///The Starship Vega/// (Roleplaying)

Thea looked at Talin, apparent shame in her eyes. "At one time I was her owner, yes.. but now... She is precious to me... I only wear the title as her 'owner' to protect her should we be captured... I will be put to death... she will be given to a new owner... she may stay a slave, but at least she'll be alive..."

Thea did not flinch at his yelling and only bowed her head in respect. "I was given Risi after her old master was done with her. She was enslaved by her own people long before becoming mine. I have not once hit her, not once raised my voice in anger, or even forced her to wear the traditional attire of the slaves. Have you seen me give her even one order? I ask of her things yes, but I do just that, ask. She knows she only has to say no, and i'll admit defeat. I want you to remember something, and remember it well, human. Every being alive is slave to another, even you even now. Even the vex you see today are slave to something greater. I am slave to my own caring for your kind and the lives of everyone on this ship. I am also slave to the caring of the rest of my race, that only want peace and to be able to find something we can co-exist with. You may hate me, Talin. But No matter how much you hate me, I love you as much as I love Silivan there, Jerron and Risi." Thea then did something that no one would have expected, she reached out and touched Talin's face, kissing him lightly on his forehead. "I will protect all of you, even if it means my own destruction." When she finished speaking she walked over to Risi and placed a hand on her back for a moment, the tattoo glowing slightly. No one should have seen the tears falling down from her eyes, or the look of pain she felt, for no one would need to know the secret that she held.

Risi meanwhile, was just finishing up getting dressed, finally putting her 'US Army' shirt on after Thea had touched her back and walked over to a chair to put her head down. She was really worried about Thea, but she had been asked to watch over the others when they went to earth, and she was going to do her best for Thea's sake. Risi walked over to Talin and looked him directly into the eye, her fists clinched beside her. "Talin, If you ever speak to my best friend like that again, I will show you the true meaning of what the pain of a slave is."

All Talin could see, all that he could feel was anger at Thea, who was she to tell him that, despite his position, and despite his history of fighting that which he hated . . . that he was still a slave. But the more she talked, the more he realized what it was that pained him so much. Talin was a slave to his own fear, Fear so deep that it had taken Thea to show him what it was.

And as if she knew it, knew what had troubled him right from the start. She kissed him, right on the forehead. Talin paid no attention to Risi, his thoughts completely turned towards Thea. Tears fell down his cheeks.

Thea kept her head down on the table before her, even though she could tell that she had hit something in the human. She, however, refused to let them see her cry, so she did what anyone in her position would. She hid her face and made small snoring noses, trying to hide the truth from the room around her. It was better that they think she was exausted than them know she was crying, because the latter would have made them question the reason, and she did not wish to lie to them, nor tell them the truth.

Talin looked at Thea, understanding exactly what she was doing. If one thing where to be simuler between the vex and the human race. . . it was there feelings towards crying. The Vex, at least to Talins understanding considered tears a sign of weakness, and weakness in turn killed you. Talins eyes saw this, wiether from several years of intuition or if it was his Vex implants showing him this. . . he knew, and he had no intention of telling anyone what he saw.
Talin took one look at everyone, his face completely nutral, no feeling showing despite his argument. “ I am preparing the shuttle for take off. . . meet me there in thirty minutes. . . or I’ll go down without you.”

Risi growled at Talin and grabbed him by the shoulder. "You are not the leader of this charade, so cool your jets or i'll cool them for you. " Thea, finally done crying, looked up, her face totally neutral and looked at the two of them. "Please done fight..."

Talin turned sharply towards Rissi, his face completly void of all emotions but his hands where clenched. " Dont touch me!" Talin yelled, surpressing all emotions, all rage that had recently surficed yet again. " Im going without you! follow me and I will kill you. I've surpressed my feeling long enough!" Talin looked at Thea, and for a momment he had let her see his true self. . . lost, confussed, and scared. " Im sorry. . . "

Talin stormed out of the room, his right hand tapping a pistol holstered at his hip, he was makeing his way towards the hanger. Talin hoped no one would stop him.

