by Stella Sky
“What?” I laughed. “Don’t be absurd.”
Bam! Baca hit me on the jaw.
“Baca what the fuck!” I said holding my sore jaw. I saw the look in Baca’s eyes. He was not there. “Oh shit! Baca, snap out of it,” I shouted.
I could hear the Draqua on the ground laughing. “Hit him.”
“No! Don’t do it!” I shouted. I realized that this Draqua that was mixed with the alien race of Aeriwana had the same powers that I did. He had mind control, but I was only able to use it on humans, and not other Draqua. It seemed that Candris was purposely trying to breed a super Draqua. I knew what I had to do. I grabbed a big stone off the ground and flew straight up into the air. Baca followed and I had to use evasive flying to stop him from hitting me. I flew straight down. Bam! I hit the Draqua’s head with the stone. Baca landed on the rocks. “What the hell just happened?” he said.
“Shit. This Draqua had mind control, and he was using it on you,” I said
“What? I thought that did not work on other Draqua?” Baca said.
“So did I. It does not work for me, but it seems to work for these Draqua that are crossed with Aeriwana. This is what Candris was doing out here. He was using the diverse alien races that live on this planet to create a Draqua that he can use as a weapon, and persuasion is a very powerful weapon,” I said.
“Shit. We better get out of here before more come,” Baca said.
“Good idea. Looks like we will be taking their ship back,” I said. We climbed into the ship and made our way back to Kelon.
“When we arrive, tell no one what we have discovered except for Jix. I do not want to create panic among the Draqua on Kelon. They are barely starting to trust each other again, and I don’t want them to think they have to be wary of a new breed of Draqua that can make them do things they don’t want to do.”
“I understand,” Baca said.
It was a stressful voyage. I had to face a close friend and someone I considered to be a second father only to discover that he was a traitor. He was the cause for it all. He was the cause of the opposition uprising, and now I did not see that cause going away. It was only getting stronger. Then I had to deal with the new information that there was a new Draqua out there that was more dangerous than any I had ever known. I wondered how long it would be before they showed up on Kelon. It was probably only a matter of time
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
MELODY REEVES
I was worried as I always was when Cylo was not with me. He had a habit of doing this. First, he left me on that cliffside when he went to jump back in the water to get gold from his ship with a monster trying to kill him. Then he left me on the island of Kila alone as he fought his brother. Both times he had me terrified that he was going to die, and now I was worried again. He had been gone for three days.
“He will be fine. He and Baca are a good team. There is nothing to worry about,” Jix said as he whispered to me.
“I know I just can’t help it. That planet is very dangerous. I’ve seen what lives there,” I said.
There was a knock at the door. “Who goes there?” Jix shouted.
“It is Umbvo Corist,” the fisher Draqua said through the door.
Jix opened the door just a crack and said. “Umbvo, this will have to wait. The king is very busy for the next couple of days. I will call for you when he is ready to see you.”
“But it cannot wait. There is a problem with the fisheries on the south side of the island,” I heard him say.
“Show him to the throne room, Jix,” I said.
“What my queen?” he asked.
“Show him to the throne room. I’ll hear his problem and see if I can be of help,” I said.
“But…”
“Just do it,” I said. Minutes later, I was wrapped in long robes. I was not going to wear the island loincloth and tube top bikini with a sheer dress in my pregnant state. I sat in the throne room and listened to the fisherman’s problem. I offered up a solution, and Jix listened. He agreed with it. I put the solution into action, and before I knew it, I had seen four more Draqua and helped to resolve their problems. It felt good to be of service and to help instead of sitting on my butt all day. Then I realized something, thinking about all the time that I had stayed away from politics with my father. Here I was now actually doing exactly that: practicing politics. I laughed to myself. He would be proud of me.
The next day was another excruciating waiting game. Then a gust of wind hit my face. I looked up to see Cylo standing on the veranda.
“Cylo! Thank god! I’m so happy to see you!” I said as I walked to him and threw my arms around him.
“Mmm… it is good to see you,” he said hugging me.
“I thought you might be hurt. I’ve been so worried,” I said.
“I promised you that I would return, and I always do,” he said kissing me on the forehead. Then he moved into the chambers. “What happened?” I asked.
“A lot. Where is Jix?” he asked.
“He is standing guard outside the door today. I needed a little privacy this morning,” I said as he gave me a look like he was not happy that Jix was not in the same room with me. I was very aware of the dangers that anyone could fly onto the veranda, but I needed privacy! I was a pregnant woman!
“I will tell you everything, but let me get Jix,” he said. He returned with Jix, and they quietly spoke.
