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<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">USS FEYNMAN: Dragon-Bait</h3> | |||
<h4 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">by Kristen Gant 9-28-1996</h4> | |||
Stardate: 80928.0017<br> | |||
Scene: Krysa's Holodeck Program<br> | |||
>Thirty minutes later the now happy bartender was waist deep in water<br> | |||
>and concentrating on a small school of fish. It wasn't until the<br> | |||
>dark shadow past over him and began to hover that he realized<br> | |||
>something was wrong. Bat had always been a voracious reader and<br> | |||
>while science fiction was his genre of choice he had read enough<br> | |||
>fantasy to know a dragon when he saw it, especially one that was<br> | |||
>about to spew flames. With not even a second to spare the<br> | |||
>ex-security officer and soon to be tasty morsel dropped to the river<br> | |||
>bed and pushed off with all his might. There could only be one<br> | |||
>culprit and as he broke the surface and gasped for air he screamed<br> | |||
>one word. "Krysa!!"<br> | |||
The dragon, who had been licking his lips at the juicy tidbit in | |||
front of him stopped at the sound of the human's voice. <nowiki><What did you | |||
say?></nowiki> | |||
Bat froze, "Help! I hear you .. Where are you? Why don't you come out | |||
and help me?" | |||
The dragon splashed down in the water beside the confused man | |||
splashing water on the shore soaking the dry sandy bank. <nowiki><I am out. | |||
Who are you?></nowiki> | |||
Bat looked at the Midnight blue dragon eyeing him. "Are <nowiki>*you*</nowiki> talking | |||
to *me*?" | |||
<nowiki><Do you see anyone else around?></nowiki> | |||
Bat was tempted to look around then thought better of it not wanting | |||
to take his eye of the dragon who could probably swallow him whole. | |||
"I guess not. I thought you were going to eat me." | |||
<nowiki><I was.></nowiki> said the dragon matter-of-factly. Bat swallowed hard almost | |||
afraid to ask why the dragon had suddenly changed his mind. <nowiki><But I | |||
thought I heard you call a name. Did you?></nowiki> | |||
"Well, yes I did. I called out 'Krysa'." | |||
<nowiki><Do you know her?></nowiki> | |||
"I .." Bat paused wondering if knowing Krysa was a good thing or not | |||
from them dragon's point of view. "I did. I was just out doing some | |||
fishing to relax and .." | |||
<nowiki><Hrmph! I suppose if you are a friend of Krysa's I shouldn't eat | |||
you.></nowiki> | |||
"Oh, I am definitely a friend." Bat said quickly agreeing that the | |||
dragon shouldn't eat him. | |||
<nowiki><Very well, I won't eat you this time. But you human's have got to | |||
learn to stay where it's safe or you may very well get eaten. Some | |||
dragon's wouldn't care that you were a friend of Makayla's pet.></nowiki> With | |||
that the large dragon launched himself into the air, leaving Bat to | |||
contemplate his words. | |||
**** | |||
Onta and Krysa were heading toward their respective dragon's when the | |||
computer voice chimed. <nowiki><All senior staff to the Observation Lounge.></nowiki> | |||
Krysa sighed, "And I was just beginning to enjoy this." | |||
Onta chuckled. "Duty calls." | |||
Nodding, Krysa said, "Computer, save program and end." | |||
<nowiki><Program saved. Are you sure you wish to end the program?></nowiki> | |||
"Yes." | |||
The landscape vanished, replaced by the black and yellow grid of the | |||
holodeck. Krysa and Onta turned and their eyes widened in surprise to | |||
see a dripping wet Bat standing looking foul-tempered. | |||
"Bat? What are you doing here?" Krysa asked. | |||
"I was going to do a bit of fishing. But it turned out the bait was | |||
me! Dragon-bait!!" | |||
Krysa chuckled. "Don't worry, Bat, all the safeties are on. You | |||
wouldn't have been hurt." | |||
Bat hrmphed. "I just wanted a little quiet fishing to relax." | |||
"Well you picked the wrong holodeck, my friend," said Krysa, her eyes | |||
lit with the humor of the situation. She finally couldn't stop | |||
herself and the laughter came bubbling out of her. Soon Onta was | |||
laughing along and within a short time, even the soaked Bat couldn't | |||
help himself. | |||
Regards,<br> | |||
Lt. Krysa Jenn<br> | |||
<nowiki>****</nowiki> | |||
NRPG: Well that was fun :}<br> | |||
Kristen<br> | |||
--<br> | |||
Kristen & Scott Gant<br> | |||
http://homepage/interaccess.com/~sgant/scott.htm<br> | |||