by Lauren Wood
“I think that you’ll find that what I’m doing is going to be the one thing that is going to be your downfall. You thought that you were superior, but I think that this little exercise has given you food for thought.” His hair was alive and it was part of his anatomy. They were swirling in front of him taking control of the ship. He was able to do several things at the same time. That cannot be said for other species including that of Prince Niles. “I will always be one step ahead of you, Prince Niles. By the way I don’t think that it’s right for your family to be called prince and king, when the rest of us are relegated to only our names. We are royal family from different species and maybe you should take that into consideration. Then again, you’re not going to be around to make any kind of change.” He fired and saw that one of their engines had been disabled. The smoking crater left behind made them dive into the atmosphere of the planet.
“He has the upper hand. If I don’t find a way out of this, then you will be his.” Prince Niles was desperate and it wasn’t just the disappointment from his father that fueled him into a different way of thinking. “I might be able to use the planet’s atmosphere to help us with this fight.” It was going to have to be timed perfectly. One wrong move and his life would be forfeited.
“I want you to do whatever you need to do to make Kaman back off. When you think that you have the kill shot, then you need to take it without hesitation. You can’t think of him, as a person any longer. I know that it’s going to be hard, but take him out of the equation and treat this, as a drone with nobody inside. Forget about his life and maybe then you might have a chance.” She felt the inertia pushing her up against the seat and the heat from the speed that they were falling was making her sweat. “If he’s not careful, then Kaman is going to win and that is the last thing that I want to see happen. I’ve grown quite fond of the prince and I think that there might be something here. I want the opportunity to find out. The very idea that we are allowed other lovers has certainly put a new spin on things.
“He needs to follow us and I believe that I am going to have to convince him. “
“How exactly do you plan on doing that?” She watched his smirk and found his cavalier attitude towards the possibility of dying to be quite intoxicating. It was that blood lust in his eyes that told her that he was never going to give up, until his last and final breath.
“Kaman, I thought that I would inform you that I’ve had my cock in her mouth. She’s tasted my seed and she drank it down with this look of greed on her face. I even went down on her, while waiting for you to find us. Let’s just say that she was most appreciative of my efforts. I have a tongue that splits into two and I used it in the best way that it could be. She will be used merchandise and you’ll always know that I was the one that gave it to her first.” They both heard the growl and then looked back to see that the ship had indeed begun a dangerous pursuit. “Come and get her, but remember I made her suck me off, forcing her to swallow my load and that is something that you’ll always have to remember.” His diatribe was met with one shot after another.
“I will kill you, Prince Niles. I will kill you and then I will take my wrath out on your father, before finally declaring my species, as the leader and the holder of the power. It won’t matter what you did with Scarlet, because I will turn her into a slave for my own pleasure. She will be cleansed before I even touch her, but the fact that you did her makes it necessary for you to suffer.”
“That was pretty quick thinking, Niles. I didn’t think you had it in you to make him angry. I suppose there’s a lot about you that I’m going to learn. I’m looking forward to spending the time to really get to know you in the bedroom and out. You have an interesting way about you and I would say that not even your father fully understands what you are capable of.” “I do believe that I have been wasting my time with boys trying to be men. The prince is more man than even he believes of himself. He has this fierce determination for survival that outweighs the safety of his own life. I find that to be very exciting and it makes me want to throw myself at him willingly. I want to feel his fingers open me up and then to feel the pressing of his elongated member finding a home between my legs.
Licking his lips, Niles forced himself past the jumbled thoughts that the deflector had caused. It made his head hurt and the pounding drum up against his temples was a little distracting. He felt alive and lying in luxury had made him soft. When it came down to it, he was able to push past everything else. With his head on fire and all his neural receptors working at once, he brought the ship to a complete halt. They were thrown against the force field and then they watched, as Kaman’s ship went into the atmosphere too quickly.
“You son of a bitch….you did that on purpose.” Kaman’s hair was flying everywhere to anticipate what was going to happen, but it was too late. He had allowed Prince Niles to get to him and that was ultimately his Achilles heel. “I can’t stop… I can’t fucking stop.” He was screaming inside his head, but there was nothing that he could do to eliminate the possibility of complete engine failure. Hitting the atmosphere with that kind of speed blew off both of his wings and caused a catastrophic fire that turned the vessel into a fireball going down to the planet’s surface.
“I’m sorry that it came to this, Kaman, but you really didn’t leave me much of a choice. You took it upon yourself to challenge me. I do admit that it was kind of thrilling to match wits with a man of your experience. I’ve known for quite some time that you were not one to mess with, but it does make me feel good that I was able to go toe to toe. I hope that this sends a message back to your kind that my family is willing to throw down with any one. I hope that whatever deity you pray to is ready to receive you. It has been an interesting experience and one that I’m sure that I will remember for the rest of my life.”
