Chapter 12
TRUO SEEDUON, SECOND COMMAND
We approached the High Council landing port slowly. It was a very dangerous move to be going so deep into the Corillion galaxy. We didn't know what the High Council had planned for us, truthfully. It could be a big trick.
"Land at the main port,” I told Sitione.
"The one closest to the High Council building?” he asked.
"Exactly. It will be less time trying to get from the port and inside the building,” I said to him as I looked over at Vera. I could see the fear in her eyes. The poor female had been through so much, and here I was putting her through more. But it was in order to make everything better for her and for our child. I only wanted the best. I only wanted the rightful leadership that was entitled for our child.
"Landing. We’re 10 feet above the surface,” Sitione said out loud as the ship hovered just above the ground.
BOOM!
Suddenly the ship jolted and a part of it exploded! It was complete chaos and the ship hit the ground hard.
"We've been hit!” I heard Sitione shout, but I could not see him through the smoke and the sirens blaring red flashing lights.
"Fuck!” I shouted.
"There! I can see through the shield! It is a fleet in the air firing at us!” Sitione shouted.
Fuck, it must be a Cyro. He caught up to us. Or he was invited by the High Council to plead his case as well, but instead of coming in peace, he came in war. This would prove once and for all that he was not a leader, that he was absolutely insane.
The ship slid across the ground and finally came to a halt. “Is everyone all right?” I shouted. “Vera!" I called out as I unbuckled my belt and went to her. There was a dangling panel of the ceiling of the ship in the way and I could not see her. I pushed it out-of-the-way and found her still buckled in her seat.
"My leg! My leg hurts!” she shouted. I looked down at her leg, and it was caught between the seat and the crushed wall.
"Do not worry! I will get you out!” I said as I pushed the wall in the other direction until her leg was free. I picked her up out of the seat and carried her out of the flaming ship with Sitione behind me. “Run for cover!”
We ran to the wall of the High Council building. I could see Cyro’s ship landing near the wreckage of our ship. He was coming for us. I would not let him have her. I would not let him have Vera.
Within seconds, warriors that were stationed at the High Council were at our side.
"What is this!” a warrior shouted at me.
"We come in peace! We have been invited by the High Council for a meeting, but that fleet there shot us down. It belongs to Cyro Seeduon. He has lost his mind!”
"It is forbidden to fire on the grounds of the High Council. He is breaking the rules, and he is being hostile and will be met with hostility,” the warrior said. Then he radioed what was happening to his superiors.
I heard his superior radio back that the fleet should be taken down and all taken prisoner. Sirens blared at the High Council as warriors ran to take cover or to fight. It was a battle.
"Carry Vera inside!” I shouted at Sitione.
"Yes,” he said. “I have her,” he said scooping her up into his arms.
"No, do not leave me,” she yelled at me.
"It is not safe here for you,” I said as I ran up to her and placed a deep kiss on her lips. “I will come for you. I promise.”
Then Sitione ran inside with her. I stood there waiting. Waiting for Cyro to come get me. He had injured Vera for the last time.
The fleet of ships landed and a few warriors piled out and charged toward the warriors that were lined up with me. “Charge!” the warrior next to me shouted.
We all ran towards the warriors that were running toward us. In seconds, we clashed together and a brawl exploded all over the place. There were blaster guns blasting. Knives swooshed the air as warriors fought. Each of us had been trained the same way, so we were all an equal match for each other. It was brutal.
"There you are! Where is she? Return what you have stolen from me!” I heard Cyro shout at me. I turned to see him standing behind me.
"She is not yours! She never was!” I shouted back.
"She carries my offspring!” he shouted.
"No! She carries mine!” I shouted back at him with a grin.
"Aahhh!!!" He charged me.
I charged him back. Bam! We clashed together. We fell to the ground and rolled along, wrestling, punching, and jabbing at each other. He grabbed my left arm and pushed his fingers into my stab wound. I shouted in pain.
"You traitor! You betrayed me! You are supposed to be my support! You are not to steal my human and mate with her. You are not to try to overthrow me! This is not the Corillion way!” he shouted as he punched me in the face over and over again.
Then he said something that ended it all. He said something that brought such a rage out of me that I did not recognize myself anymore.
"I will kill her for this after I kill you! I will kill her and kill your offspring! No one does this to me!”
I exploded with rage. I pushed him off of me and jumped on top of him. I punched him in the face. I punched him in the chest. I pressed my fist against his throat, choking him. He gasped for breath, but I did not let up. He squirmed underneath me. How dare he say he would kill her! No one threatens her, or my child, and lives to see it through. I pressed harder and harder until he was no longer breathing. His eyes were wide, and the cold crept over his body. He was dead. I had done it. Vera and my child were safe.
Hours later, the battle was over. The warriors of the High Council had beaten the warriors of Cyro and had taken most of them prisoner. I went inside the High Council building to find Vera and Sitione.
There were many wounded warriors being tended to on the floor of the High Council building. Many were still being brought in from outside.
