Disclaimer: I do not own Firefly or any of the characters (or planets) except for the ones I make up. Give all the credit to the great and wonderful Joss Whedon!!!!

All made up languages are for entertainment only. Any offensive language in my made up language or any resemblence to another language (other than english) was extremely unintentional...I promise.

A/N: I did make up a language and some made up "Firefly lingo." I also apologize now for any grammatical errors.

P.S. This is pre-Serenity (the movie)

Chapter 1: Getting to Taumun

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen…and Jayne, this is your captain speaking. Please secure your seatbelts as we will be experiencing some slight turbulence on our approach to the planet of 'Taumun.'" Mal put down the P.A. speaker and moved over towards Wash. "You see that opening there? Go for it."

"You got it captain." Wash replied as he methodically steered the ship into its holding place. Simon was in the infirmary reviewing some of Rivers test results. River sat crouched in a corner re-braiding the same strands of her hair over and over again. As the warning light flashed, Simon quickly typed a few more lines of his report and walked over to where River sat.

"Come on Riv, we gotta go." He pulled on her arm and she pulled it back.

"They cheated. The red men cheated." She said, not looking from her hair.

"River…we have put our seatbelts on. You can finish telling me this later on okay." River didn't look up. "I'll be sure to get you something special when we stop." River put down her braid, and took Simon's hand.

"What the heck's he mean…turbulence?" Jayne scoffed as he repositioned himself on a couch in the lounge. "We couldn't feel no turbulence on this ship 'less it came from a swarmin' pack of Alliance cruisers."

"You really should do what captain tells ya' to, Jayne." Kaylee walked past him wiping some grease off of her face.

"I don't gotta do nothing' I don't want to." He leaned his head back on the headrest.

Simon walked into the securing area and sat River down.

"Where's Jayne?" Shepherd Book asked as he buckled his safety belt.

"He's in the lounge…loungin'." Replied Kaylee.

Zoe sighed, "You'd think after all the time he's spent on this boat, he'd listen to orders." Inara looked at Zoe and nodded her head in agreement.

"Okay Wash, let's land this thing." Strapping himself into the co-pilot's chair, Mal looked out the window.

Wash sped up the engine, "Approaching Taumun…we should be feeling some turbulence right…about….now." The ship made a nothing more than a slight jolt, and smoothly sailed through the atmosphere.

"That was it?" Mal asked looking at Wash with disbelief.

Wash shrugged, "I guess so…huh."

"See, I told you we couldn't feel no turbulence!" Jayne called out to the others. He pulled his gun from off the floor and threw it over his shoulder. He casually stood up and stretched his arms out. Suddenly, the ship shook violently.

"Ah! Here it is." Wash said as he carefully sailed Serenity onto the landing deck.

A gun shot rang throughout the air of the ship.

"Damn it Mal!!" Jayne called out as he lay with his back on the floor.

Mal smiled, "We're here."