Rai

by Maia Starr

  “I like that idea. I will let you see that it is done, Captain,” the King said.

  “Of course. I will get right on it.”

  “All are dismissed,” the King said. I followed the King out onto the platform and quietly spoke to him.

  “King Hydros, a word?”

  “Yes?”

  “Have you thought about my request?” I asked.

  “Oh yes, your human is with child, and you want to move your marriage up to a sooner date.”

  “Yes, exactly.”

  “Since we the village owe you so much, I do not see any problem with granting that to you. How about in ten days?”

  “Yes, that will do. Thank you, King,” I said with a nod.

  “You are welcome. Now go see to your assignment,” he said.

  I flew off the platform and went to the long-range communications building in the military barracks and got to work. When I was done, it was dinner time. I went to my hut; Maria was not there. I flew down to the village and found her helping in the kitchens. I stood by in silence watching her. She did not know that I was there. I watched her move with precision as she worked. Her long brown hair was in a braid. Her sheer dress showed her ample cleavage in the tied cloth across her chest. Her shapely hips and thighs were visible under the sheer cloth of the yellow dress. She was exquisite and glowing. Finally, she looked up, and our eyes met. A feeling of warmth flowed through me. She was the best damn human female on Kelon, and I deserved her. I was the best damn hero in this village and needed a real woman like her. She walked over to me.

  “What are you smiling about?” she asked.

  “I am smiling at you. You are so beautiful, and I am a lucky Draqua to have you,” I said grabbing her hand.

  “Good answer,” she said. I laughed.

  “Do you want to eat dinner here in the communal?” she asked.

  “Yes, why not? We are already here. But I have come to tell you news,” I said.

  “Yes? I am listening, my alien lover,” she said playfully.

  “In ten days you won’t have to call me that anymore. You can call me husband,” I said.

  “Do you mean…”

  “Yes, I just spoke with the King. He has granted us to move the wedding to ten days,” I said.

  “Aag!” she shouted and threw her arms around me. Everyone turned to look at her scream.

  “We are getting married in ten days!” I shouted.

  The villagers erupted in cheers. Everyone shouted congratulations. Maria and I laughed. The tone of celebration was once again filling the night. We sat down to a boisterous dinner of seafood and Hiwa. The male Draqua congratulated me and the females fussed over Maria. It was a good time. I knew that I was the luckiest Draqua. It was very unreal that it had all worked out the way it had. When I first went to Earth searching for a human female, I was mostly thinking of the entire mission. Never did I think that the female I found would be my life’s mission. I truly was lucky that I landed my ship in that desert on Earth and found her. She was swimming in a pool of water with hardly anything on. I remember it fondly. Now she was going to be my official wife, mate, and mother of my offspring. I could not ask for anything else. The fact that I was promoted to captain and fought well in battle was only a bonus to life with Maria Covallos.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

  MARIA COVALLOS

  It was the last day that I would be Maria Covallos. It was everything that I hoped for and nothing that I expected. When I thought back on being in the Joshua Tree Desert in California, it seemed like a lifetime ago. I hoped that Claudia was alright and able to move on from my disappearance. I did feel guilty about it, but in these circumstances, there was not much that I could do. I could only enjoy the here and now.

  “You look exquisite,” Amelia said as she braided flowers in my hair. I was sitting her hut as she helped me get dressed for the ceremony.

  “Thank you,” I said. “I am nervous.”

  “As you should be. You are about to give yourself away to an alien.”

  We were silent. Then we burst into laughter at the absurdity of what she had said. “It does sound ridiculous, doesn’t it?” I said.

  “Yes it does,” she said. “Now let’s get you down to the beach so you can get married.”

  I stood up. I looked lovely with flowers in my hair and two sheer white dresses on that it made it look more like a solid white dress. I wore white cloth underneath them. I looked like a bride on Earth. “I am ready.”

  The grand marriage ceremony as promised by the King was absolutely lovely and quaint. It reminded me of a marriage ceremony on Earth. I stood next to Cerik Hade with my hands in his as we listened. Everyone was in good spirits on the beach to watch us become a union. We did not recite any sort of official vows. Instead, there were official words that were spoken by the Draqua official.

  “This bond you both partake in. You are taking each other in union as mates and as husband and wife. From this bonding ceremony forth, you belong only to each other,” he said.

  A long vine was wrapped around our hands. It was lovely and tears were falling down my cheeks.

  That was the end of it. Then there was a grand feast. We were officially husband and wife. After the feast, we went to our little love hut to spend the night in our new marriage bed. I could not have asked for anything more.

