Chapter 3: The First Battle
"Ain't this my luck?" Keral said
Kardum, Keral and Seia looked around as they were surrounded by over 21 zerglings. There was no way out. The only way that Keral and his siblings were going to get out is by fighting a small path through the zerglings.
"Don't worry brother" Kardum said" For they cannot touch me if they do not see me. I will take care of them while you two run. I'll hold them off"
With that Kardum started to concentrate his energy on the light around him. With the energy of his mind the light around him started to bend. Piece by piece parts of his body became transparent. Until finally he was fully invisible.
"Oh god! Are you stupid? Look up you dummy!" Keral said.
And Kardum did look up. He saw a Blimp-Like object with eight giant tentacles coming down on the side. It slowly lumbered around the three siblings.
"What is that?" Kardum said.
"That my un-experienced brother is an overlord" Keral said
"An overlord?" Kardum asked
"Didn't you listen in your training classes?" Keral said.
"With that thing in the air they can se you" Said Seia.
"I remember now" Kardum said.
*Flashback* (During one of Kardum's training classes 1 year ago)
"Today I will teach you about basic zerg knowledge" Raynor said. Raynor was replacing the original trainer that day because the trainer was on a mission with Artanis . "The zerg collective is ONE mind. All zergs are connected through a link. What one zerg sees ALL the others see it too. A lone zergling may be weak but it can get reinforcements very fast. All of their thoughts are connected to Kerrigan. Who is also known as the Queen of Blades."
Raynor took a small pauses and drank some water out of his cup
"That is why they're way of detecting anything that is cloaked is more efficient than any other species. If a overlord is nearby he will tell all nearby units that there is a cloaked unit nearby and they will know exactly were to shoot. Plus they can send communication signals across the galaxy in less than a second. Well this is about all there is about their mind links. So remember you Templars. Always try to get rid of the overlords first and then it is safe to cloak.
*Flashback Ends *
Kardum realized that is cloak was useless as long as that overlord was there.
"Oh Shit! Here they come" Keral said.
At that a zergling pounced at Seia but Kardum quickly by slashing his blade in a horizontal fashion cutting the zergling in two. Blood splashed everywhere and the zergling pieces landed on the ground. Kardum's shield slightly flickered as blood made contact with it.
"Don't piss me off you little fruitcakes." Said Keral.
The zerglings pounced at Keral but he ducked and stabbed 2 of them in the underbelly. Gore spit out of the zergling as it screamed in pain.
"Told ya not to piss me off." Keral laughed.
A zergling tried to attack Keral from the back but he was prepared. As soon as the zergling jumped at him a psionic blade appeared on the shoulder of his robotic arm. He then pushed a button and the arm went backwards and stabbed the zergling in the head. The lade deeply penetrated his head. Causing the zergling to scream in pain as it dropped to the ground flailing around until it died.
"Oh man DO I LOVE THIS ARM! YEE HAH!" Keral screamed loudly "How you two doing?"
Keral looked at Kardum and Seia. Kardum was busy occupying three zerglings as Seia was being pushed against a tree by two zerglings. Keral would of gone and helped them but he had problems of his own.
A zergling charged forward at Kardum. Kardum quickly jump at the side and swung his blade downwards slicing off one of the zerglings front claw. Pain was heard from the zergling as blood poured out of its claw like a waterfall. The Zergling looked up as Kardum brought up his blade and drove it downwards through the zerglings head. The zerglings death was so fast that it had no time to scream for pain. Kardum's shield started to rapidly flicker as a zergling quickly worked through his shield. He turned back and swung hi blade driving through the zergling's head horizontally. Kardum looked at his shield generator and it showed 0%. He was too late to stop the zergling. Now he was in deep trouble. He looked forward towards Seia.
Seia was having trouble. Her shields were down and she was cornered by three zerglings. A zergling rushed forward and met the business end of her staff. Her staff was swung vertically and crushed the zerglings skull splattering his brains on the ground. But this left her open for an attack. Before she could raise her staff again a zergling jumped forward and clawed at her left arm. Its claw drove deeply inside her arm and came out on the other side of her arm. A river of blood formed at the wound.
