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BLOODY DAWN
Lies. That seems to be all my life is, a string of lies. Hell, I am nothing but a lie.
Who am I? Samus Aran. Ace bounty hunter, bane of the Space Pirates and savior of all mankind.
I hope that we as a species will all burn...
But I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself, nothing causes one to rush quite like anger, resentment and sorrow...
My earliest memories must have been from when I was about three. A surprising feat for most people, being able to remember so far back...
Its easy when you see it all every time you close your eyes...
I was alone... And ironically, though I would come to seek out similar solitude as an adult, the lonely darkness terrified me then...
I cried, I screamed, I wailed for a long time. I was cold, hungry and frightened...
And for the longest time, my cries went unanswered.
Until they came...
The door to my "room", literally little more than a small closet with a crib, opened.
A large, bluish monstrosity of a creature stood looking at me with multifaceted eyes...
A Space Pirate I would later find out they were called...
It turned its head and clicked out something in its own language, and two more appeared beside the first.
Any child in their right mind would have been terrified at the sight of such inhuman creatures...
I was just glad that I wasn't alone anymore...
So I stopped crying and reached up towards them.
They shied back at first, oddly frightened of such a little thing. but slowly, gently, the first to find me lifted me up in its pinchers.
There was a moment of fierce chattering between them, but they still took me out of the dark room and out into the light...
I don't remember much of the world itself, the planet that must have been my home... All I cared about was that I had been saved... And I slowly drifted off to sleep in the rocking arms of my benefactor...
I awoke some time later, the gentle rocking had suddenly turned to a powerful jerking...
We were running... from something...
In the distance, ahead of us was a large cave leading undergound. Around it were countless bodies. Some like the one that carried me, and some human.
War...
I suddenly heard a low hum that quickly grew louder and louder, until the alien to our right was cut down by some energy beam, splattering blue fluid around us, but the other two of my saviors keep running, ever closer to the burrow...
Another hum... another flash... and then it was just us two...
A soft whistle sounded, and the creature suddenly held me close and bent over me, knowing what I did not, that its life was as good as ended...
A deafening explosion sounded behind us and sent us hurtling yards through the air...
Though I could barely hear through the ringing of my ears, a loud "crack" still sounded upon our landing, and I was awash in a bluish fluid as the alien 's life quickly bled away...
It quickly grew cold, and though I didn't understand any of what had happened, I knew I was in danger, and that I had to run...
'I crawled as fast as I could, the burrow only a few feet away, somehow I knew it held safety, peace...
It must have for my rescuers to have thrown their lives away to get there...
But just as I reached the mouth, the terrifying hum returned...
I opened my mouth to scream, but all that came out was a choking gasp as a line of pain flashed through my backside... and everything went black...
The truth? It IS true that I was the only survivor of our human colony, but we were no civilians. We were a military outpost. Established to destroy the first of an amazing species we did not even try to understand. One that was capable of caring for, and saving one of their own enemy that was ruthlessly butchering them...