"Hello there readers. I think you know me from my previous story. If not, check them out. Back to the topic; this is a new story" I write it because if I don't throw out these stories I think I won't be able to write "A New Chain Warden" especially when the new character was put in. I don't know how long you will wait between new chapters. I will try to update this story regularly but I don't know how long this will be for sure. But until a new chapter of "A New Chain Warden" is published please let your eyes and mind enjoy this story.
only Planet in the sol system where millions or even billions of different kinds of life forms are found and each one has a subclass of its own. The Environments can vary greatly on this planet; from frozen lands where temperatures plummet to where an foreign creature will freeze to death very quickly, to places where it is always raining, to where the blistering desert is always churning. The environment is great for any kind to evolution. The season now is early summer where weather in most parts of the world is hotter, and rarely wind is blowing and when it is dry.
Central Africa, rainforest in Kongo
Rainforests are home to many forms of animals, plants and insects. These forests are named rainforests because 80 or 90 % of the days in a year it's raining. Here lives one species of snake: Atheris Hispida, commonly known around the world as a rough-scaled bush viper, a venomous snake which does not try to hide but let his color make him less exposed to attack. It's got many color tones and hue: blue, red, black, green and many other. Its venom is not strong enough to kill people but those who are left without treatment or have allergies can die.
The silence in the forest came from a break in the bushes. From them two black men show up wearing typical clothes in these kinds of forests.
"Hey Koiton-" One of them looked around and waved his hand to chase away the flies or others stuff. "-How long we need to walk?" He asks while he slaps his arm, perhaps a mosquito was sitting on it. Koiton was looking around and says.
"I think not too long, maybe 5 minutes or..." He stopped and pointed forward "-or now.
He smiled and pick up a special staff for capturing snakes. Koiton smiled. He saw a special one. A dark purple one. It was their lucky day. Koiton carefully turned back to his friend and says.
"Arfang prepare the cage." Arfang nodded and opened a plastic cage and prepared himself. Koiton turned back to the snake and slowly moved to him. A sweat was start to show on his face.
"Damn it's hot."-Kointon it was. Koiton made sure every step was even and light to avoid getting struck. The snake was now looking in a different direction. Koiton was now able to catch snake. He slowly takes a breath and quickly moves the staff to pin the snakes head. the snake didn't expect that and had no time to avoid it. Koiton smiled and handed the staff to Arfang and opened the cage. He quickly put the snake in the cage and closed it before he could run. When the cage was closed they breath a sigh of relief. They looked at each other and smiled.
"Good Job!"-Kointon says and high five's with his friend. They look happy.
"How much money you think we will get from this snake?" Arfang asks. Kointon scratch his head and replies.
"I don't know. Maybe 400 or 500 dollars. It will be enough for a month or two before a new contract."-Kointon respond and hid his staff. Arfang nodded and grab the cage to look at the snake.
"It's a really nice specimen. We got really lucky with this." Arfang says and stood up. "Let's head back, the sun will hide itself soon." Kointon nodded and they headed back to the city.
When they reached the city they had to show which sells animals and insects and which can be bred in house. They receive 500 dollars, which was good. A few days later the snake was sell for 80 dollars by girl from Poland.
Poland, North part of Bytow, One day after buying snake.
It was summer in Poland. The school was close and children got a full two month break from it. It was time for parties, doing many thing and meeting friends. In one city there was a not too big house on the edge of the city. It had clean white walls and black tiles. In the middle of the front garden was Sakura tree bought from Japan. Near the door was written the surname "Karzynska'(in polish language Karzyńska).
In one room with two wooden tables, one bookshelf and two big pictures of Sakura trees and a Japaneze painting depicting one of their old gods, perhaps Shinigami, their version of a reaper. On the wardrobe were two was an ape and the second was smaller, it was a bat. A bed was standing near one table where there was a computer on it. Next to it was a chair on which was sitting teenager girl with long blond hair and deep blue eyes. She was wearing a white T-shirt and short blue jeans.
