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~`-note from author: it has been brought to my attention that some of the content of this story could be offensive. So in response to that I shall give my only warning through this entire book, so listen up.
If you are elderly, infantile, take things too seriously, easily offended,  or weak stomached, I do not recommend reading this because it may or may not contain any of the following:
Simi strong language, violence, mild literary gore, things that make no sense, reference to things that you have no idea about, and intense dialogue scenes.
Thank you for your patience. Now without further a du` , I give you chapter three (which is now 140% longer XD) -`~

The crew had trouble keeping pace; the captain they all feared now gave them more reason. His eyes dripped with blood lust, his blade sang the song of death with each foe it dismembered.   His laugh overpowered the cries of his victims. Nothing was stopping him; no one was standing their ground, which only infuriated him, driving him into a deeper frenzy
"Freeze scum bag!" a small but well armed group of guards rounded a corner guns held ready, emotion less face mask staring them down. "What are you deaf? I said freeze! Put your weapons on the ground and you hands behind you head
"I'm sorry but I don't do cold." The response was followed by the laugh track of flames dancing their way through the oxygen rich environment of artificial air. The guards didn't stand a chance, their heavy armor only melting to their skin beneath.
"Well thane, think you can handle this now? We aren't to far from the bridge and, thane are you even listening? THANE! THAAAANE!"

Night had shrouded the sky, revealing a starless sky. Tracer rounds where racing into the air, providing the only light.
A white haired humanoid was crouching behind a small wall clutching a gun blade as motor fire crashed all around and heavy rounds ate away at his cover.  "Thane! Where is our cover fire!! We are getting chewed up out here!! "
"Sorry there was a line at the fueling station, but worry not syax, I got you a coffee."
"Seriously? With sprinkles and stuff," he shot up from his cover as grenade landed next to him, and began running for the remains of a what was a high class house, "you really shouldn't have, with my cholesterol and all. Now about the cover fire?"  A cluster of missiles streaked from the night leaving spiraling tails of smoke as the crashed down into a artillery bank, sending massive wakes of fire in all directions. "Never mind, about that cover, someone beat you to it."
"Drat, and I had just fired some too. Oh well, guess I can drop you down the coffee at least," tapping a small button on the side of his helmet, he changed frequencies, hey shivs, got a bead on the sos yet?"
"Sorry, got a lot a static coming in from the battle field but it should be going way…. Any …… second now…….." massive streaks of light rained down from the heavens as H.VK.R's (high velocity kinetic round s) streaked from the orbiting gunship. "Much better found it sending you the coordinates, now."
"thanks bunches Shiva, ok got the coordinates, syax, karm, diz, fall back to the docks, I'll pick you phase two is about to begin, the full force of  owl is landing here to finish these nivys off. Prepare for in flight briefing upon arrival."
"SHIVA! Watch where you fire next time! , you messed up my hair!" syax stood on the second floor of the house, a  massive whole blasting away the stair well, along with three quarters of what was left of the house leaving him mere inches from a twenty foot deep, smoldering crater.  "Well, this is gonna hurt." He jumped. Landing with all the grace of , well whatever, race he was, he was up and rung to the next spot of cover.  "They said this is an easy mission. They said just check out the sos, well, thanks for saying it was on a fragging nivy planet!" his screaming at the sky attracted the attention of a troop behind him. "And oh yes, thank oh so much for put me on my on in the front lines, cuz you know,  it's not like I'm already on bad grounds with the nivys." The solider began sneaking up behind him.  But right as he was about to pull his combat knife out of his belt syax leveled the barrel of the blade with his head. "Grab it and your dead. I'm in a bad mood and you are going to help, right?" the solider shook his masked head vigoursly. "Good." He pulled the trigger. The splinter round dint have time to separate. The solders helmet protected him from the hundred thousand razor sharp blades, but not from the force behind them as his neck bent back with a sickening snap. "Well now that did help. Ok thane heading to rendezvous point." He looted the now dead solider grabbing a j-89n power rifle and slinging it over his shoulder; he went off at full sprint.
The comm. Chanel buzzed to life, "this is Kram here, rendezvous is clear setting up the heavy' to cover the rest of you slow pokes. Kram out"
"Diz here, on rout to extraction point, going to be coming in hot though…." As he was running a tank blew off the top part of the wall he was running behind. "Scratch that, unless I get some serious fire support I m not going anywhere." The medic switched is status to pinned, and ducked for cover as troops disembarked from the tank.
"Hey want some of this, well come and get it!" the taunt came from behind the tank as syax diverted the troopers from diz's location. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he snuck around into the tank that was left unguarded. "Well then, let's have some fun." The field medic had a smirk that did not bode well for those who were about to have "fun".
"Thane here, at the EZ, where are you?"
"Well I got a new toy, and syax is going for a run, said something about needing more exercise." The medic was laughing hysterically between bouts of yelling, "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA BOOOOM!"
"This is Grwall, genma squad fall back, you service is not needed, we have the situation under control. Now FALL BACK!"
The tank rolled up in front of the "Dragon of Gyrith". Thane was standing on the access ramp, staring at the battle tank backing into position under the choppers cargo magnet. "Ok, we are so going to need to take that back with us. But, for right now we need to go."
"Fine, wait where syax…is"
"Wasn't he with you?" the heavy gunny looked up from behind his face shield.
"krashk! Krashk!" the sound was coming from the behind the metal cargo bins piled off to the side accompanied with bouts of swearing.
The com Buzzed through from thanes heli "This is syax here, 'KRASHK!, umm could I get some help here I'm sort of lost and they are right behind me…., "he switched of the com piece attached to his ear "oh hey guys." The berserker stumbled out from the fore mentioned cargo bins, the barrel of the gun blade was glowing red from repeated use.