Risi had by now had enough of Talin, it didn't take too much goading for her body to rip itself to peices and what dashed at the human was not a small vampire, but a large white werewolf, the tattered clothes clinging to her. She slammed herself into the human and grabbed him by his neck, her great clawed hands slowly restricting his throat. Unable to stop herself she reared back her head and then bit him on his right shoulder.

(Please note, Talin, you can say that she only bit into armor if you want to.)

Talin would not go down easily. Feeling fresh red blood running down his shoulder and a new unfamiler pain shoot through out his whole enire body. Talin did not yell, did not even grunt. He was silent though the pain he felt was enormous.

Talin desperatly reached for his pistol, the blue gun offering no resistance in it's holster. Talin flicked the gun switch, pressed the gun against Rissi's stomach and pulled the trigger. . . but nothing. Talin was desperate, he didnt want to kill her. . . but his methods for fighting always involved death. Talin clenched his fists and aimed for one of the weakest spots of any wear-wolf. The abdomin.

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Risi roared in pain and bit him again, deeper into his shoulder. Then growling she threw him away from her. She roared and crouched low, her 'humanity' all but gone at this point. Her white fur stood on end and she seemed ready to pounce.

Risi crouched low, her mind going through every movement that the human before her could make, and her own counter moves. She saw through the guise of weakness, knowing that the human had hidden abilities that she could not account for. as he spoke she started to chuckle, the sound rough and heavy. "Difference between me and Vex 'soldiers'. They fear death, all vex do. Me, I dont fear death. The moment you rid yourself of all fear, you become stronger than any opponent. Fear feeds doubt, doubt slows you down. Let me show you what happens when you let fear go!" She suddenly jumps towards Talin, heedless of what he could or could not do to her. In her eyes there was nothing but pure hatred for the man before her. Mid jump she extends her claws and slams right into the human, claws and teeth looking for any opening in his defenses. She was nothing more than fury incarnate, fear, doubt, all emotion swept away by the tide of anger. She hated when anyone showed fear, because it got them all killed, and she Hated this man for reminding her of one thing, that no matter how hard she tried, Thea still thought of her as a 'child' and that this man refused to see how much Thea cared about them all, and he all but spit in the face of the woman she cared about most. She leans in close as she attacks him to whisper to him. "Even if you survive this, you will not escape unscathed. I wont let that fear eat you from the inside and watch you kill my Thea. One way or another, that fear, that 'humanity' ends today."

Risi chuckled again and let go of the human. "So that is it then. There is the truth. It's not fear of being a slave again that drives you, it is the fear of living without emotion. Boy, the vex could never get rid of emotions fully, why do you think so slaves are killed the moment they start to realize that they can indeed feel and think for themselves? The only person blocking those 'feelings' of being human, is you. No matter though. If you dont stop the venom you wont be human for long.. although it is doubtful you'll be like silvian or jerron, being as I am half of two... Being that the vex programing is ment for humans, it may free you of your 'curse' might not though, so dont get your hopes up. If you die, well then, you're free of that existence anyway, so it doesn't matter either way. I will say this though. Whatever becomes of you, I hope you realized something in this. You are not going to be able to do what you want without consequences. And sometimes, when you piss off a wild animal, you actually will get your ass hurt." She looked down at her claws for a moment and sighed. She hated having to act cruel to people, but sometimes It was needed to help them to see what they needed to do to better themselves. In anger at herself she suddenly reached up with her claws and slashed at one of her eyes, the dark blood falling down her face. "Though It is not quite an eye for an eye, I hope this will suffice for now. When you have healed, come find me boy. If you truely wish for death after all is said and done, then i'll give it to you. For now, I head down to earth. There are some things I need to see for myself. And I grow tired of waiting on the rest of you."

