Prologue

"Make sure to not leave anyone behind!"

Shouted a male voice as there was another explosion nearby. But also nearby, was a silver haired, five foot three foot tall, brown eyed girl. Her voice also rang out among the fighting as she tried to stop them from fleeing.

"No, don't leave or it will take notice of the ships!"

Silver shouted as she blocked a shadowy tendril from hitting a fellow fighter. But very few listened and most of the battle ships started fleeing, only the offspring of other stars heeded her warning as the shadowy tendrils noticed and started reaching for the ships. The silver-haired girl looked around at the chaos with her intelligent brown eyes before calling the action.

"Star platoon, you know what to do, action 6."

The other star offspring immediately took formation behind Silver and they held out their swords in front of them. The swords started glowing with Silver's sword upfront. The glow grew bright as an echoing scream resounded and the shadowy figure drifted off. After a moment, the others all sighed in relief as all the ships made it safely out of range. But Silver wasn't in the mood, for the incompatible humans mistake almost cost them the lives of the innocent.

"Captain Martin! I need to see you front and center!"

She shouted to the now stopped battling ship as she landed on it. Going inside, she noticed that the guards were acting unusually nice to her. Usually her kind were usually treated like scum or noted that they needed to be exterminated. She was extremely treated that way since being the only offspring of the ancient Methuselah star. So her guard was up when she had noticed the guards behavior.

Walking into the control room, a trap immediately went off with a poison dart trying to puncture her. But she dodged easily and already had her sword out by the time she finished her roll. The thing thought it could throw her off with such a simple trap? Nope, she had enough battle experience and wasn't going to be tricked by such a childish trick once again.

"So, you figured out my little plan already? Are you ready to give up, Methuselah child? Now that you know you can't defeat what's standing in front of you."

The figure walked out into the light and Silver could see that his eyes were black and there was a dark aura surrounding him. The Being charged towards her as she quickly brought up her sword to block his. Checking him over, she made sure that this was the real captain Martin and not an illusion. Nope, not fake, so he had possessed the Captain somehow. He was always weak willed. She thought with resignation as she focused back on to the battle.

"I see you've managed to send a nightmare into one of our captain's heads."

Silver mentioned as she pushed him back and charged on her own this time, swinging a fake to hit his side and then quickly changed to his head. The thing chuckled as a Fearling quickly formed in it's hand and blocked her blade. It then pushed her off, flinging her a good ten feet back. As the being slowly walked over, it was chuckling madly as if it had just won a marathon.

"You have been a pain in my side long enough, child. You aren't even three years old and you are giving me the most problems."

But then something swung in and kicked it in the side, making it fling across the room. Landing where the Being just stood was a black haired, five to six foot tall man with brilliant brown eyes. Turning, he face Silver and just sighed because of her rushing attitude.

"Well played Kozmotis, thanks again for saving my back side."

"Well, I couldn't just let our top mercenary get killed, especially when we could be dealing with an angry ancient star if she does."

Chuckled Kozmotis as he moved his black hair out of the way of his brown eyes. But before Silver could respond, a Fearling came and charged towards Kozmotis. He dodged just as Silver sliced the thing with her sword. Swinging her sword a couple times more against other charging Fearlings, Silver started losing ground. There was too many, this wasn't one they could go all two person army on.

"Dam Fearlings, we need to end this now, Kozmotis."

Silver said worriedly as the Being got back up and charged at Silver. She deflected the attack and swung her sword in an underhand swing with it being deflected again by the Being's Fearlings. The thing then kicked her side and sent her flying against the wall again.

"You are strong, even for your kinds standards, but your aren't strong enough to defeat me." Silver turned to lay on her back, her shoulder dislocated after hitting the wall. She couldn't move from where she was, even when her life depended on it.

It swung it's sword in a slow circle as it loomed over Silver. She looked around for Kozmotis to see that he was in the middle of battling nightmares. Damit, her only chance now was to try what her parent star warned her to use only in the most dire of situations...

