Wanted
Things were getting bad. The Mercian’s had mostly retreated except for a few stray ones that were still reeking havoc. But the Venusians seemed to be multiplying. For every Mercian that fell or retreated two Venusians were there to take his place.
Sira had wrapped Adan’s legs the best she could and had been doing her best to nurse him back to health with her limited supplies. She had dragged him off the street into a building. He now lay propped in the corner his head and legs tightly wrapped. She stood waiting by the window two guns loaded and ready just waiting for one of those creepy crawlies to dare to enter this building.
She looked back in Adan’s direction he hadn’t moved the entire time and she was afraid that he wouldn’t survive the day. She went over to his side for the millionth time in the last hour and felt his arm again for a pulse it was still there but it seemed to get weaker and weaker every time she checked it.
She placed the guns at her side and pulled Adan to her holding him tight. “I’m so sorry Adan,” The tears began to well up in her eyes and a sob formed in her throat. “I’m sorry that I didn’t come find you, sorry that I never got to tell you that I forgive you and that I still love you.” The tears were coming harder now and she buried her face in his hair and let them come. “Kohath, please don’t take him from me now. I still love him.”
Kohath stood beside Sira as he always did. And like always her prayers reached his ears with crystal clarity. A painful sadness was growing in his heart as he watched his beloved daughter cry over the man she loved, the friend who meant the most to her. He placed his hand on her head and whispered words of peace into her soul. “Be still my daughter. Be still.”
Her sobbing lessened and he felt his peace flow into her. Slowly she released her worries to Kohath and finally she fell into a peaceful sleep.
Linda got to Imaginess right when things were starting to get really bad. The Venusians were tired of playing around and so were starting to use their powers to attack and no one knew how to defeat them. Linda looked in horror at all the devastation she saw. “All right dragon, show me what you can do.” The dragon stomped its foot sending a few of the aliens off balance and the rest running for cover. The dragon rose on two legs and sent Linda tumbling to the ground. She hit the ground hard. The jolt made her ache all over and her gun had flown out of her hand. It was only about a foot to her right. She reached for it but one of the scrawny demons jumped on her chest and was brandishing a sharp piece of metal. He waved it in her face and moved forward menacingly. He was mouthing something but he was so quiet she couldn’t tell what he was saying. He poked his miniature sword into her neck and continued yapping away in his unheard language.
Her body still ached from the fall off the dragon and her head throbbed so bad she could barely move. The tiny sword was pressing harder and harder into her neck and she could feel a thin stream of blood flowing down her neck. Suddenly the creature dropped the sword and clutched his hands to his ears he fell back on the grass writhing in pain. The pain was washing over her body and harder waves now and she could feel herself losing conciseness. The last thing she remembered was seeing hundreds of the little demons running for the protection of their ship and hearing the dragons roar echoing throughout the city.
Bee…doop…bee…doop…bee…doop. Sira awoke with a start it was dark and there was an annoying hissing and beeping coming from somewhere in the room. Where was she? She sat up and the blue light from the screen caught her attention. It was a heart monitor and the lines were moving so slowly that she knew that the person in the bed was as good as dead. “Oh Kohath no.” She whispered. She didn’t have to look at the person in the bed to know it was Adan. She pushed herself up straighter in the chair and stood up. Sure enough Adan was laying in the bed his chest rising with every ‘bee’ and falling with every ‘doop’
“Adan…Adan can you hear me.” She grabbed his hand and clutched it tight. “Please talk to me…Adan.” There was no answer just the incessant bee-doop that filled the room. She let her head drop to the bed and she began to cry.
Bee…doop…bee…doop…bee…doop. “Adan…Adan can you hear me?” The question and the horrible sounds moved in and out of his consciousness. Was he dead? He had to be only Treek could hurt this bad. Only Treek would cause him to constantly hear Sira’s voice but never allow him to see her or feel her hand in his. Bee…doop…bee…doop. He wanted to scream but his voice wouldn’t come. “Please talk to me…Adan” A new sensation filled him something he hadn’t felt in 8 months the feel of Sira’s hand in his. So he wasn’t dead he was alive and somehow Sira was here with him holding his hand as if she had forgotten everything he had ever done to her.
It was fading again he was losing her slipping back into unconsciousness. No, please don’t take her away from me again. I’m sorry Kohath I’m sorry for everything just please don’t let me lose her again. He still felt himself slipping. He deserved it of course. He had denied Kohath, betrayed him and now when it suited him he expected Kohath to save him. She’s probably not even really there. I’m probably delusional. Just wishing that she still loved me enough to be here… Please Kohath if I make it through this I promise I’ll find her and apologize to her. I promise.
Something rough touched Linda’s face and she squeezed her eyes shut harder. When it stopped Linda opened her eyes and looked up at the sky the stars above her nearly hidden by the evening mist. She stood up and reached for her gun it was completely damaged by the dew and she dropped it back on the ground. A shadow passed in front of the moon and her first instinct was to run until she realized it was only the dragon. The events of the day flashed through her memory and she realized that the dragon had saved Imaginess. “You have quite the roar there don’t you girl.” The dragon seemed to smile at her and plopped down in the grass waiting for Linda to climb on. “I still have to give you a name don’t I? How ‘bout Seurmiera? Seur means ‘a loud noise’ and Mier means ‘a great beast’ so that makes you my ‘sonic dragon’” Linda smiled at her own cleverness and pulled herself up onto Miera’s back.
