Universe in Flames 3: Destination Oblivion by Christian Kallias

Author:Christian Kallias
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-12-05T17:00:00+00:00

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On board the Valken Chase stepped into the cockpit. Keera was sleeping, so he sat without making too much noise. They were not far from their destination now.

He felt a mixture of emotions, the very fact of being back generating good but also painful memories. Still, he longed to see his friend Daniel, and hoped he would find the courage to apologize for how he left things between them. He was now the only family left. In his heart, at least. His only real blood family member, Argos, would die soon after their next meeting; that was the only certainty within Chase’s heart and soul at the moment.

That last thought brought hate back to the center of Chase’s mind. Never before had he felt so much anger, hate and the will to kill someone. But the fact that his mind could project so much violence, imagining that moment, so much brutality, worried him for a brief instant. Perhaps all Furies had this hate hardcoded in them, he thought. Before meeting Argos, though, he never felt like that. At least not in the last ten years. He couldn’t remember anything before then anyway.

There had been some strange dreams and nightmares, in which Argos was present as well, but he didn’t appear as an enemy in these. Chase had most of these dreams before he’d even learned he had a twin brother. So he always assumed he was seeing himself in them.

Keera opened her eyes and produced a very long and noisy yawn.

“Hello, sleepyhead.”

“Hey, Chase, how long was I asleep?”

“Quite a while. We should arrive on Earth shortly.”

“Alright,” she said, still yawning. “Did you sleep as well?”

“Not so much.”

The Valken jumped out of hyperspace not far from Mars. Chase checked the sensors to assess the situation, to see if they could approach or if the battle was still raging. While the starfighter pilot in him tingled at the opportunity to engage in some dogfighting, that was not why he was here. Unless, of course, Argos was on board one of the enemy ships.

The scans revealed the battle was over. Only Earth Alliance and Obsidian ships were now in orbit. Chase activated the Valken’s engines at max burn. Soon they received a hail.

“This is Commodore Saroudis of the Earth Alliance to unknown ship. Please identify and state your intentions.”

Chase turned on video.

“Hello, Commodore.”

“Chase! It . . . it’s good to see you, boy. Wish you’d arrived earlier.”

“I know.”

“So it was true. You intervened to help Aphroditis?”

Chase nodded.

“Your powers are really impressive. How far away were you? Never mind that. Daniel just arrived on board the Iron Fire less than an hour ago. He went looking for you.”

Daniel. Of course he did.

“Can you give me a status on Aphroditis, Commodore? She’s the only reason for my visit today.” Chase cursed himself the moment he uttered the words. He didn’t need to be so cold. “But now that I’m here I’d love to have a drink with my friends as well, if that’s possible?”

“Aphroditis is fine, thanks to your intervention.

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