The leader Ryu saw the group be lead by Tris and snarled and roared.

"Eh?" She muttered and since she was connected to the coms with the others they heard it.

"What happened big sis?" Vivi asked.

"The leader just said, 'once you prey are dead, the protectors of the Cra'tv shall be us’ I don't know what Cra'tv means but maybe it is us." Tris said.

"So the are jealous of the Wyvern." Lia asked.

"That's so damn immature." Ricky said and crossed his arms.

"Its seems to have become a cultural thing since the original race the two came from were used by us as mounts it engraved into them but the aggressive nature made us stop using them." Tris explained.

"Medical unit... ask why can't both be mounts." Magi ordered.

Tris does that and asks. A roar from the leader later got the answer.

"He says, 'the right belongs to the strongest, weaker prey must submit to being prey and not powerful... dakriv...' I think that word means dragon." Tris replied.

"Affirmative... this unit has realized the race Space Ryu Dragon must have developed low levels of self awareness and are developing personal language... culture revolves around the protection of us, their breeders or creators." Magi explained.

"This is quite a complex situation, for more than we expected." Xeno said after hearing what Magi said.

"No matter, I do not want an aggressive beast protecting me." Tris said and pats her partner.

At the pulse released his eyes seem to shine.

He flaps his wings several times as an increasingly stronger glow appeared through the cracks of his rock scale until he opened his mouth and a power psi shock wave that travelled out towards the space reef.

The Ryu dragon snared and did a similar action and after both released those shockwaves countless roars came as all the dragons of both races began to gather. In total there was around 40 Ryu Dragons and 70 Wyvern.

The tension in the air rose rapidly as the two forces began gathering.

All the dragons and Wyverns kept roaring until Tris pat the back of her partner who let out a resounding roar above the others and the battle began.

With a similar roar from the Ryu Dragon Leader the two race dragon races clashed.

The two leaders each remained in the back. Tris was looking all around and thanks to her AI brain the speed she was processing the battle was really rapid.

At once she stood on her partners back and began to send countless pulse at the location a several wyverns would cross and each hit their target giving each of them specific instructions.

Neither Wyvern or Ryu were especially ‘smart’ in the area of tactics due to the fact it was a new rapidly evolved race of creatures. They only knew how to rush and use strength but with Tris giving a guiding hand slowly directing each wyvern they slowly started to get organized. It was an all out war and it was around 2 or 3 wyvern per Ryu dragon and even then it wasn’t to the advantage of the wyverns. They were physically weaker but faster flyers and gentler by nature. Ryu dragons were stronger, had denser rock scales and were violent. All the things needed to be a tyrant in battle.

That was way neither side was at an advantage as the bit of the Ryu Dragons were like alligator mouths and closed with frightening force that could and has crushed armor plating on the strengthened ship hulls.

As for the Wyverns, they moved and attacked like birds of prey. Moving fast and trying to grab the prey with its bird like feet which have almost as strong as the Ryu’s jaw power.

A trick Tris had tossed out to a few wyvern was to fly at the Ryu dragons in the fashion a descending bird of prey and from above grab behind the head and about half way down the body and hold it down.

This trick would immobilize the Ryu dragons. Due to the dense strong scales, the dragons aren’t as nimble and are actually limited in movement but it's still enough for them to act like snakes when something is around their center and have them constrict but in this position it was impossible.

With orders to work in groups, one wyvern rush’s to catch the dragons. Several were bitten but it caused a distraction and others grabbed on and sank their teeth into the Ryu dragons.

The Ryu dragon leader shouted and soon those that were loose began to group up and working together forcing the approaching Wyverns to back off and start to take losses but that didn’t matter as over 15 Ryu dragons were caught and the claws of the wyvern grabbed and pressed until the scales shattered releasing debris into space.

Below the rock scales a bright pink body with thin fish like scales could be seen. Unlike the outer shell these were soft and had barely any defense and in truth it didn’t even help protect it from the cold or solar radiation. All Psi creatures form a shell due to their lack of resistance to solar radiation. The rock shell is made of a unique blend of minerals perfectly mixed with the psi they release and it’s strength was on par with the ship hulls and wouldn’t break easily.

