by Maia Starr
Blood pooled around him, and I could feel he wasn’t alone as the hot liquid flowed from my sides. I breathed raggedly, and my eyes darted around the arena, and I realized it was just him and I now.
With one echoing breath, Fhalanae parted her sweet lips and out flooded a hot, red flame that cast a red burning across the land in one sweeping blow. Her cry was earthshaking. Bozaldras followed quickly, his deep azure fire spreading through the sky and bursting whatever it came into contact with.
As I looked up at her and saw the fire sweeping down, I couldn’t help but think of my beautiful chosen. Celeste.
Her name warmed my soul faster than the heat ever could… and I began to feel the strangest sensation.
Caridan’s eyes widened as the flames billowed down the stone walls and began to encase us with a blistering heat.
And I began to glow.
I breathed in an obstructed breath and felt my scales light up with a deep navy glow, and I could see the water streaming in around us, calling to my soul. My dragon’s cry.
The water flooded in, coming up over the high stone walls guarding the rebel’s citadel. They crashed in and made a forceful barrier above Caridan and I, beckoning to my call.
The elder dragon looked over at me with puzzlement and then burst into laughter.
“What is this?!” he called to me, water droplets falling on us as the wall of water protected us from the blinding heat.
“Water,” I said stupidly and laughed despite myself, despite the fear that was coursing through my veins.
He looked at my glowing scutes with a strange acknowledgment.
“Your chosen,” he stated, struggling for an even breath.
I nodded, but wasn’t sure how to explain myself.
He looked stunned and then all at once touched. “I’ve never seen a chosen succeed in restoring a dragon’s powers before.”
“I guess mine is special.”
The battle was lost to us as we lay under my force field of water. It held there until there were no more flames to combat and suddenly crawled away from us, up and over the rebel walls in a supernatural way until it splashed back into the moat below with a thunderous crash.
Days went by of scanning the citadel, making sure no rebels had survived before the lot of us were taken directly in by on-site medics, hastily bandaged and stitched and sent back into the city to celebrate our victory.
Caridan and family were reunited with tearful cries and instated as Udorian citizens. Whether they would stay was a mystery, but having them here made me feel whole somehow. Made Udora feel whole.
We were to meet the Koth and council back at the mossy fields, and for once, we walked in as heroes.
Civilians and chosens were waiting in the vast mossy fields for confirmation of victory. Cheers overpowered the crowd, the deep sky shadowing over the field, glow stones illuminating every inch of the natural beauty. I looked through the crowds of familiar faces, cheering for our return and the peace that was now restored to Udora.
And then I saw her.
Red hair and a green skirt, black blazer, tall boots walked towards me with a familiar smile. That smile I’d come to love.
I’d protected her.
A shameless grin crossed my face as tears threatened to form in my eyes. She saw my wounds and her smile nearly fell. Celeste ran toward me and jumped into my arms, showering me with kisses and seemingly done with her concern for my injuries and the gauze that covered them.
“We won!” she yelled as she buried her head in the crook of my neck. “We won, we won!”
I hugged her tightly, running my hands through her thin hair and kissing her. “We won,” I repeated, suddenly satisfied at how warm her body had become.
“I guess this means I get to rule over Udora now, according to you, huh?” she teased, tapping the tip of my nose.
I was so overcome with the love I had for her, the way that she had saved me and she didn’t even know it. A choke entered my throat and seemed to live there as she chattered on about how scared she was, how excited when she saw the fire take over the skies.
“Celeste,” I said seriously. “Thank you.”
She swallowed. “For what?” she asked with all the innocence in the world, her eyes smiling somehow as she met my gaze.
“For saving my life.”
“Well, it’s about time I got a thank you for that,” she snorted.
She stared intensely into my eyes, the gray flecks of her iris lost to the darkness of the mossy fields, the lack of light creating the illusion of her pupils having swallowed all color from her eyes.
“Sigisvult?” she’d thumbed across my stubble, her brows cupping with sympathy. She brushed the hair from my face, her eyes flicking back and forth from mine. “I told you I’d make you love me.”
“That you did,” I laughed.
And now I had forever to prove I was worthy of it.
THE END (Flip the next page to claim your EXCLUSIVE & FREE Book!)
Get Your EXCLUSIVE & FREE Copy of:
Exclusive Prequel: Kalazaron Blue Planet Warriors
http://www.maiastarr.com/prequel
GET YOUR FREE PERSONAL COPY NOW!
Kalazaron (Blue Planet Warriors) BOX SET(1-6)
By Maia Starr
BOOK 1: Kalazaron Dalik
(Blue Planet Warriors)
By Maia Starr
Chapter 1
DR. JADE ROBERTS
“They’re coming aboard!” Captain White shouted, as our ship was in the midst of being captured by the alien race known as the Kalazaron. They were a race of alien dominant warrior men and docile females from the distant galaxy M823, or that’s what we scientists called it on Earth.
