Shadow of fate
Chapter one:Missing Racer
A young girl of about 15 sat atop a hill on the quiet planet, Oban was almost never quiet. This was a rare luxury for anyone, home lander or visitor. The sky was a wonderful mixture of gold, red, and blue: the trees swayed back
and forth with the strong but slow winds. The girl was sitting with her chin on her knees and her arms crossed, something was troubling her. In front of her was a giant lake filled with various pillars and ruins, mostly used for
practice. A few yards back was the earth teams base, in an office on the top floor Don Wei searched through various papers until he found the one he was looking for. It was a newspaper artical titled Female racer Maya is killed
in a horrible reck. A strong sadness took over him but he suppressed his tears, he would not cry for this woman he claimed to not know. He found a section of the artical with an interview with the family and read:
Interviewer: "Sir this must be an overwhelming experience for you."
Husband Don Wei: "Yes it is very... overwhelming. I can't believe she's gone, and poor Eva saw the whole thing."
Interviewer:"Don Wei, will you still continue your career in the racing business?"
Don Wei: "It will be hard but I'll do what I must."
Interviewer: "Yes and what about Eva?"
Don Wei: "I'll figure something out, I have nothing more to say, goodbye sir."
He shifted his eyes to a picture on the side of the article section, it seemed to be a younger version of himself and a small child. He studied it for a long time then realized that the girl was Molly. He laid the paper down on his desk
and sat solemnly for a few minutes till Jordan busted into the door.
"Don Wei", Jordan said worriedly.
"Yes what is it Jordan? This better be important I'm a very busy man!"
"Sir it's Molly she's been kidnaped!"
"What, we need her for the race", he stood up and walked towards the door.
Jordan noticed the article and looked at the picture, immediately knowing who the two were, "Um sir do you know Molly from some where?"
Don Wei ignored him and left the room, he called for Koji and Stan and told them to search for her. He then headed for Rick's room but stopped when he noticed Rick outside. He hurried to him with the news.
"What, the little one, oh I knew something like this would happen!"
"I need you to keep guard of the ship Rick", Don asked him.
Rick agreed then headed inside to his room, Don and Jordan got on a hover craft and headed into town to search for her.
Molly awoke in a dark chamber, her arms and legs were bound together. A dim light from a dirty window was her only light, the place smelled of sewage. She peered around the chamber, seeing only shadowed objects, then she
heard a moaning sound from behind her. She turned slowly and saw only darkness.
"Who's there?"
There was no answer.
"I said who's there?"
Still no answer.
"You better show yourself before I get angry!"
At those words an old alien crawled out from the shadows, it was old and very weak.
"Are you okay?"
"Who...are...you", the alien slowly said with a rough voice.
"I'm Molly, I'm the lead star racer for the earth team; and what is your name?"
He hesitated for second then slowly spoke, "I am Kiog, I'm from the planet Neptuag... it was an ancient planet filled with peace."
"What happened to it and how'd you get here?"
He sighed then begun, "My planet neighbored the Crog planet, we were at peace for thousands of years until one day the Crogs attacked, led by Colonel Toros; a fierce bloak. He commanded them to enslave every last one of us
so the Crogs could harvest are planet in case they ran out of resources. Those who refused were imprisoned or killed, so here I am. We tried to fight back but lost horribly, at the end of the war, are planet was useless so they
took some of us as slaves but killed most of us, and blew up the planet."
Molly was saddened by the story, she suddenly became even madder at the Crogs, "Don't worry I'll find a way outa here for the both of us!"
Kiog shook his head saying that this was a Crog prison, he'd been their 500 years and had 325 escape attempts and was punished serverly. Molly didn't care, she was determined to find a way out. She started by trying to get the
binds off, she struggled for several minutes then broke free. She hurried to Kiog and freed him from the bounds, he thanked her then watched as she thought of a plan. Right when a bright idea came to her head, a Crog entered
the room, he held a small black device in his right hand.
"So I see you're awake, good now we can test out are device."
"No please, not on her! Please I beg of you", Kiog pleaded.
"What device Kiog?"
"Haha you didn't tell her, how Neptuagan of you! Kiog is you're next opponent in the great race!"
Molly turned to Kiog who bore a saddened face, she was confused.
"You see we have implanted a device on Kiog to triple his racing abilities, you see on Neptuag he was the prize racer."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I wanted to be your friend Molly!"
"Ha a Neptuag never tells the truth, we just took you so you wouldn't have time to get ready. So you can go now, but Kiog it's time to go! You have a race to win. Then in the next round we will crush you, hahaha!"
The Grog opened the barred door and let her go, she turned to Kiog then left.
Molly found her way out and into the city streets, she didn't want to face Kiog, a champion of a planet, her new friend. She wondered around a bit until Don and Jordan found her. They talked all about it on their way back to the
base, they found Kojie and Stan sitting at the base entrance when they entered. Everyone except Rick greeted her back, he was fast asleep. Don called Molly into his office after first putting away the clutter of papers from earlier.
She knocked on his door and he permitted her entry, he was sitting in a large chair with a serious look about himself.
"I know this 'Kiog' befriended you but I want you to beat him tomorrow okay! I don't care if he's the champion of a dead planet, you are the earth team racer, is that clear?"
"Yes sir", she saluted him then left.
He remembered the picture as she left and was about to speak when he stopped and thought how foolish it would've been. How could he not remember a wife and daughter. He thought about it for the rest of the day then fell
asleep.
Molly laid on the grass with her arms stretched out to the sides, Jordan approached from behind and sat down beside her.
"Hey Jordan!"
"Hey Molly I just wanted to see if you were felling okay?"
"I'm good, well nervous actually."
"You, nervous I didn't know that was a word in your dictionary, it'll be all right trust me. We'll beat the snot out of the Neptuag planet!"
She sat up and turned to him, "Thanks Jordan!"
He blushed then said it was no problem, she gave him a long hug then went they both went to bed.
A/N: Sorry bout the shortness, the next one will have a race, good and long one, probably two chapters. So please stay tuned. Next chapter: Kiog the Unstoppable
