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  Claimed by an Alien Warlord

  Conquered Brides

  Stella Dawn

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  Contents

  1. Eliana

  2. Tsunis

  3. Eliana

  4. Tsunis

  5. Eliana

  6. Tsunis

  7. Eliana

  8. Tunis

  9. Eliana

  10. Tsunis

  11. Eliana

  12. Tsunis

  13. Eliana

  14. Tsunis

  15. Eliana

  16. Tsunis

  17. Eliana

  18. Tsunis

  19. Eliana

  20. Tsunis

  21. Eliana

  22. Tsunis

  23. Eliana

  24. Tsunis

  25. Eliana

  26. Tsunis

  27. Eliana

  28. Tsunis

  29. Eliana

  30. Tsunis

  31. Eliana

  32. Tsunis

  33. Eliana

  34. Tsunis

  35. Eliana

  Conquered Brides Series

  1

  Eliana

  The sky is a mix of copper and red, similar to how this wasteland looks. I’m heading back home on my bike, which treads through the long dirt road of this sad place. Broken buildings stand lopsided, struggling to remain standing, and little wind passes through the dead trees, playing with the branches in attempts to keep them alive.

  The sun’s falling in between a couple of broken buildings, and I don’t want it to leave. It’s the only thing that seems to give warmth to this place, a sense of comfort, and now the air is getting cold. The chilling wind prickles my skin and stings my face.

  I just want to get home now, but it takes a while to get back. Can’t say how long though, I don’t have a watch. Someone told me I could trade my bike for a watch, but there’s no way in hell I’m giving up my bike. I’d be wandering this shithole for much longer than I needed to.

  I’m returning from work at a fish farm. It’s pathetic, really. I earned a degree with honors in marine biology and this is where I end up. A fucking fish farm. I always smell like fish, I always have the taste of fish in my mouth, sometimes I dream I’m a fucking fish because there’s nothing but that now.

  There’s no other job available, that’s all there is around here. It really is pathetic. I want to move somewhere else. I want to do something else. I want to take my bike and ride off into the horizon, but it’s dangerous.

  There is danger lurking around, and if I’m not careful I can get captured as a slave, killed, or both. I have nothing to defend myself with. Unless I consider the toothpick in my pocket. But what will that do? I suppose I can stab someone in the eye with it. That can be effective.

  Soon enough, I make it back home, which is basically a pile of internal combustion cars stacked together to form some sort of apartment complex. It’s pretty pathetic, but at least it’s something to protect me and others from the dark. When I reach my place, my heart stops, there are two people standing by my door. Well, rather, one’s a human while the other’s an alien.

  Shit.

  The woman is around my age and has striking blue eyes. Her brown hair is pulled up in a ponytail, and she approaches me with a smile. It’s as if there isn’t an alien standing just behind her.

  “Hello, my name’s Taryne, I am a consultant for the EAO. Are you Eliana?”

  I hesitate for a moment as my eyes trail to Taryne and then the alien. I realize that he’s a Fimor. They have the ability to read minds, so if I lie, that won’t be good. I know that the Fimor are a peaceful race, but regardless, I want to keep my guard up. Plus it’s against my nature to lie anyways.

  I pull up a small smile. “I am.”

  “Great,” Taryne says with a look of relief, “can we go somewhere to talk?”

  “Sure,” I say, and lead them inside.

  My place isn’t much. It’s a bed, a few chairs, a table, toiletries, food, and other necessities to keep me alive. Everything is cramped, and with the addition of a human and an alien, even more so. Taryne and the alien, who greets me as Captain Yos, sit on the chairs while I go set up some drinks. All I have is water, so I pour it in two cups and hand them to my guests.

  “So…” I say as I sit down at the table. “What’s this about?”

  Taryne sits back in the chair, which creaks a bit, and says, “The EAO is in desperate need of a marine biologist.”

  “Oh?” I raise my eyebrow with a mix of intrigue and confusion.

  Before I can ask further, Captain Yos speaks. “I’ve had my researcher look into all the potential candidates, and we felt that you would be our best one for the mission. Your knowledge of marine life is extraordinary, and it would be a shame if we didn’t have your support.”

  My intrigue then falls into deeper confusion and skepticism. “What sort of mission is this?”

  “The mission is to visit a new colony that the Ih’il race have settled on,” Taryne answers. “You know of the Ih’il, correct?”

  “Yes, of course,” I say. “They’re a waterworld race, and are known for their knowledge in space travel.”

  “That’s right.” Taryne nods. “A group of them have settled on the planet Yorna, which is located…” Taryne pauses as she pulls out a map from her bag. She unravels the map, which shows a majority of the galaxy. She points to a small, bluish planet that’s on the easternmost side of the map. “It’s right here, in the farthest point of the Milky Way galaxy.”

  My eyes widen, but I straighten myself and asks, “So, my job?”

