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Erina threw up her head and laughed out loud, with looks of atonishment from Melody and Lazuli.
"Fuck the beer! Chips and dips! We must eat!"

Soon all four FOnewearls where sitting in a circle, eating nachos and dip. Erina munched dantily, licking the dip from the nacho with a cat toungue,then gnawing at it prettily until nothing was left. Melody scooped scooped up dip and ate each one in two bites. Lazuli acted out little plays with her pieces, ending with the hapless snacks, screaming that fifty foot pink lizard was eating the whole city. But the rate at which Pleione eat suprised them all, chomping hers in one bite dip, and all.

And the nacho packet lay empty, and the dip tub a bereft ruin, licked clean of salsa. And the four FOnewearls clutched their stomachs.
"Too much, too much!" whimpered Erina.
"I am gonna puke!" Pleione moaned.
Melody pointed a finger to an empty room. "There is an old storage cuboard there. Put all the crap in the kitchen, plonk your shit in there. There is the a spare matress there, too. Don't worry, we will sort everything out tomorrow."

That night, as the citizens of Pioneer 2 settled into sleep, another awoke.
Across a vast expense of stars and nebula, in the womb of the planet called Ragol, under many miles of rock, a sigh escaped. It was hungry. It knew, understood, wanted, only one thing: Death. It trembled with longing, it lusted for the slaughter of all that lived. And it could feel life on the planet's surface, breath and heartbeats. It could feel the funtioning of countless billion cells and it was driven almost insane with desire. So close...and yet unreachable. In this tomb it must stay, unless, prehaps one of the beings probed a little bit too far?
Yes. The creatures were inspecting this world, it would not be too long, before they poked the veil apart. Not too long. Not too long.

Good to see that the story's accelerating, keep it up!

Ah thank you!



Lazuli was slammed out of bed. She could hear the alarm sirens, and the ship was shuddering. The Sato lay whimpering by her side, as the horrible mechanical screams smashed into her brain. Lazuli knew this was no drill. She had to get off Pioneer 2 or die.
"ERINA! MELODY! PLEIONE!" she shrieked. The other 3 FOnewearls were crashing out of their rooms in their night clothes, with the other mags fluttering in panic.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!" screamed Erina, tears of terror pouring down her cheeks.
"WE HAVE TO GET OFF THE SHIP! IT MUST BE BREAKING UP!" Pleione yelled.
"HURRY! WE HAVE TO GET TO THE LIFE SHUTTLES!" Melody gestured desperately to the door. They tore down the corridor, joining the other residents of Aurora.
Obelia, a RAcaseal turned around and sighted them. "THEY'RE OK!" she called to her roomates, a HUnewearl, a RAmarl and a FOmarl. They gasped with relief.
Pleiades, the HUnewearl shook her elegant blue hair. "Thank fuck! Now if we get outta here, we will be fine!"
They slipped past flashing lights. Each one read: "This is not a drill. Evacuate immidiately. Your nearest life shuttles are positioned by Apartment Block Nebula."
The terrified crowd stampeded out of Aurora and flooded towards the shuttle chutes. And around them, Pioneer 2 groaned in its death throws.
Pleione pointed towards the dome of the city. "My god..." she whispered.
The colour drained from her face. The crowd poured towards into the shuttle chute. But the eight people where rooted with terror.
The RAmarl, Dreamer, and the FOmarl Clionna where thrown down by the violent shuddering.
A horrible crack spread along the lengh of the dome. Then the hidieous split shivered apart. And a black form poured through the crack, smothering an entire resdential area with its demonic folds of flesh. A shimmering force field spread around the wound in Pioneer 2, but the creature glowed with aniticpation.
The eight people gazed up at the bhemoth that towered above the city, that had smashed open the hull like paper.
And it the terror began anew. From the liquid mass, countless spears extended, smashing apart apartment blocks and impaling screaming people with its deadly points. The tip of the formless mass shifted, to become a hungry mouth. A gloat trickled up from the depths, as it depoisited the succulent morsels into its awaiting gullet.
Lazuli could the beast's thought slice into her despairing soul. A horrible, hissing whisper, that she thought it would kill her.
JOIN WITH ME. BECOME A PART OF ME, LAZULI!
The feast was not over. The knives descended. One smashed Aurora into rubble with a careless flick, another descended on the first escaping shuttle, slicing it in half, the two fragements fell back into its chute and exploded. The shuttle port flew apart within a crimson flower. But four more spears slammed down. Dreamer, Clionna, Pleiades and Obelia were stabbed like olives and Lazuli could hear their death screams, writhing on those terrible blades.
The beast gorged on them. The four FOnewearls knew that they were doomed. The demon would destroy Pioneer 2, those who stayed would die, and those who escaped on the shuttles would die too, smashed as they fled. Those knives where unavoidable.
And again they flew towards the ruins of Aurora.
"HEEEELP ME!" Melody was the first to die. The dagger sliced through her gut, and swept her towards her doom. Then the mags were taken one by one, whimpering with fear, for all minds where the prey, all sentinent beings were its nourishment.
Erina tears streaming down her cheeks, raised her hand. Her body glowed with a holy light, glimmering along her legs, her torso, her head.
"GRANTS!" The shining, glittering beam shot from her hands, and crashed towards the demon.
There was a gloating chuckle, as the light slipped harmlessly through it, and the divine ray faded and died. With screams of terror, Erina and Pleione were plucked and eaten.
Lazuli was all alone. It had happaned so fast, so unbelievable, but her newman instincts told her, that she was the only one left alive in Pioneer 2.
And a single knife speared towards her...

