Azlo

by Maia Starr

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  Azlo-Weredragons Of Tivoso

  (Weredragons Of Tivoso.)

  By Maia Starr

  Chapter 1

  General Azlo Bron

  “I am counting on you, General Azlo Bron,” King Karik said to me.

  “You can count on me, my king,” I said as I stood at attention.

  “You, Jex, and Moxor will distribute this virus to the other communities that Vanessa has shown you,” he said.

  “Now each of you has chosen a community. But you must be warned; we have not had contact with these isolated human communities for more than a year. We do not know if they are still there, if they have been abandoned, or if they have simply been taken over by the Clenok cyborgs. Go on your mission with caution,” Vanessa said as she pointed at a map rolled out on the table.

  “I have chosen the human community of Providence to the north,” I said pointing at the map.

  “It is cold there. It is the winter season, and it will be a lot colder there than it is here. Be warned of snowfall and winter storms,” she said.

  “I will be cautious. We are dragons; we burn from within. The heat will not bother myself and my army,” I said.

  “And I will be departing to Willow Creek to the west,” Jex said.

  “I will be departing to Gainesville to the south,” Moxor said.

  “Each of you carry many copies of the virus with you. If you come across other communities on your way to your destination, you will hand over the virus. If there are humans in the community that are departing to other communities, give them the virus to take with them. Do whatever you must so that this spreads to all human communities,” King Karik said.

  We nodded in agreement and saluted our king.

  “Then it is time for you to prepare for your departure, my good Veruka soldiers. Each of you will take a fleet of ships with you as well as two hundred soldiers. Use your resources wisely. I wish to see you all returned to Haven Brook so that one day we can all return to Tivoso together after we have help to humans defeat the Clenok cyborgs,” King Karik said.

  “I will return,” I said to the king.

  The weredragons at my side agreed with my sentiments.

  “Then go prepare. Each of you leave at sunrise tomorrow,” he said.

  I saluted the king and his human female, Doctor Vanessa Lopez, and then was on my way to prepare for departure with my fleet of weredragon soldiers.

  “Remember: we can't use the long-range communications. The cyborgs will receive them as well,” Jex said to me as we walked toward the Veruka army base camp we had set up inside of Haven Brook, a human community isolated with a large wall around it and an electric fence.

  “Yes, we will each be on our own once we are out there,” I said.

  “Good luck to you, Azlo,” he said as he grabbed my forearm in a Veruka handshake.

  “And to you, Jex,” I said.

  The next day I departed the human community with my fleet of ships and two hundred weredragons. We headed north toward the snowy region of what used to be called the United States, before the cyborgs took over.

  The cyborgs were called the Clenok. They were ruthless artificial intelligent machines that had one mission: kill all humans. They meant to take over the Earth, and there were billions of them spread out over the planet. The humans built the predecessors of these cyborgs. They had built machines that could run themselves for manufacturing and products, but eventually, the artificial intelligence machines grew smarter and smarter, and before that humans knew they were under attack by these machines, they had created armies of cyborgs.

  Now only small isolated communities of humans remained throughout the Earth. We, the Veruka, were glad that the humans still existed. We had come to Earth in order to seek out the human knowledge of medical expertise. Our species had to come down with something we called the blackness. It was a sort of plague that was infecting the male weredragons. We did not know how to cure it, but we thought that the humans might. That is why we came to Earth to help the humans fight the Clenok cyborgs. We needed them to survive because we needed their knowledge. But when we came to Earth, our king stumbled upon something that we were not expecting: he found a cure for the blackness. But it wasn't based on human medical knowledge; it was based on the humans themselves. Our king found that if you mated with a human female, you bonded with them. The human DNA of the female was absorbed by a Veruka male and was then able to heal the body from the blackness plague; we didn't understand why or how. We only knew that mating with human females was the answer. Therefore, we needed as many human females to survive as possible. Our mission went from leaving Tivoso and coming to Earth for medical advice from the humans, to needing the human females to save our species. We were figuring it out along the way, and now the mission was to disperse a computer virus to as many humans as we could. Haven Brook had successfully used it to infect what it was known as a keddle. It was a large machine that controlled a regional army of cyborgs. Once you brought the keddle down with a virus, the cyborgs it controlled would fail. So this was my journey now: my mission spread the computer virus.

