why me

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Taking megan with me was the right choice, I tried to convince myself. Ailign was conflicted on taking her with him, but finally decided it was for the better. Not wanting to leave her for so long, he worried what she'd get up to in his absence.
"Nothing good." He muttered to himself. Yes it was better to keep her close, it helped calm his instinctual need to protect her, and he knew his heart couldn't handle her disappearing again.
"My prince" an officer said "the engines are fired up and ready for hyperdrive."
"Send word over the coms" I said "were going now then"
Our destination was first to the planet Valtrex, with approximately one week's journey, even going top speeds. The inhabitants of the world were primitives, we would try to not disturb the world as much as possible per our agreement with the galactic alliance. It was the perfect world for those foris trash to hide out on.
I had plans to take them prisoner and interrogate them for the location on the rest of theie trash race. To find out what ever world they next planned to destroy.
The world stilled then, stars and lights suddenly flew past like raining sparkler, as the ship went into hyperdrive, pulling the galaxy along the still ship.
"That enough" ailign said "bring her down, let the engines cool some before we go into hyperdrive some more."
"Yes my prince" the officer said relaying my message over his com to the engine and control room.
I was standing on the mesoning, looking out over the control room, lights flashing up on the panels all around. I watched in the satisfaction of a captian. The rest of the day went by with no incident, with shift change coming I quickly hand over my duties to the captian and leave for my personal quarters, ready to check on megan.
"Megan" I call out
"In here" She says and I quickly find her laying down in her bed.
"You gotta get me t.v. on one of those tablets." She grumbles "I'm so bored I'm going to sleep again."
"Request it of one and she should be able to get what you need, she has all your shows downloaded into her drive." I say
She smiles at me then, and pats the bed for me to take a seat beside her. When I sit she leans her body into mine and I place an arm around her chest.
"This is easy. Being physically intimate with you." She says, a little hum to her voice.
"I agree" I say leaning down and taking in her scent.
"None of that now" She says swatting at my face. I grab her hand mid air and pull it up to my nose.
"You don't want to?" I ask
She looks up at me with a wicked smile.
"I never said that" Megan says

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A quick slash comes at me to the left, I dodge with a side step, my blade coming up to meet his own, my muscles coiling for the next strike. My opponent sees through my slash and jumps back, advancing on him I swipe my blade again, aiming for his soft belly. On and on we go clashing blades in our war dance. Training was essential, honing ones skills to kill and maintaining them. I found it essential to hone all my fighting skills, you never knew when you'd need them on the battle field.
"That's enough for today" I say
"One more round" Alan says "I could use the extra workout"
I suddenly hear clapping from the corner, the door opening wide for a small anterouge to enter. It was megan and another female.
"Boo" She cheers "I just got here"
"Why hello there ailigns little mate, I see your getting acquaintanced with the ship." Alan says
"She's a fine bit of machinery" Megan comments coming closer, and into the viewing seats along the back wall.
"We were just finishing up. No need to sit" I tell megan
"Ow come on now ailign you gotta show your mate that your more then a pretty face." Alan says
Megan leans forward in her seat, face pressed in her hands, as she smiles at me.
"Just one match" She says
I let out a grunt in exceptance, as I take my stance to begin the next match. Alan smiles at me as he takes his stance, our blades crossed and inches from the other. I feel Megan's eyes on me as a wait for Alan to make a move, determined to give her a good show. Alan picks up on my taut body language, taking advantage of my distracted mind, he lunges.
I quickly evade, swinging my sword to clash with his own, I push it away, but he advances, pushing forward with momentum he swings to the right now. I hold out my hand and call forth a second blade, willing the metal to fly toward myself, it lands in my hand, blocking his next strike. With two blades now I swing like a mad man to his left, his blade still stuck on my right one. Alan is no weakling however, quickly pulling off the same trick, he calls forward another blade from the armory wall at the foot of the mat. We both jump backwards, eyeing eachother down, and the new battle.
"I thought you said no magic" He coos
"What we do is not magic" I sneer
Alan shruggs his shoulder "lack of a better word in the English language. Forgive me." He says
"Wooo go magic!" Megan cheers, the small female beside her looking on in excitement as well. Alan and I look over at them at the same time.
"Should we give them a show?" Alan asks
I roll my shoulders, I hadn't used my mana in awhile, it was begging to come out.
"Might as well" I say
As I speak I call forth several more blades, the cool metal hovering in the air above me, I fire the daggers one at a time at Alan. He dodges, jumping left and right, only one danger finding perch in his leg. He quickly pulls the blade free, the wound already stitching up.
Alan moves, his blade turning to liquid and sticking like a whip, I dodge quickly to the side, but Alan throws all the liquid out, spraying the mat with metal tain it quickly reforms around my legs, pinning them to the ground. His other blade quickly coming up to my neck, he'd won. Megan stands in the audience booth and claps excitedly.
"Woo" She cheers from the exciting scene.
Ailign melts the metal away at his feet, collecting it into a sphere and placing it back down on the weapons tray. Alan was making his way over to the women.
"What do I get for beating your handsome mate?" Alan asked megan.
"A thank you" she said "his ego could use being brought down a peg or two."
Alan laughs hard, his hand going to his belly in exuberation.
"You hear that ailign. Your little mate already knows you so well." Alan says
Megan smiles at the slight.
"You both fought so well. Can all mech fight like that?" Penelope asks shyly
"Of course we can." Alan answers with a smile "but not all as good as us"
Ailign was still putting away all the weapons, grumbling to himself that he would lose a fight in front of his mate. The embarrassment. Looking over at her, she didn't seem to care at all, with a happy smile placed on her mouth, he wondered if humans didn't care about strength as much as the mech. She looked over at him then, and her gaze was kind. He grumbled more as he continued his task, he wanted her looking at him with seductive need after a fight.
"We should be there in just a half a day." Alan told megan
Ailign tried to focus again on the conversation as he made his way over to them.
"We will be there soon so be prepared to be on your own. I'll be busy from here on out" I said
"I won't be alone, I have Penelope." She said grabbing the girls arm "we've become good friends this last week."
Penelope gave megan a small smile in affirmation, her green eyes lighting up some.
"Nothing better then a new friend" Alan interjects
In the dark corner of the changing room I dawn my military uniform. Light foot steps approach from the back, and a hand reaches out, I spin, grabbing the hand before it reaches me, and pulling the male forward into the light and up to my face.
"Don't sneek up on me" I growl out to Vernen
He quickly takes a step back, and bows.
"I'm sorry my prince but I have information for you I think you might find interesting." He says
Vernen was the leaders of my many spies, sneaking up on people was his specialty but I didn't like it when he did it to me. 
"Speak then" I say
"It's about the queen as you suspected something has come up." He says "she has been seen worshiping the dark gods.
"The dark gods?" I say intrigued "which ones?" I ask
"My information is not that specific. I'll send a request immediatly for more information" He says
"Do that. And notify me immediatly" I say and wave him away.
The dark gods? What was my mother doing praying to them. The dark gods had been banned from our culture for milenia, sense the God of orgris destroyed his own temple, and numerous of our people. This information didnt sit well with me. Why would she risk something so foolish? What was she hoping to get out of it?