Chapter 2 peoples!!! I'm on a role!
Thank you Rain of Mystery for the ideas, also for the use of your charaters from Big and Strong in this and future chapters! The Fabulous Elder Shat'tu is mentioned in this chapter!
- And thank you all my fantastic reviewers for the great reviews! I cant wait to see what you have to say about this one!!
Also i forgot to put in the disclaimers in chap 1 so here they are now: I do not own predators! or Ipod! They belong to their respective companies! the only thing I have is the story plot and my own characters!
Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Three days had passed. The first night Lex'xia had spent in the pen chained to the bench she slept on. It was awful. All the animals squeaked, squawked, squealed, and any other manner of noise all night long. When Leader and Rus'ka came in the following morning Lex'xia was wide awake and pissed. Rus'ka said something to leader while they were still too far away for her to hear. Leader nodded. He smiled as he entered the pen.
"Well don't we look a little ruffled this morning? No sleep?" He snickered. Lex'xia growled slightly.
"No sleep? Yea I guess you could say that." She seethed as he unchained her ankle. He moved over to the other girls.
"Well thats too bad." He said smiling. -Thats it!- Lex'xia thought.
"Too bad! I was miserable! That was the single most worst night of my life! Between lying on this awful bench, to having a ginormous menagerie of stinking ugly critters making God awful noise all night long! I haven't slept at all!" She shouted, she was on the verge of tears. Leader stared at her wide eyed. Lex'xia looked around. There were several people out and around now. She flushed red, then noticed that she somehow managed to be standing on top of the bench. She jumped off and sat down covering her face with her hands.
Needless to say, the next two days she slept on the ship. The morning of the fourth day was the same as the last two. Ur'sai would screech at her to get up and ready. Lex'xia would then trudge to the galley where Rus'ka would hand her a small stick of meat and some water for breakfast. They would then go meet Leader at the bay doors. When they got to their pen Leader would unchain the other girls. Today he took them to the bath house to clean them up. Lex'xia opened her backpack(Rus'ka gave it back to her the second day)and pulled out her Ipod. She learned that if she stuck it under the lamp while it was on the Ipod would recharge itself. Lex'xia laid out on the bench, getting ready for another long and dreadfully boring day.
Thats when she say him. Eight feet tall, 350 pounds of pure sculpted hunter muscle. Golden brown skin with black stipes on his chest and spots on his arms and legs. But what got her the most were his eyes, the brightest pair of baby blues you have ever seen. He may not have been human, but boy oh boy was he something yummy to look at. Just her luck, he stopped at her pen and looked at her. She managed to stammer a 'Hi' and waved. The large male began talking to Rus'ka. Lex'xia heard her name mentioned but chose to stay where she was. The male looked at her, she smiled at him. He held out his hand and clicked at her. Lex'xia stood up stright.
"You did not just click at me like a pet! Buster you think I'm just gonna run up to you after that your kwei!" She said folding her arms and turning away.
"Come on now, don't be like that." Rus'ka called. Lex'xia turned up the volume of her Ipod. Rus'ka shook his head.
"She has a translator on Mar'tokk. You could have just asked her to come over here." He said. Mar'tokk just shrugged.
"How was I supposed to know she would react like that?" He said. Rus'ka shook his head again. He hopped over the pen wall and went over to Lex'xia, he unplugged her earphones.
"Come on Lex'xia. He wants to see you. This is your chance to get out of here." Rus'ka pleaded. Lex'xia turned and looked at the other male. She hung her head in defeat.
"Fine." She said and walked over to the other male. She hopped up and sat on the wall next to Mar'tokk.
"Hi-again." She said trying to smile. Mar'tokk grinned.
"So your the feisty ooman my cousin told me I had to come see. She isn't very big cousin. I told you I need a servant I can take on hunts with me. This ooman won't be able to do anything." He said to Rus'ka. Rus'ka sighed, his dear cousin always spoke before thinking.
"Not that big? Buddy I'm almost a hundred and sixty pounds! I realize that that isn't very big to you but back on Earth I was considered a big girl." She said loudly.