'snap out of it you moron, focus of the present.'
"right sorry, wait why am I sorry for you. Looks like you got to bridge just fine. Ok boys! let's rush em!!!!!!!!" he burst out of the Corner releasing a blast of fire ignititing the corpses the remains of the guard routine were using as cover. After that forcing their way into the bride was a matter of a well placed frag.
Thane marched into the bridge as if he owned it.   "Ok, now as you see we haven't killed you all, yet, which is good, for you. Now we can keep it that way if you just answer some very simple questions." The more reasonable of the two personas said as he began pace the room, playing with the blade of "surda".  "first off, have any of you heard of a person named Shirr,  as to what he looks like I can only tell you he has glowing purple eyes, and most likely some sort of army. Now keep in mind there's no wrong answers."
A brave young com officer, now with nothing to do, stood up. "I'm sorry but we haven't heard of any one by that name or description,"
"WRONG!!" thane said firing a round into his leg. "Next question, who do you work for, and don't say your selves, because, this fat excuse of a captain," I said motioning towards the captain who was sniveling over in a corner, "doest have the brains, or the balls, to pull something like this in the inner cluster."
"That would be me." The main vid screen flashed on, reviling a well groomed crop of black hair resting on the narrow face of a Fychiran, high pointed ears neatly escaping the edges of the screen. "My name is of no importance, at the moment any way, but what is, is the fact that are on my ship.
"How are you talking? The com system is down!" I said astonished.
"That it is, but the backup is intact."
"Oh is it now," I said glaring at the captain, of the ship, "well in that case I would like to offer a proposition, I would like to merge our two, companies."
"And if I refuse?"
"I'll send you little boat back to the authority of some core planet, with a tenth of the cargo on here, which is still enough to put them all away for life. And probably you too, if your captain is offered a deal."
"You make a good point, meet me in Avrias, Fychira, and bring a body guard. I will provide more instruction once you arrive, and you can keep all the cargo on that, "boat" as you put it, as a sign of good will. I look forward to seeing you soon." The screen fizzed out of existence.
"Ok all who wish to join may, except you, Mr. cowardly captain. You will have a nice little trip in an air lock." He fainted right then and there. "Somebody get that guy into an escape pod, and fire him at the nearest star, please?" two of his former crew immediately rushed to complete the task. "take he was not the best captain?" thane asked rhetorically  with a crooked smile  "Can somebody please get that poor guy a doctor," I pointed over to the man bleed all over the floor, clutching his leg, "he's bleeding all over my new ships floor."

"So, Shiva can you please explain to me exactly what it is you do?" requested the massive fur covered tygorian.
"*sigh* I'm a Special Forces counter cyber terrorist." Replied the bored brunette, playing with the blue highlight in her hair
"Now let's pretend I don't know what that is, seeing as I'm just a humble detective."
"I'm a government hacker. I find viruses aimed at important building, trace them to the source, modify them, and then give them back, charge free. Now let's get this straight. We're going to take down the largest organized crime syndicate,"
"That's what they want us to do." The Tyg replied
"a hacker, a detective and a corn dog vendor."
"Chili dogs, there is a difference you know." Replied the Fychiran, Now leaning back in a chair facing the other two.
"Excuse me, a hacker, a detective, and a 'chili dog' vendor. Why are you here anyways?"
The Fychiran sat up straight. "chili dog vendors can get places no else can." His answer only infuriated the gyrain.
"Seriously! We don't need a hil-kithiya vendor going around stinking the place up! Get out of here!"
"Fine, don't expect to get a sanitary chili dog this side of the glacian cluster any time soon." He left with a huff grabbing his little with hat.
"so." The massive feline humanoid said, slightly amused be the situation, "I take you don't like chili dogs, my I be so bold as to ask why?"
"He liked them."
"Wait who liked them."
"It's not important right now. Let's get going, I have something I want to show you." She replied quick to change the subject, grabbing her rain coat.

