[ WP ] An alien race encounters the most terrifying predator imaginable . A lone , unarmed human .

They spotted the human from afar, chains and shackles holding it to the wall, a great prideful beast brought low. Hurit held her daughter-son close as the drew close to the maimed monster. It was hairless and its skin soft. I was hard for Hurit to believe this thing was considered the most dangerous animal in the galaxy. She knew the histories, the names of the great conquers, and she read the stories of their great reach starward. It was said, rest their in it's animistic genes laid the key to everything. She often heard the rumbling from the capital planet, the various political policies and arguments to use the humans in one fashion or another, like slaves some said, other asking if a beast of burden could be consider such. S-he stayed away from the realpolitik so she could truly enjoy the wonders of life. Like now, and here in this zoo. 
 
 `` Do n't you feel sorry for it Mother?'' her sweet, sweet daughter-son asked. 
 
 `` No, and one day you'll grow out of it.'' Hurit told him. `` It would n't want my pitty, it was once a conquer of worlds do n't you know? A breaker of men, a hunter for death.'' 
 
 `` But it so small and stupid looking.'' she said. The things head shot up, it's front facing eyes burned intently into her side-ways facing ones and for a instance she felt her dormant biological triggers fire. She sweated, grew nervous and gitty, it **watched** with such hunger. But before she embarrassed herself it receded and she smoothed her pant-suit out. A nearby guard stood by a plate of old rotten meat. A disgusting thing, once she was n't accustomed to. She approached the guard. 
 
 `` Is this for feeding?'' she asked. 
 
 `` Yes ma'am'' 
 
 `` You'd you like to feed it dear?'' Hurit asked her daughter-son. 
 
 `` What is this Mother?'' she/he asked. `` I do n't like the smell.'' 
 
 `` It's meat, but I'll explain later now grab it and throw it over the top.'' She did it. `` Yes, excellent job.'' 
 
 As the human ate, forcing down food, it never took it's eyes off of Huirt and her daughter-son. `` Does it speak? I understand sometimes they ca n't speak if they are not taught at a young age.'' 
 
 `` It can ma'am.'' 
 
 `` Can you ask it to stop staring at me?'' 
 
 I sudden, thunderous thump vibrated through the air. Shocked, she look to the human who was now leaning it's fact on the glass between them. 
 
 `` Do you feel it Mavoonian?'' it said to her in perfect Mavoonian. `` The pressure on in your ears? That was a ship jumping into the solar system. Who knows it might be those from Earth finally getting our distress signal. You know of Earth yes? Our homeland. I've heard chattered among you aliens, that what you do to us is immoral. I laugh in response. We have done the same to each other, he have killed our own gods, and we have thrown miniature suns across oceans to destroy our enemies, we broke people as slaves, and committed genocide for no other reason than once upon a time someone believe the vulgar sin that we were all equals.'' 
 
 Hurit stumbled back grabbing her daughter-son. 
 
 `` You never use to do that, while we fought those things for the void on behalf of strangers in a stranger land. But now you all do. Listen I do not hate but you better hope that was n't a human ship. We, and I mean every human you've ever encountered, were a scouting vessel for a exploration mission. Understand that. We comprised only a fraction of a percentile of the military might of humanity.'' 
 
 The guard pressed a button and the human slumped in his chains, dead. `` Sorry about that ma'am,'' he said. `` there's nothing to worry about they have been saying the same thing --'' 
 
 Before we could finished his sentence before many more slaps of tremendous sounds gripped the air, and Herit looked up into the sky and saw the ships descending. Designed like the other humans but largers and more cannons. She grabbed her daughter-son and knelt hoping they would be spared. They were not, the liquid fire tore through the same as it did the guard.
