by Stella Sky
“If you are too scared to do it, just say so. If you are a coward, just admit it,” she said to me.
I growled. I turned back to her and took two big strides and got in her face. I was boiling with anger. How dare she say such a thing about me. She did not know me. She did not see and witness the many battles that I had fought and won. Her words were like poison to me, especially because they were coming from a useless human female.
“I am no coward! Do not call me that ever again or I will have to hurt you. Not even the king himself would be able to save you,” I sneered at her.
“I am only calling it like I see it. You have too much fear of the dragons to go after her,” she said as she crossed her arms across her chest.
“Enough!” I shouted at her. I put my hands on her waist and lifted her up into the air. She screamed.
“Ravinn!” a voice said. I recognized it immediately. I put the human female down and turned around. There, standing in the sand, was a female Draqua. She was a hybrid like me. She was tall like me. She was strong like me. She had black hair and black eyes and was the most beautiful stunning creature I had ever seen. She stood there in a sheer white dress with a yellow cloth covering her breasts and a yellow loincloth on her waist.
“Talia,” I said walking toward her.
“What are you doing?” she said with a bit of jealousy in her voice.
“I am only exchanging words with these human females that we rescued from the battle. It is nothing. Let us go,” I said, trying to get her to walk away with me. But she was not so easily convinced. She walked toward the humans.
“Oh, more humans. Just what we need. These look older than the usual batch, and a bit fragile,” she said as she judged them.
“Excuse me,” the redhead human said.
“What are you called, red-haired human?” Talia asked.
“My name is Amelia. What are you called?” the red haired human said angrily.
“My name is Talia. Biyen, should you not be taking these humans to be registered at the port?” Talia said.
“We were just headed that way,” Biyen said with a smile. He knew that Talia was being jealous.
“Please, come this way. We will get you fed, cleaned up, and registered,” Biyen said as he led the human females from the beach towards the village. As the human called Amelia walked away, she looked back over her shoulder at me. Her blue eyes narrowed in hate.
I rolled my eyes at her. Where did she get off trying to force me to go find her friend? I was nothing to her. Sure, I had saved her, but that was it. I would never see her again. She would not be in my life. I was not going to sacrifice myself to save her human friend. Talia turned back toward me.
“I did not like seeing your hands on that human,” she said as she seductively walked toward me.
“Trust me. My hands were on her in a bout of anger. If you had not interrupted, I probably would have snapped her neck,” I said playfully to her.
“I hope that is true. I do not like the idea that you are touching this human female. She was very ugly, wasn't she?” she said.
“Yes, she was. Just like all human females. She does not compare to you. They are small and weak. You are tall and strong and rightfully the Draqua that I should be with,” I said to her.
I was always doing this. Talia was very insecure that I was going to leave her for a human. And although I had no intention of doing so, her insecurity came from a valid place. She was not able to create offspring, like all the female Draqua on Kelon. It was something that had developed over the last couple of decades. That was why most of us were now hybrid, born of human and Draqua. It was like a plague on the Draqua on Kelon. But there were many that thought it was only a passing phase and that soon a new generation of Draqua female would be able to create offspring. But some took this belief to the extreme and they fought over it, they were called the opposition. They split off from the village and for almost two decades had been at war with us. It was a complete mess. But it did afford me the chance to sharpen my battle skills.
“I am glad you are back. I missed you,” Talia said.
“I missed your warm, sexy body,” I said as I ran to her and scooped her up into my arms. Then I flew straight into the air into the trees. She was laughing as I held her in my arms. I placed a kiss on her cheek. Then I landed on the veranda outside of my hut.
“What are we doing here?” she said as I set her down.
“I think you know what we are doing here,” I said as I grabbed the sheer white dress and began to pull on it.
“But I have a lot of responsibilities today,” she said with her eyes full of passion.
“Then I guess those responsibilities will just have to wait, because this is not going to wait,” I said as I grabbed her hand and placed it on my hard cock.
She laughed, and I grabbed her hand and pulled her inside my hut. I growled as I pulled off my loincloth and boots. She smiled and pulled the sheer white cloth over her head. Then she pulled off the yellow loincloth and yellow strip of cloth that covered her breasts. She stood naked in front of me. I picked her up and threw her on the bed.
“I want you inside of me, Ravinn,” she whispered.
“Well, if that is what you want, then I guess that is what I am going to have to do. I do not have a choice, now do I?” I said laughing.
I put myself on top of her, and she opened her thighs wide. I kissed her mouth and then I entered her. I closed my eyes as I moved inside of her, and then something happened that shocked me.
