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When, finally, the sun appeared, Nomii took her cloak and silently went out of the city hangar. She was trembling from fear, but it was her only chance to save herself from death. She knew her family isn't alive because they were outside too, and there was just death now. Maybe it would be the best if she was dead too, if she didn't make into the hangar in time, she thought, feeling the pain ripping her heart.
She saw a few times some person in the city but something inside her was telling her that she must hide from him. He looked different, but then again the same as her. Like he is a cousin of hers or something like that. But she had really bad feeling about him, and she feared he doesn't discover her.
She dreamed him one night. He was casting black fluid on her and she was transforming into some great monster that was eating everything alive. She suspected he was guilty for death of her people, because he appeared when that great disaster hit them.
She decided to search the pilot of the crashed ship. His race was their God and protector. They were watching over her people, so nothing would happen to them. But he was too late this time. They thought it was Them coming when they saw the ship, but they were wrong.
She saw another ship coming, almost a day later, but it was too risky for her to come out. His ship was crashed on the city walls, and she felt that something was wrong so she needed to go there to make sure he is alive, and somebody will come to rescue them.
She decided to go went down the corridors below the city. That man didn't discover it yet, so it was safer that way. When she finally reached the main entrance to the city, where the ship was crashed, she found that the passage was blocked with mud and tree trunks. Looking around herself she couldn't find anything to help herself to move some of it from the exit. Water was still dropping from the ceiling of the corridor, and it was pressing it down with weight. She could see the walls bending from the impact.
She saw a small stream of water around the corridor walls. It was coming out of one small crack in the wall near the exit. An idea formed in her head. She pulled out one smaller branch that was sticking from the muddy block on the exit and started to hit the crack. Immediately water started to flow with more force and created small hole in it.
She started to dig it with her fingers. Her nails started to bleed but she succeeded to make bigger opening out. She thanked her gods for helping her but she still wasn't safe. She looked around herself hopping that that creature didn't saw or heard her. Pilot's ship was nearby so she slowly entered the hole in the wall and climbed out.
For the first time after the great disaster she felt hope. There were two ships crashed onto the city walls. One belonged to their planet protectors, and one ancient one that cast black fluid on the city. She went to search the ship that belong their protectors. She knew one of them, he would come with ship like this from time to time, so she hopped it was him, as long he survived the crash.
She was walking slowly, trying to stay in cover, so that man doesn't see her. Finally she reached the ship, but she was afraid what she'll find. She hesitated for a few moments looking around self. She looked the center of her city where bodies of her people were lying. Great pain was carving her heart. Her family was out there that day, and now she was left alone. She closed her eyes trying to gather her strength. She could still hear their screams. Tears were escaping her eyes, tears she couldn't contain.
''Elli… El…''
She heard someone's voice. She hid herself behind one big log that was sticking out of the mud. She heard it again: ''Elliz…..… Elli….'' It was calling for someone.
She looked out. It wasn't that man. It was coming out of the ship. The voice seemed familiar. She looked around herself to make sure nobody was watching and then climbed onto the ship. She saw one great hole in it so she went to see could she come down to see who is in there.
Coming closer she could hear heavy breathing, like someone was hurt. And then she saw him. It was one of their guardians. Malakh. Her father knew him. He met him few times while he maintained their ships. She met him too. He was really kind to her, allowing her to play around his ship.
He was lying under the walls that cracked down under the pressure of heavy mud and tree logs.
Quickly, she climbed down using the logs and cracked walls to come down. He was still alive when she came in, but barely. He was unconscious and breathing hard. She observed him and tried to lift smaller pieces of the walls and wood that was laying on top of him.
She managed to free him a little bit but there was still one big piece she couldn't move that was covering his body. But, even if she managed to free him she couldn't bring him into the pod to regenerate.
He was still mumbling something unconscious. Some name it seemed. ''Elli….'', he said something like that. She didn't know anyone with that name. Must be one of them. She tried to find something to help her move that wall from him. There were some strong branches sticking out but she couldn't reach it.
