ベラミス - her epic journey of her soul

Chapter 12 Precious moments together and the poisonous scorpion

Whilst Djorgo, Kugo and Belamis escorted the Princess, Kugo and Belamis took time to be together. They were cyborgs, and thus did not need to sleep, and when the Queen Cosmos was in cruising mode, they would be outside, lying down in the front platform.

Kugo would let Belamis rest on his chest, and hold her.

"So..... for how long have you been wandering alone in the cosmos..." Kugo asked.

Belamis replied, "almost two years...before I met you..."

"I will rest at deserted planets or asteroids.... but I would not fall asleep..." She said.

"Why ?"

"Because...when I fell asleep I would have nightmares ..." Belamis replied.

"Only recently... after Dr. Kitty saved me...and I reunited with you... I could have a good sleep..."

Kugo smelled her hair, and pat her shoulders. "You are like your father... er... adopted father..."

"He's my father indeed.... if not for him, and mother... I would have died..." Belamis said.

"Yes.... I don't show my feelings easily.... not when I am in uniform or fighting.." Belamis replied.

"You bottled too much grief and sadness in you..." Kugo replied, looking her in the eyes.

"I swallowed all my sorrows, sadness, pain and grief... because I am a born fighter..." Belamis replied, "...but I am human.....Dr. Kitty rescue me... and my days in the orphanage made me realize this.."

"You know.... when I nearly died.... I had a dream..." Kugo said.

"What dream ?"

"I saw you in tears, running and calling me to return... after I woke up, my hair and face was wet.." Kugo said.

"Why is it ?"

"Because... when you transformed into the giantess, you cried and your tears dropped on me when you hold me in your big palms... Djorgo told me.." Kugo replied and chuckled.

Belamis smiled, and leaned towards Kugo. "I cannot loose you.... you can risk your life for me.... I will not want to loose you..."

The two would spend night after night together..because by the end of the third week, it would be a long while before they could see each other.

During the day Belamis still wore a straight face, patrolling most of the time by flying around Queen Cosmos in her jet.

"Nothing abnormal around..." Belamis said. "Good.... return to Queen Cosmos and take a break!" Kugo said.

Djorgo at the pilot seat watched the monitors, and Princess looked at Kugo, and smiled.

She clearly saw Belamis and Kugo was in love, and their relationship was even more closer.

"I will take turn to patrol..." Djorgo smiled, "You take over the pilot seat!" Kugo took over the pilot seat.

Belamis entered the cockpit, and sat down.

"The journey will take another 4 days..." Belamis said.

She and Kugo will stay in the cockpit, even when the Princess retire, they would not sleep.

This day, Belamis and others are all in the cockpit, and would stop over a planet.

Queen Cosmos landed.

"Let's not disturb the people..." Princess said.

The rest agreed.

Belamis looked around, and found a doll on the ground, she picked it up...then a girl walked up to her..

"Thanks.... it's mine.."

Belamis looked at the little girl, she knelt down, and then stroked the girl's hair, "Here you are..." As Belamis patted the dust of the doll, and handed it back to the girl. The girl hugged Belamis.

Then the girl held Belamis hand, and said, "Come and play with us..." She pulled.

Belamis hesitated, for Queen Cosmos would leave anytime, but she let the girl dragged her anyway. Her heart was somehow softened and could not refuse her.

So, Belamis followed the little girl, and there were a group of children playing. She looked at them and they reminded her of the orphanage and the children there.

She hold up one of the boys higher with her arms, and smiled at him. The boy laughed.

Kugo and Princess Aurora looked.

"She is a kind soul..." Princess Aurora said.

Then Belamis played her famous trick with the children, supporting three of them on her arms and shoulder.

"Hold tight... don't fell off.." Belamis said, as she hold the children.

Kugo also joined in the play, and the two laughed.

The company quickly acquired needed supplies, food, fuel etc.

"We have to leave..." Djorgo said.

"Just a bit more.." Kugo shouted, as he chased the children.

Then suddenly the people screamed in horror from afar.

A giant scorpion like monster appeared in the city.

"Monster!!" Belamis shouted.

"It's a result of the deteriorating Galaxy Energy..." Djorgo said.

"Let's go and drive it away!!!" Kugo shouted.

He jumped to the Star Probe and began to attack.

Belamis shouted, "Wait for me!!" She jumped onto her space bike and followed.

The giant scorpion like monster welded its tail, Kugo charged at it.

The monster erected its tail and spitted out poison. Kugo was hit. He and his Star Probe fell.

"Kugo!!" Belamis yelled and drove her space bike and attacked the monster.

Then the monster sprayed poison to her... Belamis was it and also went down...

She felt dizzy, as she struggled up. "The poisonous fume...." She thought.