To those who have been to Avrias Fychira, know well that it is a truly beautiful thing to see it rain, but then again its always raing. It is reminiscent to the famous paintings of the Varian artist, lirenn heroshi. The sweeping waves on the water way separating the two sidewalks is peppered with rain drops, the over hangs of quaint cafe's creating miniature waterfalls that double as curtains to obscure the patrons  of so said café sipping stim tea and frothy beverages. The smells of Avrias are the combination of pastries mingling with wet plants, seeing as the entire city is built more or less into the surrounding trees that dominate the sky line, hiding the stars and satellites that dance through the night sky.
       Now to be exact this is not Avrias. The original Avrias was flooded hundreds of centuries before. To be honestly truthful this is the third rebuilding of the capitol city. The Fychiran eco system is prone to torrential rains, lasting up to a full cycle. And because of the location of Avrias, in the bottom of one of the great forest canyons, the water will tend to remain there, taking thousands of years to sink back into the ground. Seeing as to this problem Avrias is a now a combination of a floating city, and built upon on ruins of the ancient city.
Now if you are one of the wealthy enough residents of Avrias, you can pay to have one of the submerged ruins repaired, sealed and vented. In a nut shell have an underwater house. Now this sounds quite, ridiculous, but living underwater is the safest way to keep robbers and the like from robbing you. In light of this it is also worth mentioning that the grand celestial bank is also located on Fychira, and as you guessed it under water.
But there are many things above the water that will attract the attention of the average, less wealthy resident of the regal planet . It is also home to the most sophisticated general hospital in the known universe.  It is also the biggest hospital in the known universe, spanning the size of a small city its self, it can houses over a hundred million patients, and has living quarters for its entire staff.  It is to this destination that the chili dog hating hacker, and the over sized felinoid were heading.
"So where are we going exactly." Responded the furry giant, looking ridiculous with his rubber rain hat, but then again, no one would tell him that,.
"The hospital or, more specifically, the burn ward. You see I have taken a special interest it this case about a month or so ago, and I did some digging, it's just a luck that I have now been assigned to it. They say he's schizophrenic. What I'm going to show you is proof he isn't." they had arrived through the front gate, the floor  and ceiling both spewing  thouosand of mites, that worked their way through the air hunting down all traces of water then retreating back from whence they came, taking no more time than a couple seconds.

The grotland inter planetary shuttle landed with a resounding wush as the landing thrusters blasted all but the ground underneath it away.
"if there's a god out there thank you!" said the first passenger as he dashed out the barely open hatch, his hands together, face towards the sky, ignoring the rain.
"oh stop your over reacting," said the read haired pilot, as he step out of the shuttle, the rain becoming steam right before it hit his black suit jacket, "there was easily three centimeters of space between those freighters as I cleared it, now that odd guy said he would give us more instructions, but how will go about it, oh that was convenient"   a small little flying disk landed on the ground directly in front of thane. Out of it projected a blue tinted version of the man from earlier.
"I am astonished that you made it hear as fast as you did, the orbital traffic is backed up worse than my uncle Finny, but none the less you are here. Now head down to the café "du le charne" from there I will have a driver pick you up. I am looking forward to this, "business venture" Mr.?"
"Crowley, Thane d. Crowley" the pirate king responded in kind.
"Well then, Mr. Crowley, I am very much looking forward to this meeting." The projection fizzed down to the small disk hovering at knees height.
"Well then shall we be of my loyal bodyguard?" thane asked.

