Bill and the Space War! (Bill in Space (Erotic Fantasy))

by D. R. Rosier

  She knew it was a problem though, after the last fight in space it had taken hours of sex to come close to restoring Ariella. What would have happened if one of those creatures jumped in on a ship, then attacked her when she was that low on energy? The thought was chilling.

  Gwen saw another incoming message, it was Anise. She called the others over as apparently their brainstorming session would be unnecessary.

  Gwen said, “Anise is saying they are about to be attacked by sixty ships, there are only thirty of ours left there, we need to get back!”

  Sylvia said, “Already on our way, hopefully we get back before they start the attack.”

  Gwen sighed. She could feel Bill’s depression. He hadn’t come to terms with Tiffani and Gabe yet, and she could feel he doubted that he ever would. That wasn’t a good sign on top of everything else. When they got back there was no sign of the enemy fleet yet, so they landed on the planet and went looking for Tiffani, Anise and Sylvia.

  Chapter 7

  Larissa was glad they made it back. After all they should all be together when they die in glorious battle. She frowned at Bill. He was a good warrior but was having trouble with the idea of sharing his women with another man. Such an idiot, but she still loved him anyway.

  She understood vaguely what the problem was, it would be like her being told that honor wasn’t so important and she should just let it go, because it didn’t apply anymore. Still, it was frustrating in the most private areas of her mind, where she loved both Bill and Tiffani. She needed this to end well, if this follows to its natural conclusion it would affect them all.

  When they got to the throne room she got a copy of the last reports, looks like they would be here in an hour or so. And not sixty ships, it looks like their numbers swelled to twice that. They wouldn’t have a chance against that many in space. Well, she had wanted a challenge, and that is what she is getting.

  Suddenly she was pulled into a rough kiss by Tiffani. Right here in the throne room, in front of everyone. It’s a good thing she loves her mates, they never listen to her demands to be treated as a warrior in public. How hard was it to remember she didn’t like public displays of affection? Although, it seemed like they were about to die, and she had missed her lover as well… There wasn’t really time for a proper and private greeting, and perhaps a goodbye as their deaths loomed closer?

  Fuck it. She pulled Tiffani’s body against hers and returned her kiss ardently. Pouring her love and soul into the passionate kiss.

  Of course, this will mean she will be embarrassed by her behavior if they happen to survive.

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  Tiffani knew there was no way they would survive in space, there were just too many ships coming. Plus, she had a plan. A really desperate plan, but a plan nonetheless.

  Tiffani said, “Ariella, I forbid you from fighting in space. In fact I am going to send most of the ships away to hopefully keep them out of the grasp of the possessing beings. We will make our last stand here in this room, I don’t think they will destroy the palace, they will try to possess us.”

  Ariella let a breath loose, “Fine, I think I can protect my crew from possession, but no one else. If they are possessed I can’t rip the invader out without killing the host as well. I think Anise and Sylvia should run, I don’t know if they have enough understanding of energy to kick them out before they are taken over.”

  Tiffani sighed as she saw Anise and Sylvia shake their heads in denial.

  Sylvia said, “We will stand or fall with you, we will not leave.”

  Gwen said, “Why don’t we all just run now if the planet is being taken and we have no chance of winning, why the last stand?”

  Tiffani said softly, “Desperate hope. Maybe we can learn something that will help, and then escape. We have no idea how to stop them. It’s desperate but, the reports all say they are cruel and arrogant. They enjoy throwing the facts of your doom into your face. It seems that they enjoy generating fear in others, get off on it even. Maybe they feed on it in some way? I hope they will say something helpful, then Ariella can teleport all of us out of here.”

  Bill snickered.

  When Tiffani looked over questioningly he said mirthfully, “Sounds like you want to catch the bad guys in a monologue, it’s a tried and true way to get information in the stories of my culture.”

  He shrugged as the joke fell flat, no one really understanding it. “If we ever make it back to earth I will show you some 007 movies, they are famous for it.”

  Tiffani smiled then looked over to Ariella, “If they just start killing people get us out of here if you can, okay?”

  Ariella nodded somberly, they waited for the fleet to arrive giving her plenty of time to move her ship self to a good position of escape.

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  Anise waited nervously. She thought she would be able to protect herself. She certainly had enough energy, the only question being could she figure out how to use it. She was scanning space with her mind and watched as the ships showed up. It didn’t take long for them to disable the remaining five ships in orbit. A short time later those five joined in the fleet formation and they went into orbit directly over the palace.

