by Maia Starr
“Don’t let them tell you that you can’t be a good scientist because of your looks,” she said on our first meeting together. She was an attractive sexy woman in her fifties and I knew that she understood my struggle. I was a blonde with blue eyes, an ample chest, tiny waist, and a curvy bottom. This meant that the male dominated world of scientists could not take me seriously and I often fought with many of them because of it. I soon had a reputation for being feisty, but my work spoke for itself. I was just as accomplished as the males. Jocelyn Teren saw this in me and I think saw a bit of her in me. Therefore she agreed to sponsor my scientific experiments and spot on the space ship.
So now I was on this mission to prove I was just as good as the males. Only now, there was a problem, a very big problem. We had accidently gone off course and couldn’t correct it in time before the Kalazaron ship was upon us.
“It was a mistake. If you will look at our logs you will see that…” I started to say.
“Dr. Roberts! Hold your tongue!” Captain White cut me off.
The deck of the ship was tense as the armed alien beings held their guns on us. The Commander looked at me. He seemed intrigued as he walked over to me and I suddenly felt terrified. I stood up straight and tall as though to show him that I was not scared of him, even though I was. As he stood directly in front of me, he towered over me. His large form seemed to dwarf me. My face was directly aligned on his six-pack abs that were a shiny blue. I turned my nose up in the air to stare directly into his dark black eyes. Then he grinned a menacing grin at me.
“Do you know who I am female human?” he asked.
“No.” I said bluntly trying to keep my lips from trembling.
“Of course not. Your inferior race is too dumb to have such intelligence on who commands our fleet of warships. I am Nankor Yun, the commander of the largest warship of the Kalazaron,” he said with pride.
I could sense that he wanted me to show fear, but out of my own stubborn defiance I said, “And?”
His grin faded. There was silence and then he said, “Kill them.”
My eyes grew wide as I could hear the panic and cries of my crewmates. “No!” I shouted.
“Kill them all, except for this one. Put her in the cages,” Commander Nankor Yun said pointing at me. I should have been relieved to be spared but I was not. I was worried about everyone else. I had to stop this madness! I had to stop them from taking the ship and me. “How dare you…”
I started to yell but was cut off when I was thrown over the shoulder of one of the large alien men. I kicked and screamed as they carried me down the hall.
“Let me go! You cannot just take me! This is wrong!” I shouted.
“Boom! Boom!” the guns began to go off behind me. I was panicked and crazed. I began to kick and scream more.
“Dialent 10!” the alien man shouted who held me on his shoulder. I didn’t know what it meant until I saw another coming toward me with a syringe. A glowing blue liquid was inside of it. “No! No! What is that?!” I shouted as the sting of the needle hit my arm. Then, everything went hazy and I drifted off into a deep sleep.
Chapter 2
DALIK MOSCURN
“Bam!” the blow to my side nearly knocked me off my feet. I recovered quickly and threw my fist in an upper cut motion to Orgun’s chin. He flew in the air backward and landed flat on his back. He did not get back up. The crowd was silent and then they cheered. They began to shout my name “Dalik! Dalik!”
I stood up tall. I had done it. It was the last competition of the Stanit Trials, and I had won.
“Dalik Moscurn!” the master and ruler of our Kalazaron Empire shouted.
“Master Gorgeen Bresh,” I said kneeling down on one knee and bowed my head to him.
He continued, “You have proven yourself worthy of being my second in command. You have beaten three of the elite who were well versed as warriors and as leaders of our systems. You passed all the tests, both of the mind and of the body. I now declare you my second and the new Kalazaron Consulate!”
The crowd cheered as I was named the new second in command with a heavy metallic blue long medallion chain that draped over my shoulders and low on my chest. It was the highest ranking you could get besides being the supreme master. I was born for this. I had been trained and sculpted for this by my father who held the same position before he died five years before. I had now accomplished my highest accomplishment.
“I am most grateful Master Gorgeen Bresh. I hold this in the highest of hearts and mind and will do my duty to the Kalazaron for my eternity life,” I said humbly.
“Rise, the new Kalazaron Consulate, and lead your brothers and sisters of Kaethon,” he said.
I stood up on my feet and turned in a slow circle to the crowd as I raised my hands in a high V over my head. The crowd cheered and I grinned.
I spent the entire night in an orgy of celebration ceremonies. The Kalazaron females threw themselves at me, but I was not interested. I was not ready to begin a family. I had just gained my new position and I meant to throw myself deep into the responsibilities of being a leader. There were many systems that I thought were out of date and I wanted to lead my race into a more progressive direction that was long over due. I would not let anything distract me from that mission. That was until I met her, a human. I would never expect what happened between us, or that it would change everything forever.