"No..... I have to stop it!!!..." She then saw the monster sprayed its poison to the people... she saw the girl she helped.

Belamis got back to her space bike and flew to the monster, resuming her attack.

The poisonous fume spread, and people fell to the ground, poisoned.

The children they met went running, some fell to the ground.

"No!!!" Then she saw the little girl, running and coughing, then slowly she collapsed.

Then the scorpion's tail hit her and the space bike and she fell to the ground. The scorpion used one of its front clamps and grabbed Belamis.

"Arrh..." Belamis yelled, as her body was stabbed by the sharp spikes in the claws, and severely injured...she tried to struggle free.

Belamis looked at Kugo and the people.
Kugo was unconscious, and many people fell -- the people were poisoned.

She looked at the girl, which reminded her own childhood and those children in the orphanage.

Then in Belamis heart, her altruistic spirit was aroused... she wanted to protect and save them....then her forehead glowed.

White beams shot out of her eyes, and hands, then she lost her suit, and became naked.

Djorgo saw all that, "She is changing again...."

Belamis roared, as her body enlarged, breaking free from the clamp of the monster -- she transformed to the giantess.

The poison was in the form of fumes, and the fume was in the air spreading.

Belamis in her giantess form, ran and sheltered the innocent people of the planet.

"Belamis!!" Djorgo was inside the cockpit of his probe, safe from the fumes, the Princess helped the others.

Belamis turned, and saw the probe of Djorgo.

"Belamis!! The poisonous fumes are spreading!!" Shouted Djorgo.

The fume was everywhere... without thinking, Belamis just inhaled all the fumes into her body..... and then she felt dizzy....she shook her head.

Djorgo saw all that, and came in his probe, and said, "Belamis...!!! Are you OK ???"

Belamis looked at Djorgo, nodded.

"She still has her intellect, she understands me..." Djorgjo thought. He then looked at the monster and quickly checked his computer.

Belamis shook her head, and charged forward, kicked and punched the monster, pressing it down, and roared as she fought it.

She looked at Kugo. Kugo was gradually regaining consciousness.

"Ku...go...." She muttered in her giantess talk.

"My goodness...." Djorgo thought as he looked at the result from his computer.

Belamis lifted the monster, threw it to a rock, the monster roared, and lifted its tail again.

"Belamis!!! Don't make any wounds on that monster!!" Djorgo yelled.

Belamis turned, and looked at him, she looked shocked, and listened.

"That monster's venom is in all its blood.... if you open a wound on it... the poison would escape.. the poison will immediately turn to poisonous fume and fill the air!!!" Djorgo said.

The monster lashed its claws at Belamis, cutting her right arm. Belamis dodged and pressed her left hand on the wound.

Belamis looked, then charged, and tried to pin down the scorpion like monster. The monster raised its claws and clamped Belamis' both arms with its front claws.

"Arh...." Belamis groaned as her arms were clamped.

"The monster's poison... if all of them are released...can kill all lifeforms in this planet.... equivalent to the entire Earth!!!" Djorgo yelled.

Belamis heard, then she saw the scorpion monster raised its tail again.

She looked, then suddenly she yelled, and broke free from the claws, and charged to the tail.

"What the ???" Djorgo and Kugo yelled.

The scorpion monster lashed its sting, but Belamis grap the tail, and let the poisonous sting poke deep into her body.

Kugo yelled, "No!!" The sound of the sting piercing into Belamis body was frightening...

The scorpion wriggled its tail, so the spike moved about, causing more injuries in Belamis body.

Yet they heard Belamis' roar, she endured the pain, then she pulled at the scorpion monster tail, pulling the sting, and Belamis push the sting even deeper into her body, right into her left rib.

"No..." Princess would dare to watch and she covered her ears...as the sound of the sting sinking deeper into Belamis' body frightened her...

"ar...ar...." Belamis let out groaning sounds, as she hold onto the tail, agonizing.

The monster tried to pull its tail sting out, but Belamis grabbed hard and then she roared loudly.

"What is she doing ???" Kugo raised his Astro-Lance.

"No...no don't strike yet...!" Djorgo stopped Kugo. He looked and there he saw Belamis grabbed the monster's tail tightly, she saw a length of cable, and she grabbed it, quickly tying the cable on herself and the big tail, bounding them together.

"She fixed the tail of the monster, and tied herself to it..." Djorgo murmured...

"She is trying to absorb all the venom to her body...!!" Djorgo said.

Kugo said, "What...???"

"....so that....when all the venom is in her body...we can strike..." Djoro replied, looking at Belamis, touched by her bravery.

