"Gav, take us up, as fast as possible" Rue took the captain's seat, and Juliet sat behind them still panting "That was close" She sat down and strapped herself in.

"We're not out of the woods yet" Rue knew they would chase after them this wasn't over. She knew how dangerous Juliet's family were, they were responsible for the death of her family and her becoming an orphan.

Rome watched Juliet's ship take off and his heart felt sadness, after only just finding her. This intense deep connection, as if this was only the beginning of a love song and now he would never get to listen to the rest of that song.

Mic hit the ground after the knife sliced into his chest, more guards were approaching so the Caelorians retreated back to their ship chasing after Juliet.

Rome ran to his best friend's side and held him in his arms. "Don't leave me Mic, you're my family" He moved his dark hair away from his face as he watched the life drain from his friend's eyes. Rome sobbed into his friend's arm as his chest rose for the last time and his final breath left his body going out into the universe.

Rome took his friend's neckless and left heading for one of the smaller ships. He wasn't far behind, he could catch them up.

The ship blasted their weapons at Juliet's ship, as they pursued damaging the shields but she knew they wanted her alive. Surely they wouldn't blow the ship up. Leaving the planet's atmosphere they headed towards a large asteroid shower with debris, maybe they could lose them in there.

"Should we head for the large ones?" Gav took a deep breath as he looked out at the chaos

" We are sitting ducks if we don't " Juliet closed her eyes as they moved forward.

Gav was a great pilot but this was another level of skill. He took the starship into the field of giant rocks and prayed they wouldn't get crushed. The ship shook violently but slowly stabilised as Gav adjusted the trusters to match the trajectory of the rock stream. The other ship reached the rocks and flew alongside not entering. Rue looked at the screen noticing another small ship approaching "Who's this?"

The small ship took fire from the Caelorians, the small size played to Rome's advantage as he was a hard target to hit. He pushed them closer to the rocks as they pursued him hoping he could get them as close as possible.

Heath scanned the asteroid field but all he could pick up were the astroid's signatures. Rome waited holding back until just the right moment to reveal his position.

Rue knew it was Rome, it had to be. Who would be this stupid coming out on their own in a tiny ship to risk his life for Juliet? "Remember that tiny ship we picked up Jules? Its Rome"

Juliet felt even sicker to her stomach now, they needed to damage Heath's ship so they both could get free.

Heath's ship launched a barrage of blasts into the asteroid field hoping to find the location of the two ships. Just as they fire their last blast Gav reveals his location with a burst of speed firing a powerful energy beam directly at the other ship's main engines. The engines erupt in a spectacular explosion sending shockwaves through the asteroid field.

The ship drifts helplessly disabled and defeated.

Juliet and the crew jump to their feet with a victorious shout, cheering and hugging each other celebrating until they look at the radar.

Juliet frantically raced to the large window to see.

Rome's ship was gone, all that was left was floating debris.

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Thank you for reading.

I will have to leave the story here for now as it's for a competition and is only allowed to be up to 5000 words. But if you guys like it and want to know what happens to Juliet I shall certainly carry on :)

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Jen