Loving Marianna

Chapter Fifty

I choose the same ship that I brought to Altore and Star Lord sends me the coordinates to Jorba.

As I come into sight with the ship/ planet it shoots at me. I was expecting it so I managed to easily dodge the first shot until shots come at me simultaneously. I manage to dodge them but just barely. I rush my ship forward dodging the attacks as I go.

As I get closer to the ship they send out smaller ships shooting at me making life 1000 times more difficult.

I don't want to shoot at them, that doesn't typically bode well for peace.

I continue trying to dodge and almost smash into one of their ships.

"Fuck me." I say between clenched teeth as the ship does 2 loops to avoid their ship. My expression shifts as my luck changes and I see a bay to land in on the underbelly of the ship.

I speed to the bay dodging the attacks precisely now that I have my eyes on were I need to be. I land roughly but nobody is hurt and the ship will still fly.

People run out and begin shooting at my ship. I curl up into a ball keeping my hands over my head as the bullets break the glass. The shooting stops and I hear someone jump onto the ship.

I quickly turn pointing my gun seeing a blue man doing the same to me. Neither of us shoots or lowers our weapon.

"I just want to talk please." I say with pleading eyes dropping my gun. The last thing I see is the butt of the mans gun as I fall out of consciousness.

It must only be a minute before I regain consciousness as I'm not tied up yet but taken out of my ship and laid out on the floor. I keep my eyes closed listening to a man and woman argue and pretend I'm still knocked out until I feel someone lift my body. I listen carefully as we begin walking only hearing their footsteps. I'm taken into a room and the person drops me on the floor. When they go to chain me up I grab the chain and swing it around their neck pulling them forward on top of me, I quickly roll us over squeezing the throat of the man who knocked me out until he passes out searching his body for my stuff. I find my earpiece and tell Stephen to come. He's inside the room in lightning speed.

"Quickly take him, tie his ass up really good he's strong and don't come back unless I say so. They're a bit aggressive." Stephen tries to say something but I interrupt him.

"Go. There's no time." He nods and quickly pulls the blue man with him.

"Shield." I whisper imagining the man and what he was wearing. I recall his voice from before and clear my throat letting my pitch and tone change copying his voice perfectly.

I step out into the metal halls of the ship. Though it's metal I can feel life running through it somehow. A woman walks up to me with a bow, "the king would like to see you my lord." Shit I kidnapped a lord.

"Walk with me." I say with a straight face. Letting her inconspicuously guide me. We walk in silence until she speaks up, "why did you want me to come my lord?" I recall his mannerisms with her from the fight and act like an ass.

"Must I have a reason?" I spit out. She shakes her head quickly and we continue walking in silence. We stop in front of a metal door and she leaves with a bow. The door opens into another metal room but I almost can't tell with how nicely it's decorated. I keep my eyes focused on the man sitting at a desk in front of me writing in a book before closing it and looking at me with a big smile rising from his seat to clasp me on the back and wrap me in a hug.

"Amazing work son." The man says pulling out of the hug before I have a chance to hug him back.

"Thank you." I reply.

The man goes back to his seat behind the desk and motions for me to sit in the seat across from him.

"Any loses?" He asks.

"None. The prisoner was not attacking. She dropped her weapon and said she just wanted to talk. She didn't shoot at any of our ships either." The king thinks on this.

"She'll have plenty of time to talk now." The king says taking a sip of his wine.

"And after that?"

The king looks at me like I have three heads.

"What we always do Voural kill her and ensure the safety of our people."

"She didn't seem like a threat though. She could've shot me in the face and she didn't."

"That doesn't mean we can trust her boy! You know what can happen if you trust outsiders!" He screams throwing the glass of wine, a tear falling down his cheek. He quickly gains his composure making eye contact with me.

"Don't forget, it's me who got your mother killed by trusting outsiders. Don't make the same mistakes I made." He says getting up getting another glass of wine. I get up and rest my hand over his taking it away from the drink. He looks at me with surprised tear filled drunk eyes.

"Its been so long." He whispers looking at my hand pulling away from the drink and pulling me into a hug. I hesitantly hug him back a tear rolling down my face, how could a son not touch or hug his father who seems to be a good parent? I would give anything to be able to hug my father.

"It's not your fault she died dad." Chills run up my body calling an actual person dad not just talking about a man I've never met.

"The only persons fault it is, is the individuals who decided to take her life."

"Shield." I shift back into myself and the king pulls out a knife but doesn't make a move on me.

"I'm sorry I deceived you but I didn't know what else to do to get anyone here to listen to me."

"Where's my son?" The man brandishes the knife at me.

"He's safe but I do have him at an undisclosed location for insurance." He moves closer pressing the knife to my throat.

"See! I can't trust any outsiders!" He seethes out.

"It's the only way I could do this. I promise nothing will happen to him as long as nothing happens to me." He pulls the knife away and sits in his chair.

"Let us discuss, outsider."