Her name was Annie (Ania in Polish). An teenager of eighteen years with a normal life. Now she was alone. Her parents were diplomats. They were presently deployed in Iraq to help people and try to make the government more Annie was sitting on her chair, or rather, laying on it. She was tired. The afternoon sun was bright like hell. It was 35 degrees on thermometer. There wasn't any wind or a cloud in the sky. Just blue sky. Annie was liked summer but today she hated it.
But today two things make her happy; first was a snake which she bought on the internet. A dark-purple Atheris Hispida, or commonly known, the rough-scaled bush viper. When she saw that snake on internet she fell in love with it. When she told this to her parents they didn't see why not and allowed her to buy it. She immediately bought a terrarium for it. It was quit big:50×40×30 centimeter. It got some sticks and earth and also a small place for water. Annie was proud of herself when she built it. And the second thing that made her happy was...
*Crying*
Annie looked at door and thought.
"It's seem she woke up."-and she headed towards the room opposite hers. The room was painted in white-pink paint. There was a wardrobe with cloths. On the ground was laying some plastic blocks for fun and some mascots like bear, ape, and some picture drawing by a no more than one year child. Annie walked to the bed where her sister was lying. She has got short brown hair and brown eyes.
"So innocent." -Annie thought. She held her sister in her arms and tried to calm her.
"Shhh, Shhh calm down. I'm here. Your sister is here."She says with a caring and warm voice. Her sister starts to slowly stop crying and starts to look at Annie. She smiles warmly and softly says.
"Come on Katharine(Katarzyna in Polish or Kasia in short) show me your smile. Smile." Kasia looked at her sister and a small smile was shown on her face. After another second a big smile was on her face and every sight of crying was gone.
"Come on, let's eat something. You must me hungry don't you agree?"-She looked at her sister who just waves her little hand. They went to the kitchen and Annie made her milk and Annie make for herself some bread. Kasia was drinking like crazy and Annie looked amused while looking at her sister while eating bread with eggs.
After breakfast Annie walked her sister to her room and gave her some crayons and watched how she drawing wasn't showing anything special, just some scribbles, but Annie smiled and was saying "that she drawing better and better." When the parents are away she wants to see that smile on her sisters face as long as she can. The time was passing and soon was evening. Katharina was tired but wouldn't fall asleep. Annie grabbed her and placed her in her bed kissing her forehead before she put her turn off lights and close door while looking at the crib and smiled. She went to the bathroom and took a long, hot shower.
"Tomorrow I will get my snake. I hope it will not be aggressive. I don't want something to happen to Katharine." She sighed while she was thinking. She wanted to protect her sister. She will do anything to make her happy. She doesn't care about price. Her sister is the apple of her eye. It was the first time she felt she had a goal in life. Her parents were good people but most of the time weren't with them. The job they do takes a lot of time especially now when terrorists are very serious problem. They think they fight for god (Allah) but the truth is that they fighting for power, nothing more and nothing less.
nnie shook her head to stop thinking about it and turned off the shower. When she was ready she sat at her computer and looked like she didn't get any message. She checked the inbox and saw one. She opened and saw it was from her best friend Emilie (Emilia in Polish). She was asking how she doing. She was going to write but she phoned to her by Skype.
"Hello there Blondy. How"re you doing?" She asks.
"I'm fine. Kasia just fell asleep so I got free time. Also tomorrow I should get my snake. You wanna see him when he arrives ?" I ask curiosly. Emilie was quiet and finally answered.
"Why not, it's special in any way?"
"It's dark-purple Atheris Hispida, rough-scale bush viper. It was only one and very cheap. I've have luck. You may not find this snake on internet but others of Atheris you can find." I respond. I was happy. Emilie was quiet again and Annie asks her.
"You play StarCraft don't you?" Annie asks with a little annoyingly or impatiently with a little smile. Emilie shook herself and replied.