  So I made my way north looking for the isolated mountain community known as Providence. I only hope that when we arrived, the humans would greet us with acceptance instead of hostility. They did not know that we existed. They had every right to be suspicious of anything that was not human; it was a complicated situation.

  Chapter 2

  Sergeant Sheila Adams

  “Sergeant Adams, you are needed at the gate,” Casper said to me.

  "Thank you, Casper. I will be down at the gate as soon as I finish here,” I said.

  “But Sergeant Adams, you were also needed to overlook the food rationing warehouse inventory after this,” Chrissy Jones said to me as she came to my side.

  I exhaled in frustration. This was what my life had been like since founding the colony of Providence. I seemed to be the only leader in the community of five hundred humans. Yes, I had an extensive military background, and I was a natural leader, but it was very frustrating to have every single person look to you to make sure that the infrastructure was working properly. When it wasn't, they came to me, no matter how much I trained individuals to manage the areas of the community. It seemed that I had all the answers, and I didn't. No one person could be in charge of such massive tasks.

  “Yes, I will see to the rationing after I go to the gate. The rationing can wait,” I said to her.

  She rolled her eyes and walked off.

  Richard looked at me with sympathy. Then he continued to work on the engine of a generator. “You spread yourself too thin, Sergeant,” he said to me.

  “Yes, I know.
But if I don't do it no one will,” I said.

  “But if you don't take care of yourself, you will get sick, and then where will we be? Chrissy Jones wouldn't be able to wipe her ass without you,” he laughed.

  I laughed with him. Richard was an older man in his sixties, and the maintenance man in the community. He always made me laugh and look at things with a lighter tone. It was helpful in my stressful situation.

  "Thanks, Richard. What do you think the damage is here?” I asked.

  “I can fix this one for sure. The other generators might be a little tricky. If we could find solar panels, we would be in business. But I would recommend that we switch to wood for heat. There's good forest out there,” he said.

  “Beyond the fence? Yes, I know. But this isn't exactly a military community. There are only fifty trained soldiers with me that made it here. The rest are civilians. I can't exactly persuade them to go beyond the fence into the forest where we could be attacked by cyborgs. I think they would all rather freeze than we go out there,” I said.

  “I volunteered to go,” he said.

  “Yes, I know that you would. But you are needed here. You are our only mechanic, engineer, fixer guy,” I smiled. He laughed.

  “Is that my official title, Sheila?”

  “Yes, make it official. I will figure out something to get wood from the forest,” I said.

  “You always do,” he said.

  “Keep me posted here. Why couldn't I have landed in a community on a sunny beach instead of in the middle of a winter wonderland?” I said.

  “I ask myself the same question every day,” he said.

  “I have to go to the gate. I will come back before nightfall to check in,” I said.

  He continued working, and I walked down the sidewalk of Main Street in the Village. Snow crunched under my combat boots. I was glad that I had been wearing my army uniform and accessories when the ambush came years ago. It was the reason why I had those weapons and accessories with me to this day.

  I remembered that ambush every day; it was clear in my mind, as though it was yesterday. It was because that was when I lost him. Devon. He was my fiancé, and we were scheduled to get married at the end of the year. But then it all happened. The sudden appearance of the Clenok cyborgs. Suddenly every single unit in the armed forces was called to battle. We thought it would be swift. Of course, we could defeat mindless machines. We could outsmart them and just annihilate them. But we had underestimated them. Because of this, we lost, all over the planet.

  In the final battle that I was involved in, Devon died in my arms. I never got that image out of my mind. It was why I actually liked to be in charge of the small community of Providence. If I was overworked and constantly busy, then I did not have to think about Devon. The only time it would enter my mind was when I laid down to sleep, which was only for a few hours a night. There was just too much to do, and it seemed I was the only one capable of making things happen around here. We were under a constant threat that Clenok cyborgs could find out where we were and invade. So far, we had remained an isolated secret and never had an attack. I was glad for it; this community would not stand after an attack.

  Fifty soldiers and I had stumbled upon this community after a battle that left our entire unit dead. We had tracked for over twenty miles to get back to our base, but when we got there, the base was gone. The cyborgs had annihilated our army base. So we kept on moving, the fifty soldiers and me. We traveled for three days until we came upon the Providence community. We took safe refuge in the community, always expecting it to be temporary, until we could get back to the army. But news reached us over the following days weeks: there was no more army. All of the Earth armies had been annihilated; we didn't even know how many humans were left on Earth.

