Author's Note: Well, I've been looking forward to these next chapters soooo much. And I'm very happy that I'm writing this on my birthday. So, without further ado, chapter ten.

Horror Days- Chapter 10

Day 6 (Nighttime on Petrin)

Tom was stuck between messing with his commbadge to boost his signal or not. If he did, then in all probability Phil and Tom couldn't communicate through language anymore. But if he didn't, then Voyager would have a hard time locating him. He had been thinking it over for the past couple of days, but had decided against it. For his sanity and for important situations like the one early in the day, Tom was going to need to communicate with everyone.

Day 7 (Petrin)

"I already gave you all of our food." Tom said to the man standing in front of him with a weapon pointed at Tom's head.

"I know you have more." The man stated. His name was Iliahino Wakers.

"I don't." Tom replied. Tom reached around and pulled out his phaser. Tom and Iliahino were pointing their weapons at each other.

"Then you will pay." Iliahino answered.

"I'm going to be a father, do you really want any kid growing up without a dad?" Lieutenant Thomas Eugene Paris asked the opposing man.

"Many children on our planet grow up without a parent." The man replied sternly.

The two men were holding weapons at each other. Paris was holding his phaser, pointing it at the shorter man's head. And the opposing man, Iliahino, had his weapon -similar in design to Tom's phaser- pointed at his opponent's head.

"Would you want your kids to grow up like that?" Tom asked the man indicating his children watching through the house's window.

Iliahino looked at the strange alien standing in front of him wondering if the man was really worth killing. "Sitgora," he called over his shoulder to his wife. "take the kids away from the window…don't let them watch." His wife was about to say something, but knew better than to argue over it.

"My children will not watch your murder." Iliahino said to the Lieutenant.

The two did not know each other's names, but each knew that the other one was an enemy. A very dangerous enemy.

"I'm going to warn you for the very last time, put the weapon down or I will kill you." Tom repeated to the man. "My phaser's only settings are kill and vaporize. Which one would you prefer?" Tom asked sarcastically.

"And my weapon's only setting is kill." Iliahino replied to the Lieutenant. "But it is a rather slow and painful death I might say."

Phil, also known as Rinkala, was standing behind Tom. Phil knew he had to do something quick or Tom Paris, a friend he considered, would die and he would probably die soon after. Rinkala took a step back making the deck's board creek rather loud.

Iliahino turned to look at the reporter, giving Tom the chance he needed. He fired at the enemy and Iliahino fell to the ground.

"You killed him." Phil said.

"No I didn't." Tom answered. The food Tom had given the man for Phil and his life had been taken by the man's wife. To avoid further conflict he decided to not go after the food. "I just stunned him."

"I thought your weapon didn't have a stun setting." Phil replied, and then he got it. "You lied."

"Yep." Tom responded. "You have to get me very angry to kill people. This guy was just trying to feed his family and I think I would've given him some if he didn't force us."

Tom was standing over Iliahino's body when he heard the door open a few yards from him. It was the man's wife, Sitgora or something like that and she was carrying another weapon of the same type of her husband's. She looked down at her husband's body and looked back up at Tom.

"You killed my husband!" She screamed. She raised the weapon up at the two men.

Tom decided that the best action was to leave, and fast. He grabbed Phil and they jumped off of the deck they were on. The both landed on the ground face down, but both also got up quickly and started running. The woman started firing at the two.

"Zigzag!" Tom yelled over and over again to Phil. "Avoid the weapon's fire!"

But the effort of going side to side to avoid the fire was futile. Tom had lost his phaser in the jump from the deck and it wasn't going to be a smart idea to go after it. Tom was running behind Phil when it happened. Phil was shot in the back, where the Petrinnens' heart is. He fell to the ground, but when Tom reached him, Tom was able to pick him up and sort of run while carrying the man.

Getting to a place that was out of the weapon's shooting range, Tom placed Phil on a deck of another house.

"Are you alright?" Tom asked examining the wound.

"Keep going straight." Phil said weakly. "You'll make it in one day."

"I'm not leaving you." Tom replied.

"I'm dying, if you stay, you'll be wasting your time." Phil answered. Tom knew he was right. "You are a good man and I know you will make it back to your ship."

"Thanks, you're not so bad yourself." Tom smiled. "Thanks for all your help, I'll never forget you." Tom grabbed Phil's hand and squeezed it. "Hold on, okay, help will come."

Tom stood up and took one last look at Phil. Then turned around and began walking the way Tom and Phil had been going before the incident with the man. This time with fewer resources than he had at the beginning of his trek. No guide to tell him where to go exactly, no phaser for safety reasons, and no food or water. It was almost a sick and twisted story that was happening to this man, but he knew it was real life and he probably didn't have it as worse off as some of the others.