Chapter 4: The Angels of Mercy.

"Holy shit, look at this place! It's like the garden of fucking eden, now all we need is a gorgeous naked woman wearing a fig leaf and I'll be set," Cortez said as he stood looking around the huge forest, Jack laughed as he watched people running around picking out plots of where they wanted their house to go when they built it.

"I wouldn't say that too loud unless you want to see a load of Yautja running around wearing nothing but fig leaves," he said with a laugh and Tik purred, sliding up behind Jack and slipping her huge arms around her male and pulling him back against her possessively.

"Would you like to see me in nothing but a fig leaf, my male?" she growled softly, tickling the side of his head with her mandibles.

"Now that I think about it, I think I'd prefer you without the leaf," Jack said playfully, making Tik growl even louder and Cortez couldn't help but chuckle, causing Tik to shoot him a sour glance.

"Something funny, ooman?" she asked, and Jack saw a glimmer of fear pass through Cortez's eyes but then he drew himself up and smiled at her.

"No, actually I was thinking that given the armor that some of you girls wear you don't actually need fig leaves and you guys definitely got the market on fishnet stockings cornered," he said, and Tik shot him a deep grin that had obviously confirmed something her husband had said to her.

Suddenly there was a crack to their right and they all turned to find the Xenomorph queen that Cortez had begun calling Zara after she began following him around like a giant lost puppy and as a joke he'd told her that if she was going to be around him all the time he was going to give her a name, he'd called her Zara because he thought that she looked like a Zara and it stuck, now she told everyone to call her Zara.

She was currently tearing a branch off a tree with her long tail, they all watched in confusion as she brought it down and snapped off a smaller limb and discarding the larger one proceeded to hold the smaller one in front of herself at crotch height and turning towards Cortez she appeared to strike a pose, cocking her large hips and she actually looked like she was trying to blow him a kiss with her chest arms and her inner mouth.

Jack grinned and patted Cortez on the shoulder, "See? Told ya," he said as Cortez swallowed hard.

As Jack turned to go, Cortez grabbed his arm and looked at him with a pleading look, "Umm, I, err, think she has a thing for me, Jack, she insists on, umm, carrying me around like a child, err, how do I deal with this?" he asked in a whisper as they both looked at Zara who had put the branch down and was now helping move some heavy equipment.

Jack turned to him and smiled, "Well, simply put, you have two choices the way I see it, you can either tell her you're not interested and very gently tell her that she should continue her search for someone who will reciprocate her feelings, or you can embrace that which we both know you feel and just go with it and let her show you a love you never even dared to dream was possible," Jack said.

Cortez's mouth dropped open, "H-H-How did you...the Dream Warrior thing," Cortez said, and Jack grinned and nodded.

"I don't even need to delve into your memories to see it on you, your aura pulses like a drum beat when you look at her, she both scares and excites you and you don't know what to make of it, do you? You wonder to yourself how could it be possible that you look at something so utterly different and alien to yourself that the attraction you feel feels just as alien and scary, doesn't it?" he said.

Cortez opened his mouth to rebuke him but then he closed it and sighed heavily, he nodded, "Yeah, she excites the fuck out of me and scares the living fucking day lights out of me all at once, I mean, she's so utterly different from me, how can she even look at me like that?" he said, and Jack nodded.

"Would it surprise you to know that those exact same thoughts went through my head when I found myself looking at Tik?" Jack said, and Cortez raised an eyebrow looking at him.

"As did I, oomans are considered a prey species, to my kind it is a cardinal sin to even consider what we did and very, very routinely do, but I know pure love when I feel it and this ooman right here stood for me and proved his heart's pure truth to me so I strive every day to prove the truth of mine to him, his love is my greatest treasure and gave me my heart's truest joys in the form of our beloved cubs, but with him I discovered what my heart had ached for my entire life, a love like I had never imagined, love comes in all shapes and sizes and flavors, I found this out to my purest joy, so give her a chance, Cortez, you will not be disappointed, if there is one thing that I have learned it's to trust that beautiful male of mine, when it comes to matters of the heart he's always right, he smells love a mile off, so give that big girl a chance, I'm willing to bet that with her you will see and feel things you never even dared to believe possible," Tik said.

Cortez couldn't believe what they'd both just said but now as he watched the huge queen lifting barrels up like they were paper weights he saw her glance back at him to see if he was watching and then when she saw that he was she quickly proceeded to pick up another three of them and hauled them away like they weighed nothing but each one was well over a hundred kilos, Tik tapped his arm and Cortez glanced at her, "She's trying to impress you, I might not be an expert on Xeno female body language but I know strong girls and strong girls love to show off their strength for the one they like, it shows that we'll be a good protector of both them and any potential family they may have, I do it for my Ack all the time, he loves it," Tik said, and Jack chuckled softly and nodded, showing that she was spot on.

"She's currently carrying six hundred kilos worth of water so yeah, I think it's safe to say I'm impressed, she's basically carrying around a small car like it's nothing" he said watching the huge Xeno queen carrying the huge water barrels around.