"What can I do? I love this game, and I'm trying to get to platinum. It will be my first time in such a high league, and this will be my personal victory." She responded with some mixed feelings because she was so focused. Annie just sighed, a smile on her features. Emilie was her friend from elementary school. She found out she loved games and especially the "StarCraft" series and her favorite race were Protoss. Annie was also playing it but not as often, her chosen race was Zerg. For her they were much easier to handle.
"Then I will call you when the snake arrives. See you then." Annie says.
"See you. Yeah I won!" Emilie's shout made Annie feel a painful ring in her ears. She rubbed her ear and hung up. She lay on the chair and gazed at the clock which is showed it was 9 PM. She sighed and turned off the computer. She lay to bed, and with surprising ease, fell asleep.
"Somewhere is space. Unknown location
The structure was built from gold and silver material. It could feel the power of the nation who built it. A technology required to build that must be very advanced. The blue crystal that's emanating light are also special crystals with a big reserve of power. It was seen that these crystals were requested to create.
A person wearing a golden belt and a green crystal embedded in the middle wearing an old purple coat with one arm layer was heading to a room. He had long dark hair which were woven into two braids. He also wore old the same color shawl on face. He was in deep thought, pondering. When the door opened it showed a room which looked like a meeting ground for very important individuals. A person stopped him and spoke with a voice deep as bass.
"En Taro Adun, high council. What is your request for calling me?"This stranger asked with respect. Above him were also persons like him but were cloaked in shadow. All one would see is that they were humanoid. Their garb was different however. They were wearing gold armor and blue coat not like this person below.
"En Taro Adun, Zeratul. We called you because we found a new threat. The Overmind sent his virus to a planet called Earth, far beyond the Koprulu sector. For now it hasn't started its infection and the virus is anything-than-normal but we can't wait. The virus is very dangerous and can mutate an individual into something like a Cerebrate. Your orders are to go there and eliminate the threat." A councilor says. Zeratul just nodded and left. While he was heading to his destination he was in thoughts.
"How has he sent it there? How has it passed without our notice? And a virus which can turn someone in Cerebrate. If it's really true then we have serious problems or.. no it can't be."
Zeratul shook his head and reached for his communicator. When the face of another of his kind appeared he spoke.
"En Taro Adun, Executor Fenix."
"En Taro Adun, Zeratul. Why you calling? Has something happened?" The person called Fenix looked a bit worried. Zeratul nodded and replied,
"Yes. The Zerg virus left the Koprulu sector and has reached a heavily populated planet called Earth. A councilor said that the virus is special and can turn a single person into a Cerebrate. I will need your help toget there quickly." Zeratul spoke with worry tinged a bit with fear. Fenix was quiet for a moment and replied.
"I understand but before we can go we need to gather our force. This alone will take a week and to get there would take longer. If I calculate this correctly it will take a month. It really far from here." Fenix said with surety. He now started to think how that virus traveled such a distance without being noticed. Zeratul started thinking and said,
"I think we can ask the Terrans. I will do that and you gather as much of your forces as you can. You got 3 days." Zeratul said which Fenix nodded and cut the communication. Zeratul began his to call to his Terran friend. After few minutes a face appeared, aged at about 35 the terran had dark-brown hair peppered with gray and deep brown eyes appears.
"Hey Zeratul, it's been a long time. What is it? You look worried for a protoss." He says, looking closelyat his friend.
"Yes, something happened that should not have. A Zerg virus has reached a planet called Earth." Zeratul spoke. He shook his head in surprise and spoke to someone off screen,
"Matt check this planet called Earth." He says and waited for information about that planet. After moments pass by Matt spoke with a slight shake to his voice,
"Planet Earth is the homeworld of Terrans like us but they can't colonize space like us. On the planet is about 7 billion people. If the Zerg infect this world these people are doomed." Matt finished. James Raynor, leader of the group "Raynor's Raiders," turned to Zeratul.