  Nine months later, our son was born: Kazon Hade. He was beautiful and perfect. He would have a perfect playmate too, as Amelia had given birth a month and half before I did. Everything was perfect. I could not believe that I had been abducted by an alien, and it actually turned out to be the best thing in the universe that could ever happen to me. I was happy, and I was in love on another planet with an alien dragon shifter that stole me, and stole my heart.

  The End

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  Vycon-Zenkian Warriors

  (Zenkian Warriors)

  By Maia Starr

  Chapter One

  NICOLE PLIMOC

  Everybody has a memory burned into their minds of where they were when the first peaceful Zenkian ship entered Earth’s atmosphere. Most evacuated the city, but I did not because I worked for the military in communications, and it was my job to stay put.

  On Earth, we had a pact with the blue-skinned rebel Zenkians known as the Grantsions. They were helping us to defend ourselves against another pack of Zenkians known as the Waysaw. The Waysaw had red skin, and they were brutal.

  They had launched a surprise invasion on us decades before. We weren’t even aware that aliens existed then, but we would soon find out. The Waysaw invaded, taking down entire cities. They would steal women and our resources and take them back to their planet. They were nine-foot-tall gladiators with fighting skills we had never seen and technology far more advanced than ours. In short, we were no match for them.

  That was why we desired the help of the blue-skinned Zenkians, the Grantsions. They had rebelled long before against the Waysaw, and now the Waysaw were their enemy too. So now the Grantsion had military bases on Earth right next to our own, and getting the Earth military and the Zenkian military to get along was hard: very hard.

  I sat in the tower overlooking such a base. I had been transferred from a copper mine known as the Hala mines in the north of the country six months before. I had been transferred to oversee the relations between the Grantsions and the Earth army.

  I looked down over the ruined city of Houston, Texas. It was now just rubble, and everything looked burned and dark. This was the aftermath of a Waysaw invasion five years before. Most of the country looked like this now. We built the military bases and towers over the ruined city. It was the perfect place for battle because the city was already ruined and mostly evacuated.

  Outside of work, my life in the city was genuinely typical, potentially so boring
it could be called exhausting. I was committed to work and invested next to no energy in myself. I was sort of dating somebody, yet that somebody was what my friend Sheila called settling.

  "You going out with Sergeant Richard Banks once more: is that an accurate statement? You are settling Nicole," she said to me one day at lunch.

  We sat at a table at the bottom of the tower in our military uniform jumpsuits. It was an incredible place for people watching and passing judgment on others.

  "Yes, Sheila, you have disclosed that bit of information to me every day since I began seeing him," I said to her.

  "I am simply reminding you is all," she said.

  "Yes, Sheila, I know he is dreadful. In any case, he is great at sex and has an incredible body. At this moment, that is all that I require. Look around you. We are in a shit hole. I might as well get laid at least," I said as I drank the remainder of my juice. She kind of snickered at my comment.

  "Yes, that is incredible. You are getting laid, congrats. Be that as it may, you know, and I know, that you require more than that. You require sentiment and being on the same page, as I do. Much the same as we all do. I'm not saying you should quit having sex with him; however, quit giving him such an extensive amount of your time and vitality. He doesn't deserve it. Call him over to your apartment, do your business, and after that, tell him to clear out. That is my advice," she said.

  "Yes, I am extremely mindful that that particular routine of kicking men out after sex is your method for things. I will think about it. In any case, he asked to take me to dinner tonight," I said. “Not that you can actually have a fancy dinner at the one diner that is left here.”

  "Dinner? Doesn't he have that awful characteristic of asking you to dinner and afterward concocting some reason for you to pay for it?"

  "Could we get back to work now? I have a lot to do," I said feeling irritated that I had disclosed to her such a great amount of information about Sergeant Richard Banks. There was such a concept as giving somebody too much information, and as a communications and information examiner, I should know that.

  An hour later, I was sitting at that diner with Sergeant Richard Banks.

  I had my dark hair high on my head in an untidy bun. I wore heaps of mascara to highlight my blue eyes and went with a bare lipstick. I felt exceptionally hot in my tightly fitted jeans and low-cut tight tank top. It wasn’t exactly a dinner dress, but it was military hot wear. He sat opposite me eating. He barely surfaced for oxygen. He wore an army jacket and army pants on his extraordinarily fit body. He was the always working out sort.

  I attempted to make some kind of discussion, " This diner is an awesome pick. How did you catch wind of it?” I said sarcastically. I knew it was the only place to eat out in the area.

  "One of my soldiers recommended it to me," he said.

  “Really?” I said laughing at his joke.

  “No. Come on? We’re not going to make stupid small talk like that,” he said.

  "Okay, I see… " I said.

