Chapter 7 The journey to Galaxy Union
Belamis wore the chains and cuffs on her and let the Galaxy Union Interpol Ship tolled her along.
Kugo, Medora, Idina and Nako followed in another craft.
The Interpol ship stopped and landed and Belamis stood on the ground. The cuffs and chains were released.
Dolores came out, "You can all rest here..."
Kugo came out of the craft and asked, "Where are we heading now ?"
Medora continued, "The flight path is not heading to the Galaxy Union base on Earth ..."
Dolores said, "I received reports. Fermalos forces were launching attack in numerous places. We have to take a detour to avoid them. We are not going back to Earth directly.... and this route can take another 20 days."
Dolores turned to Belamis and said, "I know you will not run away. So everyday I will stop and release you from your cuffs..."
Belamis in her giantess form, gazed at Dolores and nodded.
Kugo replied, "Thanks..."
Dolores replied in a straight face, "Don't thank me.... if you make any wrong move, I am authorized to kill Belamis..." She placed her hand on her gun and stared at Belamis.
The party knew Dolores was serious.
Kugo got nervous, and he wanted to walk close to Dolores to confront her.
Belamis placed her hand before Kugo, and shook her head.
Belamis knew Dolores had to obey orders - she remembered her days as the Chief Captain of Lacets Legion, and she could understand Dolores' situation - Dolores could not disobey her orders.
Dolores said, "We will stay for three hours here..." As she turned and left the company.
Medora and Idina immediately came forward to Belamis.
Idina said, "Belamis, you should escape...."
Medora said, "I don't know if it is safe for you... once you are on those cuffs and chains.. she could practically kill you and you cannot tell when !!!"
Belamis shook her head.
Kugo said, "Don't be so stubborn again please!!!"
Belamis shook her head, and replied, "Trust me..."
She gazed Medora and Idina and then Belamis' mind merged with the girls.
Medora and Idina closed their eyes. They felt Belamis' mind and then they looked at Belamis.
Idina said to Kugo, "Papa Kugo, let's go along with Belamis!!"
Medora said, "Kugo, let's talk when we are back into the space ship!"
After the three hours break, Belamis was being chained and cuff.
The Interpol Ship took off and pulled Belamis along.
Kugo, the girls and the big cougar followed.
Dolores was watching outside, then then transmitter sounded.
"Lieutenant Constantine..." Dolores thought.
In the screen was Constantine.
"So...I heard you captured Belamis..." Constantine said with a smile.
"Yes....I will deliver her safely back ..as soon as I can..." Dolores replied.
"Well... safely ? Take your time...." Constantine said.
Dolores heart grew anxious. She wanted to finish this mission and take Belamis back into prison, and hoped that Constantine would allow her to station at her home planet, to be close to her brother Alfred. She would rather be able to deliver Belamis right now.. but again her conscience fought with her wishes.
Dolores had not talked with Aflred for two weeks, and she was worried.
"You brother is doing well..." Constantine said.
It just could not escape her eyes, Dolores thought.
Constantine at the other side, smiled, "I have instructions for you...."
At the other end, Medora replied to Belamis in telepathy, "Yes.... we switched on our radio and are listening in to Dolores conversation with her superior..."
Kugo understood finally, "Belamis wants to find out herself why she was framed, and why Constantine mistreated her...."
Belamis acted as though nothing happened. She told Medora in telepathy, "Just listen... Dolores is not a bad person, but that Constantine has something up her sleeves..."
Idina and Medora heard, and told Kugo.
Kugo nodded, and said, "We will have to watch carefully."
Nako was on the floor and her ear pricked up, as though she was listening too, and she purred.
"Good girl... we will rescue mother!!" Idina hugged the big cougar.
"Look... the Interpol Ship changed course!!!" Medora said.
"But we did not hear any instructions...." Kugo uttered.
Constantine used text to convey her instructions to Dolores.
Dolores frowned, and the she found that she was visible from the window.
Belamis focused her super human vision and she listened and watched.
Belamis saw the facial expression of Dolores, but she did not know what Constantine told her to do.
Belamis believed Dolores changed the course of the Interpol Ship under Constantine's order.
