ベラミス - her epic journey of her soul

Chapter 60 Space thugs

Belamis, Medora, Nick and Idina continued their journey towards the star system of Gariusu, where Nick's planet Talusen and Sonya's planet Yolen were, and of course Belamis' home planet, Gariusu once was.

Idina rested in Belamis' arms after Belamis breast fed her. Idina closed her eyes and sucked her finger. Belamis gently placed her back to her little crib, and stroke her hair.

"You surely will be a good mother..." Nick said, as he piloted the craft.

Belamis smiled - she was a tough warrior, but she got her tenderness from her mother - and memories of her mother flashed back to her - especially the one she saw her mother turning to a giantess to protect her when she's a little girl.

"I am really a fool.... if I am a Gariusu giantess... of course my mother is one too.... how come I never realized that ?" Belamis thought to herself, then as she tried to recall more about her mother she got a headache.

"Again...." Belamis thought.

Belamis put back her suit and sat on the pilot seat. She checked the co-ordinates and the navigation, its near the planet where Sherius was buried. Belamis tried to think of other things.

Belamis had had hallucinations sometimes (note: recall Starzinger Ep 51) and saw her mother in a few flashbacks.

"I have to stop there..." Belamis said, as she shook off her thought of her mother. In giantess form, Belamis' emotion and feelings were free, and she could recall her mother, but not in her human form when Belamis was consciously suppressing that memory.

Nick replied, "Sure... are you OK ?" He noticed Belamis was in deep thought.

"Yeah..." Belamis replied.

Starry Princess landed. The company went out.

Medora followed Belamis to Sherius' tomb.

"She's Sonya's younger sister ?" Medora said.

Belamis nodded. She took out the bits of blonde hair of Sonya, and dug a hole at the grave, and said softly, "Sherius, you and your sister Sonya...rest in peace...".

Then Belamis gathered flowers from around and laid them on top of the tomb.

Belamis still felt a heartache for the loss of the two women, and she hold back her tears. Belamis then knelt before the tomb in Gariusu warrior's way of honoring the dead.

Nick also knelt down.

Then Belamis stood up, "I will bring some of Sonya's hair back to my previous home star system...to Yolen where Sonya's home was."

The company left and Starry Princess was air borne.

"Something on the radar...." Nick said.

Belamis looked, and frowned.

"It looks like a fleet of space jets... they are coming at our direction..." Nick said.

"What is it ?" Medora came and she hold Idina's in her hands.

"Put Idina back to her crib and buckle her up... you buckle up too..." Nick said.

Belamis said, "I will go out in my jet and check..." Belamis ran out and leaped to her space fighter jet, and flew out towards the fleet of space jets.

Belamis turned on the visual system in her jet and got a clear picture - the jets were in different shapes, about 10 of them, flying towards Starry Princess.

Belamis turned on her communication system, and said, "Who are you ? What do you want?"

The other side did not answer. Then they fired at Belamis.

Belamis steered away from the fire. "Nick, steer Starry Princess away... far away.... I am fighting them..."

Nick replied, "OK... you be careful.."

"Take care of Medora..." Belamis replied.

"You bet!" Nick said.

Then Belamis opened fire at those jets, hitting their wings and wrecking a few of them.

Then there's a leading one heading to Belamis.

"That one's pilot was good..." Belamis thought.

The two jets engaged in a space fight, and exchanged fire.

Belamis was after all the ace fighter of Galaxy Union forces, and that fighter was nearly hit by Belamis' fire.

"You are good..." A voice from the other end.

"Who are you ?" Belamis asked.

The other jet stopped, and a man came out. He's big, with dark skin, thin, in blue hair.

Belamis stopped and opened the cockpit and got out to see who that person was.

They had eye contact.

"Name's Edon..." The man said.

"I am Belamis, cyborg warrior from Gariusu." Belamis replied, "Why are you attacking us?"

