9 Years Ago
Stardate 41962.1
December 18, 2364 – 03:05:11AM
The planet Risa glowed with mysterious beauty with white sandy beaches and crystal clear blue waters. The exotic food was a pure delight for all the senses. Alizya Williams and her father Matvey Williams, went to the Risian festival called the Lohlunat on the pristine beach of Suraya Bay. The Lohlunat was held at night when the twin moons glowed high in the night sky. There was rich music all around with delicious food and high spirits for everyone who attended.
The bright silver moons reminded Alizya of the large shiny pearls her father found on the beach only a few days before the festival started. A day after the festival ended Matvey challenged her to a rock climbing contest on Galartha, she liked how it changed pitch the higher she climbed. After she won they sat on the top and watched the scenery around them. It looked a lot like the island of Hawaii back on Earth, but on a much bigger scale since the whole planet was like this. Later that day they went to a seafood restaurant where Alizya learned some of the language from the local Risians.
A few hours before Alizya left to go back to Earth, she found a beautiful waterfall that poured into a large pool of clear cool water. As she explored the area she was surprised that no one else found this magnificent scene and called it their own. Behind the place that the water fell was a little cave not more then ten feet deep. This would be a wonderful place to relax and get some peace. On her way back to the USS Cricket, she smiled wide as she thought to herself that she found her own special place that no one else had yet. Next time she visited Risa she was going to her waterfall.
Alizya Williams was exhausted from her exciting trip to Risa. When she stepped back onto the civilian transport ship she knew she was going to miss the beautiful planet. She wanted to stay longer but her father needed to get back to Earth for one of his projects back on Earth. But she had lots of fun memories and pictures to remember her fun time on Risa.
Matvey was an architect who traveled all over Earth to do his projects. Unfortunately it left Alizya home alone most of the time in San Francisco, California. She always found creative ways to entertain herself while her father was away. She started to gain interest in Starfleet and wanted to join next years new semester, she was confident that she could pass the Starfleet pre-entrance exam. But she wasn't sure which division she wanted to excel in, there were so many choices to choose from. Engineering seemed fun.
Alizya slept peacefully in her dark and quite room on the USS Cricket. But yet, tonight was different from all the other nights that she slept in her quarters. Maybe it was because the temperature in the room was a little too warm or perhaps the low hum from the ship was just a little too loud. It wasn't either of those that interrupted her slumber. She couldn't get back to sleep because she woke up from a very strange dream.
It felt so real that she thought if she closed her eyes again that it would automatically resume like one of her holonovels, but it never did. She even half expected it to be one of those dreams that you wake up in but in reality your still dreaming.
Her long mahogany colored hair stopped in the middle of her back and her eyes were a deep shade of emerald. She wore a pair of light pink pajamas and had a matching pair of slippers on the floor next to the bed. The pajamas and slippers were a gift from her grandmother on Earth who would be celebrating her 110th birthday soon. In every way Alizya appeared to be Human, except for the faint four ridges on her nose and the light spots that trailed down from her forehead to her feet. Her father was ½ Trill and ½ Human, while her mother was full Bajoran.
She sat up in her bed for a few moments and tried hard to remember the dream that was so vivid only moments ago. She looked up at the ships chronometer and watched as the seconds slowly ticked by. The dream slipped away the longer she was awake and the more she tried to remember it the more the details faded away. She reached over to her nightstand and grabber her data padd to write down what little she still remembered of the dream. But as soon as the data padd was in her hands she didn't have the faintest idea of what to write down anymore.
Not sure what really woke her up she tossed the blue-gray covers aside and jumped out of bed. She placed the data padd on the bed and stretched. Something was bugging her in the back of her mind, something just wasn't right tonight and she felt it. Her bare feet stepped softly on the dull colored carpet, the slippers forgotten. She stared down at the carpet and wondered whoever the original designer for the ship was had very bad taste in how to style a room.
Her attention was pulled away from the dull colored carpet when she heard the accented sound of her fathers worried voice in the other room. Nothing he said could be understood through the thick metal walls of the ship. She wasn't even sure whether her father had called her name or if she just happened to hear her father say her name in the other room.
Matvey wouldn't talk to himself, as far as Alizya knew she and her father were the only two people currently on the ship. Then she heard another muffled voice in the other room. Curious, she walked up to the door and pushed the side panel. It beeped and the door whooshed open, the sound of her fathers voice was more audible but she still couldn't make out what he was saying.