"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Seia screamed in pain as she pushed off the zergling and drove her staff into the zerglings stomach. She tried to lift her staff again but she was too weak. The loss of blood in her arm made it impossible to life her staff. She looked back at a zergling that was already in mid- air lunging at her back. The zergling landed on her back driving both claws in her flesh. He immediately withdrew them and started to continue scratching frantically at her back.
"AAHH......" Seia screamed as she brought down to her knees semi-conscious.
"SISTER!!!!" Kardum screamed as he saw her Seia on her knees. He took his warp blade and shot it like a javelin at the zergling. The blade cut through the zergling and took him off Seia's back making it fly into a tree.
Kardum rushed at Seia side catching her before she fell to the ground. Kardum's hands were quickly soaked in the blood oozing out of her back.
Keral stabbed the last zergling between his eyes. The zergling screamed and ran around aimlessly before it finally died. He ran towards Kardum and Seia with a worried looked into his pale blue eyes.
"We must get her out of here." Kardum said.
"Let's hurry back" Keral immediately as he took Seia into his arms.
Keral and Kardum got up and started to run for the city. Only to get intercepted by another dozen zerglings. Screeching to a halt Kardum and Keral tried to turn to the left, but a barrage of over 10 zerglings was blocking the way. They were completely surrounded.
"Well this is bad," Keral said.
"My cloak is useless because of that overlord," Kardum said as he looked back at the lumbering blimp heading this way.
"Why not use your ability?" Keral said as he put Seia on the ground and prepared for another battle.
"That may be a good idea." Kardum said. He remembered the gift he had received from the old man many years ago.
*Flashback * (7 Years ago. 3 miles South-east of the city of Armasil)
Once again Kardum went off on his own walking through the fields. He did this regularly almost everyday. For some reason he was at peace when he walked in the plains. Kakarus were flying over his head occasionally shading one of the two suns from view. He walked forward heading to his secret cave. The place he always went when he wanted to relax. He went forth and saw his cave in the distance. Yet something was different today. Smoke was rising from the and what looked like a wrecked ship was on top of the cliff. To make it worse the entrance was semi-covered. Kardum wanted to return to his father to tell him this ... yet he found this cave intriguing. He rushed forward climbing over the cave entrance rocks and entered. When he reached the other side the roof of the entrance collapsed sealing it shut. Kardum looked back as the dust cloud was coming at him. He shielded his eyes as the cloud passed by. When the cloud passed by, he tried frantically to get out. He didn't want to get stuck in this cave. Seeing that it was impossible Kardum started to cry. Tears of fear and sadness ran down his cheeks as he bawled.
"Who's there?" Asked a old voice in the cave.
Kardum gasped as he heard the voice as a shadow slowly walked over. Kardum quickly backed up into the corner in fear. The shadow looked like it was a giant. A figure came out of the corner. It looked like a protoss yet it was different. As Kardum saw this creature all fear lifted form his heart. This creature had the exact same characteristics like a protoss except that its eyes were the one of a terran and it had a mouth. It was walking forward on a cane because of its injured leg.
"Well their boy. How'd you get here?" the creature said in a gentle voice.
"I ---I climbed over the rocks" Sir Kardum said as he wiped his tears.
"Well why don't you come with me? I got a more comfortable place than here." The old man said.
He took Kardum by the hand and walked with him.
"By the way." The old creature said, "What's your name?"
"Kardum. Who are you?"
"I'm Namn."
A light formed at the end of the tunnel and a small place with some seats, a table, and food was in the opening. For the next few days Namn and Kardum grew a friendship like Grandson-Grandfather. There were many machines that Kardum had never seen before. They were neither from terran or protoss build. This proved to be true for Namn told Kardum that he was a Xel'naga. Every night Kardum listened to Namn's stories about his adventures. Always attentive Kardum never stirred a muscle whenever Namn told his stories. He told them with such a passion. Kardum could have listened to Namn for hours. After 1 week Kardum was still in the cave and there were still no signs of being rescued. But something turned for the worse. Namn had a wound that he had gotten from his crash. He had hidden it for some time with a red cloth but now he was weakened from the loss of blood. His time was to come soon. Kardum was weeping at the thought of Namn going away forever. Namn was lying down on a flat high rock. He motioned Kardum to come forth at his side. Kardum got and started to trot towards where Namn was.
