In the past few days Shune and Netad had established a way of life onboard the Traveler. Shune had placed everybody at a station that best suited them and they all seemed happy to be able to help keep the ship running in good condition.

Shune smiled while telling her little Aquamarine egg about everything that had taken place. Shune stopped when she was done and gazed down at the egg curiously. “Aren’t you ready to hatch soon or what?” She asked. “Come on.”

A small feeling entered into Shune’s mind, but she didn’t know what it was exactly. Just then a small little click like sound ringed through the room. “Yes?” Shune asked and her door slid open.

Netad smiled at her. “They’ve just finished the job you gave to them. Would you like to see?”

Grabbing the little egg Shune leapt up and nodded to Netad. “Certainly!” She said.

They walked through the hallways slowly taking their time to say hello to those working on things. Netad finally stopped when he reached a door, which slid open as he appeared. “Here it is, the lake even has fish!” He said.

Shune couldn’t help but grin as fresh air and the songs of bird filled her ears. She looked down at the grass and at the small trees here and there. She calmly walked out further into the large room and sighed as she saw the small lake. “I’m sure that she will love it. I know I do.” She grinned down at the little egg. “See? When you hatch. This place will be all yours.”

Setting the egg down in a patch of grass next to the lake Shune went to thank Netad and all of the other’s who helped create this smaller version of the larger relaxation room. When Shune had first visited Relaxation Room 1 she had decided that there must be another one for the little egg who would soon be a wyrm. While talking with Netad Shune didn’t see the egg give a rough shake nor did she notice that it had moved itself closer to the water. Her back was turned to it and Netad was informing her of some other things that they were working on. Shune did notice a small splash and was about to check out what it was, but Netad kept her where she was.

The little Aquamarine egg though, had ended up landing itself in the small lake. A few harmless fish here and there looked at it wish mild interest while other fish fled in fear. Cracks still appeared and before the little wyrm could hatch she was swept off into a different part of the lake. Suddenly a small part of the bottom of the lake opened up for not even a second to let some water through, but not only water went out. The egg was carried off as well.

Now she spun around in a tunnel filled with water. Banging into a wall made a little wyrm pop out of her egg. She looked all around to try and take a breath of air, but didn’t see any way for that to happen. The tunnel grew larger though and as it did some of the water was now replaced with air. With a small shriek the wyrm leapt up to get some air. After getting the hang of how to move around in the tunnel while being swept along and how to get air the small Aquamarine wyrm found it quite fun, not the first thing she had planned to do when she hatched, but it didn’t seem dangerous to her so she thought she’d just have some fun. Another thought had struck her mind, how would she find Shune again? But that question was answered when she found the tunnel filling with all water again. Just as the last bit of air was pushed out of the tunnel she took a deep breath and plunged in. In the side of the lake in Relaxation Room 2 another small part of the side lake wall opened and out came the little wyrm grinning.

Quickly she floated up to the surface and gasped for air. Worn out she slowly found a way to the shore and laid herself down with her nose on the beach and her tail swishing around in the water. She closed her eyes and yawned happily wishing she had something to eat and that Shune would find her.

Shune gasped when she found that her little egg was no longer where she put it. Netad looked everywhere with her until Shune finally spotted a small figure with half of it’s body in the lake and the other half sprawled on the beach. The little thing ruffled it’s feathers and Shune ran to it as fast as her legs could carry her. “You hatched!” She cried completely unaware of what the little wyrm had just been through.

The Bishel opened her eyes and smiled at Shune while sending feelings of happiness and hunger at her bondmate. “Well.” Netad said while spotting the two. “Guess she hatched.” He bent down to look at the little wyrm. The wyrm ruffled her feathers at him and made a small faint growl like sound at him. “Guess she doesn’t like me either.”

“Dear. Netad is a friend.” Shune said sitting and peering at the wyrm. In response to what Shune had said the wyrm seemed to smile at Netad who bent closer towards her. Suddenly Netad fell over and crawled away from the Aquamarine Bishel wyrm for she had just spit water at him. Shune couldn’t help but laugh at Netad. “You have hatched.” Shune stated after she stopped laughing. “I shall name you now.”

The little wyrm seemed to immediately stop her small giggles to herself and looked at Shune seriously. “Little devil,” said Netad glaring at the wyrm. “That’s what his name should be.”

“Her.” Shune said.

“What?”

