This is just something that came to me while I was bored out of my mind in Civics. What if the other Mudokons hadn’t helped Abe due to difficulties teleporting, but someone else did?

(Like I said, this is from being bored in Civics. I know it sounds kinda stupid, but at the very least, please review the first chapter.)

Anyhoo, enjoy!

Chapter 1: A Desperate Plea

Please…help me.

“What’s wrong?”

I need your help.

“Why? Why me?”

You are the only one who can save me now.

“Wha…what do you mean?”

If you don’t save me…no one will.

Suddenly, Crystal shot upright from her sleep, gasping for breath and unable to believe what had happened. She looked around. She was still in the same place as when she fell asleep; a small clearing in a lush green forest. She sighed and relaxed herself against the tree trunk next to her.

What just happened? she asked herself. Why did I just have that strange dream? And why was it only a voice I heard? I didn’t see anything…

Suddenly, she felt very faint. She held her head in her hands and everything went black. Then, in a bright flash of light, a vision came to her.

She saw a huge building in a desolate area, pitch-black, filthy steam erupting from the smokestacks on the roof. Screams were heard from inside. Then, the vision faded. She’d know that building anywhere.

Rupture Farms.

So then… Crystal thought. that means…someone…one of the slaves…needs my help!

She got up quickly, took a map out from under a rock, opened it, and found the area that Rupture Farms was located in.

With a determined look on her face, she began running to the meat processing plant to rescue whoever had called to her in her dreams.

Elsewhere, at Rupture Farms, screams of terror are heard. In a dark room, Mullok the Glukkon and one of his many slig servants watch as Abe, a Mudokon slave, pleads for his life, tied to a hook and dangling over a hole in the floor which leads to a huge meat grinder.

“Please!” he screamed. “Please let me go! What ever happened to Employee of the Year?!”

“That’s all over now, Abe!” Mullok shouted back. “You dared to defy me, and now you’ll pay for your mistake!” He began laughing insanely as he gave the slig the order to pull the lever next to them, which would drop Abe into the meat grinder. The slig laughed along with his master and gladly pulled the lever.

“No!” Abe screamed as he realized his fate.

Suddenly, a roar was heard and in a flash of white, a creature pounced on Abe, releasing him from the hook just before he would’ve met the meat grinder.

“What?!” Mullok shouted, outraged at what had happened.

Abe, who had shut his eyes tight, was now lying on the floor trembling in fear and shock. He opened one eye and couldn’t believe what he saw.

Standing there in front of him was the most beautiful creature he had seen. A tall, cat-like creature that stood on two legs and had long, flowing white hair. On the end of her tail was a small poison barb. Her fur was a white as new-fallen snow, her eyes as deep and blue as the ocean. She had a pair of large feathered wings.

“What are you doing?” Abe asked, still stunned.

“Saving your life,” she responded. “Don’t be afraid. My name’s Crystal.”

“I’m Abe”

She smiled at him, then turned her attention to Mullok and the slig. “You’re going way too far now, Mullok!” she shouted. “Killing your own employees for profit?!” For a moment, they just glared at each other. “And just when I thought you could sink no lower.”

“Ya know, boss…I guess she’s got a good point,” the slig said hesitantly. Mullok just shot him a glare. “I mean…when you put it that way…it does sound a little…well, psychotic.”

“Just get rid of her, you worthless waste of flesh!” Mullok shouted in the slig’s face.

“Yessir!” the slig said as he loaded his gun.

Then, Crystal ran at the slig so fast, she was almost invisible. Before the slig knew what had happened, Crystal had pounced on him, clamped her jaws around his neck, and tore off a chunk of flesh. She quickly spat it out. “Ew!” she said. “Rotten meat!”

“Why you little bitch!” Mullok shouted. Crystal glared at him and quickly pounced on him. She clamped her jaws around the huge hunk of flesh on top of the Glukkon’s head and tried to tear it off, but it was very hard to do.

“Help!” Mullok managed to shouted just before Crystal had torn the flesh off of his head.

She spat out the Glukkon’s flesh and turned to face Abe, her mouth covered in blood. She wiped her mouth off as she walked over to him. “Are you okay?” she asked softly, extending a hand to help him up. He nodded as he took her hand and let her help him.

Suddenly, they heard the door to the room open. They looked over to the door to find at least a dozen sligs with their guns loaded and aimed right at them. “Freeze!” one of them shouted.

“Quick!” Crystal said. “Run!”

Abe tried to run, but immediately fell back to the floor. Crystal looked behind her to find Abe holding his leg in pain. What she hadn’t noticed before was that there was a huge gash on his leg, making it impossible to run or even walk.

“What happened?” she asked, alarmed, as she knelt down next to him.

“One of the sligs slashed my leg open to catch me for Mullok,” he said. “I can’t walk.”

Then, to Abe’s surprise, Crystal took him in her arms, found a soft spot in the wall, and smashed a hole in it, making a doorway to the desolate outside world.

“I hope you’re not afraid of heights,” Crystal said.

“Well, actually-” Abe began nervously. But before he got a chance to complete his sentence, Crystal had already leapt into the air and spread her wings. Abe screamed as they flew farther and farther away from Rupture Farms.

She turned around and hovered in the air for a moment to face the sligs, standing at the hole in the wall and shaking their fists at them. “Try catching us now!” she shouted. Then, two flying sligs came out of the hole and began chasing after them.

“Uh-oh,” Abe said.

“Yeah, didn’t think about that one,” Crystal said. She quickly turned around and flew away as fast as she could, but the sligs still caught up to them. “Aw, shit!” Crystal shouted as she realized she couldn’t fly any faster than she could.

Abe looked up at her and noticed that her eyes had started glowing brightly. Then, when he looked back in front of them, there was a huge portal that had appeared out of nowhere. Right after the portal had swallowed them, it closed, leaving the slig to wonder where they went.

“Where the hell did they go?!” one asked, frustrated and at this point hating his job.

“How should I know, you idiot?!” the other said as he slapped his partner across the face.

The portal had spit them out in a swamp-like forest. The amount of blood lost had caused Abe to faint, while Crystal had fainted from the amount of energy that had to be used to open the portal. Just then, a Mudokon wearing a huge red mask walked up to them, followed by several others.

“Take them to the temple,” the Mudokon said.

Well, there’s the first chapter! Tell me what you think and read on after I put up the next chapter!

Thnx!