by Maia Starr
But… if she wouldn’t come… if she wouldn’t relent… then I would give it up to have a lifetime with her before I made my move in the rebellion.
Looking out over the mossy field, I felt my anger let go. For all the wrongs the Koth had bestowed upon its loyal people, for all the hell Zaphira and Riddell had wreaked on my people, I would let it all go for Sarra.
And then I heard it, the most beautiful sound of all: splashing in the distance. I knew she was coming. What she was coming to tell me still remained a mystery, but as the splashing grew louder my heart began to soar.
“You were right,” came the smoothest tone of my beautiful love.
I turned around to see Sarra’s pale skin and raven hair, a mess of bangs falling in her eyes as she looked at me with a resigned smile. She wore a long white dress that was slowly becoming enveloped in the rising sea water. I could see through the layers of fabric to catch a glimpse of her perfect skin below.
“Come again?” I teased as I raised my hand to my ear. “Sorry, I’m going to have to get you to repeat that. It’s not a phrase I’ve heard often, especially from one so beautiful.”
“Stop it,” she batted me away as she approached. We looked into the distance at the crumbling city and suddenly there was an overpowering connection between us.
“You look beautiful,” I breathed as though I couldn’t hold the thought in any longer. She gave a passive smile at the compliment and came right up next to me.
Sarra grabbed my hand and turned her head to me, her bangs falling to the side and revealing her beautiful green eyes as she rested her head on my shoulder. “You were right,” she repeated with emphasis. “It’s a girl.”
My eyes went wide, and I looked down at her with a fascinated smile. “Well, I’ll be…” I gasped. “So the legend is true.”
“I’ve been wrestling with that myself,” she admitted.
“And you didn’t invite me to watch?” I joked, and my love rolled her eyes my way. “So, what do you think?”
“I think… you were right. She’s coming.”
I looked down at her hand, her warmth covering over my scaled and calloused fingers. As I watched her long fingers, I couldn't help but feel rejuvenated. I had been fighting for so long, moving for so long that it was hard to feel comfortable. But she'd made me the happiest I had ever been. And best of all, she was ready. She was ready now to believe with me.
“What about Zaphira?” I asked warily, knowing the love Sarra had for her.
“I think I have her in line,” she said confidently.
“I know she’s important to you.”
“Yes, yes,” she dismissed. “I’ve made my peace. As it turns out, I may be able to stay in her good graces and save the world all in one go.”
“What can I say? You’re a talented woman.” I snapped my fingers in jest.
She narrowed her eyes at me and threw her head back with a laugh. “And I’m a lucky woman, isn’t that right?”
“That depends,” I said slowly and she knew my question was coming. “Sarra, did you find out where she is?”
She flinched under my question and narrowed her brows pointedly. “She’s young.”
“That’s a yes.”
“That’s a yes,” the black-haired woman admitted. Looking up, she spotted some stray hairs falling down from my mess of a mane and boldly reached over, pushing the strands away from my face and smiling down at me.
“But that means there’s still plenty of time before we act, right?” Her tone sat somewhere between pleading and warning as she carefully watched my eyes. “There’s no reason to find a child to enthrone, is there?”
“Well, the legend didn’t exactly specify that she would be a grown adult…”
“Legends are vague like that,” she shrugged.
“And we can probably assume that a little baby Weredragon taking over a civilization would probably not be a wise ending to the story.”
“It would probably lead to some pretty bizarre requests as well.”
“There’s time,” I nod, dropping our banter for a more serious tone. I watched her sigh in relief. If all she needed was time before she stood at my side and made things right with Udora again, then time she would get.
“But eventually…”
She gave a single nod and smiled. “Eventually, we’ll find her. I promise.” Then she looked at me sternly and pointed a finger in my direction. “But that means no funny business until then. You stay quiet with the rebellion, and I stay quiet with Zaphira. We live our lives together. We start a family. We take care of our alliances… Okay?”
“Okay,” I said.
“If this is really going to work, we’re both going to have to play our parts perfectly, especially if the Koth is already suspicious of a rebel in their midst. Understand?”
I gave a hearty laugh and wrapped my arm around her. How good it felt to feel her warm skin touching mine once more. To know that she was mine and I no longer had to worry about secrets. That our lives would be full of peace until the moment arrived. That I could start a family with the woman I had chosen to be mine.
“And what about us?” I asked solemnly, never daring to look into her eyes for fear I might see some falsehood there. “Are we pretending?”
“Us?” She smiled and turned my face to her. “We never pretend. We never lie. We… are all we have. Got it?”
Her stern expression soon doubled over into flirtatious laughter as I smiled down at her. “Got it,” I said. “Gee… is that what having a real wife is like? Eddrys has told me some pretty big horror stories about getting lectured, but I didn’t think it would be as scary as this.”
She batted me playfully on the arm and laughed into the air. “Better get used to it now, Haden. Because this is you and me forever.”
“Then I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
The water continued to rush up under our feet, and I knew within just a few minutes we would be forced out of the ruins. We could see the purple glowstones beneath the surface of the water lighting up with a wild ferocity, shining brighter than I’d ever seen them before.
Regardless of our standing now… I believed one day we would find each other again, even if we had to fall in love with these newer versions of each other. From here on, I would continue to love her, refusing to let go of what we were building together.
My faith in our love, in my choosing, was only strengthened as she stood with me in the deep waters of a soon to be glowing city and kissed me.
The End
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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 lo
oked 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.
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.