StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void
Clarification: StarCraft is not my own, I will only take the characters and the history and write my own ending for Legacy of the Void. My whole fic is gonna be what I expect from the next game (of course I'm sure it won't be like my fic). I will finish the Starcraft series history with this fic. You guys know for sure, Amon, the Queen of Blades, Zeratul, Raynor… I will try to get every character I can into this story.
Clarification 2: My English isn't perfect, I'm doing this because a new friend asked me to do it and I accepted. If you see a mistake in my writing, let me know it so I can do it better for you.
Clarification 3: I will start at the end of Heart of the Swarm and I'll do my own from there by modifying the ending.
Clarification 4: My idea idea of writing this fic emerged just because I did not like the ending of Heart of the Swarm xD
Arcturus Mengsk was finally dead.
The Queen of Blades watched the Swarm retreating, returning to the Leviathans, with no other purpose to remain in Korhal.
She heard steps behind her, and she knew it was Jim. She turned to him and she saw he was crying soundlessly.
-Thank you, Jim.-she said quietly; Raynor kept silent.- For everything.-
The guy breathed heavily through his nose and then he walked to her. He didn't care anymore about her form, he wanted to embrace her.
Kerrigan didn't oppose, she gave him the most powerful hug she'd ever give to anyone. She let her wings fell to the floor and she sank her face into the neck of the man she loved, suddenly overwhelmed by sadness.
-I'm leaving with you.-Raynor whispered in her ear.- I'm gonna let you go again. I can't let you go again. I just can't.-
The Queen of Blades reclined her face and looked at his eyes.
-But… What about Matthew and Valerian? And what about your friends on the Hyperion? The whole ship will miss you.-she had the impulse of stroking his cheek; she stopped for a moment, then she continued to his face.
Raynor resisted the involuntary movement of getting away from her hand. She realized it and stopped again, but a second after she finally reached her goal.
-They… Can do whatever they want. They can take care of themselves from now to the end. –Jim decided; he looked at Kerrigan's eyes and he approached slowly, until his forehead touched hers; he felt her weird hair, made of hardy tentacles.- I'll go wherever you go, Sarah.-he could feel her breath in his mouth, cold.
Sarah.
That was her name. Kerrigan felt inside her that she also wanted him to come with her, but, if Amon was more powerful than she was, then how will she protect Jim from the Fallen Xel'Naga?
-Jim, Amon is more powerful than I am, how…?-
-I don't care about that stupid Fallen God.-he said, truly convinced.- We can't keep going like this, Sarah. You know, in the old Greek tails, the heroe and his lover, or vice versa, always traveled together.-
-And one of them died… Or worse. Both died.-the Queen of Blades looked at him painfully, trying to make him understand not to follow her.
-And that way, they were happy, at least for a while. If they would not have followed each other, they would not have enjoyed nothing.-refuted Raynor.
-And at the end of that way there's only death, Jim.-she said, again, painfully.
-The point is, Sarah, we have no way to know what's gonna happen tomorrow. But we can do something to make our own future, with efforts, of course.-
-But…-
-No more buts, Sarah.-he said gently.
Then Raynor, doing a very big effort not to hurt her with an ugly face, approached to her to kiss her forefront.
But she could feel his mind, as if Jim was a Zerg of the swarm, so she reacted, without he realized, rising her face.
First, Raynor was frozen for the surprise, but then he relaxed. Feeling Kerrigan lips as normal made him believe harder that she could still be save from being the Queen of Blades forever… But, what if she couldn't?
He chose to get that doubts away for now. He will think about that later. As he had said, they should enjoy the present, not thinking too much about the future of some matters.
But she got away, looked at his eyes, with penetrant eyes.
-I know your doubts.-she said softly.- To be honest… I don't know if that thing of there will be able to make me be human again.-at that moment, Raynor realized two things.
The most pure sincerity he'd ever seen.
And the most full of fear face he'd ever seen.
-It doesn't matter now, Sarah. We'll see about that when the time comes. Ok?-
After a short pause, she talked again.
-Ok.-she kissed him.- So you are coming to the Leviathan with me? You sure?-she asked slowly.- The Zerg are almost off the planet, we should hurry.-
James took a final look to the apocalyptic scenario of Korhal. There was nothing left of what was once the Dominion's Capital, only smoldering remains. But, on the other hand, there hadn't even had one civilian casualty.
