Trials of a c'tarl c'tarl CH6 - pride is thicker than blood

(A/N YES! It's Finnaly here! The chapter 6 you've all been waiting for what seemed like eternity to read! See? I keep my promises.)

Zieg sat in his room reading the paper sipping coffee. He was a somewhat built c'tarl c'tarl but not the most muscular he had black hair which was uncommon among c'tarls his eyes were as black as his hair and he had a scar on his left cheek that seemed to be where someone with claws had scratched him. One of his servants approached and whisper something into his ear.

"WHAT?!" He screamed spitting out his coffee

"How did you fools allow this to happen?! This can't continue...I'll be heading out myself to deal with this..." He said and got up to get ready for departure.

Back on the outlaw star

Atma had gotten comfortable with her husband again she was glad to be with him she though at first she had planned on chewing him out and kicking the crap out of him for the trouble he caused when she saw him and the pathetic state he was in her anger had melted away then he lit up when he saw her and the two hadn't been parted since.

"Aisha...are your parents still in that room?" Gene asked

"yep still in there don't expect them to be coming out anytime soon." She answered

"Heh...I guess not if I were separated from my wife all this time and then suddenly found her one day I'd never let her get out of bed much less be more than 3 feet from me." Gene said

"oh really? I'll have to test that one day..." Aisha said giving him a peck on the cheek.

"yea? Well we ain't married yet so it doesn't exactly work...which reminds me when are you going to tell them?" Gene asked

"I'll tell them when they're back to normal...besides right now I wouldn't go in that room if you paid me I'd hate to think of what I'd see in there right now." Aisha said.

"Hahah yea given what they're probably doing I doubt we should expect to see them until well into tomarrow you c'tarl c'tarls got stamina..." Gene said smirking

"Oh no we don't have a lot of stamina you terrans just lack it that's all." Aisha said teasing him.

"Hey I think I proved I can fare pretty well with you even if you are a c'tarl c'tarl." Gene said

"hm....maybe for a human." Aisha said still teasing and walking off.

"that girl really knows how to get to me." Gene said to himself before he noticed Jim

"what're you lookin at little man?" Gene asked

"uhhh....Nothing nothing at all" Jim said and hurried on along to his room.

Gene ignored Jim and went to see how melfina was doing but on his way he was interrupted by Gilliam

"gene there is a unidentified ship approaching fast." Gilliam informed

"All right I'll take care of it" gene said heading to the bridge of the ship and taking his seat. As he did a message was received he brought it up on screen

"Gene starwind I presume?" The man on the other end said

"Yea and who're you? And how do you know who I am?" Gene asked

"your reputation and your ships reputation precede you Gene I am Zeig. Zeig Clan Clan I am Aisha's uncle and I believe you have some of my relatives on board.If you don't mind I'd like to pay a visit" Zeig said

Gene thought for a moent he didn't like this guy poping up out of nowhere asking to be let aboard and if he really was Aisha's uncle why hadn't he come sooner if he knew of the ship? Still he couldn't turn the guy away and if things went awry there were three c'tarl c'tarls aboard and all of them would be extremely pissed off if an incident did happen. So Gene agreed.

"Alright you can come aboard just you no one extra." Gene said

"of course" Zeig replied and was off screen a second later.

A mere Minute after that the two ships had docked and Zeig came aboard and was greeted by Gene and Aisha.

"Hello uncle it's been a long time." Aisha said.

"Aisha my you've grown into a woman now last I saw of you you were still no higher than my waist now look at you only an inch or two shorter than me...I heard about what happened when you were expelled from the empire I was worried about you at first but it seems you turned out just fine." Zeig said.

Aisha gave a nod "Yes Gene and the others have taken good care of me if it hadn't been for him I don't know where I'd have wound up." Aisha said

"hm well then gene it seems our family owes you a bit of a debt." Zeig said

"Nah...Aisha has been way too helpful and besides it was partially my fault she was put out I kinda felt bad about it so I decided she could come with us." Gene said

"I see...Well still you didn't have to do that most men would have simply left her stranded." Zeig said.

