[x]

Her Hand in Mine (Chapter 12 and 13)(Conclusion)

12
No sooner had we finished eating than Gar and Sara joined us in the dining room to escort us back to the transport room. On the way there, I could not help but feel a sort of growing unease. I supposed that Sar’vana was aware of my apprehension, as she squeezed my hand just a little more tightly, and walked beside me somewhat closer.
“It will be all right, my li-ah,” she assured me with a tender smile. “You’ll see.”
“I hope you’re right,” I said. “I would hate for the Empress to be brought into this.”
“Empress?” She cocked an e

Her Hand in Mine (Chapter 9)

9

I had never been inside a Felyan ship before. Few humans had. I’d loaded slag countless times onto many kinds of human starships, and had my own glimpses of their interiors. Even the sturdiest and cleanest were not much to look at on the inside; they were not unlike the corridors of our cities in Valis, basically tin cans with lit and furnished interiors.
Felyan ships were unlike anything I had ever expected.
As I was guided to the infirmary by the two Hara’kya Felyan guards from the room in which we arrived, I gawked at the trees that lined the corridor. It was not something so quaint as lining a ha

Her Hand in Mine (Chapter 10)

10

I had almost forgotten about the ambassador, and whirled about quickly as Sar’vana, her father, and the two guards made their respective exits. At once, I was consumed by a wave of inexplicable fright at his presence. Perhaps it was because he sat so still that I thought at first that he wasn’t alive, and it was just some elaborate, eerily lifelike statue that I was left with. But now, I was alone with him … alone with a very much alive Vlissian, a race that humanity knew next to nothing about.
Please, come sit down, said a voice, which caused me to give a terrible start. I whirled to the left and ri

Her Hand in Mine (Chapter 7 and 8)

7

Despite the indescribable joy of our first night, I suffered strange and disturbing dreams as I slept: a series of dreadful reveries that made me think that my wonderful night with Sar’vana had only been a dream itself. Disappointment and anguish forced me awake, and sensations returned to my body, chiefly the heaviness, softness, and warmth of Sar’vana upon my chest. I smiled with joyful relief. I touched her, just to confirm her presence, and I relaxed with relief that spread through me like a cooling weight.
“It felt like a dream,” I said murmuring the words in my wakefulness.
“I

Her Hand in Mine (Chapters 1-2)

1
I would never have believed that on the day that Sar’vana returned to my life, I would begin to die. It wasn’t real death; no, my life was in no danger of ebbing away, but it was a death nonetheless. Slowly, irrevocably, the man that I was faded away, bit by bit, becoming ever more a stranger to Zynj, the planet of my birth. It was a death for which I am eternally grateful. Bit by bit, I was reborn, free of my world’s constraints, and came into possession of all that I ever needed. I became whole and complete, healed of a disease I never even knew I had.

I saw the ship landing on the day it began, at

Browse More Like This

More from ~LordCarapace

View Gallery

Featured in Groups:

#FurryCentral

#Furry-is-Forever
furry

Details

Submitted: January 16
Image Size: 2.9 MB
Resolution: 2187×1700

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 6
Favourites: 8 [who?]
Views: 145 (0 today)
Downloads: 7 (0 today)

[x]

Last thoughtsby ~LordCarapace

Anthro / Traditional Media / Drawings

A pilot is shot down, his eject lever is jammed and the electronics in his plane are fried.
He decides that at his last moment, he has to remember his wife...one last time.

Foxtail One's burnt out wreckage was found atop a highway overpass after the retaking of the city from unknown enemy forces.

*The-Poko Jan 17, 2013

Now the urge to play ace combat returns...

~Crystal-Wing-Dragon Jan 17, 2013

Dammit Captain Davenport! Why did you have to die? (Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War reference)

But wow, this is amazing. You really captured a lot of emotion with this drawing.
AWACs overhead: <<Foxtail One, you've been hit! Eject!>>
Foxtail One: "This is callsign Foxtail One, I've been hit. My lever's jammed and the controls are fried. I can't eject"
AWACs: <<Can you still fly manually?>>
Foxtail One: *checks flight-stick* "Yeah, I can still control the flaps a bit"
AWACs: <<There's a highway a few Clicks to the East, can you attempt a landing?>>
Foxtail One: "Yeah, I need a bit of cover though, the flak is gonna cut me to shreds"
AWACs: <<Make your way there, Wolfclaw 3 is heading to assist>>
Foxtail One: "Roger that" I pull the flight stick down and to the left, after steadying out, I notice the picture of my wife I keep in my leg pocket. I pull it out and I take a long look at it. I see the highway and a few explosions along my flightpath out of the corner of my eye, I put the picture back in my pocket.
Foxtail One: "I see the highway, I'm making my landing" I ease back on the thrust and the nose of my jet drops. Too fast! I crash-land and I slide on my belly for a few hundred yards, my Jet stops as it hits a burnt out schoolbus, rupturing my jet's exposed fuel tank and propelling my head into the dashboard and my knee straight into the underside of the controls, I feel a bone snap.
AWACs: <<Foxtail One! Are you all right? RESPOND!>>
My jet starts on fire, and I can tell my leg is broken. I pull out the picture one last time.
Foxtail One: "Dammit, *Wife's Name*, I'm so-" Is all I get out as the flames reach the fuel tank, causing my jet to go up in a ball of flames.
AWACs: "FOXTAIL!"

You captured the emotions perfectly. Keep it up

~LordCarapace Jan 17, 2013

Oh, don't spoil Ace Combat 5 for me yet! I just got started on the campaign, lol.
That was an awesome story for this picture which made it even more captivating. Thank you.

~Crystal-Wing-Dragon Jan 17, 2013

I loved Ace combat 5, I've played it through at least 20 times on Hard-mode. I also recommend getting Ace Combat: Assault horizon as well, the graphics are AMAZING!

~LordCarapace Jan 17, 2013

I got Ace Combat Assault Horizon because of the music and it's extreme close-up destruction of enemy planes.
Although it just didn't feel like an Ace Combat to me...
The DFM and ASM kind of ruined the skill that you had to learn to defeat other enemy planes. (I learned skill the hard way when encountering Strigon Team on the desert mission on AC6.)

~annemari01 Jan 16, 2013

Its so sweet

More from ~LordCarapace

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

Last thoughtsby ~LordCarapace

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style