Fiction:Mumble Arigra Interstellar Empire

Lkark was running alone the side of the river bank, minding his little herd of orogia. In his desert home, there was no rain, so the river was life to his family. He laughed as he saw two of the orogia knock each other into the river. As Lkark and his little herd ran about the valley, they slowly made their way up towards a small cave, but none of them knew this yet. Lkark then saw something amazing. His favorite orogia was finally having it uriga! He immediately rushed over to help the little creature, smiling broadly. "Your doing fine, Jimit, just fine! Come on, there's a good girl." It was getting dark by the time Jimit was finally a proud little mother of 6 little uriga, so Lkark decided to see if he could find shelter on the ridge. When he found the cave, he rushed his little herd into it, and followed after them. As he sat near the entrance of the cave, he suddenly heard something that he never heard in the desert. It was starting to rain. Lkark was baffled, and moved to see what was going on out there. Then he saw something terrifying. One of Jamik's 6 uriga was outside the cave, and was melting in the rain! Klark wailed in terror, and fled deeper into the cave. He met the rest of the herd deep inside it, and sighed. He would pray, hoping that what had seen was a nightmare. As he sat and started to pray, he felt himself growing calmer. It was just as mother always said, praying to the gods always made you calmer. As he prayed, he convinced himself that he hadn't seen the melting uriga, it had just been an illusion. Jamik suddenly jumped into him, trying to play, and disrupting his prayer. But the gods would understand, Jamik was just a simple animal, she couldn't know about the prayers, and the gods were forgiving. Lkark ran over and got into a scuffle with several of the origia, playfully ignoring the world in their little cave. Then Lkark heard a screech of such absolute terror and pain that he almost couldn't bear it. He spun, and saw in the firelight that some substance was dripping, no pouring, from the ceiling, and pooling behind him lower in the cave. And the origia were melting away in it! It was just like before, with the rain, but now he was trapped by the pool, and it was getting bigger! He made a split second decision, and ran, then leaped clear over the growing pool, running uphill towards the surface. And then he reached it, and saw the world was melting. The plants, the animals, everything was just melting away, he turned to run back into the cave, then heard a strange sound. Against his judgment, he turned to see what it was, and saw a massive... thing floating in the air high above him. And out of that thing was pouring this strange rain! He shrieked, and fled back into the cave, which collapsed in front of him as a flood of the substance, which he could see was greenish in coloration, pouring down into the cave. He heard screeches of pain and terror, which cut off suddenly as their creators died. Lkark spun, and ran back toward the exit again, and ran out into the strange rain, all sense forgotten in his fear. He didn't make it three feet, melting into a puddle of the strange greenish liquid even as he ran in terror. The last thing Lkark heard was a strange sound. Like many mouths drinking something...