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Abathur suddenly found himself in a strange place,his link to the zerg colony and Queen of Blades was would feral by now but fortunately,Previous extensive genetic modification similiar to that of the zerg queen was made on to him that kept him from going feral, though the reason are more to controlling the growing numbers of zergs in check in his evolutionary pit than suddenly being teleported to the unknown.
After inspecting building, Abathur theorized that he is on some form of pocket dimension,It is the most logical explanation he can conclude due to environment he is in,The structure is made from wood and some from of plaster,though it show signs of age and disrepair but it does not appear what the place appears to appearing and disappearing,decrepy on the walls and floor change and shift when it quakes,The entire area and the 'materials' the building and most of the objects built upon is made of strange form of psionic energy which made the khydarin crystal he is holding glows and purple,red and black aura seems materialize around it and absorbed into the crystal,which it was converted to a blue glow as if it was 'processing' the energy it the deceased Terrans(1) and the apparels they wore, each with different advance stage of decay seems to be made of coporael orgnanic and synethic materials, peculiar thing about them is that they seem to make the khydarin crystal shine more brightly and the strange color auras manifest in larger quantity, as he closely inspects the deceased but the crystal seems to glow normally when ignoring them(2).The same glow seems to manifest when near certain mundane objects, strange green toxic to primitive lifeforms with deformed terran faces and strange strands of paper with scribbles on them plastered on doors, but the aura gathering around the crystals seems to be different in color, white and gold it seems.
After exploring and much investigation that he believes to be everything of the resume his on investigation the khyradin crystal with some shred of nativity with answers of which escape from this place,while roaming around aimlessy the area in hope he might stumble he hasn't been through stumble on a fresh severed leg soaked in its own pool of blood wasn't there on corridor before, Yet no quake occured either he was too distracted to notice it while he investigating the crystal or its another anomaly he was yet to see the decide to feast on this small snack instead the question in his genetic materials on the severed legs seems to contain was uniquely different but far less than the data he come across the samples he collected from countless terran during his time with Kerrigan's quest for vengeance."Genetic...Terran...Different...Fewer...More samples needed..." With that Abathur once more aimlessy slither across the corridors with most of his attention the khyradin crystal floating on his hands.
"Wh-what is that thing?..." Tohko whispered huddling with Emi as she look at the strange creature that glows green ,with most of it upper top its body is obscured due to the height of the door ceiling, while a blue crystal floats in front of it with its hands seems to move around as if it was studying it, slowly slithers to the right side of the door."He looks like he came from a lovecraftian horror" Katayama replied quietly, whom was behind them sitting in a corner, he seems to be entranced by the alien creature passing by that he didn't feel pain and his leg was missing."It's a.." Ohwaka right beside Katayama was cutted off when Yuuya hushed them with his hiss and a simple hand gesture to stay and Shimada is in front from the rest them acting as the vanguard.
Yuuya and Shimada were very displeased with the situation at hand, Yuuya concluded that they will likely to die in this predicament especially he is on the front which dying will have a higher ,Shimada on the other is still peeved by the idiocy of the group with the exception of Yuuya and still have doubts on saving them after his 'arguement' with Yuuya and Shimada are puzzled why they are acting on acting as vanguard despite their questionable nature and self-centred interest, it would probably is instinctual by natural,A simply urge to protect,but the two will probably never have their question answered for they are too distracted by the danger of death that might come, To the entire groups distress the stop moving only to its 'tail' section and one third of its back visible as the open door let them see.
As bad situtation is at hand,it ended for bad to familar moaning can heard from a foot steps can be heard, both the moaning and foot steps begin to louder and a large figure pops out from view from the skin that more likely associated with a dead,messy short black hair, eyes completely red with absents of pupil and iris, black continusously fluids through the eyes, black lips with mouth wide open,flesh dead gray in color, wears a brown blazer with a green shirt with grey vest underneath it,black pants and black apparels he is wearing show sign age and tear with patches of dirt and pale figure stop in his tracks, an arms reach to the alien creature,whom still appear to be unmoved as if not to notice the sledge hammer in hand, he lift it up with both of his hand reached on top with its head and swings the hammer with his full strength at the upper body of the alien.