"But we're not on Earth, are we?" Mar'tokk said with a smile. Lex'xia huffed.
"She has some skill. I told you about the fight she got into with my sister?" Rus'ka asked.
-Sister? Poor Rus'ka.-Lex'xia thought.
"Yes I remember." Mar'tokk Said. Just then Leader came back. He clapped Mar'tokk on the back.
"Nephew! Good to see you again! So, you take a peek at our fine girls here? Or has our little shining star already caught your attention?" He said gesturing to Lex'xia.
"She is indeed interesting." Mar'tokk replied.
"Interesting? Sir, I am a bonafied catch!. Your not gonna find a girl better than me, no way! I'm a third degree black belt, I can lift nearly two hundred pounds, and run a mile in four minutes. I've taken archery classes for three years, I can handle pretty much any gun, and I'm handy with knives. Hell, I'm probly the best merchandise you've ever come across. Plus, I'm self advertising. I pretty much sell myself." Lex'xia said, a proud smile on her face. Leader was a grinning fool, and Rus'ka was outright laughing. Mar'tokk's expression was halfway between amusement and shock.
"Well nephew, if you don't want her now your even more kwei than I thought. So what do you say?" Leader asked. Mar'tokk looked at Lex'xia intently.
"Well I suppose i could use a house servant. I didn't like the males they had here anyway. You should really look into the market for males uncle. You'd sell better." He said. Leader shook his head.
"No, never. They're too hard to handle. So then, you'll take her?" He asked. Mar'tokk sighed.
"Yes, I'll take her," He said. "One of these days uncle, I'm gonna stop doing you favors."
"Yea yea, sure sure." Leader snickered. He traded my papers for some odd looking coins. Mar'tokk looked to Lex'xia.
"Come now. We have to leave. It's going to take a couple days for us to get home, and I'm already late for a meeting with an old friend." He said. Leader looked at him.
"Shat'tu?" He asked. Mar'tokk nodded.
"Tell him I said hello." Leader said.
"I will uncle. Your not getting very far just standing there staring. Let's go." Mar'tokk said to Lex'xia. Lex'xia snapped out of her daydream.
"Oh yea, right. I'm coming." She said. She turned to Leader and Rus'ka. "Thank you for being so kind to me. I know you didn't have to. And i will do my best to honor the name you have given me." She said. Both Leader and Rus'ka smiled back.
"It was truly a pleasure having you with us, and I hope we have the fortune of meeting again one day." Rus'ka said, Leader nodded in agreement.
Lex'xia and Mar'tokk waved one final goodbye before heading out the large bay doors.
"So when you said house servant, that means like the cooking and cleaning kinda stuff right?" Lex'xia asked him. Mar'tokk smirked.
"Well there is the chance that I might want to take you as my bed slave." He said. He wanted to see what kind of reaction he would get from her. When she heard him say that her eyes shot open and she flushed several different shades of red, but said nothing. Mar'tokk was intrigued. She was hasty in her reaction when he clicked at her earlier, why would she not react now?
"What? No smart remarks or outrages?" He prodded.
"Well it's not like I can say no or argue about it. Well I could but that would do me no good, seeing as you own me and all." She hissed. There was that reaction he was looking for.
"So, your saying you wouldn't refuse?" He tried again. Lex'xia growled.
"I suppose not." She said through clenched teeth. -Why was he pressing this? Would he really ask that of me? Even if he did, what could I do? I belong to him- She thought. They came to a stop infront of a small cruiser ship.
"This is it. The entrance is over here." Mar'tokk said. He pulled out a little remote and pressed a button. The side of the ship opened up and a small staircase folded out. Inside remided her of an R.V rather than a ship. At the back was a bed, right before that was a door on the left side. She assumed it was the bathroom. Next there was a small table with bench seating around it. There were some cubboards and what Lex'xia thought was a fridge across from the table. Then there was the little standing area where she was now. And finally there was the cockpit, where Mar'tokk was, Flipping switches and turning knobs.