"So what are you waiting for? Go talk to her, you've had your Xeno kiss right?" Jack said, and he nodded, blushing as he remembered Zara elbowing the other two queens out of the way when he came to the front of the line to get his dose of the royal jelly that would allow them to communicate so that she could be the one to give him the kiss and boy had it been an intense experience, having her clamp his head in her huge hands before pushing that smaller mouth of hers half way down his throat to inject the jelly and now he could hear her in his head.

He got the feeling that he should have been disgusted by the experience but he just wasn't, he didn't know what that made him really but then was it wrong to like it?

This whole world was being built on a premise that was wonderful but anywhere else would seem like just a fantasy, a true and utter equality, no one any different and no-one treated any differently from anyone else, everyone just the same and all loves and relationships welcome, it seemed like some sort of utopian pipe dream to him but somehow he could already see it beginning to blossom around him and they were only days into this, hell, only a few days ago they were in hell fighting for their lives, now they were on a planet that looked like the garden of fucking eden and all around him love seemed to be blossoming.

But then how does one court a Xenomorph queen exactly? It wasn't like he could take her to a dinner and a movie now was it?

Plus, what in the name of hell would she actually get out of having a relationship with him exactly, surely they weren't compatible given their size difference, she was built like a walking, talking tank on legs and while he wasn't exactly small by human standards to her it would be like an elephant dating a mouse.

Zara seemed to turn to see if he was still watching her which, when you thought about it, how could he not, she had this oddly regal beauty to her, she was so powerful, so large and so utterly alien, but at the same time she had this odd grace about her and the way she carried herself with such composure and dignity when she walked, holding her hue crested head high, it wasn't hard to see why they were called queens really, with the shape of her head it actually looked like she was wearing a crown.

Then there was her sense of humor, he'd never imagined a Xenomorph queen as anything other than shit your pants scary, funny had never entered the part of his brain that made observations on them before, but just like moments ago when she'd snapped the tree branch off and used it to pretend to be Eve while blowing him a kiss, she seemed to love to tease him to see him turn berry red, which annoyed him to no end because he hated being so easily embarassed but he'd been this way since he was a kid and it seemed to entertain her endlessly, though, he had to admit, her laughing was way better than her trying to cocoon him and use her facehuggers on him, or just killing him outright which for her would be a simple flick of that deadly tail of hers.

Suddenly a huge hand was planted in the centre of his back and he was propelled forward, causing him to stumble, "Quit bloody stalling and go talk to her, Cortez, or I'm going to shout 'stop trying to look under Zara's tail' very loudly," Tik said with an evil grin on her mandibles, Cortez's mouth fell open and he looked at Jack for aid but he was just sniggering behind his hand.

"You're both fucking evil, you know that, right?" he said, glaring at them both and they just grinned at him, he sighed and turned and began walking down the small hill towards her, he had absolutely no idea what he was going to say to her when he got there, how do you make small talk with a Xeno queen? It wasn't like you could just talk about the football or the weather with them, so what did you say?

As he got close to her she was busy stacking the barrels she'd been carrying and hadn't noticed him but before he could open his mouth to say a word a loud voice bellowed, "Cortez, stop trying to peek under Zara's tail!" and he just had time to see Jack and Tik legging it towards their house, laughing their arses off as they ran, honestly for mighty warriors and clan leaders they were like school kids with the pranks they played.

Suddenly he felt a blast of hot, humid breath wash over the back of his head and he swallowed hard, slowly he turned his head and found himself face to face with the huge Xeno queen, she must have whirled around when she'd heard the shout, at exactly the same time he'd done so to see Jack and Tik running away laughing, suddenly he had that feeling of getting caught trying to peek up a girl's skirt, only this girl was basically the living embodiment of the word death.

"I-I-I wasn't trying to look under your tail, Zara, I swear, those two are playing a bloody prank!" He stammered, looking into her seemingly eyeless face, Zara tilted her large head like a quizzical dog.

"And yet here you are, right behind me when I am unaware of your approach, I find that very suspect," Zara said in that oddly silk smooth and highly feminine voice of hers that whispered through his mind, caressing it like silken threads as it passed, suddenly her huge tail slid around her and danced like a giant cobra waiting to strike next to him, Cortez had been blushing but now upon seeing this display of deadly form he felt the color utterly drain from his face, as kind and seemingly gentle as she was it didn't take much to remind you that she was an utterly devastating creature when she wanted to be.

"I-I-I was just coming to talk to you I swear! I wasn't peeping on you! I would never do that!" Cortez summoned the strength to say and Zara moved forwards a single step, making Cortez stumble backwards and fall onto his butt as he tripped over an exposed root, wincing in pain as he did but now he found himself looking up at the huge Xeno looming over him.

"Why not? Do you believe there is nothing under my tail worth seeing with those pretty human eyes of yours?" Zara asked in an oddly amused voice.

How in the name of hell do you even answer a question like that?

If he said no then he offended her, if he said yes then essentially it was as good as admitting to trying to peep under her tail, she leaned down low, placing her long arms down on the floor like a dog setting itself down on all fours and she looked surprisingly comfortable in this position and it was only then that Cortez realized that both her hips and spine were designed to allow her to use her arms as a second set of legs if she wished, but it also allowed her to lower her head so it essentially filled his vision while she waited for her answer.

