by Zara Zenia
As she climaxed again, Thras continued to lap up her juices until she couldn't take any more and begged him to stop. He continued a little, just doing it lightly to tease her. "Okay, okay, please," she finally begged him, and he did stop eventually. Her pussy felt so sensitive now. She was going to need some time before they did anything like that again. Well, maybe not too much time.
There was nothing else in the world that she wanted more than to be by his side now. Just to hold each other and enjoy the warmth they shared between their bodies. So, that's exactly what they did.
Chapter 19
Thras
Pelktir was a remote planet on the outer edge of the Vada system. The Vada Shadow headed toward it to refuel. After they landed, they were told that it would take longer than expected to refuel.
"What do you mean it will take two days?" bellowed Kenor at the owner of the small space station. He was making the arrangements since it was his role as the fleet commander. Thras was standing by and listening with intent. "You do realize who this is you will be keeping here, correct?" he said, gesturing with a nod of his head over at the king.
"Yes, and I do offer my most humble apologies," said the space station owner. "We simply do not have all the necessary fuel at this location yet. You must understand, we do not get unexpected stop ins very often. People usually only want to top up their smaller craft or make minor repairs."
"And you are going to make us wait for days. That is just outrageous," said Kenor.
"There is nothing to be done about it," said Thras. He usually would have been at least equally as outraged as his fleet commander. Even just ten days ago he would have been the one raising his voice, possibly making vague threats.
"We will get to work resetting your stealth shields so that you may make the trip home in complete safety," added the alien in a minor panic. Since he was inside the Vadar system, Thras was technically his ruler too. Although, the man was of Terud descent, possibly with a mix of another species in him.
"Very well then," said Kenor finally as he gave up. "I shall return to the ship and oversee the work. Is that fine with you, Sire?"
"Yes, thank you," said Thras.
"And if you breathe a word of our identity to anyone, it's your head," Kenor added to the man before leading him over to their ship. They were still remaining disguised as a cargo ship to avoid detection. Their plan had been to only reveal who they were if they were not able to get the fuel, and work they needed done quickly. That had backfired, but it was unlikely the space station owner would commit treason against his own king. They were in a relatively safe area now. Keeping in disguise was mostly just an extra safety measure in case the Aulius ship that had been trailing them showed up.
Thras took the opportunity to take Chera out for a drive on their ship's land scouter. It wasn't necessary to hire anything like the hovercraft they had used on the desert planet. They could use the wheeled craft from the Vada Shadow here.
The little planet had a lot of odd foliage, with lush, rolling hillsides, boulders covered in bright moss that jutted randomly from the landscape, and an atmosphere that made the sky seem full of bright balls of soft fabric.
"Where have you planned to take me this time," asked Chera as they drove along the pretty scenery. It was obvious that she was enjoying the view, and they both were loving the chance to go on another outing together. This time, they were going as mates instead of confused maybe-lovers.
"This is our first date as a couple," she said with a wide grin on her face. "You have no idea how much this means to me."
"I think I do have an idea," he said with a smile just as big of his own. He drove the land scouter into a lush forest. His plan was to go into an isolated area that might contain some wildlife unique to this planet.
"What's that?" Chera finally asked with excitement. They had driven up to a group of small animals walking along on their hind legs. They were a yellow-brown color, with some of them being white, and some darker brown. Their long tails dragged along the ground behind them as they hopped about. "Look at their floppy ears!" Chera shouted. "Oops," she then said as the herd of fuzzy, hopping creatures noticed the two aliens in their vehicle and quickly hopped deeper into the forest.
"Never mind, there are plenty more native animals for us to see," said Thras happily. It was exhilarating to see things through her eyes. He would have never worried about stopping to look at the cute and soft looking animals before. Not unless he was hungry, that was.
They got out of the scouter and started to make their way on foot. That would make it easier to approach some more local fauna without scaring them away. A flock of bright orange birds suddenly rocketed from a nearby tree. They fluttered about them in the sky in every direction. It seemed to be some kind of diversion tactic to scatter like that.
"It's like they're dancing just for us," said Chera. "Oh, they're so pretty!" The birds were only half a foot long each perhaps, with some larger and some smaller, obviously younger than the rest. Their long tail feathers streamed behind them, and they were a bright green color. Their chirps and occasional squawks were shrill, but oddly enchanting.
"Don't you love them?" Chera asked him as she wrapped her arm around his and jumped up and down a little on the spot. "I've never been anywhere like this. Oh, thank you so much for brining me here."
"I would do anything to see you smile," he replied. "They are beautiful, I agree, but nowhere near as lovely as you."
It was working, as her smile was as big as he'd ever seen it. They walked along and passed a pond covered it wide, floating plants. They were varying in shape. Chera led him over to the pond and said, "Look, that looks like a love heart floating on the top of the water." The surface of the liquid itself was a deep azure, and there was stillness to it.
"Love heart? I am not familiar with that term."
