1. Redemption: Prologue and Ch.1


    Date: 2/17/2017, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: Levanahyll, Source: LushStories

    ... last second tore the alien’s throat out. The creature hissed and stood over its kill, defying anyone to come near. When no one else made a move toward it, the creature spun and leapt toward her. Rayne stood completely still as she took in the shiny silver mask and tattered gladiators suit the creature wore. His white hair was a tangled mess around his shoulders. She really had no inkling as to whether or not the creature was male. His body remained concealed at all times with a dirty old gladiators suit and a silver mask covered everything except his mouth. She called him Boy Rayne because of what was on his ripped suit, 30YR4YN. She’d tried to befriend him, offered him part of her food rations, but he’d always been aloof. Now, he swept her up in his arms and carried her up. With a mighty leap, Boy jumped to the catwalks overhead. She clung to him as he ran along the metal walkways. He didn’t stop until he carried her to his lair. Rayne shivered as he lay her down in a nest of blankets. She was already trembling, not from cold or fright. She eyed her damaged leg. The blood continued to run from four jagged gashes. It burned. Most likely poisoned. Boy gripped her thigh with his hand. She blinked in dismay when she noticed he was missing three fingers, and his other arm ended in a stump. Unaware of her horror struck gaze, he bent and put his mouth over her wounds. He began to suck at the blood. Rayne moaned, falling back as the pain in her leg increased. Was he going to eat ...
    ... her? She could feel his sharp fangs as he sucked the wound. Her vision swam and she struggled to breathe. Boy began to snarl. “Easy there, kitty cat,” she heard Yourko, the owner of the club say. “You two are in a mess now.” Boy snarled louder. Rayne blinked the dark shadows clouding her vision, but the coldness in her body stole higher up her body. She was loosing consciousness. “King Dred’s men are demanding I hand her over because of what you did.” Boy snarled louder this time. Yourko sighed. “I don’t want to, Kitty cat, but if I don’t they’ll torch the whole place and kill everyone inside.” Rayne thought of the hundreds of dancers Yourko had given refuge to, even Boy Rayne, who’d been left in the spaceport hangar on the brink of death by his previous owners. She wasn’t worth anything, not enough to merit the deaths of hundreds of other people on her account. “L-let me go—“ she breathed out just before darkness claimed her. Chapter One The grass whispered against his legs. It was waist high, yellowed, and brittle from lack of moisture. The sun baked his head, and a little drop of sweat made its way down his back. Lucien listened closely to the silence of death all around him. The trees were black, knotted bare limbs twisting up to the cloudless sky. The hot breeze blew strands of his hair across his face as he blinked at the desolation around him. Why am I here?— he thought to himself. He turned slowly and looked over to where the mansion should have been standing. To the ...
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