The Dragon's Woman by Alix Nichols

Author:Alix Nichols [Nichols, Alix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

Geru woke up in a room that looked a lot like the cell where Ultek had held him in Iltaqa. Except this room was a lot cleaner. All its walls, ceiling, and floor were padded. The door was padded, too, with the exception of a tiny window insert.

Outside, he could hear doors slamming, fists banging, footsteps rushing, things beeping, and other things being dragged across hard floors.

His door opened and a cyborg squad rushed in.

Geru was led out of his cell without any restraints this time. The cyborgs marched him out of the building and into a large yard enclosed with several layers of thick chain link fence, which rose above the tallest trees outside. Overhead, more layers of chain link formed a ceiling. One of its walls backed to a concrete hangar.

The cyborgs trotted out, locking him within the enclosure.

A few minutes later, Chev and the man from the tarmac climbed out of a motorized vehicle and strode to the chain link wall.

“I’m Sir Polit Horbell, governor of this planet-sized zoo you’ve been brought to.” The man from the tarmac peered at Geru. “My men had a lot of trouble finding and capturing you, dragon.”

“You might want to have your eyes checked, governor.” Geru gave him a humorless stare. “Even in Eia, we have spectacles. That being said, spectacles won’t help if you’re seeing a dragon… Party too hard last night, Your Grace?”

Horbell turned to Chev. “He’s spunky. I like that.”

Chev grinned, visibly pleased.

“Can he breathe fire?” Horbell asked.

“No, Your Grace. But he’s formidable enough without it.”

“Let’s see what he can do.” Horbell rubbed his hands together. “I wonder if he’s as good as Risp.”

Risp… Geru had heard that name before here on Tastassi.

One of the cyborgs marched up to Chev and Horbell. “Everything is in place. We can start on your signal.”

Horbell pulled a small device out of his pocket, mumbling, “Can’t wait.”

Geru’s body began to change.

“By Aheya, he’s huge,” the new alpha Ra-human said to yesterday’s alpha—now the beta—when Dragon shook some Ra-human garment off his talon and growled. “Almost as big as Risp. And look at those claws!”

“But I believe he’s able to convert his carbon into graphene as efficiently as Hassine used to do,” the beta said. “And he combines the excess iron in his blood with carbon for the steel of his claws.”

A nauseating odor filled Dragon’s nostrils. Next, he heard angry hissing and wings swishing. The hangar gate opened, and a swarm of giant, two-headed, unnatural bats filled the enclosure. They had powerful steel jaws and daggerlike teeth.

The bats gathered in midair above Dragon’s head and watched him with red, rotating eyes.

“Attack!” someone shouted from outside.

The bats descended in unison with their alpha, which was as big as Dragon, leading the way. Strangely calm, Dragon launched himself up. He could feel the wind beneath his wings. It lifted him, carried him. Breaching the black mantle of sharp-toothed bats and sending a few crashing to the ground, Dragon rose above them. He sucked in a big breath of air and blew.

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