"Well my boy." Namn said with a weak voice. "I'll be going away soon. But... I want... to do one thing to thank you for the joy that you gave me on my final days. Please... Bring me my black small box over there."
Namn pointed to his left. With his blurry eyes Kardum looked and saw a little black box on 1 of the seats. Yet for some reason he had never seen it over there before. But Kardum wasn't about to ask any questions so he went and picked up the box and brought it to Namn. Namn took the box and opened it up.
"Give me your hand Kardum." Namn said.
Kardum brought his and forth Namn took it with his hand.
"This... will hurt a little bit. But don't worry." Namn said as he pulled out a purple colored dagger out of the box.
Slowly he did a small cut on Kardum's right hand while chanting the words "Imato calara Intao Hanaro Senge"
As soon as the cut was done Kardum pulled back his hand and looked at the wound. Pain was flowing through his hand. He looked at the wound as blood was flowing through. Yet for some reason the wound instantly healed and left back a blue colored scar.
"Use.... This power.... Wisely young one" Namn said as he looked at Kardum for one final time and passed away.
A strange blue glow appeared around Namn and his body slowly disintegrated into thin-air. For some reason Kardum sadness started to go away as he watched Namn leave. He knew that Namn would be happy wherever he was going.
2 days later the protoss found Kardum and brought him back to the city. Zeratul, Keral and Seia were overjoyed to see that he was still in one piece. Later that day Kardum understood what the scar was. After many days of self-training he had mastered many techniques involving the elements of nature. The other protoss were amazed at Kardum's powers. Yet despite his new powers Kardum remembered Namn's last words and made a mental promise that he would only use this power only for protecting the people he loved.
(* Flashback Ends here *)
Kardum looked at his scar still lost in deep thought.
"Huh... Bro? Now might be a good time to help us out of here!!" Keral said as he was looking at the herd of zergling getting closer. Returning to reality Kardum looked up at the overlord. He knew that he would need his cloak to get his siblings out of here alive. He looked around and saw a tree that was directly beside the Overlord. He quickly sprang forth and climbed the tree at a furious pace of a chimpanzee. After reaching a sturdy branch near the top he turned around and faced the overlord. The giant blimp-like object was moving slowly in its quiet flight. Kardum started to concentrate his energy into the palm of his hands. The scar turned into a crimson read color and started to emit a luminous light. A dwarfish sized fireball appeared at his palms. The small light-red colored fireball soon became a giant and blood red colored. Feeling that there was enough power in the fireball Kardum brought the massive projectile at his side and threw it forward. From the ground every zergling looked up at the fireball as it moved at a tremendous speed towards the overlord.
"Come on! Come on!" Keral said at a low whisper.
The massive ball of flaming energy made direct contact at the overlord's side. An explosion shook the ground. Keral was thrown off his feet and many of the zerglings lost their balance. High up on the tree Kardum fell off his branch and was hanging on to it with his arms. The overlord started his slow decent towards the earth like the destructive force of a meteor. A panic seemed to spread through the zerglings as they ran around as thought they were a pack of lost rats. Keral ran and picked up Seia with his arms and started running away from the flaming overlord. Looking back he saw that Kardum was still stuck on the tree.
"GET DOWN FROM THEIR BROTHER!!!!!!!!!" Keral said in a panicked voice.
Kardum looked up and saw that the overlord was heading straight for him. He tried to get free but his cape was caught in a tangle of branches and his blade was on the ground. He looked up again and saw the mass of fire heading down on him. The overlord finally crashed into the tree bringing it down with him crushing anything in it's path as it sped downwards to the ground. Keral looked at the incendiary as, his brother was helplessly being crushed by the overlord. A small tear formed at the corner of his eye. He stared at the crash-site knowing that no one could survive an accident like that. He looked down at Seia who was still in his arms and he slowly turned around and started to walk back to the city. He looked back on final time and started to run as tears started to run down his face.
