by Maia Starr
“And where is this Erick?” I asked.
“He ran inside with the others,” she said.
“And yet you did not. It seems to me that the bravest should be the leader at all times,” I said looking her up and down becoming increasingly impressed with her. Her demeanor. Her sassy remarks were driving me crazy with desire. I couldn't believe my good fortune that the first human female I set eyes on at Willow Springs was the one I wanted. She would be mine, and I would not stop until she was.
“I will take you to him,” she said as she continued carrying my gun and turned in the direction of the house. “Come on,” she said.
I looked at Lieutenant Baisen and arched my eyebrow at him, telling him that I was impressed with this unusual human female.
We walked toward the house, and people began to emerge slowly. The human female named Helen was giving them ease; if we had not hurt her then it was likely that we would not hurt them. Out in front of the people stood an older human man with dark hair and a gray color mixed in. He had a frown on his face.
“People of Willow Springs. May I introduce to you the Veruka; they come to us from another human colony called Haven Brook. They say they carry a message from those humans to us and that they have come to help us fight the Clenok. This is General Jex Kailen and Lieutenant Baisen,” helen said as she stood between us and the group of humans. There was lots of whispering and looks of shock among them.
“My name is Erick. What is this message you speak of?” the man said.
“Erick, an honor to meet you and all of you humans. The message we bring from Haven Brook is one that will help with the fight against the Clenok. A scientist doctor at Haven Brook called Dr. Vanessa Lopez has discovered a computer virus. When this virus is implanted into a Clenok keddle, it infects it and causes it to shut down. In response, the cyborgs it controls are also shut down. This is the message that we bring to you from Haven Brook, but we also have the virus. My king that is stationed at Haven Brook has demanded that his soldiers spread out over Earth, taking this virus to as many humans as we can. Your occupation Willow Springs is my mission. I was assigned to take my fleet and find Willow Springs to bring this virus and to help you defend your colony against the Clenok,” I said.
There was a lot of commotion and talking amongst the people. They were shocked, as was to be expected because there was a lot of information in my speech.
“And how are we to know that this is the truth? We have never heard of this Haven Brook. How are we to know these are not lies and that this virus is real, or that it says what you say it will do? We could use it and attract the Clenok to come finish us off for all we know. For all we know, you could be working with them to take over Earth,” Erick said.
“Those are all wise questions. My answer is that you do not know. But if we wanted to defeat this human colony, we would not need the Clenok to help us. The ships above you are very heavily armed, and each one contains ten highly skilled warriors just like us. There are over fifty weredragons with me. So, Erick, if our mission was to wipe out Willow Springs, we would do so easily, and it would already be done by now. So your suspicions are proven false,” I said.
Erick had a snarl on his face as he looked at me. He did not like that I was right. People all around him were beginning to speak up.
“I say trust them!” a random person shouted.
“What choice do we have anyway? They are stronger than we are,” another said.
“He is right. If they wanted to destroy us, they would have already. They are not a machine; they are living creatures. That makes them an ally in my book,” another said.
The statements went on and on, mostly in agreement with letting us stay. I watched as Helen looked over the crowd nodding in agreement. Then she looked at me and said, “What do you want? What will you do with those ships? You cannot leave them where they are; it's too much attention if the Clenok sees,” she said.
“We can land our ships here on the lawn and others outside the gates on all three sides to strengthen your defense. It will be a lookout post guarded with skilled weredragons. That is if you will have us as your guest,” I said.
“We will take a vote!” Helen shouted. I saw Erick flinch. I don't think he was expecting her to take charge; neither was I. “All those in favor of having these soldiers stay to help us to defend against the Clenok, raise your hand!”
Everyone, except five or less, including Erick, raised their hands. People also shouted let them stay, let them stay, to accompany their hands raised. This was an interesting democracy.
“Then it is settled. The soldiers will stay, and we will accept their help,” she said. “But I must remind you of something else… Did you forget the crisis that we are in? Before these soldiers showed up, Scott washed up on our shore. Our people are in peril out there somewhere. My sister has been captured. I plan to go find her,” she said.
I looked at her in shock and then looked at my lieutenant. It seems that we had arrived in Willow Springs at the moment they were experiencing an emergency. This was a turn. But her words shook me to the core. This petite woman was planning to go out there beyond the wall to find her sister. She was braver than I had previously expected and as she walked back-and-forth in front of the crowd holding my blaster gun, I felt my cock growing harder. Damn, she was fucking sexy.
“We cannot leave our people out there alone. Scott can point out where the battle took place, and we can scout from there. I am going to go find my sister and try to find the rest of those that had been left behind after running away from the battle. Now, who will volunteer to go with me?”
Silence came over the crowd.