Medora and Kugo looked at each other.
Kugo said, "I will ride my Star Probe out and check..." He immediately got out.
Belamis was being tolled along. Kugo flew his craft and flew side by side with her.
Belamis turned and smiled at Kugo.
"Belamis... I will stick around...."
Belamis nodded.
She turned and hinted Kugo to look.
They saw afar that they were entering a storm.
"What is Dolores doing ???" Kugo.
Belamis immediately saw it was a storm cloud of high energy electromagnetic energy.
Belamis was exposed and the lightning could hit her and cause her pains.
Belamis turned to Kugo, and said, "Back..to ..ship.."
Kugo said, "Let me be at your side!!!"
Belamis said, "Pro..tect Medora..Idina..."
Kugo hesitated. He turned, and knew with only the girls in the craft, they could not pilot it out the storm cloud.
Dolores watched as she saw Kugo headed back to their craft.
"Sorry....." Dolores said.
Kugo entered the craft and sat on the pilot seat and grabbed the controls. He turned to the girls, "Buckle up!!!"
The girls immediately seated and bucked up. Nako used her claws and limbs and hold onto a seat too, where Idina buckle her up.
"What is the matter???" Medora asked.
"Kugo, Belamis is still out there..." Idina cried.
"Hold tight..." Kugo said.
Then as the two crafts entered the storm area, there were blinding flashes of lightning.
Dolores said, "Deploy our energy shield..."
But the energy shield did not cover Belamis.
Then a lightning hit Belamis.
Belamis roared in pain as the powerful energy hit her.
"Belamis!!!" Kugo yelled.
Then Medora heard Belamis in telepathy, "I am OK...."
Nako meowed loudly and put her paws on the window. Idina hold Nako's neck. They watched Belamis enduring the storm.
"That Dolores did it!!!" Kugo said, but he could not leave the girls alone in the space craft.
"Damn!!" Kugo grunted.
The raging storm was a cloud of energetic particles, and it had flashes of lightning, and the lightning hit Belamis again and again.
Belamis clutched her teeth and endured.
Medora cried. Nako meowed and meowed, and Idina wept.
Dolores turned away from the window and avoid looking out.
Belamis silently endured, and after two hours, the crafts exited the storm cloud.
Kugo switched on the controls and contacted Dolores, "Can we just stop!!!?? We have to look at Belamis! She is hurt!!"
The other side was not answering.
"What the ??" Kugo gasped. He stormed out and rode Star Probe. Nako followed him.
The two reached Belamis, and Kugo checked on Belamis. Nako turned to the giant cougar and licked Belamis' face.
Belamis was breathing heavily - there were a few areas of burns on her body, she nodded and rubbed Nako's face with her face.
Kugo flew to Belamis face, and said, "We will stop.. and we will check your wounds..."
Then the Interpol ship accelerated.
Kugo yelled, "Stop !!!" He raised his AstroLance and Nako growled.
"No..." Belamis uttered.
"What ???"
"Don't....attack...."
Belamis stopped Nako as she wanted to attack too.
Then Kugo heard the transmission, it was Medora, "Kugo don't!!! If you attacked even you will be regarded as a criminal.... Belamis said it was Constantine's trick!!!"
Kugo turned to Belamis. Belamis nodded, and replied, "Calm..down..."
Then the ship stopped.
Dolores exited and looked at them. Kugo looked and he was angry.
"There is a planet... we can stay there for a day..... there was Fermalos forces detected ahead... our ship is not equipped to fight... we better wait..." Dolores said.
Then she quickly entered the Interpol ship without looking back.
"What ?" Kugo said.
Belamis said to Medora in telepathy, "It is not true... this Interpol ship was quite well equipped... Dolores is finding an excuse to stop.."
The ship landed, and Belamis was released from the chains and cuffs. She fell on her knees.
Medora, and Idina came out.
They saw Belamis was hurt badly.
"Constantine did this to hurt you..." Medora said.
"Dolores can only follow orders...." Kugo said.
Belamis nodded.
"There's nothing we can do then if Constantine comes up with other idea to hurt Belamis ?" Medora said.
Belamis replied, "No...."
