CHAPTER 1:Beginnings.

It was a quiet day on the planet Shakuras. The 2 suns lay high in the sky and no clouds were in sight. Everything was peaceful. Well almost everything. There seemed to be a lot of ruckus in the central Nexus.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Zeratul screamed.

"I told you man. The mission crew has gone MIA (missing in action). One minute they were at the crash site and the next they're just ... gone." Raynor answered.

Raynor and Zeratul were talking over a Holo-Communicator about a recent exploration mission that they had sent to the planet Jakol. It was a simple exploration mission to check out a crash site. But apparently when the team got there they just vanished.

"There must be an explanation. They couldn't just vanished in thin air." Zeratul said.

"Well according to our sensors that's what happened." Raynor protested.

"What in Adun could have caused this? Captain raynor were are you know?" Zeratul asked.

"About 50 kilometers due north of the city." Answered Raynor.

"Hold your position. I will come at your position by shuttle." Zeratul Ordered.

"Aye Aye captain" Raynor said.

Zeratul switched off the communicator and headed for the door. While walking to the shuttle bay he kept on wondering about the mission. The same to questions kept on running through his head. Why? And How?. He thought maybe teleportation could have done this but only the protoss have that kind of technology. And the only protoss alive are the one's that are in this city. Zeratul then entered a teleportation pod.

"Destination?" the computerized voice said.

"Shuttle Bay C-9" answered Zeratul.

With a flash Zeratul disapeared and reapeared in the shuttle bay.

"I need a shuttle to go 50 kilometers Due North" Zeratul said

"Right this way Oh great Prelate" said one of the shuttle pilots.

With that the shuttle left the city and headed north. But after about 30 seconds a strange object appeared in front.

"What in Adun's name is that?" the pilot asked.

"I don't know" Answered zeratul.

Zeratul tried to lean forward to see what the object was.

"It looks like. Hmmm.. OH NO! It can't be" Zeratul said in a panicked voice.

"Can't be what Oh mighty Zeratul?" asked the pilot.

"It's a DEVOURER!!!!" Zeratul said.

With that the devourer shot a blast of acid straight at the shuttle. And it was a direct hit!! Zeratul thought the shuttle could hold until they got to Raynor's Battle Cruiser. That was until he saw about 5 more devourers behind the first one. They also shot a blast at the shuttle and made contact.

"Shields are down. Thrusters are offline and the communication system is malfunctioning." said the panicked pilot.

With that an explosion occurred at the rear of the shuttle. Zeratul looked throught the front viewer and watched as the ground got closer and closer...

Author's Note: I am soooo sorry for not updating my story for over 2 months. But I had a major computer crash and it took 2 months to get the money to fix it. Besides that the chapters will be added pretty fast now since I got all the drafts done. Well plz send your reviews.