=VP= Legends of Zarn Series

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FireStar* Imprint 2026 Presents...

"FireStar* Imprint: Legends of Zarn Series"
Written By: Dalton Smothers II
Content Rating: Ages 16+
Editorial Note: This Takes Place In The Anizaw Multiverse (AUM-C225)
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Story Introduction:

Legends tell the tale of world anthro bats, but the size of actual bats in the world of ruined buildings left behind by a species called "beings of old". This has caused many bat species to mutate their abilities, such as talking and similar traits, in the world left behind by the beings of old. Five massive bat colonies that cross the massive continent, once called by the beings of old "Sandstone", are divided into five "Kingdoms

The Kingdom of Albino Bats Of Vanguard

The Kingdom of Brown Bats of Falkrith

The Kingdom of Blue-Furred Bats of Jakka Thy

The Kingdom of Horned Bats of Nethrina

The Kingdom of Golden Furred Bats of Bayheart

In this legend, a golden-furred bat named Zarn fell in love with a Horned bat of Nethrina. According to legend, he uncovered secrets related to his parents' demise and possibly united the species, making the world a better place for all who live in it.

 

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Chapter 1
"Beginnings"

*We cut to Zarn flying through the skies in Bayheart*
Zarn: Ah, the fresh air
*another bat comes flying up to him*
Adam: Hey, Zarn, let's explore the Nethrina territory. I heard it has tasty bugs and fruits!
Zarn: Oh, for sure, Adam, let's teach those wanna be elders to tell us not what to do!
Adam: Ah, right there, besty!
Zarn: So I heard horned bat land is literally with a lot of metal buildings from beings of old
Adam: Yeah, they are very tall ones at that.
Zarn: What do we do if horned bats catch us?
Adam: We fly away, of course, we're much faster than they are.
Zarn: i see
*we cut them in Nethrina South District*
Zarn: Look, Adam, Fara Fruit's entire tree!
Adam: ooo they're one of those trees in our lands
*they begins eat the fruit*
Zessy: Hello there!
Zarn: Ah, horned...*he locks eyes with her and falls in love*
*She does the same*
Zessy: Hey, they're handsome!
Zarn: Hey, they're pretty!
Adam: You're serious, besty her? She's a horned bat!
Zarn: Oh, Adam, you can't pick them that you feel a connection with
Zessy: What's your name, handsome?
Zarn: Zarn, you pretty?
Zessy: Zessy
Zessy: Who's this with you?
Zarn: This is Adam, my best friend since i was very little
Adam: i suppose there isn't anything wrong with a horned bat clicking with golden fur bat
Adam: It hasn't been done before!
Zarn: Yeah, first time for everything, my friend!
*they high wing*
Zessy: Doing anything else today, Zarn?
Zarn: Besides eating fruit, nothing.
Zessy: Then come fly with me, see more of the Nethrina lands!
Zarn: Alright with me, Adam?
Adam: Right with you, besty!
*they fly off and observe metal-ruined buildings with horned bats flying in and out*
Zessy: i love it here, but i like you more, Zarn
Zarn: Me too!
Adam: quiet before the elder of this land notices us here!
Zessy: You have to meet my parents, Maya and jackle!
Zarn: You sure that's wise?
Zessy: my parents...are hispters...they go with the flow of nature, whatever that means...
*they abandoned the ruined modern mansion*
Zessy: No need to worry, here all the bats that roost here are like my parents
Zessy: Come this way
*they fly through abandoned hallways and to the master bedroom where an entire small colony is*
Zarn: Whoa!
*he sees the entire room filled with triects and objects painted with weird patterns by them*
Maya: A golden fur bat in these lands? i thought I would never see the day
Jackle: Quite rad, golden fur bat!
Maya: My child, why have you brought this bat with you!
Zessy: MOM, I CLICKED WITH HIM!
Maya: You did my child?
Zessy: Yes, I did!
Maya: Then you have my blessings
Jackle: Quite rad mines too, my child!
Maya: What's your name?
Zarn: Zarn misses
Maya: No, miss with me, my future son-in-law
Zarn: Alright, Maya.
Maya: Where are your parents, Zarn
Zarn: They died by wolf attack when i was very little with Adam, my besty, since then.
Maya: Of course, these wolves have been a problem for us for generations
Maya: i can tell you two that I feel have an unbreakable bond
Adam: True that, buddy!
Zarn: Yeah, that buddy!
*they high wing*
Maya: You can stay here as long as you want.
Zarn: Very well, what food source is nearby?
Maya: Fay-Alums Ticks infected tower 20 feet from here
Jackle: Don't forget Berries-Thy Bushes nearby as well
Maya: Zarn...?
Zarn: Yes, Maya?
Maya: i check your sound memories. Are you aware you have a twin sister?
Zarn: Oh my god!
*Chapter 1 Ends*