Lazuli's eyes snapped open, and the air left her lungs in a newman keening scream. She glared at the clock. 200 Beats in the morning. Sweat drenched her bed. Lazuli lept to the floor. Her eyes snapped down to her sato, purring softly in sleep. She stampeded over to Erina's room. Erina was curled in a foetal position, breathing gently.
Lazuli's terror was not quelled yet. She checked on Melody, lying on her back and snoring gently.
And Pleione...Lazuli opened the door to the once cuboard. Pleione was in the far corner on her stomach. Muttering, not muttering, pleading in her dreams.
A terrified look was on her face. "Don't, don't, don't!" then a gentle snoring settled. Pleione sank into the blissful embrace of sleep.
But Lazuli was troubled by what Pleione had said, she did not want to go to sleep anyhow, in case that demon returned on her eyelids.
She sat in her nightie and made coffee, and waited until morning.

all i can say is, WOW. This is the best fan fic ive ever read. keep up the good work!!

very good becommes better and better!

Thank you, thank you! Here is another section, just for all you lovely people!


Melody yawned and scratched her stomach through her nightie. Then she looked around to make sure no one had seen that. Her eyes slipped over to her alarm clock. 900 Beats. Shit, Sunday Morning. Last lie-in for another week. On Monday, it would be back to work for all of them. Why was she not tired any more? It sucked. On weekdays, she would have sold her soul to sleep til' noon. But now she was just not tired enough to relish the power of sleep in weekends. Her recently scratched stomach growled for a bacon sandwich. Melody slipped off to the kitchen.

Lazuli sat hunched over the kitchen table, brooding. She could not stop it, the gloating chuckles of the demon, the death screams of her friends. How could something so twisted crawl into her brain like that?
She could hear bare feet pattering on the floor. Melody, her usually perfect hair looking like shit, walked into the kitchen.
Lazuli took one look at her and burst into tears.
"Wha-wha? Lazuli, what the fuck?" Melody gasped.
"I had a nightmare! It was horrible!"
"A nightmare, why was it so bad?"
"It was horrible, the ship was shaking, everyone was trying to get to the shuttles! Then this monster just ripped open the hull! It crushed two residential blocks, and these knives, Melody, it had these fucking knives on tenticles! It ripped down buildings, and destroyed the shuttles, but it used these knives to stab people and eat them! It was like a fucking horror film!
But it ate everyone! It spoke to me, I heard this hissing voice, Join with me, become a part of me Lazuli!!! It ate the girls next door! Clionna! Dreamer! Pleiades! Obelia! It harpooned them and swallowed! And-"
The thought of that horrible blade spearing Melody was just too much. Hot tears poured down Lazuli's tears and the sobbing started all other again.
When she calmed down, she continued.
"One of those spears got you Melody! Then it ate all the mags! Erina tried to use Grants on it, but the thing liked that, it liked the way she tried to save us, that just amused it. Then it just ate her and Pleione! Then this voice in my head told me, that I was the last one left, then the knife came towards me and, I woke up. But it was the most horrible thing I have ever seen!"
Melody took Lazuli in her arms, and said softly: "Don't worry Lazuli, I am here. That bastard didn't eat me, or the girls next door, or the mags, or the others. It has gone now."
Lazuli smiled.
Melody then looked right into Lazuli's eyes.
"Lazuli?"
"Yes?"
"We really have to find you a boyfriend."

My jaw dropped as I read that. Keep it up...

Though that twist of humour at the end of that extract kinda put milk into the nice black coffee that I thought this was going to look like.

milk in black coffe? anyways keep up the good work you could sell em on CD's LOL that would be fun and i just love you sense of humor!

Thank you guys! mimas, does that mean you did not like the last bit? :'(
Anyway, I won't have a computor for 2 weeks, so here is a last piece for you lot.

Lazuli drank another coffee, and Lazuli gazed down at the copy of Pioneer 2 Lonely Hearts. Melody had been through it, and colour-coded all the boys that pulled her attention with a pack of pens.
Red meant: "I will marry this one."
Blue meant: "I will have a one night stand with this one."
Green meant: "I will keep this one on the maybe pile."
Black meant: "I will use sulfuric acid foundation before go near this one."

Lazuli shook her head. Unlike Melody, who really liked the company of the opposite sex, Lazuli did not really like the complications of a boyfriend. To her, relationships did nothing but turn her life into a mess.
She was about to voice her feelings about Melody's matchmaking crusade, but luckily the other FOnewearl had found a new objective.
"I will make breakfast for us all!" Melody whooped.
Fuck, said a voice in Lazuli's head. She did not want to choke down another of Melody's creations.
"Bacon, sausages, maple syrup, pancakes, french toast" trilled Melody, rummaging through the cuboards.
Shit, thought Lazuli, this is going to be a breakfast massicre.
She went to see if the others were awake.
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" Melody beamed, pouring out cooking oil.

Erina was sitting on her bed with Pleione. Lazuli joined them.
"You ok?" said Pleione.
"Yes." said Lazuli quickly, not wanting to worry them. "Melody's making breakfast." she added to change the subject.
"I know." said Erina, tapping her ears and pulling a face.
"Don't burn, you bastard bacon!" came a wail from the kitchen.
Erina poked her sleeping Sato with her foot. "Wakey wakey!" she giggled.
The Sato shifted out of reach and went back to sleep.
Pleione fiddled with a stray curl. "Umm, I just want to tell you, how much I appreciate this."
"It's OK" said Lazuli. "The Inner Asshole has not manifested itself yet, as Melody would say."

id like it i like the whole story but i did not just know what "the milk in the coffe" was meant to be but i asked someone and now i know its like whipped cream in hot chocolate!