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Character Concept for Special RP.

A few weeks ago I found someone who wanted to RP with me, and we quickly decided to make up an entire universe that we could enjoy together, and this is the character I came up with as a concept. I will be writing more as time comes.

Prologue

It had been a little over 700 years since the first encounter humans had with the alien species, and the disaster that had followed. Since the humans had believed themselves to be superior to the aliens in every way, they declared war without hesitation, but unfortunately it ended in disaster. The species that found them had technology that was far superior, and with a simple action, they unleashed a massive electromagnetic pulse onto the planet. The results were far worse than initially anticipated, the EMP did indeed wipe out most human technology, but it also stripped the Earth of its Ozone layer, dooming the planet and all of the humans that remained. Realizing their error the aliens quickly took as many humans onto their ships as possible, wanting to save the fledgling race that was going to be snuffed out before they had time to grow. They managed to save just over a billion humans, but the others were either already dead or refused to take the offer that the aliens had made, which was that if the humans would forgive them, they would take them from the soon to be dead planet.

After the final willing human was taken aboard the ships, the aliens left the planet, watching as a massive burst of solar radiation raced into the planet, vaporizing any water on the surface, and turning the once blue planet into a molten ball of radiation, no intelligent life able to survive, only microbes and funguses. So the aliens left the planet, seeking to bring the humans they had rescued into the future, and to show them that life would be better now. And so the planet Earth was made a memorial for the tragedy of the human species.

Flash Forward 300 Years.

The universe was in a state of disarray and chaos, for almost as soon as Earth was destroyed, a massive war broke out between some of the conflicting races in the Universe. These wars were waged on a galactic scale, planets being assaulted and conquered like they were just pieces in a massive game of chess. Once the war had entered its third and final century, it came to a sudden and brutal end, as the various species of the Universe stumbled across a strange race in one of the farthest outer galaxies on a planet that held an atmosphere like nothing they had seen before. The planet was covered in vast bodies of both land and water, but scans indicated that there was an incredible amount of radiation constantly bombarding the planet, enough so that life should have been impossible to sustain. There were no signs of technology of any kind. However when the first species to discover the planet sent out dozens of probes, they found that the probes were destroyed before they could ever get to the ground, showing that either the planets environment was either much harsher than they anticipated, or some outside force was preventing the probes from reaching the planet's surface.

Before long the aliens decided that they would send a manned ship down to the planet, and they quickly assembled a team and sent a heavily shielded carrier and especially suited personnel to handle the intense radiation of the surface. Once the ship landed, and the team deployed they reported that the planet seemed to be covered in a strange type of massive mushroom and other types of fungus, all of which seemed to flourish under the incredibly hazardous environment. They discovered that the funguses were actually not radioactive in themselves, but instead seemed to be absorbing the radiation like massive sponges. When one of the aliens reached out and plucked a single piece of the fungus from the ground, a loud rumbling filled the air before all contact with the group vanished, and the last thing that the main fleet heard was horrible screaming of their crew members.

The captains of the fleet reacted instantly to the disconnection, using the ships incredibly powerful viewing equipment to magnify and search the last know location of the ship. What they found made them sick. The ship looked like it had been crushed by a giant hand, the metal twisted and crumpled like paper. But the real horror was what liked around the ship, the mangled bodies of the team that had been sent. Each one looked like they had been sliced to pieces, their armor shredded and torn, and the massive amounts of radiation were already destroying the bodies. The area around the bodies gave no clues as to what had happened, but as the aliens watched each of the men were slowly sucked into the ground, their bodies vanishing as well as their armor. Eventually the advanced sound sensors picked up a groaning and the ship's crew watched in wonder and horror as the vessel they had sent to the surface of the planet was swallowed, just like the men.

The fleet immediately began preparation to retrieve the bodies of their fallen comrades, sending a full battalion of their finest soldiers onto the planet's surface. As they landed on the surface they felt the ships shake a bit as the landing gear sunk into the surface. This was strange. The first ship was quite steady when it landed. Still, the soldiers thought nothing of it as they quickly moved off of the transporters, stepping onto the foreign soil of the mysterious planet. They were each wearing the heaviest armor available, which protected them from the environment and hopefully any possible dangers. Their helmets were all equipped with high-tech cameras so the commander of the fleet could see everything that they saw.

