The Maxis sovereign

chapter 4

Zed

When we ended the meeting with Kiea and the rest of the UN, I was honestly very excited. How could I not be excited, now I wasn't that much of an outcast anymore, there were other aliens now.

The idea of other lifeforms blew me away. For years Martians have been shunned, but now with more aliens coming in, maybe I won't be such the outcast.

"Guys! You know what this means." My muscled are tensing and relaxing out of excitement as it urn to the two."What?" They say at the same time. Both shivering at their own responses.

"Martians aren't the only aliens out there! I mean too bad they don't look like Martians, but I mean! ALIENS GUYS!" I was fidgeting just standing here and Hendrix stood up.

"You should run." Hendrix paused, his hand reaching out to my head, patting me. "I think I will join you this time." Hendrix added on, smiling towards my growing smile.

Malaki looked up at us both as Hendrix announced he would join me. There was a look in his eyes I must have been reading wrong. I shrugged off the feeling, stealing one last glance at laki.

"You should join us too laki, you love to hang out there." I tell him, peaking around the doorway slightly. "Maybe another time ok, little one?" He turns back to the computer screen, not even looking at me while he blows us off. But my heart still skips a beat. He's never called me Little one before.

I tried not to let him get to me, I don't know why he was blowing me off like this.

At the entrance to the private training ground, we entered our ID numbers into the door. The room was designed for Martian training, and it was one of the oldest ones on the compound.

Not used too often. I walked to the showers. Changed into a martian uniform. Meant to shift with you, and changed into my Martian before exiting.

I leave the room to see Hendrix already on the field. Shirtless in nothing but boxers.

In my excitement I forgot that he has to be practically naked to shift. His body is built well, he is stronger then he leads on, all of us are. But seeing the way his blond hair was wet and caked ot his neck, beads of water trailing down his front I found it hard not to look away.

It was moments like this, where he seemed occupied in thought that I looked on, hoping with a chance ill be able to see more one day.

Shaking my head, I watch silently as Hendrix shapeshift into a cheetah. When he resembled a cheetah, he kept shifting, just slightly. He is mending the form to be thinner and have longer legs. His clothing ripped off of him there.

Before he could look back, I took off to the track, only to be followed shortly behind by Hendrix who roared in play at my antics. He winked at me as he caught up, I smiled back softly, smirking at him. The speed meter clocked up at two hundred and fourty kilometers an hour. Our max.

Or what Hendrix thinks our limit is.

"Ca-t-ch me if you ca-n, hen-d-rix." He tilted his head confused. I loved how he always did this, it was always the thing that showed how animal he was. My feet dug in the ground as my body bolted into action. I leaned into my run more and straightened my hands out.

My speed causing the large cheetahs' eyes bulged in his head as I took a running form, leaning slightly forward and using all four of my long Martian limbs to pull myself forward.

I was touching two hundred and eighty now. I knew I was surprising him; he didn't know that I had been training with my father's messengers to speed up.