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Chapter 10: What Now?
After leaving the planet with an unconscious princess aboard the ship, I sort of had to admit that I missed that damned desert planet. Space was cold, a cold that I hadn't felt in what felt like months and I needed to get used to it again. She obviously wasn't so happy with it either, the way she ruffled around in her sleep, shivering beneath the aluminum blanket I provided. I watched her as she slept, just wondering what made her so different.
Thinking over the events that had occurred on that planet, thinking about where she came from, what she was. I realized then, I loved her. It wasn't only her beauty alone, it was her stubborn attitude, how she could be both modest and seductive at the same time... Even innocent like. She had a temper that I could enjoy, she killed six men and along with that she was mysterious. That was why I loved her, sitting back further into my seat, spinning around to face the empty space that the windshield provided me a view of.
The ship was small, but just right to get us to where we were heading, which I didn't exactly know where. She was an abandoned princess after all and I was still an escape convict, the last thing we needed was a very public star system. So that left very little planets for me to go to, we were going to once again live life on the run and that was no easy task. I glanced at her when she began to stir from her sleep, light strands of hair flowing before her face which she brushed lazily from her hair.
I turned to her, standing up and taking my place in a crouch beside her resting vessel. Her eyes groggily flashed open, hands reaching up to rub the yellow crust residing at their edges. She nearly panicked at her whereabouts, but her instincts told her she was saved when she saw me. She shot up from her resting placed on the metal slab connected to the wall of the ship. Her arms wrapped my neck and she sobbed softly into my neck.
"You came back for me." She whispered graciously, I sat up further until I was on the edge of the makeshift bunk wrapping her in my arms as well.
"What man with the right mind wouldn't?" I replied smugly, sniffing her sweaty scent. She smiled past her tears leaning backward into my embrace and pressing her forehead to mine. I had removed my goggles which sat beside the many buttons that controlled the ship. She seemed to like my eyes, while others were scared of them, called them the eyes of a demon.
"You don't exactly have the right mind though Riddick." I was too stubborn to give her the real reason why I went back for her, why we nearly died because I wanted her to be with me. She looked around with a small smile, raising a hand to wipe her tears of joy away.
"Where is Sweet Spot?" I frowned, shaking my head, she gasped, resting her head further into mine. She was still trembling over the events that occurred back on the planet, they nearly died.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't worry. I got my revenge." I muttered back, leaning down to initiate a kiss wanting to forget everything that had happened on that planet except her. We had never been this intimate, considering that our eyes were locked and lips as well. She was gripping onto me like I was her last live source, tongues dancing with one another as they moved their lips in fluid motions. I did not expect her to move her body further into mine and straddle my waist.
I pulled away in surprise, I though she didn't want this, I blatantly remember how she began something she completely rejected.
"What are you doing?"
"Something I have wanted for so long." She grabbed the straps of my tank and tugged me back into a passionate kiss. I had never felt so electrified with another woman, the ferocity she put into it, the meaning. She suddenly stopped and I questioned on whether, or not she really was going to go through with this. I attempted to grab her lips with mine again, but she sat back into my knees and placed a hand over my chest. "Wait. There is something I must tell you."
"Anything." I felt so romantic, something I wasn't known for and didn't want to be known for, but I was very possessive and all I wanted was her. The women that I bedded during my reign as ruler were nothing like her, no woman I had ever met was like Tasha. She shyly looking down, removing herself from my lap she sat beside me fiddling with her thumbs.
"On my planet. When you mate... You mate for life." I wasn't so sure about this anymore, usually when I brought someone to bed it was a one time thing.
"Alright. I have no problem with that." She was definitely not a one time thing, she could be my future. The new life I thought about while looking for Furya.
"There's more. We can't be united unless we are accepted by a priest of my home planet."
"Meaning?"
"That no matter how much I want to be with you, I can't until a priest blesses it."
"Well. When do we have the time for that. Plus I thought you were thrown from your planet by your father." I smiled feeling frisky, I gently pushed her down onto the aluminum blanket. Hovering over her, my arms supporting me, my lower half strained and pressed to hers. I needed her, why did it matter if she needed permission, or not. She wanted this, didn't she? That was all that mattered, I would mate her good, real good.
I leaned downward to the nap of her neck, kissing and nipping as I went. She moaned, arms wrapping around my neck and gripping my bald cranium.
"You're not getting it. Women are usually..." I silenced her with a sharp pleasurable bite to her shoulder. "Mated off at a younger age because when-"
"Shut up so I can make love to you for Christ sake." I rasped into her ear, spreading her legs with a knee and grinding into her.
"You can't make love to me until we are blessed, or else I will die."
"What?!" My eyebrows furrowed as I withdrew from her, gazing at her beautiful glowing eyes.
"It is sacred. The reason my skin glows in the moonlight is because I haven't mated yet with another and my soul is one with the moon until otherwise. If I mate without the permission and blessing of the high priest, then I will die otherwise."
"That's some fucked up shit." I complained, moving my weight to one arm and caressing her leg.
"Yeah well. It's the reason why so many women are mated off at the age of fourteen. I was an exception because I was royalty and considered a goddess to the moon."
"That's where your nickname came from."
"The moon was blue the night I was born and my skin glows when I am asleep beneath it."
"Well then, what does this mean?"
"That we should head to my home planet, Koyema." That's when I knew this was more than mating, was she lying about the whole blessing thing? If yes, then why?
"I see now." I sat up stubbornly from her and went back to the captain's seat, flicking a couple switches. "You want to go back to your stupid planet so you can sort things out with your daddy. Well, I have to sort out a couple things myself, princess. You aren't going to get on using me that easy."
"I am not using you, but while I was stranded on that planet. I couldn't get off, I couldn't save my father of his utter destruction. My people have been under the terrible tyranny of the Necromongers..." My ears perked up at the name. "For years. I have to help them." How come I never knew about a planet called Koyema? What a coincidence that our paths crossed for this reason. She could lead me to my revenge.
"Necromongers, you say?" My head slowly angling to stare at her, she nodded after an audible gulp. She could see the familiarity in my eyes, she knew that I had to have heard of the Necromongers before and that made her suspicious.
"You never told me in exact details how you got on that planet Riddick." If she realized that I had any connection with the leadership of Necromongers ever, she would hate me, lose her trust in me, or worse and I wasn't willing to tell her yet. The way she spat the word itself made me realize how much they took from her and I couldn't allow to see her hate me for not knowing, or helping when I had the power to. The desert took more from her then I really thought.
"I was betrayed by Necromongers." She stood, stepping herself over and wrapping her arm around mine while kissing my cheek.
"Then you can help me. The coordinates of my planet I would never forget them." When I looked into her glinting eyes, I saw something more than just graciousness and adoration, I saw admiration, she trusted me with her life and I would die before seeing that loose.
"Tell me."