Lost in the woods
Posted on Sun Feb 6th, 2011 @ 8:46am by Lieutenant Serena "Seren" Jones & Ensign Daniel Daniels
1,251 words; about a 6 minute read
Mission:
The Forests of Mythraeli
Location: Mythraeli
Timeline: Soon after 'A First Look at the Forest, part 2'
ON:
Both Serena and Daniel were walking threw an off beaten path, surrounded by thick dense trees and strubbery. Serena walked ahead pushing a few branches here and there, trying to make a path way threw.
"So Mr. Daniels," started Serena breaking branches every which way, "Tell me of yourself. Since after all I've been on the Calypso for only two days."
Daniels chuckled. "I'm actually a tactical officer, more than a security officer. I am better with things like crime scene analysis, or attack planning. Personally, I'm rather.... boring, or so I've been told by people who claim to know me well. Not much in the way of hobbies, or what have you. I also like long walks on the beach, and margaritas at sunset, how about you?"
Serena laughed, "Well I'm the ships Chief Flight Control Officer." Then she nodded her head like it was a given, "I'm Serena Jones but people call me Seren. I guess I'm always what people say a wild one. I like to learn or do new things. I love to fly ever since I was ten years old, so I see my job as more of passion then a job. And um yeah that's about it."
Walking threw a trail of trees they came up to a clearing, "Wow," stated Seren, "This is beautiful. I wouldn't mind living here." As she looked at the medowy area. In the distance they could see some moutain area.
Daniels laughed. "It's not bad, I suppose." He said, looking about. "Needs a good waterfall."
"Hum by George I think your right," she stated teasingly, nowing George wasn't his name. Serena kept pushing threw, walking in the opened area. She twirled around her and there, loving he warm sunny air. From her twirling around caused her to stop quickly. "O I'm so sorry boo boo," she stated to her satchal. Lifting the flap she pulled out her small pet ferret and held it close to her, "I almost forgot you were there."
Daniels watched this, clearly entertained. "I'm pretty sure I got the lotto on this away team choosing."
Serena held her ferret close to her and looked at him with one eye brow cocked. Then smiled and shook her head and continued walking down the open area. Her ferret crawled up on her shoulders and behind her neck and laid its head on the part of her shoulder. "I hope you don't mind I brought me pet. Since I'm new I really don't trust anyone with LoLa at this time. And since I would be gone for a couple of days. She would have got into major trouble."
Daniels shook his head, but refrained from commenting.
"She would have got into the walls and cewed the wireing," she stated bluntly," I really don't want to get rid of her. She only dose that when she's board. But anyways I also brought a camera if you wanted to take pictures and such?"
Then she pulled out a camera out of her satchal and handed it to him. "I figure it would be nice to have evadence of this place when we return."
"I suppose so." Daniels said. He looked strangely at his tricorder. "Uhm..."
He looked up at Serena. He looked down at it again. "Error: Device input settings?"
Seren walked up to him with a confused look on her face. She placed the camera back in her satchal and pulled out her tricorders. She got the same readings. "Daniels what is going on," she asked trying to fix the problem.
"Instrument failure." Daniels said. "Or, environmental issues.
"Well I think the best course of action is to return to he shuttle craft," she started conserned, "Everything seems to work there alright."
"I haven't the foggiest." Daniel said, smacking his tricorder.
Seren could tell Daniels wasn't paying attention to her. She walked up to him and with her hand she grabbed his chin to look up at her. Then she stated in a calm voice, "Daniels lets go back to the shuttle craft maybe were in a bad area. Yes?" Then she slowly nodded her head for him to do the same.
Daniels nodded. Something moving in the corner caught his eye, and he dove to one side, and tried to fire his phaser.
Bzzt.
"Yes. Shuttlecraft." Daniels said, after watching the rabbit harmlessly hop by. " A good idea."
Seren was slightly worried and held on to LoLa a little tighter in her arms, hoping she would turn out like that rabbit. She looked around edge of the forest to remember were they came from. "This way," she stated walking towards the path way, that she thought was the one they came from.
Daniels scowled. "You know, I'm feeling a bit out of my element. This is definitely the one time I wish Jaxara had done our equipment load-out. A security guard, sans phaser, is a rather useless companion." He said, pressing the firing button again and again.
Bzzt. Bzzt. It crackled, and made funny noises, but no electrocuting beams of death came forth from the device.
"I'd break it, but then the armory guard would have my butt." Daniels said, smacking the device.
Seren heard Daniels mumble and groan about the phaser not working, but she was starting to get a little worried. All the trees started to look the same to her. She kept walking and started looking for signs of broken branches that she had made. After a few minutes she stoped and looked around the place. She heard Daniels walked a little further away until she heard him stop. She turned around and looked at him and stated sadly, "I think were lost."
"I'm sure we're lost." Daniels said. "I can't navigate worth a damn without a tricorder."
Seren sighed, "This isn't good at all." Then she shook her head, "Everything looks the same." Then Serena took another turn around, then looked up at the sky.
"Worse than that." Daniels said. "Nothing looks the same. The path we just came off of, it looks NOTHING like it did, when we were walking on it."
Serena instincs kicked in. She remembered there was a time in her boot camp experence that they were in a simular situation. She looked at Daniels and stated, "You really need to take a chill pill right now. I can't work with some one slowly loosing it."
Daniels shook his head. "I'll be fine."
"Now I'm glad you've decided to chill," started Seren, "If we keep walking south we'll end up some were near it." She pointed in the direction of south from the posistion of the sun location, "If we don't end up at the shuttle craft in an hour or two. I think it would be best to find some shelter and get some wood and stuff for the night. Agreed?"
Daniels nodded. "I think that's a wise course of action. Are you tired yet? Need a break, or a snack?"
Serena arched her eye brow at him and held LoLa close to her, "I'm fine thank you. No I'm not tired. I think we need to get going." Then she started waking in the direction she pointed to.
Daniels nodded, and pulled a ration bar out of his bag. He munched on it, while following Serena.
[To be continued.]
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Posted by:
Lt. Serena "Seren" Jones
Chief Flight Control Officer.
USS Calypso
Ensign Daniel Daniels
Acting Assistant Chief Security and Tactical Officer
USS Calypso
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