“You said, ‘That’s what his name should be.’ When she should have said, ‘That’s what her name should be.’ She is not a he.” Shune smiled. “Her. Is what you should have said. And her name is not going to be Little Devil. Her name is going to be … Eliya.”

The wyrm smiled at Shune obviously liking the name she had been given. Eliya sighed and slithered back into the water a little ways to stare at the fish hungrily. “I like Little Devil better.” Netad said which made Eliya turn towards him and look at him like he was dinner and the fish weren’t. “Uh.. Shune?”

Shune laughed and stepped into the lake. Still laughing she reached down and picked Eliya up. “Come now. You can’t eat the fish and you can’t eat Netad.” Eliya yawned at Shune. “Okay little sleepy one. Let us get you something you can eat then you can go to bed. Okay?” Eliya let out a small tired chirp in response. “Okay.”

Shune and Netad along with a few others both watched as Eliya rapidly finished eating then fell asleep right there at the table after a small yawn. “Excuse you Eliya.” Shune whispered at the wondrous little sleeping wyrm. “Tomorrow we shall speak of other things.” Shune said picking up Eliya and telling Netad goodnight for she herself was very tired as well.

The next morning Shune woke to the sounds of splashing. With her eyes still closed she flung her feet over the side of her bed. Instantly her eyes flew open and she looked at the floor of her room to find it wet. Shune looked in every direction seeing that her room was apparently flooding somehow. Getting up Shune ran to the bathroom where the sounds of splashes were coming from. “Eliya!” Shune said at the wyrm who was smiling elegantly while swimming around in the over flowing bathtub. Shune hurriedly shut off the water and looked at Eliya in shock and slight frustration. “Why?” Shune asked then sighed when she got the feeling of boredom from the wyrm. “I suppose you woke up far before me and decided to take a swim, but couldn’t find water so you search all over until finding our about a bathtub and how to make water pour into it?” Eliya gracefully nodded at Shune while sliding onto the side of the bathtub. Shune watched as Eliya gazed at her reflection shown in the water. “Guess you never took the time to learn how to turn off the water, hmm?” Eliya smiled at Shune with her eyes twinkling with that childlike playfulness. “Guess not.”

Letting out a small chirp Eliya slipped back into the water and dived down to the bottom to pick up something down there. Swimming back up she held out a small something to Shune. Shune took it from Eliya and found it to be a wet piece of paper. She opened it and found a stat table on it. “Your stats?” Shune asked Eliya receiving a small shrug and whistle for a response. “Aquamarine Divine.” Shune looked at it while walking over to her desk to set it there.

Quickly Shune walked back to where Eliya was. Reaching into the bathtub water she found it to be quite cold, but not extremely so. Eliya chirped frantically angry at the water disappearing right out from under her. After a while Eliya found herself sitting on the bottom of the bathtub. She looked up at Shune curiously and Shune just shook her head and smiled at her. Picking up the wyrm Shune sighed at her flooded room. “I’ll take care of that later. Right now you have to have something to eat then you can go play in RR2.” Eliya whistle at Shune in question. “You were there yesterday. Relaxation Room 2. It’s all yours.”

Shune went out her door, grabbed some food, and took it to the relaxation room with Eliya. Eliya ate quickly then hopped over to swim in the lake. Shune merely sprawled out on the grass and stared up at the white ceiling while listening to the bird songs coming out of the small speakers all around the room. There weren’t any real birds there and it was only because the first relaxation room had fish did this was too, but neither had birds. Instead they had speakers and songs of birds played into the rooms.

Eliya made sure that she didn’t go near the two holes were that would sweep her away again. After she had explored the first half of the bottom of the lake she hopped onto a large flat rock and shook her feather making small water droplets fall to the ground.

Seven days later a larger growing Eliya sat on the same rock looking out over her land. She had started speaking almost two days ago and had been learning new words constantly. Shune thought that she had been an early talker, but Eliya merely said that it was because she had gained strength quickly enough for her to talk telepathically quickly. A fish leapt out of the water and splashed back down. Eliya sighed peacefully. She was growing rapidly and she knew so, she had also taken upon calling her surroundings her land and wouldn’t let any intruders in unless they were with Shune.