Chapter 4
Helen Maven
I was surprised when I got closer to this weredragon soldier. I was not expecting to have the response that I had to him. He was very attractive. I didn't understand why I felt this way. He was a damn alien! Yet I could not take my eyes off of him. His long dark black hair and beautiful brown eyes were gorgeous. His skin glittered in the sunlight, and his tall physique was so manly. But there was something else; it was something that I had not felt in a long time. Being near him made me feel protected. The Willow Springs estate compound was full of your average family man, and Erick was the only one with a military background, but I didn't see him as a soldier. I just saw him as a bossy. But this alien soldier was exactly what I had been craving: safety. Just his mere presence made me feel safe, like nothing could get through him. To top it off, he was a shifter weredragon, with wings. The emerald green wings on his back gave him the ability to fly, hard dragon scales were on his mid-section, and I knew that they must be impenetrable. I found this very attractive. After all, we were in a time of war, against machines that wanted nothing more than to kill humans, and this alien in front of me represented protection from all of that, and it turned me on.
But besides seeing him as this attractive soldier, there was something else that I was thinking in the back of my mind as soon as he said he came to help us humans against the Clenok, he could help me get my sister Hannah back. With his help and the help of his army, we could defeat the Clenok cyborgs and find my sister and rescue her. It was all that I could think of, especially after I called for volunteers to help me, and no one volunteered to go help those that were lost. Now I needed him more than ever.
I walked out onto the lawn of the estate toward the large white ship parked along the shore. That was where Jex was stationed. I had spoken to Scott, and I made him show me on the map where my sister had been abducted. I studied it thinking of several places that the Clenok could have gone to. Now I was taking that nap to Jex to ask him to help me find her.
I took a deep breath and walked to the guards in front of the ship.
“I am here to speak to Captain Jex Kailen,” I said. The guard nodded his head and walked inside the ship. A few minutes later, he returned. “Follow me,” he said.
My eyes grew wide with shock. I was expecting Jex to come out onto the lawn
to me, not to go inside of the alien spaceship. I was curious about what it looked like inside, but also scared. What if these aliens really were hostile? They could just take off with me inside the ship, possibly out of Earth altogether.
I took a deep breath and walked up the ramp of the ship and entered. I gasped. It was absolutely beautiful inside. Everything was a polished gleaming white I could almost see my reflection in the white walls as I walked down a small hallway. I turned the corner, and the hallway continued, and I could see the front of the ship with the large windshield and lots of gadgets on the control panel blinking. The guard stopped, and a door slid open.
“The human female Helen to see you,” he said. I looked inside the room to see Jex sitting at a long white table. He nodded. The guard put his hand on my back and pushed me inside. The door slid closed with a rush of air.
“You wish to see me?” he said as he stood up. I had almost forgotten just how tall he was. I gathered up my courage.
“Yes, I have come to ask for your help,” I said.
He leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest.
“What do you want?” he asked.
I stepped forward, and I unrolled the map on the table. “As you already know, my sister was taken by the Clenok cyborgs. I am going to go find her, alone if I have to. But I am hoping that perhaps you could lend me a few of your soldiers to go with me, and a ship to go in?” I asked. “This was where she was taken,” I said pointing at the spot on the map.
“You want me to give you soldiers and a ship?”
"Yes, I do. I don't think it is too much to ask considering that you said you were here to help us humans fight the Clenok. This is exactly what I am asking for. Unless that is not why you are really here?” I said.
“I offer to help the entire human colony defend themselves against invading Clenok. This is not an invasion. This is a mission. That is different,” he said.
“Yes, but our people were lost while looking for resources in order to keep this colony alive; it is part of being in this colony, and it is part of the defense system. So it is the same to me. Now are you going to help me or not? If you are not, I would like to know so that I can just venture out alone and get a move on it. I don't want to lose any more sunlight,” I said getting angry. I could feel my breathing growing harder, and I could not control my breast from heaving up and down in the tight army green tank top that I wore tucked into my jeans.
He looked at me and smiled. This was funny to him. I was growing frustrated. He walked to the side of the room and then walked back again; he was just pacing in front of me. He was thinking. I wished he would just make up his mind.
“Well?” I asked.
“I can offer you a trade,” he said.
“A trade? What do you mean?”
“I will trade what you want for something that I want,” he said.
I grew hesitant. What could this alien possibly want from me?
“I will do anything to get my sister back. I know that she would do the same for me,” I said.
“I will personally help you track and rescue your sister and the other missing people if you mate with me,” he said.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” I blurted out.
He laughed. “That is my trade option to you, human female. Take it or leave it,” he said.
I stared at him with anger. How dare he try to take advantage of me like this. “I will leave it. I do not agree to your terms. I will find her myself,” I said as I rolled at the map and walked to the door. I pressed on it. I tried to push it open. Nothing was happening. “Open the damn door!”
