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"Portal ssseem fun." a sickly green Floran stated with enthusiasm, that had his companions fearful of what their plant friend might do.
"Worried. No Keth, you can not touch it, you know what Esther said, we are just supposed to make sure this gateway is safe so she can inspect it." explained the Glitch of the four man team.
"You got to admit, it could be fun." joked the only Human.
"Frustrated. No, this is an unknown gateway with very different runes on it than any we have seen. Concerned. At least tell me we have taken care of all the monsters."
"Yes, they did seem to be drawn to this area for untold reasons, but I would say that the portal is what attracted the..." the Hylotl was explaining her theory, but Keth was too distracted by the strange gate.
It looked like any other gate they have found, and they all went to the same place. Most had a dark blue haze to them, like the darkness of space, but this portal was green like the foliage on top of Keth's head, as sickly as his skin.
"Umm, guys, we got a pack of Ooglers coming this way" announced the Human.
That got the Floran's attention, Keth unsheathed his spear from his back, and turned to see a pack of at least twelve Ooglers.
'Weird, Ooglers usually stare from distance.' Keth pondered.
Didn't matter to Keth though, a fights, a fight, and that's what he lived for. Fighting is what Keth loves, and he loves it more with his friends at his side.
"Commanding. John, I want you to take up near the front with your rifle and cover us. Sei, take up the front with..." started the glitch but was interrupted, when Keth jumped straight into the crowd of Ooglers. The glitch let out what most would assume was a sigh.
"Cheer up, Freewall, you might have fun." said john as he rushed up to the fight shooting his rifle.
"annoyed. Sure, fun." Freewall muttered as he pulled his crossbow from his back and joined him.
Sei didn't say anything, just unsheathed her katana on her hip and joined the fray.
It didn't take long for them to take down the Ooglers, being that they were slow and quite honestly, not that smart.
"Wow, I almost broke a sweat." puffed John, who was the only one breathing hard.
"You're the only one that can sweat john." Sei stated, looking at him with a bored expression.
"That ended way to fassst, want more fightssss." complained Keth.
Freewall was about to retort when a howl caught everyone's attention.
"Fearful. That is much bigger than any Oogler I've ever seen, be care-"
"Floran ssstab dumb meat!" Keth yelled as he charged at the beast.
"-ful." finished Freewall with what was assumed to be a sigh, which is weird with no lungs.
There are not many things that Floran know, but he knew that his spear should have broke the skin of any beast, but instead of piercing the hid, it sparked off like its skin was made of metal. That shocked Keth that he didn't see the Oogler raise its hand, and swinging at him with such force it launch him straight into the portal.
"Well shit, that's not good." john bluntly stated.
"Aggressive. This is not the time, we will save him after we deal with this beast."
John aimed his rifle at the Oogler and fired many times, only for the long armed monster to take notice and charge at him. John dodge only a second from being flattened.
There was a sickening crunch as John looked back seeing that the ten foot beast destroyed one of the pillars of the portal, causing the portal to close.
"Oh, you've got to be kidding me, what are the chances that this would ever happen!" John shouted.
The Oogler pulled back from the crumbled totem with it's neck twisted at a sickening angle. As it tried to move it fell to the ground, with the three adventurers standing around the body of the monster that banished there friend into a portal to who knows where.
Looking closer, Freewall noticed that part of the monster's face was scraped away, probably after ramming the pillar, showing metal plating around a fake eye.
"Enraged. Someone or something sent this thing after us, it is not natural, either they wanted this portal for themselves, or wanted it destroyed. Let's go see Esther, maybe she knows how to get our floran back to us."
"Yeah, I mean what's the worst that can happen?" John joked, but got the death stares from his friends.
"what?"
Keth woke up to what he thought was the darkness of space, it was just as cold so it made sense until.
'In space floran would have trouble breathing, must be under water, also wet.'
Though it can be taxing, floran can extract the oxygen in the water through their skin to stay under longer when hunting. Well he was going to need it since it was so cold he must be near the bottom of a water planet, or a planet with no sun, then he would have a problem. It also couldn't be an ocean because the salt would have started to mess with him.
Keth noticed that there was no place he would have come from to get to where he was now. No strange portal, no structure with runes, and no monster trying to kill him.
'Well, no reason to stay down here, better find food, Floran hungry.' Keth concluded as his stomach growled.
It didn't take as long as he thought to break the surface of the water, but when he did, he took in as much air as he could into his body.
"Floran hate breathing through skin...why so dark?"
Most Floran have great night vision, but hanging out with his more fleshy friends has shown him how bad their eyesight is. If they were there with him now, he has no doubt they would not see anything, besides, it's not like they could see it now.
Just that thought brought him a bit of sorrow. Were his friends all right, did they kill the Oogler, or did they die because he was what Sei would call tactless, whatever that meant? No, his friends are as tough as him-even though they have it through tech-and twice as smart. Keth just kind of floated there for a moment thinking about his friends.
John is his favorite of the group. A human with so much optimism that you would think that his whole planet didn't get torn apart by a giant tentacle monster. He once told Keth that he used to be apart of the U.S.C.M, a Human organization that intended to spread the influence of humanity beyond Earth. Turns out, when they said 'spread' they meant force. John ended up having to fight his way out because, get this, they have rules against insubordination.
