There were portions of the ceiling that looked unsafe though those were closer to the edge of the hole, a good thing to note when Enru had gotten to the roof. She dipped inside not seeing much of anything though it was at this point that Octavia felt a familiar presence albeit briefly as something seemed familar.

Whatever was out there she could not hear though her companions could. She still could see it provided that the blue thing was it's source though. All was quiet on the street. As An approached the building she could hear the roar of wind growing louder but Enru was ahead of her and already on the roof at this point.

Their before her was a multiarmed, hairless and blue creature that was being wiped around by something vaguely humanoid. It appeared as a swirl of black clouds looking like a tornado, at least it had no legs but a funnel that touched the ground and whipped small loose stones around it. It was the source of the roar she heard though currently it's back was to her and it's focus was on this blue skinned creature that was nearly dead or unconscious as this thing battered it with winds, lifting and slamming it into objects on the roof at it's leisure.

Enru finally made it up to the building and realized the ceiling looked like it collapse at any moment, particularly near the hole in the ceiling. The blonde continued up the stairs making her way up to the roof. Even as she, Enru could hear a roaring wind that seemed to drown out everything all around.

"Enru, Enru! Wait for me!! Don't do this alone," says the brunette as she approached the building. Though she was the shortest of the three Trixians, she often was the most serious of the three. However the handmaiden could not reach her fellow handmaiden, her shouts being drowned out by the roar of the wind.

The blonde soon saw the blue creature that had been so allusive so far. The creature just like the image on the newspaper they saw earlier, it had four arms and was hairless. Still the creature was being to wiped around my some sort swirl of black clouds through into various objects on the roof. The blonde handmaiden had to do something, but she wasn't sure what exactly sure what to do. The wind looked like it was some sort of humanoid looking black clouds. Armed with a polearm, the blonde handmaiden decided the first thing she could try to do was cut in half.

Even as Enru was beginning to battle the tornado like creature, the pink haired Princess briefly felt some sort of presence nearby. It was fleeting, but Octavia knew she had felt this presence before.

The cloud-like thing had not heard Enru's approach over the sound of roaring wind so her polearm sliced cleanly into the creature.

There were no bones and skin to impede her weapon and it sliced right though the creature. It was only semi solid she found like water so there was a little resistance to the weapon but not much of it. But being composed of a gas the thing flowed back together, apparently unharmed by the attack though it turned around, extended an arm then blasted her with a jet of air.

It pressed forward as if it were going to take advantage of the state she was in though it noticed An on the stairs and thus it noticed her as well though at present it focused on Enru seemingly unconcerned with An's presence.

Octavia felt something familiar for a moment, she could not say what it was only that something seemed out of place her that she could not quite recall. She was alone now though got a glimpse of Enru as she was flung in similar fashion to the blue thing indicating that things were already going badly.

Enru took a powerful swing at the cloud-like thing as she attempted to the cut the creature in half. Unfortunately, just as she feared the creature was a gas and completely unaffected by the sharp blade, it simply reformed itself of a whole creature instead again. The young woman

The cloud-like thing had not heard Enru's approach over the sound of roaring wind so her polearm sliced cleanly into the creature. The creature simply reformed itself back into one mass again. The blonde handmaiden had anytime to react as the creature turned around and extend an arm at her. She was quickly blasted by a jet of pure air.

"Enru!" shouted An as she came up the stairs. The creature turned on to look at the brunette handmaiden for a moment but it turned to continue to blast the taller handmaiden. An pulled out her energy pistol. She hoped a couple of shots would have some effect on the creature.

Octavia was frightened when she saw her handmaiden flung around like the blue thing she had saw earlier. The pink haired Princess could not stand around and do nothing she had try to help. The royal began moving to the building all the while looking for anything that could help out.

The town was primitive and lacked anything that Octavia saw as useful in the few seconds it took to cross the street though now she heard the discharge of An's pistol.

The thing evaded the first shot by simply opening up a hole in it's body so the energy bolt passed through it. That was both heart sinking and uplifting at the same time, heart braking in that the attack missed it's mark but uplifting as it tried to evade it in some form indicating that either it could be harmed by it or never seen a weapon like it and did not wish to take any chances.

She fired again noting that it was fairly quick and evaded the shot as the ground beneath it was scorched. It tried to shot her with a blast of air but given that she had cover from the doorway An was able to evade it.

Octavia could hear the blasts from An's weapon going off as well as the roar of air from the creature.

Distracted as Enru got back up and swang her polearm to similar effect An was able to shot it where upon she could see a discharge of electricity course over it. The winds intensified and while there was no telling the effects the shot had on it the creature peeled off zipping away from them with alarming speed.

