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 finally 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.