Bionetic Rebel

Chapter 18

Music Suggestion: Egyptian Meditation Temple - Journey to Egypt | Vault – One Last Night |JETFIRE - Yalem

A knock on the door woke me up. As I crawled out of my cold and lonely bed, the reverse turned into banging. I open the door to have a garment shoved into my arms. Rhea was standing in front of me in her proper form. She usually stood in her beautiful African beauty with white dreadlocks around everyone. She was wearing a white Moroccan Kaftan mermaid dress with gold trim and a slit going up each side of her leg.

Her dress complimented her purple skin, gold eyes, and beautiful braided hair. "Jarek will come to help you put that on. We're landing in five hours." Rhea said before running off again. Devon trailed behind her looking surprised as he held the garment bags.

Devon's expression shows that he has never seen her alien form. I poked his cheek to snap him out of it. "Damn, Jupiter women are gorgeous." Was all he said before catching up to her. I giggled at his behavior as I noticed he was wearing a black and gold traditional African dashiki suit.

"Do you know how to put on a kimono?" I turned around to see Jarek in a black Samurai kimono with a dragon print flowing from his arm across the back to the other sleeve. His hair was combed back with beaded strings tied into his hair. "No, but I was told a sexy prince would help me put it on." I teased him before walking back to my bed to open the garment bag.

"Now, who is this sexy prince? Last I checked, you were dating a warrior."

Jarek said as he walked into my room and closed the door behind him. "I thought I was sleeping with a Samurai." I smirked as I pulled out a short purple traditional Yukata with a Sakura pattern and a long train ribbon. "I'm whatever you want me to be, Alora." Jarek said as he wrapped his arms around me from behind.

"I want you to be my boyfriend. That will be tortured, having to put this on me instead of taking it off."

He laughed and kissed the back of my head. "Damn right, I will be." He agreed before helping me put on the kimono. I was trying to braid my hair when we all gathered in the media room. Everyone but Rhea, Devon, and my mother was wearing kimonos.

No one else had Arabic garments on. Yet no one else noticed since they were too busy loving Rhea's true form. Rhea clears her throat getting everyone's attention. She signaled me to come over and pointed to a chair beside her. I moved to sit in the chair as she started helping me fix my hair.

I mentally growled when Rosaline wore a short black and red Yukata matching Jarek. She had made it show that her shoulders were exposed as she flirted with Jarek in front of me. "First off, Rosaline, stop hitting on a taken man. Unless you want to die by the girlfriend's hand."

Rhea knew I was plotting too, which made this funny to me. "We will be landing soon. That is why I have turned off my Style bionic chip." She said as she looked at everyone. She was terrific at multitasking since she was still doing my hair.

"I have a confession before we land that will shock everyone."

Everyone finally shut up and looked at Rhea. "I am actually the granddaughter of the country's king." There were so many wide-eyed people that I half expected some eyeballs to fall out. Devon raised an eyebrow as he looked down at his outfit. "Yes, Devon, your outfit says you are my lover."

Devon smirked as everyone teased them for being cheesy. "You're all set, Alora." I smiled at her before returning to Jarek, fake clawing at Rosaline. She just chuckled and fake-clawed back at me. The siren sounded off as we all got in position to land.

Sadly, Rhea got cut off from telling us everything. Yet we were all prepared now for some royal welcome. I watched the ship smoothly land into the Egypan Dome and noticed no other Domes around. Let alone nothing that would look like water to me. Rhea came over and pointed to a weird, dark, fluid area on the land.

"So you know, that is the water on this planet. Due to the planet's rare minerals, the water actually is dark and mucky." She said as I noticed more bodies of water before the gate cut off my view of the villages and land outside the Dome. "Don't ever leave Egypan, by the way."

Rhea sat down beside me. "The Dome was built so people like Earthlings can breathe on this planet. If you leave, you will need an oxygen mask." She informed me as we saw the beautiful city of Egypan come into view.

There were stone buildings on top of the stone building. They reminded me of how Mayans used to build in the past. House or towers on top of each other, made of brick that matched the dirt. The roofs, doors, and windows had a traditional Japanese style. It really did look like Japan's and Egypt's love child.

It was even more congenial with the greenery flowing off the buildings around each other. Once we landed, we all lined up behind Rhea, Devon, and mom. As the door opened, we were greeted by a row of warriors dressed in Moroccan Kimonos, holding spears. Horns sounded off as we walked off the ship. Jarek interlocked his fingers with mine and held my hand firmly. As if I was going to be separated from him.

"Welcome home, the twenty-fifth princess of Jupiter, Minx Rivers."

I stood there in shock as the warriors bowed to Rhea. My mother turned to me and smiled warmly. "Minx River is her Jupiter name. I renamed her Rhea Minka for her Earth name." She whispered to me, as I just stared. This was a lot to process off the back.

"And welcome home, Warrior Law."

Everyone but my mother and Rhea looked around, confused. Jarek pulled me with him as he moved to stand behind Rhea. The warriors with the spears banged the staff as someone in a white and gold royal dashiki suit approached us. They looked like an elder male version of Rhea, but with short grey hair that was combed back.

"Alora, stay beside your mother."

Jarek whispered in my ear before pushing me towards my mom. He then moved to kneel beside Rhea and hang his head. "Warrior Law, you may stand." The elder said as he stood in front of us. Jarek stood up as everyone looked at him, stunned.

"Sir, I am sorry I couldn't properly save and protect Miss Rivers as you ordered." Jarek said as he kept his head lower and left arm across his chest. "She is alive and home now. You did your job as best as possible with the cards you were dealt." The elder said before coming over to my mother.

"You must be Brandy Lux who helped save my granddaughter."

The elder smiled warmly as he and my mother bowed toward each other. "I am King Mir Rivers. Thank you for caring for my granddaughter Minx and her half-brother Law." This time Rhea had joined us in being surprised. "Wait, Law is my brother?" She said as she looked at Jarek, who was smiling softly.

Even I couldn't believe all of this. Oh man, this best has a great explanation because that means Jarek is royalty too.