by Maia Starr
“Will you just hold me,” she said.
“Yes,” I said as I took off my clothes and got into the hot bathtub with her. I sat behind her and then circled my body around her. She leaned back against my chest. I held her for the rest of the day.
The next day I was faced with questioning. I was lucky that Jessica had also been there. She gave testimony to the fact that it was self-defense. Even though Haven Brook did not have a justice system, people still wanted to know why one of their own was dead. I could understand that. Everyone understood what had happened and I was not held accountable. Truly, I did not mean to kill him even though I did hit him with such force, throwing him across the room. But I was not aiming for the mantle. It just happened. But I was getting rid of a predator in Haven Brook. Everyone seemed to be glad to know that he was no longer there. If he had done such a thing to Vanessa, then who would be next?
I was glad that he was gone. I did not want him around to terrorize the woman that I loved. Now things could go on as we had planned. I was going to make Vanessa my wife and my queen.
Chapter 25
Dr. Vanessa Lopez
It took me several weeks to feel normal again. It had me shaken up, more than being abducted by a drone and taken to the Clenok cyborgs. This was different. But many weeks passed, and I began to put it behind me. It helped that I had Karik at my side. He was absolutely wonderful. He was everything that I could ever ask for in a partner, even though he was not human. He was the best man that I had ever met.
I was more than happy to marry him. We had decided to get married in Haven Brook. It was my decision. I thought it was important that a marriage between a human and the Veruka was a normal thing. After my wedding, then it would be considered normal. I thought that was very important. Not only would it make me happy, but it would also send a message and set a standard. I liked it.
The day finally came. We got married in the pine forest where we had first made love. It was a simple ceremony, and I had a very simple dress. When you lived in an isolated village, you did not have the luxury of decorations and wedding dresses. But I managed to find a white dress in one of the abandoned homes. I tailored it to fit me. It was actually very beautiful. Karik married me in dragon form. I insisted on it. It is what I wanted.
The entire village of Haven Brook was in attendance. We were married by General Razook in a Veruka ceremony. It wasn't much different than ours except that the wording was different. I liked it. The people of Haven Brook also seemed to like it simply because it was something different.
After the ceremony, we had a large party. Food and drink were still rationed, but music and happiness were not. The Veruka army had also found a forest not too far away that had lots of wild food growing. There was an abandoned farm next to it. But the crops were still growing. With the ships that the Veruka had, it was easier to collect food around the region and bring it back to the village. This made the people very happy. They were getting used to having the weredragons around and all of the privileges that they were bringing with them. Suddenly food didn't seem so scarce.
The feast lasted late into the night. I think it was a much-needed party for the people of Haven Brook. After everything they had been through in the last few months with the cyborg attack, they deserved some happiness and celebration. I was watching the village transform into a different place. It was good. It was very good.
After the feast, Karik picked me up into his arms and together we flew back to our home.
“You are now a queen,” he said to me. The word hit me hard. Never in a million years did I ever think I would be a queen. Especially after the cyborg invasion. Nothing could prepare me for this turn of events.
“I am a queen. It comes with great responsibility. You are a king; you are my king,” I said, kissing him on the cheek.
“Yes, that is true. You are queen of the Veruka. The first human queen that we have ever had. It will be very interesting to bring you home,” he said.
My eyes grew wide. I never thought about the rejection that I might face on his planet. I have been so busy trying to get the humans to like and trust the Veruka that I did not think about it the other way around.
“Shit. Will they hate me? What if they have a mob and take me from you? I don't know what things are like on your planet. I don't know how much power you actually have,” I said playfully but also with a little bit of fear.
"You have nothing to worry about. My word is the law of the land. What I say goes. You are untouchable. Sure, there might be some grievances, but once they find out that humans are the cure to the blackness, they will be very happy that there is a human queen. That only promises that there will be more humans to come.”
“But I hope that you are right,” I said.
“I am always right,” he said.
“Oh, you are so arogant!” I said laughing.
“And you are so beautiful. Let us not talk of things that make you worry. I only want to kiss you and make love to you. This is the first time making love to you as my queen,” he said.
“And this is the first time making love to you as my king,” I said.
He picked me up and carried me to the bed. “Then let's not wait any longer to get started.”
He kissed me. I kissed him back. A queen to a king: an alien weredragon king.
Epilogue
It was six months after the battle with the Clenok cyborgs. It was time to leave. We had only told everyone in the month before. Karik was very adamant about keeping it between us until thirty days before departure. This had given the humans of Haven Brook time to become acquainted with the army and live alongside them. It had given everyone months to recognize our marriage and consider it the new normal.