“I know that I didn’t know him, but I don’t think that he deserves this fate. I understand that this is the way that things are done. We really do need to change these things from happening again. The old ways have no place. Do you suppose that we should try to help him, or is that out of the realm of possibility?” “I didn’t want this, but it had happened and there was no going back. I’ve learned in the short time that I’ve gotten to know Prince Niles that he is more than I bargained for. He may seem privileged and one that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but I think that all of us here on this planet could probably say the same thing in some regard. Having oral sex was amazing. It only makes me hunger for the moment that I feel him entering into my tight sheath. It does feel wrong to celebrate our new union, while Kaman’s losing his life.”
“I wish that I could intervene on his behalf, but it remains to be seen, if we’re going to get out of this alive ourselves. I’m not feeling very good and concentrating like that really does make the body feel like it’s shutting down. I… I…don’t know if I can do this” His eyes fluttered and he slumped back into his chair with his breath coming out of his mouth in heavy gasps. He lost consciousness and it left Scarlet in a dangerous position of trying to get home on her own. They were close to the atmosphere and the gravity that would pull them down in a not so subtle way.
Chapter 8
“Wake up, Niles. I don’t know what to do. I’ve never flown anything like this before in my life. I regret not taking my father’s suggestion to join him to learn how to do this. Everything here looks foreign to me. I can’t make heads or tails out of anything.” She had heard that these vessels were powered by not only a particle engine, but also by the mind. It was said that those that had learned were implanted with a certain neural enhancement. She did not have that, so getting out of this by landing the vessel on her own was out of the question. She did notice that she could understand the information being displayed in front of her eyes.
She slapped him over and over again and still there was no response. She was panicking over seeing that the ship was dangerously close to coming in contact with the planet’s gravitational force. It would only be a short
time and then they would be in the same situation that Kaman had found himself in.
“There has to be something that I can do. Right now, I’m basically a sitting duck with no way out of here, besides an untimely death that would certainly bring war to all the colonies. My family would take a dim light about me dying on an expedition that was meant to keep our best interest at heart.” She remembered something that was said before their departure and then it was like that memory had suddenly given her an idea.
He looked around and at first, it seemed like a daunting tasks that was left to others with the intellect for this type of thing. She was tempted to pound every button, but that would have only made things worse. She finally was able to see that there was a communication device on board. She pressed on the receiver and said the only thing that came to mind “I don’t know who is out there listening to this, but I’m in a bad spot. I need some help.” She waited patiently. It appeared that her pleas for mercy had fallen on deaf ears. “I know that this is unusual, but Prince Niles has passed out and I cannot revive him. If somebody doesn’t do something soon, then the both of us are going to die right here and right now.” Once again, she could only hear static.
At first, Sousa really didn’t pay much attention, but then when he heard that his master was in dire circumstances, it seemed necessary to answer the call for help. “I hear you, Scarlet. What exactly do you propose for a way to get out of this?”
“It was said before we took off that when one of them won the battle that the ship that I was in would beam me down to the planet’s surface. I’m not sure if that’s only if the ship is destroyed, or if it’s when one of the ships is destroyed. Either way, I think that might be the answer to this little dilemma. Kaman tried his best, but he was unable to complete his task. Niles got the best of him and Kaman is right now plummeting towards the planet. If I were you, I would warn those in the vicinity of the impact site that they should not be there when it happens.” “Particle engines are very unstable and can cause a crater that is 10 miles in diameter. Whatever was in its way would ultimately be destroyed.”
“I think that you might be on to something about beaming down to the planet, but I’m going to have to consult with one of our scientists. Bear with me, as I contact him and also send out a warning to those that are in the path of the trajectory of that vessel out of control. I do hope that this will not take long, but there’s no way to know for sure.” He went and found the scientist, while at the same time informing Niles father that his son was in jeopardy.
“I do hope that you hurry up, because I don’t think that time is the one thing that we have on our side.” The proximity alarm inside the vessel began to go off. It was deafening. She found the button that would mute the alarm, so that she didn’t go completely crazy. According to the dials, it would be no more than a couple of minutes before the ship was pulled into a downward spiral that would be out of control. Niles may have won the battle, but he might have actually destroyed the chance for them to be together.
Niles father decided that it was time for him to come to the rescue. The scientist was on hand, but he looked a little confused. “Miss Lotus, this is Niles father and I have the scientist here with me. He doesn’t look at all happy about your suggestion, but he says that it is possible under adverse conditions that you both could be beamed down to the planet. I hate to tell you this, but the solution is for you to find the self destruct button and initiate a countdown. Once it reaches critical, then the ship should automatically send you and my son down to the planet’s surface. It is widely known that this can be detrimental to your health, but I don’t think that we have much of a choice. Find the button that’s’ underneath the console. You’ll need to press on it for a full of 3 seconds. Trust me, if there was another way, I would be the first to tell you.”
