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Chapter 4: An unexpected Surprise
Another year had passed, Tia'ja was 16 now and stronger than ever. Celine had never held a grudge towards Tia'ja, she figured it was Ae-nix that ruined the party that night, not Tia'ja. In fact Tia'ja and Celine had become best friends.
Tia'ja was getting ready to fall asleep in her nice and comfortable bed, when Calvin and Celine burst through her door.
"Tia'ja get up! Something's happening!" Celine was so excited. "A ship is landing!"
Calvin's eyes lit up. "What if it's mom and dad home early!"
That was all Tia'ja needed to hear, then she was out of bed in a heartbeat. "Well, what are you two waiting for?" Tia'ja ran past both of them, "Come on!"
The three ran toward the ships landing area, there was a huge crowd around the ship. Tia'ja watched as her grandfather approached it, he raised both his hands in the air to silence the crowd as the ships entrance began to open. The door slowly dropped to the ground, leaving a platform for whoever was about to come from the ship.
The crowd watched with great anticipation, Calvin and Tia'ja just kept hoping that Clay and Tausha would be the ones to walk out that door. But they didn't, instead a group of four male yautja's walked out, marching in groups of two. Behind them a fifth yautja walked out, but he was different from the others, he seemed stronger and more respected.
The first four yautja's were all similar in height, they were all spotted and all had short dread locks that only reached the tops of their shoulders. The final yautja was taller, around 7'2" with longer dread locks that reached just below his shoulder blades, he had dark spots and stripes that decorated his body. All five of the newcomers had a red tint to their dark cream colored skin.
"Those must be yautja's from the Redgious sector." Celine began to explain. "We live in the Calthwei sector."
Tia'ja noticed her grandfather walk directly up to the more respectable yautja, he gave him the greeting all yautja's give, a nice shake on the shoulder. "Kee'vek welcome our planet, your grandfather and I enjoyed many hunts together in our younger days. It's nice to finally meet you." Bar'vex-na began to walk with Kee'vek towards his home.
"Yes, grandfather told many stories about the two of you. I apologize for the unexpected visit, but we were in your sector and one of the flight burners on our ship is going out. We were hoping you cou….." Kee'vek stopped the second he caught sight of Tia'ja.
Tia'ja's eyes widened, she began to whisper to Celine, "Why is he staring at me like that?"
"Who cares, he's a total hottie. Just look at all those battle scars." Celine looked like she was about to start drooling.
Kee'vek looked at Bar'vex-na. "Who is that female, that hybrid?"
Bar'vex-na explained, "That is my granddaughter, Tia'ja."
"She is your granddaughter?" Kee'vek seemed to smile a little. "I would like to request her company at dinner tomorrow night, I would like her to sit at my side. Can you arrange that?"
Bar'vex-na nodded, "I'll see what I can do."
They continued to walk and talk as they disappeared from the crowd.
"Tia'ja I think that guy wants you!" Calvin began to make fun of her.
Tia'ja just smiled, "I doubt that, he was probably just asking grandfather why a freak lived on his planet."
Celine whacked Tia'ja upside the head, "Shut your mouth! You're not a freak, you're just …. different, in a beautiful way."
"Thanks Celine, you're the best." Tia'ja hugged Celine. "I'm going to bed, I'll see you tomorrow. Night you two."
Tia'ja headed home, all she could think about for the rest of the night was that new yautja. His piercing amber eyes staring at her. She lied down in her bed and closed her eyes, tomorrow she would learn everything she could about this yautja.
The minute Tia'ja woke up she got dressed and headed straight for Bar'vex-na's quarters. "Grandfather what's going on? Who are these new guys? Why are they here?"
"They are from the Redgious sector, they stopped here because they were having ship troubles. The leader is Kee'vek, he actually requested that you sit next to him at the feast tonight." Bar'vex-na seemed proud.