A slight tap on his back for her long tail jolted him back to reality as his mind raced for an answer, "I'm waiting, little human," she said.

"I-I-I-I..." Cortez stammered before his savior emerged from the most unlikely of places.

"Oh, stop teasing him, sister, can't you see you're scaring the poor boy half to death?" another silk smooth voice said and Zara turned her huge head to look at the second queen that had emerged from the forest carrying a huge stack of freshly cut logs in both her arms and her tail, Cortez recognized this one as the Queen Yoshi, called Citrus.

Zara laughed heartily, "It's not my fault he turns such wonderful colors when he's embarassed now is it?" Zara said.

"Red means embarassed, white means scared to death, it happens because their blood returns to their main organs to help them run if need be," Citrus said with a soft hiss, Zara tilted her head curiously and then looked at him again.

"I thought I smelled something odd, so this is the human fear scent?" Zara said curiously, and Citrus nodded.

"I could smell it halfway into the forest, he must be scared out of his mind, poor thing, you will never get a mate if you make them fear you," Citrus said, this time sounding like she was scolding her and Zara lowered her head and looked back at Cortez.

"Is this true? Do you fear me? Do you fear that I would actually hurt you?" she asked, and now Cortez found himself stuck with another unanswerable question, but given that these creatures could reach into your thoughts if they wanted to communicate and he didn't know if they could read his mind or not Cortez decided that lying to her would probably make this worse, so he told the truth.

"Yes," he said in an ashamed voice.

Zara slowly retreated back from him, moving back to into a hunched squat, she held her head low as if refusing to look at him, "You need to get better at reading their body language, sister, you need to remember they are not like us, they are not as hardy as we are and they are fragile, frightening them is not a good way to get them to like you," Citrus scolded.

Zara looked at her, "I wasn't trying to frighten him, I was just playing, I was just trying to tease him, I didn't mean to truly frighten him," Zara said, her voice sounding sad and ashamed.

But before Citrus could respond Zara jumped up and using those huge limbs of hers to good effect, ran off into the forest, leaving both Citrus and Cortez sat there in surprise, "Fuck, I didn't mean to offend her," Cortez said softly, and Citrus turned to look at him and shook her head.

"You did nothing wrong, she needs to learn how to act around your kind, she says she wishes to find a human mate but she needs to realise that she cannot do this through intimidation and fear, this has been strictly forbidden by Jack and Tik and she must learn this or she will wind up being expelled from this world, she must not force," Citrus said sternly.

"But she wasn't trying to force me! She was only teasing me because of what Jack and Tik did," Cortez protested, standing up and dusting himself off and Citrus cocked her head curiously.

"Oh? And what did they do?" she asked.

"She was carrying water barrels and Tik said she was showing off her strength trying to impress me, she told me to come down her and talk to her, but honestly I didn't have a clue what to say but she kinda put me in a bind, so I was coming down here and when I got close to her Tik yelled 'Cortez, stop trying to peek under Zara's tail' and then ran off, when I turn around she's right behind me, well, she decided to run with it and kinda put me on the spot, I guess I kinda just freaked out because one second I'm just standing there, the next I got this huge Xeno queen right in my face and standing over me looking all big strong and dangerous, I didn't know what to do or say, I got scared," he said, sounding as ashamed as he felt.

Citrus picked up on this and putting her logs down she walked over and put a huge hand on his shoulder with surprising gentleness, "I think I see what happened but you shouldn't be ashamed of being scared, Cortez, my kind are very intimidating at best and Zara needs to remember this so you shouldn't be ashamed of your instincts, they evolved to keep you safe and are as hardwired into you as our predatory ones are into us, if she wants to claim you as a mate as she hopes to do she needs to learn to respect you," Citrus said, and that's when it hit Cortez like a hard slap, she really did like him in that way.

"She truly wants me as her mate?" Cortez asked, looking up at the huge queen standing next to him and Citrus looked at him in surprise.

"Yes, she truly finds you enchanting, she wishes to impress you and to make you interested in her over the huntresses that are vying for your attention also," Citrus said, and Cortez's mouth dropped open as it hit him how truly clueless and oblivious he was.

"Jesus, I'm so utterly blind, thank you, Citrus, I have to go find Zara and apologise to her," he said, and suddenly Citrus gripped his shoulder and he looked at her.

She shook her large head, "No, you shouldn't apologise to her, you did nothing wrong," she said, and Cortez shook his head.

"Maybe not, but I should have trusted her and I didn't, at the back of my mind I was scared that she was genuinely going to hurt me, I should have realized she was only playing with me, but I didn't, I let my fear rule me and she doesn't deserve that," Cortez said, turning to look at the forest where she'd gone.

Citrus drew her face up into a toothy grin which was both endearing and disturbing at the same time, "You are a good male, Cortez, I can see why she likes you so much, she wrongs you and the first thing you worry about is her and her feelings," Citrus said.

Cortez smiled awkwardly then set off into the forest after the run away Xeno queen, surprisingly enough she wasn't that hard to track, usually they could move through the landscape like ghosts but Zara had left quite a trail in her wake, which made him feel even worse.

