"I can hear your name, like a heartbeat, inside my soul."

The rain is falling on a city on a faraway planet. A young woman walks the streets, wounded after an extremely critical battle against the Irken Empire. It had only been hours ago when she lost the love of her life.

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She watched, horrified and helpless as her love was stabbed in the chest with some sort of Scythe. The pukish green alien made his escape, leaving her love's body to rot. Wounded severely, she crawled over to him.

"Griffin...Griffin can you hear me?" He opened his eyes to stare up into her own crimson eyes, "Phoenix...I'm sorry...sorry I have to leave you like this." He winced in pain. The crimson eyed girl gently put a finger over his mouth, "Please...don't talk. You'll hurt yourself even more."

"I just want you to know that you're the only one I've ever loved. The only one I ever will love, Phoenix, you were the flame in my life." Phoenix kissed him gently until he sighed his last breath of air. Tears welled in the young woman's eyes as she sobbed mournfully.

"Griffin, I promise...I will avenge your death. I will not relax until I know that every last Irken has disappeared off the face of this Universe," the Chiitaron warrior shouted as she looked up at the sky. The city before her was suffocated in the sparkling brilliance of flames, indicating the major battle that took place just before Griffin's death. **********End Flash Back************** The young woman continued walking through the dust of the city.

"...I will avenge you..."

The crimson-eyed Chiitaron pledged that she would first hunt down and take out the red eyed, pukish green alien that had slain her love that night. With that last thought in her mind, she collapsed, unconscious in the street from her injuries as the rain pored down in heavy blankets of water.