Chapter 5

Suaria
2400 hours
Inside of The Lords Vigilance

When Fox entered the construct the first thing his brain noticed was the darkness, then a second later the smell, a smell that made him gag. It was the smell of death.

Fox pulled out the flashlight, he had found it out side the ship. Turning it on he took stock of his surroundings, he was in a large metal corridor, the roof being about a foot and a half above his head, in front of him was a four way intersection. Not knowing which way the others went he decided to follow his nose to the origin of the smell thinking that that was probably the most likely route that his dad would take.

Winding his way through the maze of steel guided only by his keen sense of smell, he emerged into a large room with a 50 foot high roof and at least 100 by 500 ft square, he saw that the was a giant retractable door blown apart about half way across. Looking up he saw there was a second floor, he quickly found the stairs and walked up them. About half way up he stopped and looked down, under his boots was a dark purple liquid, he bent down touching it and instantly regretting his action.

It was blood he knew it, no other liquid held this consistency. He breathed deeply trying to calm his nerves, then continued to the top of the stair case. He found a great glistening pool of red, the young vulpine lost it he bent over and let the contents of his stomach empty.

Oh my god, there enough blood to fill an arwings gas tank! How, where are the...

He heaved again his body trying to drown out the mental image by hurling it out.

The bodies.

He lay there on his hands and knees for a good while, but eventually stood up tying to think of a reason for the bodies disappearances.

I bet some of the dinosaurs came in threw the blast damage and enjoy a free meal. Ya that's got to be it because there no such thing as walking dead.

Looking down Fox saw a small blood trail. He decided to follow it, trying to convince him self that he did it to get answers, but in the back of his mind he new it was because he wanted to get away from the large pool of blood.

He pulled his pistol and walked down the fall focusing on where he walked but also trying not to lose the faint trail. He passed through what seemed to be like a mess hall then a gym until he got to a 4 way intersection he stopped before the corner the blood trail had grown significantly wider as he neared almost as if the injured creature had stopped for a short while. He counted him self down.

Five... Four... Three... Two... Fuck it here I go.

=I=

O'Donnall broke the silence that had lasted since they entered the ship. "Did you hear that?"

"What?" everyone asked in almost perfect unison as they turned.

"A scream, a scream filled of terror."

"Hey where's that other fox, mannn?" The squirrel asked noticing the absence of the youngest person.

James brain took it all in in a second, O'Donnall hears a scream, his son is missing, there was only one explanation. He heard another scream and took off without hesitation leaving everyone standing there.

Hang on Fox help is coming.

=I=

Fox looked up at the creature, it was 8 feet tall, ugly, hairy and very very dead. It was impaled through the side by part of the wall that bent back into the corridor. He laughed at his own stupidity, he almost shit himself over a dead animal.

The beast looked like one of Andross' followers if that follower had been pumped so full of Roids so that he grew to epic proportions, it was HUGE. It's arms were as big as his own waist and one mighty paw looked as if it was able to crush his skull in one squeeze. It wore golden armor and a giant war hammer lay by it's feet. He thought he saw a glint of metal behind it leg when he was crushed in a bear hug.

Oh fox, are you ok? I was so worried why did you leave the group? Are you injured?" the words poured out so fast Fox only caught the last part but could tell his father was worried.

"I... am about... to be." he wheezed trying to get air that his body desperately needed.

"Oh sorry heh heh." James let go and turned around "Holy shit! I can see why you screamed."

Just as he said that the rest of the squad finally caught up, but took a few steps back when they saw the beast.

O'Donnall Was the first to speak "So it is a Venomian ship after all."

"Wow look at the size of this bugger make even me look small." The rhino commented. He went around the back and pulled something out making a slurping sound as blood flowed out of the wound. "Hey look what I found guys!" he boasted while holding up the dagger.

"Heh I can top that look at this!" said a lioness as she pointed to a figure in grey armor and a reflective visor on the helmet. As they walked up they could tell that the figure was dead, it had three iron spikes jutting from his torso and left arm. His armor was banged up ripped up and blackened. (think Garus from ME2)

"Wow think this belongs to him?" the rhino was gesturing to the knife in his hands.

"What makes you think it's a guy what if it's a chick!" the lioness sassed

"Well only one way to find out." A badger said "take of its helmet Austin."

The rhino bent down and grabbed the helmet, but hesitated and looked up "you sure about this?"

"Yes Austin now do it!" the lupine Sargent barked

Okay here goes nothing and lifted the helmet off of the figures head.

They all held their breath.

"Aliens mannn." the squirrel moaned as he saw the face

The lioness gasped "It's alive..."

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Authors notes: don't you just hate it when authors do that just finish off the dramatic and suspenseful part, I know I do but now that I'm the one doing it, I quite enjoy it.

Now on an unrelated note please R&R and please tell me if I made any grammatical or lore related errors. I have to put these stories through google translate and then MS words hammer and spelling tool so they aren't the greatest quality sorry, I try.

Ps sorry for the shortish chapter but school a pain in the ass right now especially now with mid term reports coming up so I end up righting theses at 9-11