It didn't take him long to find her, she'd made her way to a spot about a kilometer from the camp, it was one of the spots they were using to collect fresh water to be brought back for purification, a huge waterfall and pool set into the base of one of the hills, she was sat on a rock directly in the middle of the large deep pool.

She was sat with her head resting on her drawn up knees and her tail coiled around her, she looked so miserable and down in the dumps, as she got closer he could see the water running off her shiny black hide, Cortez thought about shouting out to her but then another thought crossed his mind, he looked around and found a large rock, it was certainly warm enough for this but he had to make sure that there was no predators watching out then he sighed at his own foolishness, there was very few creatures stupid enough to try and take on a Xeno queen or come within a thousand yards of her, so hoping that she remained distracted enough for him to pull this off he began to strip off.

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Zara sniffed softly despite not having eyes from which tears could fall it was a little known fact that Xenomorphs could cry, though it was slightly different from how other species did it, but despite the differences it was still the same concept, she felt so utterly stupid and useless, she'd tried to be endearing and playful with that beautiful human known as Cortez but instead she'd wound up scaring him, all she'd wanted to do was have a little fun with him, but her sister was right, she hadn't been paying proper attention to him or how he was feeling, she'd thought she was being charming, did he really just see her as a monster?

That's when she noticed an odd shape moving through the water, her optical organs saw something with a deep rich color moving under the water, she unwrapped herself and leaned down close to the waters edge to get a proper look but just as she did the creature burst out of the water and grabbed her head.

Zara recoiled in alarm but before she could strike the creature or even cry out in alarm a very familiar face appeared in front of hers and stayed her tail from striking just in time because as she was about to pierce his she realized it was Cortez and he appeared to be naked, as the shock of that froze her mind like a computer .EXE freezing up which made infinitely worse by him planting a kiss on her mouth.

Zara froze utterly solid like her hide had just turned entirely to stone or was flash frozen, her heart sure as hell wasn't frozen though, it was dancing around in her chest like facehugger on a hot tin roof, then just as quickly as he started to her sheer panic and dissapointment he stopped, she felt panicked because a voice in the back of her mind was telling her that if she let him let go now she'd never get to taste his mouth again, to feel those utterly exquisite silk soft human lips again, she quickly gripped his shoulders in her chest arms, lifting him partially out of the water but not all the way and was holding him in front of her, looking at him curiously, he was smiling at her and had what humans called a sheepish look on his face.

"Err, hi, Zara, umm, sorry about the ambush ninja kiss but I really wanted to prove a couple of things both to myself and to you and I, umm, couldn't think of a way to do it until I saw you sitting here on this rock, it, umm, all made sense at the time or at least it did in my head, if I've offended you then I'm sorry," he said, sounding nervous.

"What things did you wish to prove," she asked, quickly trying to prevent him from lamenting on her being upset which she so totally wasn't.

"I wanted to say that I'm sorry for the way I reacted to you earlier, how I let my fears get the better of me, I was wracking my brains for a way to not only prove to myself that I'm not scared of you, not really, that I was letting my primal brain get the better of me and it was not seeing you as the beautiful person that you truly are, yes, you're big, yes, you're powerful, yes, I seriously wouldn't want to be on your bad side, but even you being here like this proves who you really are, that you think and feel the same way as we do, no different, umm, I will confess my original plan was to, ummr give you a little scare just to prove to myself that you could get scared just like I do, but when I saw you sitting here and looking so sad and miserable I felt like a shit for even thinking it, so I, umm, changed it to do two things, to say sorry using a powerful action and to prove that I think you're the most beautiful person on this world," Cortez said, and instantly Zara's heart turned into a break dancing facehugger again, though this one seem to have learned how to moonwalk.

"Y-Y-You don't think I'm a monster? You think I'm beautiful?" she whispered in a soft hiss and Cortez smiled at her, lighting up that rich olive colored face of his, then while she still held him he craned his neck and leaned in and planted another kiss on her lips, sending lightning bolts of sensation ripping through her brain, exploding into smaller flurries that sent a shiver through out her entire body, overloading her senses, how the hell did he do this to her, no being had ever ever made her lose control of herself like this, she had had to fight for every scrap of life she'd ever had, for her right to continue to exist, but here with these people she was truly free, they'd even given her free reign to set up a hive with only two rules, none of her children are not born of anyone who did not volunteer for the procedure, her babies would be implanted on a willing volunteer who would be under anesthetic so they didn't have to endure the horror of being gripped by a facehugger which she could empathize why someone wouldn't want that, then they would be transfered to one of the medical bays on the ships and when they were due the baby would be surgically removed, sparing the life of their birthing host, meaning for the first time in history a Xeno would be able to not only meet their beloved birthing host but to have a relationship with them much like a step parent, after all, part of the birthed Xeno would have their genetic code giving them form.

The other was if they used the local fauna that they only used small groups from each species not to depopulate them, but other than that they trusted her and her sisters not to harm them or to harm the world, it might sound stupid but to them that meant everything, they'd never known such kindness and trust, but now, here was the truest icing on that cake as humans said, a beautiful human being who she'd scared while trying to be flirty and playful feeling bad for the fact that he'd got scared and trying to make it up to her when it was her that should be apologising to him.