She felt so weak, and desperate now. She needed to help him somehow. She saw small opening on the cracked wall and tried to enter the ship to try to contact his race. She managed to get into the other part of the main corridor. Nomii knew their ships because she would often go to observe her dad while working on the maintaining of the ships.
The corridor was also crushed and covered with mud and tree branches so she couldn't go further. She was trapped. There was no way she could help him and herself. And that creature was there somewhere. She went back to try to figure something, something helpful.
Elizabeth felt a hand touching her hair. It was light and warm, inviting. It was too long that she felt any human touch. She felt safe. Like she is floating, weightless and fearless.
''Charlie.'' She wispered, but then she remembered with pain: ''He isn't there…''
''It's gona be OK. You're safe!'' David said seeing her discomfort caused by pain.
She still couldn't remember whose voice is that. She remembered the only person that left: ''Malakh'' … She felt tired, hardly speaking . ''Is that you? Are you OK? Ho …'' but she didn't have enough strength to finish.
''Shhhhh!'' David tried to calm her. ''I'm ok! Don't you worry!'' He lied to her, and caressed her cheek.
She tried to see the person touching her, but she couldn't open her eyes. She was too tired from her injuries. David waited for the regenerative serum to start working on her broken bones and cuts. After a while, colour returned to her cheeks, but she was still too weak.
He researched every embrio he took from the pilot's ship before he put it into the storage box on the wall of the cave. He looked her again. She was sleeping peacefully. He admired her will to survive. She was like him… survivor. Doing everything needed to stay alive. That's what is he doing right now, he assured himself. He took the tool he found in the engineer medic room. It was almost the same as human.
He kissed her forehead, before he lifted up her t shirt and turned her so she was laying on her right hip. He pushed the needle right into her spine, trying not to hit the nerve in it. She breathed with discomfort, but she didn't move. He touched her cheek again to calm her.
''It's ok! It's gonna be over soon!'' He said.
Liquid quickly started to drip. He took stone pot from the table and took small amount of it. ''That should be enough.'' He thought and pulled out the needle before he closed the pot and put it with the rest of preparation to cool a bit before he start his experiment.
He turned her on her back again. ''You were very good! Now sleep!'' He said and kissed her in her lips.
She turned her head away from him, at the feel of his cold lips. She felt discomfort even unconscious. That made him jealous a bit. She still had the feelings for Charlie, and maybe for that pilot.
The procedure he took on her didn't show any negative effect on her, only, maybe, she felt more tired. After checking her motoric reflexes on her arms and legs he was sure he didn't made any damage on her body. ''You'll be fine soon!'' He whispered and kissed her forehead. He still needed pilot's reproductive cells, and maybe stem cells too, if he don't succeed this.
He took few stone containers and needles he had found the city and went to the pilot's ship.
Nommii was still trying to remove crushed wall and mud from Malakh's body. He was still unconscious, mumbling in his own language. She became really tired, so she sit down next to him to rest for a second, but her tiredness overcame her and she felt asleep.
David was getting close to Engineer ship. He took only the most important things he needed. And tranquilizer, just in case. Slowly, he approached to the crashed ship, but he stopped a few moments before he entered it to observe the ship condition.
Water and mud was still pressing the ship but not that much as it was before. It was safe for him to enter. He found the same entrance he went in before and it still wasn't covered with mud. He had to remove a few parts of the wall that crashed while he was in the city and entered the small space that was left of the main corridor. And there he was, still laying down the floor. He got closer to him and then he realized that someone else is laying down there too. And it was sleeping.
His footsteps were light and calm so he didn't wake her up. He removed the tunic from her face to see who that is. He remembered he saw the shadow coming and disappearing in the city before, but wasn't sure was it real. The creature looked like human female, but it resembled like Engineer too. She looked like the mix of the two races.
He decided to take her into the city to be a part of his experiment. She will serve the purpose. He removed the sleeve from her forearm and took one shot of the tranquilizer from his pocket and then stabbed her lightly in the forearm. She felt the stab and wake up immediately but she was too tired to fight. She saw him standing in front of her but she just couldn't move. She didn't understand why. Then it all became dark.
