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SEERPES'S MATE: A Sci-Fi Monster Romance, page 1
SEERPES'S MATE
SHEYLA DRYMON
Seerpes's Mate: © 2023 by Sheyla Drymon.
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Original title: La compañera del Seerpes.
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CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 43
CHAPTER 44
CHAPTER 45
CHAPTER 46
CHAPTER 47
CHAPTER 48
CHAPTER 49
CHAPTER 50
CHAPTER 51
CHAPTER 52
CHAPTER 53
CHAPTER 54
CHAPTER 55
CHAPTER 56
CHAPTER 57
CHAPTER 58
CHAPTER 59
CHAPTER 60
CHAPTER 61
CHAPTER 62
CHAPTER 63
CHAPTER 64
CHAPTER 65
CHAPTER 66
CHAPTER 67
CHAPTER 68
CHAPTER 69
CHAPTER 70
CHAPTER 71
EPILOGUE
EXTRA EPILOGUE
PROLOGUE
Claudyem
“You're screwed, dear wife.”
Claudyem glared at the screen flickering before her, even though she knew that her partner in crime cared little for that childish gesture.
“Bite your tongue,” she replied, still pressing the buttons on her ship's console. She had been forced to turn off the alarm so she could think clearly without that shrill sound echoing from every corner.
“As you well know, my wife, I have no tongue,” mocked the voice of her personal computer, a model she had acquired years ago at a good price because it was “broken,” according to the words of her trusted dealer. What he didn't tell her when she bought the piece of electronics was that the artificial intelligence the dealer was selling her thought he was a man and kept calling her wife and messing with her.
If it weren't for the fact that she had grown fond of him, she would have turned him off long ago; but on the interstellar trips she made, because of her work, having him for company made her feel less lonely.
“One of these days I'll shut you down,” Claudyem threatened, cursing loudly as nothing she tried could fix the problems her ship was having.
She had narrowly escaped the attack of the Broyx, mercenaries who had been after her since she captured their boss. The bastards had been chasing her through space, and this time, they had taken her by surprise. However, she was lucky because even though they had shot at her, trying to corner Claudyem, she managed to dodge them by diving headfirst into a meteorite field. Her ship was small for one person, and that gave her an advantage in escaping from her pursuers.
But when she managed to get out of the meteorite field, Claudyem could only activate propulsion and perform a space jump, appearing in a sector of space she did not recognize, and which did not appear on her space charts.
“Come on, dammit!” she had burst out, angrily hitting the ship’s control panel.
“You won't get anywhere if you let your emotions get the best of you, my wife.”
“For your information, you crazy fucker, I'm human, so I can't turn off my emotions; although yes, I'm fucked up, pissed off and worried. We're stranded in the middle of nowhere, with the ship about to shut down, and if this happens...”
What she feared most had happened. At that precise moment, the ship had shut down completely.
She had no time to act. In a matter of seconds, the oxygen supply had stopped, as did the gravity control. If it wasn't for the fact that Claudyem had foreseen the latter and therefore activated the seat belts beforehand, she would have been floating through the ship as it began to spin and fall like a bloody meteorite out of control.
Claudyem had wanted to scream but was unable, because fear paralyzed her. She ended up closing her eyes. If the fall towards the planet before her didn't kill her, the high temperatures inside the projectile that her ship had just become would. Or maybe what would end her would be the lack of oxygen that Claudyem had begun to feel after the life support system shut down.
It didn't matter. She was going to die.
“Hold on tight, my wife, we are going to land.”
“Fuck off,” was the last thing she had muttered before passing out from lack of air - something she would later be grateful for, as no one wanted to witness such a landing.
CHAPTER 1
Aeyser
Planet Seerpeland
Something's not right, Aeyser thought as he noticed a vibration in the air. All the scales on his body shivered, and he looked around with narrowed eyes.
Before he could catch anything with his forked tongue, he heard a rumbling sound coming from the sky. He raised his head and was speechless at what he saw. A great ball of fire was falling at high speed and was about to hit his territory.
He moved swiftly, snaking across the rough ground, feeling the stones and fallen branches in the core of his long tail. He knew that jungle well; it belonged to him; he had won that portion of the terrain more than a decade ago by fighting another male.
He didn't know what that fireball was, but he was willing to find out.
Aeyser noticed the exact instant when that ball hit his land. He felt it in his gut and in the vibration that spread through the ground. He moved faster so he could get to the intruder as soon as possible. Aeyser had to find out what that monster from the sky was.
