The next chapter is here!
WARNING: This chapter contains past sequences of horrific violence and rape. If any of the sequences are too much, then I advise readers to skip this chapter. You have been warned.
Enjoy :)
When Setg-in woke up, it was still pretty dark outside. The sun was coming up but hasn't made it over the horizon yet. Making the sky appear in vast colors of orange, light blue, medium blue, and dark blue.
The colors appeared to be on top of one another like some kind of odd rainbow. With orange being near the bottom where ground level was and as it got higher, the shades changed colors and darkened.
In a way it was similar yet different to sunrises on home world. But no less interesting.
He got up from the bed and stretched. That had to be the best night of sleep he had in a long time. And it felt like his body's quick healing was finally starting to kick in. Because he felt much better this morning than he did yesterday.
Setg-in looked down at himself and started to slowly peel off the gauze that was taped to several of his wounds.
Thea did change them at least once yesterday. And she even made a comment then how they looked like they were already starting to heal. It baffled yet intrigued her that it seemed like his kind was capable of fast healing.
At that point, he did mention that his kind does have the ability to heal quite fast. Even with serious injuries.
After pulling off the last piece of gauze he looked down at the stitches. He won't lie, they did pull uncomfortably at times and made his skin feel tight.
She did mention that they could come out once the wounds looked like they have closed up enough.
And at this rate, he wouldn't be surprised if they came out either tomorrow or the day after tops. Which he may as well start the countdown because that's how much he disliked the annoying little thread that was holding everything together.
He didn't bother putting his armor or mask back on, feeling there really was no need to at this time.
Setg-in stood there and listened, trying to see if he can hear any movement from down the hall in her room. But he was met with silence. So, he can only surmise that Thea may still be asleep.
If she really were, he thought that odd. Yautja when they slept, always woke up around sunrise on home world to start their day.
But then he was unsure if it were the same for humans. Strangely enough, despite having hunted them on a small handful of occasions and learning some of their language, he was still unfamiliar with most of their habits.
Perhaps Thea could teach him more about her kind while he was here.
'Especially, at this point since it looks like I'll be stuck here indefinitely.' He thought.
The warrior still didn't like the thought of being stuck here forever. He just didn't belong here. But with no ship, what else could he possibly do?
Then something else hit him. What of the bad bloods that tried to kill him and chased him?
Will they track him down to this world? And if so, then what? It's clear they wanted him dead for what he did. But what concerns him is the damage they can do to the local populace.
And what of Thea? Surely, she'd be putting herself in danger for simply aiding him and giving him shelter.
Setg-in didn't want to think about what the three bad bloods would do to the small ooman female. He knew what this group was capable of. They truly ended up being a rather sick and depraved lot.
A group he should've left long ago. Once he realized how bad they were.
At least he still had some honor left in him. But these Ic'jits were completely without any honor. There were times when he caught them doing some unspeakable acts to others.
A few times he tried to intervene. Something they didn't like one bit.
And they showed it afterwards by ganging up on the young warrior and giving him a thorough beating for it. Afterwards, they started leaving him behind to watch the ship as they went out and committed their acts.
All those times when he thought about taking the ship and leaving but didn't.
He snorted, how could he? By watch the ship, they actually stuck him in a cell. Telling him to watch the ship was just another sick joke on their part.
There were times Setg-in wondered why they just didn't kill him from the start when he started to become troublesome and cause him problems.
He was with them for a small handful of months. And within that time, he's done his fair share of getting in the way.
Before them, he was on his own. He had stolen a small one man drop ship and used it to travel to other worlds, dusking and avoiding Arbitrators as he went.
Then during a small hunt on Planet Kut'y'ae, they ambushed him and surrounded him.
They quickly realized he was an outcast like themselves. And instead of killing him, they offered him to come with them and be part of their crew.
But Setg-in initially refused, knowing nothing good could ever come from working with a group of bad bloods.
He engaged them all in a fight and dealt out some damage to them and held his own very well against them. Until one of the slippery little shits came at him from behind while fighting the other two and bashed him over the head, knocking him out.
The young warrior then woke up to find himself confined to a cell on their ship.
The group came back in and gave him an ultimatum then and there. Stating either to work with them or die.
They could tell by his demonstration back on Planet Kut'y'ae that he was quite the skilled fighter. Someone they could really use as part of their crew. They saw promise and potential in him, and that is why they haven't killed him then and there after one of them knocked him unconscious.
