The Winter Tiger by L A Frederick

Author:L A Frederick [Frederick, L A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.A. Frederick
Published: 2020-06-22T04:00:00+00:00

11. The Test of Lupus

After the intoxicating rush of the Hexadome Winter was eager to crack on with his plans and as such ordered a good portion of the Tiger fleet to join him just out of range of any sensors Lupus might have. To be so close to the enemy, with thirty warships at his back and near ten thousand Tigers waiting was exhilarating. Winter’s body tingled every time he thought on the potential ramifications, on the prospect of battle in the open field.

He craved action.

Two decades of treading lightly, when all he wanted to do was open throats, had left him tense. Muscles cooped up for too long, something he would never allow to happen again. The training in the Hexadome had rekindled his passion for fighting and provided a timely reminder for all the Tigers aboard Darkchurch, who would filter the details to the other ships, that the Winter Tiger was their most fearsome and skilled warrior.

None would challenge him after he nearly decapitated Hitback, believed by many to be a superior warrior. Hitback was in the infirmary hooked up to every monitor the medical staff possessed. They’d assured Winter the colossal Tiger would survive but it would take time, which suited the Winter Tiger. Should the need arise he could easily dispose of Hitback before he fully recovered.

Stood in his captain’s quarter, conveniently located above the flight deck via a private stairwell, Winter regarded his unclothed upper body in the rectangular mirror. The room was cold steel in every direction, he never bothered fitting the place with lavish furnishings, Darkchurch wasn’t a place of luxury it was a ship of war. He wouldn’t sully the beautiful vessels illustrious record, if you believed destroying thousands of spaceships and tens of thousands of creatures from all manner of species as record worthy.

Instead, the steel room had a metal-framed bed and a wardrobe at the foot, which housed the same black and gold uniform again and again. Beside that was a cabinet full to bursting with lasers and a handful of Serpent’s Blades. It was always prudent to have back up weapons, especially when they were the finest in the galaxy.

Winter traced his paws over the many scars semi-buried within his thick black and white fur. The scars served as permanent reminders of his fallen enemies and his white fur reminded him of his difference to the rest of the entire Tiger army. Touched by ice. Too many of his differences from the other Tigers had to remain secret otherwise he might be the one on the torture racks down in the dungeons. It wasn’t something he worried about, if anything it steeled him further to his tasks and so he began talking to himself in the mirror.

He kept at his persona, reinforcing his invincible status to himself, for a good hour before someone knocked at the door.

‘Yes!’ the Winter Tiger had wanted another hour of thought and peace.

‘We’re at the rendezvous point, General Winter,’ the Tiger’s voiced sounded tentative.

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