Chapter 1
"What do you think we should do with her?" Chiana asked Crichton, pointing at the young Sabation girl in the prison cell.
"Next planet we come across we drop her off."
"Commander, Moya is detecting bounty hunters approaching her."
"Pilot, immediately Starburst." Crichton commanded.
"No"
"No? Why not?"
"Moya is refusing. The Bounty hunters are too close for Starburst. Moya thinks we should let them board."
"Fine. D'Argo, Aeryn, Jool, Zhaan, Sparky meet me at the docking bay but Sikozu keep an eye on Scorpius."
"Crichton, are you seriously going to let Sikozu look after fek face?"
"Good point Pip, second thoughts Sikozu you and Scorpi go to the docking bay and we'll meet you there."
The Docking Bay doors opened slowly and in entered three bounty hunters holding heavily armed weapons.
"We're taking over this Leviathan; you can either fight us or stand aside."
"Kiss…. my…. ass, there's three of you and nine of us," Crichton said with a smirk.
"Three of us? Oh you forgot to count some of my other friends."
In that instant fifteen hunters appeared wearing black leather clothes with a red robe which draped over their backs and on one side of their chests.
"Oh Crap."
An arn later the crew of Moya were all tied up.
One of the hunters dragged along the young sabation prisoner.
"We found her in a cell."
The leader of the group looked at her then back at the crew again. "Tie her up."
"Yes sir." The tall muscular hunter tied the girl up with chains against the wall.
"We do not wish to kill you, so just give us one thing," the leader of the hunters said.
"What?" Jool asked with a worried look on her face.
"Currency."
"But we don't have any currency," Crichton replied.
"Are you sure?"
"You can check the whole ship if you want, but I promise you we have no currency."
"Fine." The leader walked over to Chiana and Jool and pointed his pulse pistol at them.
"Since you're sure you don't have any currency I suppose you don't need these two females."
"I told you we don't have any money."
"And I'm telling you, that I have no problems killing your females."
Crichton tried to think of a way to get his friends out of this mess but the best thing he could come up with was, "Kill me instead."
"With pleasure."
"No wait!" the young prisoner shouted out.
"You wish to be killed instead of this human?"
"No, but I offer you something more powerful than currency," she said calmly.
"What are you saying?"
"FEAR."
"Look at this, this little narl is telling me about fear, what do you know about fear?"
"I know that you have a fear of drowning and I know that the person behind you has a fear of Budongs and that man on the right has a fear of choking."
"Shut-up."
"Also, when you were younger you used to have a fear of Hinerians."
"I said, shut-up!"
"But your biggest fear of all are Scarrens."
"Shut-up!!!!" the leader pointed his gun at the Sabation in attempt to shoot her.
"I don't think you want to do that."
"AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!" the bounty hunter screamed out. "Scarrens, they're everywhere!" He then pointed his weapon at his friends and shot each one of them thinking they were the beasts that he feared the most. Soon all of his friends were dead, but he could still see Scarrens appearing in hundreds, then thousands. The hunter knew that this was all in his head but he couldn't control himself. In attempt to bore the images out of his mind, he raised his weapon to his forehead and…
BANG!
He was dead. The room went silent. The crew of Moya looked around then at each other. Was this all a dream? What had just happened? From their point of view it looked like the leader of the Bounty hunters had just committed suicide in fear.
Who did this? Was it space madness?
Or, did the young Sabation girl do something that caused this horrific blood bath.