Page 88 of Xefe
Warriors were now on hoverboards, similar to the one I’d stolen, racing toward me and the girls.
Loxo ran at us. Would he remember what I said? Or stop me?
“The-thesupreme lied. You-youare all from this planet. Stolen as children from the Nozarocan people.Thisis your home planet-net. This is your land! You-youare proud Nozarocan warriors. Your knowledge about youralmax, your one, does not come from the supreme, it comes from a deep knowing inside of you-you. In your DNA. But he will never let you have youralmax. He will keep them from you. Because he will never let you go!”
The warriors roared, clearly reacting to my words. I wasn’t sure in what way, though. The floating stage with my sister descended and dropped fast, getting closer and closer to me.Unfortunately, the warriors were faster. Their hoverboards had landed, and they streamed off, running at top speed to attack us.
Loxo jumped in front of us. “Stop! She speaks the truth.” His red eye swirled menacingly.
The warriors slowed and looked to their supreme, but he couldn’t communicate with them. I controlled the mic. The warriors continued to stare, focused, as if awaiting orders, only it wasn’t the supreme they looked to for guidance. It was Sunny.
“They are using your sperm, your DNA, when you make your donations in the lab, to create a race of super soldiers.” I dropped the Aavvee accent and switched into the warriors’ language. “This is your future offspring that should be for youralmax, not for the Aavvee to experiment on. Do you want your children under their control?”
The warriors shouted and growled, fighting amongst themselves about who to believe.
The supreme’s platform lowered to about twenty feet above me. I couldn’t see anything from this angle, now that it was right above us, but Sunny’s head popped over the side. Before I could blink, he threw Freckles over the edge, and he landed in the middle of the field in a crumpled heap.
The supreme screeched and ordered the guards to go after Freckles and bring him back. The platform landed with athunk, about a hundred yards away from me. As soon as they set down, Sunny attacked the triad, the supreme’s personal guards. He methodically battled his way toward the supreme.
“Grab Valentina!” I threw over my shoulder to the girls and went for Freckles. Everything hinged on me ending his life. It was the only way Veras would help. To take my sister home.
Now’s my chance.
Nime stood in my way. “Halt, earther. You will be harmed.”
“Now you care? I am so sick of your shit. Get out of the way!” I hyper-focused my wrath and accessed every ounce of Oro Ihad. I would use my speed, for however long it lasted. “And I don’t want your stupid supreme. Sunny is going to take care of him. I wanthim.” I pointed at Freckles and whizzed past Nime as he looked the other way. He had no chance to stop me.
I jumped on the disgusting lump of an alien, whose smell was so offensive I gagged even as I swung a fist to his face. His skull and cheekbones were impossibly hard, like concrete, and they immediately shattered my knuckles. I didn’t care. I kept going. Faintly, in the background, I heard my pangos cry. For justice.
“I know your secret, earther. You can kill me, but it is too late. You are compatible with the warriors. You canbreed.” He gasped and screeched even as I went for his neck. “The experiments have already begun.”
“I hate you!” Right before I delivered the final blow, strong hands gripped my arm and threw me off Freckles. I did a back spin and landed on my feet. The Oro was pumping through my blood. I was ready to do battle.
The supreme’s personal guards, the triad, stood in front of me. Teal and gold with devastatingly sharp wings, they gleamed, quite literally glowing with power.
“Don’t make me kill you.” I pointed at each of them. “He is mine!”
The tallest one looked over at the others. “I think she means it. Do you think the earthers are brain-damaged? Should we disregard her words?”
“I’m not brain-damaged! I want to kill that Aavvee. Get out of the way.”
None of them moved. “If we have no home, no place to go, where will we find ouralmax?”
The other chimed in, same mannerisms, same voice. “You said we can have analmax. Where is she?”
I was taken aback. Typical men, alien or not. Of course, they only cared about getting their dicks wet. “Anyone. Any alien.”
“The earthers? We are compatible with them?”
“Yes!” I tried to race around them, but they constantly kept in front of me, driving me crazy. There was no way I could beat them. They were even faster than me.
“Prove it.”
I slowed and watched as Freckles crawled away.Carajo!“Sunny…er, Xefe. The First. He’s myalmax. My mate.”
“How is that possible?” They asked simultaneously.
“I got his rod to move, and the markings on his arms have spread all over his body.”