Talin smiled sadly, knowing that what Risi was saying was indeed true. . . though to what extent Talin would find out later in his life. Talin stood up, stumbling and feeling rather nuacious. " I'll still be going to earth. . . that will be the last thing I hope I'll ever do. If you dont mind me saying Risi, you being there is going to ease up whatever nervesness I might obtain. . ." Vex smiled weakly. Blood still trickiling down his arm. That sight was unnatural to Talin. Most of the time his wounds would heal instantly. . . but whatever venom was running through his body was slipping easily through his veins.

"this is going to be a problem. . . "

"If you come with me, then you'd better be prepaired for one thing. Be prepaired that you will NOT be dying on that planet, that you WILL be coming home to this ship and you WILL be obeying orders."

Not even skipping a beat she let go of the rage keeping her in the beastman form and she instantly falls back into her vampire form. She was very slightly annoyed that all but her pants were ripped to shreds, but she knew that Thea most likely had a set of clothes waiting for her in the other room. She quietly placed her arms across her chest and walked back into the room, grabbed the underarmor that thea saved for her and the rest of the clothes that were left there.

Thea looked at Risi once then walked to the hall where Talin was and shook her head as she ripped off some of her shirt and wrapped up his arm. "Dont fight her again please, Talin. If you do, she may actually kill you or worse."

Talin saluted Risi, he had no intentions of dyeing while on his home planet. . . he wanted to see the truth, and going there would bring him that clarity. Talin looked at Thea and smiled weakly. "I'm not dead yet Thea, but I would gladly except it." Talin smiled again, looking at his shoulder. " Thank you for your concern though, it is appreciated."

The Vega became cloaked in a barrier that rendered it invisible, and it landed on the Earths surface undetected, making its way to a large clearing in a set of woods, north of a United States City. Silvian announced that who ever wanted to go must take with them communications device and make sure it remains hidden, and advices them to look over earths history material to come up with clothes to match the earth population. Silvian had plans to try to find the source of the Vex signal under the theory that it was a vex on earth that sent a signal for other Vex to come to earth. And perhaps some clues he could find on the other non earth habitants.

Risi nodded and took her communication's device and walked out of the ship, her mind instantly going into stealth mode, she hid the small gun that Thea had given her and jumped down a small 'cliff' slowly walking towards what she smelled was a town. Her brain was thinking of a million and one ways that things could go wrong and she mentally tried to figure out the reactions to each of them. She thought about how she wished the human was heading with her but didn't say a word out loud.

Nodded silently for a second then tried to send a mental reply but realized that him not being a vampire (yet perhaps) ment he could not hear it. "Yeah. From the smell of it, a fairly large one for this area if my information is correct for the time period and zone. I'd keep your weapons close.. you never know what we are going to run into. If we come in contact with vex, it will be you that has to get back to the ship and inform the others. I cant have you killing anyone or anything here... There is one thing though... When the time comes, I want you to follow my orders exactly. I will not explain to you what i mean right now but... you'll understand later."

Jerron watched as the ship landed and looked out the veiwport at the world around them "the worst plauge in the world and we land on the god damn nest..." he sighed as his officer reported that the alies had already left the ship and he walked to the nearest empty room with a pair of human looking clothes and took off his heavy armor and changed to his human form and put put them on and he walked out into the room where simeon was

Talin nodded his head and smiled, the small feeling of excitement briefly interring his body for just a second. “My people had a word for these settlements . . . they where called cities as the elders would say, and they clouded all light who entered.” Talins eyes flashed blue from under the black sunglasses, his mind reading of data and history as well as hacking into the government files and downloading tons and tons of information both forbidden and public, sending it back to his private holo-cub. . . all in a manner of seconds.

“Earth is highly un-protected, with both privacy and weapons on a maximum low.” Talin said out loud, puzzled. How could earth be sp defenseless, the elders told him that the humans where at the height of there days. . . but all Talin could see was a screaming desperate sign that yelled for help. . . earth was defenseless. “You order, and I will follow.”