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In Serpent's Embrace

Chapter 6: The Battle of Agam Pi

On board the Satan's Greed, Salina Valernie watched the battle unfold before her. Salina Valernie, Crime Lady of the Valernie Cartel, a powerful crime organization in the know galaxy, she had red hair, piercing green eyes that could stare into the soul. She wore her usual skintight black jump suit made from the rare astrodragon hide. Her captain's chair had the rare, spotted-stripped, hide of the nearly extinct transbeasts of Ten-Gox, draped over it. She watched as what little defenses the space station had, were being destroyed, her saboteurs did a magnificent job with sabotaging the space station. She knew she would have her enemy dead, John Raving Harker and his son, will soon be dead. The vacuum caused by their deaths will cause a break down of the Harker Criminal Empire and give way to her rise. The idea caused a smile to spread on her lips; there was nothing that was going to stop her this time. With communications cut off, no one was coming to the rescue of these helpless beings.

An alarm blared from the radar station, Salina turned to the officer there waiting for a reply from him. The station officer looked over the screen worried at what he sees.

He turned to Salina and says, "5 Quick Run-Class Patrol Cruisers and a Acclamator-Class Battlecruiser have appeared on radar." He pauses for a second to collect his thoughts then continued, "It's The Black Rage ma'am."

Salina was shocked, her rival's flagship? He has never pulled that thing out so quickly, what is so important that John is willing to send his most powerful ship so quickly?

"Ma'am, they're launching fighters!" came the radar officer's cry.

Salina turned her attention back to what is going on, "Have our fighters turn to engage Harker's forces, and have our weapons target anything that launches from the station. Cargo ships, escape pods, anything, we can't let Johnny boy get of that station." She narrowed her eyes, thinking of what John Harker wanted so bad. Then it accurse to her, a boy, according to her spies, he's been watching a boy. But what was so important about the boy that required him to risk his most prized ship. She turned to the communications officer and commanded, "Send a message to our other ships, tell them that the real battle is going to begin," then an after thought struck her, "get my personal shuttle ready, I want Johnny Boy die by my hands."

15 minutes later, 7 smaller ships appeared beside its comrade, and the battle was kicked up a notch.

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John Raving Harker Junior, raced through the corridors of the space station, every turn was a pirate of Salina's firing at every living thing in sight. His pistol drawn to protect himself from anything that tried to kill him. Besides pirates, Salina was known to release wild and dangerous animals into such events like this. Salina doesn't care who she hurts as long as she gets what she wants. John, or Junior as he is more commonly known as, raced to where his ship is hidden in one of the hangers.

In the ensuing chaos brought about by the surprise attack, caused Junior, his father, and Carol to get separated by the mass panic of beings. If that ever happened, the plan was for his father to retrieve his half brother and to meet up at the ship. Junior hopes that is what is going on as he entered the hanger. He found several dead bodies stunned across the floor.

Junior looked up and saw a creature that scares many beings, a bear-turtle. Massive, towering over any human, covered in armored plates, except for a patch of fur on his belly. They have razor sharp claws and teeth and are quicker then they look with 400 pounds of pure muscle propelling them. It looked up and snarled at Junior, it knew he was here and it wont let him get away.

It got up and bolted for Junior, Junior in return raised his pistol and shot a few bolts at it, but the thick armor plates of the beast wasn't effected by the bolts. Junior just barley had enough time to dodge the beast before it plowed him over, but in the process he lost his blaster. Junior just had enough time to turn around and see the bear-turtle come charging at him again and jump out of its way. Junior quickly reached under his jacket and pulled out a vibro-sword, a sword with a blade that vibrates at a high frequency so it could cut through most materials.

When the beast came charging at him again, Junior dogged to the left and brought the vibrating blade down to sever its left fore and hind legs. As the beast roared out in pain and couldn't move, Junior walked over to it and brought his sword down to end the bear-turtles misery. After that was done, Junior made his way to where the ship was hidden climbed into the cockpit and began the preflight checks.

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Carol was running through the corridors, making her way to the hidden ship that was to be their escape of this crumbling station. Salina's pirates everywhere she watched as poor souls fell to their blaster bolts. She tried her best to defend those who were running for their life. Just when she rounded a corner, she finds a vibro-dagger to her throat.

She was staring into the eyes of Terry Nexus, her former husband, looking at her with a content smile on his face.

"Well, well, well, look at what we have here," said Tarry as he force her up against a wall.

"I should have known that your slimy ass would have been here," Carol narrowed her eyes, "you were always good at finding your way into the services of Salina. That whore always had a tight leash on you."

"Aw, honey, you always have to be so negative," Terry, replied. He began to move the vibro-dagger from her neck to her cleavage.

"Well, not being satisfied by your little prick sort of does a lady grumpy," she smiled knowing that Terry hated that.