As the men searched the area for any traces of the men or their ship, one of them had noticed something rather strange about the ground. He leaned down to look closer, and before long he realized that the ground was moving. It wasn't solid as they anticipated, but was instead made of thousands of thread like creatures.

He was the first to die. Within moments of his findings, the ground parted, and a blade unlike anything that had ever been encountered before shot out of the ground and cleaved his head in half, but no blood spilled out; the blade had seared the wound closed. The other soldiers turned and watched in horror as one of their comrades fell to the ground dead, and the blade began to creep further out of the ground, revealing a creature that seemed to be made of the same threads that the ground was.

The creature was unlike anything they had seen before, the milky white threads that made up its featureless body squirming and wriggling. Each one of the threads seemed to be independent, but they worked together to hold together a stable form for the beast. The creatures triangular shaped head was held on top of a thick strong neck. There were no eyes of any kind, only what looked to be a shifting inkblot. The legs were long and ended in large featureless feet, and the arm that didn't hold the blade was the same, ending in a hand that held three large blunt fingers. But the most terrifying thing about the creature was easily the blade that it wielded, as the arm that led down to the weapon was tinted a deep grey color. As it got closer to the blade it turned more black. The blade was massive, easily four feet long, two feet across, but it was thinner than human hair and poured off massive heat and radiation. The blade shimmered with a black energy and seemed to be made of living fire, but the creature didn't seem to mind, even when the blade touched its body, the blade just pushed off of the threads.

The soldiers immediately opened fire on the creature. It fell to the ground, only to be absorbed by it. To the horror of both the soldiers on the planet and the generals in the fleet above the planet, more blades pushed up out of the ground, and hundreds of the creatures rose to stalk towards the men. The commanders ordered their men to retreat, only to realize they couldn't. They watched in horror as the ships were gripped by masses of the tentacles that made up the planet's surface and crushed with incredible pressure, crumpling in like tin cans, but groaning like some foreign monster. They turned back to face the hoard, finding themselves surrounded. It didn't matter. They were determined to kill all of the creatures that they could. The hoard was endless, for every one of the creatures that fell; two more of them would rise from the ground. It was no use.

When the last of the bullets were spent the men pulled together and tried to fight off the creatures. They fought a losing battle. Soon they were swarmed and killed, the blades of the creatures cleaving through the strongest armor that was available in the universe at the moment. When there was only one soldier left, one of the few females, and the only human on the entire fleet, did the creatures stop, all of them seeming to look at her with their eyeless heads. She was clutching a blade to her chest armor and one of the creatures walked towards her, this one a bit larger than the others, and it reached out with its arm which was blade-free. The woman lashed out and sliced off one of the creatures fingers. It pulled its hand back with a loud screech, but it then held up its hand and showed the woman the finger that she cut, was quickly growing back. Her eyes bugged out of her head and she dropped her knife and fell to her knees, ready for the creature to kill her like the others, but was surprised as she felt a hand under her chin, lifting her face up to look at the eyeless head of the large creature. She wanted to scream and push the creatures hand away, but she found herself hypnotized by the shifting patterns of the creatures face, and she let her arms fall to her sides.

After a few minutes the creature slowly moved its hand towards her throat, and it unclasped the seal on the helmet, and the crew on the ship waited for the woman to die from massive exposure to radiation, as the creature took the helmet off fully, letting the long auburn hair of the woman to fall free. But they were surprised when she not only didn't die, she seemed to take a deep breath of the heavily irradiated atmosphere, and survived. What they didn't see was hundreds of the white threads shot into the microscopic gap in the seal and into the woman's lungs. They spread throughout her body, allowing her to survive. She then began to gasp and breath in more heavily, taking in more of the toxic atmosphere into her lungs. The creature that stood before her let out a resonating rumble as the blade that made up its left arm shifted into a real arm, like the first, and the other creatures all sank into the ground, taking the bodies and crushed ships with them. When the strange creature and the woman were the only ones left, did the creature move, and it sat before the woman, taking a cross legged position and looking at the woman, and it took her helmet and placed it between them, so that they could both be seen and heard.

