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up from her slumber a few
minutes after Kaj did.  She slowly moved closer to Kaj,
without him noticing.  "You ok Kaj?" she asked.  Kaj was
reading some strange book that he secretly snagged from his uncle's
shelf before he left.  He quickly put it in his
sac.
     
    He looked up at her and noticed
she was closer than before.  "Yeah," he responded.  "I've
just been thinking.  Like ... what's going to happen after we
get on the ship and leave?  Where are we going to go?
 It's just so much to take in.  We are leaving our home
and venturing off to another world, completely strange to us.
 Don't you think that's scary?"
     
    Maj interrupted Kaj by kissing him
on the mouth.  She put her hand on top of his hand that was
resting on the bench.  "I like you Kaj," Maj whispered to him,
trying not to disturb the others.
     
    Kaj looked at her in shock.
 He quickly took in what had just happened.  He leaned
forward and hugged her.
     
    As the two were hugging, something
went wrong.  A long screeching sound could be heard from
outside the shuttle.  The two, still hugging, looked out the
window only to see the sand still in the air.  A loud bang
came from the top of the shuttle.  Then, the cone of the
shuttle containing the pilot’s room quickly detached from the rest
of the shuttle.  The part of the shuttle the Daj were in
quickly stopped moving.  It started to flip up.  The
force of the shuttle being tossed about sent Kaj out the window and
on to the sandy floor.  He tumbled around on the ground, but
quickly looked back up to see where the shuttle went.  The end
part of the shuttle flipped up and landed onto the cone of the
shuttle.  Kaj watching as fire and parts of the shuttle flew
off.  He covered his ears as the sound of the explosion was
excruciatingly loud.
     
    "Nooooo!” Kaj yelled as he started
running away from the explosion site.  The wind picked up even
more.  Parts of the shuttle fell all around him.  As he
was running, he somehow tripped.  Laying there on the floor,
one of the wings to the shuttle landed right in front of
him.
     
    The loud screeching was heard
again.  Kaj looked up.  He couldn't believe what he saw.
 Two large creatures were moving through the sand.  Kaj
couldn't make out much.  He did however notice six white,
glowing eyes on each creature.  They must've stood at least
sixty feet tall.  Kaj watched in shock and amazement as the
creatures walked around the wrecked ship.
     
    "It can't be," he whispered to
himself.
     
    The creatures started searching
through the wreckage.  Parts once again flew through the air.
 Kaj crawled towards the end of the wing.  He peered
around.  A thick, long tail was visible.  He quickly
looked away.
     
    "What … ugh .... am I going ...
ugh ... to do?" Kaj said as he struggled to catch his breath.
 He then peered around the corner again.  The creatures
were gone.  Kaj then scurried across the disaster zone, in the
opposite direction the creatures were going, and over to what was
left of the shuttle.
     
    Flames snapped out around the
shuttle.  Kaj tried to look in to see if anyone was in there,
but he couldn't tell.  It was to badly wrecked.  The warm
flames were starting to irritate Kaj's skin.
  Nobody could have survived
this , Kaj thought.
     
    The loud screeching filled his
ears again.  He looked around, trying to spot the terrifying
creatures.  Kaj had no better idea than to flee the wreckage
scene.  Darting across the disaster zone, sand beating at his
face, he went out into the vast wasteland.

CHAPTER FIVE
     
    THE GUARDIAN
     
     
    It seemed as though hours passed
by since Kaj left the wreckage scene.  Every so often he'd
look back to check to see if anyone from the scene was alive and
following him.  But to his disappointment, there wasn't.
 He was all alone.
     
    In the distance, Kaj could hear a
faint buzzing sound that began to grow louder.  He looked
around to only see the sand flying around.  "What is