I did not want to admit to myself that I wanted Saramina. Tasting her sweet lips and then her biting me in such a vicious way only made me want her more. Why shouldn't I? She was just going to go to waste anyway. She was on the verge of death; I might as well get some enjoyment out of my bounty. I had been sent to hunt her down and to capture her, why could I not enjoy the goods?
She would not be my first. I already had a wife, a human female wife. She went by the name Bethany. But she did not please me. I was grateful to receive her as a wife when Cultan had awarded her to me for my strength in battle. The planet of Krillis was fortunate in that many of us warriors had human female mates. It was because Cultan took it upon himself to visit Earth and capture them in large amounts and send them to us. After the Corillion leaders received their mates, us high-ranking fighters were next in line.
I was grateful to Bethany for extending my life cycle beyond the 21 years. But after several months of mating, she had not given me offspring. She was a very docile and boring female and was nothing like the feisty and violent Saramina that I liked. She was a match for me. I was a skilled warrior that spent a lot of time fighting, and Saramina was a fighter. She was smart. She was not submissive. She was not one to let fate rule her. When she was taken by Cultan, she killed him. When she was taken by myself, she created chaos on the ship trying to incapacitate it. She was a fighter. She was strong, and I liked it.
So why should I not sample what I wanted? I would not get attached, I had not become attached to any human female, and that included my forever mate, Bethany. So I would not get attached to this one either; I would just have my fun. I had made up my mind; I was going to take her. She wanted it anyway; I could tell by the way she looked at me. When I kissed her, she kissed me back, if only for a few seconds before being hostile.
But first, we were coming up on the planet Etora. So it would have to wait, being with Saramina. I needed my wits about me because Etora was a very dangerous place, and I liked danger. I could handle anything that this outlaw planet could throw at me. In truth, I enjoyed visiting the planet anytime that I could. It was not in the Corillion galaxy, but there were Corillion, there were humans, and there were various few other alien races on the planet all mixing and fighting and trading amongst each other. I liked that environment.
"Coming to the flight deck,” I responded, and I got up from my seat and made my way to the flight deck to land the ship. We landed just outside the city gates, a trading city known as Ceta.
"I will be back. You stay here and guard the ship and guard the prisoner. It should not take long to get the freight. You should see me returning with several carts. Do not let anyone on the ship unless I am with them,” I said to Seto as I strapped on my blaster guns and knives onto my belt.
I left the ship in his hands, including my priceless prisoner. She wasn’t just a human female; she was a wanted human female, wanted for her crimes. Her crimes were great, and I could not let her get away.
I went through the massive city gates into the west side of the city of Ceta. The west side was the most dangerous side, the weapons-trade side of the city. It was dangerous because if a fight broke out weapons were easily available to grab and fight with. And there was always a fight.
"Parana, do you have my cargo?” I asked the Ankoorion alien. They had gills and lived half on water and half on land. But they could not be without water for more than a week. They came from a water planet. But they were also good traders of all kinds of goods.
"I have it, Viqer. Tell your leader Titeq that these are the best blaster guns in the universe. They are well worth their price,” he responded.
"Yes, you may try the merchandise,” Parana said as he opened the crate. I grabbed a blaster gun and charged it, cocking it several times. I looked to Parana who pointed out a suitable target for me. It was a wall with lights. I blasted the lights one after another easily. They were accurate. I placed the gun back in the crate.
"These are suitable for our needs,” I said to him. Titeq had wanted to grow the arsenal of weapons on Krillis. He was preparing for retaliation from Earth. Stocking up on guns was part of it.
"Here is the money,” I said, holding a few bags. He looked at it and snarled.
"This is not enough. This was not the agreement with Titeq. Where is the rest?” he said as his men stood beside him.
"Are you trying to swindle me? This is exactly the amount Titeq told me to pay you. This is the exact amount that he said you agreed on,” I growled at him.
"No. It is not. He has either lied to you or lied to me. Either way, the deal is off. The guns stay here,” he said.
"You are trying to get more money then these are worth. Take this money and give me the guns or you will have Titeq to answer to and an entire army from Krillis,” I said.
He laughed. “That might be so in the future. But that is not so now. Now get your worthless face out of here, you stupid piece of shit,” he snarled at me.
I had heard enough. Bam! I punched him in the face, and he went down on his back. I knew that it was not a wise thing to do, but he had pushed me too far. In seconds, two of his men were on top of me. We wrestled across the floor fighting. Boom! I punched one. Bam! I kicked the other as he flew away from me. It was enough to give me room to run. I ran, swerving around tables and aliens and humans in the marketplace.
"Get him!” I heard Parana shout. He was pissed. I ran fast, jumping over items and dodging under carts back toward my ship. I was smiling the whole way. This was fun to me. I enjoyed a good fight, and I enjoyed getting the best of my enemies and out running them. He was trying to swindle Titeq, and I was not going to allow that to happen. Finally, I arrived at the ship. I turned back over to the marketplace to see the two men chasing me still. I opened the door and ran straight to the flight deck.
"We got to get out of here! Go! Go!” I shouted as I ran into the pilot’s chair and started the engines. In seconds, I shot straight up into the atmosphere of the planet Etora. I was laughing the whole time. It was fun to me. Once out of the atmosphere and into the darkness of space, I slowed down and set the ship on autopilot. I radioed Seto.
