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“Oh how rude of me Olfren, when I said ‘You might think twice about firing on a friend’ I wasn’t referring to myself!
We’re not friends, never will be!”
She was laughing almost hysterically,. “NO! I mean’t your friend ! The one I’ve come to know so well! Why don’t you take a look at the top of my shield array?! Someone you recognise ?”
Olfren ordered his visual scanners, to move in take a closer look. Top of her shield array? Uh? Seconds later he gasped “ NOOOOOOOO! There strapped to the front, at the top of the shield array, was the unmissable face, of Cistera’s father, KaColfra.
Around him he could see tubes connected into his body, the lower part of his body hidden from view?
Encased in this structure? Like some masthead figure, strapped to the front of her vessel, thrust in his face, the face of his closest, dearest friend?
Humiliated, held hostage? Probably tortured by her. Olfren looked upon his old friends face, he started to feel the tears in his eyes. So this is why his friend had vanished? Presumed killed in battle? That psycho had Cistera’s father KaColfra, taken by force no doubts in his mind, seized by some deception on her part, the treachery of someone close to him?
Now strung up encased before them.
The visual scanners had zoomed in closer.One of his Commanders gasped out loud “ He has no eyes! She has removed his eyes ! “ Isabellini’s jeering voice, resounding in his ears, she was talking to Ka Colfra? “ Say hello, to your old friend Olfren” “Olfren, Olfren is it really you ? “
Olfren froze hearing the voice of Ka Colfra, the frail trembling words, tinged with fear? “ Ka C, my old friend, what has this bitch done to you ? “ “ I am sorry Olfren, I am so sorry “ Olfren could no longer contain the tears in his eyes.
“ You have nothing to be sorry for friend.”
“Isabellini, release him to me, or suffer the consequences “ . She laughed “ Your threats are meaningless! Just a shame he can’t see !! “ A distinct sneer in her voice. Olfren looked at Ka Colfra to whisper. “Forgive me, for what I am about to do, my friend if she will not surrender you, then it is time to put you out of your pain. “
Olfren raised his voice “ On my command Loa, Solprez, Matisse, Vona, Beneste and Visha, high energy yields to the Inferno, destroy the flagship, weapons and disable her for boarding, For you the pain, will soon be over old friend, for her? I will give her ten times, a hundred times, what she had given to you, in pain. “ “FIRE”
Isabellini had been waiting as he gave the command. She had issued hers, “ READY ALL RECEIVER units “ “ Receiver units online and ready! Automatic deployment “ “ Remove the helmet covering his forehead! “ The shield slid aside covering the top of Ka Colfra’s head exposing the gems.
Too late for Olfren to realise, the deception? He had spoken, he had given the command, to FIRE! Not just on her vessel but on his old friend Ka Colfra? She knew, any attack against him and the gems would react to protect him! She smiled. “I have you now !”
As burst after burst of high energy yielded from the ships hit the ‘weak spot identified by the Visna, the Inferno’s specially designed RECEIVERS, picked it up and sucked it in. They transferred the high energy yield up and up, across the array, lighting it up, until it channelled the final YIELD, of all the ships combined weapons energy against the Inferno, through the gems on Ka Colfra’s head.
He shook violently as the gems lit up. The full force of the energy, pulsing across them, illuminating them stronger and stronger. Across the front of the Inferno, the surge from the gems? As the intensity rose and rose, until with one surge, ring after ring of energy pulsed out .
Spreading out reflected and amplified further by the intense shielding at the front of the Inferno.
Too late Olfren realised and heard his old friends voice once again for the last time. “ I’m so sorry Olfren, so sorry”
The energy wave hit his ship, like all the others, one after another, they exploded into millions of pieces, dissipated into space. Not one ship remained, as the energy wave slowly died back and the gems stopped glowing . A silence beyond all understanding, an infinity of endless space. On and on amidst the debris ? The odd piece kicking past them clattering against the bulkhead.
She stood up looked out in front of them, at the random pieces of debris and nothing else, then she lifted her head.
“QUIET “ No one dared move, as she spoke.
“Bow before me, for all I am, is, was, and ever shall be, amen. In your greatness, you created me, I am the child of their destiny, the bringer of their salvation, and their destruction, I am “ she smiled
“The one, who brings the blessing of death.”
Across the galaxies the screens flashed into life to display the news.
Almost immediately the whole scene had been played to the Commanders of the Urowq fleet and to Friel Joagrth.
He looked at the replay again and again “ She is magnificent, she is a god amongst her people. ”
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