“We found Candris, and it is much worse than we thought. He was not only leading the opposition, but he was doing more than that,” Cylo said.
“What was he doing?” I asked.
“He was creating a mating program of sorts with Draqua. He was crossing them with other alien species to see what happened,” Cylo said.
“What? That is insane. How long was he doing this?” Jix asked.
“Years, judging by the fully grown Draqua we encountered that were mixed with Aeriwana,” Cylo said.
“Aeriwana! What?” Jix said.
“Yes, keep your voice down. There is a big problem. The Draqua we encountered mixed with Aeriwana had my powers of persuasion,” Cylo said.
“Mind control?” I asked.
“Yes, exactly, only this one used it on Baca,” Cylo said.
“Holy shit,” Jix said.
“Exactly,” Cylo said.
“So what now?” Jix asked.
“We have to keep an eye on it. These Draqua are too dangerous to be around. One was able to make Baca turn on me with a few words.”
“What? Are you okay?” I asked.
“Yes, I am fine, and Baca is fine. We got away and killed that Draqua but I am sure there are more like it. We did not stick around to find out.”
“Anything else?” Jix asked.
“Yes. These Draqua could not shift. They looked like us, but they could not shift to full dragon or hybrid,” I said.
“That hardly makes them Draqua,” Jix said. “Where’s the dragon?”
“I know, but they look like us, which means they could walk among us. So keep an eye out for anyone that you have never seen shift,” Cylo said. “Until then we will have to figure out another way to deal with these Draqua from Tiok. For now, Candris is no more, and that should be plenty for now.
It was a heavy talk, and I had to admit that it had me very scared. The deep space politics was full of backstabbing and opportunists just like on Earth, but here there was magic, and it made it so much more dangerous. We tried to put the haunting notion of mind controlling Draqua that were out to kill us out of our minds as much as we could. We could not go living in fear forever. So we went on with our daily lives, and my new life as queen.
Months later, it was as if the battle never happened. The Draqua began to trust each other again, and they were a lively village. But I think what also gave them hope was the birth of a new generation of royalty.
“I am more happier than I ever thought I could be now that our son Teavin has been born,” Cylo said to me.
“I am too. I am so happy, and
he makes me happy every day,” I said.
“And what about me? Do I not make you happy?” he asked.
“Yes, you do,” I said.
Cylo hugged me and kissed me. I was filled with happiness and hope. Now that I had our son, I was able to figure out a time to go back to Earth for a week. This was to keep my father from starting another search party. It was something that was needed, and it was one of the perks of being queen. But what was the best perk of all was the fact that I got to rearrange the household.
Yes, that’s right, I kicked the harem out. Michelle and Sarah. I kicked them out of the palace almost immediately upon getting married. Baca found a new home for them with the warriors, and I was told the women were very happy. I did not care what they did as long as they were not in the palace and were away from me and Cylo. He just laughed the first time I asked him what kind of power I had as queen because he knew what I was going to do with that power.
But even though we had endured some hardship, I knew that I did not regret any of it. I had asked for an adventure, and I got the adventure of a lifetime. It was the best thing that could have ever happened to me, being abducted by an alien that happened to be a dragon shifter. My life was never the same after that moment, and I was no longer the daughter of President Reeves; I was the queen of Kelon.
The ominous presence of the opposition was still out there and would need to be faced again, but that would come in time. We did not want to live in fear of it and let it tear the planet of Kelon apart. For now, my husband kept an eye on it, and I kept an eye on our son. One day he would be dealing with the problems of the Draqua. It was something that every royal house of Draqua would face, but none were quite like what I went through and loved.
The End
Ravinn: Dragons Of Kelon
(Dragons Of Kelon)
By Maia Starr
CHAPTER ONE
AMELIA SANDERS
The feeling of falling out of the sky was the same on an alien planet as it was on Earth. The thick gray smoke from the hole in the side of the small transport spaceship was quickly filling the cabin as it plummeted. The sound of wind rushing by outside of the ship was making a whistling sound. It was a frightful sound.
“We've been hit! We are going to hit the water!” I heard the deep male voice shout from the front of the spaceship.
Smash! The transport I was in a crashed into the ocean. It rocked me out of my seat.
“What is happening?!” I shouted.
“We are all going to die!” another human female shouted as she slid across the path between seats on the small space ship transport. Her name was Michelle, and we had become friends over the course of the journey.
“They shot us out of the sky!” I heard a Draqua warrior shout. They were aliens, and they had abducted us from Earth.
“It is the opposition!” another warrior shouted.
“We have to abandon before the ship floods!”