"It's an old Terran thing. It's a symbolic representation of a heart, only it represents love. It doesn't actually look much like a real heart though."
"Oh, I understand. That is romantic, correct?" He squeezed her hand tighter for a moment and stood closer to her as they look over the expanse of water. It wasn't huge, but it was easy to see there was an entire microcosm inside that one little place. A world of its own. The two of them could act like they were in a world of their own too, even if it was just for a brief day trip.
"Can you see that? There's little fish swimming around in there," she said eagerly. They were only an inch or so long, with a bright streak of silver that reflected the sun that filtered down through the trees. It was a majestic thing to see them move around. Almost as though they were full of energy.
"I see them," he said. "And look," he added, pointed over to a long, slinking creature that had emerged from the edge of the pond. It was half a foot long, and almost just at wide. Some variety of amphibious animal, which he was familiar with from planets with a good amount of water like this.
"That reminds me of these animals they have on Terra. I saw them in some nature videos. Frogs. That's a lot bigger than what I saw though. I wonder if he's out hunting for little fish," Chera said.
As they kept walking, stopping to observe the wonderful plant and animal life, they came upon a gigantic mushroom. Only, Thras knew that this was not a real mushroom.
"Is that a building? It looks like something right out of a fairytale I used to hear when I was a little girl!" Noticing the knowing smile on Thras' face, she asked, "Did you organize something again?"
"I did. In fact, I managed to procure a favor from the locals and rented this house from them for the duration of our stay here. If we are going to be stuck on this tiny planet, we should enjoy some solitude together, yes?"
"Really? That's amazing! Thank you so much. I think we've earned it," said Chera.
This time there were two crew members acting as servants. They didn't need the whole crew at the ship, and some of them were becoming restless and had asked for extra duties.
Thras took her in his strong arm
s and they held each other, looking deep into each other's eyes. It was a wonderful day, and the night was even better. After their third round of passionate sex, the two new lovers slept in each other's arms. Chera liked to rest her head on his muscular chest and listen to his heart beat. He'd never slept better either.
Until in the middle of the night, someone came to their door unannounced. It was Vini. "I am sorry to disturb you, Sire, but this is urgent. The Terud ship that is following us has landed at the space station. I have reports that they are enquiring about Hjotts or Terrans that have been seen on the planet."
"Do you know if they are aware of us yet?" asked Thras. Chera was standing beside him, gripping his arm with worry.
"The space station owner has been true to his word and remained loyal to us. He is the one who told us about their questioning."
"Good man. Be sure that he is rewarded for his honor. Chera, I must ask you to remain here while I go back to the ship to hurry the repairs and refueling." He went to the room where the two crew members were staying with them and ordered them to guard Chera with their lives.
Chapter 20
Chera
Chera was not happy about being left behind like that. Yes, there were the two crew members with her. They were trained in fighting and more than capable of protecting her. But she wasn't afraid for herself. As the night continued, she tried to sleep but couldn't let herself rest. Something was in the back of her mind picking at her consciousness: a nagging worry that would not go away.
The sun began to rise and there was still no sign of Thras. He could have at least contacted his men on the radio to let us know what was going on. "Something's wrong, I can sense it," she said to the guard who was awake on watch. He sat on a chair near the sole exit to the quaint little mushroom cottage.
"I assure you, we have not received any bad news. You can relax without worry." The crew member was not happy about her pacing around, which is the only thing Chera had done since the day started to break.
"I want to see what's wrong," she said. "Did they both go in the transport Vini drove here?"
"They did, but I am not permitted to allow you to leave. My reputation and career would be in jeopardy."
"Seriously? So you're keeping me captive here?" she asked with a raised eyebrow and a lot of attitude. Returning to her room, she slammed the door and stomped to her bed. They were going to make her stay here? After all she'd gone through, Chera finally had her own life to look forward to. She was no longer a slave, as hard as that was to believe. She was the king's mate, and this asshole was going to stop her from going for a harmless little drive on the land scouter?
"Fuck that," she muttered to herself, and went over to quietly lock the door. Once she had finished listening to make sure the Hjott on guard wasn't walking over to ask why she had locked herself in, she crept onto the bed. There was a small window beside it, which thankfully opened. If the two men guarding the mushroom house got in trouble for her actions, she would speak out in their favor. She wouldn't let Thras punish them for her actions.
Feeling completely justified in doing so, Chera crept along. She ducked so that no one could see her go by through the windows from inside the mushroom house. When she came around the corner and saw that land scouter, she ran toward it and hopped inside.
"Hey!" came a shout from inside the house, and the front door burst open. "Do not operate that vehicle!" the guard shouted, but it was too late. Chera was operating the hell out of that vehicle. She took off back toward the space station as fast as she could safely do so without crashing into a tree or something.
Traveling alone like that, the deep forest seemed eerie now. What had once been a place of magic and fairy tale wonder had transformed into something out of a horror story. Chera soon realized she had been far too confident in her abilities to not only drive the scouter, but also to find her way through the unfamiliar alien landscape.
