Chap. 2: Interloper.

{Note: I do not own Starcraft}

(Somewhere on the planet)

(Xarghal moves at a good pace towards the hive. Though he is at his own free will he does not know what else to do. Suddenly he heard a sound behind him. He jumped and spun around quickly to see what it was. When he saw the unknown creature he let out a warning hiss and began circling it. After one full circle the hydralisk fired a needle spine right through Xarghal. Xarghal let out a screech of pain then pounced at it as a counterattack. Xarghal landed on top of it, a good amount of his acidic blood fell on one of the creature's scythe-like arms burning it off. Know that his was his moment to strike Xarghal quickly sent his inner jaw out of his mouth biting through the other arm making it fall off. The hydralisk then flung its body against Xarghal knocking him back. The hydralisk quickly fired a needle spine at Xarghal, but Xarghal was ready for that this time. He ducked then pounced at the hydralisk. The hydralisk, with its arms gone, wasn't able to move out of the way in time. Just as Xarghal hit the hydralisk he began slashing furiously at the hydralisk badly tearing its body apart. After the struggle was over Xarghal fed upon the creature's corpse to help heal his own body. Whatever this creature was, it wasn't indigenous to this planet. Perhaps the humans brought it here.)

(Somewhere else on the planet)

(Erik moves along a ridge, cloaked. He has found new prey. Something he's never seen before. It was smaller than him, slightly taller then average human. It had 3 fingers, no mouth, blue eye that glowed a little bit with no pupils and it's skin looked scaly. It was wearing a suit of armor and had two wrist blades made of blue energy, one on each wrist. It also had long hair coming out of the top of coned shaped upper head. The zealot proceeded slowly, not knowing where he was. The zealot was looking around constantly; being part of a psionic race he could detect Erik's presence. When the zealot's back was turned Erik decloaked and jumped at it with his combistick (aka staff/spear) and swung down hard on the zealot. Erik stood there stunned as the zealot's plasma shield protected it from harm. This gave the zealot enough time to turn around and make a cut across Erik's chest. Erik let out a roar of pain and dealt several quick blows with his wrist blades, and then he jumped over the zealot. When he was above the zealot he bought his combistick down with all of his might, sending it through the shield and into the zealot's shoulder. The zealot put his hand on it trying to remove it, but Erik saw his opening and sent his wrist blades through the zealot's head. He took the combistick and began cutting the zealot's head off. Just as he made the first cut the zealot's body became engulfed in blue flame. Just at the instant the blue flames surrounded the zealot's body they disappeared along with the body. Erik used his medicomp and recharged his energy supply with his energy sifter. As he stood there looking at the area where the zealots' body was he thought. This creature wasn't part of a physically dependent race. They could be capable of flight through space, this could be a threat to him and his race)