Setg-in wanted to refuse, but at the same time, he didn't want to die either.
He just wanted to be free to explore the vast regions of space and see new places he has never seen before. It's something that kept alive the last bit of happiness he had left and took his mind off the fact that he was living on the run.
That and he knew that on one of these worlds, there was talk of a clan of Exiles that lived peacefully in their own little corner of the world far away from the prying eyes of others.
A friend of his once long ago did mention the name of a planet they were supposedly on.
But it was so long ago, and no matter how much he wracked his mind trying to remember the name, he couldn't. And for the last two years he's been on the run, he has yet to find this world. And he'd been to many worlds already, trying to find it.
In the end, he begrudgingly agreed to join them.
Which turned out to be a huge mistake when he saw how much of a bunch of monsters they truly were. It didn't help when they tried to get him to partake in some of the sick shit they did.
Reminding him that the laws no longer applied to them anymore and that they were free to do as they please.
While that maybe, Setg-in still wasn't a murderer. He didn't pillage and plunder villages while going on a rampage. He'd never hurt females or children. Only fighting those who approached him and challenged him.
He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to drown out the screams he'd still sometimes hear in his mind from the time they brought him out once with them on a 'mission'.
They said there were containers filled with extra goods out there in that part of the jungle that the nearby villagers kept as extras. And that they could benefit from it because they were getting low on supplies.
Setg-in was no stranger to raiding extra cargo from others. He felt bad in doing so, but it was also survival, he just took the things he needed most. And he always tried not to take too much, just enough for him to get by for a while.
If he knew what their real intentions were that day, he would've thought twice about going. Hell, he would've ran in and warned them about the impending danger and urged them to vacate the premises, if it meant they would've saved themselves.
The young warrior reluctantly followed them through the woods.
And they stopped briefly at a clearing just beyond the tree line. Setg-in stopped too, thinking they have found the containers. Only to get the shock of his life when they activated their shoulder cannons and started blasting.
That's when he heard the first wave of screams several meters ahead through the clearing.
He watched as they pushed through the brush and into the open. Setg-in quickly followed them out and demanded to know what the fuck they were doing.
What one of them said, made him sick to his stomach.
"Having fun." He said with a sick smirk behind his mask.
Setg-in watched in horror as the three of them charged headlong into the small village and started slaughtering the villagers.
It was quite clear these being were not nearly as technologically advanced as them. Nor were they as big or strong as the yautja. So, it was a complete blood bath.
He saw as they tore through each one. It didn't matter to them if it was a male, female, or child. They didn't differentiate or draw a line anywhere it seemed.
The three bad bloods stabbed, slashed, shot, and mutilated each and every one of them.
Setg-in thought he was going to vomit at one point when he saw one of them grab a young girl who looked to be a teenager, throw her down to the ground, rip his loincloth aside and started to rape her.
She screamed at the top of her lungs and clawed at the monster above her, rutting her like an animal.
But that only made him more excited, and he thrusted into her harder and faster. It also excited his friends and among the chaos they too decided to grab a couple young girls and have their way with them as well.
He snapped out of his stupor just enough to notice one of them had a girl who was no more than a child.
The little one screamed and flailed when she lifted by the back of her neck and then forced against a nearby tree. That's when Setg-in couldn't stand it anymore and raced over to the bad blood.
"Ki'cte! That's enough! What the fuck is wrong with you!? She's only a child!" He roared and pulled the other bad blood off the small girl.
She dropped to the ground and curled up on herself and started sobbing into her knees.
"What's wrong with you? The younger the better! The untouched ones are always the best!" He argued.
Setg-in became full of rage. He roared at the bad blood and tackled him to the ground.
They rolled around on the dirt ground tearing at each other. Until the other two eventually forced him off of their comrade. Then they all gave him a thorough beating before forcing him onto his stomach on the ground.
They tied his hands behind his back and one of them was kneeling on his back, keeping him pinned.
Then one of them grabbed a fistful of his dreads and pulled his head up and made him watch as the third one he originally tackled pick the flailing girl up once more.
Setg-in continued to struggle in his binds as the bad blood tore her clothing off.
Her screams were loud and horrendous as the bad blood forced himself into her small body with a sick groan of pleasure.
Setg-in closed his eyes and tried to block out the girl's desperate screams as the bad blood continued to violate her. And what really tore at him, was that one of the bad bloods had his translator on during this time.
His heart broke when he heard the tiny girl scream out for her mother.