A/N: There you are people. I'm sorry if it took long for me too update. I wanted to rewrite this chapter. And as you can see it LONG!!!!! And that's about it. R&R Plz. Cya
"Ain't this my luck?" Keral said
Kardum, Keral and Seia looked around as they were surrounded by over 21 zerglings. There was no way out. The only way that Keral and his siblings were going to get out is by fighting a small path through the zerglings.
"Don't worry brother" Kardum said" For they cannot touch me if they do not see me. I will take care of them while you two run. I'll hold them off"
With that Kardum started to concentrate his energy on the light around him. With the energy of his mind the light around him started to bend. Piece by piece parts of his body became transparent. Until finally he was fully invisible.
"Oh god! Are you stupid? Look up you dummy!" Keral said.
And Kardum did look up. He saw a Blimp-Like object with eight giant tentacles coming down on the side. It slowly lumbered around the three siblings.
"What is that?" Kardum said.
"That my un-experienced brother is an overlord" Keral said
"An overlord?" Kardum asked
"Didn't you listen in your training classes?" Keral said.
"With that thing in the air they can se you" Said Seia.
"I remember now" Kardum said.
*Flashback* (During one of Kardum's training classes 1 year ago)
"Today I will teach you about basic zerg knowledge" Raynor said. Raynor was replacing the original trainer that day because the trainer was on a mission with Artanis . "The zerg collective is ONE mind. All zergs are connected through a link. What one zerg sees ALL the others see it too. A lone zergling may be weak but it can get reinforcements very fast. All of their thoughts are connected to Kerrigan. Who is also known as the Queen of Blades."
Raynor took a small pauses and drank some water out of his cup
"That is why they're way of detecting anything that is cloaked is more efficient than any other species. If a overlord is nearby he will tell all nearby units that there is a cloaked unit nearby and they will know exactly were to shoot. Plus they can send communication signals across the galaxy in less than a second. Well this is about all there is about their mind links. So remember you Templars. Always try to get rid of the overlords first and then it is safe to cloak.
*Flashback Ends *
Kardum realized that is cloak was useless as long as that overlord was there.
"Oh Shit! Here they come" Keral said.
At that a zergling pounced at Seia but Kardum quickly by slashing his blade in a horizontal fashion cutting the zergling in two. Blood splashed everywhere and the zergling pieces landed on the ground. Kardum's shield slightly flickered as blood made contact with it.
"Don't piss me off you little fruitcakes." Said Keral.
The zerglings pounced at Keral but he ducked and stabbed 2 of them in the underbelly. Gore spit out of the zergling as it screamed in pain.
"Told ya not to piss me off." Keral laughed.
A zergling tried to attack Keral from the back but he was prepared. As soon as the zergling jumped at him a psionic blade appeared on the shoulder of his robotic arm. He then pushed a button and the arm went backwards and stabbed the zergling in the head. The lade deeply penetrated his head. Causing the zergling to scream in pain as it dropped to the ground flailing around until it died.
"Oh man DO I LOVE THIS ARM! YEE HAH!" Keral screamed loudly "How you two doing?"
Keral looked at Kardum and Seia. Kardum was busy occupying three zerglings as Seia was being pushed against a tree by two zerglings. Keral would of gone and helped them but he had problems of his own.
A zergling charged forward at Kardum. Kardum quickly jump at the side and swung his blade downwards slicing off one of the zerglings front claw. Pain was heard from the zergling as blood poured out of its claw like a waterfall. The Zergling looked up as Kardum brought up his blade and drove it downwards through the zerglings head. The zerglings death was so fast that it had no time to scream for pain. Kardum's shield started to rapidly flicker as a zergling quickly worked through his shield. He turned back and swung hi blade driving through the zergling's head horizontally. Kardum looked at his shield generator and it showed 0%. He was too late to stop the zergling. Now he was in deep trouble. He looked forward towards Seia.
Seia was having trouble. Her shields were down and she was cornered by three zerglings. A zergling rushed forward and met the business end of her staff. Her staff was swung vertically and crushed the zerglings skull splattering his brains on the ground. But this left her open for an attack. Before she could raise her staff again a zergling jumped forward and clawed at her left arm. Its claw drove deeply inside her arm and came out on the other side of her arm. A river of blood formed at the wound.
