Somewhere in the red waters of Urian, a Zoor egg hatched and a Young female cell was born.
And while she was scouting her surroundings, she realized that her species did not have enough protection, so quickly eating a few plants, she gave a mating call, she would make sure that her species survived, by putting the shock gland to good use.
After finding a male Zoor cell to mate with, she laid an egg and left to eat more.
The Zoor now had the shock gland slightly behind their cilia, now confident of her protection, the young Zoor, began searching for food.
But in her search for food, a Jawhead was searching for food too, and it found it's new target in our young Zoor.
Having noticed the danger, the young Zoor, begun spinning covering herself in a cloud of her own poison, when the Jawhead tried to bite her, the cloud of poison blinded him and made him go directly into her spikes, but it was not enough.
The Jawhead, enraged tried to bite the young Zoor once again, but this time it received a shock by the shock glands on the young cell's sides.
Emboldened by her success in battle so far the young Zoor moved into the attack, but the Jawhead had recovered and when the young Zoor cell noticed, it was too late.
Becoming enraged with herself, the young Zoor cell sent a message to all of her brothers and sisters cells throughout the ocean, before dying…
It was time they stopped being prey and became the predator.
Elsewhere, a slightly older Zoor cell received such message, and set out to fulfill her sister's last wish, so she gave a mating call and waited for a response, when she found a willing male, they did the Zoor's mating ritual and then she laid an egg and left to eat more.
When the egg hatched, the Zoor had changed, no more were they plant eating pacifists, now they were flesh eating avengers.
So, quickly scouting her surroundings the Young female Zoor cell began her species first hunt.
After a series of merciless killings of other cells, the young Zoor grew and grew entering a new realm, with two new cells, the Needle Buzzy, a cousin of the cute Buzzy that had now all but disappeared, they had the jaws of predators, a spike right above their mouths, three shock glands, four flagella and a single beady eye. The Squiggly, it had green skin, a tube shaped body, one beady eye and two stalk eyes, five flagella, four spikes and a tentacle mouth. The terrible Jawhead was now a peer and if the Zoor had anything to say about it, it soon become prey, the Puffish still was gigantic, but not as much as before.
So she quickly set out to begin a new slaughter.
After a lot of killing and eating, the young Zoor entered a new stage, in this one the beginings of a shore could be almost seen.
So she set out to find more prey when she saw the most terrifying cell of her life, a Megamouth, it had a blood red body, five pairs of eyes, five jaws, to flagella and five spikes scattered throughout it's body.
She had never been so scared, but luckly, it seems the monster had not seen her, so quickly swimming away, she escaped what would have most likely been certain death.
After escaping she took her time looking aound, she saw three more cells, the Maa, the Jetster and the Junior.
The Maa, was a plant eating specie, it had a blue skinned lamp shaped body, one flagella, two beady eyes and two stalk eyes and a tentacle mouth.
The Jetset was strange, it had no flagella, but it had seven jets along the sides of it's body, three beady eyes, a tentacle mouth and light blue skin.
The Junior had a bowling pin shaped body, purplish blue skin with green dots, two big eyes and two stalk eyes, three flagella and a jaw.
After hunting for more cells, the Zoor cell grew and grew, again entering a new realm, the shore now clearly visible in the background, and two new cells had appeared in the distance, one was green skinned, it's body was shaped like a pear, it had a tube like mouth, nine eyes and four pairs of cilia, she soon identified it as a Bloato, the other one looked a lot like the Junior, but it was bigger and intead of three flagella it had two flagella and a jet, she identified it as a Paa.
After her analysis of her newest surroundings, she quickly set out to hunt for food, killing left and right and eating the remains as quickly as she killed the cells, she was in a hurry.
She had ths strange feeling that she would need the energy provided by the food, but for what she did not know, that it until her head begun to hurt.
It hurt so much, she was writing in the water, the pain getting bigger with every second, but she could faintly feel something inside her head growing, taking shape, then…
POP!
The pain vanished just as suddenly as it had begun, but she understood what had happened, giving a excited chrip the Zoor cell celebrated, not because the pain had stopped, but because she understood WHY it had happened, she had grown a brain.
"I… think…" Were her first thoughts, and even them, simple as they were, brought immense joy to her heart.
Looking around, she noticed three other cells of her own species had gone through the same evolutionary process.
"We… think… go up" She thought to her fellow Zoor, they somehow understanding her thoughts, so the four of them began to swim upwards, towards the surface of the red waters of Urian, leaving behind the lives of simple cell, to become something more.
They never noticed small stumps growing under them.