“What you’re basically telling me is that I have to make this ship explode, before it will allow me and Niles to leave this vessel unharmed. I really don’t like the sound of this, but if you believe that this is the only chance, then I guess I’m going to have to follow your directions to the letter.” “I feel like I’m in over my head, but it looks like it’s up to me to get this done. Even if Niles was awake, I doubt that even he would be able to bring this vessel down safely.” Suddenly, there was the sound of an explosion and even through the atmosphere the particle engine making impact lit up the planet like they were celebrating some kind of festival.
“That was too close for comfort. It appears that Kaman has come down and has taken a 10 mile piece of property with him. We barely survived the blast. The windows in our home have been blown in. We had to take cover.” Niles father listened for some kind of response, but it appeared that the blast had interfered with communications. “I don’t know if you can hear me, but I do hope that everything works out. The scientist is calculating where you’re going to be beamed down to and we’re going to send out a search party to retrieve you.”
“Here goes nothing and maybe it’s a good thing that you’re sleeping right now, Niles. If this doesn’t work, you’ll just go to sleep forever and never have a clue that this even happened. I’m a little bit jealous that you have that option, when I have to face death in the face.” She reached underneath the console and found the button. Taking a deep breath and holding it, she pressed it and held it for 3 seconds. Almost immediately, the screen flashed a 20 minute countdown. She had to bypass that by pressing the button again to bring that countdown to a mere 1 minute. It wasn’t long to get things straight in her head, but she did realize that Niles meant more to her than she thought he did.
“I thought that I was immune to the charms of a man. Niles is no ordinary man by any means. I thought that I was destined to be alone, but I see now that I was only poisoning my own soul. I do want what everybody else wants, but I tried to convince myself otherwise for the sake of sticking it to my parents. Seeing my life flash before my eyes, I have come to some painful conclusions about the way that I treated them. They were only trying to make my life better. At every turn, I was more than happy to sully our good name with too many dalliances to speak of. I feel like such a fool and maybe this is the reason why this is happening.”
The time was at the 30 second mark and those 30 seconds seemed like an eternity for her and for those on the planet waiting for word if they survived or not. She did not want to go out the same way that Kaman did. She could only imagine that he was screaming all the way down, but it was the impact that had finally did him in. Seeing death come for you like that couldn’t be easy, but maybe there was a sense of peace that came along with it.
The time was at the 20 second mark. It really did feel to Scarlet that this was never going to end. She closed her eyes, as she really didn’t want to know one way or the other. If this worked, then they would find out very shortly and if it didn’t, then she probably would be meeting up with her own ancestors in the afterlife. She reached out for Niles hand, gripped it tightly and tried to find the strength from him to keep herself from screaming.
The 10 second mark was a very chilling moment. She could feel that her life was over and her only regret was that she didn’t get a chance to finish what she started with Prince Niles. That man was what she wanted in her life. The blinding bright light told her that the time for hopes and dreams were over.
Chapter 9
Scarlet thought that she heard a voice. At first she really did believe that it was her grandmother welcoming her to the other side. It sounded like it was coming through a tunnel. She had this ringing in her ears that was something fierce.
“You don’t have to worry anymore. You’re back on the planet. The vessel exploded in space and that pretty much leaves us stranded on this planet, until somebody from one of the colonies decides to visit. That could be any time from one lunar cycle to 20 of them. We’ve been alone for almost a year without any visitors, so it’s not going to be much of a hardship for us to survive. We live off the land, hunting for our food and growing what we need i
n the fertile soils of the planet.” Scarlet knew the voice, as Niles father and it took a Herculean effort for her to open up her eyes.
She was lying there in a field with people surrounding her and making her feel like she was more important than what she was. “What about… Prince Niles?” “I was worried that he didn’t get out of the vessel and that I was the only one that was sent down here out of harm’s way.”
“He’s in critical condition and he has been taken back to my estate to recuperate. Our doctors will take a look at him, but I think that his neural receptors were slightly overloaded. It didn’t help that he was subjected to the beaming technology. When you beamed down to the planet, the recording device was also sent along with you. I’ve since gone over the details and I have to admire my son’s fortitude and genius for thinking outside the box. I really didn’t think that he had that in him, but he showed me that he is ready to lead. That may not happen for some time to come, but I will certainly bring him into negotiations from this moment on. I will not try to shelter him from the truth and I’ve been foolish to think that I can protect him from the real world.” Niles father watched, as they used a technology that they had gotten from the Caldor people. An electric slab was placed underneath Scarlet’s body.
It easily lifted her into the air and the scientist and the Dr. combined were able to control the device. She felt weightless and that feeling was something that she had never felt before. Her body did not give her back control of her faculties. She couldn’t move. She could barely keep her eyes open the entire time that they were bringing her back for evaluation.