by Maia Starr
"We made it. We are in space,” I said.
"Yes, but we are still in Earth space. Hold on while I jump into hyperdrive,” he said to me.
My eyes grew wide. Hyperdrive. I knew what that meant. I watched as Jedrian pressed various buttons.
"Where are we going?” I asked.
"Home,” he said as the ship shot forward. Then it was a blur of light out the windshield. Jedrian sat back and looked relieved.
"Did it work? Did we do it?” I asked him.
He turned to me and smiled. He unbuckled his belt and walked over to me and knelt down beside me. “We've done it. We're safe now.”
I let out a breath of air. I was so relieved.
"I could not stand the thought of losing you. I could not stand the thought of not being with you,” I said to him.
"I feel the same way, Trish. I know we have not been together long, but I knew from the moment I saw you that I could not be without you. I love you deeply. I am bonded to you. I will die for you,” he said to me.
"Yes, I guess you have proven that twice already,” I said to him.
"I only want you. I know that Cultan told you about my arrangement with him. But that was before I ever met you. That was when I was trying to do my duty as a Corillion for my warriors at home. After I met you and we bonded, I knew that you were the only one. I was not going to take another wife or abandon you. I want you to know that I know it as the truth. Cultan was trying to poison you against me because he wanted you for himself. He wanted to make you his second wife,” he said to me.
"I know that now. I am sorry for believing him. But the thought of you with another human female filled me with jealousy,” I said to him.
"Well, then you are in luck because where we are going, you are the only human female. There will be no one for you to be jealous of,” he said to me.
My eyes opened wide. Was he being serious?
"What do you mean? I am the only human female on your planet?” I asked.
"Yes, for now. Once I have made you my wife officially then other warriors in my tribe can claim human females as wives. Then there will be more females, and you will not be alone,” he said.
"That is good. I will need some human female companions after a while.” Then my thoughts turn to my roommate, Amy. I realize that I would never see her again. I realized that I had left everything that I had worked so hard for behind. I grew quiet and sad.
But when we arrived on the planet of valentine, that all changed. I had no reason to be sad at all because I realized that I had not left my life behind. I had everything with me: Jedrian, and the child growing inside of me.
As soon as the two-week journey across the galaxy to the Corillion galaxy was over, Jedrian insisted that a medic look at me. It was then that we discovered that I was with offspring. Jedrian was glowing with pride. I was happier than I thought I could ever possibly be. It made me feel complete. It made me feel like I had everything. I had the love of my life, and I was going to have an alien hybrid baby, something I thought would never ever happened to me. I was filled with happiness and joy.
"I am not happy that I crashed my ship, but I am happy that I met you. Even if it took three months of torture as a prisoner of your father in order to meet you," he said to me as we sat looking out of our vast bedroom window over his home planet. I was very surprised by the beauty of his home. I was expecting a barren planet in the middle of the Corillion galaxy. But that was not what I was looking at.
Instead, I was looking at what I could only describe as a rocky desert on Earth. Not a barren desert like the Sahara; it was more like the beautiful rock formations of Utah. There were many ravines full of water and flowering desert-like cactus and plants. There was a lot of wildlife, and it was absolutely beautiful.
"I am happy that I went to the research facility. None of this would've happened had I never made that trip,” I said kissing him on the cheek.
"Then it is fate,” he said as he kissed me back. “And your new home? Does it please you?” he asked me.
"It is absolutely beautiful. It is like living in a castle,” I said as I looked around the vast room. I was very impressed with the building engineering of the Corillion race. The home that Jedrian occupied was a large fortress built into the mountainside, into the rock. It was very beautiful and used the natural surroundings as the walls. It was fitting to the environment that we had lived in in the woods together. The fortress was vast, and as I spent more time there, I realized just how much of a leader he was.
I sat next to him daily on what I could only describe as a throne on the stage where warriors came to see him and speak of plans. It was amazing, and I had never felt more like a queen. I had not been expecting all of this extravagance of a Corillion race that was known as brutal. But I was wrong; I was very wrong. I had every luxury and resource that I could desire.
Jedrian even gave me a large wing of the fortress that I could do anything I wanted with. I told him there was only one thing I wanted to do: to set up a lab to study the plant life on his planet. I wasn't going to give up my work simply because I was now the wife of a Corillion and soon to be a mother. No, in fact, I had only advanced my career as a scientist further than anyone on Earth could ever hope for.
Jedrian was very excited to help me set this up. He wanted to see that scientists of Earth could do good and not the evil that he had been shown as a lab experiment. It was very fulfilling to me to do the research.