Freewall was something Floran had a lot less trouble not wanting to eat. Being a glitch that saw past the blind spots of his coding, he was sentenced to death by the high guards of the kingdom he lived in, but escaped. He's always the one to set up the plans and rules of engagement that both John and Keth ignore, you could call him their leader.
Sei is a stupid fish person, but not as bad as others Keth has met. Sei had to have been the first Hylotl not to try stabbing the Floran when first meeting each other. That cannot be said for Keth's reaction, which was to try to take a bite out of her. Somehow, with the help of Freewall and John, they were able to get the two not to hate each other.
Now was not the time to think any of them would die so easy, he would just find somewhere to wait for them to pick him up. Looking around, even with his natural night vision he could not see more than a few feet around him.
What he could see is that he was in some sort of tunnel with lots of piping along the wall. Keth started swimming in a random direction since there wasn't anywhere to really go. As he went, the water seemed to get more shallow and Keth soon saw more detail of the tunnel. One was how under water there was what he assumed to be railings for those elevators he's seen on the space stations.
The train car is what really gave it away that it was some sort of transport station. The only other place he has seen a train was when at a port they saw, what John called a Novakid ship.
Though, from the railings this is an old fashion train that probably couldn't fly which disappointed Keth, but it wouldn't hurt to look inside, besides it was the only way he could go since the tunnel was collapsed around the train.
Going through the train was not much of a hassle, but Keth was kind of having trouble breathing through his mouth with all the dust and decided it would be easier to filter the air through his skin. Usually dust would not cause so much trouble, and even though breathing through the skin does release some water, which could dehydrate him but with all the water around him, he didn't see a problem.
Almost outside the train car Keth found a suitcase with human clothes in it. So he was on a human planet, that's good, Floran has a human friend so he should be fine.
Knowing some humans though, Keth decided it would be good to not look so...savage is what Sei would say. So he took off his loincloth pelt and his animal fur he wore as a shirt, and put on a pair of grey worn jeans with a shirt underneath a hoodie with a broken zipper.
There, now the humans should welcome him with open arms, and luckily he could still breath through the leaves on his head, wrist, and ankles. Weird that he would find the right size for him in the first suitcase he found. Well, as John would say 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth.' whatever a horse is.
Ok, now that things have calmed down a bit Freewall would tell everyone to check their gear.
"Floran, check. Human clothesss, check. Ssspear..." Keth patted his back where his spear would have been "ssspear?"
Must have dropped it in the water when he got thrown into the portal. No biggie, he could just go back and...
The ground began to shake violently, causing Keth to fall face first on to the ground. A loud crash of stone and steel occupied the space that he came through.
Standing up, he looked back only to see that his way back to his spear is now blocked by debris.
"Ssspear..." Keth muttered in a defeated manner.
It didn't take him to long to find a stairwell out of the dust filled tunnel, and from there he could see daylight shining through. As Keth left the ground beneath, the first thing he saw shocked him.
"Humansss bad at at building." Keth stated as he observed the two tall buildings, one leaning into the other.
Breaking his gaze from the building to check his surroundings, he noticed that almost all of the buildings around had sort of the same design, broken and unused. Nature has seemed to have taken over this planet's civilization, so what could have stopped them from living here.
Eh, too much for him to think about. Better to wait for his travelling comrades to pick him up. So he took a seat next to the tunnel.
"Booored." Not even five minutes later, Keth could not take the waiting and decided his time would be better spent looking for food, since it has been about four hours since his last meal.
As he started walking down a cracked road with many abandoned vehicles of many different designs, but shared the same overgrowth of plants giving Keth the idea that he would not find a ship on this planet that would work unless he used Floran's ability to manipulate the plant life to interact with the human technology, like his greenfinger did with their ships. Then again, there is only ever one greenfinger in a tribe that can interact with plant life in such a manner.
A strange noise brought Keth to a stop at the edge of an alleyway. The sound was getting closer and sounded more like a large engine. Keth quietly dodged into the alleyway, taking cover behind a bin as a six wheeled vehicle drove by.
It was hard to see from the alley, but he could see men in the back of the truck in black uniforms. Way to similar to the remnants of the U.S.C.M armor that he has seen some of the prisoners wear when they broke free.
As the sound of the engine died out, a new sound filled his ears. This one came from behind him in the form of a human, only a few feet away from him, but they looked...off. First it was the smell, Floran are used to hunting with each other so they learn to ignore each other's scents, this Human smelled to much like a Floran but was off even in that sense.
Next was the look, it's face was covered in some kind of plant-but-not-a-plant, actually it was more like it's whole body, but it seemed to accumulate on it's face in the shape of a cone, how it could see was beyond Keth.
Last was the noise, the Floran language is a mix of hissing and clicking, but all the Human did was make clicking noises. Keth could almost make out a word between all the clicking, the translator always had trouble with the Floran's tongue and even Keth couldn't make out what it was saying.
The only thing that was more weird was how it was just standing there, kind of swaying back and forth, like it was looking for something.
Well, John always said not to judge before you tried to talk to the thing in question... that didn't really work well with the Erchius Horror, but as John always said 'being nice first will always leave you feeling better with whatever out come', Sei called him stupid.
Keth settled for greeting rather than stabbing, "hello Human, want to be friendsss and share meat!"
The presumed Human roared and charged at Keth.
'Weird Human' pondered Keth as the stumbling Human reached for him.
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Cliff hanger
Hopefully this is as good as my oneshot since I have to keep this one going as a story
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