"CHAP-31" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jerome Bigge - Warlady 3 - The Queen Of Swords)THE QUEEN OF SWORDS! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN By Jerome B. Bigge Chapter Thirty One "Serak, this is Aurora, my mother, my true mother, the woman who gave birth to me on Mars, not Queen Tulis of Dularn as most think," I said to him, wondering if it would make a "difference". Those of Mars are quite often considered as "alien" as the Lorr! "You are `worthy' of my daughter," Aurora spoke, taking Ser- ak's hands in hers, her eyes behind her dark glasses glowing into his. "She has `chosen' well, Prince of the People," she smiled. "She is a `woman' beyond compare," Serak laughed in reply, "Regardless of `where' she was born." I suppose I "should" have told him the "truth" before, but I didn't know how he would feel! Knowing that the woman he so loved was actually "half-Martian"!* * I realize now how "foolish" I was, but at the time I did "feel" it was best if he didn't "know" the "truth" about my parentage! "Something wrong?" Aurora asked, Katt suddenly dashing down towards where we stood, squinting against the glare of the sun. Like many Women of Mars, she found the light of the Earth's sun almost "blinding" unless she wore dark glasses against its glare. "There's an `army' of the Montanas now coming this way!" she yelled, Aurora glancing at Serak, and then at me. I supposed to her such meant "little", considering what "concerns" she now had! "How `many'?" Serak challenged, yet holding me in his arms. "Several thousand at least judging from the `report' we re- ceived from the saucer on patrol," Katt replied, looking at him. "I'm sorry, `Azure Eyes', that it has to `end' like this," Serak said to me, taking my hands in his as we stood on the moun- tainside. "I will fight with my People, die as a Nevada should." "Then we will fight side by side, and let Lys judge us," I cried, throwing myself into his arms. It would be a fitting end for the Empress of California. Sharon would make a good Queen. I knew that Lorraine would see to that. Nothing else mattered. "Don't be a `fool'!" Aurora snapped, grabbing my arm then. "My `place' is at his side!" I answered, holding him to me. "My people will be `slaughtered' by a force like that," he said to me. "Unless your mother will help us," his eyes meeting hers. I knew that the Lorr and their Servitors did not "inter- fere" in the affairs of Mankind. My mother might be willing to "risk" her life for me, but she would have little concern for the fate of the Nevadas, whom she considered nothing but barbarians. I thought of the little village I'd been staying in. Of its peo- ple. Of the women and children. What their "fate" would be! "It is not a `decision' that I can make, but `another's'," Aurora replied. "And you will have to `abide' by HER decision." "Serak, Prince of the People, this is Raspa, First Princess of the Lorr," Aurora spoke with a smile, introducing him to the gigantic black ant there at her side. "It is HER decision if we will be permitted to now use our weapons against the Montanas." Telling him then to kneel before Raspa and allow Raspa to touch him with her antennae. Serak later told me that he'd much rather have faced armed warriors than kneel down before that "horror"!!! I watched Serak kneel, saw Raspa touch him with her anten- nae, my beloved Prince then going rigid as the gigantic ant stood there on its six stick-like legs, Aurora telling me that Raspa was "merging" her mind with his. That he now saw as she did, and she saw as he did, and that their thoughts, minds, were now ONE!! Raspa "held" Serak for perhaps a long minute, then she took a step backwards, my Prince then getting up to his feet, a "look" on his face like that of someone who had "seen" something no oth- er human had ever seen! He had "seen" as Raspa saw, shared with her his thoughts while she in turn "shared" with him. I wondered what the "decision" was. Would Raspa "act" to save the Nevadas?? "She will `help', but she will not allow us to `kill'," he said to me. I knew that the Lorr possessed "non-lethal" weapons. ***************************************************************** "Look!" someone cried, pointing up into the cloud sprinkled sky. A great metallic cylinder now drifting down towards them! "Perhaps we can `hitch' a ride to Talon," Lorraine smiled. "Enjoy the fruits of `modern technology'," she added to Sela Dai. The Princess of Talon regarding the Starfire with some concern. Mankind had few friends among those who traveled between worlds. "Raspa has `asked' for you, Lorraine, to `stand' at her side in an affair that will effect the destiny of two worlds," An'na said to Lorraine in the Janis' great stern cabin, the Starfire's soft hum of power seeming to almost come from everywhere around! "I am `honored'," the awesome Imperial Warlady smiled back! "Try to stay out of `trouble'," the