by Pixie Moon
Megan looks away. Gayle doesn’t.
Miss Nasty narrows her eyes. “You are not about to piss are you? The stink will be a thousand times worse in here if you do.”
“I refuse to pee on myself.” Ignoring her glare, I quickly let the urine flow from me and onto the dirty floor. To my horror, I feel a splash of wetness hit my ass. Gross. I lean more forward and push the pee out faster. I feel like crying but I don’t. On a good note, the stale piss that hit me didn’t go near my asshole.
I cringe when wetness touches my bare foot. Fuck!
As quickly as I can, I pull up my pants, button them, and get back to the safe-zone in my cage. I shudder as I rake my foot across the wires of the cage desperately trying to get rid of some of the pee that got on me.
Miss Nasty glares at me. “You just made this place stink worse than ever you selfish little bitch.”
Megan makes a disgusted sound and I wondered if she is mad at me too. I can’t care what these two think of me. Dog eat dog world. If I hadn’t done what I did, I would have pissed in my pants. Either way we would be smelling my pee. At least this way it won’t be radiating up from my crotch.
Gayle makes a gagging sound causing me to feel worse than I already do. Deep down I know I’ve done the right thing no matter what my companions might think.
Megan surprises me by staring at Gayle and making that disgusted sound again. She then flips her long blonde hair over her shoulder in a haughty manner. “Stop with the act. I saw you get up hours ago and piss in the corner of your cage.”
I’m floored by Miss Nasty’s actions and hypocritical attack on me. I shouldn’t be. This is a dog eat dog world after all. At least Megan is on my side and is more than ready to put Miss Nasty in her place.
Gayle glares at Megan but doesn’t say anything because busted people are normally speechless. Gayle’s case is no different.
My stomach growls and then Megan’s echoes it. Soon after Gayle’s growls as well. I pull out a few pecans and pass two to Megan. She gratefully accepts them and quickly begins eating hers. I follow suit.
Gayle stares at us licking her lips. I don’t bother to offer her any food.
Minutes tick by before Miss Nasty asks, “Can I have a couple of pecans?”
I raise a brow at her. Really? This bitch has some nerve.
Gayle licks her lips again and her stomach growls loudly. “I’m sorry I was mean to you. I’m just not handling this situation well. Will you please give me a couple of pecans?”
I wish I was more cold-hearted because I believe Miss Nasty is always foul tempered but I’m not. I dig out two pecans and pass them to Megan who takes them and then looks at Gayle. “If you continue to be mean these will be the last pecans you get.”
Miss Nasty’s eyes narrow for a second confirming my suspicion. Then she transforms her face into a look of innocence. “I won’t be mean anymore.”
Megan huffs out a sound of disbelief and then passes the pecans to Gayle. Inside, I’m proud of Megan for calling Miss Nasty out and trying to make sure the rest of our time together is as pleasant as it can be.
Now that we have a leash on Gayle things should get better.
CHAPTER
5
~ Hallie ~
♥
Better doesn’t last long.
The slowing of the ship throws me into high alert mode. We are probably approaching a planet. I wish I could see outside. My stomach sours. What is going to happen to us now?
Megan starts to whimper and then she blurts, “What’s going to happen to us? Are we going to be killed? I don’t want to die?”
I feel her panic and try not to let it escalate my own sense of impending doom. Freaking out is not going to help at all. I focus on my breathing. In through the nose, out through the mouth. In through the nose, out through the mouth. I do this several times and it helps a little.
“I don’t want to die,” Megan screams hysterically.
“Shut up,” Gayle screams back.
In through the nose, out through the mouth.
My nerves shatter as Gayle and Megan scream at each other for a few minutes. I cover my ears with my hands to dull the sound of their rising panic. My heart thuds loudly in my ears dimming the sounds around me. I sink into my own world for a long moment.
The shuddering of the spacecraft landing scares the shit out of me. It apparently scares my companions into silence. I’m happy about that. The last thing I need right now is their panic filled voices raking over my uber-sensitive nerve endings.
We wait in deadly silence for what feels like an eternity. With no windows in the room it’s hard to tell how much time has passed or even if it’s day or night. Does this planet even have a sun and moon? What if it’s dark all the time? I’ve heard of planets like that.
I shiver and barely hold back a whimper. Earth wasn’t a great place but at least I knew I could survive on the ailing planet. The metal wire of my cage digs into me as I move back and forth with my arms wrapped securely around my body. Rocking hurts my butt. I keep doing it anyway. I continue to shiver and long to hold my faithful backpack.
