had just hit another hit and Loé didn't look like it could take much more. He landed on the floor several times and this time he never came back up. Maiju could see that his left arm was broken. He propped himself up on his right but could not get up. One of the bird's feet hovered dangerously overhead.


Without having even remotely thought about it, Maiju shot the animal, seconds before Loé was crushed under his foot, she rammed it with her whole body from the side.It staggered so as not to fall it had to lower its foot. Loé was out of danger for the time being.


Maiju darted back and forth in front of the bird's beak, moving further and further away from her ailing team partner. And in fact the giant bird followed her. She lured him further and further away, careful to stay out of reach.


When she found she was far enough away, she flew up to disappear from the bird's field of vision, hoping fervently that it couldn't fly.


He could. Now she had a real problem. He attacked and she did loops, loops, and breakneck dives, but he couldn't be shaken off.


She escaped a blow with the wing by a hair's breadth, but it got in front of the beak and received a blow that cracked all of her bones, especially those of her chest. When she fell, she felled a tree. The vulture clippings beak came down on her again, chopping at her at the speed of a pneumatic drill, hammering her downright into the ground.No chance to evade. Maiju screamed in pain, but slowly the screams became a pained gasp. She went limp from the tense, hunched-over posture. Soon she didn't care about anything. She was going to die, she knew that. But she felt no despair. Only the bird's blows, with such force that she should have been dead by now. She wished she would finally pass out so that she couldn't feel the pain anymore, the time of the mutation hadn't minded.


The bird stopped.


Go on, finish it off!


The sound of a heavy blow over her, a startled screeching.


Maiju couldn't even open her eyes anymore. Everything about her, her whole body burned as if she had fallen into lava.


Dull thumps, the hiss of pure energy, angry voices thickened into a pulp of noise from which she occasionally heard a fading screeching.

Cracks and splinters, an impact that shook the earth. Then silence. Maiju's eyes opened a crack, but everything she saw was a blurry green.


Soft steps. She felt that she was being taken care of, heard a voice that she could not assign: "Maiju? Can you hear me?"


Somehow she managed to open her eyes fully, nodded with difficulty.


Turnus asked further: "Where is Loé? What actually happened?"


"He's ... over there ..." she whispered and pointed with her eyes in the direction in which she suspected Loé.


The captain nodded to someone who then noisily moved away. Then he looked at her again and seemed to see something he didn't like at all, because he frowned, carefully put it off again, took off his cloak and tore him into strips with which he wiped the blood from Maiju's face .


The touch hurt like hell. Maiju gritted her teeth, otherwise she would have screamed out loud.

Turnus seemed to be considering.


Maiju noticed someone crouching next to her, looked and recognized Fir.


"Well, you look pretty! Why did you fight the creature and didn't just run away?" he asked her frankly.


"Could ... not let Loé ... die!" she answered so quietly that he could barely understand her.


"He would have known what to do!"


She shook her head "Was ... on the ground! Couldn't ... anymore!"


Turnus had finished thinking. He broke Maiju's armor so that she was only wearing the combat suit.


"What is this captain supposed to be?" Fir wondered.


"You will see in a moment!" said Turnus. And to Maiju: "Warning, little one, that will hurt now!" With that he went extremely carefully to the cleaning of a wound under the collarbone. Maiju winced violently, her hands clenched into the earth, she turned her face away with clenched teeth.


Turnus seemed to take forever, and when he finally finished she felt sick.

Turnus and Fir noted with concern how shallow their breathing was and how badly the wound had suddenly started bleeding again. The grass around it turned red.


"See if you can find water anywhere!" the captain instructed Fir "We have to make up for the blood loss with something!"


"I would love to, captain - if I had something to carry it with ..."


"Shit, I didn't think of that!"


Maiju was now not only bad but also dizzy. She knew that this was the sign of impending unconsciousness, but also knew that she had to fight it if she wanted to go on living. Suddenly her will to survive was there again. She vigorously banished the seductive voice from her head that whispered to her to give in, let herself drift and fall, it was so easy. Fought with all the might of her will against the messengers of death who crept up to take her away.

So she did not notice that Tiang and Tarkran reappeared with Loé, hardly noticed how Turnus picked them up again and only felt the distant wind as they flew back to the capsules.


A slight jerk, then she felt herself being seated in her capsule and strapped into place. Someone shook her shoulder. She opened her eyes.


"Hey, Maiju! We're sending the two of you back to headquarters, so you can't stay here! Try to stay awake! You know, if they fall asleep, we can write you off!"


She managed a nod.


“Good!” Turnus put the breathing mask on her, pressed the button that closed the hatch and started the engine, jumped back and watched the ball floating away. Loé's space capsule rose from the side crater, floated up and hissed after Maijus.


The captain turned to the remaining members of his command: "So, folks! Then there would only be four of us again!"



The space capsule raced through space. Inside, Maiju tried hard to stay awake.


She forced herself to keep her eyes open and everything she saw through the porthole was classified as star, planet, sun, moon,


Associate with meteorite, asteroid, supernova, black hole and so on. When there was nothing in sight outside, she tried to remember all the fighting techniques she had ever learned or seen. And when she couldn't think of any more, she thought of Jeice. All just to drive away the destructive thought of sleep.


The flight dragged on forever. Maiju grew weaker and weaker and fell into a twilight state between waking and sleeping. It wouldn't be long before she'd fall asleep completely.


Suddenly a dark green planet appeared in front of her, towards which the capsule was headed. That had to be Freezer's planet!


Finally it was there!


Soon she could see the headquarters. It was getting closer ... closer ... there was the landing platform.

The capsule hit the designated landing area with a distinct jolt. Less than a minute later the hatch opened, it was lifted out, placed on a stretcher and carried away. The red-brown corridor walls whizzed past her meaninglessly. They turned a bend, paused for a moment, the hiss of an opening door, excited voices. Again she was picked up, carried a short distance, a metal support picked her up, she felt a cool touch on her temples and face.


Oxygen mask! shot through her head. It hissed, clicked, a pleasant hum became loud. A cold liquid began to rise around her, enveloping her. Where it reached the injuries it burned terribly at first, but the burning quickly gave way to a feeling of pleasant coolness. The regeneration fluid reached her shoulders, her mouth, and finally washed over her completely. The pain turned her into a dull throb.And Maiju finally, finally passed out.




you will have to wait a little longer for chapter 8 ...


everything is already on paper (from a total of at least 3 college blocks) but it takes time to immortalize it on the computer ...


especially with me ...