It was a cried of pain. Then nothing.

She had lost contact with the overlord which had earlier reported on her enemies where about. It won't matter to her. She already knew where they are. All that she needed was confirmation that whatever she saw in that dream was true.

The dream. There was a reason on why she sent it. Enticing Jimmy of everything that could had happened between both of them. Love. Affection. Devotion. Like every other dream she sent to him once she saw that he had sided with the Protoss, it was supposed to end in a nightmare. However, the revelation that she saw during the final dream made her changed her decision.

A part of her reveled at the thought of how much Jim would suffer. The other part felt that it was something that she shouldn't do. Why should she tortured someone who had done nothing but cared for her, maybe even loved her. She had until then battle within her inner self of what she should and she shouldn't do. As always, rage and anger wins the day.

She watched as her brood climbed over the edge of the cliff and disappeared into the canyon. It would be satisfying to hear the cries of pain as each of her minions ripped every inch of flesh from her enemy's bones. However minutes later, no such cries came out.

Curiosity took over her she began to leap over the cliff into the canyon below.

"What?"

She reached the floor of the canyon, only to find that her brood was the only one there. No Terran, no Protoss.

"Where are they?! They were here!" she screamed.

Unfortunately, no answer was given since her brood themselves were confused. They simply stood and looked around, completely unsure on what to do next. Right in front of her was the corpse of the overlord she sent her earlier. But nothing else. No sight of her enemies. Only the Zerg.

However moments later, she felt her skull as if it was about to burst open.

"Arghhhh!" she staggered backward and hit the canyon wall behind her. Her brood had erupted in frenzy. With her hand still pressing her temple, she tried to command them to stop but none of her brood heeded her. She had lost control of them. She tried to communicate with cerebrate but she got no response in return. She then knew, without a doubt, that the cerebrate had been killed. Just like what happened to Zasz.

"Zeratul," she muttered to herself. Her rage intensified as she helplessly looked at her own brood killing each other. Some of it even tried to attack her but she deflected them using her psionic powers. At that very moment, she felt a presence so familiar to her. She looked up and saw him. Jim Raynor. Perched on top of the cliff and wearing that familiar armor suit. She couldn't see his face as he had put on his visor but she knew that he was looking at her.

"Now!" yelled Jim Raynor. Suddenly she saw Jim's men came out of their hiding place and began to shoot. Her brood, unable to protect themselves as they had lost their sense of self preservation, died by hundreds within the first few minutes. Some of Jim's men even started to target her but luckily she managed to erect a psionic barrier in time so none of the bullet reached her. She continued to stare at Jim. Despite the fact that she was standing directly in the line of fire, he purposely ignored her and instead tried to bring down as much of her brood as he can.

She smirked. "After everything that I had done to you, still you didn't have the heart to put a bullet into me. How sweet of you, dear Jimmy. It won't save you however. But now I had your playmates to take care off. I'll deal with you later!" she telepathically communicated to him. Without waiting for his response, she began to search for the Protoss.

Ignoring her rampaging brood and hail of bullets coming in from the terrans, she began to search for the elusive Protoss.

"Come out, come out little templar," she crooned and her eyes began to darted around looking for any tell tale sign of the Protoss warrior. "Come out wherever you are. I know you're here. I can feel you. Cowardice would only led you much faster to your doom, little templar. Be brave as you had always been and fight me!"

Having lost her patience as her taunting didn't received any appropriate response, she psionically pulled a mutalisk from the air and pin it to the wall of the canyon. "Obey!" and as she said it, a yellowish green light leaped from her eyes into those of the mutalisk. The creature immediately ceased struggling and began to hover above as if it was patiently waiting for orders the moment she released it. She repeated the same procedure until she had a number of mutalisks linked to her. Grinning, she gazed once again at Jim who was still shooting at the other Zerg creatures that were still feral.

"Kill all the humans!" she instructed and all the mutalisks under her command hasten to obey. All of them began to swoop down on Jim's men. His men put up a good fight and managed to down several of the zerg flyers. However, they too suffered quite a few casualties.

Satisfied with what she saw, she was about to resume her search for the Protoss when she noticed something that nearly torn her heart apart. Jim, having separated from his group, was struggling to fight for his life as two of the Zerg flyers began their ferocious attack on him. This wasn't him, she thought to herself. Having known Jimmy for quite sometimes, she knew how that captain fought in battles. No matter how tight the corner he was in, he would always managed find a way to get out of the mess he was in. But not today. No this time. He was struggling. He was not okay. She began to scan his mind just to be sure that it was him. It was really him. And then, it happened.

She stood rooted to the floor of the canyon as she saw one of the mutalisk began to sank it's deadly fangs into Jim's armor suit, right above his chest.

To be continued…

A/n: This will be the second last installment of this fic. Not sure I'll continue once Remembrance finished. So far there's no indication that anyone like this story. I do enjoy writing it though. It was basically what I had always pictured what Kerrigan and Raynor had gone through during the years from the moment they first met. I had materials up until the period after Brood War before WoL but not sure I'll put it in writing.