Siege of Terra (The Mavrik Woods Series, Book 1) by Robin MacMillan Read Free Book Online Page B

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    “Not you, otherss of your kind have ssaid that in the past.”
    “What others? We were listening the whole time, I heard no one say that we were invincible.”
    “Hiss exact wordss might not have been invincible, but they were very ssimilar.”
    “Whose words?” I say, it felt like I was in a chair, sitting at the edge of my seat, waiting to hear more.
    “The human that came to our planet, it was ssuch a long time ago.”
    My heart almost drops dead. All my life I thought that I had no proper family. My mother had died giving birth to me, and her brother -my uncle that bought me and my wife our new luxury apartment- had been the only type of family to me. Now on the other hand there was still a hope that my father was still alive.
    “Was his name Charles Woods?” I say, pulling my secondary knife from my hip and digging it into the seeping flesh in between the shattered scales. The alien responds by jumping up in pain.
    “Whoa, where do you think you’re going?” T-Rave says, aiming his rifle at the aliens head.
    “I do believe that wass hiss name. We gained lotss of information from him from hiss yearss sspent with uss.”
    “What do you mean ‘was his name’?”
    The alien only smiles at me, or what I can assume is a smile, it’s hard to tell what facial feature meant which emotion to its kind.
    “We decided that he wass of no further usse to uss, once he gave uss information about thiss planet and what kind of technology your sspeciess have. He alsso told us of a rare gass that the sscience teamss discovered. No one knew what it wass; only that it had enormouss potential. However we knew what it wass, we had been ssearching for it in the giant gas nebulass, which is where it originatess.”
    It feels like I’m going to pass out. Knowledge has come to me about my father being alive, and that he didn’t die in a giant magma explosion. But now that hope was ripped from my mind as I discover that these aliens had disposed of him like a piece of trash.
    “You mentioned before that you wanted to reintegrate yourselves into proper society. What did you mean by that?”
    “We were banisshed, cast asside for our beliefss, and feelingss towardss the other racess.”
    My stomach lurchs, “other races? There is more of your kind?”
    A sickening laugh emanates from it.
    “Human arrogance amussess me, there are more of my kind yess, and other speciess that dominate the galaxy. We were once called the Akkessianss human, but when we were banisshed we fasshioned a new name for oursselvess.”
    “What do you call yourselves now?” I ask. My heart is racing from this large amount of new information.
    “We renamed oursselvess to be forever known ass the Hakorianss.”
    The name alone sends a chill running down my spine.
    “Colonel we’re running out of time. We have to go, now!”
    I look at the civilians still cowering on the floor. “You guys know that you could’ve and should’ve left when we stopped firing right?” I say.
    All they do is look at me in puzzlement.
    “That means go, unless you want to say here and get blown up with the building?”
    The civilians start to scream and panic again, running around and not knowing what to do.
    “Captain, make a note that civilians are idiots under pressure. Walk down that hallway and through the door, then make a lef-, you know what, why don’t you people just follow me. I’ll be done in just a second.”
    They just look and stare at me as if I’m joking.
    “One last thing, Hakorian, what do you plan on doing with Terra when you get what you want? Leave?”
    “Again, arrogance, no human, we plan to crussh you under our bootss when we are done. Leave no trace behind uss for the otherss to find.”
    “You know, for someone who has been captured you sure do spill the beans rather easily,” I say.
    “It does not matter to me, thiss information will not help you one iota, you will all die, and there iss nothing to sstop uss.”
    “Wrong