The Drakkar Chronicles

The Revenant Planet

A/N: Written for @fright and the Cursed Ink || Write your Fears Away section of the fright-bites book.

"I can't believe we're goddamned doing this," Dann growled as he made his way through the underbrush of Tarnue V.

He slapped aside an overhanging frond with a sharp barked curse and looked ready to shoot at the next available and hapless target - regardless of whether it was plant life or otherwise. I merely sighed in world-weary disgust at my human friend's antics and continued ploughing ahead through the alien plantlife with no complaints whatsoever.

"I mean, of all the planets that a starcraft could crash land on and they had to choose the one with revenants," Dann continued as though someone was arguing with him.

No one was. In fact, neither Dunbar nor I had said a word since Dann had embarked on his current rant-filled diatribe. In fact, there was nothing we could say on the subject.

We'd been given orders by the Captain of the BC Revenant to find the missing starcraft and so, that's what we had to do. As Captain of the Air and second in command to Captain Greenwood herself, I also wanted to find out what had happened, which was why I had put myself forward as the leader of the current away mission. Dann and Dunbar, being my human friends and naturally curious about anything and everything going had also volunteered themselves.

"Don't you think it's goddamned ridiculous?" Dann asked as he turned jaundiced eyes onto Dunbar and me.

"I suppose so. What I really think is ridiculous, though, is the fact that you keep gabbing and yelling when there's all manner of untold enemies out there," Dunbar hissed at him, his eyes ablaze with barely restrained ire.

"Yeah? Well, you can go and suck my -" Dann began yet I shut off his sentence with a sharp retort of his name.

"Dann! That's enough," I said in a calmer tone than my prior retort. "Getting angry will not change anything, solve our problems, find the crew or fight the revenants. So, please. Dann. Do me a favour and just shut the fuck up."

Dann turned amazed eyes up to me before he turned a grin onto Dunbar.

"Did you hear that, Dunbar?" he asked. "Gregg just said a naughty word."

"He learnt it from you, numb-nuts," Dunbar said but didn't look any more amused than he had a few moments before. "Teaching aliens bad habits. Honestly."

I finally detected a flicker of amusement in his brown eyes then which proved that the human was amused after all and was just hiding it. I bit back a smile yet did not remark further on the current course of conversation. Thankfully, neither did Dann and Dunbar.

We continued in silence and soon came to a decimated and crumbling town centre. Each building looked as though it had been blasted by warfare in some distant past, made further ruinous by the weight of a starcraft which had crashed into one of the sides of the closest buildings to us.

"Well. There it is," Dann said grimly as he stared up at the wreck of building and starcraft alike. "The missing craft and crew."

"No sign of life though," Dunbar said just as gloomily as his equally human friend.

I sighed and said nothing. Instead, I strode towards the building, intending to break my way inside to garner a better look at the wreckage of the starcraft.

"Gregg? Where the hell do you think you're going, you reptilian freak?" Dann yelled after me.

I huffed in sudden amusement. His current insult certainly made a change from his usual invective of calling me 'Goddamned Godzilla'. He always swore blind I physically resembled that old movie character yet I couldn't see the resemblance myself.