  She sighed in relief as they launched over five hundred shuttles. They wouldn’t launch a ground force like that if they were planning to destroy them from orbit. They did not try to stop them with ground defenses, simply allowing them to land. Tiffani wanted to preserve as much life as possible. It wasn’t their fault they were possessed.

  She wondered at the desperate gamble, but she couldn’t think of a way to stop them either, short of exterminating most life in the universe. That wouldn’t happen, hope only existed where life lived. If they failed perhaps someone else would succeed in a few thousand years. Either way she couldn’t come up with a better plan, they were stuck with Tiffani’s.

  She screamed as energy erupted from the floor beneath her, invading her body. She knew she had a short time and tried to grab the entity with her power and eject it, before she lost the battle in her mind. She couldn’t figure it out though. Her last thoughts were of Sylvia, as she watched her go through the same exact thing. She should have run for Sylvia’s sake. She had gambled on figuring it out, now they were both lost…

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  Ariella felt unshed tears in her eyes as she turned to Anise, or what used to be Anise.

  She said softly, not wanting the creature to hear the pain in her voice, “Who are you?”

  Anise’s body stretched, “Wow, I am glad we missed a couple of you Dravii, this is a nice body to have.”

  The entity sneered at Ariella and said, “You can protect you and your crew, for now. But when your energy gets low enough we will take you all.”

  Ariella said, “Why? What is the point?”

  The entity laughed, it wasn’t a pretty sound, but completely absent of warmth and humor. The harshness of it was horribly jarring coming from Anise’s mouth.

  It said, “Why not, you will all be possessed soon. You have already lost the war. It’s been a hundred millennia in the coming, but the universe is now ours. We are the Sprisi. No longer are we stuck on our planet to feed on the measly energy of our atmosphere. We are surrounded now by fear, sorrow, and hopelessness. We will grow fat on it. Maybe I will keep one of you as a personal pet, would you like that? I could bond one of you and feed from you for half a million years…”

  Ariella gritted her teeth and said, “But why destroy my race? Simply because they held the secret of your defeat?”

  It snorted. “No. You have no hope. Even if you figured out the secret that died with them, which you won’t, knowing it wouldn’t help you at all. We took out all the ancient Dravii of your race. You don’t have the age, understanding, or power to pull it off. You have lost, despite our failure to find and destroy Earth you have no chance.”

  It sneered at Bill and looked back to Ariella, “But you have found Earth, so don’t worry, as soon as you run out of e
nergy we will possess you and find the information. Then we will take care of that loose end regardless. Any last words before I send thirty of my kind at once to take you?”

  Ariella laughed and said, “Yes, there is one more thing.”

  She couldn’t believe Tiffani’s plan actually worked, or at least partially. They didn’t have the answer, but they now knew where to look for it. She just wished her plan hadn’t come with such a high price. Her heart ached for Anise and Sylvia.

  It looked at her suspiciously and said, “What?”

  She smiled and said, “I am not Ariella, I am just an avatar.”

  It screamed and demanded, “Where is she!”

  She winked and said, “Come find us.”

  Ariella, Tiffani, Larissa, Gwen and Bill disappeared in swirling lights. Ariella had to leave Gabe behind, he was already possessed.

  Chapter 8

  Ariella sighed. She had used a lot of power but managed to take them from far outside the system. She was now cloaked.

  Earth? Why? The humans had incredible potential to give her energy through sex, but that couldn’t be the reason. She couldn’t actually remove a Sprisi without killing the host, no matter how much power she had.

  Was there a weapon on Earth? Or was it the Humans themselves, and I was too young to see the possibilities or bring them to fruition?

  Ariella said, “Was the Sprisi right? Is it too late? What should we do?”

  She hated sounding like that, her questions sounded hopeless. She hated not having an answer.

  Bill said confidently, “We go to Earth, and you scan every inch of it until you find a clue to this. It makes sense actually. I have been trying to wrap my head around this for a while. I could understand the Earth forgetting the wider universe over time, but it was obvious to me there used to be contact. Dragons, Elves, Demons, Angels. All of you appearing in tales or pieces of religions on my world, with descriptions that match the four of you. We even have descriptions of evil possessing spirits in all the cultures of Earth. Even the name differences can be easily explained by the intervening years.

  “What I couldn’t figure out is why the universe forgot about us. That doesn’t seem possible yet none of you recognized a human as a known race, that means something was done after that first war so you would forget us. I still don’t know what, or how, but I know part of why. It was so if or when the Sprisi tried to invade again, we would be safe unless they came across our world by accident. So whoever was possessed in early infiltration efforts wouldn’t know and the Sprisi couldn’t find out.

