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Into the Unknown	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 6761 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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One thing about this new planet was that it was so hot. From the moment Remes stepped, or rather fell unceremoniously, out of the shuttle he felt the heat. Under the blanket of the forest it was slightly cooler but not by much. The trees were huge, larger than any trees he had ever seen before. The roof of the forest spread out and intertwined with each other, branches from one tree melding into another. It was like a long network and he found it beautiful.
Because of the trees only small brush and moss, some purple flower that obviously liked the dark grew on the forest floor. The trunks of the trees were so thick at times he could have sworn that a shuttle could have flown through them. The only problem was the bugs. With the mix of dimness and heat there were two different bugs now that had tried to draw his blood. Elysia seemed to be having an even harder time as they seemed to really like her.
He moved his gaze up from the root infested ground to look up to the Asari now. She certainly was full of energy. She had not stopped since she volunteered.
Remes thought she was pretty but then he thought most Asari were born that way, like it was some natural defence. It was certainly much easier to hurt or kill a Turian or a Krogan cause they were not the most aesthetically pleasing races, but Asari, they tended to always remind you of a love lost, a sister or a mother. Most races in the Milky Way were brought up with similar morals and men not hitting women seemed to be one of them.
However there were a lot of women out there that could hold their own. He had fought beside quite a few of them on Earth.
He rarely talked to them though. The opposite sex always made him incredibly nervous. He had no idea why, he and his sister had always been extremely close and he never had problems talking to her. Of course to him, for most of his life she wasn’t a girl, she was part of the family and more of a boy then some of his friends. As a matter of fact, even though she was younger, she was able to beat up most of his friends. She had always been pretty tough.
She had died on Earth. Her unit had been in London and assigned to the main attack. The whole unit was wiped out by a single beam from a Reaper. They had never even had a body to bring home. People told some great stories about her and how she had helped them build courage and how she was a great motivational speaker but her death had been so blunt. He had tried to find some glory in it but she had never even had a fighting chance against something like that. Her death still bothered him, six and a half years later.
He had been on Earth as well and assigned in London but he had been taken out of the attack earlier when his unit had been ambushed. It had been the most intense three days of his life as he and his unit struggled to get back to some semblance of safety. They had all been injured on way or another and he and the Turians had very little food since the building on Earth really did not have a steady supply Dextro amino foods. The other non Turians in his unit had faired only slightly better.
He had been shot, three times in his lower back and, yes, buttocks while he had been trying to get a Krogan to safety. He would never forget the jokes flying rampant about him taking a bullet in the ass. It was actually the only thing that made the whole experience slightly bearable.
Elysia led the two of them, she had insisted on it. She climbed over a fairly large root and grunted as she jumped down, still favouring that left shoulder. He figured she was in more pain then she let on but he was quietly working up the nerve to ask her. Hell, they had not really talked at all since setting out.
He climbed over the root and continued to follow her trying to figure out what to say. They had made their introductions and that was about it. She looked back every now and then to make sure he was still there and marking the areas they passed. He opened his mouth a couple times to say something but would decide against it. It had been a very long hour and a half.
“So we’re you on Earth during the war?” He said finally. It was a common question these days between adults. She turned to him with a look that he could only take as annoyance. “Guess not.”
“No, I never got to go to Earth,” She said after a few moments. She didn’t offer more and Remes was kind of stuck for what to say next. He scratched the back of his neck as the two of them climbed over another large root.
“Well, I guess, uh, so you fought on Thessia?” He asked hopeful. She looked back to him with a pained expression on her face.
“No,” She said simply, and now he remembered why he didn’t talk to females, things like this always happened.
“Well, umm, ok, sorry,” He lowered his head and concentrated on where his feet were going. They walked for a little bit more and he suddenly realized that there was light peeking through the roof. He looked up and then around, the trees were gradually getting smaller and less entwined with each other. He could also, distinctly hear water, rushing water.
They both seemed to sense a change as their paced picked up a notch or two. As they came close to a clearing where the trees were much thinner he watched as the Asari moved slightly to the left of a developing path and then disappeared.
“Elysia!” he shouted and rushed forward. She had found some sort of a trap, which was alarming in itself. That meant they were not alone. He looked down into the pit to where the Asari was sprawled, and he could not help but laugh slightly.
“I am glad you find this funny,” She said up to him, obviously angered by his reaction.
“I’m sorry but did you actually look at your predicament,” He said and then pointed at the several spikes, none of which she hit. She looked around and laughed slightly herself as she realised she probably could have been killed.