 

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Chapter 2
"Recuse"

Zarn: No, I did not
*he focuses and checks his sound memories*
Zarn: By God, it's true, and i never knew!
Zarn: i sense she is in danger!
Adam: What now, Zarn?
Zarn: Back home to Bayheart Wilds!
*they fly off*
*Zessy comes with them*
Zessy: I'm coming with you, too!
Zarn: Alright, if my sound map tells my twin sister is being held hostage by wolves!
Zessy: Why?
Zarn: It has to do with my parents...
Zessy: very well
Adam: Let's go!
*they fly over great distances*
*They find their way to a massive steel abandoned factory site*
Zarn: Whoa, there are a lot of wolves!
Zessy: Makes sense, the buildings make great cover for the wolves from the weather
Zarn: Luckily, the wolves hunt other animals than us
Zessy: Thanks to the creator for that
Adam: Where is she?
Zarn: Her sound resistance from that big building there
Adam: So, how do you suggest we save her?
Zarn: Well, I'm sure we have to stealthily do it without getting caught
Adam: Very well
*they climb round into the broken window*
*he sees her in a cage with two wolves supposed to be guarding her*
*quietly* Zarn: wait, she albino-bat?
*quietly* Zessy: Oh my, she is what? Does that mean?
*quietly* Zarn: i suppose we're going to find answers, luckily i know how to pick the beings of the old locks
*they fly to the cage*
Fray: *quietly* Brother, you're alive?
Zarn: *quietly* Yes, I have come to free you
Fray: *quietly* finally quickly before the wolves awake!
Zarn: on it
*picks the lock with his bat wing claw*
Zarn: almost there and...
*unlocks*
*she climbs out*
*they climb up the walls and to the broken window*
*they fly off*
Wolf Soldier: *yawn* huh? The prisoner has escaped!
*he howls*
The Alpha: Quiet, you two. That was the plan for her to get freed somehow
Wolf Soldier: How so alpha?
The Alpha: All in due time, soldier, we will finish what was started....
*they gather back at the abandoned ruin mansion in Nethrina*
Fray: So, Zarn, I'm Fray
Zarn: So if you're my sister, why are you albino-bat?
Fray: You don't know, do you?
Zarn: No?
Fray: You're a halfling, our mother was an albino bat, and our father was a golden-furred bat
Zarn: Alright then
Fray: Who's with you?
Zarn: This is the one i clicked with, and this is my besty, Adam.
Fray: brother....i don't know how to tell you, Adam is your brother. We were born triplets.
Zarn: Oh my god, that makes sense!
Adam: Oh, sweet my own besty is actually my brother!
Zarn: totally awesome!
*they high wing*
Fray: Brother, I have to tell you our own parents' death is suspicious
Fray: It has to do with us being halflings. We talk to the elders
Zarn: Very well, sister, we'll talk to the elders!
*Chapter 2 Ends*

 

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Chapter 3
"The Elders & Secrets"