"Cortez, I'm sorry for what I did, I was trying to be playful but I sometimes I forget how I look and how big I am compared to you and it's only natural that it would make you feel that way," she said softly, and she saw him shaking his head.

"I know you're big, Zara, but I should be aware of that by now, but it was just when you loomed over me like that it triggered something in the back of my brain, but it makes me feel ashamed because it's not like I'm truly scared of you or what you'd do to me, I mean, if I were would I be skinny dipping in a cool lake, ninja merman kissing you're pretty self would I? Because, let's be honest, if there was any situation where you were likely to stick that tail of yours through someone it would be the guy bursting out of a lake and planting one on you and yet here I am, still talking and dangling in the air like a wet naked Mexican pinata," Cortez said, making her actually laugh.

"Well, that's true, and to be fair, you did come awfully close to being stuck on the end of said tail," she said, and Cortez laughed again, a bit more nervous this time.

"That'd be a shame then, I wouldn't be able to peek at what's under it," he said, and that made her roar with laughter as she remembered what Tik had yelled that had triggered this whole episode but now he was the one being playful.

"What, you mean you were actually trying to peep under my tail?" she asked playfully, Cortez laughed and then cocked his head to one side.

"Well, not at the time, but let's just say I'm getting more curious by the minute," he said, setting that facehugger in her chest free again and this time the little fucker was learning to tap dance, was he just playing with her or was he truly flirting with her?

Zara decided to take a chance, she leaned in close to his face and opened her outer mouth and with lighting speed her inner mouth shot out and snatched a kiss on his soft mouth before pushing between his lip and burying itself in the incredible soft warm tunnel of his mouth, the feel and taste of his mouth and tongue all around hers were utterly incredible, there was no feeling like it anywhere, as she watched Cortez's eyelids fluttered and his eyes seemed to roll back into his head, when they parted the tap dancing facehugger jumped on stage and began doing soft shoe.

"Oh, wow, n-n-nobody's ever kissed me like that before," he gasped after catching his breath and focusing his eyes on her.

"That makes two of us," Zara said, even her mental voice sounding breathless, she saw something disrupting the edge of the water, her curiosity got the better of her and she lifted him higher and instantly the source of the disturbance was revealed and it also appeared that this beautiful human's blood was more than hot enough to ward off the effects of the cold water on him and her smile widened and she felt her hide warm.

"I, err, believe I kinda owe you a peek under my tail now to, err, even the score," she said, trying hard to tear her optical organs away from his human manhood which was bobbing in front of her, pulsing so hard she could see his blood flowing through it, swelling it, readying it to perform its wonderful and beautiful duty to him, it, like her loins, aflame like a match being struck in an oil filled room, a beautiful fire spread through her whole being, radiating outwards from that point under her tail that she hid from the world but now she silently prayed that he would wish to see.

"I-I-I want more than a peek," Cortez said breathlessly, his eyes roaming over her face, she could smell it now, his musk, his pheromones, it was washing off him and rolling over her and it was lighting up every single nerve in her body like it was on fire, for the first time in a very, very long time, she felt like a female and those words set her very soul aflame and now it was going to be up to him to quench them.

But she, in all her hope, had to be sure, "Don't toy with me, human, I couldn't bare it, I'm going to lay my soul bare to you if you push me any further, if you truly want me then I will be yours but this is for life, so please, I beg of you, do not tease if you do not intend to give," she said, feeling ashamed of how desperate her voice sounded.

Somehow the beautiful human in her hands sensed her pain and he reached up and stroked both sides of her face, "Which one of us is naked as the day he was born in a pool of cold water dangling in the air telling a Xeno queen that she's beautiful and that he wants to peep under her tail, if there's a human on this planet any further out of their comfort zone and taking a bigger risk please point him out and if you can find me a female more powerful, more beautiful and more exotic please point her out, so here I am, Zara, naked, afraid and vulnerable, but I'm not afraid you'll hurt me, I'm afraid you'll reject me," Cortez said, giving her that wonderful smile of his again, that was it, that was her consent, he was giving himself to her and it was not an offer she was going to refuse.

Slowly Zara reached out and coiled her tail around his waist, gripping him tightly but not painfully, "I want you, my beautiful human, and unless you tell me no right this second I'm going to have you," she purred softly.

"Why would I tell you no? I'm the one who's offering, I want you, Zara, because I love you, I don't know how or why and now nor do I care, all I know is it's real and it's worth more to me than anything else, I know in my heart that I will love you now 'till the day I die and I will want no one else, why would I want a normal woman, when I can have a glorious queen?" he said in a voice so filled with passion that it set off the facehugger's solo routine, she lifted him up and kissed him again, relishing the feel of his lips.

"Then you shall be my king and I cannot wait a moment longer to make you the king of my hive, nor for us to share the most natural beauty that the universe provides and I know just the place, where no eyes may spy and no one will interrupt us, normally I might say hold on tight but there is no way I'm letting you go or anything hurt you ever again, so worry not, my beautiful human, you are in safe hands, or should I say, a safe tail," she said, and with that she hoisted him all the way out of the water and like the world's most powerful cat, she sprang from her seat on the rock onto the cliff face next to the waterfall and her claws sank into the rock like it was made of sponge and she shot straight upwards, climbing the wall like it was nothing, the whole time her facehugger heart was dancing his own heart out and her loins were burning with anticipation, a fire that she would soon quench.