"Vera! Vera, where are you!” I shouted as I searched through the wounded.
"Truo!” I heard Sitione say.
I ran over to him. “Where is Vera?! Why did you leave her side?” I said in anger and confusion.
"I did not. She is with the High Council getting the best care. I told them that she was with offspring. It is down the hall and to the left. You will see it. I must help the wounded here,” Sitione said. But before he could finish his sentence, I was already down the hall and following his directions.
"Vera! Vera!” I shouted as I ran into the room on the left. She was on a table and being tended to.
"I am here, Truo. I am fine,” she said.
I ran to her and put my hand on her shoulder. I was so thankful to see that she was well.
"You are hurt. You are bleeding all over,” she said to me.
"It is nothing,” I said to her. I looked at the warrior that tended her. “The offspring? She is with offspring?”
"Yes, she has told me. The offspring is fine. She only wounded her leg, but not very badly. It will heal quickly.”
"I am so thankful to you,” I said to him.
"It is what I do. Now there are many out there that need my help. But don't thank me. Thank him. He insisted that I oversee the human female that carried the offspring of Truo Seeduon,” he said as he looked behind me.
I turned around to see Utren. Utren was the member of the High Council that had sent us the message to come.
"Truo Seeduon!” Utren said as he came toward me.
"High Council Utren, thank you for attending to the human female Vera,” I said to him.
"Yes, it is of the utmost importance. She carries your offspring and the future leader of the Seeduon tribe. It is very important that she is well and that the offspring is well. As soon as I heard that she was out there wounded, I had the best we have tend to her. She is the cause of this minor revolution, after all. She must be very special indeed and deserves the special care she is getting now,” he said.
"Thank you, Utren. But you should know she is not the reason for the revolution. This is not her fault at all. It is mine. I take all of the blame,” I said to him.
"Is she not?” he said.
"No, she is not. But she has become a part of it because of me. Because of my carelessness,” I said to him.
"Well, your carelessness may have saved your tribe from extinction. Now if you will, Truo Seeduon, give us a sample so that we may know once and for all if the offspring she carries is yours,” he said as he gestured toward the back of the room. There was a warrior there waiting for me ready to collect from me.
"Vera, I will be right back. Rest, relax; you need your strength,” I said as I gave her a kiss and walked to the back of the room. This was it. I really had no idea if the offspring was truly mine and I hoped beyond hope that Vera was not mistaken. Perhaps it was Cyro’s and it just showed up late. How would Vera know the signs and symptoms of being pregnant with an alien hybrid child? There was nothing for her to compare it too. I gave a sample of my DNA and it was put into a machine with Vera’s. I walked back to her.
“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her again.
“Yes. I am tired and a little scared, but I am physically okay,” she said to me.
Utren was far from us, so I whispered to her, “Vera, what if it turns out to be Cyro’s? Perhaps the symptoms you were feeling were just late,” I said to her.
Her eyes grew wide as she thought about this. Then I leaned in and said, “I will still care for the child as if it were mine. It does not change things for me. I love you, Vera. I love you madly.”
“I love you too,” she said. “I don’t know how or when it happened, but as I sat here knowing that you were out there in that battle, I knew that I would be broken if I did not see you again. I was so worried every second that you would be killed out there. I could not handle losing two men that I love in a month’s time, Truo. It would break me. I don’t want to be here without you,” she said as a tear fell down her cheek. I wiped it.
“No matter what they say, we will get through this together,” I said.
“How accurate are those tests?” she asked.
“Very accurate,” I said.
“Then I know that it is yours because I was given a test every week after being with Cyro and it never showed I was pregnant. It would have, wouldn’t it, if it is that accurate?” she asked.
I smiled and felt relief hearing this. She was right. The offspring had to be mine; now all we had to do was wait so that we could prove it to the council.
Only a few minutes later, the verdict was in.
"Well, Truo Seeduon, the offspring that the human female Vera carries is yours,” Utren said.
I grinned a proud grin and looked at Vera. “I had no doubt,” she said to me with a smile.
"Tomorrow report to the high council room where we will decide what is to happen. The chaos of today has left much for us to do. There is not time to deal with you too today," Utren said to us.
"Yes, we will be there tomorrow,” I said to him with a bow of my head. He bowed back and then walked out.
"Are you truly all right?" I asked her looking over her body.
"I am truly all right. But I worry about you. Look at you. Your arm is bleeding once more,” she said to me.
"I feel great. Cyro will never bother us again. I took care of that,” I said to her.
"You mean he is…” she asked.
"Dead. He came at me. I had to finish him off. He was threatening to kill you. I could not have that,” I said to her.
"Thank you. I feel safer knowing that he is not out there trying to get me, and trying to kill our child,” she said with tears coming down her face. I knew that it was more than this. I knew that she was glad that the warrior that had murdered her husband was now dead. She wanted vengeance, but she didn't want to say it out loud. I would let her feel happy in silence.
