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The slig took the gun away to shoot the new enemy. I crawled under the table as quick as I could. I noticed I was bleeding. Another big blast came. I threw myself on the floor trying to shut the sound out. Something landed on the table and rolled down on the floor. I took a look. All I saw was a deformed slig head. I felt sick. Gunshots, lightning and blood was all around me. I closed my eyes and waited for the final. Through all the sounds I heard hummings and words. Another try to shoot it, another slig dead. A long, painful scream and then... Silence, as in the grave. I was terrified. My body froze. Something grabbed my tail and pulled me out in the room. I opened my eyes. Sligs, some glukkons and even mudokons was laying on the floor. I was held by arms as cold as the wind. I looked on the bodies. I was afraid of the being that held me. One body caught my eyes. Orion. He laid there, looking as if he just slept in a peaceful way. He had been healed by something. He had no wounds or scars anywhere except in one place. A big hole in his chest. Except for that, he looked so perfectly happy. I looked on the one that held me. White skin... The mudokon looked at me a long time.
"Sodex is still." she said and put me on the table. I was convinced that this was Gaia. No one else. Behind her came Eben, without saying a word he sort of scanned the room. His eyes stopped at one point. He growled.
"Come out Sodex. We have found you..." Gaia said.
The vykker came out of the darkness. After him came two sligs.
"They didn't shoot at you did they? I'll correct that mistake!" he said. She smiled a joyless smile and raised her arms so she looked like a cross.
"I can't stop you." she said.
One of the sligs raised his gun and aimed at her. Sodex nodded. A bullet bored into her chest. With a sigh she sunk to the floor. I and Eben stared on her. We wondered why she didn't do something. Sodex laughed at us.
"Throw the creature in his cell and make sure he stays there! About you..." he said and pointed at me. Without a sound Gaia stood up. She simply put two fingers in the hole in her clothes and took the bullet out. She held it up like if she expected a applause. She threw it at Sodex and spat on the floor.
"You are a sick bastard." she said and smiled. I said a strange light in her eyes and wondered if it really was Gaia I saw. She took two steps forward. The sligs started to look a bit worried. She raised a hand. The slig screamed and fell down on the floor. Gaia took a bored look on him. She raised her hand a bit more. The slig was lifted up in the air. He glew with a red light. The light was ripped away from him and he fell on the floor again. Gaia held the light for a couple of seconds before it disappeared. The other slig threw his weapon and ran. Sodex stared at Gaia. She stared at him.
"I bet you understand what I can do to you." she said. He nodded. She pointed at me.
"I am his guardian. Mess with him and I will show you no mercy. Got it?"
He nodded again, this time tears fell down his cheeks.
"Take him where he wants to go. Touch him and you know what will happen."
She turned around, took me in her arms and walked out together with Eben.
"Eben, get out of here." she said. He ran through the door. After a while I heard cheers from the slaves outside. She put me down.
"I have to go. Your pants is outside." she said.
"Gaia..." I started.
"I am not Gaia!" she snapped. "Not anymore..."
She walked towards the same door that Eben ran out of. Before she reached it, she had already faded away. From the room Sodex was in, a long frightened scream was heard.
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