"This area of space is our turf.... we would not let anyone pass without ... let's just say.. paying a fee to passage...." Edon replied.

"I saw you are a good fighter... why don't you join us and reap more fortune ?" Edon laughed.

"You are out of your mind..." Belamis said, "... I am not going to fight you... just let me and my friends pass..."

"Okay..... your ask for it..." Edon remarked.

Then scores of fire and laser shot at Belamis. Belamis dodged with her ultraspeed move and she summoned her space bike and rode on it.

Belamis drew her sword, and said in a loud and stern voice, "I cannot forgive people who bully and prey on others!"

Nick was steering Starry Princess away but watched closely. "Damn.... those are space thugs..."

Belamis told Nick, "Deploy warp drive and get to a place far from this spot.. the fight is going to be nasty.... Starry Princess is not armed..."

"But..." Nick stuttered...

"I will join you... but first get Medora and Idina to safety.." Belamis said.

Medora was beside Nick, and she exclaimed, "We are not going without you..."

Nick knew full well that he could not risk Medora and Idina as Starry Princess was not a battleship, so he bit his lips and said, "You be careful, I will start warp flight..."

Nick pressed the buttons and pull the lever -- Starry Princess warped away.

Edon laughed, "You thought you can take on all of us ? We are all former soldiers... and we are also cyborgs..."

Then a blast of energy shot at Belamis and hit her. "Arrh...." Belamis yelled in pain and fell off her space bike.

"I am too careless... I underestimated them..." Belamis thought.

Then several ropes shot at Belamis, and tied her up.

Belamis tried to break free, and a painful electric shock hit her.

"We are cyborgs... and know how to deal with one..." Edon said.

Belamis eyes burned with anger, and said, "I am not the regular cyborg!"

She exerted her muscles and broke the rope, then she pulled her sword and used her ultraspeed and attacked the men.

"What the???" Edon exclaimed, as he just watched helplessly as Belamis took down each of his men.

Then Belamis pointed her sword at Edon.

"What have you got to say ?" Belamis asked.


Edon was angry and afraid, and he stuttered, "I...I..."


Belamis recalled her days of wandering by herself.....


It was hardly 3 months after she survived the destruction of her home planet system and she flew in her jet, with her little pet Mi being her only companion.


"Mi..... it's just the two of us now..." Belamis spoke softly to her pet and stroked Mi gently. Belamis lost every loved ones and was all alone in cosmos. She had nobody to talk to, and there were unknowns before her.


"Where should I go ? What am I supposed to do ? ...Why...why am I the only survivor ???" Belamis heart wondered and ached.


Mi licked Belamis face. Belamis had Mi since it was a baby, and Belamis loved Mi.

Then the sensors of Belamis' jet showed something. There were jets around.

"People....maybe... maybe I can join them..." Belamis thought, in her rather naive thought, as she was in her very early days of wandering in the cosmos.

"Let's fly together..." The man at another jet said.

Belamis nodded.

Then before Belamis knew it, the man shot at her.

If not for Belamis' superior piloting and combating skill, her jet would be hit.

"What are you doing ?" Belamis yelled.

The man said, "Leave your valuables with us..."

Belamis replied, "You are robbers ???"

"Hahahaha"

Belamis got angry and she stood out of her cockpit, and cried, "You mess with the wrong person!!!"

She used her cyborg powers and drove away those robbers.

Since then Belamis wandered in the cosmos all by herself, and she helped people who lost their home planets, but often running into thugs. It was why she acted very cautious and suspicious of strangers.

Belamis looked at Edon, and said, "Thugs like you are just unforgivable..."

Edon voice shook, "Please..." He could tell Belamis was a powerful cyborg.

Belamis however was compassionate, she said, "Get the hell away!" Then she welded her sword and destroyed the weapons on Edon's craft.

Edon immediately flew away in his craft.

Belamis watched and frowned.

