Firefly: "Eden-Two"

Disclaimer: If I weren't just a poor college student and could finance the series myself, I would, but I can't. So all I can do is just play around in Joss Whedon's 'verse. Also, I don't know a lick of Chinese so I haven't bothered to put the translations because they're probably horribly wrong. If it were Japanese or Latin, well, that'd be another story...

Episode two of my second season of Firefly: After completing a job on Beaumonde, Mal runs into a man he helped during the war. The man, weary of the hard life after the war, is searching for the fabled planet Eden-Two. Unfortunately, he isn't the only one.

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Captain Malcolm Reynolds dusted his hands off pleasantly as he finished up loading some of the cargo they'd be transporting on to Beaumonde. Kyo Nagiama, their new pilot and old friend, busied himself by working on the Mule as it remained parked on the roof Serenity. That meant a series of complicated harnesses to keep him hanging up in the air, which wasn't exactly Mal's idea of a good time.

"Doin' all right there, Kyo?" asked Mal, leaning against the crate he'd just loaded. Kyo dropped his hands from the underside of the Mule to look through the olive netting that supported him.

"Shiny," he smirked before reaching over to remove a tool from the box that was tied to the ridiculously high hammock.

"Don't be seein' the need to be messin' with the Mule," grumbled Jayne Cobb as he dragged two crates into the cargo bay of Serenity. "Better'n these here horses."

"Now, now, ain't no need to be takin' your frustrations out on them fine creatures," said Mal with an easy grin. He reached out and patted the strong neck of a brown stallion that stood to his right. Reminded Mal of his ranching days back on Shadow. Back there they hadn't a whole lot of A.T.V. transports to haul things, and so they mostly had to make due with wagons and horses.

"Don't be blamin' me neither," called out Kyo from above, who'd since returned to his