Chapter 12
Chapter 12 --- Lyonasei When I woke Renkon had already gone. My stomach growled as I dressed for the day, brushing my hair out and rebraiding it. I looked out of on of the part windows and noticed that there weren�t any stars flashing by. We must have landed already. �We�ve docked on Lyonasei,� came a light voice from the door of the bedroom. I turned to see DJ standing there, a small smile on his face. �Renkon-san left long time ago to meet with the prince of Lyonasei.� I nodded my head, not saying anything. �How long will we stay here?� �Um? Not to sure. Depends on how the festival goes I guess.� �Festival? I thought Renkon was here to negate.� �He is. At the festival.� DJ smiled, a small one but still a smile. I smiled back at him. I was thankful that DJ was here on the ship with me while we were traveling around. I don�t think I could take much more of Renkon�s scowling. I looked away from him to finish tying my shoe, what�s left of it anyways. It�s now no more the a little white leather rage that keeps my feet warm. I let my mind wander to past thoughts, thinking how I refused to buy shoes when these were still in use. My mother use to get so frustrated that she�d buy another pair of shoes anyway so I�d be prepared when these would fall apart. Then I stopped. I hadn�t thought of my mother in such a long time. Or my father for that matter. I still wonder if they�re even alright. Are they still on Earth? Or did they get captured and are slaves too? Before I realized it a tear rolled down the side of me cheek. I paid no attention to it as I whipped it away, not wanting to cry out loud in front of DJ. I still had my dignity, I never really liked to cry in front of people. Although from time to time I�d slip up and my emotions would just roll out on to a friend�s shoulder. �What�s wrong?� he asked, suddenly by my shoulder looking at me. I hadn�t noticed he had moved from the door to the side of the bed where I sat. I managed a small smile. �Oh nothing, just thinking. That�s all.� �You must be thinking of something real sad.� �How can you tell?� I asked dumbly, hoping that he didn�t see the tear from earlier. �I can sense these sort a things,� he said smiling. �That�s what Dragonians do best.� I looked at him as he sat there smiling. Does he even know why I was here or did he just think that Renkon picked me up somewhere and like me? Well in a way that kinda true�remembering the time when Renkon had to drag me out of that building�me fighting all the way. But remembering that little moment brought back times before that. Like my parents. I never really liked them very much, they�ve either always been away or too strict for me to enjoy being with them. Yet that was just the outer core. I recalled times when Dad would take me out fishing for hours or when he let me do something that Mom would disagree about. Like having chocolate for breakfast or maybe dinner. Mmmm, chocolate�. Then Momma did some cool things too. Like when we were suppose to clean house on the weekend we�d dance to whatever music was on, Dad standing to the side with his arms crossed and the �bad girls� look. And sometimes Mom would give me money so I could buy what ever I wanted. I miss those days now more then ever. I never could see past the fact that I would leave my parents one day, one way or another. �Still thinking sad things?� DJ asked, tilting his head to the side to look into my eyes. I nodded silently, not wanting to talk, afraid that my voice would be shaky from being so close to tears. DJ sighed but then climbed up on the bed next to me and sat down with his clawed feet dangling off the bed. �Then tell me. I want to hear what makes you so said. Is it Renkon-san? �No,� I said simply. �Just thinking of what I miss most back home.� �Tell me, may make you feel better.� �Nah, little guy I don�t think that talking about home is gonna make me feel any better. Best thing for me to do is to get over it and get on with my life.� He sat there and stared at me, his blue eyes shinned with the curiosity of knowing me. He then shook his head. �I don�t think that�ll work. You need to talk about it.� �Maybe with someone who understands,� I said, a bit snappy, but I continued my rant not really thinking about my emotions. �Maybe someone who went through the same thing about being removed from the only home they knew.� I stopped and looked at him he didn�t seem fazed at the fact I was about to break down in tears if I didn�t shut up. �Well then I fit every aspect of what you said about telling someone,� he said softly. I slummed my head down not wanting to look at him. �But what do you know?� I asked softly, on the verge of tears. �You�re just a kid�� He just sat there and looked at me. �I may look like a kid, and in Dragonian years I am,� he said softly still, not really effected at what I said. �But to tell the truth, Nellie. When you count up the years of how long I�ve been alive�I�m as old as Renkon.