by Stella Sky
I nodded, troubled by something the men had asked.
“What is it, Yula?”
I sighed. “Why haven’t you told them that Grod isn’t a good man?”
Pax leaned back in his chair and sighed heavily. “They would never believe it until they see it. I would sound like I had gone mad from the pressures of my job. Mad and conspiratorial. It would serve nobody.”
“I don’t see why they wouldn’t trust you,” I said. “I would trust you…”
Suddenly Pax was up off his chair, his strong hands on my shoulders, his lips hot against mine. My body was awakened immediately by the sensation, and I cried out softly, surprised and overwhelmed by desire. His tongue was massaging mine gently, heat traveling through my body and leaving me desperate for more of the sensual pleasure that Pax’s body always seemed eager to promise me.
“I don’t want to talk about my stupid brother right now,” Pax said, his voice urgent. “Just tell me, human. Do you accept my claim?”
I nodded breathlessly. I wanted him more than I had ever wanted anything in my life. He was a beautiful, powerful man. He cared just as much about the Earth and the people who lived there as I did. And he was putting his life at risk to see to it that we were all going to stay safe. At least, as safe as could possibly be expected under the circumstances. There was nothing safe about the world as we had known it growing up. Both of us had probably hoped more than anything to create that safety for ourselves as adults, to benefit our race and future generations. But neither of us had anticipated anything like this happening.
“I accept your claim,” I whispered.
I was in the air suddenly, my clothes being torn right from my body. I gasped in surprise and pleasure as his body was abruptly pressed against mine, his strong hands prying my legs apart and stroking my middle gently, pressing against the sensitive bundle of nerves and filling my entire body with intense heat. I closed my eyes and allowed the pleasure to consume me. Pax’s lips dropped hot, sensual kisses along my clavicle and up my neck, and I shuddered as my body was rocked by bliss. I could feel the urgency of his longing against my middle and moaned softly as he began to ease his way inside me.
I could feel every slight movement as he entered me, the deep pleasure consuming me. I loved feeling weightless in his arms and watching his muscles rippling as he moved to pleasure me. His eyes bore into mine, and I gasped as he thrust deep inside, my body consumed by the fire that was introduced by his member. I shuddered in ecstasy as he rocked his hips against me, and I closed my eyes, caught up so completely in the blissful fire as it traveled throughout my body, every sensual stroke of Pax’s fingers sending me closer to my climax.
His mouth was suddenly hot against my breast, and his tongue curled around my nipple, tugging it firmly with his lips and sending a shot of ecstasy throughout me. My hips bucked against him and he let out a little growl of urgent desire, and I gasped as Pax’s body went into overdrive.
Soon, I had my back pressed against the wall, and my hands around his neck as he moved his body with the command and force I would have expected from the leader of the Verian army. He was so sensual even when he was letting his power take over, and every inch of my body was consumed with pleasure.
Every sensual drag of his body left me aching for more until I could feel my entire body tingling with the temptation of release. He seemed to sense this, and his eyes flashed at me, somehow serious and playful at the same time.
I gasped as he began to double his efforts, his hips working with raw power to bring me closer to my climax. Every little thing he did, every way he touched me, brought another wave of heat crashing through my body until I couldn’t take another second of it.
Pax could tell immediately where I was at in my pleasure and I moaned deeply as he slowed his sensual thrusting and brought a new course of pleasure crashing throughout me. I trembled beneath his touch as he coaxed me to the depths of my pleasure, and I studied the perfection of his milky Verian body in wonder as I finally let go of my resistance and fell into the comforting arms of my ecstasy.
Pax soon followed, and I cried out as my body was filled with the hot testament to his pleasure, and he growled deeply as his orgasm filled me, his face handsome and sensual. I reached out to touch it and he smiled at me, kissing the palm of my hand.
“It is time to visit your people, Yula. You promise you’ll protect me?”
It was strange to think that I would be the one protecting him when it was so clear that he was such a powerhouse of a being, and I smiled at him, his eyes dancing.
“Of course, Commander. Stick with me, and you’ll get far in this place.”
***
“Dr. Monroe! We thought we would never see you again!”
I smiled and offered my hand to the Minister of Defense, who shook it profusely.
“I wasn’t sure I would get a chance to come back myself,” I admitted. In fact, the thought of returning to Earth had been on my mind every day since I’d been abducted. But now that I was here, it seemed as if nothing at all had changed. I had missed it, but I hadn’t missed the rigid structure of the Zones. Being with Pax had allowed me to be truly relaxed for the first time in many years: something that I hadn’t allowed myself to admit until I had finally returned to Earth and felt the tremendous demands of measuring up to the standards necessary to survive in a war-torn world. Humans didn’t have the technology to wage war on Helna as Helna had the technology to wage war on Earth; that was the sad fact of the matter.
“Well I’m very glad to see that you did make it here,” Dean said. As the Minister of Defense, I had spoken with him several times about the design of my superweapon, and he had collaborated with me on how it should be used strategically in battle once it was completed.