Queen of Trelandar spoke softly to Gayle as the young Princess' eyes filled with tears at the thought that she might never again see her beloved Lorraine! The lovely golden haired maiden having little doubt that Lorraine was to be taken again to a world only a dot of light in the sky! "I'll..,I'll make you proud of me..," Gayle sobbed in reply! "I'm a `tough old bitch'," Lorraine smiled, "I'll be back." "There have been `changes' made since I was last aboard," Lorraine observed with a smile as she glanced about at the inte- rior of the spaceship. Her attire, weapons, seemingly totally "out of place" aboard such a craft as this. The "hum" of the ship's power was "different", she noted with a Warrioress' sense. "I think you will find this of `interest'," An'na smiled, showing Lorraine the ship's "Portal", the shimmering warp-field leaving no doubt in Lorraine's mind that there had indeed been a major technological "break-through" since only a few months ago!! ***************************************************************** "Lorraine!" I cried with delight as she stepped through Leith's "Portal", Raspa there at my side with her antennae spread in greeting. I knew that they had once "shared" an "experience" no other living person had experienced for over two thousand years. Both had been "touched" by Lys, or SHE-IT-ALL as the Lorr refer to her. The BEING that Lorraine has called "SHE", or GOD. "Apparently I am to `share' an `adventure'," she smiled, go- ing to her knees before Raspa. Raspa "mind-merging" with her. I saw An'na step into the room behind Lorraine, Aurora welcome her. "Too bad there isn't a way I can `do' that with you," my Prince whispered, playfully caressing me as I stood beside him. "I've always wondered what goes through that mind of yours." "Holographic projection was known even back in the 21st Cen- tury," Aurora said to Serak with a smile as she showed us what was "planned" for the Montanas. It was, I thought, an excellent example of the sort of "power" that Leith and the Lorr possessed! "I'm glad you're on `our side'," Serak said to her smiling. "I wish I was on Mars with Raspa," An'na now interrupted. "We may `need' you and your Starfire here," Aurora said, taking the young woman in her arms, and hugging her to herself. "If things `go' against us, we have only the Starfire to destroy Deimos and the surviving battle craft Mars will send against us." "I will not fail you," An'na said, holding her foster moth- er. An'na had once been "mine". I had given birth to her, nursed her at MY breast, and loved her as only a mother can "love" a child! Serak saw the "expression" on my face, took me in his arms, held me close. I had Sharon. Aurora had my Anna. I "understood" now as never before what Lorraine had "felt" see- ing Sharon with me. The "pain" there filling a mother's heart. ***************************************************************** "I think I will keep this," Lorraine smiled, regarding her sword. On her right hip a Lorr blaster pistol, a couple of spare clips, an additional fifty rounds of the explosive .25 bullets. "You are a `barbarian'!" Raspa replied, regarding her there. "I am what I am," Lorraine smiled, checking out the "assault rifle". The upper barrel firing the explosive bullets, the lower a 20mm missile with an explosive force equal to a full ton of TNT. Over her shoulder a pouch containing another three maga- zines for the rifle, each magazine holding another hundred rounds for it. Another held more of the small rocket propelled missiles for the weapon. The "look" in Lorraine's eyes leaving no doubt! "The greatest fighting woman of all time," Raspa replied. ***************************************************************** "I'm glad I'm not down there," Serak laughed, the Montanas fleeing in terror before the nightmarish monsters. A better edu- cated group would have known that such things could not "exist", but the Montanas were as much "barbarians" as were the Nevadas. "The power of modern technology," Aurora smiled in reply. ***************************************************************** "I'm `scared'," Gayle spoke softly, Queen Dala Dai's arms around her, comforting the teenage Princess. "Lorraine's never `acted' like that even when we fought the pirates." Dala nodded, understanding. There had been "that" in the Warlady's own de- meanor that indicated she suspected she was going to her death! ***************************************************************** "I'm going with you to Deimos," I said to Aurora, Katt there at her side, Katt with an auto-rifle, my mother with a tube-like device that had been brought on the Starfire from the Moon. The Starfire itself now far out in space on "battle-alert", ready to "act". It would if necessary destroy Deimos with a "AM" missile. Aurora had said that there would be great death and destruction on the Earth itself if it became "necessary" to destroy