John

[Two days before "The Fight"]

The bag was removed from John's face and he could clearly see the group surrounding him. "Let's just calm down guys, what's going on here?" John asked this very calmly.

"You! You killed everybody on "The Iftar"! MY BROTHER was the CAPTAIN!" The alien screamed those words with utter despair in his eyes and in his voice.

"Listen uh what's your name?" John asked, still calm.

"The alien replied in a serious tone "Aamil! My name is Aamil!"

"Okay, Aamil, we did NOT kill anybody on that ship. They were dead when we got there!"

Aamil grabbed a knife and went to stab John, screaming the words "I DON'T BELIEVE Y--"

An alien that had only been observing quickly grabbed Aamil's arm "AAMIL!!! WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT HARMING HIM!" The alien was not asking a question, but he was warning that there would be consequences.

The new alien had a humanoid form the only difference is that he had large, short, and thin metal spikes protruding from most of his joints. (Elbows, knees, etc…)

"Go outside and don't come back unless I call for you, and Aamil, don't ever defy me again." The alien's stern voice was enough to make John shake in fear, although he has been actually scared the whole time.

The alien turned its attention back to John, "I am Imam, the leader of this shuttle." Imam smirked, "And you're from the planet "Earth"? I haven't met many people from there." John still completely scared by the situation earlier dared not interrupt Imam.

"Why don't we be friends, uh whats your name?" Imam asked.

John was still confused about what was happening "Huh? Huh? Oh! My name is John. You're not going to kill me, right?" John started to calm back down.

"Well of course not John, we're friends now aren't we? Why would I go and KILL a FRIEND?!!"

"No uh of course you wouldn't, sorry Imam. Ha..ha.. what was I thinking?" John looked at Imam in the face and realized his smile had came back.

"Alright, John don't worry about it, OKAY?" John simply shook his head to say yes. "Good, then let me show you around, it'll be great!"

John realized the situation he was in and thought to himself, "Ok John, you have to be nice to this "Imam" he might kill you if you aren't." John decided to be as nice and friendly as possible Imam.

"Wow, Imam, this is cool but what's that over there with all of the fighting noises?" John was very confused that there's fighting inside of the ship.

Imam replied, "Oh, that's the colosseum, we should be getting a new competitor soon."

"Oh uh that's cool…." John looked around some more just now realizing that the ship was extremely large.

"So where are we going anyways, Imam?" Asked John.

Imam stopped walking and turned to face John "You'll see, it's a surprise!"

"Oh a surprise, I don't like those... Can you just tell me where we're going?" John realized his question might have been a mistake, but Imam just kept walking without ever replying.

John walked alongside Imam, deciding to be silent and not talk, unless Imam talked to him first.

"Here we are, she's been wanting to see you." Imam looked excited and told John to walk through the door.

"Ok... I'm going in..." Said John.

John walked into a room with a large amount of light illuminating everything around him. To his left was a window through which he could see a young woman.

She had a fair complexion, lush dark black hair, and sparkling green eyes, she appeared to be about 23-26 years old, she was very pretty.

John had recognized her instantly, "JENNY? Are you okay!?" John waited for a response but Jenny didn't even look his way. "Jenny can you hear me? What's wrong? Hey!?"

"John, the glass it's soundproof and you can only see through this side... Idiot… Oh, I'm just kidding, friend." John looked puzzled but Imam was still just smiling.

"Imam, is she okay?! You guys didn't do anything to her right!?" John was praying in his mind, and slightly outloud, that nothing had happened to her.

"Calm down John, what would we have even done? She's perfectly fine. But you should be going to bed, big day for us tomorrow!" John knew not to protest, for both his and Jenny's safety.

John was taken to his room and told to get to sleep. "Well, staying up worrying about everybody wont change anything."

Peering into the dark ceiling above him, John quickly fell asleep. He was worn and definitely needed to get some rest.

[In The Morning One Day Before The Fight]

Imam came bursting into John's room. "Get up! Rise! Awake!! Get up we have a big day today! I'll be back in five minutes, be ready." John quickly rose out of bed, putting his clothes back on. "I would hate to find out what would happen to me if I wasn't ready in time." John was more and more anxious ever since he was put into this situation. Normally, he was quite calm.

"Oh, you're ready already? Let us go eat!" Imam seemed especially excited today, although he was excited yesterday as well, "We're having one of my favorite meals." Exclaimed Imam, with much joy.

John, of course, asked what they were having. "Oh, we're eating qafe. It's a speciality from my home, prepared just for me."

The two sat down in a small room with just one table. John thought to himself, "I'll gather intel while we wait for our food." After they were served water, John decided to get to work, "So what planet are you from?"

A frown appeared on Imma. "I'm from the planet rayieat, it's flowers and natural life would be seen everywhere on the planet..." Imma trailed off "most known for it's zahri trees and kabir flowers."

John felt uneasy but decided to pry further anyways. "So are you ever going to go back and visit?"

Imma's frown increased "I cannot, my enemies, the virodhee, destroyed my planet. Then as we were fleeing we found you, on one of our ships. The ship was destroyed."

John felt even more uneasy and decided to wait for his food silently. "You... You didn't have anything to do with that, right, John?..." John's expression turned from worry to shock. "No, no, no, I didn't have anything to do with that at all I swear."

Imam looked away from John and uttered only one word. "Okay..."