I threw my arms out to the side and hit both the wraiths that were dragging me, in that pressure point right below their ear lobes, as hard as I could. I was quite pleased with the noises they made right before they lost control of their bodies. As they fell I grabbed one of them by the neck and drove my claws through his trachea. I smashed my foot through the other dope's head. As I turned to Lord he readied his whip. Apparently the revelation that his whip was a superfluous impediment hadn't come to him yet. He isn't as crafty as I first thought him to be. I crouched down slightly and bared my teeth at him in a mocking fashion. At these times I usually get very sarcasic and mean. In a funny way.

"Careful Lord, I've lost my reasoning capabilities, my animal side has taken over."

He stared at me with a look on his face I hadn't seen previously. I was amazed to see that he was actually a little scared right now. His face had that telltale pale to it that meant he just realized the deep shit he's sinking into. I didn't think he knew what fear was. Maybe he's just a slow learner. Funny how he thought he was so powerful, that his trinkets and mind tricks could work on me. I suppose I'm more powerful than he had anticipated. He lashed out at me with the whip. I caught it in my hand and wrapped it around my wrist a couple times to get a good grip on it.

"The thing is, Lord, what anyone expects of me, is the opposite of what I do. With Ya'uta. . .well, he expected me to thank him for saving me, instead I nearly killed him. I do feel sorry for that, but that is the best example that I can think of right now."

"Why is the whip not working?"

"My body adapts to things. Magic whips, tranquilizers, bullets, arrows. . .nothing affects me for very long."

"Please don't kill me."

"Don't beg, don't plead. I know this game. I'll start to feel guilty and somehow you'll get the upper hand on me. Fuck you."

He glared at me, not a scowl this time, but a full on glare. I was impressed that he could contort his face in such a way. I yanked on the whip and it slipped out of his hand and I caught it in mine. I looked at him and grinned maniacally.

"Let's see how well you deal with this."

I lashed at him and the whip struck his face. He fell to his knees, grabbing his face, and screaming in pain.

"Oh come on you big baby, it doesn't hurt that bad."

I whipped him a few more times before I got bored with the effect the whip was having. It wasn't gruesome enough. I tossed it on the ground and extended my claws. I jumped at him, we tumbled across the floor for a moment before we hit the wall. I dug my claws into his forehead and pulled downwards, tearing flesh as I went.

Two of my claws became stuck in each of his eyes as I pulled down and they both burst, splashing my face with ocular fluid. He reeled back, grabbing at his now missing eyes and screaming. For some reason I was entranced by his pathetic writhing. Almost too much to notice that we weren't alone anymore. I looked at the doorway and saw a group of wraiths standing there. One had a large cannon-like object strapped to his shoulder. I doubt that shoots plasma, or cannon balls, or anything that could be easily dodged.

I jumped up onto the wall and clambered upwards towards the ceiling and the windows that were only a few feet from me. I heard a strange whirring noise and looked back over my shoulder just in time to see a dark green bolt of something fly out of the cannon towards me. I leapt upwards. When it impacted the wall it sent a shockwave towards me. That caused my body to be tossed even farther up. My back slammed against the ceiling and I was held there for a moment by the force of the blast. Before I began to fall again I latched onto the ceiling. I looked down at the seemingly smaller wraiths, not to mention the cannon, that for some reason did not look any smaller, and decided that I needed to move fast.

He didn't realize it, but by shooting the wall he had created an even better opening for my escape than the window. I heard that whirring again and angled myself towards the opening in the wall. I kicked off the wall towards the hole. Before I fell onto the ledge I grabbed a reinforcement bar that was now sticking out and swung my way through the opening.

When I saw how far away the ground was from me, I was glad that my bones were as resilient as titanium. The ground flew at me incredibly fast and just before I hit I crouched down. Luckily for me, I'm reasonably cat-like and cats always land on their feet. I hit the ground running, wanting to get as far away from the city as possible before they came out the door after me.

About an hour later I made it back to the crash site where my poor ship was lying broken and covered in dirt and partially obstructed from view by vines. I entered what was left of the main compartment and started rummaging around the debris. If it's not here, I'm going to be very upset. Finally the smallish metal box came into view. After pushing away a few pieces of insulation and metal, I picked it up. I opened it to make sure the contents wasn't ruined. The little red light was still flashing. Hooray for small miracles. I heard a chortle to my left and slowly turned my head. It had been so long since I had heard that noise, I had nearly forgotten what it was.