Then, several months later, it happened. I gave birth to our son, Mayzin. He was a beautiful alien-human hybrid that filled me with joy. One day he would be the leader of this planet, but for now, he was part of our little family. The family that we had fought so hard for in such a short amount of time.
It was unlike anything that I had ever expected when I set out on the train from Harvard to Virginia to visit my father. I just thought I was going to gather information to work on my thesis; instead I was given a completely different life. I was given a life that had more adventure and joy than I could have ever possibly have received on Earth. I was fulfilled as a scientist studying alien plant life on an alien planet. I was with the love of my life. I was with a Corillion warrior that had risked his life for me over and over again without a second thought. There was no love stronger than this. And of course, I was extremely happy as a mother; everything that I could ever hope for but that I didn't know that I wanted until I had it, and could not imagine life without
The End
BOOK 5: Viqer-Corillion Mates
By Maia Starr
Chapter 1
SARAMINA JEDSIN
My girlfriends, Mary, Stephanie, and Gloria, had all convinced me to go camping in upstate New York. It wasn’t exactly my idea of the perfect weekend, but it had its appeal. I liked the idea of getting out of the city and breathing fresh air for once.
Our little getaway started off well; we setup camp, gossiped, and drank to our hearts’ content. It wasn’t until long after the sun went down that we finally crawled into our tents and called it a night.
I was nearly asleep in my sleeping bag next to Stephanie. I nudged her arm and said, “Stephanie, I have to pee really badly.”
"I told you not to drink all that champagne before bed,” she groaned to me.
"Come with me; I am scared,” I whispered to her.
"No, you are just drunk and being paranoid. Don't go all the way to the facilities; just go outside the tent, but not too close,” she said sleepily.
I knew then that I was on my own. I quietly crawled out of the tent and moved away from the two tents that we occupied. But as I looked around, I could see that the other campsites were too close, and a few other people were still sitting around campfires.
I couldn't see the restroom facilities all the way across the campground. The trees were closer to us, so I moved into the tree line. I moved farther and farther in until I found a suitable spot, and then I relieved myself. Afterward, I felt so much better and more confident about bei
ng in the dark forest. But as I stood up and buttoned my jeans, I realized that I had become turned around. I could see small fires burning in each direction; which way was the way back to our camping spot?
"Crap, Saramina, you really should have not had so much champagne. I guess I will try this way,” I said as I picked a direction and started to walk toward it. Then I heard a loud swish and air hit my face as though a helicopter was flying right above me. I couldn't see anything as I looked up, but I knew that something was there. “What the hell?”
"You are a human female?” I heard a very deep voice whisper to me.
"What? Who's there?” I turned around frantically in a circle until my flashlight landed on something that I could not believe was in front of me. It was a very tall figure, almost eight-feet tall. I knew right away that he was not human. It was not wearing a shirt and there were blue scales down the right side of his body. I could barely see his blond hair, hanging long down to his shoulders.
"You… You…” was all that I could say in my frightened state.
"I am Corillion,” he said with a grin.
"What are you doing here? Why are you standing near me?” I asked.
"I think you know the answer to that, human female,” he said as he took a step toward me.
I screamed at the top of my lungs, turned, and ran. I knew that he meant to take me. That is what they did. That was why Earth was at war with them over the last few years. I ran as fast as I could screaming, but I didn't get very far. Before I knew it, there were strong arms around my waist.
"Let me go! Let me go!” I shouted.
But it was no use. There was another rush of air and I felt like I was weightless, almost like I was flying.
That is the last thing I remember. When I woke up, I was in a guarded underground room made of rock. I woke up trying to figure out what was going on.
"Where am I?” I whispered to myself. I was surprised when I heard a female voice answer.
"You are in a secret base. You have been taken by the Corillion; we all have,” she said.
I slowly got to my feet and looked around. There were about 40 other females around my age ranging from early-twenties to mid-thirties sitting around a very large cavernous room with a lot of furniture, including single beds, a few couches, plush floor mattresses in vibrant colors, and a couple of tables and chairs complete with food and water. It looked like a harem.
"What do you mean taken?” I asked the woman with red hair.
"My name is Jennifer. I have been here for two weeks. We were all abducted, some of us in groups and some of us alone, and brought here. This is as much as we know. The Corillion warriors brought us here in order to take us back to the Corillion galaxy where we will be married to a Corillion leader. Some of us have already left. That is all we know,” Jennifer said.
"You have to be kidding me,” I said, walking around seeing that the only opening had bars on it with two Corillion warriors guarding it.
"No, I am sorry, we are not kidding. This is your new reality,” Jennifer said.
