Faux Realm Ch. 03

Last of the 8 rooms was about to be entered and they saw it was opened, a huge dent just on the side of the wall where the doors stood few feet away. Inside it there were a big metal doors lying on the ground. The doors were beat, broken and bent in weird shape like what broke through them made sure that they could never use them again. The inhuman strength that took to do this made everybody shiver in their suits.

The situation was not better on the bridge as they saw what state the supposed abandoned mine was in, bodies and death. There was no doubt at what people that died there were in state of horror and shock. Whatever haunted and killed them was bent on it and could not dissuaded from it.

They entered the last room, 2 last bodies made their eyes water. A man and a woman in their 60's lied on the ground hugging each other. Evident was the last thing as they wanted to tell how each felt about the other. Luca took his samples and took his pictures. He did not know why but this sight sickened him more than any other. He could see clear love.

"I've taken pictures and samples. My wrist scanner can't say much about what did this, but when we get to our ship I will run it through more detailed scans. Maybe they will tell us more." Luca explained.

"Sir, what about these doors anything on them that could tell us what did this?" First officer asked.

He shook his head saying, "Nothing at all, the doors are sterile."

"How can that be?" One person exclaimed. "These two people entered, there should be at least their genetic matter."

"Like I said nothing on the doors. I can guess at what did this but it would be only a guess." Luca explained.

Thinking for few seconds he continued, "We will take the bodies with us, whatever we might find out my headquarters would help more, I have plenty of material to work with."

After brief exchange they started to collect the broken bodies and seal them up in white bags. Apart from one man retching into his helmet after the body that he was carrying decided to spill its guts all over the floor no other problems were encountered.

"Who were they? Stuck miners?" One woman asked.

"I do not think so. That ship that crashed into this facility could tell us more. We will attempt to salvage it when we get to our ship, maybe with it we can find out more." First officer said.

They all nodded and entered their craft, bodies were carefully placed in the interior. After taking their EV suits few men obviously sniffed the air in an attempt to smell the bodies that were neatly sealed in the white canvas bags. Luca gently smiled as he understood them, when he first encountered this technology he was curious to see it work. No odors or smells from bodies would come through, but none stayed in, everything was processed inside the canvas bags by a special fabric that came from a special plant. Neutralizing any smells that might come in contact with it.

Everything was set in motion as Luca desperately wanted to know what happened here.

*

Lucian was looking aghast as a woman was riding him to another climax. Both women in fact were on him as soon as they entered their personal quarters on the God of War, the first thing he noticed was that the green woman had intricate tattoo going around her body. He tried to follow the design for few minutes while he was kissing her body, but in the end the design was just too complex. So he resolved himself to imagining where the tattoo ended.

Liza was busy kissing Ericha as climax after climax rushed through her ravaged body. Unable to keep herself up, she plopped down on Lucians' chest, for one Lucian could feel her body shivering, while she was busy feeling the ecstatic climax.

They were busy for few hours playfully exploring each other, they were figuring out what works for one lover. While two of them were sexually familiar to one another, the third partner, in this case Lucian, was a mystery. His apparent sack was mysterious as both women took time to inspect that enigmatic blob of flesh.

Lucian untangled his body from Ericha. He had to be careful since Ericha was passed out on his chest. Guiding her gently to lie down next to her lover was no easy task but eventually Lucian managed to put her down undisturbed. Grabbing a towel he trotted happily toward the shower that was adjacent to his room. Turning to take another look of his 2 lovers he shook his head when he saw them sleeping peacefully.

After he was done showering and drying off a soft chime on the door called out to him. Fumbling for few moments he eventually opened the doors but saw no one was on the other side. "Strange." He thought. He did not think that pranks were a part of this society. Another soft chime directed his attention to a console on a wall.

It was unfamiliar piece of technology as he never handled one during his stay on VenuuX. Pressing the largest button managed only to turn the lights to highest setting, but nothing else helped, as the chimes continued in regular intervals. Pressing 4 out of 10 buttons he still did not find the one that did what the chime wanted him to do, eventually punching the damn thing in frustration made the poor piece of tech stop entirely.

It was confusing how something so small could be so annoyingly difficult. He kept bashing it into the steel wall until all of it electric guts were throw to the outside. Catching himself in the midst of releasing his rage as he repeatedly punched the poor panel, one look down and he saw that his fist was bleeding. Blood was dripping down his flesh and onto the floor as mesh of wires, sparks and sticky liquid oozed down from the battered panel.

First thing his conscious brain saw was a hand guiding him gently to a bed, while he was there his eyes let him recognize Liza's scared face as she took his hand and applied a device on several places where his hand was cut through. The device emitted one click after another with each open wound and after she placed it beside the bed he observed that it used some sort of pressure to staple his skin back together. There was no pain, no threads just scared skin that was bleeding moments before.

"What was that?" She asked looking him in the face.