The burn ward was had seven sub wings, one of winch was dedicated to undercover agents, or were undercover agents.
"Ok so why am I here?" asked Levi
"Every one here was looking for the same person we are." Replied the tech junky.
"Wait, all of these people is our predecessors?"
"Well just the ones who lived any ways. But that not why I brought you here.  Every kind of fire has a different finger print, a different burn signature depending on the cause of so said fire. Now each person here, they all have more or less a blank finger print."
"So, you mean that there is no cause of the fire, just fire? That doesn't make sense."
"Exactly! The fire just appeared; no source no fuel, just fire. Now what can possibly do that?"
"Maybe spontaius combustion, but they would be burned from the inside out. That and the chances of that happening to every single one of these people at the same time, that's impossible. Unless I wasn't looking at the evidence I WOULD say that its impossible"
"Again you are correct, my furry friend. But only to a degree. Tell me have you ever heard of the Snyakes?"
"Only in rumors at bars. But there just myths."
"Interesting, just a myth. Tell me dose this look like just a myth?" she said as she snapped her fingers. A bright blue glow emanated from between here index finger and thumb. Gradually the glow became brighter and elongated pointing up wards. Snapping her fingers again the glow vanished, "now, how mythical was that?"
"Wait, you mean everything I've heard about them is true?"
"No probably not. But I will tell you what is true; they came from a planet very, very far from here. They are stuck in the form of energy called wapo'z. Now wapo'z is billions of cycles beyond our understanding, but what I do know about it is that its everywhere, in everything, and well every one. Over the millennium it has been know by many different names. Magic and luck being the most common. Any ways, they, the Snyakes that is, are stuck in the form of wapo'z. As such they can't live without a host. In turn for being a host a person will benefit from an abnormally long life, immunity to almost every sickness, except for the common cold, heals at amazing rates, and has interesting and odd abilities. I  don't known how these work, but what is know is that they tend to reflect to hosts personality.
"Now the Snyakes are now all on girth, my home planet, and the majority are still waiting for a host. Now that is an operation that, while relatively simple, has a lot of work put into it. Mainly to avoid massive insanity, and other problems, it takes years for a host and Snyake to merge. From  the "gingerbread mans" profile it sounds like he, or she, has a Snyake, not to mention one that he, or she, is not compatible with."
"Ok let me get this straight" said the detective as he was trying to comprehend all this, "you mean to tell me that this guy has super powers, an ancient entity in his head, and practically immortal!?! So I hope you have an idea of how we can stop him."

"That unfortunately is where my information runs out." She said with a frown painted upon her face.
A pale faced young Fychiran ran up to the pair and saluted.
"Detective koreman, agent lockshard, I'm lieutenant  Nuwman, I have been instructed to report to you two when anything involving pirates comes up,"
"Wait, you mean we have others below us, interesting…" mused Levi scratching his chin.
"im guessing that something has home up, with your arrival and all." Stated the hacker.
"yes, we have just gotten word that 'he' is in Avrias, and we k now where 'he' is going."
"well why didn't you just say so, lead the way lieutenant."
"oh yeah! almost forgot, we got a name!"said nuwman.
"really let me guess it's something horribly fake or an obvious alias, like fire gecko, or plasma scourge."the massive cat man replied with a chuckle.
"actually this one sounds pretty legit, it Thane Crowley."
Shiva hit the ground with a resounding thud.

The body guard stood like as still as a statue as thane stirred one of the planets famous frothy drinks.
"honestly it doesn't make sense, why would they go through the trouble of writing Fychiran runes, that nobody knows mind you, when they will immediately go about ruining the master piece that was just created. And people say I make no sense. Ah well, hey what's your name any ways?"
"Hibyuas, sir, Hibyuas Heroldo. I'm from the 2nd mechanized raid force."
"Ah, wait we have a mechanized raiding force, when did that happen?"
"Back on vindirs prime I believe,"
"Oh right, vindirs, he he, that was fun. Too bad I can't go back there. Oh well." He leaned back and propped his feet on the table and took a long sip.
'Thane you do realize they are watching you right? I can't believe you are so stupid as to go to a core world. A CORE WORLD! And Fychira at that! This is practically the center of the universe that wants you dead, and loe and behold you are drinking a fraskin no fat high fructose triple shot capilatechino!'
"And your point is? This is the last place they would think to look for me, and be sides, anything that costs 45~ have to be worth it.  Oh look at that, the rides here." He stood up, leaving the half drunk drink on the table along with a card with 345~ worth of credit on it.
"Well then let's be going Hibyuas."

The limoziune was set up for the rich and famous, a massive holo screen that filled the middle of the seating area, a fully stocked mini bar, and a mirrored glass window block the view of the driver.
"Well now, this is riding in style. Don't you agree hibyuas?" thane said taking a bottle of wine and downing the whole thing in a manner of seconds. "ahhhhh, 63 purbinea, a little basey but still with good flavor."

The limousine pulled up to a small little building on the out skirts of town.
"Sir we have arrived at our destination."
"Are you sure this is the right place, I was under the impression that, our host was a tad bit more, well, rich?"
The house was all of ten feet tall and no more than equal that in width and berth
Out of the shed came the Fychiran. His tall build allowing him to get to the car in very few strides.
"Welcome, follow me if you will." Without waiting for the others to leave the car he headed back to the small, but well kept shed.

