Alpha Prime

[Andros]

Alexia:  "Hello, Dongar.  How goes the weapons making ?"

*Turning to face Brish again, she salutes she was ready*

*Alexia, then attacks, bye using her power to move objects threw the air, decided to try something new, she levitates one of the practice knives and slings it threw the air towards Brish Narrowly missing his left face, which bought her enough time to go in, Tumbles threw, and with one quick movement of her sword strikes at Brish's hands which caused his hands to go numb but also to drop his swords*

*She then walks over and smiles coyly at Brish*

[Andros]

Alexia:  "I know, I got carried away.  I think im going to be sore for awhile, *smiles*

[Rylaan Brish]

Smiling back, Rylaan answers the jest "I can understand why they would. I remember my first life Gorrin Kort. He was a head of state before the Trill unified their world. No matter what he did, there was someone there, eat, sleep, date, he couldn't go anywhere without being guarded."

Looking at the surrounding guard, Rylaan's smile stayed on his face, though not extremley confidant, Rylaan had hundreds of years of memories in dealing with guards, and knew they would not move unless ordered to by Alexia, or if he did something overtly threatening. Looking back at the beauty before him, he continues to talk "But enough about my past lives, tell me something about yourself, like what do you do when you're not training?"

[Rylaan Brish]

Thinking back through his past lives, Rylaan gathers as much information as he can about what to do and other things of importance "Heh, that's a great deed to the Trill. You see according to tradition, when a Trill Symbiote dies, it's spirit goes into the planet it died on, and eventually returns to the Symbiote pools to be born again. Saving a planet where even one symbiote died on would be considered an act of great mercy and honor." Rylaan's smile fades for a moment, while he remembers the conditions under which the Kort Symbiote died.

***** flashback******

Everything was going well. He had been accepted to the Academy, his joining was approved, and the Kort symbiote now resided within his body, merging to him becoming part of his memories and life experiances.

The procedure ended a week before he entered this ship, but he spent that week meditating on his new memories, absorbing as many as he could, merging as far as he could with his symbiote. He even performed the ritual of seperation on each lifetime to speak with them, and see what they were like. One lifetime for each day he had to wait.

Since he boarded the USS Rutledge, he expected a two day journey to sector 001, Earth, to what the humans called San Francisco. A strange name for a city, but he would love to see it, from what was rumored, there was a bridge there made completley out of Gold, though not a worthy material now, it would still have been an achievement for the people of the planet, hardening the material to the tensile strength needed to build an actual bridge.

That's when things changed. The Rutledge was called on an emergancy channel. Rylaan was getting a tour of the Bridge a the time, showing an interest in command at the time.

"cshhhhhhhhhh.... Admiral Lantry to ...... in area.... Wolf 359..... Task force..... ruins...... Borg.... assistance needed.... csshhhhhhh"

Rylaan watched the garbled message on the screen go black, and watched the captain of the ship turn to the commander "Set course 248 Mark 315 Maximum warp!"

The commander, a woman of small stature, but as Rylaan had discovered, incredible personality turns as Rylaan watches, and gives the order, but turns to her commander, and in a voice only heard by the Captain, and one or two others, "Sir..." she began. "We have civilians, and cadets en route to Star Fleet Academy... should we really be going to the Borg front?"

With a look of sheer determination, the captain turned to his commander "Liz... If the admiral needs help, we have to. Sound general quarters as we approach, and confine all non essential personel to their quarters." With that the captain looked out the view screen, while Rylaan and the other future cadets are ushered out of the bridge, and into their quarters.

Hours passed and explosions rocked the ship as evacuation orders sounded over every speaker. Rylaan ran with a group of young men and women through the devistated corridors towards the Escape pods. Debris lined the halls as they ran around them.

Suddenly an exposion rocked the ship, and debris fell across Rylaan's stomach, pinning him to the ground. It felt like nearly a ton, but the future cadets stopped and lifted it off of him after a few more explsions and one of the larger ones carryed him away from the assaulting hall.

"I can't feel my Symbiote..." Rylaan whispered as he was pushed into the escape pod.... horror over came him as it shut, and just as it fired off he screamed "I can't feel my Symbiote."

********** End flashback***********

The scars of that day still haunt Rylaan as he knows that there were no planets nearby where the Rutledge was destroyed, and where his symbiote died. Kort would never return to the spawning pools, never be reborn.

