Chapter 0: An origin story
He ran.
The smell of bloodlust was right behind him yet he did not waver. He continued to run knowing if he stopped for a second it was all over. Doing what he had to do was necessary for his survival. The environment like this was all he knew.
He looked back to see the creatures backing off, they seemed to be worn out, he smiled to himself and he kept running. Everything seemed fine till he heard a bone chilling roar. He stopped dead in his tracks. He knew exactly what is was. His survival now was 0.0001%
Out of the rubble in front of him rose a creature. It stood 20m high and it's skin was scaly and had the head of a snake. It reach down to grab him but his reaction kicked in and dodged the blow. He grabbed the closet thing he could find next to him.
A stick.
He started blankly at the stick knowing his time has run out. The creature opened it's mouth charged towards him, grabbing his stick he took a swing at the creatures eye. The creature shut it eye just before the stick hit it causing the stick to break. He jumped out of the way of the creature's mouth and landed on his back. He used this chance and ran. It seemed this day would be full of running. He eventually ran into a worn down tower and quickly ran up the stairs. The creature was bitting into the tower in order to get him. The creature broke through the tower and fit it's head into where it broke through. He stared in horror as the creature opened it's jaw in order for it to grab him. He regained control over his body and ran, but not higher up the tower, but lower. The creature was stuck in the tower as little pieces of rock started to fall. He then made it out of the tower alive. He looked back and saw it collapse, with the creature inside it.
He had killed it.
He let out a sigh of relief and threw on his cloak to shield him from the sunlight. His name, was Alpha Kone.
He arrived at his "home" to bring back the supplies he acquired. There he met his sister, Zeilah. They were a lot younger back then, Alpha was 9 while Zeilah was 7, but this word they lived in was not always like this. There was a time where this was a striving planet full of life and beauty, they had played with all the other kids and had laughs.
But that was taken away from them. Civil war had split the planet, you were either with them or against them. Battles were fought nearly everyday and the kids watched their mother and father killed before their eyes. But that wasn't the end of it. One day the rebels had found a new price of technology, one that could very well turn the tides of war. It was dubbed "The Creator" it was supposed to unlock the users powers of the force and enchanted their abilities. The test were successful and we're ready to use it in battle, but then it went wrong. The machine suddenly went into melt down, no one knew why or how but it imploded on itself causing it's energy to be spread across the entire planet. Most life was either destroyed or mutated to cause a force heavy animal that had the power to kill 100 men. Alpha and Zeilah seemed to be the only survivors. For some reason instead of killing them or mutating them it fused with them. They controlled it not it controlling them. They themselves didn't know why this happened but there was one thing they knew. They had to survive and adapt.
Alpha returned with fresh food and tales to tell to his younger sister. When ever she returned she always had the biggest smile on her face.
"Zeilah I'm back!" He yelled out to her. Footsteps could be heard from another room and Zeilah ran in hugging Alpha and tackling him to the ground.
"What do you have this time?" She asked eyeing the bag that Alpha held.
"I got some canned food from an abounded town, some wood I gathered for a fire and some paper" He replied throwing out all the items from his bag.
"Paper!? Yay! Now I can color in with the pencils I got last time!" She yelled reaching for the stack of paper. She started going through it all before noticing something. She handed the paper to Alpha.
"Do you know what that says?" She asked. He looked at the paper confused. He looked at the paper and it read.
'Jr vsm hsyjrt gptvr gtpx frsf nromhd'
"What is this?" He asked. No matter how many times he read it he couldn't understand it. He took the paper and put it in a nearby draw in case he'll need it one day. "L-let's forget about just draw on the paper or something"
"Ok!" She yelled excitedly and ran off with paper and some pencils. Alpha decided to take a break and relax on a nearby sofa. He started to ponder on how he would tell the story of the snake and how he killed it to Zeilah. Time flew by and Zeilah eventually returned with a piece of paper.
"Finished!" She yelled running up to him. He took the paper and looked at it. It was a very childish drawing with not much detail but there stood a young girl with a skirt on next to a slightly taller boy with 2 older people. The sky was a light blue and the grass a bright green. Something much different than the orange sky and red grass.
"What is this?" He asked staring at her.