I heard him laugh. He came up behind me; I could feel his heat on me as he stood so close to me. It was unnerving. I wanted to get out of there right then and there.
“I will open the door. But I seriously think you should think about my offer. Do not worry, human; I would be gentle with you. It would be an experience like you have never had in your life; I promise you nothing but pleasure,” he said as his breath touched my neck. His words were filthy, and I should have been outraged, but instead, I had goosebumps all over.
“Open the door,” I said restraining myself.
He put his hand on a scanner on the wall, the door opened. I stomped out into the hallway and down the ramp onto the lawn. I was going straight to my room to gather a backpack full of supplies so that I could leave as soon as possible.
I spent the next half hour putting a sweater and jacket into my backpack with canned food items to eat on the journey. I grabbed a water filter and bottle, and this would be all that I would need except for protection. I remembered holding the blaster gun of the alien Veruka and wondered if Jex would at least give me one of those. Something told me and did not mean it be kind of ammunition that our guns needed and eventually ran out of.
I could not believe the audacity that he had to ask me for such a trade. I was completely outraged by his request. Why would he want to trade helping me find my sister for sex? If he stayed around long enough in this colony, I was sure that any human female would be open to having sex with him eventually. He did look the way that he looked after all. So why would he make such an offer to me? Why wouldn't he just give me a couple of soldiers; even one soldier would be better than going out on my own.
Jex was an over-sexualized beast. I was so frustrated thinking about his offer, but the more I thought about it, the more I could picture myself giving into him. That frustrated me even more. I was in a mood as I violently stuffed things into my bag.
“What happened? Will the alien help you?” I heard Scott say behind me.
I couldn't tell him what had happened because the news with spread throughout the colony.
“He did not give me an answer yet,” I lied.
“Well, you cannot go out there alone. I told you what we were up against; if the eight of us couldn't get out of that siege, you won't be able to either. Your sister would not want it that way,” he said.
“If it were the other way around, you would be speaking to her as she packed her bag to go look for me. She would do anything to help find me. Anything,” I said. As soon as I said it, I knew that it was true. Hannah would do whatever it took to find and rescue me, even if it meant giving herself to an alien shifter.
“Dammit,” I said. “Don't worry, Scott; I am not going alone,” I said. I zipped up my bag and headed out the door.
“Where are you going?” I heard Erick say as I walked down the steps onto the grass.
“To go rescue my sister,” I said.
“No. You are not,” he said.
I gave him an angry look. “Don't think that you can tell me what to do, Erick.”
“You cannot go out there alone. There is no use in putting your life on the line like that. You will die out there,” he said.
“I am not going alone. The alien has agreed to help me find my sister. Now if you'll excuse me, I want to go as soon as possible. Every minute counts,” I said.
He grabbed my arm as I began to walk away.
"The alien? I forbid it. You can't go off with him. You don't know anything about him or what he really wants.”
I yanked my arm away from his. “I know exactly what he wants. He has not kept it a secret. I am going to go find Hannah, and there is nothing you can do about it,” I walked toward the ship. A minute later, I was facing Jex.
“I have come to negotiate on your terms,” I said.
“That is intriguing. I am listening,” he said leaning back in his chair.
“The agreement would be this: I will mate with you, but only after my sister is returned here safely. You will help me find and rescue her in one of your ships, and we leave now. When we return, you shall have what you want,” I said.
He was quiet as he looked me up and down. I was scared that he was going to say no. I was scared that he was going to say that I would need to be with him first, because if he said so, I would still do it. It was my only chance to get Hannah back.
“You
have yourself a deal, human female. We will leave in ten minutes. I must give my lieutenant orders on what to do in my absence,” he said as he stood up and put his hand out to shake mine. I put my hand in his and shook it as I looked up at his massive form in front of me. Then out of nowhere, he pulled my hand, and my chest crashed against his. His lips came down in pressed against mine. He kissed me with passion, and I was so caught off guard that I did nothing. I was confused. I was heated. My knees felt like they were going to collapse. Then I came to my senses. I put my hands on his hard chest and pushed away.
“What are you doing?” I shouted as I moved away from him.
“I just had to get a little preview. Tasted good. I am satisfied. We will go find your sister. Wait here,” he said and walked out the door.
I was trembling. His kiss was overpowering. I was not expecting to feel so turned on by it. He was a brute to push himself on me like that, but his kiss was gentle and hot. Just as he had promised it would be. I sat down in the chair before I collapsed from feeling faint from that kiss. I could not think about it. In ten minutes I would be off with him to find my sister. I was going to have to have sex with him. But it would not be for some time. At least I could push it out of my mind for now, and focus on my sister.
