Just telling you ahead of time that I completely made up a new race, it will probably not dip into the main story line too much. But please still read the story thanks! I appreciate it!

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Chapter One

Taken as Prisoners

The night fell quick as we traveled along the hot desert in planet Dermon, home of Zerg exiles. As I remember it was the 22nd of June, it has only been one day after our ship crashed in this cursed planet. We were in a mission to travel to planet Gorg and ask Tassadar for help in the war between us and the Zerg.

There were only eight of us, Tom was the pilot, Erin was the mechanic, Jim and I were the guards, and Krielle was the general who was supposed to speak with Tassadar. Our ship crashed when by accident, Tom was in the planet's large gravitational range, and we were attacked by giant winged worm called a mutalisk. The other three had not survived the attack; Dianne, the only medic, and Kenny, and Suit who were supposed to be guards with Jim and me.

We were very uncomfortable being in a desert in the planet of Zerg exiles, who knows what's under the ground or flying above. We could be attacked any second now, and I was right. A row of brown sharp spikes made its way towards Krielle, it was going fast but Erin managed to push her away. But the consequences were fatal; Erin's side was hit by the spikes and went deep, possibly up to his liver.

The thing stroke again, I thought it was going to hit Erin seeming he was helplessly lying on the ground. But I watch the spikes going to the other side towards Krielle, this time no one could save her. The spike pierced Krielle's foot up to her ankle, she fell down as Erin did. The spikes then tried to hit me but I dodged it as quickly as I could, and it started trying to hit Jim, and Tom, and me from time to time.

Jim started firing rapidly at the ground the spikes were coming from, coming closer while dodging everything that was rushing towards him. Then we heard a loud monstrous scream and blood exploded from the ground where Jim just shot from, it was dead, whatever 'it' was.

Seeming we did not have any medics, and the first aid kits were broken with the ship, we could not try to continue on searching for other people. Krielle could not walk, and Tom couldn't even stand up.

"We could support them and continue walking!" Jim suggested

"No" Krielle replied "Erin is suffering from external bleeding, he would die on the way"

"That really makes feel better Krielle…"

"Well, sorry to bring you down but it's the truth" Tom said comfortingly

"How do you even know that Krielle?" I asked

"I was a medic, I could work on our injuries but I have no supplies"

"What do we do now?" I asked

Suddenly we heard a familiar sound far up in space, looking up we saw a shuttle lowering itself down while decreasing its speed. It might have spotted us, and it did. The shuttle flew closer to the ground and landed softly, when the shuttle was in a complete stop a warrior, or 'zealot' came out. I was amazed; it was my first time to actually see a real zealot. Most times I only see them in books, studying them.

The zealot examined Krielle and Erin. He fixed his armor that was made of who knows what, and activated his psi blades that rested from his wrists to his hands. He looked around as if looking for something, then deactivated his psi blades. He turned his head facing Krielle, then Erin once again.

"Were you killing each other?" the zealot asked

It was quite a dumb question, in fact I almost busted out laughing, but I stopped it and I ended up just having my eyes teary.

"You think that's funny?" he said looking at me, and added "I have seen people kill themselves in this desert because they knew they were hopeless, I save as much as I can though."

"So you'll help us?" I said hopefully

"Eh, sure I will…" he said sarcastically, which did not reassure me one bit.

He invited us to "his" shuttle and carried Krielle and Erin since technically they couldn't move. The shuttle was bigger than I thought, I have seen lots of its blueprints at tech labs but I never imagined that it would be as huge as a goliath. I sat on the window side on the left of the ship; next to me was Erin that was sleeping. Next was Krielle, then Jim who looked real spooked because beside him, was an almost translucent man with a mask holding his psi sword ready to attack.

In front of us facing forward to the front of the shuttle, was the zealot driving, and a man with clothes that looked like it was woven of royal celestial cloth.

"You seem interested on my clothes eh?" said the man beside the zealot, I was startled, and I didn't even know if he was serious or just joking.

"Don't worry, I won't bite" 'so he was just kidding' I thought and I made a deep breathe that was louder than I wanted it to be.

He smirked and said "Yes you're right, I was just kidding"

The man beside Jim bent down, looked at me then spoke, "don't worry about him, he usually doesn't kill people, or creatures"

I managed a smile and turned my head out the window, and saw a large busy looking encampment. Hundreds of zealots scattered around the whole place, they looked like they were guards. The shuttle lowered and I recognized the clothes they wore, Terran battle suits.

And my mind became more puzzled when I noticed most of them carried Terran tech parts, like the inside of a goliath and such. I looked back at the zealot with a confused expression.

He laughed silently "you really think we'll treat you greatly just because you got lost?"

"What do you want? And what are these people doing with our stuff?" I asked

The zealot landed the shuttle, making the slightest sound. I came out first.

The others just came out of the shuttle and noticed everything as fast as I did. Jim was helping Erin and Tom was helping Krielle.

"What's going on here?" Tom wondered

"They---we---you tricked us!" Krielle shouted. The almost transparent man held Krielle and Erin's arm incase they do anything fishy. While the old man had his eyes shut, I was paralyzed and by the look on Tom and Jim's faces, I guess they were too.

The zealot gave an evil smirk "so you're tiny minds finally realized eh?"

"Realized what?"

"Oh, so I was wrong. Well let me tell you now. You Terrans have been a growing threat to us. But a useful one. So I set up an encampment here in planet Dermon with the approval of my master. And the unlucky Terrans which would be you, who come here by accident. Well you help us capture you're technology."

"And who would give you our technology? No one I see here would know that" I pointed out.

"Oh I'm sure you know who we're using"

Krielle tried to punch the zealot's head but he was out of reach "who are you using anyway?" she asked "who?"

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