Creatures Caves

The Lone Shee looked down at his latest discovered planet through the viewport and shook his head. How could he have known what was down there? Did the people who lived there REALLY expect nobody to open that mysterious numbered hatch just because they wrote "WARNING: EXTREME DANGER" on it in large red letters and closed it with that big lock protected by that explosive device? If that were the case, why did they design the lock and the explosive device so shoddily? Even a Shee child could crack them...

His mind still frantically played back the events of the past few minutes over and over... "I'm safe at least... wish I could say the same for those poor Hardmen... I'll have to splice some more when I get the chance..."

The THINGS that had swarmed out of that hatch, too many to count... He still got chills thinking about them. "They weren't NATURAL..." Their eyes haunted him the most... Black, like bottomless pits, yet there was something THERE... Deep... A terrible, cold, calculating intelligence that seemed to cry out for his soul. It would devour him if it could, he knew that... He had been almost paralyzed by their gaze... Only at the last minute was he able to activate the teleporter, and then only because he was snapped out of his trance by the last desperate shouts of the two Hardman Norns he had taken with him. "They were my very finest, and they never stood a chance! Those things COULDN'T have been Grendels..."

He tried to remember the details... It was like recalling a fever dream... The creatures had almost the look of the horrible red eyed half-grendelish half-nightmare things he had finally caught a glimpse of when rescuing the Siamese Norns, but these were much darker in color, and vicious, yet they still had that air of malevolent yet slightly familiar intelligence that made his skin crawl... in fact even more so, if possible. He didn't even dare to imagine the implications of that...

"Ah well..." He shook himself out of it. "I'm safe now..." he thought... "Research goes on." At least he had managed to rescue those two mysterious eggs he had found on the planet. They didn't look like any Grendel Eggs he had ever seen, so he decided that they must belong to yet another undiscovered type of Norn. "Surely these will be happy I rescued them... I can't wait to see what they look like..."