The Purple Praetorian

Part 8.

I grunted as I hit the ground inside the hut. Shuna sat down upon a wooden stool near a small fire in the center of the hut, I sat up and brushed the dirt off my skin and cape as I faced him.

"You didn't have to yank my arm, you know." I snarled.

"You say you encountered a larger entity?" He clicked, completely ignoring my statement.

I nodded my head and got to my feet, brushing the last of the dirt off of me. Shuna pointed to another stool on the opposite side of the fire, I understood what he meant and took a seat. The older Yautja prodded the fire with a metal rod.

"Shuna, I want to know what happened on that mission."

"Why should I tell you?" He snarls.

"Well I mean, you pulled me in here. Clearly you want to tell someone who would listen to you, no?" I ask.

Shuna glanced to me, the silence fell upon us other than the crackling of the fire. The Yautja shook his head with a sigh, lowering his head.

"Kid, what are the odds that you "encountered" the same thing I did? Surely there's a planet full of them."

"There is, I went to that planet during my first trip to Earth. For 5 minutes, didn't care to stay longer as I was being shot at. But, this one made my instincts scream at me to run."

He lifted his head with a raised brow, his green eyes were wide.

"Tell me, serpent. What did this entity look like?" He asks.

"He was twice my size, dark grey, a dark green mask, green eyes underneath because they glowed, had a deep voice with a slight accent, and lastly was made entirely of metal."

Shuna listened very closely as I gave the description, seeming very interested.

"That's very similar to the description I gave to everyone when I returned. But no one believed me, they all thought I was insane and they've laughed at me to this very day."

"Well, I believe you." I click.

"A serpent believes me over everyone else, really means a lot." He clicked sarcastically.

I sighed, "I was told your ship was pulled into another vessel, well my own vessel nearly was when I went to face the beastly Yautja."

Shuna's eyes widen, he sat straight up and looked me dead in the eye.

"Did you get a blip on your radar?" He asks.

"How couldn't I? It was massive!"

The Yautja seemed to be quite shocked, almost as if he was having a flashback.

"Shuna?"

He shook his head, "That's exactly how it started..."

"How what started?"

"The abduction..."

I was sitting in the cockpit of the Corporal, staring out the large observation window as we flew through the vast emptiness of space. The youngbloods were celebrating their first successful hunt with a round of drinks they had brought just for the occasion, I could hear their very muffled roaring and laughing in their sleeping quarters. I myself was enjoying the alone time from the young and rowdy Yautjas, the walls of my ship did well in keeping the loud noises to a minimum.

Suddenly the radar upon the ships control panels began to beep, startling me as I was not expecting it. I stood from my seat and strode to controls to see what the complication was, I could see that the radar had detected a large mass closing in on my vessel.