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Cortez felt the sting of the cold spray from the waterfall on his skin but it did not cool his building passion one bit, he was bobbing behind this glorious creature as she climbed the sheer rock like she was glued to it, she was utterly incredible, she bounded up the rock face like it was utterly nothing and when she crested it suddenly Cortez realized why she'd gone to the effort to climb it, there was a lush meadow nestled in a bowl made of rock at the top of this hill, it was only about a hundred meters across but it was truly beautiful.

Dead centre there was a pool that fed the waterfall, Zara moved to a large patch of lush, thick green grass and she very gently and tenderly laid him down on it, letting him feel the soft lush grass under his skin, she turned around and loomed over him on all fours, leaning down to him, casting a huge shadow over him, without saying a word she pressed her lips to his and slid that inner mouth of hers into his, only this time it took his tongue inside it and sucked on it, the flavor of her saliva was like fresh cherries and it lit his senses up, he cupped her big face in his hands and reveled in the smoothness and warmth of her hide, relishing its feeling, his heart was bouncing in his chest as she flooded his senses with her alien kiss, "I love you, Cortez, my beautiful, sweet, gentle human, I will be forever yours as you will be forever mine, so let me ask you this, do you still wish to peek under my tail?" she said, and he couldn't help it, he laughed and grinned up at her, seeing her bare toothy smile which, despite how dangerous it looked, held nothing but warmth and gentle love.

"You bet your sweet alien ass I do, but only on one condition," Cortez said playfully, knowing she wouldn't be able to resist asking him what and true to form she did just that.

"What condition?" she asked, and he gestured for her to come lower which she did, she kissed gently up the side of her maw and onto her crest a little.

"You let me have a taste of what I find under there," he purred softly into what he figured was her ear, and when he felt a shiver pass through her like an electrical current he knew he'd figured right.

"Y-Y-You want to taste under my tail?" she gasped in surprise, and he nuzzled her.

"Don't ask why, Zara, let's just call it one of the many facets of human love I want to teach you, but trust me when I say you'll know why as soon as it happens, ok? So just trust me," he said softly, and she let out a purr as he stroked her head with both hands. she nodded without saying a word and then very slowly lifted herself up and turned on the spot like a giant dog getting ready to lie down or take a shit, which he really hoped wasn't the case, because she moved over him facing towards his feet and she lowered her rear end in a squat before lifting her long tail right up her back and letting it hang over her shoulder.

As she did he saw an armored piece of her hide retract and he realized that it was there to protect her more sensitive parts from harm since she hadn't exactly evolved to wear clothes, Cortez found himself face to face with her most prized treasures, hidden from the world under a rather impressive defense in the form of her deadly tail, he gasped at the beauty that was presented to him, in a way she kinda reminded him of a horse down there, she had jet black large swollen lips and a perfect doughnut shaped anus tucked directly in the cleft under her tail, other than her face it was the most perfect and beautiful thing he'd ever seen.

Now it was time to reward that trust and to teach her about the thing she was willing to give it all up for, human love, he reached up and lightly brushed his fingertips over those leaking, wet, swollen lips, he felt Zara shiver and he heard a soft hiss escape her, his heart began to hammer in his chest as he drew nearer to her, filling his lungs with her sweet, sweet musky scent, he ran his tongue over her boiling hot, soft outer lips, the texture was kinda like very soft leather and he very gently nibbled each of her lips in turn and Zara let out a hiss that was blatantly pleasure, "W-W-What is this? A-A-Are you really doing this to me?" she gasped in a pleasure soaked voice.

"Mmmmm, tasty, don't ask questions, my sweet Xeno, just enjoy it," he purred, his hot breath and the vibration of his voice making her quiver, he parted her lips and inside was something that surprised him, it wasn't the beautiful swollen pale green flesh that surprised him, or the two clits that he saw peeking out from under their fleshy hoods, it was the hole that looked barely tight enough to fit his pinky finger into, though to his utter delight when her outer lips made a perfect seal over his mouth letting his tongue glide over her sweet flesh that had a sort of Citrus tang to it, suddenly he felt himself smile as he realized why Yoshi had named his own Xeno Queen so.

Zara shrieked and squealed in pure ecstacy as his tongue glided over her dripping hot swollen flesh, teasing one of those clits out from its fleshy hood so that he could lavish his tongue all over it and melting his queen's brain in pleasure, her thick, viscous fluids were coating his entire mouth and thick globs of it were leaking into his mouth and he could feel them running down his chin, it was hot and he could feel it making rivulets on his flesh, suddenly something caught his attention and he got a delicious idea.

