Arazona Chapter 16

Chapter 16

"Hey, how's Crystal" Antonia asked Luke as he came to see her in the hospital.

"She's paralysed from the waist down. She never going to walk again" a tear rolled down his cheek,

"Oh Luke, I'm so sorry" Antonia put her arms around him, he held her close,

"The medical consultant has told her to rest. Are you ok" he asked

"Yes, I'm just waiting on my discharge papers"

"Thank god your all right, I don't know what I would have done if you weren't" he held her even tighter

"Miss Birch, here are your discharge papers, you can go home now" the assistant medical consultant handed Antonia a pink form

"Thank you. Come on lets go it's been a long horrible day"

"Sure, let's go back to mine" Luke took her hand and led her out of the building.

"We almost had her, almost" Seraphina told her husband "look at what she has done to our little girl, out beautiful little girl" Seraphina was crying

"Seffy darling we will get her I promise. Fifi will not get away with what she has done" President Homestead told his wife

"What will happen to Crystal now, what will she do when she can work again, she can't go out into the field anymore" Seraphina cried some more

"She will still run the AMF, of course it will be office based from now on. Seffy she has only lost the use of her legs, she can still do the job, anyway if I said otherwise she would probably fight me on it" President Homestead told his wife, he had sat down next to her

"Indeed" Seraphina gave a weak smile. They heard the door open and the voices of Luke and Antonia,

"Luke, how's Crystal" President Homestead asked his son as he and Seraphina walked into the hallway

"She's resting" Luke replied

"Antonia how are you" Seraphina asked, eyes all puffy

"I'm fine thank you Seraphina"

"How was it, fighting the Krygon General for the first time" President Homestead asked her

"He's strong, but not strong enough, he's no match for me" Antonia told them

"Good. Get some sleep both of you"

Luke and Antonia turned to walk up the stairs, they stopped, Luke turned back to his Father

"I put The Cuff on Fifi's wrist" he said

"Really" Seraphina replied quickly

"Yes" they smiled at each other before heading to bed.

Maybelle and Coby lied in each other's arms, there wasn't much else to do  on bored the pod except wait, before long they were approaching Astrith,

"We're here Coby told her

"Great" Maybelle replied

They soon landed and where taken to the Asthrithian Emperor

"All this time you have been alive, held captive"

"Yes my lord, but now I have escaped" Coby replied to the Emperor "My lord please we have a situation.."

"Coby, how is it you have survived all this time, I can see they have tortured you, but you are the first I know off to escape them"

"Well you always said five years ago I'm the best solder in Astrith also I guess I'm just lucky"

"This is true"

"Also the Krygons don't know all the hiding places on their ship"

The Emperor smiled knowing Coby would have always found a way of surviving,

"Now tell me of this situation we have" the Emperor asked. Coby told him about the attack on Arizona and how they have been betrayed by one of their own,

"We have to help them my lord, they can't face their army on their own" Coby finished, the Emperor paced up and down looking at Coby

"You are right Coby, they can't face them on their own, no one can"

"We have to help them" Coby insisted "we have had an alliance with them for 30 years please don't break that now"

"I don't intend to" the Emperor told him "we will help them, the Homesteads are now good friends, I have already got an army ready to go"

"Really, how did you know what was going on" Coby asked

"President Homestead left the last Senate meeting because of it, the army will leave in the morning"

"Really, thank you my lord" Maybelle stepped forwards

"And you are" the Emperor asked

"Maybelle my lord"

"An Arizonian"

"Yes my lord, Coby rescued me from the Krygon ship"

"You do know the only way to defeat a Krygon army don't you, either destroy the whole army or.."

"Kill the Krygon General" Maybelle finished the Emperor's sentence

"Exactly. We will help, as I know your planet would do the same for us, we may have been enemies once but I am glad we are now allies" he turned to walk away

"My friend Antonia will kill the Krygon General you know" Maybelle called out. The Emperor turned to face her

"And how does your friend intend to do this" he asked

"She's Difinity"

There was gasps and muttering around the Great Hall, the Emperor look stunned but smiled, he knew it was about time the next Difinity raised up.

