Lt. Cmd. Zena Quetan and Lt. Cmd. Cynan Mandrake. New Vanguard. After "Re: Terror of the Night" (Steve/Kieran). The Oddities of a New World. [Snip from 'Terror in the Night' (Mark/Cynan)] "I love you" he said cutting her off and boldly giving her a light kiss on the left cheek. [/Snip] Just as Xristha was about to respond the Captain called for an assembly. "=^= All hands planet side please report to the main complex immediately." the Captains voice came over the comm. system. The two just looked at each, nodding slightly and walked off together towards the main complex. [Main Complex] "Right. Are we all here? Where's Kieran?" Nick asked. "I believe he is at the temple but is on his way, Nick" Zena replied. "Good, good. Sam. How are the repairs going?" "Not too bad but I will need a little more time." Sam answered. "How much time, Sam?" the Captain asked. "3 days." Sam said confidently. "Excellent. Now. The reason why I assembled you all here", he started as Kieran entered the courtyard, "was to check that everyone had been behaving" he continued looking towards Cynan, "that everyone was alright and to ask if anyone had noticed anything odd.." "Odd?" MJ asked. "Odd." The Captain confirmed. "Well that depends what you define as odd" Xristha replied "Does trying to seduce your grandmother count as being odd?" "What?!" Cynan exclaimed unaware of the full details of Xristha's first meeting with Emlyn "Calm down Cynan" Nick bellowed with authority, he didn't want a repeat performance of last night. Cynan clenched his fists tight and mumbled to himself "I should of hit him harder" "Anyway back to the subject at hand, anything odd?" Nick said getting the conversation with his officers back on track "And yes Xristha I would class your situation as odd" he added Shar then spoke up "Well actually I have been meaning to bring something to your attention but you've been a hard man to track down" he said looking at Nick "What is it Shar?" Nick asked Shar lowered his voice and looked around cautiously before speaking "I had an interesting conversation with...myself, he...er I told me...er myself oh you know what I mean" Shar said before continuing "We're in danger that there are two factions emerging here and we could be caught right in the middle of a civil war" "Actually now I think about it, my son was trying to warn me of something but his wife interrupted the conversation, to be honest I never really thought much of it until now, but he warned that not everyone here is as pleased to see us as they make out to be..." Zena chirped in "I was held at phaser point" Kieran stated all cool and calm "Ok well that beat's my one" Zena jested putting her hands in the air in a surrendering manner at the same time "Go on Mr Darkwater" Nick prompted, really not liking what he was hearing from his crew "I decided to pay a visit to the crash site where I was greeted by a woman in a black tunic, that's how I ended up at the Temple, she led me there" Kieran said "And what was so important about the Temple?" MJ asked him [To Be Continued...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eMail : mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IMs : AIM - CynanKuhn, MSN - kuhnahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Yahoo - Kuhnahn. www : www.cynan.co.uk RPGBIO: www.netrinity.co.uk/users/cynan/pages/rpgbio.htm ************************************************************* USS Vanguard: http://ncv80221.netfirms.com/default.htm Vanguard Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/ncv80221 Gamma Fleet: http://gammafleet.trekplayer.com/ FreeLists: //www.freelists.org *************************************************************