Tia'ja's eyes widened, "What? He doesn't think I'm a disgrace? Or is this just some kind of a joke?"
Bar'vex-na's expression changed from happy and joyful to very serious, almost angry. "If he hurts you purposely, I will destroy him."
"Awe, thanks grandfather." Tia'ja hugged Bar'vex-na.
After the little meeting Tia'ja had with Bar'vex-na, she was anxious all day long. She couldn't wait for night to come, all she could think about was Kee'vek, 'He doesn't like me, not like that….. He just wants to be friends.' Thoughts like that ran through Tia'ja's head constantly, until she was finally interrupted by Celine.
"The feast is in a couple hours! I heard about Kee'vek! I'm so excited for you!" Celine began to squeeze the life out of Tia'ja, "Although, I must admit, I am a little jealous, that Kee'vek is one hot yautja."
Tia'ja giggled, "Yeah, well I'm guessing he probably just wants to humiliate me in front of everyone, I'm definitely going to keep my guard up."
Celine gave Tia'ja a concerned look, "No, don't! No yautja would be dumb enough to do that, especially when you're the high elders granddaughter."
Tia'ja laughed, "Yeah, I guess you're right, as long as my grandfather's there, I should be safe."
"No, as long as I'm there you'll be safe." Celine gave Tia'ja an evil little grin. "So what are you planning on wearing?"
Tia'ja looked at Celine a little confused, "What do you mean? I was just going to wear my normal outfit."
"You can't just wear your normal day clothes, this is a royal feast! Our clan is welcoming another clan to our planet, not to mention Kee'vek actually requested you to basically be his date tonight." Celine began to dig through Tia'ja's clothes."
"You won't find anything nice, all my clothes are basic training outfits and casual wear." Just as Tia'ja finished, Bar'vex-na entered the room.
"Tia'ja, I have something for you." Bar'vex-na handed Tia'ja something wrapped in a dark animal hide.
Tia'ja stared at the gift with no idea what to say.
"Well open it!" Celine seemed more excited than Tia'ja.
Tia'ja looked up at her grandfather for approval, he just nodded. So she began to unwrap her gift. When she got it open she immediately noticed the sparkling purple fabric. She began to pull it out, then noticed it was a two piece gown, a beautiful flowing skirt with a matching top.
"Grandfather…..this is beautiful, where did you get this?" Tia'ja began to examine the dress even closer.
"It used to be one of your grandmothers. It would have been too big for you, but I had some of the older females adjust it. I want you to wear it to dinner tonight." Bar'vex-na gave Tia'ja a pat on the shoulder then looked at Celine and nodded, "I'll see you two later tonight."
After Bar'vex-na left, Celine got excited again, "Well try it on! I want to see it on you!"
Tia'ja just giggled, "Alright!" She got dressed in her new gown and couldn't believe how beautiful it was. The skirt rested a bit below her belly button and flowed almost all the way to her ankles, there was also a slit on each side of the skirt that started at her upper thigh and went all the way down. The top was almost like a bikini top, only fuller. Tia'ja felt so beautiful, she put on some light silver sandals and a couple light silver belts to add even more style to her new dress. "How do I look?" She turned to Celine.
"You look beautiful, Kee'vek is going to be blown away." Celine hugged Tia'ja, "There's just one more thing that has to be done."
"What?" Tia'ja looked a bit confused.
"Let me do something with your hair." Celine sat Tia'ja down and began messing with her hair. After a few minutes she finally stopped, "There we go, all done."
"What did you do?" Tia'ja got up and went to her mirror, Celine had pulled her hair up into a ponytail. "Oh my gosh, it's beautiful. Thank you so much!" She hugged Celine tightly, "You're the best."
"Of course I am!" Celine smiled, "Now I have to get going, I need to get ready too. I'll see you later tonight."
Celine left and all Tia'ja could do was wait in her room anxiously for the night to begin.
End of Chapter 4
Story by Tausha Monroe