"I do not know what happened. I'm not usually aggressive. But that never happened." He explained.

"Tell me; what were you doing before that happened?" Liza asked.

"I heard a sound coming from that panel and I pressed one button, then another one, the noise did not stop. I just wanted the noise to stop." He was looking somewhere far, far away.

Both of them fell silent, unsure as to what to say to the other party, Ericha was blissfully unaware about their plight. Her own battered body, from few dozen climaxes, was unable to refresh as fast as apparently Amoran did, Liza was on her knees and gently stroking Lucians' knees as he just sat there in aching silence.

A figure was standing at the front door, wearing combat uniform, waiting for someone to address it. Liza raised gracefully and walked to it, eventually coming back to Lucian and saying, "Luca need's us, we've arrived to your home planet."

Elated, Lucian jumped to his feet, but before he rushed out the door he turned and gently caressed Ericha's cheek, careful not to wake the sleeping beauty he then gently moved covers over her nude body. Smiling to himself at the nubile body he then started rushing, remembering finally that he was unfamiliar with the layout of the ship.

Finally turning towards Liza, he saw that a woman in her forties stood at the door and waited patiently with a smile on her face. She wore her combat uniform with grace and he could see even though she was older a spark of youth could be seen in her eyes. Green eyes, and dark brown hair she looked like any other woman from Earth, like most people he saw on VenuuX and its stations, she truly reminded him of his home, and if Lucian saw her anywhere else he would not think what she really was. "I'm sorry, I did not mean to ignore you I was just so happy that I finally arrived at my destination."

Holding her hand up to stop him she said, "It's no big deal really, I can understand someone wanting to see their home so desperately."

"You do?" Lucian was confused for a second, but before he could correct himself she continued.

"Yes all of us on this ship spend months in space in various systems, often we are unable to communicate if the mission calls for it, so most of us here understand how you feel."

Lucian wanted to move the conversation towards something else, since he was essentially at his home and they were risking everything to bring him here so he introduced himself, "I'm Lucian by the way."

"Morgana." She smiled and took a long look at Lucian with her green eyes.

"You know I do not mean to pry, but why are you dressed in that combat gear." He asked.

"I was just practicing, and before I could change I was asked to get you to bridge since we arrived in your home system." She answered.

*

Walking behind Lucian, Liza watched silently the ongoing conversation. Smile on her face, walking with grace she could not do anything else but enjoy the ongoing conversation between her lover and this woman. Lucian, just few days ago, was a shy man that thought he was being secretive with his glances, she left her body exposed enjoying his secretive advances. Finding it quite intoxicating that a man would even look at her in such a way, she was surprised yet again when he revealed his most inner emotions, not backing down even before the idea of being bonded with a flawed woman. A squid. People used many different names, but that one stung more than any other. She was pleased, turned on even when she saw his rage when Prosecutor Lineas used the name to degrade her even further. Lucian stuck by her side and she managed to push any thoughts of ending it all, Ericha was her only friend, her stone, but even she could not be here for her all the time. It was quite different feeling when they decided to introduce Lucian into their family she was reluctant, apprehensive and did not know what to expect. But now she dreaded the moment she might have to let him go, his own world waited00 for him, as is his family.

"You all right my love?" Lucian soft voice woke her up from the ever growing spiral of dark emotions.

She was confused when she felt his hands on her face, and saw his gaze was staring her down with worry. Liza gently nodded and was surprised again when Lucian wrapped his hands around her, she managed to hide her extra arms as she reluctant, apprehensive exposing them to him even when she saw that he had no fears as the other people that she met. And another positive was that he was not using her for his lust. He lacked the abhorrent depravity that she was used to from few men that she chose to date.

Liza felt his hands gently grab her hands from her back and bring them to his face. He had the kindest face she ever saw, on a man anyway. He kissed them making her silently squeal. Her eyes just then started the water works. She could not stop them if she wanted to, and she did not want. Entombing he face into his chest Liza silently cried. She was there, for Divine knows how long and was interrupted only by the gentle cough from the woman standing next to Lucian.

"Please, follow me." Gently walking down the corridor she led them to a room

She led them to an elevator and with both arms still around her Lucian picked her up and managed to effortlessly hold her, like she was a precious piece of art. "Aren't I heavy?" She asked with sad expression.

"Not even a little. Are you eating correctly?" Lucian said.

She smiled, he smiled and their silent companion gently smiled next to them. Liza felt a little embarrassed, but before she could apologize to the woman they were already at their stop and the door opened, revealing an area that she very rarely ever saw. Opening before her, doors revealed a room she saw once in a book. While learning the areas of a ship and where to be the most efficient with her abilities as a HyduN division MO, the bridge of a ship contained its brain. If people in here were to get derailed in their work then everything would stop. 6 people in total were on this bridge, the room looked even smaller with the new arrivals as four of the people were manning their consoles and providing the necessary backup for their Captain. Medical Examiner Luca Prom stood near the captain's chair, his visage was giving all of them a sense of newfound purpose. Even though they constantly worked and gave of any reading that their stations would give them.

