Prologue to Hunter Becomes the Hunted

      The sky was filled with Hughes of amber, rose and lavender as the sun set beneath the mountain.  The waterfall seemed sing harmoniously with the birds.  Aundrea sat under the maple while trying to meditate, but she wasn't being very successful.  All of her senses were alive with smell of the flowers and the gentle whisper of the breeze. Usually this hologram brought her peace and tranquility, but she had this sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach that something was terribly wrong.

     



      All of a sudden her head felt like a ping pong ball being slammed between two paddles.  Her heart rate raced and pounded inside her chest and her brain felt like it was about to explode.  She closed her eye for she knew was about to a vision.  Her stomach churned with agony and she felt sick and dizzy.  She laid back against the tree waiting for the vision to take its course.





      The vision took her to a place that she had never seen before. The trees were lush and green, there was a smell of wet grass and a kind of sweetness in the air.  She felt terror as the people around her were rushing to and fro gathering their equipment.  There were jars of glowing green substance on one of the tables.  Computers blinked on and off frantically.  Then she heard a mans voice, it was familiar.



      "Its coming back, we half to leave now."  he said "Grab all that you can carry."



      "Dr. Coralous, we have to leave the ooze behind."  A lab tech. said.



      " No, this maybe the ultimate find we have on this planet.  The creature can't follow us onto the ship."



      The vision was gone and the symptoms along with it.



      The man was Aundrea's father a well known scientist and botanist.  He had dedicated his life to finding the cure for Leukemia.  he believed that a that a toxin from a plant could reverse the affects of this deadly cancer.  In order to find this plants he had to go to the outer reaches of the galaxy.  In order to do that he would have to smuggle himself and his team past the Draconian blockade, which wasn't easy.



      Aundrea awoke from her vision to find an old friend staring her blank in the face.  Jaadan was an old professor from the academy.  He watched her grow in intellect and compassion.  When he saw his former student in a catatonic state, he knew that there was danger.  He pulled her up to her feet gently, and sat her on the bench next to the tree.  Aundrea still felt the dizziness from the vision, but she able to describe her vision almost to the pro-sis detail.



      "I'm telling you I saw him.... I was him.  The team was frantic and there was this ooze... Oh my head."



      "Calm down Aundrea, we'll check that data base and see where your father is stationed.  I'm sure he's fine.  You probably just fell asleep and dreamed this."  he tried to reassure her, but Jaadan knew better.



      Aundrea went to bed with the vision playing over and over in her mind.  Her head was still banging and throbbing.  She had no choice, it was time to see the doctor.





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