The woman finally got used to the feeling of being able to breathe the strange atmosphere, and she looked up at the creature with a large amount of fear, and a small amount of awe. She looked down to her hands and unclasped her gloves, taking them off and flexing her fingers slowly, looking at her skin and astounded that she wasn't being reduced to a pile of dead radioactive flesh. She looked back to the creature which had begun to mimic her, holding its hand up and flexing its fingers. She slowly brought her hand to the side of her face. The creature did the same, before it tilted its head at her and the patterns on its face moved in very complex patterns. She thought for a moment before she held her hand straight out from her body in a handshake gesture, and the creature did the same, their hands now nearly touching. The woman couldn't resist her curiosity and she moved her hand to touch the creatures, who flinched at the contact initially and let out a strange melodic noise before it seemed to understand that she didn't want to hurt it and it let her do as she pleased.

The woman slowly moved her hand over the larger one of the creature, and she noticed that the threads that made up the creature were wiggling and tickling her hand, and she couldn't hold back a giggle. But she was brought back to reality when the communication link in her ear blared a burst of static, and then the voiced of her commander filled her head, telling her to get away from the creature. She grimaced and the creature had pulled its hand back at the sudden sound. It saw her discomfort it did something that she didn't expect, it moved its hand to her ear and a few of the threads slipped into her ear and pulled the small device out of her head, and placed it on top of the helmet gently.

She looked surprised by the creature's actions, her mind trying to wrap around the concept that one of these things that had wiped out nearly thirty of her crew mates was so compassionate. She looked at the little device and the thought of something, pushing a button on her helmet, and making a small hologram of her commander appear between them. The creature seemed to be fascinated by this and it reached out to try and grasp at the tiny blue man, only to tilt its head as its hand simple went through him. The woman giggled again and the creature looked at her, and she realized that she hadn't said a word to it. She wondered if it could understand her. She snapped her fingers and tapped her chest plate, to the name "O'Hara" and then to herself, trying to show the creature her name.

She paused and backed away from the creature when it suddenly held perfectly still, and the strange shifting patters on its head pulsed and then the whole creature shifted from white to black for a second before it went back to white. When it did, she could tell something had happened as it looked to the little holographic man between them again. Before she could try anything else, the creature did something she didn't think was possible, it spoke. "You are the Commander of these people; your name is Kil'Ek Xiou." The woman and the commander were astounded. The creature could speak common fluently, and it even knew the commanders name! The woman was astounded by the creature's voice, the smooth melodious quality not missing a syllable or marred by an accent.

The creature then looked at her and almost seemed to smile with its featureless face, the patterns turning almost into a face. "And you are Lieutenant Lilith O'Hara, the only human among the crew of the vessel Xion." The woman was astounded at the knowledge the creature had, and she blinked a few times before she nodded her head. "That's right," was all that she could manage as a reply. The creature nodded its head as another black pulse coursed through its body, and it seemed to take a moment before it spoke again. "You are part of a team of soldiers sent here to retrieve the first team that came to our planet, the recon team. I am sorry to tell you that all of them are dead, and their ship destroyed. I can return their bodies to you for burial, but their ships have already been assimilated."

Lilith and Kil'Ek tried to make sense of what they had just been told, and both were still trying to work out the fact that this creature was speaking common so fluently. Eventually Lilith recovered. One thing the creature said stuck in her mind, though, "What do you mean the ships have been assimilated?" The creature let out a bizarre chuckling sound that reminded Lilith of church bells being rung randomly. "Ah, well you see we are very, very good at recycling, and the metal that made up your ships is a very rare thing for us to have a chance to study, so they were broken down into microscopic fragments and absorbed into the Hive."

