(The long wait is over, sorry school is more work than it lets on. Enjoy!)
CH3
Out in the desert, beyond any Earthling eye', standing out in the light sand like a sore thumb was a dark gray building. Inside was a vast network of smaller building contacted to the bigger one. Once belong to Earthling business men of the past, the building was converted to be the base the Azerovian insiders…
Inside one of the smaller building was the Azerovian equivalent to a lab/hospital. A bed lay in the middle of the room where viewing crystals that put next to specific parts of the body of a scrawny, shriveled green Earthling. The crystals were able to see inside the body at the organs to see any problems. As far as the Azerovians watching the boy was concerned, he was okay, except for the mass bandages on the shoulder of the patient.
Raven watched as the boy slept uncomfortably. If it weren't for the straps on the bed holding him down, the boy would've been tossing and turning disrupting the crystals' magic. The boy was sweating, his breath was fast, and it seemed the boy was having nightmares. As Raven continued watching the boy, for the first time seeing the shape shifter in the first place, she felt pity on the boy. Before the Azerovians cleaned the of the blood and sand, ridding the wild human of its fowl smell and putting descent cloths on, he looked wild and dangerous, now except for the boy's long tangled green hair, he almost looked human…
While watching Raven, her brother Edgar came right beside her. "It's amazing," Edgar said, snapping Raven back to her surroundings.
"What's amazing?" Raven asked.
"That he could survive in this waste land at all." Edgar responded. "But it makes me wonder if he was born wild or not." Raven was thinking the same thing. As she continued glancing at the boy, she wondered out loud:
"If he wasn't born in the wild, why was it that he became wild?" She said.
Edgar raised his eyebrow, before he turned away to cough. After all, he was still sick the minute two Azerovian soldiers came to discover him. Azerovian medicine proved inadequate to his illness, which baffles the Azerovians now. To them Edgar's illness was strange and foreign, for Edgar he took it for granted and didn't dwindle on the thought of being completely healthy.
Raven didn't say a word to Edgar when he recovered. She knew Edgar's illness like the back of her own hand. Right now her twin was healthy as he could be and that this was coughing was just a reminder of his suffering. As the Roth twins gazed at the figure of the strange, mysterious green shape shifter, they began to notice that the crystals were turning bright red.
As Raven and Edgar watched, the green boy began to move frantically. In the next few seconds, the boy's eyes were wide open. The eyes frantically looked over its surroundings. Not knowing where he was or why the green boy was here, the boy thrashed around violently. Soon the straps began to weaken; to was only as matter of him before the boy broke through…
The twins backed away the minute the boy was awake. He screeched and screamed in language a way that they realized it was the same as the tribesmen the Azerovians saw the other day then he began screaming in a tongue close to the white man's words. Raven and her brother couldn't figure out what he was saying, but the minute the boy was loose from the straps, the boy morphed into another creature, this one closely resembled the giant lizard, except it was smaller than it but bigger than Raven and Edgar, the snout was long with teeth like blades, with quill like hair coming out of the back of the creatures head, at its feet was a long curved claw.
The creature noticed them; it let out a terrifying screech. Knowing Slade or Blood or any one notices the shape shifter loose, it was too late. The shape shifter launched itself at the twins. Raven and Edgar jumped away from each other but dodged the shifter. The shifter landed but tripped over its own feet, the small lizard turned its attention to Edgar now trying to crawl away. The shifter snarled as it moved toward the boy, with all of it strength landed its foot on Edgar's back.
Edgar screamed, he tried to resist but the shifter's form was strong. The shifter moved its head closer to Edgar's face that he could feel the warmth, yet chill of the shifter's breathe. Opening its mouth, showing Edgar its teeth, it let out a scream, and then all of a sudden Edgar felt the shifter's weight lifted off of him and the shifter flying off across the room.
"Get away from my brother!" Raven said while her magic filled her eyes.
Edgar scrambled by Raven's side. When the shifter got to its feet, turning towards the twins it let out a roar and charged.
"AzarathMetrionZinthos!" Both yelled and a black and white mass of energy flew from their hand and strike the shifter sending it again across the room. This shifter kept getting up and charged, but this time it was slower and not as quick.
After the standoff the shifter stopped. It's breathed heavily and looked as near to collapse as anything. Finally the shape shifter formed back into its human form. Standing their naked and vulnerable to the Roth twins' attack, the shifter looked at them with those big beautiful jade and nodded that came with a weak smile. Edgar and Raven came close to the boy when the boy passed out once again.