"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Seia screamed in pain as she pushed off the zergling and drove her staff into the zerglings stomach. She tried to lift her staff again but she was too weak. The loss of blood in her arm made it impossible to life her staff. She looked back at a zergling that was already in mid- air lunging at her back. The zergling landed on her back driving both claws in her flesh. He immediately withdrew them and started to continue scratching frantically at her back.
"AAHH......" Seia screamed as she brought down to her knees semi-conscious.
"SISTER!!!!" Kardum screamed as he saw her Seia on her knees. He took his warp blade and shot it like a javelin at the zergling. The blade cut through the zergling and took him off Seia's back making it fly into a tree.
Kardum rushed at Seia side catching her before she fell to the ground. Kardum's hands were quickly soaked in the blood oozing out of her back.
Keral stabbed the last zergling between his eyes. The zergling screamed and ran around aimlessly before it finally died. He ran towards Kardum and Seia with a worried looked into his pale blue eyes.
"We must get her out of here." Kardum said.
"Let's hurry back" Keral immediately as he took Seia into his arms.
Keral and Kardum got up and started to run for the city. Only to get intercepted by another dozen zerglings. Screeching to a halt Kardum and Keral tried to turn to the left, but a barrage of over 10 zerglings was blocking the way. They were completely surrounded.
"Well this is bad," Keral said.
"My cloak is useless because of that overlord," Kardum said as he looked back at the lumbering blimp heading this way.
"Why not use your ability?" Keral said as he put Seia on the ground and prepared for another battle.
"That may be a good idea." Kardum said. He remembered the gift he had received from the old man many years ago.
*Flashback * (7 Years ago. 3 miles South-east of the city of Armasil)
Once again Kardum went off on his own walking through the fields. He did this regularly almost everyday. For some reason he was at peace when he walked in the plains. Kakarus were flying over his head occasionally shading one of the two suns from view. He walked forward heading to his secret cave. The place he always went when he wanted to relax. He went forth and saw his cave in the distance. Yet something was different today. Smoke was rising from the and what looked like a wrecked ship was on top of the cliff. To make it worse the entrance was semi-covered. Kardum wanted to return to his father to tell him this ... yet he found this cave intriguing. He rushed forward climbing over the cave entrance rocks and entered. When he reached the other side the roof of the entrance collapsed sealing it shut. Kardum looked back as the dust cloud was coming at him. He shielded his eyes as the cloud passed by. When the cloud passed by, he tried frantically to get out. He didn't want to get stuck in this cave. Seeing that it was impossible Kardum started to cry. Tears of fear and sadness ran down his cheeks as he bawled.
"Who's there?" Asked a old voice in the cave.
Kardum gasped as he heard the voice as a shadow slowly walked over. Kardum quickly backed up into the corner in fear. The shadow looked like it was a giant. A figure came out of the corner. It looked like a protoss yet it was different. As Kardum saw this creature all fear lifted form his heart. This creature had the exact same characteristics like a protoss except that its eyes were the one of a terran and it had a mouth. It was walking forward on a cane because of its injured leg.
"Well their boy. How'd you get here?" the creature said in a gentle voice.
"I ---I climbed over the rocks" Sir Kardum said as he wiped his tears.
"Well why don't you come with me? I got a more comfortable place than here." The old man said.
He took Kardum by the hand and walked with him.
"By the way." The old creature said, "What's your name?"
"Kardum. Who are you?"
"I'm Namn."
A light formed at the end of the tunnel and a small place with some seats, a table, and food was in the opening. For the next few days Namn and Kardum grew a friendship like Grandson-Grandfather. There were many machines that Kardum had never seen before. They were neither from terran or protoss build. This proved to be true for Namn told Kardum that he was a Xel'naga. Every night Kardum listened to Namn's stories about his adventures. Always attentive Kardum never stirred a muscle whenever Namn told his stories. He told them with such a passion. Kardum could have listened to Namn for hours. After 1 week Kardum was still in the cave and there were still no signs of being rescued. But something turned for the worse. Namn had a wound that he had gotten from his crash. He had hidden it for some time with a red cloth but now he was weakened from the loss of blood. His time was to come soon. Kardum was weeping at the thought of Namn going away forever. Namn was lying down on a flat high rock. He motioned Kardum to come forth at his side. Kardum got and started to trot towards where Namn was.
