StarCraft : Guardian

The Void.. A few months after the battle with Amon ended.

"Zagarra, you should go. Lead the Swarm. Evolve. Survive. Create. Thou shall have no more ties with me for I am different now. I only have one command for you. Stay away from the terran."

But the broodmother was unmoved. She bowed to Kerrigan and said, "We will go nowhere else, my Queen. Me and the rest of the broodmothers pledge absolute loyalty to you. We will stay."

She floated nearer to the broodmother. "The void is not a place for you. You should go back to where you belong. To the other side of this dimension. I am a Xel'Naga now, Zagarra. Enough destruction had been done. I cannot be associated with a force of destruction such as you any longer."

"We were made to be this way, my Queen," replied Zagarra instead. She then lifted her head and gazed directly to the fiery angel floating above her. "We were born like this. This is who we are. You had always been the most powerful and the wisest of our kind. You had ensured our survival. You helped us flourished. You gave us dignity. Please don't cast us aside."

She cocked her fiery eyebrows. What the broodmother said was totally unexpected. "I remembered that no more than a few months ago you were impatient in taking over the Zerg from me. Is this how much you had change, Zagarra?"

"This is how much I had changed," confirmed Zagarra. "Once again I plead to you. Do not cast us aside. We are still in need of your wisdom."

The fiery angel straightened up. "Then my job is finish. You are what I envisioned. You are a worthy replacement. There is no more that I can teach you. Go Zagarra. Make something out of yourself. Lead the Zerg."

"And you will stay here?" asked Zagarra. "If not, where will you go?"

The angel looked afar. "Somewhere else where my destiny lies. Somewhere where I can be at peace and can no longer hurt anyone."

"And you will leave the human behind?" asked Zagarra again. "The one you fought so hard for?"

The angel gave Zagarra a sharp look. She knew to whom the broodmother was referring to.

Jim Raynor.

But her expressions soften moments later. "I shall leave him," she said. Her voice tinged with a sliver of regret. "He won't need to be saved anymore. He shall spend the rest of his life in peace."

"Peace for the terran would be nothing but fragile," stated Zagarra. "They are not like us. We Zerg do not fight each other. We evolve. We expand. The terran war will once again break out. It would be a matter of time before your human will once again embroil in it."

What Zagarra said gave the fiery angel a pause. What the broodmother said was right. Even when she was still a terran, the temperamental feature of the human psyche was very well known. Politics, money and the lust of power had always been the main staple of the day. She knew it all too well. The Protoss themselves were no better. The Nerazim versus the Khalai. The Daelam versus the Taldarim. It was all just the same. Peace for Jim won't last. And the fact that he saw himself as a through and through soldier worries her even more. Jim is not afraid to die in battle. While he will be able to accept it, she can't.

She raised her hands and landed her gaze on it. She now has the power. She can do virtually anything.

She held out her hands. Space dust, ice, gas and rocks began to swirl in front of her. The swirling got faster and faster. The primordial materials began to converge until it turns into a fast spinning orb, much larger than a thousand Jupiter combined. Its temperature rises higher and higher until the orb suddenly ignited into a newly born sun.

She had created a new star. The angel admired her handiwork for a while before suddenly she closes her hand. The newly born star began to shake. Huge fiery crack began to appear across its equator. The crack grew larger and larger until the star exploded in a huge supernova. She immediately erects a protective barrier, shielding both her and the Zerg.

She can create stars. She can destroy it as well. She can enforce the peace. She can burn them in hell.

An idea suddenly flew into her mind. If the terran and the rest of the galaxy inhabitant refuse to enforce peace upon themselves, then she will.

The angel turned towards Zagarra. "Very well. I shall accept the Zerg back into my embrace. But you and the rest will have to be ascended. You shall not be the Zerg any longer."

She once again raises her hand. A bright ball of light came out from it and began to engulf all the Zerg.

In a deep echoing voice that vibrates throughout the Void she spoke:-

"My children hear me. Today, you will change. Today you will no longer be one with the old. You valour had been proven. Together we shall bring peace to this galaxy. Together we will protect. Those who follow us shall bask in our glory. Those who oppose us shall bask in our wrath. Our anger and our rage shall be brighter and hotter than a million suns. We will enforce and they shall obey. From this moment forth, you shall be my Guardian."

Sarah lowers her hand and watches as the Zerg began to change.

She knew that she will succeed. Nothing will stand in her way. She shall remake this galaxy and the universe beyond it. Jim will no longer have to fight. She will bring peace to him. She will take care of him. She will protect him.

But before that, Jim must be put out of the way.

She closes her eyes. She re-establish the bond that had always exist ever since she was turn into the Queen of Blades. The bond in which she had use during her days as the leader of the Zerg to monitor him.

"Jim. I'm alive. Follow the sign. Find me."

"Find me."

Imperial Palace, Augustgrad, Korhal IV, 2.30am…

Jim woke up with a jolt.

"Sarah."