Well so I ended up in some weird ass backwater. Locals telling me its some damn planet in another fraggin universe. And I am going to myself well this is a bunch of bullshit, that can't be right. Sure enough after some time, I find out that its not bullshit. Its really another world, after seeing two damn moons. Plus the stars were all wrong, I am like well, Cyrus, adapt or die.

A personal motto of mine, has served me well so far. Plan on sticking to it too. Not such a bad place, got me some work, made some acquaintances. There are a few hot women, though most are friggen stuck up. Probably as frigid as icebergs too. Just hope there is a strip club or two in this damn town. If not, I'll open one, better find out the laws for that. Don't need to be locked up in the joint again.

Course that was what caused me to get "volunteered" as the recruiter put it, when I was 14. It was either that or jail for 10 years. Not my fault that jackass uncle of mine was a drunk and abusive. Oh well, he is rotting in Hell now. But enough about that shit, water on the bridge and a long ass time ago.

Gonna get some new digs tomorrow at the Stars End spaceport. Hope its better then some of the other dives I have been in. One too many of those places in this Merc's life. Gets lonely too, I'd like to settle down some day. But I got too many demons, and way too many skeletons in my closet. Guys like me, dumbasses who thinks this is the life. Well, I was wrong. Should of, could of, its all bs in the end.

For Mandy I am doing this. I don't know why, maybe because it is the fact that I do feel for her. Whatever those feelings are, I care about her. And I wished to God I had told her sooner how I felt. Oh well, day late and a dollar short, as my Granddaddy used to say. And me the bigger damn fool. But I promised her I would try my best to figure out who she was.

The note and the letter had the same writing, her writing. Fingerprints also the same. I'll try to look for some match. Don't know if it will work, like a damn needle in a haystack. But I'll do my best for her. Cuz I care about her, she's as lost as I am. That and we are from the same world, well Earths anyway. Thats something at least.

As for Buram, I don't know how the Hell he is going to react to me having feelings for Mandy. No telling how his race reacts to such things. Hell I don't even know what race he is. But for now, I keep my mouth shut, do my job. Thats how it goes for a former Marine, turned Merc. Keep yer mouth shut, do the job, and don't frag it up. Or there is Hell to pay in the End.

Maybe I am doing this cuz she does care in some way. More then most damn people in my miserable life. And for me, thats a lot.

So Lust was just that, Lust, sure she was a fine and wild lil thing. And that night was something else. But shit man, that was just the thing, fleeting as tryin to chase a damn dream. So there it was, the next day, regrets. Always the regrets, feelings not possible. And Lust walked out on me. I didn't think it was gonna go anywhere. Neither did she, which is fine, least it was mutual.

But as I sat there, in that bar, wondering what the Hell I was gonna do next. I heard a call for help, scream was more like it. A woman in the night, I could feel the terror, the fear. Sometimes having these gifts to feel things, ain't so bad. So I quietly got out of the Inn, to the ally. I was right, a woman, a young woman, being chased by some jackass mugger. Stopped him in his tracks, more like threw him into a wall.

The woman came at me, even though she was bleeding from her leg. She was scared, but tough. I told her it was ok, I helped her. She helped me. I took her someplace safe, fixed her up. Molly, what a name, pretty as bell chiming away that name is. After a while, she comes round, we talk, we laugh. We share. And come to trust. I showed her a place, where she could see the city. And together we saw the Sunrise, a new day, a new dawn. A new life, Rebirth man, pure friggen rebirth. In that moment of a kiss, deep and pure as any can be.

I'm gonna stick around, stay for her, and this time, this time, it just might mean something for me and Molly both.

The Afterlife, and what it is like, heavy conversation for two new lovers. Molly and I talked about that last night, in the fact, that I would likely outlive her. Us Half-Dragons live for hundreds of years. Some longer then others, in my case I'll live to be around five-hundred. And it scares me, facing all those years without my Molly, who will at most live to be a hundred. She saw my fears about being without her. How I hoped that after I died she and I would be in Heaven. Molly at first really didn't believe in Heaven. Though for me she would believe in some afterlife. Where she and I are together, Forever, she really is the best.

And I am the luckiest guy in the world to have my girl. Then there was here father, but that discussion was before we talked about the Hereafter. Seems her father doesn't treat her like a grown-up, like an adult. Still sees her as a little girl, that just ain't right, not one damn bit. I see the beautiful, smart and caring woman Molly is. The down to Earth, determined and adorable woman I have come to love. I think now that she is free of him, Molly can grow into the person she is meant to be. And I am right at her side as she discovers the world with new eyes. Eyes I opened for her.

