trans_9 | A House Divided [Part 3]

Obi Wan. So that's the man with the beard's name, she has something to identify him with now.

"It is a Wyrmthing," Bella replies, bracing against the removal again. "It is no fault of mine he stood between me and the enemy."

And it's... gone. And healed. Bella's shoulder is sore and painful, but... it's not blinding. She sits up, shifting a little to investigate.

"I thank you," she says, looking at Katara finally and hiding her frustration. It's not the young human's fault.

"It reminds me of humans," Katara admitted. "Well, the worst of humans anyway. I've been controlled by one before who used their ability to torture others. Something like that doesn't belong on the ship, imprisoned or no. If a Yeerk as an alien can make people do what it wants, there will always be someone crazy enough to let it free."

Katara's face darkened, thinking of a certain malicious someone. "Always."

Katara nodded. "You're welcome. One thing...I know you may not want to, but please stop and see how Obi Wan is doing. He's actually a nice person. I met his protege."

"If it remains, there is taint." That's the way Wyrmthings work. At least, as far as Bella knows. "Taint is bad."

She doesn't have much life experience, this one. Bella's only two, she hasn't seen true evil yet. Fomori, pretty much Wyrm zombies, are far from the worst.

Bella sighs. "I will ask for forgiveness, if it will maintain peace in the sept." It's not good for her dignity, but she doesn't want the group to fall apart any more over this.

Katara nodded, although she probably wouldn't have gone as far as calling it a taint. "It can speak to the most corrupt people," Katara said. "It's too much temptation on a ship full of so many different people."

She hated saying it, but its true. Just because she's met nice people doesn't mean that they were all that way.

"It will...but from what I've seen of his pupil, he's also very wise. I'm sure he won't hold this against you. This situation is...difficult."

(OOC: Herk! Sorry! I got distracted and forgot about this tag.)

Bella doesn't really know about the Yeerk "speaking" to people. It just seems like a creature of the Wyrm to her, and the very presence of one is bad enough. The taint, she's been taught, spreads off them like radiation and poisons everything around it. It's not exactly something she wants to have alive and around. "It is corruption, yes."

She sighs and hangs her head a little.

"I will not fight more. It is ended," she says. "We had a fight. The Obi Wan man and the one with the gun took the other side. We fought. I lost."

She flattens her ears, avoiding looking at Katara in her discomfort. "I am weaker. I obey." They made her run away like a dog, so Bella feels she no longer has a right to argue. It's how wolves function. They beat her, so her challenge is done. She hates this feeling.

Katara hadn't been talking about the Yeerk specifically, she was thinking more about negative emotions. "I know the feeling. I lost too. I'm supposed to be a water bending master, yet I still lost to Danny, a ghost boy. I don't want to fight anymore, not about this. Too many people have gotten hurt for this Yeerk."

Katara gazed at the wolf. "I saw you fighting them though. You were amazing! I've never seen anything like it. But some weapons are hard to beat anyway, especially when you don't know enough about them. You'll get stronger...and so will I."

Bella lives negative emotions, as a creature who's more than somewhat ruled by Rage it comes with the territory.

"You cannot hit a ghost. They don't have... (she flicks an ear trying to think of a word) it's not shape but is like it," she points out. Bella's figured out she can't put her claws through a spirit, anyway. Most of the time. It's kind of out of nowhere, her grasping for things to contribute. "We may have been wounded but the fighting is over now. We will remember to watch in case anything else happens."

At the mention of her fighting prowess, Bella visibly brightens. She straightens her posture, regaining some pride. "I am Ahroun. It is my duty. When the Apocalypse comes I will fight the Wyrm for The Mother."

There's a fire in her eyes; a feral, joyous light. "And if anything stands between us and our return I will fell it as any foe."

Katara sighed. "Well, he can solidify and go intangible. There was some accident that gave him that power. Oh, and he can apparently make duplicates of himself too, so that's a plus. Cheating, really, but then again, in a fight you use what you can."

Oh, she would watch, that was for sure. If that thing tried to do anything to her friends, all bets were off. She'd kill it in an instant. Being an idealist meant nothing if you were mind warped and unable to move on your own.

Katara gave the wolf a short bow. "I am Katara, the last waterbender of the Southern Water tribe. I have fought long and hard to rid the world of menaces that sought to destroy it, and avenge the imprisonment and death of my people. It is also a personal credo, but I will never turn on my back on those that need me."

She gave the wolf a smile. "It is an honor meeting you, Ahroun, wolf warrior. Is Ahroun your name or your race?"

Bella stands and returns the bow, going gentle on her shoulder but extending her other foreleg and lowering her front half to the floor.

"This one is Bella, Lupus Ahroun of the Get of Fenris." This girl is a warrior, then? She rises somewhat in Bella's estimate immediately. Bella's used to the Garou way of judging strength, though. Age and scars.