Shune was currently up in the bridge merely a telepathic call away, but Eliya wasn’t in any danger and didn’t have any reason to call Shune away from her job. *A wonderful day.* Eliya said while watching the fish. Her eyes closed slightly and Eliya found herself falling asleep slowly. Recently she had spent her time thinking back to her faint memories of being with her family. She could never see any of their faces, but she knew what they were like. Her mother, she knew was a red arboreal named Gunnhild and Eliya vaguely remember spending a small amount of time with her mother until her father, a blue arboreal named Devgan, took her away. She knew of her brothers too, but not as much as her father. She wished to see them, but Eliya knew that she wouldn’t see them until the day of her Shantel. Sighing she slid into the water then to the beach and slipped up to stare at the pieces of paper that had appeared only a while ago. The Bishen Realm had apparently somehow sent them and they listed Eliya’s entire family. Her father’s parents were wild so she didn’t really know much about him, but her mother’s parents had been Amon’Ra and Keisne. So she now knew of her grandparents, but Eliya still went further back to find more about her family. Amon’Ra’s parents were wild like her father’s so Eliya stopped there with her grandmother. Instead she took a look at her grandfather’s parents. A blue marine named Athena and a green terran arboreal named Jarod. Both helpers for the Kailan, Eliya sighed wishing she could meet her great grandparents or be able to speak with them. She wished to meet all of her family and tell them of her adventures, but right now she couldn’t speak with them and she didn’t have any adventures to tell of. Eliya also sighed at thinking that her great grandparents would be too busy to speak with her. Especially Jarod for Eliya had heard of how he is always working and rarely has time to do anything he would like. It was told in the pieces of papers that she had sifted through perhaps a thousand times. *I wonder if he will have time to talk with me at my Shantel.* Eliya said to herself. *I wonder if anybody will even want to speak with me?* Eliya briefly wondered where that thought had come from and growled at it until it fled from her mind. *My father shall speak with me. I know that for sure and if nobody else speaks with me then I shall speak to them and force them to talk with me!* She decided in a quite childish manner.

Suddenly Shune came running into the room tears flooding down her face. Eliya was shocked by this and was about to ask what had happened when Shune dived into the lake shocking Eliya even more. The wyrm dived into the water like her bondmate before and swam around until she found Shune with her eyes closed swimming back and forth the lake. Suddenly Shune kicked off of the lake floor and shot towards the surface. *Shune!* Eliya called, but Shune didn’t say anything. Eliya popped her head out of the water and watched as Shune walked over to sit underneath a tree. Eliya couldn’t tell if it was merely water running down her bondmates cheeks or tears, but she then decided it must be tears for she could feel sadness emitting from Shune. *Shune. Please tell me what is wrong.* Eliya said being very mature for her young age.

“I told you about Than right?” Shune asked.

*Yes, you have.*

“He came back.”

*He did? Wonderful!*

“He’s dead.” Shune hugged her knees close to her while Eliya analyzed what had been said.

*How?* The wyrm finally asked while slithering up to her bondmate.

“I don’t know. I don’t know how it happened. He was coming into the docking bay and then I walked in and the ship had exploded and Syl’Onora kept shouting, ‘Take me too!’ Then I turned to ask Syl’Onora what had happened and he had disappeared!” Shune said in a rush then she slowly whispered, “I’m so confused.”

*Are you sure that Than is dead?*

“We have already cleaned up the docking bay. I spent two hours looking for any sign of the two, but I didn’t find anything so I ran here. I’m sorry Eliya.”

*You are sorry?! Why must you be sorry? You didn’t do anything Shune, I’m the one who is sorry. Sorry that your friends have gone from this world and that I never got the chance to meet them.*

“That’s right. I didn’t do anything. I should have gotten there sooner so I could have helped then they wouldn’t be dead! This is all my fault! Then like a little child I run here in tears to whine to you about it. What has happened to me?! I am the leader of these children on this ship. If I can’t save Than and Syl’Onora then how can I look after these children!”

*Shune!* Eliya said raising her small still childlike voice. *There was nothing you could do! What happened has happened and you cannot change it! Please do not put yourself down so. You are a good person Shune and these children all love you very much! They trust you and they know you won’t let them down just as I know that you won’t. Trust me Shune you will move onwards.*

“You are so young Eliya, but somehow you know of all of these things. If you say those things then I believe what you say.” Shune said reaching down to hug her little wyrm. “Wait.” Shune muttered her eyes dancing wildly with a ferocity that Eliya never saw in her eyes. “I can change this!”

