Page 84 of Bred by the Alien Prince

CHAPTER 33

Lorvian

Breathing the fresh, cool, salt-laden air was just what I needed. I activated the beacon long before I touched the ground. This place was not my home; of that, I was sure. I knew of no other planets in our solar system aside from the eighteen I've always known. However, I have heard talks of a nineteenth planet that later lost its status as a planet more than two thousand years ago.

My only hope of getting my ship back was activating the ship's automation systems and guiding it to my location. I saw grayish smoke rising nearby and trekked there. If it was Caspian, then thank the stars. But it was not him; it was Cormac lying on the ground beside his smoking capsule with blood gushing from the deep gash on his thigh.

"It's not him," I lamented and gazed off into the distance, hoping to see any sign of his pod.

"Gee, thanks. Glad to see you too," he sneered, pressing his hand against the wound in vain.

"You're not pregnant with my child," I replied, reaching into his pod for the small medical box.

Slapping his hand away, I could assess the damage. A thick, jagged piece of metal had gone straight through the meat of his leg, ripping through his suit. This was not good, for him at least. He was a good kid, but Caspian was my number one concern, and if I had to leave him to find Caspian, I would. But I would do my best to get him in shape.

"The strangest thing about this is that I can't even feel it," he chuckled ruefully.

"It may have embedded a piece of your suit inside. I must remove it."

"The human thigh has a big artery attached. If severed, I'll bleed out and die."

"Every pod has a medkit. The fix won't be perfect, and it will be painful, but I can clamp it shut once I remove the metal."

"Oh, fuck me!"

I worked fast, ripping the piece from the flesh in one swift move, then using the forceps to keep the flesh separated. I found the bloody piece of fabric and used the tweezers to pick it free.

Blood pooled in the wound, and now the boy was shaking from the pain.

"Almost done." I clamped the artery shut and sank my fang into my hand.

"Hey, what the hell?!" He protested, his brow full of sweat.

"I'm healing you," I said, dripping my blood into the wound until the artery and some of the meat sealed, but it would take his own healing abilities to repair the rest of the damage.

"Holy shit!"

I removed the clamp and the forceps. "It'll take a while to recover. You'll need a transfusion, though I have no idea how that would work for your kind." After wrapping up his leg, I went back to the pod to contact either Caspian or Connor. If the machine was with Caspian, that would at least take away some of my agitations.

"Caspian? Connor?" I spoke into the comms.

"Sir?" Great, I got the machine.

"Connor. Where are you?"

"Inside of the ship, sir."

I hoped that was good news. "Did you evac?"

"No, sir."

I don't even want to know. "Where are you?"

"We are on a planet."

"Yes, I've figured that much. This is not my homeworld, listen to me. We must get off of this planet!" I yelled.

"Sir, I tried to inform you it would be useless to evac. What we are witnessing is a dwarf planet that has emerged from a spatial anomaly and is now visible. We were being pulled into the gravitational pull of the arriving dwarf planet."

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