The Love Slaves

Hours later Robert came in to check and found Jules and Harold talking, the half human half alien half way through a sentence “…be too powerful for them.”

“The how did they get Arthur if your fathers kind are so powerful?”

“Because the Valori are a very gentle and caring people as well as capable fighters. ‘Arthur’-as you call him-was fighting with his soldiers, he doesn’t believe in letting them do what he wasn’t prepared to do himself, but his energy was low at the time. He was greatly out numbered and they were able to use a sudden shock to get him.”

“What about Doc? How did they get him?”

“The first time he was human and they used the same as on Lisa, first the light to blind and distract and then an airborne drug to paralyze. Second he was too busy with getting Lisa away as soon as possible to worry about anyone or thing else.”

“And he survived, how?”

“Look at it this way. Lisa was electrocuted and lived, didn’t she? Doc is a more advanced form of her change and he was shot with a laser. Why does that mean he had to die? Lisa didn’t know how resilient we are, but she’ll know when they arrive at midnight.”

“I will let her feed from me…” Julius started but Harold stopped him. “No, my king will want to do that. Do not deprave him of being the one to bring his love back to the conscious world. However if she needs more after-wards, you can.” Julius nodded as he pulled his sleeve back down.

A few hours later some official-looking men turned up at our door, asking to see me but when Robert and Julius refused they became demands. They claimed to only want to see me for themselves, that they had been contacted by the Doctors at the hospital but had no proof of who they were ‘representing’.

They all knew these men wanted to take me away to be their weapon or spy, they only had to hold off until midnight and then I would be safe. When one man tried to barge his way in by pushing past Julius the assistant grabbed him by the collar and in a show of unusual strength he threw him bodily out the door. While the other picked his companion up Julius called to them “leave NOW or I’ll call the dogs on you!”

The men glared at him, the one Jules had thrown snarling “we’ll go but we’ll be back with an court order and take her by force whether you like it or not!”

“Try it” Jules challenged them “Lisa has a bodyguard hired by her love with instructions to kill anyone who tries to take her away without our permission and he’ll do it too.” The two men glared at him and left as quickly as they could.

They returned two hours later, trying to sneak in through my bedroom window, but they hadn’t seen Harold in the shadows by my bed, who shot them as soon as they approached my bed. Mother was horrified “you shouldn’t have done that! Now we’ll be in trouble!”

“Don’t worry about it” Harold said calmly.

“Don’t worry about it!” Robert repeated it, exclaiming as he could barely keep himself from yelling “you just killed two government officials and you say don’t worry about it!”

“They weren’t who they claimed to be, you’re still safe.”

“What do you mean?” Mother asked him in confusion. Harold just smiled and said gently “watch the bodies.” And as they watched the forms slowly changed to something else. Bonnie gasped “They’re Toooilans! But how?”

“I can sense the difference between human or Toooilans, I knew what they were the instant they climbed inside. They were Toooilan spies, they’re all over the place like we are. But the fact they viewed the hospital records are a problem. I have a man there, I’ll have to get him to steal them for me to prevent any repeats. He sighed “sooner or later it will get to the enemies of the PADD and they will do ANYTHING to get my queen and turn her into their weapon-even if you claim she’s not there and in hiding. They’ll find her eventually and do anything to make her do their will-just like the Toooilans, even kidnapping you and holding you hostage. You’ll be in constant danger even AFTER they leave.”

“What do you suggest?”

“Either contact the PADD and go into a kind of Witness Protection Programme or there’s another suggestion I think my king and queen will consider when they realize you danger.”

“Which is?” Jules asked curiously. “Life on Valori, leaving Earth and going with them, starting a new life on a new world.”

“but we can’t just pack up and leave our home, we have responsibilities here!” Bonnie protested. Robert and Jules were more reasonable though, my soon-to-be brother in law putting his arms around my sisters waist comfortingly as he said softly, reasonably “we may not have a choice, Bonnie. Do you want to live constantly looking out for danger? Seeing everyone around you as a potential kidnapper?”

Jules nodded “Lisa told me what Arthur said about his planet. There is no wars, hate, fighting or fear. Everyone is useful and has a job they enjoy. There is no poverty or repression or rich or poor, they don’t need money because food is plenty and always available and most of all there is no sickness or disease. The average life-span is two hundred years even if children are limited to each couple. There is also NO pollution.”

Bonnie and mother looked to Harold for confirmation whom just shrugged “I haven’t been there yet but that’s how father and others have described it to me. I hope to go there one day.”

“But could I leave all this?” mother was thoughtful so Harold looked her in the eyes “in my opinion it would be a small price to pay for happiness and safety and the chance to see your grandchildren and perhaps great grandchildren.”