Kerrigan was definitively Kerrigan. She wasn't the Queen of Blades. She was Sarah Kerrigan, the woman he used to love. And the one he still loved.
-Yes, ma'am, I am.-he said, sure of himself.- May I use the communicator of the Leviathan to let Matt know about this decision I've taken?
-Of course, Jim.-she responded.- Let me make sure the swarm knows you are coming with us from now to the end. And please…-she added.- Don't leave me alone inside there. It doesn't seem like that, but… I'm scared. Scared of my own army.-she declared, pitifully.
-Don't worry. I'll be with you all the time.-she smiled for a second, something else that made Raynor believe she could still be saved.- Now let's go there.-
-Thanks.-she said, with serenity.- Thank you so much, Jim.-
-My pleasure, darlin'.-
And then an invisible force striked him and he passed out.
He was covered by a green liquid. At the beginning, he didn't think in nothing, but suddenly he remembered the Zerg were born from green liquid, and from an egg. He tried to stretch his body, and he touched a gummy wall.
Then he saw a shadow that was coming grower, and after a few seconds, a huge claw drilled the wall.
The green liquid flew to the outside and, after some moments of mad coughing, his vision came from blurred to a bit clearer. He could distinguish Sarah and a very more shapeless Zerg than the others he'd met.
He couldn't talk. Raynor tried to look at his body for worms or deformations, or even little Zergs devouring him, but his body hurt so much that he couldn't do nothing, not even roll on the floor to see the roof of the place.
-Relax.-Kerrigan said, getting on her knees and touching his forehead.- Abathur won't do nothing bad to you. And if he does, I will tear him apart.-she stroked his forehead and he relaxed a little, but his eyes were still going and coming from every direction they could.- I had to get you inside an egg when we arrived here because… Well, you don't need to you what happened, leave it on my mind. The thing is you are fine. Not even a bit Zerg. Still human at all. Trust me, please.-she said to his ear, and he affirmed with his head.
-I still must run surgery on him.-Abathur advised.- For these ones, he must be awaken. I will let him rest and then I will start running the final surgeries.-
-I'll oversee your work, Abathur.-Kerrigan said hardly, almost threatening.
-Of course, my Queen.-Abathur answered with a reverence.
Raynor could see now that Abathur had rectangular form and was a non-uniform mass of flesh and had six arms. He looked again for Zerg mutations on his body, but he wasn't infested.
-Leave us for now, Abathur.-the Queen of Blades asked.
The aforementioned made a reverence to its Queen and left. Sarah took Jim in her arms and dragged him into a corner. She got on her knees and then she sat down at his side.
It took a while for Jim to recover his vision completely. He realized that Sarah's head was resting in his shoulder and her eyes were fixedly looking at a couple of green eyes that were shining in the darkness.
Jim thought seriously for a long while and resolved that now that Zerg and Terran were going to work together, they must start to know each other, to make trust grow between them.
-What is it?-he asked with some trepidation; when Sarah was about to answer, he changed the question.- Sorry. I meant, what's its name?-
She raised her eyes to his and then he looked at the couple of eyes again.
-It's a zergling. They are for wearing down the enemy's defenses. They are useless for assaulting a base and for open combat. They are fast, very fast, but they can be killed easy in open combat. You can say they are for guerrilla actions.-she explained while telling the zergling to come closer.
Raynor could see that the one of the zergling's horns was broken, and that it had many scars along its body.
-This one is one of my favorites.-she recognized.- It saved me a lot of times. Not always by killing.-she added.- It jumped between me and a bullet, once. Almost died.-
Raynor processed the information and now, tough in a very weird way, looked at the zergling in a not so severe way. He asked himself this: "Would this Zerg die for anyone else but the Queen of the Blades?"
Sarah answered him, reading his mind.
-No.-she said sadly.- No, it would not. I control it, I made it get in the bullet way. But I like this Zerg. It's… Special. I don't know how to explain, but it is special. Jim, may I…?
Raynor looked away from the zergling, and he saw Kerrigan's hand over his head. Her hand, now with sharp claws, was attempting to reach his hair.
He almost said "Try not to kill me", but he felt guilty instantly, and instead he said "Yes".