� I looked up at him in surprise. He�s as old as Renkon? No way, that�s just not logical. But�looking into DJ�s face I saw no hint of a lie in those blue eyes of his. In fact, sitting there, looking at me, he looked even more mature then Renkon himself. And with out much thought left in me, I busted out in tears while leaning on DJ�s shoulder. I don�t recall how long I sat there and cried but I tired myself out so much that DJ just put me back in bed. Sleeping for who knows how long either, DJ said I was out for almost three hours. He also said that Renkon came in an hour ago to see what I was up too. And frankly surprised to fine me back in the bed with DJ sitting on top of the sheets. DJ said he didn�t tell Renkon what had happened, just told him I was still tired and need some more sleep. This time though when I woke up a late lunch had been brought in for me by DJ. Man was I hungry. As I sat and ate the large lunch with DJ in quiet I thought more on my life at hand. At the moment I was in a way living somewhat a better life like this then at home. No school, no responsibilities to do, and no worry about college or a job. No worries at all, except when Renkon decides to get rough. :/ Another thought that came to my mind was that I haven�t been eating all that much lately. I use to be able to eat almost anything at any given time. But when I was brought here I have only eaten enough to get through till the next meal. I must have lost a lot of weight from my lack of appetite. Yet right now, as I looked at my half eaten plate of food, who�d want to eat nothing but meat all the time? I wish I had my junk food with me. I still hadn�t seen Renkon all day but DJ told me that we needed to move off the ship and into the Lyonajin palace. He helped me drag the huge carry on cases which were supposed to be the suit cases. In my opinion they couldn�t fit half of the stuff Renkon dragged along but they can and they did. They were deeper then they actually looked. But since there was so much stuff to pack DJ and I couldn�t do it alone like I had to with Renkon. So he called two of the ship�s slaves up to help pack and carry the luggage out. When they came I had been in the bedroom, already starting to pack. I wasn�t paying any attention what the slaves looked like, thinking that if they were humans from earth that if I looked busy enough it make it look like I was a slave just like them. Yet that was pretty impossible to do especially when they called my name. �Nellie!? You here too?!� came a surprised but familiar voice. Turning around I gasped in surprise to see my friends Mary and Carissa. I tried stammering an answer but the shock was too much and knocked out my thinking pattern to where I just sat there with my mouth hanging open like a fish�s. They came over asking all sorts of questions, mainly why was I here, how have I been, and not to forget why are you so thin. DJ stood to the back of the room by the door, obviously confused because he too just sat there with own mouth gapped open. �Hey girls,� I said meekly, trying to snap out of it and not get them started with any more questions. �I�uh�we just need help packing the suit cases. And while we�re at it you can tell me all of your stories ok?� I didn�t really look at them, not wanting to see their reaction to the fact that I had a smile on even though a very sad look. The packing was finished quicker then we thought. Only an hour. I was able to find out more what Mary and Carissa had to go through compared to me. And even though they didn�t make it sound like it, they seemed to have more fun being in the slave quarters then back home. It turned out that what I had thought was a trash bin where I threw the alcohol away was actually a rag bin and so it ended up, unharmed and unbroken into the laundry room underneath the ship. Well it seemed in their favor that they were in charge of laundry duties and stumbled upon the bottle. And much to their entertainment took the bottle back to their quarters and shared it. Not only did they all get drunk but a bit of what�s known as �doo-wap� had taken place all through the night. Meaning all the slaves got drunk and had an old Roman fashion orgy, group sex. Nasty. I didn�t tell them much on my side of the story of course DJ was a little confused on that but didn�t say anything about it. Although from them I did find out what happen to my other friends. Elexia had been taken by another Saiyajin just I was. Kathryn and Jennifer were sold to other planets but they didn�t know where so that didn�t help me much either. I couldn�t get any info about my parents or any other person besides them, although they said Deveny was sent to work on the planet for some group of Saiyajin, yet not much detail was put down. Carrying the luggage down the ship�s ramp I was able to take a quick look around at the Lyonajin home planet yet not much. It was definitely better kept then Vegetasei was. Not so much sand and red sky. And I got to look at some of the natives too. They were just like the Saiyajin but had more human features like soft hair and light skin, but another thing that separated them from the Saiyajin was that they had a lion tail instead of a monkey tail. I wonder how these people will be different from the Saiyajin.
