Chapter Two
Ambassador Jion Lek
We had crash-landed after taking a detour away from our usual path to get back to our planet of Xeion. We needed to avoid a black hole, and because of that, we took a route that we had never taken before. Suddenly our ship was going down; that was all that I could remember. Then I woke up strapped in my seat in this wreckage.
I woke up expecting the crew to not be too far away and the human females to be with us. But looking around, that did not seem to be the case. There was just one female left. She seemed to be in a place between dreaming and reality.
But I couldn't deal with that at the moment. I had to assess what was going on. She didn't make it easy when she ran away from me. I had to run after her and catch her. I threw my body on top of hers. It was then that something happened. Something inside of me woke up: an animal urge. I wasn't expecting to experience this with the human female, but it happened. It was all that I could do to keep myself from pressing my mouth against hers and taking her right there in the sand. I had a right to. She was my property after all, though technically property of the king. But he wasn't there, and neither was his son, Captain Alicron Qinov.
But I forced myself to be a good ambassador and to not take her right then and there even though my staff was already throbbing. Looking into her blue eyes made me feel things that I had never felt before. What was this effect that the human was having on me? Was it biological? I would have to know the answer later, but now wasn't the time.
I took the human female and tied her up to a piece of the wreckage so that I could think. But she never stopped talking and protesting against everything. She made everything I said into an argument; was that how every single human female was? It was exhausting. But I liked her spirit.
“Now just settle down, sit there, and let me think. I have to have a look around; maybe I can find some food and water,” I said to the human who refused to give me her name even though I had already given her mine.
“I don't have a choice but to sit here considering you tied me down,” she said.
I took a deep breath. She was feisty indeed. I inspected the wreckage, looking inside the compartment, and found some water and a couple of packets of food.
I was pissed. Captain Alicron Qinov never agreed with me. He never listened to what I had to say even though I was on the mission for that very purpose. I was an ambassador. I was sent to have a mission, create good relations with the humans if we came in contact with more than the ones we wanted to abduct. An ambassador was good at negotiating and keeping the peace. But Captain Alicron Qinov did not care about that. He wanted to do things his way at all times. It was not a shock to me. He was a prince, his father was the king, and he was spoiled. He had always gotten what he wanted. He was born into the position where I had to work to get where I was. So being on the mission and being ignored by the captain did not make me happy. Every time I suggested caution, he suggested to just jump right in, and look, look where it got us. We were crashed on an unknown planet, and I didn't even know if the rest of the crew was alive. Maybe this human and I were the only survivors. It would be hard to know. I looked around realizing that the chunks of metal I was seeing was not the entire ship.
“It must have broken up, spreading far across the sky in an arc motion,” I said pointing to the purple sky and moving my arm.
“What? What did you say?” the human asked. I turned and looked at her. It was sort of humorous to see her sitting there with her arms tied behind her back and a pout on her lips. Having her arms tied behind her made her breasts stick out even more. I felt the urge to take her again, but it wouldn't be right. She was tied up. When I took her, I wanted her to take me back, not to fight and resist me. That wouldn't be any fun.
“The ship. I believe it broke up across the sky, which means the others could have crashed anywhere, miles and miles away, if they survived.”
“I can't believe this is real. Are you telling me the truth? I don't remember being taken from my planet,” she said.
“Look around, human; does this look like Earth? Here I found some water,” I said kneeling down next to her. A sad look came across her face as she looked around, almost as if she was starting to believe me. I opened the water jug and held it up to her lips. She was hesitant at first and then she drank it down. Then I took a drink as well.
“Thank you,” she said.
“A kind word... I didn't think you were capable, human,” I said.
“Lauren. My name is Lauren,” she said.
“And she has a name,” I said taking a seat next to her in the sand.
“I had to tell you my name because hearing you call me a human only makes me realize that you really are an alien,” she said.
I looked around, seeing that the sun was starting to set on the horizon. I didn't know which planet we were on or how long the days and nights were. Once the sun set, it could set for many, many hours that would be the equivalent of several Earth days, or it could set only for another sun to come out immediately. It was hard to know. But I did know that night, no matter what planet you were on, could be dangerous.
“I think we should stay here for the night. There are food and water, and this is shelter for now. I don't know what the temperature will be like once the sun drops below the horizon. But it will be night time soon. And the chunks of metal give the crew something to look for if they are out there and searching for us. So we will make camp here,” I said.
“Camp: you make it sound like we are just camping in the woods for leisure. We have crashed. This is crazy. I can't believe this is happening to me, whatever it is that is happening to me,” Lauren said struggling.
“I would untie you, but you will just run away again. But seeing that you can't sleep or eat in that way, I could make an adjustment,” I said.
I untied the lock string from the metal, but not from one of her wrists. I then tied it to my own wrist.
“There, now you can move around, but you can't get far from me. You can't run away like before,” I said.
“Oh yes, that is so much better,” she said with a certain tone that let me know she wasn't pleased with the change.
“I could tie you back to the metal if you prefer,” I said arching my eyebrow at her.
“No! This is fine,” she said.
“Come with me. I will see where is most suitable to house the both of us for the night before it gets dark,” I said pulling her along with me. I found the largest piece of wreckage and opened up a cabinet. There was a blanket inside of it. I pulled it out and laid it on the floor. Then I opened another and found a light torch. I hung it on a clip on the wall. That would provide us with light later on. But I wasn't going to turn it on until it was absolutely necessary as I did not want to burn out the energy.
“This will do for tonight. It will keep us warm, and this will provide light. Until then, let's move back outside,” I said getting out of the wreckage capsule into the sunset on the desert. I looked around trying to assess which way could have more than just sand. To the north of us were large mountainous boulders. To the south was just flat sand, and to the east and west were sand dunes, and I couldn't see what was over the first couple. It would be possible to venture east or west to see what was over the sand dunes, but if it was a lot of nothing, we could easily get lost and die in the desert.
“That is beautiful,” she said. I looked at her and saw that she was looking at the sunset. It was beautiful, and the purple sky was turning into lavender, pink, orange, and yellow. It was a beautiful sight.
“Yes, it is almost as beautiful as the ones on my planet. You will see when I take us there,” I said with a smile remembering the beautiful sunsets of Xeion.
“You love your planet?” she asked.
“I do. I love it very much, and I'm very proud of it. You will love it too human… I mean Lauren.”
“Well, I love my planet too. I want to go back to Earth. I will go back to Earth,” she said.
“I am afraid that is never going to happen. But for now, let us enjoy this sunset before we move inside, and before it gets very cold out here.”
She shivered a bit and I realized that the humans probably did not run hot the way the Kynon did. We were always radiating heat, and even though she had on long black pants that hugged her curves and legs, and a long sleeve shirt that covered her upper part of her body, she wasn't wearing much else. I wanted to put my arms around her to give her some of my warmth, but something told me that she would not be accepting of it. But why did I feel that way? Why did I want to make her comfortable and make sure that she was safe and warm? It did not make sense; I only knew her for about an hour now and yet she was having this strange effect on me. She was making me care for her. How was she doing that?