AXIL: Plus a BONUS short story, GAJE, Mail-Order Brides of Crakair Novellas by Ross Ava

Author:Ross, Ava
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Julia

“Catch the Earthling.” The chant from the crowd made Julia’s blood freeze solid.

She was no fighter, but she stood over Axil and slashed her blade when a few of the bolder aliens rushed toward her. They reeled backward, but others bolted around her, swords gouging the air.

She’d hold them off as long as she could, but her heart sank. How was she going to get them out of this?

Prepared to defend Axil to the death, she bared her teeth and growled. The crowd shoved forward, eager to take her down, truss her up, and sell her to the highest bigger.

Over her dead body.

But Axil. He wasn’t moving.

So much blood. Too much, it pooled beneath him.

Someone latched onto her arm from behind and yanked her backward. Stumbling over Axil, she spun, her blade whistling through the air.

The multi-legged beast that’d stabbed Axil loomed over her. It was missing limbs, but a fire still blazed in its eyes.

With rage singing through her veins, Julia leaped upward and drove her blade up through the creature’s throat.

A hush descended, and the crowd stilled. A few mouths dropped open.

With a groan, the beast toppled to the ground, sending dirt flying into the air. Its sides heaved once, twice, and then nothing.

Julia reeled around and stood over Axil, glaring at the crowd. “Come at me. I dare you!” she blubbered. She swiped tears from her eyes while the little brindle leaned against her leg and cheeped shrilly. “I’m gonna hold all of you off. Get it?”

“This, I shall see,” someone called out from deep within the crowd.

The crowd parted like you’d stumble away from a rabid dog, falling back to allow a tall, spindly, and decidedly blue alien to stalk through the opening, his four arms swinging loosely at his sides.

“Earthling? Star Wars?” the alien cried. “Likee them me!” He wore nothing but a linen loincloth dangling down onto the front of his spindly thighs. This loincloth was not sexy. His genitals shifted behind the cloth as he rocked back and forth, from one bare heel to the other. “You comee with me!” His hand snapped out and knocked the blade from her hand, but when he grabbed her arm, his gaze fell on Axil. Tipping his head back, he sniffed the air. “Earthling you be,” he announced. “Earthling him not.”

Behind the alien, the crowd hissed. Once the ruckus backed down, the alien bowed to Julia. “Earthling with me come. Safe for now shall you be.” He tapped his chest and his eyes gleamed. “Promise, I do.”

Christ, she was being rescued by a wannabe Yoda.

The alien’s gaze swept across those gathered behind him, and they cringed and scattered as if his gaze sprayed battery acid. They scurried into the alleys. cockroaches hiding under the baseboard.

“Come with me you shall,” the blue alien said. He pointed to his chest. “Fylee. Yoda.”

Shrugging away from his touch, Julia couldn’t take her gaze off Axil. Was he still alive? He seemed to be breathing. But the blood… She couldn’t stand it.

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