But Sarah again, read his mind, and instead of stroking his hair, she just let her hand fell over his head. She did not say a thing, but Jim was sure she was hurt.
The zergling came closer, with its green eyes fixed in Jim, and he wondered to see that the Zerg had no intention of killing him, not even a single inkling of wanting blood. It seemed… good. It seemed pretty good.
-Don't get excited. I order the swarm not to kill humans.-Kerrigan sounded pitiful.- The swarm still can't think by itself, but Abathur is running some tests to see if it is possible to give the capacity of reason to the swarm.-he took a deep breath.- Abathur says human essence is required to start his tests, but… I don't know. It isn't ethical.-
The zergling sat on his hind legs, like a dog, and dedicated to watch them, sat there on a corner of the Evolution Chamber.
-Ethical?-Raynor laughed.- What is ethical in this sector of the galaxy?-he asked rhetorically.
-Precisely because of that.-Sarah answered.- From now to the end, I intend to make the difference.-
-Then start for earning your army's trust.-
-You don't get it, do you?-Kerrigan closed her eyes.- It took a time to me to understand too.-she put her other hand on Jim's chest.- They do not trust. They follow. They do not doubt. They obey. They do not rise against you. They are your minions. They, are the Swarm of the Zerg.-
-How's that?-Raynor asked frowning.
-It was one of the things the Overmind told me while I was turning into the Queen of Blades the first time. As well as some Zerg like Broodmothers, IZsha, Dehaka and Stukov…-
-Stukov?!-Jim said, wondering how did the pro-terran fell into the arms of the swarm of the creatures that killed him.
The zergling twisted his head and blinked, what made its eyes disappear for a short moment.
-Yes, I forgot to tell you that. Alexei Stukov was killed as a Terran and then resurrected as a Zerg. Not by me.-she added at Jim's face.
-No, no, I knew that, I was in the protoss team that disinfested him, we used a protoss cure!-
-It was only temporary.-
Raynor lowered his head and closed his eyes.
-How can the Zerg do such a thing?-he asked turning his face to Sarah.- With what purpose? But more important, with what justificative?-
-No idea.-Sarah answered.- I did not do that, and I would not do that if I have the chance. If it's dead, dead must remain. Returning to the last topic… Some Zerg like the ones I named, have conscious and the power to choose while there's no Queen of Blades or Overmind. For example, while I was gone, Zagara and others Broodmothers controlled their hives, keeping strong a part of the swarm. It's like… Like Mengsk.-she said.- Yes, definitively like Mengsk.-
-But you sacrifice lives for nothing no more since Char.-refuted Jim.
-Don't I?-she replied.- Today, thousands of Zerg died in vain to let me have my revenge.-
-But through your revenge, you saved more lives than you removed.-
-No.-Sarah denied.- I did not seek to save anyone but you. I was always trying to have my revenge. I didn't care about anything else, but you.
-If that was true, you wouldn't have accepted Junior's petition.-Jim ended.
Kerrigan kept the silence for a while, wondering what he's said.
Was all that really true? Had she really saved more lives than doomed? Sarah Kerrigan carried a heavy burden on her back. A burden heavier than the weight of the whole universe. Countless lives, doomed, destroyed and blinded by her. She would never forgive herself for those things.
-Well, Jim, how are you feeling now?-
-Better. Almost normal.-
-You want me to tell Abathur to begin the surgeries? The long you delay him, the more he'll have to do to you.-
Raynor took a deep breath. He didn't like the idea of letting a Zerg work on his body, but if Sarah trusted the Zerg… So would he.
-Then he better start now. Do you know how long will it take?-
-Just one hour. And it will take five hours to your body to rest enough.-
-Then call Abathur. Let's get started.-
-I will warn you something. Abathur do not do the things… The Terran way. He likes invasive processes. And… This is and invasive process.-
-I can try. Nothing can be really bad if you are close to me.-he said as a compliment.
Sarah smiled and kissed him in the lips.
-We'll start in five minutes.-she said while getting up.- Get ready.-
Raynor did the same and took her shoulders.
-You won't you away while Abathur do… his job, will you?-
-No.-she said, his breath in her lips again.- No, I will not.-
She kissed him again and then she vanished in the darkness, leaving Jim with the zergling still staring at him, with no idea of what Abathur was gonna do to him.