"I am Garou. Auspice comes of the moon. I was born beneath the full light of Luna's face, so Ahroun is my Auspice. It makes me a warrior."

Werewolves revere the moon. Aunt Luna's gifts to them, though with the heavy price of their silver weakness, have been a great boon in their war against the Wyrm.

"I see," Katara replied,a gentle smile on her face. "I am a waterbender, so we have great respect for the moon. She was our first teacher, and when she is at her strongest, so are we. I guess there are still some similarities from our worlds."

Katara was curious. "Waht do you mean by Auspice?"

Bella decides she likes Katara. The girl helped her, is both a warrior and a healer, and has respect for Luna.

"Auspice. It is... my job." She pauses, considering how to explain. "I am Ahroun, I am a warrior. The moon was full when I was born. There are others here. Wags-Tail-A-Lot is a Ragabash, no moon shown over his birth. He is a trickster. Plays-In-Traffic is Philodox, Luna showed half her face when he was born. He is a judge among Garou. One-Leaf-Ear is Ahroun, like me."

"I wish we had a Theurge here. A crescent moon. They speak to the spirits, one might be able to tell us what is happening."

Katara was overwhelmed with the information she just learned. It seems everytime she got overwhelmed with what she'd learned about Aang, there was this place again, showing her the story of another world and other kind of people. It reminded her why she'd done what she had in the first place: Bella was strong, a proud warrior. The thought of some alien taking her mind, making her do what it wanted while she watched helpless, it was more than she could bear.

"I wished someone from my world was here too. He often walked the path of the real world and the spirit world. A few days ago, I discovered he's here, somewhere away from everyone on the ship. They need him for something, but I don't know what. He is very strong, but he would be here trying to protect everyone. It's...because of him, and everyone here, that I want make sure that Yeerk will never get to do what's it done to others before."

She smiled. "I look forward to seeing all of your clan after this. They all sound strong, and willing to function as a unit. Of course, that'll be after we're probably put in the brig for all of this. I regret I had to fight against these people."

"A human Theurge." Bella mulls this over, the idea's foreign and goes against a lot of what she's been taught. Werewolf kin could sometimes have gifts, she knows, but nothing so strong as the ability to cross the Gauntlet. Oh well. Stacy hasn't played by the rules from the start, why would she break her streak?

"They are not my pack, but they are on my team," says Bella, though this doesn't seem to bother her terribly much. "My pack is not here. I'm glad, my sept needs them and they are probably very busy."

"Something like that," She said. "In our workd, he goes by The Avatar. He is the balance of our world, and he keeps everything in check. He restored peace to our world by overthrowing a cruel enemy that had waged war in my world for years. Without him...well, I'm sure I might not even be here. Our paths crossing, that was destiny. I'm sure of it. "

Katara nodded. "Well I'm glad you have them then! I know it isn't to be here when people from your world aren't, or are pulled from some other kind of space. They'll need you as much as you need them."

"I would like to meet this person," says Bella. "He sounds very interesting." Also very weird and likely to mess further with her Garou sensibilities, but that's something that's been happening a lot lately.

"I'm glad I'm not alone," she agrees to that assessment. It would be really miserable being the only Garou, even if she only gets along passably with the Homids. They're social creatures.

"I hope you do soon," Katara said, but looked down. "Not that I think I can face him after this. He would hate what I'm doing now, because he believes in the right of life of everything. There are times like this when I wish I thought like he did."

She smiled. "And you're not alone with your human brethren either. I know I don't seem like anyone important, but when I care about anyone, I am willing to do whatever it takes to protect them."

"There are some things that do not deserve to live," says Bella calmly. It's what she's been taught since her first change. Vampires and other Wyrmspawn come to mind.

"That is as Garou," Bella says. "I would die in defense of my pack."

Katara still looked sad. "That's not how he'd see it, no matter what. He...he took out a very powerful person without killing him. He would want it to be protected. That's just how he is. He's really a better person than I am."

She smiled. "I am glad we understand each other then."

Bella decides it's not worth it to keep arguing. Humans. This "Aang" person sounds almost as bad as the Children of Gaia. All life is sacred, try to avoid killing people, bah. Bella's Get. The Get kill. That's just how it works.

"We may not agree, but we have that," the wolf answers. "Do others need you now?"

Katara would have understood the need to kill. How could she not? What they were doing now wasn't exactly a "let-talk-this-out" situation with the Yeerk. The security team definitely knew that.

"Yes, I'm sure they do. I'll have to go to the other injured." She paused. "Hope I see you again soon."

"We were allies in this battle, it is likely," Bella replies.

She's not expecting the degree of punishment that will come down on them, as she's perfectly willing to show throat and take the loss with grace. But this is oddly prophetic.

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