Octavia had reached the roof top then seeing both her hand maidens and this four armed hairless blue thing that was still prone but conscious. She could see that it was bruised as areas of it's body was splotchy and a deeper blue than others.

As much as the Princess wanted to find anything useful, her lack of training and the primitiveness of the town prevented her from finding anything useful. The distinctive crack of a discharge of a Trixian energy pistol filled the town air. It was clear things were getting desperate up on that roof.

Meanwhile An cursed as she fired a shot directly at the cloud-like creature, but the monster opened a hole in its body just as the energy bolt was about to hit him. The shot simply passed right through harmlessly, allowing the creature to reform effortlessly. It was like the brunette had never fired on the creature at all. Frustrated, the shorter handmaiden fired a second shot down at the ground, do what she could to find a vulnerable point on the creature. Again the creature did its get best to dive out of the way and evade the shot.

It was then that the creature fired a blast of air at An, fortunately the brunette handmaiden was only half up the stairs and was able to duck for cover. She was unable to get her polearm out of the way in time and it was ripped from her off hand. It was then An realized the creature was at least concerned at what her gun could do. Instinctively the handmaiden popped up to take another shot at the creature.

By now the blonde handmaiden had stumbled to her feet, Enru was now angry that the creature had knocked down like that. The young Trixian let out a loud scream as she swung her polearm through the creature. It had no effect but it did finally distract the cloud creature long enough for An to score a hit on the creature. A discharge of electricity came over the entire creature before it suddenly jumped off the roof and zipped away at amazing speed.

Octavia had just made it to top of the roof when saw the creature running away, Enru check her body for injuries while An fired a couple more shots at the fleeing creature. It was then that Octavia saw the unconscious alien on the ground, Ohh, poor thing. I hope he is okay. Her Highness bent down to take a good look at the poor creature to see if was not too badly injured.

While the gaseous creature zipped away it evaded the incoming shots with ease. Man was it quick1 It's movements were inhuman too as it danced around the shots now that it's focus had been on them rather than any sort of distraction.

The alien creature was hurt but conscious, scooting back as Octavia approached it. It's back pressed against the small wall that surrounded the roof top. It gazed at her with wide eyes as if it were afraid then one of it's four hands went for the knife on it's harness but found that it was gone probably falling out when it was being flung around.

It groaned out in pain at the sudden movement though. Clearly it was in some sort of pain or discomfort. Enru had gotten only a small taste of what it must have been feeling since the thing was on this roof top alone with it for some time it appeared and she guessed it had no luxury of an energy weapon or anything effective to keep it at bay given that she was rather close to a crude spear that rested on the roof near the hole.

A quick glance indicated that it didn't seem to have anything on it save for the harness it wore. No other clothes either. It was a hairless, scaly thing, some sort of reptile about her size. Intelligent at least to a primitive level.

It relaxed after a moment when it was apparent that the girl's meant him no harm.

Thank you, it spoke into both An and Enru's mind but not Octavia's as if it coouldn't attune itself to it or get around the natural defenses that she possessed.

An continued to fire away at the cloud creature as it continued to zip away at inhuman speed. All her shots missed as the creature as it easily dodge every last one them. It did not have any difficulties as it now could focus on just An and her shooting.

As Octavia moved closer to to the continued towards four armed blue haired creature on the ground. It soon came conscious as it eyes went wide with fear at the very sight of her so close. The creature quickly moved back and pressed against the small wall that kept anyone from accidently falling from the roof. The creature immediately reached for something on its belt, but seemed surprised when it wasn't there.

The sudden movement was enough to force the creature groan out in pain. The creature seemed to be badly hurt from its time with the gaseous entity. The blonde handmaiden only had a small taste of what the four armed creature had suffered. Though the tall handmaiden had been bruised, the creature seemed to badly injured. Liked the blonde handmaiden, his spear was not nearly enough to keep the cloud creature at bay.

Except for a harness, the blue skinned creature didn't have any clothing save for the harness that it wore. Still the hairless creature was about the same size as a Trixian. After a moment of panicking the creature seemed to calm down.

"Your welcome." says Enru, the young handmaiden replied not yet realizing that her Princess could not understand what the creature was projecting, "Are you hurt severly. Can we get you help?"

No, I will be alright. It's rather uncomfortably, this feeling and soreness though thankfully nothing will be broken for more than a few moments, my kind heal most physical trauma rapidly enough. It spoke into the minds of the two hand maidens.

Due to her closeness it watched Octavia carefully.

Are you from the stars as well? You are not native to these lands after all.

It struggled weakly upward. drew in a large breath as it's physical energy began to dwindle and it sat back down taking a deep breath as it did so. There it remained allowing it's natural abilities to run there course.

Octavia watched as the creature seems to stare at her as it lay there on the ground attempting to healing up. She could not tell that the creature was attempting to communicate with her. Fortunately it could still communicate with the two handmaidens.

