Chapter 10: Momentum For Wolves'

(Garit's P.O.V.)

How was such a pitiful and pathetic excuse for a guard such as that human able to best me, when I was entirely outfitted!? I growled as I stalked over to my chair, scattering a few of my troops as I went through them. Next time I will make short work of both him and the princess; his only advantage was his backup… He may be resilient to my attacks, but I will just throw more his way next time he crosses my path. "Medic, get over here!" I barked out as I sat down in my command chair. My leg was throbbing dully, but I ignored it as I saw the small hound running over to me. He dares to wound me; I will kill him for his incompetence!

"Deal with the leg injury." I growled out as my fangs bared, and I looked over him and around the vast room. His race still uses ballistic weaponry, such a primitive but annoying form of combat. It will be easy to overtake his military once we start the assault on his planet.

When I felt my wound being tightened, I looked down and saw the medic applying the medicine that re-stitches skin while also cleaning it. It itched as he rubbed the area around the stab with a disinfectant of some kind, and it left my skin feeling rather hot and heated as it puffed up small amounts of smoke.

As the medic finished his work, he began to slink away slowly, and I growled, "Get me a phone, it is time to bring in some hired hands…"

(Wolf's P.O.V.)

I was looking up at Krystal as her head poked over the edge of her bed with a look of concern and confusion. While I was staring at her, I couldn't help but thinking of the frightening discovery I had just made. "Wolf, are you alright?"

She asked the question of a lifetime. To wake up next to an alien is one thing alone, but when that alien just happens to be a female, it makes it worse; and to add toppings to the cake, she was practically wearing nothing. I groaned quietly as I looked away and said, "Yes, except for the fact that I somehow ended up in your bed, not to mention we were both wearing a minimum of clothing I was not expecting." I looked back at her, "…why was I in your bed in the first place?"

She smiled as she ran a hand through her fur between her ears and down to her neck, "You will be marrying me in a few days, which is why."

If I had been standing, I would have collapsed on the spot from how shaky they would've gotten. Instead, I felt like I melted on the floor as I couldn't control my muscles, and then Krystal added, "It is only because Tyler that your pants are on instead of proper sleeping garments."

Proper Garments!? I steep with a shirt and shorts on; pants aren't that far from shorts, what is proper if that isn't!? I felt my cheeks burn slightly as she smiled at me with a mischievous grin, "It varies between species on how a couple sleeps. For fox's, it would be where you sleep in… what was it called.. Boxers I believe?"

"B-B-Boxers!?" I yelped out in surprise as I quickly made sure my pants were tightly secured to my waist. I kept a hand on my jeans loops as I asked, "How did Tyler keep you from forcing me to use 'proper' garments?"

She giggled as she said, "He said it was about proper etiquette before a marriage to not even sleep with their partner, but his mind said otherwise…" She sighed as I stood up, and she added, "I'm sorry by the way…"

When I gave her a questioning look, she went back to where she had been sleeping as I sat down on the edge of the bed, just in case she tried something. "Firstly, I'm sorry about hitting you with my staff… but I wasn't going to let a human I didn't know lay a hand on me. I'm slightly sorry about stomping on your feet in the dance event, even though you were being cold… but I'm mostly sorry for forcing you into this marriage, but I didn't…"

She stopped as she turned away as her eyes watered up from where I could see. Her head was turned towards the open window, and towards the slowly rising sun. I scooted further onto the bed and placed a hand on her shoulder as I asked, "Didn't what Krystal?"

After about a few minutes, she looked over at me as she said quietly, "I didn't want to lose you again… after you left… I was alone." Her eyes began to leak tears slowly as she held my gaze, "Theo was killed in the attack, and he was my only true friend… when you left, it was only a week after that humans began to come to Cerinia somehow."

Before I could respond, she gripped me in a death-like hug that crushed my bruised ribs. By now, Krystal was crying as I let out a strangled gasp of pain, "The other diplomats… were completely… j-jerks. It made me… t-think that y-your affection… was all f-f-fake!"

I was crying myself now as I struggled to breath, and I was slowly trying to push Krystal away. Kry… Krystal…

"I f-felt l-l-like no one w-would und-derstand me…" she continued to sob into my shoulder as lights flashed across my vision, and my strength began to falter. Krystal… please… pain… I felt the tears silently rolling down my face and possibly on Krystal's fur. Now that I was close to passing out from the pressure across my wounds, and the lack of air, it didn't bother me too much that Krystal was only in the equivalent of a swimsuit; since I couldn't really think at the current moment.

Krystal raised her head off from my chest as she looked up at me, and from what I saw, her tears seemed to disappear as she let go of me. I felt myself fall back onto her plush blankets, and I took in a gasp of air as I closed my eyes, causing the lights to stop flashing across my vision. I had a headache that racked my mind, but I still could think clearly, T-T-Thanks… darling…

She appeared over me with what could pass as a thankful, but curious smile of her own. I smiled back as the 'darling' part came back to me, and I couldn't help but raise a hand and bring it to my forehead. Since I don't really have a choice for the marriage anymore… I guess I can treat you like I would a girlfriend or wife… but what do I tell my family?

When I let her in on that thought, her smile dropped slightly as she continued to look into my eyes with a light in her eyes. "I hadn't thought about that… when I made that proposal."