Zessy: So I forgot where the elders are?
Fray: at the center of all 5 kingdoms, the abandoned beings of the old capital building
Zarn: yeah...
Adam: Brother, are you sure we were not walking into a trap because freeing Fray seemed too easy
Zarn: That's why we're making a pit stop in Blue Furred Bats' territory, lead labs
Adam: Oh, right...
[We cut them at the labs]
Fang: Ah, i was expecting you three
Zarn: How so?
Fang: Because of your sister
Zarn: What do you mean?
Fang: The Alpha of the wolf has a secret beneath her skin look
*She sees an X-ray of a very small pill under her backside*
Fang: The wolves must have implanted that when she was very young
Fang: thankfully, it can easily be removed
Adam: What is it, Fang?
Fang: My young one, it's a tracker that beings of old used to track specific animal whereabouts and patterns
*he quickly removes it*
Fang: their
*then smashes it with his claws*
Fray: Wait, that means if they had a tracker on me this entire time?
Fang: No need to worry, young one. Those chips, unaware of the wolves, are faulty. They tend to fail because beings of old used to replace them every 5 years because the moisture of the body wore them down
Fang: These chips were made a very long time ago
[We cut back to The Alpha]
The Alpha: DARN IT! The tracker and its information are gone!
The Alpha: Soldiers find and kill these triplets
Soldier Wolfs: Yes, Sir
[We cut back to flying to the elders]
Zessy: So...zarn what do you think the elder will have to say about you and your siblings
Zarn: i don't know, I suppose it has to do with us all being halflings
Fray: It must have...i bet the alpha is already sending out his soldiers to hunt us down
Adam: probably
[They come upon the ruined capital building]
*they fly in through the roof*
Azail: We were expecting you, Zarn
Zqaz: Yes, we were
Qxar: very much so
Nzail: indeed
Vzail: indeed
Zarn: You all were?
Azail: Yes, were I supposed to want answers, and we know what all three of you are
Nzail: You are all halflings.
Zarn: Okay, what did the wolf imprison my sister and kill my parents
Azail: the alpha not current one his father feared what bat kind could become if all 5 bat species knew they can cross breed with one and another and the old alpha feared by scroll left behind by beings of old if all 5 bat species united it could tip balance of nature and make us united and stronger than ever its what the old alpha feared and when word began to spread about albino-bat and golden fur bat had off-spring he tried kill all of you but your parents saved you three at the cost of their lives not before capturing fray alive using her as bait.
Nzail: Yes, if you show all 5 bat species what is possible with you three, you can finish what was started all those years ago and unite the bat species to be stronger together
Azail: Zarn, you have chosen well with the one you clicked with
Zarn: How did you know?
Azail: Because of your sound connection to her
Zessy: Isn't he so handsome!
Zarn: You're so pretty!
Fray: Let's go!
*they fly off*
Azail: What is done can't be undone for a better future
*Chapter 3 Ends*

 

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Chapter 4
"All Bats United"

Narrator: All the elders call all the bat species to the abandoned, ruined sports arena
Narrator: The elders reveal to all the bat species the triplets and see that one of the siblings is an albino bat, and all five kingdoms' citizens are shocked and amazed
Zarn: My fellow bat species, this is what is possible. My parents were my father, Golden Furred-Bat, and my mother was an albino bat. We should no longer have the five kingdoms but be united as one stronger against the wolf's attacks as ONE GIANT BAT CLAN!
*They all screech together in harmony, and then all their kind fly together and mix*
Azail: Today, we are the United Bat-Clans!
*they all happy bat screech together*
2 Years Later...
*baby bat screech sounds*
Zessy: It's a girl and a boy, Zarn
Zarn: So, for our son, I'll name him Warren
Zessy: I'll name our daughter Jannet
Adam: Ah, this is our niece and nephew
Fray: They're so cute
Zessy: They're both golden fur bats, though, which doesn't matter to me
Maya: Ah, these are our grandchildren
Jackle: Yep, it is dear
Zarn: Thanks for letting us stay here to raise our children
Maya: No problem, it's the least we can do for uniting for the bat species
Azail: Ah, these are offspring of Zarn and Zessy.
Maya: My elder!
*She bows*
Azail: No need to bow
Azail: Now, Zarn, Adam, and Fray, since the union of the bats, the alpha of the wolves has gathered its soldiers to outright attack all of bat kind
Zarn: What am I supposed to do about that?
Azail: All bat kind must abandon this land mass, go to a haven free of wolves across the big ocean gap, once called by beings of old, Safria Continent, a lush jungle continent overrun by plants, no buildings, since plant life destroyed them
Zarn: very well
Azail: We don't have much time before they attack.
Zarn: How long?
Azail: five weeks
Zarn: i see
Maya: My elder, are you serious? We all have abandoned this continent we called home for generations?
Azail: I'm afraid so, Maya. The wolves have many more numbers than us. We wouldn't stand a chance against them.
Maya: We must stand and fight, elder!
Azail: With the numbers they have and size, we can't fight them. The beings of old may be able to control the wolves' population, but with them gone, it's unchecked. We have to flee and live to see another day.
Maya: Very well, elder
Azail: We all leave tomorrow, we can't wait until the last minute with so many of us
Zarn: Alright, my elder
*Chapter 4 Ends*

 

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Chapter 5
"Long Live The King..."