As they stepped out of the Lift and was greeted, "Welcome to the bridge of God Of War. Commander and First Officer Aaron Dorne at your service. Captain is waiting for you."

*

The man that just approached them led them to a tall chair where a bearded human sat. He had no hair and the only hair on his face was a black and grey beard. He seemed heroic and as Lucian approached him he saw that he was so much more. A stoic statue that reminded Lucian of his father. Lucian had to convince himself that he was not in a company of a human, but the uncanny resemblance made it that much harder. The bearded man stood up and offered his hand, "Lucian Deca I presume. Captain Al'Jafar. We'll get you home as soon as you are ready."

"Do you always let civilians onto your bridge?" Lucian asked with raised eyebrows.

"Well, I managed to hold back on protocol, but sometimes if we are on an escort missions we'll let whoever it was we are transporting to see what they are flying in, most people tend to relax when they see everything is in top notch form." Kind smile washed over his face.

Turning towards one of the consoles in the room he told the man sitting on it, "Let's show our guest his home, and put it on screen."

"Captain I need you over here. I got something on sensors." A polite voice from another console managed to attract the captain's attention.

Few short moments passed and Lucian saw the screen in the middle of the room flicker and eventually show a little blue ball of hope. Lucian's heart started beating like crazy, his home was just moments away. "Let's go meet your family." Luca said and guided Lucian towards the lift.

Lucian knew what Luca wanted to do, and he hoped that his family was safe, eventually it was up to him to make sure that everyone was safe. He wanted to go back to his room and wake Ericha but he found that she happily waited for him in front of a lift just outside where they emerged. Hangar bay was their next stop and it took few minutes for everyone to pile in the shuttle and wait for the pilot to do the final checks.

Flight, or glide down to the ground took very little time and it was more of Lucian's unnecessary fears sprouting up and giving him vivid images of them crashing and burning in a ball of flame. He told them where his parents lived and within minutes they landed at his house. The house, his home was just like he left it all those years ago.

White, old and mighty. Even though Lucian did not have rich background, his home was one of those that went on for generations. 200 year old building, which was nothing more than a shed for his ancestors. The duke gave them this land for the services they did in some skirmish saving some of his own horses. They were slaves, and remained as ones after the fact now they just did not have to worry about their next meal. People many years later overthrew the duke's grandchild and the land and the house went to his family, or in this case his ancestors. The house went through quite recent renovations that made it seem more majestic and serene, but inside was just as any normal, low maintenance home. Guiding his friends in he managed to remain calm. Opening the doors his voice crackled as he yelled out, "Mom, dad I'm home."

Interior looked simple and seemed that no one lived here for quite some time. Sheen of dust and spider web was all over the place as he gazed at the empty state of his home. On the walls there were pictures of him and his siblings with his mother and father, he grabbed one of the pictures where they all took it together and gently smiled. He remembered when it was taken, he was acting up as a young adult, to be seen with his parents in his 20's on a trip even was not heard off and yet here he was yearning for those simpler days. Lucian remembered the patience that his parents showed when he grew up, he offered them nothing but grief, however they still were loving and caring. He showed the picture to Ericha and Liza and they gazed at his family, sympathetic smiles across their face, Luca was next. When he got the picture his reaction almost scared Lucian. To every one's surprise he went outside and started talking to the shuttle pilot.

"We are going, now. Lucian I need you to see something." Luca said and everyone stood confused.

He did not know what happened but the ride back was fast. They disembarked in the hangar and the already flammable atmosphere went in blistering fury. Men guided Lucian towards a Lift in the back of the hangar and soon he, Liza and Ericha were in a room filled with white canvas bags.

Luca strode across the room to two of the canvas bags that stood apart from the others and gently peeled away their covers. Liza and Ericha were further in front and when that happened he could hear them gasp and cover their mouth, as he slowly and cautiously approached his fears boiled.

He finally stood in front the two bags and saw two bodies, a man and a woman. Both were covered in blood. He remembered seeing them somewhere, a gentle image slowly unraveled and he started seeing his parents in the older couple. The pieces slowly fell into their right place and he recognized who he was looking at, moments passed as he gazed at the unnervingly calm picture.

He slowly approached the female form and cupped her head in his hands, slowly kissing her forehead. A tear fell down on her cheek as he wept. Gently stroking her cheek he kissed her and turned toward the male counterpart.

"Father." He whispered.

Another tear fell. He wept cradling both bodies. His mind caught up with what his eyes just had seen. Everyone was silent as he was mourning this man and woman that gifted him life.

Screaming out his rage, guilt, sadness and despair. As he did that every light and appliance in the vicinity flickered and dimmed down, making everyone gaze in fear at Lucian.