Rise, Zerg
Chapter I: Intro
The radiant world of Radia. A planet that gleams with life, magic, and an air of mystery.
Truly, this planet could not be like the world known as "Earth"? Or could it?
Kain sat puzzled at his desk. He recently can recall many memories that seem to be his, but as well, just did not seem his own.
People, names, food, different languages, video games and other things he had no idea why knew.
And the most strange thing of all, he has never had these memories before until now.
As he digs deeper into thought, he procrastinates his work while attempting to daydream more about these "memories".
Kain was a young man. Twenty-four in age and newly appointed as Junior Officer at the capital city of Radion's 3rd Police Division.
Typical for his age in stature: 5'11, 185 pounds. Not overly heavy, but not skinny either.
He sported a thinned, complete beard and short haircut from a recent excursion to the local barber.
His skin was a far tan and slight peachy color, but was beginning to become more pale as winter was here.
Kain was quite fortunate to obtain such an opportunity to be indoors at his current place of employment.
His entire life, his mother and father worked as a blacksmith and with the postal services respectively, in their hometown of Ingram.
They sacrificed much so that he could see a brighter future.
Although, if he continued drifting off into a space of thinking, he would not have this job much longer.
An elderly woman stood next to him chuckling slightly. Hair her curly was white as a full moon and her skin began to droop due to her old age. She stood slightly hunched over his desk.
She gave him a slight poke to awake him from his "dream".
"Are you alright, Kain? You have not been yourself today. I have seen you stare off into Kaiden knows where for the past 5 hours."
Kain shook his head slightly and took a drink of water from the metal canteen that resided in a leather pouch on his desk.
"Oh, I'm fine Miss Aberdeen. I have just had a lot on my mind today, is all."
"Well I can see that. You have not completed your reports for the day, and you still have not served that subpoena."
Shock struck Kain like a walking out from an alley only to be hit by a speeding horsemule-drawn carriage.
He had completely forgotten that he could not deliver the subpoena at during lunch hours.
"Thank you for reminding me, Miss Aberdeem. I will take care of it on my way home from work."
The old woman shook her head as she closed her eyes smiling.
"You will do no such thing. Ingram is an hour or so away by carriage. You will only arrive later than normal. And with the bandit raids on the roads of recent, your mother would kill me be she found out."
"But I gotta' turn this bad boy in Miss-"
"Of course you will. I will take care of the reports. You run along and serve that subpoena, alright?"
Kain was relieved but knew he had much to learn in life. He could not finish his duties that were expected, and if it were not for the lovely old friend that he had made, his life would be hell.
He already was the occasional joke as he was not a certified officer yet.
Until he was, or even after, he would possibly still be laughed at.
The old woman cleared and throat.
"Well then, you go ahead and skiddadle, and I'll take care of these here papers."
Jake nodded as he grabbed the subpoena, "Thank you so much. I promise I will treat you to lunch next paycheck. My treat and no arguments."
The old soul nodded and motioned him to the door.
As Kain grabbed his coat and scarf he turned towards his friend.
"Miss Aberdeen, have you ever felt like you knew of a place far from here, knew many things about it and possibly had memories of living in said place, but you know you never have? Like possibly another person's memories?"
Miss Aberdeen smiled as she swayed her head in disagreement.
" I cannot say I have. That sounds like some kinda novel or some sorts. I don't believe I have."
"Oh well..Nevermind then. Thanks again for your help!"
Kain opened the door and ran out into the city.
While weaving through the various traversers of the market district, Kain kept his eyes open for the establishment he was looking for.
A man that was an immigrant to Radion was to receive the summons to court. He was searching high and low until he saw the man he was looking for.
A middle-aged man who, as of late, accidently drove his carriage into a patrol of Royal Knights patrolling the streets.
He possibly would not have had to be summoned, if he had not insulted the various knights and blamed the patrol unit for the damage to his cart, and the recent nervousness of his horse.
Regardless, the old man knew what Kain had came for, accepted the subpoena, and Kain was on his way back home.
As he neared the great gates of Radion, he searched for a carriage that could take him home.
Due to there being various villages through each of the four directional gates that supplied the empire, the Emperor decried that carriages be used as public transport to aid citizens to and fro on their long journey from various things such as the elements, animals, bandits etc.
The mighty wall and gate that stood before him, were created with a white, silver colored brick made from a special clay only in Radion.
It gives a lot of visitors something to talk about coming and going.
The powerful wall stood at least a hundred feet tall, estimated of course by Kain.
Nevertheless, he did not seem to see a cart in is normal spot.
A chubby guard stood near a section of various wooden stalls used to house horses.
"Pardon, but when is the next carriage?"
The chubby guard took a bit of a piece of what seemed like jerky.
"Should be in the next hour or so. Maybe two. I dunno" replied the oaf of man.
He continued while taking another bite, "One actually just left about 10 minutes ago. They had a heavy load so if you run, you could possibly catch up."
"Oh, well, thanks. I will do that".
Kain had never had to do such a thing before, but, he was ready to go home.
As he began to sprint through the gates to attempt to catch up to the fully loaded bus on wheels, he was hit with a strong pain in his forehead.
Feeling as if he had sustained a heavy blow, he stopped and grabbed his cranium with both hands as his brain throbbed.
He clenched his teeth and closed his eyes as the pain increased.
A vision filled his head of a creature falling from the sky.
What looked like a purple and pinkish squid crashed near the coast of Radian Beach, about 15 minutes away by foot. It seemed as if the creature clipped the top branches of a tall tree and fell into the forest below.
Although his head burned as if it was set on fire, he could see clear as day where the monster-like thing that fell from the sky had crash-landed.
As he came to, and as the pain subsided, his interest got the best of him as he made a mad dash for the crash site.
After a hasty trip, he arrived to the location that he saw in the vision. Just thinking about it again made his head hurt.
He looked around for any sign of that strange squid like monster that squirmed from the sky.
Walking forward, it was not long until his foot had impacted on a strange purple like substance. It seemed to move as if it had some kind of pulse.
Kain was surprised that he had never seen such a thing. There were many strange things on his planet such as mighty beasts that fought in the wild daily, various guilds of people with strange gifts vying for power, men and woman that could call magic at will, and possibly some of the scariest: gunpowder.
The newest invention as of late that began sweeping the nation.
Purple slime was not yet the strangest compared to what he had seen.
As he walked forward following the purple trail of pulsating goo, he saw a large wet-like building a bit ahead.
As he approached, he slowly cleared the brush to get a better look of what he believed to be the heart of the goo.
It was at the moment that what he saw was possibly a discovery that no one had ever made.
A mighty pulsing structure stood erect in front of him. As he looked past, he saw flying bat like creatures swarming back and forth collecting various substances of ore and placing them into folds that came from the wet building.
As he stepped forth, he could feel his heart-beating faster than possibly ever before.
But as fast as his heart thumped, the structure seemed to increase its tempo of pulsing.
With every pulse, it was as if the vibrations were calling Kain to come and rest his palm on the structure.
He looked at his hand and reached forth setting his palm on the building.
Within seconds, his mind warped to what were various creatures spewing forth from a giant worm that blasted out of the ground.
Flames began to envelop the creatures as he himself stepped forth.
Could that possibly be him?
It could not be possible to be two places at once. Unless it-
"Really was you." retorted a deep voice from behind.
Quickly awakening from his meditative state, Kain turned to see a floating creature with multiple legs and two pulsating sacs on its body.
The creature gave a slight mid-air bow as it returned its gaze to him.
"Are you ready to command, Overmind?" asked the creature that levitated without wings.