head, the male would turn the tables and throw something at him he didn’t expect. He had to admit he was a worthy adversary.
The people who came to the rallies surprised him. They weren’t anything like what he expected rebels to look like. They varied from the lowest class level of the minors to prestigious citizens of Kiljor and Katiera. There were a few he suspected came from the Colony. Mostly males came, but there were some females too. MarIK played on the female population.
“Your males are being taken over and controlled by the aliens that call themselves Earthlings. Your numbers are dying out because of them. These aliens want us to give them young so that they can take over our world. Are we going to let them do that?”
“No!” the crowd had roared.
From images he was receiving when he was close to the people from the mining community, he realized that most of them were at the rallies against their wills. OrIN had explained how he easily had taken over the community and how a few threats here and there kept the residents in place. He used the profits from the mining community to help fund his campaign.
StrykER locked the door to his room and dimmed the lights. Then he headed to the bathing room and removed his clothes. He turned on the shower and stepped inside the stall. He knelt down and removed a loose tile from the wall of the shower and pulled out his small digital tablet. He entered an encoded text message updating Commander TylOR on the information he had gained from OrIN’s supporters. He still didn’t know where the headquarters was located.
‘Message received.’
He was about to put his tablet away when he got an alert. He typed a response. ‘Go ahead.’
‘Shuttle of Earth females was attacked. One warrior dead and a female, Melody Song, was taken by the Purists.’
Oh Kitana! He hadn’t heard anything at the rally tonight so it must have just happened. The thought of what these Purists might do to a defenseless Earth female made him cringe. She might wish she was dead instead. He received a picture of the female.
‘Will keep a look out for her.’ He ended communications.
He stared at the female’s image. She was beautiful with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a face of a goddess. She was holding an instrument and singing. The expression on her face showed pain, which made him wonder what she was singing about.
He turned it off locking it so that only his code would open it, and then he hid his tablet back inside the wall. StrykER finished his shower, then went to bed knowing he would not sleep that night. He wouldn’t rest completely until he found out what happened to the female.
Chapter 5
She hurt all over. At least she was still alive. She listened to her captors argue over whether to treat her for her injuries. A breeze over her let her know two things. One was that she was outside somewhere. The second was that she was only wearing her underwear.
Melody tried to reach for her inner thighs to see if she had been taken advantage of while she was unconscious. It was a violation that was unforgivable. She knew of plenty of girls who had gone to bars and were slipped a rape date drug. It was one of the reasons she always brought bottled water with her from home. She never accepted any alcohol beverage from strangers.
She couldn’t tell if anything was different. Maybe she escaped that injustice. She took a peek to see where she was. Damn, it was too dark for her to see anything. All she knew was it wasn’t Katiera or Kiljor. She listened to the two males talking. One of them she recognized from the shuttle.
“Where are we supposed to take her?” DaAX asked.
“Leader OrIN ordered her taken directly to the medic room.”
DaAX snorted. “This female doesn’t deserve to be treated for injuries. She killed my friend.”
The other male chuckled. “I don’t think they have healing in mind for what they want to do to her. Maybe