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As pleasure like she had never even dared to imagine possible arched through her Zara thought she was losing her mind, her human's hot velvet tongue was caressing things not made for a tongue to caress but it milked more pleasure in a single lick and caress than she had ever experienced in her life, every single little flick or swirl made her back arch, her muscles bunch and her mind blank, so this was human love? She was never giving him back to his kind, not now or ever, this human was hers to love and she was going to bathe him in honor and joy the likes of which he had never dreamed of, this human was her king, he would be the king of her hive and she would be his Queen.

Suddenly his mouth retracted, letting a cold wash of air rushed in over her burning hot flesh, she was about to whirl around and beg him to give his tongue back to her, not to stop licking her, but it seemed that he had no intention of stopping, he was just doing something else utterly human and delicious that she could have never dared possible, he kissed her tailhole.

To her sheer shock and utter delight it sent starbursts of pleasure crackling through her brain, the thoughts that it was a dirty thing were dispelled in an instant when she felt that velvet soft, hot tongue run over her forbidden flesh, tickling her hidden entrance and teased its way in, it unleashed a heaven that she'd she never dreamed of and it overwhelmed her in an instant, she couldn't hold on any longer and with a shriek that could have split the sky Zara's very first orgasm exploded within her and it was so powerful that it threatened to wipe her mind away in the swells of pure pleasure washing through her entire being, but it was at that moment she had a moment of the purest clarity, it explained everything to her, this was pure human love, it was loving someone so completely that every single inch of them was your joy, it was a love so pure and so passionate that it was like a drug and now she was utterly addicted and there was nothing she would not do for this beautiful being who had taken the chance on her, who had proved to her not only his worth, but the purity of his love.

Zara spun around and without a single seconds hesitation she grabbed Cortez's beautiful head and plunged her inner mouth into his despite where his tongue had just been, she didn't care at all, if he was good enough to taste her and give her this pleasure it was the least she could do to prove to him her own heart, she was going to mate with him and she was going to prove to him that while she now understood why every single alien on this planet craved human love like it was a drug, she was going to prove that Xeno love was nothing to be sniffed at either.

"I want you, my beautiful human, I need you, I'm craving you in a way I cannot understand and I don't want to because I have never felt this way about anyone, not ever, but you, you make my heart sing and I don't ever want it to stop, I will make you my king if you will let me, you will sit at my side and build my hive with me and you will want for nothing, I will give you all the love and security you could ever dare to dream possible, all you have to do is say yes," she said, nuzzling his face.

"I thought I already had," he said with that radiant, cocky smile of his planted on his face, she knelt down over him, coiling in her long legs so that she could put her body down on him without putting any of her true weight on him, this was something she'd been utterly aching for since she'd first laid eyes on him, well, metaphorically speaking as she didn't have eyes like humans did, she ran her hands down his beautiful body, relishing the silk smoothness of his human skin and the fragile nature of his body, she knew in this instant that she would kill anyone or anything that would dare to try and harm him, she would protect him now and always.

She found his manhood and she lifted it, taking its wonderful length in her hand, humans weren't huge in this department but they didn't need to be, what he had was more than enough to make her happy, hell, she'd have been happy if he had but a single inch, but the seven throbbing inches she held in her hand would make her smile very, very brightly, especially as Xeno females had such control over their intimate muscles that she could tighten it 'till it would pleasure a pin, let alone the exquisite symbol of human masculinity she lovingly cradled in her hand, she rubbed it very gently against her aching, wanting, swollen lips and it made her gasp, with a slow, deliberate movement she let it part her lips and let her lips roll back his protective foreskin, before letting it slowly, slowly slide into her deepest regions, parting her flesh and allowing it to sculpt her inner shape as she gripped him.

Zara let out a squeal of pure pleasure and delight as his throbbing hot human flesh rubbed hers in all the right spots, when she heard him moan in pleasure it lit her heart right up, it was pure heaven for both of them, she placed her hands gently on his shoulders and pressed into him, she began to move, making his flesh grind along her own and making them both cry out in pure ecstasy as pleasure and love coursed through both of them and knit together into an indescribable joy and happiness, this was the truth of not only human love or Xeno love, but of pure love.

Cortez's hands caressed her long thighs and somehow he managed to get his fingers between her lower lips and was caressing one of her clits, sending even more pleasure though her and before they both knew it their love making had reached a fever pitch, their flesh meeting over and over until with a cry of ecstacy they climaxed together and Zara felt her insides flood with human seed, from this her hive would be born and their children would be born out of love, a love they would share with all things.

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From that moment on the pair were joined, Zara built their hive just like she said she would and Cortez, when he wasn't training with the Guardians or helping build other homes,, he would just sit and watch his love scurrying around over the large structure, adding layers to it, creating their home and building their future, when the core was complete they moved in and true to her word, every single one of them she lavished a love on him that he'd never dared to hope that he would possess and he reciprocated in kind, lavishing every drop of love he could create on his beautiful queen and like a seed watered in pure spring water in the most fertile soil, it sprouted and it grew.

Soon they had sons and daughters running around, courtesy of the kindness and benevolence of Jack and Tik and of all the volunteers who stepped up and let themselves be implanted, both Cortez and Zara were so touched by this sacrifice they made for them that the pair dedicated their lives to making the world better and safer for all lives because to them all lives mattered.