“These are your new quarters Consulate. Please do not hesitate to ask for anything. Your apartments are high over the capital city so that you may see everything you rule,” the habitat coordinant said to me as he showed me my new home in the Buildings of Order. This was where the elite leaders lived in a gathering of towers that were high above the capital city of Konthos.
“Yes, it will do well to see how the city is run from this vantage point,” I said as I looked out the glass walls. Behind me movers were bringing in my possessions from my former home and I was anxious to get started with meetings.
“Now if you will follow me. Master Bresh has a gift for you?” he moved toward the door.
“For me? But I really would prefer to get started on the day’s orders and meetings,” I moved over to a large table.
“Yes, of course, but I must advise that the Master may see it as an insult that you do not wish to receive his gift of congratulations for your new position.”
I sighed. He was right. No use getting off on the wrong foot now. “Yes, you are right. How careless of me. Please lead the way,” I feigned interest in whatever gift of precious metals he would have for me. My mind was filled with plans of what I wanted to implement on my first day that I was in a daze when we arrived at the slave cages.
“What are we doing here?” I looked around at the long halls of cages. Each one held a creature from a different planet or galaxy. Some were closely like us, whom we took as household slaves, and others were animalistic.
“Master Bresh learned of a new female captive from the race of humans of Earth. He wants this to be your gift. You will need a slave to keep your house, as you will be busy. He did not want to give you a standard Kalazaron slave, so he wanted you to have this,” he stopped in front of a cage.
There in the corner was a small creature of a human sitting in a bundle hugging her knees. As she lifted her head she shot anger with her blue eyes at me. I thought she would be shaking with fear but she was not. There was defiance and hate in those eyes. Good, I thought. I could not have a whimpering human in my home. I had seen that before with a few of the other human females we had gathered over the years, and I was not impressed. But this one seemed different. I could learn from this one. “Stand up,” I said.
“No,” she said with anger.
“What are you doing?!” a voice boomed.
“That one is mine. I am taking her now,” Commander Nankor Yun shouted at me.
“Commander, back from shooting your load at innocents in space I see…” I said with a mocking tone that I knew he would hate. I enjoyed playing
with him because I hated him. Kalazarons like him were going to bring the downfall of our race and I meant to do away with him as soon as I could, but these things took time.
“How dare you speak to me like that you imbecile,” he got in my face.
“Have you not heard? This is the new Consulate,” my companion said to the commander.
I could see the anger in his eyes and his veins popping out of his forehead as he bit his lip and dropped down to one knee and said, “Consulate.”
“This captive has been given to the Consulate by Master Bresh as a gift for his triumph.”
“Master Bresh must not have known that I had claimed this captive for myself,” Commander Nankor Yun said with a restrained tone of anger as he rose up to his feet.
“Yes, he is aware. I have the order right here,” the habitant coordinate pulled out a holopointer. He pressed the button and displayed the image of the order on the wall for all to see. Commander Yun let out a low guttural growl before saying, “Yes so it is. My apologies to Master Bresh and to you Consulate. I was not aware of the changes in the order and the transfer of goods.”
“Yes well you will do well to remember that you plunder in the name of the Kalazaron and not for your own personal gain,” I said to him. He sneered, but said nothing. I looked over at the female human in the cage and could see a sense of relief on her face. No telling what this animal had done to her as his captive before landing back on Planet Kaethon. I would not leave her to be his personal toy. I would take her now into my protection. It was the least I could do for what we had done to the humans.
“Now if you will Commander,” I nodded to him in a way that stated he was no longer wanted in my presence. He looked back at the female prisoner and then back at me and smiled before walking away. I did not need to hear any words from him to know that he meant that smile to mean that this was not over. Fine, I thought. I would like nothing more than to punish or challenge that brute. For now, it would have to wait.
As he went out of sight I nodded to the coordinant who aimed his holopointer at the cage. It unlocked. The female still did not move. I stepped into the cage closer to her. As the light hit her face I was suddenly stunned. I had not seen such a face before. Her yellow hair shined like gold. Her blue eyes now lit by the light were the color of the Konthos sky. Her full lips were a blushing shade that I had not seen before and they were slightly trembling. She was delicate and small compared to the females of the Kalazaron. I didn’t see how she could make a good slave with such a small back. I had seen female humans before but this one was very different and yet I did not know why. What was the feeling she was giving me? I placed my hand out to the coordinant and said, “Holopointer.”
He handed it over. I pointed the image at the wall and changed a few settings. Then I pointed it at the female human. I started at the floor and scanned upwards.
“What? What is that?! What are you doing? Stop!” she shouted in panic.
“No need to shout human. I am only checking your biology to see why you are so different than the other female humans,” I said as I saw her organs, her beating heart, and her frail, small, bones as the scan moved over her.
