Prompt: Humans are the rarest and the deadliest species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a run in with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them.
Prompt: It is illegal to contact the humans, as they wear an evolutionary scar from their time as prey. It is known as 'fear' and it makes them volatile and unpredictable.
A/N: I do not own South Park or any planets… I also do not own either of the writing prompts that I am using to write this story.
The forest was quiet except for the boys laughing around the camp fire telling scary stories. The day had passed in a nice hunting trip which will last the whole week since they were out of school for winter break. They had also decided to come up to the mountains because they knew that their good buddy Craig needed a distraction since he had just broken up with his girlfriend of two years, Annie after catching her sleeping with some guy from North Park. Craig was enjoying the trip and keeping his mind off of the blonde who had broken his heart, he had actually thought that they would make it but apparently not. The boys continued joking around and trying to scare each other when there was a loud noise and they all looked up to see what looked like a shooting star falling to the ground not far from where they were.
An argument ensued where they all decided whether they should go and see what it was or stay there and go to bed. In the end, Cartman called them all pussies and they decided to go and have a look. They wandered to where they had all seen it land and then had to walk a bit farther, following the path it seemed to have made as it had skid around to come resting against a tree. They could see that it was a space ship of some kind, although still burning in some places it was recognizable enough even with everything all blackened from smoke.
"Butters, you should go and have a look since you're the lightest and can run away faster if you have to" Stan said trying to sound brave although he had taken a step closer to Kyle and didn't seem too keen on stepping forward. Butter shook his head desperately clearly not wanting to go any closer either.
"N-no thanks Stan, I think I will just wait here while Clyde checks it out." Butters looked at Clyde a little hopefully but he didn't look to happy either.
"Well, I think Token wants to be the one to go over there." He said trying to sound like this was common knowledge rather than something that he made up. Just as Token opened his mouth Craig rolled his eyes and stepped forward with a grumble about chickens.
Craig approached the smoking ship rather carefully mostly because he was afraid it would blow up or something. When he got to the front of the ship, he found the hatch open and no one or thing was inside it. Craig stepped back and shouted at the others that everything was empty. They approached cautiously while Craig walked around the other side of the ship coming to a stop when he saw the legs half hidden behind a tree on an otherwise still figure. The others came over to him and he held up his hand to stop as he pointed to the passed out figure that belonged to the legs. They all took a few steps back.
"Oh shit!" Cartman said "There is an alien behind that tree and it could kill us at any moment!"
"There's no proof it's an alien Cartman" Kyle said "those legs look human, it could just be a guy who went down from a jet in the sky."
"Oh come on Kyle!" Cartman whisper shouted at him "That is so an alien and when it wakes up we are all dead! Do you want to be killed by and alien Kyle? Because I do not. I say we attack it before it attacks us."
"I don't think we should go attacking anyone or anything until we know what it is." Token spoke in a rather calm manner. He turned to Craig, "Did you see what it looked like? You're the only one who was close enough."
Craig shook his head but looked back over at the legs that lay still. "Maybe I should go and take a look, whoever or whatever could be hurt. That ship is on fire after all."
Cartman looked at them all incredulously. "Are you serious right now you guys? You're going to approach the alien and let it attack you? Craig I know your upset but that doesn't mean you get to just turn suicidal on us!"
Craig flipped him off before turning back towards where the stranger lay. He cautiously approached the fallen figure until he was able to see past the tree. The figure was sprawled out on top of the snow, his face turned sideways and his skin a pale blue color which immediately made Craig panic as he thought of hypothermia although he couldn't fathom how this guy had gotten it so fast as he hadn't been in the snow that long. He also had short blond hair which Craig thought was a rather loose terminology for it since his hair seem to be moving, and every inch of skin that seemed to be showing seemed to be sparkling as if it had icicles embedded in it. Craig could not believe what he was seeing and he hesitated only a moment longer as his eyes lingered on the blue skin of the stranger before he walked over and lifted him up. The guy was pretty short probably at 5'2 while Craig stood at a good 6'5 and couldn't have weighed more than 100 pounds.
Craig made his way back over to the guys who were waiting for him, giving him apprehensive looks as they took in the guy he was carrying Craig said, "I think he has hypothermia, look he's turned blue."
The guys all looked down at the creature Craig was carrying and were surprised how almost human he looked. Token sighed and said, "I guess we should take him back to camp, the fire might warm him up and we can put some sleeping bags on him to try and help him out. We might have to go down the mountain and get cell signal to call for help though. He isn't human so that will take some explaining as well."
The guys continued talking as they walked and Craig stared down at the guy in his arms, he was so light and Craig couldn't actually tell if he was still alive so he just quickened his pace to get back to camp quicker. They pulled one of the tents closer to the camp fire, not to close so it wouldn't catch on fire. Craig wrapped the stranger in his sleeping bag and rubbed his arms so as to try and get some extra body heat into him while Token and Clyde started down the mountains to try and get some help.
Soft voices came to Craig from outside of the tent while he continued to stare down at the guy who was obviously extraterrestrial. He hesitantly ran his fingers over the short moving blonde tentacle things and decided that the guy couldn't be dead if they were still moving.
"You guys," Cartman said "we cannot just allow this thing to be here at our camp. It will wake up and eat us. Did you see how terrifying it looks? We should kill it now before it has time to regain strength and come after us."
"Cartman we are not killing him." Kyle argued while glaring at the other boy. "He needs help and he looks just like us with moving hair dude. There is no point in hurting him. Right Stan?" Kyle looked to the side at his best friend who jumped slightly at being addressed.
"Yeah dude," Stan said "we can't just attack something unprovoked. He could be harmless."
Cartman just glared at them before huffing and making his way to his own tent for the night. The rest of the night was silent and Craig wound up wrapped in a blanket he had grabbed from Clyde's tent so he wouldn't take from the alien who probably needed it more than Craig. The morning dawned and with it came Token and Clyde with Stan's Uncle Jimbo and his friend Ned. They all looked in at the stranger who was still blue but his hair moved faster which made them think he was fine. Craig crawled out of the tent to talk to them, leaving the stranger alone.
"You reckon we should kill him Ned?" Jimbo asked looking at his friend as if he alone held all of the answers.
"Well," said Ned in his robot-ish voice "if he gets up and starts attacking I think we should. But for now let's just see what happens when he wakes up."
They settled in for some breakfast and discussed more hunting possibilities while Jimbo and Ned were there as well as what the boys had already caught. They had just decided on fishing first when Craig was making his way back to his tent to grab a change of clothes. When he unzipped the tent and looked in he saw that the stranger was sitting up. At the sound of the tent's zipper he whipped around and Craig saw wide glowing green eyes widen.