by Maia Starr
“No, you are not dreaming. This is real. We are real. Tell me your name, human,” I said.
“My name is Hannah,” I said.
“Do you come from a human colony, Hannah?” I asked.
“I don't understand. What are you? You look like a man… but you have wings. You have scales. You shine in the sun like glitter. I have never seen anything like you,” she said.
“No, you have not. That is because we are new to your planet. The other humans called us aliens,” I said.
“Aliens…” she said. I could tell that she was weak. I wondered how long they have been dragging her.
Just then a soldier that was standing behind her came to my side. He whispered into my ear. I didn't like what he had to say.
“Hannah, it seems that you are hurt. Maybe you cannot feel it in the state of shock that you are in,” I said to her as I walked around her. I looked at her back. There were many long cuts, and they were bleeding. It must be from being dragged.
“I do feel… a little…weak…” I caught her just before she fainted on the ground.
“Prepare a room in the main ship. This human needs medical attention,” I said as I picked her up.
Chapter 4
Hannah Maven
I didn't understand what was happening when the boiler of motion landed beside me while the cyborg pulled me through the woods. I was halfway out of it. But then I felt the sensation that I was flying. I couldn't believe it. I tried asking what the hell was happening, but there was no answer. I could only think that I was dreaming.
But then I started to wake up more. I found myself being put on my feet. The surroundings were all white; it was the cleanest place I had seen in a long time. But what was more shocking were the creatures standing around me. I knew I must be dreaming, but I didn't think that my brain could come up with something so extraordinary as what I was saying in front of me.
There were very tall creatures all around me. But one, in particular, stood directly in front of me. He looked somewhat like a human man with long brown hair and stark brown eyes that seemed to pierce through me. He was extremely tall, almost to nine feet. But the rest of him was not human at all. His skin glittered in the sunlight like it was reflective. He had large emerald wings that folded behind his back. The skin on his chest and six pack looked like hard scales, but it couldn't be. Could it? His physique was that of a Greek God, very muscular and toned. He did not wear a shirt but wore very tight trousers with very thick boots and a belt. There were lots of weapons hanging on his body.
But then he said something that took my breath away. He said that they were aliens. I felt myself starting to drift into unconsciousness. I didn't know why. Maybe it was the shock of this information, or maybe I really was dreaming. I just remember everything going dark.
But when I woke up, I realized it wasn't a dream. I stared down at the stark white floor. It was so shiny, I could see my reflection in it. I was staring at my face. It looked like I was lying on my belly. I shook myself awake.
I slowly got up. I was lying on a table face down. I felt something on my back. I looked over my shoulder to see bandages on my back. Suddenly I felt very sore. I must have gotten all cut up from being dragged along the forest floor.
“Oh my god!” I gasped as I looked down and realized that I was topless. “What the hell?”
I looked around and saw some medical bandages in the corner of the room. I jumped off the table. Pain shot through my ankles. I remembered being dragged by them. I slowly walked to the corner and grabbed the role of bandages and began to wrap it around my breasts like a tube top.
“Ow, ow,” I whispered as I rolled it around the bandages on my back. I was in some pain. I cut the bandage and then found a bandage clip and fastened the makeshift shirt. Then I got a good look around. I was in a room that looked like a treatment center. I had been on the examination table. But I didn't recognize the writing on anything. It was some sort of foreign language I had never seen before. There were flashing buttons and lights on a panel, against a wall. I ran my fingers over it. It was very advanced. Was I still with the winged man that I saw? Or was that all a dream and I was with the cyborgs?
Suddenly the wall slid open. It was a door. The creature that had rescued me from the cyborgs stepped inside. But he looked a little different.
“Hannah, are you feeling better? Maybe you shouldn't be standing just yet,” he said as he walked in holding a cup.
I backed away from him as far as I could. My back hit a wall. “Ow!” I said forgetting about my sensitive back until the wall was against it.
“Yes, indeed. You have quite a lot of cuts on your back. My team disinfected them and dressed them. With our medicine, you should have a fast healing time,” he said handing me that cup.
“Here, you might like this. It is equivalent to what you call wine here on Earth. It will help with the pain,” he said.
I took the cup and smelled it. It smelled like sweet fermented fruit, just the way our wine smelled. I took a small drink. It was strong.
“Why am I naked? Who are you? What do you want? Why am I here?” I asked.
“Slow down. I want you to know that you are not in danger with us. We are friends to the humans. I will answer your questions,” he said.
“What the hell are you?”
“As I told you before, before you fainted, the humans of Earth call us aliens, because we are from a different planet far away. We have come to Earth to help the humans fight against the machines. My name is General Rai Razook. We came looking for a human colony to spread the news that was given to us at another human colony called Haven Brook. I came across you being dragged by the machines. I rescued you and brought you here to my ship,” he said.