Deimos! The "timing" such that hopefully Deimos could be destroyed over the Pacific ocean, where its destruction would cost fewer lives!! "And where `Azure Eyes' goes, I `go'," Serak quickly added! ***************************************************************** "Are the `Portals' `secured'?" Lorraine asked, Raspa nodding in reply. There was a time difference of "nine minutes" between the time things happened on Mars and they could be communicated to the Earth by radio. The "Portals" however were instantaneous. "I think," Raspa spoke, "That if we are `successful' in this that I will appoint you as `Warlady' of both our worlds." Raspa having no doubt that Lorraine's "grasp" of military affairs ex- ceeded that of any Lorr Princess or even that of her own An'na! ***************************************************************** "Time," Aurora said to me. I kissed Serak and stepped through the "Portal" with her. Katt following close behind with my Prince. I hoped he had remembered to keep the "safety" on!!! Both of us were now armed with blaster rifles much like Katt's. "Ahh!" I heard him breath behind me as he stepped through, the difference in air pressure, gravity leaving no doubts that we were now in the hollowed out interior of Deimos. Katt grabbing him before he went sailing up into the air from muscle reaction! The internal gravity of Deimos at this point only a tenth that of the Earth where we had come through! The great Lorr starship spinning on its long axis to maintain a "semblance" of gravity. "I think everything's......," Aurora breathed, a number of the lovely Women dashing about, the scene reminding me much of a disturbed ant's nest. A Lorr Warrioress suddenly shooting at a woman with a laser projector! Katt's auto-rifle blasting the gigantic ant into bloody fragments! It was "obvious" that things were not "going" as we had all "hoped"! I saw a Lorr battle-disc lifting off, its terrible beam of energy searing, burning. Katt leaping up, firing futilely at the disc! Its beam swinging, the woman seared to a charred husk instantly by that horrible beam!!! "DOWN!" my mother screamed, "DON'T LOOK!", she warned, shov- ing us down, swinging up her own weapon, firing, some sort of a missile roaring out. Then came THE LIGHT as the anti-matter war- head exploded. Aurora says it was about a "kiloton". A fragment of the battle-disc smashing down among the rocks nearby, Serak covering me with his own body to "protect" me as best he could! ***************************************************************** "NO! TRAITOR!" the Third Princess cried in fury, Lorraine's slim stainless steel sword driving deep into her brain through a compound eye as the Warlady killed without the least hesitation!! The Warlady moving quickly, dodging a laser beam, firing the 20mm missile from the lower barrel of her assault rifle, the blast deafening there in the cavern as the Lorr scrambled in terror for any place of safety! Lorraine then pouring a stream of bullets into the gathered Lorr Warrioresses there at the entrance to the cavern as she leaped behind cover! Raspa scrambling to safety, sensing the "hatred" directed against her! The Warlady firing another missile, the blast in the cavern deafening, the laser beams of the Warrioresses brilliant in the smoke as Lorr fought Lorr in their bloody civil war, the Women themselves with their swords fighting both the gigantic ants and sometimes each other! ***************************************************************** "It's coming about to attack!" the woman beside her cried, An'na nodding, her deft fingers on the Starfire's controls. It being "obvious" now that some of the Lorr had decided to "fight"! "Shields up, lock on lasers!" An'na snapped, programming an anti-matter missile. The battle-disc firing, the Starfire's own shields taking the bolt of pure energy, and safely absorbing it! The Starfire's own weapons firing, destroying the other's missile in reply! An'na's finger punching down on the firing button, firing back! The battle-disc disappearing in a burst of LIGHT!!! ***************************************************************** Lorraine stood there in the smoke filled cavern a mile be- neath the deadly hostile surface of Mars. She had been burned by one of the laser beams on the thigh, her clothing seared against her flesh. She would forever bear the scar of this "battle". At her side a gigantic black ant, its antennae gently waving. "It is a victory for both our races," Raspa said to her tall friend. "A `New Order' for both," Lorraine answered. Perhaps after all she was the "second Janet Rogers" Man had always dreamed of. "They have `won' on Earth too," Raspa answered, listening to the "news" on her antennae. A lovely golden haired woman now was truly the Leaderess of her race. Aurora too had lived to see it! ***************************************************************** "It is `over' now," Lorraine said