The more she tried to find her way, the more she lost it. Things looked much different in the early morning, when the sun was having a much harder time getting through the overhanging tree canopy. She made it to the road they had traveled down before going for a walk. Was this where the scouter had been left when they first came to the mushroom house? One of the crew members who were waiting for them had gone to retrieve it. Chera had no idea if it was even the same road.
It must be. How many roads are there going through this forest anyway? After an hour of traveling, the battery indicator on the land scouter began to blink with a red light. She was running low on juice! If she was unable to get back to the mushroom house, or find the space station, she was screwed.
Aha! But she could also use some replacement battery cells, and there would be a spare or two in the storage compartment of the scouter. She stopped and leaped out to check, feeling a little elated in the knowledge that there would be spare cells in the back. There had to be.
There was none. "I thought these Hjotts did everything by the book," she expressed to no one. Finding it hard to believe they had really headed out with no spare energy supplies for their only vehicle, Chera felt deflated. She felt lost and afraid too. It hadn't taken long to drive to the forest from the space station. Thras wouldn't have planned for anyone to be driving around all this time.
Lost in the middle of an alien forest full of who-knew-what kinds of animals. Furry, little hopping cuties and pretty birds probably weren't the only things awaiting her. And maybe those Terud criminals who'd been trailing them were searching for any sign of Terrans too. That was the last thing she wanted to happen: being captured by them now that everyone else was rescued.
Of course! There must be a comm on this thing. After spending a good fifteen minutes searching every inch of the vehicle, Chera realized there was not. This was just a basic way to get around, after all. Cursing the fact that she didn't have her own radio, she looked around in bewilderment. She wrapped her arms around herself and began to walk out on foot.
It was a good thing she was still wearing her disguise, at least. Frightened Chera tapped the translator that was behind her ear. Yes, she didn't need to use it around the Hjotts, because she had fluently learned the Vadarian language some time ago. If she came across any of the Aulius or Terud who were searching for her, the translator would come in very handy.
It was exceedingly rare to see a Terran out here. In fact, she wasn't sure if the locals would even know what a Terran was. She tried to visualize what an Aulius looked like. They were much shorter than humans, so she tried to keep herself hunched and her knees a little more bent than normal. It didn't help with making progress walking.
It was hard to walk that way, and Chera stumbled several times before finally getting used to it. Eventually, though, she did come to a village. The beings there looked unlike any she'd ever laid her eyes on. They were short, and kind of chubby really. There was a fine hair over their faces and limbs. Although, they wore long cloaks that would have protected them from the elements nicely. Some of them had their hoods up, since it wasn't a particularly warm time of day.
"Who are you?" one of them said to hear, approaching with suspicion. They had a type of long knife in a sheath at their belt, and a wooden club in their hand. From the way they held themselves in a no-nonsense sort of way, Chera wondered if this might be local law enforcement.
Grateful that her translator contained whatever language the stout alien was speaking, Chera replied. "Hello," she said cautiously. "My vehicle's battery cell is empty, and I seem to have forgotten my backup. Would it be possible to purchase a cell here?"
"No," said the alien. That was hard to hear. Was she really going to be stuck out here then? Thinking for a moment and eyeing her with intent, the alien eventually spoke again. "We have no battery cells you can buy. But we do have a generator you may use to charge yours."
"I will need to go back to my vehicle to get it," she said. It wasn't too far, and she had been extremely careful to remember the way this time. "Oh, there is one other issue. I
have no money..."
It must have been Chera's lucky day, because the aliens there were quite friendly and welcoming. Maybe it was because she was female, or perhaps they just liked anyone who wasn't military or government. She suspected they didn't really buy her disguise either, but that didn't seem to matter to them. They agreed to let her charge her battery, and then they would send someone to follow her to the space station to collect payment.
Chapter 21
Thras
Thras returned with Vini to the ship. Just as he had been told, the Terud were looking around the area. "They have spotted us," said Vini, getting ready to pull out his blaster to defend against them.
"No, wait," said Thras quickly. "I do not think they recognize us." The whole crew was still under strict orders to stay in disguise. "Keep going at normal speed and avoid making eye contact or doing anything that may draw attention to us."
Vini did as ordered, and sure enough the searching Teruds didn't even look at their scouter twice. "Well, I am glad you were here with me," Vini said as he readjusted his blaster in its concealed holster. "I would have made things very difficult for us, to open fire on a group of aliens in the middle of the Pelktir space station."
"You are right there," said Thras. They went back to the Vada Shadow, which was still disguised as a cargo vessel.
"The Teruds are nearby and looking for us," he told Kenor.
"Yes, I have been watching them closely. If they make it clear they recognize us, the crew is under orders to use lethal force against them."
"Good," said Thras. The last thing he wanted was to initiate a firefight, but it was the last resort. They were on the side of the law as well. It was just risky, and he didn't want any of his crew, let alone his sister and the Terrans, to be hurt.