I open my eyes to find I'm inside my room, staring up at the white ceiling from my bed. It takes a few moments for me to move my tired ass off of the bed, the thought of my plans for tonight motives me to nearly spring out of the bed with excitement. Throughout this week has been nothing but great for me, my right hand had finally healed and the bulky cast was removed, I had absolutely no Ambassador related work all week. For six days I was able to relax in peace, the only downside was that Krystal and the rest of Star Fox had some important things they had to take care of back in Lylat.

Slippy had a wife he had to go see, as did Fox. I'm not sure what Falco's reason was, Krystal wanted to go so she could see Lylat again. So despite getting to relax these past six days, it was still a bit boring without my friends here.

Slippy was probably the easiest one to become friends with, he was the weapons specialist and taught me a lot about Lylat's weapons. For instance, they use both plasmic based weapons as well as projectile weapons just like humans. The Pulse rifle which is my favorite happens to be a projectile weapon, it fired high velocity armor pricing rounds. It virtually had no kick, wasn't bulky, practically weightless, and didn't make loud bangs.

Next was Falco who I honestly thought would be a tough one to crack, but I discovered underneath all that tough guy is actually a loyal trust worthy friend, who values friendship above everything else. Krystal once told me he was a competitive gamer, so whenever we hang out its either in the shooting range or in the lounge room playing games.

Lastly there was Fox, my girlfriend's ex fiancé. Trying to be friends seem weird when we first met four months ago. I wanted to rip his head from his shoulders after watching a misunderstanding between him and Krystal, while I know it was something that had to be done, it still bugs me a little to this day. I don't have any harsh feelings towards Fox anymore, not since Krystal explained everything to me.

Making friends with Fox was actually easy, it seemed like he genuinely wanted to be my friend and actually took interest in what I did. Friends like that are hard to come by. We talked a lot, he told me about himself and his wife and child. I did the same, minus the wife and child. I learned that like me he lost his family when he was younger, how he felt like no one truly understood how he felt. We then talked about Lylat and me becoming a member after passing the academy. He says he doesn't doubt my military abilities one bit, but seeing how I'd be using "alien" technology he wanted me to learn as much as I could and the best place for that was at the Cornerian Defense Military Academy.

Fox is a good guy, he cares and loves his friends and thinks highly about them. Now while I like to think me and him are good friends, I don't except him to bake me a cake on my birthday any time soon. But I do know he cares about my wellbeing.

I finish getting dressed and began to make my way out of my room. I'm wearing a normal white T-shirt and blue jeans, nothing to fancy. As I walk down the bases hallways I can't stop thinking about tonight, I've planned everything out. Star Fox will be returning in a few hours, but the person I'm really looking forward to is Krystal. My heart starts to race as I think about her

Tonight I'm going to take my beautiful Blue out to a proper date. First we'll go see a play about Romeo and Juliet, then we will head to the fanciest restaurant in town and lastly finish with a stroll in a park. Maybe feed the ducks, I remember when I first took Krystal into a town she really enjoyed that. I stop moving at the memory. That was almost seven months ago, things certainly seemed different back then. I was just some guy who was hiding an alien in his home. Now look at me, in a relationship with said alien and soon will become the first human to travel out of our star system.

But I don't regret any of it, how could I? I met someone who loves me just as much as I love them, I have great friends who happen to be aliens, I'm going to be a space mercenary what's not to like. I shake the though from my head and pull out my cellphone, my screen shows a picture I took of Krystal some time ago. We were outside the base just hanging out and the sun was setting, the light reflected off of Krystal's fur and gave her an almost angelic look. I told her I wanted to take her picture so I pulled out my phone and bam there you have it.

I quickly call the theatre and restaurant to make sure my reservations are still there, which they are. I close my phone and hang out in the mess hall. After getting something to eat I head to the rec room and watch tv. I watch whatever I want to until some military guys walk in, at which point I let them change my show so they can watch what they want. I can come in here and watch whatever I want whenever I want, these guys don't and only have a certain time limit. So it's only fair to let them watch what they want to watch.

Most of the men and women who come in don't mind watching what I watch, they are more interested in knowing me. The savior of Earth. Trust me I didn't come up with the name, the last thing I want is to be showered with praise for ending the Human Gorton war, hell it's bad enough I'm letting them award me the Medal of Honor in three weeks. I just did what I had to, I don't want people to treat me like a hero. However once they make up their mind there's very little I can do to change it.

After a few hours I get a Text message from Krystal, yes I taught my alien Girlfriend how to text. However, she hasn't quite gotten the hang of it yet. This is the message she just sent me.

MESSAGE ONE

Hey we

MESSAGE TWO

Are landing in

MESSAGE THREE

Airfield now miss

MESSAGE FOUR

You

I can't help but laugh when she sends a message, something that should only take one message ends up being five or six. We ended up agreeing to simple one sentence messages after she tried to tell me a long story about a mission she went on. Needless to say thank God the military paid for the bill. I put my phone away and start heading to the air field.


