Starbound: A Space Odyssey

After following the group of armed Florans for a while, John was forced to stop because the group had just stopped in front of him and it looked like they were resting.

John stood a few meters away, unmoving, and also observing the group of Florans.

Now that they stopped by an open space, John was able to count the number of members in there.

There was about 6 of them. The leader that was carrying a rifle-looking weapon, 2 other also with guns in their hands, and the other 3 were using close-range cold weapons, a sword and 2 spear users.

John concentrated all his attention on the group, trying to hear what they were talking about.

After a few minutes he realized that they were simply chatting about random stuff.

It have passed about 20 minutes when John was about to get tired from hearing the chat when his ear twitched as it caught a strange sound approaching the group at a fast speed.

The group also heard the noise and they swiftly raised their guards and entered in formation, the leader on the middle, the two rifles behind the leader, and the three close-range in the front.

In no time the creature finally appeared from the tall grass that was surrounding the group's camp.

It was a female Floran.

Her whole body was covered in bruises and cuts, some small, others fairly large. In her hands was a spear, with some green and red liquid dripping from it, it was blood, from both creatures and other Florans.

The group lowered their weapons at the sight of the Floran, so it was clear to John that both sides knew each other and were probably working together.

"What happened to you?" The leader of the group approached the female Floran and helped her stand in her feet.

She was clearly exhausted and badly injured, she wasn't even able to stand properly after stopping.

"We were attacked once we got clossse to the door." She said after she got time to recover her breath. She turned to face the leader and said, "You need to hurry...if not the ressst of the sssquad might be dead by the time you get there."

The leader frowned his eyebrows and asked, "Your group is very ssstrong, who could make all of you sssuffer sssuch a losss?"

"It's..." Her mouth quivered a little in fear as she answered with some hesitation, "Nuru..."

His pupils shrunk after hearing the name coming from the Floran's mouth.

The person he least wanted to meet was now attacking members of his group.

Even though he didn't wanted to face Nuru once again, he knew he have to go or else his entire second group would be dead in no time.

"Let'sss get moving." With a grim face he ordered the people around the camp, the he looked at the female Floran and worriedly asked, "Are you able to follow usss?"

"It should be of no problem, but..." She hesitated for a moment before speaking with a saddening face, "In battle I won't be able to do much."

"Don't worry about it." The leader dismissively said while patting in her shoulder, trying to light her mood up a little. "You jussst need to take a gun and give usss sssome assistance from the rear."

"Okay..." She nodded and sighed in relief. At least she wasn't useless to the group in the upcoming fight.

The group swiftly cleaned up the location and immediately left for the east.

They went like that for about 3 minutes until John finally was able to see the giant metal door in the distance.

He was about to continue forward when he felt a presence just beside him.

*Whoosh*

John was able twist his waist to the side and dodge the glob of green liquid that was thrown at him.

After stopping his forward momentum, he looked at the side and identified the source of the attack.

It was a group of 3 Snaunts that were about 5 10 meters away from him.

John bent his knees and sprang forward while taking the Dark Wraith dagger into his hands.

*Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh*

Three glob of green liquid were spat by the Snaunts.

Before the next barrage, John was able to get close enough.

He used the dagger to not alert the Florans that were somewhat close.

If fast movements, John easily decapitated one of the Snaunts and left a deep cut in another one.

With just a single Snaunt capable of fighting, John easily got rid of him by throwing a Razor Feather right in the middle of the head, finishing him.

John swiftly took the corpses inside his PIPS and continued to follow the Florans.

As he got closer to the metal door, he slowed down and walked more carefully.

Once he was close enough to see the situation on the open field around the metal door, he couldn't help but stare with his eyes wide open at the scene playing before him.

...

"Damnit!" The Floran cursed as he gripped the gun in his hand and pressed the trigger with his full strength.

A barrage of bullet came from the muzzle of gun directly at his target.

The target suddenly became a green blur as she easily dodged the incoming projectiles and proceeded to aim at the Floran's friend.

When he realized the intention of the target he loudly shouted, "Watch out!"

But his warn came too late.

The target wielded her spear and was able to put down another of the Floran's comrade.

"F.u.c.k..." The Floran cursed once again as his eyes reddened with anger. He lowered his head and started to reload the weapon.

It was in this moment that he felt a chill down his spine.

He swiftly looked up, but...

*Puchi*

*Bam*

*Cough*

He spat a mouthful of blood as his back hit the tree which he was now impaled by the spear in his c.h.e.s.t.

Before he could recover he only saw a green blur that approached by his body, took the spear out of the c.h.e.s.t, and disappeared once again from his line of sight.

"Nuru..." The Floran mumbled while blood slowly dripped from his mouth. "She's way ssstronger than the rumorsss sssay..."