“I didn’t come alone,” I said, looking nervously behind me.
As soon as we had arrived, Pax had been handcuffed and nudged forward with an electrically charged rod, as if he were livestock. I had begged them to release him, but Pax had given me a stern look, and I continued onward, sad that there was nothing I could do about it.
“Who is this?” Dean asked, standing suddenly, immediately on the defensive.
“This is Second-in-Command Pax Curad,” I said. “I spent time with him on the Planet Helna, and we have to talk to you about something very serious.”
“Shit, is this a setup?” Edgar Rose asked, standing up and glaring at me and then Pax suspiciously. “Did they brainwash this poor girl?”
“I can assure you, gentlemen, that I am not brainwashed.”
“So what is it? Why are you here?” Dean asked, the kindness gone from his voice. Now he was stern and serious, and I felt a keen pressure to submit to his severity and tell him something good. But all I had was the truth.
“We are afraid that the Doyan of Helna, Grod Curad, is going to launch an attack that will destroy the Earth as we know it and all those living upon it,” I said quietly.
“I refuse to see the war my ancestors have waged come to an end like this simply because of the greed and short-sightedness of my brother,” Pax said, staring at Dean. Dean didn’t seem eager to acknowledge Pax, but he did anyway.
“And what do you expect us to do about your brother? Why aren’t you up there stopping him right now?”
Pax sighed deeply. “Because he is bringing reinforcements. If you know anything about your friendly, parasitic alien races, then you will know that they rarely come alone or with a penchant for compromise.”
“The Larex then, is it?” Dean said quietly.
Pax and I exchanged brief, curious looks, and Dean sighed. “This isn’t the first time your people have had dealings with those intergalactic bullies. When are they planning to strike?”
Pax wasted no time in replying. “It could be as soon as tomorrow.”
“What of the weapon, Ali?” Dean asked. “Is it ready?”
“It just needs a small finishing touch, and it will be.”
“There is just one s
mall thing,” Pax said.
“What is that?” Dean asked, his eyes serious.
“They have the Yorga with them. Or they may. We still don’t know for sure yet, but that’s what my intel has been telling me to look out for.”
“Are you serious?” Dean exclaimed.
The whole room was suddenly bustling with activity, and they quickly had Pax out of his confines, and soon, they were leading me and the Verian man through some large double doors where we were rushed into the back room and we spent the rest of the evening coming up with strategies for battle.
It was surreal to be working alongside Pax and Dean, who were soon getting on like old buddies. I wouldn’t have ever believed it if I hadn’t seen it myself, and by the end of the night, they were smiling and laughing. Dean led them out to the ship to make sure Pax was treated with respect as he left, and stood outside the base, looking up at the sky.
“It’s so strange to think that up there we’re surrounded. We had picked up something on the satellites, but we thought it was just the usual stealth mission. I had no idea…”
“Well, the scope of this would shock anybody. I would have known nothing about it were it not for a dear old friend who happened to want to help.”
“Well, what are dear old friends for?” Dean asked.
Pax grinned, and soon we were on our way back to the base. When the ship landed, Pax led me to his quarters where we fell asleep together on his cot, holding each other closely and intimately in a way I had never dreamed I might hold anyone.
“You are going to be safe, Yula,” Pax whispered to me, his voice deep and soothing in my ears. I nodded, somehow allowing myself to believe his words just long enough to drift into a fitful sleep.
Chapter 8
Second-in-Command Pax Curad
Ali had already left my quarters, leaving the bed warm behind her, when I woke up. I felt great, better than I had in years, and stood up right away, almost forgetting to take my Vari-X.
My mind immediately went to the necessities of the day. We had come up with a strategy that somehow seemed feasible, but until Grod showed up ready to betray us, as far as our troops knew, we were here to fight humans and humans alone.
It would take the full and utter betrayal of their leader for the troops to believe that they were better off following me and the humans into a battle of unknown outcomes. The idea of working together with humans unless out of necessity would probably strike them all as bizarre, and I was reluctant to break the news to them.
I dismounted the ship and looked to the sky from the base I had created near the original mine where I had met Ali, and readied myself for the battle ahead.
The alarm bells began to ring much sooner than I had anticipated, and the black ships of the Yorga began to appear one by one in the sky. My blood curdled when I saw three round figures, imposing against the blue of the Earth’s sky. They were not ships. They were large, balloon-like creatures with round, sadistic eyes. The Larex.
Behind the three Larex was the ship that was perhaps the most disturbing of all, but only because I knew that inside that ship was a man I knew and had loved once as a brother. Grod.
“Attention, creatures of Earth,” Grod said, his voice echoing from the ship sinisterly. “We have come to take this planet as our own.”
I could hear the bustling of the humans as they began to come out of their shelters in the Zones, and the electronic charges of superweapons that were prepared to take on any threat.
