In a universe full of beings
Remember to stay alone
Keep your soul, keep your home
Don’t be afraid of the stars
In the year 2138
The destination is beyond Mars
See you there
Till we can howl at the same moon together
While on the search for the planet El Paraiso …
He wakes and its night. He wakes to dark clouds forming. Thunderstorms roaring while he tries to gather himself together. Looking for his communicator to see if the rest of the family made it out. The more his memory comes back, the more anxious he gets. He thinks he left his communicator in the Bowie (his spaceship, named after his favorite musician). His mind is racing, they cannot keep living like this. Guilt is clouding his judgement. He uses his breathing technique to calm himself and starts to meditate.
The Father finally calms down after his meditation. He looks for his Bowie. He loves listening to music when he is doing his expeditions, but he really loves to listen to David Bowie. Music blasting while the dark space he travels is as quiet as a mouse in a crowded church. He scans around the planet to see if there is any danger lurking. While scanning the planet he finds his Bowie and he starts to walk towards it. While walking he turns on his spacesuit flashlight so he can see 5 feet ahead of his steps. He gets to his ship right on time to refill his oxygen tank. His ship supplies it. Very convenient when needing oxygen after hopping from planet to planet. He hears a familiar voice over the communicator. It’s his daughter.
Allure sings through the communicator, “Dad who are your favorite kids?” while giggling. She continues to sing, “Me and Michelle are here”. The Father looks up smiling. Allure’s pink and blue spaceship emerges through the clouds and she parks her ship next to Bowie. Her spaceship resembles her father’s Bowie. On the side of her ship reads BOWIE II. The Father makes sure his oxygen tank is full and gets out to greet his two daughters. As soon as Allure opens the cockpit to greet her dad Michelle says, “Don’t worry dad, we filled up our oxygen tanks” sounding sarcastically. The Father hugs both and says, “Actually, I wanted to know, how did I get here?” Allure looks confused and says, “We were battling the pirates don’t you remember?” she hugs him tighter. “Are you ok?” Michelle asks. The Father responds, “Yea, I remember that, but I don’t remember landing Bowie down and getting out.” Allure responds, “Dad you must have bumped your head because we helped you out the ship. Michelle adds “Yeah, then we went to help mom and the boys. They are up there now making sure no one follows us here. She said she’ll be on her way here in a few.” Allure smiles and tells her dad, “Yeah… you’re getting to old to defend us now dad. We can handle it.” Michelle giggles. Michelle asks her dad to look at Bowie to make sure it’s still functional. The Father while trying to organize his daughter’s cockpit pushes a button from his spacesuit and Bowie’s glass shield opens. Michelle plugs in her computer to make sure the ship has the latest software. Michelle created a software to make sure all of their ships can’t get tracked by anyone. She is what they call the “brain” of the family. Not the smartest but the one with the most patience to deal with some of tedious procedures. Michelle is just a year younger than Allure. Michelle is also the only one that does not like to shoot her blaster. Allure always keeps her sister in her sights. Allure the oldest of 5 and is the emerging leader. Always has a chip on her shoulder to prove to herself she can do anything her father can do. She always is willing to gun down pirates and willing to do trades for the products they need. She has no fear when she is roaring the skies. The Father is training her to lead their wolfpack. He also worries naturally because she is his first born. In a wolfpack there is usually an ALPHA who leads the pack. Allure is wanting to be the next Alpha. She made it clear from the beginning of the journey she can handle anything.
The journey has not been easy on the Wolves family. While Mother Earth was declared a decaying planet from the world leaders, the Wolves have been dedicated to their own ideology. Even when world leaders suggested the humans to follow procedure, the Wolves decided to follow their own path. The Father and Mother started to teach their 5 kids from an early age that they will try to explore and find another planet they can occupy. The Father worked tirelessly to make sure they had enough space jets (that look like the X-wing from a Star Wars movie) and a mothership where they can store all their space jets, food, and cots. They have a few workers with them to keep the mothership in the best condition. It’s a used ship but the Wolves made the best of it. Some of their space jets can fit up to 2 people in the cockpit. Most of the time the siblings are the ones flying together in the space jets. While the Father worked to provide for the future the Mother educated the kids about the future. They also changed their last name to Wolves. While mother earth was in chaos, the Wolves family planned to fly out to space before anyone else. There were thousands that followed suit with the same mindset, but some didn’t make it past the atmosphere as some ships were not equipped to handle the thruster’s pressure. When Allure turned 15 years old, she knew how to fly before she knew how to drive a vehicle on land. They flew out shortly after her 17th year around the sun.