For us each day will be new, full of wonder for both of us, because love is new for both of us and we have that, together. I love my Molly and she loves me, we have our own Heaven right here, right now.

Well I screwed up big fraggin time, big too. Me and Molly got into a fight, not a huge screamin match. No, just me bein an ass, I wanted to just play a small joke. Had me a new phone, thought I'd be funny and call her. Then say hey its me, well that back-fired all ta Hell. Me, I got a bit hurt, went quiet, big mistake.

Molly, is just stressed out from her long hours at the Museum or the Dig site. Its a big amount of pressure on her, I should understand that better. God I'm sorry Molly, I was an ass. So she gets a room at the Inn. Locks me out, I don't get mad. That just makes me a bigger ass and makes things worse. I leave her be, give her space.

So here I am on the roof of the Inn, can't go home. Won't go home, not to an empty bed. And here I rest in a cold corner, looking at that damn Claddagh ring I was gonna give her. Tears in my eyes, wished I just gave her that damn ring instead..

Boy you done screwed up big time.

Well that was a wild damn night, or should I say forty years. Seems I was taken by the Nexus while on the way home. A great big flash, popping then well hell I end up back home. At first I thought it was too much booze or an Alien abduction.

I was wrong on both accounts, this ole Marine did some kind of time travelin' And I end up on an Earth that was some six-hundred years ahead of my time. Boy were things sure different, the tech level was way beyond anything I had ever even dreamed of as a kid. I was back in New Eden of all things, a much, much bigger Metropolis.

And I was really out of place too. Not because I was a Half-Dragon, hell I saw plenty of Half-Dragons. A lot more in fact, Humans too, Elves and all the other Races that were back on my Earth. Nah it wasn't that, it was if you can believe it, my entry. Seemed that this Earth I was on was advanced enough to have machines to detect Temporal shifts. In short order I was nabbed by the Law. Shipped off to some Law Enforcement center, questioned for like a full three days.

The Techs and Doctors did all kinds of tests on me. I even told them were I had been. After another week of being held up in a cell, food shitty as ever. Even in the Future the jail food is still really bad. once it was finally determined I was no alien threat. And my story checked out, they then processed me to be a new citizen. I had said to them that I had to get back to my girlfriend Molly. But that didn't persuade the people in charge. And so I lost it, took out five guards and two techs. Killed three of them, injured four.

That really didn't help, so history repeats itself and I get sent up to an Imperial Magistrate. Seems that over the years Earth, now called Terra Prime achieved real technological highs. And thus expanded outwards, forming an Empire. Or as the locals called it The Imperium Eternal. Led by an Imperator and the Imperial Ruling Council. I had me a crash course before my trial. That took six months off my life. But at least I was given access to the Imperial DataNet. Read up a lot in six months, nothing else to do.

Well along comes the trial, seems the Legal System did some digging of their own. And it turned out they dug up my records, from the Earth I was on of all things! These boys were way advanced as I said before. Personally I was just more then a bit shocked. However Fate, God, Lady Justice what have you, was smiling at me. The Magistrate offered me a choice, train for and serve in the Imperium Military. That or face two-hundred years in a Maximum-Security Mining penal colony on some rock of a moon. Said moon being a full thousand light-years from Terra Prime. Oh and to really stick it to me, if I didn't go with option A. Once I got out of Prison, I was never returning to Rhydin.

So..yeah, Option A it was. I was retrained, that took a full year. And it was more brutal then even my special ops training back on my Earth. I proved to be more then able, thankfully I had all that Cyberware in me. But the Higher-ups decided that I was still not good enough. So part two, I was shipped off to some high-tech Medical center. There I stayed for another three months. They not only grew a new heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and stomach for me. They took out all the cyberware and replaced it with the new organs.

The Titanium on my bones was actually taken off my bones, by Nanites. I had my Genetic code rewritten to improve me. The Doctors replaced the Titanium on my bones was replaced with something they called Adamatum. Which they said was a good one hundred times stronger then Titanium. Oh and they also fixed my Brain. Repaired the damage and integrated a new internal cybernetic comlink computer with data storage. As for my eyes, they replaced the Cybereyes with far better ones.

I have to tell you, it felt so damn good to breathe with normal lungs again. To eat food and actually feel it digest in my gut. To have a real heart again. I thought, wait until I tell Molly this, she will be so happy. And one last thing, they regrew my missing right forearm and hand. I have to say it was liberating all of it. These people did give me my life back. I owed them a lot for this.

Back to the Military I went, now apparently the Imperium had a very complex, mixed force military. Ground troops, Naval troops, Imperial Marines, that wasn't the half of it. A vast ground force and space fleet to protect the Imperium Eternal, a government of over twelve-thousand star systems across the Milky Way Galaxy. Which they now called the Prime Galaxy. But what I had experienced for the next forty years. That I will save for later, its one helluva story to tell.

