Tevun-Krus #69 - Erotic SF

Dragon Fruit - Part 5 of a Short Story by @JeffreyVonHauger

Dragon Fruit

Part 5 of Significantly Advanced Tech

By Jeffrey Von Hauger

Pippalotti slammed her skybike into park, tore off her helmet, and threw it at him. Abaddon sidestepped the protective headgear and it banged off the side of the scout ship. The tall sharply dressed birdman brushed his long blond hair out of his face and flashed a smile that was nothing short of chiseled perfection.

"You've got a lot of nerve showing up here after what you let us go through!"

Pippa rushed him as if to hit him with Sister Murphy unsheathing her golden electro-bat intent on clobbering the angel in the expensive suit. Pippa stopped short and looked into his radiant eyes.

"Fucking Abaddon. Why didn't you help us? And what about that 'I grant you safe passage through my realm' bullshit? I almost got nailed to the floor by crazed Satan worshipers. Which leads me to a whole other set of questions!?"

Abaddon opened his arms ever so slightly and his long white feathered wings opened with them. Pippa went in for the hug. He smelled as wonderful as she remembered and she felt the safest she'd felt in a long time.

"It'll never happen again," was all he said.

Pippa squeezed him and his golden-skinned hands wrapped around her shoulders.

An ultramarine blue Varan lizard woman stood beside him watching the interaction closely with big round crayon red eyes.

"A blue and red dragon and the angel of death," said Muphry, stating what was obvious to her.

Taegu, the black and white scaled Varan, stepped off her glider bike and made introductions.

"This is my partner Macrai. I see you already know Abaddon Saint Baal. Macrai, meet Sister John Murphy and Pippalotti Ritz."

Pippa stepped away from Abaddon and said, "Hello, I'm..."

"Yes, I know who you are. If you're going to travel with us, I assure you, there will be a great many valuable lessons to help in your future post, should you elect to become an Ambassador of Grandor. I knew your parents; losing one's family can be challenging." Macrai opened the ship's airlock and entered. "We should depart immediately."

"Thank you?"

Before Murphy slung her bat back onto her back she warned Abaddon, "I beat you before and I'll do it again, if you step one toe out of line. I know you're no angel."

"Of course." He bowed to her, tucked up his wings, and entered the diamond spacecraft.

"Go easy, Murph. I want to find out what this is all about," added Pippa.

They boarded the Varan ship and lifted off. The scout was a single deck with two staterooms, a mess, a gear locker near the airlock, and the bridge. They all headed there as it was the biggest space on the utilitarian yet beautiful spacecraft.

On the bridge, Taegu took the controls. They glided effortlessly out of the planet's atmosphere and rocketed into space.

"I've heard of Varan diamond ships but never thought I'd see one, let alone, travel in one."

Pippa watched with as much wonder and amazement as Murphy had for the crystal ship. Its hull was semi-transparent and as they left the sun behind, only the glowing diamond controls cast light in the room. Out the front window, the darkness of space was speckled with stars.