"What are you looking at my dear? It isn't very nice to turn away."

The sword of the being stabbed through Silver's shoulder as she cried out in pain. The Being laughed at her pain, feeling satisfied that his sworn enemy was suffering at his hands for once. Hurry up and bleed shoulder so I can get rid of him! She thought in aggravation as the Being continued talking.

"It isn't so nice, being on the receiving end of that isn't it?"

It taunted as it twisted the blade further into her shoulder. "Thanks, this is actually what I have hoped for." She stated painfully as she smeared some of her blood on her finger and reached up. The being recognized what she was doing but was too late to react. Silver smeared her blood in an X over its arm and the being screamed out in pain. A dark cloud flew out of Martin's mouth and the unconscious Martin fell to the ground.

The being continued screaming in pain until it soon left though one of the windows. She pulled out the sword in her shoulder and grunted to the pain. The sword disintegrated as soon as it hit the ground, also trailing after it's master. Kozmotis jogged over, done with the Fearlings that had attacked him.

"You alright there Silver?"

"Just fine, just give me a second to heal this."

So she put her hand up to the wound to heal it with her starlight, but it didn't work. Even with the bright flashes it was creating, it didn't heal nor ease the pain. This was unusual and only a few different blades could cause a wound like this to happen.

"Dam, that must have been the being's blade itself."

She muttered before looking toward the entrance way to see someone familiar coming in. "There you two are, I heard about a possessed captain on one of the ships and was worried about you two." Ti'ara stated as she walked over to the two, the shoulder length brown hair looking quite the wreck and her brown eyes full of worry.

"Oh, are you alright?"

She asked cautiously toward Silver as she looked toward the wound. Silver was the type that usually tried not to put her burdens on others, so she had to ask cautiously.

"It's alright, I can deal with it, I have had worse wounds than this. Our first priority at the moment is to evacuate all the teams now that the civilian ships are gone. With Martin unconscious, I am in charge."

The other two nodded and quickly ran back to get back to their ships. Silver however, went to the front of the control room of this ship.

"Alright, this is Commander Silver, your General is injured and I will be taking over. We will now evacuate before the being comes back." At the sound of the command, all the ships started turning around and heading back to the base planet.

Later that day, Stella, Kozmotis, and Silver were sitting at a table along with the other captains in the planning room.

"The being seems to have fled, but we can't keep our hopes up that it will stay that way. Silver, with Martin out of commission, you are now in charge of not only your mercenaries, but of the division."

There was a large amount of groaning among the other captains at the news of this. The general population hated the Star Born for fear that they one day might destroy them. Star Borns were typically stronger, faster, and also able to control starlight. With human leaders, this race of olds seemed like a threat and the only reason they weren't wiped out was of their usefulness against the being.

"Typical, star born racism."

Silver muttered as she gave some of the men her evil eye. They quickly jumped back in their seats at the sight and Kozmotis smirked a bit. The girl could be intimidating when she wanted to be and he usually didn't like her using her evil eye. But he would let this one slip for the moment, she did have a good reason after all.

After the meeting, the three met up outside the doors to that planet's palace. Now Kozmotis usually didn't like Silver giving her evil to others, but there was a reasonable argument to go with it this time. Giving him a, 'I told ya', grin, she went ahead and started talking before he would start reprimanding her.

"So I was given a reason this time to give the men my evil eye." Stated Silver as the three started walking away.

"Alright, I have no reason to scold you this time." Argued Kozmotis as he held out his hands in mock surrender.

"I don't get why they hate your kind so much. I mean, all your kind have ever done is help us." Stella said as the three stopped by a fountain in the courtyard.

"Their scared of us, that's why. We have the power of entire stars at our disposal and your kind is scared that we will turn on you. What they don't realize is that giving us this treatment will only cause that exact thing." Silver sighed as she dragged her fingers around in the water.

