I could say was home again and the feeling was not at all pleasant. knew it wouldn't be long before Ravenack decided to start his tournaments there to spread fear among the humans who still resisted his command.
It was my personal hell. Imagining that demon with my appearance and wandering among Earthlings in an attempt to get close to Angel was not pleasant.
Klaus's unexpected arrival had erected an impossible-to-overcome barrier the few times he had managed to see the girl from afar. And just after that being locked up there in that cell didn't help.
Maybe it wasn't that bad. It was a deserved punishment. should never play with space-time. I had created my own reality of parallel horror by interfering with natural events.
Kalael would have rescued the last human survivors: those who would live with the Essassanis and give rise to the beginning of my civilization. Mestizos with incredible skills in mastering elemental powers and perhaps even telepathic abilities. In fact, there would no longer be a freighter named Messiah in that quadrant. It was trapped inside Alvorada in a time loop.
- Are you really going to blame me for all this? You don't know who is challenging, boy. She belongs to the miserable race ...
Klaus's voice had an appeal that no longer moved me. Betrayal was an old ally that I knew very well. sighed, ignoring the pain of the electron whips on my shoulders as I stared angrier at the organic handcuffs that inhibited my powers.
- Are you trying to justify your actions now? - I asked hypocritically looking at my ex-lover.
Lovers abandoned, betrayed or raised from the ashes, in the end, meant only trouble.
Klaus.
When in my wildest hallucinations would I have imagined Klaus so alive before me? don't think I would have said that to Angel like that. Not with the cursed customs of that primitive planet.
- In both ... What has changed in that time? You loved me before.- Klaus wouldn't have been more dramatic if he could. And because of the damn human, isn't it?
The tone of his voice exhibited bitterness and spite. If I loved Angel?
Deep down, I knew why Ravenack hadn't yet put his claws on Angel. We were not so different after all in that respect. In those hours I found myself imagining the face of my executioner. Ravenack never showed his features to anyone. He was someone who had come out of nowhere.
-You don't seem to know me! - I laughed with some bitterness., and with some difficulty, managed to stand.
Slavery does do certain things to you after all. I had become what hated the most. Even thanks I had lived among those creatures. was someone cold and hardly likely to have feelings for anyone? Even Klaus ... He could take my breath away for not being compelled to share pleasure and accept any brutality of mine. The pleasure was achieved with any good fuck.
No, that was not it. It was just a matter of someone caring about you. To know that there is one that I miss you. I had been abandoned at the hands of the K'Aldriants for eight years. But all of that had changed with Angel
Slowly and even resisting, she moved ahead of all my defences. Even knowing the monster I was and why approached, I knew with unwavering faith that the girl loved me. And it made a lot of difference. would never betray me like that.
Only now there in that dirty, horrible cell could I understand her to hurt about Andie and curse me.
-You loved me. - Klaus complained in astonishment. - I know you loved me. You...
I could be miserably sore and exhausted after Ravenack's torture sessions, but the anger still doubled the rest of my strength. After my body had adapted to the hottest temperature on the planet it could still be considered a strong man.
I pushed Klaus with all the violence and fury that fed me until I pinned him against the wall.
Klaus' eyes stung expectantly fixed on my mouth waiting for any initiative from me.
-I don't like to be betrayed or deceived! - I shouted seeing everything red.
At that moment, all I wanted was to beat, kill and release the impotence that consumed me.
Somewhere there on that base, a guy with my face surrounded the girl who was supposed to be mine. And nobody touched what was mine.
In that instant, I understood what kalael always said during the Academy's arduous training.
I also knew that as soon as he escaped the ambush of the temporal loop, I would be a dead Edrian.
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-This is not going to work! -I could hear Sereide complain about that for the tenth time as looked distantly at the image of Zorack.
I don't know what they were looking for in those excavations that never ended. Some of us even worked on alternate shifts and the work there never stopped. There were those who were selected as hosts despite all the protests.
It didn't make much difference to resist. They used compulsion very easily to overcome any resistance. After they took off their shiny metallic armour, they weren't that ugly. They were even attractive and for the little that had managed to perceive the almost equal features. They were predators and now dominated our food chain. Everything about them seemed inviting or attractive when they wanted to impose their will on us.
-You'll be quiet! - I threatened Sereide with all the weapons I had.- if you say any word ...
Even the doctor had agreed to keep silent about what happened after my threats to do foolish things.
I continued to load the bucket with water that was served to the men who dug the tunnel with a sigh. Was it the way to the cities that Zorack said existed inside the planet that we were looking for those creatures?
There was no longer any way to appeal to the inhibitor. And the thought of feeding me like any K'Aldriant giving in to hellish thirst made me hallucinate.
Perhaps with luck, my body will not endure nutrient deprivation for that long. The food from earlier fed me. In another situation, I would probably be hungry. But I couldn't! I was unable to do that after seeing those things.
- Mercy, girl. - Scarlet sighed infuriated by my stubbornness. - Have you ever seen yourself in a mirror with the pale appearance and dark circles as it is? Do you really think Zorack is too stupid not to notice? And what will you say?
What would say?
It was without a doubt the least of my problems. I'm not sure how to explain it, but just like that, Zorack's image was starting to give me chills. I had begun to hate it every time he took the chance to touch my arm when he passed the slaves with buckets of freshwater.
It wasn't just that. The doctor had achieved nothing. Even using the few resources we had in the medical laboratory, nothing was detected by the equipment. Surgical intervention in those conditions was impossible.
Nothing had managed to get past the placenta barrier that surrounded that in my body. The doctor had looked at me with a pitying apology.
It was like playing the lottery. Genetics could be a box of surprises. Ultrasound tests could not detect any evidence of pregnancy. And there was still something in my body that grew against my will. It could be a bloody implant from those creatures after what happened to me on that ship. As it could also be what always happened to a girl who had sex without care and damns condoms.
-I don't know what I'm going to say! - I exploded in exasperation. What do you think I can say? It is not quite the story of arriving and simply saying: I think maybe pregnant. Of course, it may just be my impression and having a damn alien embryo implanted in my body in experiments. What do you think I can say, Scarlet?
I refused to cry about it. It was a normal cycle for anyone who lived. The end was death.
Shit, I was only sixteen! None of that should have happened. I should have failed at school and punished for the rest of my life because of Ana.
Why would that kill me in the end, wouldn't it?
Even though I was eating like anybody there with the scarce food we had, started to lose weight. Somehow the alien genome started to act on my organism, bringing changes that terrified me. It was not just the strange and horrible skin that now covered my epidermis at the base of the neck and that hid with loose hair.
Scarlet looked at me with pity. I don't even know why she cared that much. The woman had hated me since the first moment she arrived at Spartackus. It was a fair irony for the ex-wife - or whatever they called it in Édrin - that Zorack cared about that.
"At least there will be less competition to get closer to Zorack again," I replied, full of bad mood.
Scarlet sighed, tired and furious, staring at me.
- You're an idiot, girl. Max and I are happy and together despite all this horror. - She sighed heavily. - I know Zorack. He won't like to hide something so serious from him. won't forgive you, Angel.
Zorack forgive me?
I think Scarlet had overlooked a damn unfortunate detail. Zorack now had Klaus beside him again. I was just someone who had warmed his bed and was unimportant. God!
Had I really complained about Andie before?
-You won't tell Zorack ...
Scarlet and I opened our eyes wide. It was him. Suddenly he was there in front of me and my nightmare was becoming very real.
-What don't you intend to tell Zorack?
He was a furious Spartackus captain who asked with furious looks and yet he looked like a stranger to me.
It didn't look like Zorack at all.