Fragment by Paul G Swanson (me reader .txt) 📕

/> "What is this?" She asked holding the small gold orb. It was engraved with a design unlike any she had ever seen. "It's so pretty."
"I need you to do me one last favor."
"Huh?"
"I need you to give that to Tio when you think he has grown up." She knew she looked confused but tried to help it. "This'll be our little secret, ok?"
"Ok."
"Sorry to have thrown all this on you so suddenly." He knew that apologizing really wasn't enough but he at least did tell her that he was sorry.

As quickly as it came, it went. The ribbon of energy had swallowed them and spit them back out right where they were. Sarah was still standing in the door frame and Psylix was frozen in fear where he was laying. Unaware that she was holding her breath she let it out and gasped for a new one as she fell to her knees. A hand was on her shoulder as if trying to comfort her. She turned and saw Seth.
He looked as distraught as Psylix.
"Sarah. Did you experience that too?"
"Yeah, that was, horrible."
"I saw, things. Things, I wanted to forget." He told her trembling
"Me too."
"Strange."
"Yeah. I wonder what it was."
"It felt like it was feeding on our strongest emotions." He walked out to Psylix paying no mind to the ground below and helped him up. "Psylix. Yo buddy. Come back to us."
Instead he moaned and started to cry out. Instead of trying to say something comforting, he just hugged him. Seth wasn't really sure if it was going to help or not, because he did not know the circumstances, however did know he to have had lived through something either as terrible or possibly worse than he himself had.
"Is he ok?" She asked Seth when he picked him up and brought him inside.
"Yeah, but it seems we all took a heavy mental beating. He seems to have gotten the worst of it though. I'm taking him up. He needs his rest." Again heard the noise that he would have normally enjoyed. Seth grabbed slung one Psylix's arms over his back and walked him up to his cabin. "I'll check on Somie. While I'm up there."
"Here comes the rain again." Sarah looked back outside and it was indeed raining. When she looked back he was gone.
"The rain.I wonder if the sky can cry too."

* * *

The next day Psylix was sitting at the controls before anyone else had even gotten out of their bed. They slept in even though every dream they had became nightmares. The only one that hadn't woken up was Tio.
He was still laying unconscious in his bed even as they left the planet Earth far behind them. He had slightly improved however, he was sleeping more soundly, and rolling around less. This was bad. So many strange things occurred here on this planet, Psylix thought. And now they were coming back with a comatose patient that had strange abilities he was completely unaware of. He didn't like this not at all. Usually he figured, if someone this important was walking around oblivious to the power himself, someone had to be watching him. Now he was in deep, which was exactly where he didn't want to be. If a new type of human was walking around he didn't want to be anywhere near it. Normal enhanced humans were a pain in the ass, but from what he was able piece together was that Tio was a new special kind of mutt.
"I guess we are stuck with those two for a while longer." He didn't mind spending so much time with Sarah, she was gorgeous, but he didn't really enjoy all the trouble Tio was causing at the center of the stage. He restrained himself from just going downstairs and shooting the poor guy in the head and simultaneously fixing his and the one of the universes many, many problems. He wasn't going to be come a murderer. They would just have to deal with it for a while longer.