*They gather once again at the abandoned sports arena*
Azail: My fellow bat kind, we must flee this continent to the safe continent across the big ocean gap
Azail: In five weeks, the wolves are planning an all-out attack hunting compiage against us all. We all have to leave together today and leave to see another day
Nzail: Yes, we have to, my fellow bats
Citizens: We have to stand our ground and fight!
Azail: We hear this, my fellow bats, with their numbers unchecked, we wouldn't stand a chance
Citizens: We are smart, we can create weapons like the beings of old!
Azail: My fellow bats, have you learned nothing from history? Those very weapons destroyed themselves!
Citizens: But we can't just abandon the place we called home for generations!
Vzail: i have to agree with Bat kind. Sometimes we must repeat history if we are to have a better future.
Qxar: indeed
Zqaz: i agree with Vzail
Vzail: What if they follow us to the Safria continent? Do we just continue to flee until there's nowhere to hide?
Vzail: Our kind isn't safe until wolves are dealt with!
Azail: What madness has rotted all your brains!??! You suggest we spill wolf blood until it's solved, fight violence with more violence and bloodshed?
Azail: There will be no peace ever if we are just killing wolves outright!
Vzail: Then, Azail, you suggest we shouldn't defend ourselves and stand our ground and let the wolves know we still fear them since we all fled?
Azail: Vzail, the beings of old destroyed themselves when they fought violence with violence. We can't repeat that and risk destroying ourselves.
Vzail: What if history was wrong that beings of old went the wrong way about it?
Azail: Perhaps it was, but it wouldn't solve anything with wolves. The wolf colonies are shattered all over this continent. If the alpha is slain or any of his or her soldiers are dead, the wolves will be leaderless and do whatever they want, hunt and kill whenever, without any oversight!
Vzail: How are you sure wolves aren't on this new home as well...
Azail: Because of the records the beings of old left behind, they didn't breed them there!
Vzail: Those are old records! They could be out of date, some wolves could have crossed the sea during frost time!
[We cut to the steel factory site]
Yagga: Alpha, I come to challenge you to stop this madness. No wolf wants open war with the bat kind
The Alpha: Haha, many of the youngest have been slain by me for trying what makes you any different?
Yagga: You will see alpha! It's time for this madness and conflict to end!
The Alpha: Very well, youngster, prepare to die!
*They battle each other by biting and clawing at each other.*
*yagga super paws the alpha to the wall*
The Alpha: What kind of freak are you?
Yagga: I AM YAGGA!
*stabs the alpha with bent metal with his mouth*
*the alpha dies*
*All wolf kind bows to him*
Yagga: Alert the elders of the bat clan. They're no longer a threat, and this conflict is over
Advistor Yarm: Very well, Alpha
*A letter is dropped off at the elders at the arena by a hawk*
Azail: We STAY the conflict with the wolves has ended by disposing of the elder of the wolves!
*they all happy screech together*
*Chapter 5 Ends*

 

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Chapter 6
"Years Later..."

