Dark Nine [18+]

Chapter Six

"You're mated to 9 cannibals," Iris tells me, she had been looking after me since I awoke in a daze, "I don't envy you. Even if the Kors have a history of treating Fey's like queens... you'll be... you'll be... well, gone soon," she gulps and looks away as she says that, "It's much better being friends with them... I'm employed by the Universal Board, I'm guaranteed their protection," Iris sighs with her personal relief.

I sit on the couch I had woken up on, I'm with Iris in a concave dressing room the size of a football field, although narrow in design and with curved walls. It's like we were in a long tunnel, yet sound did not echo.

I guess right now I was being tended to by Iris, my personal assistant for the day. She was usually a personal assistant for the Kors, as I could identify her position by the choker adorning her neck. It has nine silver circles with their colours represented in the middle.

I don't want to talk about me and my fate.

I decide I will try to get information on them. The Kors.

Iris was a protected subspecies, a human with factor 6, from the neighbouring galaxy Andromeda... unlike Earth, she had freedom, and factor 6 gave her the ability to communicate with ghosts, her appearance was bald, no hair at all... that didn't stop her painting her face, she wears a pink lipstick, which matched the pink of her eyes. She was very pretty.

"It looks like they're all paired up, except for one," I point to her necklace, while she's still sorting through a bunch of clothes on a moving rack next to us, trying to work out the most appropriate dress I can wear for their party.

I'm not sure where the Kors are, but I guess I'll be escorted to them by Iris.

"You didn't know?" Iris fumbles with the pendants, "Venus and Mercury are brothers."

"I knew that," I snap a little bit, but I admit, "...although... I don't know about the others..."

"Jupiter and Saturn are brothers, both hot heads, be careful with those two, their egos are massive," she laughs and sighs, shaking her head as she clearly recounts some interesting memories. I watch as she sorts through the clothes, as she softly teaches me about them further, "Neptune and Uranus are brothers. Pluto is... mmm... one of a kind, he doesn't speak much," she seems to blush thinking of the Kor who radiates the darkness of the universe, while simultaneously sparkling with its gentle light. Pluto's eyes were intimidating to me, though, as they had no colour at all, it's like he had no eyes, so I hadn't looked at him long on the ship.

"Mars?" I ask.

"Mars and Terra are cousins," she explains, "Not brothers. Mars and Terra are quite charismatic when they speak to me but I find it quietly disturbing. Like very sweet and kind predators. It makes no real... sense to me..." I concur... although I say nothing on it.

"Are the Kors close as a group?" I ask, as she finally picks out what I'm going to wear.

It's a... belt? It's not a very big one... it would not fit around my hips, that's for sure.

As she shows me, it's metallic with links that move like scales, with a dark blue cloth at the front and the back.

"Stand up," Iris waits for me to do so, and she takes away the towel I had been given, after I had somehow woken up washed and cleaned. She places the belt around my waist, the metal is so lightweight I can barely feel it, although she does put it on tightly so it can barely wriggle around. The cloth falls between my legs and over my ass at the back, "This is based off a custom they have not seen for many destinies. It's called a Plume, and it comes with this," she walks to a bunch of draws set into the wall, and she pulls out a bunch of accessories, coming over with a... "A Krown, with a K," she says while winking, bringing over a collar. It's the same metal as the belt. It has a chain on the end, that links to the back of the Plume. My hair is pushed aside as Iris places it around my neck and connects the chain to the belt at the back.