“What about the human females? They cannot swim the way that we can,” a warrior shouted as he came to the back of the ship. Water was rushing in through a hole blown into the side of the ship.
“They are going to have to swim!”
“Listen up! As soon as this hatch is opened, water is going to rush in. We will pull you and push you out of the hatch on the other side of the ship. You will be hitting deep ocean water. The transport is sinking fast. As soon as you are in the water, swim up as fast as you can!” the warrior shouted at us.
“No! I can't do that! I want to go home!” a human female with blonde hair said to them in a panic. Her name was Stephanie.
“That has never been a choice. We will be right behind you,” the warrior said. Then in a flash, they both shifted into a half-dragon man. They were Draqua, and the Draqua were alien dragon shifters. It stunned me to see it.
“Open the hatch!” he shouted.
Water rushed in, and the three women that were with me began to scream in panic. I stayed as calm as I could, ready to use all my strength to swim in the vast ocean on the alien planet that we were on.
One warrior moved to the other side of the ship and opened the hatch. I could feel the pressure stabilizing, and water did not rush in as fast as before.
“Go! Go!” he shouted as he gestured toward the hatch he stood next to. The other women were in panic, refusing to go. But I was ready to do whatever was necessary to survive. I quickly moved through the knee-deep water to the hatch. I nodded to him, and he pushed me into the water. I quickly moved my limbs.
The water was crystal clear and beautiful. I could see an enormous amount of sea life in various vibrant colors. It was like diving in the Caribbean. I swam up and kicked as hard as I could toward the sunlit surface.
I did not know how I found myself in such a situation. Only a month before I was simply a secretary in New York City. I had a very boring life where I would do the same thing day in and day out. My boss was a very attractive millionaire in the real estate business. He had lots of women coming and going, but he never looked at me. I was too plain with my red hair in a bun and soft freckles on my cheeks. It bothered me beyond belief that such a womanizer didn't think I was his type. I went to work, had my simple chicken salad for lunch, and then went home for a frozen microwave dinner with a glass of wine. It was the same thing day in and day out.
“There she is,” the secretary named Shannon said when I walked into the first floor of the skyscraper building in the middle of Manhattan. She was whispering to another girl, and they laughed as I walked by.
“Amelia! How is Mr. Drake today? Is he very busy?” she asked with a big smile.
“Yes, his schedule is full, as always,” I said to them, trying not to stop for a conversation.
Shannon looked at the other girl and said, “That is strange. I wonder why he asked me to come up on my lunch break then?” she giggled.
“I am not sure. That is a question for Mr. Drake,” I said in my most official tone. I continued walking towards the elevators. I could still hear the women whispering.
“Why does she dress like that? She looks like a librarian,” one of them said.
“If I worked directly for Mr. Drake, I would dress like a sexy librarian every day,” the other said.
“Yes, you already dressed like a slut and he has noticed. But that was what you wanted. You got what you wanted; he invited you up to his office, didn't he?”
“Yes, but he invited you a month ago. He took way too long.” Finally, the elevator door opened and I was relieved to get into the elevator car.
I walked into the busy office and made my way to the corner where Mr. Drake had his private office. I always came in an hour before him to set things up for him and make sure that his coffee was ready. When he finally came in, he didn't even look at me.
“Amelia. I need those files that I asked you for yesterday,” he said rushing in.
“Yes, I will bring them to you right away,” I said as I moved to my desk and then walked into his office. He was sitting in his chair. I decided that I would test what the women were talking about. I knew that my boss was a dirty womanizer. He was very filthy and would stick his cock into a hole in a tree if he could.
But he never ever tried anything with me. He never tried to slide by me and rub his body on me. He never tried anything at all yet he had tried or succeeded with every single secretary in the building, even those that did not work for his company. So what was wrong with me? Was it simply because I was not being sexy in front of him? So I decided to try something. I carried the files to him and then dropped them.
“Oh, silly me. Let me get those,” I said as I bent over putting my ass right in his line of vision. I took my time and bent over as sexy as I could in my pencil skirt.
“Hurry up. I need those,” he said in a stern voice. I picked them up and turned to him. He was not staring at me like I thought he would be. He was shuffling papers and beginning to make a phone call. I sighed. If a womanizer rejected me, then there was no hope for
any other male wanting me.
“Amelia,” he said as I was walking out of his office. Maybe he had a change of heart. Maybe he was turned on by my display.
“Cancel my lunch meeting. Something else has come up,” he said.
“Yes, Mr. Drake,” I said knowing exactly what was coming up for lunch: that slut Shannon.
“And go ahead and take an extra long lunch yourself. I will need a good hour and a half,” he said.