Switching quickly back to his smiling exterior, he continued explaining what was going on. "The first thing you would have to do to unlock it, is to discover the name of the Symbiote. It requires a great deal of meditation. Somewhere in the meditation you'll see the name of the symbiote within. After that you have to find out what you can about the former lives of the symbiote, and according to legend, visit seven places that were special to the symbiote, and in the final place, spend seven days meditating. The spirit will come forth, and the symbiosis will begin."

Realizing that he had been talking for nearly five minutes, Rylaan looked at his dinner companion, and smiled lightly, hoping that she understood everything about what he just said. "Do you want to be joined? It's as different an experiance as any you have ever had, and it can be disconcerting at first. I can help you cope if you want."

[Alexia]

*motions for the Katorlians and knights to clear a spot in the floor, then accepts brish's hand, but leads him to the center of the room, then gets close to him.  And starts to slow dance as the Katorlian musicians begin playing a very rythimical but romantic song*

[Simon Rajnus]

*In an aura of blue light 2 figures appear near Selmak as he was training, 1 is Captian Simon Rajnus and the other is a droid of sorts*

[Simon Rajnus]

"No, Brish.  I cant allow you to do that, I made a promise to HK47 when he came to intel, and I intend to keep it.  Your ordered not to follow your impulse to find a better positronic matrix, got it ?"

[Andros]

*Andros, Comes and finds Selmak, watching over Alexia as she trains.  Followed bye the General, and Captian Rajnus*

[Rylaan Brish]

The sudden voice in Rylaan's mind almost made him drop his lower defense sword, but recovered when he rememberd an ancient Batazed tradition that had the same effect, though it was between mated pairs. 'Telekinesis and Telepathy...' Rylaan thought, hoping whatever she did was a two way street. 'You're race becomes more impressive the more I learn, and I haven't even learned a great deal yet.'
Recovering his sword, and his stance, still waiting for Kawolsky, Rylaan continued his mental conversation, hoping she heard him 'My name is Cadet Rylaan Kort Brish. If you're interested, after Cadet Kawolsky and I have our sparing match, I would very much like to spar you, and perhaps learn a bit of your ways...' With that, Rylaan switched his stance to a blade at each side, awaiting his opponent.

[Rylaan Brish]

The swords dropping from his hands as he was about to speak to the man to his side, Rylaan retracts his hands almost comically, and yelps in surprise feeling the tingling sensation once again creep into his hands. "Those are definitly some useful abilities... next time I come here, I'll be equipped with much the same, but for now..." Rylaan states as he reaches down for his weapons, the tingling wearing off slowly "Another round?" Smiling, Rylaan gets into a different stance, one meant for countering.

[Dongar]

Walking over to where Alexia is Dongar examines her back.  

"My dear girl, you are still young but be a little more careful.  Remember your training."

[Alexia]

"Ever sense the Alliance was formed the Katorlians have been over protective just like my fathers guards are.  Only way they would hurt you really is if you tried to hurt me or if you did and succeeded." *smiles as the Katorlian waiter comes up and serves them a dish that looks almost like chicken*

"Hmmmm, well when im not training with my sword, im training to use my powers wisely, when not doing that im usually reading up on whats going on in the Universe, when not doing that im sleeping, or annoying the heck out of Selmak."

[Alexia]

"I need to talk to my people first about joining, I dont know how they would cope with me, the Daughter of a General, being joined with the very spirit of another."

*smiles as she began eating the apple pie dessert*

"Even if I did want to be joined I dont think you would be around long enough for you to help me.  When I meditate its a personal experience.  Meditating to find the very spirit of another is even more personal.  To have another spirit inside of me to be joined to me, is the utmost sacred thing, to have a spirit inside of me of a long dead trill is sacred.  Even to safe guard the spirit is an honor amoungst my people."

"Theres a legend of a Ancient order of knights that safeguarded the remains of a temple for centuries, they never left the temple, because those who resided within took spiritual form and blended so to speak with the knights."

"But its just a legend.  Are you enjoying your apple pie ?"

[Rylaan Brish]

"Well in that case. I don't know if you have dancing parlors here, but I have this holodeck program in my PADD of a beautiful spot on Earth called Paris. The views are magical, and according to the one that gave me the program, it's a very relaxing atmosphere with classical music, dancing, and just a good relaxing evening. You game?" Rylaan said, standing up, offering his hand to his beautifl companion.

[Selmak]

Selmak backing up to do something lowers to the floor before kicking up into the air and catching onto one of the branches with his tail and continue across the open air with more speed then Brish could follow before landing behind him and hitting the un prepared Brish in the middle of his back sending him crashing to the floor.


OCC: short post but will say what I wanted it to say.