A screech echoes through the room as the metal door opens. Holding my breath, I wait for my captors to enter the hellhole I’m being kept in. Hide to stay alive, whispers through my mind. I look around but know for a fact that there is nowhere to hide. A knot of fear and anxiety forms in my chest and lodges in my throat. I hate it here. I stop rocking as though being still will stop them from seeing me.
It’s stupid, I know, but I stay as quiet and still as possible. My breaths are slow and shallow. Frozen in place, I watch wide eyed as two beings enter our stinky room. They communicate in hissing sounds that I can’t understand.
Fear slices through my heart when one of them turns his menacing slit-pupil gaze on me. I cover my mouth with my hand to keep from crying. The smell of old piss has me changing hands quickly.
The green scaly creature makes me think it’s some kind of lizard-man. His clawed hands reach out and open the lock keeping me secured in my cage. I’m tempted to scoot further back into the cage, but I don’t want to sit in old pee and shit.
My heart is pounding so loudly I can barely think. A scream from Megan penetrates the pulse beat thundering in my ears. I look over to see her being removed from her cage. A hand on my ankle has me screaming and pulling back.
The stocky being makes a loud hissing sound as he jerks me through the cage door. Before I can fully understand what’s going on, the lizard-man has my wrists cuffed and secured to one of Megan’s chains. The chains are about three feet long. Just enough length for us to follow one another.
While the one alien watches over me and Megan, the other lizard-man is busy removing Gayle from her cage and cuffing her. Gayle kicks him and he slaps her across the face. I watch in horror as blood run down Gayle’s mouth. The woman seems to be stunned because she doesn’t give the being anymore trouble as he connects her cuffs to Megan’s other chain.
The lizard-man standing near Gayle hisses a loud noise and then starts tugging Gayle forward and through the door. Since we are all chained together, we all have to go. The lizard-man near me nudges me forward and then follows closely behind me. I shiver as I smell his foul breath. My stomach churns. I will my last meal to stay in place.
When Megan stumbles, I trip. The being behind me shoves me. I long to glare at him but know that could cause him to kill me. Not that I’m sure life is going to be worth living much longer anyway. My natural instinct to live drives me forward.
Covertly, I look around. We are in a corridor that hasn’t had a good sweeping in a long time. Maybe never. We are quickly guided to a massive door. I blink when it opens revealing a bright planet. I can’t look up to see what the sun looks like because my eyes hurt just from the rays coming down.
“My eyes hurt,” Megan complains.
“Do you really think they care?” Gayle asks without turning around to look at Megan.
“No, I was just express
ing what I’m feeling. Is that so bad?” Megan shoots back.
“Just shut up,” Miss Nasty grouches.
“You don’t have to be so mean.” Megan looks back at me. “Does she?”
I shake my head in silent support of Megan. My instincts are telling me to not make a scene. The other female nods at me and then turns back around to watch her footing.
A sharp pain shoots through my foot causing me to limp a few steps. I look back and see that I’d stepped on some type of sharp rock. Watch your footing, Hallie Mead, I reproach myself. Being barefoot on this planet poses new challenges.
I sidestep the next sharp rock and look for more with renewed determination. Bloody feet could prove deadly if some alien infection enters my body through an open wound. That thought keeps me looking at the ground instead of around at the planet.
The walk isn’t long. I look up when we stop and realize we are being watched by a lot of different beings. Once again, fear lodges in my chest. I hadn’t even realized the emotion had left me while I was carefully watching were I placed my feet. With my arms crossed, as much as my chain allows, my hands automatically start rubbing circles against my forearms. The feeling is comforting. I calm down a little.
That small state of forced peace is broken when the lizard-men with us start unhooking us. The lead alien guides Gayle and Megan into the dirty tannish building we have been standing outside of. The one near me holds my chain and leads me inside. It takes my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim lighting.
When my sight clears, I take a step back and bump into a being entering the building behind me. My captor hisses a warning and glares at me. He pulls me deeper into the room. I covertly glance around and see hundreds of beings milling around the large room. My heart feels like it’s going to explode when my captor roughly leads me to a raised platform.
“Please don’t let this be what I think it is,” I whisper. With all of the noise in here, I could have shouted the words and not been heard. My stomach twists painfully with each step I take toward the platform.
When Megan gets close to the platform, she freaks out and starts yelling and hitting her captor. He hisses at her and she tugs hard on her chain. The hysterical woman kicks out at lizard-man.
His yellow eyes narrow. Then to my horror, he steps back and aims a gun at Megan. A second later an electrical bolt shoots from the weapon and right into Megan’s chest. Her whole body shakes, she falls to the ground unconscious, and then pee dampens the crotch of her pants.