"This is bullshit! We have to get out of here! All of us! We have our own lives! This is wrong,” I said, moving toward the bars and banging on them. “Let me out of here!"
"It is of no use. We all reacted the same when we first woke up here. You will get used to it after a while. But there is nothing we can do. They are stronger than us, and no one knows where we are to come look for us,” Jennifer said as she handed me a glass of water.
I drank the water and sat down on the floor and cried. What the hell was going on? How could this be real?
"Where is she? The new one,” I heard a deep voice say.
I turned to see a familiar sight. It was the blond Corillion warrior that had taken me in the night.
"There you are," he said as he looked directly at me. I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Why am I here? Why have you taken me?” I stood up and faced him on the other side of the bars.
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cultan Krillis," he said with a grin. It was the same grin that I remembered from the night before.
"Let me go, Cultan Krillis. You have no right to take my body and do with it what you will,” I said to him.
He smiled more. “I like your anger. You will make some Corillion warrior a good wife. You have the spirit for it. That is what we like,” he said.
"I will do no such thing. Let me out of here. I want to go home,” I said to him.
"You will stay here. You will make a wife for a Corillion, and you will like it. You might not think that you will now, but eventually, you will. They all do,” he said. He started to walk away, and I started screaming at him.
"You won't get away with this! I will get out of here!”
A week passed. Little by little, females were taken out of the cave, never to return. Jennifer had told me that they were being taken to the Corillion galaxy. By this time, I knew that I was still on Earth, and grateful for it. It gave me a sense of hope that I was still on my own planet. It gave me a sense of hope that I was not millions of miles away from Earth. At least there was still a chance that I could get out of this.
Then that chance came when none of us were expecting it. It all happened so suddenly and I was lucky that it did because I was due to leave to the Corillion galaxy the very next day. I had been full of anxiety and sitting with Jennifer, who was scheduled to depart with me on a ship to meet our future husbands. It was all completely insane.
"I think it is going to be fine. I have heard things,” Jennifer said to me.
"What kind of things?” I asked her.
"Some of the women here have already been with a Corillion before by choice. They rather enjoyed it. They are looking forward to the adventure of living in the Corillion galaxy and being with a Corillion for a husband. They say that sex with a Corillion is unlike anything they have ever experienced with a human,” Jennifer said, trying to talk me out of my anxiety.
"But it is being forced on us. That is not right. I will never get over that. There is a part of me that is attracted to the danger and the adventure of the unknown. But what are the chances that I'm going to like the personality of the Corillion that I am given to? I feel like I will not like them. It will be a prison for me. Don't you feel that way?” I asked her.
"Did you feel that? Listen,” Jennifer said as she stood up.
"What is it?” I said as I stood up next to her. I listened quietly. Then I heard it. I could hear the sounds of helicopters. But the last time I heard what I thought was a helicopter, it was a Corillion spaceship.
"It is the Corillion. There will be more of them. It sounds like space ships,” I said to her.
Bam! Bam!
The sound of blasters echoed in the underground cavern. It was obvious that there was a fight going on outside. All the girls began to panic. The two Corillion warriors that were guarding us ran out toward the entrance. They stood looking out into the light.
"It is the humans! It is the human army of Earth!” they yelled at each other.
"We are saved!” I shouted. The girls began to celebrate. I was so thankful that the army of Earth had found us just in time. I was going to be saved.
"Get them all to a ship! We have to get them out of here, even if we die trying!” Another guard ran in and shouted to the two guards.
"Oh shit. They're going to take us anyway!" I shouted. Then I had an idea. ”Listen. As soon as we get out of this cave, everyone run in a different direction. They can't catch all of us. Wait for my signal.”
The women agreed. It sounded like there was a lot of chaos outside and it was our only hope of getting away. If we acted obediently and made it easy for them to get us on the ship and get us out of there, then we would have no chance. But if we all ran in different directions, the two guards would have no choice but to only take who they could capture. I tied the laces on my shoes in a double knot. I was ready. I was going to get away.
"This way. Follow us. Follow closely,” the
guard shouted as he opened the bars.
"We should chain them together,” the other guard said. I flinched at his words.
"There is no time for it. The Earth army could be storming this cavern at any second. Get them out of here,” the other guard said.
I was glad for it. We all calmly walked in a group out of the bars following the guard. We calmly walked out of the cave into the bright sunlight. I squinted my eyes until it became clear. There were tall trees everywhere. We were in the middle of the forest. The sounds of guns and helicopters filled the air. I looked behind me to see that all the women were now out of the cavern and we were all walking calmly behind the guard. We were very close to the tall trees. It was now or never. I looked at Jennifer beside me, and she nodded.