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Well away from the Cflen... Upon the ledge on its return the Fodawke regen had landed. It was bleeding. The injury had made it weak. It staggered then dropped, to slump against the rock face. There were several of its own kind watching. One of them moved forward. A son.
It was almost as big, as the Fodawke regen. He opened his eyes pleased to see him. As though concerned at the injury its parent had suffered, it moved closer to him. Pulling the parent up, comforting him?
The hand raised, the claws ripped at the regen’s throat. It struggled lashing out but too late! The throat was torn from one side to the other. Not stopping as it carried on its attack. Blood splashed across the face and the lips of the Fodawke. The head ripped from the regen's body.
With it detached, the torso slumped back. Like some winner with a prize trophy it stood raising it high. Its claws to tear out the brain, eat it. Others watched not daring to interfere. It picked the headless torso up and threw it to them, telling them to feast! Whilst they feasted it went in search of the regen Fodawke’s favorite harem. It had bred with Cflen. These things were part Cflen and part Fodawke. To it an abomination.
From towards it, several female Fodawke. Ones he had a fondness for? Stroking him, rubbing themselves against him, making it clear, they wanted to be in his harem. Selected for breeding. He looked at the female cross breeds and then at them. Leaving them as they entered the cave. Slaughtering them all. Not one of the females left alive.
Their eggs broken open and the contents eaten by them Near to the males feasting on the regen, one of them had refused to partake of the feast. Some defiance? An adolescent who might have thoughts on seizing an opportunity to take his place? He was killed and eaten. They no longer FEARED, the Humana(a) masters.
Those Human(a) who had gotten back to the craft, thinking themselves safe Rushing to grab weapons and prepare the transporter for take off? They were not prepared for the barrage of rocks, dropped on them.
The continuous crashing of rocks, against the vessels exterior, the noise of the weapons arrays, targeting the rocks smashing them into fragments that made even more noise! With their nerves already on edge?
Lakir had been injured, the others were too shaken to do anything. Suki had modified some of the droids, to the point, they could fire weapons and thanks to some of the refined programming, were quite efficient at targeting, the intruders and terminating them.
The Fodawke, were the main attackers. The creatures had even landed on the base, where the craft was housed, to trash equipment.
The targeting arrays were out of action. Destroyed or simply failing to work. Maintenance of them had been neglected.
They had not until now needed to have the base protected.
Resources were deployed in getting the craft serviceable. An impossible idea it might have seemed but was actually viable. There was no reason the craft could not take off, despite the minor damage caused by the rocks and the Fodawke.
Who it should be noted, had gone off back to their nesting sites. Feeling they had delivered their message loud and clear. It was a little while later the engines fired up. They took off. Dahhan? Joden? Missing.
They were not, waiting on them, even if they were alive, they might prove a worthwhile distraction to the inhabitants of this hell hole. None of them disputed the facts.
The two races had become strong, cunning, clever and had adapted to the point, they were no longer willing to obey their Human(a) masters! Lumor had recorded the data in detail of the experiments, the results and the story, of how they had transformed both races with the added notes.
“It will be interesting, to take a look at both races, in the future, to reassess the outcome of all of our work!” The Cflen were infuriated, they had the knowledge, to use the weapons, the Human(a) had. To want to learn more on their technology and to seize and use it.
But the Fodawke? They had reasoned that to get rid of the Human(a) would take away any hopes, the Cflen had on weapons against them. There was probably some truth in that. Why the Fodawke had broken off their attack. If they had wanted they could have smashed the craft to pieces.
The one who had replaced the regen Fodawke, had not seen nor heard in its head, what the other had. How the Cflen wanted peace with them. To slaughter the Human(a) and rid the planet of them, so they could live in harmony. Too late. This Fodawke leader wanted two things, the end of the Human(a), the destruction of the BEAST and the enslavement of the Cflen.
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