The End of Earth as we Know it Part Two
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Ci'tde sat on the ground of an alien planet far from home having wished he had never gone on this glory hunt. He had gone with other elders who were also moving into the ancient category to celebrate their long full life. Everything was going according to plan there were no planets that had prey that would present too much or too little of a challenge. They had left right after the mating season had ended and the journey was only supposed to last long enough for his mate to become heavy with pup had his seed taken root.
At some point during the trip, they came across a group of bad bloods. They decided to end their lives as the goal of the glory hunt since they outnumbered the group two to one. All three bad bloods fled and each group took a ship in pursuit of them. His group landed on an uncharted planet they had managed to kill the bad blood easily enough. They had all agreed to stay to see if there was any worthy prey to kill so they'd have a trophy to bring home. The planet was littered with a large number of small reptiles no one thought anything due to their extremely small size.
However soon after arriving, they started to get sick deciding it would be best to head back without the trophies they made their way back to the ship. Several died from unknown causes on the way all the reports from scanners would say was toxic levels of poison but they couldn't figure out how it got into their bodies. To be safe everyone stuck to rations and didn't eat anything on the planet. When two more died they abandoned the dead in favor of returning to the ship quickly and leaving the toxic planet. They weren't sure if it was the ship that didn't warn them of a toxic element or if their armor wasn't filtering the air like it should. All they did know was that all though there were many who stood to watch those that went to sleep wound up dead by morning.
To play it safe Ci'tde and many others choose to stay awake until they could make it to the ship. They had made it most of the way and any place they left dead they put a marker indicating the location of remains. They would have to mark this planet as toxic and hoped the dead could be lifted by tractor beam they had left the bodies covered and in locations that would be accessible. They had finally gotten to where they could at least see the ship although it was a great distance away. On the way, members of the group kept mysteriously dying off only Ci'tde and one other made it to the ship. Ci'tde rushed to the counsel marking the planet as deadly toxic as the other male closed the hatch. When he tried to start the ship it wouldn't he had it run a system diagnosis and hit the distress signal. Deciding it was better to deal with it after they got some rest since they were now safe or so they though they both went to sleep after days without any rest.
Ci'tde woke to a searing pain he roared and grabbed where the pain came from taking by surprise when he found a small snake-like lizard. He killed it instantly and rushed to the medical bay taking the anti-toxin he injected himself and then had a second batch made for his teammate. He was saddened to find his teammate already dead deciding the ship was infested and likely a lost cause as he'd die from a bite before reaching another ship and if he didn't he risked infecting a clean ship with these creatures. His best hope for rescue was to sterilize a rescue pod, fill it with rations, turn on the distress beacon and launch into space. He'd have to fit as much food as he could in the rescue pod and then ration it out to himself. Making room for a kit of the anti-venom and taking diagnostic tools into the rescue pod. He collected all he needed right outside the pod before he sterilized it and then quickly filled it and entered the pod launching into space leaving the planet.
He was relieved until days later paralysis set in thankfully everything he needed was within reach. He used another antitoxin injection to see if that would help any when it did nothing he assumed the poison would have to take its course. He looked at his face mask and thought of his life mate Jame-e he knew it was highly likely his seed took root never had his seed not taken root when she was fertile. He had a nice long line of bearers now that were well sought after by males of high rank even those fresh from their Chiva.
They had been through so much he didn't want it to end this way. He remembered the time a healer accidentally gave her an experimental drug designed to help older males breed easier. The side effects had extended her lifespan and made her appear completely Yautja minus her face that had Yautja skin but ooman features. Then there was the time they went on a couples hunt and she had shown up the males that a pregnant female was a force not to be reckoned with he had been so proud of her hunting skills and her attention to his needs. He could almost see her in his masks visor but he could swear he saw Cetanu too waiting on him as well. He planned on fighting Cetanu with his last ounce of strength he was going to make it home and walk again he wasn't going to lose this battle.
Word Definitions:
Yautja / English
Bearer / Mother
Cetanu / The Black Hunter (God of Death)
Chiva / Trial
Hunt / Catch prey
Mate / Wife, husband
Ooman / Human
Pup / baby, child