King Karik Korinth
I felt it again. I felt that state of euphoria that I had felt after the first time being with Vanessa. It overtook my senses again. It felt incredible. I wanted to lay with her and have this feeling forever. But there was work to do. We were able to sneak in this short session of lovemaking but I knew that I needed to get back to the wall.
“I need to get back to the wall. I need to prepare for this invasion and the army should be arriving any time now.”
“No. I will take you to an underground bunker, and you will stay there until I come for you,” I said.
“If you do that, I will only leave after you leave,” she said stubbornly. I knew that she was not lying. She would do something like that. At least if I took her with me to the wall, I could keep an eye on her and protect her.
“Fine, get dressed,” I said as I got up and pulled on my trousers and boots. Then there was a loud banging on the door. She looked at me terrified.
“It is just Jex,” I said walking to the main room of the lab and opening the door.
I smiled. “Good. Radio to him to have the ships land inside the village near the wall. Then all dragon shifters should take position on the wall except for the ship pilots should remain with the ship. I am coming to the wall now,” I said.
“Roger,” he said. Then he flew away. I turned to see Vanessa behind me fully dressed.
“Yes, I want you to come see,” I said feeling arrogant. She was finally going to see the army that she did not believe I had. It was going to be bittersweet.
“I am ready,” she said. We both walked out of the lab, and I picked her up, scooping her into my arms. Her scent was distracting. I moaned having her this close to me. I had to focus. I flew with her onto the wall near the post with Marcus. In the distance, I could see the ships of my army.
We watched as the ships flew over the wall. They landed inside the village. She watched as the ship doors opened and out flew many Veruka weredragons. They flew high into the sky, circling around the village. They all took strategic positions. They lined up on top of the wall all the way around it. Some flew outside of the walls, taking in the land. Others flew over the village. They all knew what to do.
“This is incredible. I am sorry that I ever doubted you, Karik. I see now that you were not lying. I was wrong. I was very wrong. Can you forgive me?”
“Yes. Of course. You were only being cautious. I do not blame you. But as you can see, I do have an army, a great army. And this is only part of it. The majority of my forces stayed on my planet. This is just the army that traveled with me to Earth,” I said proud of my troops.
"That is a great army indeed. It is beautiful. I have no doubt that we can defeat the Clenok cyborgs now,” she said.
“We are ready for battle, sir. We have a report. We saw the cyborg army headed this direction. They are no longer at the base camp that they were at. They have made movement and are going around the mountain ridge.”
“Thank you for the report. Have everyone prepare for the invasion. The electric fence is hot and ready. Those that don't fry on the fence, we shall shoot them from this vantage point,” I said.
We took shifts waiting for the battle to begin. We had a good six hours before the Clenok cyborgs came into view. Then, they surprised us. They were not only coming from the area of the mountains, but they were coming from the west near the lake. Suddenly it was a full-on cyborg invasion from two sides. I took the west side of the wall, ordering my dragons there. General Razook and Azlo had the side of the wall with the mountains. I watched as Clenok cyborgs ran directly into the fences, one hundred at a time.
“What are they doing? They are just flinging themselves onto the fence and frying,” Vanessa said.
“I think they are testing the fences. Or they are trying to short out the current. They can sacrifice as many as they like to do this. They are machines,” I said.
One hundred weredragons took flight. They flew in a line side-by-side, shooting fire from their mouths at the Clenok cyborgs nearest the wall. The fire melted the Clenok cyborgs where they stood.
“We have sight of the keddle, my king. It is on the side of the wall. We are trying to take it out,” Azlo radio that to me.
“The keddle. If the Keddle can be taken out, then it will stop all of the Clenok cyborgs,” Vanessa said.
“That is the idea. But all the firepower might not be able to get through that metal shelf. We are going to hit it with all we can, as many bombs as we can.”
I looked up into the sky. We had our ships flying in the air, shooting bombs at the Clenok cyborgs and gunfire. Dragons were flying in the air, shooting fire and gun blasts. Defenses were working, including the electrified fence. But the Clenok cyborgs just kept coming and coming. They came in waves and there seemed to be so many of them. The camp of five hundred was only a fraction of the cyborg army that we were up against her now. They seem to be ten thousand strong, if not more. They were beginning to surround us.
“Then it won't be long before they scale the wall. They will just pile on top of each other, creating a ladder. The others will climb the piles, and then they will breach the walls. It will be hand to hand combat,” I said.
“That does not sound good. I think the fence is weakening. I think the electricity is going down,” she said looking down at the wall.
“What? Are you insane? You want to go home now?” I said confused by her request.
“Yes. There is something there that I think might help. I need to get to my basement now before the fence fails.”
“No. It is too dangerous. I am not letting you go. I am not letting you out of my sight, not again,” I said.
“I am going with or without you. You can either fly me there, and we can be back in no time at all, or you can let me climb down from here and run to my house,” she said putting her hands on her hips.
“Those are my choices? Why do you have to be so stubborn?” I said to her.
“Fine. I will take you to your house. But we will not linger. I need to be here on this wall,” I said to her.
I put my arms around her petite body and scooped her up. I held her against my chest.
I flew off of the wall in the direction of her home. I flew low along the tree line in the village so that we were not at the same height as my ships. I moved fast. We got to her home in less than sixty seconds. I put her down on the porch.
“We are here. What is so important?” I said. She opened the door and ran inside. I ran after her. We descended the stairs to her basement.
“A virus? What do you mean? It is not wise to handle a virus. You could get many humans sick, possibly even my weredragons,” I said.
She chuckled a bit. “Not that kind of virus. This is a computer virus,” she said, opening a drawer and pulling out a small computer stick.
“I made it myself. I have been studying computer code for a long time. I created a virus. I think that it can bring down the keddle,” she said.
“No, I am not sure. But after being hooked up to the keddle, I think that it will work. I have a feeling. I think that if I plug this into its console, then it will inject the virus and debilitate the keddle.”
“Whoa, whoa, stop right there. If you plug it in? You are not getting anywhere near that thing. Have you lost your mind? I only just rescued you from it not too long ago. Now you want to go back? There's no way in hell,” I said.
“It might be our only chance. You saw the fence out there. Your army is spectacular. But we are outnumbered. It is obvious, is it not?” she said.
“Yes outnumbered, but they are machines. We will just double our efforts. I do not need you to be putting yourself in this crazy danger.”
“I know it will work. But I can't do it without you. I can't exactly walk out there. I need you to fly me to that keddle,” she said.
“Say that I get you near that thing. How will you get inside of it to plug it in?” I said.
“It will open for me. It will just think that I have returned and it is going to continue running the same test that it was running on me before. Then I can plug it in. Then I need to get out of there,” she said.
“That is a very bold plan. But I can't let you do it. I am sorry, I just can't. Now come on; we are going back to the wall,” I said, getting to the bottom of the stairs.
“Fine. But promise me if the fence goes down that we will try this plan of mine?”
“I promise. But it is not going to go down. We will be victorious,” I said.
We walk together at the stairs and back out onto the porch. I picked her up into my arms and we flew back to my command post.
The fence was still electrified and frying Clenok cyborgs as they threw themselves at it. But they were piling up. It was a complete onslaught of machines. They just kept coming and coming from both directions. I was glad that they could not fly. Otherwise, we would not be able to hold them.
He nodded and radioed into his armband and got me a status report. I listened in. I looked at Vanessa. She looked like she was very worried about the progress. I did not want to let her down. And I definitely did not want her going down onto the battlefield to find this keddle. I would not risk losing her again.