The Borei

[Leo]

Day 7

I landed the ship as gently on the ship's floor as I could, but the gravity in the ship wasn't functioning, so the ship wouldn't stay on the floor, it only hovered there. The interior of the station was wrecked...what scared me was the blood that was smeared all over the walls like someone had exploded. The thought of that alone chilled me to the bone. I reached back and equipped my helmet, pressurizing the inside and climbed out.

The station was devoid of all gravity and oxygen. Somewhere the station there was a gaping hole more than likely and had allowed it to leak out into space. I tied the ship down to the floor with some rope from behind the seat as best as I could so it wouldn't float out into space and began my exploring. The station looked like it hadn't had power in years. The dried blood on the walls was pretty faded, indicating that it had been a while since it had occurred. The biggest thing that weirded me out, was there were no bodies on the station anywhere, just massive amount of pooled up dried blood here and there, blood smears over all the walls, and random human bones laying around...

I made my way to the command station, jumping off the walls and drifting through 0 gee...the gore in that room...you couldn't see out the windows from the amount of blood on them. I drifted over to the console, trying to contain my lunch in my stomach, and began attempting to repair it. It looked like something had literally chewed through the cables connecting it to the rest of the station. I re-routed the cables and the console lit up. As soon as it did, gravity was restored and I fell to the deck with a thud. I wasn't that high up, so it didn't hurt. The station groaned and rocked as my ship, which was floating before, fell to the station deck with a crash. I grew silent as I listened to the stations support beams groaning under the pressure of the ships weight. Without warning, I heard a loud noise as the ship fell through the floor and into the lower decks; I winced as I heard it crash into the decks below. Hopefully it didn't take too much damage down there...after I cleared my head, I began my work.

Ceti-15 was the system's name. Abandoned sometime just before my inception into the IMG. The date was November 18, 807 A.S. They had literally un-phase aligned in the jump-hole into the system...trapping their men and women in Ceti-15 on this station...Desolace Station. I searched deeper in the files and began seeing a pattern of incidents involving this race, "The Borei". There was little to no information them, just a listing of words that the miners had figured out. The IMG were here because of a HUGE gold field that was the size of the New York SYSTEM.

"My Lord." I said aloud as I read the file.

"The Oakland Field, as it was aptly named for the gold rush in California during the ancient era on Earth, has been identified as having 98% purity on a regular basis. The field is massive, encompassing the entire New York system if it existed there. IMG accountants indicate that the field will give us a 70% boost in profit if systems are kept secret, and as long as we release the gold into the economy quietly..."

So, the IMG wanted to keep the Ceti-15 system quiet.

"The adjoining system, Ceti-21 is off limits to all IMG personnel of all ranks and security clearances, we have lost far too many patrols to the race known as "The Borei". They tolerate us in Ceti-15, however they do not like us being in 21 for some reason, and we believe it may be their home system. No one else has been notified of their existence except in secure IMG circles, and all personnel have been advised to keep the Ceti systems secure from all traffic in outlying circles.

The post finished up with a date posted at the end. As 802 A.S. The next posts detailed reports from the IMG as the Borei got more and more violent, even escalating to the point where they began regularly buzzing Desolace Station, once even attacking it. The final date was in 808 A.S., it was a video recording, and one year after the IMG had forced the jump-hole out of phase alignment.

The man looks at the screen, his eye is covered with a bloody patch, his clothes are bloody, and his forehead has a large gash in it.

"My name is Joshua Steele. I am a miner in the IMG...it has been 9 months since the command in Tau-23 sealed the hole without telling us...the Borei have been relentless since then. They're leaving us alone now...playing with us. It's been months since we've seen or heard from them. We're almost out of food stores and will have to start trying to get back to Tau-37 if we can...the last group that tried got destroyed by the Borei patrols...their ships are too fast...alien...we don't know if we can survive much longer like this. We need--"

The station rocks violently and the man screams.

"Oh God! They're on the station!!

"Yyuman'diiiiiie'n'tssssste'guuuuuuuud"

"Oh God." the man said holding up his arm to something off the camera "Please! Have me-AARRRRGGGH!!! *Gurgle* [color=white]something grey and fast rushed off the right side of the screen and latched on to the man's neck and ripped his throat clean from his body, blood spraying the camera and window behind it. The man continued to gurgle as he drowned in his own blood as the small creature ripped him apart piece by piece and continued to eat his flesh and blood.

The creature looked up at the camera mid way through devouring the man and smiled benevolently with a bloody smile. It walked closer to the camera hunched over looking at it. It turned his head sideways to the camera and spoke the words: "Yyuman'taaaste'guuuuud"

I sat there staring at the monitor as it winked out to black. The carnage I had just seen terrified me to the bone. I looked down into the bay of the station and saw three of the little bastards staring up at me with their razor sharp teeth showing. The one at the head of the three looked different, bigger, it stood more upright. More crawled out of the hole where my ship had fallen through the hole...I realized then that the ship hadn't fallen into the lower decks, it had fallen out into SPACE. This attracted the Borei to the station and allowed them to crawl into the large gaping hole that was from my ship.

"Human will come with us." it said in plain English, not like it's fellow Borei. "You come or you will die here as you friends did. You want die like friends, human?"

I grabbed the communicator on the console and kicked the large steel door shut and allowed its large handle to swing down and lock.

"What the hell are you? You can forget about me coming with you. I'm going to kill you before that happens." I snarled.

The creature smiled widely, all its razor sharp teeth gleaning in the light of the station.

"We Borei, human...and you our food."

The other Borei scattered quickly into the darkness of the other hallways. Without warning, the power on the station shut off as did the gravity. In the darkness all I could hear was the larger of the Borei laughing in the darkness, its hissing laughter scaring me deep to the bone.

"We be coming for you...yyuman."

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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