He checked Engineer. He was still in shock, but alive and stabile. He removed few parts of the wall from his abdomen and wiped off the mud from his biosuit. He had small pocket knife he used to make a small cut on his suit on the lower abdomen, just on top of the place where should be his reproductive organs. Some black fluid started to bleed from the suit immediately. He touched it with his fingers and smelled it. It reminded him on the liquid he found in the city. He took small amount of it in the stone pot he took with him.
He took a needle and pressed it deeper into his body hopping he hit it in the right place. Lightly blue and transparent fluid started to come out of it, and then it became almost white. His central program immediately processed what he sees, and he was in the right spot. He extracted what he needed. He'll observe it in more detail when he returns into the cave.
He didn't tried to close the wound on his body and biosuit, he left it like that. It didn't bleed much. He took the female under her arm and then lifted her in his arms. She was under the influence of the tranquilizer so she didn't feel anything at all. She was smaller than him so he managed to slowly pull her out of the corridor and out of the ship.
Slowly he dragged her into his cave and lowered her down on the floor. He made an improvised table for her and then put her on it. Elizabeth was still sleeping, but she started to wake up. Slowly she opened her eyes but her vision was still blurred from tiredness and all that anesthetic David gave her before he did the procedure. She was tide up to the table she lied on.
She heard someone talking but just couldn't understand it. She tried to move but she couldn't. She began to panic. David quickly approached her to calm her. Her vision become a little beter and she recognized him.
''Thank God, you're here. What is going on? Are we there? Did we make it? Where is Charly?'' Sound of his name escaping her lips made her realize where she is and what is happening. She remembered everything.
''You bastard!'' She pulled herself up with rage and rip off the bandages that were tiding her for the table. She took the knife that lied next to her and swing in front of him trying to stab him. He took the step backward to avoid the knife.
She turned around herself and saw a human person lying on improvised table. It looked like human girl, but was it?!
He took the opportunity when she observed the creature next to her and overcame her. He was holding her arms strong, not letting her escape.
''Calm down, you are still weak. You need to rest. I'm going to save you!''
''I saw what you mean by saving, you killed everyone. Is that a survivor? It looks like a girl. Why did you tie her too? What are you planning to do with us?'' She wrestled under his grip.
He managed to tie her again, but then Nomii started to wake up too. Elizabeth looked at her with fear how she react to them. ''Can she help them both?'' The thought came to her mind.
The girl started to scream when she saw David and another being tied to the table. David slapped her face few times and she began to cry. She was overwhelmed with fear. Elizabeth saw the terror she felt but she couldn't help her now.
''It's gona be OK!'' She said to her. Even though Nomii didn't understand what she told her, look on her face made her feel calmer.
''I'll help you!'' Elizabeth tried to reassure her.
Elizabeth observed the place around her. It reminded her on small medic room. There was plenty of medical supplies and a few she could use to defend her and that girl. She just needs to wait her opportunity. Nomii was looking at Elizabeth trying to see what she'll do. She looked like someone who would help her.
''Please, help me!'' She said softly to Elizabeth. ''You're my only hope!'' Tears escaped her eyes.
Elizabeth was too hurt to look at her like that. She looked like those people her father was taking care of while he was on the missions. She was lost, and abandoned, lost everything. She understood her pain.
She looked at David and yelled at him while he gave something to Nomii, and then she passed out. ''You fucking bastard! Let her go! What are you trying to do with me and her?! RELEASE ME!
''Shhhhhhh'' He went to her and caress her hear. She immediately turned her head away from him.
''Don't you dare to touch me. And when I think I almost allowed you to touch me on that ship. Get away from me!''
''I'm almost finished. I've found your saviour, he is still alive.''
''Who, Malakh?!''
''Yes, if you call him like that. I almost finished the serum they were working on here.''
''What serum?! What are you talking about?!''
