I felt different. Something had happened deep inside of me. After I pressed my mouth against Helen's, everything changed. I felt good; I felt damn good. When I kissed her, I felt a light wake up inside of me. It was intense. This was the euphoria that I had heard of, but I wasn't expecting it to be so damn intense. It was not what I was expecting at all. This was better.
She didn't like that I took what I wanted from her: that kiss. But I did not lie; I wanted to sample what I was agreeing to. Since the agreement on her side would not be fulfilled until we returned to Willow Springs with her sister, I thought it was my right to sample the goods. So I took what would soon be mine.
Now, she sat next to me in my smaller scouting ship. This was a ship that we brought inside the cargo bay of our bigger ships. It was for short-range flights. However, it was just as fast and armed as the bigger ships, just with less passenger room, only fitting three bodies.
“I don't understand why we are in this small ship. Why are we not in one of your bigger ships? We should have more soldiers with us. The Clenok cyborgs could number in the hundreds for all we know. They have a lot of firepower, and…” She rambled on. Was he never satisfied?
“If this ship is not to your liking, then we can go on foot,” I said looking at her.
She closed her mouth and pressed her lips together in a hard line. She didn't like hearing that.
“I just thought that when I agreed that we would have more of an army with us,” she said.
“You have the leader of that army with you; I am worth the ten of my soldiers,” I said.
“And when you see it, I am sure that it is going to make it wet,” I said having enough of her defiance.
Her eyes grew wide, and she gasped. “How dare you speak to me that way. You are nothing but a brute. A brute that only thinks about sex all the time! My sister is missing; have some compassion,” she said.
I could not help but laugh at her words. She was right. I did think about sex quite often, and I was thinking about it with her.
“I cannot help myself. You mentioned sex to me, and therefore it is on my mind, with you. Do I not get more of a preview? Will you not push your shirt to the side and let me see your nipple?” I said.
“There you go again! You are a pig!” she said, crossing her arms over her chest hiding her ample breasts from me. But she grew quiet. I think she understood that everything she complained about, I would turn into a sexual statement, at least it kept her from being so argumentative, for now.
Half an hour later, we were coming upon the coordinates that were on her map where the humans had been seized. But I did not continue to the coordinates. Instead, I started to set the ship down a couple of miles away from the point.
“What are you doing? This is not the spot. There are still two miles to go,” she said arguing with me again.
I sighed. “I am the soldier here. Do you think I do not know what I am doing? Now stop arguing with me, human female,” I said.
“If you must know, human female, you cannot suddenly appear over an attack site. There is no hiding if you do that. There are only two of us. And it is best to sneak in when you are small in number and to first get a hold on the situation by not alerting you were enemy to your presence. Is that understood? I am the soldier here; let me be the damn soldier,” I said to her.
“You are agreeing with me. I thought I would never see the day,” I said as I landed the small ship in the middle of a forested area and opened the door. “Stay here. I need to check our immediate surroundings to make sure you are not in danger,” I said as I stood up and walked to the door. I stepped out onto the grass. I couldn't hear anything unusual. There was no activity near us or I would hear it because the trees were so dense and there were plenty of twigs on the floor that would be snapping under the weight of any person or cyborg.
“It is clear,” I said to her. She walked out of the ship and looked around.
“I need a gun,” she said. I raised an eyebrow at her. “Do you know how to use a gun?”
“I know how to use the human guns. But you will have to show me how to use yours,” she said.
“All right,” I said walking into the ship and grabbing a blaster gun and strap.
“This is a blaster gun. This switch is the safety. I recommend you keep it on so that you don't shoot yourself, or me. When you need to use it, you can you flip it up like this, then you aim and shoot. It is fairly simple. Do you see this green light? It means the gun is fully charged. It will go yellow when it is low on charge, and then completely red when it is out of energy. Understood?”
“Yes, understood. I wish I could fire a few blasts in order to test it out,” she said.
“Too late for that. We are too close to the site. If cyborgs are here, they will hear it. You will just have to trust that you know how to use it when the time comes,” I said putting the safety back on and handing it to her. She grabbed the strap and draped it across her body.
“Now, if you will step back, I need to shift into a dragon form. That is when I am at my strongest, and I will be able to fly us out of any danger,” I said.
“Yes, that is what I said. Step back,” I said as I stepped back away from her since she was not moving at all. In a flash, my body grew warm, and I shifted into weredragon form. I spread my wings wide behind me stretching them out. It felt good to be the dragon again.
I looked at Helen. Her mouth was open, and she looked at me. I think the shifting caught her by surprise. She was even looking at me as though she were impressed. I like seeing that look on her face; perhaps she even found it sexy.
“Are you ready or are you just going to stand there looking at me with lust in your eyes?” I said as I turned around and began to walk into the forest.
“I was not looking at you that way!” she shouted at me. I had gotten under her skin. I liked it.
We walked through the woods with Helen behind me. But of course, she wasn't letting up on her constant criticism of my plans.
“How will we know when we are there? This is taking too long,” she whispered to me.
“Enough,” I said as I turned toward her. I scooped her up into my arms and took flight.
“Shhh… we are coming up on the spot,” I whispered to her. Holding her against my body was a distraction. She smelled good, and her skin was incredibly soft. I wanted to stop right then and take her in the soft pine needles of the forest. But we had work to do. I landed in a very tall tree. My feet and landed on a thick branch and Helen held on tighter with her arms around my neck.
“I don't see anyone, but I do see evidence of a fight. I can see a few bags and things, from our people,” she said.
“I can hear branches breaking; be quiet,” I said as twigs snapping underneath feet hit my ears. Our hearing was much more advanced than the humans’. Helen froze against my chest, and she looked down at the ground. Suddenly, a human male appeared bewildered.
“Jared, that is Jared, one of our people. We must go to him; he will know where Hannah is,” she said moving in my arms. I looked down at him, and he did not look like he was running from cyborgs. I scanned the area.
“It is Helen,” she said. I knew there was no point in waiting to see what the circumstance was, and I grabbed Helen and flew down to the ground. I sat her on her feet. Jared was looking at me with his mouth wide-open.
"Jared, don't be alarmed. He is my friend. I know he looks strange; it is a long story, but he has brought me here to help. Where is my sister and everyone else?” Helen asked.
“Yes, they all do. Jared, look at me. I need to know: where is everyone?” Helen said as she stood directly in front of him, trying to get him to concentrate on an answer.