She stepped outside of her room and when her bare feet made contact with the cool metal floor she shivered. She should of put on her slippers, but didn't bother going back to get them. It seemed like too much effort now since she was now out of her room. She took a few steps and quietly followed the sound of her fathers voice.
Matvey was a stocky half Trill/Human with short curly dark brown hair, deep hazel eyes and light spots. His mother was from Russia and he moved to North America when he met Alizya's mother. A Bajoran woman who died giving birth to Alizya, her name was Ala Kayren. Her father told her that her mother was one of the lucky Bajorans who escaped the Cardassian Occupation. Matvey gave Alizya her mothers Bajoran earring telling her that her mother would have wanted her to have it.
He clearly wasn't happy as he stared hard at someone who stood on the other side of the room, just out of Alizya's line of sight. She never seen him this tensed before, a light sweat was on his forehead.
She strained to see around the corner to see who her father was talking to. To her surprise a person causally walked by. She wasn't expecting someone else to be on the ship, she thought her father was talking to someone through a hail that he received.
The strange man was tall, he had short brown hair and icy blue eyes that sent shivers down her spine. From the was this man glared at Matvey it was obvious the he hated him with a passion that she couldn't explain. "I don't care what you think anymore Matvey." He had a strong British accent which made him appear more handsome but his eyes just scared her. "We agreed on this a long time ago and yet.. you choose now to decide that you don't want to go through with what we planned?"
"I changed my mind Calen." Matvey crossed his arms and stood tall. The scene reminded Alizya of a wild targ standing tall against a predator to scare it off. His hard gaze never left Calen's icy blue eyes. The air was tense as the low hum of the ship drummed in the background and the occasional beep meant it was on autopilot. His hazel eyes watched the other man carefully, but it was obvious that Matvey was very afraid. "You can forget about everything we said or done and just leave us alone."
Calen inhaled deeply and then gave a long sigh. "I hoped it wouldn't have to come to this. But you leave me with no other choice." He took out a weapon that looked like a phaser from his holster and aimed it at Matvey's chest. "Goodbye, old friend."
Alizya made a mistake while she hid and gasped to loud, she quickly covered her mouth. Matvey and Calen stopped staring each other down and looked over to where she was hidden. Matvey's eyes widen and he yelled. "Alizya run!"
Calen didn't say a word or panic as the young girl in front of him stood frozen with fear. He acted like he could care less that he saw her. His gaze made her feel cold on the inside, his eyes told her that he wasn't afraid of anything. He gave her a evil smile and pulled the trigger on the phaser, the setting was set to kill.
Time seemed to slow down before Matvey or Alizya could react to what was going on in the room. The phaser fire hissed and burned at the flesh when it hit his chest. The searing hot pain quickly spread throughout his entire body and he fell to the ground with a pained moan. It took mere seconds before the blood started to pour out of his wound, it stained his light brown shirt a dark maroon.
"Father!" Alizya yelled and ran past Calen, not caring if her shot her next with his phaser. She had no idea what was going on or why this mysterious man called Calen shot her father.
Matvey struggled to talk to his daughter, but the color in his face quickly drained. His body went slack and his once warm hazel eyes now stared back up at her. Cold and lifeless.
She shook her father and her eyes started to sting with salty. "No.. " She whimpered. "You can't be gone.." She sobbed. "Don't leave me.." She tried hard to fight back her tears, she looked up at the man who murdered her father. "Why?" She spat the work out as if it were poison. Tears ran down her face in streams.
The man in black just smiled at Alizya and tapped at something on his wrist. "In due time.. we will meet again." He then transported off the ship leaving Alizya to mourn over her father. She looked down at her fathers lifeless body and cried heavily. Not caring that her pajamas were now stained with his blood and her tears. He was all she had left of her family and now he was gone in a flash.. Alizya was truly alone.
A few minutes passed and then the ship jerked violently. The momentum flung her across the room liked she weighted nothing. The lights above her flickered and a console the she hide behind only minutes before exploded. Metal creaked and groaned as the ship rocked hard to the left and to the right. She couldn't see her fathers body on the bridge anymore. The lights flickered out again and plunged the ship into darkness. Plasma fires consumed random parts of the ship and the loud warning alarms hurts her ears. She chocked on the fumes and strained to see through the smoke. The last thought on her mind before she lost consciousness was that she was going to die.