Survivors:
The Forgotten
Prologue
"Hurry! There isn't much time till launch!" yelled a teenage woman.
"I will not leave without her," protested another.
"This is no time for heroics, Sarta!" she yelled over the whirring and howling of the ships and the wind outside. "The ships are ready and the planets not going to wait for you to find her!"
Turned away from her to the door and opened it, letting dust fly in and blurring the vision in the docking garage even more. She stood at the door and turned back around looking at the woman and a younger child standing at a ships doorway.
"You and I promised her. We promised Siena to take care of her. Now you're just thinking of yourself Alexeo while she might be out there either dead or too scared to get back!" she said harshly.
She thought. The woman had given birth to her niece not too long before they had arrived on the desert planet. She was only related to her by blood, her brother's child. She despised the child yet she could not leave someone of her own blood to die. She looked up and glared at Sarta.
"Go find her," she said over the wind. " But be careful! The planets breaking apart right under us and we don't need to lose more of our kind!"
She nodded the turned away. In a flash of energy and dust she was gone.
"Please come back with her safe," she prayed quietly to herself.
The other child stared at where her own relative once stood, praying herself that they would make it off the planet alive...
Sarta darted and whizzed past the meteors and rocks flying down and up in the sky she flew in. She squinted from the amount of dust in the air and struggled to find the child she was looking for. She finally came across a crater, black around the edges from energy burns, and sensed a small ki. She dove down and soon saw the child and another figure, which was her mother. She landed and ran towards them but stopped as she saw her mother in the child's arms, burned and bleeding. Then she came across the small hole in her chest from a blade.
The child cried over her body as Sarta got closer. Her small body breaking against the wind and her tail curled up beside her from sadness.
Sarta kneeled down and rested her hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry Kameya. I'm so sorry," were all the words she could say to her.
Kameya stopped crying and stood up her mother's body falling from her lap. She now had the blood soaked onto tattered shirt and shorts. Her tail flicked angrily and didn't turn to look Sarta in the face.
"Lets go. We don't have much time."
She nodded and picked the child up and flew back to the docking garage.
The Forgotten
Prologue
"Hurry! There isn't much time till launch!" yelled a teenage woman.
"I will not leave without her," protested another.
"This is no time for heroics, Sarta!" she yelled over the whirring and howling of the ships and the wind outside. "The ships are ready and the planets not going to wait for you to find her!"
Turned away from her to the door and opened it, letting dust fly in and blurring the vision in the docking garage even more. She stood at the door and turned back around looking at the woman and a younger child standing at a ships doorway.
"You and I promised her. We promised Siena to take care of her. Now you're just thinking of yourself Alexeo while she might be out there either dead or too scared to get back!" she said harshly.
She thought. The woman had given birth to her niece not too long before they had arrived on the desert planet. She was only related to her by blood, her brother's child. She despised the child yet she could not leave someone of her own blood to die. She looked up and glared at Sarta.
"Go find her," she said over the wind. " But be careful! The planets breaking apart right under us and we don't need to lose more of our kind!"
She nodded the turned away. In a flash of energy and dust she was gone.
"Please come back with her safe," she prayed quietly to herself.
The other child stared at where her own relative once stood, praying herself that they would make it off the planet alive...
Sarta darted and whizzed past the meteors and rocks flying down and up in the sky she flew in. She squinted from the amount of dust in the air and struggled to find the child she was looking for. She finally came across a crater, black around the edges from energy burns, and sensed a small ki. She dove down and soon saw the child and another figure, which was her mother. She landed and ran towards them but stopped as she saw her mother in the child's arms, burned and bleeding. Then she came across the small hole in her chest from a blade.
The child cried over her body as Sarta got closer. Her small body breaking against the wind and her tail curled up beside her from sadness.
Sarta kneeled down and rested her hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry Kameya. I'm so sorry," were all the words she could say to her.
Kameya stopped crying and stood up her mother's body falling from her lap. She now had the blood soaked onto tattered shirt and shorts. Her tail flicked angrily and didn't turn to look Sarta in the face.
"Lets go. We don't have much time."
She nodded and picked the child up and flew back to the docking garage.