Kugo said, "Dolores reminded us.. .she is authorized to kill you... Belamis..."
Belamis replied in telepathy to the girls, "Constantine wanted me dead......... but I escaped.. she tortured me once when I was locked up...."
Medora said, "Then if Dolores..."
Belamis replied in telepathy, "She will not do it...."
Dolores felt very bad.. she did not know that Constantine was trying to torture Belamis... until they arrived at the storm, it was not possible to turn away - and if she did, Constantine would know.
"I cannot hurt Belamis... she has been kind...not just to me..but to people...." Dolores thought.
But the thought of Alfred was hurting her - he was her only family... she was struggling within.
She again remembered that days at Queen Lacets planet. Belamis was patrolling in her jet and their battleship followed her and arrived at the outpost for the foreign soldiers.
Belamis just walked around silently. Dolores was at a corner watching.
A foreign soldier made a mistake and one Queen Lacets soldier began apprehending the soldier.
"No... don't be harsh..." Belamis said.
"You are new here ?" Belamis asked the young soldier. She replied timidly, "I...I..."
"Remember and learn from the mistake..." Belamis said.
Dolores witnessed these kindness of Belamis a few times.
"But..." Dolores struggled. She was so disparate to go to her brother's side.
Kugo looked at the wound and Belamis and was sad.
Idina and Medora then radiated their Galaxy Energy to heal her wounds.
Belamis nodded.
"We still have a lot of time ... we can stay for a day.." Kugo said.
Belamis then looked back to the Interpol ship and remembered a very faint whisper of Dolores.
"She is uttering a name... with sadness..." Belamis thought.
Soon enough, the day passed.
Dolores came out and said, "We have to go on..."
"Are you alright ?" Dolores asked Belamis.
Belamis nodded and stood up, and then she hold out her arms.
The cuffs and chains went back onto Belamis limbs and body.
Kugo, Medora and Idina watched, and felt frustrated.
"Go..." Belamis gently said.
Kugo and others got back to the space craft.
The Interpol ship took off, pulling Belamis along. The space craft on which Kugo, Medora, Idina and Nako was on board followed.
Dolores looked out and talked to herself, "I just hope Constantine will not issue further orders.... I am sorry Belamis... but I wanted to see my brother..I missed Alfred so much..."
Medora was on the pilot seat, and when all of a sudden she heard Belamis talking to her in telepathy.
"Belamis!" Medora exclaimed.
Kugo remarked, "What is it ???"
"Wait.. I am listening to Belamis!" Medora said, then she nodded.
"Kugo..." Medora turned to Kugo, and said, "We need to talk..." She whispered to Kugo. Kugo eyes opened wide and gasped.
Meanwhile, Dolores sat on her seat, overlooking all of the command room in the Interpol ship.
Then the transmitter buzzed.
"Constantine..." Dolores thought.
The screen turned on, and Constantine was there.
Dolores saluted to her, and said, "Everything is normal here."
"Normal ?" Constantine replied with a cold laugh.
"She survived that electrical storm ?" Constantine said.
"Belamis sustained some injury... according to our latest estimates, we can be back at the Mars base.... in another five days..." Dolores reported.
"Oh...you don't have to hurry..." Smiled Constantine.
Dolores felt anxious, but her face remained calm.
"I do not want to take chances... Fermalos forces were sighted. We could run the risk of being attacked by them the longer we are out here. It is best for us to speed up when we can." Dolores replied.
"Good thinking on your part.." Smiled Constantine.
"Thank you.." Dolores replied.
"I have a special task for you.....since you are near that spot which I needed a task to be done..." Constantine said.
"What is it you need me to do ?"
"A small thing... here's the co-ordinates for the planet. I want you to pick up something for me... When you arrived there... I will tell you... it's top secret." Constantine replied.
"Yes." Dolores replied.
Constantine signed off.
She grinned.
"Dolores... you think I will just trust you ? I have done my homework... I found out all about you - you were an officer in Lacets Legion...... under the command of Belamis..." Chuckled Constantine.
"Hope you enjoy your reunion with your beloved Captain Belamis... hahhahahahaha" Laughed Constantine.
"What ? The Interpol ship changed course again ???" Kugo gasped.