The Wyverns saw this and lost no time in releasing a roar and chomping down releasing a blue colored liquid into space. It didn’t freeze as you would expect and instead turned from blue to purple and began to glow.

The wyverns screeched and released it before letting the injured dragon and flying away.

A moment later the dragon let out a loud roar as a purple light came from its mouth and it suddenly exploded with a resounding shock wave impacting the nearby friends and foes.

“What?” Tris exclaimed.

All the others were the same but Magi didn’t stop analyzing them.

“This unit sees a 20% chance of this being a suicide ability… 50% of it being a biological reaction to its body or blood receiving direct sunlight… or 50% of the dragon blood reacting violently with the psi in the space.” Magi’s said.

“What do you mean, they all release psi by the gallon per second?” Ricky asked.

“Its because of that that it makes sense.” Xeno said and looked back at the security robot that was Ricky’s body.

“The body of every psi creature releases Psi continuously which means it’s a substance that they need to release. Even with the eight of the players the armor was made to store a certain amount of psi and release everything after. The Psi generator had to be adapted to for a leakage valve to allow the excess Psi it generates to escape and not blow up.” Xeno explained.

“Really? Didn’t know there was something like that?” Ricky replied.

“Yeah, same here? Why weren’t we told?” Vivi complained and crossed her arms.

“This unit deemed it unnecessary information for security and scout units… Scavenger, Mechanic and Pilot units required said information to do their jobs.” Magi replied.

The two childish AI pouted hearing what she said.

Out in space the battle had stopped and looked at the chunks of the dragon.

Tris was worried but their was still 10 other Ryu Dragons in their clutch that might do the same.

She looked at the leader and sent a pulse.

“Do you wish to continue?” She asked.

The Ryu dragon looked at her and growled back.

”Cra'tv… why do you choose the Vi’erm and not us Ria?” the leader asked.

It took a moment for her to connect the strange words to Wyvern and Ryu Dragons. It must be how the Ryu refer to themselves and the wyverns.

“Your race is aggressive even to us while these remained gentle. Our choice came from your own actions. With what you have done today, you and your kind who still wish to be our...Dakriv will have to wait for our masters to awaken.” Tris said trying to buy time for when the players return.

”The Cra'tv need not wait, we shall take the Vi’erm’s place!” he roared.

Tris shook her head and let a roar to the wyverns holding the restrained Ryu’s.

They cracked the shells of the Ryu dragons causing a bloody wound. Then under Tris’s order they Wyvern did something unprecedented.

While the Ryu dragon began to glow it grabbed its tail and threw it into a group of 5 dragons where it blew them up as well.

“You will listen or we will kill all of your race.” Tris said in a cold tone.

The dragon wasn’t stupid, it looked at the 9 still captured brethren and at the clumped up groups. The Wyverns themselves weren’t ruthless but they were extremely obedient and doing such an act like before wasn’t against their nature which follows Tris’s orders to the letter.

”What does Cra’tv want of us?” He growled.

“See that?” Tris said and pointed at the far off moon that was motionless at a distance from the destroyed planet.

He nodded.

“Take 2 pairs of every creature in the reef and move to that planet. Until our masters awaken, never appear.” Tris said.

He looked at the far off moon, to them it would take several days to reach it, their body can produce Psi they can sustain themselves on but the problem was setting up the vegetation which required their psi. The area was densely packed here but there it was empty with nothing there, it would take months before it became like here and the breeding of two pairs of creatures was rather slow and they would be without food for several months and would have to eat the rocks of the rocks to survive.

He growled greatly unsatisfied and was about to attack himself but heard the pained screams of a female of his kind as the Wyvern began to press its claws.

”We shall go Cra’tv. Just don’t kill more of our brethren.” He said,

“You wanted to kill these you refer to as Vi’erm, don’t expect mercy if this happens again.” Tris says and orders to let them go.

