A/N: This is my first story so I hope that I do a good job at this. Anyway, I recently finished reading the dark templar saga and found it to be a very good story though I am a bit sad that Zamara is locked in an eternal battle with Ulrezaj. So I thought of a crossover of Starcraft and Naruto with Naruto finding the khaydarin crystal. So I hope you guys enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Starcraft.

"Blah" Kyubi talking

"Blah" Kyubi thinking

"Blah" Zamara talking or people thinking

"Blah" Normal people talking

(Blah) Timeskip, age or places

Prologue 1 The Preserver

"You do not understand". She said, half closing her eyes, in a smile. "My knowledge must be preserved, but so must Ulrezaj be stopped."

Jake stared at Zamara, uncomprehending. "What do you mean? Do you want to get back into my head? Stop the transference?"

"No, it is too late for that. My essence is already in the crystal. I simply did not want to say farewell until I had to. Life is sweet Jacob. Protoss or Terran, we share that." Zamara replied.

"I don't understand." Jacob said, voicing his confusion. "Didn't you tell me you were going to make it through this okay? Well – as okay as you can be?"

"I ... had thought so. But now Jacob, I believe I may be able to stop him once and for all." Zamara replied.

"How?" Jake wondered.

"The Alys'aril is constructed above one of the strongest energetic nexuses of this world. There is a nest of power here, it is why the site is chosen." Zamara explained.

He nodded. This much he knew.

"Ulrezaj is just outside the Alys'aril. So are his adversaries – once again, zerg and terran fight together to destroy a monster who is our common enemy." Zamara told Jacob.

"So Ethan and Valerian had followed the dark archon." Jake thought. "If Ulrezaj was indeed defeated. They would have to fight both Valerian's forces and the zerg. They would –"

"Time enough to deal with that once Ulrezaj is defeated." Zamara chided. The three factions fight outside, but their battle will not be won there. It will be worn here, inside your mind, inside the khaydarin crystal that contains what is left of me and all the memories I have stored."

"What." Jake gasped.

"Ulrezaj has recovered most of his strength. My guess is that this world – these energies that make the crystals what they are – are what has helped fuel him all this time. He was once a student here; here he was born in a very real sense. And here he must cease to be. The selfsame energies that created the monster can give me the abilities to harness him." She explained.

Jake thought he was starting to understand what she intended to do. The cold prickle of apprehension crept over him. He prayed he was wrong.

"You think … we can trap him in a crystal, like we're doing with you." He answered, wide eyed.

"Not quite, Jacob." She returned. "I intend to use a crystal to trap him, yes. But not one like the one that holds me."

Understanding crashed onto him like an avalanche, and even deep into his link with Zamara, hr felt his physical body twitch in protest.

"Oh no … Zamara, you can't–" Jake tried to protest.

"I believe I can." Zamara cut him off. "If this crystal is powerful enough to not only contain my knowledge but my essence … I might be able to use its powers and those of the nexus to encase him within it. Also, it should serve as a sufficiently strong prison for Ulrezaj. At the very least, I must make the attempt."

Zamara, for the good of her people, was going to spend an eternity with a dark archon.

He couldn't let her.

"No, Zamara. I will not permit you to do this. Hey!" He lifted his head to the utterly fictitious sky and yelled without a voice. "Hey! Don't let her!"

"Jacob – it is what must be done. I have ever served my people the best I knew how. If Ulrezaj is not contained, he will destroy me, you, Rosemary, every protoss here, and the Alys'aril and all the information it houses. I have done so much to keep the memories which I have been entrusted safe." Zamara answered.

"You think they'll be safe with – with that trapped in with them?" Jake retorted. "What do you think he'll do to those memories? God. Zamara, what do you think he'll do to you?"

"It does not matter. I must stop him, and this is the only option I have. Jacob – please." She pleaded. "You must release me now. You must let me do this. If you do not, you could be trapped with us."