to me. Aurora was "numb". I understood her "loss". Katt's death had been a painful shock to my mother. She had died fighting against the oppressive rule of the Lorr. I had told Aurora "that". It had cost many lives, both "ours" and those too of the Lorr. It would take "time" for such "wounds" to "heal". For "forgetfulness" to heal our hurts! ***************************************************************** "I'm glad that I found you despite all our `adventures'," I said to Prince Serak of the Nevadas as we sat around the campfire the next night. "You are the only man that I've ever met that ever caused the fires of desire to burn in my loins like now." (I had to stop and think for a minute before I dreamed that "one" up!) I was glad too that Sharon wasn't around to hear all that! "If that Lara Warsan of yours is the `Princess of Sex' as you say, then you are truly indeed `The Goddess of Love'," Serak smiled back at me there as I sat there beside him. I wore only my golden mesh there beneath my cloak, the hem of my skirt being drawn up to my hips. I had no desire to conceal myself from him. The more frequently he "used" me, the more delighted that I was. I had come far too close to dying too many times to have any de- sire to control myself or perhaps even behave as a Queen should! As for Aurora, her sort of "life" was not for me. I wanted the fresh air, the sky, the sun, and the love of a strong barbarian! I wanted his hands on my body, his lips on mine. I had too many "memories". I recalled Katt's death, the others that I had seen! "I am your `Princess'," I smiled back. "Yours, no other's." "I would have it no other way," my Prince answered, taking me in his arms, pressing me down on my back and then kissing me. His tongue darting between my open lips to taste of my sweetness. His free hand going between my thighs, which opened in welcome seemingly almost of their own volition. I was as "hot" as any slave slut! My body arched up against his hand as he touched me. "Please," I begged softly. "There are others watching us." "That is easily rectified," he laughed, getting to his feet, standing over me as I laid there before him. With an easy motion he bent down, lifted me to my feet, and before I knew what was happening, Serak flung me half over his shoulder and carried me off towards a small clump of trees, my rear end sticking up into the air, while my head hung down over his back, my golden hair before my eyes. And the laughter of his men ringing in my ears! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN By Jerome B. Bigge Chapter Thirty One "Serak, this is Aurora, my mother, my true mother, the woman who gave birth to me on Mars, not Queen Tulis of Dularn as most think," I said to him, wondering if it would make a "difference". Those of Mars are quite often considered as "alien" as the Lorr! "You are `worthy' of my daughter," Aurora spoke, taking Ser- ak's hands in hers, her eyes behind her dark glasses glowing into his. "She has `chosen' well, Prince of the People," she smiled. "She is a `woman' beyond compare," Serak laughed in reply, "Regardless of `where' she was born." I suppose I "should" have told him the "truth" before, but I didn't know how he would feel! Knowing that the woman he so loved was actually "half-Martian"!* * I realize now how "foolish" I was, but at the time I did "feel" it was best if he didn't "know" the "truth" about my parentage! "Something wrong?" Aurora asked, Katt suddenly dashing down towards where we stood, squinting against the glare of the sun. Like many Women of Mars, she found the light of the Earth's sun almost "blinding" unless she wore dark glasses against its glare. "There's an `army' of the Montanas now coming this way!" she yelled, Aurora glancing at Serak, and then at me. I supposed to her such meant "little", considering what "concerns" she now had! "How `many'?" Serak challenged, yet holding me in his arms. "Several thousand at least judging from the `report' we re- ceived from the saucer on patrol," Katt replied, looking at him. "I'm sorry, `Azure Eyes', that it has to `end' like this," Serak said to me, taking my hands in his as we stood on the moun- tainside. "I will fight with my People, die as a Nevada should." "Then we will fight side by side, and let Lys judge us," I cried, throwing myself into his arms. It would be a fitting end for the Empress of California. Sharon would make a good Queen. I knew that Lorraine would see to that. Nothing else mattered. "Don't be a `fool'!" Aurora snapped, grabbing my arm then. "My `place' is at his side!" I answered, holding him to me. "My people will be `slaughtered' by a force like that," he said to me. "Unless your mother will help us," his eyes meeting hers. I knew that the Lorr and their Servitors did not "inter- fere" in the affairs of Mankind. My mother might be willing to "risk" her life for me, but she would have little concern for the