"Sponge Guy!"

I tried moving my feet too fast and the debris under them slid out from under me and I almost did a face plant. I stumbled about for a moment or two before I got adequate footing and raced over to the control panel where Sponge Guy was standing looking at me with amusement. Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. I ripped him up off the control panel and hugged him to me. He chortled and quivered happily.

"You have no idea how happy I am to see you."

He made his little 'yeah right' chitter and I put him on my shoulder.

"I suppose you're right. You must be just as happy to see me."

With Sponge Guy upon my shoulder and the metal box under one of my arms, I dashed through the thick, hot jungle. The air smelled so fresh and nice. I had been in that cell for so long that I had forgotten was outside was like. As we traveled I scanned the preceding territory and Sponge Guy watched the receding.

"Just like old times, huh?"

He chirped in agreement and focused suddenly on one tree. My ears went back and I slowed down so I could possibly see what he was really looking at. I saw a shadow of a face on the tree. I frowned and sped up again. That face didn't belong to a wraith, so I don't have to stop and kill it. It might just be a weird marking on the tree. Just as I was thinking that, it peeled away from the bole of the tree and started following me. Sponge Guy kept his site trained on this weird chameleon like creature.

It didn't seem immediately threatening. To me it appeared that it was in a state of curiosity. It hadn't decided if I would taste good, hah. . .hah. For about three miles it followed us. Just before it got too close for comfort the tree line abruptly ended and I was looking at the face of a cliff. I trotted towards it and began to climb, one handed. Let me tell you, that is no easy feat.

A ledge came into view as the strange creature started to climb up behind me. I scrambled clumsily onto the ledge and set the box on the ground. I figured I had about 3 minutes before the creature climbed past me, then dropped in on me. I took the small device out of the box and turned it on. Yautja text flashed across the screen. Good thing I knew what it said. I punched in the instructions and the coordinates of the planet. I just hope that I remember them correctly. It has been a long time since my ship crashed here and I only saw the coordinates for a couple seconds.

Sponge Guy alerted me that we weren't alone. I kept my back to the creature and my pulse at the regular. Sponge Guy was watching him though. It timidly crawled down the cliff face and slowly approached me from behind. It wasn't stalking so much as walking with a shuffle like a scolded child would do en route to its room. I slowly turned my head and looked at it.

"You've been following me for a long time now."

It didn't have mammary glands, so I have to assume it's male. It's skin appeared to have a very strange texture, almost like billions of tiny mirrored scales. That must be what it uses to refract certain light and colors. It's face was slightly elongated with mammalian qualities. It's eyelashes were very long like a camels, and it's nose was moving like a tapirs.

"I. . .didn't know if it was safe."

"I really don't think anyone is safe on this planet."

I looked at the device. It was sending the message. I was getting impatient already. I didn't even know how long I would have to wait for a response.

"Why did they let you go?"

I frowned.

"Who?"

"Them."

He pointed a quadruple segmented finger towards the city. I sighed and looked at him like he was crazy.

"They didn't let me go. I killed two of them, injured one, and escaped all on my own."

"Who was injured?"

"Lord."

He grimaced and sat on his haunches. After a few minutes of him staring at me there was a beep from the device. I read the response. 3 days. Oh fuck.

"I took out his eyes."

"He is blind now?"

"I think he was blind before, but now he's physically blind."

"My kind have been hiding from him for a long time."

"You can hide in plain view now if you want."

I was getting uneasy and the news that it would be 3 whole days until I had the chance to get off this stupid planet upset me. I repacked the device and stood up. The weird guy jumped up and backwards. Timid beings like him make me nervous. I looked out over the landscape for a moment, surveying for a possible hideout where I could remain undetected for a few days. Somewhere near here since this would be the spot for my rescue.

"Well, it's been nice chatting, but I have to get going now. I don't want them to find me and that means I have to keep moving."

"Watch out for the reapers."

"Reapers?"

"They fly low, shoot green light."

I gathered that this meant they had crafts armed with those weird cannon things.

"Thanks. You watch out for those too."

I jumped off the side of the cliff so I wouldn't have to climb down with the box again. I landed in a crouch and looked up to see if the creature was watching me. No surprise that he was. I scampered off around the side of the mountain.