Narrator: Soon enough, over the years, the various bat species started having children with one another and started to spread to the safari continent. They found valuable azalea fruit trees, red rose flowers, large moth colonies, and various other insects.
Narrator: Over time, Safria was established as part of the United Bat-Clans new houses made from their knowledge of beings of old
Narrator: soon enough the new alpha Yagga worked on correct injustices to the bats and offered protection for their off springs and during mating seasons and the wolves starts sharing resources with the bats and their union stronger with they found out was benfitical to them as they bats help them find resources for them to hunt in safria continent they find very big elk conoly that spreads across the very large continent
Narrator: The wolves find a lost colony that came there three generations ago during frost time because they didn't agree with the alpha leadership, and they meet the new alpha. Yagga offers to rejoin the clan of the wolves, and they agree.
Zarn: Happy 18th birthday, Warren, Jannet!
Zessy: Happy birthday, my little ones!
Adam: So, brother, we ran a DNA test with The Labs
Zarn: yeah...
Adam: I'm 100% your brother, man!
Zarn: sweet
*high wing*
Adam: i don't know why i had doubts, but in the end, it doesn't change anything for us
Zarn: for certain Adam
Zessy: So, what are your thoughts on more offspring at least one more time?
Zarn: i think personally two is enough, Zessy
Zessy: i can agree with that, Zarn. I was just asking
Maya: Zessy?
Zessy: Yes, Mother?
Maya: I'm pregnant!
Zessy: Oh my god, I'm going to have a sibling?
Jackle: Yep, my little one
Zessy: THAT'S QUITE GOOD NEWS!
Maya: I'm glad you're taking it well since you have been the only child for so long
Zessy: Mom, Dad, Dad, I always wanted a sibling!
Jackle: That's quite rad, I guess. I didn't think of that until a month ago.
Maya: Well, in 3 months, they will be born
Jackle: We think it's going to be a son
Maya: My sense and vibes to the energy flow of nature tell me so
Jackle: Quite rad, my love. Nature tells us all
Zessy: Sweet, I'm going to have a little brother!
Maya: We're thinking the name Hercane is named after my grandfather
Jackle: rad choice, my love!
Zessy: Nice!
*they all "hug"*
[Scene turns black and white]
*Chapter 6 Ends*

 

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Chapter 7
"The Future Begins"

Adam: brother!
Zarn: Yes, Adam?
Adam: I CLICKED WITH A BROWN-BAT!
Adam: She is the prettiest bat i have ever seen!
Zarn: What's her name?
Adam: Her name is Tora!
Fray: Congrats, brother!
Adam: Yeah, she's coming over later today!
[later...]
Tora: Ah, this is the triplets and the hero Zarn.
Adam: This is my brother Zarn and my sister Fray!
Adam: These other two are my niece and nephew, Zarn and Zessy's children!
Tora: neat!
Tora: i just clicked with him the moment we met hunting moths!
Adam: Yeah, I thought it was never possible for me, but it happened
Maya: You can stay here in the mansion colony with us, all connected to nature's energy!
Adam: *he whispers to Tora* Zessy's parents are hispters bats
Tora: i see...
Tora: Wait, are you pregnant, Miss? i can sense that
Maya: Indeed, I am only 1 month so far!
Tora: figured the gender yet?
Jackle: We were told by Nature's Energy that it's going to be a son!
Tora: So, you're really connected to nature, how?
Maya: meditation and letting go of what you believe about nature, and connecting with true nature.
Jackle: Yeah, having a light mood and flow with nature's true energy
Tora: So it's what my people used to call enlightened bats
Jackle: rad name, my lady Tora
Maya: Indeed
Tora: Well, cool then!
Sometime Later...
Tora: So that's how I met your father, Tammy
Adam: Yep, that's how it happened
Tammy: Very nice, Mom and Dad!
Later That Day...
Zarn: So I had long thought about it, Zessy. I think having one more offspring would be good.
Zessy: Alright, Zarn
*Chapter 7 Ends*

 

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Chapter 8
"The Visitor From Outside"