fate of the Nevadas, whom she considered nothing but barbarians. I thought of the little village I'd been staying in. Of its peo- ple. Of the women and children. What their "fate" would be! "It is not a `decision' that I can make, but `another's'," Aurora replied. "And you will have to `abide' by HER decision." "Serak, Prince of the People, this is Raspa, First Princess of the Lorr," Aurora spoke with a smile, introducing him to the gigantic black ant there at her side. "It is HER decision if we will be permitted to now use our weapons against the Montanas." Telling him then to kneel before Raspa and allow Raspa to touch him with her antennae. Serak later told me that he'd much rather have faced armed warriors than kneel down before that "horror"!!! I watched Serak kneel, saw Raspa touch him with her anten- nae, my beloved Prince then going rigid as the gigantic ant stood there on its six stick-like legs, Aurora telling me that Raspa was "merging" her mind with his. That he now saw as she did, and she saw as he did, and that their thoughts, minds, were now ONE!! Raspa "held" Serak for perhaps a long minute, then she took a step backwards, my Prince then getting up to his feet, a "look" on his face like that of someone who had "seen" something no oth- er human had ever seen! He had "seen" as Raspa saw, shared with her his thoughts while she in turn "shared" with him. I wondered what the "decision" was. Would Raspa "act" to save the Nevadas?? "She will `help', but she will not allow us to `kill'," he said to me. I knew that the Lorr possessed "non-lethal" weapons. ***************************************************************** "Look!" someone cried, pointing up into the cloud sprinkled sky. A great metallic cylinder now drifting down towards them! "Perhaps we can `hitch' a ride to Talon," Lorraine smiled. "Enjoy the fruits of `modern technology'," she added to Sela Dai. The Princess of Talon regarding the Starfire with some concern. Mankind had few friends among those who traveled between worlds. "Raspa has `asked' for you, Lorraine, to `stand' at her side in an affair that will effect the destiny of two worlds," An'na said to Lorraine in the Janis' great stern cabin, the Starfire's soft hum of power seeming to almost come from everywhere around! "I am `honored'," the awesome Imperial Warlady smiled back! "Try to stay out of `trouble'," the Queen of Trelandar spoke softly to Gayle as the young Princess' eyes filled with tears at the thought that she might never again see her beloved Lorraine! The lovely golden haired maiden having little doubt that Lorraine was to be taken again to a world only a dot of light in the sky! "I'll..,I'll make you proud of me..," Gayle sobbed in reply! "I'm a `tough old bitch'," Lorraine smiled, "I'll be back." "There have been `changes' made since I was last aboard," Lorraine observed with a smile as she glanced about at the inte- rior of the spaceship. Her attire, weapons, seemingly totally "out of place" aboard such a craft as this. The "hum" of the ship's power was "different", she noted with a Warrioress' sense. "I think you will find this of `interest'," An'na smiled, showing Lorraine the ship's "Portal", the shimmering warp-field leaving no doubt in Lorraine's mind that there had indeed been a major technological "break-through" since only a few months ago!! ***************************************************************** "Lorraine!" I cried with delight as she stepped through Leith's "Portal", Raspa there at my side with her antennae spread in greeting. I knew that they had once "shared" an "experience" no other living person had experienced for over two thousand years. Both had been "touched" by Lys, or SHE-IT-ALL as the Lorr refer to her. The BEING that Lorraine has called "SHE", or GOD. "Apparently I am to `share' an `adventure'," she smiled, go- ing to her knees before Raspa. Raspa "mind-merging" with her. I saw An'na step into the room behind Lorraine, Aurora welcome her. "Too bad there isn't a way I can `do' that with you," my Prince whispered, playfully caressing me as I stood beside him. "I've always wondered what goes through that mind of yours." "Holographic projection was known even back in the 21st Cen- tury," Aurora said to Serak with a smile as she showed us what was "planned" for the Montanas. It was, I thought, an excellent example of the sort of "power" that Leith and the Lorr possessed! "I'm glad you're on `our side'," Serak said to her smiling. "I wish I was on Mars with Raspa," An'na now interrupted. "We may `need' you and your Starfire here," Aurora said, taking the young woman in her arms, and hugging her to herself. "If things `go' against us, we have only the Starfire to destroy Deimos and the surviving battle craft Mars will send against us." "I will not fail you," An'na said, holding her foster moth- er. An'na had once been "mine". I had given birth to her, nursed her at MY