Tier 1 Chapter 3 Version 1

"Then what-" Rallen started as he turned around. What he saw when he turned around was a surprise to say the least. Standing behind them was a pair of half-human creatures with torsos similar to reptilian tails.

The creatures screeched again and began to circle the two. One of the creatures reached down and picked up a piece of the debris.

Rallen jumped to his feet and mentally prepared himself for a fight. Jeena sat and observed their actions. Rather than coming towards them, the strange creatures just watched the pair as they moved slowly around the crash site, picking up debris. When they had gone full-circle, the two laid down their pieces of the ship in a pattern.

"What are they doing?" Rallen asked Jeena over his shoulder.

"Look at them." Jeena replied, obviously transfixed by what the beings were doing. "They're spelling something out using the pieces of our ship."

Every once in a while one of the creatures would snap at the other for doing something wrong. When the snake-people had finished, they inched back and bowed their heads toward Jeena.

Jeena carefully stepped forward to look at what they had spelled. 'We nede yor help' was clearly spelled out in front of her. Rallen then moved forward to see the same thing.

"Me?" Jeena mouthed as she pointed to herself in disbelief.

"Her?" Rallen said as he, also not believing what was implied, pointed to his partner. The snake-people simply nodded their heads in reply.

"E... uh... W-With what?" Jeena stuttered. One of the creatures twisted its head and used it to gesture that they should follow. The two beings slithered away. Rallen, being his brash, irresponsible self, immediately ran after them, but Jeena was hesitant to follow.

The snake-people used their heads to gesture to one another in turn, telling the two cadets that they were named Golth and Fadar. Golth, probably the superior of the two, led the group over a mound of soil to one of Genshi's famous marshes. There the two officers saw what had first put them in this situation: the krawl-like ship belonged to the two creatures.

After reluctantly following the snake-people onto their ship, Rallen and Jeena were told to sit down... in their own language.

"H-How is it that we can understand you two now?" Jeena asked supiciously.

"The atmosphere onboard this ship is filled with microscopic devices which take in sound and release it in the language of the nearby organisms." Golth explained.

"Now to business," Fadar said, "We are sorry that we had to destroy your ship to get attention, but it was the only way to contact you."

"Why didn't you just open a com-link discussion with us while we were in space?" Jeena asked skeptically.

"These devices only work is there are organisms nearby. If we had contacted you all you would have heard is our language." Golth elaborated. "Because you are humans, you would have perceived our language as a threat."

"Don't start us off on that tangent again, Golth." Fadar scolded. "We need your help, Pink Haired one. That is why we had to contact you. You may be the key to our race's survival. You see, we've had a run-in with another branch of the human race. A much more violent one."

"If it's a fighter you wanted," Jeena said, "Then why come for me?"

"You did not let us finish," Fadar replied, "These humans are driven by a strange disease to attack the nearest target-able beings. Those beings happen to be us, the Triloths. We received word of a great field scientist from the star Nanairo. We suspect that you are it."

"Who told you I was a great field scientist?" Jeena asked with a mix of worry and flattery in her voice.

"Our source on Wyterra told us of your achievements." Golth explained.

"That's good enough for me!" Rallen exclaimed. "Let's do this! Let's go!"

"I'm sorry male-ling," Fadar said, "But the Pink Haired one must do this alone."

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Thanks to 92darkdragon for the idea.