The alien makes a sound of that of hisses,moan,roared all at the same as it swiftly turns around,whipping his 'tail' section causing the man to trip over as his both of his legs got hit by the pale tries to get back on his feet only to be grabbed from the neck with the creature's left primary hand,he was lifted up till he is in eye contact with the creature and his feet is not touching the ground.A strong pressure is being build from his neck, he was an ordinary human he would have choking by now and his hands would instinctly try to wrestle from his he isn't an ordinary human,well not he slowly lifts his left hand which still clutching to the sledge hammer,only to his arm cut off from his shoulder with one of scyth like claw from its man cries in agony and moans incohertly as he looks at his bleeding armless left shoulder oozing black haste, he grabs a large kitchen knife with his left hand hidden underneath is blazer and starts hacking the creature arm which was struggling his neck despite alien's arm not getting cut, its losses its grip due to the multiply blunt trauma he is he was free from its clutches,he ran as possibly can in a zombie like fashion to the opposite direction, dissappearing to the dark.
Yuuya,Shimada,Katayama,Ohkawa,Tohko and Emi were shocked on what they witness, the pale man whom has been terrorising them for some time, have his arm cut off and was fleeing east for his 'life'.They would have cheered and rejoice for his defeat and agony but they still have the a predicament in their hands,the alien right in front of watch the creature picked the severed arm with its lower right hand and began examining it with its tendrils near it mouth,then swallowing it there surprise,it spoke.
"Terran...Advance state of decay...Foreign Psionic...Must...Gather...More...Example..."After analysing the walking corpse's severed hand, he turned into the northern direction and faced an open door and noticed six terran lifeform huddling at the furthest corner of the two on the front were the tallest amongst and seem to be the "Alphas", behind them are two females with... unsually large chest...'interesting...' Abathur though in a scientific way, and behind them are two male, one look small and fragail and the another has a missing leg which he snacked on a moments ago, Abathur concluded that are categories as the weak and injuired.
He is interested in their genetic materials due to it's uniquely different to those terrans he previously drew closer entering through the male lavatory to the young terrans as he goes nearer to the them, he notice that the crystal glows pause and decided to inspect the crystal, 'interesting' he thought perhaps their is more to these terrans as he calculates the risk involving in incapacitating them, unique genetics, possibly psionic, phyiscally the young terrans would only be pose a minor nuisance, but the use of psionic will pose a problem especially they are six of decided it would be a safer bet to find a lone and unaware terran, better yet a freshly incapacitated terran,dead or alive and possibly intact as the decision in mind, he sliths back out the room and head east through the corridor.
As Alien creature disappeared from their sight, All of them sigh in relief and rest in a relax postion."Wh..What was that all about?!" Shimada yelled looking at the ceiling too mentally exhausted to look at his peers, hoping for an answer even if its just guess, an educated guess would be preferable though."Alien? don't be ridiculous" Tohko replied "Really? After being magically whisked away to a haunted school, being chased by the girl in red and her evil ghost minion and 'jason',you still find that hard to believe?" Shimada retorted."but an Alien? it doesn't fit the theme of this place!" Tohko argued rhetorically,
"Perhaps he is also a vitcim here as well as us...or he is one of those lovecraftian aliens!" Ohkawa said in an oddly enthusiastic manner."Excuse me..but what's lovecraftian?" Emi shyly replied, "Wait? You don't know lovecraft?" Ohkawa said in disbelieve as he thought she knew since she in to the occult especially she was, not pointing fingers, the one responsible for summoning them here, although her intent was out of keeping their friendship eternal and nothing else,she must at least heard of lovecraft! Ohwaka thought but decided to ignore it and continued "It a type of Alien so advance that their technology is practically magic! and" " Can you get on with it!" Shimada rudely interjects, Ohkawa glared at him with a frown on his face. "Long story short, He might be the one responsible in creating this place and possibly spreading the rumor of the ritual to entice people coming here for his experiments."