Images of the human with the red hair named crept into my mind. Suddenly I was imagining that it was her underneath me. We would have just fought and had a heated argument. Then I would have taken her and pushed my hard cock inside of her warm body. I was getting extremely heated as I thought about this.
Then I remembered myself. I quickly opened my eyes and looked down into the beautiful face of Talia and her black eyes. I felt ashamed that I had even thought of such a thing. I kept my eyes open from then on, looking at her face so that I would not think about the face and body of the human female. It would not be right.
From then on, I said the name of Talia out loud over and over as I released myself inside of her in order to force myself to not say the name of the human female. When we were done, I rolled off of her and tried not to feel guilty. Thankfully, for me, there was a knock at the door of my hut.
“Who could that be?” Talia asked.
“I do not know. I will check,” I said as I walked to the door, relieved for the interruption.
I opened the door. On the other side was Ephane. He was a young hybrid like myself. We went through warrior training together. But I remained a warrior, and he went into the governmental systems. It was the best place for him because he was not as strong as I was. Even for a Draqua, he was a bit thinner than most.
“Ephane! What can I do for you?” I asked with a smile.
“Ravinn. Are you busy?” he asked.
I opened the door wider. Now he could see Talia lying in bed with a sheet on top of her.
“Oh, I see that you are busy. I am very sorry to interrupt. But your father asked me to find you. He wants to have a word with you, and he said not to leave your side until you were at his side,” Ephane said.
I sighed in annoyance. My father was a very strong Draqua and he was not an easy one to talk to. There was only one right way to do things: his way. It made these little talks that we had very unpleasant. I did not want to go. But I knew that if I did not, he would just come look for me himself and be even angrier.
“Let me get dressed. I will be with you in a moment,” I said as I closed the door. I walked in and got dressed, putting on my loincloth and belt and boots.
“I swear your father knows when we are together and he likes to pull you away from me,” Talia said sadly.
“No, I am sure that this is not the case. He probably just has some ridiculous responsibility that he wants me to take care of. He does not know that we are tog
ether this afternoon,” I said as I leaned over her and kissed her on the cheek.
“Will I see you later then?” she asked.
“You can count on it. I will find you after dinner in the communal kitchens,” I said to her.
She smiled and then laid back down in bed for a quick nap. I left and flew with Ephane to the living quarters of my father. I walked from the veranda into his hut.
“Father, you wanted to see me?” I said as I walked in and went straight for the drinking area. I poured myself a stiff drink of Hiwa. I was going to need it.
"Ravinn. Glad that you came. Ephane, good work getting my son here. You are dismissed to your daily rounds. Make sure you tell me how the water systems are going first thing in the morning,” my father said.
“Yes, Callisto. I will come to you in the morning,” Ephane said as he walked back out onto the veranda and flew away.
“What is it, father? Why did you call me here? We just spoke a week ago,” I said as I made myself comfortable on the bench.
“You were with Talia again this afternoon, were you not?” he asked.
“What is that to you?” I scolded him.
“You know what it is to me. You cannot make her your lifelong mate and wife. She is not able to create offspring. It is your responsibility to reproduce,” he said in anger.
“Not this talk again. We have had this same conversation over and over again for a year now. I am sick of it. You cannot tell me who I should love. You do not control my heart. I do not care that she is not able to produce offspring. There are more than enough humans here on Kelon that will be creating offspring. It means nothing if I decide that I want to make Talia my lifelong mate and we do not reproduce,” I said to him.
“Yes, it does. I am a high official. We are looked upon as examples. If you decide not to be with a human, then others will think to do the same. Before we know it, all males will think as you do. That they can do whatever they want. It will be the decline of our race. We will become extinct. The opposition will win, and the Draqua will be no more,” my father said as he pounded his fist on the table. He was obviously very angry.
“I don't know what to tell you, father. I am not going to leave her. I love her because she is strong and she has a good heart. She is a very kind-hearted and pure Draqua. The human females are weak. They constantly need to be rescued, and they are not capable of doing the things that we are able to do, payphone females are. Because of this, I enjoy my companionship with Talia. You cannot force me otherwise,” I said as I stood up and walked toward the veranda.
“You are not going anywhere. The reason I summoned you this afternoon is because I have news for you. It has been six months since I have made a case to the king that you are ready to marry. That you are ready for a lifelong mate. He has granted it,” my father said.
I stopped in my tracks. This was truly shocking. I did not think that my father was pleading a case to the King for me to be able to have a mate.
“You mean it, father? You asked him if I could marry Talia?” I said with a slight smile.