He extended his forked tongue, catching the smell of something burning. He was close, then closer, and even closer to his target.
Aeyser gasped when he saw the wreckage that the monster had caused. It had broken the branches of the trees and caused a large sinkhole in the ground. He hissed angrily, ready to finish off the culprit. His territory was sacred, and he protected it fiercely. He did not allow anyone to cross without his permission, and few males dared to ask him; he only saw the females when the mating season arrived and they had to move in search of a mate to bring about the next generation of seerpes.
He stopped dead in his tracks as soon as he had the intruder in front of him. It glowed with a hue that reminded him of the waters of the lake. It looked like a hard stone that had survived the venom of the snakes in the sky that covered it.
Remaining calm but still on guard, Aeyser approached the silver monster until he could touch it. It was still very warm, although his kind were able to regulate the temperature of their scales, adapting to the climatic changes of the planet. He skimmed the surface and was surprised to perceive no heartbeat. If there had been life on this being before, it had been extinguished as a result of the impact.
Aeyser tried to capture some scent with his tongue but he could not get any information; he only perceived the acidic traces of the destruction around him. The orange and devastating venom of the sky serpents was an element that his people feared and venerated, for it was capable of giving them life and, at the same time, taking away what they possessed. Fortunately, this being had been extinguished as soon as it hit their terrain or else, they would be struggling to prevent it from spreading through their territory, sweeping everything away with its orange destructive tongues.
Moved by curiosity, Aeyser leaned his head against the monster's smooth surface, catching a soft sound. It reminded him of a baby's heartbeat.
Aeyser broke away, staring in bewilderment at the creature. Was it dead or was there still life inside?
He needed to find out.
He sank his claw into that strange silver rock, surprised to perceive a resistance he had never imagined before. It was tough, even though it seemed as fragile as the water of the lake, but it had nothing to use to fight against him. With determination, he continued sinking his claws and managed to remove a piece of rock so as to look into the en trails of the beast.
He put half his body inside and...
He hissed loudly.
Inside, a strange creature was strapped to something that looked like a nest.
He stretched out a hand and brushed her skin, astonished to note that it was very smooth, like the surface of a seerpes eggshell. It had no scales; how could it survive without them?
Aeyser withdrew his hand and gazed at her. His tongue caught a sweet fragrance. He began to salivate. That creature was a female, or at least, all his senses screamed to him that it was. However, he had never seen anything like the life form in front of him. He watched her closely and hissed in disgust when he noticed that she had no tail, but two useless appendages hanging from her waist.
How could she move? Or attack the males she wished to mate with? This was an unknown that he was ready to decipher.
Aeyser swung his claws and tore the straps that kept the creature tied to the nest.
The female's body fell forward, and he caught her before it hit the surrounding rock. There were colored rocks everywhere. It was the strangest thing he had ever seen in his life. He held the creature by the arms and pulled it upward, pulling her out of the beast's entrails.
When Aeyser held her in his arms, catching both her scent and the warmth she gave off, Aeyser hissed, nearly moaning. His whole body reacted to this being - something that surprised and worried him.
How was this possible?
Alerted by this, he let go of her, and when he realized that the creature was going to hit the ground, he tried to grab her without success.
The female fell plummeting before him, just inches from his tail, causing her to suddenly awaken and let out a scream that made Aeyser regret not having left her inside the beast.
How could something so small bawl like a muurk?
The muurk were more than six meters tall and possessed antlers capable of dealing with predators. They were herbivores, and their meat was highly prized by their people. On special occasions, the seerpes would go out to hunt muurk to celebrate a great event - either a birth or a new marriage.
The muurk, despite being herbivores, were formidable rivals who fought for their lives until their last breath, even managing to mortally wound the seerpes. His great-great-grandfather, in fact, had died from a muurk's goring, as it tore his belly. The village healer could do nothing for him.
The creature lying before him, however, would barely reach his waist and yet possessed lungs capable of giving him a headache with its vocalizing.
“What are you and why are you in my lands?” Aeyser hissed as he fought against the contradictory emotions that ran through his body. On the one hand, he was reacting as if he were facing a female in heat ready to mate with him; on the other hand, his territorial instinct was screaming at him that he should take revenge for the destruction she had caused.
The creature shifted on the ground and looked up at him, letting out another shriek that unhinged him.
Before he could force her to shut up, placing a hand over her mouth, Aeyser witnessed the female pull something out and point it at him.
