"Natsuki….I love you."
"I'm sorry, but…I can't return your feelings, Shizuru! I just can't. I'm not..ready…. "
"Shizuru!" Natsuki murmured as she tossed and turned in her sleep.
"Shizuru?"
Natsuki called out.
But no answer was heard. Natsuki gently opened her eyes.
It was an unfamiliar ceiling, Natsuki groaned.
"Where am I?"
Laying in the comfortable sheets, Natsuki stretched her entire body across the bed, wrinkling the pristine white blankets. It took her a few minutes to register her surroundings. When she finally came to, Natsuki realized several things:
First of all, Natsuki blushed. Realizing that she'd been drooling in her sleep, she quickly wiped her face clean with the blankets. Her eyes then wondered off to the room instead.
The room was incredibility large!
She noticed that the "bed" was amazing soft, but to her surprise, the so called "bed" was actually a rather large pillow!
"Holy crap, this bed is huge!"
Natsuki was amazed. It'd seemed that everything in the room was rather large in comparison to what she was accustomed to making her feel extremely tiny. But never the less, she felt very warm and comfortable on the bed.
Eventually, Natsuki sat up on the pillow and instantly felt cold.
Natsuki began to touch and feel herself.
"Cold?"
Natsuki shrieked, "Why I'm Naked?"
Just as Natsuki was about to panic, She'd remembered the night before and how everything occurred.
"That's right, I was soaked from the rain, but Shizuru…" Natsuki stammered as she tried to recalled her memories.
"No, she said she was Viola.." Natsuki frowned as she remembered Viola.
Viola must have brought her here, she concluded.
"Where ever 'here' is."
Natsuki shivered, as she stood up with the sheets wrapped around her body.
Natsuki walked toward the edge of the bed and glanced down, but realized that the height of the bed was too great for her to safety get down.
This was insane she thought and plopped back onto the bed only to catch a gimp of space.
Beyond her bed post were stars and space. Natsuki's jaw dropped wide open at the amazing sight. She held her breath, the thought of space tickled her curiously, the dark vast outer space only a few meters away from her was mesmerizing.
It appeared from Natsuki prospective that the wall adjacent to the bed post was entirely translucent, acting as some sort of glass. Wall or not, Natsuki wasn't sure if she was safe, or if she was going to be sucked out toward the dark vacuum of space. So Natsuki did the only thing she could think of.
Natsuki jumped back on to the pillow and hid under the blankets, while she occasionally peeked outside the blankets.
"Wow. This is amazing, am I really in space?"
"That's right, you really are Natsuki Kuga." A sweet sing-song voice answered.
With a soft hiss, the door closed behind Viola as she approached the bed.
"How is my little darling Natsuki doing?" Viola smirked when she saw Natsuki visibly surprised from her little comment.
"Surprising, isn't it darling?" Viola playfully cooed as she gestured toward the images of outer space.
Viola's voice seemed to echo in Natsuki's little ears as Viola continued to speak.
To Natsuki, it felt like they were talking in an empty hall. The sounds were echoing, she thought.
Covering her ears, Natsuki continued to adjust to Viola voice slowly. As she raised her head to stare at Viola accusingly as if to voice her dejection, Natsuki paused.
Sure Natsuki was in space and that itself was surprising, but not too surprising she reasoned; after all, she was abducted by an alien! But this is just too much. She thought.
Shocked.
Standing before her was Viola dressed in some sort of space suit or flight suit. Natsuki wasn't sure. But what she was sure of was the fact that Viola was extremely big. Viola must have been over 8 meters tall, Natsuki guessed. Heck, if Natsuki was a charm on a necklace, she would've fitted comfortably right between Viola's cleavage.
"No way, just no way this is happening! You're a giant alien?"
Seeing Natsuki in hysteria, Viola took the initiative to calm Natsuki down, before Natsuki could faint again.
"Shh," Viola placed her index finger on her lips. "Relax. Let me explain, darling."
Viola plopped herself on to the bed.
The forces of Viola's weight rumbled and tumbled shaking the bed, knocking Natsuki down the pillow toward Viola.
"Oops! Let's me help you, Natsuki!"
With a giggle, Viola gently extended her hands toward Natsuki to pick her up. She then cupped Natsuki in her hands bringing her up gently to the top of the pillows.
"Okay, explain then! What the heck is going on, Shizuru, I mean Viola? Just what are you?" Natsuki asked while sitting on the soft pillow wrapped in sheets.
Viola just sighed.
"I'm a Meltrandi, a female Zentradi. We are a race of giant humanoid. You could say that we're are a race of warriors. The Meltrans are the women, while the Zentrans are the males. Uncultured Zentradi are still divided by gender in most places. While the one that are cultured, those that discovered things like music and love, for example are not warring as much as an uncultured fleets. For those that discovered culture, some chose to settle down and find work or love.
For those that are uncultured, well, they're still fighting. Fighting among each other and their enemies from long since past. We do so because we're soldiers of the Stellar Republic, the empire belonging to the Protoculture race. That's is our job, even hundred and thousand of years had past; we Zentradi are still out there doing our job, that's what we were created for, after all."
Natsuki remained silent as she tried to take in every thing Viola had said.
Amazing, incredible. Those were the words that Natsuki can only describe as she'd listened to the incredible tales Viola spoke of.
"So you and Kruger are really giant aliens?"
"Yes. We're Meltrandi from the same fleet, so yes you're correct." Viola answered.
"You said that you're guys are still fighting each other? Why? That's cruel."
Natsuki frowned as she looked toward Viola for an answer.