The bad blood was brutal with her as he continued to rape her. And by the end of it, the child had stopped moving and died right then and there, her small body giving out due to the extreme abuse and internal injuries received.
Once he finished, he tossed the tiny being aside as if she were mere trash, her body landing in the bushes a few feet away.
Then he tucked himself back into his loincloth and cod piece, before slowly approaching Stg-in's prone form. One of his comrades was still kneeling on his back as he held him down.
He crouched down in front of his face.
"I really hope after this outburst, you've learned your place. We will not tolerate defiance and disobedience among this group. As hunters, you treat us with the respect we deserve." The bad blood said.
Setg-in glared at him with barely concealed hate and disgust.
"You're NOT hunters. You three are nothing but fucking savages who should've been put out of their misery a long time ago." He spat.
The leader bristled at first at the remark.
Then he started to laugh. His two comrades joining in as well, laughing at his expense. Next thing he knew, the leader stood up and kicked Setg-in in the head, knocking him out.
When he awoke, he was back in the cell.
This happened a month ago. And it was still very fresh in his mind. When he closed his eyes and tried to sleep the next few times after that massacre, all he could see was the child's wide, violet-colored eyes, filled with terror as she took in the carnage around her and as she was being forced upon.
He never knew just how fucking evil and corrupt a bad blood could truly be. Until he saw all that.
That's when he knew, he couldn't stay longer, and had to find a way to escape. He finally had an idea and it involved one of their smaller shuttle ships.
He was putting a plan in action when he learned of their next big 'mission'.
And once he learned what it was, that's when he delayed his escape, and stuck around long enough to sabotage their plan before leaving. He was successful in his sabotage.
But it left three royally pissed off bad bloods after him.
After he ruined their plans, they attacked him. He fought hard against them and managed to escape their grasp. But not before they dealt him some serious injuries.
It was only by sheer luck and adrenaline that he was able to make it to the small one manned shuttle ship.
He managed to activate the small ship and leave. But they were quick to be on his tail and proceeded to shoot at him.
The small ship didn't have the same proper shielding defenses as the main ship. So, it took on a lot of damage. And when he realized how much trouble he was in, that's when he hastily decided to do a space jump.
And right before the next large ball of plasma could hit him, a hole opened up in space, and he quickly retreated through it.
The ship disappeared behind him as the hole closed up, and he found himself out of immediate danger from them. But not out of danger completely.
The ship took on heavy hits and alarms were blaring with holographic words appearing across the screen stating he had to do an emergency landing right away.
Setg-in saw the bright blue and green world appear off to his right outside the large viewing window in the cockpit.
He hastily steered the ship that was billowing smoke and short circuiting like crazy towards the backwater world.
As he approached, the ship began to violently shake as it barely held up in its squalid condition breaching through Earth's atmosphere. It was only by some miracle; it didn't fall apart completely as it went through.
He bypassed some towns below, thankfully, the ship was still cloaked.
And he spotted a large chunk of woods and headed over there. As he lowered the ship closer to the ground, he found he had no way of slowing it down or stopping it.
So, he ended up hitting the ground hard and sliding across its surface, taking out quite a few trees in its path before colliding with a couple large boulders.
Setg-in was thrown around on impact as soon as the ship hit the ground and came to a harsh stop when it hit the rocks.
It banged him up good and added even more injuries to his already beat up body. He sat there half slouched over the control counsel for several moments, looking around.
The ship had received a great amount of damage, both externally and internally.
It didn't take a genius to see that it would not be salvageable. So, he hit a few buttons and started the sequence for self-destruct. He made sure to put it on a low setting, so it won't take out so much land and give him enough time to move far enough away from the general blast.
Then he got up and stumbled to the ship's exit and left. The rest from there was history, as he stumbled out into the pouring rain.
He slowly opened his amber colored eyes and slowly looked about the room, that was getting a little lighter as the sun continued to slowly rise above the horizon to start the new day.
Hopefully, from now on, he will never have to experience anything like that again. Those three and a half months of horror will surely stick with him for as long as he lives.
Then his mind drifted back to the kind ooman female.
Thea had helped him and showed him that there is still kindness in the universe. And while he was here, he will continue to return that kindness to her.
At this time, he found himself needing to relieve himself and he also felt the need to bathe.
The young woman had showed him where the bathroom was on this floor. It was literally only five to seven feet down the hall on his left. So, he left his room and walked down to it.
Until Next Time ;)