queen and your clan, self-preservation not of yourself but your clan is the only fidelity you need. Obey your queen and fulfill her will as she has fulfilled her queen’s and the queen before her,” Kio-Kai recited.
An elder hunter, now since passed, had once shared with him these wisdoms. It was presently a contradictory rule as the current queens in power mostly obeyed the overlords.
The colosseum did not exist before the great rulers that plagued the Vai-Zik came about because entertaining the masses was never really needed. The one true will to simply survive and provide for the hive and all the clans that comprised it was life’s great priority.
“Come on you haven’t much else to do. You just said that you caught food for the day,” she pointed out.
“Yea suppose you're right.”
“Bending one's will to my own, maybe I will make a good queen someday after all,” she giggled--taking flight down the tunnel.
“Maybe, but not my queen, Lady Lai,” He smirked following her.
***
Kaito watch through the scope of his railgun as Leon emerge from the wreckage of Valerie's ship. Empty handed, he shook his head up at Kaito. Leon spun in a circle observing the ground around him and looked back up to Kaito, signaling him down off the mountain.
Kaito rose to his feet, slung his rifle behind his back and slid down the summit. Libra silently drifted behind him. Towards the bottom, he lost his footing and face-planted into the dirt before rolling the rest of the way down. He stood back up to his feet. Now covered in dust and coughing, he patted himself off and spit out a mouthful of blood before limping over to Leon.
“Take lead and scan for life,” Leon instructed Scorpio before turning to face Kaito. “You alright?” he asked, noticing the dirt caking Kaito’s face.
Kaito nodded despite his body aching from his clumsy and embarrassing tumble.
“She isn’t here, but she was. There is blood on the soil about ten yards out and some marks in the ground as if she crawled or limped away.”
“But why would she go in the opposite direction of where we landed?” Kaito questioned.
“Her electronics are fried...must have not seen us land,” concluded Leon.
The two walked for some time following the small trickles of blood until reaching a cave. They looked at each other and nodded. Leon drew his two energy pistols, activating the flashlights on them while Kaito unslung his rifle and activated his own light.
The cave’s air was cool and a breeze suggested it had more than one entrance. Stalactites drip from above and chatter, from some type of bat native to this planet, echoed through the darkness. Kaito’s eyes scanned through the stillness of his surrounding until he spotted one. Sure enough it was a bat the size of a small child drifting by silently ahead. Fuck that, he thought while observing above with his flashlight. His eyes locked onto one of the bats who were upside down sleeping. No fucking way , he thought as his spine went cold in looking over the giant bat. This one was the size of a full grown man. It slept suspended fifteen feet up in the air attached to a crack in the cavern’s ceiling.
“Valerie,” Leon yelled, his voice echoing into the cave for miles.
Kaito’s stomach dropped in fear “What are you doing?” he hoarsely whispered.
“Not wasting anymore time looking for this girl,” Leon fired back. “Either she is alive in this cave or dead. The trail goes cold here with this puddle of blood,” he added pointing to a large red blotch on the ground.
“Yea, but you are going to piss off whatever could live in here,” Kaito choked out.
Leon ignored him and Kaito was grateful for that. Something about poking around in the darkness of a foreign planet made him uneasy, but he should have never shown his fear or lack of faith in an officer's decision.
“Valerie!” Again Leon shouted.
His voice seemed to echo again for miles off into the unknown darkness.
Then out of
An elder hunter, now since passed, had once shared with him these wisdoms. It was presently a contradictory rule as the current queens in power mostly obeyed the overlords.
The colosseum did not exist before the great rulers that plagued the Vai-Zik came about because entertaining the masses was never really needed. The one true will to simply survive and provide for the hive and all the clans that comprised it was life’s great priority.
“Come on you haven’t much else to do. You just said that you caught food for the day,” she pointed out.
“Yea suppose you're right.”
“Bending one's will to my own, maybe I will make a good queen someday after all,” she giggled--taking flight down the tunnel.
“Maybe, but not my queen, Lady Lai,” He smirked following her.
***
Kaito watch through the scope of his railgun as Leon emerge from the wreckage of Valerie's ship. Empty handed, he shook his head up at Kaito. Leon spun in a circle observing the ground around him and looked back up to Kaito, signaling him down off the mountain.
Kaito rose to his feet, slung his rifle behind his back and slid down the summit. Libra silently drifted behind him. Towards the bottom, he lost his footing and face-planted into the dirt before rolling the rest of the way down. He stood back up to his feet. Now covered in dust and coughing, he patted himself off and spit out a mouthful of blood before limping over to Leon.
“Take lead and scan for life,” Leon instructed Scorpio before turning to face Kaito. “You alright?” he asked, noticing the dirt caking Kaito’s face.
Kaito nodded despite his body aching from his clumsy and embarrassing tumble.
“She isn’t here, but she was. There is blood on the soil about ten yards out and some marks in the ground as if she crawled or limped away.”
“But why would she go in the opposite direction of where we landed?” Kaito questioned.
“Her electronics are fried...must have not seen us land,” concluded Leon.
The two walked for some time following the small trickles of blood until reaching a cave. They looked at each other and nodded. Leon drew his two energy pistols, activating the flashlights on them while Kaito unslung his rifle and activated his own light.
The cave’s air was cool and a breeze suggested it had more than one entrance. Stalactites drip from above and chatter, from some type of bat native to this planet, echoed through the darkness. Kaito’s eyes scanned through the stillness of his surrounding until he spotted one. Sure enough it was a bat the size of a small child drifting by silently ahead. Fuck that, he thought while observing above with his flashlight. His eyes locked onto one of the bats who were upside down sleeping. No fucking way , he thought as his spine went cold in looking over the giant bat. This one was the size of a full grown man. It slept suspended fifteen feet up in the air attached to a crack in the cavern’s ceiling.
“Valerie,” Leon yelled, his voice echoing into the cave for miles.
Kaito’s stomach dropped in fear “What are you doing?” he hoarsely whispered.
“Not wasting anymore time looking for this girl,” Leon fired back. “Either she is alive in this cave or dead. The trail goes cold here with this puddle of blood,” he added pointing to a large red blotch on the ground.
“Yea, but you are going to piss off whatever could live in here,” Kaito choked out.
Leon ignored him and Kaito was grateful for that. Something about poking around in the darkness of a foreign planet made him uneasy, but he should have never shown his fear or lack of faith in an officer's decision.
“Valerie!” Again Leon shouted.
His voice seemed to echo again for miles off into the unknown darkness.
Then out of
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