“No. That is not what I mean, son. I asked the King to give you a human female as a mate. He has granted it. You are going to have a human female wife by order of the King. There is nothing that you can do about it.”
CHAPTER THREE
AMELIA SANDERS
I could not believe what was happening to me. I had been taken by aliens! We did not even know that aliens existed on Earth. I had just been a secretary that no one paid attention to, not even my womanizing boss. Now I was suddenly in the middle of this alien world that they called Kelon, and I was surrounded by half-dragon aliens. It was beyond belief. But what was even more surprising was the fact that I had found myself arguing with one that had rescued me from the ocean and from a crazy battle.
“The Draqua known as Ravinn was completely rude and arrogant. He was the most irritating male that I had ever met, of any species. I wanted to slap the arrogance off his face. So as I went through the process of what they called registration at a spaceport, I could not stop thinking about how angry he made me.
“What a jerk…” I said under my breath.
“What was that?” the warrior that was getting my identification down asked me.
“Oh, nothing. Why are you doing this? Why did you take us? You cannot just go to another planet and take people. It is not right,” I said as I realized that I had been very appeasing with this whole process.
“We will show you to your living quarters,” the warrior said, ignoring my questions. It seemed that all of these Draqua warriors were just as rude as Ravinn. I sighed in annoyance.
“Am I ever going to get any answers? What about my friend that was taken? Is anyone looking for her? Is anyone in charge here?” I shouted as I finally broke into a rage.
“What is it? What can I help you with?” I heard another voice say. I turned around to see another Draqua warrior. But there was something different about him. His green eyes seemed to be full of kindness. His brown hair was cut short and very well-kept. He did not have the rugged, dangerous look that Ravinn had.
“Yes, I need help,” I said as I walked over to him.
“All right human. What can I help you with? What is your name? My name is Ephane,” he said with a slight bow. It was very unusual.
“Well, Ephane, my name is Amelia. I have a million questions. I just arrived on this planet, and I was taken. I want someone to tell me why and what the hell is going on here. But most importantly, as soon as we arrived, we crashed, and my friend Michelle was taken by a red dragon. No one seems to care at all. No one seems to want to get her back. What the hell kind of place is this?” I said as I was near tears.
“I will take this human female to her home,” Ephane said as he gestured to the warrior that was registering me.
“She is in the guest tree hut living quarters. Any hut is fine,” The warrior said to Ephane.
“Come with me, Amelia. I will answer your questions, and we will see about your friend,” he said with a genuine smile. I felt relief wash over me. This Draqua named Ephane was going to answer my questions and help me get Michelle back. It was all that I could ask for at the moment. I followed him away from the ship port.
“Amelia, I am sorry for what you have been through so far on your arrival to Kelon. It seems like it has been a lot,” Ephane said as he walked beside me.
“Thank you,” I said surprised by his empathy.
“Now you have questions. That is understandable. All of the human females that come here do and I will try to answer yours if I can,” he said as we walked out of the port and into the tall trees jetting out from the ground.
“Yes. Why am I here? I was taken from Earth. That is not all right. I want to go back home. When can I return?” I asked.
“Yes, the taking of females. That is not something I have been proud of. But it is a necessity for our race to survive,” he said.
“What do you mean?”
“The females of our own Draqua race are not able to produce offspring anymore. Therefore it is a necessity for us to reproduce with other females of other races. That is why we had started to mate with humans long ago,” Ephane sad.
I was silent as I realized what he was telling me. They needed us in order to procreate.
"So that is why I am here? I am supposed to mate and produce offspring?”
“Yes. I know it is shocking. But you will find that the majority of the human females that are here are very happy here. They have made a life here. You will see when you meet them,” he said as he continued to lead me towards a giant tree.
“Yes, I would like to talk to other humans. I just can't believe this is happening. You must know that I am in complete shock.” I said.
“This way. I will show you to your home,” he said as he walked into an arch cut into a giant tree. I followed him inside, where there was a giant spiral staircase. It was absolutely stunning. There were lots and lots of steps to climb. He climbed, and I f
ollowed him.
“And tell me about your friend,” he said.
“ Michelle. Her name is Michelle. When we crashed during the battle, a large red dragon took her from the ocean. It flew off with her. She is out there somewhere. She needs to be rescued. No one seems to care that she was taken. I don't understand why,” I said to him as I climb the stairs.
“I understand. We can fill out a report about her, and I will make sure that it gets to the king. It sounds like she was taken by the opposition. It could be hard to find her, but we must let our warriors know that she is out there. If they come across the opposition, they can make it a point to look for her and bring her back,” he said.