''Didn't your Malakh said to you what are they doing and why?! It's connected to what they were doing on that moon. You remember I read they were trying to recreate their creator? Well over time of their evolution they became infertile and they used a creature they came upon their search for life in our galaxy. That creature birthed species similar to their, almost identical, but they had to sacrifise themselves to birth it. Over time the creature got old and died. They took its blood to create new life on other planets. Your race, and theirs.''
She remembered what she read upon Malakh's ship.
''But the blood run out and they tried to recreate it, and that how they created that black liquid we found there. It was their testing ground. But they tested it for a weapon use. Not to create life. They were producing creatures similar to the one you birthed. They worshiped it.
Her face became pale from realisation, she found the creature he was talking about. She looked David's hand. He had something in it.
''I'm gonna prefect their experiment. They were unable to finish it, but I have found the solution of their problem. They needed DNA code of all of their creations. Only then will they have complete DNA structure of the being they used to create you. You all have it in you, because you came from it. With that they could change their genetic code and make their bodies capable of procreating again. Because your DNA is so little different , you could even interbreed and make another human race. That's what I'm planning to do. You'll become mother Elizabeth. That's what you've always wanted, isn't it?!''
''Yes, but not that way! You can't do that to me!''
''Yes I can, I checked, your body is capable to carry their child, even that creature too. We need to perfect it too.''
''What?! You don't think of putting that thing in me, are you?!''
''I have to, it's the only way. She can carry one too, if it be needed.''
''NO! You're crazy! You can't do that! STOP!'' She remembered what she dreamed the first day she meet Malakh. She saw David doing what he just said.
He took the needle with anesthetic and knife he took from the ship they came here.
''STOP! Don't you dare to touch me! STOP!''
''It's ok! Everything is gonna be all right.'' He reassured her.
''Get away from me!'' NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!'' She screamed while he gave her anesthetic and small amount of tranquilizer. She slowly drifted away, unable to fight back.
She woke up few hours later. Feeling great tiredness she opened her eyes. Her vision was blurred but she saw the light and colours becoming brighter till her vision came back, clear. She was still lying on the table, still tied up. That girl was next to her. Then she remembered all. David planned to put inside her that creature and the Engineer embrio. She looked at her abdomen and tried to feel anything different, but she couldn't feel anything at all, like he didn't do anything, yet…
She observed the room, she saw few objects she could use to free herself and kill him, only if she could manage to get it. He left the knife near the table she was lying but she couldn't move her hand that far. She tried to free her fists from the rope he tied her but it was tighten too much. Her wrist started to bleed from the pulling out but she didn't stop. She pulled harder and dislocated her finger while doing that. She almost screamed from pain, but she didn't want to alarm him.
Somehow she managed to free one hand and take the knife from the table. Quickly she freed her other hand and legs, but then she heard someone coming. It was him, she knew his steps. She lied on the table again and pretended she was still sleeping. He came to check her state. He put his hand on her abdomen.
''Good!'' He said. ''They are developing well.''
Cold sweat washed over her. It can't be. ''NOOO!'' She yelled and swing with the knife.
She managed to stab him in his neck. But she didn't finished him, he was just slightly wounded. He grabbed her hand and pulled the knife from her hand. But she managed to grab metal bar that was laying on the stone shelf near her. She stabbed him hard into his neck and chest. He fell to the ground but he was still alive, but disabled a bit.
Her belly started to hurt and then she felt something moving inside her. ''No, that can't be possible, not again. I don't want to be a mother to another abomination!'' She pressed the cross in her palm. Then she looked the girl lay on another table. Quickly she came to release her. She was still sleeping.
She had shaken her a little just to wake her, not to scare her. Slowly she opened her eyes and jumped out of the table, she looked at her in fear.
''I won't gonna hurt you! He can't do you anything now, but it won't be for long. Come with me, we have to go, NOW!'' Elizabeth looked at David who was still laying on the floor unable to speak right now, but she could see his neck connections coming back together.
Nomii slowly approached her. She didn't understand her, but she somehow trusted her. Elizabeth seemed like a friend.