      "Your Emperor's a bit formal isn't he" Maybelle stated as Coby led her down a hallway of a building not far from the Emperor's palace

"Yes he is, he's always been like that, so his whole family, ah here we are" Coby stopped outside a door and opened it "this is my place, sorry it's a bit of a mess, looks like my family has been here" he led Maybelle inside

"I love it" Maybelle told him looking around the living room. Coby made some room on the sofa so Maybelle could sit down, he sat next to her,

"How are you feeling" he asked

"Tired and hunger" she replied yarning

"I'm really sorry I have no food in" he told her

"It's ok, it's not your fault" she leaned in and kissed him, he kissed her back. They were interrupted by a knock at the door,

"Hold that thought" Coby whispered, he went to answer the door

"Coby it’s true, your alive" a woman threw herself at him and held him close "look at what they've done to you"

"Mother" Coby hugged her back

"I thought I would never see you again, I can't believe you're actually here, I've missed you so much" she was crying into his shoulder

"Coby your back" Another woman much younger than Coby's mother came through the door

"Nerar" Coby greeted her

"Little brother, I knew you would come back alive" another woman with a baby bump walked in next, all three women wore long floor length dresses,

"Niko, what, your having a baby" Coby said surprised

"Yes I am, oh Mother will you stop crying, Coby's fine just like Nerar and me said he would be, a bit worse for wear though, seriously what have those beasts done to you" she handed her Mother a tissue

"Oh I know, I'm just so grateful he's home"

"5 years we've put up with this, never doubt my Psychic abilities" Niko put a basket on the kitchen counter

"I never do Niko and I was tortured" Coby told his sister

"Oh you poor thing, come here" Niko gave him a hug. Coby shut the door and smiled at Maybelle

"Oh who's this" Nerar asked approaching Maybelle

"I'm Maybelle" she stood up

"Hi nice to meet you, I'm Nerar, Coby's little sister. We've brought plenty of food so I hope you're hungry. Coby is Maybelle your girlfriend" Nerar asked. Coby looked at Maybelle who smiled

"Yes she is" he replied

"Well welcome to Astrith, Arizonian aren't you" Niko asked

"Yes how can you tell" Maybelle asked

"The spirits sold me Coby would return with an Arizonian"

"Sprites" Maybelle asked confused

"Niko's a Psychic" Nerar told her "and a pretty dame good one, come sit at the table and tell us all about yourself" she offered Maybelle a chair

"Get this thing off me" Fifi snapped, one of the Krygons tried to take The Cuff off her wrist, he tried everything, he even tried to saw it off with his sword, but it wouldn't budge

"There is only one way to remove it" the Krygon said in a deep voice

"Don't even think about chopping my hand off" Fifi told him "where is the General" she snapped

"In the medical bay" the Krygon Pilot said. She left the bridge and made her way to the medical bay

"This stupid thing won't come off, what the hell I'm I going to do"

"If you can't see Fifi I am in the middle of being treated, go away" the Krygon General hissed, another Krygon grabbed Fifi and threw her out of the medical bay,

"My god, you can't get your way with this lot can you" she walked back to the bridge.

Antonia lied awake that night, she thought about what had happened that day and what had happened to Crystal, she got out of bed and walked over to the window and looked out of it, she signed, she was scared about what was going to happen next, about who was going to get hurt next, what if it was Luke , what if he was killed, what if Fifi got hold of him and took him away from her,

"Antonia are you ok" Luke had woken up and was stood behind her

"Hey, yes I'm fine, I was just..."

"Worrying" Luke put his arms around her

"I'm scared Luke, I have no idea what's going to happen or who is going to get hurt next, what if it's you, I would never forgive myself"

"Antonia nothing bad is going to happen to me, don't worry about me" Luke kissed her neck,

"How can I not worry, I love you so much, I'm always going to worry about you" she turned to face him

"And I'm always going to worry about you. This will all end soon I promise" he kissed her and led her back into bed,

    The next morning they all arrived at the hospital to see Crystal, Jasmine was sat with her,

"Hello darling" Jasmine greeted her daughter

"Mum what are you doing here"

"I heard what happened so I came down first thing this morning" Jasmine gave her daughter a hug, Seraphina pushed past them

"Crystal darling how are you" she lent down and gave her a kiss, Crystal was wearing a neck brace

"I'm ok. My back hurts though, I'm not allowed to move my neck and I heard Physio can be really painful"

"Physio isn't that bad, my Grandma went through it after her Hover Craft accident" Antonia told her

"It will probably be a bit painful to start with" Jasmine put in

"Crystal I'm glad to see you are ok, well as ok as you can be at the moment but Antonia and I can't stay long we have a lot to do at the AMF" Luke told his sister taking her hand

"It's OK I understand, you' re running it whilst I'm out of action right"

"Of course I am, don't worry about a thing" Luke told her

"I won't. I can't believe I'm going to be office bound when I get back to work" Crystal looked at the ceiling

"It's ok we'll figure something out for you" Antonia smiled, Crystal smiled back.