I winced slightly, and I looked away and towards the open window, and I said, "Well… I guess it was about time I moved out of the house… I doubt it would be alright for you to live on my planet." If I brought her home, to my planet, I could only fathom how much of a horrible experience that would be for her, and I didn't want to risk it and force her to go do something as dangerous as that. I slowly began to sit up so I could move around as Krystal seemed to be thinking.

After I was up, I looked over at Krystal, and I admit, I looked her body over. It wasn't like I hadn't thought about what she looked like before, since I had, but I was just curious more than anything else. She genuinely looked like an animal from Earth, but the only paws she had were her feet, but human like. Her hands were like my own, but they were covered in fur instead of being bare. She even had the physique of a human female, but everything, everywhere, was covered in fur. I looked up as I took in the sight of her animalistic ears, and I lowered my gaze and looked at her mouth, which was like a dog's muzzle, but shorter and narrower. Her muzzle had a smirk over it as I began to look up, and I met her gaze with my own. Her eyes were just like humans, if not bigger, but that didn't stop me from heating up around my cheeks as she asked, "What were you looking at Wolf?"

I chuckled quietly as I averted my gaze from hers, busted… "I decided to take a closer look at my future wife… despite appearance, you really are just like any human female." I chuckled again quietly; you sure kiss like one too…

The response I got from her was a giggle, and a smile as I looked over at her as she herself blushed. You sure made my wakeup awkward, I decided to mask my thoughts and added, time for a little romantic payback. "You may have similarities to a human female, but I can tell you that you are much more different when it comes to looks and who you are. You are unique with whom you are, and if you were a human, you would be a crystal among stones…"

She looked at me with a curious gaze as I said that and I winced as I thought it over. "That didn't come out right… what I'm trying to say, bluntly, is you are amazing, and are beautiful beyond belief. Your personality alone outshines every other I have ever met, and that is what i… what I…"

Say it already Wolf… I won't bite…

I chuckled as her voice sounded in my mind, how do I know that?

As she shook her head with an amused look, I said, "What I think is we should get dressed… well, more of you should, and I need to go to my room to-"

"Tsk, that is now Tyler's room; this is our room now that we are an official couple." Krystal said as she wrapped her arms around one of mine.

I nodded as she placed a head on my shoulder, and I began to talk once more, "Anyways, I need to get to Tyler's room to see if he has a spare shirt."

As she removed her head and arms from my body, I said, "And if you wouldn't mind, I need to take a shower or bath afterwards… Tyler and I didn't have one in the room."

Krystal nodded and said, "Yes, we found out you two didn't know where it was the previous night, after we had you all bandaged up… but go ahead and go get that shirt, there will be a guard for you outside and down the hallway. I will be waiting for you to get back…"

Scooting over and off of the plushy and soft bed, I walked towards the door as I straightened my pants. Grabbing the door handle, I opened it, and looked back one more time, and saw Krystal sliding a robe over her shoulders as her tail swished around behind her. I smiled as I turned around and closed the door as I stepped out into the hallway, and I looked over and saw a guard standing about ten meters down the hallway. I started to walk over to him, careful to not be too quiet since he was facing the other way.

Tapping the guard on his shoulder, he looked back at me before he stepped away from me and faced me with a shocked expression. "Uh, sorry about that, but can you lead me to Tyler's room?"

"Yes, sir." The guardsman said as he began to walk down the long corridor, and I followed beside him in silence. When we reached an intersection with two more guards, they snapped to rigid attention, and I felt like I was going to be shot at a moment's notice. As we passed them, I heard one of them sigh as the other said, "That is the one…"

We grew further away from them as I couldn't pick up what they were saying anymore. I looked over at the guard that I was following, and I saw he was looking straight ahead with a stern and… shocked, surprised… what is that look.

Ignoring it as being nothing to important, so I turned back forward, and saw another group of guards at an intersection, and this time, one of the guards was a female. While the males all stiffened and stood straighter, I saw her eyes track me as her muzzle hung open. I smiled as I passed her, and this seemed to shock her as her eyes widened slightly. When we passed the intersection I faced back forward as I felt myself frown slightly. Once more I heard the hushed whispers from behind me, "I heard he took on Garit..."

Well… if that is what they are talking about, then at least I know why they are now acting strangely instead of hostile to me.

We stopped outside a door, and I grabbed the handle, but the guard that led me here tapped me on the shoulder. Turning to look at him, I asked, "Yes, what can I do for you…?"

He seemed to hesitate when I asked that, and he straightened as he finally asked, "Um, sir… is it… true that you saved Cerinia from the rebels?"

Smiling, I nodded as I said, "I didn't know I was saving it when I took out William… I just thought I was saving Krystal and her family at the time."

He nodded, but just as I began to turn around, he asked, "Is it also true that you took on Garit in a fight… and won?"

Facing the guard again, I said quietly, "I wouldn't say I won, or else I wouldn't have these bandages on."

"With all due respect, sir, anyone and everyone else that has ever fought him in solo combat has been killed… so I believe that makes you the winner, sir."

I smiled as I placed a hand on his armored shoulder, and I said, "Well, thanks for the compliment. Have a good day now; I will walk back to Krystal's room when I'm ready."

Turning back and walking into the room, I saw a husky, Samantha, sitting along a bed, and I felt my eyebrow rise as she turned and looked at me…