  “Right.” Taryne rolls up the map and places it back in the bag. “Your job is to study the different species of animals that live in the waters in and around the colony. After which, you are to report all your findings to the EAO. You’re also to report on the activities of the Ih'il and the Xoks that reside on the planet.”

  “In order to do that,” Captain Yos says, “you’re to use a special transmitter that no one, not even your guide is supposed to find out about.”

  “That doesn’t sound ominous,” I mutter under my breath.

  “It’s for your safety,” Captain Yos says. “This mission is very, very important, and we don’t want anything bad to happen.”

  “I see…” I mumble, cradling my chin in my palm. My skepticism starts to waver as I began to consider this. I glance at my apartment, or rather, a shithole of a shelter. It’s just a giant metal box that just so happens to hold my possessions. Boxes filled with my possessions are backed up against the wall, and all my furniture is rickety.

  My shitty job at the fish farm does practically nothing for me. It does nothing, and every day I come home smelling like fish, and tasting fish in my mouth. If I eat meat, it still tastes like fish. If I eat fruit it tastes like fish. Nothing tastes natural anymore.

  I’m sick of it. I’m sick of it all. I just want to get out. Now here’s my chance. I can do this mission. I can explore a brand-new place and see new species of animals and plants. I can live out my dream as a marine biologist. Yes, I’ll do it. I’ll get out of this shithole of a place. I’ll quit that shitty as hell job. I’ll stop eating fish forever! My taste buds will be so happy!

  I smile to myself and a sense of contentment fills me up inside. It’s warm and comforting, I don’t recall the
last time I felt this way. It’s great. I feel great. This is going to be amazing.

  Before I can open my mouth to give my answer, Captain Yos says, “Great, I’ve already sent for your guide.”

  Right, he can read minds. I wonder how silly he thinks my thoughts are.

  When a minute passes by, there comes a quick knock at the door.

  2

  Tsunis

  I glance at these metal boxes with confusion. This is supposed to be a home? This is a dump. A whole pile of trash. I bet this marine biologist is thankful for having this opportunity to get out of here. This is sad, embarrassingly sad. I’m tempted to laugh at the absurdity of this, but I have to be professional. But really, how can someone live in this?

  I imagine some pathetic drunk people living here, not an intelligent scientist. I assumed she would be in some grand glass building, but seeing that there are no such luxurious buildings, that’s not the case. Instead, she lives in giant hunks of metal. That is just…something.

  My attention turns to the door, but skepticism comes into place. I’m aware that the EAO has its own reasons for wanting information about the wildlife that flourishes in my colony, I’m not foolish. However, they offered to find a qualified marine biologist to aid my people. I couldn’t let down that offer. I need to help my people whatever way possible, even if it is with the support of the EAO.

  I sigh and cross my arms, humans are an interesting bunch. They’re smart, but not that smart, and sometimes they can be ignorant. I hope that this scientist isn’t the same. I wonder what she’s like. I’m told that she’s exceptionally intelligent and knows everything about marine life. So why the hell is she stuck in this dump?

  There’s practically nothing here but these giant metal boxes, a dirt road, and a crumbling city nearby. Well, if you can still call it a city. Even the sky didn’t look right. It’s a dark red with hints of yellow here and there, as if it’s a wasteland as well. I can’t stand being in such a desolate area, I can’t even imagine staying here all my life.

  Knocking at the door, I’m invited in straight away. Just as I figure, the place is also a sad mess. It’s also fairly cramped. It’s like a mini junkyard, but the junk is pushed back to give some room for a table, chairs and a bed. If you can call it a bed. It’s this block of a mattress covered in thin sheets.

  There being a door doesn’t make much of a difference. It’s cold in here, and there are cracks everywhere where the sun’s light slips through. There’re also some lit candles, but that doesn’t do much either. They don’t provide much warmth or illumination, it’s really no different than being outside.

  If I have to choose whether to sleep here or the dirt road, I’ll choose the latter in a heartbeat. At least I would have the stars to keep me company instead of a hunk of metal.

  My eyes trail to the seated group. There’s Captain Yos with his mate, Taryne, and the one who I assume is the marine biologist sitting across the table.

  My eyes widen a bit with intrigue. She’s a fine young woman with deep brown eyes that I find myself getting lost into. Her black hair is wrapped in a bun, and her olive skin glows faintly from the sun’s light that spills through the cracks in the room. She’s gorgeous. The most gorgeous human that I’ve ever seen.

  For half a second, I nearly lose my breath. However, I’m not one to lose composure so easily. That’s not like me at all. I clear my throat and straighten myself out. I hold my head up high and the tension loosens from my body. I march forward, my feet pound quite loudly into the floor as I come over to sit down. The chair whines as I bring my weight to it, I’m almost worried that it will break.

  Captain Yos smiles. “Thank you for joining us, Tsunis, this here,” he gestures to the biologist, “is Eliana, you will be her guide for the mission.”

  Eliana. Her name is just as lovely as she.

