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"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Kayden let out a bloodcurdling scream of pain that pierced right through the door of his room and echoed out into the ship. The biological mortar that he used to seal up his wound felt like a mixture of fire and acid entering his body. He used the small spatula-like item to scoop up more of the smoldering blue mortar, and pressed it into the wound on his front this time.

Kayden squinted his eyes, clenched his jaw and balled his fists as the mortar went to work. The pain would have been unbearable, save for Kayden's training.

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Kayden flashed back to a time when he was still a young boy, only 8 years of age. CRAAAAACK!! went the whip as it connected with his back, Kayden biting down on the piece of wood, grimacing in unrelenting pain. CRRAAAAACK!!

Now 12 years old, bruised and battered Kayden is sitting over top the chest of another boy. They are undergoing the Chiva, the demanding physical and mental requirements of the Clan, The Kiss of Midnight, or in the ancient language Nan-de Thangaun. Kayden levels punch after punch into the other boy's now swelling, bloodied face. SMAAACK!! SMAAACK!!

Kayden is now 16, and is undergoing his Young Blood ceremony. The leader, the current Old Blood of the clan, removes a long branding rod from a smoldering pile of the clan's blue biological mortar. The tip of the rod has the emblem of the Clan, a man crouched down with his head in his hands completely engulfed in fire. The rod glows a frightening blue, the smell of ozone lingering in the air. The Old Blood speaks some words in the old tong, "C'ntlip di Cetanu, Mei'hswei Kai'dien thin-de le'hasuan 'aloun'myin-del bpi-de gka-de hasou-de paya. H'ka-se, z'skvy-de TAREI'THWEI!!!"

He jams the rod into Kayden's bare chest, flesh burning...
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"GAAAA!! FFFFFAAAAAAAAAAKK!!!"

Kayden screams, and lets out all his fury by punching the wall as hard as he could, landing with a loud metallic THUNK, denting the metal hull in the shape of his knuckles. Trying to catch his breath, Kayden forced himself to think of something else. At least the repairs on my armor won't hurt. "Hu Hu Haa Haa." Uncontrollably trying to laugh away the pain, but he knew the pain wouldn't fully subside for at least 12 hours.

Kayden was thankful that he wouldn't have to use a thread and needle on the cloth underarmor, for the nanotech suit had already stitched itself back together. Kayden removed the plates of armor that had been pierced, he started up the plasma fusing torch, took a deep breath, concentrated on the pain, and set to work.

The Revenants' ship came into the atmosphere of New Earth, looking for a port to land at. The speed slowed and the ship landed on the docking bay of Port #3. The hatch opened and Oltu walked out, followed by Dorf and the rest of the new Revenants who stood at the open hatch of the ship alogn with the gang leader.

Oltu took a long deep breath of the crisp, clean New Earth air before speaking, "Alright, Dorf and I are going to go collect the reward purse. We want everyone to stay here while we get it. We should be back shortly and then everyone can roam freely, their pockets bulging. You," Oltu said pointing to the gang leader, "Come with us."

Oltu then looks to Dorf, "Let's go then," He said before they all walk off into the city.

Dorf and Oltu enter the busy city, buzzing with machines and bursting with the talk of the people. The streets are crowded with people as the flying cars zoom overhead. Buildings, standing at least a hundred stories tall, tower over the city, ripping into the sky. The three of them continue their walk down the street to, pushing through the people to make it to their reward.

After several minutes of walking through the crowded streets, they arrive at a very luxurious mansion, gaurded by thugs and gang members.

"You there, what is your business here?" One of the thugs asks them.

"We're here on official business. We're here to see The Boss," Oltu replies.

"What is said business?" The thug asks again.

"I think it's above your need-to-know," Oltu told the thug, "Plus we have the gang leader from Old Earth. A special request of The Boss."

"Hmm," The thug thought for a second, looking over the gang leader, "I do reconize this man. Come on in, I'll show you to his chambers."

The thug lead the three of them into the mansion and up a flight of stairs, which ended with a lavish closed door. The thug knocked and a voice was heard from the other side, telling them to enter. The thug opened the door and waved them in, closing the door behind them. The room was full of extra furniture that lined the walls of the his chambers. Comfy looking sofas on either sides with a desk at the end of the room, where The Boss sat looking over papers.

"Ah, good to see you back Oltu," The Boss said looking up from his papers at the three of them, "And with the him I see."