There was no response. What the hell was going on? Perhaps he was in the act of relieving himself in the lavatory. “Seto! Do you copy?! Come in. Report to the flight deck."
No answer again. Suddenly I felt a rage of jealousy as I thought that he might be with Saramina. Of course, he would. Why wouldn't he? Why did I leave a warrior that would want to mate with the human female alone with her? I got up from the chair and ran down the hall to her cell.
“Seto! You better not touch her!” I roared as I entered. He was not in there. She was not in there. The chains were empty. I ran to my bedroom. I ran to his small room. I ran to the small room that she was in at first. They were nowhere to be found on the ship. I searched every single area, including the engine mechanical room. “Shit.”
I moved to the flight deck and stopped the ship and turned it around. I was going back to Etora. I should have never let her out of my sight. I should not have trusted Seto. The temptation was too great. I did not know what he would do with her. Did he take her on to Etora to have his way with her, or something else?
I landed on the east side of the city Ceta, far away from the weapons section and Parana. For all they knew, I was deep in space. The east side of the city was the slave trade market. Then it hit me: that is what Seto must be doing. He was going to sell her. She was an attractive human female and looking the way she did in a sheer white gown, she would get a very good price. It was a price that a warrior could live off of for the rest of his life. Rage built up inside of me. I would kill him. I should have killed her and took Titeq her dead body. Having her alive was more trouble than she should be for a prisoner of vengeance.
I made my way through the market; there were slaves from all kinds of alien races on display for purchase. The market was vast and wide, and I had to find her fast.
"Where can I find a human female to purchase?” I asked one of the slave traders.
"Toward the middle of the market that way,” he pointed. I nodded my head in thanks and quickly walked as fast as I could down the narrow and winding streets. Then I entered a large circular opening where there were many platforms and many human females on display.
Then all the way across the opening, I saw Seto. Saramina was at his side in chains. Seto was receiving a bag from another Corillion. I moved quickly toward them. “Seto! Stop right there! That human is my property!” I shouted as I ran toward them. Seto looked at me with wide eyes and ran in the opposite direction. Saramina began to struggle in her chains. The other Corillion just looked at us in confusion. I wanted to run after Seto, but if I let Saramina out of my sight, I would never see her again. So I let him go. She was more valuable than one Corillion warrior that had betrayed me. Saramina was the human female that Titeq wanted, and I had my orders.
"No, she does not. I have just paid handsomely for her. She now belongs to me,” he said to me in anger.
"You purchased her from a Corillion that she does not belong too. He stole her from me,” I said to him.
"And you stole her from Earth. It is all a cycle of stealing. But I have paid for her, and she is mine,” he said grabbing Saramina's chain and yanking her toward him. I grabbed her arm and pulled her towards me.
"You do not understand, warrior. Let me show you why you do not want to take this human female from me. You see, she is not mine but belongs to Titeq Krillis, the ruler of Krillis. He had ordered me to get her from Earth and take her to him,” I said as I pulled out my device and projected my orders with a photo Saramina and a few words about why she was wanted. The Corillion looked at me. There was fear in his eyes.
"Unless you want the entire Corillion army from Krillis to come hunt you down, then I suggest you give me the human female. I will make sure that my leader has your information and you are paid for your loss. The warrior you purchased her from has betrayed me. He has run off with your money and committed treachery. So what is it going to be? Will you take the human female and face certain death by the entire Krillis army, or will you let her go with me peacefully and be done with it?”
The Corillion warrior sneered. He was angry. I did not blame him. He let go of the chain. He rummaged through his belt and pulled out a card. He handed it to me.
"Make sure that Titeq sends me what is owed to me. I will be expecting it,” then he walked away. I looked at Saramina. Her chin was in the air, and she was full of anger. She was shaking. I narrowed my eyes at her.
"You will not get away so easily. You are trouble; come,” I said as I yanked her chains and pulled her alongside me.
"I will never stop trying to run from you. I will never stop until the day I die,” she said and then spit on me.
"That day is coming soon, and you are not the one that ran. I was betrayed by Seto. He was being greedy. You had no control over it,” I said to her.
She laughed. I stopped in my tracks and turned to her surprised by her laughter. She narrowed her eyes at me and said, “Who do you think convinced him to take me off the ship and sell me at the market? It was my plan all along. I told him a few days ago, and by the time we landed, he was blinded by the greed. I am the one that convinced him to take me to the market and sell me.”
"Why would you do such a thing? That is a very stupid thing to do,” I said as I yanked on her chain and dragged her along.
"I thought I would take my chances being sold. If I am sold, then I am alive. Going with you is being sentenced to death. Out here I am on a planet, and I can run away. With you, I am on a ship, and there is no running in space,” she said.
I turned and grinned at her. She was smart. She was my match. I pulled her aboard the ship and took her with me to the flight deck. I put the ship into space and on autopilot with coordinates set for Krillis.
“Go ahead. Kill me. You are going to do it anyway. Get it over with,” she said as she angrily whipped the chain around her wrists at me. I was pissed. I unlocked the chains from her wrists and her feet.
“Don’t do that,” I said as I picked her up and threw her over my shoulder and took her to my quarters.