This had never occurred to mother who murmured in awe and excitement “grandchildren and great grandchildren, what if?” The sudden knock on the front door interrupted any other talk and Julius rose, heading for the front door with “I’ll get it.” He was back a minute or so later though, frowning thoughtfully.

“Who was it?” Robert asked.

Julius looked at Harold “there is a couple of people on the doorstep. They say the doctors sent them a sample of the venom from the things that were killing Lisa and want to take to us. They were polite and courteous and didn’t once try to force their way in.”

“That doesn’t mean anything” Robert said softly “they didn’t get through the other way…” Harold noticed something about the thoughtfulness on Julius’ face “what is it?”

“I can’t describe it but I trust them, something about the way they felt…” his face suddenly lit up “it’s like you!” Remembering the sense of peace and purity she had got from Harold when they first met Bonnie asked, “could they be other Valori spies come to help?”

“I didn’t send for any but it’s possible. What did they say their names were?”
“Corin and Jason Tallawa I think.” Immediately Harold seemed to sit up at attention and Robert asked him “what is it?”
“Not only are they PADD but Idars.”

They were all shocked by this. The PADD otherwise known as the Protection And Defense Department were an extremely powerful group that controlled world-wide government and law, single handily over the last 100 years stamped out corruption, poverty, war and nearly all kinds of crime. They had cured 9/10 ths of all disease and sickness as well as increased all hospitals capabilities to help heal wounded as well as these few sick left.

The Idars, a branch of the PADD, were known to be a mutated race of powerful beings who were back up to the group. The Idars had been responsible for saving the entire planet many, many times and the two groups were revered and treated as not only royalty but sometimes Gods although they hated that. It depended on the person.

It was considered an honor to have every one visit your home, and they had TWO!

“What do you all know about these two?” Harold asked them to which they had a long think. Finally Robert was the one to speak thoughtfully “they’re two of the last of a race as well as Idars that’s suppose to be pure-spirited. They long ago were revered, but some of those that loved them betrayed them and started to kill them off. Now only those in the PADD and them are left.”

Harold nodded and looked to Julius “let them in, in fact bring them up here with us, someone bring us extra chairs.” Robert left to do so while the assistant went back down stairs. He returned with a man and teenager in tow just after Robert returned with two more seats from the kitchen.

Both figures had red cat-like eyes, shoulder length fiery red hair and skin the color of milk, but the teenagers hair was one step between wavy and outright curly. They were tall and skinny but muscular where it countered, small noses and wide lips with long fingers.

They wore all black with the trademark Idar huge bat-like wings folded behind them, they were so big they brushed the ground with the tips and the bone top stretched above their heads. They also had the long sharp teeth and claws hands of the mutate vampire race.

But, like Harold they seemed to radiate peace, serenity and safety.

“Greetings Jason and Corin Tallawa” Harold rose and offered his hand to them “I’m Harold Bankers and these people are Sheri Kinderman her daughters Lisa and Bonita and her fiancee Robert Greenberg, assistant to Sheri Julius Sabitini.”

“Greetings” the man returned as the two shook everyone’s hands, the teenager remaining silent but he seemed intensely interested in Harold. The man noticed it, asked him something in another language to which he answered the same, Harold suddenly frowning in confusion.

Mother motioned the two figures to the new seats while Harold took his original one by my bedside. The red headed man spoke first-to the point- the boy staying silent. “My son senses your difference to everyone else, you are almost like us. What race are you?”

Obviously trying to shock him, Harold said bluntly “half human and half alien-Valori.”

“I see” the man leaned back in his chair and he put his fingers into a temple-the entire time calm as a cucumber “makes sense.” Mother asked “What do you mean?”

“I mean why he feels…related.”

“Humans come from…” but to this the man held a hand up to silence the rest “that’s not what I meant” and as they watched both red heads showed Harold their inner-wrists. To find a small rounds scar there, right where the mounds for our tubes were.

Everyone of them, even Harold, gasped in shock. Mother was the first to speak as they drew their arms back “are you a Valori as well?”

“No” the man murmured “we are Fire Idars, half Idar and half an extremely rare race now called Fire Witches. The Fire Witches-our people-are like Kerantara, or Tommas Genarld as he is now known to humans are the direct descendants of the Valori, but a different and purer branch.”

“What do you mean?”

The two spoke in the other language for a long time before the man spoke to them again. “What we are about to tell you is considered not only top secret but the origin of not only mortal life on his planet but that of the Valori. Only those most trusted PADD and Idar know it. If you wish to hear it you will have to swear it will never leave this room, some of it is…sensitive.”

“We swear” Robert said, followed by the others one at a time until mother added “what do you mean we? Your son never seems to speak English, only that other language.”

“The Fire tongue is the language of the first of our kind and god Hauleric. Sometimes he only speaks it, sometimes only I do, it’s a ritual we observe every few months or so to honour him. Rest assured he’ll speak when ready.” They understood this and nodded in agreement.