Nova: A Scifi Alien Romance (Rebel Lords) Read Online Free

were just vile and boar-faced. There was something about her that was almost…. sexy . And it unnerved me completely. Julia was just as pigheaded as the rest of the humans, completely blind to the destruction the humans were bringing to Shaviro. If anything, I should want to kill her just for the things she had said. But, I didn’t even have the urge. Perhaps the urge to smack her in the mouth, but nothing that could cause bodily harm. I tried to convince myself that was because she was already in rough shape, and that I needed her alive to use her for bargaining—but I knew that those reasons weren’t all of it. It all was driving me completely insane.
    As I sat watching over her, there was a jolting explosion from outside, shaking the hut and all of my belongings. I rose to my feet and ran out of the hut, looking around to see my people scrambling from the panic of whatever had caused the explosion. My eyes jumped around until they landed on my second in command, Dran, who was running up to me. “Nova! The humans have opened up a new mining location just outside the village. It isn’t as large as the other, but it’s much closer.”
    My eyes narrowed at the news, looking to the sky to see thick black clouds of smoke coming from the west. They were mining just on the brink of the jungle, closest to our village; and they were using explosives to create craters in the earth to expose the site. My eyes fell back onto Dran, “Prepare the men. Bring on archers and the lower ranks. We’ll need them to help us destroy that site,” I instructed him. Dran gave a brisk nod. “We’ll attack tomorrow.”
    Dran ran off to gather the men to inform them of the attack. I briskly walked towards the building where we had kept the additional weapons. Traditionally our people only made one weapon per warrior, but with the relentlessness of the attacks we had planned, our blacksmiths had created several backup weapons. Every warrior had a traditional sword, a laser weapon of choice, and a war-hammer. They had also made an abundance of arrows for our archers. I knew it wasn’t the best or the noblest to use access materials to make weapons, when we were fighting humans because they were using too many resources. But, our expansion of weapons was a miniscule amount of additional materials compared to what the humans had extracted from Shaviro.
    I checked over the weapons to make sure we had enough war-hammers. We were going to destroy any equipment they had to set them back as much as possible. I have had it with the humans and their selfishness. I was taking back Shaviro by force, no matter the consequences. No longer would I or my people be disrespected. Once I saw that we did, I grabbed one for myself and crossed it over my sword. War-hammers were heavy from the metal plates, but it wasn’t too much. Walking back, I headed to meet up with Dran and the warriors to discuss strategies; already ideas were formulating in my mind.

5
    Julia
    M y body turned as I slept, but when I did, a dull pain shot through my side. The pain woke me up, my eyes fluttering open. Ugh, I had never felt so groggy and disoriented. I couldn’t even remember where I was and why I was in pain. As my eyes regained focus and looked about, reality came crashing down. My convoy had been attacked, my best friend murdered, and I was kidnapped and held captive by a savage group of aliens—not before being beaten to a pulp, though.
    After a few moments of just lying there and gaining my strength, I finally pushed myself to sit up. I strained to do so with the large open wound on my side and my back covered in bruises, but I did it. My head spun a little bit when I did, really being able to feel how groggy I was. That painkiller he gave me must have really doped me up. Hell, it probably was some sort of native street drug or something. My eyes fell to my hands, my wrists bound together with a strange thick black lock; my ankle was tied with a regular rope to the leg