THE AGE OF PHAZON
CHAPTER 2: "Memories"
Samus bent down to the Predator's body. It had a strange mark on its forehead, two strikes, one above the other. It was almost as if it had been burnt in. Samus heard a sizzling noise. She rolled the predator over to reveal a small brown sachet bag on its belt. It had a hole in the back that was gradually getting bigger. She ripped it off its waist and opened it up. A small withered limb of some sort fell onto her hand, the end was dripping some form of acid onto the floor. It was incredibly strong acid because it had eaten through the floor almost as quickly as she had seen it drip onto it. Samus looked back to the predators head, where the mark was.
Samus lifted the dripping, fleshy item to her head and etched in the same mark above her left eye on her helmet. It wouldn't burn all the way through because the metal it as made of was one of the strongest ever formed. She unhinged the right gauntlet of the predator which had the blades sticking out. Just so she could get it analysed. She turned around and made the long treck back to her landing site.
Samus left the compound and returned to her ship. She was sitting in her chair, setting a course for the GFP space station. She looked up through her view screen and into space. If only she could remember more about her past. She closed her eyes and lay back in her chair, she gradually fell asleep, and dreamt the same dream, she had dreamt forever...
"Here they come!!" shouted a soldier aiming his rifle at one of the incoming vessels.
They had already attacked every other earth colony on the planet and all the bays had been destroyed.
All reamining on-world troops had gone to the chieftan Tomac Aran's and his wife Sharno Aran's colony K2-L, brisco bay. Still, nobody knew what the space pirates wanted. 17 troops were battle ready on top of the cliffs on either side of the bay. The pirate vessel landed just offshore and space pirates began running up the beach towards the building settlements.
The soldiers on the cliffs started firing into the waves that were heading towards the bays civillians. A lot of pirates were killed and lay motionless on the bloodstained sands. Tomac came rushing out of his appartment sector in the centre of the bay.
"What is going on?!" he yelled. Then he saw the corpses. An incredibly injured space pirate grabbed his ankle. Tomacs 3 year old daughter Samus Aran came out from behind her father and began beating the space pirate with a stick. She swung horizontally into its head and it rolled over and died. Tomac grabbed his daughter and ran into his enclave to get his weapons and his wife.
"Samus, stay here in the appartment and don't move, understand?" he was looking his daughter directly in the eyes. She nodded, he kissed her on the cheek and ran outside to defend his colony.
People were running around, screaming and in hysterics. 2 more vessels hovered just above the two cliffs and pirates were dployed straight into the troops. Every soldier began shooting randomly into the waves of pirates. But not one soldier lived. The pirates began heading down into the settlement, firing on their way down. Dozens were killed before they had even reached the bay. Tomac and Sharno began firing helplessly, maybe hitting a few pirates, but not killing them. One of the pirates from a group walked up to Tomac and slashed him round the face. He fell to the floor, bleeding severely. Sharno threw herself over him in an attempt to spare his life, but it was only a matter of time.
The pirates huddled around the 2 of them and stared down. Then they moved into two single lines and a Plasma pirate walked up the abnormal alleyway the pirates had formed. He grabbed Sharno and threw her out of his way. He then grabbed Tomac by the shirt and started speaking in pirate...
"Risanmu, selak bogoro!!" yelled the pirate. Tomac didn't know a word of what he was saying. The space pirate lifted his arm up, as if to strike down on Tomac.
"toohrah lekasey, Risanmu, selak BOGORO!!!!" Tomac cowered as the space pirate prepared to strike, but a huge power blast came hurtling from the left and hit the Plasma pirate in the ribs. He was knocked off his feet and across the beach. Dead. The space pirates and Tomac looked to where it had come from. A fourth vessel, different to the first 3 in design and weaponary came down and landed near the huts.
Samus looked out at the ship as the docking ramp came down. 10 human like figures with beaks in armour came running and flying out of the ship, firing orange beams at the pirates. There was a great synchronised shriek from the pirates
"CHOZO GRAMSLA!!" without any order, the pirates began firing, fleeing and worrying. Withing seconds of landing the "cheep-birds" as Samus avidly named them, whilst watching from a port hole on the appartment, had wiped out the pirate regements. Tomac got up and ran to his wife who was lying on the floor next to a rock. There was blood on the rock and as he turned her over there was blood on her head also, she had been killed by the space pirates. Samus, though only 3, understood what she saw. Her mother had been killed and her father was angry with it. 7 ships came burning into the atmosphere as her father picked up a pirate gun. But on closer inspection, there were not 7 ships, but 6. there was something in the middle, something large, with wing beating down that made it stand out from the ships. Suddenly the dark figure halted and let the ships go solo. It pulled up and flew towards the heavens. I made the silhouette of....a dragon. It lowered its head and something orange was unleashed. Samus watched eagerly to see what would happen. The orange orb travelling incredibly fast to the beach looked firey and hot.
The creature looked down at Samus and darted at her from the sky. Samus didn't know which would hit first, the dragon or the ball of fire.
Samus ran screaming towards her father, warning him about the orb hurtling in his direction. He turned from fighting the pirates to look at Samus running for him. She pointed at the fireball, crying for him to move. He swivelled round, spotting the ball of fire which was inevitably going to kill him and the dragon figure heading for his daughter.
He fired a plasma cell at the dragon and hit it in the mouth. It yelped and tumbled in the air, crashing into the sand. He then turned back to the fireball which was seconds from killing him. He stretched his ams out, ready to die.
"Ahhhhh!" Tomac shouted as the ball of fire ripped straight through him, disentegrating him.
Samus cried and screamed. She'd just seen both her parents killed in the same 2 minutes. She looked over to where the dragon had fallen and he wasn't there...then Samus looked up into the sky above her to see him diving right for her.
She screamed and ran towards a sewer pipe that was pretruding from the cliffside. She crawled in through a small hole in the grating on the front. She scrambled about 5 meters until she reached a ventilation grate that she couldn't get through. She turned around to see where the dragon had gone to. Nothing. He wasn't following her. She walked up to the grate and grabbed the bars. Pressing her face onto them to look up the beach for him. Still, nothing. Without warning it dropped down off the cliff and landed facing Samus. She shrieked and ran back to the vent. The dragon let out a roar of aggrivation. It stuck its long mouth into the pipeline, smashing the grating at the front. It continuely snapped and roared at the little girl, scaring her more than she'd ever been scared. Samus picked up a shard of metal from the grate and scratched along the dragons mouth. It pulled back and wailed in pain. It then began to snap more violently at her. Before it ould reach her though a bright yellow blast hit him in the side of the head. It backed out of the pipe and was hit by alot more. Samus saw it fly up into the sky. It wasn't coming back. Then in the mouth of the pipe apeared 3 cheep-birds. The middle one climbed in.
"Hello Samus Aran, we are Chozo. We are here to save you. Come here..." said the bird like thing. Samus toddled forward and held on to the Chozo as it carried her back to the ship....
By Ballistic Phazonator 2004