As I stood outside I could see the Star Fox team making their way to the base. Each one of them smile as they walk by, except for Krystal as she takes my hand into hers and leads me into the base. I notice as we walk she's taking large sniffs of me. We find ourselves at my room and she shoves me inside, after closing and locking the door she jumps into my arms and starts pelting me with kisses.

"So... How was going to Lylat for a while?" I asked when her lips weren't crushed against mine.

"Felt like I never left to be honest, I was to focused on trying to get the council to help Earth last time, I didn't get a chance to see how much had changed."

"I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." I said and pressed my lips back against hers. After a few moments she pulled away.

"Never said I enjoyed myself." She responded, I raised a brow. I used my hand to brush some of her hair out of her face.

"Why not?" I asked and stared deeply into her eyes. She gently smiled and brushed her hand against my cheek.

"Because I was a whole Star System away from you." I couldn't help but smile at her words, it felt amazing to be loved by someone you hold dear to your heart.

"Well, I'm sorry to hear that you didn't have a good time...However I think I might have a surprise for you later tonight, if you're interested."

"What kind of surprise?" She asked with a smile.

"Well...There's a play going on tonight I thought you might enjoy, then we could go somewhere nice to eat, and then finish with a walk in the park."

"Hmm...Almost like the first time you took me out, only minus the arcade."

"Does it sound good to you?" I asked, Krystal nodded her head.

"It sounds perfect."

After a few hours it was time to start heading out, I was wearing the nicest clothes I could find, a white dress shirt, black over coat and black pants. Krystal had her hair tied into a bun with a few strands of hair hanging down. She wore a white strapless dress with a black shawl around her shoulders. Naturally I was speechless.

"Should I take your stunned look as a sign that I look decent?" She asked with a nervous smile.

"A lot more than decent Blue..." For the first time in years I was actually nervous to be around a girl, "You're really beautiful." As I say this I noticed she blushed and looked down while smiling.

"You look very handsome yourself..." She paused and looked up at me and smirked, "For a human." I rolled my eyes and offered her my arm which she took and then we started heading out.

Being the Ambassador for Earth meant that I couldn't leave the base without armed escort. Now the last thing I wanted was to spend a romantic night with my girl while having two armed men following us everywhere we went. It took a lot of ass kissing to have let me off base without any guards. Luckily Ryan was there to help me out, it seemed like whenever me and Krystal was involved with something he would work his ass off to make sure we got what we wanted.

Thanks to his help the guards stayed behind for tonight, which meant it was only Blue and I. We got into my run downed red car and drove off base, the ride into town was in silence. All we did was enjoy each other's company.

When we pulled up to the theatre I could since something was bothering Krystal, I gently placed my hand on her leg just above her knee.

"You okay?" I asked, with her head lowered she softly nodded and gently brushed on of her hands against mine.

"I was just thinking that maybe..." She paused and frowned.

"What is it?"

"Maybe I should have worn my disguise." She says almost like she's ashamed of how she looks.

"Why would you think that? Humans know about you...Hell in case you hadn't noticed there's a giant Cornerian ship circling the Earth."

"I know...it's just that maybe some people aren't ready to...You know...Be in the same room with someone like me." I couldn't believe what I was hearing, I wasn't what she said that annoyed me but how she said it. She was genuinely worried how others would think about her.

"Well, you're my girl Blue, and I'm taking my girl out. If someone has a problem with that, then they can go suck a dick." Krystal softly snickered, she looked at me with a smile.

"Okay." She said.

"Okay." I repeated and gave her knee a quick reassuring squeeze.


Once we went inside everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at us, actually they were staring at Krystal. Which she noticed right away, my first instinct now thanks to five years of being a Marine was to quickly check everyone in the room and make sure none of them was going to try something. The next thing I did was hold her hand in my own.

"Come on." I said to her and began to move forward to the front desk. I could feel everyone's gaze fixed on us and it slightly pissed me off. When we got to the desk the guy looked like some just pissed in his cereal.

"Hey, reservations for Grant." I told him, yet it seemed like he wanted to keep staring at Krystal making her even more uncomfortable. "It's not nice to stare." I say and glare into his eyes. The man gulps and quickly checks his computer.

"Ah...Mr. Josh Grant?" He asked.

"Yes." I replied sternly, either he noticed it or not I wasn't sure. He ended up handing me two tickets, after which I held on tightly to Krystal's hand and lead her to our seats. It was a good thing I got us a private booth/balcony to sit at. All throughout the play we kept our fingers interlaced, every once in a while I'd gently rub her hand with my thumb. She would then squeeze my hand tighter.

Now since this was a Shakespeare play and Krystal didn't know much of humanities past, before the intermission came on she kept asking me what they meant by that. I had to explain that was how people talked back then, I also told her that it was Shakespeare that invented a lot of the words we use today. When the play was over I asked her if she liked it, she said despite not knowing what they were saying half the time it was still interesting to watch.

We left the theatre and made our way back to our car, so far the night was going great, aside from the casual stares. Krystal didn't seem to upset about it, guess she took my advice and just ignored them. Now if only I was able to follow my own advice, instead every time I see them just staring at her like she's some kind of freak pisses me off. Even now I can see some of them staring at us.