I knew exactly how we got into this troubling spot with the Kalazaron race, but I didn’t know what lay ahead of me. I thought I was in for the scientific research expedition of my life, but what I got instead was a strange experience as the captive of the most interesting and attractive alien being I had ever met, Dalik Moscurn of the Kalazaron elite. I should have hated him for what he did to me, but deep down I could not. It had all began that day that our ship was overcome by a warrior battleship of the Kalazaron.
“You humans have been warned before! You are not to travel your ships in this area of restricted space!” the Commander of the Kalazaron ship shouted as he paced back and forth on our deck. He was a very fierce looking being. In most capacities the Kalazaron looked like we did, like humans, but with a few differences. For one, all of them were seven feet tall, if not taller. They’re muscular bodies were advanced in many ways over the human and I found it fascinating. They were like human men stretched tall and built like Olympic swimmers with extreme strength. Parts of their silky tight skin were tinted blue, which we always assumed was because of their cold planet, Kaethon. Though that was always just a scientific theory because no human had ever gone to Kaethon and returned. That mystery was partly why I was here. I had studied the Kalazaron and the planet Kaethon at University, and now I was a scientist that had begged her way onto this expedition. I had to admit, I didn’t have the best track record kissing up to the right people that could sponsor me on such an expedition because I was too damn sassy and always spoke my mind. So when I finally met Jocelyn Teren, I knew that she was the elite millionaire that could sponsor me because she was exactly like me.
“Don’t let them tell you that you can’t be a good scientist because of your looks,” she said on our first meeting together. She was an attractive sexy woman in her fifties and I knew that she understood my struggle. I was a blonde with blue eyes, an ample chest, tiny waist, and a curvy bottom. This meant that the male dominated world of scientists could not take me seriously and I often fought with many of them because of it. I soon had a reputation for being feisty, but my work spoke for itself. I was just as accomplished as the males. Jocelyn Teren saw this in me and I think saw a bit of her in me. Therefore she agreed to sponsor my scientific experiments and spot on the space ship.
<
br /> So now I was on this mission to prove I was just as good as the males. Only now, there was a problem, a very big problem. We had accidently gone off course and couldn’t correct it in time before the Kalazaron ship was upon us.
“It was a mistake. If you will look at our logs you will see that…” I started to say.
“Dr. Roberts! Hold your tongue!” Captain White cut me off.
The deck of the ship was tense as the armed alien beings held their guns on us. The Commander looked at me. He seemed intrigued as he walked over to me and I suddenly felt terrified. I stood up straight and tall as though to show him that I was not scared of him, even though I was. As he stood directly in front of me, he towered over me. His large form seemed to dwarf me. My face was directly aligned on his six-pack abs that were a shiny blue. I turned my nose up in the air to stare directly into his dark black eyes. Then he grinned a menacing grin at me.
“Do you know who I am female human?” he asked.
“No.” I said bluntly trying to keep my lips from trembling.
“Of course not. Your inferior race is too dumb to have such intelligence on who commands our fleet of warships. I am Nankor Yun, the commander of the largest warship of the Kalazaron,” he said with pride.
I could sense that he wanted me to show fear, but out of my own stubborn defiance I said, “And?”
His grin faded. There was silence and then he said, “Kill them.”
My eyes grew wide as I could hear the panic and cries of my crewmates. “No!” I shouted.
“Kill them all, except for this one. Put her in the cages,” Commander Nankor Yun said pointing at me. I should have been relieved to be spared but I was not. I was worried about everyone else. I had to stop this madness! I had to stop them from taking the ship and me. “How dare you…”
I started to yell but was cut off when I was thrown over the shoulder of one of the large alien men. I kicked and screamed as they carried me down the hall.
“Let me go! You cannot just take me! This is wrong!” I shouted.
“Boom! Boom!” the guns began to go off behind me. I was panicked and crazed. I began to kick and scream more.
“Dialent 10!” the alien man shouted who held me on his shoulder. I didn’t know what it meant until I saw another coming toward me with a syringe. A glowing blue liquid was inside of it. “No! No! What is that?!” I shouted as the sting of the needle hit my arm. Then, everything went hazy and I drifted off into a deep sleep.
Chapter 2
DALIK MOSCURN
“Bam!” the blow to my side nearly knocked me off my feet. I recovered quickly and threw my fist in an upper cut motion to Orgun’s chin. He flew in the air backward and landed flat on his back. He did not get back up. The crowd was silent and then they cheered. They began to shout my name “Dalik! Dalik!”
I stood up tall. I had done it. It was the last competition of the Stanit Trials, and I had won.
“Dalik Moscurn!” the master and ruler of our Kalazaron Empire shouted.
“Master Gorgeen Bresh,” I said kneeling down on one knee and bowed my head to him.
He continued, “You have proven yourself worthy of being my second in command. You have beaten three of the elite who were well versed as warriors and as leaders of our systems. You passed all the tests, both of the mind and of the body. I now declare you my second and the new Kalazaron Consulate!”
