The sensors warned that the cages security system had failed.
"Just shout it out loud. Scream and wake up from that damn dream. Isn't the handsome guy to die human?"
Ane stifled a thousand complaints, struggling to get back on her feet, and remembering Aunt Ana's complaints about little Angel's crazy stories. Maybe after all it was some kind of very contagious disease because she could have sworn that the man next to her was all red.
It wasn't much to ask for an incredible night to celebrate the end of the 2018 semester.
God, I shouldn't have left the girl alone at home. If something happens to her ... Angel is just a child.
But the amazing stories that Angel always told away from her foster parents had too much detail even for the very fertile imagination of a 9-year-old girl. Little green men. Ane's eyes widened in amazement. Oh, they were by no means little green men. He was too tall and red from head to toe. Perhaps with any luck hallucinations would be contagious. Only it didn't explain why it was snowing in the middle of the summer.
"Do you want to tell me what the curse is going on here?" She tried not to look at the hands that grabbed her arm and forced her to walk forward.
Hell, he could be beautiful even with that different colour, but he still liked to give orders for her taste.
-Really? - Kory hesitated when the girl nailed her feet without moving. - I wouldn't believe it if I told ...
- Try it. - Ane shouted out of her mind. Her arm pointed towards the darkness showed a scenario of films and the almost impossible.
It was a flying saucer! And flying saucers did not exist. Everyone knew that.
Less Angel ...
Blinding lights illuminated the pasture and headed for the house.
-I don't know how, but it looks like we had a kind of security breach. The files were breached and ... Damn! Those are spaceships over there, did you notice the little detail? Those things are ... We thought that ... Damn. are trying to locate the girl. Not many people outside this planet liked the idea of this girl being alive, you can be sure.
Ane swallowed and scared.
"Please, my God, please. Make Angel's stories really just stories ..."
And at that moment away from the safety of an apparently normal world, she was beginning to make sure it wasn't just stories. A thrill of horror enveloped her as she held the chain with the medallion that now weighed on her neck in a cold, trembling hand. Horror slowly began to weave its webs and she plunged into a universe that should never have existed. Very slowly the perception started to come to mind in a paralyzing way. It was not by chance that all this confusion in such a small and unimportant town. The terrible certainty that those things sought for the girl asleep in her bed made her shiver. Because it was after them that they were, wasn't it?
-God! - Ane grunted incredulously, touching her forehead and her face deathly pale. - It's true, isn't it? All the stories that Angel has been telling around and that nobody believed ...
Kory cursed in a dialect she was unable to understand, but even so, a bad word was a bad word anywhere in the Universe. His strained face gave him that certainty.
-You can bet that there must have been a lot of confusion in the Confederation for this breach of security. Everything became very complicated with the release of some slaves in the mines of N'Tirlay. The freed Édrin's heir brought much discussion on the council because of his cousin, girl.
N'Tirlay?
Ane shuddered, refusing to accept that she knew that word. The description of the miserable place came back to her with details fed by frightened imagination, while Kory ran pulling her arm through the trees seeking protection for them.
A world of slaves and horrible creatures that had silver and sometimes black skin resembling molten and impenetrable metal. Angel even for a child could tell details of making anyone shiver when describing the place, the ships and even more the sentries that guarded that distant and hostile world.
-Do you know Angel ?! - Ane bit her lips cursing.
It was just a party.
What could go wrong? She could complain about the miserable misfortune.
Kory stopped behind some bushes, checking the tense ammo.
-Your cousin? You bet. Somehow her location and security have been compromised. - Kory started to explain excitedly and looked intently at the human in front of him.
For whatever reason, those smugglers led by Gargoyles had tracked down the whereabouts of the girl they protected. It might have been a fluke that the little one was safe, but it saved him from serious problems. Those things for some reason had tracked Ane down to the belief that it was the hybrid they were looking for.
It was no secret to anyone, not even among the Confederation's corridors, the reward that was offered for capturing the first female created through genome hybridization. Édrin's last living ruler, Voltan de Igneous, did not believe that the child had a long life because of the toxin that these creatures carried in his blood.
And it made no difference. Gargoyles were smugglers of time and space. There was one in particular ... Nobody knew him well. At least no one would dare to talk about him. They said it was as unforgiving as the hated creatures they feared would dominate the entire universe.
-But why did they track you? It doesn't make any sense. - he tried to assess the chances of returning to the ship and getting reinforcements.
Did they track you?
Ane folded her arms in dismay, unsure how to explain. Perhaps it was the bad luck of a lifetime.
-What do these things want with the girl? And I want explanations. Or I'm going to scream so loud and so loud that ...- the threat left no doubt.
This was not the time to be arguing there when they needed quick shelter. And a look at the human-made it clear that all that was going to have to wait, whether they wanted to or not.
- K'Aldriants. Her cousin is a hybrid of these things with the genome of human descendants. The first female of a breed. No one believed that the girl would survive that long, however ...
No one believed that the girl would survive that long, however ...
None of that was really serious, was it? Ane looked around, covering her ears with her hands, avoiding the uncomfortable sound that those machines made and totally numb.
the girl would survive so long ...
-Are you trying to kill her? Is that what you're saying to me? That's why you're here, isn't it? God! She's just a child. She's not a damn dangerous alien and ...
Ane's revolt was building inside her." I swear I didn't run, Ane. If I do that again, I guarantee you will go back to the orphanage and take over there. Look what you did to your mother! Honey, no! Don't hurt the girl. Does she know she shouldn't do this anymore, isn't, my daughter?"
The girl had been missing for five days. When the police authority and the sheriff arrived at the Forester home with encouraging news ensuring that the girl who everyone believed was dead, had only a few bruises and was just scared, they hadn't even considered the possibility of Angel's punishment for scaring everyone like that. . The uncle was never very tolerant of children and only decided to agree to the adoption after much insistence from his wife Ana that was unable to conceive.
Ane's clenched fists of fury and revolt found the perfect target by punching the alien's chest consumed by absolute rage.
-Fuckers! Damn murderer bastard. She's just a child. Do you have any idea what to do with her life? You kidnapped the child and held her for five miserable days! Is that how you feel so much better than us?
The accusation weighed like salt in open wounds for Kory, who had always sympathized with environmental advocates fighting for the quality of life of guinea pigs. It was not like that at all. Sometimes sacrifices were necessary. In any case, the reports on that creature's research were not encouraging. Expectations that the child would pass the puberty stage were not very optimistic. The human organism did not tolerate the latent DNA in its organism. It was just a matter of mercy and saving a guinea pig from a painful and slow death.
-We? Not me, miss! My job here is just to keep order in the cages and prevent the most interesting pig from getting hurt unnecessarily. That girl...
Ane did not recapitulate yet more possessed. He was just a monster just like those creatures that had killed Bratt and his colleagues.
-Are you going to kill Angel ?!
Kory did not reply. The bright light fell on him blindingly paralyzing his body without being able to react or try anything.
Ane tried in vain to retreat, her eyes wide in her terrified face and soon afterwards the darkness enveloped her, leaving only the sensation of floating in the cold night air ...
In the atmosphere of the planet, the Imperius freighter waited. The commander's orders were clear and precise. All he cared about most was capturing the first female K'Aldriants alive and unharmed.
Nobody imagined the interest that the mission had for the one who led the gágulas, and even the closest ones always avoided being close, fearing the fury of the Gargoyle. The universe was the scene of a silent battle where Ravenack and Gargoyle fought for dominance of the most powerful weapon ever created. A child.
Some favours demanded in the most unexpected moments had guaranteed the whereabouts of the girl who was kept anonymous by the Galactic Confederation.