Description
~`-note from author: it has been brought to my attention that some of the content of this story could be offensive. So in response to that I shall give my only warning through this entire book, so listen up.
If you are elderly, infantile, take things too seriously, easily offended,  or weak stomached, I do not recommend reading this because it may or may not contain any of the following:
Simi strong language, violence, mild literary gore, things that make no sense, reference to things that you have no idea about, and intense dialogue scenes.
Thank you for your patience. Now without further a du` , I give you chapter three (which is now 140% longer XD) -`~

The crew had trouble keeping pace; the captain they all feared now gave them more reason. His eyes dripped with blood lust, his blade sang the song of death with each foe it dismembered.   His laugh overpowered the cries of his victims. Nothing was stopping him; no one was standing their ground, which only infuriated him, driving him into a deeper frenzy
"Freeze scum bag!" a small but well armed group of guards rounded a corner guns held ready, emotion less face mask staring them down. "What are you deaf? I said freeze! Put your weapons on the ground and you hands behind you head
"I'm sorry but I don't do cold." The response was followed by the laugh track of flames dancing their way through the oxygen rich environment of artificial air. The guards didn't stand a chance, their heavy armor only melting to their skin beneath.
"Well thane, think you can handle this now? We aren't to far from the bridge and, thane are you even listening? THANE! THAAAANE!"

Night had shrouded the sky, revealing a starless sky. Tracer rounds where racing into the air, providing the only light.
A white haired humanoid was crouching behind a small wall clutching a gun blade as motor fire crashed all around and heavy rounds ate away at his cover.  "Thane! Where is our cover fire!! We are getting chewed up out here!! "
"Sorry there was a line at the fueling station, but worry not syax, I got you a coffee."
"Seriously? With sprinkles and stuff," he shot up from his cover as grenade landed next to him, and began running for the remains of a what was a high class house, "you really shouldn't have, with my cholesterol and all. Now about the cover fire?"  A cluster of missiles streaked from the night leaving spiraling tails of smoke as the crashed down into a artillery bank, sending massive wakes of fire in all directions. "Never mind, about that cover, someone beat you to it."
"Drat, and I had just fired some too. Oh well, guess I can drop you down the coffee at least," tapping a small button on the side of his helmet, he changed frequencies, hey shivs, got a bead on the sos yet?"
"Sorry, got a lot a static coming in from the battle field but it should be going way…. Any …… second now…….." massive streaks of light rained down from the heavens as H.VK.R's (high velocity kinetic round s) streaked from the orbiting gunship. "Much better found it sending you the coordinates, now."
"thanks bunches Shiva, ok got the coordinates, syax, karm, diz, fall back to the docks, I'll pick you phase two is about to begin, the full force of  owl is landing here to finish these nivys off. Prepare for in flight briefing upon arrival."
"SHIVA! Watch where you fire next time! , you messed up my hair!" syax stood on the second floor of the house, a  massive whole blasting away the stair well, along with three quarters of what was left of the house leaving him mere inches from a twenty foot deep, smoldering crater.  "Well, this is gonna hurt." He jumped. Landing with all the grace of , well whatever, race he was, he was up and rung to the next spot of cover.  "They said this is an easy mission. They said just check out the sos, well, thanks for saying it was on a fragging nivy planet!" his screaming at the sky attracted the attention of a troop behind him. "And oh yes, thank oh so much for put me on my on in the front lines, cuz you know,  it's not like I'm already on bad grounds with the nivys." The solider began sneaking up behind him.  But right as he was about to pull his combat knife out of his belt syax leveled the barrel of the blade with his head. "Grab it and your dead. I'm in a bad mood and you are going to help, right?" the solider shook his masked head vigoursly. "Good." He pulled the trigger. The splinter round dint have time to separate. The solders helmet protected him from the hundred thousand razor sharp blades, but not from the force behind them as his neck bent back with a sickening snap. "Well now that did help. Ok thane heading to rendezvous point." He looted the now dead solider grabbing a j-89n power rifle and slinging it over his shoulder; he went off at full sprint.
The comm. Chanel buzzed to life, "this is Kram here, rendezvous is clear setting up the heavy' to cover the rest of you slow pokes. Kram out"
"Diz here, on rout to extraction point, going to be coming in hot though…." As he was running a tank blew off the top part of the wall he was running behind. "Scratch that, unless I get some serious fire support I m not going anywhere." The medic switched is status to pinned, and ducked for cover as troops disembarked from the tank.
"Hey want some of this, well come and get it!" the taunt came from behind the tank as syax diverted the troopers from diz's location. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he snuck around into the tank that was left unguarded. "Well then, let's have some fun." The field medic had a smirk that did not bode well for those who were about to have "fun".
"Thane here, at the EZ, where are you?"
"Well I got a new toy, and syax is going for a run, said something about needing more exercise." The medic was laughing hysterically between bouts of yelling, "DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA BOOOOM!"
"This is Grwall, genma squad fall back, you service is not needed, we have the situation under control. Now FALL BACK!"
The tank rolled up in front of the "Dragon of Gyrith". Thane was standing on the access ramp, staring at the battle tank backing into position under the choppers cargo magnet. "Ok, we are so going to need to take that back with us. But, for right now we need to go."
"Fine, wait where syax…is"
"Wasn't he with you?" the heavy gunny looked up from behind his face shield.
"krashk! Krashk!" the sound was coming from the behind the metal cargo bins piled off to the side accompanied with bouts of swearing.
The com Buzzed through from thanes heli "This is syax here, 'KRASHK!, umm could I get some help here I'm sort of lost and they are right behind me…., "he switched of the com piece attached to his ear "oh hey guys." The berserker stumbled out from the fore mentioned cargo bins, the barrel of the gun blade was glowing red from repeated use.