"Yes, it wasn't as easy of a task as we had thought it was going to be. Maybe a little more pay should be added in," Oltu told The Boss.

"Well, you're already getting the extra pay for returning him to me," The Boss said, pointing to the gang leader, "Surely, you wouldn't want more."

"But we do. We get there and are attacked by zombies. Not just a couple, but hundreds of zombies. Then gang members are trying to steal our ship with our return. Which leads up to the mechanical T-rex that almost swallow one of us whole," Oltu told The Boss as his blood began to boil.

"Wow. That does sound kind of troublesome. However, none of that is my problem," The Boss told him tossing him two decently sized bags of money, "One is for the talisman and one is for the gang leader, which both will be handed over to me now."

"How much do you value his life?" Oltu asks The Boss, before pulling out his energy dagger and holding it to the gang leader's throat, "Now, that money. We will be taking it, or I will be taking his life."

"You think I care about him?" The Boss asks, "I can easily have another person appointed to that position," The Boss said before turning around grabbing a gun from his desk, pointing it at Oltu, "Now, free him, or you die."

With Oltu's free hand he pushed it toward The Boss then to the left, forcing The Boss flying hard into the wall. He laid their unconscious as Oltu put his energy dagger away and walked over to The Boss's desk. Oltu quickly searched the desk, with no avail. He flipped a sofa, revealing a safe door that leads into the floor. Oltu placed his fingers on the door and ripped it off the hinges that held it on. Inside was a large bag of money that Oltu lifted out of the safe, sizing it up.

"Looks like we got a good find," Oltu said smiling at Dorf, before looking to the gang leader "You can stay here and make sure that any of his men aren't following us. Otherwise, I'll come back here and kill you myself."

"I don't think that we'll be able to come back to here for anymore jobs Dorf," Oltu said as they walked out of the chambers on their way back to the ship with two decent sized bags of money and one large bag of money.

Dorf and Oltu arrived back to the ship where the rest of the Revenants sat waiting for their return. They walked into the ship and divided the money up equally between all of them.

"Two things. One, we have our first job under our belt and our pockets now fuller. Two, we wont be able to get any more jobs, as Dorf and I ran into a little trouble when getting extra money for the difficulty of the mission. Don't worry though, we'll have more missions to do in time. Now head out and do what you need to do," Oltu told the group before heading to his chambers for some much need rest.

Dorf quickly stopped the men as they eagerly jumped out of the ship.

"Wait, Take these." Dorf commanded as he threw a slender silver disk to each member.

"These are your holographic receivers. Oltu and I will call you back to the ship when we get another job lined up." Dorf explained to the crew.

Dorf looked over at Oltu, glad to have work again.

"What are you going to spend your money on?" Dorf asked Oltu.

Before anybody gets far, Venom asked a question. "Does anybody here know of a good fishing hole or any decent shops I could go look at?" Just after asking this, he catches a silver disk from Dorf, who explained what they are.

As Oltu was making his way to his room Dorf asked him about his share of the money. Hmm, I don't really know, actually, Oltu thought.

"I don't know, Dorf," Oltu said turning to Dorf, "I'm a man of simple things, probably beer and food. What about you?"

"Food and Drink sound like a good place to start. Perhaps we should head to the bar. Might be able to find work there." Dorf says answering Oltu's question.

Just as he finishes responding he here's Lt Venom ask where a good fishing hole might be.

Dorf walks over to Lt Venom and pulls out a holographic map. "If you walk this way for that long and then turn and walk this amount in this direction, you should find some good fishing." Dorf explains as he points it out on the map.

Dorf looks at the rest of the crew "Anybody else want to go to the bar?"

"I would love to, Dorf, but I am in need of some much needed rest. Parital sleeping in the cockpit seats are not as comfortable," Oltu tell him, "After a bit of sleep, if you guys are still there, I'll head over and catch up with you,"

Oltu turns, once more and heads to his room.

"Thanks for showing me the map, do you know where I can get a map? I will be heading to the bar to get some food and drink, then a bait shop for bait, then on my way to some fishing." Venom then waits for Dorf and anybody else to go to the bar, Scorpius on his shoulder.

"I'm sure we can find a store that sells maps on the way to the bar." Dorf answers Lt.Venom's question. Dorf looks at his map again and finds a general goods store just around the corner.

"There's one." Dorf spots out on the map. "Let's go. Who know what else we can find there." Dorf adds, eager to spend some of his cash.