Zessy: Happy 18th birthday, Andrew
Zarn: Yeah, happy birthday, son
Zessy: *sigh* The nest is so empty with most of your family and our children going out on their own
Zarn: It was bound to happen, Zessy, especially after i became an elder
Zessy: But you're not even that old, though!
Zarn: true enough, Zessy
Hercane: Good morning, big sister.
Zessy: Good morning, little brother
*but all the bat species start to hear a very loud pulse energy engine sounds from the sky*
Zessy: What in the world is that sound?
Zarn: i don't know
*they fly outside the abandoned mansion*
*to see a giant spaceship beginning to land at the center of the abandoned airport three miles away*
Zarn: What on Torrka is that?
Zessy: Don't know, I've never seen it before!
*it lands and makes a loud hissing sound*
*LOUD HORN SOUND*
*more steam getting released*
*Zarn and Zessy fly quickly to the top of the ruined airport tower*
Zarn: i don't recognize this tech doesn't look like beings of old were capable of.
*they see the gate comes down*
*with two biapetals in suits come from the ship with devices*
Author Note: This is just for the benefit of readers, not for the bats
???: Is it habitable?
???: 100% No radiation detected
???: It seems the legend was true that this planet's species destroyed itself
???: indeed, let's look around, make sure their plant life
???: Very well, we should do so before we let everyone out.
*they begin scanning with their tools*
???: look at trees and plant life, and overgrown plant life
???: indeed it is
*they get on a hover bike, look around to see what they have to work with*]
*all the bats hide in fear*
???: Do you detect any life on this planet?
???: According to our tech scanners from our command ship, there are five bat species and a large wolf population, a large population of elk, and a lot of insects everywhere.
???: There's certainly a lot of left behind infrastructure we can work with
???: Hey, look at the steel factory site, that's good!
???: According to our scanner, it's overrun by wolves.
???: Don't worry, we will relocate them elsewhere once everyone is settled here
???: Alright, let's head back to the ship and begin project colonize here
*they turn their hover bikes around and go back to the ship*
Zarn: i can't even understand them!
Zessy: i know i can't either! They seem to have quite advanced tech
???: Soldier, did you hear someone speak in Galactic Basic?
???: I did officer
???: Impossible, there should be no one here besides us
???: let me broadcast in Galactic Basic to talk to whoever is out there, just in case
*press a button on his guanlet*
???: Hello to anyone out there, I am Commander Keith Storm of the Crirk Union. We come in peace.
*They see two very small bats approach them, which are Zarn and Zessy*
Keith: Wait, very small bats speak in galactic basic?
Zarn: Yes, I guess we do. We can talk due to the mutation caused by the beings of old destruction.
Zarn: We have many traits like the beings of old
Keith: i suppose that makes sense, we have seen weirder when we colonize
Keith: So..name?
Zarn: My name is Zarn, and this is my mate Zessy
Keith: Hmm, interesting
*they scan them*
Keith: Whoa, they're not kidding, they're like humans, anthros, but very tiny
Zarn: So, what i may ask is why you have come here to this planet we call home?
Keith: To colonize this planet, it's rich in elven and dwarven metals we need for the union
Zarn: Will you harm any of my kind or displace us?
Keith: Of course not, we wouldn't do that to another sapient species even if it's tiny...that steel factory site makes ten clicks from here is going to need to be dealt with though.
Zarn: What are you planning to kill our friends?
Keith: No, we're going to relocate them elsewhere. We need that factory site
Author Icetex: Just so you know, unlike the bats, the wolves can't speak to other species besides the bats
Keith: Although their population numbers might need to be fixed eventually
Zarn: fixed how?
Keith: It's a method invented by humans to selectively spray and neuter them to control their numbers.
Zarn: What does that mean?
Keith: It's for the best, Zarn. You don't know those details
Keith: So...Zarn, how big are these bat colonies?
Zarn: i never really counted...
Overwatch Soldier: according to the ship's scanner, there are 10,000 of them, each of them has five different bat species
Keith: i see. Well, you're kind, you're going to have to get used to us being here
Zarn: As long as you don't hurt any of my kind, I think we should be fine
Keith: It's against the crick union rules to harm another sapient species
Keith: We actually want to help your species have better shelters and better places to stay from the weather here
Zarn: Sounds good, I'll hold you to your words, Keith.
*they shake hands and wing*
*Chapter 8 Ends*

 

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Chapter 9
"A Whole New World Rises"