Well I spoke to Buram tonight, got the all clear for his mission to the sector he wants to goto. And its my ass if the sh*t hits the fan as they used to say in my Granddaddy's day. The Ruling Council and the Military High Command made that very clear. Once orders are cleared, the I.S.S. thats Imperium Star Ship Virdon, a Juggernaut-class Medium Cruiser well arrive in Rhydin space. In two days, it will take that long for the orders to go through.

And all of maybe a minute in Continuum-Space to get from Gorath Sector in the Syraniil Galaxy to here. Got to love the fact that the Imperium can create stable wormholes to travel from one part of a Universe to another part.

So I go on a little trip, well not much I can do here. Molly is on that damn dig several hundred miles from the City. No phone or Internet and I am not cleared by the stupid Museum or University to go there. I have half a mind to give a piece of my mind. But I won't, it would mess up Molly's internship and she'd never forgive me for it.

I just don't know how she will react to seeing me like I am now. Maybe I should't worry, its not what I look like to her. Its how I am inside, my soul, how I treat her that matters. God I miss her, it gets lonely in our place. I have had to order a lot of take-out. I just don't have the heart to cook for myself. A bit too much like old times back on my original Earth. I just pray that she comes home soon. She is the other half of my soul, and I feel empty without her.

I had to leave for Terra Prime, reasons of state and all that fun stuff I hoped I was going to be minor. Well hell I was wrong, it was so important that they got here to Rhydin in no time flat. Then transported me off planet, without so much as a thankyou.

I just hope Molly is not going to be mad. I have still not seen her, or told her what happened to me. I just hope she can forgive me. I love her, always.

Well I met a most interesting fellow, a guy by the name of Raz. And of all things, he is a bipedal, Rabbit humanoid. Laid-back kinda dude, feel sorry for him though. Seems he is a magnet for Spacial rifts and portals. Having no control on where he ends up. And it seemed to me he is suffering some sort of memory loss. Back in the Imperium, we were told in Training camp, that being on board a ship when it goes into Fourthspace, it could have some minor affects. One being some possible memory loss.

Such being the risk of traveling in another Dimension that allows a vessal to cross Space/Time. Oh well, I offered to help Raz out. If he does take up the offer I could look into getting some top scientists from the Imperial Science Corps. The Temporal Machanics division, though most of those guys are a bit off. I suppose one would be, when you're around machines that can bend space/time like bending a piece of paper.

Poor Raz didn't even realize he was on Rhydin. Poor bastard, stuff like being ripped apart as you travel through a spacial rift can really frag a person up. Well he was rather happy to know he was back on Rhydin. Told me he was sleeping in burlap sheets and drank goat's milk. I had to laugh though, so I sorted it out for him. Now I'm sure he'll sleep better and eat better. Can't wait to tell Molly about this guy, I am sure she'd ask a million questions about him. Just as she did with me.

All the same, I'm off to bed, back home with my Molly. Its nice being back, I missed her a lot. She's my Girl, I'll always love her.

Well I had the most interesting occurance at the bar. See I don't sleep for very long, three hours at the most a night. So when Molly is sound asleep, I go for a walk. Usually to the Red Dragon Inn. See if any friends are there, a bit of chit chat. Then go home, read in the living room or in the study. Then by morning I wake up my Molly.

Anyhow, when I didn't think this damn town couldn't get any wierder. I ran across a walking, talking and really bad-tempered Dragon toy plushie. It didn't really like to be called cute, or poked in the tummy. I thought it was just some toy. Well I was wrong, I swear its some Demonic toy from the pits of Hell itself. Damn thing tried to fry me with fire and lightning. Though the lightning part wouldn't do much to me. However it synged my lower legs with its fire breath.

I have no damn clue what to tell Molly. I am like oh yeah by the way honeyI ran across and battled a plushie toy from Hell last night. Yeah right, if it wasn't for the fact that she loves me, she'd probably think I was nuts. I'll say this, I couldn't destroy the thing. Tried throwing it in the fireplace, it came back. Tried to blast it to ashes with a plasma pistol. Nothing, it kept coming back.

Maybe if I dipped it in acid? Hmm, I'll try that if I can. Thats if I see that plushie from Hell again. Oh and its name is Momo, I called my mom that when I was little as I could not say Mama right. I found that to be amusing about this plushie. I still think its damned annoying though. If the acid don't work, I'll get a priest to throw Holy water on the thing. Thats if I am right about the Demonic toy from Hell idea.