So when we left, he left the army and Haven Brook with the exception of two ships. One would be our own ship with the crew and guards. The second ship carried the human female volunteers that had offered to go to Tivoso. There were twenty of them. They were all very excited to go. The crew and another squadron of soldiers were on that ship as well. There needed to be at least one ship guarding the king, and now the queen, myself. I was still getting used to the fact that I was a queen. The soldiers called me my queen, and it was very strange to me.
Then we were off into space. I was amazed by what I saw. I was not expecting such beauty. Space was a fantastic place.
“So what do you think? Is it everything you dreamed of?” Karik asked as I stood by the window looking out into the darkness of deep space.
“It is so much more than I ever expected. Thank you for bringing me with you,” I said. I could not describe what I was feeling. I had such happiness inside of me.
“I am glad that you like it. It is a long journey. The view will never get boring,” he said with a wink. And he was right. The week-long journey was full of beautiful views. I saw a nebula. I saw spiral galaxies. I saw stars and other planets. I saw an asteroid shower. There was just so much to see. It was never boring. And of course, we still managed to carry on our activities in space—our bedroom activities, that is.
After a week of travel, we finally arrived on Tivoso. It was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a very foreign-looking planet. But it looked like Earth, only different. They were plants that I have never seen. The sky was blue during the day but with a darker tint of purple to it. Their sun was not as close as the Earth sun. This made it a little cooler on the planet, and I realized this was why the dragons were always burning up. The temperature was much milder. I would get used to it.
But I did love the planet. It was almost as if I was getting Earth returned to me without any high walls that I had to stay in. Here there was no enemy living on the planet. I had freedom. It made me very happy. It was like old times on Earth.
Then the time came for my public appearance one day after landing. By then the news had spread that the king had married a human female. But Karik was smart. He made sure that the news spread that I had cured him of the blackness. So when he fina
lly introduced me from the balconyof his grand palace to those below, everyone cheered. I was happy. I was terrified they would not accept me.
The human program was also going successfully. We told the human females that we needed help nursing those that were weak back to health. We told them that being in contact with human females only made them stronger. But we still did not tell them everything: not yet. But slowly, one by one, the human females fell in love with a Veruka weredragon that was suffering from the blackness. Of course, they would mate, and suddenly the weredragon was cured. It seems like a miracle to everyone, except for those that knew what was going on.
For six months we lived on the planet of Tivoso. I watched Karik rule with honesty and respect for his Veruka. It was a very attractive thing to watch. While he was running the show, we also were gathering the army. He was going to take five hundred soldiers with him. I learned that this was a very small number considering the army numbered in the millions. Every single weredragon was a trained soldier on this planet. Many of them were excited to get to Earth and meet the human females that were responsible for curing them and causing a great euphoria.
We also were able to make the virus I created stronger using the advanced computer equipment that they had on Tivoso. It was good to be in a technologically advanced environment again. I did not take it for granted. Living on Tivoso was amazing. I did not want to leave, but I knew that Earth needed us. We needed to help those that were still under threat of the Clenok cyborgs, including Haven Brook. There was a long road ahead in defeating the millions of the Clenok cyborg army. But war was never quick. I was glad that I had an alien weredragon king at my side. I could get through anything as long as he was with me and I was with him. It was a match beyond anything we could comprehend. It was magic.
The End
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Dekario-Dragons Of Kelon
(Dragons Of Kelon)
By Maia Starr
CHAPTER ONE
REENA RHODES
“Run! Don’t look back! Just keep going!” I shouted as I ran with the crew.
“I got it! I got it in firing range!” Jason shouted as he stopped running beside me. I looked over my shoulder to see him stop and position a large gun on top of his shoulder.
“No! Jason, run! It’s too big!” I shouted as I ran.
“I got it! Go, get out of here!” he shouted back.
“Jason, I command you to retreat!” Captain Wallace shouted as he ran with the crew.
“I got it, Captain. I got it!” Jason said.
Boom! The large gun on Jason’s shoulder fired. A loud and horrible screech filled the air. We all stopped and turned.
“Is it dead?” Marcy whispered in her frightened state.
The gray smoke from the gunfire hitting the creature was thick.
Whoosh! A large spidery limb came out of the wall of smoke and smacked Jason into the air as he screamed. “Aagh!”
“Jason!” I shouted.
“It’s too late. Run! Make for the trees! We’ll have to lose it in the trees!” Captain Wallace shouted over Jason’s screams as the creature tore him apart with one of its eight legs as it emerged from the smoke.
“Shit,” I whispered as I saw the full extent of it. It was a massive spider-like creature the size of a bus. I turned and ran toward the trees with the rest of the crew. It was at least 200 yards away, the tree line that could possibly give us safety, and I didn’t think that I could make it. It seemed that Marcy Fenick was feeling the same way. I noticed that she was lagging at my side.