Lex'xia sat in to co-pilots chair. Mar'tokk didn't even glance at her. Suddenly the ship's engines roared to life. The ship started moving slowly and then began picking up speed, then they were in the air.
-This is just like an airplane Its not so bad- Lex'xia thought. Just as she was about to sit back and relax the ship began to toss and jerk around. Lex'xia gripped the armrests for dear life.
"What the hell is going on!?" She asked in a worried tone. Mar'tokk clicked in amusement.
"Just a little turbulance. Thats all." He said. -A little!?- She thought -Yea right!-
After a couple of minutes the ride smoothed out and Lex'xia began to relax. She ws about to take a nap when Mar'tokk spoke.
"What were you doing in the jungle?" He asked.
"I was part of a resue effort for captive monkeys. At first I was running from poachers. Then i was running from your unlce and Rus'ka." She answered.
"Well thats not very smart. Being alone in the jungle without anyone to look after you. A female should know better." Mar'tokk said. Lex'xia fumed.
"I'm not incapable of looking after myself!" She snapped. Mar'tokk scoffed.
"Yes, thats why my uncle and cousin caught you with no problems at all." He said.
"They shot me! I don't know what it was with, but it knocked me out on my ass!" Lex'xia yelled.
"If you knew how to take care of yourself you wouldn't have been in that situation to begin with." Mar'tokk said with an irritated clatter. Lex'xia bolted up from her chair.
"They had an unfair advantage over me! I was an unarmed human! I don't know why your giving me such a hard time about this. I don't even know why I was attracted to you in the first place!" As soon as she spoke the words, Lex'xia paled. Mar'tokk jerked hid head away form her, staring out into space. Lex'xia slumped back into her chair. She drew up her knees and hugged them, hiding her face in her lap. Neither one spoke for the rest of the day.
Lex'xia woke up, she was still in the chair. Mar'tokk was next to her, flipping switches, and gazing at a holo-map on the counsel.
-Damn! Why did I say that? That was the DUMBEST thing i have ever said in my entire life- She thought. -Come on, you have to apologize. You shouldn't have yelled at him- Lex'xia looked over at Mar'tokk. -Come on, say something already!- She told herself.
"How long have I been sleeping?" -What the hell was that? Real smooth Lex'xia-
"A little over twelve hours." Mar'tokk said.
"Twelve hours? oops." She said. "Um, is there a bathroom back there? I kinda have to go." she asked.
"In the back on the left." Mar'tokk said.
Lex'xia got up and walked to the back. While she was washing her hands she began to think.
-Now what? After what I said? I don't want things to be wierd between us. God, what could he be thinking? Knowing a human is attracted to him?-
At the same time, Mar'tokk was also thinking.
-How could she possibly be attracted to me? No female has ever been attracted to me. But still, shes ooman. Why would an ooman be attracted to a yujuta?-
Lex'xia returned to her seat and stared out into space. Mar'tokk began to fidget in his seat.
"You OK?" Lex'xia asked him. He nodded.
"I'm...sorry. About yesterday. There was no reason to say those things. I don't doubt that you are capable of taking care of yourself. You held your own against Ur'sai, and that is something." He said quickly.
"Yea, I was out of line too." Lex'xia said. "So, how much longer till we get home?" She asked him.
-Home?- Mar'tokk thought -She called the yujuta planet home- For some reason that made him very happy.
"Less than a day now." He said.
"Cool." Lex'xia replied. For the remainder of the trip they talked. Mar'tokk about the yujuta planet and the hunt, Lex'xia about Earth and growing up an orphan.
Lex'xia had begun to doze off when Mar'tokk grasped her shoulder.
"We're here. Lex'xia, wake up, we'er home." He said. What Lex'xia saw when she opened her eyes stunned her. The planet was beautiful. The waters were a stunning blue, the jungles and forests looked like masses of glittering green, the deserts bold and deep yellows and browns.
"Its gorgeous. What part do you live in?" She asked. Mar'tokk pointed east.
"There is a section of jungle there, just out of sight. That is where our home is." He said playing with the controls again. Lex'xia watched as they got ever closer. This was it, and she couldn't wait!