She remembered the first encounter with Kugo. Belamis thought that Kugo and his partner Hakka were space thugs too... and Belamis lost Mi at that planet just after her first fight with Kugo.

Belamis turned and was about to join Nick, then a series of shots hit her when Belamis was lost in thoughts...

Belamis was hit and cried in pain, and she fainted.

Belamis gradually woke up. She knew she was attacked by a strong blast of electromagnetic shots that knock her out. Yet she was strong so Belamis regained consciousness quite quickly.

Belamis moved her limbs and found she was cuffed on her hands and feet.

Before Belamis was Edon and those thugs.

"You are really some tough cyborg..." Edon said.

Belamis stayed calm and looked at those space thugs. Then she heard people calling for help - they were children.

Edon could tell from Belamis' face, and said, "Yep... we kidnapped these kids -- if they had parents we will blackmail their parents, or else we sell the children as slaves...."

Belamis was angry, but she knew she had to save the kids, so she said, "What do you want from me ?"

Edon walked towards Belamis and kicked her at her torso.

Belamis groaned.

The thugs surrounded Belamis and chained her four limbs, then each pulled at different direction, riding a large animal like a horse.

"You are such a fool not to join us..." Edon said.

The four men rode the animal and pulled, and Belamis felt the pulling. Belamis was strong, and she exerted her limbs.

Nick steered out his jet as he settled down Medora and Idina.

"Let me come along!" Medora demanded.

Nick said, "OK, but stay close to me..."

Medora nodded.

They traced Belamis' jet's signal and found that Belamis was captured by the thugs, and the thugs tortured her.

"Belamis is tough... she'd be OK..." Nick assured Medora, who was worried about Belamis.

"But.. Belamis..." Medora spoke.

"Hush... don't let them hear us..." Nick said, as he drew his pistol.

Belamis four limbs were pulled, and the men were astonished as other people's joint would have dislocated.

Then Belamis let out a loud cry, pulling all her four limbs as she exerted herself. The chains and cuffs broke, and Belamis was free.

The thugs were astonished, as Belamis leaped up and drew her sword. She ran straight to the cave where the children were locked up.

Nick yelled, "I will cover you!!" As he fired shots at the thugs.

Belamis heard Nick, and was glad.

She went to the opening of the cave, and saw there were 12 children there, and they were unharmed.

"I will rescue you..." Belamis said, as she stood before the entrance and fought the thugs surrounding her.

Nick hit a few of the thugs with his pistol, as Belamis struck down the cyborg thugs one by one.

Then only Edon left. He pulled out his large weapon - a gigantic axe, and chop down at Belamis.

Belamis used her sword and block it.

Edon pressed hard, as Belamis used only her right hand to resist.

"Let me see how you can resist my strength!!" Edon was a towering 8 feet tall man  and he was big.

Belamis smiled, "I can win you even  with one arm!"

Edon pressed hard on his axe but Belamis was able to resist him just with her sword and right arm.

Belamis remembered her fight with Prince Guyma - she could have won had she not been exhausted after she got herself out the volcano vent, and she could have got herself killed had not been for Kugo.

As Belamis stared at Edon she was angry, "You thugs!! You even harm children!" Belamis exerted her body and pushed back, sending Edon flying and hit a cliff wall.

Then Belamis leaped up and struck Edon with her electromagnetic sword, knocking him out.

Nick and Medora cheered.

Belamis ran to the cave, and she pulled open the door, releasing the children.

The children surrounded  Belamis. Belamis remembered the children at the orphanage on Earth, and she smiled at them.

"We have to return the kids to their family..." Belamis said.

Medora replied, "Yes...."

They took the kids on board Starry Princess, and most kids were about 7 to 9 years old. Belamis, Nick and Medora took them one by one to their home and rejoin their parents.

The parents of the kids were overjoyed to have their children safely returned.

Nick smiled to Belamis, "I am happy for them..."

Belamis thought to herself, "When will I join Kugo...at Earth...."