Present day, 6 months after the fall of Lescatie:
"Fire, fire, fire!"
"Don't lose hope!"
"We're all going to die!"
So screamed the federation soldiers, as an entire squad lit the sky up with bursts of gunfire, zooming through the skies on a massive aircraft of both wood and metal, with a name painted boldly in white letters, "Marina". Deep inside the vessel, human researchers moved worryingly, securing or destroying documents, experiments, or looking for a way to defend themselves. Engineers frantically tried to push the strained and damaged engine just a little longer, while operators were attempting to obtain help, through radio waves or magic, to no avail.
Outside the ship, laughter and cackling could be heard for those fast enough to hear those that were chasing the ship. But one would have had to be blind to miss the massive shadow the ship racing behind the Marina casted, nearly four times its size.
Both ships were moving across the great ocean, under a crescent moon, slightly obscured by light clouds. The Marina's engine finally failed, coughing out massive amounts of smoke before stopping completely. While the functions that allowed the ship to float still worked, it no longer moved forward, crawling to a slow and steady stop.
Seemingly endless amounts of succubus and black harpies swarmed toward the vessel, all with the intent of obtaining new husbands. The soldiers made one last stand, firing with everything they had. They took out a few mid-air, sending corpses or wing-torn mamano to the ocean, but it was all in naught, as they were quickly overrun, grabbed straight off the deck, taken back to the mothership "Ridley II", to be broken in by their new wives. Now with nothing protecting the researchers, the mothership moved side by side to the marina to prepare for boarding.
The boarding platforms had barely been added when a massive figure flew out of the mothership and landed on the marina deck, with a significant impact mark. This mamano stood at 7 feet, with purple scaled skin, wings and a tail, one might assume her to be an ordinary dragon, but this was far from the case. While she was tall, she was extremely skinny, with thinned cheekbones and visible ribs, the only visible factor that showed she wasn't weak was her size and arms, teeming with hidden muscle. Her eyes were yellow, with slits of red acting as her pupils. Razor sharp claws on her feet and hands removed all doubt of danger, while a sharpened tail tip proved that this one was truly different.
"Captain Ridley!" One succubus said, attracting said mamano's attention, "We haven't found any more men or women on the deck. They've all hidden downstairs. We've cleared the way for you Captain, just like you said." She smiled before stepping back out of the way, revealing a dozen mamano lined up outside the entrance inside the ship, nervously.
New meat. Pity. Only an idiot or recruit would talk to the captain like that. But she'll learn. They all did.
Ridley, eyes squinting, slowly walked toward the door. Pausing right before it, she turned around and let out a massive forced smile, eyes intentionally closed. The crew winced and whimpered when they realized what was about to happen.
In a blink of an eye, Ridley's tail tore through the door, piercing the two soldiers hidden behind, having hidden just before the soldiers outside had been completely wiped out. The one just behind the door had died instantly, his heart immediately pierced by the steel-like tip, no pleasure, just death. The one behind him wasn't as lucky, his lungs and guts torn to shreds in an instant. His screams could be heard just out the door, by both the humans inside and the mamano outside. He screamed and cried for an entire minute, before he finally passed. The tail then pulled both outside, pulling the door out with them, and promptly tossed them overboard, letting them listen to the splash created from the impact, cringing in the awkward silence.
"Who thought it was a good idea to leave two armed men roaming around?" Her fake smile quickly changed into a sadistic scowl. "I have told you time and time again. I," She got even more agitated, "don't need," seeing a visible glow slowly rising from her throat, the recruit tried to back away slowly, which was a big mistake, as her eyes narrowed down on the unlucky succubus, and grabbed her by the throat, aiming her mouth directly at the mamano's head. "please don't," was all they whimpered before-
"FUCKING LEFTOVERS!"
A pillar of fire emitted out of Ridley's mouth into the sky, burning the succubu's head to atoms, with the body shaking in pain for a few moments, before falling limp.
Well. Looks like she won't learn.
Ridley then promptly threw the corpse to the ground, still panting and shaking in rage, before letting out a loud laugh, a screeching, jarring sound, which made most of the crew chuckle and quietly laugh in fear of being killed in the same manner.
After a while, Ridley stopped laughing and narrowed her eyes."Well? Aren't you forgetting something? I am here for the asset. You pathetic lot are here for the men. I am the top, you are the bottom, and they,"she said, pointing at the entrance, wooden chips and splinters slowly falling down, "are the trash."
"So go. And pick. It. Up." She jumped up, momentarily airborne, and smashed through the already weakened deck, revealing the cowering workers and researchers. The mamono surged forward, trying to forget the events that occurred just a few moments ago, and simply enjoy the meal laid out before them. The men were instantly stripped for sex, while the women were converted to join.
"So weak and useless," Ridley said, casually cracking the arm of a worker that charged at her with a pipe, before slicing the arm off, taking a bite of it before tossing the man aside for the others to swarm. Blood running down her chest, no one noticing her walk past with all of their sexual pleasure and actions.
