Two Girls

Calian POV

"What do you think, a tank and about a group of 50 armed to the teeth is aiming at us," Ariane whispered and sighed, it is quite a disaster, isn't it. We silently proceeded forward, not at all fearing the sight in front of us, yup, not fearing anything at all. "Do we just go in, or... what?" Jill asked from beside me and my only answer is, "We'll see."

"Stop right there, Identify yourself!" A loud womanly and courageous voice alerted us as we briefly halted our tracks. I looked at Crynn and found that he is also looking at me so I shrugged and he shrugged. "We're looking for someone named Valerie Crest, we have a job for her!" Crynn said loudly over the quiet desert.

"Oh yes?! Pardon me but she's not accepting any jobs at the moment, so you can all just f*ck off!" That is very... rude, wow this world is seriously lacking in social ethics and manners. "We will overlook your misconduct because we have an offer she couldn't possibly refuse!" I finally said aloud as I can hear murmurs from the opposite side after hearing that.

"Do we have an offer?" Jill whispered in bewilderment, I nodded because we have a very valuable scroll up for an exchange. "And what is it?!" The nomadic representation questioned us in a scoff, this is getting oddly uncomfortable. Okay I must admit, I look like a fool raising an umbrella in the middle of the desert in the night.

"We heard that Miss Crest has a problem concerning her lifespan!" Now, the entire desert has moved on to a new level of complete inaudibility, except for the random breezes that moved the sand around and the tumbleweed rolling in the distance. "Come in! We'll talk!" They finally relented, that's easy enough.

So we synchronize strolled all the way to their convoy. "The danger we impose on ourselves by going to them instead of them going to us will be greater than before," Crynn tried to make a point but we've gone this far, it's either go big or go home. "We'll be fine, you have your swords, worst case, you'll just chop off someone's head," I said without humor.

We have stepped foot on their convoy right next to the big hover tank, yes it is a hover tank, technology has advanced quite far it seems with cybernetics and such, I'm not even surprised anymore by the tank. As we walked further to the center, led by 5 men with big machine guns and robotic arms.

Another two men up front carried a table and 6 chairs, three in each hand, placing them down gently on the soft sand, at least they treat their furniture with relative care. Now that they have already prepared a seat for us, we too sat down at the stiff metallic seats facing the air where two chairs are placed down, surely for our chosen local and the tribal leader.

I heard the sound an opened hatch as I looked behind me on top of the tank, a woman climbed out and jumped off before another one did the same as well. I paid as well as the rest of the team paid attention to the first woman, first. She is beautiful and exotic with slightly tanned skin, her hair is tied to a messy bun, she is wearing a jacket bearing her clan's name, cargo pants and a one piece inside? How fashion have fallen to this point, I don't understand.

Then we switched to the girl that came after and now this is a lot better. I'm not saying that the first one wasn't so pretty but if the both of them decided to enter America's Next Top Model together, i can easily assure that the judges would pick the girl after rather than the girl before. She is not as tanned, her skin is like porcelain, expensive ancient Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain.

Looks so soft, so silky smooth, her looks were exquisite, like 24 karat gold only sprinkled by Swarovski crystals and sparkling diamonds. He long flowing oriental black hair only serves to further enhance her features as it flows together with the wind, and damn her fashion is definitely the best I've seen so far.

She's wearing your typical black leather jacket, black pants and a nice black shirt with a red samurai mask on it, and oh does dark aviators, spot on. Total rocker style, and it looks good on her as well. "So? How did you find us?" The more beautiful woman asked first as they sat themselves down in front of us while everyone from the sidelines is very wary.

"You need to tell your friend Rogue to up her awareness, she didn't at all realize that her phone is gone," Crynn said as he placed the transparent phone on the table, I did not know he took the phone with him. "With the help of a hacker, and a satellite, we can easily pinpoint your location with just the phone," he spoke everything and crossed his arms, we're off to a good start.

"Netrunner," the other woman suddenly said. "Pardon?" Ariane raised her brow at the sudden word. "Netrunner, it's netrunner not hacker, no one uses the word anymore in this day and age," ah right, ehm... isn't hacker better, it's a shorter word, describes everything while netrunner is a bit... well, it's not like the profession is to run along networks right?

"Okay, I'll certainly remind her. So, let's get to business, heard you have something I want," right down, definitely business adept, this will be quick and simple. "I can give you a longer life, why ever you'd need it, I don't have the information to that," I'll just be frank as well, there I said everything I need to say.

"We haven't really introduced each other, have we. My name is V and my friend here is Aldecaldos Head, Panam Palmer."