The wyverns do and the Ryu leader roars to retreat. The remaining dragons growl and he replies and soon they fly off before returning with swarms of fish pulling over 10 ship husks filled with vegetation.

The look once more and move on but before reaction outside of ear shot the leader sent one final strong Psi pulse for all to hear.

”We shall not let it end like this Cra’tv. We are the stronger breed and we will prove it.” He roared and left.

Tris just shook her head and sighed silently in space and looked around. Of the 70 wyverns they had almost 30 were killed in the short battle adding the ones from the explosions.

She was wondering why the Ryu dragons exploded as they did when hurt but when she saw the wyverns that had serious injuries or a cracked shell and were bleeding nothing happened. She moved to these and healed them and noticed a light green blood dripping out.

The image of the blue blood turning purple made her realize that Ryu Dragons were the ones that died like that and it seems to be a recent trait that appeared because many have died. Or could it be something else a mix of materials. Most of the time they die inside the reef and this time it was outside of it.

“Magi, got anything on the explosion just now?” Tris asked,

“Hypothesis suggest body violently absorbs Psi upon injury but wyvern aren’t like this… Second hypothesis suggest Ryu dragon possess unique blood construction that react to sunlight and psi when exposed… this is a major weakness to them and the thin shells don’t provide adequate protection but this is due to the lack of asteroids eaten by all the creatures… presence of the moon shall change that making them stronger.” Magi said.

At this time the wyverns began to move and take Tris to the ship. Thing was they didn’t do it on her order.

She tried to make them stop but they only reached the hangar and her mount landed and looked at her.

This was gesture to get off and when she did she asked, “What is happening?”

The wyvern look at us as an intelligent light passed through his eyes. It released a pulse that gave off the sound of a whale's call and from it words formed in her mind.

”Ria...will take… Cra’tv… Vi’erm protect.” He said and turned before flying out and then lowering heading down.

Tris walked to the edge and saw him following the rest as they circle the broken bottom part of the station.

One by one they grabbed in some spot and looked to be dragging.

“What are they doing?” the other AI appeared next to her and looked down.

They looked for a long while before they noticed the broken off station section was moving.

“Bloody hell! They’re moving the station?” Chuck asked in shock.

“Can any of you calculate where it's being pushed to?” Lia asked.

“Not sure since it's still only starting.” Tris replied.

“Hey hey, big sis, old man Xeno? Isn’t it going to be pushed into the big crack in the planet? Its the only place that will fit?” Vivi asked.

Looking at the spot, the location was at the planet exactly where the split in the planet was located. The planet was bare but ice was present in large quantities. The planet was split in three large chunks but remain close enough that it can still be used but it doesn't rotate anymore and the moon had also become stationary.

Through the cracks it was possible the see the planet core and the cooled down magma. This planet had long since 'died' in whatever conflict this planet found itself in.

"Trejectory uncertain, constant shifting detected." Magi said.

"We can just wait I guess." Tris said and everyone agreed.

***

"Mnn! I can...t believe how good I fe-feel." Sophia said sitting up. She was stuttering but her arms possessed enough strength to move around and help her sit up herself.

"Morn-rning sleeping be-beauty." Noah replied with a similar stuttering.

"How are yo-you feeling?" Sophia asked.

"Been bet-better. You?" He replied.

"Been bet-better." She shrugged and giggled.

"She sure became cheeky after all this." sophia heard Noah said and frowned.

"Who are yo-you calling cheeky?!" Sophia asked frowning.

Noah looked at her confused.

"I di-didn't say anything." Noah said.

She crossed her arms and pouted.

"She isn't as shy, maybe something changed, she seems cuter like this." she heard noah say.

Her face turned crimson rapidly.

"C-cute?" She muttered and looked down at her covers.

Noah heard her mutter and began to think something was up. He knew that when asleep there was a chance the other will speak what he wants to say or move in a way he wanted so hearing her say those things made him wonder.

He looked at her closely and thought to himself, "Sophia is looks really charming and super cute when she is shy. Dressed in that simple hospital dress makes her a really tempting."