“Your ship! Do you mean we are in space?” I asked getting frantic.
“No, we are not in space. We are still on Earth. But our ships are very high in the sky out of range of the machine weapons. We are not trying to take you back to our planet. I only rescued you because it is my responsibility. My king wants us to help the humans, and that is what I did with you,” he said. “We are moving north in search of another human colony. The one that you belong to was very hostile and did not want our help, or to even converse. Maybe in time when you are healed, we can take you back there, and you can speak for us and let them know that we come in peace,” he said.
“I will do no such thing. I don't know you. I don't know if you come in peace or if this is all a trick. Look at you. I have never seen anything like you. I swore that you had wings before, and scales. I am just very unsure of my mind right now,” I said. I took another drink. I needed a drink.
“You are right to think that you saw wings. We are weredragons. We are shifters. This is my normal form that you see before you. But we are able to shift into weredragon form with wings and scales, like dragons. It is what we are,” he said.
“Weredragons? You have to be fucking kidding me,” I said trying to understand what he was saying.
“I tell the truth, human. Now enough of this. I have been kind to you. I have answered your questions. Now I want you to sit again. We must talk about how you are going to help me,” he said. He took on a very dominant tone. What a frustrating, arrogant creature. He was pissing me off, but why did his change in demeanor make me feel attracted to him? Yes, he was attractive with his brown hair, brown eyes, and extremely fit figure, but he was a damn alien. I could not be attracted to an alien.
“I will not. You will take me home now,” I said.
“We will not. Your human colony shot at us. We are going to try to go to a different team in colony north of here. We will see if they are more receptive to us and you are going to help us. You will be the one to talk to them for us,” he said.
“No. I won't. I want to go home. I have family there. My sister is there. I am sorry that they grew hostile, but can you blame them? Look at you,” I said.
He was silent. He looked at me up and down. I suddenly felt like I was ve
ry naked as his brown eyes moved over my body. Once again, I found myself growing aroused by his presence. What the hell was wrong with me?
“I will make a contract with you, human,” he said.
“Contract?”
“I will take you home to your sister. But only after you do two things for me,” he said.
I narrowed my eyes at him. How dare he think I would enter into a contract with him. There was nothing that would make me think he would keep his word. He wasn't even human. I crossed my arms, waiting for him to finish.
“You will introduce us to the human colony that we stop at next as well as the one that you live in. You will let the humans know that we are not hostile and that we have come to help them,” he said.
“You already said that. What is the second thing?” I asked.
“You will mate with me,” he said.
“What? Do you mean have sex with you?” I shouted.
“Yes, sex. You will have sex with me. Only when you fulfill these two items of the contract will I take you home to your sister,” he said.
“You are fucking crazy, you lunatic alien!” I shouted at him pointing my finger in his face as I angrily stomped to him. Now I was only inches in front of him, and I had to tilt my head back in order to look up at him. He was very tall—very foreboding. I suddenly became scared as I felt more petite than I ever had in my life standing next to this giant alien.
He laughed at me. “I like that. You have a fire inside of you, human female. You are feisty.”
“I don't care if you like it. I will not agree to your stupid contract,” I said.
“I understand. But ask yourself, what choice do you have? You are stuck here with us hundreds of feet in the air. I promised my king to rescue and help humans. But I did not make a promise that I had to return them home. In fact, my king would probably find it very good of me that I kept you as a resource. We need a human on the ship. So if you do not agree to my contract, then you could potentially spend the rest of your life with us, the Veruka,” he said.
I narrowed my eyes at him in anger. He was really pissing me off. He was right. Everything he said was right. I didn't have a choice. But I couldn't do it. I didn't know this creature. I couldn't sleep with him. I had to do something in order to buy me some time and to get me back on the ground.
“Fine! I will agree to speak to humans for you. In exchange for taking me home to my sister. But only after you have reunited me with my colony will I fulfill the second half of your agreement. It is the only way I can be sure that you will hold your end of the contract,” I said.
“Done. Now if you will follow me, I will show you to a more comfortable room. Unless you want to stay in the infirmary?” he said.
“Where is my shirt?” I said.
“I had to cut it off you. It was the only way to not injure you more,” he said.
“You cut it off for me. So you were the one that…”
He smiled. “Yes. And may I say that you are absolutely beautiful, and so are they,” he said as he looked directly at my breasts. My face turned a bright red. He had already seen me naked. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know how all of this was happening to me, but I had a feeling it was just the beginning.