"I will see to that arm,” the warrior that had taken my collection offered me assistance.
"Yes, thank yo,; please see to it,” Vera said to him. I smiled at her. She was worried about me. It felt good to care about someone and have them care about you in return.
The next morning we stood in front of the council, Sitione and I, as Vera sat in a chair next to me with her wounded leg. This was it. We were either going to be in very deep trouble, or given the life that we wanted.
"Truo Seeduon! Your actions caused chaos at Seeduon fortress. It caused an all out battle here at the High Council where Cyro followed you,” Utren said.
This was not starting off well. I was being blamed for all of Cyro’s actions.
"But in light of the situation at hand, Cyro is dead. Seeduon is left without a leader. The revolution was caused by the fact that the tribe on Seeduon is unhappy with the leadership under Cyro, and want your leadership. That and the fact that you have already impregnated the human female and will soon have a human-alien hybrid heir puts you in the position to gain control over the Seeduon fortress. You had been second in command under Cyro. The council now grants that you shall be in command; you are now the leader of the asteroid tribe Seeduon. You will rule with your human female and await your offspring who will be the next leader, and extinction of your tribe will be avoided," Utren said.
"Thank you, High Council. It is all that I request,” I said smiling. I could hear a sigh of relief come out of Vera
"Yes, but be aware that we will be watching you, more than we do the other tribes. Seeduon asteroid has a history of unrest, so we will watch it closely, we will watch you. We hope that you will be a better leader than Cyro and not repeat his mistakes. That you will rule with a just hand and in the honorable Corillion way.”
"Yes, I promise and vow to be a just and great ruler. Under my leadership, the Seeduon asteroid and fortress will become a great place, with the help of my warrior brothers,” I said, looking at Sitione not forgetting his plans for the fortress. He smiled at me in recognition of it.
"Then this decision is final. Return to your fortress and claim your rightful place as the leader. We are giving you 30 ships of warriors to quiet any civil disobedience at the fortress. Your human female may stay here under our protection until you have put your house in order,” Utren said.
"Thank you, High Council.”
"You may leave immediately. See to your fortress and create peace once more there. Then return to claim your human female, which we are ready to make your rightful bride. Please grab the hand of the human female,” Utren said.
I was not expecting this. I had not spoken to Vera about this. I grabbed her hand and whispered to her, “Vera, are you all right with this? They wish to marry us. It is all that I want, and it would make me very happy, but I promised you that I would never make you do anything that you don't want to do. Please tell me,” I said to her.
Her eyes watered. She squeezed my hand tighter.
"I cannot believe that I am saying this. But I want this. I want to marry you. I want to be a family,” she whispered back to me with a smile on her face.
"Then that makes me the happiest Corillion in the entire Corillion galaxy,” I whispered back to her.
Then I looked up at the High Council and said, “We are ready!"
Then the High Council said the vows that bonded us as husband and wife in Corillion marriage. I sealed the bond with a kiss, and it was over.
"Now make preparations to depart to see to the Seeduon fortress. You are dismissed, all of you,” Utren said.
I turned to Vera and picked her up from the chair. “Let me take you to your chamber where you can rest and wait for me.”
"I am very nervous parting from you. I do not know any of the Corillion here. What if I never see you again? What if the unrest at the fortress is greater than you think and you are hurt, or killed? What if the High Council Corillion try to mate with me?” she asked.
"That will not happen. Anyone would be stupid to try such a thing after you have caused a great revolution. No one will want to touch you,” I said to her playfully.
"That is not what happened!” she said to me.
"I know. But you must stay here. I cannot take you with me when I know that there is unrest at the fortress that I have to settle. You will be in too much danger there. It won't take long. I promise. I promise to return. I have not broken a promise to you, have I?”
"No, I suppose not,” she said to me as she gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"Vera Seeduon, I am Samantha Ford,” a human female said and she came up to me.
Vera's eyes lit up. She had not seen another human since she left Earth.
"A human!” Vera said.
Samantha smiled and said, “Yes, I am the wife of Utren. He has asked me to take care of you while you are here. Your room will be next to mine. Come, let me show you where you can lay her on her bed," she said as she led us down the hallway toward the living quarters.
"Another human. I am so excited to speak with her,” Vera whispered in my ear.
"And I am glad that you are being left in good hands. Someone that knows about offspring, and someone that makes you happy to speak with,” I said to her.
"Oh, Truo, I am so happy. Please hurry and return for me. As much as I will enjoy the company of Samantha, I will miss you. I will be worried."
"I will return as fast as I can,” I said as I entered her room and laid her on her bed. I gave her a long, deep kiss and said, “I will leave you now to rest. I am off to make preparations, but I will come to see you before I leave.”
"She is in good hands,” Samantha said to me.
"Thank you,” I said to her before I walked out and closed the door behind me. There was much to be done. There was much to plan. I had an entire fortress an asteroid to take under my leadership and make it a safe place for my wife and child. I would not let them down.