PYRR (Peer on }
My name is Pyrron Avantu, Lieutenant Commander in the Farseek Brigade now Farseek Mercenaries. Mostly, I am called Pyrr.
Farseek was a relatively young colony on the edge of the Transtellar Consortium. We were the Farseek Division of the Sovereign Transtellar Consortium Defense Force. It was our world’s responsibility to provide a minimum number of warriors to defend the consortium in return for the financial rewards of membership in the Consortium. We provided ten Dreadnaught warships and over a thousand warriors to fight for them in their war.
It was a fair deal for our world until we returned from the war with the Sargus Empire. Our whole world was laid to waste, and our families were either killed or kidnapped to be sold into slavery. Commander Maktu and Admiral Degatu believe the Consortium knew the Sargans would attack our world before it happened and did not warn us so we could go back and protect our families.
Every city and village on our world was left in rubble and ruin. We all shed a few tears that day. There is nothing more precious to the Uatu people than their families and their homes. The Sargans had taken all of that from us. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, and children. One of our company was fortunate enough to find his two children among those we found alive. We took them all with us when we left because they would never survive the winter.
Had they simply destroyed our homes and business buildings we could rebuild. But our people are mostly all gone too. So, we all resigned from the Consortium Defense Force and became freelancers---or mercenaries. Our primary mission is to free our people and bring them home. In the meantime, we will serve and defend wherever we’re needed for a price to finance our quest.
Commander Maktu has encouraged all of us to keep a personal record of our endeavors and experiences to add to our world’s history as well as our personal history. For our first paid mission, we went to a slave auction on a world called Ursaga and rescued 100 people mostly females of various species. There were four women from a world called Earth, and one of them is mine. Her name is Scarlet Andrews, and we are solmatu. Soul mates.
I didn’t know that until she had been aboard Dreadnaught One for a few days because I hadn’t met her or the others yet. Commander General Maktu went in to find Evzen Guryon’s daughter Kyanna while we ran interference with the locals. We were only being paid to rescue Kyanna, but Maktu wasn’t leaving anyone behind to be sold at the slave auctions. Most were women from Consortium worlds. A dozen including the four from Earth were from other worlds unknown to us.
They were all given a chance to remain with us or stay on Halor where the governor guaranteed them asylum. The four from Earth decided to stick together. The one called Harper Avery was Maktu’s solmatu. She wouldn’t leave him, so the other three stayed.
I met Scarlet for the first time three days after we left Ursaga. The Commander was showing them around the ship and introducing them to the crew. A few of us were hanging out in the rec room as we didn’t have a whole lot to do between missions. The ship practically runs itself, and we are ground troops, not space pilots. We have rudimentary training in manually running the ship in an emergency. Before that job would come to me, most of the company would have to be dead or incapacitated. I’ve been in this company for ten years, and it’s never happened yet. I hope it never does.
We all looked up when the Commander came in with ten of the rescued women wearing nothing but some inner shirts the crew had donated for them to wear. They at least covered them better than those flimsy slave dresses they wore when they were boarding our shuttle. I scented Scarlet as soon as she came into the room, but I couldn’t tell which one of them was my solmatu until Commander Maktu introduced them individually.
“Scarlet Andrews, meet Pyrr Avantu,” Commander Maktu said.
I stood up, and she extended her hand toward me. I took it and held it, looking into her green eyes. She was beautiful with her short light-colored hair and shapely female body. She was the tallest of the Earth women, but I am still a head taller than she is. My senses were full of the sight and scent of her, and my cock threatened to embarrass me in front of all those women.
My eyes widened a little as she looked up at me and I smiled and managed to say, “I am pleased to meet you Scarlet Andrews…solmatu.”
I raised her hand to my lips and kissed the back of it. Then I reached up and stroked her cheek with my fingers. Her skin was soft and smooth, and my hand trembled a little as I touched her. The commander had moved on with the group and went on introducing them.
“You are my soul mate,” I blurted it out as I stared into her eyes. I was otherwise all but speechless with surprise and elation. Recognition of one’s soulmate almost always caught us by surprise. To be honest, I had more combat experience than experience with women. My mind was racing trying to figure out how I could convince her to be my mate.
“And you are just adorable,” she smiled back at me, squeezing my hand. “Does this mean you want to be my man?”
She was clearly mocking me, but her eyes betrayed her interest. As far as I was concerned, she was already mine, but I suspected she would take some convincing. “Would you join me for evening meal so we could become better acquainted?”
Scarlet started to shake her head tried to pull her hand away, but I didn’t let her, “In the mess hall,” I added because I knew this group would be coming to mess with the rest of us. She seemed to relax and stopped trying to pull her hand from mine.
“Oh, well in that case, sure,” she said and glanced at the other women. “I have to go, I’ll see you at dinner.”
The others had all been introduced to the rest of the men and women, and the commander was leaving with them. So, I nodded to Scarlet and reluctantly released her hand.
“Soulmates, huh?” she laughed softly and turned to follow the others from the rec room.
I groaned softly to myself, watching the sway of her backside as she walked away. My mind flashed a vision of gripping those sweet cheeks while I buried my stiffening cock balls deep inside her. Even though she left the room, her scent lingered and so did my desire to claim her sexually.
I had a feeling Scarlet was a bit skeptical about our mating practices. I couldn’t really tell if she would accept my courtship or not. It didn’t matter, I wasn’t planning to take ‘no’ for an answer. I would never dishonor myself by forcing a woman to accept my attention. That is not our way. But I knew from the light in her eyes as she mocked me that she was aware of the attraction between us. She might try to fight it, but I didn’t think that would last long.