  “It’s a pleasure, I’m Tsunis.” It’s customary in my culture to greet someone with a kiss, so I take her hand and plant a small one. Her hand is soft, but also cold. I glance at Eliana, but she frowns at me. Her deep brown eyes narrow, they don’t hold any warmth. Due to the fading sunlight, her eyes nearly look as black as mine.

  “I am going to your colony as a scientist, nothing more. I am especially not interested in becoming part of any part of a breeding program,” Eliana remarks in a tone that’s just as cold as her hand.

  I’m taken aback by the way she spoke to me. I would be offended, but instead, I’m attracted to this fire in her. I like her grit, but I can’t admit that to her, or anyone else here. I have to stay sharp and now allow this girl to pull me down. She’s a human after all, I shouldn’t be looked down upon by her kind.

  I turn to Taryne and say in a mocking voice, “Are you sure that this girl can handle the job? She looks like a little doll that can break in seconds.”

  Eliana scoffs and shakes her head. She crosses her arms and her frown deepens to a hardened grimace. That fire of hers seems to intensify. “All you males, no matter what race, are exactly the same.”

  Captain Yos sits there stunned, but doesn’t say anything, while Taryne stares at Eliana in shock. Taryne opens her mouth to speak, but only falls back in her chair.

  Eliana raises a finger and strikes it in my direction. “You think you can judge people, especially women, based on how they look. Well, let me tell you something, Bub.” She presses a thumb to her chest. “I have been taking care of myself on this shithole world, without help, for quite some time. So, don’t toy with me like I’m some doll.”

  The three of us stare at her in stunned silence, until I start to chuckle. I clear my throat to collect my composure and smirk at her. Damn, she really has fire in her, but what was that name she called me? Bub? Is that human speak for idiot? That’s ironic, because Ih’il’s are more intelligent than humans.

  She has a lot of nerve to call me that. She has a lot of nerve to say any of those things towards me for that matter. Though, I’m not angry, I’m amused. I like her already, but if she calls me Bub again, we might have a problem.

  “My name is Tsunis, not Bub,” I state to her in a calm voice, I don’t want to initiate an argument, this is our first meeting after all.

  Eliana raises an eyebrow and crosses her arms. It’s as if she’s saying ‘so what’, but her lips are a firm straight line. Taryne and Captain Yos exchange glances, but I can’t read what they’re thinking. The captain’s the mind reader here, and I’m almost tempted to ask what they could be thinking about. More importantly, I just want to get out of this junkyard place.

  3

  Eliana

  I’m still trying to wrap my head around it when Taryne asks if I need anything from here. Her eyes are sparkling with mischief, and I know that she can see my excitement.

  I grab a bag and tuck in the picture of my parents and my little brother. I haven’t seen them in years, but I think of them often. It gives me a tug of regret that I worked so hard for my degree but then ended up on a fish farm. Leaving my family was hardly worth it.

  But now my luck seems to be changing. I’ll finally get a chance to see those unbelievable creatures I’ve always dreamed of seeing. Some familiar and some alien. I’m so excited by the idea I feel like something inside me is locked up, just waiting to explode.

  Life and breath to a scientist is discovery. Then theory, analysis, experimentation. There has not been much around here for me to observe or analyze. There’s a big part of my brain that doesn’t quite believe this.

  The strange Ih’il man stares at me a bit too much. Well, I haven’t met many of them. Maybe he’s not strange at all. For all I know they are all like that. He seems to have an urgency to his gaze that follows me around the room.

  If they are all like this, I’m going to find my time on that planet very uncomfortable.

  I head for my closet but Taryne calls out to me.

  “Don’t worry about that, Eliana. You’ll get new clothes.”

  “But I like these.” I can hear a stubborn note in my voice
, but I don’t care. I’m about to leave everything I know! I need to take something familiar.

  Taryne shrugs. “Grab some of your favorite underwear or pajamas if you like. But you’ll be provided with a full set of clothes suitable for the planet.”

  I say nothing even though lots of comments pile up on my tongue. I pull out a few pairs of leg warmers and comfortable underwear, a couple of undershirts.

  I hurry through my bathroom, grabbing a few of my favorite products. For a moment my hand hovers over the sink. Where will I get moisturizer? What about toothpaste and shampoo? Earth isn’t exactly spoilt for choice, but I do have things I like here.

  I think about the water. I try to fill my mind with the sweet peace of the blue green deep and the beautiful creatures that live within it. That’s what matters. Not your favorite flavored toothpaste.

  When I announce myself ready, we take off straight away. We walk through the town, the outskirts looking a bit like a nomad camp. Captain Yos’ shuttle is not far away, and it takes us straight up into orbit where his massive ship awaits.

  When we are finished going through all of the airlocks Taryne bids the men goodbye and takes me to the dining hall. The smells of the place set my stomach grumbling immediately. I haven’t had a decent meal in a very long time.

  I sit down with a cheeseburger, fries and a chocolate shake. My mouth tingles like crazy at all the savory and sweet flavors pouring over my tongue. It almost makes me weak at the knees. We haven’t had food like this on Earth for a very long time.