User blog:Yozoz/SS Arno

SS Arno Part One
(One of the Minor RPs currently circulating is an Alien themed attack on a civilian transport, the SS Arno. I decided to make a written story based on it. I have not done one of these before, so this will be somewhat of a practice before I get into making my own from scratch. I was inspired by the writings of Nikolai and UFM, and the story is based on a thread by Trol. I have changed it a little to better fit a short story, and edited out a few characters. Here goes)

Three Sirens wearing suits to provide water for them walk awquardly into the cruise liner. The four beasts load up a boarding ramp into the large, cubical ticket room. They aproach a booth where a DX-Droid stands, accepting tickets.

"Welcome aboard the SS Arno. I trust you will enjoy your stay. Our personel are dying to meet you." The Droid says in a robotic voice, so non-organic that it sends a chill down the spine of Sings the Loudest, the young child of the Siren family, and she shivers, grabbing her her mother's webbed hand.

The eldest, Wise One, looks around inside. The walls a dark gray with sharp corners. " I suppose it looks nice in here." Says the old Siren uncertainly to his wife, Shiny Scales. "This is the ship going to Gaeto, right?'

The DX Droid stares at Wise One and says, without any emotion, "Yes, sir. And our sister ship, the SS Titanic looked nicer."

"Really?" the Wise One pondered, "What happened to it? It got trashed?"

"No. The reactor exploded."

Sings the Loudest looked at her mother, Shiny Scales, fearfully.

"Don't worry honey," Shiny Scales assured her daughter. "That won't happen here. I promise. We will be perfectly safe. Then, we will begin our new lives in the seas of Gaeto."

The Sirens continue to their cabin.

Already in his room, Denal Wedge get out of his bed. He pulls a locket out of the pocket of his Chat Army Dress Uniform. It has a picture of his wife and son inside. ''I haven't seen them since before the Battle of Yoth. Now I can finally go home. Those terrorists deserve to die.''

Wedge looks up when he hears the PA system across the ship talking. It sounds like a Sangheili's voice:

"Hello, this is Captain Nin 'Jamamee of the SS Arno. We are now departing."

''Finally. The quicker I can see my family.''

The Sirens swim around their water filled cabin. An airlock seperates it from the rest of the ship.

"It was sweet of them to give us a room like this, all filled with water." Shiny Scales states.

"Well, we are flying first class." Wise One replies.

Hours pass. But it seems like nothing for the Sirens, who play with their daughter and swim, free from the restrictions of the land, which is contstantly pulling them down.

But for Wedge, the hours seem like days. Months. Years. He yearned for his family. He lay on his bed, clutching the locket. He was about to fall asleep when Nin's voice boomed over the PA System.

"We have just discovered an uncharted planet! We are obliged to investigate."

''But we are in the middle of Chat Space. How can the world be uncharted? It can't be! Unless the government wants it that way... ''"I have a bad feeling about this." Wedge muttered out loud to himself.

"An Unknown Object has just appeared! Forget this, we are leaving!" The PA interupts again.

"What's going on, Mommy?" Sings the Loudest curls into Shiny Scales' lap.

"Nothing. It's OK Honey." Something smashes into the Arno and the whole ship rocks.

Sings the Loudest screams. "It's OK, Honey." Shiny Scales assures her... or was she assuring herself?

Alarms wail. The lights all shut-down and start back up red, darkening the ship. Passengers scream bloody murder. Two civilians (At least, it appears), Anton, and Vladmir, sit at a table in the cafeteria as passengers run rampant, panicking. "What was that?" Asked Anton calmly. "Dunno" Said Vladmir, who begins to eat soup. A DX-Droid approaches them.

"All passengers are directed to go back to their rooms"

"I dunno," Vladmir starts, "I was having a perfectly fine bowl of soup.

"An Unknown object has landed in the hangar. All passengers are directed to-

"'Fraid I can't hear you over all the alarms." Vladmir retorts.

"This is your last warn-" zzZZAp! The DX-Droid falls to the ground. Anton is pointing a small device at the location where the droid once stood.

"You young Chat Spies get all the cool gadgets," the older Vladmir says, "Let's go see what this is all about."

The PA System rings again. "Passengers, do not panic! The Arno has been damaged, but we are fixing it as quick as possible! Computer, get First Mate Fol to the damaged airlock!

Wedge equips his armor and M30. He runs to the airlock. No one dares to stop a Chat Trooper in full battle gear. When he arrives at the airlock, he finds the whole hall leading to it filled with smoke. Security Marines fill the airlock and in the midst of them is the Sangheili, Fol. They are all grasped by terror from an unknown enemy.

"What the Hell?" Wedge mutters. The smoke makes it impossible to see the object that crashed into the airlock.

The Chat Spies, Vladmir and Anton arrive at the scene. "Look." Anton whispers. "There's the Sangheili that may be conspiring against the Chat with the Resistance!"

Wedge hears them talking, but not the words.

"Civilians! For your own safety, you must-" His sentence is interupted by hissing coming out of the smoke. Something is heard crawling on the floor. 'AAAAAAAAARRGH!" A Marine screams and falls into the abyssful smoke floating over the floor.

"WHAT WAS THAT!" Marine Bob Andrus screamed.

Then, out of the smoke, comes a creature, so horribly terrifying, its skin dark as skin... it reminded every soul in that room, who were all in the last moments of their life, that in space... no one can hear you scream. But it would be the last thing they hear.

(The end of part one, part two will have all the action and will be up in a couple days. Hope you enjoyed :) I will make more original stories later. There are too many characters here to be able to focus the plot well... stay tuned for part two.)