"I can see now why you're calling me. You want us to help you right?" Jim says with smile. Zeratul nodded.
"Yes. We can't gather enough of our forces in such a short time, especially when time to reaching there will take a month. James Raynor, we will gather our forces in 3 days. Meet us in these coordinate." Zeratul sent them the coordinate. When it was received Jim nodded.
"Ok old friend. Meet us there in 3 days. We will see what we can do." Jim replied.
"Thanks you James. You are truly friends of the Protoss." Zeratul spoke with pride.
"No problem buddy, see you there." Jim says and cuts the communication. Zeratul hid his communicator and walked to his ship, known as The Void Seeker, which he will take to Fenix' position hoping that the prophecy he found isn't starting now.
Earth, next day
Annie woke up fatigued. She couldn't sleep well. She blinked few times. There before her she saw a creature like a dog but much bigger and with two scythe like claw protruding from its back and tusks on both sides of its face. Annie blink again and the creature disappear. Annie rubbed the sleep from her eyes and shook her head.
"I think I'm too overworked."- Annie thought to herself and stood up to wash herself. She looked at the mirror and started to think.
"Calm down, calm down. That was just illusion. Nothing real."- She gave herself a light slap and smiled.
"Now to see how Kasia is feeling."-She didn't feel like getting dressed so she still wore her pajamas. She walked to her sisters room and looked at her. She was still sleeping. Annie smiled lovingly and walked downstairs to the kitchen.
"She prepared bread, butter and some meat. She grabs knife and start to cut meat for smaller slices when suddenly she cut her finger. "Ouch!" Annie flinches and swears under her breath angrily and puts her finger in her mouth. After few minutes the wound stopped bleeding but it still stings. Ignoring it she finished her breakfast and prepared milk for Katharina.
When she was heading up she could hear her crying. She reached her room and walked to her bed. Kasia was crying, perhaps from a nightmare. Annie put down the bottle with milk and grabbed her sister and sat her on her arm and whispers,
"Shhh, Shhh. Don't worry. I'm here, everything will be alright. Nightmare Nightmare go away." Annie says with a warm voice making Katharina stop crying. Annie smiles and grabs bottle and gives it to her sister. Suddenly a ring from door could be heard. Annie walked down and opened the door. She saw a postman with a fair sized package.
"Hello, how can I help you?" Annie asks politely. The Postman looks at her and asks,
"AnnieKarzynska? Package number EL5741Q with snake, Cash on delivery so, right?" He looks at her. Annie nodded. He picked up a list and point something.
"Please sign there." Annie grabbed pen he give her, signed and give it back. The man put down the package and says,
"Thank you and have a nice day." He walks to his car to and drives away. Annie looked at the package and eagerly grabs it. She ran to a nearby table to put it down because it almost slipped out of her arm. She sighed in relief when the package was safe. She put down her sister. Then the phone rang. Annie looked to the phone and picked it up on the second ring.
"Hello. Who is this?" She asks curiously. No one's called here so early before. A man's voice came from other side. Annie had a bad feeling about this call.
"Miss Annie. I was chosen to deliver this message to you. I'm Captain James Cardon. I'm security leader of the government. It's about your parents. In the night between today and tomorrow (yesterday you mean!) there was a terrorist suicide attack where your parents were. In the explosion 20 were people and your parents included." A pause over the line.
"They are dead." The Captain spoke with great sincerity and sympathy, and also respect for the her parents. Annie was shocked to her core. She couldn't believe it.
"Mom and Dad are dead." A deep sorrow swept over her. "No, NO, NO! This is not happening! This is NOT happening! They couldn't die! They couldn't leave us they can't!" She was trembling and fell to her knees, the phone numbly leaves her hand. Tears were starting to fall from her eyes. She was so shocked that she couldn't do anything. She couldn't even think.