"It's a picture of us before everyone went away!" She yelled. Alpha never had the heart to tell her what really happened to their family and everyone on the planet. How could he? She was his last hope his only reason to live. There's no way he could crush that fire that still burned in her heart. A drop of water fell on his palm.
'Is it raining?' He though, no. There's no way it could rain indoors. At that's when he realized.
He was crying.
It had been 1 month since then, everyday he went to bring more supplies back go Zeilah. But now she wanted to come with him. After hearing all his stories of the outside she wanted to come with him. Every time he declined her. But today was different, it was a time of the year when a solar eclipse would happen, and during this time most of the beast would calm down for an unknown reason. So it would be a relatively safe time for her to go outside. And it would be a great experience for her to see the moon eclipse the sun.
So they spent their time and gathered everything they needed from water to some blunt knives. Alpha opened up the front door to check for any beasts but there seemed to be none. He let out a sigh and walked outside with her following. He felt the wind brush against him along with some dirt and sand. He knew there would be a old store north of town so he took Zeilah's hand and ran into the city. He took time to make sure they were quite and not say a single word during the trip. At the start everything was going good and he looked towards the sky.
The eclipse had begun.
The moon has covered the sun and everything went dark. He could no longer see Zeilah but he felt her hand between his fingers. Darkness consumed them but he could see something.
Red?
Dark red pairs of light started appearing in the darkness. That's when he froze in fear. They were being hunted. The sun started to show and he could see more and what he saw was a pack of wolves glowing red surrounding them. Zeilah let out an ear piercing scream next to him when she saw them. He drew his blunt knife but he knew it wouldn't work. But still. He had to protect HER! He yelled at the top of his lungs as he jammed his knife into one of the wolves eyes. It let out a roar of pain as most of them started to back of in surprise. But quickly the wolf recovered and so did its allies. They were angry. The one he stabbed had only one eye but that didn't stop him. He jumped and he...
Bit his hand clean off.
He screamed in pain as he collapsed to his knees, blood rushing out from where he lost his hand. Tears streamed down his face and his vision started to wobble. He failed. Now he's going to die along with Zeilah. Before he could collapse fully he heard a scream. It wasn't a scream of pain but a scream of anger. With the last of his strength he looked to where the scream came from and saw Zeilah. She had her eyes closed but the entire ground around her started to shake. The wolves became scared and started to keep their distance from her. But that didn't help. One by one they started to rise of the ground by an unknown force and where quickly tossed around like a rag doll. One by one they where each killed in a brutal way with their entire bodies smash across the city. And not long they were all dead. She stopped scream and started to take heavy breathes, but she ran toward Alpha. She hugged him tightly like she had done before with tears streaming down her face. She let out a loud cry of sadness and started sobbing while holding Alpha in her arms.
But suddenly the wind stated to move faster. She stopped crying for a bit and looked up. And there she saw a ship. It was a republic military gunshot landing. They seemed to be searching the planet and stumbled upon them. She waved her arms at the ship and it landed next to the cry Zeilah and injured Alpha. The ship opened and out came several clone troopers.
"Please help my brother!" She screamed at the trooper. He nodded and quickly grabbed Alpha and carried him into the ship. It seemed their nightmare on their home planet had come to an end.
Alpha woke up in a panic. What had happened? Where was he? He looked at his surroundings and noticed he was in a tight space. There he noticed a droid tending to his missing hand.
"Where are we?" He asked the droid.
"You are onboard the cruiser, Hammer 476 you are being cared for after losing your hand in a fight" It responded in monotone.
"Why did you guys save us?" He asked the droid.
"We had lost contact with your home planet and needed to investigate, it had been several years since we lost contact so we dispatched several search parties which found you" It replied continue long to tend to him. "Is it possible you can tell us everything you know?"
"I'll tell all I know"
And the rest is history.
A/N Hey guys I have returned from my absence and I'll take a moment to explain myself. I went on holidays for a total of 2 weeks in another country and had no way to update on chapters and then after that I can home to find my computer complete wiped so j had to reinstall all my games and programs and of course rewrite this chapter and before you accuse me of writing filler if take a moment to decipher this chapter you may find answers to the entire series but I doubt it'll be easy :P