breast, and loved her as only a mother can "love" a child! Serak saw the "expression" on my face, took me in his arms, held me close. I had Sharon. Aurora had my Anna. I "understood" now as never before what Lorraine had "felt" see- ing Sharon with me. The "pain" there filling a mother's heart. ***************************************************************** "I think I will keep this," Lorraine smiled, regarding her sword. On her right hip a Lorr blaster pistol, a couple of spare clips, an additional fifty rounds of the explosive .25 bullets. "You are a `barbarian'!" Raspa replied, regarding her there. "I am what I am," Lorraine smiled, checking out the "assault rifle". The upper barrel firing the explosive bullets, the lower a 20mm missile with an explosive force equal to a full ton of TNT. Over her shoulder a pouch containing another three maga- zines for the rifle, each magazine holding another hundred rounds for it. Another held more of the small rocket propelled missiles for the weapon. The "look" in Lorraine's eyes leaving no doubt! "The greatest fighting woman of all time," Raspa replied. ***************************************************************** "I'm glad I'm not down there," Serak laughed, the Montanas fleeing in terror before the nightmarish monsters. A better edu- cated group would have known that such things could not "exist", but the Montanas were as much "barbarians" as were the Nevadas. "The power of modern technology," Aurora smiled in reply. ***************************************************************** "I'm `scared'," Gayle spoke softly, Queen Dala Dai's arms around her, comforting the teenage Princess. "Lorraine's never `acted' like that even when we fought the pirates." Dala nodded, understanding. There had been "that" in the Warlady's own de- meanor that indicated she suspected she was going to her death! ***************************************************************** "I'm going with you to Deimos," I said to Aurora, Katt there at her side, Katt with an auto-rifle, my mother with a tube-like device that had been brought on the Starfire from the Moon. The Starfire itself now far out in space on "battle-alert", ready to "act". It would if necessary destroy Deimos with a "AM" missile. Aurora had said that there would be great death and destruction on the Earth itself if it became "necessary" to destroy Deimos! The "timing" such that hopefully Deimos could be destroyed over the Pacific ocean, where its destruction would cost fewer lives!! "And where `Azure Eyes' goes, I `go'," Serak quickly added! ***************************************************************** "Are the `Portals' `secured'?" Lorraine asked, Raspa nodding in reply. There was a time difference of "nine minutes" between the time things happened on Mars and they could be communicated to the Earth by radio. The "Portals" however were instantaneous. "I think," Raspa spoke, "That if we are `successful' in this that I will appoint you as `Warlady' of both our worlds." Raspa having no doubt that Lorraine's "grasp" of military affairs ex- ceeded that of any Lorr Princess or even that of her own An'na! ***************************************************************** "Time," Aurora said to me. I kissed Serak and stepped through the "Portal" with her. Katt following close behind with my Prince. I hoped he had remembered to keep the "safety" on!!! Both of us were now armed with blaster rifles much like Katt's. "Ahh!" I heard him breath behind me as he stepped through, the difference in air pressure, gravity leaving no doubts that we were now in the hollowed out interior of Deimos. Katt grabbing him before he went sailing up into the air from muscle reaction! The internal gravity of Deimos at this point only a tenth that of the Earth where we had come through! The great Lorr starship spinning on its long axis to maintain a "semblance" of gravity. "I think everything's......," Aurora breathed, a number of the lovely Women dashing about, the scene reminding me much of a disturbed ant's nest. A Lorr Warrioress suddenly shooting at a woman with a laser projector! Katt's auto-rifle blasting the gigantic ant into bloody fragments! It was "obvious" that things were not "going" as we had all "hoped"! I saw a Lorr battle-disc lifting off, its terrible beam of energy searing, burning. Katt leaping up, firing futilely at the disc! Its beam swinging, the woman seared to a charred husk instantly by that horrible beam!!! "DOWN!" my mother screamed, "DON'T LOOK!", she warned, shov- ing us down, swinging up her own weapon, firing, some sort of a missile roaring out. Then came THE LIGHT as the anti-matter war- head exploded. Aurora says it was about a "kiloton". A fragment of the battle-disc smashing down among the rocks nearby, Serak covering me with his own body to "protect" me as best he could! ***************************************************************** "NO! TRAITOR!" the