  A year went by, and we finally realized that Providence was our permanent home. We fifty soldiers were now trying to guard the five hundred civilians that had absolutely no military training whatsoever. They were a small mountain town full of school teachers, cooks, stay-at-home moms, and blue-collar workers. Over the years, we did our best to train them, but there weren't very many weapons to be had. Our greatest achievement was building a massive fence around the colony. But even this was not very advanced, just a lot of rolls of twisted barbed wire that we hoped the cyborgs would tangle themselves in if it ever came to that. Luckily, we never had to test it because they never came. Over time, we would get a traveler here and there that told us about other isolated human colonies. It was hopeful, but there was nothing much that we could do about it. We couldn't move five hundred people to another community hundreds of miles away; it wasn't possible. And I had too much honor to abandon this town and go on my own with my soldiers.

  So in Providence, we stayed; this was now my home in the new world overwhelmed by cyborgs.

  “Sergeant Adams, you have to come to the gate now,” Casper said as he ran up to me in a panic.

  “Yes, I know. You already told me that before. Can't you see that I am headed in that direction?” I said rolling my eyes.

  “No, we have incoming,” he said.

  “What? Why didn't you say something? The Clenok!” I said as I started to run full speed towards the gates.

  “No! It is not the Clenok,” he said running at my side. I stopped.

  “What?”

  “At least we don't think it is. They are airships. Like we have never seen before, we don't think they are cyborgs,” he said.

  “Airships? What? What do you mean?” I ran toward the gate again.

  “Sergeant! Look!” a guard shouted at me as I approach the gate. I climbed the spiral staircase to the top of the gate. I was astounded by what I saw. There were several white, sleek ships flying slow and low toward us. Then they stopped and hovered. It was nothing I had ever seen before. Everyone stood there with their mouths hanging open. I was one of them. As a military person, I knew that I should be on guard, but I was so shocked.

  “What the hell is that?” Casper said.

  “Aliens…” the guard muttered.

  “I don't think it is the Clenok,” I said.

  “The door’s opening,” Casper said.

  I looked directly at the ship in the lead position. The door opened. Then three objects flew out of the ship. They looked like creatures from this distance with a large wingspan almost five feet wide. What was it? Then as they grew closer, I realized, they looked like human men, only different, and with wings.

  “Holy crap,” Casper said.

  “Definitely not cyborgs,” the guard said.

  “Then what is it?” I whispered.

  They landed one hundred yards in front of the gates. Three men that looked half-human and half-dragon, and very tall. Their skin seemed to glisten in the sunlight. The wings were emerald green in color and somewhat translucent, like stained glass. They wore tight gray pants tucked into heavy boots, and no shirt. They were muscular and toned and looked fierce. I was in a panic. There was no way that we could compete with whatever these things were. They wouldn't even need weapons, but they had an entire air fleet at their back.

  Then one with silver long hair stepped forward.

  “Humans! My name is General Azlo Bron. We come in peace! We are the Veruka from Tivoso. We have come to you with a message from a human colony called Haven Brook. We wish to hold counsel with you!” he said.

  Everyone at the gate was quiet. Then they looked at me. It was up to me to answer, of course. But at this moment, I did not know what to say. It was hard for me to make a judgment call. If I said yes to these Dragon men and they betrayed us, then it would be on me. I wasn't ready to say yes just yet. I stepped forward onto the ledge of the gate.

  “My name is Sergeant Sheila Adams! How do we know you come in peace?” I shouted to them.

  “If we did not come in peace, you would already know!” he shouted up.

  “He has a point. They could've just invaded,” Casper whispered to me.

  "How do they know about Haven Brook? That
is one of the colonies we used to have communication with,” the guard said.

  "These are all good points. But it could be a trick,” I said.

  “So then what?” Casper asked.

  “I will walk out to this general and speak with him myself,” I said.

  “No! You cannot. If anything should happen to you…” Casper said.

  “If anything happens to me, it means that they are hostile. If they are hostile, then Providence doesn't stand a chance against them anyway. At least right now we give the illusion that we have some strength. Right now they do not know what lies beyond the gate. It could be a vast army for all they know,” I said.

  “I will come to you for council!” I shouted down to them.