"Well, good. I am surprise you can heal so rapidly, that is simply amazing." Enru watched to see if she could spot the dark blue injuries heal rapidly. It was one thing to be told of such capabilities but them before your eyes was quite another. "Yes we are from the stars. You make it sound like it the others have visit this world before."

The creature attempted to stand up but it was simply still too hurt to really make a good attempt to stand. An spoke up while keeping an eye out for the cloud creature, "Stay where you are. You are safe for right now."

Some of the smaller bruises already faded while the larger ones grew smaller. They would hear snapping sounds as his bones realigned and strengthened. They would tame the longest to heal but it would only take a matter of minutes rather than weeks.

Yes, years ago the Ashen came to this world. There were once so many of us. We had no real technology compared to them but they taught us about the thermals and many, many other things to make life easier. They even had a vaccine against an ailment that harmed my people but it was a trick ... it was all a trick. While they smiled at us and showed us these wonders

"While the drug did fight these ailments they also had the side effect of making us sterile so that now we will simply die out and the Ashen can conquer of world without so much as a fight. They are very patient and I have no doubt that they have done this before or even are still doing it currently and expanding their worlds making an Empire.

Enru and Octavia could only watch as all but the largest bruises faded away and even the largest bruises seem to be getting smaller and smaller. The two winced when they heard the bans snap as they as repaired themselves. Neither could imagine what that would have felt like though they were sure they didn't want to experience it themselves.

Still the creature only communicated to Enru, since only the blonde handmaiden's mind was open to its psychic projections. She tried to relay what heard to Her Highness. "Our friend's people were visited it a group called the Ashen. They taught the people here how to use the thermals and other technologies, but then they were given a vaccine to that had a side effect of making them sterile. The entire race will eventually die out and allow the Ashen to take the planet without any need to fight them."

That is very sad, the Princess replied with a bit of a tear in her eye. We are Trixians. We will do what we can to help you while we are on this world. Maybe we can have our scientists look into your problem and see if they can find a solution.

It became apparent that it did not understand Octavia when it did not answer her. That or it was being rude, though whatever prevented it from communicating with her made it impossible to touch her mind and translate her words so that it could understand her thoughts,

Thus it had an easier time dealing with the jand maidens since their minds were not as closed to it.

It nodded amid songs of cracks and pops and while the thing appeared to be discomforted there was no mistaken that it was looking better as the seconds ticked by. Seeing that it had this extraordinary gift his species probably happened to be more daring so that they were the masters of their own pain rather than the other way around.

Again his words entered Enru's mind. That is most kind. I know not what they did for I am not too well versed in the medicines of the Ashen and have to leave such details up to the smarter of our species. We only became aware due to a slip up on their part, one of our kind worked with them, learned to read some of their language and managed to do some snoping around when suspicious about something, which lead to the discovery. It was done deliberately though the Ashen are very patient.

That creature, I'm afraid, use to be like me. It's body has been destroyed in some Ashen project but it's mind still lives more or less to some degree. It went insane though when learning of it's state with a homicidal rage.

For a moment that there was a pause for a moment as it became clear that the creature could not understand her. It simply talked via telepathy and it could not talk to Her Highness because of her special talents that prevented it from talking to her telepathically. Fortunately the blue creature was able to talk to her handmaidens.

Enru became her translator even as the creature to continued to heal at incredible pace. The creature may been pretty badly injured previously but the multi-limbed being was looking better and better as every moment passed by.

Octavia would just have to talk through Enru. So there are more of you. Perhaps we could meet them and exchange information. It seems we are in a similar situation. My people were chased of their homeworld by another empire. Your people are being wiped out the Ashen Empire. We can't let that happen.

When the creature mentioned the cloud creature from earlier Enru's ears perked up. "You mean that creature used to be part of your people. That is awful, I can't believe the Ashen would do this to him."

We think it was not deliberate, an accident but we wouldn't put it past the Ashen. I will gladly bring you to the others once I am finished here. None are here save for myself and it. It draws power out of the thermals and I did have a weapon that the Ashen created to destroy this thing though it is damaged.

Your energy weapons seemed effective though.

It glanced to the pieces of a green gun that was damaged in the scuffle with this creature. So it had enough knowledge or training to use the weapon and sent out to eradicate this insane creature. It looked back at the girls as the last popping sounds were evident as the last broken bones aligned with each other and reconnected.

He did still have some bruising though noteably less at this stage. Standing he showed that he was much stronger than before as it glanced in the direction that the creature flew off in.

With slight deviations there are three different thermals it could be heading towards. It has no body and can no longer heal in the traditional sense. It needs the thermals to heal and no doubt is going to one of the three now.