"Before the demise of the Protoculture in this galaxy, there was a civil war between the men and women of the Protoculture. You see Natsuki, the Protoculture were advance in the technology of bio engineering, and thus they were able to reproduce without the other sex. So men and women was able to bring forth new life via their own power.
And with this advance knowledge of manipulating life on a genetic level, they create us, Zentradi as a mean for proxy wars between the Protoculture. As war escalated, the Protoculture created more and more advance bio weapons, creatures that were more powerful then us were produce. And eventually they lost control of the creatures and us. You see we were programmed to follow the commands of the Protoculture, and we were ordered to ignore the general worlds and population of the Protoculture.
This change when the Protoculture lost control of these creatures. You see Natsuki, extra dimensional life-forms from another dimension had taken control of these bio weapons. It had also taken control of many Protoculture's armed forces. Some of the Protoculture themselves were mind controlled by these extra dimensional beings, and in order to combat them effectively, many Zentradi were reprogrammed to ignore our standing order to not attack the general Protocuture populace.
Although the war was over, the Protoculture numbers were diminishing. They were unable to reinstate the previous order into many of the Zentradi and were effectively wiped out by some of the reprogrammed Zentradi.
So as you can see, there are many reasons for us Zentradi to still be fighting. Just as there are many still effected Zentradi fleets out there, there exist many reprogrammed Zentradi fleets still, with the standing order to eliminate the effected fleets regardless of Protoculture present. And at the same time there are still some loyal Zentradi fleets that are unaffected, like us. Although we still hate the Zentrans due to our programming.
"Wow, so you guys really don't know anything but fighting? If this keeps up, wouldn't you all die out?"
Viola laughed and smiled at Natsuki.
Shaking her head, "No."
Seeing the unbelieving face on Natsuki, Viola explained.
"Well, you see like the Protoculture, Zentradi can reproduce through mass cloning. There are literally millions of fleets of Zentradi out there in our galaxy with the support of automated factories. In other words, Natsuki, we're cloned people. We can shrink ourselves to your size if we wanted to because we do have the technology to do so."
"Ah I see. That's make sense."
Natsuki laughed Nervously, 'Of course how else can females reproduce.'
"But why do you guys come to our planet?"
Viola smirked. "Time a change, Natsuki!"
"Do you know why the Protoculture called themselves so?"
"Because it sounded cool?" Natsuki guessed.
Viola laughed.
"Close, but the answer is simple. They called themselves 'Protoculture' because they were the first race in the galaxy to develop culture and the technology for interstellar travel, hence the word 'proto.' After the war however, the remaining numbers of them decided to start a new and reconciled with each other. And just before they fated away, they seeded the majority of this galaxy with intelligence life."
Viola paused and stare directly at Natsuki.
"Natsuki, your world is just one of many that were seeded by the Protoculture."
Caught off guard by the revelation, Natsuki stammered.
"You mean we are related by DNA?"
"It means your people can reproduce with ours." Viola smirked.
"Oh wow. We're so screw then." Natsuki sighed.
"That's why we wanted to make contact with your world." Viola said, then asked Natsuki why she was so unoptimistic.
Natsuki laughed playfully.
"I meant you Meltrandi are extremely beautiful and any guy on Earth would be crazy over you guys, but I doubt we humans would smarten up enough to stop warring among each others. I mean, just knowing the existence of advance aliens like yourself may turn the world upside down."
"I see." Viola sympathized. "I guess Kruger may have a tough time after all."
"What's this got to do with Kruger?"
"Well it's her job to access the situation, and help determined if your world is ready to meet us. But I suspect that she's just shagging up with my look alike."
Coming in defense of her friend, Natsuki interjected, "Hey, just because you don't like Kruger, doesn't mean you can lump Shizuru with her?"
Viola raised her eyebrows. "Oh, really?"
"I admit I don't know much about Kruger, but she doesn't seem too bad. I mean I trust Shizuru and if she thinks that Kruger isn't bad, then I would believe her."
"Oh?" Viola mocked, "you mean like how you'd mistaken me for Shizuru?"
"Seems to me you don't know her as much as you think, 'little' Natsuki."
"Seems to me you're just jealous of Kruger and that why you take it out on me!"
Natsuki barked back defiantly.
Viola laughed hysterically.
"What so funny?" Natsuki whined.
"Nothing, you seems to be the total opposite of Kruger, and yet in some way you two are so alike it's kind of disgusting."
"Does it make you mad, Viola?" Natsuki taunted, hoping to get a reaction.
Viola got up and walked toward the door. She then turned around and smiled.
"Just a little, but I'm sure I'm not as frustrated as you are or will be." Viola smirked as she headed out the door, but only to stop moments later in the middle of the doorway.
"I'm surprised that you're taking this all so well, at least you didn't faint this time." Viola teased.
Natsuki raged, but when she was about to retort, Viola interrupted.
"Oh by the way 'little' Natsuki, we are heading to the planet Eden. For now, if I were you, I would stay put like a good 'little' girl. Okay darling?"
Viola smirked and blew a kiss just before the door close.
"Why you! Come back here!"
Natsuki fumed as she could hear the sound of laughter beyond door fating.
"Whatever!" Natsuki plopped back down on her pillow and pulled up her blankets.
"Fine, I'll just sleep here and stare into space then, Viola!"
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Thanks for the reviews. And to answer the question about giving viola a first name. I thought about it, but honestly lol it would be too confusing with Shizuru, and Shizuru.
Not to mention it was already a stretch with both Natsukis'.