Medora noticed it, "Not another storm ??!!!!"
Belamis noticed it too. She talked to Medora in telepathy, "Medora, have you done what I just told you to do ?"
Medora replied, "Yes.... exactly as you told....Belamis....you are really kind..."
Belamis replied, "The Interpol ship changes course again.... that Constantine is pulling another trick.... have Kugo stay with you.. get Nako out with me...."
"Yes!" Medora replied.
Idina also heard their conversation in telepathy, and said, "Papa Kugo will protect us... no worries!"
Medora went over to Nako, "Go... help your mother, girl!" She patted the big cougar, and took her out to the deck of the space craft.
Nako meowed and she ran out to space, jumping to Belamis and sat on her shoulder.
Belamis smiled at the cougar.
"I wonder what Constantine is up to.." Belamis thought.
After about three hours, they saw a planet.
The Interpol ship engaged landing mode.
Dolores ordered, "Hover at the planet first..."
Soon enough, Constantine called.
"Dolores, you go out alone to the planet.... and there's the spot you should land." Said Constantine.
"Yes..." Dolores replied.
Belamis saw a small craft came out of the Interpol ship.
"It's Dolores.... she is going to the planet alone..." Thought Belamis.
Belamis looked at Nako, and said, "Follow the ship.... protect the woman in it!"
Nako meowed, and she dashed to the ship, following it closely.
"I smell something wrong here.... no Galaxy Union officer is supposed to venture out alone..." Belamis thought.
Dolores landed her own craft, and got off to the ground.
She was fully aware that the instructions given by Constantine was unusual. However, she could not refuse it, as Constantine had power over her, and Dolores had to obey, otherwise she would not be able to see her brother Alfred, unless she left the army without authorization, and that she would break the law, and she would land herself in prison. Dolores had no options.
"What is Constantine thinking ... why is she asking me to come to this planet in nowhere?" Dolores thought.
Then suddenly, a shot was fired at her.
Dolores dodged, and the shot barely missed her.
Dolores pulled out her gun and ran to a rock for shelter.
"Fermalos!!!" Dolores was alarmed. There were at least a dozen of them.
"That Galaxy Union officer is there!! Waste her!!" They shouted.
Then she felt a gun pointed at the back of her head.
"Hahaha..... beauty little one!" A man laughed.
Dolores turned - a Fermalos fighter pointed a gun at her.
Dolores knew she would be killed... she closed her eyes "Alfred...."
Then a roar.
Nako the cougar jumped and pinned the man down.
"What the ??" Dolores gasped.
The other men began firing.
Dolores shot back - but she was outnumbered.
"I am going to die here!!!" She thought.
Then suddenly Kugo on his Star Probe appeared.
"Stop!! You bastards!" Kugo yelled. He took out his Astrolance, and shot out Astro Thunder to the Fermalos fighters.
The Fermalos fighters were no match and they soon retreated.
"Why are you here ??" Dolores asked Kugo.
"You have to thank Belamis... first let's get out of here!" Kugo helped Dolores into his Star Probe.
"Go!!! Nako!!!" Kugo signaled the cougar.
They left the planet and soon were at the side of Belamis. The spacecraft on which Medora and Idina stayed was at their side.
Dolores looked at Belamis, and said, "How did you ..?"
Medora replied, "Dolores... you were at Lacets Legion... Belamis remembered you now..."
Dolores looked at Belamis, eyes filled with gratitude.
Belamis nodded.
Kugo continued, "Belamis remembered you...then she remember some other thing.... your boss Constantine sent you here... so that you will be killed....and then she can frame Belamis again... the same trick Queen Lacets did to kill Belamis friend..."
Belamis began, "Alfred...."
"You know about him ?" Dolores gasped.
"Belamis can hear you with her super hearing... she heard you talking to yourself!" Medora said.
Belamis nodded.
"Thanks..." Dolores said.
"We are not out of danger yet..." Kugo said.
Belamis pointed to a direction - there were four huge Fermalos ship coming.
"Constantine sent you and us here... to be killed by the Fermalos army.... Belamis knew it... so she had Nako to protect you..."
Belamis said, "Time..to fight.."
