Her Alien Boyfriend

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Ancax felt agitated.

It was a strange feeling that had never got to him before. But his skin was crawling with tension. His gut warned him something was about to happen. Something big and life changing. Like a trained killer, his big, ember eyes stalked the wilderness of green that surrounded him. Nothing stood out of the ordinary.

However, the inside of his heart was telling him otherwise. Its beating was unusually loud on this blue night. What foolishness, Ancax chided himself. He had wandered through these forests hundreds of nights. He had guarded his homeland on several occasions. His heart was made out of steel itself. Yet tonight it thudded with anticipation.

Ancax shook his head in disappointment. This wasn’t how Drattek warriors worked. They were trained from a young age to be fearless with an unwavering heart. Unnecessary emotions would only cloud his judgment and slow him down.

I am strong as I am, he reminded himself.

If his brothers and father saw him like this, they would surely think he was weak. Putting his big weapon aside, which was as long as his torso, he touched his temple and prayed to the sky.

“Sira, Kreta,” Ancax looked up to the blue moon that adorned his world’s sky and the pink moon that revolved around it, “My heart feels troubled tonight. Bless me with your light, for I do not wish to bring shame to my family’s honor.”

With that, he took his hand to his chest. However, before he could utter another word in prayer, a portal opened a few feet away and along with it appeared a small creature, no taller than five feet. Ancax held his breath as he watched the scene unravel. The animal had its hands stretched, its body eerily still like a rock.

Curiosity filled his every cell when the portal vanished, but the creature remained. That has never happened before. Normally, portals only appeared at their respective coordinates, not randomly in forests where Ancax currently was. There was no equipment, yet a portal happened to open on its own.

The familiar smell of elaine - a thick liquid that helps in space transportation across planets - hit his nostrils as the smell spread around him. The creature’s entire body was coated in the thick slime. It was the only way to ensure they could be transported in one piece. However, the smell was entirely another story.

Ancax fought the urge to gag as the horrendous scent attacked his sense of smell. The creature didn’t make any motion to move. Under the light of Sira, Ancax squinted to get a look at the small animal’s face. A tiny, round face with blue eyes and pink lips stared back at him. His eyes traveled along the length of its neck and landed on its chest, then traveled further.

What a strange little thing! It had two hands and two legs like most of Drattek race, but that’s where the similarities ended.

The color of its skin was unusually pale, like snow itself. Its eyes were tiny and the nose was so small, Ancax was doubtful if the animal needed air to breathe. Unlike the Drattekians, this strange creature had a bulging chest, one that slowly heaved up and down.

Maybe they carry food in their chest pockets? Or maybe it was the place they coiled up their tentacles!

Ancax was sure he had read about this animal somewhere before in the books. When he was a child, his father used to make him study for hours so that he was well versed about the genealogy of all life forms in their world.

And since the portal was capable of going places, Ancax had to study extra to make sure he knew about the other planets alike. Every time a new planet was discovered, more information used to magically appear, adding to his already overloaded workload.

As if studying his own world wasn’t enough, there was this added pressure to find out other foreign species too.

Even though Ancax wasn’t particularly fond of studying, it was times like this that knowledge came in extremely handy.

For the longest time, he studied the unconscious animal when a certain anatomy book of a certain planet came to his memory.

Surely, it can't be that, he thought to himself as he prodded across the human body. But just to make sure, he decided to explore. With one flick, he ripped the funny material on the chest open and two soft curves stared back at him.

No fruit fell. No tentacles popped out. Pointy valleys of pure flesh stared back at him.

“What in Sira’s name!” Ancax exclaimed, his expression turning from confusion to shock as he stared at the weird creature. A look of recognition flashed over his features because he finally understood what the creature in front of him was.

It was an Earth born creature.

And lo behold, it was not just any Earth born, it was a female Earth born. The bulge on the chest was evidence of that. And Ancax was sure he would find more evidence if he traveled south and just lifted up that puny skirt of hers.

He vaguely remembered their species was called human or something.

He gulped a few times as his gaze remained on her human features, making sure that his eyes weren't betraying him. The last thing he wanted was to wrongly identify a species and get laughed at by his brothers.

Ancax might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but after looking at every curve and crevice of the creature, he was sure it was a female.

What is a female doing here?

Females were a rare phenomenon among the Drattek race. Those few who were indeed born were offered to the King to increase his progeny, so that there could be a next King. But in recent years, their numbers have severely dwindled, putting the Drattek race at the risk of extinction.

And the root of this reason was the atmosphere which was gradually thinning with every cycle. As compared to the males, the females weren’t capable of surviving the harsh atmosphere for long cycles. After giving birth to five or six children, they tended to not last much longer.

While some female warriors were capable of living a full life, all the way up to old age, others females who didn't work in the warrior ranks generally met death after living a few cycles.

A ray of hope flickered in Ancax’s chest as he eyed his newly discovered female human.

Females were rare. But that was what made them extremely precious. They were like trophies that were meant to be flaunted around.

Warriors would readily fight each other over her hand.

Keeping this scenario in mind, if he handed her over to the King as a bounty, he was sure to be rewarded in a grand manner. And what was more, he might even get bestowed the title of a High warrior. Being a High warrior meant the utmost respect in his community.

All of his elder brothers were already High warriors except him and his younger brother. Ancax's father was in the ministry, working by the King’s side. Overall, his family had achieved great feats by themselves and contributed greatly to the nation. Everyone except Ancax.

But now it was Ancax’s time to be in the spotlight. To make his family proud and stand with them. He would finally prove to everyone that he wasn’t the only failure in the family. He wasn’t what his family thought he was.

He was not weak. He was strong. Yes, strong as a warrior.

Ever since he was a boy, he had wanted nothing more than to stand in the King’s court and be bestowed with the highest title.

It was every boy’s dream in the land of Jesca to be a Drattekian High Warrior and lead the army to war.

Just the thought of having hundreds of his men under his command made Ancax excited. He finally had the chance to prove that he was something more than a guard at a far away outpost.

He looked down at the precious female, lying on the bed of green.

You will be my key to success, he thought giddily, and then gazed at the sky.

Looking at Sira, he touched his temple again, “Thank you for showing me the path. I will be forever grateful for this gift.”

Little did Ancax realize that his little red haired human trophy was about to rage storm in his stone heart.