The Father uses the communicator to try to reach his wife. He gets no response. He gets out of his ship and walks toward BOWIE2. The Father hears Michelle telling Allure while scanning the planet she found an empty base but that there are critters. First thing Allure asks her sister is “how big are they?” See, as confident Allure is in the skies, she is not as confident dealing with “critters” on planets. Especially if they are human size critters. Michelle responds, “from what I can read in this crappy environment, they are as big as an elephant”. Allure clutches on her blaster on her side of her hip. The Father quickly puts his arm around her and says, “we been in this situation before. Just remember, we attack together.” He stares at Michelle and adds “don’t hesitate.” Michelle asks, “is this a necessary risk?” Allure responds, “there might be a map in the base to lead us to him. We need to find our brother. Just imagine if you were in his position how you would feel.” The father adds, “you know our mission is to get Prince and find a home for us. At this point I do not care if it is El Paraiso. I just want to find a planet with enough resources where we can settle. There is a base here, so there has to be paperwork and documentation of their work on this planet.” Michelle starts to put her computer in the ship cockpit and grabs her blaster. “Till we can howl at the same moon” she says.
They start to gather things they need for the journey to the base. Allure asks Michelle "how far are we from the base?" Michelle checks her small computer and she responds, "it’s 50 meters". Allure uses her portable communicator and tells her father what Michelle said. The Father in the Bowie sends a message to his wife. The Father makes sure he tells her where they are going and their position on the mystery planet. He gets out of his ship and walks toward his daughters. He asks, "are you girls are ready?" Allure responds, "almost done, just need to get my communicator.” Allure goes back to her ship, grabs her communicator and while walking to her dad, a voice rings through everyone’s communicators. "Wolfpack 3, wolfpack 3! I have your position. I repeat, the mothership has your position. Is everyone accounted for and safe?" The Father smiles as his wife’s voice is clear as a sunny Sunday morning on mother earth. He responds and tells her their plan to commute to a base 50 meters away from their position. The wife says, "I have a reading coming from the base. It seems like there are people there. Be careful, it might be a pirate home base." The Father looks at Allure and winks at her as she makes sure her two blasters are ready. "Get the pack ready, just in case there are pirates lurking, mother ship" he tells his wife. "10-4" she responds. The Father and his two daughters start their journey towards the base. It’s very dark but from their spacesuit flashlights they can see 5-10 feet ahead. A bit windy but nothing they can’t handle. 3 minutes into their walk, a caterpillar-like critter slides by them. Michelle grabs Allure. Allure grabs onto one of her blasters. Michelle says, “that is a non-venomous critter and definitely not attracted to humans". Allure says, "I don’t care everything, and everybody could get it.” The Father stops and ducks while peaking over a large boulder. “I see lights coming from the base. Michelle scan the area. Let us know what we have.” The Father grabs his blaster, which looks like a rifle with a scope, ready to snipe anything that is not a part of his pack. He only uses his smaller blaster when the enemy is close range. His favorite weapon is his rifle he named “Don Dada”. He aims the rifle toward the base while Michelle scans the area. Allure crouches behind her dad and whispers "any pirates?" The Father looks left to right, then right to left. “Yes” he answers, grinning, because he knows Allure is thirsting to shoot her blasters again. Michelle finishes her scans and crouches near her two pack members. “I think Prince is in the base,” she says sounding nervous and tearing up. “Dad, there’s two pirates outside and two pirates inside.” The Father uses his communicator to tell his wife their youngest might be in the base. “Get his ass back!” she replies. He puts Don Dada down, turns around, tells Allure to go left and Michelle to go up the middle. “Don’t be afraid to use your boosters to fly around. Michelle, me and your sister will take the two pirates that are outside. Then you throw stun grenades inside the base.” Michelle nervously shakes her head yes.
Michelle creeps up to the base. The Father aims his rifle blaster at one pirate. Allure jumps in with her booster and shoots one pirate in the heart. The Father shoots the other pirate in the head. Michelle creeps up closer to the base and the base door opens. A pirate walks out, but this pirate looks different than others. Unusually tall, with a lion like mane, he walks out and Michelle crouches while stepping backwards. The lion pirate looks around and see’s the two pirates laid out. He grabs his communicator and starts to speak in a language that is foreign to the Wolves. Michelle grabs her blaster and points it right towards his head. She pulls the trigger and the pirate collapses. The base doors open again, and the fourth pirate walks out. He is holding Prince as a hostage. Prince, the youngest of the wolfpack, is crying as he sees Allure and Michelle with their blasters up. Allure screams out “LET HIM GO NOW! WE WILL LET YOU LIVE!” Michelle looks at Allure, without hesitation says, “Kill it now! KILL IT!” Michelle has her blaster up but is visibly shaking. The pirate smiles and keeps speaking in his language. Allure does not have a shot and shakes her head at Michelle. The pirate, holding the 5-year-old tighter by the moment with his blaster pointing at his head, is screaming in a foreign language, trying to walk back towards the base. The Father, still at a distance, is waiting for the perfect shot. Allure says, “Prince, relax, we are ALL here.” She winks at him. Prince calmly looks to his left and sees a glistening figure beyond the darkness. Prince still crying, closes his eyes as he hears a sound. The Father pulls his trigger and hits the pirate right between his huge eyes. When the pirate collapses Prince falls on the dead body. He gets up, runs towards Allure and Michelle while screaming “Dad!” The Father runs up and picks up his 5-year-old. He hugs Prince and asks, “how did you get here?” Prince, visibly shaken from the event, points to the base. Allure and Michelle put their blasters up and walk into the base.
