Metroid Regeneration
Chapter I
Hidden
(Samus, GF and related things are property of Nintendo, Fadley, Serina and this story are my creations)
The forest held placid colours, veiling its deep secrets. Finding out those secrets was up to one woman, Samus Aran. The wood crashed around her, that thing was angry and was not going to let Samus get away. Her suit integrity low, she was on the brink of breakage, but she kept going. She came to a cliff, with a 50 ft drop to instant death but Samus was smart, she cut off the trail and turned and ran right hoping to fool the monster into thinking that she had fallen. The breaking trees behind answered her thoughts and forced fear into her heart .It would catch up with her and soon. She came to the end of a ridge, she was surrounded by cliffs. She tried to run past the thing but it grabbed her and placed its shadow over her. Samus felt its hot breath on her neck and knew she going to die, its warm sticky fangs punctured her neck and the world went black.
GFHQ
The commander was unhappy, he had lost his best soldier ever but to what, he didn't know. The only person to ever know was Samus but she was the one who had succumbed to it, in the first place. The worst of it was trying to explain it to her 5 year old daughter, Serina Aran. Fadley, a close friend of Samus, who was usually lively and bubbly, remained now silent and recluse. The commander said to him, "Fadley, you have been a friend of Samus for over a decacycle. Serina treats you almost like the father she never had, I need you to tell her about her mother" Fadley looked away,
"I'm sorry I can't…"
"Fadley, please"
"I…."
"Fadley, you know she scared of me, she won't believe me." Fadley gave up. He walked to Samus' quarters and opened the door gently. Serina sat inside, bathed in the moonlight from outside, as Fadley entered she turned and smiled, he smiled back, a hollow smile. Serina was different from her mother in one way, her emerald green eyes; apart from that she was like a clone of Samus. "She dead, isn't she?" Fadley was taken aback at the child's knowledge but walked and sat on the bed beside her, "How did you find out?"
"She came and told me"
"What? She came back"
"She's not that dead…"
"I guess there are some things in the galaxy that we can't or will never understand."
"I knew you human would say that…"
"You are human as well"
She laughed in a patronising way, making Fadley frown, "I'm not like mother, I'm different", and she got up and walked to the corridor and around the corner.
15 years later
Fadley sat in the mess hall opposite one of his best friends; his friend was as jolly as he was, "So still baby-sitting?"
"You try to baby-sit a 20 year old, headstrong woman."
"Ahh hard luck, though I'd rather have your job Leuitenant Binus is a real pain in the ass sometimes."
"What's he making you do?"
"He's discriminating again, he would hate you!"
"How can he hate the Pure Half-Breed®?"
"Hey why the hell did you get registered trademark?"
"I'm one of kind man"
The two friends laughed and ate their meals up. Fadley and his friend parted ways; he needed to check where Serina was. As usual she was blasting away at holographic enemies. He often watched her do this, it reminded him of Samus. She moved so precisely, as if she had planned this random enemy generator. Fadley noticed something he had missed, Serina always got the same score and always in the same order of deaths of enemies. Fadley checked the computers records, every time Serina had clocked in, the same enemy count came up and the same score came up. This was strange, as she was built to target only one type of enemy. He decided to go and see her, he remembered to bring her an energy drink, and she loved the red one, none of the other types. The vending machine was being pessimistic today, complaining why everybody took things from it but never gave it anything, the worst management did was give a personality to a vending machine.
Serina was looking over a holoscreen, changing settings and checking her scores. Fadley threw the can at her, she didn't move but her arm gracefully wound itself up and round the can. She brought it down to her face and began to drink gently. Fadley walked over to her, "Good score again then"
"Like always eh?" she seemed bored, "I try my best but I can't get a different score then that!"
"What you think the problem is?"
"You notice too?"
"I find it hard not to." Serina look at him with her deep emerald eyes, searching for lies. She smiled and said, "Hey you want to ball grav-ball?"
Surprised, Fadley said, "Yeah! C'mon". Serina didn't usually want to play grav-ball, she preferred shooting and she didn't smile much but when she did it was the best smile in the universe because it meant so much.
Out on the grav-ball pitch, Fadley was getting ready. His Grav-ball armour specially made for him. It shone out a crystal white against the green asphalt pitch. Serina looked at him, almost sadly and picked up the grav-ball. She threw it hard but Fadley was there to rally, he bluffed right and shot left but Serina seemed to know what he was doing and intercepted. This went on for quite a while until Fadley began to weaken and run out of breath but he wouldn't give in to a rookie and played his hardest. A demi-cycle had passed and he was completely exhausted. Serina went over to him and he expected her to help him off the ground, instead she was holding a laser sword, there was sadness in her eyes. She didn't waste time and thrust the glowing blade into Fadley's heart. He stared at her in disbelief and looked down at his wound. He then understood, "I knew too much" Serina didn't reply, she was in a trance. Her stone cold stare bore down on him. It began to fade and shock and sadness came and struck her. She bent down and cried, something which she had never done before, "I'm…so…sorry.." she sobbed
"It's alright"
"I will find out what happened to me."
"Be careful." And Fadley died, lying in his polished grav-ball suit. Serina began to scream.
End of this chapter I
(The first chapter and I kill him off, don't worry you'll learn more about him as the story goes along)