  “It is a big universe after all, I don’t even want to try and figure the odds on them finding us. It should have at least kept us safe from them until the ancient Dravii could go to Earth. Then do what they needed to do, either to, or with us to banish them again back to their planet, whatever that may be. Unfortunately that is where there plan failed.

  “Maybe if we are lucky there is some hint in what happened. Even if you are too young now, the universe will wait while you grow up. Of course, that is a worst case scenario, at least on the side of us winning this somehow. Does that make any sense or am I grasping for shit out of desperation?”

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  Ariella thoughtfully nodded. It’s thin but it fits. Of course, that assumes they left a record on Earth, they may have just limited the information to ancient Dravii, if that’s the case… She would have to wait until she grew up and could figure out what was done. Problem is they would be hiding a very long time. She wouldn’t be an ancient Dravii for close to three hundred thousand years. All that time lowered the odds considerably that the Sprisi would run across the planet before they were ready.

  It also stretched the imagination that she accidentally found the Earth… The one place she needed to go for the help she didn’t even know she needed yet. Could something have led her there? She found that thought gave her hope.

  She set a roundabout course to Earth that will take weeks of travel before they arrive. She wanted to make sure they aren’t followed in any way.

  She grins sheepishly and said, “Well, that long distance teleport took a lot of energy, I could use some…” She just trailed off.

  She watched sadly as Bill and Tiffani looked awkwardly at each other. She could easily read their deep love, they loved each other so much it hurt, but they were separated by Bill’s jealousy and Tiffani’s fears. It was much more than the sex, the wall between them was keeping them from simply enjoying each other’s company. That was hurting them much more.

  Larissa growled in frustration at them, then dragged Tiffani off to one of the other bedrooms.

  She and Gwen took Bill to the main bedroom and the three of them made love, but none of their hearts were really in it. It felt good, and they loved each other deeply, but no one could get the dark thoughts out of their heads.

  She could feel Bill was twisted up inside, he ached to be with Tiffani but was afraid if he was it would turn into an angry possessive fuck. Some instinctive need to claim her and show her she was his, and he was horrified by the possibility of treating her that way.

  She and Gwen were kind of overwhelmed by the day’s defeats, despite their escape they truly had failed, the empire was lost. They also were worrying for Bill and Tiffani, they could read them both and neither was really in a good mind space right now. They headed to Earth, their hope for finding a solution there tattered and slim. Would they find anything to turn this around, or was it already too late?

  Eplilogue

  The old man looked up and did not like what he was seeing. He was starting to wonder if it was too late. He was old and weak, his time was almost up. The one he saw coming was too young, inexperienced. He could sense their resignation, almost despairing of all hope. And the young man, Bill. Could he be trusted? Or would he turn out like his ancestors, an even worse scourge than the Sprisi themselves?

  He would wait a little longer and watch. After all, what was a few more days on top of how long he had already waited, guarded, and watched.

  Afterword:

  Bill in Space will continue and be concluded in book three, Bill and the Sprisi, which will be released soon. I truly hope you are enjoying the story so far…

  I want to take a moment to say relationships and the way they tie together with both emotions and instincts is very complex and quite often contradictory in nature. (I know, major understatement.) I took a single case view as to how I see Bill reacting to things, if I seemed like I was generalizing all humanity that was not my intent. Obviously the way he reacted isn’t how everyone would, although I believe everyone can relate to jealousy and most would be torn by it. Some people can and happily do have open relationships, I believe most cannot, even if it sounds good to the mind... The premise of book two was pretty much… Well, what if he was in a place where cheating didn’t exist? Where open relationships were the norm and marriage didn’t even exist. He knows she isn’t cheating, but his instincts and emotions don’t etc...

  I hope I didn’t bore anyone or dwell too much. I think fantasy erotica should be mostly fun and of course partly unrealistic where the sex is concerned. (It is a fantasy after all, not a brooding drama.) But I wanted to introduce some internal challenges for the characters in addition to what was happening on the outside, especially Bill. Any feedback would be appreciated although I should be out with book (novella) three fairly soon. But still, any advice may inform my next project.

  About the Author : If you have any comments or suggestions you can send me an email at magicwrtr@gmail.com. I started out posting short stories online, and at readers’ requests started to publish them. This original work is not posted anywhere else. If you like my work, or even if you don’t, please consider leaving a review of this book.

 

 

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