Third Princess cried in fury, Lorraine's slim stainless steel sword driving deep into her brain through a compound eye as the Warlady killed without the least hesitation!! The Warlady moving quickly, dodging a laser beam, firing the 20mm missile from the lower barrel of her assault rifle, the blast deafening there in the cavern as the Lorr scrambled in terror for any place of safety! Lorraine then pouring a stream of bullets into the gathered Lorr Warrioresses there at the entrance to the cavern as she leaped behind cover! Raspa scrambling to safety, sensing the "hatred" directed against her! The Warlady firing another missile, the blast in the cavern deafening, the laser beams of the Warrioresses brilliant in the smoke as Lorr fought Lorr in their bloody civil war, the Women themselves with their swords fighting both the gigantic ants and sometimes each other! ***************************************************************** "It's coming about to attack!" the woman beside her cried, An'na nodding, her deft fingers on the Starfire's controls. It being "obvious" now that some of the Lorr had decided to "fight"! "Shields up, lock on lasers!" An'na snapped, programming an anti-matter missile. The battle-disc firing, the Starfire's own shields taking the bolt of pure energy, and safely absorbing it! The Starfire's own weapons firing, destroying the other's missile in reply! An'na's finger punching down on the firing button, firing back! The battle-disc disappearing in a burst of LIGHT!!! ***************************************************************** Lorraine stood there in the smoke filled cavern a mile be- neath the deadly hostile surface of Mars. She had been burned by one of the laser beams on the thigh, her clothing seared against her flesh. She would forever bear the scar of this "battle". At her side a gigantic black ant, its antennae gently waving. "It is a victory for both our races," Raspa said to her tall friend. "A `New Order' for both," Lorraine answered. Perhaps after all she was the "second Janet Rogers" Man had always dreamed of. "They have `won' on Earth too," Raspa answered, listening to the "news" on her antennae. A lovely golden haired woman now was truly the Leaderess of her race. Aurora too had lived to see it! ***************************************************************** "It is `over' now," Lorraine said to me. Aurora was "numb". I understood her "loss". Katt's death had been a painful shock to my mother. She had died fighting against the oppressive rule of the Lorr. I had told Aurora "that". It had cost many lives, both "ours" and those too of the Lorr. It would take "time" for such "wounds" to "heal". For "forgetfulness" to heal our hurts! ***************************************************************** "I'm glad that I found you despite all our `adventures'," I said to Prince Serak of the Nevadas as we sat around the campfire the next night. "You are the only man that I've ever met that ever caused the fires of desire to burn in my loins like now." (I had to stop and think for a minute before I dreamed that "one" up!) I was glad too that Sharon wasn't around to hear all that! "If that Lara Warsan of yours is the `Princess of Sex' as you say, then you are truly indeed `The Goddess of Love'," Serak smiled back at me there as I sat there beside him. I wore only my golden mesh there beneath my cloak, the hem of my skirt being drawn up to my hips. I had no desire to conceal myself from him. The more frequently he "used" me, the more delighted that I was. I had come far too close to dying too many times to have any de- sire to control myself or perhaps even behave as a Queen should! As for Aurora, her sort of "life" was not for me. I wanted the fresh air, the sky, the sun, and the love of a strong barbarian! I wanted his hands on my body, his lips on mine. I had too many "memories". I recalled Katt's death, the others that I had seen! "I am your `Princess'," I smiled back. "Yours, no other's." "I would have it no other way," my Prince answered, taking me in his arms, pressing me down on my back and then kissing me. His tongue darting between my open lips to taste of my sweetness. His free hand going between my thighs, which opened in welcome seemingly almost of their own volition. I was as "hot" as any slave slut! My body arched up against his hand as he touched me. "Please," I begged softly. "There are others watching us." "That is easily rectified," he laughed, getting to his feet, standing over me as I laid there before him. With an easy motion he bent down, lifted me to my feet, and before I knew what was happening, Serak flung me half over his shoulder and carried me off towards a small clump of trees, my rear end sticking up into the air, while my head hung down over his back, my golden hair before my eyes. And the laughter of his men ringing in my ears! |
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