Several shouts come from the audience as Megan is grabbed by the arm and dragged up the steps. Gayle is pulled along as well. Megan’s body is left by a metal loop in the floor. Her long sandy blonde hair is fanning out and covering her face. I don’t have long to wonder what is going to happen next.
My captor leads me to a sturdy loop and connects my chain to it. With tears welling in my eyes, I look over to see Megan’s chain being attached to a loop. Gayle’s is already secured. The crowd looks us over. I shudder and look down.
Needing to calm myself before I throw up, I start breathing the way I’ve been taught. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
I’m several breaths in when a red colored alien with long white hair and yellow eyes approaches. It looks at Megan who is still knocked out on the floor and then shakes its head. White strands float around the being. It then looks at Gayle and then at me. Its eyes are so intense, I look away and see our captors standing off to the side talking to some other greenish being.
A shiver races up and down my spine. The red alien steps closer to me and Gayle. “If you two want a happy life, you will do whatever the zaphinian males tell you to do and you will do it quickly.”
My eyebrows shoot up in shock. “You can speak English!”
Gayle rolls her eyes. “Duh, dummy. You can understand it. That obviously means it can.” Gayle’s cold blue eyes zero in on the being. “The question is, can you get us out of here? We were stolen from our planet and want to go back.”
Sympathy fills the being’s eyes. “You can never go back. There are two zaphinian warriors here looking for live-sex-playthings. They are to your right. Both have black hair. One has mostly teal eyes and the other has mostly silver eyes. If they ask you to do anything, you do it. Out of this crowd they are the nicest to their pets. Others are here for food.”
I shiver but Gayle eyes the alien suspiciously.
Miss Nasty glares at the red alien. “Are you saying that because they pay well?”
“That is part of it,” the alien admits, “but what I said was tr─”
Gayle cuts the red being off. “Fuck you.”
“If you are smart, you will do as I say. If not…” The being leaves the rest to our imaginations.
CHAPTER
6
~ Hallie ~
♥
Lava rocks heat my stomach as the red being walks to the edge of the platform and waves her arms in a graceful motion. When I see several beings head toward the platform, I guess the being just signaled our doom. At least it was a graceful ending to my life.
The sight of a big mouthed, three-eyed being with spotted skin coming our way has me shaking. I look down and start breathing the way I’ve been taught. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Over and over and over again.
I want to scream when the alien walks up to me and sniffs. It makes a disgusted sound and then walks off. Heat stings my cheeks. I have to stink after my time in the cage. I guess the bad odor coming off me just saved me from being taken by that scary looking thing.
I covertly watch the alien sniff Gayle and then make the same sound. It then walks to Megan who is still out of it and sniffs her. It makes a different sound and then motions for the red being. They talk as others stand on and near the platform looking us over.
The scary being makes some strange sound that is creepy as hell. One of our captors goes over and unchains Megan. To my horror, the scary being grabs Megan Blaker by the arm and drags her off the platform.
As they pass the red being I notice that her eyes hold a hint of sadness. Anxiety pumps through my veins as I glance back to watch Megan being dragged through the crowd. I don’t stop watching until they are out of sight.
Fear like I’ve never known seeps into my bones.
Movement nearby has me jumping. I look over and see two tall ass aliens checking Gayle out. One of them looks at me. The being’s teal and silver eyes look me over with keen interest. Its beautiful eye color keeps me mesmerized. My heart races as I jerk my gaze from his and do a quick scan of his body. Heat pools in my groin. I’m shocked by my body’s reaction.
I can’t be attracted to a male. They are bad and hurt females every chance they get. Alien males can’t be any different. Can they? An image of the being dragging Megan fills my head. No, they aren’t.
I look around for a place to hide. I take a step back and my chain vibrates as it slides across the dark wood. The noise in the room is almost deafening. I drop to the floor and cover my ears with my hands. I long to hold backpack. Right now, I need my friend more than ever.
Gayle’s voice cuts through the air. I glance over and see that both of the beings are close to Gayle and the one with silver eyes is telling her something. They must be the zaphinians the red being was talking about. Did it lie? Are they my best chance at living? Will they take me and Gayle away from here? Away from this nightmare?
Gayle snarls and then spits at the silver eyed one with the short black hair. The being dodges her spit and then frowns at her. Both of them step back and start talking on the edge of the platform. Every so often the handsome teal eyed one with the shoulder length black hair looks my way. I don’t mean to stare but there’s something about him that draws my gaze. Like a moth to a flame. Hopefully not a cooking flame. No, the red alien said they weren’t here for food.