*Shune? Stay sane on me okay? There are no ways of changing the past.*

“Eliya. You are very smart indeed, but you do not know of everything yet. I must leave to go find something.”

*Find what?*

“Ancient legends from many different planets tell of an object with power to bring back the dead.”

Eliya tilted her head at Shune. *If I’m mistaken, which I rarely am even if I am young, then there isn’t any possible way these things can be true.*

“There are many legends about these things and there are many different planets with them. One can be true can’t it? I mean the human race couldn’t find out every single thing about space and alien cultures and things like this can they? No. It would take many more years. So I believe that there must be at least something that can bring Than back. Right?”

Eliya let out a long sigh. *I don’t know, but if you want to go out there and try to get Than and Syl’Onora back rather than get these children to their new home then,…*

“No. Netad will take the children to their new home. I shall go off alone in search for this object or objects or, whatever.”

*Alone?* Eliya asks. *I think not! You are not going anywhere with out me.*

“We will take the most advanced ship we have in the docking bay.” Shune declared while Eliya went back to sit in the water and listen.

*Are there any?*

“Ships? Yes, but only a few.”

*Wonderful. You do know that I think this plan of yours is one of the worst planned ones you’ve ever had right? And that you should really think about this before flinging yourself out into space with no directions at all? Though you must know that I shall follow you wherever you go as long as I get to go to my Shantel when it is time for me to.*

“I know I’m rushing into things, but I must. Than wasn’t supposed to die yet and neither was Syl’Onora.”

Eliya sighed. *How do you know?*

“It’s a feeling Eliya, a feeling.”

*Then let us go! Straight away!* Eliya said hopping out of the water and racing towards the door. She suddenly stopped though and turned to Shune with a frightened expression on her face. *Does any of these ships in the docking bay have a relaxation room?*

“I can make one of the bathrooms in one of the ships into a relaxation room for you.” Shune said walking towards the door while Eliya slithered.

*Wonderful! When do we leave?*

“As soon as possible for I don’t know how long this quest of ours will take us.”

*As I said before just as long as I’m able to go to my Shantel I’ll be happy.*

“Eliya? I’ve been meaning to ask you, how exactly do we get to where your Shantel is?” Shune asks picking up Eliya and walking out the door.

*I don’t know. I’m sure my great grandfather will know of how to get me to there. I’m sure he wouldn’t want one of his great grandchildren missing her Shantel.*

“Hmm. Indeed,” said Shune.

Exactly one week later Shune and Eliya were in there fairly good sized ship heading away from the Traveler. Shune’s connection with the larger ship was severed and she made a new one with the small ship that was called The Rouge. As Shune had promised she had made the second bathroom of the ship into a very small relaxation room for Eliya. It didn’t have a lake and didn’t have any trees. Instead it had a fairly good sized/deep pond and small bushes and grass. Eliya spent most of her time there with the door open to the main part of the ship where Shune sat researching everything the computer had with the phrase, ‘Bring back to life.’ Or the word resurrect or resurrection. Sighing she put in a course to a small planet which apparently had something called, ‘ The Riktosus Stone.’ Which would allow one to bring back a loved one or loved friend. So the ship sped off in that direction while Shune kept searching and Eliya floated in her small pond or looked after her miniature garden.

Over the next few days while still traveling to the small planet Eliya had taken to gardening, swimming, and trying to fly as her three main hobbies. Already the small ship had a few plants all around it and Eliya had been begging for a fountain for a long time until Shune had finally stopped at a small market and found one for her. So Eliya had her gardens, which were doing very well and had her fountain and pond. While Eliya had her gardens to work on she also had her swimming, which she enjoyed and she her 'flyings lessons' as she called them. Shune had asked her why she tried to fly and she responded, *Well why do I have feathers if I can't fly?* But Eliya found that merely having feathers doesn't mean she can fly, but still she was persistent and kept trying nonetheless. The little wyrm was very happy as she slithered to the next set of plants to spray water onto them. Since the little wyrm didn’t really have a way of watering her plants herself Shune had built small devices above each plant that would spray a mist of water onto them when Eliya pressed the on button for them to.

“Eliya?” Shune asked one day while the wyrm was pulling along her toy that she had got from the Bishen Realm for Christmas, watering her plants, and also getting watered herself. Eliya smiled as the mist went on her as well as her plants, but frowned when it got on her pull-toy that she loved.