Minutes later Slade followed by Azerovian mages and soldiers came in. They found the room a disaster, with Raven and Edgar holding the shifter in their arms. Raven explained what happened. But what most of the Azerovians found interesting was the fact the boy knowledge defeat…To them that was sign of intelligence…
Months later…
The shifter's health increased slowly since the Azerovians brought him in. His wounds had healed and he grown to accept the Azerovians as his keepers as he was their prisoner. He was kept under constant watch, not by the soldiers but by the Roth twins. Even though he remembered attacking them long ago, he grew fond of them. The language they spoke he couldn't understand. Little by little the shifter could catch a few words here and there. But he didn't let them know he was observing them and made sure he spoke little.
By the time he figured what they were saying, the shifter wanted to know more about these 'Azerovians' as they calm themselves. Their style was different than any people he observed before. Not only the language, but the clothing and their matter of the arrogance of the Earth culture on Africa.
The Azerovians made him clothing that fit, and to him they were the most comfortable he ever wore. He didn't like them to touch his hair; he liked it long and messy. What the shifter liked most about the Azerovians they didn't restrain him from running around the compound or exercising, only that the Roth twins were there to watch him. Another reason was the food…
He sat next to Raven, as they call her, at dinner one night. He ate all things not meatish. (he explained that by throwing the meat to the floor the first time they tried to feed him meat) as he ate his food quietly while the rest of the Azerovians talked, but the Azerovian with the one eye talked the most.
"So, Blood what have found out about the Earthlings near the northing sea." Slade asked.
"Nothing special, except that those Earthlings speak something totally different language especially the thing that one man calls and every man, women and child just bow down and worship. At first I thought they were worshiping the sun, and then I learned that they were worshiping a god." Blood said taking a drink.
"What else?" Slade said, looking towards the twins.
"Well," Raven said, as she pointed to the shifter. "it has seemed that he knows our words when we tell him when it is time to go, or when it is time to leave."
"Good," Slade said, turning back to Blood. "Do you have a name for this worship?"
Blood gave a blank stare, like he was asked something he never heard of.
"It is called Islam." The shifter said in their tongue. "And the people Muslim."
Everyone stopped what they were doing. Raven and Edgar looked more astonished than Slade or Blood or any of the soldiers and mages sitting at the table. For months the Azerovians thought this shifter was dumb and wild, but for him to speak not only a full sentence, but said it in their own language.
"Incredible!' Slade said. "You speak Azerovian? Since when?"
"For awhile." The shifter said. "I'm not as dumb as you people think of me. I'm quite smart if you let me show it." Raven smiled at that, Edgar tried not to smile to big and Slade thought this was even more great than before.
"Do you have a name?" Raven asked.
"Garfield Logan." The shifter responded. "And may I ask what country are you from?"
"Country?" Slade asked himself. "Do you mean where we are from?"
"Is there a difference?" Garfield asked.
"We come from beyond the stars from an empire that expands multiple systems called Azerovia." Edgar answered before Slade could.
"You mean you guys are aliens?" Garfield said.
"Aliens?" Raven asked.
"You guys have no clue what I'm talking about do you?"
"No," Slade said.
"Let me get this straight, you Azerovians are alien here to conquer Earth?"
"Yes, but we are expeditionary forces to see how Earth works and see if we can use it against them when the invasion actually comes." Slade explained.
"Then you guys have a lot to learn. You see this continent can easily be conquered. Hardly any industry, we are inferior to most other countries, especially those beyond the Mediterranean Sea. Some nations have weapons powerful as the Sun and machines that can make nature bow to its knees." Garfield explained.
Soon the Azerovians forgot their dinner and listened to Garfield the Shifter as he explained why some people were weak and others strong. Slade and the others asked questions of why this is important and how could it be exploited. By the time the Azerovians got all they could from the boy, it was nearly midnight.
"So, you guys are here to conquer Earth and its people. But about Earth's nature? Animals, plants, and the oceans? Are you guys going to exploit them too?" Garfield asked.
"We haven't thought that far." Slade said.
Garfield sighed. "Despite what some human did to me, experiments, torture, I have grown to hate humans, but nature I love. These humans are here to take advantage of it and use for destruction."
"May I ask, if we promise to help Earth as we conquer it, are you willing to help us understand this planet for the invasion?" Slade said.
Garfield blinked and thought. But seeing how these Azerovians have helped him. For the first time in his life, before this curse of his took over, he felt happiness.
He looked straight into Slade's eyes, "As you command."
(Invasion is soon to come...only reviews can make me continue, but also I'm writing my Present Darkness so time has to be put in it also.)