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Piranha - Chapter 1: Death by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha - Chapter 1: Death
PIRANHA
Chapter One: Death
In absolute darkness, incarcerated in a coffin-like box that serves as cell, life support, and torture device all in one, Rayman is suspended. A procession of images moves across the blackness before his eyes, voices so real inside his ear that he would turn his head to look, if he could. Closing his eyes makes no difference. Pictures of the war, the events just preceding, during, and following the defeat of his planet and his own capture the successes, the failures; his inspired ideas, his catastrophic errors. And then the one that comes back, over and over, crowds out all the rest, the picture that cr
Piranha - Chapter 2: Falling by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha - Chapter 2: Falling
PIRANHA
Chapter Two: Falling
Rayman was lying on the bed, eyes closed, seeing again the rows and rows, the rooms and rooms full of coffins that he had been led through on his way to the cabin. Stumbling along mechanically, dazed, weak, barely able to keep up with his guide, all his attention only on keeping upright, on lifting and dropping foot after foot after foot ... even so, some corner of his mind had been aware of those phalanxes of big grey-white boxes still holding prisoners, how many hundreds or thousands of prisoners from how many planets, stretching off in orderly rows into the distance. As he struggled forward, he
PIRANHA
Chapter Three: Limbo
Rayman was being dredged up, a drowned, waterlogged corpse, from the depths of silent, twisting chaos; surfacing to an awareness of something, something moving, touching his face something lightly stroking his face.
Instinctively he took hold of it. A hand. A little hand. Sitting next to him, on the edge of the bed, was a female, a young woman, human-like, but about his own size. An unruly shock of tawny orange-brown hair, pale golden face, light gold-brown eyes searching at him. He peered up at her dazedly.
Oh, youre awake, she said, gravely.
He pushed himself carefully into a
PIRANHA
Chapter Four: Elly
When she woke some hours later, knowing that it was about morning, ship time, he was still lying beside her. She sat up and looked at him. His eyes were open. As they turned to her, she saw tears. He blinked, tried to smile at her, then turned away, wiping his eyes.
You know, he croaked his breath caught, he tried again. I I dont know your name.
Its Elly, she said. And the Boss told me you were called Rayman.
Yeah, he said chokedly, Ive been called that.
Are you still why are you so
Piranha - Chapter 5: Hide and Seek, Part 1 by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha - Chapter 5: Hide and Seek, Part 1
PIRANHA
Chapter Five: Hide and Seek
Elly jolted awake as a hand gripped her shoulder. She sat upright with a gasp.
It was Rayman, standing grinning beside the bed.
Come on, Elly! he said. Cant sleep now, we have work to do!
Isnt it the middle of the night? She looked around for clues as to the time. The ships lighting and temperature automatically lowered during the night hours.
Yeah, exactly. Cmon, get up.
As she unwrapped herself from the blankets, shivering, Rayman was pacing in long rapid strides around the room. He halted at last and said,
Piranha - Chapter 5: Hide and Seek, Part 2 by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha - Chapter 5: Hide and Seek, Part 2
PIRANHA
Chapter 5: Hide and Seek (concluded):
It was the middle of the night again when they emerged cautiously from the storage room to return to the cabin, each carrying a bag of booty. Rayman was more comfortable now, having acquired some underclothes, as well as an old loose, long, grey sailors shirt, gathered tightly together at the neck to hold it on, and tied with a piece of rope for a belt. He had even managed to put together some soft leather medieval-looking slippers that just tied around his feet like little bags but they were an improvement over being barefoot. The ragged bathrobe he consigned, with
Piranha - Chapter 6: Piranha by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha - Chapter 6: Piranha
PIRANHA
Chapter 6: Piranha
She was standing on the side of a hill, high up, looking down into a valley that was all in darkness. (To be on a planet, under a sky, standing on grass and earth, was so eerie, so dreamlike, it couldnt be real... It couldnt be real, but here she was. She stared, fascinated.) There were distant hills, gentle mounds, far away at the horizon, a yellow-orange glow dimming behind them; they faded into silhouette and then melted into the blackness that crept up from the valley. The sun was setting.
Elly sat up suddenly. The room was grey and unfamiliar, and for an instant she was seized with fear.
Piranha - Chapter 7: Hazing, Part 1 by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha - Chapter 7: Hazing, Part 1
PIRANHA
Chapter 7: Hazing, Part One
The large war room was packed with pirates the high-level robot officers, some three dozen of them, along with another ten or fifteen of the more senior humans. It was very late now, and they werent in the best of tempers after a long days arguing and no breaks. But Anaconda had been in one of his occasional hyperactive moods, overflowing with ideas, striding around the room gesticulating, sweeping his dark red cloak around himself dramatically. So, hours later, here they still were, slumped at the conference table or huddling in dispirited clumps around the room, staring gloomily a
Piranha - Chapter 7: Hazing, Part 2 by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha - Chapter 7: Hazing, Part 2
PIRANHA
Chapter 7: Hazing, Part Two
For the past two days, Anaconda had contented himself with simply sending Piranha out on pointless missions. He hadnt permitted the new recruit to come near the map table or even to hang around the room during any planning discussions. On the third day, however, late in the afternoon, when Piranha stumbled through the war room door at last after a six-hour series of detours, Anaconda came up to him with a broad smile that made Piranha glance at him warily.
Getting to know the ship pretty well by now, I should think? Anaconda said pleasantly.
Uh-huh, muttered Piranha, abs
Piranha Chapter 8: First Mate, Part 1 by Rayfan, literature
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Piranha Chapter 8: First Mate, Part 1
PIRANHA
Chapter Eight: First Mate, Part One
The energy gun cleared the way better than a police escort. He kept it ready, half-hidden in his big hand. It took a bit of trial and error to work out the right settings – the weakest one barely paused the big human pirates and had no effect at all on the robots – but he quickly worked up to a setting that would stun the humans. As for the robots, it was close to impossible to knock one unconscious – much like himself – but crumpling a limb or slamming them a foot deep into a bulkhead generally slowed them down.
Without the gun he might