"Leave her? Haha right she'd have hunted me down...oh wait actually she did at first didn't know who the heck she was still she started rambling on about the empire and my ship." Gene said laughing

"Hey! I didn't HUNT you down exactly...I just kinda...followed until you stopped running around and besides I wasn't going to just let you get away with that disgrace.." Aisha said.

"Well what happened?" Zeig asked

"Er...I wound up Blasting her after she bragged about being an Immortal c'tarl c'tarl she went down and was mumbling about how much it hurt." Gene said

"Welll it did hurt that gun of yours packs a punch..." Aisha said

"So it was after that you decided to take her with you?" Zeig asked

"No actually we left her at first and she tracked us down again this time she transformed on us....fortunately though Blue heaven didn't have a moon and eventually she used up too much energy so feeling pity for her I took her to get something to eat. After that she got mouthy again and then I blasted her again and we left her to take care of the bill...." Gene said..

"Hahaha looks like Aisha was quite a bit of trouble." Zeig said

"Yea...eventually though she gave up on getting revenge and came along with us since at the point in time she had no where else to go." Gene said.

As they finished the story Atma and Richard came out of their room to see what the commotion was....

"Oh my Zeig! When did you get here?" Richard asked

"Only a little while ago brother I've just been catching up with Aisha and how it is she came to be on this ship." Zeig

"Oh that reminds me...I meant to ask you Aisha what IS the relation between you and Gene? You two seem to be pretty close." Atma asked

'FINNALY!' Gene thought now she'd have to tell them and he wouldn't have to hold off anymore.

"Uh....well...Gene and I are..." Aisha hesitated she wasn't sure how they'd react they all had a lot of Pride and having a Terran mate certainly wouldn't go over well with them...even if he was doing them a great service.

"What she's trying to say" Gene interrupted "Is that her and I are lovers and have been for a couple months now. She's been afraid to tell you because she wasn't sure how you'd react." Gene said. As Aisha looked at him in absolute horror.

'He didn't just do that. He COULDN'T have just don't that nonono he didn't say that I'm hearing things....I must be dreaming or something...' Aisha thought as she waited to hear what her parents had to say.

They both stood there for a moment somewhat stunned Atma was the first to speak.

"Aisha dear....you could have told us." Atma said

'what? They weren't angry? "No How could you tarnish our bloodline?" what was going on? They should be cursing to high heaven that she shouldn't be with Gene...Unless they were going to wait to talk to her in private..' Aisha thought

"Yes you could have told us..." Richard repeated and then stopped he looked like he wanted to say something more but he decided to leave it at that.

"Zeig we have much to talk about let's walk and talk atma you come along too." Richard said

they left Gene and Aisha standing there Aisha still stunned no one had said anything.

"See? That wasn't so bad you were all worried for nothing." Gene said.

"Oh they will say something eventually I think they just didn't want to say anything in front of you." Aisha said.

"and why's that?" Gene asked

"Because 1 I'm staying with you 2 they're on YOUR ship 3 You've been a big help so far and they wouldn't want to insult you at least not until they can be certain they have another ride." Aisha said.

Gene shrugged "oh well I tried." He said simply

"So those two are...hm...intresting.." Zeig said halfway along the walk with atma and Richard.

"It's ridiculuous really Aisha knows she can never marry him and by our laws no c'tarl c'tarl is allowed to have offspring unless married." Richard said.

"Well there is one way..." Atma started

"He'd never make it probably would back out before he even started." Richard said

"But you know she won't leave him they may have only been together romanticly a few months but they've been with each other on this ship for much longer." Atma said

Richard sighed "To think My daughter in love with a terran...." He said

"it's to be expected these days brother many of the younger generation seem to be looking outward for mates many of them just don't have the pride in their bloodline that we do." Zeig said

"But Aisha DID have that pride...What happened?" Richard asked

"Maybe simple circumstance or perhaps she doesn't count it as a strike against her pride because he defeated her in battle." Zeig said

"He wha?" Richard and Atma said at the same time in shock

"Yes they've faced each other before apparently she just couldn't beat him so she joined him. I found this out when I asked how she wound up here." Zeig said.