  "About the check. You wouldn't fret about going half on this one with me, right? I knew it would be costly. However, I wasn't anticipating that it should be this costly. You requested the second most expensivedish on the menu, and I ordered the cheapest. You're chugging down that wine like you've never had wine in your life. I believe it's reasonable that you pay for your half," he said.

  My face turned a brilliant red.

  "Sure, I guess… " I said.

  "Extraordinary; so don't get dessert. We need to leave and go to your place. I must be up at an early hour in the morning for a meeting," he said as he waved the server over. I took a look at my plate; it was still for the most part full. I ate at an ordinary pace, not like a pig. He ate his whole dish in sixty seconds. I would eat at the pace that I wanted. I started to eat and didn't waste time with discussion. There was no good reason for it.

  The following day at work I was sitting at my work area, in the steel and glass tower. I was taking a look at information on the screens from the two satellites we had out in space. We were expecting a new ship today, a Grantsion Zenkian ship. It would be carrying one of the greatest Zenkian soldiers, or so we were told. He would be coming with his superior to have meetings with us. This was part of the Grantsion and Earth army pact.

  “There she is. We have contact. Zenkian Grantsion ship is coming in,” Commander Eriks said.

  “Receiving communication?” I asked the communications specialist.

  “Yes, message coming in. Take a look,” he said.

  I looked at the message. It was exactly what I had expected to see.

  “Good. Send them a message saying they are confirmed,” I said.

  A few minutes later, a dark triangle-shaped ship hovered in front of the tower.

  Then Private Martinez ran over to me. "Nicole! Nicole! Commander Eriks needs you in his office. The president needs to talk with you," he said.

  "With me?" I said.

  "Rush! Go!" he said as he snatched my arm and ran with me the distance to Commander Eriks's office. Commander Eriks held up his hand to me and after that addressed the telephone, which was on speaker.

  "Mr. President, I have our information and communication specialist Nicole Plimoc here."

  "Hi, Nicole Plimoc. I praise you for your fantastic work. This recent arrival is an important one. I will be coming to the base to meet with these particular Grantsions as well.”

  "Yes, Mr. President, and thank you for the compliment. Just doing my job, sir.”

  “Nicole, I want you to be the one to meet with these Grantsions. I know there are tensions on the base already between the Earth army soldiers and the Grantsion soldiers and I cannot have that tension with these new arrivals. I want you to stay with them closely and diffuse any tensions,” he said.

  “Yes sir, I understand,” I said, excited that I was getting a direct order from the president.

  Chapter Two

  COMMANDER VYCON DASE

  I had been a soldier in the Grantsion regiments for a long time now. I had been on the most hazardous missions. What's more, due to this I was regularly searched out as the soldier that a leader desired next to him, his commander. I was dependably up for a decent test. In any case, when Leader Nizok requested that I go along with him on his most recent and most imperative mission in Grantsion history, I was not ready for what he asked of me. It was a shock because I despised the humans.

  "You wished to see me, Leader?" I said as I walked into the hall in the Grantsion village on our planet of Anvin.

  "Yes, Commander Vycon Dase. I have recently been requested by the Council to leave on an imperative and hazardous mission. It is an essential mission. Also, we are to leave inside the hour," the Leader said.

  "No opportunity to plan. Are we under assault?" I asked exceptionally concerned.

  "No, we are not under assault, not on our planet. Be that as it may, there is an invasion of the Waysaw going to happen. This invasion could mean the annihilation of our race the Grantsions," he said.

  "I am listening, Leader," I said as I prepared for action.

  "It has gone to the consideration of the Council that the Waysaw intend to attack Earth. We don't know whether it will be a hard and fast invasion on the people, or on the resources," the Leader said.

  "The Council believes that this report of their invasion to visit Earth is to steal copper. They have been after it for a while now. They were successful a few years before, if you remember.”

  “Yes, they built laser weapons with it unlike any we had ever seen. We bombed those weapons,” I said proudly.

  “Yes, we destroyed the weapons, but they still have the knowledge to build them again. That is why we must go to Earth and help the humans stop the Waysaw from getting the copper.”

  "I see. That bodes well," I said. "So, what are we to do? What is this mission that the Council wishes for us to do? Are we to battle the Waysaw in space and keep them from getting the opportunity to invade Earth?"

  "No
, we have thought of that. In any case, the Council believes that regardless of what number of ships we take out, they will, in the long run, figure out how to get the opportunity to invade Earth," the Leader said.

  "That is valid. Reveal to me the arrangement, Leader. I am with you," I said.

  "We will go to Earth. We should leave now and arrive before the Waysaw do."