“Marcy you gotta move! Move!” I shouted to her. As I shouted, I saw Captain Wallace turn back to us. He was frustrated and angry as he shouted. “Rhodes! Fenick! Move your asses, now! Now! Now!”
“Oh god! It’s coming!” Luka shouted over her shoulder, as she was a good fifty yards in front of us. She was fast, very fast, and the Navy-SEAL-turned-astronaut Pete Phoenix was at her side. They were the athletes, and the rest of us were a scientists, doctors, or in Jason’s case, the pilot.
I ran hard at Luka’s warning. I didn’t need to turn around to see that the creature was very close behind me because I could feel the ground shaking as it got closer. I could feel the hair on my neck stand up as the awful screeching sounds it was releasing filled my ears. We’re going to die. All of us are going to die, I thought to myself.
“Captain?! What are you doing?” I shouted as he ran by me in the opposite direction, toward the creature.
It was then that I turned to see that Marcy had lagged far behind me and had fallen in the blue-grey grass. Captain Wallace was running toward her shouting, “Get up! Get up!”
“I can’t. I can’t,” Marcy cried. But she wasn’t getting up because she was hurt; it was because she was paralyzed with fear.
“Marcy, get up!” I shouted. But it was too late. Whoosh! The creature picked her up. She screamed! Then it swallowed her whole. We all stood in complete shock. Captain Wallace shouted, “Nooo!” This got the creature's attention as he looked down at the Captain.
“Run!” I shouted. Then I heard Luka and Phoenix shouting as well. They were almost near the tree line, and they had stopped running to shout at us. “Run! Run! Hurry!”
I turned and ran for them, but I could hear Captain Wallace firing a couple of blasts with his blaster gun at the creature. Then there was a blood-curdling scream, and I did not need to turn to see that the creature had a hold of the Captain. Luka was screaming as she watched. Phoenix was shouting at me, “Hurry, Reena! Hurry!”
I felt a whoosh of air above me. I was next. I had to be. I cried out as I assumed that the creature was on top of me and that was the wind that I felt. But then I heard a different sound. It was the sound of fire crackling. I watched at Phoenix and Luka who were both observing at the sky with a stunned look. I knew that couldn’t just be the creature. I looked up and saw something that I was not expecting.
There was a dragon. It was a real life black dragon flying in a circle and breathing fire, directed behind me. I turned to see that it was not the only thing attacking the creature. Others joined the dragon, but these others were not full dragons. They were alien men with large dragon wings and a scale-like pattern on their skin. They shot fire at the spider creature and shot at it with blaster guns. But I didn’t stop running. Before I knew it, I was with Luka and Phoenix.
“What the hell is that?” Luka asked as we all watched the dragon men battle the spider creature.
“I have no idea. We don’t even know what planet we are on,” Phoenix replied.
“I, for one, am glad that they showed up, whoever, or whatever, they are. They seem to be against this creature, and that is good for us. I only wish they had shown up sixty seconds earlier. Marcy, the Captain, Jason…” I said breathing hard trying to catch my breath. The creature was screaming as it was now on fire, turning in circles and fighting the dragon men.
“I think they are going to take it down,” Phoenix said.
“What should we do? Should we hide? Run?” Luka asked.
“And go where? Who knows how many more of these spider creatures are in those woods. We are no match for them. We have no ship. We are stranded. If these dragon men speak, then maybe we can communicate and figure out where we are and how to get off this planet and back to Earth,” Phoenix said.
“So we wait? We speak to them if they come to us?” I said.
“It is our only choice right now,” Phoeni
x said.
We watched as the dragon men finished off the creature. There were three dragon men and one full dragon. They were unlike anything that I had ever seen. I was mesmerized as I watched these warriors take out such a massive creature. There was one that caught my eye. He was rugged-looking with long dark hair down to his jawline and a perfect body that could rival a Greek god. He was covered only from the waist down by a thick loin cloth and heavy boots that looked like they had some sort of weaponry attached to them, but it was hard to tell. I watched as this dragon-man warrior flew in dangerously close to the creature, taking risky shots at it. He was either very brave or very stupid. The other two men were very distinguishable by their hair as well. One had blonde hair and the other had chestnut brown hair.
“They did it. Unbelievable,” Luka said as she snapped me out of feeling hypnotized by these alien warriors. I turned my attention to her and Phoenix. The warriors amazed them as the spider creature fell dead with one last thud and screech. It was a horrifying sound but one that I was relieved to hear. Then the alien warriors and their dragon turned toward us. Luka, Phoenix, and I shifted on our feet.