"I don't care." He cried recklessly, realizing he spoke the truth. He wanted to live – he wanted to be with Rosemary, to continue to explore and learn, to feel the sun on his face and taste food and run and laugh and make love. But he could not abandon Zamara. Maybe, if he were trapped with her, he could help her somehow.

"No. I have damaged you sufficiently. It is time for me to go, Jacob. To leave the mind I should have never been forced to enter in the first place. I will not take you with me." Zamara replied.

"Zamara –"

Zamara half closed her eyes and tilted her head, smiling at him a final time. A whisper in his mind, of affection, and of faith in him.

He felt her extend herself, reaching out and at the same time somehow pushing him away. Once, she had descended into his mind so decisively it had been more than he can bear. Now Jake didn't want her to leave, didn't want her to sacrifice herself to – God, he couldn't wrap his mind around Ulrezaj as part of him. He fought her. But hers was the stronger will. When she finally pulled free, he cried her name sharply, feeling lost and abandoned and so very empty.

"Zamara!" He screamed.

Blackness descended.

(Timeskip)

During his talk with Valerian, he mentioned that there he had a small box of crystals that he took from the protoss. And so Jake had asked him if he would be permitted to look at them.

Valerian looked at him oddly. "You wouldn't do anything to them now, would you?" He asked.

"Of course not." Jake replied. "It's just that even though I am no longer a telepath, it does not mean I am still not curious about the protoss. And while Zamara has shared much with me, I believe there is still more to learn."

In truth, Jake suspected that there is a chance, a small chance, but a chance nonetheless that Zamara's crystal could be in that box. And if it were, it would not be safe in Valerian's hands, since he is the son of the Emperor.

"Sure. Why not." Valerian answered. "Perhaps you could even help me unlock it.

(In Valerian's Quarters)

Valerian and Jake were looking his stash of crystals. While Valerian had said that it was a small box, it was anything but that. It was big enough to put a 52" TV. Jake continued to look at the different colors of the crystals

"Well?" Valerian said. "Here it is. Think you can help me sort it?"

"Sure." Jake replied.

As they sorted out the crystals Jake found something he feared he would find. It was a dark crystal that was glowing with a sullen purple-black hue. Jake despaired.

"I will have to steal and hide it." Jake thought.

Seeing that Valerian was busy sorting out the other crystals with his back turned, he slipped the crystal into his coat's inner pocket.

After sorting out the crystals and talking with Valerian a bit more, Jake left with the stolen crystal. He would have to find a way to return it to the protoss.

(Timeskip)

Jacob told Rosemary of the crystal after they left in one of the Leviathan class dropship.

"How are we going to return the crystal to the protoss?"Rosemary asked. "Valerian and his father were the ones who brought us back to Dominion controlled space. I don't even know the coordinates to Shakuras."

"We could try to find other protoss who are not on Shakuras. Maybe they could lead us there?" Jake answered.

"Not bloody likely. The protoss who only knows of us currently are the ones in Shakuras. It will take time to for the message to spread. Besides, how are we gonna find them?" She retorted. "Warp around space and hope we smack right into them?" She said sarcastically.

"That's an idea." Jake mused.

"You can't be serious!" Rosemary said horrified.

"There is no other choice. We must find them if we are able to and return the crystal to them. It is too dangerous otherwise." Jake said.

"Fine." Rosemary said as the ship was starting to be surrounded by a subwarp field. "But don't say I didn't warn you."

After they came out of their subwarp field, they crash landed on an unknown primitive world. As far as they could see, they could not find any signs of civilization.

"Well crap." Rosemary started. "We are in the butt end of nowhere. The communications system is down and we are in a totally unexplored star system. There are no people here and we can't effect repairs to the ship. We are screwed."

"Perhaps. But then again the crystal should be safe here. At least for the time being." Jake replied thinking that perhaps someday someone might find them. He didn't know he would never leave the planet.

A/N: Whew. Writing this was more difficult than I thought. Anyways, the paragraphs that were before the first timeskip was actually taken from the dark templar saga book three. It is needed to explain some chapters after this. Pls read and review thanks.