Rowel stood in the living room passing back and forth. His little sisters were in bed his father was in the kitchen and his mother sat on the couch watching him, worry etched across her face as well. “Where are they?” He muttered as he stared out the window for the millionth time that day.
“I’m sure their fine Rowel.” He could tell by his mother’s tone of voice that she didn’t believe her own words. Rowel slumped into the couch opposite his mother and put his head in his hands. He reached for his glass of water but stopped halfway to the glass. The water in the glass vibrated slightly and the glass was slightly shaking he looked at his mother who was looking nervously at a picture that was about to fall off the wall. Rowel jumped to his feet and dashed to the window. A large monster was heading toward their house. “What is it son?”
“It’s the monster, the one that saved us.” The monster stopped a few feet from their house and he saw someone slip off its back the figure patted the monsters nose and then turned and made its way toward the house her head down against the evening mist. As the figure got closer he let out a shout of relief for it was none other than Linda herself. He ran to the door as fast as he could and pulled her inside. “Thank goodness you’re ok Linda.” He pulled her into a quick hug and then pushed her back. “Where’s Sira?”
Fear filled Linda’s eyes as she realized that Sira wasn’t there. “I…I don’t know.”
Sira had no idea how long she’d been crying longer than she had ever cried in her life that was for sure. She was still clutching onto Adan’s hand her head buried into the bed. She listened to bee-doop as it repeated itself over and over again listening for some kind of a change anything to indicate that he was getting better. But there was nothing. She had been crying and praying to Kohath praying that Adan would make it through but she seemed to be receiving no answer only the consistent bee-doop that told her that he was still the same. Bee-doop…bee-doop…bee-doop…bee-doop…bee-deep…bee-deep…bee-deep. Sira’s head shot up when she heard the change in beeps. Her heart soared as she watched the blue lines move faster and faster down the screen. Adan’s hand tightened around hers and she looked at him. He was smiling at her his eyes twinkling with a mischief she thought she would never see again. “Adan!” She threw her arms around him and held him close. For that moment no more words were needed. As he held her in his arms she knew all she needed to know.
Meeting of the captains of the Venus and Mercury guards Moline and Teavole. In Teavole’s quarters on the Venus mother ship. Moline is the first speaker.
“So the same thing happened to you”
“Yes, she went into the storage room with a huge monster-“
“Monster? Where did she get the monster?”
“I don’t know. One minute she’s on the ground about to be creamed and the next a monster destroys our robot.”
“Well that is strange and let me guess she went into the storage room and when you got there she was gone.”
“And the monster yes. How did you know?”
“The same thing happened to us we threw her in a cell and 15 minutes later we go in to check on her and she’s gone and then I hear that one of our ships is missing as well. So what do you think we should do?”
“There’s nothing we can do this meeting is over.” Moline left Teavole’s office a couple minutes later there was a knock on the door and another Mercian walked in.
“You wanted to see me,” he asked.
“Yes I did I need you to copy this for me and hang them up everywhere when we get to Venus. The alien took them and did as Moline asked.
1 week later
“Did you see this Linda?” Alita walked into the room and handed Linda the news-screen. Linda took it and read over it. “They want to make me Zotac? Are you serious?”
“It’s all over the news.”
“That’s unbelievable I barely did anything. I escaped a couple of jail cells and let Meira take on a few aliens but that doesn’t make me a hero.”
“According to this it does.”
“I don’t know the first thing about ruling a country I can barely take care of my problems on earth.”
“Don’t worry Linda we’ll help you. Come on this is an honor Imaginess hasn’t had a Zotac in nearly 20 years. And their offering it to you, a nobody. Did you hear about the reward?”
“Reward?”
“Apparently Mercury is giving out a reward for whoever can capture Su Kutcha.”
“Su Kutcha?”
Ali handed her a piece of paper. “It means Impossible One. No one knows how but boxes of these were delivered to the Tuli station in Pookum 3 days ago. They burned all the boxes but they published this in the paper.” Linda looked at the paper in her hands.
Wanted:
For escaping two prisons in the course of a 3 hour period. Girl, from the planet of Imaginess. Last seen in the storage room on a Venus mothership on the back of a monster. If you find this Su Kutcha please contact a Mercury official and collect you’re reward of 1,000,000 Kolba.
A picture followed with Linda fighting a robot. “1,000,000 kolba that’s insane.”
“Keep reading.” Ali prodded her.
Is this the same girl that saved us from these evil people? If this is very same Leena Elopee than don’t you think she has the strength to save us from future attacks? I say we stand up and protect our hero from the aliens that may try to hunt her down.
The article continued on giving a million other reasons why Linda would make a great leader. She put the paper down and sighed. “Do they know I’m from Earth yet?”
“No, I don’t think so.”
“Good, let’s keep it that way.”
“Do you mean you’ll do it?”
“I’ll do it…As long as I can still go home.”
“Whatever Zotac wishes, is my command.”
“Oh and from now on it’s Leena…no more of these earth names.”
A smile spread over Alita’s face. “Will do.”
A frown creased Linda’s face “Is that any way to speak to your Zotac.”
Alita tried not to smile as she responded. “Yes, my Zotac whatever you wish.”
“Much better.”
Ali couldn’t hold it in any longer she burst into laughter. “Your going to make one good Zotac Linda…I mean Leena.” Then both girls broke into laughter.
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