The crowd cheered as I was named the new second in command with a heavy metallic blue long medallion chain that draped over my shoulders and low on my chest. It was the highest ranking you could get besides being the supreme master. I was born for this. I had been trained and sculpted for this by my father who held the same position before he died five years before. I had now accomplished my highest accomplishment.
“I am most grateful Master Gorgeen Bresh. I hold this in the highest of hearts and mind and will do my duty to the Kalazaron for my eternity life,” I said humbly.
“Rise, the new Kalazaron Consulate, and lead your brothers and sisters of Kaethon,” he said.
I stood up on my feet and turned in a slow circle to the crowd as I raised my hands in a high V over my head. The crowd cheered and I grinned.
I spent the entire night in an orgy of celebration ceremonies. The Kalazaron females threw themselves at me, but I was not interested. I was not ready to begin a family. I had just gained my new position and I meant to throw myself deep into the responsibilities of being a leader. There were many systems that I thought were out of date and I wanted to lead my race into a more progressive direction that was long over due. I would not let anything distract me from that mission. That was until I met her, a human. I would never expect what happened between us, or that it would change everything forever.
“These are your new quarters Consulate. Please do not hesitate to ask for anything. Your apartments are high over the capital city so that you may see everything you rule,” the habitat coordinant said to me as he showed me my new home in the Buildings of Order. This was where the elite leaders lived in a gathering of towers that were high above the capital city of Konthos.
“Yes, it will do well to see how the city is run from this vantage point,” I said as I looked out the glass walls. Behind me movers were bringing in my possessions from my former home and I was anxious to get started with meetings.
“Now if you will follow me. Master Bresh has a gift for you?” he moved toward the door.
“For me? But I really would prefer to get started on the day’s orders and meetings,” I moved over to a large table.
“Yes, of course, but I must advise that the Master may see it as an insult that you do not wish to receive his gift of congratulations for your new position.”
I sighed. He was right. No use getting off on the wrong foot now. “Yes, you are right. How careless of me. Please lead the way,” I feigned interest in whatever gift of precious metals he would have for me. My mind was filled with plans of what I wanted to implement on my first day that I was in a daze when we arrived at the slave cages.
“What are we doing here?” I looked around at the long halls of cages. Each one held a creature from a different planet or galaxy. Some were closely like us, whom we took as household slaves, and others were animalistic.
“Master Bresh learned of a new female captive from the race of humans of Earth. He wants this to be your gift. You will need a slave to keep your house, as you will be busy. He did not want to give you a standard Kalazaron slave, so he wanted you to have this,” he stopped in front of a cage.
There in the corner was a small creature of a human sitting in a bundle hugging her knees. As she lifted her head she shot anger with her blue eyes at me. I thought she would be shaking with fear but she was not. There was defiance and hate in those eyes. Good, I thought. I could not have a whimpering human in my home. I had seen that before with a few of the other human females we had gathered over the years, and I was not impressed. But this one seemed different. I could learn from this one. “Stand up,” I said.
“No,” she said with anger.
“What are you doing?!” a voice boomed.
“That one is mine. I am taking her now,” Commander Nankor Yun shouted at me.
“Commander, back from shooting your load at innocents in space I see…” I said with a mocking tone that I knew he would hate. I enjoyed playing with him because I hated him. Kalazarons like him were going to bring the downfall of our race and I meant to do away with him as soon as I could, but these things took time.
“How dare you speak to me like that you imbecile,” he got in my face.
“Have you not heard? This is the new Consulate,” my companion said to the commander.
I could see the anger in his eyes and his veins popping out of his forehead as he bit his lip and dropped down to one knee and said, “Consulate.”
“This captive has been given to the Consulate by Master Bresh as a gift for his triumph.”
“Master Bresh must not have known that I had clai
med this captive for myself,” Commander Nankor Yun said with a restrained tone of anger as he rose up to his feet.
“Yes, he is aware. I have the order right here,” the habitant coordinate pulled out a holopointer. He pressed the button and displayed the image of the order on the wall for all to see. Commander Yun let out a low guttural growl before saying, “Yes so it is. My apologies to Master Bresh and to you Consulate. I was not aware of the changes in the order and the transfer of goods.”
“Yes well you will do well to remember that you plunder in the name of the Kalazaron and not for your own personal gain,” I said to him. He sneered, but said nothing. I looked over at the female human in the cage and could see a sense of relief on her face. No telling what this animal had done to her as his captive before landing back on Planet Kaethon. I would not leave her to be his personal toy. I would take her now into my protection. It was the least I could do for what we had done to the humans.
“Now if you will Commander,” I nodded to him in a way that stated he was no longer wanted in my presence. He looked back at the female prisoner and then back at me and smiled before walking away. I did not need to hear any words from him to know that he meant that smile to mean that this was not over. Fine, I thought. I would like nothing more than to punish or challenge that brute. For now, it would have to wait.