What happened next took him by surprise.
The female attacked him with a strange object she held in her hands, throwing him back several meters and causing him intense pain in his chest.
As he flew through the air, Aeyser guffawed at what had happened without giving credit.
A small female had managed to catch him by surprise and that meant only one thing: that creature was his. She had attacked him and, as the laws of her people decreed, she had claimed him as her own.
Good. He would accept the challenge.
He had long wanted to find a female who could fiercely protect his territory, who would give him strong offspring with which to continue his legacy, and with whom he could fuck when he was in heat...
Had he found it?
He had no idea. All he knew was that this female had challenged him, and he was excited and curious enough to accept her challenge.
“Mine,” hissed Aeyser, as he swirled in the air to land on his tail a few feet away from the female.
Then he checked the damage that this one had just inflicted on his chest. At the level of his hearts, his scales were burned, blackened, standing out against his greenish blue hue of which he was so proud, as the females admired his appearance and some tried to attract his attention, failing in the attempt. He only mated out of necessity and never considered accepting the females he fucked as his mates.
This female, however, had managed to alter and excite him and, for Aeyser, that was a sign of destiny.
CHAPTER 2
Claudyem
This is a fucking nightmare, Claudyem thought as she came face to face with a monster that reminded her of a reptile.
She activated her laser and pointed it at him for a second before firing, praying that it would be powerful enough to finish him off.
Claudyem propelled it through the air, which she used to try to get up, but her legs failed her. Her body was sore, and she feared she had broken something.
Claudyem fought back tears. It wasn't the first time she had been in a situation where her life was in danger, but it was the first time she had no idea where she was and had to face an alien she knew nothing about. As a bounty hunter, she planned each mission well, even devising several escape routes in case things went wrong. She always had a way to flee, to get away from danger by getting out of each mission with flying colors, however, this time she was at the mercy of fate and fortune and it seemed that both had abandoned her.
Claudyem almost screamed when she saw that the monster she had attacked was getting up as if it had done nothing to him, even though its chest was blackened.
When he looked directly into her eyes, Claudyem had to summon all her self-control not to scream, gritting her teeth. If she was going to die, she would do it proudly, staring death in the face.
The red light on her bracelet blinked, indicating that her virtual husband's hologram was about to appear. To avoid distractions, she turned it off, without taking her eyes off the alien that was a few meters away from her.
He was an imposing creature that was frightening. Of great size and fierce appearance, his features surprised her by being so humanized. He possessed two eyes like her, a mouth with very thin lips, a very thin and small nose, barely perceptible, and, although he did not seem to possess ears, he did have abundant hair that framed its strange face. She looked at the rest of his body, gasping when she saw that, from his waist, he was like a man, with a muscular and fibrous chest and two arms; but instead of legs, he had a long snake tail that he began to move, making waves on the ground.
Claudyem tensed and tried to crawl backwards. She wasn't able to go very far as she found her back stuck to what was left of her ship.
She had thought she would have died on impact with that planet, but she had miraculously survived, and now she was going to fall into the arms of a monster that reminded her of snakes, those horrid creatures that only remained in the private zoos of the richest families in the colony of New Earth.
She knew very little about these animals, as she had barely paid attention to the History of Zoology classes at the Space Academy. Abandoned by her parents, she had to grow up with the rest of the orphans at the Academy - an experience that undoubtedly marked her for the rest of her life. At thirty-eight, she had turned into a woman hardened by love’s failures. Claudyem learned to abandon men, as she was unable to feel anything more than a punctual sexual attraction. She had no family. She was never loved or wanted, so her life was lonely. She did not count her virtual husband who, most of the time, was like a pain in the ass, although he did keep her company and managed to keep her from going crazier than she already was.
Some snakes possessed a venom capable of killing a human, she recalled. She was fighting fear as she activated the laser again. It hadn't done much good, but this time, she would aim it at her enemy's eyes.
She heard a loud hissing sound coming from the alien's lips. It was speaking in a language she did not understand. She activated the universal translator, which had been implanted in her brain at the Academy, with a mental command, and it produced a click as it began to analyze and process the sounds the creature was emitting as it approached her slowly, as if it were playing with prey. She had upgraded the technology some time ago and did not know the capability to translate a language she did not know existed; moreover, she was almost certain that it was not in her database. That creature was unlike any other she knew and she doubted it was part of either of the two factions that were at war for control of space.
