@internutter/challenge-02840-g283-for-great-fit please show us what happens to the next set of Vorax raiders. -- Anon Guest
Three months into training, Kin's students encountered their first challenge. Human Kin had just worked a double and was therefore sound asleep when the raiders came. From all available accounts, the raiding party had been stealthily stalking their vessel, waiting for such a time of comparable weakness.
The first thing that Companion Thresk knew about it was the alert to head immediately for the lifepods and secure all valuable information. Some crewmembers were already scrambling to all-stations. But not, he noted, members of Kin's Dojo. All those capable of throwing Human Kin into a wall stayed to guard the others as they fled. If they could also protect their sensei, that was a bonus.
As one cogniscent, they readied their defensive stance and screwed their courage to their sticking-places. They were quite a sight. Seven relatively small saurian Havenworlders, blocking the hall in a V formation. The Vorax raid chief was quite amused, and gestured a Junior forward to deal with them by hand.
A little-known fact about Deathworlders is - often their biology is a concatenation of unlikely mutations that ganged up long enough to survive and just ran from there. Sometimes the least little thing can make the whole thing fall over like a house of cards. Companion Thresk got in three lucky shots at the flexible joints that floored the junior and then caused fatal internal injuries.
He then stood on the corpse-in-progress for the height advantage against the chief.
Three of the raid party went against the lower-ranked students, but they had seen the weak points that Thresk had found. They knew where to aim. They knew how to use an enemy's force against them.
It was a rout. Three of the Vorax were lucky to escape, and they took the word of that sudden turn of events with them. All the way home.
Years later, when peace was finally forged against the U'att and their culturally significant Vorax caste, they would find out that horror stories had gone around regarding the capabilities of Humans and those they shared ships with.
One of the best hits was, There's no such thing as 'helpless' when Humans are involved.
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