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SUMMARY: The synthetic Zerith invade the Icarus System. Can Lucius, Ariah, and Sethis stop it? Read to find out

*Another of my kin....no, My enemy down* Sathis thought reprimanding himself for even thinking of them as kin. *And again I must kill more* He shook his head and shot three times at one Zeriph ship, it exploded and chips flew threw space, on a journey that no one cared about.
Sathis's eyes gleamed yellow in the explosions light, he smirked and thrusted up, He flew over the exploding ship and locked onto another *four so far....* He thought, he shot a missile at that ship and heard a warning that someone had locked onto him, He turned, upside down and shot one missile and then began with pulse beams. Then righting the ship he turned so the explosion was facing away from him and shot off once more twords the injured crew.
*Six down* he thought, He already knew what was to come after this if he lived, He and the Juggernaut would compare kills, More like the Juggernaut would ask him how many he took down, knowing full well that Sathis was not the best at fighting in a ship, So in order to be closer in score's, Sathis had hounded himself over and over, He finally had someone he could compete with, he finally had a challenge, And it felt good to finally loose at something.
*I wonder where the juggernaut is He seems to be making a late appearance* Sathis thought flying his unmarked and unnamed ship to the vessel that was down.
*we cant loose another of our captains at this moment* he thought, turning on his command, for one of the first times he called to the ship, "How is your life support holding up captain of Deep sea?" He asked forgetting the captains name, He wasn't much for names, They didn't really matter.
*Hopefully they can wait tell all of the enemies are down, If they can't then transferring them to another ship will be extremely difficult.* Sathis sighed,
pressing buttons on his console soon he had a screen up in front of him showing the location of all of the remaining enemies, *Good luck to you commander* he thought thinking of the bone knife, He almost missed it, but it would serve the captain just as well as any other crew member.
He closed his hand into a fist, the bones in the knuckles cracking *An interesting mission, the enemies ships fly as if they cant remember how to fight!* he thought bitterly *They should train more*

Ariah listened to the sounds outside, still motionless on the floor. Who cares if she moved or not? Everyone and thing knew there was at least one person alive on this ship. She moaned, her cheek resting on her hand. She didn't notice the blood that stuck to her hand either. Breathing was becoming difficult. Therefore, she timed her breaths to make the air last longer. It didn't help much, but it helped some.

She listened as the Zerith began to start swarming around her. Apparently, she was a major threat to them and they wanted her dead. She rocked with the ship as one of the Zerith's attached their ship to hers. Ariah closed her eyes and waited. The door slowly started to open, but became jammed. She heard curses in the Zerith's language and she also heard the door being forced open. When three Zerith entered the ship and stared at her she sat up straight, not really wanting to stand. Her jaw was set, and her eyes filled with a cold emotion.