Theme 102: i still believe
Today's theme:
i still believe1. Submit your drabble that fits this theme as a comment to this post. It should be between 100-300 words, if you go over/under a bit that's fine! If it's longer than say 400 words, I ask that you post on your journal or fanfiction.net and then submit the link to this post. If you find that your story is going to be ( Read more... )
i still believe1. Submit your drabble that fits this theme as a comment to this post. It should be between 100-300 words, if you go over/under a bit that's fine! If it's longer than say 400 words, I ask that you post on your journal or fanfiction.net and then submit the link to this post. If you find that your story is going to be ( Read more... )
Claim: Elfangor & family
Rating: PG
Drabbles completed so far: 33/100
"Submit," it says. "Surrender yourself to me. You will feel no pain."
I am frozen in place, a single stalk eye quivering as I strain to turn it. Behind me my crew is also immobilized, but I know they are watching. Waiting to follow their captain's lead.
I remember my human friends and their strange phrases. I say, < Go to hell. >
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The great ship jerks beneath us as it fires, again and again. We speed away, and I know that no one aboard the Intrepid could have survived. Still, with all my strength, I cry out for my prince.
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It takes me anyway. It takes all of us, all at once. I recall only seeing through my own eyes one moment, and its eyes the next. I feel my crew next to me, their consciousnesses pressed against mine. One disappears, then another.
"They are weak," it says. "They've become part of The One. As you will soon."
My crew disappears, giving up in clusters of twos and threes, as if the universe were holding its breath, and then releasing them to The One in a single sigh.
Months pass in silence, its hold tightening around us closer and closer as our numbers dwindle. Only I and one of my princes are left now.
< I'm sorry, Captain, > he says. < I've failed you. >
< You have not, > I tell him, but he's already gone.
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"Only you left now," it says. "The great Captain Aximili. Aximili of Earth. The living legend, the child warrior. So many names, but you're no leader, just a soldier. Let go, now. I see you still hold on for your Earthlings. No one is coming for you. Let go."
I say nothing. My human friends will save me. They always have before.
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