Lilith tilted her head and was about to ask another question but she heard a shifting behind her and she turned to look, watching in astonishment as the bodies of all the slain men were brought to the surface, their bodies pieced back together. And they were all wearing a strange white cloth, not their armor. How did they do that? She turned back around when Kil'Ek spoke. "What is this Hive you speak of?" The creature again chuckled and it held up its hand, "There is a saying that your people have, and we like it quite a bit. "There are some things that can't be shared unless between friends." And from what we have seen from the information your computers have given us, you are not to be trusted so easily."

The two were stunned, this bizarre creature was using sayings from the common language, and it claimed that their computers had given it the information. Lilith blinked a few times before she held her hand out again, and the creature obliged her by letting her touch it again, the strange threads seeming to caress her hand gently. She felt somehow at ease when touching the creature, something she could not explain since she had watched its kin slaughter her men like they were nothing. "Why didn't you kill me like the rest? What makes me so special?" Her voice cracked a bit as she slowly came out of shock, her emotions surging forward and making her mind race. The creature sensed her distress and it slowly moved a bit closer to her holding her smaller hand within its own. "You were the only female among them and before you could be killed, we finished sifting through the data from your ships. We choose not to harm you." Its voice was soft and gentle, and there seemed to be no deception in its actions.

Lilith was trying to comprehend what the creature had said, and she finally pieced it together, "You didn't kill me because of something you learned in the ships data? That's all?" The creature nodded its head, before letting her hands go, which she felt slightly disappointed by the loss of contact and it sighed. "When those devices your kind calls "probes" landed on our planed and started to drill, we destroyed them completely, no thought behind it. But when your ship landed here with the first organics onboard, we waited to see what they would do. When they took a part of us, we reacted with anger and rage, destroying them and pulling them into us to be assimilated. The same could be said of your second venture, but when you and your men brought weapons with you, we reacted like we would from any outside threat, swarming them until we overwhelmed them and then we consumed them. We can honestly say that we are sorry for what we did Lilith; we did not realize what you were here for. But I can tell you this, if your people try to take this world, we will destroy you."

At the end of the creatures speech its voice lost its melodic qualities, becoming emotionless and hard, making the alien and the human have no doubt in their minds that this creature and its kin could carry out that threat. The creature sensed their distress and he sighed again, the patterns on its face shifting more slowly now, "And we have a simple request of both of you, we desire to meet with the other races in this war, for it is time for it to end." The creature's voice had shifted to a more tired tone, like it had seen the entire war from the beginning. Lilith was fine with this. Kil'Ek on the other hand became angry, "You think you can make demands of us? We are in possession of the most powerful weapons ever to be conceived. What makes you think that we couldn't simply wipe your puny planet out of the universe?"

The creatures face seemed to darken, and soon the black blade appeared on its arm again, before it shifted into a massive cannon-like structure, easily the size of the most powerful weapons on the fleet's ships. Lilith backed away as millions of threads that made up the planed moved to link to the back of the cannon, and gasped as a massive sphere of that strange black energy formed just past the end of the barrel. "Do not TEST me you pathetic little man, or I will make sure to erase your arrogance from this place!" The resonating voice had shifted into something that sounded like nails on a chalkboard, and it made both of the aliens cringe, Lilith grabbing her ears as she was so close to the creature.

Commander Kil'ek just laughed and grinned savagely at the creature, the violent nature of his species coming to the front of his personality. "What can one of your species do against the entire armada?" The creature then began to chuckle darkly, a slit forming along the bottom of the featureless head before it opened and revealed a black maw filled with sharp jagged teeth and a long black tongue that dripped drool onto the ground beneath the creature. Lilith screamed and moved as far from the creature as she could before the ground around her formed into large thick tendrils made from thousands of those bizarre threads, causing her to sink in.

The Commander and the human watched in horror as hundreds of the same cannons that the creature had on its arm began to form all over the surface of the planed, all pointed towards the location of the fleet. The cannons all had that black energy formed at the end of the barrel, and the creature let out a monstrous laugh that chilled the two to the bone.

End of Chapter One.

A/N:

After writing nearly seven pages, I realized that this would make a pretty good story if you split it up into chapters and that's what I'm going to do.