So with this in mind, Zara and Cortez came up with the idea for a fighting medical core to work alongside Jack and Tik's Guardians, they would be healers of the sick and carers of those who needed them, the Angels of the battlefield, those who would, on wings fueled by swift justice and mercy, fly to the sides of those who needed them most and would shield them beneath those wings, make them better, fix them and heal them, they would be a sight every Guardian would pray to see and pray they never needed, the Angels on their shoulders.

And so they studied like only Xenos could, swiftly becoming experts on both Yautja, Human and Xeno biology, they studied it, analysed it, made it their creed, Jack and Tik both saw the wisdom in what they were creating and diverted resources to the hive, helping them build the biggest hospital that Cortez had ever seen, specializing in absolutely everything, right atop it was their home, they lived in a hospital but Cortez had never been happier, because he had his beloved queen at his side and every time he saw one of his daughters or rarer, one of his sons, scurrying around in the white and pink uniforms they'd adopted after he'd told them the story of the candy stripers of earth bringing joy to the sick and injured it filled his heart with joy and pride.

This meticulous study paid off intensely, thanks to the machines that Yoshi's hive had built them they were able to tear apart both the human, Yautja and the Xeno genetic codes and this led to the amazing breakthrough to treat a whole host of conditions among all of the races, they extended human lives four fold, letting them live up to four hundred years by repairing gaps in their DNA that sped up their aging by essentially resetting their biological clock, they increased Yautja sensitivity to sensation, making their love lives even more stimulating, plus, they increased the compatibility between the two races, making it far easier for couples to conceive without medical assistance.

Cortez always knew that the reason that Zara threw so much of herself into the research that led to the extending of human life was so that she would have longer with him and he was forever grateful for that, it gave him the chance to see his beautiful children grow up, to make even more with his beloved wife, to fill their entire hive with beauty and love and joy and compassion, they together made their hive a beacon of hope for all that saw it, a place where sick would come to find salvation and healing, where they would be tended with love and kindness by all, where grace and dignity reigned hand in hand with mercy and love, where babies of all races and also of those born between races were brought into this world with the assistance of smiling Xeno doctors and nurses and placed lovingly into the arms of their mothers and fathers and over the years hundreds became thousands and thousands became hundreds of thousands which became millions, all being brought into the sunshine of a world filled with love passing through the hands of those same smiling Xenos, it was the same when they finally cracked the Xeno to human reproductive combination, finally giving all female Xenos the chance to become mothers and male Xenos to become fathers, not just among one another but with any species they chose and so began a new age of freedom for the Xenos, freed from their shackles of parasitic birth, this new freedom was granted to them right here in his own home, under the caring focus of his beloved wife and their beloved children.

Cortez was proud of what they'd built together, of the life they'd lived together, of the family they'd raised and of the families they'd created right here in their hive, so on the day his own mortality finally caught up with him he wasn't sad because he had to go, he was sad because that it was causing her pain, a pain he could feel radiating through his soul as she cradled him in her arms as he lay in his final bed, but for all their medical genius they couldn't turn back the hands of the clock and he knew in his heart that even Jack, the one touched by Paya herself, would have to face this one day, but still, it surprised him when he saw an unfamiliar face in the crowd watching over him, a face he'd never met but somehow he recognized, it was Odin, the all father.

As he stood watching over his wife as she sobbed her heart out, cradling his lifeless body in her arms and the heart monitor rang out the final note, signaling the end of his long, happy life, he looked at the wisened old man stood next to him with his long, lush beard, "A friend of mine told me of you and many times I have come here over the years to see the beautiful thing you have made here, warrior healers, a beautiful thing if ever I saw one, in fact, it's so beautiful I thought it only best that I come down here to collect you myself rather than send my Valkyries for you, there is a place for each and everyone of you in Valhalla, young one, for you are the type of warriors that all should revere, the ones who fight to save, not to destroy or kill, so don't worry young one, when her time comes your Queen will join you at the table of kings, she will sit at your side and you at hers as you've always been and your love will grace our halls as it has graced these ones," Odin said.

But before he could go he turned and saw Jack and Ryan smiling at him, "We'll tell her, don't you worry, Cortez, Zara will stand tall and proud once more, we'll make sure of it," Jack said softly into his mind, and with that a golden chariot appeared in the room and Odin himself steered him onto it and just like that they were gone, like a shooting star flying through the cosmos until they were standing in an endless hall, it was filled with men and women dressed in the regal dress of kings and queens and as he entered Odin clapped his hands and the room fell to silence, "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome King Cortez, he has earned his place at this table like the very best of you, with a sword of righteousness and a shield of love, please take him in and warm his heart while he waits for his queen to join us," Odin yelled, and the room erupted in cheers.

Back on world, so touched by the passing of the much beloved King Cortez, h'chak's children stepped forward and decided to honor him in the way that they knew best, they made a statue that stands to this day outside the hive that he loved with his whole heart, it depicted Zara standing behind him, embracing him and shielding him while he cradled a new born baby Yautja, fresh into the world and he was protecting it, it showed the whole world what Cortez stood for, using strength to protect those who needed it most, mercy and love hand in hand just like strength and dignity, just like Cortez and Zara, two principles standing together forever, always.