“I’m sorry,” He reached down as far as she could as she got to her feet. He did notice that she did not use her left arm, he helped her climb out. “I laugh somewhat inappropriately at times when I’m stressed.”
“I see,” she said through clenched teeth.
“Yeah and you know, the crash and the strange planet, little stressful and,” he paused and looked to her. “Ok,” He said taking a breath ready to assert himself, “You need to sit down and let me see that arm, there is obviously something wrong.”
Elysia looked at him for a few minutes, obviously deciding if she was going to listen to him or not, but the pain in her shoulder was too much. “It’s my shoulder something hit it when we were crashing.”
“Well let’s take a look,” he crossed his arms over his chest
“It’s just a bruise, I’ll be ok,” she said a little bit too defensively.
“You can barely use it, you certainly can’t be much of a biotic Goddess if you can’t use your hands,” He said getting more comfortable when he realized she was a lot like his sister. She giggled slightly.
“I like that, Elysia, the Biotic Goddess, although I am sure Siari would strike me dead,” she sat down on the root they had climbed over earlier.
He moved over to help her get her arm out of the shirt without exposing her. What he saw he really didn’t like. It was not just a simple bruise, not that he was totally in sync with Asari physiology but he was more than certain that the discolouring was not normal and it was deep purple and it spread from her shoulder to her upper arm. “That really doesn’t look good. Maybe we should put it in a sling or something.”
“Maybe when we get back,” she agreed. He nodded and helped her get the shirt back on.
“It’s too bad one of us was not a Doctor, we know nothing about his planet, I do have some medigel and there were a few packs on shuttle but that won’t help a bruise.”
“Well, it’s not like we were planning for a crash.” She said and moved back to the trap she had fallen into. “Well, I would say this would mean we are not alone.”
“Yeah, but pretty primitive if you ask me, with the Reapers already being through here I’m going to guess very early evolution.”
“Should we go on until we find out who these people are?” she asked.
“We really don’t know how far that would take us. This could very easily be an old abandoned trap, the wood looks older and some of the spikes have fallen, the area was well grown over,” he moved further down the establish path, “What concerns me more than that is that the trap was made over a traveled area.”
She looked to the trap and the path and nodded, “They were trying to catch people, but obviously not us.”
“But who, and should we be worried about it?”
“Well, we should be worried about everything. We know nothing about this planet and those who may live on it,” she chuckled and snorted at her own joke even before telling it, “We could be considered a main course to these people.”
He looked to her and suddenly his shyness returned. He found the snort she made very cute and suddenly he was not talking to his sister anymore. “Umm, let’s hope not. I heard running water I think we should find it.”
“I really hope it’s cold, I could use a cool down,” she said, as they walked the sound of rushing water grew louder, “A quick swim would be great.”
“Well, I’ll let you do the swimming. The Turian method of swimming looks an awful lot like drowning,” he said and she smiled.
“It’s because you’re heavy.” She said bluntly, he couldn’t help his mandibles twitching slightly at the insinuation, even though he was not sure what the insinuation was. It just sort of sounded like an insult. “No, I mean your metallic exoskeleton is heavy which make you heavy which makes you sink as opposing light and floaty.”
“I never really thought of it, I just know I don’t do well in water,” He stated simply.
“I’m sorry if I offended you, I didn’t mean to, I just have this bad habit of saying things and not thinking them through first.”
“No offence, you’re right, we Turians tend to sink,” he said. She smiled to him as the forest finally cleared and the found themselves half way down a large water fall. It was at least twenty feet across and falling quite strong. He watched as Elysia moved to the edge of the cliff and looked down he followed but did not go quite as close. The water below was much calmer, almost serene, like an oasis. A wide river floated out from the falls back towards where the shuttle had crashed. They were about fifteen feet up from the water.
“Wow,” the Asari said, it was certainly beautiful. Remes could actually see him having a date here, not that they would go swimming, but it was romantic.
Before he could even reply a set of boots came towards him, followed by a shirt and a pair of pants. He managed to catch a boot and the shirt but the rest fell to his feet and he stared with his mouth open. Elysia stood in just her undergarments and before he could even protest she was taking a running jump.
“Elysia!” he shouted and moved to the edge on his belly, dropping all of the clothes in the process. He looked down his eyes searching as the rings from where she had hit the water were expanding. He could hear his heart pounding in his chest, “Elysia!”