'snap out of it you moron, focus of the present.'
"right sorry, wait why am I sorry for you. Looks like you got to bridge just fine. Ok boys! let's rush em!!!!!!!!" he burst out of the Corner releasing a blast of fire ignititing the corpses the remains of the guard routine were using as cover. After that forcing their way into the bride was a matter of a well placed frag.
Thane marched into the bridge as if he owned it.   "Ok, now as you see we haven't killed you all, yet, which is good, for you. Now we can keep it that way if you just answer some very simple questions." The more reasonable of the two personas said as he began pace the room, playing with the blade of "surda".  "first off, have any of you heard of a person named Shirr,  as to what he looks like I can only tell you he has glowing purple eyes, and most likely some sort of army. Now keep in mind there's no wrong answers."
A brave young com officer, now with nothing to do, stood up. "I'm sorry but we haven't heard of any one by that name or description,"
"WRONG!!" thane said firing a round into his leg. "Next question, who do you work for, and don't say your selves, because, this fat excuse of a captain," I said motioning towards the captain who was sniveling over in a corner, "doest have the brains, or the balls, to pull something like this in the inner cluster."
"That would be me." The main vid screen flashed on, reviling a well groomed crop of black hair resting on the narrow face of a Fychiran, high pointed ears neatly escaping the edges of the screen. "My name is of no importance, at the moment any way, but what is, is the fact that are on my ship.
"How are you talking? The com system is down!" I said astonished.
"That it is, but the backup is intact."
"Oh is it now," I said glaring at the captain, of the ship, "well in that case I would like to offer a proposition, I would like to merge our two, companies."
"And if I refuse?"
"I'll send you little boat back to the authority of some core planet, with a tenth of the cargo on here, which is still enough to put them all away for life. And probably you too, if your captain is offered a deal."
"You make a good point, meet me in Avrias, Fychira, and bring a body guard. I will provide more instruction once you arrive, and you can keep all the cargo on that, "boat" as you put it, as a sign of good will. I look forward to seeing you soon." The screen fizzed out of existence.
"Ok all who wish to join may, except you, Mr. cowardly captain. You will have a nice little trip in an air lock." He fainted right then and there. "Somebody get that guy into an escape pod, and fire him at the nearest star, please?" two of his former crew immediately rushed to complete the task. "take he was not the best captain?" thane asked rhetorically  with a crooked smile  "Can somebody please get that poor guy a doctor," I pointed over to the man bleed all over the floor, clutching his leg, "he's bleeding all over my new ships floor."

"So, Shiva can you please explain to me exactly what it is you do?" requested the massive fur covered tygorian.
"*sigh* I'm a Special Forces counter cyber terrorist." Replied the bored brunette, playing with the blue highlight in her hair
"Now let's pretend I don't know what that is, seeing as I'm just a humble detective."
"I'm a government hacker. I find viruses aimed at important building, trace them to the source, modify them, and then give them back, charge free. Now let's get this straight. We're going to take down the largest organized crime syndicate,"
"That's what they want us to do." The Tyg replied
"a hacker, a detective and a corn dog vendor."
"Chili dogs, there is a difference you know." Replied the Fychiran, Now leaning back in a chair facing the other two.
"Excuse me, a hacker, a detective, and a 'chili dog' vendor. Why are you here anyways?"
The Fychiran sat up straight. "chili dog vendors can get places no else can." His answer only infuriated the gyrain.
"Seriously! We don't need a hil-kithiya vendor going around stinking the place up! Get out of here!"
"Fine, don't expect to get a sanitary chili dog this side of the glacian cluster any time soon." He left with a huff grabbing his little with hat.
"so." The massive feline humanoid said, slightly amused be the situation, "I take you don't like chili dogs, my I be so bold as to ask why?"
"He liked them."
"Wait who liked them."
"It's not important right now. Let's get going, I have something I want to show you." She replied quick to change the subject, grabbing her rain coat.

