLANNING TO DO WITH THIS. I WANTED TO GET DRUNK OUT OF MY a**, FLIRT AROUND WITH BEAUTIFUL BUNNY CLOTHED WOMEN! I WANTED TO SEE THEIR LUCIOUS PLUMP BREASTS AND CURVY BODY WHILE I'M A DRUNKTARD, NOW YOU HAVE TO RUIN IT BY NOT ONLY HIJACKING THIS SHIP, BUT ALSO UTTERLY TAKE THE ONE THING THAT WAS VITAL TO MY PLAN!!! " the man says, while repeatedly beating him with the cane on the knocked out beast. Hammer's weak cronies just looked and did nothing, not wanting to get involved with the strangers wrath.

    We were all safe. Everyone in the ship was rescued by that foolish drunk, and the Space Patrol came minutes after the fool calmed down. The terrorists were taken into custody and everyone gave a sigh of relief.

    "Everything seems to be all clear now. Sure was a close one. These guys won't cause anymore trouble for awhile." the officer tells his subordinates.

    "Yeah, but who do you think stopped them. I mean, they were heavily armed with D ranked weapons. What caused them not to fire?" one of the subordinates asked. Immediately, I turned to the man, who was sitting in the fetal position, a dark gloomy aura around his atmosphere. 'Whats his problem?'

    "Well it must have been the passengers, well no time to waste. We have to get the paperwork done before the festival starts." the officer says. As soon as he looked as high as he could to see if all the passengers were here, it seemed he saw the man's hat, nearly recognizing the discolored style. In suspicion, he walked near to see the stranger and backed up, pulling out his blaster. "HEY! IT'S SCARLET!" he yells out. Everyone in the ship was mind boggled, looking around to see where this Scarlet was.

    "Scarlet..." I said confused. Almost immediately I was dragged from my seat and lifted up as a human shield.

    "Don't move or the boy here gets it." the stranger replies. I looked at him, confused. Was this stranger that had saved the lives of the entire people on this ship, the ferocious space pirate Scarlet, the Shark of Corona?

    "Let the boy go! Surrender now or we'll blow both you and the kid!" the officer said as he and his men aimed their guns at Scarlet and myself.

    "WHAT!" I spat out, utterly surprised at the response. I breathed heavily and fast, feeling that the air in my lungs were suffocating. With a quick glimpse, Scarlet gave no hint of fear, just that gutsy grin on his face.

    "What, you don't know who this kid is? This kid is the son of Senator Pendragon. I'm sure if he dies, it'll be off with your heads." Scarlet replies. I zoned out after that moment. 'How the hell does he know me?'

    The space patrolmen took a brief moment of silence and lowered their weapons. One villain was gone, but a new one had appeared in the same day. Was this bad luck, or am I cursed?

    Scarlet just took a few steps back to the bathroom before punching the controls and forcing the door to lock. 'Is this guy an idiot! He has himself trapped in here.'

    "GET HIM!" the officer yells, changing his mind. It was already too late. Scarlet grinned and the sound of metal screeched and tore open. The ground below me was gone, and the air in the tightly shut bathroom rushed out into the vacuum of space.

    "GAHHH!!!" I screamed out as I pressed my eye lids shut. I thought the cold vacuum of space would kill me faster if I screamed, taking every ounce of air from my body until my lungs came out of my mouth. I wished death if it meant that I'd die faster, feel no pain. Seconds passed and I was still alive. The ground was gone, but I took my first lungfull of air after the bathroom was exposed. I was sure I didn't die and opened my eyes. I looked around and saw a cylindrical field around me, from the bathroom all the way to a ship below. Slowly we descended down into the ship. I was scared. I thought this time I might not make it. Was this the end? Was I to be tortured and killed? Shot out the airlock? So many things rushed my mind as those blast doors opened and me and Scarlet floated inside. I looked back up to star at the last glimmers of starlight, my hopes diminishing as the doors closed. Why was I so unlucky this day?