Belamis hold the tail with her arms, then she grabbed hold of the tail harder, and her body tone turned from gray gradually to light blue... as the poison was injected to her body.....she clutched her teeth..the poison was affecting her...Belamis felt dizzy and her vision was blurring...

"No!!!" Kugo shouted.

Belamis hold onto the monster. She was shaking, then she exerted her muscles... trying absorb as much of the poison as she could.

The monster could not move, as Belamis grabbed hold of it with all her might, despite she was poisoned, she still exerted her muscles.

Then Belamis looked at Djorgo and Kugo, and she nodded.

"Its the chance!!" Djorgo said.

"OK!!" Kugo charged, and strike the monster with Astro-Lance energy beam.

There was a great explosion, and the monster was destroyed.

Belamis hold the spike with the tail from the monster, breathed heavily. She pulled the spike out... there was no poisonous fumes.

"She did it..." Djorgo said.

After Belamis pulled the spike out, she then shook vigorously, and began to collapse, but she was still conscious. She looked at Kugo, and said, "Ku....go..."

"Belamis!!" Kugo yelled.

"She is also poisoned..." Djorgo said.

Belamis was shaking...in pain, she stretched out her right arm, and opened her palm. She was holding a doll, the very same doll she returned to the girl.

"We must try to save the people!!!" Princess Aurora came crying.

"What is it...?" Kugo asked.

"The monster's poison hit many of the people here..." Princess Aurora said. "The people here has doctors, but...there were no antidote for the poison..."

"...but... we need to have the correct serum to make the antidote..." Djorgo said, "...we don't have it......." Djorgo said.

"What ?" Princess cried.

A medical man came and said, "We have take the people to our facilities....we only have make shift medications to ease the pain... but the poison is slowly killing the people!"

Many people were poisoned by the fumes, and moaning in the planet's hospital. Their medical people were scrambling to try and comfort the people. There include the children Belamis met.

Then Belamis gave out a low sounding voice, "Ku...go..."

"Belamis.. what is it ?" Kugo asked.

Belamis looked at Kugo, the Princess, and Djorgo in her giantess form. She then pointed at her wound, the wound pierced by the spike of the monster, which was bleeding.

Djorgo looked, then he said in doubt, "Belamis... are you saying...?"

Belamis nodded, and pointed at her blood.

"What is she trying to say ?" Kugo demanded.

"I think... Belamis is trying to tell us that.. we can use her blood...to prepare serum for the antidote for the poison.." Djorgo said.

"Are you out of your mind ? Her blood ?" Kugo cried.

"Are you sure?" Princess asked.

"Belamis..... do you mean you want us to use your blood to make the antidote?" Djorgo said.

Belamis nodded.

"Belamis... are you out of your mind???" Kugo yelled.

"No...no...Kugo... what she said makes a lot of sense!! Although she cannot talk, her intellect is still there..... she figured it out..." Djorgo said.

"What ?" Kugo asked.

"...look....she inhaled all the poisonous fumes, she could withstand the poison, and then all the poison of the monster was injected into her body..... that amount could kill all people here, but she is still conscious..." Djorgo said.

Kugo and the Princess looked. Belamis was conscious, though visibly she was very weak.

"...in other words, Belamis' body is strong enough to withstand the toxin in the scorpion's venom....if my guess is correct, her blood has the antibody to resist the poison, we can extract from her blood the antidote and save the people..." Djorgo said.

Belamis smiled and nodded, and she hold her right palm out...there was the doll she returned to the girls.

"Let's get her blood sample...and contact Dr. Kitty...We must hurry, the doctors could only keep the people alive for another 8 hours..." The Princess said.

Djorgo and Kugo approached, and looked at the horrid wound at the side of Belamis body.

Kugo looked into Belamis eyes, and said, "Belamis.... you are very brave...".

Djorgo hold up a large syringe, place the needle at Belamis wound, he looked at the wound and found a blood vessel there, and he poked the needle in, drawing some blood from Belamis.

Belamis hold very still.

"Done." Djorgo said, and he looked at Belamis.

Belamis nodded, then she put her left hand on the wound which was still bleeding, and laid down, breathing heavily.

Kugo transformed to his giant size, and let Belamis head rest on his knees.

Belamis lied still, her blood sample analysis data was sent to Earth, after 2 hours Dr. Kitty sent her analysis back, then in the transmission, was sad, "....Belamis idea was correct...but..."

"..but what..?" Kugo asked.

"...to save the people here... around 200 of them.... we need to use half of her blood...." Dr. Kitty said.

"What ? " All was stunned.

"That's our projection...." Dr. Kitty replied...sadly.

"We must protect Belamis... if she looses half of her blood now..she will be too weak.." Kugo said.

Belamis looked at Kugo.

"Belamis..." Kugo said.