The next time Tio opened his eyes he saw hospital walls, and Sarah sitting next to him asleep. He felt so numb. So he tried to sit up and discover he had a tube down his throat. He gagged as he yanked it out. The machine next to him was beeping wildly in sync with his heart beat. It was then Sarah woke up and saw he sitting up. He felt so dazed. It was like he had just woken up from a long nap. His head hurt. It hurt so much. And that damn machine next to him was still beeping. He bashed it with his fist and it stopped after it gave its final off tone report. Running his hand through his hair he made a better note of the surroundings. The pictures on the walls, and the window behind Sarah.
"Where are we?"
"We're docked at Alpha." Noticing his disappointment, "It was the closest colony, and you were in a coma. We didn't have much of a choice."
"That's fine. I don't care." He threw his legs over the side.
"You really shouldn't stand up just yet."
"I'm fine," He told them defiently.
"You aren't fine."
"How long was I out?"
"About a month."
"Best sleep I ever got. Man, my head hurts like hell." He hopped off and landed on the cold floor. "So what'd we see in there?"
"The question is, what did you see?"
"Sorry?"
"Don't you remember anything?" He tilted his head as if thinking and cocked an eyebrow.
"Nope not a thing. Last thing I remeber was seeing the hospital. What happened?" He asked smirking.
"Are you serious?"
"The only thing I remember was too bizarre to of had been real."
"Try me."
"Sounds like you had an odd encounter too."
"So Tio, what's this thing you remember?"
"Just, this kind of light...that kind of.drew me toward it." He was finding his ability to describe was at its limits. "It was almost ethereal. This kind of ribbon, a color beyond description, and it was so bright." Her expression had changed from this quizzical look to a kind of serious hysteria. "And that's it. What's with that look?"
"So you saw it too." There was no stutter in her voice. Just the sound of certainty, no doubt. But how is that possible?
"Saw what?"
"That thing."
"What thing?" He yelled it without meaning too.
"That bright ribbon of energy. We saw it too."
"It was my dream! How could you have seen it?"
"It wasn't a dream." She told him seriously.
"Yes it was! I was standing in a green field staring at the sky when that aurora borealis thing appeared! It was most definitely a dream!" Neither Tio nor Sarah noticed when Psylix and Moumoru walked into the room. It wasn't until Psylix put a hand in front of his face that he looked to see who it was.
"Sarah, relax." Psylix motioned to Moumoru and he tried to escort Sarah outside but she grabbed to doorframe before he managed to get her all the way out. "People have premonitions all the time." Moumoru tugged on her again and she let go. "So, Tio."
"So, Psylix." he retorted.
"A lot of strange stuff happened down there. Scared the hell out of me." He pushed Tio back down onto the bed. "Scared the hell outta them too."
"I'm not quite following."
"That's cause you're hazy from such a long nap." He turned and left room swinging his tail allowing it to catch the light i shine it back into Tios eyes and said, "We'll talk later."
"What!?" He bashed the machine again and ripped the metal tabs off his body when it started to beep again. "This is just to much! I just woke up!" Instead of silencing it just got worse and let off a single high-pitched squeal. He bashed it a third, a fourth, and a final fifth time until it finally quelled. "Dammit my head hurts!"
Finally a Hospital orderly came in, to see what all the ruckus was.

"Let me go!" She screamed at Moumoru as he struggled to keep her from going back inside.
"Sarah, It ain't gonna help even if you do manage to yell him into submission." He was strong but this was ridiculous. If he had to grab her boobs to make her stop he would. He was shameless, and everyone knew it except her and Tio. "He's just in a delirious state right now. He won't be able to listen to reason right now." He told her calmly.
She was kicking him in tender spots and was just about to succumb to his last resort when Psylix came out. He eagerly let go of her and she tumbled forward. Just when he thought it was over with she kicked him one more time.
Psylix saw this a started to laugh until she stomped on his foot and called them both a jackass while she stomped off.

"You know, you ought to teach that kid how to shoot and defend himself."
"Huh?" Seth opened his eyes and looked up only to see Somie standing there. "Why?"
"I have a feeling bad times are coming for that guy." Generally when he had a hunch they followed in and found that his hunches are good ones to follow. "He may need.some shooting lessons ya know."
"He knows how to shoot."
"He does?"
"Everyone knows how to shoot. Its in his genes, because he's a human."
"Oh my, going all philosophical on me like that."
"It's not philosophy."
"Then what do you call it?"
"Common sense." He grinned and then closed his eyes again. "When, if, he gets better. That's a good idea you know."
"He's just fine now. Sarah had just marched back in here calling him a dumb ass." His ears twitched and he started laughing. "You should hear this. She's still calling him names. Wish I