12 months later...
I never knew that training for a chiva would be very difficult for the first few months but I managed to do it and survived it all. I would fight Fatal, Thwei, Scar, and Set'gin. Out of those four Yautja males, I only defeated 2 of them. But it was a start. At the end though, I managed to beat the four males. I have never felt more stronger and confident than ever before. Raj'ah can tell that I'm ready for my first chiva.
Later on that night after about a good three round of love making for us, I looked at Raj'ah and he looked at me, stroking my back softly.
"You are doing very well, Alex." He complimented me.
I smiled at him, while stroking his arms.
"What will happen after my first chiva?" Raj'ah smiled, his mandibles stroking my cheeks gently.
"Well." He explained. "You will be one of us, plus youcan be a hunter, an arbitrator just like me, or you can be a mother."
"I always wanted kids." I told him.
I yawned tiredly and snuggling against him for warmth.
"Sleep young one." Raj'ah said, kissing my forehead and with a soft purr, we fell fast asleep.
The next morning, I woke up next to Raj'ah who held me in his arms. I snuggled next to him, hearing his heartbeating in rhythm. I almost fell back asleep when I heard Raj'ah chuckling. I turned around and looked at him. His taloned hands stroked my back softly.
"How did you sleep?"
"I slept good for awhile." I answered sitting up.
"I had a nightmare about my cousin."
Raj'ah sat up.
"When I was little, about a few months after you saved me, my cousin named Erik went missing while he was overseas in a country called Syria. He was one of the volunteers trying to find me that night you saved me. He's like a big brother to me, watched out for me since I was born."
Raj'ah listened to my story with interest.
"That day, my mom got a call from my uncle David and said that Erik went missing."
I took a breath. Trying not to cry in front of Raj'ah I went on.
"They said that he and his team were scanning the area for rebels in the area when they got attacked. One of the survivors, Erik's friend told us that it was no rebel, but something far worse than that. He just barely ran into safety when he heard a roar. An out of the ordinary roar."
Raj'ah looked away.
"Are you okay?"
"I just feel so bad for you, Alex." Raj'ah sighed.
I looked at him and snuggled against him. "I miss him so much."
Raj'ah held onto his mate. He knows what she is talking about because he was there.
He was about to kill the male when he spotted something in his system. Some ugly stuff in his spine. He let him go. He looked at him and left. He almost disappeared when he heard a scream. He turned around and spotted the ooman male's spine being ripped off by an invisible force. Raj'ah looked at his hunt brother in shock. He just killed an ill ooman male. "That will get you on the path of becoming a bad blood!" Raj'ah growled at his invisible brother. "Male oomans are worthy sport." "This ooman is sick!" Raj'ah screamed. "It's life, Raj'ah." An Yautja looked at him with an evil grin. "Grand Elder Cetanu will not be so pleased!" "He doesn't need to worry, Raj'ah." A voice said that got him to bow onto his knees. "Rise, my young Hunter." Raj'ah rose to see Grand Elder Cetanu looking upon the remains of a male ooman. "You know it's against our laws to kill an sickly ooman, Brutal." Brutal bowed and growled to himself. "That ooman male is weak and pathetic!" Cetanu looked upon the dead male and Raj'ah before turning his head back to Brutal. "For that, Brutal, you will pay the price." Cetanu barked from behind and out came 3 guards who appeared. "Take this bad blood on board the ship and put him in a holding cell." The three guards took Brutal away while Raj'ah looked upon the dead body. He saw something shiny around the male's neck. A tag of sorts. With his fingers, he brushed away the blood and saw the name printed on there:
Erik Garcia
US Army
Roman Catholic
Raj'ah looked some more and found a picture of the male ooman and a very young girl that he recognized as Alex. He looked at Cetanu as he pulled out a blue vile. He dumped it on the male's body and it dissolved into dust. "Come, Raj'ah." Cetanu said. "We better get going before the oomans arrive." Raj'ah bowed and looked at the tags, and the picture and placed it in his satchel and left earth with his adopted father.
While she got up and went to the bathroom, Raj'ah went to his private stash and looked at the picture of his mate when she was a pup with her cousin and laying below is the male's tags. Conflicted with this issue, he put the photo and the tags away. He saw his mate all clean and with some fresh clothes on.
"Let's get something to eat." Raj'ah suggested.
"Good idea, Raj'ah." I smiled and left the room.
Meanwhile, Rai'eka came in and looked at her twin brother still standing by the dresser.
"You haven't told her yet. Haven't you?"
Raj'ah shook his head.
"Alex has every right to know what happened to her male cousin."
"What?"
Rai'eka and Raj'ah turned their heads and saw me standing at the doorway.
"What do you mean my cousin?"
Rai'eka looked at Raj'ah and nodded at him. He walked up and went into the draw and pulled out a picture and the tags. He handed them to me who looked at the picture.
"That's my cousin, he's like a big brother to me." I placed the picture down and spotted some dried blood on the dog tags. I looked at Raj'ah with fear in her eyes.
"It can't be..."
"Im so sorry, Alex."
He saw me collapsing on the ground. He heard me crying, clutching the photo and the dog tags in my hands. Raj'ah walked over to his mate and kneeled down before me.
"NO!" I screamed at him, backing away from him.
"You knew that my cousin was dead and you didn't tell me?!"
Raj'ah, unsure of what to say now tried to come closer to me.
"What happened to him for real?!"
"He was killed by a bad blood named Brutal."
I shook her head, wishing that it was a dream.
I looked up and spotted Raj'ah coming near me.
"Just STAY AWAY FROM ME!" I screamed at him, getting up and looked at him until she ran out of the room and out of the dwelling.
I ran through town with tears in my eyes. I couldn't believe it, Erik died overseas and it wasn't an ordinary rebel that murdered him, it was a rouge Yautja that killed my cousin. My big brother figure who was always there for me no matter what circumstances I was in. I kept running, unsure of where I was going until I went into the forest by myself. I looked around the area. Lots and lots of trees. I walked through the forest and spotted a cave. I walked inside of it and sat down in the ground. I looked through the photo and tears streamed down my cheeks. I hoped that my cousin would come home for my 8th birthday, but all I got was a phone call from my uncle saying that his only son went missing and that his body was never found. Wiping the tears from my eyes, I heard a sound that got me freaking out. I held my breath until that noise was gone. Placing the picture and the dog tags behind the rock, I got up and walked outside of the cave. I looked around for a moment until all the sudden I felt a pinch. I turned around and spotted an Yautja who looks like it has markings of some sorts, holding a needle. Before I can confront him, I felt darkness creeping up on me.
"Stay awake stay awake..." I reminded myself, but whatever that Yautja injected me was so strong that I can't fight it any longer. Darkness consumed me before I can see the eyes of my kidnapper.