Just as he starts leaving the ship, a young human walks up to him and claims he needs 10,000 for the fuel. Dorf reaches into his pocket and hesitantly pays the boy.

"Somebody else is paying for fuel next time." Dorf calls out with a bit of anger in his voice.

"Anyway, let's get to that shop so we can get a drink already." Dorf tells Lt.Venom and anyone else who wants to join them.

"Maybe they have a decent cloak I can wear also. Alright then lets go, I would like to get to the bar soon. I wonder if they serve fish." Venom replied after hearing what Dorf said. "I could really go for some squid," Scorpius said as an afterthought.

Zip stepped in the ship fairly tired after the zombie battle. Dorf aknowledged the crew for the outstanding behavior on the field. As soon as he got inside the ship "Mr. Noodles! I need Mr. Noodles!" He bolted towards the kitchen and started boiling some water. He heard screams of someone in agony then a sudden "THUD" that sounded like someone had punched steel.

Once they got to New Earth, Zip was in awe, "I can't wait for beeeeeer" he bellowed out. Waiting for Dorf and Oltu took so long that it felt like forever before he would finally get beer.

Once they came back Dorf handed them the money and some holographic recievers for communication. "Anybody else want to go to the bar?"

"You bet your ass I would!"

Zip looked around and saw some strange looking people, he never understood the concept of a mohawk.

"Huh?" Dorf says after feeling a bump into him. He looked down and saw the man from Old Earth that he had invited to join.

"Glad to see you decided to come with us. I wasn't sure if you had with all of that confusion and fighting by the ship." Dorf explained as he put his lower left arm on his shoulder.

"Why don't you come with us? We were about to go to a shop and then to the bar." Dorf offered as he, Lt.Venom and Zip headed down the street towards the general goods store.

"Ok, I think that all who want to hit the shop first are with us, Dorf. Now lets go." After saying this, Venom then looks at Meth. "Welcome to the team, Meth."

"Nice to actually met you" Dorf answered as he shook hands with Meth.

"Let's get going then" Dorf ordered as they began walking down the street. Flying cars whizzed by as people stared at Dorf. One human drove past and threw his trash at him. "Go back to your own planet" the man yelled out his window.

Dorf simply shrugged it off, use to this treatment on New Earth.

"Alright, we can avoid those douchbags (spelling?) if you want." Lt. Venom replied, Scorpius, getting a little impatient and hungry, "Could we pick up the pace a bit here? I'm famished as it is."

Finally making it to the shop, Dorf walked inside and began looking around for any useful trinkets.

"Here's a map" Dorf calls out to Lt. Venom as he toss the small silver cube over to him.

Dorf continues to walk around as he spots a vintage 2084 hula girl dancer for the dash board of his ship.

"Perfect" Dorf yells out excited by his find. He eagerly snatches the bobble girl from the shelf and runs over to pay for.


"Well, I got what I need. You guys ready to go gt a drink?"

Venom catches the silver cube that Dorf tossed to him, and quickly glances over the clothing racks. "Kick ass! They have a black traveling cloak that is similar to that Diablo game that came in the late 1900's." He the grabs it, quickly tries it on, a perfect fit, and the briskly walks over to pay for the map and the cloak. Spotting some bait, he quickly eyes that over and snatches what he wants. Paying for the stuff, "I can't believe the store even has this!" Venom said, motioning to the cloak. The clerk just smiles and rings up the merchandise. Venom pays for it and joins Dorf at the door, and puts on the cloak.

"Finally, we are headed for some food and drink." Scorpius said once Meth got his stuff. "Sorry about that. Scorpius usually is decent to be around, except for when he gets hungry." Venom mentioned as the three exited the store.

Zip looked at two bars down the street, they were both themed. One was themed Old Western and the other was themed Old Rainforest. It was heaven, Zip dreamed about the rainforest all his life, a majority of the trees in the amazon jungle had been cut hundreds of years ago causing most rainforest animals to go extinct. Humans are 1 of 17 living primate species this day in age and its rare to see a monkey in its natural habitat on Old Earth.


"Well I'm going to the rainforest bar, anyone who wants to join me, first jagerbomb is on me!"

"Free drinks, I don't care where we go for a free drink. Rain forest it is." Dorf yelled out excited to get some tasty beverage to hit his tongue.

He, Zip, Lt.Venom and Meth all headed down the street to the Monkey Jungle Bar.

"Bar keep. Four jagerbombs to start with." Dorf barked out ready to begin some drinking.