"Well my boy." Namn said with a weak voice. "I'll be going away soon. But... I want... to do one thing to thank you for the joy that you gave me on my final days. Please... Bring me my black small box over there."
Namn pointed to his left. With his blurry eyes Kardum looked and saw a little black box on 1 of the seats. Yet for some reason he had never seen it over there before. But Kardum wasn't about to ask any questions so he went and picked up the box and brought it to Namn. Namn took the box and opened it up.
"Give me your hand Kardum." Namn said.
Kardum brought his and forth Namn took it with his hand.
"This... will hurt a little bit. But don't worry." Namn said as he pulled out a purple colored dagger out of the box.
Slowly he did a small cut on Kardum's right hand while chanting the words "Imato calara Intao Hanaro Senge"
As soon as the cut was done Kardum pulled back his hand and looked at the wound. Pain was flowing through his hand. He looked at the wound as blood was flowing through. Yet for some reason the wound instantly healed and left back a blue colored scar.
"Use.... This power.... Wisely young one" Namn said as he looked at Kardum for one final time and passed away.
A strange blue glow appeared around Namn and his body slowly disintegrated into thin-air. For some reason Kardum sadness started to go away as he watched Namn leave. He knew that Namn would be happy wherever he was going.
2 days later the protoss found Kardum and brought him back to the city. Zeratul, Keral and Seia were overjoyed to see that he was still in one piece. Later that day Kardum understood what the scar was. After many days of self-training he had mastered many techniques involving the elements of nature. The other protoss were amazed at Kardum's powers. Yet despite his new powers Kardum remembered Namn's last words and made a mental promise that he would only use this power only for protecting the people he loved.
(* Flashback Ends here *)
Kardum looked at his scar still lost in deep thought.
"Huh... Bro? Now might be a good time to help us out of here!!" Keral said as he was looking at the herd of zergling getting closer. Returning to reality Kardum looked up at the overlord. He knew that he would need his cloak to get his siblings out of here alive. He looked around and saw a tree that was directly beside the Overlord. He quickly sprang forth and climbed the tree at a furious pace of a chimpanzee. After reaching a sturdy branch near the top he turned around and faced the overlord. The giant blimp-like object was moving slowly in its quiet flight. Kardum started to concentrate his energy into the palm of his hands. The scar turned into a crimson read color and started to emit a luminous light. A dwarfish sized fireball appeared at his palms. The small light-red colored fireball soon became a giant and blood red colored. Feeling that there was enough power in the fireball Kardum brought the massive projectile at his side and threw it forward. From the ground every zergling looked up at the fireball as it moved at a tremendous speed towards the overlord.
"Come on! Come on!" Keral said at a low whisper.
The massive ball of flaming energy made direct contact at the overlord's side. An explosion shook the ground. Keral was thrown off his feet and many of the zerglings lost their balance. High up on the tree Kardum fell off his branch and was hanging on to it with his arms. The overlord started his slow decent towards the earth like the destructive force of a meteor. A panic seemed to spread through the zerglings as they ran around as thought they were a pack of lost rats. Keral ran and picked up Seia with his arms and started running away from the flaming overlord. Looking back he saw that Kardum was still stuck on the tree.
"GET DOWN FROM THEIR BROTHER!!!!!!!!!" Keral said in a panicked voice.
Kardum looked up and saw that the overlord was heading straight for him. He tried to get free but his cape was caught in a tangle of branches and his blade was on the ground. He looked up again and saw the mass of fire heading down on him. The overlord finally crashed into the tree bringing it down with him crushing anything in it's path as it sped downwards to the ground. Keral looked at the incendiary as, his brother was helplessly being crushed by the overlord. A small tear formed at the corner of his eye. He stared at the crash-site knowing that no one could survive an accident like that. He looked down at Seia who was still in his arms and he slowly turned around and started to walk back to the city. He looked back on final time and started to run as tears started to run down his face.
A/N: There you are people. I'm sorry if it took long for me too update. I wanted to rewrite this chapter. And as you can see it LONG!!!!! And that's about it. R&R Plz. Cya