To those who have been to Avrias Fychira, know well that it is a truly beautiful thing to see it rain, but then again its always raing. It is reminiscent to the famous paintings of the Varian artist, lirenn heroshi. The sweeping waves on the water way separating the two sidewalks is peppered with rain drops, the over hangs of quaint cafe's creating miniature waterfalls that double as curtains to obscure the patrons  of so said café sipping stim tea and frothy beverages. The smells of Avrias are the combination of pastries mingling with wet plants, seeing as the entire city is built more or less into the surrounding trees that dominate the sky line, hiding the stars and satellites that dance through the night sky.
       Now to be exact this is not Avrias. The original Avrias was flooded hundreds of centuries before. To be honestly truthful this is the third rebuilding of the capitol city. The Fychiran eco system is prone to torrential rains, lasting up to a full cycle. And because of the location of Avrias, in the bottom of one of the great forest canyons, the water will tend to remain there, taking thousands of years to sink back into the ground. Seeing as to this problem Avrias is a now a combination of a floating city, and built upon on ruins of the ancient city.
Now if you are one of the wealthy enough residents of Avrias, you can pay to have one of the submerged ruins repaired, sealed and vented. In a nut shell have an underwater house. Now this sounds quite, ridiculous, but living underwater is the safest way to keep robbers and the like from robbing you. In light of this it is also worth mentioning that the grand celestial bank is also located on Fychira, and as you guessed it under water.
But there are many things above the water that will attract the attention of the average, less wealthy resident of the regal planet . It is also home to the most sophisticated general hospital in the known universe.  It is also the biggest hospital in the known universe, spanning the size of a small city its self, it can houses over a hundred million patients, and has living quarters for its entire staff.  It is to this destination that the chili dog hating hacker, and the over sized felinoid were heading.
"So where are we going exactly." Responded the furry giant, looking ridiculous with his rubber rain hat, but then again, no one would tell him that,.
"The hospital or, more specifically, the burn ward. You see I have taken a special interest it this case about a month or so ago, and I did some digging, it's just a luck that I have now been assigned to it. They say he's schizophrenic. What I'm going to show you is proof he isn't." they had arrived through the front gate, the floor  and ceiling both spewing  thouosand of mites, that worked their way through the air hunting down all traces of water then retreating back from whence they came, taking no more time than a couple seconds.

The grotland inter planetary shuttle landed with a resounding wush as the landing thrusters blasted all but the ground underneath it away.
"if there's a god out there thank you!" said the first passenger as he dashed out the barely open hatch, his hands together, face towards the sky, ignoring the rain.
"oh stop your over reacting," said the read haired pilot, as he step out of the shuttle, the rain becoming steam right before it hit his black suit jacket, "there was easily three centimeters of space between those freighters as I cleared it, now that odd guy said he would give us more instructions, but how will go about it, oh that was convenient"   a small little flying disk landed on the ground directly in front of thane. Out of it projected a blue tinted version of the man from earlier.
"I am astonished that you made it hear as fast as you did, the orbital traffic is backed up worse than my uncle Finny, but none the less you are here. Now head down to the café "du le charne" from there I will have a driver pick you up. I am looking forward to this, "business venture" Mr.?"
"Crowley, Thane d. Crowley" the pirate king responded in kind.
"Well then, Mr. Crowley, I am very much looking forward to this meeting." The projection fizzed down to the small disk hovering at knees height.
"Well then shall we be of my loyal bodyguard?" thane asked.

