Lost Empire

Chapter 32

0001 - Tempro

0003 - Conner

0097 - Ace

0101 - Shelby (mother ship)

0125 - Lars

0200 - Ellen

0403 - Johnathon

0667 - Marco

0778 - Jan

0798 - Celeste

0999 - Zan

1000 - Sherry

To Grow

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0301

0908

0098 (Lucy)

It had only been one day, just one day and he was already bored out of his mind. True he'd probably accomplished far more in that one day than any other but hell! When he'd sighed at the mountain of papers that Mary said he needed to sign he thought that it would move things a lot. After twenty-four hours he'd asked how long and Mary had responded only a week!

True they had only ninety years left now but Derrick felt as if he'd never catch up. Shaking his head and stretching Derrick got up to take a walk. Somehow he had to come up with a way to muddle through this faster. Smiling he was glad though, the week he'd just finished, a few things had been passed that he knew, and a few of the royals wouldn't be pleased with at all.

Derrick had just made it near the training room when he saw a body flying through the door. Thing was, the body righted it's self and almost bounced back into the room off the wall. Nodding Derrick went in and took a seat behind the students that were watching. Greeson was attempting to stop everything that Dempsy was throwing at him. Derrick's mouth was hanging open as he watched or rather tried to watch the blurred motion of both men's hands.

Suddenly both men stopped and bowed to Derrick, who growled at both men drawing a smile from Dempsy. "Sire I am reminded of something my old master once said. Something I had forgotten 'til recently. Destiny may be fickle like many people but she also is true to what her purpose is."

Derrick could only shake his head and stare at Dempsy. "You mean that she may appear to change her mind a lot but what she intended always happens?"

Dempsy's face lit up and a wide smile crossed his features. "Your Lordship is by far wiser than I had thought he was."

Derrick nodded as the two combatants went back to what they were doing. Derrick could see that Greeson was by far better than he had been. A moment later Greeson was flying through the air with part of Dempsy's shirt. A huge smile lit up Dempsy's face.

Finally the man was starting to get fast! At least now if he went up against her he'd have more of a chance of surviving but not much.

Derrick sat there for a while longer then went out the back area into bay 1. There he saw, one of the two ships that were growing. Shelby appeared next to him a moment later as he was walking. "Which one is...?" Derrick started.

"That is 0301 the new power matrix that you upgraded is supplying far more power to them than before. They still seem to be accelerating in their growth. When I put both of them into the matrix I never expected them to regen as fast as they are. We had gotten it down to six days; I'd say they should be ready in only five. Derrick this is the fastest that a ship has ever been grown!" Shelby told him fresh tears of joy in her eyes.