Michelle walks in first, scans the base and sees a body laying down on the ground in the corner of the base. Michelle taps Allure, she does not move her eyes away from the body laying down. Once Allure sees the body, she screams out “Dad! Come in here now! Michelle, get mom and medic down here now!” The Father walks in with Prince in his arms and sees the body. He puts Prince down and immediately recognizes the body. Michelle asks, “is Aunty alive?” while crying and grabbing Prince. The Father stays silent while he checks his sister pulse. He feels a slow heartbeat, but she is unconscious. He looks at her left arm and sees her left hand missing. While he holds his sisters’ right hand, he asks “Michelle is the mother ship on the way?” Michelle responds, “2 minutes dad.” Allure, Michelle, and Prince hover over their dad and hug him while he meditates.
The mother ship lands near the base. The Mother, who is also nurse, tells her medic team to take the injured sister to the ship. She grabs and holds Prince close to her chest. She looks down, sees the pirates and then looks up to her distraught husband. The Father walks up to the dead pirates and begins searching their bodies. Allure asks her father, “dad, are you ok?” The Father nods. He notices something on the jackets the pirates were wearing. There is a strange language printed on the back of them. He looks inside their jackets and sees a card that reads “Hunt Humans for the United Slave Federation”. In the back it reads “Hired by General Cooper”. He looks at his wife and says, “the rumors are true. They are hunting humans for the next planet”. He gives Michelle and Allure the cards collected from the pirate’s jackets. The Father instructs them, “we need to know everything about these beings. Why did the humans hire these kinds of pirates?” He then looks at his wife and embraces her while she holds Prince. The Mother whispers, “your sister is going to be ok. I promise.” He looks at his daughters and says, “let’s go get our BOWIEs”. They walk 50 meters back to their spaceships and wait for the mother ship to take off. Once the mother ship takes off into space, they open the hatch and Allure is the first one to pulls in and parks her ship. Then the father parks Bowie.
Soon as his latch opens his wife grabs his attention. “Valley has awakened,” she tells him. They run to the medic room and the Father sees his sister’s eyes closed. He touches her right hand and she opens her eyes. “Brother, oh my god! I was afraid you were dead!” She looks around the room worried and asks, “where’s Prince?” The Father puts his hand on her shoulders to calm her and responds, “he’s safe now, thanks to you. What happened?” She looks down at her missing hand and immediately starts to cry. The Father wipes her tears and tells her, “you’re alive. We are still here.” While tears run down her cheeks, Valley embraces Allure and Michelle. She finally calms down enough to speak. “Our mother ship was attacked. So, I put Prince in a safe pod. We got attacked by a ship 2 times bigger than our mother ship. They blindsided us, brother. They took all my crew members. When my safe pod landed on the planet, they beat me and shot my hand off with their blaster. I must have passed out from the pain.” Father looks at Michelle to make sure she is writing everything down. He asks his sister, “where’s your wife and son?” Valley responds, “you haven’t found them? They went out to look for you. When I landed in the safe pod, I saw her fly by. She saw I was captured. I don’t think they saw her. She was in stealth mode.” The Father gets up, looks out the medic room door and tells Valley, “don’t worry, we will find them. We have to hope she removes the stealth mode so we can track her.” He waves Michelle and Allure over. He states, “our new mission is to find them at all costs. They might be in stealth mode. Michelle see what you can do.” Allure and Michelle leave the medic room. He looks at Valley and asks, “what do you know of these pirates?” Valley responds, “I’ve never seen anything like them. They are very aggressive. I didn’t understand a word in their language, but they can speak English.” The Father replies, “Rest Valley, I will get to the bottom of this. We going to find your wife and son. I promise. I will protect our name and make sure we reach our destination.” Valley grimaces from the pain. She says, “be careful. I don’t believe there’s a world just for us. The Federation is conquering galaxies. I just hope we are doing the right thing. We can’t shoot our way out of everything.” Her brother smiles and presses his forehead on hers. “Yes, we can. Yes, we will. We will stay free to roam planet to planet. Galaxy to galaxy. Wolves are meant to be wild and free.” He starts to walk away and suddenly stops to say, “remember Valley, till we can howl at the same moon together”.
CHAPTER ONE