He watched for what seemed like forever until the Asari came up for air. She shouted and laughed and he felt himself get slightly angry. What was she thinking, what if the water had been shallow, or what if it had a strong under current?
She was shouting something up to him but he could not hear it over the roaring of the water. He pushed away from the edge and gathered her clothes. Remes quickly found a way down and twenty minutes later he was standing beside the water, hands on his hips. She swam in close to him.
“You look like my mother,” she said.
“You gave me a heart attack, what…”
“Everything was fine,” She said treading water, “it’s a perfect temperature. You know, not too cold to run into and once you’re in you don’t want to get out. You should at least wade, get your feet wet, oh and its fresh water so we can boil it and drink it.”
He looked to her and decided not to point out the dextro thing, there were still supplies in the shuttle he and his father would be able to use.
“I’ll be ok over here,” he said still standing with his hands on his hip. He was still trying to calm himself. He would have lectured her except he had done some pretty stupid stunts when he was younger. He was not sure how old she was, because all Asari looked the same to him, but it was becoming more obvious that she was pretty young. He placed her clothes down near the shore and moved over to a rock beside the water, he could not help but wonder what the water would feel like. She swam closer to him.
“Everything is so large here,” she pointed out. It had been a passing thought in his mind earlier, but he had ignored it. “The trees, this water fall and even this water, it’s a lot deeper than it should be for a river, and it’s very soothing for my shoulder.”
“Maybe there are some great water creatures that live here, one’s that love to eat blue creature,” he said to her and smiled. She laughed and splashed water at him.
“You’re just jealous because you can’t swim,” she splashed him.
“I forgot my swim suit,” he smiled, “Go ahead get it out of your system and we should head back. At least we found something useful.”
She smiled and floated on her back. “I could really see setting up a home in and place like this. Right up there on the ledge I jumped off, swimming every day, lying around in the sun.”
“I don’t know,” he looked up, “It would get kind of boring don’t you think?”
When she didn’t answer he looked to the water and she was gone. He sighed and rolled his eyes and waited for her to come up for air. He decided she was a bit on the crazy side. He bit his lip as he waited. She seemed to be young and probably had very healthy lungs, but she was certainly under for a long period of time. He felt a slight knot start to form in his stomach and pulled the pistol from its magnetic holster on his hip. He stood up and looked down into the water.
Suddenly there was a cluster of bubbles from the middle of the stream and a large creature burst from it with the Asari in its maw. She had erected a barrier forcing the creature’s mouth to stay open but in doing so she was now jammed in there, now they knew why the water was deeper than usual.
It was almost like those crocodiles, a friend had told him about, on earth except a lot bigger. It was a blue green in colour and had two long rows of very sharp looking teeth. He took aim immediately and fired hitting the creature near its eye. It roared and released the Asari but then landed on her as it crashed back into the water, “Elysia!”
His eyes searched the water which was almost calm again. He wanted to go in and search for her but it would do neither of them any good. He kept the gun pointed where the creature had disappeared. Suddenly there were bubbles again and Elysia came up gulping for air. She swam quickly to the rock and Remes pulled her out. She bent over breathing heavily, trying to catch her breath.
“Are you ok?” he asked. She looked up but remained bent over puffing.
“It came, from nowhere,” she managed to huff out.
“It had legs, we can’t stay here,” Remes reminded her, she nodded and he moved and grabbed her clothing. They moved away from the water and into the arms of the forest before they stopped long enough for Elysia to get dressed. She patted him on the shoulder.
“That was some great shooting,” she said to him, “thanks.”
“Yeah well, it was quick thinking with the biotics too.”
She looked to him for a long moment then bent down to lace her boots. “I was ninety eight when the Reapers hit Thessia. I wanted to stay and fight with my mother who was a Commando. I had already trained for the position; I know I could have fought. The Asari government had decided that all Asari under a hundred would be moved off planet.” She stood up and took a breath before continuing. “I was shipped off somewhere to preserve the Asari culture, so I missed the war.”
They looked to each other for a long moment, he realized that she had she had just revealed something pretty important to him, something that obviously still left its mark on her. No one, except his sister, had ever really confided in him before. Turians were not known for that sort of thing. He nodded. “I’m sorry,” he said and grinned slightly, “If it’s any consolation I got shot in the ass.”
She smiled and then laughed and he could not help but smile back, well as much as a Turian could. “Ok you win.” She said still laughing as they started to make their way back to the shuttle.
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