“Different! Are you an imbecile? I’m not different,” she said sarcastically.
The coordinant next to me gasped at her insult. Of course she would have no way of knowing that a female slave insulting an elite Kalazaron with words was worthy of extermination.
I stopped the scan. She was right. I did not see anything different that showed up biologically, but there was definitely something. “Don’t use insults. It will cost you your life,” I said as I handed the pointer back. Her eyes grew wide.
“Come with me to your new home,” I said to her as I extended my hand to help her to her feet.
“No. Leave me alone. Take me back to Earth,” she said quietly.
I sighed and squatted down next to her, “Look human, you have two choices here and Earth is not one of them. Either you come with me to my home in the city inside the Buildings of Order, or you stay here in this cage to become the property of that animal Commander Yun.”
Her eyes grew wider at the second choice. “Yes, I see fear in your eyes at that second choice, and there should be. He is every bit the animal you have seen so far and much, much, worse than you can imagine. I on the other hand promise you that you will not be treated so barbarically. Do your duties in my house to keep it kept and that is all that I will ask of you, nothing more. Now, what will it be female human?”
Chapter 3
DR. JADE ROBERTS
When I woke up I was in a large cage of blue steel that was shiny but strong. It was cold. There was a bench on one side of the cage and that was all. I was quick to analyze my situation, like a good scientist would. I wiped the sleep from my eyes and remembered that the last thing that I remember was that syringe that put me to sleep and my crew being shot. I held back tears at that thought. Had they really killed everyone? How would I ever know? There were ten other people on that ship made up of the crew and a few scientists. I wiped the tears from my eyes.
“Keep it together Jade,” I said quietly to myself as I pushed the images of the people I was with on the ship aside. I had to concentrate on my situation and how to get out of it. I stood up. I held on to the cage steel for support. I checked my arm for the syringe marks wondering if there were any, but there was none. I wondered what they had put into me because I did not even dream. It was almost as if I was just in some sort of black abyss. I looked at my body up and down. Had I been violating? Had I been experimented on? How long had I been out on that unknown drug? I would never know. I wish that I could speak to someone, anyone of my crewmembers, but that was impossible. They were all gone and I was truly, truly alone on a foreign planet. It was unsettling and I had to push these thoughts out of my mind and there was only one way that I knew how to do that. I had to push other thoughts in place of the negative ones. I decided that I would start to analyze my situation because science and problem solving always helped me cope with any situation.
I stood quietly listening. There were all kinds of sounds that I could not identify. First I thought I heard a low rumble, like the rumble and creak of a ship, but then it grew into an all out roar. I stepped back for a second, shocked. Then there was another sound from the other side of the room that could only be described on Earth as the sounds of a large whale. It was very large. Where the hell was I?
The sounds of creatures were a low murmur and then would erupt suddenly into loud bursts, and my analysis turned to fright. What was going on here? I slowly walked to the front of the cage as though I was going to be snagged by some unknown creature at any second. I finally reached the front of the cage and wrapped my hands around the cold bars. I looked around. My mouth fell open in utter disbelief at what I saw.
I was in a large cavernous space that almost looked like a warehouse. All along the ceiling were holographic projections that seemed to be displaying readings of some sort. They reminded me of readings of vitals, like heart rate, temperature, and such but it was in a foreign language that I could not read. Each projection hovered over the individual cages. As my gaze moved down toward the cages I was scared and amazed simultaneously at what I saw.
Along side my cage were many other cages. Some cages were like mine but none of them held humans as far as I could see. Instead, they held various creatures; most of them were animal like alien beasts. I looked at the one furthest from me that resembled a cat like a tiger but was very low to the ground like a komodo dragon with a long tail. It was very ominous looking with green and white tiger like stripes. It hissed and a snake like tongue flickered out of its mouth. I was in shock at the sight but the scientist in me was very intrigued. Where did this creature come from? Was it from this planet that I was on, or was it too a captive of the Kalazaron? I wanted to know everything about it.
I looked further down to see large water tanks and an octopus like creature swimming about with smaller jelly fish li
ke organisms floating here and there. It was this octopus like creature that let out a whale like groan. As soon as it did I saw the movement of the projection above it recording the sound. This was miraculous!
This was unbelievable! It was like a galactic zoo with creatures of different planets and galaxies. I was so excited as I continued to look around at all the creatures with a big scientist heart until I made full circle back to myself. Wait a minute!
I realized that I too was in this zoo catalogue, but why? I looked above my head to see the same projection hovering over my head. It was reading my vitals that was obvious even though I could not read it. These jerks were counting me as an animal?! Ugh! I stomped around my cage like an angry animal would, and felt my blood boiling.