"hm well if that's the case then maybe he is a worthy terran." Richard said...

"enough about them...what are we going to do about getting home?" atma asked.

They were silent for a moment.

"Atma...i...no we can never go back there's no way we can go back" Richard said

"...yes we all know the scandal you caused is far from forgotten the fragile peace between the empire and the space forces just cracked all it'll take now is tiny misstep to shatter the peace and cause all out war..." Zeig said

"I'd just like to know who it was the informed them..." Richard said

"at this point that doesn't seem like it matters much now does it?" Zeig asked

"I suppose your right....I suppose who ever did is living the high life now and probably on all of OUR assets..." Richard said.

During all this time Atma had remained silent because she knew who caused this mess she just refused to say anything. As they brought they conversation to a close Atma spoke

"Zeig I wish to see the ship you came here in mind giving me a tour?" She asked

"But of course." Zeig said leading the way

"I'll wait for you two here...I need to think about what our next move is.." Richard said.

Atma let out a sigh of relief she'd hoped he'd stay behind she needed to talk to Zeig. Alone.

They crossed the bridge between the two ships and entered zeig's ship

"This is my ship the "Jaguar" it's quite a nice ship....but you didn't really come here just to see it now did you Atma?" Zeig asked

"Very perceptive Zeig. Fortuneately for you Richard isn't as perceptive or he'd have torn you apart." Atma said.

"What do you mean?" Zeig asked feigning surprise

"Oh don't play dumb YOU are the cause of all of this!" She yelled

"I have no idea what you are talking about." He said

"you expect me to believe you somehow managed to keep your servants and your ship and expend the resources to search space finding us?" Atma said looking at him as if he was stupid

"Hm...I suppose not...very well come with me." Zeig said heading to his room on the ship Atma followed closely. When they entered the room Zeig turned to her

"We can talk here in privacy." He said sitting in a nearby chair

"Zeig...why?" atma asked

"Because I planned it from the very beginning my dear....I'm the one who convinced poor Richard to do it in the first place I acted as the go between I waited until the appropriate time to betray him without his knowledge and now I will betray him again." Zeig said

"You......YOU'RE THE CAUSE OF THIS AND FOR NO GOOD DAMN REASON?!" Atma screeched she was fighting mad and began picking things up and throwing them at Zeig.

"Atma darling please calm down!" He said dodging the various objects she threw and trying to catch the more valuable ones.

"CALM DOWN?! AFTER WHAT YOU DID?!" She was positively raging now but soon enough she ran out of things to throw.

Seeing as how there was nothing left to be thrown at him Zeig came out from under his desk "Ahem...right then...you see I did do this for a reason..." He said before a paper weight nailed him in the head apparently she'd held onto one last thing to throw at him when he revealed himself.

"ow.....that smarts you know....anyway as I was saying..." He continued calmly slowly approaching her and looking for signs of aggression. as Atma watched him huffing and puffing. She seemed to calm herself a bit waiting to hear this reasoning.

"I did all of this..." Zeig said still inching closer until he was right in front of her face.

"So I could have....you" He said following it with a kiss. Atma was in shock he mind was reeling then she realized he was still kissing her and pushed him off.

"What?...me? how can...." She shook her head utterly confused and wondering where her rage had gone.

"I figured if Richard were exposed as a traitor you would be disgusted with him being the proud c'tarl you are and I would simply move in and support you and we could be together as we should have been to begin with..." He said as one of his hands felt the scar on his left cheek remembering how he'd got it.

FLASHBACK

Zeig came home expecting his girlfriend Atma to be waiting for him but instead he found her on the couch making out with his brother.

