Shadow Worlds: A Space Opera Fantasy (Shadow Corps Book 2) by Justin Sloan

Author:Justin Sloan [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elder Tree Press
Published: 2017-11-29T22:00:00+00:00

14

The Noraldian

The fact that Samantha had to be rushed to the med bay was disconcerting for Hadrian, but he couldn’t let it show. He had to keep up a strong face, and control his changing forms around these outsiders, so as not to scare them off. Since he had been in his natural form—an elderly man with scarring on one side of his face—he stayed like that as he stood before them.

“You all must be wondering what has happened,” he started. “To understand that, I must first ask you how you ended up there, and where there was, exactly.”

One of the purple-skinned people from the Shadow Worlds grunted and leaned forward. “How is it you don’t know?”

Hadrian smiled at that. “We used jump points to reach you, after following back an operative on the planet Earth. You are familiar with the Solar system?”

Most of them nodded.

“It seems the Scrapulent, led by Saraleigh, had set up a jump point to Earth with the help of Karstrack, now dead. It was a simple mind manipulation game. While humans are generally immune to this, unless in direct contact with a Scrapulent, the Scrapulent powers were enhanced by the energy being sucked away from you,” he motioned to the men of Carma’s planet, then turned back to the purple-skinned group. “But what you Shadows were doing there, I have no idea.”

The Shadow who had spoken nodded his head. “The pieces of the puzzle seem to fit well, then. You say you have no idea, but I see a glimmer in your eyes, and I think you have a guess. That guess is most likely correct. Shadows have been pillaging ships and using tech to create new machines for many years. It only stands that an outside force would want such weapons, and try to enslave us to get them.”

“So you were helping to make these massive mechs and ships we saw? These space stations and technological monsters?”

“Correct.”

“How did they get to you?” Hadrian asked. “The Shadows are known to be quite… elusive.”

“Unless one of our own betrays us,” the Shadow replied. “It seems Captain Praks is no longer in league with the Shadows, but has gone over to the side of the Old Gods.”

“The Old Gods?” Voira asked, who was sitting with the rest of the Shadow Corps at a rear table.

“What their people have termed the Great Deceivers,” Hadrian explained. “Their name varies greatly across the universe.” Turning back to the Shadow, he found his mouth dry as he thought about what the man had just said. “You’re sure it was Captain Praks?”

The Shadow simply nodded.

When Hadrian glanced over at Voira, he saw that she was frowning.

“Even I’ve heard of him,” she admitted.

“He was one of ours,” one of the men from Carma’s world said, glancing back at Carma. “Actually, the women of our people have yet to accept this, but he left long ago.”

“His actions against us started the current wars,” Carma explained. “If all this is true, then we have killed each other for far too long without reason.

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