That was when everything went downhill, for the first sign of trouble was the screaming senators. Kozmotis, Stella, and Silver immediately ran over to check what was going on. In the middle of the screaming senators was an apparition.

"Dam the being, how is it attacking during the day?"

Asked Silver as she unsheathed her sword while running towards the thing and slashed it.

"No idea, but we have to evacuate the pla-" Stella was cut off as something shook all three and everyone around them to their knees. It seemed as if the planet was shaking in response to something very large. Glancing up, Kozmotis saw a giant cloud covering the nearby star.

"I think we've found our reason." He stated as the three struggled to get up.

The rumbling stopped, but that only brought more trouble as hordes of Fearlings started attacking everyone in sight. Silver, surprised by the sudden assault, turned to her communication watch to see that no one was replying.

"Looks like the mercenary squad may be out of commission. It doesn't look like the army is going to be assembled in time either. Well, were on our own out here, let's hurry and get these survivors to a ship."Kozmotis and Stella nodded as they quickly brought out their swords and started slicing up incoming Fearlings.

"Follow me if you want to live." Silver called before she went to the head of the group and started dicing more Fearlings.

The senators listened and the three protected them from the Fearlings until they got to a ship. After getting them on, Silver was going to get on when she was pushed off by one of the senators.

"What was that for?" Stella replied harshly as she went to try and help before she was left.

"She is not one of us Stella, leave her here to be consumed."

But the ship was already to high in the air for them to help her aboard.

"If she is going to be consumed, then so will I." Stella yelled at he senators before jumping off the ship and landing next to the still lying on the ground Silver. Kozmotis also gave a nod before jumping off and landing next to her. Stella held out her hand in front of Silver to help her up.

"You okay there friend?" Silver reached and gripped her hand as Stella helped pull her up.

"I'm fine, just going to give those senators my evil eye when I get back."

Replied Silver as she clutched her hand into a fist.

"I don't think we have time to worry about that." Stated Kozmotis as he pointed to the slow devouration of the planet.

"I think you may have a point, let's hurry!"

They then took off and ran towards the boarding docks. Most people had gotten off of this side of the planet already, but that also meant there weren't many ships. There was one about to take off and Silver, realizing that they all wouldn't make it, pushed the two on board.

"You guys go ahead, I will stall this guy!" She yelled too the ship, knowing full well they couldn't hear her as she turned and unsheathed her sword, letting the blade glow as bright as it wanted.

"So, you have decided that you cannot escape from me, Methuselah child."

Stated a very familiar voice as the cloud devouring the planet came closer. "Why don't you shut up and just leave me be. I would never give in to you, not as long as I live." She stated firmly as she readied for her finale blow against the creature before her death.

"Then why don't you die for me and see how you do then?"

"Gladly." Was all she said before she used her sword to throw the explosive energy of her patron star into. The dark cloud surrounded her and there wasn't anything you could see was left. But something wasn't right, the dark cloud stopped and the voice was screaming out in pain. A sudden bright light flashed across the planet's surface and blinded everyone that saw it.

After a moment of blinding, Kozmotis and Stella looked down on the plant to see that the dark cloud was no longer there. The ship, after realizing this, turned to land back at the docks. It landed and the first two people to get off were Kozmotis and Stella as they looked around for their friend. After a moment of searching outside the docks, they found the unconscious, but still alive, Silver and Kozmotis gently shook her. She groaned and sat up for a moment, looking around, apparently confused.

"Wait, I should be dead, particles in the universe now."

"Well your apparently not, so stop whining about it." Replied Kozmotis as Silver continued looking around in her confused stat.

"No, I should be dead for that move was a suicidal one. You release all your energy at once and it also takes the energy of your life force." Both Stella and Kozmotis sighed at their friend's continued whining as they helped her up and watched as people started returning to the planet. Little did they know however, that was just the beginning of a long war between the forces of the being and the early Golden Agers.