Realms Of The Gods

by C. M. Kane

  Finally their jumper reached the relatively safe vicinity of the fleet once loyal to Hera. The Olympus, nor any of the other ships loyal to her, could fire upon the jumper without risking striking one of the other ships stationed silently in front of the waiting Brightmoon. Tae knew they were not out of danger, if just one of these Captains fired upon them they were toast.

  That’s when their com panel lit up again. ‘This is the Brightmoon to all surrounding battleships, if any of your fleet’s ships become weapons hot we will fire upon you immediately! We will be intercepting the approaching jumper’

  The quick response from three of the surrounding Captains was of anger. ‘We are here to help Brightmoon, our Gods have surrendered, yet you still think to fire upon us?’

  ‘Only if your weapons become active, Captain, as you may be aware our own Captain is onboard the Olympus, and given what has recently occurred between us, you will forgive us if we are not in a particularly trusting mood. I would suggest you do not test our resolve in this matter; as I have said, we will intercept the jumper, we have already adjusted our pulse cannons to her speed.’

  ‘Very well Brightmoon, she’s all yours’ came the sullen reply.

  ‘Unknown jumper, you will head to the co-ordinates I am sending you,’ said Adam with authority. ‘Failure to comply will result in your immediate destruction, as you have no doubt already heard we have adjusted our weapons to your velocity, so escape is now impossible.’

  ‘We will comply’ said Xirra changing her heading to go straight to the Brightmoon.

  ‘Olympus, this is the Brightmoon, we will have your prisoners ready for transfer as soon as possible.’

  ‘Your help is appreciated, Brightmoon, we will send a jumper to your co-ordinates straight away.

  ‘As you wish, Olympus’ replied Adam before turning off the com panel.

  Tae started laughing her head off, ‘You two are absolutely brilliant, you know that right!’

  Xirra grinned and started to decelerate the jumper heavily as they came closer to the to the Brightmoons hanger. She had slowed its forward momentum to a crawl by the time she neared the now open space doors.

  Tae turned to her grinning. ‘If we’re safe do you think I could send something to the Olympus, to thank Zeus for his lack of faith in us.’

  Xirra nodded as she slowly flew the jumper into the open space doors and the tunnel connecting them to the hanger.

  ‘The Brightmoon has continued to power up her reactors as she has been resting. Adam has her waiting to go at top speed at a moment’s notice. He has also thrown everything Brightmoon has into blocking sensor sweeps. He said it might be better if the surrounding ships had to guess at what we were capable of.’ Xirra looked across at Tae. ‘We are now inside and safe, Brightmoon is moving towards the portal as we speak, feel free to do whatever you wish Captain.’

  Tae nodded her head in appreciation of their plan, ‘No-one could have done better than you two, especially with that totally amazing bit of flying, thank you Xirra! Now let’s see what I can give our little friends over in the Garden.’

  She opened a com channel. ‘Olympus this is Jumper …Tae searched around for a name for a moment after realizing none of the Brightmoons shuttles even had a name yet, just another thing to add to the growing list of things to do she thought.

  She snorted with barely suppressed laughter as she had an idea.

  ‘This is the jumper, Snuggle Bunny,’ she bit her lip to stop from laughing, as the inner doors to the Hanger proper started to open from their waiting area.

  ‘Oh and this is Captain Tae Rames by the way. I have a message for you to give Lord Zeus as soon as the Gods finish up with their meeting’.

  Tae had quickly searched through the com panel to get what she wanted while they were waiting for the holding area to recompress and the inner doors to open.

  ‘He’s not going to like this is he?’ came the reply over the open com channel.

  Tae thought she recognized the same voice as the last time she had done a runner.

  She laughed softly, ‘probably not, but it’s funny as hell, having said that, please feel free to sneak a listen while you wait for their meeting to finish’ then she downloaded her vid just as their little jumper landed softly.

  She looked around; it felt good to be home.