Narrator: So after Crirk-Thy realize sapient bat species lives here they build them massive building and better homes than run down ruins they have been living for generations and put in laws in place their society to protect these tiny sapient species and offer the elders of the bats to Join the Galatic United Alliance which is made of the universe various alien species they agree and also true their word the crirk union relocated the wolves away from the steel factory site and help improve the bat species way of life and cure various diaceases that was plaguing the species for generations.
Narrator: So, via the protection, they didn't care what they came here for, actually shifted the focus to studying this growing alien species because the union said helping this species grow would be beneficial to the Galactic United Alliance
Narrator: So they transform the steel factory site into a research and study center to better understand them
Narrator: Over the course of four years, all of the destruction was either removed or repaired, and a lot of beings of old tech and, among other things, left behind were destroyed or reused.
Zarn: Man, i feel like a spring chicken, Zessy!
Zessy: Me too, look at our new place for me, mom, and dad, her small colony!
Fray: I'm glad I moved back. This place is so nice
Adam: Yeah, it's this world really turning around since the Crirk Union came here
Zarn: Yeah, I guess we never realize we need help ourselves
Zessy: true
Jackle: Yeah, it's all quite rad
Maya: See, I told you following nature's true energy was a good thing!
Jackle: Indeed
Hercane: Indeed, Mom, Dad
Andrew: Indeed, right besty Hercane?
Hercane: indeed
*they high wing*
Maya: i see you two bonded well
Hercane: Despite being related to each other, we really vibe with each other!
Hercane: I'm only a year older than him
Andrew: That doesn't matter, Betsy!
Hercane: right with you, besty!
*they high wing again*
Zarn: Well, my elders and I have looked all over the five bat species they all seem to be adjusting well to the new shelters and places to stay made by the crirk union for us.
Zessy: also helped solve our food problem
Zarn: Indeed, they did
Zarn: *eats a moth* Life is great, it is
Zessy: True, but who knows how long it will last? Zarn, they may leave at any time.
Zarn: Fair enough, Zessy
Tora: Adam, where is Tammy?
Adam: She's hanging out with her friend
Tora: i see
Warren: MOM, DAD
Jannet: mom, dad!
*they all "hug"*
Zessy: My little ones, it's been a while since we saw you
Warren: Turns out being in a pack had more benefits than being on our own
Jennet: True that, brother
Zarn: Welcome back, son. Meet your little brother, Andrew
Andrew: ooo neat, these must be my older siblings you told me about!
Warren: Wait, I have a brother now? So cool!
Jannet: Cool, another sibling
Warren: Hey, Andrew, bro, I'm Warren
Jannet: i'm jannet!
*they all shake wings*
Andrew: wanna go all play together?
Warren: For sure, sounds fun!
Jannet: Oh, for sure!
*all three of them fly off elsewhere in the building*
Maya: Zessy and Hercane?
Hercane: Yes, Mom?
Zessy: yes mom?
Maya: I'm pregnant once again!
Jackle: Quite Rad, my love, we're having at least one more
Zessy: That's amazing, Mom!
Hercane: Nice mom!
Zessy: What gender do you think it is this time?
Jackle: The flow nature's true energy says it's going to be a daughter
Zessy: Awesome, a little sister!
Author Dalton: So, a little bit of lore in this reality, the bat species mature a lot quicker than humans, so in the time frame of these books, only 4 years have passed since book 1. In reality, it's an "18th Birthday" for them when the bat offspring has reached maturity in their society
Zessy: So Zarn always wondered why all our children so far had been golden-furred bats?
Zarn: i guess it's because I'm already a halfling, or my DNA trait is just stronger than yours
Zessy: i suppose that makes sense, Zarn
Fray: speaking of that zarn i clicked with blue-furred bat 2 days ago
Zarn: Congrats, sister
Fray: We're thinking of creating offspring eventually
Zarn: Neat sister, you will make a great mother
Fray: i learned many things watching you and Zessy raising your three children so far
Zarn: i see
Zessy: Zarn...?
Zarn: Yes, Zessy?
Zessy: wanna have a romantic flight together? We haven't done it since we first clicked so long ago.
Zarn: Oh, for sure, Zessy, let's do that!
*they fly off in harmony to confirm to each other their click is still there*
Zarn: You still got the moves, Zessy!
Zessy: You too, Zarn. You're still my click
Zarn: Your mines too, Zessy!
Zarn: i promise i will always be loyal to you
Zessy: Me too!
Zessy: to think almost clicked with someone before I met you all that time ago
Zarn: You did?
Zessy: Yes, another horned bat in my local colony location, but it didn't quite click into place as it did with you when i first met you
Zarn: Very nice then
Zarn: I'm going to be honest, Zessy, before I met you, I had Adam, who ended up being my brother for sure, but i was alone. i was still bummed about my parents' death, and then I met you, everything changed
Zessy: Aww, that's so sweet, Zarn!
*they kiss midflight*
[scene turns black and white]
*Chapter 9 Ends*