At once she reacted as her entire face turned bright red from the tips of the ear down to the base of the neck.

"Stop saying a-all those things..." she muttered cutely.

"I knew it! You're hearing my thoughts." Noahs said surprising Sophia.

"Wha..." Sophia began saying but at this moment the door opened and Wilson walked in.

He looked surprised that we were both up on our own.

"How?" He muttered but just shook his head. The entire case was filled with mystery so such a rapid recovery wasn't such a huge thing.

"It's good to see you both recovering so quickly. How are you both?" He asked with a smile.

"I feel go-good. Maybe 50% recovered." Sophia said.

"That's about ri-right, but my physical strength is o-only at 20% I think. I ca-can't gather the strength in m-my legs yet." Noah says.

Sophia nids agreeing.

"I see, well your bodies weren't actually damaged so most of the things are probably mental exhaustion which recovers faster than physical ones explaining your ability to move so quickly. This will have to be recorded and I should inform your father Sophia, as for yours Noah, like you, he is awake.” Wilson said.

“That's good.” Noah replied but Wilson made a somewhat wry smile.

This caused Noah to frown.

“What is h-he doing?” Noah asked.

“Well…” Wilson said and scratched his head.

“Did he br-break anything? Or is he ha-harassing the nurse?” Noah asked.

“Well, he woke up first and indeed he was ‘admiring’ the nurse but those thoughts unconsciously leaked through his pair Elisa’s mouth and since she was asleep the nurse knew it was his thoughts and… well he somewhat deserved the slap. What followed were other thoughts getting loose through Elisa’s lips and now… well he keeps complaining we only send male nurse to attend to him.” Wilson said scratching the back of his head a bit embarrassed.

Even so, Noah couldn’t help but laugh but that caused him to lay down but still he enjoyed the laugh but felt a bit tired afterward and lightheaded.

Sophia also giggled but not at Noah’s level.

“He really de-deserved it for su-sure. How is El-Elisa?” Noah asked.

“She woke up some time ago but she is still weak physically and went to sleep after some physical therapy same for your father but he is a “tougher” breed of men and is in a similar stage as you already.” Wilson said and Noah nodded understanding.

A man with such a strong will power like Noland wouldn’t stay in bed for more than a few days after he was awake from a coma.

“Well that is g-good. He will pr-probably be the fi-first on his feet.” Noah said.

“Oh no the first one is already up, Mr Ernest Murphy has already gotten up and has even showed a remarkable recovery when our nurses found him doing rather intensive exercises in his room. His pair. Miss Meghan Welding wanted to get up but she can’t do things to excessively but walking is something she can do already.” Wilson said.

“As expected o-of her. Ernest is un-understandable as an ex-mi-military.” Sophia said.

“Yes, the man's perseverance is impressive and he is very well mannered and stopped training after we asked. We told him to rest for another two days before he can train.” Wilson said.

“What about Al-Alex and Luna?” Sophia asked.

“They are still in the recovering stage similar to Elisa. Since the rest of you are recovering I presume that tomorrow the remaining ones will be at this stage and those that are at your stage may be able to walk. We don’t know what will happen so I suggest not being too far from each other. You two are stable due to the presence of the other so take that into mind. I need to go.” WIlson said.

“Th-thank you for yo-your time doctor.” Noah said.

Wilson smiled and left as the two of them lay down.

Noah smiled and focused.

”I wonder if I can read Sophia’s mind, maybe I can find out how much she likes me and maybe she thinks of how handsome I am.” Noah thought and noticed the faint blush on her face.

”Keep dreaming “handsome” you are far from my league! Hmpf” Her voice whispered in his head and he laughed and looked at her pouting face.

“Idiot.” She said out loud and turned in her pod away from me.

Soon the two fell asleep again and without knowing, their dreams mingled and it was the first time they started to regret this as 10 minutes later the two of them sat up covered in sweat with their heart rates pulsing wildly alerting even the doctors who came quickly and found the two pale from the amazingly realistic nightmare.

After explaining what happened they calmed down and both were giving medicine to sleep better and reluctantly went back to sleep.