Survivors

Chapter 1: The Arrival

Authors Note

To keep it easy when Kara is alone she is speaking Krypton's. When she is with others and speaking her native language, it will italicized.

Enjoy

The sun rose over the dense forest, the start of a new day. There were no people for miles and miles, no one to enjoy the quiet, the peacefulness of nature.

The quiet was quickly broken by a streak of light breaking the atmosphere. Despite the speed of the object, it was not destroyed, instead leveling out then impacting and sliding, broken tree limbs, forest floor and rock being destroyed, smaller trees knocked down until the most of the ship crashed into a giant Oak.

The occupants inside were not jostled, despite the violence of the landing. The young girl had seen everything, the planet coming at break neck speed, she held in a scream and gritted her teeth when the pod had broken atmosphere. she had seen a large body of what she believed was water, though it was not brown or boiling. She had watched the shore approaching and when the dense forest enveloped her pod, the trees rushing her pod, the trees rushing by, Kara Zor-El finally did scream.

The scream stopped as the did, replaced by the crying of the baby in the seat behind her. At one solar year, Kal-El had no idea what happened, no real idea, only that he had been woken from a very long nap and his bed was shaking.

Kara reached out with a shaking finger and hit the button opening the hatch,  praying to Rao that the atmosphere was breathable as her parents told her it would  be. If not , she knew death was certain, but the idea of staying in this pod one second more, made death not so frightening.

She still held her breath, taking in a small breath through her nose, trying to get a taste of the air. Opening her mouth slowly, taking a larger breath she was struck by how ... pure, the air was. Kal-El was still crying however, and she had a mission. She had to put away thoughts of her parents, of the sound of her home exploding, of the shock wave she knew she felt and the few times she had woken, not flying through wormholes and space but struck, floating aimlessly in a void. The had to focus.

Standing up and exiting the craft, the rising sun broke through the trees a bit and the rays stuck her. Kara remembered her mother saying the Earth's yellow sun would giver her powers but not what kind of powers. She did know the sun rays felt so good, better than Rao's even.

Reaching over the side, Kara picked up the crying baby and held him in her small arms.

"Shh. Its going to be alright Kal. I won't fail you. I won't fail us. It is going to be..."

Kara cried out at a figure overhead. Looking up quick she saw winged creatures, many of them flying in to the branches overhead, watching her.

"Hello?"

Kara shook her head. Of course no creatures here would speak Kryptonese.

Krypton was gone.

She watched the creatures for a few moments, deciding they were small and would not attack. Even if they did, she was certain she could fight them off, despite their numbers. The girl had been given some combat training in the months leading to her escape. Though she had never been told exactly what was planned for her, she knew the shaking of the ground was not normal. She had heard stories that the seas were not always brown and boiling in the past. Aunt Astra had told her many times before she disappeared that the planet was in danger but her mother shut her down when that topic was brought up. But Aunt Astra had left her, disappeared and her mother and father, aunt and uncle walked into her bedroom and told her it was time. She had no idea what time it was supposed too be, only that the shaking ground had gotten worse, it hadn't stopped in so long Kara was becoming used to it.