For some reason, sex just didn't appeal to Ridley. Her entire life was surrounded by people who wanted to do nothing but fuck all day long. She understood the need to do it, to live with the spiritual energy that was obtained from having sex, but she didn't get any pleasure from that. When she was younger, she tried everything, orgies, harems, sex tools, magic, but nothing truly felt GOOD. The only thing that really worked was pain. Not her pain, but the pain of others. Suffering, blood, screaming, the smell of burning and cooked flesh. It didn't give her energy, it didn't paint her in a likable way, even among other monsters, but it was the only thing that made her wet, made her excited, made her feel GOOD.
No, scratch that.
It made her feel GREAT. INCREDIBLE. ECSTATIC.
So she got a crew, mamano who were in it for the thrill and men. They started by raiding villages, taking and converting as they went, while she went for the kill. However, they didn't get very far, as the closer they got to the cities, the more and more losses they took, until eventually the risks far outweighed the awards. So they went in a new direction. Using all of the money that they had obtained from the raids, and the connections she made in Royal Makai, She built one of the most powerful airships the world had ever seen, "Ridley", named after herself. With the new ship, they became pirates, raiding other airships, villages and eventually cities themselves, earning them the title "Sky pirates".
Their name reached to all of the mamano realms, as fierce warriors that took what they wanted, and her name reached the lilith, who's message to join forces fell on deaf ears, sending the messengers back with burnt asses, or none at all. After she ignored them for about 10 years, they stopped sending invitations. Good for them.
Those years were the best of her life. Killing, drinking, partying, even enjoying sex, she had everything. The most powerful and loyal crew a mamano could ask for, the joy that came from raids, and the feeling that she actually belonged somewhere.
Then that day. That place.
THAT MAN.
When it was all over, most of her crew was gone, disintegrated into ash. Her ship was gone, vaporized into a million shards. And all she could do was stare, as the remains rained down all around her.
If anyone in that town had survived, they would have been better off dead. For they would have seen what a true monster would be, if the event had been seen. Or to be more accurately, the birth of one.
She massacred anyone she found alive. Tore their limbs off one by one. Bit their heads off. Ate their guts while they were still moving. Anything to lose the pain and fall into pleasure.
For the one and only time in her life, it didn't work.
When it was all over, she nearly lost everything. But she didn't, and one cannot mourn forever. She gathered what was left of her women, less than a dozen out of an army of thousands, and then walked all the way back to Royal Makai. They walked with their clothes in rags, riches gone, husbands dead. And she did the most embarrassing thing in her entire life.
She begged for aid. The legendary pirate queen, bowing to a lilith, showing the rank of power to everyone present in the court that day, including her crew. Bowing to those she once mocked, who in turn, mocked her in the pathetic state she was in, all while the entire court laughed while having sex simultaneously. Truely an impressive feat.
She got a new ship. In return, she was to be part of the new mamano fleet for around 200 years, had to answer to the liliths or their subordinates, and could no longer kill men just for the sake of it. Whenever she did, she was to provide a reason. And her new "crew" mainly just consisted of mamano army "soldiers", a fact she hated. She was still the captain, but she was no longer in charge. The army was.
She learned. She created a base in Zebes, a mamano realm taken centuries ago from some long-dead civilization. She promoted all of her original crew members to higher positions, refusing to mix them in with the garbage soldiers she had been given. She had slowly obtained a new crew in secret, all in a quiet but steady bid to regain her former power.
So now, after receiving a message from a projecting mirror straight from Lescatie, about a federation ship leaving a mysterious island, labeled by humans only as SR388, which contained a weapon they desperately wanted to obtain, she had to find out what was going on. They never called her unless it was for some petty show of power or a serious threat, and they seemed pretty twisted up with themselves during the call.
So she did a little research while they chased the marina, using materials taken in secret from the royal library long ago, old records and books, anything on the original fleet . And eventually, found out what they were after was the demise of the original mamano fleet. Creatures that destroyed them in mere minutes, magic useless to protect them. And in her heart, she found another pleasure.
Revenge. Sweet revenge.
And now, on the marina, surrounded by false crew fucking random men on the floor, moans echoing all around, she decended into a room which was completely empty. Tossing the half-eaten arm aside, she walked in with stride only a captain could have.
There were books all along the wall, many fallen, scattered across the room in the chaos. There were notes on a massive table in the center, with a glass capsule on the table. Carefully, she moved closer, and finally saw what was inside.
She started to laugh again, but this time not to inspire fear. This was a laugh that with anyone else would have meant something positive, but with her, not at all.
It was a laugh of joy.
Notes: Sorry for the delay, it took me a while. What did you think of Ridley? In case you're wondering, no, she is not a dragon, and her biology and nature is very unique for a mamano, both of which will be explained deeper into this story. I also plan on showing more of her story, from multiple points of view.
This story is planned to go from zero mission to dread, which admittedly, seems too long for me to hold onto, but to me, I want this to be the longest story I've ever made. I have spent every moment researching both worlds lore, and I think I did a good job merging them together so far.
If you have any comments or suggestions, leave them in the comments. I want to make a metroid story unlike any on this site.
Finally, sorry for these setup chapters. Next chapter will have our arm cannon welding heroine, I promise.