The burn ward was had seven sub wings, one of winch was dedicated to undercover agents, or were undercover agents.
"Ok so why am I here?" asked Levi
"Every one here was looking for the same person we are." Replied the tech junky.
"Wait, all of these people is our predecessors?"
"Well just the ones who lived any ways. But that not why I brought you here.  Every kind of fire has a different finger print, a different burn signature depending on the cause of so said fire. Now each person here, they all have more or less a blank finger print."
"So, you mean that there is no cause of the fire, just fire? That doesn't make sense."
"Exactly! The fire just appeared; no source no fuel, just fire. Now what can possibly do that?"
"Maybe spontaius combustion, but they would be burned from the inside out. That and the chances of that happening to every single one of these people at the same time, that's impossible. Unless I wasn't looking at the evidence I WOULD say that its impossible"
"Again you are correct, my furry friend. But only to a degree. Tell me have you ever heard of the Snyakes?"
"Only in rumors at bars. But there just myths."
"Interesting, just a myth. Tell me dose this look like just a myth?" she said as she snapped her fingers. A bright blue glow emanated from between here index finger and thumb. Gradually the glow became brighter and elongated pointing up wards. Snapping her fingers again the glow vanished, "now, how mythical was that?"
"Wait, you mean everything I've heard about them is true?"
"No probably not. But I will tell you what is true; they came from a planet very, very far from here. They are stuck in the form of energy called wapo'z. Now wapo'z is billions of cycles beyond our understanding, but what I do know about it is that its everywhere, in everything, and well every one. Over the millennium it has been know by many different names. Magic and luck being the most common. Any ways, they, the Snyakes that is, are stuck in the form of wapo'z. As such they can't live without a host. In turn for being a host a person will benefit from an abnormally long life, immunity to almost every sickness, except for the common cold, heals at amazing rates, and has interesting and odd abilities. I  don't known how these work, but what is know is that they tend to reflect to hosts personality.
"Now the Snyakes are now all on girth, my home planet, and the majority are still waiting for a host. Now that is an operation that, while relatively simple, has a lot of work put into it. Mainly to avoid massive insanity, and other problems, it takes years for a host and Snyake to merge. From  the "gingerbread mans" profile it sounds like he, or she, has a Snyake, not to mention one that he, or she, is not compatible with."
"Ok let me get this straight" said the detective as he was trying to comprehend all this, "you mean to tell me that this guy has super powers, an ancient entity in his head, and practically immortal!?! So I hope you have an idea of how we can stop him."

"That unfortunately is where my information runs out." She said with a frown painted upon her face.
A pale faced young Fychiran ran up to the pair and saluted.
"Detective koreman, agent lockshard, I'm lieutenant  Nuwman, I have been instructed to report to you two when anything involving pirates comes up,"
"Wait, you mean we have others below us, interesting…" mused Levi scratching his chin.
"im guessing that something has home up, with your arrival and all." Stated the hacker.
"yes, we have just gotten word that 'he' is in Avrias, and we k now where 'he' is going."
"well why didn't you just say so, lead the way lieutenant."
"oh yeah! almost forgot, we got a name!"said nuwman.
"really let me guess it's something horribly fake or an obvious alias, like fire gecko, or plasma scourge."the massive cat man replied with a chuckle.
"actually this one sounds pretty legit, it Thane Crowley."
Shiva hit the ground with a resounding thud.

The body guard stood like as still as a statue as thane stirred one of the planets famous frothy drinks.
"honestly it doesn't make sense, why would they go through the trouble of writing Fychiran runes, that nobody knows mind you, when they will immediately go about ruining the master piece that was just created. And people say I make no sense. Ah well, hey what's your name any ways?"
"Hibyuas, sir, Hibyuas Heroldo. I'm from the 2nd mechanized raid force."
"Ah, wait we have a mechanized raiding force, when did that happen?"
"Back on vindirs prime I believe,"
"Oh right, vindirs, he he, that was fun. Too bad I can't go back there. Oh well." He leaned back and propped his feet on the table and took a long sip.
'Thane you do realize they are watching you right? I can't believe you are so stupid as to go to a core world. A CORE WORLD! And Fychira at that! This is practically the center of the universe that wants you dead, and loe and behold you are drinking a fraskin no fat high fructose triple shot capilatechino!'
"And your point is? This is the last place they would think to look for me, and be sides, anything that costs 45~ have to be worth it.  Oh look at that, the rides here." He stood up, leaving the half drunk drink on the table along with a card with 345~ worth of credit on it.
"Well then let's be going Hibyuas."

The limoziune was set up for the rich and famous, a massive holo screen that filled the middle of the seating area, a fully stocked mini bar, and a mirrored glass window block the view of the driver.
"Well now, this is riding in style. Don't you agree hibyuas?" thane said taking a bottle of wine and downing the whole thing in a manner of seconds. "ahhhhh, 63 purbinea, a little basey but still with good flavor."

The limousine pulled up to a small little building on the out skirts of town.
"Sir we have arrived at our destination."
"Are you sure this is the right place, I was under the impression that, our host was a tad bit more, well, rich?"
The house was all of ten feet tall and no more than equal that in width and berth
Out of the shed came the Fychiran. His tall build allowing him to get to the car in very few strides.
"Welcome, follow me if you will." Without waiting for the others to leave the car he headed back to the small, but well kept shed.