Anger flared on Terry's face, he pulled back the dagger to thrust it into Carol's heart, but that space was all she need. She brought her fist up quickly, knocking Tarry in the jaw. Tarry stumbled back, but recovered in time to find Carol coming toward him. He brought the dagger up to cut angular slash at her; Carol brought her blaster pistol up and blocked the dagger with the curved vibro-blades attached from the handle to the barrel of the pistol.

She then grabbed a similar pistol from her side holster and pointed it at him and fired. Terry quickly jumped out of the way, spun around and was slashing horizontally. Carol caught his arm and twisted his arm, forcing him to drop the vibro-dagger, then brought here pistols in a slashing motion and cutting his arm. Blood began to dribble out and Terry new he was in trouble now, he was unarmed and was bleeding. He quickly kicked Carol in the stomach and ran into the fleeing crowd.

Carol regained her breath, but Terry was gone by then. That wasn't her priority though, getting to the ship was more important right now.

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John Raving Harker Senior was in a rush to find his son he never seen for 16 years. He couldn't loss him again, he just couldn't, and he wouldn't know what to do if Jacob was lost to him again.

It was that witch, Salina's fault he lost Jacob, he was just in his reach, then boom, and John lost sight of him. Every corner he ran around only led to another one of Salina's pirates, and when John saw the, they didn't last long.

A explosion rocked the space station, throwing everyone to the floor and knocking everything that isn't bolted down which ever direction. John looked up from his place on the floor and saw 4 vampire-serpents; the flying poisons blood-sucking serpents came at him. John flicked his left wrist and a 2-foot vibro-blade flipped out of his mechanical arm. The first two that came at him were easily killed, on was decapitated, the other was cut in half horizontally. The other two wrapped around John's mechanical arm, one got caught in his hand, John squeezed his mechanical hand just a little and the vampire-serpent was crushed. The other was able to avoid the deadly hand, but John just smiled as he flicked his wrist again and the blade refolded into his arm, catching the serpent and killing it.

A bolt went sizzling past his head, if he had hair; he swore he would have smelled it. He looked over and saw his long time rival, Salina Valernie, her pistol pointed toward him and a smile plastered to her face.

"Long time no see, Johnny Boy," she called out to him.

"Yes, how's the leg," John replied, he's eyes narrowed.

Salina's smile turned to a frown, "It could be better, how's the eye and arm."

John smiled at the come back, "Better then ever." He then dashed down the corridor closest to him with her firing after him. John pushed himself up against the wall, waiting for her to come running after him.

After she ran around the corner, she was caught by surprise when an arm came out and close lined her. She fell on her back, then quickly recovered and was able roll out of the way before John's foot came slamming down were she was. Salina jumped up and swung her leg up to kick John in the head, but he blocked it with his left arm. He grabbed the leg with his other hand and then moved his other mechanical hand to crush it. Salina swung her other leg around kicking John's mechanical arm, making a metallic sound of two metals hitting each other. She spun out of his grasp and then back flipped three times getting into a fighting stance.

"I wont let you live this time," She declared.

"You said that the last three times and look at where we are," John replied.

A scowl spread across her face and she grabs something that was strapped to her back, she pulls out a vibro-blade 3 feet in length. John squints his eyes a little and flicks his left wrist revealing his 2-foot blade; they come at each other and locked blades. John then parried her blade to the right and tried to move in but that didn't happen, instead Salina jumped back and tried to stab at his abdomen. John quickly switched form attack to blocking and redirected the attack before another explosion shook the station and they were both flung across the floor.

From the compad on Salina's waist cam a worried voice, "Ma'am, one of our stray missiles struck the orbital correction station, the space station can't maintain orbit, you must get out of there." Salina knew her promise was broken again, she jumped up and fled through an open door and closed it behind her to prevent any pursuit.

John swore, she got away yet again, then came the voice from his own compad, "Dad get to the ship now, according to the ships instruments, the station's orbit is deteriorating, we have to leave now."

John grabbed the compad and yelled into it, "I haven't found your brother yet, I need to find him."

"Dad we will, but we wont if something happens to you, now get your ass to the ship NOW!" came his son's reply

John hung his head in defeat, he knew it was true, so he stud up and began to run to the hanger bay.

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As the space station is pulled toward the planet by the gravity-well, the battle raged on between the to criminal organizations. 2 of the ships belonging to John Harker were destroyed and one was damaged and forced to retreat. 3 of the ships owned by Salina Velernie were destroyed and 2 were damaged and immobile. Both sides suffered heavy losses and any ships leaving the space station were quickly destroyed by Salina's flagship.

Then out of no where, a hole appeared in space, 5 large ships shot out of the hole followed by 15 smaller ships. The proud 12th Fleet of the Basilisk Imperial Navy, one of the most powerful fleets in the galaxy and the model fleet of the Basilisk Imperial Navy's power and prestige. As the Basilisk ships made their way to defend any surviving civilian ships, the two pirate fleets made a run for it into deep space.

On one of the ships heading to the flagship of the 12th Fleet, was an unconscious human boy lying in a pair of protective arms. A clawed hand running through his hair, and a voice whispering to him, "I will protect you, my love."