Her baby sister was watching her sister not knowing why she was crying right now. She walked to her and looked in her eyes with her children eyes, Full of innocence. Annie saw them and hugged her sister. She cried. The Captain on the other side was silent, hating this part of his job. He knew how hard it is to deliver such message. He knew Annies' parents, was assigned to protect them and, over time, got to know them. They were a rare kind of people, people who where good, who didn't and don't seek power or money, always gave of themselves, and stove only for peace between people. And letting them die was his own failure. Especially when this led to leaving behind chldren like them. He couldn't forgive himself. He was suppose make sure something like that didn't happen yet had led to such tragedy.
"Annie slowly stopped crying, but she still was hugging her sister. She needed to be strong. She needed to protect her sister now. She can't be weak. She took some deep breaths to calm herself, picked up the phone, and spoke to him,
"I...I understand. Will the bodies will delivered to Poland?" She asked hoarsely. At least she wants to bury them in their garden near the Sakura tree. No expensive funeral. She couldn't stand all the people, how they say "they are sorry" for what happened. She hate that.
"Yes. The bodies will be delivered. They are on the plane now and soon it should soon land. I also send about 10 soldiers to help in funeral. Where would they be buried?" He ask solemnly.
"In the garden, near the Sakura tree." Annie responded with a calm but still trembling voice.
"Understood. The bodies should be in Poland in about 3-4 hours." He finished and took a deep breath before continuing. "I won't say that I understand your pain because I only lost friends. I just wanna express my condolences. That's all. Goodbye." The line went dead. Annie dropped the phone on the floor. She wiped tears from her eyes and face. She tried to smile to her sister and say,
"Don't worry. Everything will be fine. I will protect you. Even if I will need to fight the world or lose my humanity I will make you happy." Annie say with determination. It was her promise. She won't break it. She shook her head and stood up. She looked at the package and opened it. Inside was dark-purple snake with dark eyes. That made Annie feel better. She peered at the snake and says to herself,
"At least we got new a member of the family." Annie says and opens the cage. She looked at the snake and slowly moved her hand out to reach him. The snake moved back and was looking at Annie's hand. It couldn't know that this girl will hurt her or not. He slowly moved his head toward her hand and licked her finger where the wound was. Annie felt a little pain but she ignored it. After a second the snake wrapped around Annie's arm, looking happy. Annie smirk and moved the snake near her sister. The snake licked her sister. Annie smiled and spoke warmly yet shakily,
"Looks like the snake like us." Annie says and then feel dizzy. "Wha..." Annie thought and fall on the floor unconscious. The virus was now in her and start to spread throughout her body slowly. The infection and mutation starts now.
"Hello there readers./span span style="font-style: normal;"I wanna explain something here: 1) The Terrans and people from Earth are not relativestrong(related) like in StarCraft universe. I made in thought "People on Earth are not only humans in universe." I explain that People in Koprulu sector were evolving earlier than people from Earth. That's why is so big jump between technology. 2) In this story Fenix live. There is no Queen of Blade because Jim was able to rescue Ker 3) Raynor's Raiders exist. They leave Son of Korhal after invasion on Tarsonis and rescue Kerrigan. 4)Jim is friend of Protoss because he help them fighting Zerg. Here also Overmind didn't attack Auir. 5)The High and Dark Templar don't hate each other. They manage to find a way to avoid fight between their own kind. And that's lead to exist such unit like Stalker and Void ray. "6)The virus which was infecting Annie will infect only her because it was only one virus. And was necessary to connect with blood. That's why Annie sister won't be infected. Maybe later but this will be in other way 7)I will use units from StarCraft 1 broodwar like also from StarCraft 2 WoL and HotS. I don't know how about HotS but for sure from SC1 and SC2 WoL. 8)A creature from illusion was as you can guess a zergling. It show up because of her destiny to became Cerebrate or Queen of Blades. "For the end I will tell that her friend Emilie will be also in story. She will be how to say that very close to Annie after infection. That's all for now. Looking farward to new chapter. See you soon.