You wake up panting, drenched with sweat. You've been having the same goddamn nightmare for 2 weeks now. Your planet exploded roughly 30 minutes after you left it on the Galactic Rose. Apparently some space pirates were paid by the government to get rid of the planetary laser, at any cost. Space pirates, being the way they are decided it would be fun to destroy your planet, and the government didn't even care. Of course, it was just a desert planet for war, but some valuable people were probably on it... right?

You shake your head trying to get those thoughts out. You sadly look around your cabin, there wasn't much. Just the hologram of your parents on a grey nightstand and your bed, holding a few books and your bag. Now that you're up, you might as well go on if you're okay, speaking of which are you okay? You're just a bit shaken that's all,  you tell yourself as you change out of your gray tank top and sweatpants into your light purple jumpsuit with a rose stitched on it.

Everyone on this ship has a color code, gray was the mechanics, yellow were the tech dudes and gunners, light purple were doctors, blue were pilots, and last but not least, dark blue was the captain. You were really lucky to even get the job as a doctor, especially since only the captain knew you were joining the crew. You exited your cabin , your eyes adjusting to the bright Light of the female living quarters. All conversation stops when they see you, and they begin speaking in low hushed voices.

You ignore them to the best of your abilities, focusing on the oddly Hospital waiting room like living room. The entire room was white, white tiles, white walls, and white couches. The only bit of color there was of course the people, and the doors to the cabins and exit. You sit down next to a two tailed cat lady with fluffy black fur. She's trying to play some sort of MMORPG on a tablet but her claws are getting in the way of her frantic button mashing. She has on a yellow jumpsuit,  obviously being one of the tech nerds or gunners. You watch as her HP slowly dwindles down to zero and dies from this huge freaking Red Dragon.

She curses loudly, scaring the living shit out of you, and then scaring herself from how loud she was. "Ah, sorry sorry!" She sticks out one of her paws and you take it, shaking it. " My name is Emily, second-in-command to the captain Gunner! What's yours?"

"Aster." You say, quite curious what she was playing.

She tilts her tablet so you can see better. She explains the mechanics of the game, there's guilds, raids, giant freaking Red Dragons that want to murder your face, typical fantasy MMORPG stuff. Except, when you're playing your consciousness is actually inside the game, you just have to button mash to actually attack. Basically you're seeing inside the game and real life at the same time.

" Captain Luna plays this game too, in fact she made the Blueblood Clan that I'm in. I think she's a level 102 cleric? But I do know she has a skeleton familiar, and she gave it a weird armor thing with a blue scarf, oh and blue star like pupils. She named it Blueberry or something..." She mutters that last part, as she's already going back to kill the dragon.

[Aster Fukuoka to the Captain's Quarters please, Aster Fukuoka to the Captain's Quarters.]

The girls in the living room all stared at you and went "Oooh!" like a third grade class. You wave Emily goodbye and begin the Journey to the Captain's Quarters.  You get lost within 30 seconds. You're immediately in the fast-paced crowd of crew members all trying to get to different places. Someone shoves you which causes you to bump into someone else, causing a chain reaction of people falling and blaming it on you. Great, so now the crowd of people moving around is mad at you.

You apologize to as many people as you can while still trying to go to an elevator going to the higher levels. Finally, after endless shoving an elevator opens and you really don't care where it's going. You dash there like there's no tomorrow and momentarily catch your breath before realizing Cosmic is in the elevator with you. He's in his blue uniform  assigned to Pilots, and he blinks before tapping the button for the 10th floor.

He's not bad looking for being half Faglan, a race of demons. He has messy brown hair pale skin, and red eyes that somehow have the habit of sparkling whenever he curses. He's short, about 5-3 but damn if he isn't cute. His Faglan inheritance left him with a whip-like tail and small little Nubs for horns.

He breaks the awkward silence first, asking about your first two weeks on the ship and apologizing for the way he acted before you boarded. You say that it's fine and it was actually kind of entertaining to say the least. The rest of the short trip is filled with puns and light-hearted complaints about your jobs. As you're about to leave the elevator you look back and ask how he knew you were going up to this floor.

" Everyone on the ship got the announcement! Why, are the girls giving you a hard time?"

You disregard that comment and wave good-by as the elevator doors were closing behind you. The entire floor was specifically for the pilots stations and cabins along with the Captain's Quarters. The entire place is devoid of intelligent life, or to put it in real speech, nobody was there except for you. Luna, the captain of the Galactic Rose comes out of her quarters and beckons you to sit down at her desk. You do so.

" Your family was killed by the Tar-ringa, Correct?"

You nod.

" Then Aster, we have much to speak about. "