“But we are not just here on behalf of Earth,” Grod said, his voice smug. “We are also here because we are planning a pretty hostile takeover. And unfortunately, I am going to be the last Verian standing in the universe. And it is all thanks to you, people of Earth, and my own troops for making this possible.”
The eyes of the frightening Larex rolled with pleasure, and the lights of the ships of the Yorga began to shine, locking on targets to attack. Unsurprisingly, I was one of those targets.
“Goodbye, Earth, and all its inhabitants,” Grod said, a shrill giggle echoing over the loudspeakers. “It was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it?”
I immediately went to my control panel and got on the wire to all of my ships. Fortunately, they were all already in position, and still well hidden from the Yorga. But that wasn’t going to be enough. I just hoped against hope that Ali’s weapon and the humans on the ground would be enough to prevent the impending tragedy.
“Fire!” I shouted.
Soon the sky was alight with the blaze of rockets and lasers, and three Yorga ships were engulfed in flames and plummeting toward Earth. I wished we could have done something to prevent damage to the foliage, but I pushed the thought from my mind and took the opportunity to relocate my ship to a vantage point. I refused to let Grod just watch from behind everyone who was doing the actual fighting. My issue was with him. If it weren’t for my selfish brother, I would not be risking my life to simply save the planet. I would be fighting a war for the right to live on that planet.
Deafening explosions echoed in my ear as I made my way up and into the atmosphere of Earth, where Grod was sitting in the captain’s seat of his huge, ugly ship. Sure enough, there were no other Verians in the ship with him, just a small handful of Pelin.
“Surrender, brother,” I demanded through my own speaker. “You will not win this battle.”
“Never!”
The ship I was in was hit by a sudden explosion and careened off to the side. I returned fire, and soon both of our ships were plummeting to the ground. Grod emerged from his wreckage, disoriented and furious, as the Larex circled around the planet, watching the chaos unfold with greedy, disgusting eyes.
“Once again, you have betrayed me, Grod,” I growled, stepping out from my own ship.
All day long I had been feeling stronger than I had in years and years, and I made my way confidently toward my brother, righteous fury brewing in my chest.
I marched up to Grod, who was no longer feeling very sure of himself stuck on the very planet he meant to destroy, and soon we were fighting unlike any fight I had ever experienced before. He had put me down and bullied me for so long that it was all I could do to keep from killing him right then and there. But he was my brother. I would much rather imprison him and make him pay for all he had done.
Unfortunately, there was no way to end this war without casualties. Ship after ship dropped to the ground, some of them Yorga, others of them Verian, with Grod and I brawling on the ground all the while.
Grod finally yelped in pain, surrendering as I whipped him around and broke one of his arms. I shoved him down and stepped on his chest, looking up into the sky in concern. Another wave of Yorga ships had arrived, and they were sending down the foot troops.
“You are going to pay for this, you krocha!” I spat down at Grod, who didn’t respond; he only grunted in pain.
Just when it looked like all would be lost, a brilliant blue light snaked throughout the air. I thought I was seeing things, but it happened again, and soon the whole sky was filled with flashes of blue.
“It’s working!”
Ali’s beautiful voice filled my heart with wonder, and I turned around just in time to see her running toward me, her cheeks ruddy and her eyes sparkling.
“Dean got it to work! We’re going to win this thing after all!”
Human troops were being deployed on the ground, with an advantage of three troops to one Yorga warrior. It seemed to take no time at all before Ali’s weapon began to prove its worth, and ship after ship lost power and crashed down, most imploding before they even reached the ground.
The round eyes of the Larex watched this in disbelief and anger, and they opened their mouths as if to prepare for an attack. Before they had the chance to follow through, however, beams of blue light began to dance around them, and soon they were being electrified beyond recognition.
They seemed to deflate and fluttered to the ground, leaving the sky free of all threats.
I looked down at
Ali in disbelief, and she smiled at me, pride and pleasure etched deep in every line of her face. I knew at that moment that I had claimed the right person, and no matter what I would be proud and willing to call her my own.
“What did you think?” she asked me, referencing her weapon.
“I think it was amazing, Yula,” I said, kissing her forehead. “And now that we have finished destroying, I think that it might be time for us to rebuild.”
“What do you mean?” she asked.
“The foundation beneath human and Verian may be cracked, but there is the possibility to heal all wounds. If we can move forward together, perhaps both of our species can learn to coexist and live in harmony, just as we band together to absolve the threat of the Larex and their Yorga warriors.”
Ali smiled, her face more beautiful than I had ever seen it before.
“I don’t think I would like to see anything more than I would like to see our people living in peace and harmony.”
“From here on out, that is exactly what we are going to do,” I said, holding her close and dropping a tender kiss on the lips of my human. “Starting with getting rid of the law that forbids love between species.”
Ali held me close, each of us appreciating each other more and more. Now that the battle was over, our lives could truly begin.
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