I start the car up and pull out of the parking lot. While on the high way I steal a few glances at Krystal. She seemed to be in some kind of trance while looking out the window, watching everything go by. She would do the same thing every time we drove together, on this night every time we drove by a street light, the light would briefly shine on her illuminating her face.

I couldn't stop staring at her, she was just so beautiful to me. Who would have thought I would end up falling in love with a blue anthro fox alien? I manage to tear my gaze away from her and focus on the road.

"You're beautiful Krystal." I say to her, I don't look her way. I keep my eyes on the road but I can tell she turned her head to look at me.

"Thank you." She quietly said in a tone as if she was worried I would find her repulsive. I don't know why she would sound that way, maybe she didn't ignore all those stares. I wouldn't have been able to either. I have to say something to her, I'm just not sure what I can say to make her feel better. Before too long we pull up at the restaurant. When we parked I turn to say something to her but she beats me to it.

"I'm not hungry." She said.

"What do you mean you're not hungry?" I might have sounded a tad bit annoyed, but it wasn't because of Krystal. It was because of a bunch of ass holes who could not stop staring at her. That...And getting reservations for this place was not cheap by any means...Oh wait. That's right military pays for all my expenses now. At least there are some benefits to being a War hero and ambassador.

"It means I'm not hungry Josh... If you want to eat go ahead, I'll wait here." Now I know beyond a shadow of doubt that she was upset. I still couldn't help the sigh that left my mouth.

"You shouldn't have brought me! You knew how people would react and yet you still took me." She said.

"Are your serious right now? I can't believe the toughest chick I know is upset by what others think." She didn't respond, not for a while.

"I'm not mad at you...I'm sorry if it seems that way...Please, let's just go back to the base." My shoulders drop in defeat, the last thing I want is to force her to do something she doesn't want to do. So we left, the perfect night with her has been ruined. Or was it?

As we drove back I noticed a few places that just might fix our night, I remained silent and continued to drive to the base. After we got there Krystal got out of the car and waited a few seconds before poking her head through the window.

"Aren't you coming?" She asked, I nodded.

"Yeah, just got to pick up a few things really quick." I said. Krystal frowned a little, seeing her sad broke my heart.

"I'm sorry." She said. God I hope this will work.

"I'll be back in a couple of minutes, don't go to sleep okay." I tell her, she nods and then slowly moves away from the car. I start driving away and by chance notice Krystal in the rear view mirror. She was just standing there watching me drive away, it broke my heart even more.


I later returned to the base with hopefully this night's salvation. I quickly got out of the car and rushed into the base, after going through countless twists and turns inside the hallways I managed to locate Krystal's room. I knock on the door and can hear Krystal.

"Who is it?" She says, by her voice I can tell she's been crying. I softly sigh, the last thing I want is for her to cry.

"It's the sexy ambassador, hurry and let me in." I jokingly say, I doubt she even acknowledged my joke. After a few seconds Krystal opens her doors and head back to her bed. I walk in and set my stuff at the foot of her bed, she looks at the bags and raises an eye brow.

"What are those?" She asked, I grabbed one of the bags and handed it to her.

"That my fair lady, is a cheeseburger with a large order of French fries. From Pete's Burgers." She stares at the bag of food with confusion for a few moments before it clicks.

"The place you took me the day after I landed...The place where I ate human food for the first time." She says and smiles at the memory. At this point it's looking good, I now reach into my coat and pull out a rented DVD.

"I also rented that move we watched." I said and showed her the movie case. I could her smile grew a little bigger.

"That was one of the best days of my life, I was completely alone for two years. I ate alone, slept alone, lived alone. The longest conversation I had with someone was about money. Then one day I basically fell onto your lap, and you took care of me. You were kind and caring, I never once thought of you as anything more than a friend who was going through a bad time, but you became more to me than a friend, I wanted us to be more than that and you accepted me...You looked past how I looked and focused on what was on the inside...I can never thank you for that Josh, my darling human." She said with teary eyes. I honestly didn't know what to say to that, no one had ever said something like that to me, to know I mean this much to her made my heart swell with love. I had no choice but to hug her for a response.

I could feel her tears splashing on my neck when we hugged, her hands began gripping the back of my shirt tightly.

"You don't have to thank me for loving you Krystal, it's an honor to love...And to be loved by you." I gently whisper into her ear. We spent a few moments in silence before Krystal pulled away from me.

"Foods getting cold, are you going to put the movie in or not?" She asked with a smile, I nod and move away from the bed to put the movie into her DVD player. I turn around to find Krystal scarfing down the fries.

"Oh my God, these are even better than I remember." She joyfully called out. I smile at her while she eats, this night may not have gone as I had hoped...But it was far from ruined.


And end, to be honest I don't see Krystal actually getting too upset about people staring at her like she's a freak, but I needed something to ruin the date at the time I wrote this...Lets just go with she's emotional because she's PMSing, sound good?

and now an Update on Ep. 2, very little progress but progress none the less. I'll try to get the Prolouge/ summary and Ch.1 some time next month. That's about it, see yah when ever. Take care