Metroid: Life or Death
Okay, this would be my second Fanfiction. Not as good as my other one (in my opinion anyway), but still pretty good. Anyway, the updates on this will be slow, and I will update rarely if I get no reviews (because, you know, I might want to change some things to make it better). But enough of my talk, let's get onto the story.
Ridley's blood red eyes shone with pleasure as he glanced at the dry, barren land before him. He sat on his perch, witch was a broken pillar among sandstone ruins. Yes, the ruins were once a great temple, or perhaps a city. Now, however, it seemed like no more than a pile of dust and chiseled rock. The great, dragon-like beast glared at the dry plain with what was almost a grin of sharp fangs. Clouds of dust and sand swirled up in a silent gust of wind, and drifted slowly across the orange-red landscape. Ridley let out a hushed, relaxed sigh, his exhaled breath black as smoke with the toxic air. This was the air he liked to breathe.
Then, a figure appeared from behind the clouds of dust. Ridley squinted, and clenched the pillar more tightly, his claws digging deeper into the stone. It could not be who he thought it was. No... It couldn't be, for she was dead. He watched, watched as the figure emerged from the smog. He saw light reflect radiantly off of metallic armor. Then, with a hiss of astonished anger, he saw the bounty hunter walk bravely from the dust clouds behind her. How could this be? Surely he had killed her in their last quarrel. He remembered throwing the hunter into a pit of acid, he remembered burning through her armor, and he remembered shedding her blood, for he saw it through her visor.
But Samus was alive. Not only that, but the silver cannon on her right arm was larger, and seemed to shimmer with a bluish light. Ridley did not remember this, and did not approve of it. He growled, and clasped the stone so tightly that his paws became scabbed. His tail, witch ended in a spade-shaped spike, swished back and fourth like a pendulum. The bounty hunter neared, and he was sure that it was Samus, and she did not see him.
A fiery heat rose in his throat, and he could almost taste the sparks on his jet-black tongue. Then, he thought better of it, and refrained from releasing balls of fire at his long-time rival. If he could not kill her before, the he was most likely not ready to face her when she had this new advancement in her arm cannon. Ridley, though seemingly mindless, was not stupid.
He spread his thin wings, and leapt from the shadows. Samus stopped in her tracks as the deep purple beast fled across the hazy sky overhead. She raised her arm cannon, now equipped with the wave beam, to strike him, not forgetting their last encounter. She then lowered it, and thought better of her actions. This was no time to pick a fight with Ridley. She watched his shadow vanish from the sky, then turned to the ruins before her.
Her mission was to investigate an area that had been invaded by space pirates, and kill them when she had the chance. For they were creating trouble, and they had Metroids.