Shimada,Tohko and Emi were shocked with such speculation that Ohwaka explained but before any of them were to have their say on the matter, mostly one of emotional outburst that would likely to infighting which would deteriorate the group even further, Yuuya intervene "Before you say anything, its just nothing more but a simple assumption, a guess."With that said, the group return in a relax, passive manner."So...what now?" Katayama the question,everyone including him began to think of an answer.
Sachiko a girl short in stature,petite in built,her hair is obscenely long down to her knees, eyes black, her skin pale and bluish in color with veins visibly,she wore a plain red oversize t-shirt with torn and different saturation of red splattered all over and is not pleased, she sat on her 'throne' made from dead bodies of young students both fresh and old with her eyes narrowed with hate,looking down at her large minion with missing left arm bowing down on the floor,whimpering pathetically."Useless!" Sachiko sneered, as she kicked his head with her right begins to stomp his head repeatedly, upset as he uable to get of this creature, who was stealing the powers of the her realm. 'UNACCEPTABLE!' she screamed in her head as continues stomp her minion's head with greater strength and speed.
Few minutes has pass,Sachiko has stopped her assault on the pale man's head and she turns to her left at her three ghostly underlings, who were cackling to themselves of their companion's growl disapprovely at their eyes are then set on an old television from the 60s with pictures impossibly vivid and realistic than it would normally projects,shows the alien creature was near the exit of the east building,eyeing on the glowing crystal with its hand making gestures as if it was trying to tampering it television switch channels only to zoom closer to the crystal in its angrily hiss as she saw the darkness is being consumed by the crystal and being 'cleansed' by it,the darkness that she accumilated from the negative emotions and souls from the victims that arrived here, through the decades is being stolen right in front of her must do something about it.
Abathur huddling the corner near the exit with stacks of storage containers filled with terran foot wears, continous to study the crystal after his futile attempt to open the door that leads to the naively hoping that the door would be excessable within a couple minutes or so due the unpredictable nature of this pocket dimension,as he waits, he continues to study the suddenly heard crying, he turned to the source of the sound and saw what he believe to be a female terran infant right in front of him,she was kneeling down at the floor,extremely long hair,extremely pale skin with a red dress and not to mention she glows in blue color.'Perfect!' Abathur though as he found the helpless,live and lone terran for gathering unique genes and she is small enough to fit to his slowly slithers to the young girl and extends his primary upper right arm towards the terran infant,but suddenly came to a halt when he was pinned to the ground by several strong grips coming from his 'tail' section, upper secondary left and right turns to look the what has pause his his suprise, He saw three other glowing terran infants holding his body with their limps and were giggle meniacly with their eyes shown to contain completely blue in color,hue and of them show signs with different form of injuries on them,each one is lethal enough to cause death to a normal terran.
The one holding his upper secondary left limp is female and the tallest amognst them,with a missing left eye and her hair is done in a lower pig tail, the one holding his upper secondary right limp is a male,slightly shorter and has a horizontal laceration marks on his lower chest area and joints on both on his upper limps,while the one is probably female to his guess,with the entire upper head missing but was replace with a darken haze that has two glowing orbs floating to terrans usually have there eyes at, hugging his 'tail' section with the entire lower body is not visible, due her ability to be partially incorporeality passing through to his body on his 'tail' was flabbergast by their impossible strength to hold him down and still functioning despite the fatal injuries on them.
Despite the predicament he was in, he speculated they are vessels or "souls" kerrigan refers to as, out of their physical bodies and were purely made of foreign psionic energy, this made Abathur eager to know more of this strange place and gathering data and the pure psionic beings,'In the name of science and the swarm.' Abathur thought.
(1) Abathur refers Humans as Terrans
(2) Looking at the corpse and other objects causes darkening to causes acts based more on emotion than logic,unconscious killings and more vulnerable to becoming possesed by spirits.
