Chapter 5

        "How'd you beat him?” Kia stammered.  Chevrelet answered, "With

style."

    He stepped closer, "I was sent here to kill you," he said.

This girl looked like she was harmless to even a 'fly. He

stepped closer, closed "eyes, and blasted her.

         He expected her to be gone, but she stood, whimpering softly.

How did she survive?  Chevrelet stepped closer but Kiasaki leapt

on him and knocked him to the ground.   She prepared to blast him

when a yelp came from behind and a disk of energy knocked

Kiasaki off the boy and to the ground 10 yards away.

    Chevrelet stood up and saw, with astonishment, that Kia had

been his savior. Isuzu stood.

        "Let's finish this kid," he said.  But Chevrelet replied, "No.

That creep Tarafin wants me to kill people for his pleasure,

but I won't anymore."

        Isuzu's eyes widened.      "Do you know where he is?" he asked hopefully.

        “Yeah,” Chevrelet answered, "His base is twenty miles to the

northwest inside the first mountain you come to. About half a

mile up the mountain is a meadow with a semicircle pond in it.

Just beyond that, meadow is a grove of trees.  A pile of rocks in

it is in the shape of a star.  In the center is a num-pad. Type

this code, three, five, eight, two, seven, three, four, six."

        Isuzu and Kiasaki went in the direction specified by Chevrelet.

Chevrelet turned back to Kia.    "Aren't you going with them?" she

choked out.

  "Not yet " Chevrelet answered. "Are you alright?" Kia nodded

slowly.

"How did you survive that blast?" Chevrelet went on, "No one

has ever survived it." 

  Kia smiled weakly.    "I don't know." She paused, then asked, "Who

are you?"

         "I'm Chevrelet, who are you?"

        "Kia."      "What were you doing out here?" Chevrelet asked.

        "Looking for that guy," Kia replied.