Well, thanks a bunch defalcon.
"I hate temporal science!" Juiso smacked a nearby pillar with his fist.
"Okay, so, in the future, the Demon goes into the past, to destroy the people here, because it'll affect something in the future?" Tymen posed, sitting on a cracked, dusty bench as Insect looked on, perched from a pillar and Seraph paced.
"So, we go back after him, but it's to late, so we travel back to before he went back, and I go back while this...Ontranaught...whatever it is, coalition with my clan, led by this Aldan person and yourself, prepares a war army to head off the Demon in the past." Seraph said.
"You take the Y shaped ship back to the past, roughly 2000 years ago. You begin rescuing the Goldvyours, which I assume those largish corpses we saw were the remnants of." Tymen figured.
"But the Demon arrives, and then this clan, there is a battle.
But what happenes next? Do we die?"
"In the future, you are not meant to know. The fates gave you this message only so you would know you'd travel into the past, not why or when, or what happenes afterward." Insect hissed phsycicly, fluttering down from his perch on his elongate, insectoid wings.
"So what do we do, now?" Juiso asked.
"We...we find a way off this planet, and we look for whatever else fits inside the map." Tymen commented.
"This was not part of the plan. That'll take too much time! The others may be dead on the Demon's ship by the time were done."
"They may be dead already." Insect said, not knowing the whole of what they were talking about, but piecing together enough to make that statement.
"He's right, we have to continue with the plan, there's no other option. Besides, the Demon would just be killing the only bartering chips he had." They got up, and prepared to leave the temple, but as they did they heard the KKBBIIIMM of a explosion of the ancient brick. The structure began to collapse.
"What the--" A ZZZZHHH sound could be heard, followed by the same KKBBIIIMM.
"Missles! Someone is firing at the temple!" Seraph spat out, before another tremor racked the sacred pyramid.
"It must be the Demon, or Asari! We need to get out of here!" Tymen shouted, and they bolted down the corridor whence they came, though the escape was slightly less trying, because they knew the path, but somewhat more because things were collapsing and shifting as the temple breathed is last breaths under the assault of a ship far younger than it. After ten minutes(a much shorter amount of time than it took to find they're way in) a large percentage of the temple had collapsed, but the heros found they're way to the mouth of the holy ground, just intime to see a manta ray shaped vessel fire a parting shot then leave the atmosphere.
"That's Asari's ship! But...how does she know we are here?" Seraph questioned rhetorically. Now that the sound of the chaos had passed, a deep, undertone shone through. It was a deep buzzing that permeated everything.
"What is that sound?" Juiso demanded. A moment later, Insect fell to his knees, cringing in pain.
"Insect, are you alright?" Seraph immediatley bent over and helped the fallen creature up, a trifle of a task, considering his weight and height.
"I...am alright." Breifly, the being brushed his large, insectoid fingers aginst hers, and a tremor of telepathic emotion passed from in into her. A breif taste of whatever was inside him that caused such pain. She nerely collapsed herself, the only reason she didn't was because, one, she wasn't Insect himself, and two, her brain(and all rabbit brains) were on a, dare I say, lesser order the Insects powerful, intrincate mind, so the blast was dulled upon her. But she still felt it. It was a deep, animalistic insane intense desire, the base urge to reproduce. Coupled with it was, for somereason, a hatered of that urge, comming from a higher command inside Insects thoughts, a true war in the soul. And it was inspired by the noise.
With that touch, that kiss from something greater, better than herself, Seraph's eyes were opened. She looked at Insect, yellow light shining from the slits of his eyes.
"It still burns." Insect hissed. And Seraph had newfound respect, an awe of a being which was fighting aginst hope, to evolve into something it was not, controlling that instictual rage.
But why.
There was much she didn't understand. But answers were soon in comming. In the crimson sky, a horde of insects, each eminating the same sound, flew in. There must have been tens of thousands, millions. They fell upon one another, as if attacking.
Soon, gore began to rain upon them. Insectoid wings and legs and hands and arms, and heads, still speaking as they died. Telepathic waves poured from the cloud of death, corroding and infecting the rabbits minds.
"Insect, what is happening?" Tymen insisted. Insect returned, his voice was burdened and snakelike.
"My people, live for a day, eat one meal, travel, then reproduce. We mate, and then tear the other's bodies apart. The gore will fall, releasing the eggs, which will use there parent's corpses as material for they're growth and birth a week later. We remember all the experiances of our parents, and our parents parents, all the way back to the first of us that was that way. It is a endless cycle. Only meet someone, not of the world, gave me the opprotunity to examine it," He weezed heavily,"this is not right. We are animals, but we have the power to be sentient, to live for decades. I wish I was one of you, to live for so long, to experiance so much, for real, not in handed down thoughts. I cannot have that, but--"About that time, his left arm just, disconnected from the rest of his body, and fell to the ground," A failsafe, so that even if we fail to engage in the mating, we will die.Listen, I will die shortly, but, I will clone myself, which I can do through another fail-safe. At some point, the clone will hatch. If you teach it things, keep it away from the noise, it's lifespan may increase, a little. It will clone itself, and so on." With his remaining hand, he desparatley clasped Seraph,"Please! Our people cannot continue like this! We once were great! We once traveled the stars, I can barely remember that in the most ancient of memories given to me. But evolution to a wrong course, and our lives eventually ended up to this. Most efficient, yes, but sentient, not at all. We must return to glory!" His chest opened up, clear fluid, presumably blood, spilled out, and with his remaining hand he ripped out a egg like thing. Not like the one he came from, he wasn't cloned from his parents.
"You must, please...or we are doomed to live as animals, our glory passed on." He handed the egg to Seraph. It was smooth, and sticky, unlike the large, rough egg Insect came from. His very life essence was leaving him now, and the chaos of the mating ritual was dying down, the land bathed in more corpses.
"Go north of here, fifty miles!" His voice was barely above a telepathic whisper.
"You will find the Y shape ship of which was spoke. My great great father saw it........remember, only drink from dew collected in the large leaves.............. Only eat the yellow fruit.................... Beware the Grnnzkaa, they will kill you................goodbye." His last word spoken, his body fell to pieces, a fail-safe of the evolution he hated so much.