Chapter 5
General Rai Razook
Seeing Hannah's breasts when I took off her shirt to see to her wounds on her back, was shocking to me. I wasn't expecting her to be so damn beautiful. But I forced myself to concentrate on treating her injuries. It was the right thing to do no matter how much my brutish nature wanted to just stare at them. But seeing the look on her face when I told her I had seen her half naked already was well worth it. She was easily frustrated, this human female, and I was having a lot of fun with that. Anything could set her off, and I like to sing the fire inside of her come out. I wondered if she was this feisty in bed as she was when she was angry.
“Are you ready? I have a room set up for you on this ship,” I said standing in the doorway.
"You want me to go out there like this?” she said looking down at the bandages that she had used to cover her breasts.
“Yes, I do,” I said as I walked out.
I heard a frustrated groan come out of her mouth. But I could feel that she was following me. No one wanted to stay in the infirmary.
I walked down the hallway with her following me. I stopped in front of a door and put in the combination to open it. The door slid open.
“This is it. It is standard quarters for a soldier. It is small, but you have everything you need,” I said stepping inside. She followed me in.
“Am I a prisoner?” she said looking at the door lock panel.
“No, you are not. But we are on a ship hundreds of feet in the air. Where are you going to go?” I said.
She gave me a dirty look. She knew that I was right. She walked in and stood on the other side of the room. “Am I supposed to stay in this?” she said pointing out her bandages.
“Forgive me if we do not have clothes for you. As you can see, we do not wear clothing on our chests either. So I cannot give you something to wear,” I said. She looked at my chest and my stomach. Then she seemed to blush a light pink color. Then she looked away.
“Yes, I have noticed.”
“I will have food brought to you. You need to eat. It will help with your injuries,” I said.
“Thank you,” she said. It was the first kindness I heard come from her. Maybe she was starting to realize that I was actually on her side. That I had not only rescued her from the machines, but had taken care of her injuries, and would take care of her. She would just have to take care of me in return. I didn't see what the big deal was in asking for some sex from this human female. But clearly, she thought it was a big deal.
I bowed in goodbye and walked out of her room, closing the door behind me. As soon as I turned the corner, I ran into Lieutenant Qon.
“How is the human female doing?” he asked.
“She is doing well,” I said.
“Good. That is good. I saw you leading her to her room. I have never seen a human female scantily clad like that before. It looks good on her,” he said with a grin. It was then that I realized there was a desire for Hannah in his eyes. I didn't like it one bit. I did not want anyone touching her. She was mine. I was the one that had found her, and I would be the one to claim her as a mate.
“It is out of necessity. She needs her rest now to heal. Lieutenant, I will have you summon the others for a meeting in exactly one hour. We are going to look at the human colony map and make a move north. That is an order,” I said to him trying to give him something to do so that he would not try to bother Hannah.
“Yes, General, ” he said with a tone that let me know he wasn't happy about hearing me give him an order. But that was his damn job, the jerk.
He turned in the other direction and walked away. I walked up to a trusted soldier.
“I want you to get a tray of food and take it to the human female. I have put her in bunk 9C. After you deliver the food to her, I want you to stand guard outside her door. No one is to enter except for me. If she wants to walk around the ship, that is fine, but you must guard her. Do you understand?” I said.
“Yes, General, right away,” he said as he turned to do my orders.
I went to the flight deck. I had one more thing that I wanted to do before I had a meeting to decide where we were heading.
“I need two soldiers to come down to the ground with me. We are going on wings so lower the ship down to flight level,” I said to the pilot.
“You were going on a flight?” he said.
“Yes, I have one particular assignment I want to complete. It won't take me long. Set us above a forested area near some human houses,” I said.
“Yes, General, ” he said.
While the ship lowered, I gathered to soldiers, armed and ready. We shifted into weredragon form. The cargo door opened, and we flew out of the ship. I landed on the roof, and the soldiers followed me. We walked
along the roof of the house searching for any activity.
“Stay on the roof and keep alert. Signal me if you see any activity. I'm going inside this house,” I said.
They nodded in recognition of my orders. I flew down to the ground and entered the house. The house was abandoned. There was no activity nor sounds in the area. I walked in and looked through the rooms that had the beds in them. The humans organized their clothes in a certain way in small compartments in the wall and in cabinets on the floor. The first room was full of very small human clothing. So I went to the next. I found what I was looking for. There was clothing similar to what Hannah was wearing when I found her. I took a few items that she could wear on her top, as well as pants. I hoped they would be sufficient for her; they looked about her size. I pushed them into a bag that was on the floor. I went into the kitchen and found some canned human food. I grabbed some and pushed them into the bag. Then I walked outside and flew onto the roof.