"WHAT THE HELL!?" he roared

Richard jumped up and Atma tried to straighten her clothes

"Zeig...uh...your home early...ahaha...." Richard said trying to think of a way out of this.

Atma remained silent trying desperately to sink into the couch and be forgotten.

"Richard you....you bastard just because you're older DOES NOT mean you can steal every girlfriend I have!" Zeig said walking towards him.

"now Zeig...Calm down...shes just a girl....no need to get violent..." Richard said backing down slightly He'd never seen Zeig this way before normally when this happened Zeig would just dimiss it and accept the fact girls just liked his brother more.but this time....this girl was different.

"how long has this been going on Richard?" Zeig asked

"uh..." Richard said not wanting to tell him

"Tell me...NOW" Zeig demanded.

"a month." Richard lied it'd actually been going on longer but Zeig didn't need to know that.

"A MONTH?!" Zeig grabbed his brother by the shirt and lifted him.

"Okay Zeig...You asked for it now." Richard kneed Zeig in the gut causing zeig to drop him then Richard punched him in the face sending Zeig backwards. But he quickly regained his stance and attacked again This time he tackled Richard and began to Pummel him and he held him.

"STOP IT STOP NOW!" Atma screamed unable to watch anymore.

Zeig froze he turned to look at her. Her face full of fear. He couldn't stand having her look at him that way he got off Richard and let him up. But when he saw how she looked at Richard and then back at him as if HE were the monster he felt his rage build again.

"You...I'd almost forgotten you were still here...how could you betray me like this?" Zeig asked

"I....i don't know...it just happened one day....I can't even remember how it started." She said in a fearful whisper.

"You don't know?!...." He growled and approached her and Richard fearing his brother would strike her got in the way. Only to be tossed aside Zeig was not going to be kept from getting his answer. He stood inches from her and looked her in the face.

"I loved you....I trusted you......and you....you just turned out to be another shameless bitch for my brother to have." He said his voice soft at first then full of venom.

Atma couldn't believe what she'd just heard her pride had been damaged an offense she knew no other way to punish than with pain. "How dare you!" She slapped him but dug her claws in as she did creating a scar on his face that would never go away from then on Zeig never loved another woman and his scar always reminded him of her and the day His own pride had been shattered....by his own brother.

END FLASHBACK

"Atma...please...come with me forget him I can protect you I can protect Aisha I can get the whole family their things back with me." Zeig said pleading.

Atma had to sit down she had to absorb this information it was too much...Zeig still loved her?....she had thought he felt hatred for her after that incident so many years ago. It had been the reason she'd chosen to stay with Richard. And now she found her assumption couldn't have been more wrong. He was going to great lengths tarnishing his family's honor and giving up his pride for her. It was a romantic concept she had to admit but it was one of a lovesick fool.

"Zeig....You are going to go to the government tell them you did this or I will." Atma said

"What?...you can't besides even getting close enough to yell it in the streets would be impossible for you. You'd be captured and imprisoned long before anyone heard a word of what you had to say. You have but two options I COULD make it only one but I'm feeling generous. One you come with me Richard does whatever the hell probably eventually winding up rotting in prison. And WE live happy two you stay with Richard I leave you to live whatever decadent life you can scrape together." Zeig said

Atma sat and thought she knew if he wanted to he could just report them and the government would come and capture them really she had but one choice...or did she? Would he really do that to her? She wasn't sure...she was all mixed up. It was time to choose for the second time. And here she thought you weren't supposed to get second chances.

Zeig remained close to her now confident she wouldn't harm him he found she didn't mind him at all it was as if she wasn't really there as she thought he sat next to her and waited.

"take all the time you need." He said

Then she looked up suddenly "I don't need anymore...I've made my choice...." She said

"and what is it?" Zeig asked

"I....I.....I choose...to...."

END Chapter 6

Evil ending isn't it? Well what do you think of THAT? I'm so proud of myself and my plot twist. At this rate this thing could go on forever wouldn't that be great? Anyways R&R like always lemme know what ya think remember your reviews ARE making a difference