"Kugo...." Belamis said. She opened her right palm again, there in her palm was the doll...

"Ku...go..." Belamis in tears.... muttered the words.

"She wanted you to protect the people...not her.." Djorgo said.

"Belamis..!!!" Kugo was touched by her altruistic response,

"I will work with the doctors here, and start the sequence of drawing your blood to make the antidote..." Djorgo said.

Belamis nodded.

Kugo looked at her, and said, "I will protect the people...hang on!!" He gently stood up, resting Belamis head on the ground, and touched her hair, before he transformed back to human size.

Kugo then proceeded in his Star Probe, as he launched it, he flew above Belamis, and looked at her, Belamis sat up, and nodded, as Kugo circled around her in his Star Probe.

"I will protect the sick people now.." He said, and he raced to the hospital.

Belamis watched Kugo flew to the hospital, and muttered, "..Ku...go..."

Djorgo was touched by their love, and looked at Belamis.

"We have to start the blood transfusion.... you have to lie down again." He said to Belamis.

Belamis nodded, and laid down. Djorgo started the blood transfusion sequence to draw Belamis blood.

"We will draw blood from the vein on your arm." Djorgo said gently to Belamis, and she nodded.

Queen Cosmos stretched out a long robotic arm, with a long spike on it, connected to a long bank of cells from the medical facilities in the planet.

Belamis in her giantess form, stayed very calm.

"The needle will poke your arm's vein." Djorgo said.

Belamis stretched out her left arm. Then the needle poked into her left arm's vein and began to draw blood from her body.

"You will feel very weak... we are going to draw half of your blood out..." Djorgo said, preparing Belamis. Belamis nodded.

Djorgo looked at Belamis as the cells for hold her blood was filled, then said, "You are very brave...."

Belamis looked, and listened.

"I am not sure in this form if you can understand me..." Djorgo said. Belamis nodded again.

".... actually, do you know you could have died just by absorbing all the venom to your body ?" Djorgo said.

Belamis looked at Djorgo, naked and in her giantess form, nodded.

"...so...you used the cables to tie yourself to the monster... in case if you collapse...the monster cannot escape..." Djorgo said, as he recalled what Belamis did. Belamis nodded again.

"You are brave, but at the same time still very cool-headed..." He looked at Belamis.
"...I think I would have be in love with you too..." Djorgo said, "..and I hope you forget this when you change back to human form.." Djorgo said.

Belamis looked, and she opened her mouth....in a kind of surprise look...then she shook her head.

Djorgo chuckled, and said, "...in this form.. you are so innocent....and also direct..."

The blood transfusion started, drawing blood from Belamis giantess body.

Belamis felt a bit dizzy, but she remained calm.

Djorgo looked at her, and thought..."please.... no attacks...if there is a attack...Belamis would be killed...". He knew that any lifeforms loosing half its blood would be dangerous.


Kugo guarded the hospital, but worried about Belamis. Luckily no attacks happened.


"Done!!" Djorgo declared.

After an hour the transfusion completed.

Belamis was conscious, but weak. She smiled.

"Let me pull the needle out.." Djorgo controlled the robotic arm, and the needle at Belamis left arm was pulled out.

Then Princess came with a large quantities of cotton wool, woven to two large globs, and handed to Belamis...

"You press this against your arm and the wound..." She said.

Belamis smiled, and place the cotton wool over her wound.

The planet's medical personnel quickly transported Belamis blood to their facilities.

Djorgo and the medical persons worked frantically, and looked at the microscope.

"Here's the serum from the blood..." The person said. Belamis blood was placed in centrifuge so that only the fluid part with her antibodies were extracted.

Djorgo dropped one drop of the serum on one blood sample of the sick people and gazed in the microscope - the serum worked, the blood was de-toxicated.

"Good!! It worked." Djorgo yelled. Kugo was at the said, and ran out to Belamis.

"Belamis.. it worked!!" Kugo yelled.

Belamis smiled.

The antidote was prepared, and all of the people were saved.

Belamis then changed back to her human form, and fall into a coma.

As she woke up, Kugo was at her bedside, holding her hands.

Queen Cosmos was air borne and left the planet.

"Come with me..." Kugo said gently, and he picked up Belamis, hold her in his arms.

"No..." Belamis said...she was naked...

"Sorry..." Kugo smiled, "..why not you suit up first..."

"....lazy! " Belamis chucked...and she invoked her suit.

Kugo carried her out to the open, and they gazed at the stars, then Kugo kissed her.

Belamis looked at the planet and smiled.

Then Kugo handed something to Belamis.

"The children there gave you this.." He said.

It was a small bracelet woven with threads, and there was a bead in the shape of the heart.

Belamis hold it in her hands, and smiled.