DIJIN NATAS - THE CYDONIAN ADVENTURES PART 2 - Dragon Flight
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Dijin had been walking three days after his village was destroyed, and the tyrant Catalyst killed his family. The sun beat down on his body and drowned him in the Cydonian Desert heat. He looked up at the sun while he slowly wandered through the sand like a baby sea turtle trying to get to the ocean waters. His clothes are covered in mud, and reeks of sewage, and blood. His face slightly cut up, and dirty. Dijin wondered if he would ever make it to the next town, which was Torv, and was only 20 miles across the vast Cydonian Desert.
"If I can make it to Torv, then I can find out where Catalyst is then I'll avenge my mother and father's deaths" Dijin says trying to give himself hope that seems to be rarity to him at the moment.
Off in the distance a low cackling and almost evil laughing of a group of drunken sand riders could be heard over the howling desert wind, which were growing fiercer by the minute.
As Dijin slowly walks through the dunes he feels as if he is being watched, but when he turns to see who or what is following him he only sees miles of endless desert. As he turns around he hears a low growling noise, then acting on instinct Dijin starts to run to the next dune.
"The winds picking up. That must be it." Dijin says as he puts his hand over his eyes to keep the sand from getting in his eyes. "Oh no." Dijin says as he looks at the top of the next sand dune and sees a group of three sand riders watching him and laughing...
"What's wrong little baby? Get lost in the desert without your mommy??!!" One of the riders shouts laughing as he grabs a bottle from his friend and drinks some of its content...
"Ya why don't you go find mommy?! Desert ain't no place for kids!" The other rider shouts as he grabs the bottle back and drinks the last of the liquid.
Dijin just stares at the riders, frozen in fright as he waits for them to make a move.
"You want a mommy kid? Try this on for size!" one of the other riders says as he grabs the empty bottle from the other rider and throws it toward Dijin, but it lands a good 10 feet from him and shatters on a half surfaced rock....
The riders start laughing as Dijin jumps back startled by the sudden shattering of the glass. Still laughing two of the riders start firing shots into the air...
"Hey guys you *hick* might wanna watch it ya know the Lux Dragons are hunt'en this time a day." One of the riders says as he pushes one of his rider buddies...
"Man you ain't no fun. No, Lux Dragon gonna come out now they've all gone to the Yari Desert to hunt Kalzoes..." One of the riders says as he puts his gun away and as he locks it into it's holster a rumbling sound starts to rise from behind the sand dune. "What's that?" The rider asks his buddies...
"I don----" One of the other riders starts to say but freezes in terror as he turn around slowly and sees the gapping jaws of a Lux Dragon start to slowly open, saliva dripping from it's open maw as it eyes the riders hungrily... "Holy Shit!" The rider shouts as he jumps off his bike and starts to run but the Lux Dragon quickly whips its head down and bites the rider just above the waist his legs still kicking wildly as the Lux Dragon swallows him in one mighty bite.
"Let's get the Hell out of here!" The other biker says to his friend as they start there sand bikes up and start to ride off. But this attracts the attention of the Lux Dragon and it follows them, reaches its mighty claw down, rips the riders from their bikes and throws them into the scorching sand and proceeds to rip them asunder.
Shaken from the shock of seeing the first man ripped asunder Dijin runs for the only remaining sand bike and leaps on and starts it trying not to turn back and watch the mighty Lux Dragon savagely rip the men apart.
"Oh man!" Dijin says as the Lux Dragon lifts its head and leaps up into the air as Dijin rides off. "No, it's following me!" Dijin shouts as he speeds over the sand dunes the Lux Dragon in close pursuit.
As Dijin watches the Lux Dragon draw closer now only a few more seconds till it will be able to reach its claw out and kill him, he closes his eyes and bites his lip hoping for a swift, clean death. Then without warning a plasma cannon shot fires through the Lux Dragon's wing causing it to shriek wildly and fly off into the air shrieking in pain and anguish.
"What was that?"Dijin asks aloud as he slows his sand bike to a halt and waits not expecting an answer but still hoping to get one
"Ya gotta watch yourself kid or your gonna end up killed." A large muscular black man says as he flies over the dune on a modified Sand bike.
"Names Tor Ternix, what's yours?" The man says as he gives Dijin a friendly smile as he holsters his gun.
"Dijin Natas." Dijin says as he looks up at the man "Thanks for saving me."
"No problem, but you shouldn't be out here in the desert. You could get killed." Tor says as he lights a cigarette. "Well I gotta go kid. Don't go get'en killed now." Tor says as he rides off towards Torv.
"hmm." Dijin says as he turns toward his bike and rummages through it until he finds a map on and looks at it... "Only 4 miles from Torv." Dijin says as he looks over the next dune and sees the fuzzy outline of a busy town. "Just another step closer." Dijin says as he starts the bike up and rides toward Torv, and toward a destiny he has no clue about, a destiny that will lead him to Earth, and his destiny to become Sailor Nomad...
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Next DIJIN NATAS - THE CYDONIAN ADVENTURES
PART 3 - Rumble In Torv
Written on 8-28-97
Modified on 6-11-98
