Given to the Alien by Calista Skye

Author:Calista Skye
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: romance scifi
Published: 2016-01-18T19:00:00+00:00

15

Olivia ran on in the darkness. Her head was spinning in confusion and worry. There was a good chance the Ethereals had Tessa.

No, it was more than that. She was sure. They had her. That Ethereal had been too sure of himself.

Now all Olivia wanted was to find Ator'aq. The last shot she had fired directly at the Ethereal from point-blank range hadn't had any effect, as far as she could see. He had just vanished into thin air. At least she had shot, at last. Next time, she wouldn't just stand there and listen to bullshit and enemy nonsense. She'd just shoot.

She got to the entrance to the Friendship section where the Braxians were barracked. The Space Force guards were gone, and that was a bad sign in itself. She stopped. Ator'aq would not just sit in his barracks if the base was under attack by the Ethereals.

She heard a sound from behind her. From another corridor, two Braxians were dragging a third one toward their quarters. He was obviously injured and left a trail of blood on the floor.

She ran over, turning on her light so they could see her. “Need a medic?”

“No thanks, Olivia,” the injured man said, holding a blood-soaked piece of fabric to his abdomen. “We can handle this ourselves. It gladdens me to see you well. Lord Ator'aq is worried about you. It seems the Ethereals are withdrawing, but he is holding some of them back. The utility section.”

The injured man's head slumped forward and his friends dragged him into their section.

Olivia ran the way they had come, following the trail of blood.

The light suddenly came on again and the alarm started wailing once more before it was cut off after a few seconds.

The utility section was where the main machinery of the base was located, most importantly the life support system. It was a maze of machinery and technology, and off limits to everyone but the engineers who kept the complicated systems running.

Olivia could hear fighting in the distance, angry yells and thin squeals and the clanging of metal against metal. And she thought she could hear Ator'aq's deep voice. Knowing that she was near him made her run faster.

She turned a corner, and there they were. Ator'aq and Gar'ox and two other Braxians, as well as several Ethereals. The Braxians fought with their swords, while the Ethereals seemed to only have metal rods to use. The main Ethereal advantage seemed to be their ability to move so fast that they were just a blur. But they were being fought steadily back by the Braxians, who used their swords in intricate patterns and with movements that were almost as fast as the Ethereals'.

The fight appeared to have been going on for some time, because there was blood on the floor along with some strange bundles of shimmering, gray fabric.

Olivia aimed her gun at the closest enemy. The last time she had been faced with an Ethereal, she had been too slow to fire. This time, it would be the first thing she'd do.

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